Chapter 877 876. The Starting Point of the Road to Transcendence
"I'm going to be the scoring champion again."
"Oh, I've won it ten times."
"I can win the championship after winning the scoring champion!"
"Oh, I've also won it six times."
"I can win the MVP after winning the scoring champion, and then I can win the championship!"
"Let me think about it, it seems that I have won it four times."
"..."
"By the way, I also won the first defense six times when I won the championship."
"..."
Liu Mang turned back to his own half in grief and anger, and then shot a basket and looked at the Bobcats players fiercely.
The Bobcats players heard the conversation between Liu Mang and Jordan, and then saw Liu Mang's fierce eyes. Okafor was so desperate! It wasn't those words he said, it was Jordan!
Boss Joe is so happy now. Before the game started, he talked to Liu Mang and asked him how he was doing recently, whether he was happy playing, and whether he had achieved any achievements. Then he crushed Liu Mang with hard honors. He didn't even need to use any soft honors. He just used the honors that Liu Mang had to directly fight hard, making Liu Mang retreat in shame and anger.
It feels like Boss Joe, who has been in a bad mood for a long time this season, has finally been relieved.
That kid has been getting more and more arrogant recently, especially after winning the championship, he has become even more arrogant, and even his teacher has been implicated several times, especially Liu Mang's team also accepted Stockton and Malone to work, which made Jordan most unhappy.
As for the Hawks, they originally had a friendly relationship with the Jazz. In history, there have even been cases of sending superstars who wanted to go to cities where whites and multi-skinned people live in a certain way. Jordan just pretended not to see this.
His paranoid personality is fully revealed.
This is the superficial attitude shown by Jordan. In fact, he is very dedicated to this team. Except for the poor draft, poor trades, and poor selection of head coaches..., he is really dedicated.
Like now, although the team has to play badly, Jordan still hopes that the team can win a few games, preferably against those strong teams, so that the players can find some confidence in the process of playing badly.
I don't know why, the Bobcats, who have only won 5 games so far this year, have played well every time they played against the team that won the scoring title!
Playing against the Lakers, Okafor went wild, and they won. Playing against the Hawks for the first time this season, the team made 14 three-pointers, and they won. Playing against the Heat, O'Neal made 8 of 29 free throws, and they won. Playing against the 76ers, the 76ers just traded for Webber, and they won during the pain period.
Except for the win against the Hornets, 80% of the games the Bobcats won this season were against the top-scoring teams.
So today, Boss Joe came to watch the away game for the first time. In the five games he won before, except for the win against the Hornets, he watched the game to thank the Hornets for their contribution in Charlotte before, but he didn't watch the other four games because he didn't want to see his team being abused by those super scorers, but who knew, they actually won all of them!
Although he was beaten by the Heat in the latter two games with less than 70 points, and was beaten by Iverson 30+15, Boss Joe didn't care about those. For Deron, Wade Felton, and Paul, losing is what he deserves, and he is very confident now, thinking that the Bobcats can help him beat Liu Mang.
He really believed what Jordan said when he thought his team was playing against a super scorer with divine help!
He was so confident!
On the other side of the half, the stimulated Liu Mang and McGrady looked at each other, and McGrady nodded to Liu Mang.
McGrady and Liu Mang went to greet Jordan together. Almost all the players of the Hawks went to greet him, but only Liu Mang was left to chat for a few words, and then he came back in grief and anger. Without thinking, you know that Liu Mang must have been mad at Jordan. Although he didn't know how he was mad, McGrady didn't care about it.
McGrady was thinking: If Ace shoots more, will I have a better chance to be the assist king?
The game is about to start, and Boss Joe looks at his players on the court with hope, expecting his players to kill all sides.
Then... I saw a waste who Jordan himself thought was too wasteful!
Liu Mang rushed to the inside for the first five balls, and after receiving the ball, he did his best to attack the basket, relying on footwork to layup, layup with the same hand and foot, and once dunked over Okafor after Kwame Brown's pick-and-roll!
He made 3 of 5 shots at the start!
He also caused a foul and made two free throws, scoring 8 points at the start!
The Bobcats didn't score a point in 3 minutes. The Hawks' defense was much more active than the last time, and they defended the Bobcats' mid-range and long-range shots very well. The much faster defensive rotation than at the beginning of the season did not give the Bobcats a chance to breathe on the outside!
The last time the Hawks played against the Bobcats, there were two problems on the defensive end. One was that they looked down on their opponents, and the other was that the Hawks played a regular positional battle, while the Bobcats played a basically unorganized and undisciplined style of whoever had the ball would shoot. Except for Brevin Knight, backup point guard Jason Hart, and small forward Gerald Wallace, no one else could pass the ball. They all shot as soon as they received the ball, relying on a three-pointer with a hit rate of more than 50% to kill the Hawks.
But now, the Hawks are very good at defending this kind of team. At the beginning, they prevented the Bobcats from shooting three times and Liu Mang stole Brevin Knight once, and the Hawks counterattacked continuously.
As long as the Hawks started to counterattack, Liu Mang got a chance to catch the ball in the frontcourt through his teammates' pick-and-roll or running, and rushed directly to the basket! Although Okafor's defense was good, he still couldn't prevent Liu Mang's impact on the basket.
8 to 0, the Hawks showed a completely different image from the last time they played.
There was no contempt, and they even played as hard as they did against the Heat!
Just as the coaching staff expected, the last loss to the Bobcats became the most shameful thing in the hearts of the Hawks players. This time they will not give the Bobcats a chance, just like the Warriors in the future will lose to the Lakers once a year, and then abuse them three times!
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He played 7 minutes in the first quarter and scored 11 points, 6 minutes in the second quarter and scored 7 points, and played the entire third quarter and scored 24 points! Liu Mang made 14 of 27 shots in three quarters, 4 of 7 three-pointers, 10 of 12 free throws, and scored 42 points!
After the three quarters, Liu Mang was very upset when he saw Jason Terry, who scored 13 points in 11 minutes in the first half and widened the gap to 20 points.
When Liu Mang left the court after playing for 7 minutes in the first quarter, the score was 16 to 7, and the score was 29 to 18 after the first quarter. However, at the beginning of the second quarter, Jason Terry made three consecutive three-pointers. When Jason Terry played for more than ten minutes, the score had become 45 to 25!
Liu Mang could only force himself to play the entire third quarter, and he had no chance to play in the fourth quarter. He watched Jason Terry and the substitutes score points.
Liu Mang felt that if the score difference had been more than ten points, he could have scored another wave in the last quarter, but it was all ruined by this headband man!
Liu Mang completely ignored the fact that he scored 24 points in the third quarter and played a single quarter score of 41 to 25 with McGrady who got 8 assists in the single quarter. He personally widened the score difference from 59 to 39 at the end of the half to 36 points of 100 to 64...
He stared at Jason Terry who got 5 points and 3 assists in the last quarter and imitated McGrady to play "all-round" for a whole quarter. Liu Mang found that Jason Terry ignored him, which was too much!
However, seeing that he got 42 points in three quarters, which was more than 38.1 points, Liu Mang was satisfied.
He did it as soon as he said it! McGrady got 15 assists in three quarters, and 7 of them were directly passed to Liu Mang. He was so decisive. Starting from the game against the Bobcats, McGrady began to help Liu Mang fight Jordan!