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Carter was furious that he had been ignored by the Eagles!
At the start of the second quarter, Carter came up and hit two three-pointers in a row, plus a breakaway dunk and a dunk for Jerome Williams to lead the Raptors to 10 straight points.
The Eagles, who were playing lightly, were caught off guard by Carter's cold outburst.
Although the Hawks also relied on Jason Terry to score 4 points, the total score was chased to 30-31 by the Raptors!
The Eagles only have 1 point left in their lead!
After three minutes of play, the Eagles were forced to call a timeout!
The four quarterbacks Koaimeka, none of them can be ignored, and when Carter was ignored by the Hawks, it suddenly exploded in the second quarter.
Now the Eagles are only 1 point ahead, which means that the game between the two teams seems to be back to a new start!
But Coach Kruger did not panic, except for the Hawks, Nets, Pistons, and Pacers in the top four in the East this year, the lineups of other teams are very poor, which is the consensus of all fans and media.
Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, Kwame Brown were substituted.
Raheem and Rashid Wallace remain on the bench to rest.
On the Raptors' side, Coach Wilkens looked at the Hawks' rotation lineup and felt sour, if he hadn't left the Hawks two years ago, this lineup would have been his!
Look at this group of people, except for Carter, they are either veterans who are about to retire, rookies, or weak chickens.
The key is that the rookie is too fragile psychologically, and it is not angry when he is abused, but he looks like he wants to cry.
Coach Wilkens didn't dare to replace Milicic for fear that he would be targeted by the other party and have a psychological breakdown.
But unexpectedly, when Wilkens was rearranging the tactics for Carter during the Hawks' timeout, Milicic actually took the initiative to come up and ask to play!
Coach Wilkens was a little surprised to see Milicic's rejuvenated fighting spirit, and Carter was really unhappy when he looked at Milicic, he finally found an opportunity to break out, this rookie actually came to grab the ball again, Rao Carter has a high emotional intelligence, and he couldn't help but look at Milicic with annoyed eyes.
Milicic pressed Carter's eyes and immediately said, "Coach, I'm not their match yet, but my pick-and-roll and mid-range shooting can create better opportunities for Vince." ”
Not yet?
When Carter heard this, he gave Milicic a surprised look, too surprised.
Carter has been working with Milicic for almost two months since he returned to the team and started training camp.
But this time, being teased like this by Liu Mang and those people, he would actually say that this is not the case yet, that is, he is confident that he will be the opponent of Rashid Wallace and others in the future?
Not to mention, although I hate this rookie, it is this rookie who has made his team's position unstable and the tactical core position is gone, but Carter's impression of this rookie has changed greatly.
If he was really robbed of his core position by a psychologically fragile soft egg and forced away by a soft egg, Carter might hate Milicic for the rest of his life, but now, although Carter still hates Milicic from the bottom of his heart, his emotional intelligence is back online.
"Coach, just let me go up with Darko, I'll take him to fight." Carter also suggested.
As Milicic said, Milicic is certainly no match for the Eagles' interior group, but this is Carter's best teammate right now.
As a star who entered the NBA in the 90s, although the Raptors have not done anything about him in the past two years, Carter still hopes to stay with the Raptors, and with his emotional intelligence, he can guess how much impact his reputation and popularity will have if he leaves the Raptors.
And Carter is also very yearning for this kind of thing, he hopes that one day, when he retires, there will be a city, a team, like Russell, Jordan, when people mention him.
Coach Wilkens was very surprised by such a big change between Milicic and Carter today, Milicic didn't talk about it, Carter's dissatisfaction, Wilkens saw it, but he couldn't help it, he was just the head coach, the team required to train the center, Carter's role is bound to weaken, which is inevitable, unless Milicic is trained from the role of a supporting role, so that Carter can play with Milicic.
But the Raptors' management is asking for Milicic to be developed as a core, so Carter will definitely be dissatisfied.
But now that Milicic has offered to play as a supporting role, and Carter has also said that he wants to play with Milicic, coach Wilkens is overjoyed, and when the first person on the team and the two who are at the heart of the team's management have such thoughts, he has enough reason to suggest that management trade reinforcements.
Coach Wilkens brought in Alvin Williams, Carter, Peterson, Jerome Williams, Milicic.
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The timeout came back and the Eagles attacked.
Liu Mang advanced to the front court and handed the ball to Jason Terry, who was very unhappy with being shot two head-on by Carter just now, dribbled two steps with the ball, and made a breakthrough action, but suddenly pulled up and shot when he stepped on the three-point line!
Alvin Williams stepped back a big step to prevent Jason Terry from breaking through and was shot coldly, and Jason Terry hit a long two-point shot.
Liu Mang watched the gliding of the bag while returning to the defense, and Jason Terry was speechless, can't he jump a few centimeters earlier? Stepping on the three-point line is the worst loss, and the difficulty is about the same as three points, but only two points.
But this shows that the Raptors now have no defensive discipline, but the ability is really poor, and Alvin Williams is 29 years old and has begun to decline significantly, mainly in terms of physical fitness.
Twenty-five or sixteen years old is the peak of physical fitness, what does peak mean, that is, the day when you reach your peak, and then you are declining every day, and most players, the rate of decline is unbelievably fast, and it can be seen from the average career of NBA players who are only three or a few years.
Alvin Williams was afraid of being broken by Jason Terry, so he chose to step back and defend, and the awareness is good, but Javin Terry, if he dares to give him a little space, he dares to wave, anyway, he is the sixth man, and he waves casually.
Offensive and defensive transitions.
Carter pushes in with the ball.
Liu Mang's eyes were different when he saw Carter! And the Raptors' running position and Milicic don't feel the same!
Although I don't know what ulterior secrets Carter and Milicic have, Liu Mang knows that he has to fight seriously! A good schedule at the beginning, you can't overturn in the gutter!
Prince defended Carter.
Carter had a headache when he saw Prince, why did the Hawks pick someone at random, played for two years, and was so strong? Just now he took advantage of the Hawks' unpreparedness to fly two three-pointers on Jason Terry's head, Prince immediately defended, and he could only rely on explosiveness and speed to break through, Prince's tall and arm span defensive shooting was so scary that Carter felt that as long as he shot, he would be capped.
The Raptors pulled the space away, Milysses went to the left side of the free throw line to open up the space, pulled Kwame Brown out, Alvin Williams went to the right bottom corner to take Liu Mang to open up the space, Peterson was the Raptors' most accurate three-point except Carter, containing Jason Terry in the bottom left corner, Jerome Williams was hand-to-hand with Boozer near the three-second zone, Boozer couldn't do anything else on the defensive end, but he was not afraid of hand-to-hand combat.
Carter observed the opposing defense, and the space opened up ...... What a difference!
Liu Mang obviously didn't care at all about Alvin Williams' three-point shooting rate of more than 20 percent, and he didn't completely prevent it at all.
Carter beckoned Milicic to come over to block and dismantle, Milicic blocked Carter's left side, Carter deliberately avoided the direction of Liu Mang's bag and made a breakthrough on the left side of the basket!
To Ka's surprise, Kwame Brown, who switched his guard, was so fast that he was in front of him!
Kwame Brown's anti-pick-and-roll awareness is the most surprising part of the Hawks, such good physical fitness, anti-pick-and-roll awareness is still so good, the original 2006 Lakers once led 3-1 in the first round, Kwame Brown and Kobe's defensive combination to prevent Nash and Stoudemire's blocking is the key!
Carter, under Kwame Brown's timely and ferocious blocking, was not able to get up to speed in the first place after the pick-and-roll!
At this time, Prince bypassed Milicic and hit Carter, Milicic's side, with excellent awareness, immediately cut to the basket, Carter was overjoyed, and immediately distributed the ball to Milicic, Milicic dribbled to the basket, Jerome Williams desperately helped Milicic resist Boozer, and did not let Boozer return to the basket to make up for the defense.
Milicic rushed to the free throw line, took a big step and flew to dunk!
Although Milicic took a few steps and Carter didn't assist, this is a rare connection between the two, or a connection initiated from Carter, Carter was very excited, but just when Milicic jumped, Carter saw the figure rushing in from the bottom line, and was suddenly startled and yelled: "Be careful!" ”
But it was too late, Milicic had already flown out and dunked the ball to the basket!
Just when Milicic was ready to roar like the opponent's power forward after landing, the ball had been dunked and was about to dunk into the basket, a large hand that was obviously disproportionate to his arm appeared in his sight!
"Smack"
"Get me down!"
Milicic felt a tremendous force from the ball in his hand, and the ball broke free from his hand! The ball hit Milicic's head and bounced out of bounds!
Milicic lost his balance, landed a few steps back, narrowly defended himself, and sat on the ground without being directly overturned.
Liu Mang blew his hand after landing on the ground, and seeing the rookie who seemed to have regained his fighting spirit, Liu Mang felt that it was time, a soft rookie, even if he had talent, Liu Mang felt that it was not fun to bully him.
Now that Milicic seems to have cheered up, Liu Mang's interest has come, since he has cheered up, let's beat him down again!
However, at the very least, Milicic tried to change his style of play and tried to fight against his side, Liu Mang had respect for Milicic, of course, he had to bully this rookie even more!
After blowing his hands, Liu Mang said to Milicic, who was sitting on the floor: "Rookie, welcome to the NBA!" ”
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In this game, the most difficult thing for the Hawks to deal with was Carter, but Carter broke out alone, and the Hawks were not afraid.
It's really hard to defend, even Prince can't prevent Carter, who has rich scoring means, and Raheem can't prevent it when he comes up, but the Hawks can wrap it up, and the Raptors have too many people who can't shoot in the open space, and Milicic's side, although he is working hard for Carter, but although Milicic is talented, he is just a rookie and is eaten to death by the Eagles.
Carter had to come on his own.
Carter turned on the personal scoring mode, the Raptors' offense was all on him, Carter kept breaking through, constantly attracting the bag pass or making fouls himself, and occasionally had to make a three-point shot, Carter played really well today, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too big.
On the Hawks' side, Jason Terry wasted most of the quarter, the Raptors were unguarded, Peterson defended well but slowly, Carter defended seriously when his defensive ability was okay, and his physical fitness was good, but he had to defend against Liu Mang, as long as Carter went to defend Jason Terry, Jason Terry immediately passed to Liu Mang, Liu Mang went to abuse Alvin Williams, the Hawks' backcourt double wave can play without the ball, can hold the ball alone, and both of them trust each other very much, and are willing to put the ball in each other's hands, Except for Jason Terry, who is a little short on the defensive end, there are a lot of problems, otherwise the Hawks' backcourt double wave is perfect.
In the third quarter, the Hawks were about to harvest the game, and sent a meat grinder-like defensive combination of Liu Mang, Prince, Rahim, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff to score 30-17 in a single quarter!
On the Raptors' side, Carter scored 17 points in a single quarter in the second quarter, 15 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, plus 9 points in the first quarter, Carter scored 41 points after the third quarter!
But after the third quarter, the difference was stretched to 25 points!
The Raptors can only call a timeout, today's supernatural Carter, watching himself score 41 points, but the team fell behind by 25 points at 60-85, except for him, the Raptors did not have a single player with a double-double, Carter seemed to understand a little, the team management rebuilt like a boat.
With 16 of 30 shots in the third quarter, 41 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds, Carter's own performance was already perfect, but the team could still fall behind by so many points, that is, it was time to have to rebuild, and it was already very good that he did not directly cultivate Milicic.