Chapter 977 976. That Guy Is Going to Cause Trouble!

Liu Mang leaned on the sofa and said lazily: "Today, for us, it's like going back to last month. We started from the beginning again. The finals became a best-of-three system. It's really miserable. We don't have the home advantage yet..."

"Boss, we still have the home advantage! After this game, we will return to Atlanta and have two more home games... Ouch..." Iguodala didn't finish interrupting and screamed.

"You are so talkative!" Liu Mang kicked Iguodala, who was sitting next to him, to the ground.

"Ignore the intellectually disabled rookie just now. What was I talking about... By the way, we don't have the home advantage yet," Liu Mang continued, "It seems that we still have two home games, but if we lose tonight's game, then we only need to lose one of the next two games, and we will be finished. We are so miserable..."

Listening to the seriousness of what Liu Mang said, the players felt... a lot more relaxed. Liu Mang looked like he was not worried at all, as if he was talking about someone else's business.

It's rare to see Liu Mang in such a lazy state. His teammates didn't know what Liu Mang was up to. It was so strange!

"Ace, do you have a new way to deal with the Spurs?" Jason Terry, who was very familiar with Liu Mang, looked at him.

"Method? No."

"..."

Liu Mang's answer was too decisive!

His teammates were a little confused. What stimulated Liu Mang?

Jason Terry looked at McGrady, Kwame Brown, and Iguodala, who usually played with Liu Mang more, and found that they were as confused as themselves!

What happened to Liu Mang? He suddenly became like this... The Hawks players were distracted by Liu Mang's performance in the return game, and they were all curious, why did Liu Mang suddenly become like this?

At this time, the Hawks players temporarily forgot about their previous worries about the game...

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Successfully mobilized the teammates who were immersed in the negative thoughts of "what if we lose the third game after losing two games in a row", Liu Mang used this question to pull his teammates out of the mentality of being afraid of losing again after losing, which might lead to continued losing streak.

There are too many uncontrollable factors in the finals. For example, in the fourth game, the Spurs' increasingly fierce defense made the Hawks players more "passionate". They held a team meeting in the hotel late at night and produced a bunch of "meeting results" to make the Hawks players believe that what they wrote in the factors listed as "reasons for losing" is true!

Although the meeting was held by eight core players, the final "meeting results" were also known to everyone else.

The Hawks players subconsciously thought that those things were "laws".

For example, the Hawks' three-point shooting was not as good as the opponent's, and the Spurs' defense was better than theirs... There was also an "objective factor" used to comfort the Hawks players, such as "the referee did not help", which made the Hawks players feel that they lost to the Spurs for "a reason".

After two days of deep thinking about this kind of thing, Liu Mang found that those bullshit "objective factors" became the culprits that restricted their psychology!

They are still too young. Veteran Rimoen has never played in the finals. In the finals against the Lakers last season, the Hawks won without being "psychologically affected". This is the first time that the Hawks players have encountered a finals with huge challenges, which has caused them to lose focus.

Now Liu Mang is very sure of one thing. No matter what advantages and disadvantages they have, the Spurs are also unable to run out of space. Only Ginobili can occasionally show the effect of a breakthrough killer when he breaks through from the outside to the inside. Only Ginobili, Duncan and Bonzi Wells can remain stable in singles. The rest of the Spurs have good shooting opportunities only when they are double-teamed when these three play singles.

These objective factors are the same for the Spurs and the Hawks, except that the three of them scored more goals. In addition, veterans such as Robert Horry, Bowen and Brent Barry seized those open opportunities. The Spurs scored two or three more goals in each game, and they won the game.

How can the other team have so many advantages while the Hawks have none? It's just a simple question of whether the ball will go in or not!

Liu Mang wanted to be aggressive, just do it!

If they win, they will have a lot of initiative, and they may win the championship when they return to Atlanta. If they lose... it's a bit miserable, but it has come to this situation. What else can they do if they don't play like this?

Liu Mang's carefree mentality confused his teammates and temporarily put aside those negative emotions.

After the afternoon break, Coach Kruger wanted Liu Mang to hold a player meeting to motivate his teammates.

However, he didn't expect that when he came in the afternoon, he saw that the players were all weird, as if they didn't pay much attention to tonight's game.

Coach Kruger was puzzled. Is this situation a good thing or a bad thing?

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Dawn is just around the corner!

The Spurs players are now more calm!

From 0-2 which was a bit sad, to now 2-2, the fifth game is a home game, and the Spurs have a great psychological advantage again. The Spurs players are now in high morale.

Ginobili was very excited. After four games, he averaged 19.1 points per game and Duncan averaged 19.9 points. However, Duncan's shooting percentage was very low, only 42%. Ginobili's shooting percentage was the entire Series high, 48 percent.

Some experts and media said that if the Spurs win the championship, the Argentinian may win the Finals MVP!

Duncan, on the other hand, is not affected by this at all. Who cares about the MVP? Winning is more important.

The Spurs are all in good spirits.

Anyway, at this time, Ginobili seemed to see the restless expressions shown by the Hawks players after their advantage was lost, just like in the three series they played before this round of the finals.

Ginobili wanted to see Liu Mang show such emotions.

but……

After the Hawks players walked out of the tunnel under the boos of the fans, Ginobili looked at the Hawks players and couldn't tell whether they were "anxious" or "uneasy". They just looked like that. I don’t know how to describe the feeling.

A little awkward.

This awkward feeling made Ginobili feel weird, and he quickly shook his head. After Nesterovich was the first to appear, he was the second to run out of the tunnel...

Players from both teams came to the court for final warm-ups.

After Liu Mang came on the court, he was no longer thinking about "how to use his advantage" like in the previous three games, but how to put the damn ball into the basket and stare at the Spurs' troika.

Parker defended against off-ball movement, Ginobili defended his mid-range shots, Nesterovich blocked the basket, and Duncan provided supplementary defense. Horry's position may be that he may be Bren. Te Barry may also be Bowen's jam...

All are troublesome characters.

Parker felt Liu Mang's eyes sweeping over him, and felt that his hair was about to stand on end!

This feeling is so uncomfortable!

Parker had a feeling that the guy opposite might cause trouble again today! This feeling is so familiar!

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"System boss, use the Wade star card!" Parker didn't feel wrong, Liu Mang was going to cause trouble!

"Dwyane Wade 2004-2005 version, ability evaluation 92, offense 95, defense 88, 62 three-pointers, 79 mid-range shots, 98 layups, 93 speed, 89 strength... 60% fit, timeliness Single game, matching bonus is in progress..."

"Ding... the host's temporary ability evaluation is 93, the right-hand three-pointer is 92, the right-hand mid-range shot is 90, and the right-hand layup is 95... The explosive power is temporarily greatly improved, the layup evaluation is temporarily increased to 95, and the strength is temporarily increased to 88..."

I used to think that second-year Wade's star card was useless, but now, Liu Mang feels that whether it is useful or not is one thing, it is more important if he doesn't cause trouble and he has no hope!

Anyway, let’s talk about it after using it!

At 5:59, under the urging of the referee, Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air and stepped onto the court. Tonight, let’s fight! There are so many star cards, fight each one one by one!

I'll keep it short and concise. I've only written about 8,000 words but I can't finish it after about 6,000 words. Let's continue tomorrow. There are still two or three days left. Friends, please bear with me. I can resume updating next week. I’m too embarrassed to ask for votes, so friends, why don’t you guys go and post comments there? Let’s continue to bankrupt the rich!