It's a joke. What Liu Mang's trash talk is trying to convey is that Billups hasn't learned how to actually draw fouls.

What Billups understood was: Liu Mang is a star and has a star whistle, but he is not a star and has no whistle.

Liu Mang made all three free throws steadily, and his free throws were very stable.

Offense and defense transition, the Pistons attack.

After Billups advanced, he dribbled for a while, and couldn't wait for Hamilton to slowly consume Prince's energy. With 10 seconds left, he took a shot against Liu Mang's defensive three-pointer!

The reason why Billups, who often shot over 30% from the field, was called a parallel import back then was mainly because he was too tough! And he made too many stray shots. This time his three-point shot went "bang" without any suspense.

The sound hit the basket!

rebound!

Ratliff resisted Ben Wallace, and Muhammad easily pushed past Clifford Robinson to get the defensive rebound.

The Eagles have an absolute advantage over the Pistons, which is rebounding!

Although the Pistons have Ben Wallace, the rebounding leader who averages 15 rebounds per game, the Pistons' rebounding ranks fourth from the bottom in the league. Except for the Celtics, Wizards, and Knicks, no team is better than the Pistons.

Rebounding is even worse. The Pistons averaged just 40 rebounds per game in the regular season, because except for Ben Wallace, the Pistons did not have a player who averaged 5 rebounds per game. For example, power forward Clifford Robinson averaged 3.9 rebounds per game.

It's really eye-catching. The Pistons' second-leading rebounder is their backup Turkish center Memit Okur, who only averages 4.7 per game.

The Hawks' advantage is all-round! What Liu Mang has to do is to break the Pistons' strongest court control this year with Ben Wallace after Billups joined, and break the two's strongest joint control.

On the field, the simplest and most direct way is to defeat Billups!

Although Billups is already very calm as the core of the team for the first time, he is not as experienced as Liu Mang as the core of ball control. Moreover, Liu Mang also knows how Kidd used Billups in the Eastern Conference finals of this year's playoffs.

Si is playing to death.

Liu Mang did not choose to speed up. Billups and Ben Wallace held the line. It was basically impossible for the Eagles to speed up. However, Liu Mang did not intend to speed up. He just wanted to beat Billups to death!

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When Billups joined the Pistons, Billups became the barometer of the Pistons. It is true that he did not score as many points as Hamilton, his rebounds were average, and his assists were only 3.8, which was not more than Clifford Robinson's 3.9, but

He is the best point guard to enhance Ben Wallace's Big Ben field.

When Billups loses his cool after being beaten, there is a high chance that the Pistons will collapse!

If the Hawks want to rely on running and tactics, it will be difficult to tear apart the Pistons' defense. Ben Wallace is in the paint. Although Clifford Robinson is not good at rebounding, he has never been good at rebounding. He is still very strong in other aspects.

The defensive efficiency of the regular season and last season's All-Defensive Team selections are almost the same. This year, he is still a favorite for the All-Defensive Team's second team. Hamilton, who is very good at guarding pitchers, is also a point guard who has the strength of the All-Defensive Team.

Lupus, the Pistons are very strong in guarding run pick and rolls.

The Hawks are favored as the top eight because their players have strong personal abilities and good defense. People expect that the two teams will fight defensively, and the Hawks will defeat the Pistons with their stronger offensive strength.

The Eagles' tactics were also prepared in this way at the beginning, to create misplaced singles as much as possible.

But Liu Mang found that Billups' mentality seemed to be a little broken, and immediately decided to start by defeating Billups!

At the beginning of the game, after Liu Mang beat the Pistons to a 5-0 start, Billups' mentality began to explode. He couldn't control his desire to score and hit Liu Mang in the face, and started a wave of shots.

Billups' wave is not the wave of Liu Mang and Jason Terry, it is a pure wave, the kind of wave that requires the strongest defense in the league to wipe the butt. In his rookie season, he shot 34% from the field.

He averages 10 shots per game and is known as a parallel importer.

Originally, after coming to the Pistons, Billups had no problem at all. As long as he scored once in a while, everyone would defend together. Anyway, the entire Pistons team had no other scorers except Hamilton. If you want to give full play to Billups,

If Si has the ability to control the field and defend, you have to accept his wanderlust.

Coach Carlisle was not used to it at first, but most of the players liked Billups, so Coach Carlisle was forced to formulate a team system that he didn't like.

The Pistons' current system is simple and crude: Billups holds the ball a lot, and Hamilton keeps running with the players guarding him. If the opponent can't keep up, Billups passes it to him, and he hits 42% of the time.

The mid-range shooting efficiency is very high. If Hamilton is pressed closely at the beginning, he will tire the opponent. Before the opponent is tired, Billups can shoot or pass to Clifford Robinson for organization.

, it doesn’t matter if the offensive end is bad, the defense can come back anyway.

But this time Billups was not only lazy, but also in a hurry. He didn't give Hamilton a chance to tire out his opponent. Hamilton had just started to run with his opponent, and Billups took the shot!

That's it, it's just that the offense is worse and the defense needs to do more. It's not like the Pistons have never won a game in which the two sides combined for less than 150 points.

The key is that Billups' mentality was explosive. He was too active on the defensive end and was directly broken by Liu Mang several times. He also received two fouls in the sixth minute of the first quarter! He was in a foul crisis!

Billups was replaced, and the Pistons could only replace their point guard from last season, Chucky Atkins, who was beaten by Liu Mang in the playoffs last year and couldn't take care of himself.

From the beginning of the first quarter, the Pistons collapsed!

When Billups committed two fouls in the first quarter, Pistons head coach Carlisle and Hawks head coach Kruger had no major reaction and sat silently on the sidelines.

Coach Carlisle has nothing to say. Now his control over the Pistons is not as good as Billups. This is also the reason why he not only won the first place in the Eastern Conference in the regular season this season but also reached the Eastern Conference Finals but was still fired at the end of the season.

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Coach Kruger didn't know what to say. He had agreed to follow the tactics and play them. Why did he suddenly start doing it himself again? The key is that this kid actually succeeded in making the opponent's scout report say "absolutely calm".
Chapter completed!