Chapter 689 688. The Next Stop Is Detroit (the Third One Is Coming!)
After Iverson directly announced his surrender, the Eagles replaced all the starters in a face-saving manner, allowing Jason Terry to bring Barnes, Korver, Mohamed, and Kwame Brown up to maintain a score of more than 10 points. The lead was on the line, and both teams started freestyle offense and defense.
In the end, the Eagles easily won the game with a lead of 111 to 99 and 12 points, and their record improved to 47 wins and 8 losses. They still have a chance to win 50 games before the end of February. There are three games left in the next five days Contest!
Playing 30 minutes to get it, 13 of 23 shots, 34 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Liu Mang's performance today completely suppressed Iverson!
Moreover, the task of preventing Iverson from scoring 20 points was also achieved!
Although in the eyes of others, Iverson didn't want to win the bet, and Liu Mang won the dishonor. He felt that the bet was not counted, because there was more than one quarter in the game, and Iverson insisted on taking it, maybe It is unlikely to get 30 points or even twenty-five or six points, but more than 20 points are as easy as drinking water, and you won't be choked, but Iverson doesn't want to get that point in garbage time.
But Liu Mang doesn't care so much, if he wins, he wins, and when the task is completed, it is completed!
Liu Mang, who was taking a shower in the bathroom of the locker room, looked at the system panel prompting him to get the star card of Iverson's peak year, and laughed like a pig...
The teammates who had just changed their clothes after taking a shower and were about to leave the locker room for an interview heard Liu Mang's laughter. Even though this laughter is very common, they are still not used to it, it's too obscene!
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After the duel with Iverson, Liu Mang originally thought that he had offended Iverson this time, but when he returned to the hotel to watch the news, Liu Mang saw the emotion of Iverson being interviewed in the news. Not bad!
"Ace, that bastard, I'll make him look good next season!"
"Am I angry at his provocation? Kang busy Beibi, that guy is afraid of me passing the ball, didn't you see that?"
"There is nothing fair or unfair about winning. If he wins, he wins. If I lose, I lose. I only scored 19 points. This is a fact."
"Glenn Robinson? He is great, but we are not suitable as teammates. I don't want to say much about him receiving the ball and not shooting. I hope the management can make good choices. It's time for us to start rebuilding to win. The ball is cultured, and I am confident that my breakthrough points are very strong, but I need my teammates to cooperate with my mobilization, complete the running positions I need, and let me organize the offense, and some teammates are obviously not."
"I will not force the team to do something, but I will communicate with them. I am 29 years old. We need a healthier and better future plan. Will I use the contract extension as a bargaining chip? Of course, this is definitely Yes, I need them to feel the pressure, just like you said, I envy Ace's teammates, but our teammates are also great, we reached the finals back then, it's just that we are getting older, so We need to do it all over again…”
Watching the TV screen, Iverson tried to restrain his unruly character and wanted to communicate well with the media, but still couldn't stop his "dominant side leak". Liu Mang touched his chin, and the stubble grew again. Get out the razor and shave off your beard.
This guy is so proud when he loses, that's enough.
However, Liu Wei still has a little expectation. Although Iverson really succeeds in the transition at the key point of his career at the age of 29, and he has good teammates, it will be a very troublesome opponent for Liu Wei, but, He really wanted to play against a different Iverson.
In the 2001-02 season, Iverson was at the peak of his personal offense. Liu Mang played against that Iverson and learned about Iverson's strength at that time. Now the 29-year-old Iverson has returned from major surgery. Continue to use the previous style of play, even if the rules are more conducive to the outside line, Iverson is unlikely to be able to play the invincible personal offense of the 26-year-old three years ago, and it is difficult for such Iverson to be strong. opponent.
Just like the 2016 All-Star, James was reluctant to let Kobe retire, and Liu Mang was not willing to lose such a powerful opponent as Iverson, and has always maintained his previous style of play. Iverson may not have a good game except for switching to other teams. Teammates go to him, in that case, the game against Iverson will become more and more boring. Now that Iverson has changed, for Liu Mang, it is something to look forward to.
After turning off the TV, Liu Mang took a good look at the rewards he got today.
Iverson's pinnacle star card, this... is it good against the OK combination? It is estimated that it will work well! It is definitely better than Iverson in the 01-02 season!
The hooligan value increased by hundreds of thousands, and then the hooligan value increased by hundreds of thousands. The first one was because Liu Mang provoked Iverson before the game and offended many Iverson fans. Later, the fans found out that things were obviously different from what they imagined. This seems to be the normal way of communication between Iverson and Liu Mang. Many fans who were originally Iverson fans who did not like Liu Mang paid more attention to Liu Mang because of this incident.
There is still more than 1,900 superstar points. There is nothing special about beating the 76ers. Even if they have Iverson, the task is only related to Iverson alone, and the others basically cannot provide obstacles.
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After beating the 76ers, the Hawks still had two games in their six-game streak. On July 25th, they came to Milwaukee after a long journey. After a night's rest, they played against the Bucks for the third time this season.
In the last four days of this month, from the 26th to the 29th, the Eagles will play three games in four days. The opponent Bucks in this game is relatively the weakest. Then there will be back-to-back games against the Pistons and the Heat. This is the problem.
The Bucks are quite unexpected this year, and it is also beyond Liu Mang's expectations.
Liu Mang doesn't know much about the Bucks in recent years. From Ray Allen and Payton switching teams to Payton going to Los Angeles, even with Reed, there are not many people in the Bucks after that. The fans paid attention, and it was not until the Bucks selected Yi Jianlian that they entered the sight of Chinese fans again.
Before the All-Star Weekend, the Bucks had been fluctuating in the seventh or eighth or ninth place in the Eastern Conference. Public opinion generally believed that after the All-Star Weekend, the teams competing for the playoffs began to go all out for the playoffs. , The Bucks will fall, who knows that after the All-Star Weekend, the Bucks won a wave of five consecutive victories! There was also one of four games in five days, and the Bucks won all of them. So far, the Bucks' record has improved to 26 wins and 30 losses, beating the Hornets and Knicks, ranking sixth in the Eastern Conference!
And the Celtics, which were originally highly optimistic, have fallen to ninth in the Eastern Conference! The record has been caught up by the Cavaliers, all with 22 wins!
To everyone's surprise, the Bucks did not collapse this year because of the loss of core guard Payton, but stood up tenaciously!
And the Eagles didn't dare to be careless in this game. They didn't dare to lose a game here. Who told someone to boast that Haikou will win at least 68 wins!
Moreover, slowly the Eagles players and coaching staff have become very motivated to achieve this achievement. According to the current turbulent league situation, especially a team called the Bobcats in Charlotte is going to come out. The Eagles, with a bunch of high-quality young players, will definitely be their target. That is, after the end of the season and before the end of the draft, the Eagles will definitely make big moves to avoid direct losses. The choice of some strong teams, the Eagles are no exception.
In the future, it will be very difficult for this group of people to get together. Now that there is an opportunity to create a career together, everyone is very focused on winning every game.
Even if the physical problem is so big now!
If you switch to other teams except the Eagles and Rockets, there will not be so many physical problems during this period. By the second half of the season, there will be less than 30 games left. It should be a strong team in the playoffs When it comes to power, the Hawks still have to struggle with the kind of brutal schedule similar to other teams in the middle of the season.
Who made the Eagles and Rockets the key entry point for the league to open up the Chinese market!
Therefore, in order to slow down the physical fitness of the players, coach Kruger took turns to rest Rasheed Wallace and Raheem. For the next game against the Pistons, Ratliff came back to play the Bucks to find the feeling .
Originally there was Ostertag, but after he went to Atlanta to report for his physical examination, the Eagles sent him to Detroit to prepare first. The next game was the most difficult game. The team can continue to play relying on the depth of the lineup.
In this game, the Eagles sent a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Barnes, Boozer, and Ratliff.
The Bucks sent a starting lineup of TJ-Ford, Reid, Van Horn, Desmond Mason, and Joe Smith.
Compared with the previous game, the starting lineup has changed three times. The Eagles have no physical problems in the starting lineup, and they are very active on the field.
The local fans in Milwaukee felt chills when they saw the Eagles changed their lineup and still looked so scary.
Just like what the fans thought, seeing another core combination of Liu Mang, Boozer and Ratliff made me feel cold.
Meeting Reid and TJ-Ford again, Liu Mang started the game very excitedly and broke through the inside line continuously. The Bucks also put in all their strength in this game. The Bucks encountered the Eagles who were forced to take a break in consecutive away games. , played quite aggressively, but couldn't hold back TJ-Ford, Reed, and Van Horn, the best defender among the three perimeters was actually Reed!
Reid can move laterally, and steals fiercely, but the opponent is Liu Mang!
Only halfway through the first quarter, Reed was fouled twice by Liu Mang.
Reed originally wanted to fight Liu Mang, but he didn't expect to be too active and got himself involved.
As for the Eagles, Liu Mang saw that the two defensive front lines were unable to play, so he took on more tasks. The offensive end worked hard to create kills, and the defense worked hard to prevent TJ Ford from killing TJ Ford. His teammates cut off TJ Ford and others. Contact, after Reid was dragged down by Liu Mang again, the Bucks' struggle ended before it even started.
They are indeed sixth in the Eastern Conference and are becoming more and more stable, but their winning percentage is still less than 50%, which is completely different from the playoff teams in the Western Conference. Except for the Nuggets, the top 8 teams in the Western Conference have a winning percentage of 60%. above.
Liu Mang played 7 minutes in the first quarter and scored 11 points and 2 assists. He made 7 free throws and made 6 of 7 free throws. He also stole TJ-Ford twice. No one can match him, but his skills are not only good at handling the ball, but also his strongest speed. In the NBA, he has to learn how to use his physical advantages, but at least he is still As a rookie, he didn't make good use of it.
After Stockton came up, he played more pick-and-roll offenses with Boozer, plus the more experienced Kwame Brown and corner musketeer Jason Terry, Liu Mang and Stockton successively. Leading the team, they easily scored a score of 26 to 17 in the first quarter, leading the Bucks by 9 points after the first quarter!
Originally, Reid should be the vanguard to attack the Eagles in this game, but he defended Liu Mang too aggressively in the first quarter, and was fouled twice by Liu Mang. After coming up again in the second quarter, he was afraid of playing. Afraid of feet, guarding against Stockton and Boozer's pick-and-rolls, they did not dare to squeeze the opponent or block the defense too much. Stockton seized the opportunity and led the Eagles to play a wave of 11 to 6 in the second quarter. , When the second quarter only played more than 4 minutes, the Eagles had already led by 15 points!
Although consecutive away games will bring a great impact on physical fitness, it will also allow players to continue their state as long as they are physically fit. The Eagles will take turns to rest obviously fatigued players and use players with relatively better physical fitness as the main force. , and the Hawks lineup is so deep that they can form two strong teams. When facing the not-so-strong Bucks, they are already strong enough!
Stockton ended up with 4 points and 3 assists. Although he seemed to have only 3 assists, when he and Boozer led the second team, the Eagles opened up a 10-point gap, which is better than Liu Mang's 5-point difference in the first seven minutes was even worse, because the Bucks' second team was so poor!
The Bucks started well, but the substitute, Tim Thomas, was sent to New York to save money. It seemed that only Kukoc was left as a good substitute. In November, Kukoc was flattered Renewed a 2-year contract of 7 million yuan with the Bucks, and he still has 20 minutes of playing time per game. He happily scored eight or nine points, two or three rebounds and two or three assists every day, and showed the ability of a veteran , and holding a pension contract, don't play too happily, and he has no shortage of championships. He is the happiest player among the capable players who have left the Eagles.
In the second half of the second quarter and the third quarter, it was time for Liu Mang to play. In 19 minutes, Liu Mang scored 23 points, 3 assists and 4 rebounds to help the Eagles win the game before the end of the third quarter. The point difference widened to 77 to 55, and the Eagles led by 22 points in three quarters!
Liu Mang scored 34 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in three quarters and clocked in to get off work! Reid became timid and played extremely badly because of the first two fouls throughout the game. Bucks fans were dissatisfied. Now there is a disease among Milwaukee basketball fans called "ice phobia." ", saying that Reid played badly every time he met Liu Mang.
In the end, the Eagles easily defeated the Bucks 100 to 79 to get eight consecutive victories.
The record has also improved to 48 wins and 8 losses, continuing to refresh the record since the new century!
After playing the Bucks, the Eagles started to run around again. After the All-Star Weekend, the real powerful opponents are the Lakers, Kings, and Pistons. The Lakers and Kings have been defeated by the Eagles. Immediately, the Eagles have won the first five opponents of the five-game streak, and the final challenge is the next stop!