Chapter 949 948. How Big Is the Hatred Between Liu Mang and the Wizard?
After the first two games of the first round, except for the Hawks, Suns and Spurs, which were all leading 2-0, the other five series were strangely tied at 1-1.
In the game between the Rockets and the Mavericks, although Yao Ming still played efficiently for 35 minutes and scored 26 points and 14 rebounds, and Richard Jefferson also defended Nowitzki to 8 of 21, less than 40% of the hit rate, but the Rockets could not resist the fact that only the two of them scored in double digits today, and David Wesley was only beaten by Hades to score 3 points.
The Mavericks learned from their mistakes and directly pressed Jamal Crawford on the bench to watch the whole game, and then the Mavericks were normal. Six players scored in double digits in the game. Among the six players, Nowitzki, Stackhouse, Finley, Harris, Josh Howard and Marquis Daniels, only Nowitzki scored more than 15 points, but all six scored more than 10 points. The Mavericks won 97-91, relying on Nowitzki and Harris to score 6 points in a row at the critical moment, and locked the victory.
Yao Ming sat on the bench for a long time after the game. When he was on the court, he was an absolute strong point. The Rockets were always in an advantageous position. But as soon as he went down, the other team immediately scored a high score.
The Heat played against the Bulls and tied the score. Wade had a hard time playing against Hinrich on the outside. He only made 8 of 24 shots. If he hadn't made 11 of 15 free throws, he wouldn't have scored 27 points. Although Wade scored 27 points, his offensive performance was actually very average.
But O'Neal also broke out. He was beaten like that by Eddy Curry in the first game. He didn't expect that the fat guy on the opposite side could shoot so well.
Who is O'Neal? The most dominant center in history who has reached the finals four times in the past five years and won three championships and is the finals MVP. He didn't take the Bulls, Eddy Curry and Chandler seriously before. He got serious in the second game and scored 44 points and 17 rebounds, blowing up the Bulls' inside line.
With O'Neal's 44 points and 17 rebounds, the Heat defeated the Bulls 109-101 and tied the score.
The Supersonics relied too much on their outside shooting and met the Nuggets, who were the 1.0 version of the track and field team. In the second game, they had a mediocre shooting and were run by the Nuggets.
It was generally expected that the three series would end in a 1-1 draw.
But the Magic and 76ers in the East tied the score in the second game, which was indeed unexpected.
Iverson performed well after the All-Star Weekend, especially in the first half of April, which just ended. He averaged 24 points and 11 assists per game and won the Eastern Conference Player of the Month in April. He was quite charming and cooperated better and better with Webber. He relied on Iverson and Webber to drive the offense. In the second game, he scored 55 points and 21 assists and defeated the Pistons.
As for the Magic, the record against the Nets was not much to check. Abdur-Rahim was the Eastern Conference Player of the Month in March. After the All-Stars Weekend, he averaged 27 points and 13 rebounds per game. He raised his data to 25+10 after the All-Stars Weekend. Now he is in good shape. Abdur-Rahim, who has gained experience playing against the Nets, beat the Nets in one game.
The first round is unexpectedly interesting. The attention of the three teams that have lost 2-0 has dropped.
The Hawks rested for two nights in Washington, and had a day of training at Georgetown University on April 23. On April 24, the third game of the series between the Hawks and the Wizards began.
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The Hawks are fully prepared to lock in the advantage in the third game.
Among them, Liu Mang is the most serious one. Although he has no time to visit the capital of the United States in the playoffs, in fact, except for the president's invitation to visit the White House as the defending champions of the four major leagues in January, Liu Mang has not visited Washington properly. He doesn't have the time.
After Liu Mang entered the Telephone Booth Arena, he felt the madness of the people of the capital. Everyone was booing him.
There is no way, who made him the one who ruined their core?
"Ace, the fans in Washington are so enthusiastic!"
After Liu Mang came out last, Jason Terry, who was standing on both sides as a substitute, hooked his shoulder and teased.
Jason Terry felt that the Wizards were his lucky star!
After the first game of the series, his evaluation suddenly improved, especially the 5 minutes at the end of the first quarter when he took the lead to withstand Arenas' firepower, which made Liu Mang lead the score and was regarded as the "turning point" of the first game, making Jason Terry famous.
"Well, they will be more enthusiastic." Liu Mang was already thirsty.
At 7 pm, this game kicked off, except for the local cable TV broadcasts of the two teams in Georgia and Washington, D.C., which were handled by Time Warner, and there was no national live broadcast, and the court TV station did not broadcast the game, and it kicked off.
The five starters of the Hawks appeared, and the Washington fans booed the Hawks crazily.
Washington fans wanted to cheer up the Wizards players. They were only 0-2 behind. There were many cases of 0-2 comebacks in NBA history. Even if they couldn't come back, they hoped to see their team win a game after returning to their home court to give them some hope.
This was the last expectation of Washington fans for their players. They expected the Wizards players to give them back their expectations. In the series against the Hawks, Washington fans did not have the hope of advancing, but wanted to see the Wizards players perform as expected.
But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
After the game started, the Wizards were beaten 10-0 by the Hawks.
Liu Mang scored 8 points in a row after Liu Mang came up. Larry Hughes, who was guarding him, had no motivation to defend and did not want to chase him when encountering a pick-and-roll. Haywood also lost the motivation to block Liu Mang. Liu Mang easily ran to the outside. He made two of three three-pointers and scored eight points in a row with a layup. McGrady scored two points with a breakthrough layup and passed to Liu Mang for three assists. The Eagles led 10-0 at the start.
The nickname "Trash Brother" not only caused Arenas' emotional collapse, but Larry Hughes was also greatly affected, because even the Washington media cited this nickname. He had lost interest in playing with the Wizards. Nostalgic.
In Liu Mang's opinion, the boos from Wizards fans were because they were afraid of him! The more this happened, the more excited he became. He scored 16 points in the first quarter, helping the Hawks beat the Wizards 29-15, leading by 14 points in the first quarter.
The boos from Washington fans have become less and less. After the game started like this, how can they have the motivation to help the team boo the opponent?
The confidence of the Wizards players has collapsed. In the second quarter, the Wizards only scored 11 points in a single quarter. They only took 14 shots in a single quarter and made 7 turnovers in a single quarter!
The Eagles scored a huge score of 22 points, 33 to 11, in a single quarter.
The Eagles should not focus on defending Arenas. Arenas shot 1 of 4 in the first half and has lost the desire to shoot.
After halftime, the Eagles were 62-25, leading by 37 points!
This difference is so terrible!
After halftime, the Hawks put Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, Rasheed Wallace, and Prince off the court to rest, allowing Jason Terry to continue playing. He loved this.
To give the fans in the U.S. Capital City some face, the Hawks no longer deployed defense in the second half, so Jason Terry led Korver, Persson, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown. Seven players including Mourning, Mourning, and Mohammed were on the court to attack. Mourning played for a while and then got off the ball. He didn’t defend at all and just scored. The point difference was so big anyway.
but……
If the Wizards don't guard them, they won't be able to make a shot!
Jamison felt that he was extremely unlucky. Last year in the Mavericks, the Mavericks were eliminated in the first round. This year when he came to the Wizards, the Wizards met the Hawks in the first round. No matter how hard he struggled, it was of no use!
Larry Hughes wants to leave. Anyway, there are a lot of teams waiting to give him a big contract, and he is ready to be sold for a price.
In this series, Haywood was suppressed by Kwame Brown, who played similarly, averaging 5 points and 5 rebounds per game. He now knows that the reason why the No. 1 pick he bullied before is the No. 1 pick is because he has a future, and He didn't. The reason why he was better than Kwame Brown in the early stage was because he was already 22 years old when he entered the NBA, while he was only 19 years old at the time and was still a child...
As for Arenas... he suffers from the depression of "being afraid of cold things"... He wants to finish the series early and go home to rest. As long as he doesn't play against Liu Mang, anything will do...
The Wizards only had four capable players when facing the Hawks. These four had their own agendas, and they all played terribly. The entire Wizards team collapsed.
The Eagles didn't even have any defense in the second half, and they only scored 35 points.
The Eagles scored 51 points in the second half!
113 to 60, the Hawks beat the Wizards by 53 points!
In the fourth quarter, the fans at the scene turned against each other and started shouting "WE-WANT-ICE..." imitating the Knicks fans.
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Liu Mang didn't even expect that the Wizards collapsed like that. It was even worse than the Knicks!
After all, every one of the Knicks players hated him when they saw him. At least the players were fighting hard, but the fans turned against him, and the Wizards actually collapsed like that!
At half the game, the Eagles didn't even defend much. They actually shot 15 of 42 from the field and only scored 35 points!
Liu Mang scored 21 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists before taking a rest. He saw Jason Terry leading a group of substitutes to make the Wizards even worse...
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Just because they didn't pay attention to the Eagles in one game, the Eagles caused such a big thing!
The 53-point difference was second only to the 1973 Western Conference Finals when the Lakers beat the Warriors by 56 points, setting a new record for the largest point difference in the Eastern Conference playoffs! Moreover, it set a new record for the largest point difference in NBA history for an away team to defeat a home team in the playoffs!
The Eagles' score difference was so high that they didn't even expect it. They never expected to torture the Imperial team so badly, let alone the playoffs. They just bowed their heads and didn't look up. They had no grudge against the Wizards. I just beat them against each other all the time, but I actually got such a big score difference!
Jason Terry stopped shooting in the fourth quarter, allowing Korver, Iguodala, and Josh Smith, three rookies, to have a taste of playoff scoring. The Hawks only scored 21 in the fourth quarter. points, but the Wizards only scored 15 points in the fourth quarter.
Jason Terry didn't even play, but he still opened the point difference to more than 50 points. Jason Terry was also desperate! He didn't want this, he didn't mean it...
Not to mention they beat the Knicks by 70 points in the regular season, but they actually beat them by 53 points in the playoffs! How much hatred is there!
A game that was not broadcast live across the United States dominated the headlines!
The executives of several major TV stations are going crazy. The Eagles are "against" them! There was no massacre in the first two live games at home, but there was actually one on the road.
But there is no way, who told them that they felt that the series between the Hawks and the Wizards was no longer interesting, and they did not broadcast the one-sided game because they were worried about the ratings.
Then, major TV media, newspapers, basketball portals and forums began to discuss how much hatred Liu Mang had with the Wizards!
Although the score difference in the three games was when Jason Terry led the team, the fans felt that it was Liu Mang's problem.
The media mentioned that Arenas had lost 14 games in a row against Liu Mang, plus Liu Mang's previous abuse of the Bulls, and the fact that he only lost one game in two years of playing the 03 generation, so Liu Mang's "suppression of the same generation" was confirmed!
Liu Mang was so helpless, he had to bear the notoriety of "suppressing the same generation".
This is even more cruel than Jordan back then! Jordan only suppressed the entire league for six years, and Liu Mang started suppressing the same generation of stars directly from his rookie season!
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Liu Mang returned to the hotel after 11 o'clock, took a shower and prepared to go to bed. He would rest for a day tomorrow and continue to abuse the Wizards the day after tomorrow.
Although winning by 53 points was unexpected, Liu Mang felt that he had to beat the Wizards even more.
However, just after taking a shower and chatting with Dina on the computer video call for a while, just lying on the bed to sleep, the system prompt came.
"Ding... Congratulations to the host, the title task: Ashton, completed ahead of schedule, the host obtained the Ashton title, and was rewarded with a superstar value of 10,000 for completing the task ahead of schedule."
"Ding... The host won the fanatical pursuit of Washington fans and received 170,000 rogue points."
"..." Liu Mang didn't know what to say when he heard this task prompt. It's done?
Liu Mang got up again, surfed the forum, opened the basketball forum of the capital of the United States, and saw that all the Washington fans were scolding the Wizards. He flipped through the posts a few days ago and they were all scolding the Wizards!
No wonder the Wizards players still had no fighting spirit when they returned to their home court!
Most of the people who can go to the scene to watch the game are not those who curse online. After all, tickets for the playoffs are much more expensive than those for the regular season. However, there are hundreds of thousands of basketball fans in Washington, but only 20,000 people go to the scene to watch the game. Most of them watch the live broadcast or even don't watch the game. They start cursing after reading the statistics.
The Wizards players must have seen these posts! Just like the Hawks players pay attention to the basketball forums in Atlanta and Georgia!
Moreover, the posts that started halfway through tonight's game began to praise Liu, right in Washington's own forum.
The live broadcast of this game was broadcast in Washington, D.C., and the fans changed sides because of this game before the fourth game!
Liu Mang has been playing against Arenas in Washington for the past two years. Since Arenas came to the Wizards, the Wizards have never beaten Liu Mang.
Now in the playoffs, it is still the same.
Washington fans have experienced hope since 2001. They got Jordan and selected Kwame Brown.
Then the disappointment is that the god of basketball will also grow old, and Kwame Brown is a fake.
The most popular Jordan retired, Kwame Brown was traded away, and the Wizards fans fell into despair... But the despair didn't last long. The Wizards got Arenas, and suddenly there was hope again. In the summer of last year, they also got Jamison, who formed the three musketeers of the Imperial Guard with Arenas and Larry Hughes, giving fans great expectations, but now they are completely disappointed with the Wizards, really disappointed.
Especially seeing that Kwame Brown of the Hawks averaged 13+15 in three games in the series.
For a time, Boss Joe's "vision" in choosing Kwame Brown was affirmed, and fans felt that it was just that the Wizards didn't know how to use people.
After being completely disappointed with the Wizards, Washington fans saw the lineup of the Hawks, with so many Mesozoic players and rookies in the second and third years, and the veterans only needed to wait for the other side to hug their thighs. Washington fans seemed to have seen the dominance of the Hawks in the East for many years in the future. They felt that the Wizards could not possibly beat the Hawks.
So, Washington fans turned against them! They feel that they are not just fans of the Wizards, they are fans of the imperial capital, they can like any team and any player!
So, at 12 o'clock on the night of the game, the official website of the Washington Post gave Liu Mang a nickname "Ace Washington"!
The most authoritative media in Washington combined Liu Mang's English name with the name of Washington, the imperial capital of the United States, and gave Liu Mang the greatest praise!
The most authoritative media in Washington, even the media that can represent the image of the United States, gave Liu Mang such a nickname. Washington fans were already dissatisfied with the Wizards. In recent years, there has been nothing worthy of praise except digging Warriors players. Basketball fans in Washington, except for the diehard fans of the Wizards, have collectively turned against them!
The nickname "Ace Washington" spread overnight. It was okay in the United States, just a name, but it was completely blown up in China! This is the nickname given to the strongest player in the country by the most authoritative media in the United States!