Chapter 599: 598. Seize Second Place in Scoring List!

After defeating the Cavaliers, the Eagles took a day off in Atlanta. On November 27, the Eagles went to Toronto, and on the 28th they challenged the Raptors away.

The Raptors are now in an eventful period. A while ago, they made a trade that no one could understand. The Raptors coach Wilkens was also confused. He wanted to strengthen. This is not the way to strengthen. , It is difficult to distribute the ball if you want to train Milicic. Now Jaylen Rose, who averages 20+5 per game, is still a stickier player who doesn’t know how to play without the ball. Now the Raptors are in in chaos.

Carter could tolerate a Milicic before, but now he can't bear it with Jaylen Brown as a striker and defender. After a few games, the two began to fight for the ball.

But this gave Milicic, who was forced to take too much pressure from the beginning, a chance to develop correctly. He moved to the center position and began to develop from a role player center, rebounding and passing. There are not so many opportunities for him to play alone. , but played more freely.

Although Milicic is talented now, he has not reached the strength to drive the team as hard as Duncan with the ball. Now that Carter and Jaylen Rose are fighting for the ball, he has grown better.

It’s just that the strength of the Raptors is worse than the start. The Hawks came to Toronto with the momentum of three consecutive victories. With Liu Mang’s performance of 22 points and 7 assists in three quarters, they easily defeated the Raptors 101 to 89 and won the fourth consecutive game. On the Raptors side, Carter and Jaylen Rose both scored 20 points and scored 45 points together, but it was useless. The two shot 49 times in total, and the efficiency was ridiculously low.

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After defeating the Raptors, the Eagles came to Washington, D.C., the imperial capital of the United States, and played against the Wizards in the second game of two consecutive away games.

After the Wizards acquired Arenas, they are generally developing in a good direction, with a clear and talented ball-handling core, but the first three years were basically wasted, and the No. 1 pick in the 2000-2001 season was poor. I chose a parallel importer and sent it to the Hawks. After going to the Hawks, it’s not so good, but most people think that it’s because of the overall strength of the Hawks, which is the best team in the East in the regular season, that Kwame Brown It doesn't look so watery, and now Kwame Brown still relies on his body to attack and defend.

After 2001, Jordan was in control of the Wizards. Jordan's management ability broke the Wizards into pieces. Trading Hamilton for Stackhouse was considered blind, but it attracted people who came to follow Jordan. Larry Hughes, the defensive champion, is the only treasure left by Jordan to the Wizards.

The backcourt combination of Arenas and Larry Hughes gave Wizards fans hope.

It’s just hope, it’s just hope, the Wizards are now 3 wins and 12 losses, second to last in the league, their record is only a little better than the 16-game losing streak of the Magic, and worse than the Bulls, Clippers, and Suns .

The Eagles were on the 30th, and the second game of the two-game trip came to the MCI Phone Booth Arena in Washington. Arenas was almost desperate when he saw Liu Mang.

Prince and Liu Mang took turns defending, making Arenas feel hopeless again after ten days. He made 10 of 30 shots and scored 23 points. Most of the points came from the fact that the Eagles had replaced Willie Green. In the garbage time of the backcourt combination with Jason Terry, Arenas scored 7 points on 3 of 20 shots in the first three quarters...

Liu Mang scored 24 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, helping the team take a 92-70 lead by 20 points in three quarters. In the end, the Eagles easily defeated the Wizards 117-106 and won 5 consecutive victories!

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At the end of the November schedule, the Eagles achieved a record of 13 wins and 3 losses, further refreshing the best start in team history!

After playing 16 games, that is, after almost a month's schedule, the Eagles' running-in is almost done. This time, the Eagles' signings did not make mistakes, and everything is moving in the right direction.

Beating James was an interesting episode for Liu Mang and the Hawks players, but for the Hawks, it was just an ordinary game in an easy-start schedule.

The Eagles players have gradually determined their roles. Generally speaking, the Eagles players follow the general trend of the league. The general trend of the league this year is-sacrifice.

The score of the OK combination has dropped sharply. Kobe's scoring average has dropped to 23 points, and O'Neal's scoring is only 21 points. You must know that Kobe has been in the top five in scoring in the past three years. In the past three years, he averaged 27 points per game. Last season was even more scoring. The second averaged 30 points per game, and O'Neal was the scoring leader in 2000.

Duncan took a lot of shots because of Parker and Ginobili's improved points, and his scoring average fell to a new low since the 21st century, averaging 22 points per game. The ball was handed over to the role players, and the scoring average dropped to 23 points per game. The Celtics' role players are still good, so the Celtics are still among the top eight in the Eastern Conference. Wieski even averaged only 21 points per game. This year, the number of stars averaging over 20 points per game in the league has set a new low for more than two decades.

The well-known stars, especially the famous stars of the playoff-level teams, have all lowered their shots this season, either because of reinforcements, like the Timberwolves, Lakers, and Mavericks; or for the growth of young players , such as the Raptors, Spurs and so on.

In the past five years, the Lakers and Spurs have won five consecutive championships. Even in the past 13 years, there were only four championship teams. The Bulls, Lakers, Rockets, and Spurs. Obviously, the most championship-looking teams are the Lakers and Spurs. This has forced other superstars to make changes and try to play as a team. The Spurs have Duncan, and the Lakers have OK. These three are in their respective positions. His strength makes other championship-level teams completely unable to compete, so they can only try to focus on the team.

Most of the Eagles stars have followed the general trend of the league. After playing for almost a month, the scoring trend of the league's stars has almost been determined. The Eagles only have two players who averaged more than 15 points per game.

Jason Terry, who ranks second in the Eagles scoring list, averaged 16.7 points per game, ranking first among the league's bench players, and is regarded as one of the favorites for the best sixth man.

Raheem, who is third to fifth in scoring for the Hawks, averaged 12.7 points per game, Rasheed Wallace averaged 12.3 points per game, and Boozer averaged 11 points per game.

In addition, the rest of the Eagles have not averaged double figures per game. Everyone in the Eagles is determining their roles this year.

Raheem focuses on defensive air cuts, and Rasheed Wallace focuses on defensive shooting. The two will occasionally play singles when needed, but they mainly focus on the roles they have determined.

Jason Terry, the sixth man, has a point-grabbing role, but since the Eagles didn’t have many strong opponents at the start, he took the shot with a substitute. He was quite happy, averaging 16.7 points and 4.4 assists per game. Scoring fell to a new low since his rookie season.

Ratliff, Kwame Brown, and Mohamed go up to defend, Boozer and Stockton are responsible for organizing the scoring of the second team, mainly for Jason Terry's shot and Kwame Brown's back run Wait for manufacturing opportunities.

The entire Eagles team is sacrificing, only one person is like a cancer, shooting crazily, shooting when he catches the opportunity, and the defense often relies entirely on his teammates.

This person is Liu Mang, averaging 26.7 points, 4 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game.

Now the trend of strong teams in the league is to distribute the ball to more people, and the trend of weak teams is to concentrate the ball. For example, the Magic, McGrady averaged 30.3 points per game, ranking first in the league, and Bucks' Reid averaged 22 points per game. , a career high, the Blazers' Randolph and the Clippers' Maggette both broke through 20 points for the first time in their careers.

The Eagles are such a maverick team, with both the sacrifice of a strong team and the characteristics of a weak team that concentrates on cultivating young stars. It feels weird when it comes to stats for this team.

After his teammates determined his style of play and gradually got used to his positioning, Liu Mang also settled down with more than 20 shots per game. Up to now, he has averaged 22.7 shots per game, 10.1 hits, just 40% The hit rate of four... It's a bit outrageous. I don't know when the steel plant moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta. As for the largest Philadelphia steel plant, it is still in a state of shutdown.

This year's Liu Mang is really strong. On the one hand, his role has become more important, and the number of shots has increased significantly due to the needs of the team.

The second is this year's defense. This year's defensive oppression in the league may be the peak after Pat Riley's iron-blooded style spread in the league in the 1990s. This year, only 3 teams in the league averaged more than 100 points per game. The Mavericks averaged 107 points per game, the Eagles averaged 105 points per game, and the Kings averaged 101 points per game. The number of teams scoring over 100 points set a new low since the merger of the NBA and ABA. 90, setting a new high since 1981.

If it was the first week or even two weeks, the situation would be fine, and it might get better, but it has been more than a month, and the offense and defense of each team can almost see the improvement of the whole season. The trend has been established, and it is unlikely that there will be major changes. Moreover, in December and January, the two months of fatigue, the score will only decline, and it is difficult to have an upward trend.

This caused a headache for league officials and paved the way for the rules to encourage offense starting next season.

The season has been played for so long, and the teams in the league know that Liu Mang is the number one scorer of the Eagles, and they must take a lot of shots, all of which are aimed at Liu Mang's defense. It's normal to go downhill.

Regarding the drop in shooting percentage, Liu Mang was very uncomfortable at first and felt very uncomfortable, but found that people were only surprised by his skyrocketing points and shots, and he became a candidate for the Most Improved Award, rather than surprised by his shooting percentage , After the first month of playing, Liu Mang saw the statistics of the November game month in the scout report, and saw the top ten scorers in the league, including O'Neal, Duncan, Garnett, and Nowitzki. Strong inside, his 44% shooting rate actually ranks fifth among the top ten players in the league scoring list, and only the four major insiders have a higher shooting rate than himself!

Even among the only 15 players in the league who averaged 20+ points per game, Liu Mang found that his shooting percentage ranked sixth. Except for the four big insiders, only Maggette had a 0.7% higher shooting percentage than himself. Strikers like Randolph and Anthony have lower shooting percentages than themselves. Players such as Kobe, Reid, McGrady, Carter, etc. all have shooting percentages in the early 40s, and McGrady's shooting percentage this year is as low as 41%. , The Magic have no one who can play this year except McGrady, probably at the same level as Kobe's teammates in the 81-point season.

Liu Mang didn't expect that he would be able to play like this, and his efficiency was still the highest among the guards with the highest score in the previous example! But Liu Wei thought for a while, it seems that the scorers at the beginning of this century did not have a high shooting percentage, and all of them liked to shoot, and the more teammates dared not shoot, the more they wanted to shoot, so most of them were very determined. The reason for taking a lot of shots is similar, because they need to shoot.

There is no sense of superiority without comparison. Liu Mang suddenly felt that he seemed not so strong, mainly because of his peers...

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On December 1st, after returning to Atlanta from Washington, the Eagles did not have much rest time. Take a break today. There will be a back-to-back home game on the 2nd and 3rd starting tomorrow, so the Eagles have a rest today and let the players prepare for the next one. Get ready for two days of competition.

After returning to Atlanta, Liu Mang just in time for lunch at home.

Liu Mang looked at the upcoming schedule in the scouting report while eating lunch. The Eagles’ schedule in December was very regular and well-regulated. There was not even a single staggered home and away game. It was similar to last month. The home games are consecutive. Although the league did not arrange a surprisingly easy opening schedule for the Eagles like last season, it was relatively well taken care of. The Eagles played consecutive home and away games in the first two months, and the consecutive There are no more than 5 away games at most, so that the Eagles have enough time to adjust and play better at the beginning.

This year, the Eagles did not waste the easy start schedule like last season, and played a better start than Liu Mang's rookie season. This year is expected to hit 60 wins again this year!

Liu Mang was watching the scouting report coming back to back. A little loli slipped into Liu Mang's arms from under Liu Mang's arm, and sat on Liu Mang's lap habitually. Looking at the scouting report, he asked: "Uncle, who will you hit next?"

"Here, tomorrow we will play the Grizzlies." Liu Mang turned to the Grizzlies scouting report he had just read.

"Wow! Grizzlies! Gasol! Uncle, Gasol is so handsome! Uncle, I'm going to watch the game tomorrow!" Dana looked at the fixed-makeup photo of Gasol in the scout report with a shaved ID photo, exclaimed.

Seeing that Gasol was really handsome, especially when he was young, he was handsome and didn't have so many wrinkles on his face. He only had wrinkles on his forehead, which made him look more attractive. Loli's face: "Hmph, nympho!"

"Oh, uncle is the most handsome," Dinah comforted Liu Mang, and then continued to be a nympho: "But Gasol is also so handsome! Only a little bit worse than uncle!"

"Hmph!" Liu Mang looked at his sister-in-law who had a good relationship with him in the photo, and Liu Mang became more and more unhappy!

"This damned eighth woman, why is she so handsome! Such a handsome mouth with such a big mouth, it's really annoying, by the way, ask Rashid to make this guy look good!" Liu Mang cursed silently in his heart...

Gasol, who had just arrived in the parking lot of the Atlanta airport, sneezed, thinking that Atlanta is much colder than Memphis...