February 28, 2003 at 6:57 pm.

Atlanta Phillips Arena.

The pre-game activities between the Eagles and Magic are over, and the final warm-up preparations before the start of the game.

Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff are all sitting on the court doing their pre-game actions. Eagles games always make fans find it interesting, and they compete with other teams.

A different place.

Liu Mang stood on the sidelines, wearing training clothes, swaying his body to the rhythm of the live music. The game was about to start, and he wanted to take a good look at the difference between this year's Tracy McGrady and last year's.

Tracy McGrady is also very well prepared for today's game. He is also very interested in defeating Liu Mang.

For example: Who will be the best in the future?

McGrady once jokingly said that he wanted to be Liu Mang's Pippen, but that was the impulse at the time. It is true that the kind of leadership Liu Mang showed made McGrady fascinated and wanted to follow him, but he really wanted to make McGrady willing to become McGrady's.

Jordan, at the very least, Liu Mang is better than Tracy McGrady!

Otherwise, no matter how good the relationship is and no matter how much McGrady admires Liu Mang, even if he comes to the Hawks, he will not be Pippen and can only be the boss.

Because he is indeed too strong!

And because he is not suitable for being the boss and is the strongest, the team will always become different and weird.

This season's battle for eighth place in the Eastern Conference was the beginning of testing between the two.

And because of Liu Mang's existence, in addition to the Pistons, Nets, and Pacers, the Eastern Conference has another strong team, which promotes a different historical process, puts more pressure on McGrady, and makes McGrady work harder.

More progress.

Soon, three minutes passed. At seven o'clock in the evening, the Eagles' last national live broadcast in February was broadcast. According to the TV station's time, the game started on time at seven o'clock!

The Hawks' five major players remain unchanged, but the Magic's lineup has changed greatly from last season, and it's a bit miserable.

Point guard, Jacqui Vaughn, the backup point guard of the Hawks last season, averaged 6 points and 3 assists per game. Shooting guard, Gordon Kirisek, the leading shooting guard of the Yugoslavia national team, averaged 11 points, 2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.

The small forward is Tracy McGrady, who averages 31.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 6.3 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.1 blocks per game. The power forward is Sean Kemp, the former super power forward signed by the Magic after being waived last summer, who averages 6 points and 5 rebounds per game.

Drew Gooden was acquired from the Grizzlies with the top three protected picks in 2004, and his position overlapped with Gasol's. He averaged 13 points and 8 rebounds per game.

Gooden and Ratliff came to the center circle to jump the ball.

The inside swingman usually has good physical fitness. Gooden, who has a wild style of play, uses his advantage in bounce speed to win the jump ball over Ratliff.

The Magic attack first.

McGrady advances with the ball.

coming!

Liu Mang looked at Tracy McGrady, wanting to see how Tracy McGrady, who was still three months away from turning 24, had improved compared to last year.

"Tracy McGrady, ability value 98, offense 99, defense 83, 82 three-pointers, 84 mid-range shots, 97 layups, 92 speed, 85 strength, 85 passing, 82 rebounds..."

McGrady's defense has actually improved!

Liu Mang felt like he had seen a ghost!

The ability value has been improved to the second in the league with Garnett and O'Neal. Liu Mang is not surprised. What is scary is that this year McGrady's defense has actually improved from 75 last season to 83. That is to say, McGrady has regained his strength this year.

Defensive! Indeed, McGrady was very good at defense back then. Both his sophomore and junior years were in the top seven votes for the All-Defensive Team. The second-year guard ranked seventh and his third-year guard ranked fifth. He almost made it to the All-Defensive Team.

But after his rookie contract ended and he left the Magic, McGrady's defense plummeted. This time Liu Mang saw McGrady's defense and actually came back!

Liu Mang is right when he thinks about it. Without the defensive ability value of 80, McGrady's ability value of 97 is probably the limit. That is to say, regaining defense will give McGrady the opportunity to reach the full ability value like Kobe Bryant and James at the peak!

Liu Mang was a little scared. If McGrady was picked up on defense, and if there were no injuries in two years, who would be more powerful with the little blacksmith?

It’s really hard to say!

Judging from the overall performance of this season, Kobe is definitely better. He has 40 points in nine consecutive games and has 8 wins and 1 loss. He is second in the scoring list and has a better record than McGrady. But his personal performance is definitely better than McGrady, and he is ranked MVP.

Always ahead of Kobe Bryant, of course, the number one MVP ranking is unshakable. Number 21, who smiles more obscenely than Ng Man-tat, is invincible this year.

McGrady came to the three-point line and Prince defended him.

It was not Raheem who guarded him. McGrady was a little unhappy and felt that the Eagles were looking down on him! Although Prince played a very good performance and his defense was praised by experts and media, the best single defense of the Eagles is undoubtedly

Among Liu Mang, Rahim, and Ratliff, the one who can match up with Tracy McGrady is of course Rahim.

Chewing on his braces, McGrady stood up straight and started dribbling with his center of gravity extremely high.

Prince was very calm when he saw this scene. Liu Mang had reminded him before that McGrady's seemingly wild move should not be taken lightly! He must not rush to steal it.

McGrady was a little surprised that this rookie didn't fall for the trick! Besides, he was very good at small steps and tall enough, so McGrady's dry pull-up was not a good choice.

It was a bit interesting. McGrady lowered his waist and his eyes began to become blurred...

Seeing the look in McGrady's eyes, Prince immediately moved towards McGrady. The boss said that McGrady's expression was about to show off... No, he was showing off his power!

Prince wanted to rely on his agility to deal with McGrady, a tall small forward, and put his body close to McGrady in an attempt to interfere with McGrady's rhythm.

McGrady dribbled the ball with his left hand, turned sideways and leaned against Prince with his right shoulder. Prince was very close. In terms of speed and flexibility, Prince was not afraid of McGrady at all.

Suddenly, McGrady turned his body back and swung the racket to the right with his left hand. Prince accurately predicted that McGrady was about to break through and immediately took a step back to the left.

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But! McGrady's first step was faster! Even though Prince was fully prepared, he took a step back in advance. But after McGrady's exaggerated first step, he took two big strides in a row, and Prince couldn't keep up!

McGrady entered the free throw line in three steps and continued to rush inside. Kemp immediately ran away. Ratliff saw the menacing McGrady and could not control Kemp. Muhammad had long been pulled out of the inside by Gooden. Only Ratliff

Leaf guarded the basket alone, and Ratliff felt he was enough! He was the best defensive player!

Ratliff took a step outside the collision area and judged the timing very well. He blocked McGrady's path first. As long as McGrady bumped into him, it would definitely be an offensive foul. If McGrady made a sudden stop jumper inside the free throw line, Ratliff would

It can also interfere with it.

Very perfect defensive prediction and movement. Ratliff's defense cannot be more perfect, but the most perfect defense is only the best that can be done in theory. McGrady stopped suddenly before contacting Ratliff, and at the same time

He bent his knees, bounced up on the ground, grabbed the ball with his right hand and threw it towards the basket! Ratliff quickly jumped up and tried to block McGrady's close-range pull-up.

But McGrady only bounced on the ground, just took a small step with a large amplitude, and the ball was thrown to the basket but it was not a shot!

McGrady turned around and bypassed the rushing Ratliff, entered the basket and jumped on the spot. He leaped high in the air and caught the ball that bounced off the backboard and pushed it into the basket!

The fans at the scene made a sound of surprise, and then became eerily quiet!

"Your uncle!" Liu Mang was dumbfounded! He didn't expect this scene to happen in front of him! Just a few meters away!

When Ratliff's defense was in place just now, Liu Mang thought that McGrady's goal was going to be missed, and he wanted to see a good show, but he didn't expect that McGrady actually scored such a goal in an actual game!

A self-shooting, self-grabbing two-handed dunk!

It’s not a self-shooting, self-grabbing. If McGrady wants to face Ratliff for a pull-up shot... Even if he is McGrady, it is very difficult to do this when Ratliff’s defense is in place. He doesn’t have the heart of Kobe Bryant.

Big, so I was prepared from the beginning to grab the ball and dunk myself. The "throwing shot" was just a "dribble" using the backboard.

But looking at it from another angle, this is even scarier! If you can’t make a shot and grab an offensive rebound and then dunk it in, it’s not a big deal.

But McGrady was ready to do this from the beginning, and that would be scary!

What confidence and imagination this is!

And this physical quality and execution ability are simply terrifying!

Liu Mang wants to play! He wants to play against Tracy McGrady!
Chapter completed!