Liu Mang ignored a problem. He defended Anfernee Hardaway, and Anfernee Hardaway attacked with the ball. It was not because Anfernee Hardaway was better than Marbury in scoring ability, more than 50% in his peak period.

Anfernee Hardaway, who has a shooting percentage, may have better scoring ability than Marbury, but now, there is no suspense that Marbury is better. The Knicks are just picking "soft persimmons", and Liu Mang is the one who is regarded as

A soft persimmon!

Marbury played less in the playoffs, but that doesn't mean his performance in the playoffs was poor!

Except for the time when he faced Payton in his second year and was blocked from shooting, he faced the Big Three Rockets in the playoff series with Garnett in his rookie season. He was the scoring leader in the series and

Assist king!

The system gave Marbury a 90-point rating in the playoffs as being on the verge of being a top star. After all, he was also on the verge of being a top star!

Marbury's iconic probing breakthrough!

Liu Mang often used the probing breakthrough he got from Marbury to tease his opponents. This time it was his turn to be teased!

Liu Mang confidently tried to rely on his footwork to predict Marbury, but found that it didn't work much! Marbury, who was at his peak at the age of 27, took a step to attract Liu Mang's defensive attention, revealing a flaw that allowed Liu Mang to

After Mang defended himself, he made a large Iverson-style lateral movement and penetrated the inside line from Liu Mang's left side!

I was fooled by Marbury's change of direction!

However, Liu Mang did not stop defending, because there was someone behind me!

After Liu Mang was passed, he stepped out with his left foot due to the pressure and rushed towards Marbury, just in time to catch up with Rahim who was in place to cover up and trap Marbury!

After passing Liu Mang, Marbury encountered Rahim's cover. He wanted to change direction again or jump directly to the basket for a throw, but Liu Mang immediately returned to defense and Marbury was blocked.

Dead, forced to stop the ball!

Rahim’s ability to connect internal and external defensive lines is fully demonstrated!

Marbury felt Liu Mang approaching to steal the ball and immediately passed the ball to Shanton Anderson who was free.

Shanton Anderson on the baseline on the left side of the basket received the ball, and no one was paying attention! Kurt Thomas wanted to go out to respond, but was tightly pressed by Rasheed Wallace. Kurt Thomas faced many inside players.

He is very fierce, with big moves and confrontations. He is known as Dirty Kurt, but when faced with Rasheed Wallace, who looks even more fierce and is also known as the King of Technical Fouls, especially Rasheed Wallace, who has more fierce defensive moves, he is scared.

!

Kurt Thomas was pinned on the right side of the basket by Rasheed Wallace and didn't dare to struggle!

Anfernee Hardaway was unable to escape from Prince's long-arm tentacle defense when running without the ball. Mutombo was playing brother-in-law with Ratliff under the basket.

When Shanton Anderson saw Raheem and Ratliff in a high post and under the basket, he didn't dare to rush in, so he could only throw two points away...

Shanton Anderson, who had almost no mid-range and long-range shooting ability and only relied on counterattacks and air cuts to score in the regular season, had only a 40% hit rate.

Liu Mang turned around in one step and jammed Marbury, who wanted to hit the offensive rebound. He was a rock solid level 1 trigger. Liu Mang couldn't grab the rebound, but the jam was very powerful, especially from the outside. Marbury, who was about the same strength as him,

Being stuck, Ratliff also blocked Mutombo, and Rahim easily got the defensive rebound.

Fight back!

After Liu Mang jammed Marbury and blocked Marbury's attempt to hit the offensive rebound, he immediately got off the ground. He has faith in the rebounding leader!

Liu Mang rushed to the frontcourt, Rahim passed the ball to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang counterattacked with a one-handed dunk and scored two points!

Liu Mang ran back and high-fived Raheem. The two men's flanking defense, after the Knicks lost Alan Houston and Van Horn at the small forward position, had such obvious loopholes. They had already discussed how to deal with it.

Marbury is indeed better than Anfernee Hardaway, and Marbury's passing ability is not comparable to that of Anfernee Hardaway. His career assists per game are more than Anfernee Hardaway's career assists.

The season is high.

But Anfernee Hardaway's ability to connect the team is better than Marbury's. This mainly lies in his judgment on defense and his avoidance of being flanked in bad positions. Anfernee Hardaway

Wei did much better than Marbury.

Marbury is straightforward, and he is indeed more attractive to defenders, but he cannot choose which player of the opponent to cover the defense like Anfernee Hardaway.

Anfernee Hardaway can make good use of the rhythm of the breakthrough and the time difference between the opponent's defense. The rhythm changes very quickly. The position of stopping the ball is good enough. When Raheem comes in from the flank, Shanton Anderson can fully play.

Quickly cutting in the air, instead of needing someone to open up for him to break through like Marbury, Anfernee Hardaway creates opportunities for teammates to cut through the air. It is completely opposite to Marbury's style of play. It seems that assists are not available.

Most of the assists are also breakthrough points, but the meaning is different! His aura and ability to connect the team are something Marbury does not possess.

Marbury's offense is very simple. He breaks through first, waits for the opponent to attack, and passes to the free one. He is not unique in his play. Since his rookie year, he has been ranked first in the number of breakthrough passes to teammates.

Top five in the league, and has been ranked first in recent years. He has a high ball possession rate and a high passing success rate, but he cannot guarantee who his teammates will receive the ball.

The SuperSonics really want to bring in Marbury because his ability to break through and distribute the ball is really strong, but he can't afford it, he is more expensive than Kidd... If Marbury were playing with the SuperSonics, if he didn't make trouble with his teammates

Contradictory, given his state during this season with the Knicks, the SuperSonics may take off.

However, he does not have that kind of teammates. His career resume is too bad, and his reputation is too bad. In the Knicks, how many assists he has is up to the sky. The period when he played the best happened to be Alan

-The last month or so before Houston was reimbursed.

Marbury's assists per game were not overtaken by Kidd, but fell on his own after Alan Houston was retired and there were fewer outside shooters.

The Eagles had already had enough experience guarding Marbury. After Marbury started attacking with the ball, they locked Marbury to death!

Marbury tried his best to counterattack today and wanted to kill the Eagles, but Liu Mang and Raheem made him understand that the gap in strength is not a gap that he can cross with all his efforts!

On Anfernee Hardaway's side, there was nothing he could do when he encountered Prince, who was as calm as Duncan. Prince was different from Liu Mangyi in impulsiveness. He seemed to be an emotionless defensive machine and would not rely on himself to defend.

If he is good at ability, he will be relaxed. He always maintains a tepid attitude, gives up a position, and can use his wingspan to cover Anfernee Hardaway's shooting space. He is also very good at guarding against breakthroughs. At the same time, he can also

Use his teammates to attack together and always maintain the most rational state. Just like in the original time and space, when he was fighting at the Palace of Auburn Hills, everyone on the Pistons bench rushed forward, and he was the only one who sat quietly in the technical field.

On the stage, watching his teammates and opponents play, it's not that he has no sense of teamwork, but that he is extremely calm and knows his importance on the team's defensive end.

Prince, originally just his name, became a nickname because during the battle at Auburn Hills, he sat on the technical stage like a quiet prince who looked a bit ugly...

Marbury attracted double-teams and could only pass to Shandon Anderson. The assist conversion rate was extremely low, so he had to start shooting by himself. When Anfernee Hardaway held the ball, he faced Prince's defense.

, unable to attract double-teams at all, so he had to force himself in.

If it was Anfernee Hardaway from before 1978 or 1978, Jordan and Pippen at their peak couldn't be guarded. They could only limit it if they flanked each other, and it was only a limitation. They would still be defeated by him and O'Neal.

Now Anfernee Hardaway can fight Liu Mang with all his strength, but facing Prince, he can only smile helplessly.

The Hawks locked down the Knicks perimeter duo!

Marbury played very hard today, but the harder he worked, the more miserable he became. When he was with the Nets and the Suns, he also worked very hard, but when he was with the Nets, the Nets didn't have Kenyon Martin.

When he was with the Suns, his scoring style didn't match up with Stoudemire, the core of the Suns inside. It's hard to guarantee that his future decline is not due to the fact that he has been working hard over the years but has not been rewarded.

Marbury and Anfernee Hardaway started a gorgeous symphonic forge. The Knicks faced the inside blue-collar group that many teams are proud of. In this game, they encountered the Hawks' frontcourt trio.

I couldn't get any offensive rebounds, and I was completely blocked on the offensive end!

The opponent is attacking, and it is shooting from outside, and the Eagles have a chance to counterattack!

Rahim grabbed the rebound, Liu Mang counterattacked, and Rahim followed up to grab the offensive rebound. The two did not cooperate much in other tactics. Rahim chose to weaken his offensive role and mainly be responsible for defense and rebounding, because of the two offensive ends.

The chemical reaction is really poor, and the tacit understanding between the two on the defensive end is too different. Their playing styles do not match.

But the two of them had an offensive tactic that they had a tacit understanding with Liu Mang, which was the cavalry tactic!

Liu Mang and Rahim started a double fast break. When Rahim ran fast, Liu Mang threw a three-pointer. After Rahim passed the ball and was clamped, Liu Mang counterattacked and attacked the basket.

The two of them cooperate perfectly in this tactic!

At the official timeout of the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 2 assists in more than half a quarter, and Raheem scored 4 points and 6 rebounds. The two led the Eagles' lineup to lead the Knicks 19-8 in the first seven minutes.

Si scored 11 points!

The difference in strength is quite obvious!

The gap between 70 wins and 36 wins cannot be made up by Marbury's efforts!

After the official timeout came back, the Eagles entered the regular rotation time. In order to pursue the victory, Stockton joined the lineup with Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, and Kwame Brown.

At the beginning, the Eagles used defense to deal with the Knicks. When it came time to rotate the lineup, the Eagles directly chose to use positional offense to deal with the Knicks!

The Knicks have just replaced the lineup of Howard Isley, Marbury, Anfernee Hardaway, Tim Thomas, and Kurt Thomas. Coach Wilkens wants to counterattack with the Hawks.

Because of the rhythm, I switched to the brisk Zhenjang, but I didn’t expect the Eagles to start a positional battle!

Although the defense of the Hawks lineup has deteriorated a lot, the Knicks scored 12 points in 5 minutes in the second half of the first quarter, and almost scored 20 points in a single quarter at the end of the first quarter.

But the Eagles scored 17 points in 5 minutes!

At the end of the first quarter, the Eagles already led 36-20 by 16 points!

Liu Mang scored 21 points in the first quarter, one point more than the entire Knicks team!

Before the game started, the Knicks finally found some morale under Marbury's encouragement. The owner and coaching staff used the 1999 playoffs to boost their motivation and withstand the pressure of the Eagles' devilish home court to compete with the Eagles.

The spirit of fighting for a wave was gone immediately after the first quarter!

Liu Mang was a little puzzled when he didn't hear the system prompt that the Knicks' morale was suppressed at the beginning. After the first quarter, the system prompt finally came. The Knicks' morale collapse may have been late, but it was not absent!

"Ding... The host scored 21 points in a single quarter, which was higher than the entire New York Knicks team. The New York Knicks' morale collapsed due to the black eight dream, and the Devil's home court effect was fully triggered. From Phillips Arena fans and Rasheed

-Wallace.”

A very small number of New York fans who came all the way left after watching the first quarter of the game!

For the Eagles' home playoff opener this time, because of the division championship flag-raising ceremony, the lowest ticket price was $95. Those wealthy fans from New York bought front-row tickets and left immediately after the first quarter!

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To be continued...