Chapter 909 908. Seattle Pervert Team

Seeing that Francis was not angry, Liu Mang did not care. Trash talk is a waste of saliva. If it is useful, it is a surprise. If it is useless, it is useless.

Compared with the past, Francis' biggest growth this season is his mentality.

The difference between the core of a bad team and the core of a strong team is vision. Vision determines the mentality of looking at things.

In a bad team, there is no chance to compete for the championship. Whether you can enter the playoffs is a problem. How can you have a long-term vision? You just think about competing with a certain player, thinking about what small loss you suffered last time, how to get back next time, the opponent gave me a punch insidiously, I will kick him back next time...

Francis used to be a stingy person, and his vision was limited to those small things.

Liu Mang is also stingy, but his revenge targets are very simple. No matter if the opponent fouls him, or the opponent beats him, or the opponent defends him, he has only one goal for revenge, which is to lead the team to beat the opponent in the next game.

They are all stingy players. Vision determines mentality, mentality determines behavior, and behavior determines the future.

But now Francis has played for a strong team for half a season, and it is a team that he changed himself. His vision has been improved. He has accumulated grievances with Liu Mang for many years, but he now wants to win the game instead of competing with Liu Mang alone, otherwise he would have thrown the ball directly to the top of the arc in the first round like before.

Francis came to the place that really suits him at the age of 28.

When Liu Mang stepped onto the free throw line, he only thought of one thing-Ray Allen met such a suitable point guard for him, will there still be the Celtics Big Three? Will there still be the Thunder Big Three?

Not caring that the trash talk didn't work, Liu Mang stepped onto the free throw line and hit it steadily.

After only two minutes, the Hawks led the Supersonics by 5 points, 8 to 3!

After Liu Mang made the free throw, he immediately retreated. The Hawks' positional defense was well set, waiting for the Supersonics to advance.

Francis came to the three-point line, and Liu Mang continued to defend. He was not afraid that the opponent would not break through. The opponent's pick-and-roll three-pointer threat was obviously greater. Lewis's long-range shot was too powerful.

Francis' strongest point was breakthrough. Liu Mang believed that he would not make up for the breakthrough opportunity in front of him. As long as Francis started to break through, their rotation defense would be able to start.

As Liu Mang expected, Francis once again forced him away with his strong body and broke into the inside. Liu Mang immediately chased after Prince's defender. McGrady came up to defend Francis, and Prince also chased after McGrady's defender. The high-speed rotation defense continued!

When Francis broke through to the free throw line, McGrady had already switched defense, but Francis' rhythm was a little different this time. When he squeezed Liu Mang away, he did not accelerate! Instead, he waited until McGrady was one step ahead of him before he started to accelerate!

McGrady just moved in front of Francis, still with a forward momentum, Francis accelerated in the direction McGrady was rushing towards, played a rhythm difference, and rushed into the inside from McGrady's side!

Jerome James' other abilities are not good, but he is very strong in blocking people. He tightly entangled Kwame Brown. Francis rushed into the basket and jumped high, easily dunking with a tomahawk!

He is not just a passer! Francis was the most violent guard back then!

It can be regarded as a return for Liu Mang's three-pointer just now, or a return for McGrady and Rasheed Wallace's dunks!

Francis's tomahawk dunk over two people in a row detonated the cheers of the fans on the scene.

Kwame Brown had no choice on this ball, the opponent went straight into the inside like that, and he was still blocked.

Francis took advantage of a shortcoming of the Hawks' high-speed rotation defense, which is the kind of defect that the Mavericks and Bulls cannot defend against when they encounter a strong outside player with singles ability.

Liu Mang, McGrady and Prince looked at each other and understood each other's intentions. They had to change their defensive strategies.

After receiving the serve from Kwame Brown, Liu Mang passed the ball to McGrady, who pushed forward.

The Hawks did not force a fast break. The opponent had Francis, so they could play a defensive counterattack. However, if they made a mistake in the fast break or missed the shot and the opponent grabbed the defensive rebound, it would be troublesome for Francis to start a fast break.

After reaching the frontcourt, McGrady signaled Liu Mang to continue cutting and playing off-ball pick-and-roll with Rasheed Wallace.

Liu Mang led Francis to cut inside, and Rasheed Wallace went to the free throw line to help Liu Mang block Francis.

At the same time, McGrady suddenly accelerated, and his long legs took an explosive first three steps, leaving Antonio Daniels behind!

Francis and Lewis were still hesitating whether to defend against double-teaming Liu Mang or switch defense to defend both of them. Liu Mang had just run from the right side of the three-second zone to the left side with the pick-and-roll, and suddenly McGrady also appeared on the right side of the three-second zone!

Francis and Lewis were about to vomit blood. This was going to drive someone to death! They quickly double-teamed McGrady who had the ball.

Francis, Lewis, Antonio Daniels, and Jerome James under the basket all focused their attention on McGrady. Unlike the young team who ignored McGrady who was suppressed by Liu Mang last season and helped Liu Mang this season, most of the players in the Supersonics entered the NBA at the same age as McGrady!

McGrady didn't even bother to look at it. He jumped up and completely attracted the defense, then threw the ball from behind his head to the top arc.

Liu Mang rushed to the top arc with the explosive speed of the pick-and-roll master and just caught the ball. He made a 180-degree turnaround jump shot at the top arc!

“Ding… Level 5 of the Quick Shooting Master is triggered. This shot ignores the impact of running on the ball-catching shot, and the shooting speed is increased by 30%…”

Liu Mang felt great when he turned over and shot the jump shot. It felt like he was standing and shooting the ball. As soon as the ball was thrown, Liu Mang knew it would definitely go in!

Liu Mang put his hands behind his ears and just closed his eyes when the ball fell into the basket!

He was so confident. Four Supersonics players went to double-team McGrady. Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown had a great chance to attack the offensive rebound. Liu Mang would be stupid not to shoot. Even if he didn’t go in, it would probably be a “2+1”.

When the fans at the scene saw Liu Mang’s pretentious actions, a large number of fans raised their middle fingers and booed violently.

McGrady looked at Liu Mang’s pretentious actions. He had felt that something was a bit strange before. He had always felt that something was strange, but now he understood why Liu Mang was always so confident in shooting such difficult balls?

The more difficult it is, the more confident he is!

This kind of shooting hit rate is not as high as when receiving the ball in an open position, but as long as it goes in, it can leave a deep impression on opponents and teammates, just like Jordan and Kobe's buzzer-beater hit rates are not high, far lower than James, but both are regarded as the best key ball players in history, while James is criticized for loving to pass the ball at critical moments, because the key points of the impression left on people are different!

Liu Mang's two consecutive difficult three-pointers made the focus of the Sonics' defense begin to change.

Liu Mang scored 7 points in a row, pulling the score to 11 to 5, a 6-point difference!

Offense and defense switch, Sonics attack.

The Hawks switched defense, McGrady went to the top arc waiting for Francis to advance, and Liu Mang went to defend Luke Ridnour.

Defending against the Sonics' high-speed rotation, Francis' breakthrough could not be prevented, and the Sonics did not dare to double-team easily. The opponent's three shooters were too accurate. The three-point shooting rate of the Sonics team ranked second in the league, second only to the Suns.

Breaking through McGrady, Francis stared at McGrady with full concentration. He couldn't break through with just his body like Liu Mang did, because McGrady's physical fitness was much stronger.

In particular, Francis was angry and fearful when he saw McGrady's squinting contemptuous expression.

"Don't look down on me!"

Francis felt that McGrady's expression was looking down on him!

Francis suddenly exerted force, slapped his left hand on the ground, and accelerated suddenly.

McGrady really didn't look down on Francis. He was nearsighted and didn't like to wear contact lenses. When he didn't wear glasses, he could see clearly even if he was close, but he would still squint his eyes habitually.

Facing Francis' acceleration, he quickly moved to the left and rear, trying to stick to Francis to get into the inside line. At this time, Francis seemed to have iron knees. While moving, he kicked his right leg forward, and the shoes and the floor made a violent friction sound. Francis suddenly changed direction and bounced to the left.

At this time, Lewis, who was passing by the baseline, happened to be passing with Rasheed Wallace. Francis passed the ball to Lewis, and then went up to block Rasheed Wallace.

Lewis came to the left side of the three-second zone and turned over and jumped, and he also scored!

7 to 11, the Sonics were close to the score!

Despite the absence of Ray Allen, the Sonics are still very strong! That kind of stability is too strong! Hard to defend!

If you defend the opponent alone, you will run, and if you switch to defend Francis at a high speed, you will break through, and the three shooters are accurate.

If the Sonics were so easy to deal with, it would be impossible to play until this time, and still surpass the Spurs and the Celtics to rank second in the West!

Because the rhythm on the court was unconsciously brought up, the scoring efficiency of both teams was super high!

At the beginning of the Hawks, McGrady organized the offense, which was very effective. He began to use more of his memory of his teammates' running routes and the combination of his teammates' threats and his own threats to pass the ball. Although he still mainly passed the ball to his teammates and shot directly, he did better.

The Sonics relied on Francis's breakthrough ability, three shooters running, Jerome James holding Kwame Brown at the basket, and a seven-foot-tall physical man standing there was a threat.

The scores of both teams continued to rise, and the official timeouts failed to stop the offensive firepower of the two teams, making both teams dare not easily change players to break the good cooperation.

In the ninth minute of the first quarter, the Hawks called a timeout first.

24 ​​to 21, the score difference was only three points chased by the Sonics. If the next offensive shot missed, the opponent would score a three-pointer and the score would be tied!

Liu Mang played for 9 minutes and scored 14 points, and McGrady scored 2 points and 5 assists in 9 minutes.

The opponent's Francis scored 4 points and 5 assists, Lewis scored 8 points, Ridnour scored 4 points, Antonio Daniels scored 3 points, and Jerome James dunked a dunk, scoring a total of 21 points.

Francis really became a different person when he arrived at the Supersonics. He had a group of teammates who were good at running. He only needed to attract the defense and pass the ball. He played very well.

During the timeout, the Hawks made a substitution, replacing McGrady with Jason Terry. McGrady had to defend and break through the ball. It was just right to play 9 minutes in the first quarter, so he could continue to maintain his best condition after a good rest.

Liu Mang did not return to the bench during the timeout. Anyway, he knew what tactics to play by looking at how the coach made substitutions. He continued to practice shooting on the court to maintain his touch.

Seeing that Alonso Mourning was not substituted as usual, but Jason Terry, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Muhammad were substituted, Liu Mang knew that he was going to start playing!

On the Sonics side, Francis continued to play, Ronald Murray, Danny Fortson, Lewis, and Reggie Evans came on the bench.

Liu Mang looked at the short center Reggie Evans who came on the bench. He looked so familiar, and he suddenly remembered that he was a rebounding maniac!

"Ding... Reggie Evans, ability rating 71, offense 59, defense 80, three-pointer 40, mid-range shot 40, layup 70, speed 81, strength 93, rebounding 99... 4 points and 9.5 rebounds per game..."

He is indeed a rebounding maniac!

A super-specialized guy who relies on fierce defense and rebounding to reach the starting level!

This rebounding is also amazing, higher than O'Neal and Kwame Brown, comparable to Garnett and Ben Wallace!

But what does that shot mean... 40-40-70 shooting measurements...

Danny Fordson, with an ability rating of 68, was the 10th pick in 1997. He is also a rebounding maniac. He once averaged 16 rebounds per game in a single season with the Warriors, but he only played 6 games that season. During a crazy Rodman-style rebounding jump, an accident occurred and he fell to the floor with a broken kneecap. He was out for the season. His condition declined significantly in the second season, but he also averaged 11.7 rebounds per game.

However, as he approached 30 years old, his physical fitness began to decline significantly, and his physical fitness declined due to a broken knee. Now he is no longer as brave as he used to be.

But he is still a fierce rebounding maniac.

Liu Mang didn't know who Danny Fordson was, but he saw that Fordson averaged 5.6 rebounds in 12 minutes per game this season, and as a 2.01-meter forward, his rebounding ability rating was 95. He had almost no other advantages except rebounding. He knew that he was one of the rebounding maniacs of the Supersonics.

Ronald Murray, 67 ability rating, a homeless man who has changed four teams in his third year, averaging 7 points and 3 rebounds per game.

The Sonics don't have a player with double-digit rebounds, but they can maintain a net advantage of 3 rebounds per game, which is a key reason why they can play such a good record. There are seven or eight players who average more than 3 rebounds per game!

After the timeout, the Hawks have the ball.

Since the opponent has replaced a group of perverts, Liu Mang can't let the opponent's rebounding advantage play out, and can't give the opponent a chance to fall into a positional battle!

It's time to start playing!

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