Chapter 1283 1282. Crazy Scoring Show! (Please Give Me Double Monthly Tickets)
Serbia-Montenegro scored 9 points in the last three minutes. Without Yao Ming, they played well on the offensive end.
But Liu Mang scored 12 points alone!
3 of 3 three-pointers, 2+1 in the basket, Liu Mang scored 12 points with four goals in a row!
27 to 18, the Chinese team led Serbia-Montenegro by 9 points into the second quarter!
Back...
That feeling is back again...
Micic looked at Liu Mang's brutal performance and felt that everything was full of familiarity...
Fortunately, his own performance today was also good, and no one on the other side could limit him.
When entering the intermission, Liu Mang looked at Milicic and felt a little annoyed that he was not affected. His outburst did not affect Milicic's mentality.
If it was the game with Milicic in the NBA in the past three years, Liu Mang's three-point hit would probably have caused Milicic's mentality to collapse, but in the international arena... it would not happen.
Because the national team is very different from the NBA.
If it is the NBA, a bad record will affect Milicic's mentality, and being beaten by the opponent will also affect his mentality. During the game, the opponent has opponents who are not against him but they cannot fight against him, and his mentality will also be problematic.
Because everything in the Raptors revolves around him, he is actually under a lot of pressure, but the Raptors management tries to coax him as much as possible.
The national team is different. Their country has been divided for years, and he is not the boss in the national team. No matter which country's national team, they are ranked according to age, national team qualifications and other things.
Milicic only needs to play well personally. His personal performance in today's game is still good, which will not affect his mentality. There are excuses to find. From the current stage, Peja is still the strongest player in the Serbia-Montenegro team. Peja cannot participate in this World Championships due to personal reasons. This is an important reason why Milicic can always play happily. No one can defend his inside and outside play. He has explosive data of 15 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks against Argentina.
Liu Mang looked at the talent of this Serbia-Montenegro team, which is independently supported by Serbia. If it continues to develop like this, in the future world championships, when Peja has not completely aged, Bogdanovic's pitcher brother born in 1992 grows up, Marinovich maintains his form, and Milicic enters his peak period... Serbia will be their strong opponent in the future besides Spain and the United States! When Argentina is old, the Serbian team stands up again!
In the second quarter, Yao Ming came back again.
Milicic switched to the outside line again.
There is no way to limit this. No country in the World Championships can deal with Milicic's high-post coordination. Milicic is very strong in this aspect, and European teams are good at teamwork.
Liu Mang couldn't think of a solution for a while. The opponent's center mentioned the high position, and there was too much room for operation. He could only try his best to guess the opponent's shooting position, let his teammates pay attention when retreating, and put as much pressure on the opponent as possible.
From the perspective of solving Milicic's high-post coordination, such restrictions are actually average, but from the perspective of winning, this is enough!
The offensive finishing ability of the Serbia-Montenegro team is really average, averaging only 81 points per game in the group stage. They won two games and were able to play with Argentina until the last moment, relying on defense.
And today...
Liu Mang's offense exploded and could not be stopped!
After scoring 15 points in the first quarter, Liu Mang started his personal offensive mode.
In the first seven minutes of the first quarter, Liu Mang had already seen that if they followed the rhythm of the Serbia-Montenegro team, they would probably score at most 20 points in a quarter, and it is very likely that they would be like Argentina, being worn down by the opponent. As the opponent's game style of a lot of physical contact continued, the role players' outside shooting touch gradually declined, and in the end they were dragged into the critical moment by the opponent. When Liu Mang was watching the game of the Argentine team, the Argentine team was almost upset like that.
Therefore, when Yao Ming went down, Liu Mang directed Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian to go inside to grab rebounds. He was going to start to play recklessly.
After Yao Ming came back in the second quarter and formed a twin tower with Yi Jianlian, and the forward-guard combination of Wang Shipeng and Zhu Fangyu was replaced on the outside to open up space, Liu Mang was even more reckless!
Either breaking through the mid-range jump shot, or breaking through and stepping back for a three-pointer, or throwing it directly, from two meters outside the three-point line to the free throw line, Liu Mang fired at will!
Whether the Serbia-Montenegro team replaced Bogdanovic or Androvic, or the former Serbia-Montenegro starting point guard Bojan Popovich, who Liu Mang met in the last Olympics against Serbia-Montenegro, no one could stop Liu Mang.
Especially Popovich, who was beaten to collapse in the last Olympics, was directly dunked by Liu Mang in the inside, and Milicic's help defense had no effect. He could only dodge and let Liu Mang dunk. Popovich was not fast, and his footsteps could not keep up with Liu Mang.
In the second quarter, Liu Mang made 7 of 11 shots in a single quarter, scored 17 points, and 32 points in the first half!
Although Serbia and Montenegro did a good job of defending China's basket and two-wing shooters in the second quarter, Milicic's mid-range and long-range play could not be restricted. Liu Mang could not fly two or three meters from the weak side following Marinovich's empty cut to block Milicic. Milicic played very freely, with 12 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in the first half. On the defensive end, Milicic also had 1 steal and two blocks in the first half.
But just as Milicic's shooting organization was difficult to defend, Liu Mang, who was good at shooting, blew up Serbia and Montenegro from mid-range and long-range!
In the second quarter, the Chinese team scored 23 points, and Liu Mang scored 17 points alone!
Although the Serbia-Montenegro team scored 20 points in the second quarter, the Chinese team widened the gap by 3 points, 50 to 38, and the Chinese team led by 12 points at halftime!
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Grinding little by little, although Liu Mang did not have the ability to collapse the Serbia-Montenegro team all at once, Argentina and Spain, the two teams currently ranked first and second in the world, did not have such ability. However, with Yao Ming in the interior, Liu Mang blocked the opponent's strongest outside player Marinovic, and could compete with the Serbia-Montenegro team on the defensive end. On the offensive end, Liu Mang's scoring plus Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and Wang Zhizhi took turns to deal with Milicic, who was excellent in rebounding, to play secondary offense and inside passes, occupying a very obvious advantage on the offensive end!
Although it was impossible to widen the gap all at once, there was a lead in every quarter!
Especially Liu Mang, in this game, Liu Mang made the Serbia-Montenegro team feel desperate!
The Chinese team had many open shooters, double-teaming Liu Mang. Open shooters could catch the ball and shoot without running, and Wang Zhizhi was a shooter with a career three-point shooting rate of 39% in the NBA. The opponent did not dare to double-team Liu Mang from outside the three-point line!
In the seventh minute of the fourth quarter, with three minutes left in the game, Liu Mang had already scored 57 points!