Chapter 957 956. Hidden Dangers of the New Fighting Style
The media who were expecting the Bulls to continue to create news as a dark horse were disappointed.
They created momentum for the Bulls and let the media get slapped in the face.
But what kind of people are the media? In terms of shamelessness, they are the best!
All of a sudden, the Bulls dark horse theory was thrown aside by them, and they began to praise Liu Mang's performance of three quarters with a triple-double against the Bulls.
But Liu Mang no longer cares about their comments. These guys are completely fence-sitters. They will praise whichever side makes a bigger deal.
In the first round, the Hawks slaughtered the Wizards by 53 points, but it is obvious that the Bulls' victory over the Heat caused a stronger sensation. It was not as sensational as the Bulls' sweep of the Heat in 2007 in the original time and space, which made Kobe want to change jobs. It is still the biggest news in the first round this year.
So the media went to praise it.
Liu Mang has already understood the routines of the media. This is their job. They write what people like to see.
30+11+11 in three quarters, very impressive, and also won 33 points over the opponent, very awesome.
But Liu Mang knew that he got 16 free throws so easily today, largely because the opponent did not understand his new style of play, so he did not get complacent, but calmly wanted to use the new abilities that he could use now, and think carefully about how to better use his advantages when playing singles.
Without the ball, it is definitely the main thing. Today he was willful for once, and his teammates helped him, but if he kept holding the ball, it would not be good for the overall strength, and... it is tiring to fight monsters like this, it is not easy for one person to play one city.
Liu Mang still likes to leave the troubles to his teammates and just score by himself.
The stability of singles is very important, and it is more important to make yourself not so tired, otherwise why would you spend so much effort to get so many teammates together.
Moreover, after Liu Mang returned to the locker room for physical therapy last night, he also heard a system prompt, which made him feel some limitations of his playing style today.
After driving the little Lolita and bodyguard Christine Wagner who came to watch the game home, Liu Mang opened the system and opened the injury section.
"Due to frequent use of the strongest first step, the host's meniscus in both knees has slight structural damage, and the cruciate ligament has slight overstretching. It is recommended to use primary injury medicine for treatment."
This... a little minor injury accumulated after playing a game? How did Wade survive!
This means that he has to be treated after playing a game?
"System boss, how long will this meniscus injury affect his playing?"
"With the host's physical talent, if he keeps the style of play in this game, the meniscus will tear in about 60 games, and the cruciate ligament will be severely stretched and over-injured. After multiple tears, it will break. Meniscus tear is a physical injury and needs to be treated with intermediate injury medicine or removed. After removing part of the torn meniscus, the next tear will come faster until it breaks. The meniscus rupture cannot be restored, and the only option is to remove the meniscus."
Meniscus, this thing, will not grow back! As a professional athlete, Liu Mang understands this. Once the meniscus is no longer able to be sutured, that is, the meniscus begins to be removed, it will become more fragile, and the final result is basically to remove it.
Removal is actually okay, it will not affect too many things, but it will become a bone-to-bone collision, and the bounce will gradually decline. The meniscus is used by the knee to buffer the collision between bones.
Liu Mang feels that Wade's playing style is simply not a human style! It is completely destroying his meniscus!
Liu Mang thought of another player who destroyed his knees-Derrick Rose, but that guy seemed to have destroyed his cruciate ligament by changing direction.
And it seems that both of them fought for almost two years in their peak period, and then they were directly written off, and they were all in the third and fourth grades!
Wade fought for two years in 2005 and 2006, and the meniscus could not hold up in 2007, and the meniscus was removed in 2008.
Rose is the same. He won an MVP in 2011, and fought for another year in 2012, and then he was written off.
And these two people, after developing this brutal style of play, started to be written off before the end of their rookie contracts!
And Liu Mang's style of play in this game was basically to combine the two's styles of play, forcing the opponent to move in advance with explosive speed, using fast lateral changes to shake off the opponent, forcing the opponent to double-team in advance and then send assists, and the opponent would go directly to the basket without double-teaming in advance.
So Liu Mang's meniscus and cruciate ligament were destroyed together.
"Use primary injury potion for treatment."
Liu Mang chose treatment without hesitation. Ten primary superstar values may not get a mid-level injury potion. Primary injury potions are not worth money.
However, although there are many primary injury potions, Liu Mang still chooses to treat this breakthrough as a killer move at a critical moment.
Worrying about the knee is part of the problem, but more of it is that it is unnecessary. It is more effective to use it as a killer move at a critical moment than the conventional style of play.
The conventional style of play relying on McGrady's pass is obviously much easier than this.
As for Wade's situation, Liu Mang can suggest that the opponent should not fight so hard, but he can't control it. Liu Mang still has to take care of himself on his side.
After taking a shower, Liu Mang read the news, opened a few accounts to chat online, and then lay on the bed thinking about all kinds of messy things and fell asleep...
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The Hawks slaughtered the Bulls to kick off the second round.
The other three series began to play one after another.
On the 3rd, the Hawks conducted two training sessions totaling 80 minutes, and then rested to prepare for the game on the 4th.
On the evening of the 3rd, the Suns played against the Mavericks and the Spurs played against the Supersonics.
The Suns and the Mavericks started a scoring war. Nash, who received the regular season MVP award ceremony before the game, performed well today, scoring 13 points and 15 assists, helping Stoudemire score 44 points in the game. Although Nowitzki scored 37 points, he was defeated by Stoudemire and was carried away by Nash's pass.
The Suns scored 128 points under Nash's organization and won the first game against the Mavericks 128 to 121.
The Spurs played against the Supersonics. In the divisional semifinals, the Spurs continued their performance in the first round, 89 to 81, and made the Supersonics, who mainly used three-point shooting, cry! The Spurs are really good at defending three-pointers and the basket. Francis's breakthrough and a group of three-point shooters were all blocked. Only Lewis and Ray Allen, who have mid-range shots, can score steadily, but their mid-range shots are not as good as Kobe's, so they were killed.
On May 4, the second game of the series between the Hawks and the Bulls and the first game of the series between the Magic and the Pistons started.
After being defeated in the first game, the Bulls players came to the Philips Arena again. The mood was completely different from before the last game...