635. Chapter 634. The Beginning of the Nets' Collapse

It was only half an hour after Liu Mang attended the press conference. Liu Mang and his teammates who were both surprised and delighted entered the home arena of the Nets to make the final preparations before the game against the Nets.

Liu Mang suddenly announced such a big event without discussing it, which frightened his teammates.

However, while the teammates were frightened, they were more focused on the next game.

The words have been released, and the Eagles players can only accept their fate.

What's more, they are used to Liu Mang's behavior of making it difficult even if it is not difficult...

Moreover, listening to what Liu Mang said, although this goal is a bit scary, but looking at your own record, it is not impossible! Thinking about having a chance to surpass the regular season record of the Lakers in 2000, I am a little excited!

In short, the Eagles players have a very clear goal. Starting from the new year, no game can be easily lost!

The Nets on the other side were already quite unhappy with the Eagles, and now they are even more unhappy!

Liu Mang wants to announce that they want to have the best record in the new century. The players of the Nets actually have no objections. They are also very envious of the record of the Eagles. Te will not be fired.

But Liu Mang didn't announce it sooner or later, and he announced it when he was beating them.

In addition, they were originally very hostile to the Eagles. This year, the two teams played against each other twice in the regular season. Dominance in the East is at stake!

The regular season has already lost two games, and the Nets can no longer afford to lose!

Last year, he was able to rely on his playoff experience and other things to narrowly beat the Eagles in the tiebreaker. This year, Kidd has already felt the tyranny of the Eagles. If he loses another game in the regular season, he really has no psychological advantage in the playoffs. up!

The Nets’ signings this year failed again. Although Mourning came to the Nets and his performance was far worse than last season, he was still a defensive threat at the basket. At any rate, he averaged 3.2 blocks per game in the first ten years of his career. The deterrence is there, but after the first month of Mourning's play, the kidney disease broke out, and it developed from kidney disease to acute renal failure, requiring a kidney replacement. The Nets just signed with Mourning for three years. drift.

Kidd is under a lot of pressure, very much!

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the Eagles' back-to-back away game against the Nets officially started!

The Eagles sent Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff to the starting lineup.

If the Pacers played the Hawks in the third quarter honestly yesterday, it might dig a big hole for the Hawks in the second back-to-back game. Ratliff will definitely not be able to play back-to-back.

But the Pacers "helped" the Eagles to let Ratliff rest for a long time, and only played 9 minutes in the third quarter. Through massage and other physical therapy during the day, Ratliff's current physical condition is not bad, although The journey is busy, but at least he has the normal physical fitness to play until the second half.

The Nets sent a lineup of Kidd, Kittles, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, and Jason Collins.

After Mourning was reimbursed, the Nets returned to the style of play in the past two years. From the lineup to the way of playing, there was basically no change except for Richard Jefferson's offense with the ball.

At the beginning of the game, Kidd was in a hurry to establish an advantage at the beginning and lead the team to launch an offensive. Taking advantage of the fact that the Eagles may not be in good shape at the beginning of back-to-back games, they played against the Eagles in the opening wave.

Generally speaking, in the second game of back-to-back games, especially in the second game of back-to-back away games, there will be two situations. One is that the team played well at the beginning, but their physical fitness is not enough, and the other is that they have not rested well and have physical problems. It’s not the key. The key is that I couldn’t feel it at the beginning of the game. It may be because I didn’t sleep well or my physical condition was poor. As the game progressed, I gradually played better. The time has been opened by the opponent.

In short, almost all teams in the league have a common problem in the second game of back-to-back games, which is poor shooting feel and weak performance, so the winning percentage of the second game of back-to-back games in the entire league is not high.

Kidd set the Nets' strategy at the beginning of the game as a single defense and a fast counterattack. He wanted to take advantage of the Hawks' back-to-back weak stage to defend the Eagles' offense with a single defense, and then counterattack the opponent's lack of physical fitness and defense.

Kidd's idea is very good, but the Eagles have Liu Mang!

The Nets chose man-to-man defense. Liu Mang came up and threw the ball. One shot and four others robbed. They played directly in the way that everyone's physical fitness declined in the fourth quarter.

Kidd made a play aimed at the lack of physical fitness of the Eagles. Coach Kruger had expected that the Nets would do this, so he played a strange move from the beginning!

After Byron Scott left, the new head coach of the Nets, Lawrence Frank, was completely a puppet. Everything on the court was carried by Kidd.

Kidd's coaching attributes on the field are very strong and powerful, but he is just a player after all, so he takes it for granted!

Liu Mang threw 6 three-pointers at the beginning, and made 3 of 6 shots. Two of them were missed shots and teammates grabbed offensive rebounds. After the pass, Liu Mang made another shot. Liu Mang missed three three-pointers. Teammates grabbed offensive rebounds three times, and there was another time when Raheem made a tip-up, that is, 5 rounds. The Eagles scored three times in the opening game, and they all scored three points. They beat the Nets one by one. 9 to 4!

Because Liu Mang was able to make a shot, when he couldn't make a shot, because the Nets' single-defense strategy was not enough to shrink the inside line, they were hit by the Eagles' offensive rebounds consecutively. They failed to counterattack. Those offensive routines of the Nets are very familiar. The Nets only scored twice in 5 offenses, and the Eagles established a 5-point lead at the beginning.

Following Liu Mang's third three-pointer, the Nets were beaten 9-4 by the Eagles after only three minutes into the game, and the Nets had to call a timeout.

Seeing Liu Mang's confident shot, seeing the Eagles' targeted defense, completely seeing through their own offense by the Eagles, Kidd seemed to have seen the end of the previous two matches again!

The Eagles already know them all too well!

With an unchanging lineup and not much change in style of play, Kidd has clearly felt that other strong teams are less and less afraid of them this season, and he already knows them too well, but they have not been able to have any substantial introduction in the summer. Without aid, no big-name players are willing to come to the Nets, even if they have reached the finals for two consecutive years.

And the opponents have strengthened one by one. This year, most of the opponents' play styles have changed drastically, especially the Eagles, which are completely different from last season's play style!

During the timeout, the Nets did not make too many adjustments. Although Byron Scott's on-the-spot command ability is average, when he has a super point guard, he always has many bright spots in leading the team, such as being stable and good at using super powers. The advantages of the point guard avoid the disadvantages, and fully exert the strength of the super point guard.

And Lawrence Frank was far behind. He saw that the Eagles obviously let Kidd block other people's defenses, allowing Kidd to start with 2 of 3 shots and hit 2 mid-range shots. He chose to let Kidd focus on the attack!

If it was Byron Scott, he would choose to suppress Kidd's desire to shoot, and let Kidd use the offensive threat he played at the beginning to attack the team's offense, but now, after Kidd had a good start, he wanted more. The idea of ​​shooting, after being affirmed by the coach, the psychological hint made him want to shoot more!

Back from the timeout, the Nets attack.

Liu Mang originally wanted to guard against Kidd's organizational offense and stick to Kidd to interfere with Kidd's passing space. Unexpectedly, Kidd came up and used the pick-and-roll to shoot directly!

Kidd's mid-range shots and open three-pointers after the pick-and-roll are not bad, but only good. If it is used as an auxiliary offensive method and used as an end point in tactics, he can score 16 or 7 points in a game and maintain 37%. Eight mid-range shots and a three-point shooting rate of about 33% are okay, but as the first offensive option, that's a big problem!

After Kidd came back from a timeout, he shot in a hurry. When he and Kenyon Martin picked and rolled the first ball, Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace did not switch defenses in time and were shot. But then the Eagles paid attention to the After Kidd's defense, Kidd began to hit the iron continuously.

On the contrary, the Eagles started to play as a team. After Liu Mang threatened from the outside, Kidd's defense against Liu Mang became a close defense, and it was very tight. Mess up!

Taking advantage of Kidd's defense, Liu Mang attracted the Nets' flanking attack after consecutive breakthroughs. Different from the initial single-defense strategy, after Liu Mang made three three-pointers in the opening game, the Nets' defensive focus Attracted by Liu Mang, Liu Mang took the ball and the Nets' attention was all on him.

Liu Mang was double-teamed by Kenyon Martin, Kittles, and Richard Jefferson in the mid-range, and he was assigned to Rasheed Wallace, Raheem, and Prince for long-range shots and rushed to the basket Being defended by Jason Collins, he was assigned to Ratliff to fight high.

When the Nets didn't dare to continue double-teaming, Liu Mang started his offensive performance!

The fiery touch at the beginning continued, and there were three-pointers, mid-range shots, weird footsteps at the basket, fouls or layups!

In the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 21 points and 4 assists on 7 of 11 shots, leading the Eagles to a super high score of 33 points!

On the other hand, for the Nets, coach Lawrence Frank took over the Nets too early. If he is now in the Nets, he has already passed the initial pains and accepted that the top three in the East are much higher than theirs. Records, starting to settle down to play, and only taking over the Nets when there are signs of recovery. He will not be completely a puppet coach like he is now. One of the characteristics of his coaching is that he played very well in the second half of the schedule, and he played very well in the playoffs. The coaching ability is very good. Of course, this is the excellent coaching performance in the future when he took over the Nets in mid-January this season. He is just a rookie coach who has just moved from assistant to head coach. Inexperienced, flustered, taken for granted, teammates don't take him seriously and only listen to Kidd.

The emergence of Liu Mang has an increasing impact on the league, and the most obvious one is naturally the Nets, which has the most contact with Liu Mang's Eagles team, because the Eagles beat the Nets in the two games before the season. , The Nets' Byron Scott was fired in advance, and the Nets fell into a series of mistakes!

After an initial miscalculation by coach Lawrence Frank, the situation got out of control.

Kidd was under a lot of pressure, and he was very unhappy with Liu Mang's "targeting him everywhere". The 3 of 4 shots in the opening game made him unable to stop behind, especially seeing Liu Mang's wanton scoring, Kidd rarely couldn't control his shots. Desire, confront Liu Mang!

In the first quarter, Kidd made 75% of his three-for-four shots from the beginning. By the end of the first quarter, he was only 5 of 12. His shooting percentage fell below 40%. He scored 11 points and 2 assists. All the scoring and assists were suppressed by Liu Mang, and the Nets only scored 16 points!

The Eagles led by 17 points 33 to 16 in the first quarter!

After the start of the second quarter, Stockton, who basically didn't play in the last game except for the garbage time in the fourth quarter, came up with Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, Kwame Brown and Kidd. Rodney Rogers, Richard Jefferson, Aaron Williams, Kenyon Martin lineup.

Kidd was obviously a little panicked. Before this game, he was only angry and a little unwilling to be reconciled to the pressure brought by Liu Mang, but now he saw that his side was scored 33 points by the Eagles in a single quarter, and he was facing the Western Conference. Stockton, his rival, played more flustered, not at all like him before. Facing Stockton's defense with a lot of tricks and the passing master's judgment on Kidd's pass, Kidd and Kenyon- There were several mistakes in Martin's cooperation. Kidd became more and more panicked. In the rotation stage, when the Nets had an obvious advantage in strength, instead of narrowing the point difference, the Nets fell into a 5-minute stretch in the second quarter. There was a scoring shortage, not a single goal in a sports game!

And Stockton and Boozer's pick-and-roll cooperation, although the scoring efficiency is not very high because of the Nets' defense, they also scored 9 points in 5 minutes!

The Nets were called timeout again, 42 to 16, and the Eagles came up in the second quarter to open the point difference to 26 points!

The Nets played 17 minutes and only scored 16 points!

This defense is simply moving!

The entire home court of the Nets fell silent. Except for the voices of the players on the court, there were almost no fans booing or cheering!

Stockton returned to the bench surrounded by Eagles players, and got two more assists, although not many, but one is one, Magic Johnson has retired, and Mark Jackson is almost out of play this year The ball is gone, and Stockton is happy to get an assist! One more is one! He seems to see that when he is lying on the bed and dying in a few decades, he still ranks first in the history of the NBA in assists, and he is far ahead!