Chapter 335 333. As Expected of Pippen!

"The Mailman's On Duty: Foul kicks Scottie Pippen off the court and says 'The Mailman's On Duty' to Scottie Pippen when he's no longer on the floor. Quest rewards 10,000 Superstar Points. "

Looking at the details of this mission, Liu Mang never expected that the level 5 mission would fall on Pippen!

And this task is so difficult!

Who can catch a man-made foul and send an opponent out?

Even Wang Lai from JDZ can't do it!

The most important thing is that it is impossible for Pippen to defend himself as a point guard too much! Pippen has not been the best defensive small forward in the league for a long time. Since last season, Pippen's defensive attitude has been far worse than before. The championship ring can't fit in one hand, and the five-year 73 million contract is also held, so there is nothing to pursue.

If the 98-99 season and the 99-00 season had not maintained a first defense and a second defense in the past two years, it is estimated that Pippen would have been said to be a garbage contract. In the 98-99 season, Pippen's data has shrunk by a quarter.

The 99-00 season was the last season Pippen was still regarded as a first-class player. He formed a sharp five-man team with Sabonis, Rasheed Wallace, Little Flying Squirrel, and Steve Smith to reach the Western Conference Finals.

After facing the Lakers' failure to compete for tickets to the Finals, Pippen relaxed his whole body.

It was only 11+5+5 last season, and this year is about the same. It is impossible to continue to get worse if it is bad, and it will not get better if it is good.

This can be seen from the last time Liu Mang played against the Trail Blazers. Pippen usually gets 10+5+5 when he punches the card. The offense-based style of play in the West has never caused a back injury again, and he has been full-time in the past three seasons.

On the offensive end, he doesn't fly from the ground to play, and it is unlikely that he will experience a cliff-like decline, as can be seen from the fact that he can still maintain an average of 5+ assists per game.

The main thing is that I haven’t pursued it anymore, I can’t get higher goals, and I’ve already got a lot of what I’ve got, so I don’t need a bicycle.

Moreover, Pippen's single defense was not top-notch. His defense is strong in assisting defense. During the Bulls' two three-peat championships, the opponent's offensive arrows were all defended by Jordan. Jordan defended the ball. Pippen defended in series and helped defend .

To make such a player foul and get the opponent out of the field, it is more difficult than dunking O'Neal, okay?

Liu Mang expressed his ugly refusal to this task!

Can it be more difficult?

Give me a normal task, okay?

Such as expelling Rasheed Wallace from the game? This task is much easier!

We're all friends, and Rasheed Wallace certainly wouldn't mind getting sent off.

"Ding... The system issued a temporary task. Today's daily task is extremely difficult, and it has been upgraded to a special task."

"Ding... Special task: The postman is on duty. The conditions for completing the task remain the same. The task reward upgrade: 10,000 points of superstar value, a random card of the pinnacle star of a star with level 5 skill of Pingci Master. Bonus temporary skills for performing the task: provocative."

"Provocation: You children, dare to fight with me? It can be used once in a single game, and the target is unique. The target object has great hostility towards the host, and replaces the host in consciousness with the strongest enemy in his career."

"I'm a little darling, this... is there no punishment?"

"There is no penalty for mission failure."

Liu Mang asked this question for nothing, no matter whether there is punishment or not, he will never give up this task!

A star card for a player who owns Porcelain Master level 5.

Who said this, don't you understand?

Must get it!

Old hatred coupled with the temptation of task rewards, what movie said that what a person hates the most is not being taken away from his wife and daughter, but being cut off from his wealth!

Pippen!

Fuck it!

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Liu Mang returned to the court, and the game was about to start. He still played as a substitute. He played 20 or 30 games at the beginning of the season. When Liu Mang’s statistics stabilized at around 15 points per game, the coaching staff and management all talked to him. Regarding the issue of the starting lineup, he said that he is still young and still has a lot to learn. One day he will come up with his own ideas about the starting lineup.

In this regard, the Eagles management and coaching staff unexpectedly felt that this 19-year-old kid was quite sensible, which is rare in this impetuous age.

This is why thinking is not in the same era.

In the era before Liu Mang, unless he was the core and superstar of the first team, there was not much difference between the starter and the substitute. Accepted, it became a normal thing instead.

The sixth man of the year is nothing, but in another three or four years, some old alcoholic man in San Antonio will do something wrong, and put some guy who has just been selected as a substitute for the All-Star and turned bald after encountering evil Putting it on the bench, people were stunned when they saw that the team's sixth man could actually use top stars to play, and then Ginobili slammed the bench on the bench, crushing all the team's benches.

Then more teams follow suit, and they can't let the Spurs' substitutes torture their substitutes to death.

Gradually, some quasi-first-class, first-class or even top-notch stars entered the bench, and the award of the best sixth man became more valuable. The most valuable award outside.

But now, the one who made other teams feel uncomfortable and wanted to put some stars on the bench was not because of the Holy City alcoholic, but because of Liu Mang himself!

Playing against the Hawks, the most uncomfortable thing for most teams is that Liu Mang, who can average 20 points per game, plays as a substitute.

It is not the best sixth man who has averaged more than 20 points per game before, but that one is a special case. That guy is called Ricky Pierce. The best defensive player and the only superstar in NBA history to steal a quadruple double.

The appearance of Liu Mang, and the fact that the Eagles have the best record in the Eastern Conference, led many teams to try to put some main scorers on the bench, but Liu Mang really became popular after he got 40+ in January , At that time, the teams had already defined their style of play and goals, and it was impossible to change the tactical system easily. This matter is not a matter of one or two years, and some teams even need several years.

Liu Mang didn't know that he had influenced the "appreciation" of the best sixth man in advance. Anyway, he was very impressed with the value of the best sixth man in the future.

Liu Mang was very impressed by Jamal Crawford and Avery Bradley. In the 2015-16 season, he was already 36 years old. Crawford, who won the second best sixth man, can get A 3-year contract extension of 42 million yuan, and Avery Bradley, who was selected to the best defensive team in the same year, was at the peak of his career at the age of 27 and had just played the best season of his career. The Celtics and Pistons have consecutive package deals.

Then Eric Gordon, the best sixth man in the 2016-17 season, also transformed from a glass man. Originally, both the media and the fans felt that he could not have the next big contract, because he started from 3 years old. He has never played more than 60 times in a season, and he won the best sixth man, and immediately renewed a four-year contract of more than 50 million yuan. Although it is not a maximum salary, it is much larger than his previous contract predicted by the media.

The best sixth man, Liu Mang intends to get two at the beginning of his career to fill his career honor pool, and then wait for Jamal Crawford, Ginobili, Jamison and even Jason Terry to grab the best sixth man. When he was the best sixth man, he was going to fight for this award... Let alone the difficulty, Liu Mang's goal is definitely not just a first-class star, and even top stars cannot be satisfied.

Liu Mang's goal is the awards grand slam!

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The Eagles started this game and met Damon Stoudemire, the flying mouse. The starting point guard changed from Dean Grove to the slightly faster Jacqui Vaughan.

The other four remained unchanged, Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad and Ratliff.

The Trail Blazers only look at the really luxurious lineup, and this is still the case when Sabonis has suspended the game for a season.

Damon Stoudemire, Bunche Wells, Pippen, Rasheed Wallace, Dale Davis.

Every time he saw the Blazers play, Liu Mang couldn't help but marvel in his heart that the owner of the Blazers was so fucking rich!

Except for Bunch Wells who is still in the last year of his rookie contract, the other one is 8 million, two are more than 12 million, and there is Pippen who is 18 million, and in addition to Wells and Rashid Hua Rais, and the others are all premium contracts that have passed their peak.

The main reason is that there is still a 14 million Rain Man on the bench.

The Blazers have a luxurious lineup, and they are only ranked seventh. They are unstoppable. It is not without reason that it is so difficult to catch up with the Mavericks or the Supersonics.

The lineup looks scary, and it plays like an average team, perhaps without Sabonis, a nearly perfect partner with Rasheed Wallace. The two had O'Neal in the last two games of the 2000 Western Conference It's painful to watch.

When Sabonis was away, Rasheed Wallace didn't like defense very much, mainly because no one took him to play with him, and he probably found it boring to defend alone, so the Blazers' inside dominance dropped drastically. And the outside line is either short, or unwilling to defend, or clocking in to get off work with a big contract pension.

But the Blazers are indeed talented, and they will not fall out of the playoffs no matter what, but they are just ordinary playoff teams.

The Eagles are no longer the "underdogs" in the East that were frightened by the Blazers' superstars at the beginning of the season. From the perspective of Western teams, the East is all underdogs.

The Eagles are already the "top team" that has won the top eight in the Western Conference!

The Hawks players are very confident facing the Blazers. Jason Terry hit two three-pointers when he came up, and he blossomed inside and outside with Raheem. They scored 13 to 5 at the beginning, leading the Blazers by 8 points. pause.

Only 4 minutes passed, and Liu Mang felt that it was not time to play. Coach Kruger didn't want to replace Liu Mang so early, so he asked Raheem and Jason Terry to play for a while. a dozen.

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Liu Mang watched his teammates go up and continue to gouge, and watched Pippen being forcefully attacked by Raheem without too much defense, so he knew that this provocative skill must be used!

Liu Mang thinks that provocation is not safe. Pippen is a player with a very high golf intelligence and can judge his physical condition. He can't keep up with his speed, so he may not stick to the defense and may choose to defend against breakthroughs. Mainly, after all, players in the 1980s and 1990s rarely had defensive tactics against three-pointers.

So Liu Mang decided to use that, and has been "treasuring" the useless one—manic potion!

Speaking of "treasure", in fact, it is used on the opponent when it cannot be used... This is a bit hurtful, and it is not a good thing to let the opponent go berserk.

If it is used on oneself, it seems that it will make the emotions too excited, which is not a good thing, and will affect the calm thinking.

So, Liu Mang took a look at today's referee on duty, what a coincidence!

Referee No. 17 Joseph Crawford.

If necessary, give this referee a shot?

Liu Mang looked at the field, and Raheem received the ball again, facing Pippen for a bottom line single.

Raheem has hit Pippen twice before, and this is the third time in a row!

During the timeout, coach Maurice Cheeks had already lashed out at the team's defense, and Pippen also felt that he couldn't save face. Anyway, he was also a historical defensive player of the 8th All-Defensive First Team and the 10th All-Defensive Team. Although the assisted defense is a bit inferior to the main single defense, but being beaten like this by a junior, I can't hold back my face.

Pippen is just about to prepare for a good defense and prove himself. If he really wants to defend, Pippen is at least a lot higher than the average level. It may not be possible for the best defensive team level, but at least he can be a defensive leader. .

At this time Liu Mang tried: "Boss of the system, use provocation against Pippen!"

"Ding... The host uses special skills: provocation, targeting Pippen. In this game, Pippen regards the host as the most hostile opponent in his basketball career."

At this time, Raheem was concentrating on this offense. He saw that Pippen's aura changed when he came back from the timeout. Sim still has the feeling of Pippen of the Bulls dynasty he met during his rookie period.

Raheem was the first to make a breakthrough. Pippen followed closely and blocked it perfectly. Raheem leaned on Pippen and turned around!

This turning around, Raheem just wanted to make a fake move, trick Pippen into retreating, and make a jump shot from close range, but! Raheem turned around, and he turned around!

Not hindered at all! Raheem staggered as if his stool had been removed, and turned around in a big circle...

The referee blows the whistle, and it is a walking violation!

Raheem scolded himself for being too careless!

It's Pippen!

The defense is really good!

And at that time... Pippen just turned his head to look at Liu Mang, no, he was still staring...