Chapter 665 664. The Opportunity Comes!
There are two players on the field who are going to explode with anger.
One is Garnett, who was slammed by Liu Mang, and he can't fight back, and the other is Ratliff, who neither defended Olowokandi nor was able to block Olowokandi on the offensive end. !
On Liu Mang's side, he was thinking calmly. His characteristic: cold-blooded, played a key role.
It was time for the Timberwolves to attack again, and it was still time to open up space for Olowokandi to play singles. At this moment, Olowokandi seemed to be possessed by a dream, and a spinning top turned around and hit the board.
Ratliff was pissed off!
This guy is more powerful than imagined! One-on-one can't be prevented at all!
Depressedly, Ratliff picked up the ball and passed it to Liu Mang. When he was about to run up the court, Liu Mang stopped him and whispered a few words.
Ratliff looked at Liu Mang in astonishment, made sure he had heard correctly, and then ran forward while wondering, feeling a little "ashamed".
Liu Mang pressed the rhythm and advanced to the frontcourt. After reaching beyond the three-point line, he did not continue to choose to break through. Garnett's ability to help defend in the interior is too strong, and there is another one who plays very well at the beginning of every game Olowokandi's inside defense is ridiculously strong, and the pick-and-roll is not easy to use. Garnett may be the best pick-and-roll insider in the league.
Liu Mang made a gesture, outside singles!
This time, Sprewell did not easily push up and lose his position. Facing Sprewell's skillful and experienced defense, Liu Mang chose the safest method, and his action was to choose a breakthrough!
Liu Mang was lucky, and suddenly took a strong step to the right, and Sprewell immediately took a step back to the left. When Liu Mang and Sprewell were about to touch each other, he kicked his right foot to the left Bounced out from behind, a step-back jumper!
Sprewell had expected that Liu Mang would do this, and rushed forward, but the judgment did not mean that he would be able to prevent it!
Sprewell followed Liu Mang's breakthrough movement, but when Liu Mang took a step back, Sprewell couldn't keep up! When Sprewell rushed forward, Liu Mang's sniper had already been thrown out!
When Liu Mang took a step back, the other four members of the Eagles immediately rushed to the inside to grab a rebound, and there was a bloody storm under the basket. A group of people crowded under the basket to grab rebounds, staring at the air and seeing the ball go straight into the basket!
Liu Mang didn’t miss this time, the rhythm of breaking through and retreating, and the preparations for his shots were very sufficient. Liu Mang is old enough to bully crazy people. Although Sprewell’s defensive attitude this year is the best year in his career, it is not. The best defensive age, Liu Mang is using this to target Sprewell.
3 to 4, the Eagles also opened the pot.
It's the Timberwolves' offense again, and the Timberwolves don't know that Olowokandi can play this kind of performance excitedly for several rounds, which is different from his peak performance in the past two years. Olowokandi averaged 12+ per game in the past two years When I was 9, I could score seven or eight points in the first quarter of almost every game, and only four or five points in the remaining three quarters, but now my performance is very unstable. The performance of being half-deadly defended by the opponent with one ball.
But today Olowokandi was obviously very excited, and Liu Mang didn't hear the system prompt that the state of the three axes was over.
Olowokandi continued to ask for the ball in the low post, and Kassel still gave the sugar man a sling after advancing.
Ratliff pressed on Olowokandi and started defending desperately!
Olowokandi turned around continuously, but he couldn't shake Ratliff away, so he could only force his shot against Ratliff's long arm! Iron!
Ratliff guarded!
Originally, Ratliff’s first two defenses were not only to defend against Olowokandi, but also to guard against someone cutting in and getting stuck at all times, but this time he used all his strength to defend alone. But Ratliff accurately predicted the timing of the shot, it's iron!
but!
Garnett didn't know when he appeared on the inside. The moment Olowokandi's shot hit the back edge of the basket and popped out, Garnett flew up and dunked and scored two points!
Still can't prevent it!
Garnett took advantage of Rasheed Wallace's unpreparedness, and at the moment he saw Olowokandi's shot, with his rebounding leader's keen sense of the direction of the ball's flight, he dunked and scored two points!
After the dunk landed, Garnett beat his chest and roared loudly, trying to cheer up his teammates and hit the opponent's morale by the way, but there were crazy boos immediately, blocking Garnett's loud voice.
The Eagles were not as irritable as usual when Garnett roared after a wonderful goal. Ratliff didn't expect the opponent to score. He completely missed Garnett's cut and didn't get stuck. Do all you can to defend Olowokandi alone, just don't want to say those shameful words.
"Ace, Sugar Man is too powerful. It's difficult enough to defend against him alone. Let's shrink our defense! Look at that guy who hasn't played in the second round yet again relied on his teammates to score!" Ratliff moved forward. Running, said loudly to Liu Mang,
Garnett, who was already in a bad mood because his roar was covered up by boos at the scene, almost vomited blood from anger!
This is by relying on rebounds to predict the points that you will score based on your strength. How come you become your own teammate when you get to the opponent?
On the other hand, Olowokandi was shocked! Hearing Ratliff's words, Olowokandi was a little floaty!
There is actually only a thin line between the excited mood and the fluttering excitement. Obviously, Olowokandi is not the kind who can stand up to the opponent's praise. As soon as Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, he heard the system prompt!
"Ding... The sugar man's three-axe effect is over, it comes from Olowokandi."
The timing is just right!
After Liu Mang came to the frontcourt, Sprewell had just received Garnett's instructions, don't worry about Liu Mang's breakthrough, as long as he prevents Liu Mang from shooting from outside, so Sprewell immediately pressed on Liu Mang.
Liu Mang broke into the inside line easily, but when Garnett changed his defense, Liu Mang used his strange footsteps to get into the inside line again. Olowokandi was not so active this time, and was blocked by Ratliff, Liu Mangfei The basket... swayed away, but Liu Mang himself didn't have a good balance and missed the layup.
Garnett's rebounding is really good, he defends the defensive rebound well, and when the Timberwolves attack again, Olowokandi is still asking for the ball!
The Timberwolves don't know when Olowokandi will collapse suddenly. Sometimes Olowokandi can hit several times in a row, and sometimes he is a real man for three seconds. He can only rely on gambling. He is already the Timberwolves The most capable players are forced inside, and there are only a few players who can play.
Kassel lobs the ball to Olowokandi again.
Olowokandi is a very amazing player. When the start of each game is rampant, his footsteps are as slippery as Olajuwon, but once the rampant state is over, it seems that he can't do any footwork. This time he really put He became O'Neill himself, and he slammed into Ratliff. Ratliff didn't pay attention, and he was really knocked back by Olowokandi!
After taking a step back from Ratliff, Olowokandi's confidence soared, and he turned around to directly block Ratliff. At this moment, he seemed to feel that he was possessed by O'Neal...
"Snapped……"
Olowokandi's straightforward dunk was slapped head-on by Ratliff!
Ratliff slapped Olowokandi's fan and sent it flying!
If it's a real O'Neill, bumping into the opponent is not only unbearable, but also has the feeling of being knocked apart as if he can't breathe. Usually O'Neill's opponents can't slow down when they jump up when O'Neal dunks. And although Olowokandi took a step back when Ratliff thought the opponent was going to take a step, it wasn't that Ratliff couldn't hold Olowokandi, it was a complete accident, and then Olowokandi didn't Any fake action was directly buckled, and Ratliff stretched out his ape arm and blocked it.
Rasheed Wallace, who was entangled with Garnett, received the ball, turned to Liu Mang, and then threw it forward. The moment Liu Mang saw Rasheed Wallace grab the ball, he was already It's almost down, the Timberwolves didn't expect that the three consecutive attacks just now were so fierce, even if the third attack missed, it helped Garnett create a perfect air-cutting opportunity, and this time he was blocked directly!
When the Timberwolves saw the direction of Rasheed Wallace's pass, it was too late. Liu Mang received the ball when he rushed down halfway, rushed to the free throw line, grabbed the ball and took off!
"Ding...Fancy dunk is triggered at level 3, and the action is judged..."
Liu Mang turned his body sideways in the air. During the flight, he pulled the ball to his shoulder with his right hand and then to his waist, swung it from bottom to top, and slashed into the basket!
The cheers burst out! The morale of the Eagles has improved again!
The Timberwolves were in an extremely bad mood. Just as Garnett was about to beat his chest and yell at his teammates, suddenly there was another round of cheers!
Garnett turned his head and saw that Liu Mang leaned forward, with his hands shoulder-width apart and palms down, parallel to his chin. His hands seemed to be holding something, and his right hand was twisting there!
Vince Carter's celebration after the dunk, the action of the racing motorcycle!
Only then did the fans realize that the slam dunk Liu Mang did just now was the windmill dunk used by Carter, but Liu Mang's jump was not as far and as high... But the whole movement is matched, it looks like a thief!
Garnett is so angry! It feels like the kid opposite is his nemesis!
He is better at spraying than him, and he can act aggressively than him. The key is that he is still harder than him in fighting! Garnett felt that today's pretense was completely pretended by the kid on the opposite side!
5 to 6, the Eagles are only 1 point behind! And although they are still behind, and the ball is still owned by the opponent, but unconsciously, the Eagles seem to have snatched back the psychological advantage!
When the Timberwolves attacked again, Olowokandi fell to the low post again to ask for the ball. On the Hawks side, Ratliff followed Liu Mang's instructions and made a defensive gesture. The position where Olowokandi wanted the ball under the basket was vacated, and he tried his best to interfere with the passing route of Kassel and the other three teammates except Olowokandi, so that Olowokandi's receiving line was direct. exposed.
Cassell is not easy to play against Prince. He is a very smart person and is good at observing defense. Prince and Rasheed Wallace are strong in both pick-and-roll and single defense. With a beep, Kassel gets older and more stable. In this case, he hangs to Olowokandi again.
Then Olowokandi made another shot, and this time he couldn't hit it at all. Ratliff stretched out his long arms, and Olowokandi forcibly hit the basket and bounced out!
Liu Mang, who was already prepared to shrink the defense and defend the weakest part of the opponent's offense, rushed in, grabbed the defensive rebound before Garnett got rid of Rasheed Wallace and rushed in, and directly counterattacked!
Liu Mang's serpentine position shook away the Timberwolves players who wanted to rush forward to delay the counterattack, but because of this, the speed could not reach the fastest. Liu Mang was only the second to cross the half court, and the first to retreat back to his own basket The Timberwolves player is actually Timberwolves power forward Kevin Garnett!
When Liu Mang rushed beyond the three-point line, he saw Garnett retreating so perfectly. Among other things, he admired Garnett's fighting spirit in this game, but he really didn't like this person.
Liu Mang was surprised for a moment. Seeing that it was Garnett, he decisively rushed to the right of Garnett. Garnett backed up again and again. As a power forward, he has the speed of a small forward. There is still a gap. Seeing that it is too late to retreat, he wants to take advantage of Liu Mang's position where no fouls are allowed. If there is no defensive player in front of the opponent's player when fouling, it is a physical foul. Come up to Liu Mang fiercely. a hug.
Liu Mang aimed at the basket as much as possible and threw the ball towards the basket, but was knocked to the ground by Garnett's "hug".
"Ding...Pengci master level 5 is triggered, and the chances of referees calling for shooting fouls increase."
"Beep..."
The referee blows the whistle and the shot is fouled!
When the whistle sounded, the ball just fell into the basket, and it was a hollow hit! Liu Mang's hand feeling is really good today, he made 3 of 5 shots in the start, and there was an extra penalty!
Garnett roared angrily, looked at Liu Mang who was lying on the ground and blew the non-existent gunpowder smoke with his gun, and talked trash with Liu Mang.
Garnett stepped out of the baseline and yelled at the sponge on the basket while hitting his head several times...
Liu Mang's extra penalty also hit, 8 to 6, Liu Mang scored 8 points in a row at the start, and overtook the score, and suppressed the opponent's momentum, and with the devil at home, Garnett's characteristic "wolf roar" "Completely failed. The Eagles were not disturbed by the negative effect of Garnett's wolf roar because of the cheers of their own fans. The Timberwolves were not disturbed by Garnett's wolf roar because of the boos given to them by the fans at the scene all the time. Boost morale.
Garnett is going to explode today, he feels that Liu Mang is poisonous! Liu Mang's team is poisonous! The city where Liu Mang lives is poisonous!
When the Timberwolves were attacking again, Garnett saw that Olowokandi was still asking for the ball, and yelled at Olowokandi directly: "You son of a bitch, go out and pick and roll for Sam, you useless and learn other people's singles? … ...￥%..."
An angry Garnett swears at Olowokandi, which scares Olowokandi, that is, Timberwolves players have long been accustomed to Garnett's high-pressure rule, and Olowokandi is scared After arriving, he hurried to the outside line to pick and roll for Cassel.
Olowokandi's body is good at playing pick-and-rolls. He still does a good job in this regard, but today he seemed to be playing like a superstar at the beginning, but suddenly he became the object of being scolded by the boss. After being scolded Running out of the pick-and-roll is a habitual action, but after running out of the pick-and-roll, I still want to "prove" myself in singles... So...
Olowokandi didn't help Kassel block Prince, turned around and cut to the basket, directly sent Kassel to the double-team of Ratliff and Prince, two long arms and tall Between them, Cassel couldn't see his teammates at all, had no chance to shoot, and didn't even have room to dribble!
With quick eyes and quick hands, Prince took the ball away from Cassel's hand, and then counterattacked directly!
Prince's long-legged fast break is really powerful. He rushed to the opponent's basket and dunked with both hands to score two points!
Although he is not domineering, but he is divided into two points whether he is domineering or not, and the heat of the scene continues to rise!
In the next few rounds, when the Timberwolves attacked, Olowokandi wanted to "prove" himself. The more Garnett scolded, the more Olowokandi wanted to "prove", completely forgetting his role , causing the Timberwolves' offense to be blocked again and again.
However, the Timberwolves also knew that they were going to retreat quickly, blocking the Eagles' counterattacks several times, and defending the Eagles several times with their fierce defense.
Finally, after the two teams fought several times in a row, the Eagles seized the opportunity. Relying on Raheem's air cut, Liu Mang sent the ball to Raheem, and Raheem attracted Garnett. After the inside line, the ball was given to Rasheed Wallace, and Rasheed Wallace made a three-pointer.
13 to 6, the Eagles lead by 7 points at the start!
On the Timberwolves side, coach Saunders saw that they were behind by 7 points and immediately called a timeout.
On the sidelines, Garnett thumped the chair angrily, and the rest of the Timberwolves didn't dare to sit down.
Coach Sanders appeased Garnett, replaced Olowokandi, and replaced the former three-peat player Mark Madsen, allowing Garnett to top the center position.
After returning from the timeout, Liu Mang was a little regretful that he didn't take advantage of Olowokandi's presence to widen the point difference, but with a 7-point advantage, the Eagles are already very satisfied, and the next step is to compete for strength. it's time.
The offensive and defensive rhythm of the Timberwolves finally returned to normal. On the offensive end, Cassel and Garnett played pick-and-rolls. , It’s the kind of pick-and-roll that is okay to call fouls but is justified if you don’t call them. Cassell, Sprewell, and Garnett have done all the work of the future Celtics Big Three. , although the three of them played a little hard, but after the offensive end started to play tactics, although the Eagles' defense was also very strong, and the Timberwolves scored very hard, but at any rate they started to score. Finally, after stagnating for almost half a quarter, they scored Finally continued.
And the offensive efficiency of the Eagles is not much better. It is similar to the Timberwolves. It is the same as the regular state that the Eagles expected before the game. The two teams started hard steel!
The defensive combination of Garnett and Mark Madsen is really strong. Mark Madsen is nicknamed Mad Dog, and Garnett is similar. The two are like two mad dogs.
Although Mark Madsen is short and as tall as Raheem, he is the same as Raheem in the past, with more than 110 kilograms and ample tonnage. He can help Garnett carry low-post defense, and Garnett's supplementary defense, defense It was extremely fierce. Except for the counterattack, the offenses of the two teams were restricted to shooting outside the three-second zone. Even Liu Mang couldn't get in. Olowokandi's footsteps were poor, and Liu Mang could sway Gane. After that, he went straight to the layup, no matter whether he made it or not, he had a chance to make a shot, but Mark Madsen's role is here. His statistics may be bad, but he is very motivated, and he dared to hit Liu Mang's arm with his face. Forcibly hitting Liu Mang's layup without being called a foul, and being beaten in the face to win the sympathy of the referee is the origin of Mark Madsen's nickname Mad Dog...
If Liu Mang wasn't worried about his handsome face, he would want to learn this defensive tactic.
The two teams were in full swing in this game and fell into a defensive battle. Compared with the Eagles, there are a lot of personnel rotations available, and the Timberwolves rely on the three-headed monster hard steel! With these three, the Timberwolves' offense and defense system will be fine!
At the end of the half, Liu Mang played 15 minutes in the half, scoring 15 points and 4 assists on 5 of 13 shots. The Eagles led the Timberwolves by 4 points 43-39.
Although the point difference was narrowed by three points, Liu Mang saw that the three major stars of the Timberwolves had played the entire first half, and everything was going according to plan! The opportunity is in the third quarter!