Chapter 723
Liu Mang overlooked a problem. He guarded Anfernee Hardaway, and Anfernee Hardaway held the ball to attack. It was not because Anfernee Hardaway was better than Marbury in scoring ability, more than 50% in the peak period. Anfernee Hardaway, who hits the field, may have better scoring ability than Marbury, but now, there is no suspense that Marbury is better. The Knicks are just picking "soft persimmons". Liu Mang is the one who is regarded as A man of soft persimmons!
Marbury played less in the playoffs, but that doesn't mean he performed poorly in the playoffs!
Except for the time when he faced Payton in the second grade, he was so defended that he didn't dare to shoot. In his rookie season and Garnett's playoff series, he faced the Rockets of the Big Three. He was the leading scorer and the Assist king!
The 90-point evaluation given by the system to Marbury in the playoffs as a marginal top star is, after all, a marginal top star!
Marbury's iconic breakthrough!
Liu Mang often teased his opponents with the breakthroughs he got from Marbury, this time it was his turn to be teased!
Liu Mang confidently wanted to rely on his footsteps to predict and prevent Marbury, but found that it didn't work much! Marbury, who was at his peak at the age of 27, took a step to attract Liu Mang's defensive attention, and after revealing a flaw for Liu Mang to defend, he made a large Iverson-style lateral move from Liu Mang's left side straight to the inside. !
Was tricked by Marbury's change of direction!
However, Liu Mang did not stop defending, because there is someone behind the young master!
After Liu Mang was passed, he kicked his left foot because of the pressure, and rushed towards Marbury, just in time to catch Raheem who was in place and caught Marbury!
After passing Liu Mang, Marbury encountered Raheem's supplementary defense. He wanted to change direction again or jump directly to attack the basket for throwing shots, but Liu Mang returned to the defense at the first time, and Marbury was blocked all of a sudden. Dead, forced to stop the ball!
Raheem's ability to connect inside and outside defense is fully demonstrated!
Marbury felt Liu Mang's move to steal, and immediately passed the ball to Shandon Anderson who was free.
Shanton Anderson on the bottom line on the left side of the basket receives the ball, no one cares! Kurt Thomas wanted to go out to meet him, but he was pressed tightly by Rasheed Wallace. Kurt Thomas played fiercely against many inside players. Rasheed Wallace, who looks more fierce in appearance, and has the title of technical foul king, especially Rasheed Wallace, who is more aggressive in defense, is scared!
Kurt Thomas was pressed on the right side of the basket by Rasheed Wallace and dared not struggle!
Anfernee Hardaway can't get rid of Prince's long-arm tentacle defense when he runs without the ball. Mutombo plays well with Ratliff at the basket.
Shandon Anderson saw that Raheem and Ratliff were in a high post and under the basket, so he didn't dare to rush in, so he could only throw two points...
Shandon Anderson, who has almost no mid-to-long-range shooting ability and only relies on counterattacks and air cuts in the regular season, only hits 40% of his shots.
Liu Mang turned around in one step. Marbury, who was the owner of the card and wanted to attack the offensive rebound, was rock-solid. The level 1 trigger was not good for rebounding Liu Mang, but the block thief was very good, especially outside the card. Marbury, whose strength was similar to his, Being stuck, Ratliff also stuck Mutombo, and Raheem easily got the defensive rebound.
Fight back!
After Liu Mang blocked Marbury and blocked Marbury's move to attack the offensive rebound, he was about to get off immediately, trust in the rebounding king!
Liu Mang rushed to the frontcourt, Raheem made a long pass to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang counterattacked and scored two points with a one-handed dunk!
Liu Mang ran back and high-fived Raheem. The two defended against each other. After the Knicks lost Alan Houston and Van Horn at the small forward position, they had already discussed how to deal with such an obvious loophole.
Marbury is indeed better than Anfernee Hardaway, and Marbury's passing ability is not comparable to that of Anfernee Hardaway. His career average assists are more than Anferney Hardaway's career assists. seasons are high.
But Anfernee Hardaway, his ability to connect teams is more powerful than Marbury, mainly because of his defensive judgment and the avoidance of being pinched in a bad position. Anfernee Hardaway Wei did much better than Marbury.
Marbury is going straight, he is indeed more attractive to defense, but he can't choose which player of the opponent to attack and defend like Anfernee Hardaway.
Anfernee Hardaway, can make good use of the rhythm of the breakthrough, take advantage of the time difference of the opponent's flanking attack, the change of rhythm is extremely fast, the position of the stop is good enough, Raheem flanking Shandon-Anderson can fully play Cut in quickly, instead of needing someone to pull away for him to break through like Marbury. Anfernee-Hardaway creates opportunities for teammates to cut in. It is completely opposite to Marbury's style of play. It seems that assists are not enough Most of the assists are also breakthrough points, but the meaning is different! His aura and ability to connect teams are not available in Marbury.
It is very simple for Marbury to organize the offense. He breaks through first, waits for the opponent to attack, and passes to the one that is free. He is not alone in playing. Since his rookie year, the number of times he has broken through and passed to his teammates has always been ranked first. The top five in the league, and has been ranked first in recent years, with a high ball possession rate and a high pass success rate, but he cannot guarantee who the teammate will receive the ball.
The Sonics really want to introduce Marbury because he is really good at breaking through and scoring the ball, but he is more expensive than Kidd... If Marbury is playing for the Sonics, if he doesn't fight with his teammates Contradictory, with his state during this season in the Knicks, the Sonics may take off.
However, he does not have such teammates. His career experience is too bad, and his reputation is too bad. He is in the Knicks. How many assists he has depends on the sky. The time when he played the best happened to be Alan. -The last more than a month before Houston was reimbursed.
Marbury's assists per game was not overtaken by Kidd, but after Alan Houston was reimbursed and there were fewer outside shooters, he slipped down.
The Eagles have already had enough experience in defending Marbury. After Marbury started to attack with the ball, he locked Marbury!
Marbury tried his best today to counterattack and kill the Eagles, but Liu Mang and Raheem let him understand that the gap in strength is not a gap that he can bridge with his life!
Anfernee-Hardaway met Prince, who was as calm as Duncan, and there was nothing he could do. Unlike Liu Mangyi, Prince was impulsive. He seemed to be an emotionless defensive machine and would not rely on himself to defend Slack when you are good at ability, always maintain a tepid attitude, give up a position, and cover Anfernee Hardaway's shooting space with his wingspan. Use your teammates to pinch together, and always maintain the most sane state, just like in the original time and space, when he was fighting in the Palace of Auburn Hills incident, all the Pistons' benches rushed up, and he was the only one sitting quietly on the technical team. On the stage, watching his teammates and opponents play, he is not without team awareness, but he is extremely calm and knows the importance of himself on the team's defensive end.
Prince, originally just his name, became a nickname because he sat on the technical stage during the Battle of Auburn Hills, like a quiet and ugly prince...
Marbury attracted a double-team pass, but he could only pass it to Shandon Anderson. The assist conversion rate was extremely low, so he had to start shooting by himself. When Anfernee Hardaway held the ball, he faced Prince's defense. , I can't attract double teams at all, so I can only force myself.
If it was Anfernee Hardaway seven or eight years ago, neither Jordan nor Pippen at the peak would be able to guard against it, and the two of them could only restrict it, and it was only restricted, and they were still defeated by him and O'Neal.
The current Anfernee Hardaway can fight Liu Mang desperately, but he can only smile helplessly when facing Prince.
The Eagles locked the Knicks outside duo!
Marbury played very hard today, but the harder he worked, the more bitter he was. He also worked very hard when he was in the Nets and the Suns, but when he was in the Nets, the Nets did not have Kenyon Martin. When he was on the team, his scoring style didn't match at all with Stoudemire, the core insider of the Suns. His future degeneration cannot be guaranteed without the fact that he has been working hard all these years but has not paid off.
Marbury and Anfernee-Hardaway started a gorgeous symphony of iron music. The Knicks faced the blue-collar insiders that many teams are proud of. In this game, they met the Eagles frontcourt trio. I couldn't grab the offensive rebound again, and the offensive end was blocked to death!
The opponent hits the iron, and it is an outside shot that hits the iron, the Eagles have a chance to counterattack!
Raheem grabbed rebounds, Liu Mang counterattacked, and Raheem followed up to grab offensive rebounds. The two did not cooperate much in other tactics. Raheem chose to weaken his offensive role and was mainly responsible for defense and rebounds, because the two were on the offensive end. The chemical reaction is really poor, and the tacit understanding between the two on the defensive end is too different, and the two play styles don't match.
But the two have an offensive tactic that Liu Mang agrees with very well, that is, the cavalry tactic!
Liu Mang and Raheem started a two-person fast break cooperation. When Raheem was running fast, Liu Mang threw a three-pointer. After Raheem passed the ball and was restrained, Liu Mang counterattacked and attacked the basket. The two cooperate perfectly in this tactic!
After the official timeout of the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 2 assists in more than half a quarter, and Rahim scored 4 points and 6 rebounds. The two led the Eagles' starting lineup to a 19-8 lead in the first seven minutes. The Knicks scored 11 points!
The gap in strength is quite obvious!
The gap between 70 wins and 36 wins cannot be made up by Marbury's efforts!
After the official timeout came back, the Eagles entered the regular rotation time. In order to take advantage of the victory, Stockton, Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, and Kwame Brown went up the lineup.
At the beginning, the Eagles used defense to deal with the Knicks. When it came time to rotate the lineup, the Eagles directly chose to use positional offense to deal with the Knicks!
The Knicks have just replaced the lineup of Howard Eisley, Marbury, Anfernee Hardaway, Tim Thomas, and Kurt Thomas. Coach Wilkens wants to follow the Hawks' counterattack Rhythm, so I replaced the brisk Zhenrang, but I didn't expect the Eagles to start playing positional warfare!
Although the defense of the Hawks lineup has deteriorated a lot, the Knicks scored 12 points in 5 minutes in the second half of the first quarter, and narrowly scored 20 points in a single quarter at the end of the first quarter.
But the Eagles scored 17 points in 5 minutes!
At the end of the first quarter, the Eagles had a 36-20 lead by 16 points!
Liu Mang scored 21 points in the first quarter, one more than the Knicks!
Before the Knicks game, they finally found a little morale inspired by Marbury. The owner and coaching staff used the 1999 playoffs to boost their motivation. The spirit of fighting for a wave, after the first quarter, it just broke up!
Liu Mang, who was a little puzzled when he didn't hear the system prompt that the Knicks' morale was suppressed at the beginning, finally came after the first quarter. The Knicks' morale collapse may be late, but they are not absent!
"Ding... The host scored 21 points in a single quarter, which was higher than the New York Knicks team. The morale of the New York Knicks collapsed due to the dream of the Black Eight, and the devil's home effect was fully triggered. From Phillips Arena fans and Rashid -Wallace."
A very small number of New York fans who came from afar left after watching the first quarter of the game!
For the opening game of the Eagles home playoffs this time, because of the division championship flag-raising ceremony, the lowest ticket price was $95. Those local fans from New York bought front-row tickets, and left after the first quarter!
Not only the New York fans, even the Knicks players have completely lost confidence!
They tried their best to raise their fighting spirit to the highest level before the game, facing this game with an almost dream-like mentality, but the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment!
In the second quarter, the Knicks had a pretty good offense in the second half of the first quarter. After the start of the second quarter, facing the Eagles' weaker strength, Jason Terry and Korver Er replaced both Liu Mang and Prince, and the Knicks' offense was even worse!
The second quarter started for a full three minutes, and the Knicks didn't score a single point. It was all iron!
The Eagles played an 8-0 scoring climax, and they opened the point difference to 24 points!
Later, relying on Marbury and Anfernee-Hardaway's strong and sudden play regardless of his care, the momentum of the Eagles also slowly declined. The scoring of the two teams began to enter a very balanced state, and the Eagles played laxly. , and the Knicks were on par for a long time in the game.
However, this makes the Knicks players feel even more bleak.
Even Marbury began to doubt life, and the Eagles were completely playing for fun, and they didn't stop scoring!
Mainly, Kurt Thomas, the strongest insider of the Knicks, was completely locked up by Rasheed Wallace's more ferocious style of play and more terrifying face!
At the end of the three quarters, the point difference was still more than 20 points. The Hawks were 81 to 56, leading the Knicks by 25 points!
Liu Mang played three quarters, played 29 minutes, 11 of 17, 2 of 5 three-pointers, 6 counterattacks, 9 of 11 free throws, 33 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists in three quarters!
In the last quarter, the Eagles replaced Jason Terry and took the lineup of Korver, Barnes, Muhammad, and Kwame Brown to waste time.
The Knicks didn't have the kind of motivation to slap the Eagles on the main force, and they were completely beaten to the ground!
Marbury, who played the first three quarters, had 15 points, 2 rebounds and 6 assists. Anfernee Hardaway had 18 points and 4 assists. It seems that the two outside lines are okay, but Marbury made 6 of 17 shots! Anfernee Hardaway made 7 of 20 shots, and both of them made less than 40% of their shots!
Marbury was originally the one with the most fighting spirit, but after the game, the one who felt the most miserable was also Marbury!
In the end, relying on Liu Mang's performance of 33 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds in three quarters, the Eagles easily defeated the Knicks by 107 to 83, 24 points in the opening game of the playoffs and won their first playoff victory!
There is almost no suspense. Except that the Eagles were caught off guard by Anfernee Hardaway at the beginning, and Liu Mang estimated that they will be the background of two top five goals, and one is the opponent's background and the other is the teammate's background. Can the Knicks The pressure on Liu Mang is very small.
The strength gap between the two teams is too great!
After the game, the Eagles players happily returned to the locker room. It was almost 12 o’clock. Go back early after icing and taking a shower. The first game is the last opener. One game is actually the most tiring of the eight-round series. Now the playoff schedule is tighter. There are four games a day in the first round. It is not as easy as before to finish the series with a higher-ranked team. It is said to take a day off. Now that there are more games in the first round, and with the experience of last season, the league now has four games every day in the first four games of the first round.
The Eagles finished playing against the Knicks today and have a day off. They will play against the Knicks again on the 20th. Although the victory was easy, the Eagles’ goal is to try their best to beat their opponents so hard that they can’t fight back. desire.
I will go to the Knicks away to play in the future, so in the first two games, not only must I win, but I must win beautifully! Beat the opponent to doubt life!
After playing the first game with the Knicks, Liu Mang finally understood why the Knicks' Avengers series of missions rewarded them so "excitingly".
People say that Garnett has never broken through the first round. In fact, Marbury is the same. Even in the original time and space, he played the second round with the Celtics in the 08-09 season. He has never made it to the second round. This time and space is even more miserable for him. He met someone Liu. Apart from his rookie season and second-year playoffs, Marbury is now playing in the playoffs for the third time, because Liu Mang slightly changed Yao Ming's progress trajectory, and Marbury was "deprived" of a chance to play in the playoffs by Liu Mang.
This time Marbury came with ambition, but after the game, he felt that his ambition had been trampled!
What Liu Mang wants is to crush Marbury's fighting spirit!
The NBA is a cruel place. Compared with the 1980s and early 1990s at the beginning of the century, the average career length in the NBA has doubled, but it is only 4.1 years on average.
This is an alliance where the weak prey on the strong. For opponents, especially in the playoffs, Liu Mang will never sympathize with them!
Sympathy for the opponent is cruelty to oneself. Liu Mangdong has been killed for two consecutive years. Has the opponent ever felt sympathy? On the court, especially in the playoffs, Liu Mang never thought of sympathizing with the opponent, just like he wanted to sweep the Pistons every time he played against the team that had reached the Eastern Conference Finals for six consecutive years. In order to prevent them from becoming stronger and harder to deal with in the future, Liu Mang wanted to beat them so that he would be scared when he saw them!
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