Liu Mang played 30 minutes, scored 27 points and 3 rebounds, and then clocked out for the third quarter. After the three quarters, he led 81 to 63 by 18 points, and he was not afraid of being reversed, because the opponent showed no signs of reversing. McGrady was

In the fourth quarter, Jason Terry will play to stabilize the situation, Ariza, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown will play.

Garnett played very hard today, but it's a pity that the two star teammates cheated each other to improve their own statistics for next year's big contract.

In terms of salary, Garnett once cheated the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves made Joe Smith sign a Yin-Yang contract, which caused the Timberwolves to be miserable for four years. In the last year, he was pardoned by the league and only got a first-round draft pick next summer. He was as high as Garnett at the time.

Inseparable from the ridiculously large contract.

But in terms of professional attitude, Garnett has nothing to say. Even if his teammates are so bad this year, Garnett has been working hard on rebounding and defense, but when his teammates are not of the same mind as him, his defensive system cannot be established.

He worked hard on the defensive end, but he could only grab rebounds.

It's just that Garnett met Kwame Brown, who was like a mad dog, and Rasheed Wallace, who was very enthusiastic when he met him. Garnett was attacked from both sides and had a hard time grabbing rebounds...

Liu Mang saw the crazy Kwame Brown and Garnett, the rebounding leader with an average of 14 rebounds per game, fighting against each other. They couldn't get enough rebounds. They couldn't get enough and asked their teammates to help block the rebounds. Garnett was alone.

Grab, Olowokandi can't catch the ball now, and he can't use the three axes. The backup center Alvin Johnson is 38 years old. He is too old and cannot play a big role at all. Last season, the Timberwolves relied on

The three-headed monster is winning. Two of the three-headed monster are "crazy" this season. The aliens are really thinking like aliens. The madman is really crazy. Garnett plays for the first time since his rookie season.

I'm so tired and can't win the ball.

Kwame Brown played for 41 minutes and scored 19 points and 19 rebounds against Garnett. In this situation, you know how miserable Garnett has been recently. He can't beat four hands with two fists! I still have

There are two people who are almost each other's "undercovers".

Originally, Garnett's offensive performance against Rasheed Wallace, a power forward who is very good at guarding shooters, was mediocre. He made 8 of 24 shots from the field and only scored 20 points. He had basically no inside lethality.

Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown only got 9 rebounds in the double-team.

The Hawks have done a good job of limiting Garnett's type of inside presence.

As there are fewer and fewer super insiders, the Hawks are very restrained against this new type of insider. Although Garnett entered the NBA early, his type is very suitable for future basketball.

Coach Kruger was naughty and thought of what Liu Mang secretly told him before the game. Seeing that Kwame Brown was about to have double 20, he replaced Kwame Brown...

Kwame Brown is also an honest person. When he saw that there were more than two minutes left on the clock and the score was 112 to 92, with a 20-point difference, it seemed normal to be replaced. He did not expect to be "trickled" by the coaching staff and was depressed.

He vowed to work harder next time he played against the Mavericks.

In the end, Liu Mang scored 27 points in 30 minutes, McGrady scored 14 points, 12 assists and 3 rebounds in 37 minutes, Jason Terry scored 16 points, Kwame Brown had a double of 19, and everyone who played under McGrady's organization and offense

They all scored more or less. The Hawks defeated the Timberwolves 114-99 and won two consecutive games.

In this game, when Tony Allen faced Sprewell, his physical fitness and defensive talent were displayed, but his shooting was extremely poor. On Ariza's side, his shooting talent was displayed, and his defensive awareness was also good, but he did not

Tony Allen's natural defensive experience and good shooting talent are exposed, but he is not decisive enough. He is too sticky to pass the ball and is not decisive in shooting.

They are all the kind of players who are a bit regretful but talented, making it difficult for the Eagles coaching staff to choose.

The record improved to 17 wins and 4 losses, and they continued to compete with the Suns for first place in the league.

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After beating the Timberwolves, the Hawks came to Dallas the next morning.

I left Minneapolis almost early in the morning and it was too cold here.

When flying out of Minneapolis, Liu Mang saw some frozen lakes on the ground as the plane took off, and thought of the unbearable dampness and cold.

From the weather here, Liu Mang knew why no stars were willing to come here. Cassel and Sprewell joined the team, and they treated it like treasures.

In this case, Liu Mang hopes that it will be more difficult for Garnett...it's already so miserable anyway, it doesn't matter if it's any worse.

Liu Mang didn't feel any guilt at all for robbing Garnett of the MVP award. He was helping Garnett despair here! It would be even better if he came to Atlanta...

As the saying goes, when heaven is about to give a great job to a person, he must first work hard... But thinking about the chance to partner with Garnett, Liu Mang still feels a little shuddering, and this kind of talent is comparable to that of Kobe.

It's a bit miserable to have a paranoid guy as a teammate... but the team will not lack fighting spirit.

But letting Garnett go to the Celtics is not a good choice. The Celtics' Big Three are quite scary. They are all over 30 and they are still so good.

When the time comes, it would be a good idea to think of a way to stumble them.

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After flying for a few hours, we arrived in Dallas. Compared to Minneapolis, Dallas, the third largest city in Texas located in the Southwest Division, is much warmer and the snow season has not yet arrived.

This season, the Hawks don't have three consecutive visitors to Texas. They are really lucky. The top three of Texas are getting stronger and stronger. The main reason is that the Rockets are almost catching up. They only lack one core guard, but they are still very powerful.

In previous years, when Liu Mang came to Dallas, Nash would pick him up when he arrived at the hotel and go shopping to experience St. Paul Street, which seemed exotic to Nash, where Brazilians and Mexicans lived in Dallas.

The settlement is completely different from North American culture. There are also Dallas Cowboys games. Nash also took Liu Mang to watch them.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But this time the Mavericks team does not have such friendly people to take Liu Mang to play with.

Things in the world are constantly changing. When Liu Mang came here, he was completely different from the past.

After giving up Nash, especially after playing for a month and a half in the regular season, the Mavericks got a new nickname, called "The Blind Side", which is a nickname given to the Mavericks by American sports fans.

Although the Suns had few additional broadcasts before the All-Star Weekend due to other live broadcast arrangements, Nash has become popular. In a popularity survey in early December, Nash's popularity has climbed to third among Western Conference guards, second only to

With Kobe and Francis, they surpassed Ginobili, Michael Finley, and Ray Allen. Francis also took advantage of the Chinese fans' love for Yao Ming and loved him. Francis is still the second most popular guard in the Western Conference.

But this time Liu Mang didn't have time to go out and play. He came to Dallas in the early morning, and the most important thing was the afternoon training.

The Eagles take the Mavericks very seriously.

It should be said that the top four in the Western Conference, the Suns, SuperSonics, Spurs, Mavericks, and Hawks, are all taken seriously.

As it stands now, no one of the top four teams in the Western Conference can be ignored.

As the sun rises, the Spurs and the Mavericks, the Texas duo, are still outstanding. After the SuperSonics acquired a core point guard, the advantage of strong offensive firepower was highlighted. Francis and Ray Allen both entered the top ten in the MVP rankings. Although they are the top

Ten tails, but if two people are selected together, it will be very powerful.

When the OK combination disintegrated, the Western Conference became a situation where the heroes were divided. Unlike the Eastern Eagles, who are still regarded as the first candidate team for the finals, in the Western Conference, it seems that four teams are possible.

Liu Mang paid more attention to the Mavericks. When the Mavericks reached the finals in 2006, Liu Mang was deeply impressed.

The Mavericks have too many stars. In addition to rookie DJ Mbenga, third-year Dan Dickau, and the legendary Russian Yao Ming Pavel Podkolkin, the 12-person activated roster is all famous.

Star!

The Mavericks' unlimited isolation tactics are getting better and better.

The tactics against the Mavericks need to be adjusted. The strategy of defending against the Mavericks cannot be to use pressure and attack. The opponent except the center has the ability to score independently, so I arrived in Dallas on the morning of the 12th, rested for a while at noon, and in the afternoon the Eagles came to the rented university arena.

Tactical training has begun.

The Hawks are now becoming more and more experienced in switching from small ball tactics to positional battles. When playing against a team like the Mavericks with a balanced offense and defense, it is best to be able to counterattack, but to control the rhythm when it is unable to counterattack.

It is also very important for the Eagles. This is what they have been practicing recently. Seeking transactions is a way to solve the current team's problems. It is also critical to solve the problems by ourselves.

After the tactical training, Liu Mang called together his teammates Tracy McGrady, Jason Terry, Calderon, and Rasheed Wallace, all of whom were good at mid-range shooting, to practice mid-range shooting.

"Ace, do you want to use mid-range shots to deal with the Mavericks? Aren't you always advocating three-pointers and basket offense?" McGrady asked curiously, because Liu Mang always advocated player roles and transitions between offense and defense in many tactical meetings.

Three-pointers and hitting the basket are the keys to the small-ball style that Liu Mang first proposed to Coach Kruger.

"Playing against the Mavericks is different. Their head coach Avery Johnson once learned coaching from Popovich. The coach also said just now that we should try our best to use running positions to tear apart the opponent's defense, but I think it is difficult, especially

Lacey, you've seen the Mavericks video, right? Their outside defense rotates very quickly, and their inside defense is also very good. Maybe we need more one-on-one singles. The mid-range is a good solution. If the singles are accurate,

, we pass the ball quickly and are good at drawing fouls, so we can deal with their team defense very well." Liu Mang recounted the memory of Wade's method against the Mavericks in the 2006 Finals.

Although there was a hair whistle in the finals that year, Wade averaged 34 points per game and scored 12 points from free throws. Wade's free throws have always been average, with a shooting rate of over 70%, which means that 22 points were scored by independent offense.

Arrived.

The biggest help of the body hair whistle to Wade is not to help him cause the opponent to foul, but to prevent the opponent from using big moves to defend him. If the double-attacking move is slightly larger, he will be called a foul, allowing Wade to continuously play singles in the mid-range and have the ability.

With good space distribution, Wade is at his strongest when he is at his strongest mid-range shot.

The Mavericks' mid-range defense is the same as that of the Spurs. The 62 points scored by Kobe Bryant in three quarters is a good example. It was also the key to Wade finding a way to deal with the Mavericks after receiving a call from Kobe Bryant in the last four games of the Finals.

, who makes their head coach come from the Spurs? A common problem with Spurs head coaches is that they are easily beaten by mid-range shooters.

Liu Mang has been practicing extra time in the mid-range shot just to deal with the Spurs and Mavericks in the past two years.

Now when we play against the Mavericks, we can try the results of our training. Liu Mang's right-hand mid-range shooting ability is rated at 88, which is not far behind the top mid-range shooting ability of 90.

It would be best if you can practice your mid-range shooting to 90 before the start of the playoffs, mainly to 89, because at the end of the season if you maintain the highest personal score in the league this season, the rewards for the extended task of the scoring king will be strengthened.

With 1 point of all-round shooting ability, you can go straight to 90 and reach the top level of mid-range shooting. In the playoffs, whether you are facing the Pistons, Heat, Spurs, or Mavericks, you will be more certain to win.

Speaking of which, there are four semi-finals in the Western Conference, but Liu Mang's opponent in the finals is either the Spurs or the Mavericks, and both mid-range shots are their killers.

McGrady wanted to ask something else, and Jason Terry said: "Okay, okay, hurry up and practice more, hit 250 mid-range shots, right? And make sure you make 50 goals in 60 shots from each point?"

If you fail, you have to start over? That will take a long time. Let's practice quickly. Dirk invited me to dinner in the afternoon. Linde, help me serve."

Jason Terry asked his dedicated trainer to find a half-court and began practicing catching and shooting in five positions.

Jason Terry didn't have that many questions to ask, and neither Rasheed Wallace nor Calderon had any objections. Liu Mang asked them to practice, so they just practiced.

Could what Liu Mang said be wrong? The championship ring is the best proof. The old players of the Eagles had blind trust in Liu Mang.

McGrady is so speechless. He just wants to know the reason! As for rolling his eyes?

These people have no urge to pursue the truth at all?

However, Tracy McGrady feels that what Liu Mang said does make sense. The coach has arranged offensive and defensive tactics, but the specific play style still needs to be controlled by the players themselves.

McGrady's mid-range shooting is also very good, with a mid-range shooting rating of 91, but his shortcoming is that his shooting is very casual, and he often throws it at will.

McGrady's overall field goal percentage has always been over 40%, especially the long two-pointer. His career field goal percentage so far has been 42.5%. However, after coming to the Hawks, the number of shots he took has decreased, but his efficiency has always been very good.

After all, he is a player who has a single-season efficiency rating of 30 in the 2002-03 season, and he has very good all-round offensive skills.

Then, Liu Mang saw a certain hateful guy whose ability evaluation was 98, tied for first place in the league with Duncan and Garnett, who completed training the fastest...

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Chapter completed!