Chapter 811 810. Weber Travels East, the Alliance Changes
Iguodala is on fire!
There have been a lot of hot news recently, such as Liu Mang returning to the top of the scoring list.
Although it is a bit strange that Liu Mang is still the top scorer after McGrady, it is not so strange after seeing McGrady's performance of averaging 18.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 11.2 assists per game. McGrady has switched to an all-around style!
Weaker than Pippen in defense, but much stronger than Pippen in offense! A real organizing forward!
There is a key data, McGrady has 4 direct assists per game, which are given to Liu Mang, which means that Liu Mang has at least 10 points, which are directly received from McGrady's pass! Not counting the fouls caused after receiving the ball!
As a result, Liu Mang's hit rate increased to 48.3%, averaging 33 points with an efficient hit rate of 10.3 hits out of 21.3 shots per game and 9 hits out of 11 free throws per game, which is not so special. Liu Mang's assists per game also dropped to 4.1 times. It is normal to focus on scoring and have a scoring-level player to attract defense or help create open shooting opportunities. Then there is Nash. After the start of the season, Nash, who will be 31 years old in 4 months, has a new life, and can even be described as reborn. He averaged 16 points, 4 rebounds and 12.9 assists per game, surpassing McGrady and Brevin Knight to rank first in the assists list! But Nash is just shocking. If he wants to be popular, he has to keep this kind of performance. The Suns have few national live broadcasts this season. Fans are only shocked by his data. Not many people have seen the Suns' gorgeous play. Historically, Nash became popular after the All-Star Weekend, when the Suns' games were broadcast more and more. He even made the league move McGrady, who was supposed to go to the Rockets, from the guard to the forward All-Star voting in the 05-06 season, and "kicked" Garnett out of the All-Star starting lineup.
And Iguodala, in a team like the Hawks that has been one of the most popular teams since the beginning of the new season, did something and became popular all of a sudden!
This thing is Iguodala's millennium killing incident!
Iguodala's action was fast and covert. In addition to the planner and the two parties involved, even the fans on the sidelines did not see it, because Iguodala's action was too much like grabbing Andre Miller's jersey or shorts with two hands. The main camera did not observe this in the multi-angle sports camera recorded and archived on the scene. There was no multi-angle playback on the scene at that time, because it was too obvious that Andre Miller pushed people, but technical fouls are fined, so foul confirmation is needed to see whether it is revoked or confirmed.
So, when the league was reviewing the technical foul footage after the game, there was a camera that just captured the scene of Iguodala's four fingers quickly leaving between the two petals of Andre Miller's forehead!
Although the whole action was not captured, this one picture is enough!
The league did not revoke Andre Miller's technical foul after the game. If it is not a flagrant foul, a technical foul must be given for pushing people with non-basketball actions.
However, the league added a missed technical foul to Iguodala after the game!
Technical fouls are fined, and the footage of technical fouls should be posted on the official website. So, Iguodala became famous!
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"Ahem, Andre, go to practice, I want to practice too!" Liu Mang drove Iguodala away with a look of resentment.
Now it is rumored among fans that Iguodala has an abnormal orientation. Although Liu Mang knows the real reason, but, if Iguodala himself believes it, it is a matter of three people making a tiger?
"Boss..."
"I'll pay the fine for you, okay? Go, go, go practice three-pointers by yourself." Liu Mang ran away decisively.
Iguodala picked up the ball with resentment, sighed, and prepared to practice three-pointers.
Although he was a little upset, his successful defense against Andre Miller revealed his vulgar side. When a defensive master is involved, in addition to the three important points of defensive skills, defensive awareness, and physical fitness, shamelessness is also very important. After his potential in this area appeared, Mike Woodson found him, hoping that he could become the team's top defensive candidate on the bench. He even hoped that he could replace McGrady and Prince to play better defense when he met muscular men such as Kobe, James, Artest, and Pierce.
But Chip Englander also found Iguodala and told him that if he wanted to get more playing time, stable open three-pointers and better open-cut awareness were essential.
Defense is more about studying the opponent's playing style and finding a suitable defensive strategy. This defensive awareness and physical fitness can quickly solve the problem. Defensive talent is very important. Sometimes it is more difficult to find a player with defensive talent than to find a player who is good at scoring in singles, but three-pointers have to be practiced hard.
"Iggy, wow, you are shooting three-pointers again. Do you want me to teach you?" Calderon teased.
"Iggy? That's a good name. I didn't expect Andre to have that kind of hobby. Hahahaha..." Josh Smith came up.
Calderon, Korver, Josh Smith, Varejao, the first and second year players in the 12-man roster, all came up to tease Iguodala's new nickname on the Internet after Liu Mang left.
Iguodala's last name is "Iguodala", but after the post-game technical foul penalty against the Nuggets, the fans changed Iguodala's last name to "Igaydala"...
"Get lost! You guys! You envy me for getting playing time, right? Don't bother me practicing three-pointers!" Iguodala drove everyone away in grief and angrily, and then comforted himself...
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Iguodala's new nickname is "Igaydala", which is transliterated into Chinese as Yi Ji. Chinese fans pronounced it as Geisha...
This nickname was also spread to the United States, and he also had a similar nickname in the United States.
For a time, Iguodala became the most popular player in the 2004 rookie class, not only because he and Liu Mang were teammates, but also because his own "playing style" was famous.
Soon, there were even brands looking for him to endorse. After Iguodala learned about his nickname in China and how "popular" it was from Liu Mang and Schwartz, he cursed XXX in his heart, then accepted the endorsement fee and smiled to shoot the commercial...
The Hawks' season did not stop because Iguodala got a technical foul and became famous. On November 12 and 13, the Hawks welcomed two weak teams at the bottom of the league.
The first was the Hornets, who were last in the Western Conference and had not won a game so far.
The Hornets collapsed inexplicably, and no one knew what happened.
Baron Davis, David Wesley, Jamal Magloire, and PJ Brown still have good data. Lee Nairon, the backup forward dug from the Cavaliers, even played an excellent performance of 14 points and 5 rebounds per game. Even the rookie high school student JR Smith, who just turned 19, can get 10 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists. The hit rate is a bit miserable, 38%, but this weird three-point hit rate is 39%!
No matter how you look at it, this lineup doesn’t look like a loss in the first 9 games, but they have lost nine games in a row. Not only that, Baron Davis played against the Wizards in double overtime in the last game, and Baron Davis broke his knee. This time the Hornets have completely collapsed. In this game, JR Smith took the starting point guard position.
Liu Mang did not hold back against this junior from the same company. He scored 19 points in the first quarter, 31 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists in the third quarter, and defended JR Smith to 2 of 9 shots, leading the Hawks to a 98-88 victory over the Hornets and two consecutive wins.
As for Iguodala, he can now be considered a broken jar. The nickname of geisha is already there, what else can he do?
Iguodala's defense is becoming more and more wretched. He doesn't need to really do anything. A gentle touch from time to time can make the opponent angry or scared.
Liu Mang's wretched defense was all learned by Iguodala...
Then he went to the home court to play back-to-back against the Trail Blazers.
Unfortunately, the Hawks failed to win three consecutive games and suffered their second defeat this season.
Although Zach Randolph is lazy, his talent and strength are beyond words. When the Hawks played the second game in 24 hours and the interior defense was weak, he broke out and scored 37 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists.
On the Hawks side, in addition to the inside, McGrady also had some problems playing back-to-back on the outside. He had to organize the offense and defend in three games in four days, and he had to share the scoring pressure with Liu Mang. He performed very poorly in this game, only getting 9 points and 7 assists, and Liu Mang's 35 points did not help.
The Hawks lost to the Trail Blazers at home 91 to 99, regrettably, and their two-game winning streak was ended. The record became 7 wins and 2 losses, and they were left behind by the 8-1 Pistons again, falling to the second place in the East, tied with the Heat.
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Winning and losing are common in the regular season. After playing for so many years, Liu Mang is used to it, and the regular season this season is not the focus of the Hawks, not to mention that the season has just begun.
After knowing that McGrady's physical fitness is not outstanding through the three games in four days, the coaching staff can understand the limits of each player more clearly. It took two full years to figure out the situation of each player of the previous generation of the Hawks championship team. Only in the last season could they distribute physical fitness so well and play a regular season record of 70 wins. If the current lineup wants to last long, pain is indispensable. These pains are where the team can find adjustments. Before the start of the playoffs, the Hawks have to adjust slowly.
Now that McGrady's physical fitness problems have emerged, reducing McGrady's pressure, or allowing McGrady's physical fitness to be more concentrated and effective, has become the key to the Hawks' current adjustment.
As for whether there will be other problems after the adjustment, that is the problem that the Hawks coaching staff wants to understand, and they can adjust slowly.
Dropping to second place in the Eastern Conference is not falling out of the playoffs. It's just nine games.
In the previous games, including the Nuggets and the Lakers, the Hawks were not particularly strong opponents. There was originally a Kings team, but the Kings were in civil strife. The previous nine games were not particularly difficult to play, but now, the real strong opponent has come!
Miami-Heat!
The same 7 wins and 2 losses, and the Heat are also regarded as the only real strong enemy of the Hawks in the Eastern Conference playoffs!
The Hawks are preparing for the game against the Heat. There are only two days of rest. The game against the Heat will be ushered in on the 16th. On the first day, because the players just played back-to-back games, they need to rest for a day, so the coaching staff is mainly studying for the next game. On the training day of the 15th, targeted tactical training will be carried out.
The morning after Liu Mang played against the Trail Blazers, he continued to practice three-pointers and high-post back-to-the-basket movements. He also practiced low-post, but no one taught him, so he set up a two-meter-high human-shaped stand to practice low-post turnaround jump shots and turn to attack the basket.
After the morning training, Liu Mang and Levia ordered two lunches together. Liu Mang's was chicken and cucumber sauce, broccoli and other tasteless food, while Levia's lunch was much richer.
After lunch, Liu Mang turned on the computer to surf the Internet to kill time, and prepared to continue training in the afternoon.
Liu Mang opened the webpage and wanted to see what the fans thought of their Hawks and Heat games. Sometimes there are some "god-level" theoretical masters on the Internet, and sometimes you can really get some pioneering ideas. Liu Mang himself doesn't try casually now, but the team has so many talented young people, so you have to try more new things!
Liu Mang plans to find more things for talented men like Iguodala and Josh Smith.
In Liu Mang's view, Iguodala and Josh Smith are both lucky and unlucky.
If you are lucky, you can play in a strong team as soon as you enter the NBA, and you may win the championship early. If you are unlucky, you will play in a strong team as soon as you enter the NBA. It is much more difficult for rookies to get more playing time than playing in a bad team. JR Smith's ability rating is only 69, a pure offensive player, but he can play in the starting position in his rookie season, while Iguodala can't.
No playing time means no exposure, so Liu Mang is going to find more opportunities for the two to become famous, so that they can get more endorsement fees!
This is for the good of the two rookies!
Liu Mang thinks he is really great.
However, when Liu Mang opened the website this time, he was attracted by the headlines before he had time to find the discussion thread of the game between the Hawks and the Heat!
The Sacramento Kings had three trades with the Philadelphia 76ers, Orlando Magic, and Milwaukee Bucks respectively! And each time it was a trade that hurt the team or was a "break or build" trade!
The Kings sold off half of Chris Webber, Doug Gristi, and Bobby Jackson, three of the six most important players in the Kings in the past few years, and then got Kenny Thomas from the 76ers, Cardinal Mobley from the Magic, and Eddie House from the Bucks.
After the internal strife at the beginning of the game, the Kings made a decision within two weeks to break up the team and prepare to break it up and then rebuild it!
Iverson's inside partner changed from Kenny Thomas to Webber!
Liu Mang felt that the NBA had changed!
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I worked overtime until more than seven o'clock today, and I hurriedly finished the remaining half of the chapter when I got home, had a meal, and tried to update before 12 o'clock... at the latest!