Chapter 885 884. I Want to Win Against Them so Badly that I Want to Die! (Please Give Me Double Monthly Tickets)
Liu Mang leaned back in the airplane seat, listening to Mike Woodson talking about how to defend the Suns. He talked about a lot of tactical plans.
After studying all night, the Hawks had to fly to San Antonio in the west to play away the next day, on the 20th. The coaching staff studied all night.
Yesterday's game was too exaggerated. The Suns only took 11 seconds per attack on average, and took 127 shots in the whole game!
The Hawks also took 120 shots, because the Hawks had an offensive rebound advantage. With an average offensive time of less than the opponent and fewer offensive times than the opponent, they grabbed 15 offensive rebounds with a super fast rhythm, of which Liu Mang grabbed 7...
The most terrifying thing is that the Hawks shot 56% of the field goals, while the Suns were even higher, 59%!
Although the Hawks relied on the success rate to drag to the end, they were still unable to catch up with the difference of a few points.
This is the Suns. They dared to let the opponent get an average of 103 points per game, but they could get an average of 111 points per game!
In order to compete with the offensive firepower of the Suns, Liu Mang organized the offense with McGrady in this game and got 6 assists in the second half.
Liu Mang usually scores points because they usually have a big advantage on the offensive end, so they can shoot at will, but when playing against the Suns, Liu Mang can only reduce his shots and choose to organize the offense with McGrady. He chose to enter the inside line and be double-teamed to give the outside line a better shooting opportunity, resulting in only 18 points in the second half, but 6 assists and 10 rebounds, but still failed to defeat the Suns.
This made the Hawks coaching staff more afraid of the Suns, and they targeted the Suns' counterattacks, pick-and-rolls, three-point runs, and passes and cuts all night.
Mainly three-pointers and inside lines. This season, the Suns averaged 10 three-pointers per game, the first in the league, and 49 points in the inside line, both of which were the first in the league.
Since the five-small tactics were proposed by Liu Mang, Mike Woodson found Liu Mang one by one after making many defensive plans against the Suns, wanting to hear Liu Mang's one thing.
Listening to Mike Woodson's chatter, Liu Mang wanted to say: The Suns can't make it to the finals, stop working so hard!
But think about it, what if it happens? Bowen of the Spurs can only play less than 20 minutes in a game now, otherwise his foot injury is likely to relapse. Bowen repaired his ankle injury in the summer, but the problem of habitual dislocation is still unavoidable.
The Spurs' outside supplement is Bonzi Wells, who is good at offense but not enough at defense...
But it seems that the Spurs defeated the Suns by offense, and Liu Mang is not so worried about the Suns.
But they still have to play the Suns once in the regular season, so to prepare better for the next game, Liu Mang just listened to Mike Woodson's tactical explanation.
Mike Woodson didn't care whether Liu Mang was impatient or not, and talked about his own tactics, and then suddenly had an idea and ran to find Stockton to continue discussing.
After Mike Woodson left, McGrady sat down and said to Liu Mang: "Ace, aren't you unwilling? I can't wait to play against the Suns right now. I want to beat them!"
"Unwilling? No, I'm not," Liu Mang rolled his eyes at McGrady: "I just want to win against them and want to die!"
Liu Mang looked fine, but he was upset about the game with Nash!
He said it was nice, and hugged Nash after the game, and praised Nash in the post-game interview.
However, thinking of Nash's almost unstoppable shots and various exquisite passes that revitalized the Suns, and the key was that he lost, Liu Mang felt unhappy.
It was only when he thought that the Suns would never make it out of the Western Conference Finals that Liu Mang felt a little better.
Something must be done to balance it out, otherwise there are so many other games in the regular season, what if he is affected by the loss to the Suns?
Liu Mang kept this "favor" in his heart and waited for the next game against the Suns.
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Liu Mang scored 48 points, 17 rebounds and 10 assists, and McGrady scored 31+17. The performance of the two was very crazy. Liu Mang got a super triple-double for the second time, which made people see his explosive power on the rebounding end. His average rebounds per game increased to 7.4, and his averages of 36.4 points, 7.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game were astonishing.
McGrady also got 17 assists against Nash, which was also very impressive.
However, Nash's 41+15 data, scoring less than Liu Mang and assists less than McGrady, but he led the team to win!
Nash explained what it means to organize an offense!
After this game, the Hawks' record dropped to 33 wins and 7 losses, while the Suns' record improved to 35 wins and 7 losses. Since the Hawks played two fewer games, the Suns are now one win ahead of the Hawks!
Nash's position as the favorite for MVP is more stable.
Just as the Hawks coaching staff pays more attention to the Suns, almost all fans think that the Suns have a chance to win the championship!
Their offense is too crazy!
Nash's crazy performance completely overshadowed Liu Mang's 13th 40+ of the season.
With the increase in the number of live broadcasts of the Suns in the United States, especially the victory over the Hawks, the Suns became very popular!
The Suns have played against 24 of the 29 opponents, and won the first game against these 24 opponents, and have won 35 games, which makes the fans feel too crazy.
The Suns gave people a crazy feeling, even more than the 70 wins of the Hawks last season, mainly because the Hawks' lineup was good. They were not optimistic at the beginning because of the Big Dog incident. The Hawks had made it to the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years, so it was normal for their strength to explode.
The Suns have never entered the playoffs since Kidd left. Last season, they had the sixth-worst record and got the seventh pick, which was for the Bulls.
The Suns' counterattack made the fans seem to see the Hawks in the 2001-2002 season, and it was even crazier! Because they counterattacked in the wild West! The chances of counterattack in the West are much harder than in the East!
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The Hawks came to San Antonio and will play the Spurs tomorrow
Modern people cannot live without electronic devices. The first thing Liu Mang did when he arrived at the hotel room was to turn on the computer to read the news and forums.
Seeing that the Suns' chances of winning the championship predicted by major media have ranked second, surpassing the Heat and Spurs, and some media even ranked the Suns' chances of winning the championship above their own team, that's not all, the reactions of major media and fans are "Nash is the MVP of this season", Liu Mang wants to play against the Suns again immediately: I must win next time!
"Ding... Avengers series mission: MVP battle triggered."
Short and concise, I think there will still be one chapter before 7 o'clock, write more to get the feeling for National Day.