Chapter 333 331. Strength Suppression
Coach Sanders is so anxious!
Why is my disciple not calm every time I beat that rookie?
Usually it was Garnett who irritated the opponent and made the opponent angry, but this time it was Garnett himself who took the lead.
Sanders looked at Garnett, who was still cursing, and could only temporarily replace him to calm him down.
Garnett was competing with himself at this time, cursing in a low voice, but also wondering, this is a big move that has not been missed in his curse vocabulary, how can the rookie on the opposite side also do it?
Needless to say, Garnett actually has a "fellow man" feeling.
Garnett and Kobe sympathized with each other because of the trash talk, and when Liu Mang was talking to him, the trash talk made him feel more agreeable than Kobe.
Kobe's trash talk has a more "artistic atmosphere", and it's all about the truth, because Kobe has an absolute honor advantage against most people, but he rarely talks about it, such as with Joe. When spraying each other, Mr. Joe responded with 6 to 2 every time, and then Kobe shut up immediately.
Kobe's trash talk is too clean, Garnett sympathizes with each other but feels sorry for it.
And Liu Mang's trash talk made Garnett even more "identified".
However, making friends is more like seeking common ground but reserving differences is the main thing. The two are too similar, with the same competitive spirit and the same trash talk. Garnett hates Liu Mang even more.
Garnett started organizing new trash talk phrases, fight? If it doesn't exist, Garnett prefers to scold and fight.
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On the side of the Hawks bench, Liu Mang looked depressed, he didn't expect it, he didn't expect it.
Coach Kruger looked at Liu Mang's gloomy look, and taught him, "Tell you to calm down, and you almost caused trouble."
"Yeah..." Liu Mang was really depressed.
Coach Kruger looked at Liu Mang who seemed quite regretful today, a little surprised, but still quite satisfied.
"I'm going to be fined another 1,000 yuan. It was obvious that he did it first, and I didn't fight back. How could I be called a technical foul?" Liu Mang said depressingly.
"..." Coach Kruger wanted to shoot birds again, and yelled at Liu Mang: "Get out of here, Garnett seems to have been replaced, go and open the gap for me!"
Sure enough, being sensible, learning well, and repenting are all hallucinations!
Liu Mang ran away quickly, this middle-aged man also has menopause? Unscientific! Men are not perfect. I heard that a certain scientist gave birth to a son in his 80s. I don’t know how the hunter forgot to load the bullet and hit the bird.
Back from the timeout, the Eagles replaced Ratliff and Chris Crawford with Newbell and Muhammad.
Garnett is not here, so naturally he is going to run!
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The Timberwolves replaced Parker with Billups and Garnett with Joe Smith.
Coach Sanders is lucky, he has two players who can control the field, but he is a little bit unfortunate. Billups he has still needs a year or two to polish his skills. He did not have a mature Billups Si, there is only one semi-finished product.
Just like now, with only 71 ability points, Billups, who is strong in offense and weak in defense, meets Liu Mang. Now he really has no advantage at all. It's true that he has excellent defensive reading, but Liu Mang is a speed monster who can catch up with the ball holder regardless of other people's running positions or being bypassed by the pick-and-roll. Billups felt the despair of Alan Houston.
It was the Hawks offense again. Billups missed two offenses just now. The first time he couldn't find a shot, he passed it to Joe Smith. Joe Smith hit the iron with a mid-range shot.
In addition to Joe Smith's rookie contract after three years, he attracted the attention of the Timberwolves. It is not without reason that the Timberwolves, whose salary cap is not enough, risk giving a double-sided contract. His rookie contract period was the peak, and he averaged 17+ per game in those three years. 8. In the beginning, he performed better than Garnett, but it was only three years at the peak, and after that, he never averaged more than 12 points per game, so now he only got a one-year contract of 4.5 million .
The missed attack led to a counterattack by the Eagles, and Jason Terry hit a three-pointer.
The second time Billups missed again, he didn't dare to pass it to Joe Smith. This guy didn't score consecutively when he couldn't make it, but he could score more than ten points in a row when he wanted to make it. Of course, most of them are super ghosts.
As for Szczerbiak, Raheem was following him to the point of collapse. Raheem was positive like Garnett, and he didn't talk much, but his actions were no gentler than Garnett.
So Billups made a hasty shot and then quickly returned to the defense to prevent the Eagles from counterattacking, and it really hit the iron.
But this time the Timberwolves returned to the defense in a timely manner. After Liu Mang received the ball, the opponent had already returned to the defense with three people, so Liu Mang lowered his tempo and came to the ground.
"Chauncey, you need to practice more, your three-pointer is so bad, do you want to train with me? 1000 yuan a time! Pay the fine for me..."
With another person, Liu Mang's trash talk immediately became very civilized. As the saying goes, a gentle knife is the easiest to kill. Billups just replied: "Okay, let's train together in the summer, I will give you 1,000 yuan... ah, Watt Fakol..."
When Billups was distracted, Liu Mang rushed from the right side!
Liu Mang also wants to develop a strong attack on the left side, but finds it a bit difficult to snipe with his left hand, so he still focuses on breakthroughs on the right side.
Billups is not good at offense, but his defense is still savage. He has a good grasp of the position. He takes half a step back but not to the point where Liu Mang retreats and can't catch up with the shot. Liu Mang, delay Liu Mang's breakthrough and give the insiders a chance to help defend.
But this is just good enough awareness and excellent defensive quotient.
After Liu Mang understood the opponent's defensive strategy, he rushed towards the inside line without looking back.
Billups understood at this time how important speed is!
The strategy is enough, but I can't keep up at all!
Just like in the 2005 Finals, Billups performed averagely against both Parker and Ginobili, and was beaten by Ginobili in the best series of the playoffs in his career. The player really doesn't have much to do.
Liu Mang threw away Billups and rushed to the basket, glanced at his teammates, and opened up the space. The rest of the opponent followed closely. Liu Mang faced Mark Jackson, who was defending, and made a sideways layup with the same hands and feet. Put the board into the basket.
This trick is becoming more and more proficient.
The Eagles scored 5 points in a row!
The score came to 16 to 6, and the Eagles led by 10 points just after the half quarter!
Coach Saunders sat calmly on the sidelines, performing routine operations...
The Timberwolves are characterized by stability. After all, Garnett and Billups have dual point guards in the first team and the second team. Billups usually partners with the second team and meets the opponent's backup point guard. Billups, who has the starting strength, has the advantage most of the time, and not every team has a substitute like Liu Mang who averages third in points per game and averages almost 20 points per game.
But if you encounter such a team, Billups leads the team alone, and you are guaranteed to rest.
And sometimes when encountering point guards like Iverson and Francis who play more than 40 minutes, Billups is beaten to level up every time.
Now Coach Sanders is not impatient and has long been used to it.
After the official timeout, the Timberwolves only scored 8 points in 7 minutes.
At this pace, the performance of the Timberwolves is similar to the last time they played against the Eagles. The last time the Timberwolves played against the Eagles in the first quarter, they only scored 9 points, which proved that the Eagles' defense is indeed very good.
However, this time the Eagles scored 20 points in 7 minutes.
Garnett was replaced prematurely, and the Timberwolves' strength immediately plummeted from the league's second tier to a level close to the lottery.
It is true that Garnett was criticized for losing in the first round, but he will definitely be the first player in the history of the Timberwolves no matter what, even in another ten or twenty years or twenty or thirty years. In the playoffs, the Timberwolves would not have made it to the playoffs for more than ten years without him.
After the official timeout, Garnett returned to the court, but at this time the Timberwolves were already 12 points behind.
The Eagles also replaced Ratliff again, and the two teams began to fight defensively again.
Garnett is a superstar in the league whose strength may be second only to O'Neal and Duncan. He is versatile, a first-line scorer, and he can also lead the rebounds. He has more assists than many point guards. On the defensive end, he can get the best defensive player. ability, and still had that ability when he was thirty-two or thirty-three years old.
As a basketball player, Garnett's only shortcoming is his lack of offensive ability!
When the team trails by 12 points and the opponent's strength is only stronger than Garnett's team, Garnett can't do it.
This can be seen from when Garnett is the core of both offensive and defensive ends, as long as the team is not as strong as the opponent in the playoffs, it can hardly even turn the waves.
For the Hawks, they didn't let up in the slightest after taking the lead, thanks to the enthusiasm that Garnett brought to them. Everything is relative. The five strongest members of the Eagles are all self-confident and strict. Nate's invincibility and our different exclusive buff made the Eagles' fighting spirit high. Although the Timberwolves tried their best to chase points, the Eagles held on to the 10-point difference!
At the end of the fight, Liu Mang found that the $1,000 he lost was worth it! When Garnett was not calm and was replaced, the score was stretched to more than 10 points, which became the key to the victory!
Without giving the Timberwolves a chance to comeback, the Eagles maintained their advantage until the end of the game.
When the final whistle sounded, the Eagles narrowly kept the point difference at 7 points!
107 to 100!
The Eagles have won two straight at home!
It was relatively easy to win, Liu Mang scored 25 points and 4 assists, rebounding again today, both teams are rebounders.
Raheem mainly defended Garnett today, scoring 15 points and 11 rebounds.
The effect is not bad. Although Garnett is not good at attacking, his shooting efficiency has always been good. The timing of the mid-range shot is well grasped. Can't help it, after all, although Garnett was criticized for not going inside, his shooting is really accurate.
Jason Terry was the one who made a fortune in silence, scoring 37 points on various shots.
But Jason Terry is really a weirdo. He said that he would not swipe the data if he didn't swipe the data. When the Timberwolves gave up defense with more than ten seconds left in the end, he dribbled outside the opponent's three-point line and didn't make a shot. Otherwise, it might be the first time in his career. 40 marks.
You must know that Jason Terry often complained in front of Liu Mang and Raheem that they both scored 40 and 50 points, but he didn't.
The victory of the Eagles in this game did not surprise many people. In terms of strength, the Eagles may be similar to the Mavericks and better than the Timberwolves.
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After playing the Timberwolves, there are 6 days left in this month. There are two games on the 28th and 30th. The Eagles ushered in a three-day rest period.
As the top four "seed teams" in the Eastern Conference, the Eagles' benefits at the end of the season are still good, except that the next opponents are a bit difficult to beat.
The opponent of the Eagles on the 28th is the Trail Blazers, a powerhouse in the Western Conference.
No one wants to meet the Lakers, Kings, and Spurs in the first round. These three have basically confirmed two seats in the Western Conference Finals.
It's the same as the Mavericks are now behind in the sixth place in the Western Conference. They all want to pick the Timberwolves to fight, the poor wolf king...
During the three-day rest period, Coach Kruger gave the players a rare two-day vacation. They rested on the 25th and 26th, and resumed team training on the 27th.
On the morning of the second day of the game against the Timberwolves, Liu Mang originally planned to practice boxing at home, find a place to enjoy the scenery, and then practice three-pointers to spend a leisurely day.
But it was interrupted by a phone call...
The renewal of 300 monthly tickets is coming~ If you can do this in two days, you can add one renewal... I am happy.