Feeling the jealous eyes of a certain player on the opposite side, Liu Mang smiled proudly...

Liu Mang really wanted to tell the narrow-minded man opposite: Xiaoke, keep working hard, one day you will be able to sit in this position like Xiaoye...

After the American national anthem is played, the game is about to begin.

Following Rasheed Wallace's roar, Liu Mang and Boozer hugged each other and came to the court to prepare for the game.

"Ding... the OK trend is triggered, the morale of the Los Angeles Lakers surges, suppressing the morale of the host's team. From Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal."

"Ding...The Eagles' devilish home game triggered to offset the impact of the OK trend. From Rasheed Wallace and Phillips Arena fans."

The OK team is amazing! Liu Mang was surprised. How could this little blacksmith and that damn fat guy still be in such a mood to work together to play the game when they met strong enemies and were obviously about to fight.

Hurry up and have a fight!

Liu Mang really wanted to backhand a high-level alienation card to slap the two of them in the face, but he remembered that he had used it before. For the two of them, it would be fine if it was not that important. Once both of them felt that it was time to win the game,

Eggs are of no use.

Fortunately, Rasheed Wallace's roar of the gods was so powerful that it suppressed the momentum that the OK team had cultivated during their three consecutive championships and made their opponents fearful.

The last team that suppressed the Lakers' good momentum in the playoffs was Duncan, the natural king last season who absolutely crushed teams weaker than his own.

However, it is quite interesting to see Rasheed Wallace and O'Neal staring at each other. Rasheed Wallace has never been intimidated when he met O'Neal, and he almost stopped the Lakers four years ago.

In the first championship, the inside combination of Rasheed Wallace and Sabonis was worth it. O'Neal and the inside combination of Horace Grant reached the tiebreaker with the Lakers. If it hadn't been for a guy who was addicted to blacksmithing suddenly stopped

He beat the Blazers in the fourth game, and defended the Flying Squirrels to only 5 points in the seventh game. The Blazers won the championship that year.

Winners and losers are right, but that doesn't stop Rasheed Wallace from having a blast when he sees O'Neal. Although he can't beat O'Neal without Sabonis, he still has to do it.

For O'Neal, there was no pressure when playing in the Finals during the three consecutive championships. Even when playing Mutombo, there was no pressure. On the contrary, in the Western Conference Finals for three years, except for the 2001 Western Conference Finals, it was too easy to play against the Spurs.

Both 2002 and 2002 were extremely difficult, both times were tiebreakers.

Compared to the Kings, who relied on offense to defeat the Lakers, the Trail Blazers, who relied on defense to limit O'Neal, impressed him even more.

As the referee blows the whistle and throws the ball into the air, the game begins!

With his naked eye, Liu Mang could see the undulating fat on O'Neal's bulging belly shaking, but for such a big-bellied guy, his bullet speed was no slower than Rasheed Wallace! He moved the ball backwards with a slight difference.

Liu Mang quickly retreated, and Rasheed Wallace quickly retreated to the basket.

After Fisher received the ball, he pushed forward and handed it to Kobe. Liu Mang chased Fisher, and Prince defended Kobe.

Faced with Prince, who was known as the strongest single defender on the Hawks team, which was more famous and more willing to be reported by reporters, Kobe was very afraid. He suffered from Prince in both games.

Instead of forcing a single, Kobe came to a 45-degree angle on the right side and waited for his teammates to move.

Malone came to the left to open up space in the mid-range, and Rasheed Wallace had to follow. Malone's mid-range shooting percentage in this year's playoffs was as high as 42%, and the overall shooting percentage was as high as 49%.

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Devin George also has a high three-point shooting rate in the playoffs, averaging 1.2 three-pointers per game with a 37% shooting rate.

O'Neal got an easy opportunity to get stuck. Ratliff tried his best, but couldn't stop O'Neal from getting stuck.

But this was expected. Ratliff tried his best to fight against O'Neal and consume O'Neal.

Kobe lobbed the ball into O'Neal's hands. Kobe mastered the rhythm of the lob to the center very well. O'Neal received the ball, turned around, squeezed hard, pushed Ratliff away, and smashed the ball directly into the basket!

"Ding... Innate skill: Overlord Step is triggered at level 5. When the level is maxed out, you can hit the basket in singles. As long as you have sufficient physical strength and are not fouled, you will definitely complete the dunk. Comes from Shaquille O'Neal."

What a pervert!

I feel perverted every time I see it!

But this is an expected situation. As long as O'Neal is in good physical condition, he is so invincible.

A player like O'Neal, whose one-on-one shooting percentage under the basket is close to 60%, and who has a shooting percentage of more than 50% in one-on-one situations, has no chance to counterattack.

Liu Mang returned to the baseline to receive Ratliff's serve. As soon as he advanced past half court, Kobe Bryant came forward and pressed forward at half court!

Looking at Kobe, who looked like he was about to eat someone just at the beginning of the game, Liu Mang turned his body sideways, pressed his left elbow against Kobe, and protected the ball with his skillful ball control skills with his right hand.

Liu Mang once again felt the feeling that he had seen Wade being prevented from dribbling by Kobe and unable to get close to the three-point line. He used his iron elbow with his left arm to squeeze Kobe to protect the ball. Liu Mang couldn't help it: "

Go away, why are you so close to me, a grown man?"

"I won't leave!" Kobe responded forcefully.

"Go away!"

"I just won't leave!"

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Liu Mang and Kobe Bryant were exchanging barbs while squeezing outside the three-point line. Kobe couldn't press Liu Mang too much and didn't dare to use his hands. As for Liu Mang's raised arm, Kobe didn't have a good way to completely suppress it.

Liu Mang can only retreat outside the three-point line.

When Liu Mang was talking to Kobe, he was paying attention to Kobe's defensive steps. As Kobe retreated, he slightly tilted his body to the left. This was his habitual defensive action, a defensive position to suppress the opponent and forcefully rush from the bottom line.

A very common strategy in the NBA of internal and external defense coordination.

"If you don't leave, I will!"

After Liu Mang finished speaking, he suddenly slammed the ball to the ground and took a step back. Kobe quickly pressed forward. He was very afraid of Liu Mang's step-back jumper. With one step away from the three-point line, Kobe did not dare to let Liu Mang go too much.

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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After Liu Mang took a step back, the ball he pulled out bounced up. Kobe pressed up. Liu Mang had two options, he could break through left or right!

As the league's top defensive player, Kobe immediately realized that he had made a defensive mistake. He had two gambling defensive options. One was to block Liu Mang's left path, which was his own right path, and the other was to block Liu Mang's left path.

The right road is also his own left road, and he must choose one. If he doesn't choose someone else, he will go directly.

Kobe's mind instantly recalled the video of the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Hawks and Nets, when Liu Mang scored more than 50 points...

The choice was a split second. After Kobe made the save, he immediately moved sideways to the right.

Liu Mang had long expected that the opponent would make such a choice because of his left-hand breakthrough. When he took a step back, he pulled the ball from behind with his left hand to the right, and still chose the right-side breakthrough!

All of a sudden, Kobe was passed cleanly, and Kobe threw himself in the completely opposite direction!

Liu Mang's probing breakthrough and dribbling from behind!

Easily rushing into the paint, Malone was pulled to the right corner by Rasheed Wallace and had no chance to help defend. Liu Mang rushed to the three-second zone. O'Neal had already stepped out in advance, and the defense under the basket was prepared.

O'Neal is really good, but he is too weak on the outside. If the opponent rushes in at full speed, O'Neal has no choice but to block the defense.

Liu Mang saw O'Neal pressing up and threw the ball into the air. The ball passed over the palm of O'Neal's hand that jumped up to interfere, and came to the right side of the basket. He seemed to throw it casually, but his passing accuracy was super high.

, Ratliff felt perfect when he jumped up to catch the ball and pushed the ball into the basket!

Returned a dunk!

After the goal, the Eagles retreated immediately.

The Lakers advanced and gave O'Neal a one-on-one shot. O'Neal took Ratliff away and turned around and easily made a small hook shot. It was impossible to solve the problem with such a delicate small hook for such a huge body!

Looking back, the Eagles attack.

As soon as Liu Mang arrived in the frontcourt, Kobe blocked him regardless. Liu Mang wanted to change direction. Kobe waited for Liu Mang to change direction and then blocked Liu Mang. Liu Mang made a large-scale change of direction breakthrough and went around the basket.

The left side of the basket rushed inside at a 45-degree angle. Devin George was forced to come up and attack from a flank. Liu Mang passed the ball to Rahim, and Rahim also scored in the opening mid-range shot!

When the Lakers attacked again, O'Neal once again pushed Ratliff away and smashed the ball into the basket.

It was the Eagles' turn to attack. Liu Mang broke through to the free throw line. O'Neal did not guard him. Liu Mang also made a mid-range shot while stepping on the free throw line.

But looking back, Kobe and O'Neal cooperated, lobbed the ball to O'Neal and then suddenly made an air cut. Malone came up just in time to block Prince for Kobe. Kobe cut into the basket, O'Neal passed the ball to Kobe, and Kobe scored two points with a throw...

At the beginning, both sides have been testing each other's defense and offense.

The Lakers are trying to test the Eagles' strength in the playoffs. Although the Eagles have 70 wins in the regular season, that is nothing. It is the absolute guarantee of Liu Mang's MVP. The championship depends on winning in the playoffs.

The Lakers want to see what kind of strength the Eagles have that can win 12 consecutive games in the playoffs.

And the freehand breakthrough skills Liu Mang showed at the beginning made the Lakers very afraid!

With the ability of the left hand, not only the breakthrough on the left side is a threat, but because of the threat on the left side, the attack on the right side becomes easier.

Seeing Liu Mang's breakthrough move, Kobe almost immediately had an idea, he also wanted to practice his left hand!

The Lakers started to test the strength of the Eagles, while the Eagles used Liu Mang's start to take advantage of Kobe's unsuitability for his greatly changed singles, and try their best to withstand O'Neal's few opening attempts.

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Relatively speaking, when O'Neal is physically fit, his singles play is too unsolvable.

Liu Mang's breakthrough was caused by Kobe's defensive actions becoming more and more rough. Since it was difficult to predict, Kobe chose to use physical contact instead of skills. In the inside, after suffering a loss, O'Neal chose to stay within reasonable limits.

On the line in the collision zone, Ratliff was not given a chance to take advantage of the situation. He didn't care if Liu Mang tried to pull up a mid-range jumper and only guarded the basket.

The Lakers' goal was very clear. They took advantage of O'Neal's physical strength to play more. O'Neal also succeeded in making 3 of 3 shots in the opening game, including two dunks, a turning hook, and a pass to the basket for an air cut.

Kobe Bryant's floater, the Lakers scored 8 points in the opening game.

On the Eagles side, Liu Mang made 1 of 2, Ratliff dunked a basket, and Rahim made a mid-range shot from the left baseline. The Eagles scored 6 points and fell behind by two points at the start. The Eagles called a timeout.

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A little puzzled, Zen Master took the tactical board, whistled, and gathered the Lakers players together.
To be continued...