I saw four large square curtains on the court facing the audience around the court, with video clips of myself over the past three years projected on them, from the initial youth, to counterattacking and challenging the superstars, to the highlights of this season's MVP season.

During the highlights, Liu Mang was a little excited, even more excited than when he just won the MVP, because the fans at the scene kept cheering.

Tonight's game didn't start until 7 o'clock, but the pre-game activities started at 6 o'clock, and the fans filled the nearly 20,000 seats in the stadium.

Liu Mang took the MVP trophy from David Stern and raised it high, and the audience was filled with cheers.

Then Liu Mang was interviewed and took photos with his teammates, the coaching staff, even the staff and the fans who were lucky enough to win the grand prize...

However, unlike the previous regular season MVP awards, as long as the MVP is not eliminated in the first round, the awards will be presented at the game, and the opponents will also come to congratulate them.

But today, when the Hawks entered the stadium at six o'clock, the visiting team, the Pistons, who was supposed to enter the stadium first, did not come.

On the Pistons side, Larry Brown and his team refused to attend Liu Mang’s MVP award!

This has really become a mortal enemy!

But Liu Mang doesn't care. In the past few years of Ben Wallace's peak, with Billups and Hamilton, the Pistons also selected Bosh. In his peak period, he was also the best among the 20-10 All-Stars. Stephen -

Jackson may also renew his contract. The Pistons will definitely be the top team in the Eastern Conference in the next few years.

Even if the Pistons still change their head coach within two years, and they still change to Flip Saunders, and because the Pistons have a younger future core, the Pistons' insiders will not decline as quickly as the original double-Wallace combination.

, but there is a potential stock that continues to rise, so coach Flip Saunders is more likely to join the Pistons after the Timberwolves failed to win the championship and were fired.

The Pistons may be stronger in the future than they were in history, because in history, after the Pistons lost Ben Wallace in the summer of 2006, Rasheed Wallace was the only one left who couldn't support the inside.

Moreover, Rasheed Wallace was still declining rapidly, but even so, the Pistons still made it to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2008.

Now replaced by the young Bosh, who continues to rise, the Pistons are not as strong as the original five at this stage, but they are more promising in the future.

Now that this is the case, Liu Mang doesn't care whether the Pistons come to his award ceremony.

What scares Liu Mang is that the Pistons are so tough!

…

After a series of events for the MVP awards, finally, the Pistons came belatedly.

When the Pistons players entered the stadium, the lighting engineer didn't even give them a spotlight. The lights were turned on, and there was no DJ to introduce the Pistons players.

Anyway, if we break the relationship, the other side won't give any face, and the Eagles won't give the other side any face either.

When the Pistons players came in, boos immediately broke out.

Liu Mang followed his teammates in shooting shots and dunking, without saying hello to his opponents.

The atmosphere at the scene became increasingly solemn.

Finally, it was almost seven o'clock and the game was about to start. The referee signaled the two teams to do whatever they should do.

Mainly on the Eagles side. The Pistons originally had some opening moves specifically targeting the Eagles, but they were scolded by the old-school coach Larry Brown, and then nothing happened...

Liu Mang and Boozer hugged and walked onto the court, waiting for Rasheed Wallace's roar of heaven.

Just when Liu Mang came to the court, the system prompt came.

"Ding... Due to the provocation of the host before the game, the Pistons players were in a state of anger due to the reprimand of the Pistons head coach Larry Brown in order to maintain their last dignity. The host's exclusive buff for the Pistons: Absolutely

The suppression is offset, and the temporary team buff: Last Stand is triggered."

"The Last Stand: Team Buff, which has a great resistance to the negative effects of extremely harsh combat environments."

This is really, if you don't do it, you will die...

Liu Mang had no choice, he had already spoken out his words, and he had just arrived!

Even if the Pistons didn't lose their fighting spirit, Liu Mang wasn't afraid of them. Didn't he beat them out of fighting spirit in each of the four games at the beginning?

The worst case scenario is to do it all over again!

To be on the safe side, Liu Mang chose to use Kobe’s star card from the 1999-00 season!

"System boss, use Kobe's 2000 star card!"

"Ding... The host uses the star card of Kobe Bryant from the 1999-2000 season, which is valid for this game. The ability evaluation is 89, 85 offense, 95 defense, 73 three-pointers, 77 mid-range shots, 97 layups, 93 speed, and 83 strength.

...The matching degree is 75%, and the bonus matching is in progress..."

Such a high degree of matching?

Liu Mang was surprised. It was probably because Kobe had not started to gain weight at that time. He was faster and weaker, and he was following a smart style of play, but Kobe was more explosive.

Just as Liu Mang was waiting for the system matching bonus, the lights dimmed, and Rasheed Wallace's ferocious face appeared on the big screen. Along with Rasheed Wallace's roar, the scene

The atmosphere exploded!

At this time, before the matching results came, Liu Mang waited for another system prompt.

"Ding... Pistons team buff: The last stand was defeated due to excessive pressure, from Rasheed Wallace and Phillips Arena fans."

"Ding... Because the Pistons team buff: The Last Stand was offset by the host's team's team buff: Roar of the Gods, the host's exclusive buff for the Pistons: Absolute Suppression was triggered, and the Pistons completely lost their fighting spirit."

"Ding... Kobe Bryant's 1999-2000 season star card bonus matching is completed. The host's current ability evaluation is 91, 88 three-pointers, 85 mid-range shots, and 95 layups... The strength of the waist and abdomen has been greatly enhanced, and aerial confrontation

Ability greatly enhanced..."

"..."

The bonus effect... is really good, but Liu Mang only has one thing in mind right now!

"Your sister! You can't warn me earlier! That bandit face with nose hair and beard, you can't yell earlier! You usually like to yell a lot when you have nothing to do. Do you think you are a tough guy? Now you are so slow when you should yell.

!”

Liu Mang weakly asked the system: "Brother System, my dear brother, can I use Kobe's star card?"

"The star card has been used and cannot be returned, but the bonus effect of this game can be canceled and is irreversible."

"..."

So angry!

Liu Mang is furious now!

Blame your teammates? Definitely not. You can scold them behind your back, but you will get beaten if you scold them in person.

The only thing to blame is the opponent!

This group of Steel City people are said to be a group of tough guys? How can you say that you are just a coward? Where is the tough look that you had when you just entered the venue and didn't react when you were booed?

…

Players from both teams came to the court. The Pistons players' morale, which had been forcibly boosted by Rasheed Wallace's roar, suddenly faltered in the fanatical atmosphere.

They didn't have much courage to face the Hawks. They were swept in the playoffs for two consecutive years, one of which was a bad eight, and they were nailed to the pillar of shame in history. This year, they changed to a better head coach in theory.

After they tried to change coaches and play styles, they could go against the Eagles, but they lost even more miserably. In the past three years, including the playoffs, the two teams played a total of 20 times, and the Eagles won 17 times, and all three games were just

In the regular season, there was another game that the Eagles won during the civil strife last season.

Liu Mang wanted to make Arenas the King of the North, but before he knew it, the Detroit Raptors had been beaten...

No matter how well the Pistons played in the first round, the Pistons no longer have the desire to win.

Before Rasheed Wallace's roar of heaven was triggered, the Pistons players had fighting spirit entirely because of Liu Mang's words in the afternoon and because their head coach was Larry Brown, who had a similar counterattack experience.

, the most important thing is that Larry Brown scolded them so much that they wanted to hit them.

One of the characteristics of Larry Brown's coaching is that he loves to curse, and he will curse as harshly as possible. He uses curse words and even curses to stimulate the players' hearts and drive their enthusiasm for playing.

The strong point of the Pistons players is that they are all tenacious players, and their fighting spirit was really inspired by Larry Brown at that time.

But once a player with a strong heart is broken down by something or someone, it will be difficult for him to regain his fighting spirit against that thing or person.

Among them, the one with the most obvious toughness of the Pistons is Ben Wallace. However, after being tortured by the Hawks to the point of doubting his life, Ben Wallace is the one who has the hardest time raising his fighting spirit against the Hawks again.

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Although Larry Brown temporarily boosted the fighting spirit of the Pistons players, once again feeling the Eagles' devilish home court and thinking of the tragic experience they had last time here, the Pistons players collapsed again.

Seeing the vicious and surly aura on Liu Mang's face, the Pistons players kept thinking about all the experiences they had faced against the Hawks in the past three years...

At the referee's urging, Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace came to the center circle to jump the ball.

The Eagles continued to field Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff.

The Pistons are also very strong, with Billups, Hamilton, Stephen Jackson, Bosh and Ben Wallace.

Facing Ben Wallace, who was short but was the league's top jumper, Rasheed Wallace actually won the jump ball easily.

Rasheed Wallace was very afraid of the strength of the Pistons, mainly because Liu Mang was doing nothing and irritating his opponents. As a teammate, he could only accept his fate and work hard to deal with the opponent who was about to go berserk.

However, Ben Wallace was distracted and had only one thought in his mind: He couldn't win this series.

Liu Mang received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. After passing the center line, he began to slow down and slowly approached the three-point line.

Hamilton watched Liu Mang's head lower slightly, but his eyes were staring at him. The whites of his lower eyes could be seen clearly. In addition, Liu Mang's chin was slightly stretched out as if he was exhaling through his mouth, and his expression was ferocious...

Hamilton seems to have seen himself being beaten again...

Seeing that Hamilton's footsteps stopped for a moment, Liu Mang seized the opportunity and immediately chose to accelerate and break through, passing by Hamilton!

The characteristics of Liu Mang's breakthrough are fast speed and dexterity. In the first four or five years of Kobe's career before he started to gain weight, he was also fast, but he also had another characteristic, which was sharpness!
To be continued...