Chapter 1536 1535. Large Triple Pair! (Second Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Ticket)

The core combination of Calderon + O'Neal, with Barbosa, Josh Smith, and Dio on the court.

Without the fast break organization of Nash, the son of the wind, the Suns can't play fast, but after Calderon came on, the Suns played slowly!

Calderon is getting more and more experienced now. With more and more NBA experience, his ability is getting stronger and stronger. There are already teams ready to dig him after the end of the season this summer, when his contract is about to expire. He has a very thorough study of the game and can be used to guide the team's leader.

In terms of controlling slow-paced games, Calderon is much better than Nash, and not just in offense. His personal defensive ability is at best mediocre, but his command ability on the defensive end is very strong. He is the key to the Suns' second lineup to play top positional warfare performance, which will allow players to appear in the right place at the right time to ensure that teammates do what they should do.

Just like now, the Suns' rhythm has dropped to the most suitable rhythm for O'Neal, with Josh Smith and Barbosa retreating to delay fast breaks, and Calderon and Dio guiding defense to cooperate with O'Neal's retreat.

Fast break tactics are not so easy to play. When the opponent has a good positional warfare and strong players, the Hawks failed to play well in the two attacks after the Suns called the first timeout.

At this time, Calderon took advantage of O'Neal's sufficient physical strength and let O'Neal hit two consecutive goals, making a 4-0 wave.

The Hawks originally opened up a score of 13 to 8, and the 5-point difference was suddenly reduced to 1 point!

Taking advantage of the breakthrough of Wade, who came off the bench, caused Barbosa to foul. The Hawks continued to make substitutions, replacing Kwame Brown with Gasol Jr. and Grant Hill as power forward. The lineup of Liu Mang, Wade and McGrady was sent out on the outside.

After the timeout, the Suns did not make substitutions, and the Hawks attacked.

McGrady received the frontcourt ball and dribbled to the left side of the top arc, breaking through from the left. Wade helped Liu Mang block Barbosa, and Liu Mang cut into the inside.

McGrady passed the ball to Liu Mang, who rushed in to attract the defense and passed it to Gasol in the mid-range. Gasol dared to throw it, and received the ball and made a mid-range jump shot at the baseline... hit!

Excellent transfer ball!

Liu Mang's transfer station feature made his own transfer pass awareness better and better!

It was the Suns' offense.

The Suns found some ways to deal with Gasol. In addition to controlling the rhythm, Calderon was also very good at pick-and-roll. After all, he was trained by the Hawks as Stockton's successor, but was put into the Josh Smith deal as a bonus by mistake.

Calderon and Josh Smith made a pick-and-roll. Calderon made a pick-and-roll and then went to the high position on the right side of the free throw line. In this position, Grant Hill, who switched defense with Liu Mang, did not dare to let go. Calderon was like Stockton who was not a little slower in defense. After the pick-and-roll, his mid-range shot was extremely accurate, and he dared to throw it.

Josh Smith cut in with Liu Mang, and Gasol turned around to double-team Josh Smith.

When Josh Smith cut in, he received a pass from Calderon, attracted the defense and passed it to O'Neal who moved behind Gasol.

O'Neal wanted to throw a shot behind Gasol, but Gasol turned around much faster than he expected, and missed the shot in a hurry!

Unlike the beginning of the season, although there were not many opportunities to play, Gasol played 19 games after all, and the training of muscle building and fat reduction was also quite effective. His movement was much better than at the beginning of the season, and he turned around to block O'Neal!

Gasol's speed is not fast, it can only be said that it is better than at the beginning of the season, but the Suns' style of play is based on Gasol's slowness at the beginning of the season. In fact, when Gasol defended Yao Ming in the Christmas game, it can be seen that Gasol's improvement in movement is quite obvious, from extremely slow to slow.

Defended!

This time, the Hawks' lineup adjustment defended the positional attack of the Card-Shark combination!

The rebound of O'Neal's missed throw was grabbed by Liu Mang and immediately thrown to the front court.

Barbosa rushed towards McGrady and Wade who were counterattacking. Wade and McGrady started playing. You hit the board, I jumped up and hit it again. I didn't shoot and kept hitting the board...

Feeling Barbosa's helplessness, McGrady was kind-hearted. When Wade once again pushed the ball over Barbosa's head to the rebound and bounced to McGrady, McGrady jumped up and pressed the ball into the basket. He didn't play with Barbosa anymore.

Being able to defend against the offense of the three-man team of the Card-Shaq combination and Josh Smith in the positional battle is inseparable from Gasol's progress.

It's just that Gasol's change is a little different from what Liu Mang expected.

The original Gasol was born to lose weight. After the 2008 Olympics, he was brought into the NBA by the Grizzlies. In one year, he lost fat from nearly 140 kilograms to 120 kilograms.

But this Gasol, Liu Mang felt that after losing weight, he was more than 120 kilograms...

What kind of impact will it have, Liu Mang can't predict now.

But Liu Mang didn't find it strange. Every player's development would always change a little bit because of his arrival. The elementary school students were all practicing step-back three-pointers, so it was acceptable for Gasol Jr. to eventually become a muscular white bear.

Anyway, Gasol's mid-range shooting and passing feel have not been affected, and are even better than the original time and space in the 2008-09 season when he lost nearly 20 kilograms in one year. In the original time and space, Gasol's mid-range shooting hit rate in his rookie season was 40.7%, but in his second year, the first season after losing weight, his mid-range shooting hit rate was only 29%. After more than a year of training, he was able to get his mid-range shooting back in the second half of the 2010-11 season.

Now Gasol is gaining muscle and reducing fat in a health-oriented way. Thomas Carter will proceed step by step whether he is treating illness or helping people lose weight. Gasol's shooting and passing feel are not greatly affected.

Anyway, it's good to use!

Compared with the season opener, the Hawks did a better job of defending the Suns in positional warfare!

At that time, although Gasol defended O'Neal's low-post singles, he still did a poor job defending the cooperation of the Carter-Shark combination.

After all, the Suns are a team that is strange and can enter the Western Conference playoffs even if they are divided into two core lineups. But this time, Gasol's little improvement, coupled with the three strongest defensive perimeter players of the Hawks, has greatly restricted the Card-Shark combination!

After the official timeout in the first quarter, the Suns had no choice but to send out the running and gunning lineup again...

The Hawks were in explosive form on both offense and defense, especially Liu Mang.

During the period when the Hawks had a good run-in and won 17 consecutive games, the most terrifying thing was that Liu Mang's degree of adaptation to his teammates became better. In the early stage of the season, although Liu Mang averaged 9 assists per game, most of it was due to Rondo's guidance of the team and McGrady's learning from Rondo's guidance of the team.

But during the 17-game winning streak, Liu Mang was more proactive in leading the team's offense with the two perimeter organizers consciously helping him.

A point guard who averages the third highest per game in the league is not a tactical core, and Liu Mang's passes are more difficult to defend.

Because Liu Mang has the opportunity to shoot decisively, double-team, he passes the ball, and when he encounters help defense, he also passes the ball. If he doesn't double-team or help defense one-on-one, he will really shoot to death! They are not afraid at all. They will continue to shoot even if they miss the second time...

The Suns sent out a pure run-and-gun lineup of Nash, Raja Bell, Barbosa, Jason Richardson, and Josh Smith, but they were also suppressed by the run-and-gun lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, McGrady, Grant Hill, and Marion on the Hawks side!

The Hawks made their opponents uncomfortable in the game because they would not actively change the rhythm on the court this season. Instead, they would change the lineup according to the rhythm of the opponent. They were not afraid at all. No matter what you do, they have a corresponding lineup to counter it!

The most important thing is that the three eagles are in too good a state now!

The Suns tried their best to score points, but after the Suns gave up positional defense and played run-and-gun, the Hawks scored even more violently!

Liu Mang's score was average. He only got 11 points after the first half, but he had 9 assists in the first half...

11 points, 9 assists, 6 rebounds. He was stuck as long as he was outside the three-point line, and he was double-teamed when he broke through. There were too many passing options!

If McGrady hadn't lost his mind at the end of the first half and had to do a 360-degree turnaround layup after receiving the ball, Liu Mang would have had 10 assists in the first half. McGrady had only two seconds left when he received the ball, and the whistle for the end of the first half hadn't been thrown out before he jumped up and turned around.

At the end of the first half, with Liu Mang's 11 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds, McGrady's 17 points in the first half, Jason Terry's 10 points in the first half, Rondo's 4 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 1 steal, Wade's 8 points, 2 steals and 2 assists, and the inside line added up to 24 points, the Hawks led the Suns by 13 points 74 to 61 in the first half!

The Suns had tried their best, but the Hawks, who also tried their best, were in even more explosive form!

The Hawks threw 49 times in the first half and made 30 shots. Such offensive performance, even the Suns, the second-highest scoring team in the league, can't play it a few times a season.

When a super offensive team encounters an opponent with such a strong offensive state, the psychological blow is greater than a strong defensive team being conquered by a strong offensive team!

The Hawks used the Suns' best style of play to suppress them!

The fans at the scene and in front of the TV who were looking forward to the Hawks' winning streak being ended will be disappointed...

After the start of the second half, the Suns consciously increased physical confrontation, so Liu Mang began to commit more fouls.

Harden, who was wearing the No. 24 Hawks jersey on the sidelines, got excited in the second half. Liu Mang scored 15 points in the third quarter, including 8 of 10 free throws! There was also a three-pointer, a mid-range shot and a layup!

Under the leadership of Liu Mang, the Hawks did not let the crazy Suns who wanted to reverse the game turn the tables in the second half!

The Suns really tried hard, and their condition was not bad, but they were a step behind the Hawks' dazzling performance, a big step behind.

With the change of the inside line as the rhythm adaptation point, Liu Mang as the passing transfer station and scoring arrow, and McGrady or Rondo as the tactical core...

Liu Mang played 40 minutes and scored 33 points, 13 rebounds, 15 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks. McGrady scored 27 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists. Jason Terry scored 19 points, Wade scored 15 points, Rondo scored 8 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, Gasol scored 6 points, Kwame Brown scored 16 points and 10 rebounds...

With the outstanding performance of the Hawks players, the Hawks defeated the Suns 133 to 115!

Nash's 39 points and 5 assists, Calderon's 10 points and 6 assists, and Josh Smith's 17 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists were useless!

The Suns' stars could only watch Liu Mang win 18 consecutive victories over them!

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