Chapter 610
Liu Mang and Yao Ming's Chinese players fought against Biao, which aroused huge repercussions after the match.
Needless to say domestically, Yao Ming's 43 points in three quarters and Liu Mang's 35+12+6 all made domestic fans and sports media extremely excited.
Liu Mang's side is okay, he has already got better data, he scored 50 points in a single game in his rookie year, and Yao Ming, as a center, scored 43 points in the second grade, not only the real love of domestic fans Seeing that the national team has the world's top dual-core both inside and outside the line, they rejoiced. American fans and the media were shocked.
He made 16 of 24 shots and 11 of 13 free throws. He scored 43 points and 8 rebounds. But facing Kwame Brown with 20 points and 14 rebounds and Raheem with 9 points and 15 rebounds, he only got 8 rebounds is not a particularly unacceptable thing. The rebounds were not grabbed well, but Yao Ming had 7 assists!
Yao Ming has averaged only two assists per game so far in his career, and this is the first time he has more than five assists! The main reason is that Van Gundy is not very good at using a center to support him. He is an old-fashioned coach. His style of play is similar to that of Pat Riley and Mourning. This time Yao Ming came out ruthlessly and played a performance that shocked even the American fans.
Can score, can be a pillar of the basket, and can pass the ball when needed!
In addition to O'Neal, maybe Duncan is also a center. Except for these two, after the other three of the four major centers have aged, it has been several years since I have seen any other center who is as dominant as Yao Ming. Yao Ming is in the United States this time. Fire!
Not because of the No. 1 pick, not because Barkley kissed the ass when he scored 20 points against the Lakers when O'Neal was injured, but because of his truly dominant performance, he became popular in the United States!
After O'Neal knew that Yao Ming played such a performance in three quarters, he said that Yao Ming was his only opponent.
Although he was temporarily at a disadvantage against Liu Wei in the competition for the first person in China, Yao Ming's popularity in the United States soared!
Everyone loves a dominant center, and everyone is crazy about a dominant center, from ancient times to the present and even in the future.
In the original history, Yao Ming also scored 40+ in the second grade, with 41 points, 16 rebounds and 7 assists, 15 of 21 shots, and played 50 minutes. Three overtimes, the last one scored 8 points, Yao Ming Originally, it was precisely because of this game that he began to establish his status as a top center in the United States. He was regarded as a center monster second only to O'Neill. His reputation in the United States became more and more famous, and O'Neill even praised him.
However, like Yao Ming’s physical problems in this game, it seems that Yao Ming played 50 minutes in the 3 overtime game, but he basically didn’t play much in the second and third quarters of that game, and the first two overtimes were also paddling. Relying on Francis and Mobley to cling to the score, Yao Ming recovered a little in the last overtime and scored 8 points in 5 minutes to help the Rockets win the game. The physical problem was prominent.
But despite physical problems, Yao Ming still let people see the hope of the traditional center!
O’Neal is a non-traditional center, as he said himself, he is a unique talent in NBA history, the real traditional center is a player with low post and shooting, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Olajuwon, and now Yao Ming is also showing this ability.
Controlling Yao Ming's time on the court and having a really super giant perimeter allows him to play easily in regular time, which is definitely much higher than his original achievements.
Except for the first time he won the championship, O'Neal worked hard to win the scoring champion and double MVP. During the next two championships, he had to rest for more than ten or twenty games each season. Leave it all to Kobe. In the fourth quarter, you need to show off. In the playoffs or even the entire Western Conference, unless you encounter Duncan, Webber, Garnett, and Nowitzki, you will paddle the whole way at other times. It is a good enough learning object for Yao Ming.
Moreover, Yao Ming has Olajuwon to guide his footsteps from time to time. Although his body cannot be as exaggerated as O'Neal, he is also the number one inside killer in the NBA besides O'Neal and Duncan. Yao Ming also has the ability to shoot in the long distance. , in the period of making his body reach its peak, after all, he is only 23 years old now, and if he finds a reasonable way to use his physical energy, the future has a bright future!
There are big centers with shooting and low positions, and their careers are very long. The best example is Sabonis, whose legs were injured like that, and he played until he was 39 years old before retiring.
In the same way, let the next opponents of the Rockets have a way to deal with the Rockets, which is to consume Yao Ming!
Once again, Liu Mang exposed Yao Ming's weakness in advance. After Liu Mang saw the media's various analysis posts or newspaper news about Yao Ming, he said that he deserved it. I feel sad and gratified for Yao Ming, this is training my national team partner! Let Yao Ming understand his physical problems early, learn how to allocate his physical fitness well, communicate with the team early, and make choices that are more beneficial to him.
This is for the good of Yao Ming!
Liu Mang felt that he was too considerate of his compatriots.
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After playing the Rockets, the Eagles did not leave Houston immediately, because the next game was played on the 13th, and the Eagles had three days to rest.
This time is quite embarrassing, let’s go back to Atlanta, it’s too short, let’s go to San Antonio, that exotic place in San Antonio, whether the players can control their three legs is a very serious problem.
During this trip to Texas, the Eagles coaching staff discussed with Liu Mang, as well as core players such as Raheem, Jason Terry, Rasheed Wallace, and the veteran Stockton. The last game against the Spurs is critical!
The top three in Texas, since the mid-to-late 1990s, has inexplicably become a deadly road trip for other teams in the league. Since the three teams are in the same state, almost all teams in the league come here for a three-game trip every year. , the weird thing is, no matter what the records of these three teams are, every time other teams come here to play three consecutive shots, they will peel off a layer of skin. Mad scientist Nelson, fancy grass Duncan's Popovich, Tomjanovich, who has a heart for a championship, made the undead Xiaoqiang Rockets, which may not work at other times, but inexplicably, as long as the opponent plays Texas three-way, they are as fierce as tigers.
In addition to the past 20 years from the 1980s to the present, the Rockets, Spurs, and Mavericks have reached their peak one by one. The first two teams have won championships in the past ten years, and the Mavericks have also become favorites for the championship. Team, and this year, the Texas top three collectively ranked in the playoffs. The other teams' Texas road trip has officially become a death road trip.
If the Eagles lose in the first two games of this trip to Texas, the third game against the Spurs will not be so critical, but it is precisely because they have won the first two games that the last game against the Spurs becomes particularly critical.
In the past three years, no team has been able to win all three games when the schedule has a Texas three-game streak. The last time this was done was the Lakers in the 1999-2000 season.
The Eagles now have a chance to do just that!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Mang wants to let the team really establish the momentum of the favorites for the championship! For Liu Mang, this is the key to making the team truly strong!
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On the night of the 10th, I went out for a little gathering with Yao Ming. After returning to the hotel, Liu Mang looked at the latest scouting report, about the Spurs. However, his attention was focused on his own team's record. superior.
17 wins and 4 losses.
Unknowingly, the Eagles have widened the gap with other teams.
The second Pacers in the league are only 15 wins and 7 losses, and the third Timberwolves are 14 wins and 8 losses. The Eagles gradually have the feeling of standing out in the regular season.
It is true that this start can only rank ninth in the history of the NBA, which is a bit worse than the Lakers' 20 wins and 4 losses in the 1999-2000 season. There is a clear gap compared with the start of the Cosmos team with more than 20 wins or even more than 30 wins and two losses.
However, this is the best start in more than 50 years for the Eagles, which has never had such a good start.
Similarly, it is Liu Mang's best start in the three years since he entered the NBA.
Moreover, judging the strength of the team by comparing the record should be compared in the same season. The Eagles are now the team with the best record in the league!
However, it was not enough for Liu Wei. It may be that the Hawks have been playing in a humble manner because they lost to the Nets in the playoffs in the past two years.
Of course, this is no problem, even a good mentality, maintaining pressure and motivation, and responding with a humble attitude, in order to avoid being often upset in the abuse of food, and to play against strong teams. strength.
But humility alone is not enough! Liu Mang hopes that his team can have that kind of confidence!
For his own team, Liu Mang always felt that something was missing.
After the game he lost to the Celtics, Liu Mang thought about this question from time to time. Although he didn't think too much about it at the beginning, he played game by game with a humble attitude, and his record gradually compared with other players. The team opened up and ranked first in the league, but still felt that something was missing.
Until this trip to Texas, the Spurs are about to be played, and Popovich said that he doesn't care who is the first in the regular season, they are the defending champions.
Liu Mang felt that he might have found the lost thing.
Yes, that's what's missing. In Liu Mang's rookie season, the Hawks were desperate, and I was the number one in the Eastern Conference.
Although the loss to the Nets in the first year was a bit miserable, at that time the Eagles counterattacked all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals, relying on the barefoot posture that was not afraid of wearing shoes at the beginning.
But now the Eagles are always worried about being surpassed by this and that, and they lack that fearless temperament.
Of course, the current Eagles definitely can't hold the posture of being barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. Liu Wei feels that his lineup is not worse than that of the Lakers, but that feeling is similar. The team now lacks a kind of pride and self-confidence as the strongest team!
Just like the OK combination, it is domineering vertically and horizontally.
Or like the Spurs, they don't talk much, but when they hear their names, they know that they are a championship team, and they also have such confidence.
No matter how bad it is, you have to be like the Nets. After losing in the finals, the opponent recruited. Kidd bluntly said that he was only 8 points away from winning the championship, because the Nets only lost 6 points in two games in the finals. Kidd It takes a lot of desire and confidence to say that.
But this kind of self-confidence does not mean that there is it. The Lakers are the first dynasty team in the new century. The Spurs have also won two championships in the past five years. , Celtics, Pistons, Bulls, Rockets, Bulls, Lakers, Jazz, the only team that reached the Finals for two consecutive years, although the Nets did not win the championship like the previous teams, but This is enough to support Kidd's rhetoric that he won the championship by only 8 points.
Although the Eagles are a veteran team in the NBA, the history of the team is not too deep, and the core lineup is also young people who have just risen. After becoming a strong team, it was a bit too low-profile.
Humility is not impossible, but only the strong can use the word humility to describe it!
A humble attitude can keep the Eagles from being too careless when dealing with weak teams, but an attitude of incomparable confidence in themselves, even a little bit of the arrogance of the Lakers and Spurs, is the attitude that a real championship team should have !
What's the use of losing a few less games to weak teams in the regular season? Really want to say, fart useless.
The Spurs have only won 5 championships in 20 years, and the Lakers have won 5 championships in 11 years. Of course, Liu Wei knows that this cannot be generalized, but Liu Wei thinks it makes sense. After Duncan failed to win the championship in 13 years, In the second year of the regular season, Duncan obviously made more efforts against strong teams. Before the finals, Duncan even said that he would not screw up again this time. He said with a very arrogant attitude that he would go home with the championship, which is very good. Explains the importance of absolute confidence in one's own strength!
The humble attitude keeps the focus on the game, and the arrogant attitude allows the team to show the momentum that a strong team should have. When encountering other strong teams, don’t be overwhelmed by the opponent in terms of morale. Liu Mang doesn’t know if this idea is too much Extreme, but certainly not wrong.
And this trip to Texas, Liu Mang felt that it was the best opportunity to build the proud capital of his team!
As the core of the team, Liu Mang is ready to take on the responsibilities that a core should have. The team does not have the arrogance in this aspect, so he needs to inspire this arrogance!
Duncan's Spurs are undoubtedly the best opponent to establish the team's psychological advantage. Regardless of whether it is the last game of Texas' three-game streak, as long as they can defeat the defending champion Spurs, the Eagles can have a huge psychological advantage. It just happened to be the last game of the Texas three-way game. The combination of the two makes it even more perfect!
Duncan is undoubtedly the best and most natural background board!
Liu Mang excitedly made up his mind, and just as he was about to find his teammates to start a wave of head power, the system task came.
"Ding... The system task is released, the heart of the strong in Atlanta."
"Atlanta's strong heart: Because the host has obtained his own understanding of how to compete for the championship from a personal understanding, special reward: characteristic: cold-blooded. At the same time, because of the host's ambition, a special task is opened, Atlanta's strong heart The host needs to announce the team’s goal with teammates and the media before the next game against the Spurs—the championship, showing the host’s understanding of how to win the championship, and leading the team to defeat the host in the next game. The defending champion Spurs team speaks loudly and goes all out. Task reward: Team buff: strong mentality, valid for this season, failure penalty: the morale of the host team's players has dropped sharply for a long time, and the morale depends on each individual's specific psychological quality Low time."
The sudden critical attack, Liu Mang was stunned for a long time and then screamed miserably: "...Your sister! I just think about it!"