Chapter 718

41 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists!

Liu Mang played 37 minutes and scored 40+ for the 20th time in his career. He helped the Eagles beat the Wizards 109-92 and won four consecutive victories!

After the Eagles relied on defense to widen the point difference to more than 10 points in the first quarter, the Eagles' defense was not so serious, except for one person... Kwame Brown!

Every time he faced the Wizards, Kwame Brown was extremely excited, and he was very active in rebounding and dunking.

Kwame Brown is now able to avoid the problem of his small hands. He relies on alley-oops, grabs offensive rebounds, and will never take them down if he can directly make up baskets and dunks. In this game, Kwame Brown’s teacher Ratliff took the initiative He was given a chance to perform, and it was agreed at the beginning that he only started to show his face in front of the fans. Of course, he had to show his face at the team's most glorious moment, and then it was Kwame Brown's performance time.

Liu Mang scored 41 points today. Except for dunks, the efficiency of other shots is not high. The overall shooting situation is 14 of 34 shots. Except for 4 dunks, the other shots are 10 of 30...

The main reason is that Kwame Brown broke out today! Rebounding so much that Raheem only grabbed 5 rebounds and scored 7 points, and it didn't take long because Kwame Brown had already grabbed the rebounds well enough to push the sea that pushed him away. Wood burst into tears!

Kwame Brown was excited when he saw Heywood. The person who scolded him the most in the Wizards team was Jordan, but Jordan was the teacher of the boss. Moreover, after Kwame Brown played it, he knew it was a spur, although Don't like Jordan, but still maintain respect, and the hostility of Heywood Kwame-Brown is different. When he was in the Wizards, the guy who ran against him and mocked him the most was this guy at the end of the first round of the same class , Said that the most powerful parallel importer is this guy.

Kwame Brown played for 41 minutes, scored 17 points, 19 rebounds and 4 blocks, three of which were given to Heywood!

Relying on Kwame Brown's rebound protection, Liu Mang shot like crazy, but what made Liu Mang very upset was that this little man, who was like a blacksmith, was so poor in scoring rebounds and scored 8 rebounds. Offensive rebounds, only made 4 shots, actually grabbed the rebounds and didn't pass them out, so that Liu Mang's shooting percentage was less than 40% at one point, and he finally got to 40% before leaving the field...

After defeating the Wizards, the Eagles' record has successfully improved to 68 wins and 11 losses!

Officially surpassed the Lakers' 67 wins and became the strongest regular season team in the new century!

When the final whistle blew, Liu Mang, who was sitting on the sidelines and crazily despised the boys with small hands who were all domineering, heard the system prompt, finally put aside his narrow mindedness, and excitedly entered the field to embrace and celebrate with his teammates.

"Ding... The task of the strongest team in the new century is completed, congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: Kobe Bryant's 99-00 season star card."

"Kobe Bryant 99-00 version, ability rating 90, offense 86, defense 95..."

"Ding... The host led the team to refresh the best record of the 21st century so far maintained by the Los Angeles Lakers, and obtained 1,000,000 rogue points."

Seeing the rogue value of 84.12 million, which was less than 16 million, Liu Mang was even happier!

In addition, after the game, Liu Mang's scoring average just exceeded 33 points!

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After the game, Liu Mang and his teammates accepted interviews together, gave gifts to the fans at the scene, and in order to celebrate Liu Mang’s goal of scoring champion and MVP, the team interacted with fans, drawing prizes, taking photos with fans, and drawing prizes specially customized for fans The jersey, as well as Schwartz, Nike and the Eagles, gave the lucky draw to fan Liu Mang's Ice 2 exclusive boots...

After being busy for more than half an hour, Liu Mang finally completed his task. He was tired, but it was more than half an hour after seeing the end of the game. The game ended after eleven o'clock. Seventy to eighty percent of the fans still didn't leave! Liu Mang was tired, but he was very happy in his heart.

Finally finished his work, Liu Mang looked at Jason Terry, who was still full of anger, and several active teammates were still interacting with fans and accepting media interviews. Liu Mang returned to the bench and put ice packs on his legs, preparing to apply ice After taking a shower and going back, Liu Mang took a photo with Dinah just now, and Dinah has asked Levia and Alexia to wait for him in the parking lot.

Just as Liu Mang was tying the ice pack, suddenly, his heart felt cold!

"Ah... what the hell! You want to die!" Liu Mang threw the ice bag away, jumped up and screamed frantically, the water flowed into his mouth, and it was still a little sweet.

It was frozen orange juice!

Looking at the laughing teammates, as well as the watching fans around, and the bucket in the hands of the instigator Rahim, Liu Mang never thought that he would have this day!

After all the calculations, I didn't expect that I would be deceived!

It's all my uncle's fault for others, okay!

Looking at the expressions of "Do you want to fight?" from a group of teammates, Liu Mang really wanted to fight!

but!

It seems that every time I fight, I am the one who is abused...

Liu Mang's heart immediately became extremely desolate... Longevity... A group of people bullied the team's youngest little brother...

Liu Mang ran back to the locker room in grief and indignation, took off his sticky jersey and shorts, and immediately went into the bathroom to wash it off.

"Hey, how can I have such a group of teammates as a good man like me who respects the old, loves the young, and is friendly? Forget it, my life is not good. Meeting them may be my doom! I won't enter Whoever goes to hell in hell, just treat it as if it is water, and don’t let these teammates harm others, I will bear it in silence!" Liu Mang comforted himself while taking a bath...

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After winning 68 wins, the Eagles were completely relaxed and completely stress-free.

Officially entered the training mode at the end of the season.

It's not a rotation mode, but a training state, that is, using official games to practice various tactics that may be used in the playoffs.

Except for Liu Mang, a physical monster, the playing time of the others is uncertain. It is simply because of the practice of tactics that the substitutions are made to see which player is more suitable for which tactics. This is something that cannot be done by training alone.

With two years of experience in the playoffs, the Hawks coaching staff knows better about the playing styles and characteristics of the teams that are threatening the playoffs in the Eastern Conference. The playing style and characteristics of the big strong teams in the playoffs have also been understood. An old family is like a treasure. From the beginning of the season, Coach Kruger brought Stockton and Kevin Willis into the team. In the conference room of the coaching staff, we often discuss and study the strategy of the playoffs. Later, after getting Ostertag, the defensive coping strategies became more diversified, so actual combat was needed to practice.

The Eagles have already secured the No. 1 spot in the league. If it wasn't for the chance to hit 72 wins, and Liu Mang's yelling that he would win at least 68 wins, the Eagles coaching staff would have wanted to start training a long time ago.

Achieving 72 wins is not an easy task. It seems that after the All-Star Weekend, the Eagles still have a chance to win 72 after winning 15 consecutive victories. However, NBA losses are always so unexpected.

During the 1995-96 season, the Bulls finished half of the season with 47 wins and 5 losses. They lost only 5 games in the first 52 games. After the All-Star Weekend, they only lost 5 games with 30 games left.

The Lakers were once close to tying the Bulls' 72 wins. They had 41 wins and 9 losses during the All-Star Weekend. However, the 19-game winning streak looks more brutal than the 18-game winning streak created by the Bulls a few years ago. They thought they would end the season with a wave of winning streak, but they lost in the last 15 games. played 5 games.

After losing 10 games, the Eagles didn't have much hope. The reason why they didn't start preparing for the playoffs immediately after securing the No. 68 wins, that's why it's delayed until this time, otherwise when you get 63 wins and lock in the first place in the league, you can start practicing tactics.

Of course, such a result is not bad. The rest allows most of the Eagles to recover their physical fitness from the tough schedule from January to March.

On April 10th and 11th, the Eagles ushered in the last back-to-back of the season, playing back-to-back home games against the Heat and Pacers.

The first to usher in is the Miami Heat, also a team in the Southeast Division.

After the game started, Rasheed Wallace helped the Eagles win the jump ball.

After receiving the jump ball, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt. Seeing the menacing Wade defending him, Liu Mang didn't dare to carelessly protect the ball. This guy was already regarded as the favorite of the best defensive team in his rookie season. Mang is also a little jealous. Liu Mang was also a favorite in the best defensive team last season, but this season, after most of the defensive tasks were handed over to Prince and Raheem, he didn't have many opportunities to play defense, and more to attack. Well, the average defensive contribution value of the season is quite low, and the team can't make it into the top five, let alone the best defensive team.

Seeing that Wade was very serious today, Liu Mang immediately passed a pass to Rasheed Wallace who came to the high position to support him. The tactic to be practiced at the beginning of today's game is the high position support two-wing cut play. After Mang caught Raheem's off-ball pick-and-roll, the two cut in.

The Eagles' offensive tactics are of course prepared for the best scorer, that is, the tactics prepared by Liu Mang, so Liu Mang is still the main point of attack, and the tactics are of course prepared for the players with the strongest scoring ability.

There is no big problem on the offensive end. Liu Mang and Raheem's cut-in, 90% of the game distracted Odom and rookie Haslem can't stop it. Butler on the front line and Wade defending Liu Mang met After the pick-and-roll, there is not much to do. After each pick-and-roll, Liu Mang's speed is all of a sudden, and he can't stop it at all when his ability to defend against pick-and-rolls is not good.

At the beginning, Liu Mang easily swayed Haslem away after receiving the ball in an air cut, and scored two points with a layup.

The tactics are quite good. Facing the Heat's weakened interior defense this season, the Eagles' attacking interior style of play is very effective.

On the defensive end, Liu Mang waited for Wade to come over. Wade is a nanny player who needs to score and organize offense. The main reason is that the pass is really good, and it is no problem to play point guard. Liu Mang chose to step back two Step defense against Wade, afraid that one step will be passed, so I chose to deal with Wade together with Ratliff, Rasheed Wallace and Raheem who defended both inside and outside.

At the same time, Liu Mang is still very afraid of Wade's passing, and the Eagles are also very afraid of this, and are ready for a quick rotation.

However, unexpectedly, Wade rushed all the way inside without any intention of passing the ball, and was slapped by Rasheed Wallace...

Not just this time, next, Wade's offense basically came by himself.

When Wade was suddenly tired and felt desolate from being hated, he puffed out his big cheeks and gave Liu Mang a resentful look, and handed the ball to Eddie Jones for singles...

The Eagles tried various tactics, carried out a lot of rotations, and their offensive efficiency was up and down. They thought they would play very anxiously with the Heat, but the Heat's offense was even worse!

The four outsiders take turns playing singles...

I don't even want to win...

The Eagles played blindly like that, playing all kinds of tactics, smooth and not smooth, and they all led by more than ten points...

By the time there were three games left, the East and West playoff teams were all locked up.

The Eagles are the first in the league with 68 wins, the Pacers are second with 59 wins, one game short of 60 wins, the Pistons are third with 51 wins, the Nets are fourth with 44 wins, and the Hornets are fifth with 40 wins. The Sixth Heat has 38 wins, the seventh Bucks have 38 wins, the eighth Knicks have 36 wins, the ninth Celtics have 33 wins, and the Celtics have 1 win and 2 losses in the battle against the Knicks. They tied the Knicks' record and were unable to make the playoffs.

According to common sense, the teams entering the playoffs, if they are not the top four teams, want to improve their record as much as possible, because the better the record of the bottom four teams in the playoffs. The lower the ranking of the top four teams, such as the Hornets, they are now fighting to win every remaining game and avoid falling to sixth.

But the Heat and the Bucks, after locking in the playoffs, don't want to win.

No team in the bottom four of the Eastern Conference wants to be the sixth in the Eastern Conference!

I would rather fall to seventh and play the Pacers who are second in the East, and I don't want to play the third in the East in sixth.

Because the third place in the East is the Nets. They rely on the first place in the division. Although their record is not as good as the Pistons, they still rank third in the East.

On the contrary, in New York, after the playoffs are locked, the fans don't want their home team to continue to win and compete for seventh.

Some Knicks fans want to "revenge" the Eagles. In the 1998-99 season five years ago, they had created the magical experience of the eighth in the Eastern Conference all the way to the Finals. Some die-hard Knicks fans, holding Mysterious self-confidence, feeling that his team can do it again.

Most of the people who use public opinion to force the Knicks to stay in the eighth place in the Eastern Conference are just to watch the excitement and play against the Eagles with Liu Mang. For many New York fans, winning or losing is not a problem, and being able to see Liu Mang playing at home is the key .

And the Knicks are a magical team. Apart from not being able to completely show off their face when they are desperate, they also "respect the opinions of the fans". More importantly, their boss James - how bad, is also A well-known rich second generation in the American financial circle is the same type of person as the owner of the Eagles, Price. In the past, James - how bad he looked down on Price, because Price was not the heir of the family. Compared with New York, it is a "waste" issued by the industries in the "country" places, but now, Price hugged Liu Mang's thighs and stood up, and also used the popularity of the team to help advertise many of the family's industries. In their circles, Price had a much better reputation than James Dolan.

Humans live in groups, and there is one characteristic, no matter how few you are, your sufferings are uneven. In the past, although James Dolan looked down on Price, he still talked and laughed when they met, but now, Price doesn't have that kind of dandyism. , Instead, he became a "successful boss", James Dolan could no longer play with Price, and killing Price's team became James Dolan's obsession.

Therefore, it also led to the 60-point difference between Liu Mang's tyranny at Madison Square Garden and the 70-point difference between the Eagles' record in NBA history at Madison Square Garden.

Therefore, amidst the voices of the fans, James Dolan is determined not to compete for seventh in the Eastern Conference, and he wants the Hard Steel Eagles.

The Heat's head is not so strong. It is unlikely to compete for the fifth place in the Eastern Conference. They don't want to be sixth. They just want to lose and fall to seventh. The two-year Eastern Conference playoff championship is still very deterrent, second only to the Eagles who have gone further this year after reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years.

In this game, Van Gundy asked Wade not to worry too much, let go of the game, rest and think when he is tired, give the ball to his teammates, and play as he wants with physical strength.

The Heat completely regarded this game as a game for Wade to adapt to the defense in the playoffs, because although the Eagles played wildly on the offensive end, they still worked hard on the defensive end. Training does not mean that they don't want to win!

In the end, relying on Liu Mang's 10-of-23 shots to score 35 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, the Eagles easily defeated the Heat 103-90 and won five consecutive victories...

They beat the Heat in practice and won five consecutive victories, but it was not so easy when they played against the Pacers in the second back-to-back game. The Pacers are a team with 59 wins and 21 losses, which is not easy to beat. Team, and there are still two games left. The Pacers have to play the Eagles first, and then the Nets to finish.

Although the Eagles also won 69 games, tying the Bulls and Lakers for the second record in history, and wanted to get 70 wins to dominate the second record in history, but there is still a Grizzlies behind, instead of fighting for 60 wins The red-eyed Pacers are desperate, so it's better to practice tactics.

The playoffs are the most important thing... Besides, there is a sister-in-law waiting for Lin Xing in the back. Rao Liu Mang, a paranoid guy in his bones, would rather wreak havoc with his sister-in-law than compete with the Pacers for 60 wins at this time. The Mad Dog team fought recklessly.

Facing the league's fourth-strongest defensive team, there is still a big difference from the Heat, the tenth-ranked defensive player in the league. After one season, the Pacers have reached their peak state. Coach Carlisle's ability to control the rhythm It's really amazing. If he hadn't met the Eagles in the past two seasons, he wouldn't have been so miserable.

Coach Carlisle controlled the Pacers, letting the Pacers run in step by step, and gradually reached the peak of their state when the playoffs were about to start. The core defensive lineup composed of Artest, O'Neal, and Jamal Tinsley was too great. Strong! It is difficult for the Eagles to just pass without playing hard, especially Artest, who has already locked in the best defensive player of the season.

The Eagles only scored 91 points in this game. As the main attacker, Liu Mang had a dismal shooting rate. He hit 15 irons and made 10 of 25 shots. He scored 31 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. The Eagles lost 91 to 107 to Play The Pacers, who desperately wanted to win, ended their five-game winning streak.

Losing is always very uncomfortable. It is indeed difficult to win 72 games. It seems that there are only two wins, but it is a thousand miles away.

But 70 wins, let's go for it!

Looking at the record of 69 wins and 12 losses on the big screen, Liu Mang sighed secretly when he saw the preview of the team's next game. It's not a buddy or a person, it's just that his sister-in-law is too charming!