Chapter 1551 1550. Someone Blocked the Center's Shot!
"The Grudge branch task: compete with Kevin Garnett for the third place in the 2007-2008 season block list. Task reward: Kevin Garnett's 2007-2008 season star card. Failure penalty: It is regarded as losing to the Bulls once in the Grudge."
"The Grudge: The host's team and the Bulls are regarded as the two strongest teams in the East this season. The hostility between the host's team and the Bulls players has reached its peak. Task goal: Have an advantage in the regular season against the Bulls. Task reward: Feature: War cry level 1; open the next stage of the Wind Chaser's Wrath task. Failure penalty: The second feature task of the consecutive killing, 'The Wind Chaser's Wrath', ends."
Looking at the new branch task and the original "Grudge" task, Liu Mang wanted to slap himself.
But how could he hit himself in the face? Liu Mang grabbed the little girl and began to pinch her face...
"Uncle...ah...Uncle is bullying Dina again..."
After the little girl had stopped resisting and silently endured the abuse, Liu Mang looked at the next schedule...
We played against the Bulls once before this season. Now the completion rate of the "old grudge" task is 1:0. We will play against the Bulls twice in April, and the fourth to last game on the 12th and 13th and the third to last game on the road and home courts are back-to-back battles.
Liu Mang is still very confident that he can win one of the two games steadily, but if the score is 2 to 1, the new task of competing for the third place in the block list fails, then it will become a 2 to 2 tie!
And the task goal is to have an advantage in the match with the Bulls.
In this way, either all three games must be won to have the certainty of completing the task, and competing for the block list... This task may not be completed.
This makes it very difficult!
Back-to-back home and away games... It may not be possible to win all of them!
Let's take it one step at a time. Looking at the pitiful little Lolita lying in his arms, Liu Mang continued to abuse her...
But the next game is 4 games in 6 days. No. 2 and No. 3 will be back-to-back at home, and No. 5 and No. 7 will play against the 76ers in consecutive away games...
After torturing the little Lolita for a while, Liu Mang took her to the backyard to practice shooting.
The mid-range shot has reached 95, finally breaking the bottleneck of 94. Liu Mang wants to continue to practice. If he can reach the level of mid-range shot like Nowitzki or Kobe, it will be perfect.
As for layups...If the physical fitness is not further enhanced, it will be difficult to improve.
The current physical fitness limit is there. If Liu Mang did not know the human creeping essence steps, Iverson's same-hand and same-foot layup, Dragic's layup, and the pull-up action under the basket that he figured out after experiencing the pull-up of Kobe, Jordan, McGrady and others, he really couldn't break through the bottleneck of 94 layup evaluation.
Depressed as it is, it still needs to be practiced.
While practicing mid-range and long-range shots, Liu Mang was thinking about how to get more than 30 blocks in the next 9 games. He had to win the two games against the Bulls. Otherwise, if his blocks did not exceed Garnett and he lost another game, the task of the second characteristic of continuous killing would be over, which means that it is very likely that the talent skill of continuous killing can only reach level 4.
Having seen Anthony being evaluated as always only level 1 and unable to truly become a superstar determined by the system, Liu Mang did not dare to take a fluke mentality.
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After entering April, the Hawks' adjustments gradually took effect, mainly in terms of thinking, and gradually returned to normal from the idea that they could win by throwing randomly.
5 wins and 3 losses... The 8 games in the second half of March were the worst period of the Hawks this season.
On April 2, the Hawks welcomed the first of the back-to-back games against the Memphis Grizzlies and the Milwaukee Bucks at home.
After the crazy games against seven or eight opponents in the top ten in the West and the top six in the East in January, February and March, the Hawks played back-to-back away games against the Bulls in April, and the other seven opponents were relatively weak.
This is good news for Liu Mang.
At 5:30 pm on the 2nd, the game between the Hawks and the Grizzlies began.
On the Hawks side, Rondo, Liu Mang, Grant Hill, Scola, and Kwame Brown appeared in the starting lineup.
In today's game, Jason Terry, Wade, and Marion took turns to rest. These main players have the fastest recovery in thinking, playing style, and concentration. When playing against weak teams, it is natural to let other players run more. When playing against the Bulls in the third and fourth games from the bottom, it is time to truly verify the combat power.
The goal of the Hawks is to regain the excellent state of the 18th consecutive victory against the Suns before the start of the playoffs.
On the Grizzlies side, Kyrie Lowry, Caron Butler, Mike Miller, Andre Brown, and Al Horford appeared in the starting lineup.
Kwame Brown came to the center circle and jumped the ball with Horford.
The victory was easy, and the Hawks took the lead in attacking.
Of course, it was still a tactical coordination. Liu Mang ran, and after receiving the ball, shooting was the first choice, and the second choice was to pass the ball. Kwame Brown screened Rondo to initiate the attack, Scola responded with a mid-range shot or cut in to respond, and Grant Hill screened Liu Mang without the ball...
It went smoothly. Liu Mang ran back to the basket and received the ball, attracting Horford to make up for the defense and then lobbed the ball. Scola jumped hard... and scored two points with an alley-oop layup.
It was almost dunked, but in the end he could only get the ball out...
Easy to score, Liu Mang easily got an assist.
When the Grizzlies attacked, Lowry pushed forward with the ball, and Liu Mang began to prepare for trouble.
Who would have thought that this little steel cannon with a three-point shooting rate of less than 25% and who can only break through and pass the ball would be able to make 3.2 three-pointers per game with a three-point shooting rate of more than 40% in a single season and have 8 assists?
Anyway, it is not obvious now. When Lowry got to the frontcourt, there was only one word... Break!
Rondo really couldn't defend this kind of crushing breakthrough that relied purely on the body. Not to mention Rondo, Liu Mang could only try his best to stick to him.
Fortunately, although he is not as tall or strong as Liu Mang, Rondo has a very good defensive awareness. While interfering with the passing space on the left side of Lowry, Butler and Mike Miller, he guided Lowry to the inside.
Lowry was completely different before and after the age of 27. After the age of 27, his skills and basketball IQ seemed to have reached their peaks, and he became an excellent point guard. But before the age of 27, he was so stubborn that he only had 3.4 assists in 31 minutes per game, but his scoring averaged 12 points per game...
Kwame Brown collected it at the right time. Although Kwame Brown himself did not quite understand his excellent inside defense awareness... or instinctively blocked the connection between Lowry and Horford. When Lowry pressed Rondo to break through to the inside and made a flying throw, Kwame Brown rushed to block it!
"Here comes the block!"
Kwame Brown felt that he had grasped the timing of the block very well this time, and he would definitely block it!
Just when Kwame Brown's hand was about to touch the ball, a big hand with a lot of white touched the ball first and fanned the ball onto the backboard...
Rondo didn't care who blocked it. The ball bounced towards him and Lowry. Rondo's excellent rebounding sense and positioning took the ball first.
Counterattack!
Liu Mang landed and Rondo grabbed the rebound at almost the same time, and the two rushed directly to the frontcourt.
Rondo and Liu Mang shook off Mike Miller and Butler who wanted to stop them. After breaking through this line of defense, the Grizzlies had no defense. When they reached the frontcourt, Rondo handed the ball to Liu Mang, who threw the ball in front of the basket, and Rondo rushed up and shot into the basket.
Rondo is very satisfied with the current situation of the team. Compared with the number of assists... he prefers to score. He doesn't score much, but it's not that he doesn't like shooting...
As for assists, if he can win the assist king, Rondo just has to win the assist king.
Rondo likes this feeling of controlling the overall situation more.
This tendency is obvious. Liu Mang feels that Coach Long has changed...
When Liu Mang and Rondo ran back to the backcourt to defend, Kwame Brown was still sluggish.
"Do you have to fight for blocks? It's enough to have a guard who can grab rebounds, but now someone is fighting for blocks! Is there any justice? Who is the center?"
Kwame Brown looked at Rondo, who averaged 25 minutes per game and had 4.1 rebounds, and looked at Liu Mang, the team's block king, who also had about 6 rebounds in 37 minutes of playing time...
Kwame Brown felt it was too unfair!
Lowry ran back to catch the ball in anger, and continued to break through after advancing to the frontcourt.
From the perspective of an observer, I really don't know why a player with insufficient basketball IQ would make such a choice, and he has been making such a choice all the time.
But as a player, Liu Mang can still understand it. Just like he didn't have enough ability in his rookie year, he went for fouls every day. It's not that he didn't want to do better or have a better way of playing, but he only had that little ability to gain a foothold in the NBA. Doing things he is not good at is probably worse than being stubborn.
Lowry experienced the feeling of being blocked twice in one minute, and being blocked twice by a guard in the paint...
Kwame Brown knew it when he saw Liu Mang blocking Lowry's shot again!
The boss was really "grabbing" blocks!