Chapter 1442 1441. Destroy with Overwhelming Force, Advance to the Eastern Finals with Six Players! (Ask for Monthly Votes)

Liu Mang made 4 of 4 shots at the beginning of the game today, and Garnett was overwhelmed.

However, Garnett has always known how strong Liu Mang is. He is so strong that Garnett himself could not snatch the MVP from this guy in his best season. As one of the five best players in the league, Garnett feels Liu Mang's strength more deeply than Hinrich.

Although Hinrich is a mature player, and the fourth-year Hinrich played the peak performance of his career, but Hinrich's peak performance... is just a player on the edge of an All-Star, with quasi-first-class scoring ability and second-level defense, but obviously, he is not an All-Star player.

Hinrich thought that if he beat Liu Mang once in the playoffs, he would cross the mountain hanging over the heads of their 03 generation.

As for Garnett... he just wanted to beat the Hawks during the period of weakness after the Hawks won three consecutive championships.

If they don't win this year, after the young players of the Hawks grow up, it will be another two-year championship cycle!

Just like the 2002-03 season and the 2003-04 season, in the 2002-03 season, rookies such as Boozer and Prince were still growing, and the Hawks failed to win the championship, but in the 2003-04 season, Boozer was already very good, so good that other teams could trade him back with the sixth pick to be the core, and the 2003-04 season successfully won the championship.

This year's Hawks are very similar to the 2002-03 season. Of course, there is no bad luck like the start of the 2002-03 season, but it is basically the same. All rookies are talented, but they are still to be developed. Granger and David Lee are not the type of Boozer and Prince who are very strong and grow rapidly in their second year, and Rondo is still a rookie.

Garnett knows that by the next season, after the young players of the Hawks improve, the Hawks will have passed the first year of preparation for the championship cycle.

In the next season, even if McGrady still lacks defensive strength in the regular season, Rondo, who has grown up for a year, and Grant Hill, who has become better after a summer of adjustment and has a better tacit understanding with the team, can take over. Jason Terry was half dead in the regular season, and there are other young substitutes. Even if Wade's recovery is not ideal, as long as he has 60% to 70% of his original strength, he is also a super substitute and can replace Jason Terry...

And...if the Hawks fail to win the championship this year, there will definitely be less arrogance and pride next season...

This season is the best opportunity for the Eastern Conference team to beat the Hawks. Garnett just wants to take this opportunity to beat the Hawks, just like the Nets in the 02-03 season.

But...

Today is different from the past...Liu Mang is no longer the sophomore who just started from the bench!

In the first three games of this series, Liu Mang relied on Kobe's star card to win an away game, avoiding being beaten 3-0 by the opponent at the beginning. Later, when the score was 2-2, Liu Mang led his teammates to win the decisive game.

In this Game 7, Liu Mang did not panic as much as in the last Game 7. Instead, he played better under pressure!

After the first quarter timeout, Liu Mang immediately adjusted his style of play. As he expected, the opponent had more restrictions on his breakthrough.

The Bulls' defense against Liu Mang's mid-range shots was initially to let one of the two players, Garnett or Ben Wallace, who was closer to Liu Mang's mid-range position, to assist. Although both of them blocked the passing routes of Liu Mang and Marion or Kwame Brown very well, Grant Hill was very experienced. After all, he was a veteran with 13 years of playing experience. Knowing what Liu Mang needed now, Grant Hill took the initiative to help McGrady with off-ball pick-and-roll. McGrady also had a high basketball IQ. The first time Grant Hill took the initiative to block, McGrady knew the idea of ​​his former teammate and began to actively look for opportunities to cut in when Liu Mang broke through or to pick and roll for Liu Mang or Marion after the pick and roll.

Of course, the most... is to rush into the inside after the pick and roll to grab offensive rebounds!

The official timeout was called in the seventh minute of the first quarter. The Hawks led by 8 points with 17 to 9. After the first quarter, the Hawks led by 7 points with 25 to 18!

6 of 12 shots in a single quarter, 5 of 8 mid-range shots, 0 of 3 three-pointers, 1 of 1 layup, and 1 of 2 free throws. Although no three-pointers were scored, Liu Mang still scored 13 points in a single quarter!

The key point is to attract the opponent's defense to the mid-range. Although there is no space to pass the ball inside, Ben Wallace or Garnett are very good at defense in this regard, but Liu Mang did not intend to pass the ball at all. He only made a long pass to Rondo, who came off the bench and ran out of a counterattack opportunity with speed, in the last 37 seconds of the first quarter. 13 points and 1 assist in a single quarter!

After attracting the opponent's defense to the mid-range, Liu Mang faced the defense and made a hard shot. Although he missed 6 shots in a single quarter, his teammates grabbed offensive rebounds three times. When the other people's touch was very average, the others scored 12 points in a single quarter!

Of course, the focus is on defense, limiting the Bulls from scoring more than 20 points in a single quarter.

Liu Mang had 3 defensive rebounds, 1 steal and 2 blocks in a single quarter. Both blocks were from Garnett. He blocked Ben Wallace and Luol Deng, making Garnett afraid to pass the ball inside easily. He chose to pass the ball to his teammates outside.

Without inside attack, he shot from outside. With only 4 points in the inside, he scored 18 points in a single quarter, which is actually very good.

But Liu Mang's explosive performance today, and his better offensive feeling than usual, allowed the Hawks to score 25 points in a single quarter even though the Bulls had already defended very well!

This... is more surprising than the single-quarter performance that was played with Kobe's star card and his teammates' good touch!

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The 7-point lead in a single quarter gave the Hawks great confidence.

Liu Mang also felt quite confident in his offensive performance today. The offensive feeling was not about how accurate the shooting was, but that he had a special feeling in terms of choice, and he could always make the most correct decision at the first time.

This decision may not be very reasonable, but it was the best decision for the Hawks.

In the second quarter, the Bulls' defense began to adjust again.

The Hawks' offense was blocked three times in a row at the beginning, but fortunately, the defense against the Bulls was very good. The Bulls only scored one out of four attacks. Although they were fouled by the opponent and made one of two free throws, they only allowed the opponent to score 3 points during this period.

After Liu Mang made 0 of 3 three-pointers, the Bulls asked Sefrosa to retreat a little and retreat into the three-point line in the second quarter, hoping to block Liu Mang's breakthrough. For this reason, they would rather give Liu Mang some three-point opportunities.

The Bulls were just gambling, they could only gamble!

Liu Mang's mid-range shots were very accurate today, but his three-point shots were really bad. In the first three attacks in the second quarter, Liu Mang missed two three-point shots.

However, after the timeout, the score was narrowed to 21-25 and the score difference was reduced to 4 points. Liu Mang had a new way to deal with the Bulls' defense.

It was difficult to break through, so Liu Mang played pick-and-roll with Granger who came on the bench. During the pick-and-roll, he passed the ball to Granger and asked Granger to shoot. When his teammates in the interior rushed to grab rebounds and attracted the opponent's interior position, Liu Mang went to attack the offensive rebound himself.

If Granger couldn't make a shot, he would change players. Jason Terry, McGrady, Granger, Marion... There was always one who could make a shot.

After several rounds of adjustment at the beginning of the second quarter, the effect of Liu Mang's adjustment began to show. Marion's three-pointer today was very trustworthy. He scored one in the first quarter and two in the second quarter. He made 3 of 5 three-pointers in the first half, which played an important role in the Hawks' lead at the end of the half!

The Bulls' adjustment today was phenomenal, very outstanding, and very targeted. Moreover, because of the pressure of going fishing if they lose, they have a very strong execution ability.

But at this time, Liu Mang can ignore one thing-physical fitness, which shows the biggest advantage!

Some players find it difficult to make effective adjustments when encountering extremely targeted defenses, which is inseparable from physical fitness. A player with the number 24 who changed his jersey but denied that he had anything to do with the number 23 can have the title of the king of the Western Conference Finals, and the title of the king of the Western Conference Finals was played on the head of the Spurs. Because of this, no matter how strict the Spurs' defensive plan was against him, he could eventually break it because he could afford it.

Although the Bulls' defense was stronger than the peak Spurs, which caused a lot of trouble for Liu Mang, Liu Mang helped the team to a 3-3 tie in the first six games... In the seventh game, Liu Mang entered a very special state!

No matter how the Bulls adjusted, Liu Mang could find the gaps!

The last time Liu Mang had this special feeling was in the decisive battle of the 2005 Finals!

Starting from the first quarter today, the fans had a very strange feeling about this game... Everything was under Liu Mang's control!

Unlike the second game, he did not rely on the unexpected low-post attack ability to control the whole game. Liu Mang used the skills he was good at, the abilities that he usually showed the most, but the selection was better than usual.

The fans couldn't tell what it felt like, but from the intuitive feeling of watching the game, the fans felt that the Hawks had an absolute upper hand today!

Indeed...

The Bulls' resilience, defensive discipline, and flexibility kept the Bulls from falling behind too much throughout the game, and the Hawks did not widen the gap to more than 10 points, but...

No matter what adjustments the Bulls made, no matter how resilient they were, no matter how good they thought of dealing with Liu Mang and the Hawks, Liu Mang could make the right adjustments and let the Hawks gain the advantage again.

Although they did not gain a huge score advantage, it seemed that the Bulls were always holding on tightly.

But...

The fans watching the game had a very special feeling, that is, no matter how good the Bulls' defense was adjusted, Liu Mang could defeat it!

The fans felt very strange about this game. The score difference was not big, but Liu Mang's performance was like completely blowing up the opponent!

At this time, the beauty of the only text that has been passed down for thousands of years without interruption was reflected. A Chinese fan posted on the Internet during the break: Today Liu Mang has a feeling of crushing withering and rotten!

At the end of the first half, the Hawks led by six points, 48 ​​to 42. After three quarters, the Hawks led by three points, 69 to 66.

But after the Bulls narrowed the gap to 3 points, they had no chance to go further. In the crucial fourth quarter, Liu Mang took more shots, and after Liu Mang missed one shot, he led his teammates to try their best to prevent the opponent from missing shots.

Steady suppression, the score difference was not big, but no matter how hard the Bulls tried, they felt that they could not catch up!

Just one breath away!

When in the transition phase, both teams missed shots continuously. After the score difference was stagnant at 3-5 points for a long time, it was always the Hawks who broke the deadlock first.

Because Shuanglang dared to shoot more!

This time... the Bulls did not drag them into overtime again!

When there were 37 seconds left, Liu Mang passed the ball to McGrady. McGrady received the ball and threw it out with 1 second left. He made a three-pointer, making the score 91 to 82. The Hawks expanded their lead to 9 points and locked the victory!

In the end, Liu Mang made 15 of 41 shots, 2 of 14 three-pointers, 6 of 9 free throws, 38 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 4 blocks, and... 6 turnovers and 4 fouls, helping the Hawks beat the Bulls 91 to 86, winning the tiebreaker and advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals!

The Bulls played well, but Liu Mang performed better!

Although Liu Mang's hit rate was less than 40% and he only had four assists, from the data, Liu Mang's performance was very poor, very poor, with only 38 points in 41 shots.

But fans who watched the game know how amazing Liu Mang's performance was in this game!

Some fans have always regarded "the role that cannot be reflected by the data" as a joke, but those who watched the seventh game between the Hawks and the Bulls today really felt what "the role that cannot be reflected by the data" means.

The Bulls defended Liu Mang's hit rate and the number of assists, but Liu Mang made the fans who watched the game feel amazing!

And...

The Hawks won!

Liu Mang has made it to the Eastern Conference Finals for six consecutive seasons since his rookie season!