Chapter 1390 1389.7 Multiplied by 5 Is the Best Way!

Rondo and Kwame Brown were in tears...

Watching Liu Mang throw himself into the air like a twist, twisting his body to grab rebounds from the crowd, more daring than the center, more active than Rondo to rush and get around people to block positions...

As the Knicks played, the players felt that it was not the case, and they guarded the basket more strictly. The two inside players just refused to go out, preferring to let the Hawks shoot from the outside.

Of course, Liu Mang didn't give any chances at all.

Outside the three-point line, Liu Mang was blocked. There was no other way except for him to force a fadeaway shot against two people blocking him. In theory, Marbury should be at his peak at this time. Big Q was the most willing to defend in the former Suns' running and shooting corps who could run and jump. It was precisely because he was willing to defend and "delayed" the run-and-gun that he was abandoned by D'Antoni.

There was only a little chance for mid-range shooting. After all, the mid-range area was too large. Liu Mang grabbed the ball and squeezed it. He could still shoot a little when he rushed to the mid-range, but there were not many such opportunities, mainly because of the low efficiency. Liu Mang threw a few more and simply started to pass the ball and tried to grab rebounds. Whether it was an offensive rebound or a defensive rebound, he fought hard to grab it.

Offensive rebounds occasionally have the opportunity to directly attack the basket, and defensive rebounds have the opportunity to directly counterattack. It is still difficult to defend Liu Mang when he rushes up.

Of course, Liu Mang scored the most... still free throws, and because he put all his efforts into rebounding against the inside, his free throw touch was also average...

He played for 38 minutes, 5 of 15 shots, 1 of 7 three-pointers, 6 of 10 free throws, and Liu Mang was almost killed on the court, and only got 17 points.

But... in addition to 17 points, Liu Mang also had 17 rebounds, 16 assists, 10 blocks, 5 steals! ... and 8 turnovers and 5 fouls...

A large number of blocks came with a large number of fouls. Liu Mang was unwilling to leave the court, even if he was leading by 50 points, he was still unwilling to leave until he was fouled for the fifth time, and Coach Kruger forced him to replace him.

The important thing is victory! The Hawks beat the Knicks with a score difference of 59 points, 139 to 80, one point more than 58 points!

After the record of the regular season score difference of 70 points by the Hawks, the Knicks were abused by the Hawks at home this time by 59 points!

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After scoring 81 points in a single game, Liu Mang got a quadruple-double in the second game!

And it was 7 times 5! Liu Mang's data exceeded five in each category.

After the game, Liu Mang continued to spark heated discussions among fans. After the new year of this season, Liu Mang's continuous highlight performance really started to make fans and the media discuss the topic of the top three in history.

It's still a little early for Liu Mang to be the first in history. Jordan, Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Magic Johnson are four big mountains pressing there. All four of them are god-level players with at least 5 championships. The most championships, the highest average points per game, the highest total points, the highest average assists per game... The first place of these four most valuable honors was won by these four people.

Jordan's first place is unquestionable. The supporters of the other three positions are almost fighting for the second and third positions.

Now, Liu Mang is also regarded as one of them.

The Hawks are not favored this season, not at all. It can be seen from Grant Hill's thinking about the future and no other veterans with outstanding strength choose to cling to the thigh that fans, media and even players are not optimistic about the outcome of the Hawks this season.

McGrady's defensive decline is visible to the naked eye, and Jason Terry and Kwame Brown are often fatigued. After all, one is a sixth man who is a sloppy player, and the other is a muscle man in the inside who fights with big men. They have consumed a lot in the past few years.

The substitute lineup is a group of rookies and sophomores, and the inside line is still weak. It can't be compared with the inside line of the Bulls, Spurs, Mavericks, and Lakers. It is even slightly inferior to the Raptors and Cavaliers. It can only be said that it is a first-class inside combination, mainly due to height problems.

But...

32 wins and 15 losses, relying on Liu Mang's performance of averaging 40+ per game this month, which is also the second time in his career that he averages 40+ per game in a single month. Liu Mang has made the Hawks' winning rate move towards 70%!

However...

Fans are used to Liu Mang's excellent performance. Only when they see Liu Mang like this, they feel normal.

What fans discussed in the basketball forum after the game was...

"Kirilenko's 5 times 5 data is nothing, Ace's 7 times 5 data is the king!"

"Kirilenko can get 5 assists, but can he get 8 turnovers and 5 fouls? Ace is still the best!"

"What is comprehensive? Ace is comprehensive..."

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Liu Mang looked at the strange style of the Internet. He had a quadruple-double, but all the comments were like this. He was even more depressed!

In last night's game, McGrady scored 31 points, Jason Terry scored 13 points, Rondo scored 20 points to set a new career high, Kwame Brown scored 15 points, Marion scored 14 points, and Blake scored 11 points...

And he, Liu, got 16 assists, but scored only 17 points...

It was miserable. He returned to Atlanta this morning and had to play against the New York team in the evening.

Liu Mang was also annoyed to meet those opponents who were forced to lose their passion for basketball.

However, the opponent was also playing the second game of a back-to-back game, and it was an away game. Liu Mang felt that he should be able to get more whistles, unlike the last game on the road, where he was almost beaten to death and his arm was still red after a night, and he only had 10 free throws.

As for the slight bruise on his arm, Liu Mang was determined not to cure it, so that the referee of the next game could see how miserable he was, and maybe there would be a few sympathetic whistles.

The Hawks did not practice during the day, and the players went home to catch up on their sleep.

That is, the Hawks have established good team discipline since Liu Mang became the team's leading star in his sophomore year, together with Rahim, who was still the team's boss at the time, and the strict coach Kruger. They were prohibited from going out at night during consecutive away games, and there were strict sleeping arrangements during hotel stays. Otherwise, even if they had rested in the past three years, Jason Terry, McGrady, and Kwame Brown would have collapsed physically this season.

Once good habits are formed, they are very beneficial to NBA players throughout their lives.

East 23 and West 24, both have outrageous self-discipline since they graduated from high school, which is also what Liu Mang wants to bring to his team.

Over the years, the team's discipline has made Liu Mang very satisfied. After three consecutive championships, with so many undesirable factors, the team can still have a half-time performance of 32 wins and 15 losses, which is inseparable from the discipline that the team has always maintained.

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“Uncle, this is the left field… This is the shortstop… You ask this? This is first base… Uncle is so stupid!”

“… Let’s take our time…” Liu Mang had a headache remembering these positions, it was not as easy as remembering football…

Liu Mang thought it was definitely not because of his IQ, but because the ball was too small, like a football, about the same size as a basketball, so he remembered it all at once.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang watched the Major League Baseball game with the little girl on winter vacation. Liu Mang didn’t understand it at all, but Americans seemed to like baseball very much. In addition to ice hockey, Liu Mang had watched the other three major sports in the four major leagues of the United States with the little girl.

Baseball is something that you really don’t understand at all if you don’t understand it.

Little Lolita didn't care about Liu Mang anymore. She was watching the game between the Atlanta Braves and the Washington Nationals of the National League of the Major League Baseball. The two teams were not at the same level. The Atlanta Braves was a historically strong team established in the mid-19th century with a history of more than 140 years. It had a glorious history of winning the division championship for 14 consecutive years. Although it has not been very good in the past 30 years and the limelight in Atlanta has long been taken away by the Eagles, it is also the leader of the National League East. The Nationals, who just moved to Washington, DC, had 42 wins and 120 losses last season, creating the worst record in the history of Major League Baseball, breaking the record of 120 losses, and are the absolute last in the National League East.

Continuous strikeouts, Liu Mang really didn't know what to watch, he could only ask what the players in other positions that the camera occasionally took care of did, and then was ridiculed by Little Lolita.

However... Liu Mang felt that the people of Washington were really miserable...

During the break after the third inning, a sports news was inserted.

"According to sources, the New Jersey Nets are not planning to negotiate any trades for Carter this season, but they have included Kidd in the trade list. If Kidd is not traded before the trade deadline this season, they will seek to trade Jason Kidd for a draft pick at the draft..."

Listening to the beautiful news host talking about the latest trade news about the Nets, the little girl complained: "Uncle, what do the Nets think? Aren't they trying to make the playoffs? Are they going to trade Kidd at this time?"

"Maybe they don't want to be exposed, but they have been exposed." Liu Mang responded.

"Then the Nets don't want to trade?"

"No, I think they must be very anxious to trade Kidd. Kidd's 5+1 contract can enter the player option after the next season. The Nets don't want to lose Kidd in vain." Liu Mang analyzed.

"So that's the case, but Kidd is about to be 34 years old, with a 20 million contract, which is higher than the uncle's salary." The little girl continued to complain.

"That's right. Compared with your uncle, who is so smart and capable, Kidd's contract is a rubbish contract." Liu Mang began to show off.

"Uncle, aren't you ashamed to praise yourself like this?"

"A little bit."

"..."

The little girl felt that her uncle was becoming more and more shameless.

After a short news bulletin, the baseball game continued.

Recently, there have been a lot of such news. The Nets, Bucks, Trail Blazers, and Supersonics, four teams with first-class or even top stars, but extremely unstable, often have such news. Liu Mang and the little girl have also had many similar conversations.

This time, Liu Mang felt that the Nets had really reached the point where they had to get serious. The combination of Kidd + Carter was declared a failure.

The reason for the failure is very simple. No star is willing to cooperate with these two stars.

It's not that they are not good enough, but... no one wants to go to New Jersey to cooperate with these two.

They got Kidd in exchange for Marbury. They got Marbury because Marbury wanted a big contract, and the Timberwolves couldn't afford it, so the Nets got a bargain.

Carter was acquired by using the draft pick they got by playing badly to select Kenyon Martin, who was then trained.

Ratliff and Radmanovich were acquired by using Richard Jefferson, who was selected by playing badly.

Over the past few years, the chips that the Nets got by playing badly before Kidd joined the Nets have long been spent, and now only Kidd, who is almost 34 years old, and Carter, who is 30 years old, are left.

If these two play together without other helpers, the best they can do is to make it to the playoffs and be eliminated in the first round.

However...what surprised Liu Mang was that Carter, who had no serious injuries, played like a young man in his twenties at the age of 30. His physical condition was so good, and he was rarely injured unless he was maliciously hurt!

Thinking of Carter who had suffered three serious injuries in the original time and space, and could still play until he was over 40, Liu Mang felt it was incredible.

It was a pity that Carter's current contract would not end until 2012, otherwise Liu Mang really hoped that Carter would go to a stronger team, so that it would be more interesting to play against Carter.

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In the afternoon, I watched a baseball game with Little Lolita. At around five o'clock, Liu Mang brought Little Lolita to the Phillips Arena. Today, the other two girls did not come to watch the game on site. Only Little Lolita and the bodyguard came together. The two girls took Liu Mang's two children to the hospital for a routine physical examination.

Liu Mang rested in the afternoon, quarreled with Little Lolita to relax his nerves, and now refocused his attention to work hard to get at least 29 points in the back-to-back game with the Knicks.

29 points, it doesn't seem like much, but facing the defense of the Knicks... Liu Mang has to work hard.

But there is also good news for Liu Mang.

The Knicks players must be more tired than him!

Or it can be said that the Knicks players were tossed around by him for 38 minutes last night and were exhausted, while Liu Mang today was like nothing happened, and continued to play with the ball in full vigor!

In addition, this is not the Knicks' home court, not in Madison Square Garden, it is normal for the fans here to cheer for Liu Mang, and the Knicks players did not feel the anger of being abandoned by the home fans. Of course, it is impossible to forget what happened yesterday today, but it will definitely be much smaller.

In addition, the physical fitness of the Knicks players declined, and Liu Mang had many more shooting opportunities than the previous game!

Although the Knicks' defense against Liu Mang was still very strict, the slower footsteps caused by the decline in physical fitness gave Liu Mang a lot of opportunities in the mid-range.

The key is that Liu Mang was more reckless today than yesterday!

As for winning the game...Yesterday Liu Mang was still worried about the Knicks players' explosion, but this time it was different. It was just a matter of how many points they won. The Knicks could not threaten them.

Lack of physical strength had a great impact on the players. The Knicks players were still very decisive in double-teaming, which caused a lot of trouble for Liu Mang. The double-teaming and top defense of the Knicks were always a beat slower. Liu Mang tried his best to seize the opportunity and never pass the ball if he could shoot.

In the last game, Liu Mang's first choice was to shoot when he was tightly guarded by the opponent, but if there was no chance at all, Liu Mang decisively chose to pass the ball and then retaliate against the opponent from the defensive end.

However, this time, after learning that the Knicks were now in an internal conflict between Marbury and Isaiah Thomas and could not pose a threat at all, and that the players were fighting against Isaiah Thomas in a group, only caring about their own face and not wanting the stars of the 2001 class to be happy, Liu Mang simply started to shoot wildly.

Liu Mang played 34 minutes in the whole game, 12 of 29 shots, 3 of 12 three-pointers, 10 of 13 free throws, easily scored 37 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists. McGrady scored 20 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, Rondo scored 7 points and 11 assists, Kwame Brown scored 15 points and 8 rebounds, Marion scored 12 points and 10 rebounds, helping the Hawks to slaughter the Knicks again with a score difference of 108 to 77, 31 points.

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After the games in January, at the end of January, the Hawks won 7 consecutive games, raising their record to 33 wins and 15 losses, surpassing the Spurs and ranking fifth in the league after the Mavericks, Cavaliers, Bulls and Lakers!

It is too difficult to catch up with the top four. The Mavericks have only 43 wins and 8 losses so far. They just ended their 14-game winning streak and then won five consecutive games.

The other three teams are slightly worse, just over 10 losses.

The Lakers have 38 wins and 11 losses, the Cavaliers have 41 wins and 11 losses, and the Bulls have 39 wins and 12 losses. The Bulls, who have the closest record to the Hawks, have only lost 12 games.

Moreover, except for the Lakers, who played fewer games, they only played 49 games after three game months, and were one of the only two teams in the league that played less than 50 games after the first three game months. The other three teams only had nine to ten games in February, while the Hawks had 12 games...

In March, most teams played 14 or 15 games, while the Hawks had 16 games.

In April, when most other teams played eight or nine games, the Hawks only had six games...

On the Hawks side, Liu Mang didn't have much hope for the regular season record. They had already won 73 games. These four teams that seemed to have at least 60 wins... were all younger brothers.

Just try to play well and give young players more opportunities to practice. If the Knicks hadn't pushed Liu Mang in the first back-to-back game, Liu Mang wouldn't have had such an exaggerated assist-to-turnover ratio of 2 to 1 with 16 assists and 8 turnovers, becoming the object of ridicule by fans.

But now...

Liu Mang looked at the task completion status in the task bar (708/700) and heard the system prompt...

"A 20,000 star card, here I come!"