Chapter 604: 603. Mavericks in Texas Tour
40 points in the half!
Liu Mang set a new personal half-time scoring high!
Liu Mang was very excited when he saw that he scored 40 points in the half at halftime. He felt that not many people could score 40 points in the half, right?
Liu Mang went to the technical desk to ask, and found that there were not many. Jordan’s highest half-time score was only 39 points. Since the 21st century, there is only one other person besides Liu Mang, that little blacksmith. The last time the little blacksmith played Jordan scored 42 points in the half, Tracy McGrady scored 37 points in the half, but only 44 points in the game, entering garbage time, Iverson scored 33 points in the half, O'Neal scored 31 points in the half.
He didn't get the highest half-time score since the new century! Liu Mang drew a circle in his heart and cursed that nasty little blacksmith!
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Liu Mang's 3+1 before the end of the half completely wiped out the fighting spirit of the Heat. They missed the last attack of the half, and the Eagles led 63-40 by 23 points at the half.
In the second half, the Eagles let Stockton come up to stabilize the situation for a few minutes. When the Heat announced their surrender and replaced the main players, the Eagles let Jason Terry hold the lineup, leading Willie- The lineup of Green, Korver, Boozer and Muhammad went up to play against each other.
Without accidents, the Eagles eventually defeated the Heat 115 to 100, avoiding a losing streak and improving their record to 15 wins and 4 losses.
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Liu Mang scored 40 points in the half, but he didn't make headlines because of his statement that the East is his territory!
Of course, the media are looking for explosive news to make headlines. Liu Mang scored 40 points in the halftime, which is very explosive, but Liu Mang's statement that the East is his territory is even more explosive!
Undoubtedly, this sentence makes the strong teams in the Eastern Conference upset, but now the Eagles are the number one in the East and even the number one in the league, and the Eagles have only lost to the Nets in the Eastern Conference playoffs in the past two years, Liu Mang There is no problem in wanting to dominate the Eastern Conference. It is not up to the teams other than the Nets to have any opinions.
And the Nets, who have the right to refute Liu Mang, can't take care of their own shit right now. Byron Scott dismissed get out of class because of Kidd's dissatisfaction. The Nets' morale is extremely low. Stable, with a winning rate of 50% or so, he has been unable to improve, and his first-round advantage tends to be lost. How can he have time to control Liu Mang's pretentiousness.
The original Nets didn't have that much influence when Byron Scott stepped down. Byron Scott was originally fired until the end of January this season. Everyone in the Nets was dissatisfied. Of course, Kidd was mainly dissatisfied. In the sixth place in the Eastern Conference, the main reason is the slow start. When their assistant coach Lawrence Frank came on stage, it was almost the second half of the season, and the Nets' slow start was almost over. The feeling of preparing for the playoffs, the record suddenly improved.
But this time, because Liu Mang led the Eagles to beat the Nets at home in a row, Kidd's dissatisfaction with Byron Scott was detonated in advance, causing Byron Scott to dismiss get out of class early, and Lawrence Frank was promoted to the position of head coach After that, the Nets were still slow to warm up. After playing for half a month, the Nets' record was still only 50%.
Although Kidd didn't want to carry the title of coach killer this time, the Nets did not cause another internal strife, but the bad record of the Nets left Kidd with no time to come out and fight against Liu Mang.
Who made the top three in the Eastern Conference this year so strong, last season's top four in the Eastern Conference, so far only the Nets have fallen behind.
Those who are unhappy are not qualified to come out to refute, and those who are qualified have no time to come out to refute, Liu Mang's statement that the east is his territory, it's justified like this!
Moreover, the absence of headlines does not affect the influence brought by Liu Mang's 40 points in the half. Liu Mang's horse still has the ability to score, which makes people have a new understanding of Liu Mang!
When it should be domineering, it is still quite domineering.
It's just pity for Wade, not to mention the most classic quotes were robbed, but also raised to a higher level. The key is that it became the direct background. He felt that it was too far away. If CIC could get in, he believed that Liu Wei would not dare to let him go that far.
Injury to self-esteem ah!
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After playing the Heat, Liu Mang bid farewell to Dinah, Levia, and Alexia, and flew to Dallas, Texas, where the Mavericks in the Southwest Division are located, with the Eagles early the next morning.
The first opponent of the Texas trip is the Mavericks.
After arriving at the hotel, coach Kruger gave the players a break, but they were not allowed to go out at night. The players all wailed for this, and then pulled Jason Terry to the corner to perform some inhuman and indescribable behavior.
Who told Jason Terry to play in the nightclub for a long time was not enough, and he brought Kim Kardashian, who is not popular yet and is famous for the number of sports stars who want to suck up, back to the hotel. The key is that he was still working The personnel saw it, which caused the Eagles to implement the team rules particularly strictly when they played consecutive away games.
The Eagles management team and the coaching staff had team building activities when they went to Miami a few days ago, which made the players feel the humanistic care of the team. All the unhappiness was vented on Jason Terry.
After some squabbling, the Eagles players went to play on their own. Although it is forbidden to bring them back or spend the night outside, going out for a while and throwing money is something most NBA players like to do.
On Liu Mang's side, when he was still in Atlanta a few days ago, he had already made an appointment with Nash to watch the Dallas Cowboys game.
Four years later, the Dallas Cowboys played the Texas Civil War against the Houston Texans again, and it was still at home in Dallas. For Dallas sports fans, it was a rare event, including the not-so-fanatic sports fans in Houston. Many people couldn't help but ran to Dallas to grab tickets.
Nash was able to get two front-row tickets, all because of his popularity in Dallas, he was a good guy, so he asked the owner of the Cowboys to get the tickets.
In the afternoon, Liu Mang and Nash watched an American football game that he had never seen before, although he basically couldn't understand it at all, and those Dallas Cowboys football stars that Liu Mang occasionally saw on the sports news even With helmets on their heads, Liu Mang didn't recognize who it was alone, but he was still infected by the frenzied atmosphere at the scene, and yelled along with Nash next to him.
The scene of more than 40,000 people in the open air, and the Texas Civil War that only happened once every four years, made Liu Mang feel a different kind of charm.
And those Americans and Canadians made Liu Mang feel the violence-loving side of Americans and Canadians. Every time he saw someone on the court being knocked into the air, Nash cheered wildly, and then directly took off his shirt in the cold Yes, the hairy mass on his chest trembled with Nash's swing...
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The rest time of the day passed quickly, and at 4 pm on December 8, the Eagles came to the American Airlines Center Stadium to challenge the Dallas Mavericks away.
Although Liu Mang and Nash watched an exciting game yesterday, they became rivals today. After the game started, the two did not give each other any face on the offensive end, and they both wanted to kill each other The feeling of hitting.
As for why the offensive end is fighting to the death, because the defense can't fight!
The situation on the field is basically Liu Mang playing one, Nash playing one, Liu Mang playing one, Nowitzki playing one, Liu Mang playing one, Josh Howard playing one... No matter whether Liu Mang is an organization attack or an individual single , Anyway, the Mavericks are singles. Whoever has a good chance will singles, if they are double-teamed, they will split the ball, and others will shoot when they receive the ball and have an open spot.
The Mavericks offensive assistant Avery Johnson's singles tactics fully utilized the Mavericks' advantage of having too many singles scorers. The Mavericks now need too many people to attack with the ball. Nash, Finley, Josh -Howard, Jamison, Nowitzki, all need to attack with the ball.
Even the old Nelson, after the Mavericks lost Adrian Griffin and Lieve LaFrentz two functional players this year and got two ball-handling players Josh Howard and Jamison There was nothing wrong with this lineup, so Avery Johnson, who had just become the assistant coach of the Mavericks, was chosen.
Unexpectedly, it succeeded, and the Mavericks played the best offensive efficiency in team history!
The use of singles tactics reduces the discomfort of others playing with Nash. The ball is distributed from Nash to the hands of the five starters. Everyone is an offensive strength, and Nowitzki plays center. Although Nash is unable to organize the offense, his singles ability is excellent. After weakening the role of Nash in organizing the offense, the entire team of the Mavericks has activated everyone who needs to hold the ball. Singles scoring, singles shooting.
The Eagles were forced to play against the Mavericks, mainly because of one point - Nowitzki! So accurate! Nowitzki made the Eagles defense less open. The Mavericks had five starters. Nowitzki, Jamison, and Nash shot more than 40 percent of their three-pointers, and Finley made 35 percent. , Josh Howard 33%, no matter how the Eagles rotate, they can't form a team defense, they can only defend one-on-one.
Today, the Mavericks playing at home feel very good, and the Eagles can only attack against them.
but! Even if it is a confrontation, the Eagles are not afraid of anyone!
The Mavericks, who scored first in the league with an average of 107 points per game, and the Eagles, who scored second in the league with an average of 105.6 points per game, launched a hearty offensive battle.
After the first quarter, the Eagles led 31 to 30 in the away game by 1 point. After halftime, the Mavericks took the lead and overtook the Eagles by 8 points 65 to 57.
In the third quarter, the Eagles didn't think about defense at all. In the second quarter, the Mavericks scored 35 points in a single quarter because they thought too much, but they only scored 26 points. In the third quarter, Kruger The coach dispatched Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, and Rasheed Wallace, a lineup in which everyone can shoot and counterattack, and launched a thorough offensive battle with the Mavericks.
In the second half, both teams had fun shooting, and in the end it was the Hawks who went against the trend in the away game. Jason Terry and Liu Mang made a total of 6 three-pointers in the final quarter, and Nowitzki scored 6 three-pointers in Rashid- Under the restriction of Wallace, the shot was shot at the critical moment, and the Eagles regained the lead at the critical moment of the final quarter.
In the end, although the Mavericks Dirk Nowitzki scored 32 points, Nash 22 points, Josh Howard 14 points, Jamison 22 points, Finley 12 points and Marquez Daniels 11 points and other six scored in double figures. Leading the Eagles in the number of players scoring in double figures, but the Eagles rely on Liu Mang's 28 points, Jason Terry's 26 points, Raheem's 27 points, Kwame Brown's 15 points and 13 rebounds, Rasheed Wallace scored 12 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, and Prince, Stockton, Muhammad and others scored 25 points. The Eagles beat the Mavericks 133 to 128 in this game. Win the battle!
This game was really too difficult. Thanks to the good touch of the Eagles, Rasheed Wallace finally restrained Nowitzki at the critical moment of the final quarter. Liu Mang and Jason Te Scored 24 points in the final quarter, otherwise it would have been overturned by the Mavericks' reckless offense.
After playing the Mavericks, the Eagles packed their luggage and went to Houston that night, and were about to play back-to-back against the Rockets.