Chapter 907 906. Revenge for Every Slight

Eight consecutive wins! The record of 42 wins and 7 losses continues to rank first in the league.

If the Hawks win the next game, they will tie their team's season winning streak record, and have a chance to surpass their own winning streak record and hit the third ten-game winning streak in the league this season.

If you want to surpass, you must first tie this record.

The Supersonics also won five consecutive games. Although Ray Allen has been absent for the sixth game, the Supersonics only lost the first game in Ray Allen's absence. They quickly adjusted and now have 37 wins and 12 losses, surpassing the Spurs with 34 wins and 15 losses to rank second in the West.

The Supersonics are also lucky. They were initially regarded as a team that was sent to the kitchen. At the beginning of the season, they were used as a record cash machine for strong teams. Who knew that they would explode after getting Francis, and they actually played to the second place in the West with such a difficult schedule at the beginning.

In the middle of the season, when the strong teams started to compete to boost the ratings, the Sonics' schedule became very easy again. Ray Allen was injured at this time, and they were just in the easiest stage of the schedule. They were about to make it to the All-Star Weekend. When they came back from the All-Star Weekend, they had a chance to hit 60 wins.

Of course, after the All-Star Weekend, it was time for the seeded teams determined by the league at the beginning of the season to start harvesting wins, and the Sonics' schedule became difficult again.

Because Francis was a teammate of Yao Ming, the Sonics were also very popular in China this season. Francis, who played explosively, Ray Allen, who shot three-pointers, and even Lewis received a lot of attention.

Originally, the league regarded the Timberwolves as the last opponent of the Hawks before the All-Star Weekend, and regarded it as a big battle. T.N.T and American Cable TV also grabbed the live broadcast rights of the Hawks' match against the Timberwolves on February 10.

The Timberwolves played against Garnett. At first, the league regarded this game as a warm-up game for the All-Star Weekend, and it was scheduled to start at 9:30. The Timberwolves' three-headed monster fought against Liu Mang, McGrady and Rasheed Wallace, three All-Stars. David Stern expected this before the season started, because Garnett was very popular in both China and the United States.

Who knew that the Timberwolves would collapse so badly, and they had no playoff strength at all, and suddenly became a bully.

T.N.T and American Cable TV could only grit their teeth and continue to broadcast that game, but the court TV was different. They changed the live broadcast of the game they said they would change. They canceled the plan to broadcast the game between the Hawks and the Timberwolves and broadcast the game between the Hawks and the Supersonics today.

ESPN also added this game and had started to warm up for this game a while ago.

The Supersonics won the Hawks once before, which made this game much more popular. The Hawks lost a total of seven times this season. Every time they lost, they would become extremely violent when they played against that team again.

In addition, when the Hawks played the Grizzlies the day before, the two starters and the first substitute in the interior took a rest and went to Seattle early. It was exposed by reporters that they were just to avenge the Supersonics, which made the attention of this game continue to rise!

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Liu Mang arrived in Seattle in the early morning, and went to bed at almost three o'clock. He slept until eleven o'clock in the afternoon and finally woke up.

After a few years, I got used to it. After getting up, Liu Mang took a shower, put on his clothes, went to the gym to pedal the elliptical machine for half an hour, then took another shower and went to the restaurant to have lunch with his teammates.

When Liu Mang arrived, his teammates had already started chatting and eating.

It was almost the All-Star Weekend. The last two games, the players were very excited, and the nutritious meals tasted good.

Liu Mang was the same. For the first time, he felt that the nutritious meals were still quite delicious...

In this case, Liu Mang didn't have to worry about the team's enthusiasm.

After lunch, the players went to the rented meeting room to discuss tactics. McGrady and Stockton worked together to study how to mobilize teammates. They didn't break through and wait for teammates to run out of position to pass the ball, or simply break through to attract double-teaming and then pass the ball. Instead, they entered the state of organizing the offense from the moment they got the ball, predicting the running positions of teammates, and predicting the running positions of other teammates and where they should appear after their teammates received the ball, so that the teammates who received the ball had a good opportunity to pass or attack in the next step.

If you can predict who will score from the first pass, you will be at the same level as superstars such as Nash, Magic, Kidd, and Stockton. Among the active players, only Kidd and Stockton have this ability.

This kind of thing cannot be figured out in a day or two, or even in one or two seasons. You can only learn slowly, slowly memorize the running positions of teammates in the game, understand teammates, until a new teammate comes and you can integrate it into your own organization of offense after watching him play two games.

However, this thing is different from technology. If the technology is not fully practiced, it will not be used lightly. The awareness of organizing offense is a thing that improves a little bit. For example, remember the running habits of teammates, and even see the opponent's double-teaming during the breakthrough without looking at teammates. Know where teammates will appear.

The best player in the league is Odom of the Lakers, but Odom often overestimates his teammates. Except Kobe, no one else in the Lakers can predict that he will pass to him.

But McGrady is different. His teammates are good. As long as there is improvement, he can put it in the game.

At 1 o'clock, a team meeting was held, repeatedly emphasizing the defensive strategy. When facing the Supersonics, the focus is on defense. At 2 o'clock, a 40-minute tactical training was conducted, and then we rested and waited for the game in the evening.

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Warming up is an important part of the game. Not everyone is Kobe. If you don't warm up, you can still play a rush.

Liu Mang was very upset about the last loss to the Supersonics. He was completely killed by the opponent's three-pointers. This time, he wanted to defend the opponent's three-pointers with his teammates.

The most regrettable thing is that Ray Allen is not here. Ray Allen's absence does not make Liu Mang feel very happy. He wants to defeat the strongest Supersonics. Otherwise, even if he wins, some people will say that the Supersonics are missing the strongest player in the team.

Will Liu Mang care about the comments of netizens?

Are you kidding? Is he the kind of petty person?

He just uses a small account to criticize.

Moreover, there are "previous lessons". Most of the accounts are registered with the help of teammates, and they will never expose themselves...

Before warming up, Liu Mang received a call from Levia. His parents had slept for a day and rested well. The three girls at home, plus Liu Mang's parents, were eating dinner and waiting to watch the game.

This gave Liu Mang more motivation! He went to the treadmill to move his body to warm up, and then went to stretch.

"Ace, so excited." McGrady came to the bed next to Liu Mang, lay on it and waited for the physical therapist to help stretch.

"Of course, I want revenge!" Liu Mang said seriously.

Looking at Liu Mang's stinginess, McGrady smiled.

The NBA is simply a league of petty stars. The more he came into contact with Stockton, McGrady not only learned to organize offense from Stockton, but also learned some defensive skills. Only then did he realize that Stockton was really as stingy as the legend said!

However, stingy stars seem to have very successful careers.

This kind of stinginess is not McGrady's own, but the stinginess towards opponents. To describe it with a Chinese idiom, it is to take revenge for every grievance.

Just like how Jordan treated the smiling assassin, how Stockton used various insidious tricks in the game against his enemies, how the OK combination slaughtered and retaliated against opponents during their peak period, and the most classic example was when the Clippers did not give tickets to O'Neal's 60+20 regular season game, the peak of his career... These people were very successful, very successful.

Even Stockton, if he had not encountered the invincible Bulls dynasty, they would have been successful, but they were unlucky and became the biggest opponent of Jordan's six championships, and also the biggest loser.

But this did not prevent Stockton and Malone from having a very successful career, and Stockton finally realized his dream of winning the championship.

Seeing that McGrady didn't say anything, Liu Mang continued to express his strong will to fight: "I want to beat them! Not only a big win, but also a high score! I want revenge on them! Tracy, revenge on them with me!"

"Ding... Avengers series mission: Revenge is triggered."

"Revenge: The host's revenge is already well-known in the NBA. The host needs to take revenge to the extreme. In the game with the Seattle Supersonics, the host's team must score at least 123 points and win, and return the revenge for the loss to the Seattle Supersonics last time. Mission reward: Ray Allen 2003-2004 version of the star card. Failure penalty: Randomly deduct a first-class star strength or above star card."

The mission comes as it comes, and the style of the system has not changed for several years.

But this mission, it is rare to meet Liu Mang's wishes! The Supersonics scored 122 points against the Hawks last time. Liu Mang originally wanted to retaliate against them and get a higher score. This mission came just in time!

Moreover, the task reward is so exciting! Ray Allen star card!

This season is undoubtedly the peak year of Ray Allen's career so far, averaging 24.4 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. Although rebounds and assists are the lowest since the rookie season, the average points per game is a career high!

3.3 three-pointers per game, and the hit rate is extremely high. Only 7.3 three-pointers per game, the hit rate is 45.2%!

Liu Mang averaged 3.8 three-pointers per game, 9.2 three-pointers per game, and the three-point hit rate was 41%.

Liu Mang's three-point ability evaluation is 91, and Ray Allen's is 94. The difference is not as big as 4 percentage points. Liu Mang's forced shots are the reason for a little lower hit rate, but Liu Mang has many skill bonuses, and the forced shots actually have less impact than others.

The biggest reason for the difference in three-point hit rate between Liu Mang and Ray Allen is the difference in details between the two. Ray Allen mainly catches the ball and shoots, and his running position is extremely good.

Liu Mang's running position is not bad, but there is still a big gap compared to Ray Allen.

It is great for Liu Mang to experience Ray Allen's star card! To cooperate with McGrady, he needs better running ability.

As for the punishment for mission failure... Isn't it enough to complete the mission?

Liu Mang is now excited by the triple motivation of revenge, parents watching the game, and mission!

McGrady saw that Liu Mang was getting more excited as he talked, and he really didn't know what to say, but playing with such a stingy guy seems to win a lot of games!

The Hawks have 42 wins, and McGrady may not have won 42 wins in a season when he led the team himself before.

Thinking of his four years of leading the team alone, McGrady also thought of a guy in the opponent who changed teams like changing his life... That guy met such an excited Liu Mang tonight, and mourned for him for a second.

Then McGrady also started to get excited. The team leader was so active, so of course he had to go all out to help the leader!

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Please give me a monthly ticket. It turns out that going to bed early and getting up early is a good thing. I went to bed early for two consecutive days. When I woke up in the morning, I felt refreshed. I will continue to work hard and strive to finish writing 20,000 words during the day. I will sleep well at night. I don’t have a headache anymore, and I don’t feel sleepy anymore. My typing speed has become faster.

Please give me a monthly ticket!