Chapter 872 871. My Name Is Terry, I Am Excited when I Play Against the Heat
After Liu Mang got the rebound, before he could pass it to McGrady, he was immediately hugged by Haslem who was following him. The Heat started hard enough and did not give the Hawks a chance to counterattack, so they directly committed a tactical foul.
The last time the Heat scored 122 points in a single game against the Suns and lost by 15 points 107-122, the Heat began to be wary of the fast counterattacks of the Hawks and Suns.
Compared with the Suns, the Heat are more afraid of the defensive "run-and-gun" team of the Eagles. Although defense is not considered a run-and-gun team, both the Eagles and the Suns are considered run-and-gun teams.
The Eagles took the ball from the sideline and Liu Mang sent the ball to McGrady.
After arriving in the frontcourt, Liu Mang saw Kwame Brown under the basket being entangled by O'Neal.
"This fat guy has lost weight and is as flexible as he was three years ago..." Liu Mang thought of O'Neal when he first played against the Lakers three years ago. Pat Riley forced O'Neal to lose weight just to make O'Neal better. He has that kind of mobility on the defensive end, unlike the previous two years when he was unwilling to move unless he encountered the Spurs or Hawks.
Kwame Brown was entangled by O'Neal and could not come out to pick and roll for Liu Mang, because O'Neal would be squeezed together with Liu Mang and Wade, and there would be no space. On the other side, Rasheed Wallace encountered Hasler. The same goes for Tom. The short Haslem is also entangled with Rasheed Wallace.
If you have no choice, just stay in position.
McGrady made a gesture to Liu Mang, dribbling with his left hand and curling the three fingers of his right hand, with his thumb and little finger stretched out, like a six. In fact, it was a special gesture for the two of them plus Jason Terry, which meant: One for you and one for me.
Liu Mang immediately ran to the left at a 45-degree angle to create space for Tracy McGrady.
McGrady singled out Ace Jones from a 45-degree angle on the right side.
It was quite a simple task. McGrady suddenly accelerated as he was dribbling. Eddie Jones was already under great pressure to defend McGrady. He was so nervous that he kept backing away. McGrady made a sudden stop inside the three-point line and shot a jumper.
In the eighth year of his career, he has never made a long-range mid-range shot with a shooting percentage lower than 40%. McGrady started the game very well today and hit a hollow shot.
The offense and defense transitioned and the Heat attacked. Originally, Wade wanted to play a few games in the beginning to let Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady know that he was different from before. Who knew that the other side actually saw through it.
Wade didn't come on his own anymore. When he saw O'Neal pressing Kwame Brown inside for the ball, he immediately lobbed it over.
The Heat started their regular play again, and O'Neal came up and made two first.
Kwame Brown followed Mourning's instructions and kept making physical contact with O'Neal when he was blocking the ball. However, when O'Neal was about to get the ball, he moved forward a little, slapped the ball down and hit his body backwards. He pressed on O'Neal who moved forward a little, pressed against O'Neal, stretched out his hand around O'Neal's huge body to get the ball!
Kwame Brown has small hands, but his arms are not short. He has the same height and wingspan as Howard, but his size is a little better. His hands have already touched the ball!
But O'Neal was so concerned about this game, how could he not think that his old rival on the opposite bench would teach the young No. 1 pick some tips on guarding him? When he felt Kwame Brown's pressing movement, O'Neal held the ball he was about to shoot. When Kwame Brown reached out and lost his defensive position, he quickly turned around and pressed Kwame Brown behind him. Take a step forward and hit the ball into the basket with both hands!
This turn is too fast!
Rasheed Wallace, who was close to the free throw line on the other side of the basket, was always ready to wait for Kwame Brown to rush in and flank him when Kwame Brown was knocked into the paint. McGrady, who was guarding Wade, was also ready, but O'Neal's The turn was too fast, only one second from turn to dunk!
Liu Mang looked at O'Neal and was really confused!
In terms of ability evaluation, O'Neal no longer has the absolutely invincible crushing ability of previous years. However, that is only for O'Neal himself. He is not as strong as before. It is different for others! O'Neal is just not as powerful as he was when he was the most invincible, but he is still the most invincible center in the league! His ability evaluation is now not as good as Garnett and Duncan, just because those two are guys who can win the best defensive player, and he is still the strongest offensive inside player in the league.
Got beaten again! Kwame Brown gritted his teeth and ran forward, it was just Gang! It's up to him not to worry about it, the offensive bosses will take care of it themselves.
Van Gundy's team always defends very well, especially when playing against the Hawks. They retreat quickly. Liu Mang receives McGrady's serve and is not in a hurry to speed up to avoid mistakes and being beaten by the opponent's fast outside trio. There is also a physical power forward who is 2.03 meters tall and plays counterattack.
After Liu Mang arrived in the frontcourt, he beckoned McGrady to come over for a pick-and-roll. McGrady came up to help Liu Mang block Wade.
"Ding...the pick-and-roll master is triggered at level 5..."
coming!
After seeing Liu Mang evade the defense, Eddie Jones knew that Liu Mang was going to explode with explosive speed similar to Wade's, and quickly pressed forward, but just as Wade's acceleration was unstoppable, Eddie Jones followed. The defense behind McGrady couldn't be blocked! He was suddenly thrown away by Liu Mang.
Eddie Jones could only chase after him to avoid Liu Mang's easy mid-range shot.
Liu Mang got rid of Eddie Jones and rushed inside. Rasheed Wallace took Haslem to the bottom corner. O'Neal could only step out to cover the defense. After being screened by Liu Mang in the playoffs last year, he accelerated and separated. He remembered the shame of the buckle.
Liu Mang didn't jump, but rushed into O'Neal's arms, slapped the ball from O'Neal's crotch, and the ball passed through O'Neal's crotch and bounced into Kwame Brown's hands in the inside. Eddie Jones had already rushed in, but was still a step late. Kwame Brown caught the ball and dunked directly to get two points.
After the dunk, Kwame Brown beat his chest and roared while returning to defense.
Liu Mang became iron-blooded when he saw Kwame Brown return a dunk. I don't know who taught him... Liu Mang remembered that it seemed that he taught it himself in the finals last year... Little Kwame did a good job!
The offense of both teams fell into a conventional positional battle. Different teams can have different playing styles. This is the most difficult point for the Eagles to defend against opponents, because the Eagles formulate the tactics and strategies of the game according to the opponent's playing style.
The Heat started with O'Neal, who made 3 of 5 shots. After two consecutive shots, Kwame Brown's many small moves consumed his physical strength. Wade started to break through the basket and made mid-range jump shots. It was mainly the breakthrough under the basket. When McGrady defended him, Wade's height disadvantage was too big, a full ten centimeters difference. The key was that the two people's speed was actually similar. Wade still chose to attack the basket as the main one. He knew that his mid-range shooting ability was still not enough, and the chance of shooting was still a little low when he was interfered.
On the Hawks side, it was said that it was a one-on-one singles, but in fact it was mainly Liu Mang's singles. McGrady's physical strength could not support him to go all out on both the offensive and defensive ends, otherwise he would not be able to play the full game.
Liu Mang once again started to pick Wade and O'Neal alone. After breaking through on both sides and having similar finishing abilities under the basket, he barely withstood the attacks of the young Wade and the aging O'Neal.
Liu Mang mainly scored, and attracted the opponent's defense and passed the ball. In the seventh minute of the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 8 points and 2 assists, McGrady scored 5 points and 1 assist, and the Hawks tied the Heat at 16!
At the beginning, the offense of both teams was very efficient, and the hit rate of both teams was more than 45%.
The game entered the official timeout.
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After the official timeout, the Hawks sent out Calderon, Jason Terry, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Rasheed Wallace.
Liu Mang sat on the sidelines. He didn't play because he wanted to give the ball to Jason Terry. Just like he was fully trusted when he came up from the bench, Coach Kruger was testing whether Jason Terry, the second-highest scorer on the team and the other of the only two players averaging more than 15 points per game, could play well enough in the rotation lineup.
The Hawks have entered the middle of the season and may have a three-month terrifying schedule every year. The Hawks need the team's second-leading scorer to make greater contributions so that McGrady and Liu Mang can get more rest time in the game.
Liu Mang does not have physical fitness, but although the coaching staff knows that Liu Mang has good physical fitness, they still have to consider Liu Mang's future and avoid playing too much in the early stage of his career.
Liu Mang did not refuse. It would be better to play more easily. Moreover, Liu Mang remembered that in the 2006 Finals, Jason Terry was the Finals MVP in the first two games! If the Mavericks had not encountered a hair whistle that year, Jason Terry would have been the top favorite for the Finals MVP.
To play against the Heat, Jason Terry needs something different.
Sure enough, Liu Mang's guess was right!
Jason Terry did not disappoint Liu Mang and started to get angry as soon as he went up!
O'Neal of the Heat team went to rest, and Wade took over the point guard position, and played with the rotation lineup of Eddie Jones, Rasual Butler, Christian Laettner, and Michael Doriak.
Jason Terry went up and hit a three-pointer directly against Wade's defense.
Then Wade broke through for a layup and was sandwiched by Iguodala and Josh Smith at the edge of the three-second zone. Facing these two top physical fitness men, Iguodala and Josh Smith completely ignored Laettner who opened up space. Wade did not expect this and was blocked by the two at the edge of the three-second zone. The shot could not go in.
Rasheed Wallace grabbed the defensive rebound from Doriak's head. The Heat needed Alonzo Mourning too much. Their backup center was too bad!
The Heat retreated quickly, and this time Wade blocked Jason Terry's three-pointer, but Jason Terry took advantage of Wade's defense to break through to the mid-range and made a quick stop jump shot, and scored again!
The king of substitutes!
Jason Terry made the score 21 to 16 in less than a minute after he came on, and the score difference was immediately widened to 5 points!
I will finish writing the next chapter before get off work and go home ~ before 7 o'clock! By the way, my friends, there is an event to update the task during the National Day. There will be official monthly ticket red envelopes at that time. Xiaofeng is hesitating whether to write 15,000 words or 20,000 words a day?