Chapter 497. 495. End the Losing Streak

After the timeout, the Eagles attacked and sent out a lineup of Jason Terry, Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, and Ratliff.

The Kings did not make any substitutions and continued to field their strongest lineup.

The Eagles played the ball in the frontcourt, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and Christie defended him.

Seeing Boozer, a very popular rookie who can play mid-range shots, low-post singles, and efficient pick-and-rolls, Christie is a little nervous. Same as Utah Shuangsha.

In the two months that Liu Mang and Boozer have cooperated, due to the increase in pick-and-roll play, they gradually gained the nickname of "Two Devils of Atlanta and Big Brother".

However, the Kings' defensive cohesion is very strong, Christie is very focused on pick-and-roll and switch defenses, Webber follows Boozer, and the two are ready.

However, just when the Kings saw the lineup sent by the Eagles and were ready to guard against Liu Mang and Boozer, the nicknamed "Little Shuangsha" combination, Jason Terry ran to the top arc, and Liu Mang passed the ball.

The Kings are a bit off!

Why is it different from what you imagined?

After Liu Mang gave the ball to Jason Terry, he took Christie to the inside and took a step to the left sideline of the three-second zone. Jason Terry came to the left to hold the ball at a 45-degree angle and pulled Bibby away. Prince came to the left corner and pulled Peja away. Boozer came to the middle distance of the right baseline and took Webber away. Ratliff faced the basket on the edge of the three-second zone on the other side. He is tall, even if he has no scoring ability, but he is very tough, and he is a threat standing under the basket.

Liu Mang stepped down, and the others opened up the most space!

What are the Eagles doing?

The Kings players and all the fans at the scene widened their eyes. Seeing Liu Mang leaning on Christie to ask for the ball after his teammates settled down, could it be...

Just as everyone's eyes widened, Jason Terry passed the ball to Liu Mang who wanted the ball from the low post!

hell?

Liu Mang wants low post singles?

If it’s regular time, it’s fine. Liu Mang will try out his abilities that he hasn’t demonstrated before. It’s justified. After practicing his skills, he has to use the game to test the effect. , Low-handed layup... etc., are all technologies that Liu Mang has gradually developed over the past year, and it is also Liu Mang who has come step by step from "no potential" to a new star with full potential.

Liu Mang's strength has improved significantly this year, his weight and muscles have increased, and his jumping has also increased a lot, so if he wants to develop back shots, the fans will not be surprised, but this is the first time he uses it when he is four behind with two minutes left. At the critical moment of the score, the fans thought Liu Mang was crazy!

However, the fans may not have many speakers, because Liu Mang rarely played low post singles, just one time, at the end of last season when the Eagles played against the Spurs, Liu Mang forced "soft guy" Stephen Jackson.

Fans were not impressed by this matter, but Christie, who had carefully studied Liu Mang, was deeply impressed! Liu Mang's explosive power has always been very strange. Back then, when there was no bounce, he insisted on dunking opponents. Now he is still the dunk king. Christie is very afraid of Liu Mang's forceful attack. He lowered his focus and wanted to hold Liu Mang's forceful force .

After Liu Mang received the ball, he turned his body sideways, leaned his left shoulder on Christie, felt the strength behind him, and saw Christie lowering his center of gravity, Liu Mang felt that there was something going on!

Liu Mang mustered all the muscles in his body, and the blue veins on his neck popped out. His left shoulder left Christie's body, his left foot bent, his body squatted halfway, his right foot kicked on the ground, and his right hand pushed the ball hard on the ground. shoot……

Liu Mang was full of posture, an O'Neill-style bulldozer stance, and Christie lowered his center of gravity as much as possible, ready to meet Liu Mang's brutal impact on Stephen Jackson.

but!

After Liu Mang took the racket out, the ball bounced under Liu Mang's raised right foot. Before Liu Mang kicked his right foot on the ground, he swung it to the right. With his left foot as the axis, he turned right!

Christie woke up suddenly, the other party didn't want to force her! It's playing dirty!

but!

Christie lowered her center of gravity and puffed up her muscles, completely standing still! When Christie stood up and went to defend Liu Mang, Liu Mang's speed suddenly accelerated, and he rushed into the three-second zone with a big stride. He suddenly saw Ratliff exiting his only scoring area, which is the three-second zone, in the Livka position. Divac was very strange. Turning around, he saw a big No. 1 winning face...

Liu Mang turned around, passed Christie, strode into the three-second zone, jumped high, grabbed the ball with one hand, swung it in the air, and smashed it into the basket!

Divac became the background!

Liu Mang's low position turned around and surpassed others!

The fans at the scene couldn't help but exclaimed, Divac never thought that Christie would be passed by Liu Mang in the low post, and he didn't even have a chance to defend him!

Christie felt her face was burning hot, and she was completely unguarded at this critical moment! Especially seeing Divac's bewildered and complaining eyes, Christie felt that the game experience was too bad!

This guy is a monster! Genius is not enough to describe!

It's not that Christie doesn't know how to prevent turns, but he never expected Liu Mang to turn around so quickly in a low position!

Back playing is not something that can be used well in a day or two. It takes a long time to practice and practice in order to get better and better.

Although Christie paid more attention to Liu Mang's back hit than the fans and many players, but he only paid attention to Liu Mang's sudden and violent impact. I thought that Liu Mang was following the technical stream!

The quick turns, smooth transitions, and irritable dunks are as skillful as they have been done countless times. How can it be used for the first time in a game?

Surprisingly easy!

Liu Mang didn't celebrate after scoring the goal, and immediately turned back to defend.

He knew that the ball was too lucky!

Liu Mang never expected that Christie would use that posture to defend himself, just like a girl struggling to resist her body being violated, tightening her muscles, Liu Mang turned around and passed Christie.

The key point for Liu Mang to do is to get rid of the opponent's defense, as long as he gets rid of it, everything will be easy.

The subsequent rush after the turn, which was so swift that Christie couldn't keep up at all, could be triggered!

"Low post skill level 5: After successfully turning around and passing the opponent in low post singles, the speed +5, bounce +5, mid-range shot +5, and the basket shot will affect the referee's whistle increase by 25%; When you step back and get rid of the opponent's defense in low-post singles, your mid-range shooting ability +5, jumping +5."

In the previous few days of training, Liu Mang practiced some turnaround jump shots.

But this thing is really difficult to practice. The 180-degree turn when turning over often makes Liu Mang dizzy, so he has to practice slowly. When his head is a little dizzy, Liu Mang will switch sides. Practice turning on the left side, he wants to see if turning in the opposite direction can offset the feeling of dizziness caused by turning around just now...

However, Liu Mang didn't find out whether it had the effect of counteracting the feeling of dizziness, but relying on the opponent's turn, it was much easier than bumping into the opponent's turnaround jump shot.

In addition, Liu Mang didn't make a mid-range shot in the first two minutes, so Liu Mang felt a bit unreliable when he turned over and made a mid-range jumper. To be on the safe side, he was promoted to level 5 with low-post skills, not turn-up jumpers!

Liu Mang sacrificed and developed a little bit of back hitting to try, but he didn't expect the effect to be good! The opponent didn't know why he made an extremely wrong choice. Whether Liu Mang wanted to turn around or turn over and jump shot, Liu Mang had perfect opportunities. Liu Mang chose to cut to the basket and completed the dunk.

Christie is also desperate! He didn't expect that Liu Mang's low position was more than strong.

Because Liu Mang has never used this trick before! So Christie didn't think that Liu Mang would use other back-hitting tricks at all.

Because the core of the team who can post up, whether it is inside or outside, is very popular in any era. Post up represents the lethality of scoring, can attract double-teams, and has a good vision of distributing the ball.

And Liu Mang, as the core playmaker of the Eagles, has never used back shots, so Christie naturally will not defend against the kind of tricks that the opponent "won't".

Christie has an inexplicable feeling - this kid is targeting their Kings! This kind of ultimate move is actually specially reserved to deal with them!

The Eagles players were also extremely shocked. They didn't expect this seemingly unreliable style of play to be really effective!

Rahim was shocked to see that Liu Mang's explosive charge after turning around was faster than his most acclaimed short-distance acceleration, and he was completely dissatisfied with Liu Mang's replacement of him.

Nima, this little brother is a monster!

Raheem recalled that Liu Mang asked himself for turning skills during training two days ago, and he taught him for a while, and this little brother used it at such an important and critical moment of the game! And with that explosive speed and bounce, Rahim didn't feel inferior to him! Even if the opponent's inside defense is in place, it is very likely to draw a foul!

Rahim was excited and smiled wryly: who is the boss and who is assisting whom! The younger brother is almost stronger than the boss!

The Kings were taken aback by Liu Mang's low-post ability. With a sense of crisis, Bibby rushed to the frontcourt, wanting to play one himself.

Liu Mang was close to Bibby. Liu Mang just dunked one and brought up the overall morale of the Eagles. The fancy dunk was level 5. After the fancy dunk was completed in the game, the morale of the team reached the level reached in this game. The highest level, if already in the state of high morale, the time of the high morale state will be extended by one round.

Liu Mang himself is also a member of the Eagles. His perfect turn and dunk with a small windmill inspired himself, and his enthusiasm reached the highest state of the game.

Bibby was made very uncomfortable by Liu Mang's oppressive clinging. Liu Mang's strong physical confrontation, the referee did not call a foul. At critical moments, as long as it was not an obvious foul action, the referee seldom whistled to affect the game. In the sixth game of the final, the Kings were called for a foul when they were a little closer. In this year's Kings game, this kind of ball was rarely called.

The Kings were very happy to encounter such a whistle this year. Their defense is not clean, and they have a lot of small moves. They are usually very energetic when dealing with opponents, but now, Bibby hates that the defense of their games has become loose. Because he became a victim!

Bibby had no choice but to pass the ball to Christie.

After Christie received the ball, his mind was full of the bad game experience just now, and he wanted to pay Liu Mang back.

Christie has no offensive ability with the ball, and it is difficult to beat Jason Terry with the ball. Therefore, after receiving the ball, Christie directly shoots a three-pointer!

Jason Terry tried to interfere as much as possible, and it really succeeded. Christie made a three-pointer!

Seeing that someone made a shot, the Kings retreated directly. This is their core strategy to prevent the Eagles from counterattacking. Liu Mang grabbed the fifth rebound of the game and scored 30 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists.

Advance to the front court again, continue to do the same, pass the ball to Jason Terry, he falls to the low position on the left side of the basket, the others open up space, Jason Terry hits the ball to Liu Mang, Liu Mang receives the ball Then leaned on Christie.

Christie had a strong sense of defense, she turned half of her body sideways to block the baseline where Liu Mang turned around just now.

Christie doesn't know if Liu Mang will make other low-post moves, but he is a good defensive player, and his colleague is a defensive player with high defensive quality. It is enough to defend the skills that the opponent has shown. He who has not shown it Don't think too much about it, because it's impossible to predict this guy.

To be honest, for a coach, I prefer a pragmatic defensive player like Christie, rather than the kind of player who often makes amazing magical defenses, because there are often players with magical steals and unexpected defenses , It is often more often that the opponent catches a loophole and hits one.

But relatively, defensive players of Christie's type often fail to attract the attention of fans.

Liu Mang watched Christie's defensive action, turned left decisively, and walked from the upper line. Christie stepped up to delay Liu Mang's movement after turning around. The explosive rush and bounce just now were too amazing, and Liu Mang was not given room to start. .

Seeing Liu Mang entering the basket in this position, Divac didn't have to worry about being too far away from the defense and being hit by Ratliff, and took a step up to block Liu Mang.

It can block Liu Mang in the front and Ratliff in the back. Divac's prediction is great.

At this time, Peja and Bibby were also going outside around Prince and Jason Terry to prevent them from receiving the ball.

but……

Liu Mang threw the ball to the rear right, and Divac, who was facing Liu Mang head-on, had a question mark in his head, what is this for? Random pass?

But at this moment, Boozer appeared in the top corner on the right side of the free throw line, received the ball and made a mid-range shot!

"swish"

Boozer lived up to Liu Mang's expectations and hit a jumper from the free throw line after catching the ball!

30+5+5! Liu Mang got the data of 30+5+5!

At the same time, the Eagles tied the score 100-100!

The Eagles tied!

However, Adelman once again stood on the sidelines roaring, but the Kings have no timeout! Otherwise, Adelman, who pays so much attention to offense, called a timeout as early as when there was a scoring shortage. The main reason is that the Eagles played a few games with various tactical changes in the first three and a half quarters of today's game, allowing Adelman and Thibodeau Called a lot of timeouts to adjust the defense, only to find out that the opponent is a big liar!

57 seconds left!

The Kings attacked. This time, Bibby and Peja came up with an outside pick-and-roll and passed the ball to Peja. Liu Mang switched defenses and stuck close to Peja. Peja made a strong three-point shot!

However, when the Eagles were attacking, Prince hadn't made a shot for too long. When Peja went up to double-team Liu Mang in the low post, Prince received the ball and didn't make a three-pointer.

A group of people in the Kings are not good at playing key shots, and there is only one person.

The critical moment is still only relying on him - Mike Bibby!

After Bibby came over, he saw that Webb was almost unable to move. After all, he was 30 years old. Peja was stuck to death by the lanky rookie Prince, and Christie was in an impulsive state again. Bibby decided to come by himself. !

The Kings team opened up, and Bibby was not afraid of Liu Mang's close defense. After taking a strong step, he retreated and stepped back to shoot a jumper!

The crucial moment is still Bibby!

With 18 seconds left, Bibby made a step-back from Liu Mang and made a long-range shot from the three-point line, giving the Kings a two-point lead!

The Eagles called the last timeout!

After coach Kruger immediately called a timeout, Liu Mang was not excited when he saw that Bibby's hit might be a quasi-lore. He tidied up his hair and took him back to the bench. He really felt that this Kings team might Webber is the strongest, Peja and Divac are the ones who diversify the team's tactics, and Divac and Christie are the defensive core.

But the guy who was the most neglected, hit countless key shots, never entered the All-Star but was the last of the five tigers of the Kings, the most gorgeous team in history, to leave, may be the real soul of this Kings team , the toughest player.

Never stealing the limelight, if it was Peja, the goal would definitely show the heroism of their Yugoslavs, and they might dance, but Bibby just tidied up his hairband, and it was absolutely the same as every time in the past. Like killing, celebrate by yourself with actions that are difficult for others to discover, and silently enjoy the carnival of one person, the carnival of the heart.

But people nowadays don't realize that Bibby's celebration is "inadvertently" tidying up her hairband, but Liu Mang knows it!

This is the beginning of celebrating the lore?

Liu Mang is really upset! 18 seconds left!

Liu Mang returned to the bench and once again took the tactical board.

Coach Kruger can't do anything now. Suddenly, Liu Mang has a new ability. Among all the tactics he planned, there is no point guard's low-post single play, so now he simply gave the command to Liu Mang.

"Sherif you replace Carlos, Sharif you bottom line, I break through you and run back, ready to catch the ball for a dunk or rush for a rebound, Jason, Tyshawn, you open up the space and are ready to catch the ball and shoot at any time, Theo, you Go to the basket and trap people..." Liu Mang scribbled on the tactical board in a mess, but the players were used to it, the only thing that was strange was why they didn't play low post all of a sudden? Did you play well in the low post just now?

And Rahim burst into tears in his heart. Sure enough, the younger brother still remembered himself as the boss, and replaced himself when the lore was over.

On the other side, the Kings bench.

"Pay attention to the double-teaming. When Liu is in the low post, you go to double-team, Peja. The rotation of Mike and the others must be quick. When Prince is open, pay attention to changing defenses..." Adelman emphasized the double-teaming, and began to arrange for possible occurrences. The lore shot, because they didn't have a timeout, so they can only arrange together at this time: "If you defend, protect the rebound, if you don't defend, pass the ball to Peja..."

Sure enough, at the critical moment, Adelman still gave the chance of the lore to Peja, who played the best in the regular season of the Kings this year, instead of Bibby who had just scored a key goal.

Bibby was silent and didn't speak. He was a tough guy any coach would love, but he was also one of the easiest to ignore.

...

After a timeout, Jason Terry advanced to the frontcourt and dribbled the ball on the outside to waste time. Liu Mang continued to fall to the low position on the left side of the basket.

Everything is no different from the previous two attacks.

With 10 seconds left, Jason Terry moved to a 45-degree angle to the left outside the three-point line. The Kings immediately became alert, and Peja was ready to double-team at any time.

At this moment, something completely different from the Kings' expected defensive situation happened! Prince, who was in the left corner of the basket, ran around the bottom line to the other corner. Peja hurriedly ran after Prince. At the same time, when he was about to face Prince, Liu Mang ran from Stretching out from the low position and running towards the top arc, Christie hurried to keep up, but was blocked by Rahim who stepped over!

Fortunately, the Kings switched defenses very quickly. Peja immediately gave up chasing Prince to chase Liu Mang, and Christie immediately gave up chasing Liu Mang to chase Prince. Leaf picks and rolls, takes Divac away, and Ratliff comes to the left edge of the rim.

Liu Mang ran to the top arc, Jason Terry passed to Liu Mang and then went to the left bottom corner, Prince led Christie to the right bottom corner, Raheem took Divac to the right bottom line mid-range , Ratliff led Webb to the edge of the three-second zone on the left side of the basket, and Liu Mang held the ball from the top arc to face Peja!

Tactic achieved! Point guard playing small forward!

Eight seconds left!

Without hesitation, Liu Mang continued to dribble the ball under his crotch.

Peja swallowed his saliva, not daring to get too close and not too far away, the opponent can shoot and break through!

After Liu Mang dribbled with cross steps in advance and changed direction, he suddenly took a step towards the right, and Peja immediately took a step towards the left, but! Liu Mang kicked his right foot, and made a big stride to the left!

Marbury's iconic front change! It's just that Marbury is really far from the free throw line, and Liu Mang is outside the three-point line!

Peja panicked, and rushed towards Liu Mang with all his teeth and claws. Liu Mang grabbed the ball, didn't dodge, and bumped into Peja.

Pingci Master level 5 triggers, with a 1/3 chance, the referee will whistle the opponent's action suspected of fouling!

Although the referee whistled the key ball of the Kings on a large scale, and rarely whistled for obvious fouls, this ball was too obvious!

"Beep..."

Liu Mang lay on the floor, heard the referee's whistle, turned over, saw the three free throw gestures made by the referee, couldn't help but beat the floor, "Wow, wow, wow..." .

Jason Terry and Raheem, the two with the best relationship, immediately ran over to pull Liu Mang up. Although Liu Mang's promise to give them two breakthroughs and points was not fulfilled, but at the critical moment, the A three-point foul, that's enough!

Compared with scoring two or three points by yourself, winning is the key!

That's right, when Liu Mang arranged his tactics just now, he deceived his teammates. After they completed the first step to create a misplaced tactic for Liu Mang, they continued to move and took the Kings' defensive attention away. It didn't let Liu Mang fall into the state of being double-teamed, so Liu Mang had the chance to make a foul on Peja in singles.

Liu Mang's tactics are two points, creating dislocations, teammates taking away the defense, and playing alone.

It's such a simple and direct tactic, it's done!

Peja is going crazy! I was played by that nasty Chinese boy from the beginning to the end today!

Liu Mang stood at the free throw line and hit all three free throws. With 5 seconds left, Liu Mang took the lead with 3 free throws!

The Kings did not pause, Weber sent the ball to Bibby, Peja and Christie ran towards the frontcourt immediately, after Bibby waited for Peja to rush to the frontcourt, an excellent lob passed to Peja, Bibby was in the Kings There were not many assists during the period, averaging about 5 per game, because he didn't have the ball, and his passing was no worse than Webber's, only better. He averaged 8 assists per game in the second grade.

Bibby's long lob pass was very good. Peja received the ball in the half court and dribbled it beyond the three-point line. Just about to shoot, Prince stuck up to Peja. At the critical moment, Peja softened. ! Pass the ball to Christie!

Christie was pushing and shoving with Jason Terry. Jason Terry refused to let Christie go to the basket. Christie never expected Peja to pass the ball at this time, and the ball flew directly past his head...

Peja passed the ball out of bounds at a critical moment!

0.9 seconds left!

The Eagles just sent the ball in the backcourt, and they didn't give the Kings a chance to foul, and the Kings didn't even think about fouling.

Lost too badly today! The whole game is being played!

The Eagles ended their 9-game losing streak against the Kings!

Liu Mang scored 33 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, helping the Eagles win 103-102, and it was a free throw quasi-lore!