Chapter 1396 1395. Confrontation Between Inside and Outside Block Kings (Asking for Monthly Votes)

Indeed, Garnett knew that he pushed Liu Mang, and he did it several times, but the previous movements were not so big.

This time, he did exert a lot of force, and made a move to push with all his strength.

But as soon as Garnett touched Liu Mang, Liu Mang had already flown out.

Let's not talk about it, he admitted it, he himself is also a master of faking falls.

But what are those words that Liu Mang shouted when he fell to the ground?

Garnett has never seen such a pitiful person, even shouting about losing money!

Garnett's originally nervous and focused emotions were mostly gone, and he lost his temper after being yelled by Liu Mang after committing a foul. In the past, he often yelled after committing a foul. After the referee had the power of zero tolerance this season, he was fouled several times, but today he didn't feel like complaining to the referee at all.

The word "losing money" lingered in Garnett's mind. He was confused. Liu Mang's skillful movements and miserable cries... were too similar to some hooligans who wanted to blackmail others after suffering a small loss. Before Garnett played in the NBA, he was a slum dweller at the bottom of society. He often met such people when he was a child. Liu Mang... a Chinese, with the image of Chinese people becoming more and more wealthy in the international arena in recent years, he could not be connected with those people.

Liu Mang saw that the referee ignored him, Garnett ignored him, and his teammates were far away. It was Battier who was kind enough to pull him up and stopped shouting.

Anyway, he got the advantage.

In the first round, Garnett was fouled. This is good news!

The referee signaled the Hawks to attack and urged the Hawks to serve.

The referees have a strong resistance to Liu Mang. They can keep their minds stable no matter what Liu Mang does, but they were still a little overwhelmed this time...

Fortunately, they are professional.

Liu Mang received the ball from the referee, passed it to McGrady, and ran to the front court without the ball.

Even if Rondo was not there, Liu Mang would attack in the simplest way. Of course, there are many advantages to not having the ball, and McGrady holds the ball to attract defense.

Rondo was put on the bench mainly because Liu Mang wanted to switch to Garnett himself, which was much more useful than predicting Garnett's pass.

Unlike Gasol and Milicic who did not take scoring as their first goal, Garnett was also a first-class scorer who averaged 20+ points per game for nine consecutive years before coming to the Bulls, averaging 24 points per game at his peak. Although he did not have the low-post offensive ability of Gasol and Milicic, Garnett's independent scoring ability was much stronger than those two.

Rondo had no good way to switch to Garnett, and Liu Mang came up with a way!

Liu Mang wanted to take advantage of Garnett's "fight and retreat" point.

Fighting and retreating, not only refers to Garnett's performance when he quarrels, Garnett also avoids shooting when attacking, and almost all of his cuts are empty cuts. He rarely plays against the defense inside. The defense is also to avoid fouls and avoid help defense as much as possible. One-on-one defense is mainly to defend against shooters. It is basically impossible to defend against Duncan and O'Neal who directly cut, and a meat shield center is needed to help defend the basket.

There is an old saying called "hindsight is hindsight". After the last game, Liu Mang came up with many ways to make Garnett foul, but the game was already lost at that time, and it was useless to think so much.

Fortunately, the NBA and life are still very different. If you lose once, there is still the next match, and the previous experience can be put into the next match.

This time it was used. If Garnett was fouled at the beginning, with Garnett's cautious play, a super ability and habit of avoiding fouls, and only two six fouls in his more than ten years of professional career, it would definitely cause Garnett some problems on both offense and defense.

Of course...

This idea is very good, but Liu Mang obviously underestimated Garnett's ability. The first favorite for the best defensive player is not given casually...

McGrady used his and Liu Mang's restraining power to create an empty cut opportunity for Marion, and Garnett slapped him on the backboard!

It is true that Garnett, who is now 31 years old, is at a disadvantage in both jumping and jumping speed compared to Kwame Brown, who is only 25 years old now, but that is Kwame Brown... and he is only at a disadvantage in jumping.

Kwame Brown is not as good as Garnett in speed and mobility. Kwame Brown has always been better than Garnett in single defense, but in assisting defense... There is no one in the league who has better assisting defense ability than Garnett now!

The opening foul did not affect Garnett's enthusiasm and decisiveness in assisting defense and blocking at all.

Liu Mang made a wrong estimate this time. Garnett has always been able to maintain a strong style of play to avoid fouls. Liu Mang thought Garnett would be afraid of committing another foul after committing a foul at the beginning, but Garnett had a strong confidence in avoiding fouls after the first foul. He was not careless on the defensive end, and did not form the favorable situation that Liu Mang wanted on the offensive end.

The most critical point is that Ben Wallace and Kwame Brown are in position under the basket. Ben Wallace is also a master of assist defense...

On the contrary... When the Bulls attacked, Liu Mang had made Garnett commit a foul before, which made Garnett play a little timid on the offensive end.

Garnett continued to pick and roll with Hinrich. After Liu Mang switched to Garnett, Garnett cut directly into the basket!

Liu Mang looked at the crowd under the basket. Hinrich was defended to the mid-range by Marion. Hinrich did not continue to break through. Liu Mang, Garnett, Kwame Brown, and Ben Wallace were crowded under the basket!

Hinrich took a mid-range jump shot against Marion’s defense…

Missed!

Ben Wallace grabbed the offensive rebound and then jumped up...

"Snap"

Liu Mang jumped up under the basket and slapped Ben Wallace's forced layup away. Marion turned around and grabbed the defensive rebound that Liu Mang slapped away.

Almost at the same time when Marion grabbed the ball, the Bulls immediately retreated. Ben Wallace was old and couldn't jump as fast as before, but his speed didn't drop too much. The Bulls quickly retreated and didn't give the Hawks any chance to counterattack.

The Hawks had to continue the positional battle with the Bulls.

At the beginning, the two teams seemed to have a lid on the basket. Although Liu Mang failed to make Garnett perform abnormally on the defensive end as expected, he unexpectedly blocked Garnett's mid-range jump shot.

Garnett's mid-range shot is crucial to the Bulls. He can pull out and shoot, creating opportunities for Ben Wallace or Big Z who comes off the bench to catch the ball and attack the basket directly, which is very important, but Garnett's ability to avoid Liu Mang's offensive foul caused the Bulls' entire offense to stagnate!

Garnett averaged 18 points, 9 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 3.6 blocks per game this season. His assists are a career high. As a transit station for the Bulls, his scoring in the high position is very important to the Bulls' offense.

However... the Hawks' offense was also very poor. Except for Liu Manglang's three-pointer, McGrady's mid-range pull-up, and Kwame Brown's tip-in, the Hawks only scored 8 points in the entire half-quarter!

The Bulls only scored 9 points in the half-quarter!

When the official timeout came, the Hawks were one point behind 8 to 9, but they were not at a disadvantage. It was the Bulls who called a timeout after they scored the last goal before the official timeout. The time was exactly six minutes and twelve seconds.

Both teams called a timeout in this half-quarter, but both teams played very poorly on the offensive end.

The key is that the two blockers interfered with the shots under the basket to the extreme when both teams blocked the outside line!

Liu Mang and Garnett, one is the outside block leader this season, and the other is the league block leader this season.

Liu Mang averaged 2.3 blocks per game, breaking the NBA's guard block record, which broke his teammate Tracy McGrady's guard block record of 1.9 blocks per game.

Garnett, on the other hand, averaged 3.6 blocks per game, surpassing Marcus Camby's average of 3.4 blocks per game, ranking first in the league.

In terms of the ability to block shots under the basket, Garnett is actually not as good as Liu Mang, but the threats of both are there, and they can block shots. As long as they block shots once, the opponent will be afraid of them, and their ability to finish under the basket will be easily affected. In addition, both of them successfully affected the opponent's offense under the basket, so that the two teams' defense against three-pointers became better. In terms of mid-range shots, the Hawks have Liu Mang to "threaten" Garnett, and the Bulls have Garnett and Ben Wallace, two mid-range defense experts...

So... a feast of iron shots, played for a whole half quarter...

I'll update 7,000 words today. I'm exhausted today. It's the second day of work. I'm a little busy