Chapter 580 579. First in the Alliance!
Liu Mang obviously strengthened his personal offensive desire today. In the first three games, Liu Mang chose to pass the ball more, but today he chose to shoot more by himself.
The Hornets also gave face. They tried to maintain the posture of a strong team and lasted until the end. Every time the Eagles almost completely opened up the point difference, Hornets coach Tim Fried would make adjustments.
The strength of the Hornets' three outside lines is indeed very strong, and they will respond positively after each adjustment. Baron Davis, hey, he will come up once or twice to restrain the Eagles' defense, and then immediately Shiburn and David Wesley did it.
But in a few moments, after the Eagles' defense tightened up, the Hornets could only try their best to keep the point difference from being widened. up.
Liu Mang and Baron Davis are about the same in strength, but Liu Mang has a better brain, and he is not stingy in playing. He is not afraid of confrontation when he is thin, not to mention that he is now considered a first-class confrontation among point guards. Well, it's incomparable with Francis and Baron Davis, and it's not a disadvantage against Marbury.
The most important thing is that with strong teammates, you can do whatever you want! Liu Mang completely suppressed Baron Davis on the scene. In the fourth quarter, the Hornets couldn't hold back, and the Eagles re-appointed the starting lineup. The Hornets' three outsiders had been playing hard for the first three quarters. In the fourth quarter, the Eagles opened up the point difference in one fell swoop, and when the official timeout of the fourth quarter was reached, the Eagles opened the point difference to 22 points with 89 to 67.
The Hornets have no way to announce their surrender. With only 5 minutes left, it is basically impossible to chase 22 points.
In the end, the Eagles beat the Hornets 101 to 84 and won four consecutive victories.
Liu Mang played 33 minutes, 13 of 26 shots, 3 of 6 three-pointers, 8 of 10 free throws, 37 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists!
Baron Davis made 8 of 22 shots. Although he made 3 three-pointers, he made 11 three-pointers. The most important thing is that he only caused two fouls in the whole game after playing 41 minutes. He made only two hits, and his strong body was in vain. In addition to assists, points and rebounds were crushed by Liu Mang, who scored 21 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists.
Liu Mang won the contest with Baron Davis!
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After beating the Hornets, the Eagles arrived in Seattle overnight, and played back-to-back games against the Sonics at 7 o'clock the next night.
In the past summer of the Sonics, they used the new version of the three musketeers to strike up conversations with top point guards everywhere, and then there was no star player to bird them. Kidd didn't even go to the Spurs, and he just made it to the finals for two consecutive years. The team going to a non-playoff team with an uncertain future? Even Kassel looked down on them, and went to get bored with the wolf king.
Not to mention these two top free agent point guards, they didn't even get a starting point guard, and finally only signed the former Spurs backup point guard Antonio Daniels, the fourth pick of parallel imports in 1997, It also took 5 years for the full middle class, otherwise people would not come here. I want to go back to the Spurs to hug the thigh of the same big brother Duncan and win the championship. I don’t care at all that he was traded by the Spurs in the summer of 2002. Last season's championship.
Ever since, the Sonics can only point to Brent Barry to organize the offense. Brent Barry was not originally a point guard, but he was forced to become a point guard in the past two years. Lent Barry's performance is so-so. He averaged a career-high 5.0 assists per game last season, but he made 2.4 turnovers. The assist-to-turnover ratio is almost 2 to 1. That is, if you send out two assists, you have to return one. Mistakes go back.
Ray Allen, who had already planned to develop into a pitcher, also picked up the offense again after failing to introduce a good point guard, and he was worse than Brent Barry, averaging 4 points per game. Assists and 2.8 turnovers.
It's no wonder that Ray Allen's offensive organization has deteriorated. After arriving in the Sonics last season, it was the Sonics management and head coach McMillan who made him determined to make a complete transformation. Attracted here, after all, he is a teammate for many years, so he didn't develop in the direction of all-roundness, he just practiced running and three-pointers, who knew that none of the star point guards he was looking forward to came, and he partnered with Cassel a few years ago At that time, he had already started to transform pitchers, and now it is too difficult to pick up again.
What hurts the Sonics most is their highly publicized potential power forward, who is regarded by the team as one of the new three musketeers. Radmanovich is progressing extremely slowly. Well, from the beginning to now, he has averaged five or six three-pointers per game, but only scored one three-pointer in four games. He is completely different from the big pitcher who looked promising last season, and that A talented shooter who shot 42 percent from 3-point range in his rookie season is even more incomparable.
For the Sonics, when they deployed a lineup of Barry, Ray Allen, Lewis, and Radmanovich, those who heard the rebounds were sad and those who saw them shed tears. It's like nothing. In the past four games, the rebounding leader is Lewis with an average of 5.5 rebounds per game...
Although the Eagles played back-to-back, Ratliff and Stockton did not play, but they did not have the physical problem of playing back-to-back last season. The depth of the lineup is too strong.
The main reason is Liu Mang. He does not have the problem of lack of physical strength. When other teammates have no physical crisis and can play as usual, Liu Mang can play the same role as usual. Anti-Sonics basically have no inside attack. For the team, although Kwame Brown is still young, his inside effect is the same as Ratliff's, or even better. He can defend against pick-and-rolls.
Ray Allen and Lewis shot desperately. These two are really accurate. Ray Allen made 5 of 9 three-pointers and scored 33 points. Lewis made 4 of 9 three-pointers and scored 32 points. The two scored 65 together. Points, but the others are so hard that people can't help watching. The Sonics have such a fast pace. The Sonics threw more than 90 shots in this game, and the others only scored 25 points.
The Eagles are also willing to run and play, avoiding the touch problem caused by back-to-back effects, and constantly hitting the basket. Driven by Liu Mang, the Eagles and the Supersonics launched a confrontation. , At the same time, it also put a lot of defensive pressure on the supersonic perimeter.
In the end, under the leadership of Liu Mang, the Eagles beat the Sonics 103 to 90 and won five consecutive victories.
Liu Mang's shooting percentage was very high today. Neither Ray Allen nor Barry is a particularly good defensive player. Liu Mang shot 14 of 19 shots from the field. He scored 35 points and 9 assists. A little bit 30+10, but got 30+ for the second consecutive game!
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After the Eagles won five consecutive victories, the road trip continued. On November 10, they came to Chicago to challenge the Bulls away.
The Bulls, of course, have to be bad. Getting the God of Basketball has consumed their luck for decades. The No. 2 pick in 2002 is gone.
Although Kirk Hinrich, an extremely powerful point guard in college, was selected in the 2003 generation, he was not as powerful as imagined.
Although it is not as weak as their No. 2 pick last season, it is not that strong. Hinrich is very stable, not like a rookie, but the Bulls are not a championship team, not even a playoff level In this team, Hinrich is stable at one point and able to defend at another point. It is useless. Everyone else is a defensive sieve. The only defensive center, Tyson Chandler, is still undergoing surgery before the start of the season. He has at least three Come back in a month.
In today's game, Hinrich did a good job of restricting Liu Mang. He made 13 of 33 shots against Liu Mang.
Liu Mang also shot well, no matter how good his defense is, he will make waves when he should, and his own rebounds exploded today!
After Kwame Brown came off the bench, Kwame Brown played the best game of his career so far against his old high school rival Eddie Curry, who had taunted him so much the previous two years.
After the official suspension of Ratliff in the first quarter, Ratliff was not replaced again, because Kwame Brown got 8 rebounds in the last five minutes of the first quarter. Kwame Brown's assist went.
Kwame Brown grabbed it so well, and Liu Mang played even more. In 31 minutes of playing time, he threw 33 times, made 6 of 15 three-pointers, scored 40 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds, and scored 40 points for the first time this season!
Kwame Brown played 39 minutes off the bench and scored 22 points and 20 rebounds for the first time in his career. He also grabbed offensive rebounds and passed them to Liu Mang and Jason Terry to get 6 assists, Gave Eddie Curry three blocked shots, 22 points, 20 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks, plus the defensive end and Eddie Curry's card position, let Raheem and Rasheed Wallace and others Grabbing defensive rebounds, defending Eddie Curry, who had no desire for rebounds, only scored 12 points and 3 rebounds.
For the first time after entering the NBA, Kwame Brown had an advantage when he played against his old teammate Eddie Curry!
Because Kwame Brown was so active, the Eagles didn't have much grudges against the Bulls. Even Jay Williams, the only one who made Liu Mang unhappy, was gone. The Eagles wanted to beat the opponent easily, but The grievances between Kwame Brown and Eddie Curry have continued from high school to the present. Since it is the enemy of teammates, of course we have to fight for face.
As a result, the Bulls encountered a bloody massacre with a difference of 42 points at home 57 to 99!
Six consecutive victories!
The Eagles got off to a strong start!
It just so happened that both the Pacers and Timberwolves lost today, and the record of the two teams has become 6 wins and 1 loss. American fans suddenly discovered that the Eagles, which they hadn't paid much attention to before, actually ascended to the top of the league!