Chapter 353 351. Playoff Debut!

The inside and outside of the Phillips Arena were already crowded with people after lunch. The Eagles' playoff opener started at 3:30 pm New York time. The fans arrived early. The heat had already started in the stadium an hour before the start of the game. Performance.

There is no shortage of tickets for the playoffs, so the box office statistics are based on regular season statistics, and the teams that make it to the playoffs are all strong teams. When the weather has begun to dry up in the playoffs, fans It's getting dry too!

Seeing most of the fans wearing special Eagles T-shirts, Liu Mang expressed his composure.

For the 3% portrait fee, he endured it!

The Eagles have already signed agreements with the scattered manufacturers of the "Rogue League" T-shirts, and they have started to produce the Eagles' version of the "Rogue League" T-shirts a month ago, and Liu Mang He was the last one to know. The boss gave him 3% of the portrait fee, which was a very moral way to buy Liu Mang's sense of belonging.

After all, this thing was made by the fan alliance formed by fans. Liu Mang can't win the lawsuit. The team does business with the "Rogue League", and it is okay to bypass Liu Mang. It is not wrong to give 3% The team gave it, but the team "wought" it for Liu Mang.

It can be regarded as Liu Mang's endorsement. He has already registered the trademark. If he does not provide the endorsement fee, he can still sue him for using his fame to sell jerseys. But if the endorsement fee is paid, there is nothing to sue.

Didn’t you see that Jordan sued Jordan Sports and lost the lawsuit? Jordan Sports is still selling well in the mid-to-low-end sneakers and sports equipment markets around the world.

Seeing that the T-shirts are selling so well, today it is estimated that 10,000 to 20,000 T-shirts are sold a day, Liu Mang said that he does not recognize these fans!

So angry!

Play a cartoon dragon to calm down!

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Before the start of the game, the vice president sent by the NBA and the CEO Adam Silva, who still has a long invoice, came to present two banners to the Eagles, the division champion and the division champion. After two hours in the west, the Spurs The team will also usher in an unknown number of division championships, division championships, and one more regular season championship banner. It was another vice president Tatum who presented the Spurs with awards.

If you win the division championship in the playoffs, there are also flags and trophies...

Liu Mang remembers watching a documentary called Dynasty Memory, in which the regular season flags of the Spurs, Celtics, and Lakers had been hung all over the field, and the entire wall of the president’s office was still hung with some flags. banner.

The division champion flag and division champion flag were hoisted. Amidst the roar and tsunami, the pre-match activities were over, and the game was about to begin!

As the leader of the locker room, Muhammad is mobilizing before the game.

"We can't be careless! The opponent has lost a superstar, we can't be careless because of this, we have to work harder and solve them as soon as possible! Beat them with the strongest strength! Our goal is the championship! We can't waste time here!"

Very domineering and contagious pre-match mobilization.

With the urging of the referee, the starting players of the two teams came to the field.

The Hawks' starting lineup remains unchanged.

The Raptors sent Alvin Williams, Dell Curry, Maurice Peterson, Antonio Davis, and Hakeem Olajuwon to the starting lineup.

Antonio Davis and Olajuwon form the twin towers, and two insiders with strong defenses or once strong and still have some strength to form the twin towers.

Obviously, the Raptors did not choose to surrender because of Carter's reimbursement!

After the start of the game, the Raptors chose to fight defensively. Olajuwon sat on the basket and focused on guarding the basket. Antonio Davis concentrated on doing his work as a coolie power forward, fiercely coordinating everywhere in the three-point line. Defense, full of impact.

The Raptors are stuck on defense, and the offense revolves around Dell Curry.

There are no superstars, no very good organizers, so the famous coach Lenny Wilkens used the Pacers' classic tactics, using Dell Curry's precise running three-pointer, the team gave him a pick-and-roll, and at the same time The weak side and the teammates behind the pick-and-roll make cuts, and Alvin Williams organizes the ball.

This style of play is similar to the future Cavaliers' offensive tactics around Korver. Korver doesn't necessarily have to score many points. His running position and other people's pick-and-rolls are good ways to create opportunities for switching defenses, dislocations and air cuts. .

But there is still a difference. Korver is passing the ball next to James. James breaks through when Korver has attracted most of the defensive attention. The effect is not that Alvin Williams is lucky and then passes the ball. Comparable.

But that's the best the Raptors can do.

With this style of play and constant pick-and-roll, the Raptors not only give a tough posture on the defensive end, but also full of physical confrontation on the offensive end!

The Eagles really didn't expect it at the beginning. They felt that they were already focused enough, but they didn't expect that the opponent would become more active after losing their star!

Even... because of the absence of Carter, who has an average defensive attitude, the defensive end has become more dynamic! The offensive end lacks a long-term ball-holding player, and the offensive end plays very selflessly. Although it does not have Carter's shooting and breakthrough ability that is beyond the level of others, it does seem to play smoothly.

unexpected!

The on-site commentary and the fans didn't feel that the Raptors had a slight chance to beat the Eagles, but after a few minutes of playing, the Eagles called a timeout first.

4 to 7! The Eagles played for 4 minutes and only scored 4 points!

Not too far behind, but only scored 4 points in 4 minutes, which is unacceptable for the Eagles, which ranks third in the league in scoring during the regular season!

Obviously, although the Eagles valued this game, they didn't expect the Raptors' defense to be so... strong? Or so ferocious!

Lenny Wilkens, a famous coach of the older generation in the NBA, is almost 70 years old. He won the NBA championship as early as the 1970s. The coach, the Seattle Supersonics and the Cleveland Cavaliers, the peak performances of these two teams so far are all his head coaches, and the coaching level is naturally very high.

He knows that the Raptors have to fight for strength, even if Carter is not the opponent of the Eagles.

But he, who coached the Eagles to the playoffs last season and was almost swept in the first round, knows a huge weakness of the Eagles.

I haven't played much in the playoffs, and I'm not used to further confrontation in the playoffs!

So he seized the weakness of the Eagles and sent Olajuwon, who still has a certain deterrence at the basket, and Reggie Miller's bodyguard thug Antonio Davis, two twin towers who are good at giving a lot of physical confrontation to guard. There are Alvin Williams and Maurice Peterson on the inside and outside, which infinitely magnifies the weakness of the Eagles' inability to adapt to the playoffs! The Eagles were caught off guard at the start.

In fact, if the Raptors hadn't been swept by the Eagles in the regular season, they might have been seventh in the Eastern Conference. In the original historical trajectory, they played against the Pistons, which should have been second, in the first round of the playoffs. They didn't lose until the tiebreaker, and the point difference in each game was extremely small, which brought huge trouble to the Pistons.

The strategy is the same, that Pistons team made the playoffs four times in the past ten years only when Grant Hill was still around, each time in the first round, and a large number of trades resulted in most of the players being nothing Playoff experience, rookie coach Carlisle was well educated by the old coach, especially Stackhouse, who shot less than 30% of the series.

And the Raptors only lost by three points in the fifth tie. If it weren't for Pistons veteran Clifford Robinson's key block and steal layup at the last moment, the Pistons would have been blacked out.

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"Sharif, you are doing a good job, you are tough on the defensive end, but you have to be tougher! Jason, you are doing a good job, keep following that pitcher..." Coach Kruger kept encouraging the players, and suddenly heard the scene Cheers.

Why are you cheering?

Could it be!

Coach Kruger turned his head and saw that Liu Mang had already gone up to practice shooting.

This kid!

Coach Kruger didn't intend to replace him so early. There are only two days between the playoffs and the regular season, but the level of confrontation in the playoffs from today's start seems to be completely different from the regular season! Even if the opponent is the eighth, it can't be underestimated. Although the black eight is a miracle, it will be bad if the boat capsizes in the gutter. He wants the main force to survive the opponent's main force first, and let Liu Mang face the opponent's substitute lineup when he comes on the field Play better.

But... thinking of Liu Mang's unscrupulous style of play, Coach Kruger looked at Liu Mang who was excitedly practicing shooting, and changed his mind again.

"Jason, you don't have to guard the opponent's pitcher anymore, you have to find a way to increase the pressure on the opponent's point guard and prevent him from passing the ball so easily..."

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After the timeout, the Eagles replaced Dean Grove with Liu Mang, and replaced all five main players in advance.

It's not time for the Raptors to make substitutions yet. In the playoffs, the main players will play a lot more than they did in the regular season.

Liu Mang ran back and forth in the frontcourt excitedly, leading Alvin Williams around.

The playoffs are here!

Playoffs!

Playoffs debut!

How can you not be excited!