"Sorrow Soldier: When the despair of an opponent with grief and indignation reaches the extreme, he must concentrate his strength and fight to the death."

Liu Mang felt that the other party had a mentality of "it's the last game anyway, it's a big deal."

Even though most of the home court was occupied by the opponent's fans and their own fans stopped coming to watch the game, the Nets players did not feel shaken or dissatisfied or angry because of this incident.

It seems that he just wants to play this game well!

On the Hawks side, Liu Mang and Boozer walked onto the court after hugging each other and stood on one side of the midline. They looked at Kidd who was walking over and stood on the other side of the midline. The two looked at each other without any verbal communication.

From Kidd's eyes, Liu Mang felt a completely different feeling from the previous games and previous games.

There wasn't much desire exposed in his eyes. Liu Mang only saw a determined look. It felt like the opponent just wanted to win! He just wanted to try to win.

For a moment, I actually felt that Kidd had an otherworldly sense of "I want to play basketball". It had nothing to do with confidence. Liu Mang didn't see any confidence in the eyes of the Nets players. The Nets

It's not that the team has regained its confidence, but that they really just want to play this game simply.

However, Liu Mang felt that this was going too far!

How about being eliminated and going back to fishing? You have to cause trouble for me!

Kill such opponents! Kill them all!

Liu Mang didn't dare to be careless. Sometimes this kind of mentality without thinking too much can actually burst out with powerful power!

Liu Mang and several teammates who were about to start doing pre-match exercises after the shooting warm-up looked at each other. When the teammates saw Liu Mang's eyes, they all had a tacit understanding and knew not to underestimate the enemy!

…

Kidd came to the midline and looked at Liu Mang, then retreated to his own free throw line. Originally, he wanted to say something to Liu Mang, but he saw that Liu Mang was not relaxed, careless or complacent.

, with a proud expression, feeling that there is no need to say anything else.

On yesterday's rest day, Kidd and Carter, two older players on the team, called their teammates together and held a meeting.

It's not something like trying to inspire the fighting spirit of his teammates. Being behind 0-3 means that they have to win four games in a row to defeat the Eagles. They couldn't win four games in a row against the Eagles last season, let alone this one.

season.

Kidd and Carter brought their teammates together mainly for one thing. Kidd and Carter told their teammates not to think so much, but to treat this game with their original love for basketball, regardless of winning.

Come on, play the last game well and show the style you should have. Don't let your opponents underestimate them, and don't underestimate yourself. If you fail this year, you can do it again next year!

Get rid of Mutombo's big contract. After some of the Nets' mid-level contracts expire next season, Carter and Kidd are the only players with an annual salary of more than 3 million. Richard Jefferson still has one year left on his rookie bonus.

, the future of the Nets is still very bright.

After Carter and Kidd lost to the Hawks in Game 3 and fell behind 3-0, they seemed to have everything figured out!

Jason Kidd, he admits that he is not a good person. He holds grudges, suppresses newcomers, excludes head coaches, has endless desire to control the team, and is jealous of his teammates over women, which leads to the collapse of the team... but he also admits that he is recognized as such.

He plays cleanly on the court and is one of the rare players who is selected for the defensive first team but does not make any small moves on defense. He has done his best on the road to fighting for the championship.

He has witnessed many changes of the times. When Jordan retired for the first time, he entered the NBA and saw that Olajuwon seemed to be establishing a dynasty. But Jordan came back immediately. At the critical moment of establishing the Olajuwon dynasty,

This made the Rockets feel wrong. The entire team was replaced by one, and the Rockets failed to make it to the finals. Jordan's dynasty of six championships in eight years was born.

Jordan retired for the second time, and Duncan ascended to the top. Duncan's ability from his rookie season seemed to be the number one power forward in NBA history, which made Kidd feel that another NBA ruler had arrived, but O'Neal and Kobe immediately created a dynasty.

Originally just one of the Three Musketeers in Dallas, Kidd didn't have too much faith in becoming the strongest player in his early years. At that time, he didn't shoot well and made many mistakes. His defense was average in the first few years of his career, and his defensive efficiency in the first few years was only

Two points or so, league average.

But after seeing so many ups and downs and completely unexpected changes in the NBA, Kidd woke up!

Before Jordan retired for the first time, Olajuwon was considered to be forever suppressed by Jordan, but Olajuwon also won two consecutive championships and became the rare MVP with consecutive championships in NBA history.

After retiring once, he came back and was eliminated in the playoffs by Anfernee Hardaway and O'Neal. Everyone thought Jordan was old, but at the age of 33, he started his second three consecutive championships.

After that, Duncan and OK took turns to win the championship...

The NBA in the 1980s and 1990s was a unified situation. In the 1980s, except for the Magic Birds, other teams only won the championship twice, and they won 8 times. In the 1990s, except for the Magic Birds, they won the championship 8 times.

Between Jordan and Olajuwon, only the Pistons got it once and Duncan got it once.

But at the end of the old century and the beginning of the new century, the stars who entered the NBA in the 1990s won consecutive championships.

After Kidd saw Duncan and O'Neal win consecutive championships in 1999 and 2000, he broke the inherent impression that the championship team was the league's ruler because of the unified NBA in the 1980s and 1990s.

He also had the urge to "become the king on his own". After coming to the Nets, he and Kenyon Martin had an almost seamless fit, just like Kobe Bryant met Gasol in the future.

He immediately led the team to the finals.

The past two years have been Kidd's most glorious years. He is only 8 points away from the coveted O'Brien Trophy.

However, today, the glory of the past two years has become a thing of the past, and everything will have to start again.

If he were to start from scratch like when he was drafted by the Mavericks, Kidd would definitely have an explosive mentality, but now that he has Carter and Richard Jefferson by his side, everything is bright in the future.

Kidd and Carter chatted all night after the game. Originally, they seemed to be inseparable but just used each other to take advantage of each other's "friendship". Instead, it has been sublimated because they have reached the point where they are now at the end of their rope.

Carter likes this feeling. In the more than half a season with the Nets, Carter originally just wanted to use Kidd's organizational skills to make himself perform well, but now, he likes playing with Kidd.

Carter is a happy-go-lucky person, and his desire to win has never been very good. Historically, it was after his physical fitness seriously declined due to Bowen's three stepping-downs during his theoretical peak period that he began to pursue winning.

The desire to win has changed from the pursuit of performance to the desire to win. However, this change occurred very late in my career, when I played for 12 or 13 years before I started to have the desire to win.

And now, together with his teammates, he has experienced the glory of defeating a 60-win team, but when he felt that he was about to reach the top, he was ruthlessly crushed by the opponent 3-0. That feeling stimulated Carter deep in his heart.

The desire to win that is suppressed by the mentality of "showing off" and enjoying the cheers of the fans!

0 to 3 was irreversible. Carter and Kidd chatted all night. In fact, most of the time they were silent and smoking cigars. However, the two reached a consensus that it didn't matter whether they won the game or not. The main thing was that they couldn't lose it.

My love for basketball!

Anyway, everyone including myself feels that we can't win, so it doesn't matter if we lose, just play hard!

…

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"Ding... the balanced mode is triggered, from Vince Carter, matching target Tracy McGrady."

Liu Mang was thinking about how to play this game and what kind of changes the opponent would make when a system prompt came out unexpectedly. Liu Mang immediately stared at Carter.

What does this mean? Liu Mang stared at Carter and thought about it for a long time. He didn't do anything! Why did he trigger the equilibrium mode?

Moreover, these stingy cousins ​​are indeed cousins ​​and they always appear together!

The key is, what exactly did Carter change? And what will be changed by his elder cousin?

Carter just came to the center line and stood with Prince. Now Carter was very relaxed. It didn't matter whether he won or not. Playing well was more important, but he felt a look of resentment in his eyes.

Following that resentful look, what I saw was Liu Mang!

Liu Mang has now evolved into the monster in Carter's eyes. He was a rookie who started making trouble in his rookie year. In his second year, he almost overturned the Nets, the dominant player in the Eastern Conference. Now he has become the new dominant player in the Eastern Conference.

Looking at Liu Mang's resentful eyes, Carter's heart suddenly changed. After letting go of everything and enjoying basketball, Carter's mentality became more relaxed. Seeing Liu Mang's eyes, he seemed to rush up and say: "Dude, I don't want to win.

I just want to play basketball, don’t be so excited!"

However, Liu Mang was not excited. He just wanted to know what had been changed, but the system didn't say it. It shouldn't be a big change, because there was no reward.

But this made Liu Mang even more curious!

After waiting for a few minutes for the game to start, Liu Mang became more and more resentful...

Fuck him!

These cousins ​​just love causing trouble!

Carter saw Liu Mang's eyes becoming fierce and thought of the scene a few days ago when Liu Mang scored 51 points. Although Carter himself had scored 50 points in the playoffs, he found that in a game like this between the two teams

Let alone 50 points, it would be difficult for anyone else to score 30 points. After Carter tried and failed in the second game, his mentality collapsed in the third game.

Now seeing Liu Mang's ferocious energy, Carter felt a chill in his anus...

…

The referee signaled that the game was about to start, and Rasheed Wallace and Jason Collins came to the center circle to jump the ball.

The lineups of the two teams have not changed in four games. The other four players on the Nets side are Kidd, Carter, Richard Jefferson, and Aaron Williams.

The other four players on the Eagles are Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, and Ratliff.

Rasheed Wallace won the jump ball for four consecutive games without any suspense. The advantage was too great. After Liu Mang received the ball, he did not rush and steadily controlled the ball and advanced to the frontcourt.

Seeing that Liu Mang had no changes from the previous three games and was advancing steadily, Kidd, who was guarding the three-point line, was quite happy and felt that he was respected. Before the game started, he wanted to tell Liu Mang that they would do their best.

He went there and asked Liu Mang to get ready, but when he saw that Liu Mang didn't feel relaxed, he stopped talking.

Now, when he sees Liu Mang continuing to advance with the same steady style of play as he did in the first three games, Kidd is actively engaged in defense.

Liu Mang steadily advanced while observing the opponent's defense. Not to mention, it actually looked more oppressive than in the first game!

In the first game, the Nets were overconfident because they had just defeated the Pacers, and then after being suppressed by the Hawks, their confidence completely collapsed, but now they feel normal!

Liu Mang came outside the three-point line and saw Kidd maintaining half a body of space. Kidd's defense was still very good. Liu Mang chose to cut half a step to the left. As Liu Mang expected,

Kidd immediately pressed up to the right. The threat from Liu Mang in the first game was too great.

Liu Mang immediately smashed the ball to the ground and took a small step back to the right. Kidd turned around to chase, but when he turned around, what he saw was Rasheed Wallace's magical smile!

Kidd reacted quickly and immediately circled Rasheed Wallace.
To be continued...