Chapter 336. 334. Start Playing Shamelessly

At the beginning, the Eagles suppressed the Blazers very steadily. Except for Rahim's fan-like turn and turned to walking, the Eagles played normally on other balls.

19 to 8, the Eagles unsurprisingly took a big lead at the start.

There are not many people paying attention to this game except Portland fans and Atlanta fans. The two teams are obviously a level higher than the Hawks. There may be some suspense because the Blazers want to improve their record, but the suspense No, Portland fans came to Atlanta mainly to boo Liu Mang.

After playing more than 7 minutes, the Eagles have already led by 11 points.

The Blazers really want to try their best to reach sixth place in the Western Conference, which is the only ranking in the second half of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs that is likely to advance, but they don't particularly care about a regular season. any solution? And the Eagles are working hard to create a record 60 wins in team history, so they dare not underestimate the Trail Blazers. Under the ebb and flow, it is not surprising that the Eagles steadily suppressed the Trail Blazers.

When the official timeout came, Liu Mang played!

As soon as Liu Mang came up from the bench, he received an extremely hostile look. Liu Mang had been stared at several times in the past few minutes, and he knew who it was with his cerebellum, so he ignored him.

Then those hundreds of Portland fans booed loudly at Liu Mang.

Liu Mang was very contemptuous in his heart, but he saw the little loli and senior sister who were just behind the group of Portland fans who were so happy that they were also joining in the fun and booing. Liu Mang had a black line on his face, but it was also quite interesting.

Liu Mang put his hands behind his ears and listened to the boos.

During the official timeout, the players are resting, the coach is arranging tactics, and the fans are slowing down, because after the official timeout is the most critical few minutes of each quarter.

The Eagles home fans could not help laughing when they saw the people from Portland booing their rookie during the official timeout, and just about to hit back at the fans of the visiting team, and then saw the scene on the court.

The hundreds of nearly a thousand Portland fans were also a sad reminder. They had worked hard to destroy their voices, but the boos of less than a thousand people were completely covered up compared to the laughter of more than 10,000 fans.

Liu Mang was confused by the laughter, what's wrong?

Looking back, the mascot of his own team is poking his butt, imitating him to listen...

This damn Harry Hawk!

Dude, if you want to pretend to be aggressive, you will become a funny duo as soon as you come!

Liu Mang stretched out his hand to tear off his hood, Harry Ying ran away quickly.

Not to mention that the guy in the puppet is really agile, Liu Mang really couldn't catch up with him jokingly, and the fans on the scene laughed again.

The fans from Portland are depressed, they are not affected at all!

I can only hope that my team's players can defend against this damn rookie! But, who will guard against it...

Batman is old, Momonga is too short, Bangzi doesn't like to defend...

Originally at this time, Pippen should have a rest, but this time Pippen said no!

"Coach, I'm going up to guard that guy." Pippen said full of fighting spirit.

Pippen is not so polite to ordinary coaches, mainly because he and coach Maurice Cheeks are not so different in age, so he said it very directly.

Coach Cheeks is worried that the opponent is about to come up with a third scorer with the ability to average 20 points per game. He is worried that the lineup is aging and no one can defend him. Pippen's defense has been really bad in the past two years.

But who is different? , Steve Kerr was slower, Damon Stoudemire was shot two three-pointers head-on by Liu Mang in the last match, and the memory of Ruben Patterson, who claims to be Kobe's terminator, is still fresh. The rare new force in the world will be used to defend against Rahim.

It's better than letting Wells' eyes defend or Little Momonga stretches out his hands and jumps hard and can only touch the opponent's arm!

...

The Eagles sent Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Newbell, and Muhammad in the regular rotation.

The Blazers put on Flying Squirrel, Pippen, Ruben Patterson, Rasheed Wallace, and Kemp.

Seeing the lineup of the Trail Blazers, the Eagles players were shocked!

Rain Man is here! It seems that there are more than four minutes left to run and fly!

but!

Liu Mang pressed his hand and said that the bridge bean sack, we have to be safe and defend well.

Many people don't understand why the Blazers replaced Kemp. Although he can rely on his fat body to overwhelm the inside for a while, his rebounding and defensive speed are all opportunities for opponents to counterattack.

Not every coach has the guts to throw the team's second-highest paid man behind the bench in a suit. A player worth 14 million should be given some playing time no matter what.

After a timeout, the Trail Blazers attacked. After the flying mouse advanced, he handed the ball to Pippen in the top arc to support him. Pippen's organizational ability is still good, especially the skill of passing the ball to the low post is quite good. It used to be given to God. pass the ball.

However, this time Pippen didn't hold the ball in the top arc and wait for his teammates to move, he was going to play singles!

Because, what was placed in front of him was his "most hated" opponent, Bill Ace Liu Lambiel.

Pippen's most hated opponent in his life is Lambiel, the villain of the team that eliminated him and Jordan in the playoffs for three consecutive years in Pippen's rookie season, second grade, and third grade. The poor performance is that under Lambir's dominant defense at the basket, he became a middle-aged man several times. The most embarrassing thing for Pippen was the last year of the peak of the Pistons. In Game 7, Pippen was 1-for-10 by Laimbeer's ubiquitous filthy help defense, leading the Bulls to a 19-point Game 7 defeat to the Pistons.

Liu Mang is now replaced by Pippen as Lambir.

Although Pippen has great hostility towards Liu Mang, but he has a high golf quotient and clear thinking. He knows that it is not realistic for him to play against Liu Mang alone. He is not a scoring player like Jordan. Even at 39, he can still use technology to compete with the opponent. .

Pippen gestures for a pick-and-roll, Rasheed Wallace comes out to block Liu Mang, Pippen cuts to the free throw line and hits a jumper before Newbell can switch.

Pippen, who is serious about scoring, has no problem averaging 15 or 6 points per game, otherwise he would not have attracted so many defenses and still has an average of 5+ assists per game.

Liu Mang looked at Rasheed Wallace who was steadily blocking him. This guy is really good. It's a pity that after Sabonis is missing, no one will supervise him to urge him to defend, otherwise he will become a super power forward with both offense and defense. It is possible that when he went to the Pistons and someone urged him to defend, the Pistons did not give him the offensive dominance like the Blazers, and directly changed from a scoring power forward averaging 20 points per game to a double Wallace defensive combination.

The Eagles attacked, Liu Mang received the serve and advanced quickly, Pippen guarded the top arc and waited for Liu Mang to dribble over.

Liu Mang took a deep breath, and was about to start touching... no, he was going to single out Pippen!

"Scottie Pippen, ability value 74, offense 71, defense 79, three-pointer 61, mid-range shooting 79, layup 83...speed 86, strength 84..."

Liu Mang took a look at Pippen's ability value when he advanced past halftime, and it was quite degraded, which is the level of an ordinary starter for an ordinary playoff team.

But Pippen took defense seriously, and the defense was still close to top-notch.

Pippen chose to take a step back to defend against Liu Mang's breakthrough. This is the defensive habit of old players. Speed ​​players in their era were generally not good at three-pointers. Liu Mang did not slow down when he was outside the three-point line, but accelerated towards Pippen breaks right!

Pippen's defensive step back allowed him to stick tightly to Liu Mang when he was at a disadvantage in speed, leading Liu Mang to the direction of Rasheed Wallace, trying to take advantage of Rasheed Wallace's excellent The ability to assist in defense can pinch Liu Mang to death.

Just when Pippen was trying to squeeze Liu Mang's space, Liu Mang was stuck so tightly, knowing that the opportunity had come, he picked up the ball and bumped into Pippen who was pressing up...

"Andwan!"

Liu Mang slammed into Pippen and threw the ball towards the basket while screaming like Draymond Green...

The referee didn't know whether he was frightened or the influence of Liu Mang's level 4 touch porcelain master. At the same time as Liu Mang let out a shrill "scream", the referee whistled and Pippen made a defensive foul!

As for 2+1...the ball didn't even touch the backboard, and flew out of the field directly above the backboard.

Pippen was dumbfounded. It's not that he hasn't been fouled by Liu Mang before. He felt that this rookie style of play was shameless in the last match.

Now even more shameless! They have already fouled directly without shame and shame, and they don't hide it at all!

Also stunned were the hundreds of Trail Blazers fans who came to Atlanta with the team. It was clear that they made fouls just to make fouls! In the past, there were fake moves to hide, but this time it was directly exposed.

You are throwing anti-aircraft guns and shouting 2+1, why don't you go to the sky?

Although the Eagles fans at the scene have long been accustomed to their rookie style, they are still a bit embarrassed. Usually, there are not many fans of the visiting team coming to Atlanta. Except for Jordan, Iverson, and Kobe Bryant. The team's own fans are full, and this time there are "guests", so they don't cheer or mock the opponent, just watch like that.

Seeing Pippen complain loudly to the referee, Liu Mang shrugged and walked to the free throw line.

Using the rules, Liu Mang felt that there was nothing wrong.

People are like this, if someone else does the same thing, if you don't like that person, you will think that everything he does is wrong, but if you do it yourself or someone you like, everything is right.

Pippen complained that it was ineffective, and made the bald referee a little impatient.

Pippen was devastated. After leaving the Bulls and Rockets, he no longer had the so-called star whistle, and could only stand outside the three-point line and stare at Liu Mang to sulk.

Liu Mang made two free throws seriously and steadily. Pippen was already very angry, and Liu Mang did not forget to stimulate him.

"Both free throws were scored." Liu Mang joked in a joking tone when he returned to defense.

The Trail Blazers attacked, and Pippen, who was very upset, came to the low post. Naturally, Liu Mang couldn't let Pippen get into the low post so easily, and went up to pester and push.

Pippen didn't worry about Liu Mang even if he was shooting from outside pick-and-rolls. Pippen has always made average mid-range and long-range shots. If he can make one or two shots, it is impossible to make more.

Pippen's 2.03m back is the most effective. It's just that he had a back injury before, and now he's old and has no motivation to play back inside, so it's not his main style of play anymore, but Liu Mang really doesn't dare Let Pippen sit in the low post well, otherwise Liu Mang really can't guard against the ten-centimeter height difference and Pippen's back-hitting.

Pippen is taller and stronger than Liu Mang, but Liu Mang just doesn't hesitate, relying on his iron elbow skills and fighting Pippen on the edge of the three-second zone.

"Rookie, if you go back to 10 years ago, I will definitely let you know that the NBA is not a place for shameless guys like you."

"Ten years ago? Oh, you'd be bullying elementary school kids, and you'd be nothing without Jordan."

"*%...*&...&..."

Can you save me some face? Hitting someone in the gut every time!

What Pippen hates most is that people say that he followed Jordan to get the honor. The two years after Jordan retired was the first time I was selected to the best team, okay! What's wrong with Jordan!

Pippen was so angry that he didn't care about his actions, he forced Liu Mang behind him and asked for the ball!

"Beep beep..."

Bald Crawford blew his whistle and made a forward strike movement, and Pippen made an offensive foul!

Pippen's pupils dilated, looking at Liu Mang who fell behind him...

"Dive! He's a flop!" Pippen was going to explode!

Yes, his action just now was big, but judging from the strength of Liu Mang's throwing elbows and punching people when he got stuck, it is absolutely impossible for him to overthrow Liu Mang by pressing Liu Mang behind him!