Chapter 1386 1385. 58 Points in Three Quarters!
In the Eagles' first attack, Liu Mang scored a three-pointer and scored the first goal.
When the Raptors attacked, Milicic distributed the ball from the high post, then went to the low post to receive the ball again and redistributed the ball to Richard Jefferson. Richard Jefferson received the ball and faced the Eagles' high-speed rotation. Rondo's defensive three-pointer also scored!
The Raptors players also want to win today. Maybe Milicic's mentality is a little bad, but the score is not too far behind. Milicic will not give up on himself. He is still very confident in his own strength. Raptors There is no such thing as training for so many years in vain.
Liu Mang is still accumulating experience on how to make better use of the characteristic of "rejecting horses". The last time Liu Mang used the effect of the characteristic of "rejecting horses" to deal with some of Milicic's methods, this time the effect was not that good. Milicic Qi's golf quotient is very high. He knows that Liu Mang has an ability to predict beyond ordinary people. He doesn't find it strange. No matter how strong Liu Mang's ability is, his opponents won't find it strange. But Milicic has Liu Mang's ability. Make self-adjustments based on the ability to predict things that are different from ordinary people.
The technical and tactical battle is always changing. Liu Mang devised a defensive strategy for Milicic, and Milicic will respond next time.
Milicic connected with Richard Jefferson and hit a beautiful response!
When the Eagles attacked, Liu Mang was stuck by Richard Jefferson as soon as he arrived in the frontcourt.
Liu Mang did not cut in immediately and observed the opponent's defense. It was not as exaggerated as the Spurs', but Liu Mang judged that the Raptors' first defensive target was him!
There is no unrestricted flanking feeling, and the positioning is not like that, but Liu Mang can predict that when he enters the middle distance, he will be within the interference range of Milicic. The bouncing Milicic is far inferior to Kwame. -Brown, but his mobility is not much different, and he has good footwork in assisting defense.
From the inside line, no matter which way it goes, someone will be the first to cover up the defense.
The other party is fully prepared!
In this case...
Liu Mang came to a 45-degree angle on the left, carried Richard Jefferson on his left shoulder, and gestured towards Rondo.
Rondo, who advanced, immediately dribbled towards Liu Mang. When approaching a 45-degree angle on the left, he immediately passed the ball to Liu Mang and went up to help Liu Mang block Richard Jefferson.
After Liu Mang received the ball, he bypassed Rondo again. TJ Ford quickly switched to defend Liu Mang, and Richard Jefferson also squeezed in from the front to block the defense.
But... Liu Mang still threw it away when there was still a slight crack!
"Ding... The king of pull-up is triggered at level 5. The host's pull-up jumper will not be affected by insufficient force to take off..."
Without Tracy McGrady's height, he still dares to pull up and throw, relying on the skill of the king of pull-up!
TJ Ford's height can be used to guard against Rondo, but against Liu Mang, it has almost no interference effect, especially when Liu Mang is not close when switching defenses, Richard Jeffer takes off after running around the pick-and-roll next to Liu Mang. Sen also failed to substantially interfere with Liu Mang.
Liu Mang felt explosive, shot decisively, and hit another three-pointer!
Richard Jefferson just returned one to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang immediately returned it again!
When the Raptors attacked, TJ Ford passed the ball to Joe Johnson who was leaning on McGrady to get the ball. McGrady defended Joe Johnson much more seriously than the first time and was very focused, but Joe Johnson also I have been preparing for a long time, and I felt good today. I scored on my first shot. I hit Tracy McGrady in a high post and hit a turn-over jumper.
5 to 6, the Raptors also made two shots in the beginning.
When it comes to the Eagles' offense, the Raptors work very hard on the defensive end.
As for the Hawks, since the first two simple and rough plays were so effective, Rondo naturally chose to continue playing in the previous way.
But this time, as soon as Rondo moved toward Liu Mang, TJ Ford let go of him and attacked Liu Mang from a flank.
However, Rondo just used Liu Mang to attract the defense. Taking advantage of TJ Ford to attack Liu Mang in advance, Rondo turned around and broke through inside. After attracting Joe Johnson to cover the defense, he quickly distributed the ball to McGrady.
McGrady took the opportunity to cut inside and was blocked by Milicic after receiving the ball. McGrady very smartly made a circle from the baseline, came out from the left side of the basket and went behind Milicic, bullying the big center to turn slowly. Forcing Richard Jefferson to come in to cover the defense, and going around the baseline gave Richard Jefferson a chance to help defend.
At this time, Sean Marion in the left corner came up to help Liu Mang block TJ Ford. Liu Mang cut to the left baseline. McGrady jumped up to attract Richard Jefferson. After taking off, he looked back like he was looking at the moon. The pass was delivered to Liu Mang.
Liu Mang reached the left baseline, caught the ball, and took advantage of the situation to pull up the baseline jumper...
Hit again!
Bargnani just watched from behind Liu Mang, watching Liu Mang shoot without even extending his hand.
McGrady predicted this and saw Liu Mang, TJ Ford, Rondo, Marion, Bargnani, and Richard Jefferson all crowded on the left side of the basket. Considered.
Of course, the key is that Liu Mang can make the shot!
Compared with Rondo's more selfless style of play, I don't know if McGrady can be called selfless. When he cuts in to receive the ball, he can directly attack the basket. Milicic's defense under the basket can only create a small attack. Due to the interference of probability, McGrady was already rushing. Apart from stretching his arms to interfere with McGrady's shot route, Milicic had only one option: a foul.
In this situation, McGrady's chance of scoring by shooting under the basket is at least 60%, which is about the same as his normal layup hit rate.
But McGrady predicted that Liu Mang had a chance to score, and he used a complicated play to help Liu Mang get a chance to shoot.
8 to 5, the Hawks continued to maintain a three-point lead.
From the result, the ball was played very successfully, and the fans in Toronto didn't see what was wrong. It was a little complicated, but it was scored, and it only took a few seconds.
However, as smart as Rondo, he naturally saw McGrady's purpose, and confusion was written on his face when he returned to defense.
McGrady patted Rondo on the shoulder when he returned to defense. This ball just now made Rondo lose the assist that he had a high probability of getting, and he was also very sorry.
Rondo thought about the relationship between Liu Mang and McGrady, and thought about the fact that Liu Mang had to score 127 points in three games to fulfill the bold words he had set before, and soon found out what the reason was.
That's much easier. Rondo immediately started thinking about how to get the ball to Liu Mang in the next round, and try to create better shooting opportunities for Liu Mang, who will definitely be dealt with and tightly guarded.
Help Liu Mang get an open shot?
It's basically impossible. Liu Mang's baseline mid-range shot just now also had Bargnani behind him...
"Bargnani?" Rondo immediately had an idea.
Help teammates score. If Rondo has enough time in a game, he can think of 10,000 ways. Of course, teammates must have the ability to make shots. Some tactics must be implemented successfully by teammates with strength beyond ordinary players.
If the teammates are a group of first and second graders, their skills are not very good, and they all want to be superstars, it will be difficult for Rondo, who will be in his prime in the future, to lead them to the playoffs.
But his current teammates, except for him, the other four starters are at least All-Star level players. Although McGrady has a small defect that makes it difficult for him to reach the top level in all techniques, Marion and Kwame Brown are all-stars with relatively single functions, but their strengths are also obvious. Some are good at catching dribbles and threatening the basket, some are good at running and have a strong sense of autonomy to help teammates without the ball to pick and roll, and there are two outside teammates with comprehensive techniques...
If you don't consider the success rate and concentrate on helping one player score, Rondo's task is much easier than helping the whole team score!
In the following time, Kwame Brown grabbed rebounds, Marion helped Liu Mang pick and roll, Rondo was the main point guard, McGrady assisted in passing, and Liu Mang shot alone. The goal of the Hawks was very clear, and Liu Mang had a good touch today and scored continuously from the outside.
In addition, Rondo occasionally chose to feed Kwame Brown to eat dribbles when other teammates had perfect scoring opportunities in order to distract the opponent's attention, and occasionally threw one to Marion, trying his best to maintain the offensive threat of his teammates and help Liu Mang get better shooting opportunities.
This is more efficient than Liu Mang just swinging alone.
Liu Mang originally wanted to dominate the ball, but after he scored three goals in a row with Rondo and McGrady, Liu Mang gave up the ball. Unexpectedly, he did not reduce the number of points, but increased the scoring efficiency!
Indeed, he did not hold the ball himself, and the number of shots was not as many as when he played against relatively weak opponents before, but the efficiency was much higher.
In the first quarter, Liu Mang made 7 of 13 shots, 3 of 4 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws, scoring 21 points in the first quarter!
Rondo and McGrady, mainly Rondo dominated. McGrady quickly realized that he used the containment of Marion and Kwame Brown, the containment of McGrady, and the breakthrough threat of Rondo to help Liu Mang create one-on-one shooting opportunities against Bargnani or TJ Ford as much as possible.
TJ-Ford is motivated but has no defensive ability. He is shorter than Rondo and does not have Rondo's defensive talent. Bargnani has height and good defensive conditions, but no defensive motivation. Usually, the Raptors rely on three stars to clean up these two positions. When Rondo used the threat of team offense to help Liu Mang create opportunities to catch the ball and shoot against these two defensive players, he had an excellent touch today. He used the three skills of King of Pull-Ups, Master of Fast Shooting, and Speedy Speed, which require specific conditions, to reduce the impact of a large number of runs or direct shooting when shooting. When shooting, he tried to reduce the impact of jumping and shooting too fast as much as possible. With his three-point rating of 97 for his right hand and layup rating of more than 90 for both hands, he scored 21 points in the first quarter!
However, the Raptors did not give up because they kept up with the score!
Milicic's mid-range shots and low-post singles, coupled with his excellent passing ability; Richard Jefferson and TJ Ford's running to attack the basket; Richard Jefferson and Bargnani's open three-pointers; Joe Johnson's efficient singles against McGrady helped the Raptors to only lag behind by two points after the first quarter, when Liu Mang scored 21 points in a single quarter.
The Hawks led by two points in the first quarter with 29 to 27.
The starting lineups of both teams fought for a whole quarter!
The head coaches of both teams had no way to control the players on the court, mainly because both teams played well!
The defense was very hard. The Raptors really got into the state in this game today, and tried their best to make the Hawks, except Liu Mang, only shoot 3 of 9. Except for Marion's cut-in, which caused Bargnani and Milicic to foul once each, and made 2 of 3 free throws, the Hawks' other players were well defended when attacking the basket.
The Hawks' defense was also done as best as possible.
However, the Hawks were ahead, and the biggest advantage was that Liu Mang could maintain a hit rate of more than 50% and scored 21 points even though there was always at least one defensive player in front of him!
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In the second quarter, both teams were forced to make large-scale rotations.
Except for Joe Johnson and Milicic, all other positions on the Raptors were replaced.
Milicic and TJ Ford mainly rotated to double-team Liu Mang and defend the inside, and they were exhausted. This was mainly because of Richard Jefferson. His athletic ability was so good that he was comparable to Vince Carter. He could always switch defense in the first place on the defensive end. He was also very active in defense and consumed a lot of energy.
The Raptors sent out backup point guard Juan Dixon, backup small forward Maurice Peterson, and short power forward Jorg Garbajosa signed from Barcelona, along with Joe Johnson and Milicic.
On the Hawks side, four people were directly replaced. Except for Liu Mang who returned to the point guard position, the other four were replaced.
The rotation of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Battier, Granger, and Gortat came on the court.
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The Raptors have always had a chance to win, so it is difficult for them to do something like the Spurs, who would rather lose than let Liu Mang be happy.
It is difficult for a team to do the Spurs, who would rather lose a game than let the opponent's star player break the record. Only Popovich in the NBA can do that.
The Raptors have a chance to win, and they have been fighting. As long as the score difference is not completely widened, they will try their best to defend the Hawks and play better on the offensive end.
Gortat, a 2.11-meter tall man, is definitely a threat when standing on the edge of the three-second zone. Liu Mang dominates the ball. He was the assist king last season. When he holds the ball, the threat to his teammates in the interior is even greater.
Jason Terry is one of the best substitutes in the league. Except for Ginobili and Odom, there is hardly a substitute player who can compare with Jason Terry.
For Liu Mang, with these two teammates, he will have many opportunities to shoot. In addition, Battier and Granger, who have made about 1 open three-pointer in the last ten games, opened up space. The Eagles' lineup of one big and four small players gave Liu Mang a good singles opportunity during the rotation of the two teams!
The key point is that the fast TJ Ford and Richard Jefferson, who are both strong in single defense and help defense, went to rest!
In the second quarter, Liu Mang scored 20 points in a single quarter, and in the third quarter, Liu Mang scored 17 points in a single quarter...
After three quarters, Liu Mang made 20 of 34 shots, 9 of 16 three-pointers, and 9 of 11 free throws without a minute of rest, and scored 58 points in three quarters!