646 Chapter 645. Difficult Schedule Is Coming
The attack towards the scoring champion has begun!
On January 9th, the Eagles challenged the Philadelphia 76ers in an away game. They were already very upset after losing a large amount of money. They were even more unhappy not being able to play against Iverson. Seeing the big dog was so unhappy that it exploded!
For the Eagles, the absence of Rasheed Wallace has caused big problems in the interior passing, supplementary defense at the power forward position, help defense, and top defense. The schedule is very easy, there are only three teams that can pose a threat to the Eagles, and it is still at the end of the month, so the Eagles are confident that they can maintain their winning percentage after Rasheed Wallace is suspended.
Moreover, Boozer is in the starting position. There is still a big gap between Boozer and Rasheed Wallace. On the defensive end, the defensive end is sky-high and the other is underground. But when he cooperates with Liu Mang and Stockton, his scoring, Passing can make up for the loss of Rasheed Wallace's absence, especially in rebounding. Boozer's rebounding efficiency is second only to Raheem in the Hawks, and is higher than Muhammad.
In this game against the 76ers, Liu Mang used Sessions' star card. The bonus effect is very interesting. The average speed is super fast. Like Parker, the average speed of 95 is like a small sports car, and the endurance is better. , Sessions sounds more like the faster Hamilton, but unfortunately he is similar to Parker, without Hamilton's shooting talent, and can only rely on speed to break through and score or break through to attract double-teams.
But for Liu Mang, this is nothing! He only needs to use the average speed bonus of Sessions' star card, and his shooting ability can imitate Hamilton's catch and shoot.
Since Liu Mang wanted to compete for the scoring title and wanted to use other teams as stepping stones, how could other teams be willing?
Under the pressure of the big dog, the 76ers wanted to defend Liu Mang with a team attack, but Liu Mang handed over the ball to Raheem and Boozer as soon as the game came up, and he ran to play without a fight. The ball went!
Liu Mang played just like Hamilton, who ran faster and had a longer range. Although the mid-range was not as accurate as Hamilton, he could shoot from any position under the basket or beyond the three-point line. The big dog and others who double-teamed really played like they were walking the dog!
Sending one person can't keep up with Liu Wei. If Rahim and Boozer are in a pinch, they will distribute the ball to the open players.
Facing the 76ers, whose defense is not good at all, and even messed up the opponent's defense, Liu Mang shot this game too easily and coolly. He made 16 of 24 shots and easily scored 41 points. Unfortunately, it was three quarters. After clocking out, the Eagles have already led 77 to 52 by 25 points.
In the end, the Eagles easily defeated the 76ers 105 to 89 and won two consecutive victories.
After beating the 76ers, the Eagles flew to the West Coast for a three-game trip to the West. The Suns, Clippers, and Warriors, the three teams ranked second to last, first to last, and fourth to last in the West, all started Started a happy bad journey, while training young players.
After the Suns got rid of Marbury, they officially put three talented young players, Joe Johnson, Marion, and Stoudemire on the big stage. Durant, like Westbrook, gives the ball the right to shoot casually.
Needless to say, the small cooperation of these three people is really powerful. Joe Johnson's mid-range singles, Stoudemire's low face-up, both of them can attract the defense to pass the ball to teammates, and Marion's open three-pointer And rebounding are very powerful, although a little single, simple, but really powerful, the contemporary Jordan is really a bit like a contemporary Jordan, Stoudemire also gradually has the demeanor of a bully, with Marion impacting In the case of offensive rebounds, the two played a beautiful game.
Liu Mang was forced to switch to a defensive play in the first three quarters to defend Leandro Barbosa. This guy was too fast. Only Liu Mang and Jason Terry could keep up with the Hawks, but in the fourth quarter, After the Eagles have figured out their offensive play against the Suns, they suppressed the rhythm and used the inside combination of Kwame Brown and Ratliff to guard the basket. Liu Mang, Prince, and Raheem played against Joe -Johnson and Sean Marion put up a crazy defensive press.
The Hawks really underestimated the Suns in the first three quarters. Ratliff went down to rest after playing for a few minutes, and Rasheed Wallace was not there. Mohamed was more active than capable at the power forward position, and Boozer defended. Black hole, until Kwame Brown was promoted to the power forward position, the Hawks did not suppress the Suns. In the first half of the game, Stoudemire scored 19 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. Joe - Johnson scored 18 points and 4 assists in the third quarter, and Sean Marion scored 15 points and 11 rebounds in the third quarter, which caused a lot of trouble for the Eagles. After the three quarters, the Eagles only led 79 to 77 by two points.
The talents of these three players are really good, no worse than the Eagles, but they lack a helm.
And the Eagles already have a man at the helm!
Liu Mang scored 20 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter. After the team offered a weakened version of the meat grinder defensive lineup, Liu Mang started the scoring mode and led the team to a score of 27 to 17 in a single quarter. In the end, they scored 106 to 94 with Surprisingly defeated the Suns and won three consecutive victories.
With 35 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, Liu Mang's performance is still outstanding.
After winning three consecutive victories, the Eagles became the first team in the league to win 30 wins.
Immediately afterwards, the Eagles came to Los Angeles, California next door to challenge the Clippers. The Clippers team is very unpredictable. The stars are definitely top stars. Maggette and Elton Brand, who has averaged 20+10+3 per game since his rookie season, coupled with the big Q Quentin Richardson whose data continues to skyrocket, as well as high-quality rookies Chris Kaman and Bob Ben Simmons and Eddie House are high-quality role players that championship teams want, and the team is not affected by injuries. The head coach is still an excellent coach who coached the Magic to the finals in his rookie season. Dunleavy, but they can hit the bottom of the West.
In this game, the Eagles played very easily and happily attacked the opponent. Liu Mang scored 33 points and 7 assists in three quarters, helping the Eagles to kill the Clippers in three quarters, leading by 16 points 81 to 65.
Before Liu Mang was replaced in the third quarter, he forcibly threw a few shots to get his score higher than his average before leaving the field. It was seen that Stockton and Jason who were about to be replaced on the sidelines- Terry's mouth twitched.
104 to 90, the Eagles continued their winning streak!
On January 15th, the Eagles came to Oakland to challenge the Warriors away in the last game of their five-game streak.
For the Warriors, many teams in the league now give the Warriors a friendly nickname-Santa Claus.
Always hand over the stars who have already played well, let other teams take off, and continue to play poorly.
If Arenas said that he left for a big contract, then Jamison and Larry Hughes really gave up on their own by the Warriors. They wanted to strengthen Jason Richardson and Eric Dampier. The core combination is also accompanied by helpers such as Dunleavy Jr., Clifford Robinson, and Nick Van Exel. However, it proves that these two are not core materials, and the Warriors can only continue to be poor.
The game was 92-61, with the Eagles putting up a crazy defensive hold on the Warriors.
It’s really not that the Eagles are targeting the Warriors, but that the Warriors have to defend themselves. This year, Dampier, who averaged 12+12 per game at the peak of his career, called himself the second center in the Western Conference. He played really well for a big contract in the contract year. The fight is also very good, and the defense is really good, taking the lead in starting the defensive battle.
Then the Eagles actively challenged the battle, and then defended the Warriors for 40 points in three quarters...
In this game, Liu Mang's scoring performance was mediocre, scoring only 16 points, plus 7 rebounds and 7 assists.
After winning all five consecutive away games, the Eagles returned to Atlanta and ushered in 5 consecutive home games. First, the Raptors and Bulls played back-to-back games on the 17th and 18th.
After the Raptors lost Carter, a wave of 8-game losing streak came, and they fell directly to the bottom three in the Eastern Conference. The record is only better than the Magic and the Bulls. I really want to compete with the Magic for the bottom one, maybe I can get the legendary next Olajuwon's Emeka Okafor from the University of Connecticut, although the Raptors already have Millici It's strange, but who doesn't love the twin towers? Although the Bulls already have twin towers, they don't like Tyson Chandler, so it would be nice to change them.
But failing to get the No. 1 pick does not mean that these two teams do not want to be bad. Devin Harris, Ben Gordon, and Luol Deng are all rookies who are very marketable. In 2004 China's draft market is also very good.
Facing these two teams, Liu Mang finally broke out!
He scored 42 points in 33 minutes against the Raptors and 40 points in 36 minutes against the Bulls. Two consecutive 40+ games!
Liu Mang led the Eagles to an easy seven-game winning streak!
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"Uncle, Uncle, what are you doing? A math problem?" Dinah looked at Liu Mang who was writing with a pen, and asked curiously.
Mathematics, people from European and American countries, if they are not majors in mathematics, then the data is called bad.
Therefore, ordinary Americans are very curious about people who are good at mathematics.
"I'm trying to figure out how many points I need to score a game to improve my scoring average."
30.9 points, Liu Mang has already played 41 games, now if he wants to improve 0.1 points, he needs to score at least 35 points in a single game, and sometimes he has to score 36 points. Like before, back-to-back 40 points, two games The game added up to only 0.4 points.
30.9 points...for McGrady, who averaged 32.1 points per game last season, it is not very difficult.
Thanks to the fact that the Magic is really bad, the lineup is even worse than last season. McGrady once averaged 34 points per game last season, and it was because his teammates were not strong enough to score and it became difficult for him to drop.
This year, the league's defense has reached the slowest pace in NBA history. McGrady has done well in the past few games, but his scoring is not as easy as Liu Mang's. And there is no Liu Mang's chance to rely on his teammates to take the defense away after the pass is passed out. His teammates are really bad, so McGrady can only play hard every ball, that is, he wants to compete with Liu Mang. The scoring champion is thanks to the emergence of Liu Mang, otherwise McGrady might be like in the original history. Seeing that the second place is so far behind him, he finished the season with an average of 289 points per game. Win the scoring champion.
McGrady, who desperately wants to score, can only limit his strength. Seeing that McGrady has caught up to 30.3 points per game, Liu Mang feels that he still needs to work hard to become the scoring champion!
It's just that the easy schedule is over, and the most difficult schedule is coming soon!