Chapter 589
After the timeout, the Eagles had the ball, and the Eagles still led 42 to 41 by 1 point.
There were no substitutions on the Nets side. Kidd, Rodney Rogers, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, and Aaron Williams continued to play.
The Nets' tactics have not changed, they just want to grind until the Eagles collapse first.
If Stockton goes down and Liu Mang goes to hold the ball, then they will defend in the low post and block the outside line. When the Eagles have no inside scoring advantage and can only shoot outside, it is their chance to win!
However, seeing the lineup that the Eagles came up with, the Nets didn't understand it a bit!
Five people, Liu Mang, Prince, Barnes, Raheem, and Kwame Brown, stepped up. Kidd was a little confused. Instead of strengthening the low post, it removed one of the low post attacking candidates?
The Nets are ready. If the Hawks replace Liu Mang, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Boozer with four low-post offensive players, they will continue to fight for offensive stability. Prepared, and prepared specifically for Boozer's poor defense.
But Prince, Barnes, and Kwame Brown, the three offensive players who only have functional roles, and even Barnes, who has no role in the offensive end of the Nets except running back, came up. The Nets said they didn't understand!
The Eagles attacked, and Liu Mang slowly pushed forward after receiving the serve. The rest of the Eagles quickly ran to the frontcourt. The really fast ones. Kwame Brown’s speed evaluation has 84. Back then, he became the No. 1 pick purely on physical fitness The show is not given randomly. Prince has a speed rating of 89, Raheem has a speed rating of 88, and Barnes is still skinny and has a speed rating of 89. These guys, including Prince, are all men with physical fitness. This lineup runs against the sky!
After Liu Mang advanced to the top arc, Kwame Brown and Prince came to the left side of the three-second zone, Raheem and Barnes came to the right side of the three-second zone, just when Kidd looked back and saw this strange station When he was confused, he turned his head and saw that Liu Mang reached the top arc of the three-point line and threw the ball directly!
Liu Mang made a three-pointer shot!
Seeing that it was too late to jump up, Kidd reacted quickly and rushed towards the inside. It was fine if he scored, and he went to grab a rebound if he didn't. The four positions of the Eagles except point guard were taller than the Nets Lineups that defend while protecting the rebound average even higher! And there is Kwame Brown, a seven-footer! And this rushing in, even if Liu Mang made a shot, Kidd could still pick up the ball and launch a fast break.
Liu Mang's first three-pointer shot was a bit hasty, purely to catch Kidd by surprise, the ball bounced off the basket.
Rebound scramble!
The basket is full of 9 people!
It's not easy for anyone to grab, the card slot can't be stuck at all!
At this time, Raheem, Barnes, and Prince squeezed the others tightly. Kwame Brown used his height, wingspan, and the best bounce among the nine insiders to push the racket to the top arc. It was back to Liu Mang's hands again, this time Liu Mang was completely in the gap, adjusted a bit, and made a three-pointer before Richard Jefferson rushed out!
The ball flew over Richard Jefferson's head and fell headlong into the hoop amid another constant jostling by the inside crowd!
45 to 41, the Eagles lead by 4 points!
After scoring the goal, the four Eagles immediately ran back under the basket. After Liu Mang made a shot, he immediately stuck to Richard Jefferson. The second is to prevent the Nets from serving and counterattacking immediately after throwing a shot.
On the Nets side, Kidd and Byron Scott never thought about this kind of play! It's purely a gamble! I'm shaking my head, if the Nets predict ahead of time and block the position of grabbing the rebound in advance, this style of play is not feasible at all, and I can only bet on the feel of Liu Mang's first shot, but the Nets Apparently, he had never thought of this style of play, and Liu Mang's witty trick succeeded.
After switching from offense to defense, Kidd pushed forward and found that Liu Mang was defending him. Kidd felt a little bit of something wrong!
Kidd still gave the ball to Rodney Rogers, Prince went to defend Rodney Rogers, Liu Mang ran closely to Kidd, much tighter than Stockton's previous defense, Ah When Ron Williams came out for the pick-and-roll, Liu Mang squeezed directly and followed Kidd. Rodney Rogers didn't dare to pass the ball when he saw Kidd making an air cut.
On the other side, Kenyon Martin and Richard Jefferson, who continued to pick and roll air cuts, encountered a rough defensive confrontation! Barnes is just a stunned young man who doesn't care about anything. He presses up on Richard Jefferson cheek to cheek. When Kenyon Martin went to pick and roll Richard Jefferson, he entangled him tightly. Richard Jefferson's Barnes stepped forward and squeezed past Kenyon Martin with Richard Jefferson, and Raheem was right next to Kenyon Martin, blocking a Damn, the four of them squeezed together like they were playing a cuddling game!
Rodney Rogers didn't dare to pass the ball at all, and only Aaron Williams was empty, but Aaron Williams was a pure blue-collar draft pick, and Kidd's side ran in and ran out. Reckless followed to death, Rodney Rogers had to come by himself, he was confident, after all, a professional sixth man, he couldn't get rid of Prince with a sudden step, and forced a shot backwards!
Prince's block compressed Rodney Rogers' shooting angle to the extreme. Rodney Rogers was forced to lean back, and the ball flew to the front of the basket more than ten centimeters before falling down. Three non-sticks!
At this time, Kidd rushed into the inside line in time, but Kwame Brown came up to stop him and Aaron Williams who rushed in. On the other side, Raheem and Barnes also blocked Kenyon Martin and Richard. -Jefferson stopped behind, and Liu Mang easily received the defensive rebound.
The situation was not good, the Nets retreated quickly, Liu Mang immediately pushed forward, and the five Eagles who could run and jump all pressed up to counterattack!
After crossing the center line, Liu Wei saw that the Nets retreated quickly, and the speed of the Nets lineup was also very fast. All five players retreated. Liu Wei slowed down after crossing the center line. Press it in.
With the experience just now, the Nets are very active this time. After Liu Mang reached the top arc, he jumped against Kidd's defense!
When Liu Mang grabbed the ball and took off, the Nets were ready to grab the rebound and actively blocked positions. Kenyon Martin blocked Kwame Brown, Aaron Williams blocked Raheem, Richard Jefferson stuck Barnes and the Eagles' strongest three rebounders, but Rodney Rodgers, who returned to the defense and rushed to his own basket, couldn't find his own The defender is gone! Rodney Rogers didn't find a man card!
After quickly scanning the field, Rodney Rogers found Prince in the left corner!
Liu Mang didn't jump up to shoot, but threw the ball to Prince!
An open three-pointer from Princeton Corner!
This time Prince was competitive enough, and made a steady three-pointer, and the Eagles opened the point difference to 7 points!
The biggest difference in the game!
Liu Mang's offensive tactics are these two rounds, and the defensive strategy is what Mike Woodson thought of when he saw Liu Mang wanted this lineup.
In the first two offenses, one was smart, and the other was to attack the opponent's defensive tendency. This tactic may not be effective in the third offense.
But as long as the Eagles scored these two goals and defended once, they would have enough leads.
So, when it was time for the Nets to attack again, the Eagles' combination of physical fitness and flow began to oppressive defense!
Faced with this kind of defense, Rodney Rogers is too difficult to single-handedly play Prince. Even McGrady and Carter have difficulty playing Prince. With a height of 2.18 meters and a wingspan of 2.18 meters, coupled with excellent defensive predictions, Rodney Rogers was completely locked.
Rodney Rogers made another strong shot. Fortunately, this time Aaron Williams shot the ball out of the baseline. Although he failed to regain the ball, the Nets at least prevented the Eagles from counterattacking. The counterattack of the five members of the team was really scary.
When the ball was dead, the Nets quickly called a timeout. Coach Byron Scott arranged a strategy for defending the Eagles lineup, but he did not make any substitutions. De didn't ask for a substitution, and he didn't have any other ideas.
The Eagles played like this. During the timeout, the Eagles did not make any substitutions. The Eagles still had the same lineup. The five major defensive players appeared on the field and defended fiercely.
After a timeout, the Eagles attacked. Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt. Seeing that the Nets were stuck under the basket, someone from the Eagles ran out instead, and the Nets immediately expanded their defense.
Obviously, the Eagles' clever offensive play has failed.
However, Liu Mang's singles ability is the strongest among these players on the court! Liu Mang started playing endless singles, leaving the main defensive tasks to his teammates. He only needed to follow Kidd on the defensive end, who had no other scoring methods except mid-range shots and three-pointers, and focused on the offensive end.
The Nets and the Hawks actually had the same problem in the Eastern Conference finals last season. They both had no key scoring points that could determine the outcome. It was just that the Nets had a deeper lineup at that time. Teams, often grinding to the end is the Nets win the game.
But this year is different. Although Richard Jefferson has improved for the Nets, he has only become a player with an 83 ability rating. The evaluation is based on the strength shown in Kidd's passing organization offense. Richard Jefferson's singles with the ball are probably the same as Jason Terry when Liu Mang first arrived at the Eagles. , but when encountering Raheem or Prince's single defense, the singles effect is very poor.
Conversely, Liu Reck's singles ability has made great progress this year. Although Kidd's defense put a lot of pressure on Liu Reck's singles, Liu Reck's shooting rate is not high, but he can score as long as he can! Defensive Nets!
The offensive and defensive transitions of the two teams are fast, and they are getting faster and faster, but the offense of the Nets has stagnated. If the Eagles' starting lineup is a meat grinder lineup, then this lineup is to press the big team!
Liu Mang slowly grinds his points in the endless singles, and there will always be a few.
After playing, the Eagles gradually widened the point difference. At the end of halftime, the Eagles 55 to 44, opened the point difference to 11 points!
In this tug-of-war of trying to see which side can't survive the collapse first, and which side can hold on, the Eagles won and the Nets collapsed first!
In the last five minutes of the second quarter, the Nets only scored 3 points! Was beaten by the Eagles 13 to 3!
Leading by 11 points at halftime undoubtedly gave the Eagles a huge psychological advantage. Everyone was motivated and prepared to kill the Nets in the second half!
After the intermission, the third quarter started. The Eagles replaced the Meat Grinder defensive combination again. They didn’t shake their wits anymore, and they got used to it. Relying on a stronger defensive combination than last year, the Eagles Grind to death.
The Nets are behind in one move, and their moves are restricted. If they want to play offensively and chase points, they can't defend against Liu Mang, Raheem, and Rasheed Wallace's low-post offense. No, Mourning's role is lower than expected, not as good as Jason Collins.
In order to avoid the point difference from being further widened, the Nets can only grind defense with the Eagles.
The official timeout of the second quarter is the key turning point!
This time, the Eagles relied on their strength, Liu Mang relied on his small brain and singles ability, and Mike Woodson's defensive construction to maintain the advantage!
After the fight, the physical confrontation between the two teams has increased, as if returning to the feeling of last year's Eastern Conference finals. The scoring efficiency of the two teams declined severely in the third quarter. The decline was even worse. This year's lineup depth has no advantage. The Nets!
After three quarters, the Eagles lead the Nets by 15 points 77 to 62!
In the fourth quarter, the Eagles continued to play steadily. If they played against other teams, they might relax after leading for so long and so many points. Under the main force, the Eagles will fight to the death!
The physical confrontation between the two teams continued to intensify in the final quarter, and the scoring of the two teams almost stagnated, but the Eagles, which had a leading advantage, maintained a high fighting spirit. Just throw it! Breakthroughs, three-pointers, mid-range shots, throw when you have a chance, try to draw a foul if you don’t have a chance, if you really can’t score, get a foul, or even make a mistake, retreat quickly to guard against the Nets’ offense.
Eight minutes into the final quarter, the two teams scored more than 10 points in the final quarter. The scoring and the second quarter were completely like two games before the official suspension of the second quarter. It's just too hard to score.
Finally, with fifty-nine seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Eagles still led by 12 points, 96 to 84. In less than a minute, the Nets announced their surrender!
In the end, the Eagles defeated the Nets in an away game 96 to 89, avoiding a two-game losing streak!
Liu Mang played for 43 minutes, only took a five-minute break in the first quarter, and then played the last three quarters. He made 13 of 31 shots, 4 of 11 three-pointers, 4 of 6 free throws, and scored 34 points and 6 assists. 3 rebounds, leading the team to defeat the Nets!
It can be said that the Eagles put all their effort into this game. Except for Liu Mang, only Rasheed Wallace scored 16 points. The other scores were all very scattered. None of them scored more than 10 points. Who had it? Whoever has the courage to get the ball will shoot it. The whole team is desperately trying to win this game, doing their best on the defensive end.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the game, the Eagles players cheered as if they had won the championship! Even Calderon and others in suits were infected by the desperate play of their teammates!
Kidd, who left silently after the loss, looked at Liu Mang surrounded by Eagles players. His fear of Liu Mang gradually turned into uneasiness!
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