The Knicks want to save face and suffer the consequences, and refuse to completely screw up. They don’t have high draft picks all year round. When they encounter a strong team that they clearly can’t beat, they still refuse to admit defeat even when they are already 20 points behind after three quarters. This is inconsistent with their

Head coach Don Cheney didn't have much to do with it, but James Dolan ran directly to the bench and ordered the game not to be abandoned, giving Liu Mang a chance to play 41 minutes.

Coach Kruger originally planned to go to Stockton to brush up the statistics and maintain his condition. Unexpectedly, when he was about to change to the water cooler lineup, he saw five players from the Knicks continuing to play, so he decided to replace Liu Mang to stabilize the situation.

stable.

For the sake of face, the Knicks refused to give up the game when facing a potential first-round opponent in the playoffs that was No. 1 in the Eastern Conference, and then something big happened!

Liu Mang scored 60 for the second time this season!

Prior to this, no player other than Wilt Chamberlain could score at least 60 points twice in a single season!

Moreover, Liu Mang also broke Jordan's personal record of 55 points in a single game set by Madison Square Garden. After Liu Mang scored 50 points in the fourth quarter, the fans at the scene had already switched sides!

Liu Mang's scoring average increased to 31.9 points per game, which is only 0.2 points away from McGrady's highest single-season scoring average in 10 years last season!

As for McGrady, when he fully demonstrated his desire to win the scoring title, his opponents all double-teamed him crazily. Without teammates to attract some defense, McGrady faced at least two people in every game.

The defense is playing hard, but the opponent just refuses to let him score high points. As for his passing, unlike the Hawks Liu Mang who has a chance to turn the pass into an assist and at least mess up the opponent's defense, most of the time McGrady passes the ball, it ends in a blacksmith.

McGrady's shooting percentage this year is 42%, which is not bad, but the Magic's team shooting percentage is 41.7, which is not as good as McGrady's own defense.

After the game with Liu Mang, McGrady played several highlight performances, but as the opponent responded to his desire to score high points and did not want to become a background, McGrady's average points per game momentum began to weaken.

My scoring average in the early 30s can never reach 31. It was easy to slip down at first, but now it is too difficult to get back up.

Similarly, Liu Mang's scoring momentum would have tended to weaken. During the initial seven-game winning streak, Liu Mang's scoring momentum had stopped. If it hadn't been for this game against the Knicks,

It is estimated that the game will be stuck for a long time in the early 31st minute.

If the team is strong, Liu Mang will easily score high points. Against a weak team, Liu Mang will not have a particularly good chance of scoring high points. A weak team, especially a bad team, will play in an unstructured way. If you say double-team, he will double-team, regardless of whether there is a leak or not.

To miss someone, just don't let Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady score high points on them.

Compared with McGrady, Liu Mang's advantage is that when he encounters a strong team, the opponent dare not double-team him easily, otherwise the rest of the Hawks will shoot away.

Of course, if you encounter a "kind" team like the Knicks, which is a team in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference playoffs and insists on pretending to be a strong team, Liu Mang likes to encounter this kind of team the most.

In one fell swoop, the scoring gap with McGrady has been widened to 1.4 points. McGrady's current scoring average is 30.5 points.

As more and more games are played, chasing points will become more and more difficult. The Eagles are now 37 wins and 7 losses. If Liu Mang wants to improve by 0.1 points, he must score 5 points more than his average score in a single game.

The talent can be increased by 0.1 points, and the same is true for Tracy McGrady.

…

…

"Oh, thank you, Michael, but why do I feel like your tone makes you want to come back..."

Liu Mang finished the phone call with Old Jordan, who seemed to be a little unbalanced. He saw that it was time to reply to the text messages he received, and he finished all the calls that needed to be made. He could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

It’s so tiring. Sometimes it’s a good thing to know a lot of stars, but at this time, it’s not a good thing. There are those who sincerely congratulate, such as the moderates like Gasol, and there are those who congratulate “without conscience” like Jordan.

There is a school that coexists with being too stubborn and petty, and there is also Carter, who is obviously envious and jealous but has a good emotional intelligence, the type who teases Liu Mang for doing too many things and spoiling the children.

But Liu Mang didn't receive a text message from the guy in Los Angeles, and he was a little regretful. He couldn't call to show off...

After playing the Knicks, the Hawks returned to Atlanta and were about to enter the final stretch of the schedule before the All-Star break.

After the Rockets carried out the live broadcast of the three most-watched games in the first seven days of the first month of the country, the Hawks' schedule will be difficult next.

Starting from January 31st, there will be four consecutive home games, 4 games in 5 days, and then there will be three consecutive away games. Fortunately, there are no back-to-back away games, that is, 7 games will be played in 11 days, starting on February 11th.

The All-Star Weekend holiday is from February 11th to 17th. The Eagles have 7 days of rest during the All-Star Weekend this season. Of course, for Liu Mang, the rest time is only one end, one end, and the other in the middle.

Time is either for activities or playing games.

However, before the start of the 11-day, 7-game schedule, the Hawks have three days of rest. The Hawks returned to Atlanta at noon today. Except for two training sessions in the morning tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, they will have rest at other times.

After returning home, Liu Mang turned on his phone and saw a bunch of text messages, and then responded according to the relationship between them.

As soon as Liu Mang settled the issue of sending blessing text messages, a little loli came up to him.

"Uncle, come and see the hotel we chose!" Dinah dragged Liu Mang to Levia and Alexia, who were looking at magazines about hotels in Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles.

There is no doubt that according to the habits of Levia's wealthy people, it is another independent villa-type hotel.

Looking at the price of US$75,000 a week, Liu Mang exclaimed: "It's too expensive!"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Seeing Liu Mang's old habit recurring, Alexia pushed Dinah in front of Liu Mang.

Dinah expressed that she had received the task, hugging Liu Mang's arm and acting coquettishly: "Uncle... let's just live here, okay..."

"..."

There is no way to refuse!

After a painful struggle in his heart, he was defeated. Liu Mang endured the pain and nodded.

There is no winter in Los Angeles. It is so hot all year round. It is the movie capital of the world. In addition to Hollywood, there are also American food festivals, singing contests, and many leisure activities and sports activities, such as the competition time of the Los Angeles leg of the International Marathon.

, even in February, there are various ski competitions on a several hundred meters long artificial snow track that appear every winter. Although Los Angeles may not have snow for many years, they can make it themselves...

But with the All-Star Weekend, and the fact that the house prices in Los Angeles are very expensive in the winter, when you add it up, the price of a hotel that usually costs 10,000 US dollars a week has risen to 75,000 US dollars.

Heartache is heartache. When he saw Dinah, Levia, and Alexia cheering and high-fiving each other in celebration, Liu Mang had a different feeling in his heart... Are you that stingy?

What does it mean that Grandet is finally willing to bleed!

…

After returning to Los Angeles on the 28th, he rested for a night. On the morning of the 29th, Liu Mang got up early to train as usual. At around seven o'clock, he made breakfast, sent Dinah and Alexia to class, and then left.

Arrive at Phillips Arena.

The strange thing is that today's training started at ten o'clock. During Liu Mang's usual non-high-intensity training, he went to the gym around eight o'clock and close to nine o'clock. There was usually no one in the gym except for those teammates who were training hard after nine o'clock.

Only when they come, and some veterans like Stockton and Kevin Willis come for this kind of non-confrontational training at the start time of the training session.

Liu Mang is usually one of the first players to come to the gym for training. The team atmosphere will be transmitted to every teammate. Liu Mang and other core players train hard. The Eagles as a whole train hard, and they may need to practice more.

There are only a few, but everyone is very focused on the usual training. It's just that some players just don't like to practice extra. This is no problem.

Liu Mang saw that all his teammates had arrived. He looked at the time and saw that it was only eight forty. Damn it!

But after looking at it, it seems that it is not training, but a group of people gathered together... Gambling again!

Liu Mang felt that these guys really came to the arena to gamble money!

But Liu Mang was a little curious and stepped forward and asked: "Are you crazy? You came to the arena to gamble so early in the morning. What are you betting on?"

Liu Mang only saw Jason Terry sitting in the banker, collecting money and writing his name and amount.

"Ace, you're here. We're betting on whether Ace can get 4 million votes for the All-Star Game this time. Why don't you come and have fun too?" Jason Terry greeted.

"Forget it, I'm not interested in this." Liu Mang went to change into training clothes to warm up.

Only then did Liu Mang remember that today was the day when the All-Star roster was announced. After returning to Atlanta yesterday, Schwartz called and asked Liu Mang if he would like to participate in the dunk contest and skills challenge again. In addition to Liu Mang's

Yao and Pejia Biao accepted the invitation to the three-point contest, but did not accept the others.

Let’s not talk about the Skills Challenge, that one is quite boring, the Slam Dunk Contest... I was so angry last time, I guess it won’t be that fun this time.

Since Liu Mang agreed to rent a cruise ship for them to spend a day after winning the vote, Ratliff agreed to pay for his teammates to spend a week in Los Angeles. All-Star voting ends on the 26th. At 9 o'clock this morning, the All-Star list will be announced.

.

So they were very excited and came early.

He came so early and was a little bored waiting, so Jason Terry made a small bet, and it wasn't a big bet. He wanted people like Barnes and Korver who wanted to participate but didn't have the money to play together.

Note $10.

The stars have the same mentality as ordinary people. They always want to see the answer they want as soon as possible. By about 8:50, everyone came to the team's rest area.
Chapter completed!