Chapter 343 341. There Is Still Room for Rescue!

After losing to the Celtics, the Eagles record became 53 wins and 20 losses.

The schedule for April starts from the 1st, with a game every other day, from the 1st to the 17th, and there are games on every odd-numbered day.

It is not difficult to say that the schedule is difficult, there is no back-to-back, and it is not easy to say that it is easy, just a little pressure to prepare for the playoffs.

The 9 opponents are the Bucks, Knicks, Wizards, Pacers, Bucks, Celtics, Nets, Cavaliers, and Bulls. Except for the Wizards, Bulls, and Cavaliers, the other opponents are quite difficult, especially It was the Nets after the Celtics.

That is the key to sniping the Nets in the playoffs. They must first lose to the Celtics and then kill the Nets.

At the same time, just to be on the safe side, you can't lose the other 7 games to have a chance to win 60 games. You must win at least 5 games to get 58 wins and break the team's winning record.

It's like playing a real knockout game. Coach Kruger didn't mention the rest during the last regular season team meeting at the end of the season on March 31, but on April 11 In the five games before playing the Celtics, the requirement is to win all! Play like a playoff game!

The overall core of the Eagles, except for the addition of Liu Mang, Ratliff is healthy, and the overall situation is similar to last year.

The inside core of the Eagles in the first half of last year was Mutombo, and later traded the younger Ratliff. At that time, Ratliff had already been reimbursed for the season, but if it weren't for this, the Eagles really couldn't trade Ratliff.

At that time, Ratliff was 27 years old and ranked first in the blocked shots list. He had just been selected as the All-Star starter, and the fans selected him. At that time, Mutombo must have been stronger, but Mutombo was only two years younger than Jordan. He was already 35 at the time, and this was estimated by Mutombo himself. He looked older than this age. The change, and the 2001 first-round pick with few talents was traded back for the reimbursed Ratliff.

Calculated, Ratliff is almost the same as last season before Mutombo was traded, except that he moves a little slower than Mutombo.

Therefore, the Eagles' starting lineup knows how to play in the playoffs, and the tacit understanding was also cultivated in the previous regular season.

Although Liu Mang hasn't played in the playoffs, he hasn't seen the pig run or eaten pork, so he just has to try his best to play out what he is good at!

To put it simply in the playoffs, those who can play their own strengths have a chance of winning!

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On April 1, the Eagles welcomed the Milwaukee Bucks at home.

In the contradiction between the big dog Glenn Robinson yelling that I want to renew the contract, why Ray Allen's contract is bigger than mine, and Ray Allen accusing the big dog of not being active in training, playing alone, and knowing that the contract year will increase the data, Xiong It is not without reason that the Deer team has gradually moved away from the playoffs under the excellent situation of the collapse of the 76ers and the Raptors this season.

A team composed of three first-class players and three scorers averaging 20+ per game came together, and the result was only ranked ninth in the Eastern Conference.

The main reason is that Glenn Robinson committed suicide. When he was selected by the Bucks as the No. 1 pick in 1994, in that era when the rules were not perfect, he insisted on a 10-year "maximum salary". The maximum salary in 1994... More than 3 million. According to the expected salary increase at the time, he initially asked for 100 million in 13 years, and finally signed a 10-year 68 million.

The seven-year, $21 million contract that Pippen signed at that time was about the same.

Unexpectedly, just one year later, the NBA's income skyrocketed again, and the maximum salary directly doubled. After another two years, contracts of 100 million yuan were flying all over the sky.

Up to now, Glenn Robinson has seen that Ray Allen, who signed a new contract in 1999, has a higher salary than him this season, so Glenn Robinson is clamoring for a salary increase, and Ray Allen is getting more and more at odds .

Glenn Robinson is not old, 29 years old, born in 1973, at his peak, with Cassell, a teammate who averaged just 20 points per game, and Ray Allen, a teammate who averaged 22 points per game. 21 points, which proves that his strength is still very strong.

But if the contract expires in 2004, they will be 31 years old.

The same situation is with Kidd, Kidd signed 9 years and 54 million at the time...

However, Kidd does not rely on his physical fitness and possession of the ball when he plays. Glenn Robinson is different. His style of play is extremely dependent on his physical fitness. It depends on physical fitness.

And I like to clock in to get off work, and I will be lazy after getting 20 points.

It would be difficult for Glenn Robinson to get a big contract at the age of 31. Only Popovich, who is also a drinking buddy, did this.

In this game, the Eagles played fiercely at the beginning, and the Bucks had internal conflicts due to the disparity in strength. Obviously, they couldn't stand it.

After Liu Mang came up to defend Ray Allen, the Bucks could only rely on Glenn Robinson on the offensive end, but Raheem's defense was not a vegetarian, and the big dog also withered today.

His teammates were ferocious. Liu Mang seized the opportunity to continuously break through the basket to cause damage. He narrowly raised his personal score to 20 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter, because he had already crushed his opponent. In the third minute of the fourth quarter, the Eagles Already leading the opponent by 20 points, leading 91 to 71.

The final score was 109 to 91. The Eagles played a beautiful game with fierce offense and defense, showing the strength gap between the first in the East and the ninth in the East!

Jason Terry, who has entered the playoff mode, is really scary. He scored 7 three-pointers in a single game and scored 35 points in a single game. Whenever the Bucks showed a slight sign of wanting to counterattack, he stood up A three-pointer kills the opponent.

Although the opponent might be a little weaker, Liu Wei still saw the shadow of the Jet who swept the Lakers with one hand.

It seems that when the Lakers were hammered to death, Jason Terry and each were 34 years old, and now 24 is not 25...

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The Eagles' brutal victory over the Bucks made New Yorkers feel a sense of blood and blood. New Yorkers who like to watch the excitement gathered in Madison Square Garden again.

The rookie who scored 50 points in the mecca of basketball is here again!

Becoming the darling of New York is so simple. New York fans and the media have never been in the same way, even some media and media are not in the same way. The big city of the rich is always so strange and incomprehensible.

Some New York media publicized that Liu Mang was like a demon, and some boasted like Jeremy Lin out of Linsanity period. At that time, the Internet was not well developed, and the world’s influence was not blown out because of that 50+ game. , but Liu Mang is already very popular in New York, the same kind of half-and-half popularity, some love him, and some hate him.

But when Liu Mang came to New York, his popularity exploded!

In the last game in Knicks history against rookie Ace Liu, the Knicks sold a super-high ticket price second only to the Lakers' away game against Madison this season, and the scalpers were also crazy about it.

James Dolan hit another big buck.

Weak teams are always conflicted, and strong teams are always very united... The OK combination does not count.

Because winning can cover up all contradictions, all problems come when you lose.

The closer to the playoffs, if it is not a bad team, the contradictions caused by their record will become more and more prominent, just like the Bucks. When they were still wandering back and forth in the playoffs, the internal conflicts of the Bucks were not so serious. Now that the Bucks have "sit firmly" for the ninth month, all their conflicts have broken out.

And New York is a magical place. Not only are there many conflicts in the team, the Blazers will be called the Blazers Prison in the next few years. Thinking about the prison, it sounds good. The next name of the Knicks is...the grave of the star...

From the time when the Hawks challenged the Knicks, the magic of this place in New York came. When Alan Houston played, the audience was booed!

This treatment is the same as that of Ewing, who was killed by the Spurs in the 1999 Finals due to his absence due to injury, and who came back in the second year and averaged only 15+9 per game. Hush.

On the contrary, it was the Eagles, especially when Liu Mang, the player who played the best performance of the season at Madison Square Garden, warmed up, the audience cheered!

A large number of fans chanted "We want Ace", which gave Liu Mang a "home court" feeling.

This is no longer betraying others, soliciting directly in person.

Looking at the attitude of the New Yorkers who are foolish enough to live a long life with money, and everyone come to retire together, Liu Mang said... How about getting a big contract when the young master becomes the old man and is about to retire?

In such an environment, the Hawks were as high-spirited as they were at home, while the Knicks had already lost their minds. In addition, they had lost all three previous games against the Hawks and were scored 50 points by a rookie. They had no intention of resisting.

Then, a massacre came.

137 to 101, the Hawks beat the Knicks by 36 points in the away game.

This is because the Eagles didn't let the point difference be too scary after they went undefended.

In this game, the Eagles don't know if it is a record. Liu Mang scored 31 points and finally officially exceeded his scoring average of 20 points per game. Now he averages 20.1 points per game! Jason Terry scored 30 points, Raheem scored 33 points, and the three scored 94 points!

The Knicks had no resistance, and they didn't want to resist anymore. They didn't have the feeling of wanting to win at first, then wanting revenge, and then wanting to die when they played against the Eagles in the first three times. Well confirmed this.

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The three Eagles scored at least 30 points to defeat the Knicks. Although it did not shock the league, it also made many fans who were not impressed by the Eagles look sideways.

It is true that no team in the East can pose too much threat to the three big men in the West, which is recognized.

But in this game, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Raheem scored 94 points together, and all three of them scored 30+ points. Embree, Jack Twyman, and Isiah Ryder, Brian Grant, and Arvidas Sabonis of the Portland Trail Blazers in the 1997-1998 season, the third appearance in the NBA, and the same The feat of the three of them getting 30+!

There is no record or anything, and the two teams that appeared twice before did not get any big honors.

But it looks like a mouthful! Especially the next few opponents of the Eagles, they all rushed to deep despair...

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Wizards, Mr. Joe will not play for the rest of the regular season. He smiled to Liu Mang in a suit and told Liu Mang that he would go to his training camp first in the summer, and then he was allowed to get close to the two old hats in Utah. Learn anything there.

Liu Mang looked at the smiling but still competitive basketball god, and said he must go to him first.

Then Mr. Qiao was satisfied... Seeing that Zhuangyuan Lang couldn't even jump the ball now.

This is really miserable!

Kwame Brown's self-confidence has completely collapsed. Jordan scolded him so much that he didn't want to scold him anymore. This made Kwame Brown feel that his last hope was gone. He was confused on the field and off the field...

Without Mr. Joe, even the previous Juwan Howard was traded away. If it weren’t for Richard Hamilton’s great improvement, the Wizards would not even be as strong as the No. 1 pick last season, but Mr. Joe didn’t play. Hamilton He has improved, and his strength is about the same as when he won the No. 1 pick last season.

Still need to watch the Eagles game? Waking up is another big win.

115 to 103, the Eagles beat the Wizards at home to win three consecutive victories.

Liu Mang followed his eldest brother and second brother to have meat to eat, scoring 22 points on 9 of 13 shots with super high efficiency.

When leaving the field, Liu Reck accidentally saw Kwame Brown at the entrance of the opponent's player tunnel. Seeing that his face was a little displeased, but he was powerless to fight against Jordan's No. It's so refreshing.

Liu Mang thought about it carefully. It seems that after Jordan retired in 2003, he averaged 10+7 per game in the second year. The Sixers voted for him for this award. Of course, he lost to Jamison, who averaged 14+6 per game.

At that time, he was only 21 years old, and there was nothing wrong with being a rookie center. The data of a rookie center is good, and his defensive talent is really strong.

Then the unlucky No. 1 pick was injured again in the second year. After recovering from the injury, he was traded to the Lakers, and then he met a guy similar to Jordan...

etc!

Liu Mang looked at Kwame Brown who disappeared into the opponent's tunnel...

If he hadn't met Jordan and Kobe successively, Zhuangyuan Lang seemed to have a chance to save him!

Damn!

What kind of chain reaction would it have to "rescue" a guy who had been called the No. 1 pick for 12 years and was the No. 1 pick of all time until Ben Nate came along in 2013?

Not to mention that, if Kwame Brown can realize his talent, not to mention becoming a superstar, with his future single-defense ability, it is possible to defend the iron gate inside, right?

Liu Mang went back to the locker room and was doing physical therapy while thinking, what bargaining chips do you need to trade Kwame Brown?

In the past two years, when Jordan was still the executive of the Wizards, he would definitely not trade for the sake of face. In the 03-04 season, Kwame Brown played a 10+7 season, allowing him to play only one game in the 04-05 season due to injuries. In the case of thirty-four games, the Wizards were traded from the Lakers to Caron Butler, a potential star.

That said, the best time to trade is the summer after Jordan was fired by the Wizards!