Liu Mang ignored a problem, he defended Anfernee Hardaway, Anfernee Hardaway attacked with the ball, not because Anfernee Hardaway was stronger than Marbury's scoring ability, Anfernee Hardaway, who had a shooting rate of more than 50% at his peak, may have a stronger scoring ability than Marbury, but now, there is no suspense that Marbury is more powerful, the Knicks just pick a "soft persimmon" pinch, Liu Mang is the one who is regarded as a soft persimmon!

Marbury played less in the playoffs, but that doesn't mean he played poorly in the playoffs!

Except for the sophomore season when he faced Payton and was so prevented from shooting, he faced the Big Three Rockets in his rookie season and Garnett's playoff series, and he was the series scoring champion and assist leader!

The 90-point rating given by the system to Marbury in the playoffs is also a top star margin!

Marbury's exploratory breakthrough!

Liu Mang often used the probe breakthrough he got from Marbury to tease his opponents, and this time it was his turn to be teased!

Liu Mang confidently wanted to rely on his footsteps to predict and prevent Marbury, but found that it didn't play a big role! Marbury, who was at the peak of his 27-year-old career, probed to attract Liu Mang's defensive attention, and after revealing a flaw for Liu Mang to defend, a large Iverson-style horizontal move went straight to the inside from Liu Mang's left side!

I was teased by Marbury's change of direction!

However, Liu Mang did not stop defending, because there was someone behind the master!

After Liu Mang was passed, the left foot that stepped out because of the forced rush kicked violently and pounced on Marbury, just in time to clamp Marbury with Raheim, who was in place!

After Marbury passed Liu Mang, he encountered Rahim's supplementary defense, and wanted to change direction again or jump to directly attack the basket and throw it, but Liu Mang returned to the defense as soon as possible, and Marbury was blocked all of a sudden and was forced to stop the ball!

Raheem's ability to connect inside and outside defense is on display!

Marbury felt Liu Mang sticking up to make a steal and immediately passed the ball to the vacated Shanton Anderson.

Shanton Anderson on the left baseline of the basket receives the ball, and no one cares! Kurt Thomas wanted to go out to pick up, but was tightly pressed by Rashid Wallace, Kurt Thomas played fiercely in the face of many interior players, big action and big confrontation, known as dirty Cotter, but in the face of Rasheed Wallace, who looks more fierce and has the title of technical foul king, especially the more ferocious defensive action, cowardly!

Kurt Thomas was pressed to the right side of the basket by Rashid Wallace and didn't dare to struggle!

Anfernee Hardaway's off-ball run struggled to escape Prince's long-arm tentacle defense, and Mutombo played with Ratliff under the basket.

Shanton Anderson saw Raheem and Ratliff high and a basket, and he didn't dare to rush in, so he could only throw two points long......

Shanton Anderson, who has almost no mid-to-long-range shooting ability and only relies on counterattacks and air cuts to score in the regular season, has a very unusual sound of hitting iron, and the sound of "bang" is crisp and loud.

Liu Mang took a step to turn around and wanted to impact the offensive rebound Marbury, who was as solid as a rock level 1 trigger, Liu Mang couldn't grab the rebound, but the card thief was powerful, especially the card outside the line, Marbury, who was about the same strength as him, was stuck to death, Ratliff was also stuck in Mutombo, and Rahim easily got the defensive rebound.

Counterattack!

Liu Mang stuck Marbury for a moment and blocked Marbury's action to impact the offensive rebound, and immediately went down, trusting the rebounding king!

Liu Mang rushed to the frontcourt, Rahim made a long pass to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang counterattacked with a one-handed split and scored two points!

Liu Mang ran back and high-fived Rahim, the two's pinch defense, after the Knicks lost Alan Houston and Van Horn at the small forward position, such an obvious hole, they had already discussed how to deal with it.

Marbury is indeed better than Anfernee Hardaway, and Marbury's passing ability is not comparable to Anfernee Hardaway's, and his career assists per game are higher than Anfernee Hardaway's career assists in most seasons.

But Anfernee Hardaway, his ability to tandem the team is better than Marbury, mainly because of the judgment of defense and the avoidance of avoiding being caught in a bad position, Anfernee Hardaway does a lot better than Marbury.

Marbury is straight and straight, and he does attract the defense more, but he can't choose which player to use to pinch the defense like Anfernee Hardaway does.

Anfernee Hardaway, can make good use of the rhythm of the breakthrough, take advantage of the time difference between the opponent's defense, the rhythm changes very quickly, the position of stopping the ball is good enough, Raheem can completely get up and cut into Shandon Anderson when he comes over, instead of needing someone to pull away to break through like Marbury, Anfernee Hardaway is to create an opportunity for his teammates to cut in the air, and Marbury's style of play is completely opposite, it seems that there are not many assists, and most of the assists are also breakthrough points, but the meaning is different! His kind of aura, that kind of ability to connect teams, is something that Marbury doesn't have.

Marbury's offense is very simple, break through first, wait for the opponent to come over, pass to the vacant one, he plays the ball not alone, since his rookie year, he has broken through the number of passes to his teammates, has been ranked in the top five in the league, has been ranked first in recent years, has a high ball possession rate and a high pass success rate, but he can't guarantee who the teammate who receives the ball is.

The SuperSonics really want to bring in Marbury because he is really good at breaking through the ball, but he can't afford to be more expensive than Kidd...... If Marbury had been playing with the SuperSonics, if he hadn't been at odds with his teammates, the SuperSonics might have taken off with his time with the Knicks this season.

However, he didn't have that kind of teammate, his career resume was too bad, his reputation was too bad, he was in the Knicks, the number of assists depended, and the time he played best happened to be the last month or so before Alan Houston was reimbursed.

Marbury's assists per game weren't overtaken by Kidd, but he slipped down after Alan Houston was reimbursed and had fewer outside shooters.

The Hawks, who already had enough experience defending Marbury, locked Marbury after Marbury began to attack with the ball!

Marbury desperately wanted to counterattack today and wanted to kill the Eagles, but Liu Mang and Rahim made him understand that the gap in strength is not a gap that can be crossed by his hard work!

Anfernee Hardaway's side, when he encounters Prince, who is almost as calm as Duncan, there is no way at all, Prince and Liu Mangyi are impulsive, he seems to be an emotionless defensive machine, he will not rely on his good defensive ability to relax, always maintain a tepid attitude, give up a position, and can also rely on his arm span to cover Anfernee Hardaway's shooting space, and the defense against breakthrough is also powerful, and at the same time, he will also use his teammates to pinch together, and always maintain the most rational state, just like in the original time and space, When he was fighting in the Auburn Hills palace incident, the Pistons bench rushed up, and he was alone, sitting quietly on the technical table, watching his teammates and opponents play, he was not without team awareness, but he was extremely calm and knew his importance on the defensive end of the team.

The prince, which was originally just his name, became a nickname because he sat on the technical table during the first battle of Auburn Hills, like a quiet prince who looked a little ugly......

Marbury attracted the bag and passed out, but he could only pass to Shanton Anderson, the assist conversion rate was extremely low, and he could only start shooting by himself, and when Anfernee Hardaway held the ball, in the face of Prince's defense, he couldn't attract the bag at all, so he could only force it on his own.

If it was Anfernee Hardaway seven or eight years ago, the peak Jordan and Pippen couldn't be stopped, and the two could only be limited by the pinch, and it was only limited, and they were still defeated by him and O'Neal.

But now Anfernee Hardaway can fight hard in the face of Liu Mang, but in the face of Prince, he can only smile helplessly.

The Hawks locked up the Knicks' outside duo!

Marbury played hard today, but the harder he worked, the more bitter he became, he worked hard when he was in the Nets and in the Suns, but when he was in the Nets, the Nets were not Kenyon Martin, and when he was in the Suns, his sudden point play did not match the Suns' interior core Stoudemire at all, and his future depravity is hard to ensure that there is no reason for the fact that he has been working hard all these years but has not returned.

Marbury and Anfernee Hardaway started a gorgeous symphonic iron song, and the Knicks faced the interior blue-collar group that many teams are proud of in this game and met the Hawks' frontcourt trio, and the offensive rebounds were not grabbed, and the offensive end was prevented to death!

The opponent hits the iron, and it is the outside shooting iron, and the Hawks have a chance to counterattack!

Rahim grabbed the rebound, Liu Mang counterattacked, Rahim followed up to grab the offensive rebound, the two did not cooperate much with other tactics, Rahim chose to weaken his offensive role and was mainly responsible for defense and rebounding, because the chemistry of the two on the offensive end was really poor, and the tacit understanding between the two on the defensive end was too bad, and the two did not match their playing style.

But the two have an offensive tactic that has a very tacit understanding with Liu Mang, that is, cavalry tactics!

Liu Mang and Rahim started a two-person fast attack cooperation, when Rahim ran fast, Liu Mang threw three points, after Rahim passed the ball out and was clamped, Liu Mang counterattacked and attacked the basket, the two of them in this tactic, perfect cooperation!

When the official timeout reached the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 11 points and 2 assists in more than half a quarter, Raheem got 4 points and 6 rebounds, and the two led the Hawks' starting lineup to 19-8 in the first seven minutes, leading the Knicks by 11 points!

The difference in strength is quite obvious!

The gap between 70 wins and 36 wins is not something that Marbury's efforts can make up!

After the official timeout came back, the Hawks entered regular rotation time, and in order to take advantage of the victory, Stockton and Liu Mang, Prince, Boozer, and Kwame Brown went up to the lineup.

At the beginning, the Hawks used defense to deal with the Knicks, and when it came time to rotate the lineup, the Hawks directly chose to use positional offense to deal with the Knicks!

The Knicks just replaced the lineup of Howard Easley, Marbury, Anfernee Hardaway, Tim Thomas, and Kurt Thomas, and Coach Wilkens wanted to keep up with the rhythm of the Hawks' counterattack, so he replaced it with a brisk real handicap, but he didn't expect the Hawks to start playing positional battles!

Although the defense of the Hawks team has deteriorated a lot, the Knicks scored 12 points in 5 minutes in the second half of the first quarter, and narrowly scored 20 points in a single quarter at the end of the first quarter.

But on the Hawks' side, they scored 17 points in 5 minutes!

By the end of the first quarter, the Hawks had a 16-point lead at 36-20!

Liu Mang scored 21 points in the first quarter, one more point than the entire Knicks team!

Before the start of the Knicks game, the little morale that was finally found under the encouragement of Marbury, the motivation of the owner and coaching staff to use the 1999 playoffs to boost them, and the spirit of wanting to fight with the Hawks under the pressure of the Hawks' devil's home court, finished the first quarter and dispersed directly!

Liu Mang, who didn't hear the system prompt that the Knicks' morale was suppressed at the beginning and was a little confused, after the first quarter, the system prompt finally came, and the Knicks' morale collapse may be late, but he was not absent!

"Ding...... The host scored 21 points in a single quarter more than the New York Knicks' entire team, and the New York Knicks' morale collapsed due to the Black Eight Dream, and the Devil's home court effect was fully triggered. From Phillips Arena fans and Rashid Wallace. ”

A very small number of New York fans who came from afar left directly after watching the first quarter of the game!

The Eagles opened the home playoffs this time, because of the flag-raising ceremony of the division champion, the lowest ticket price was 95 US dollars, and those local tyrant fans from New York bought front-row tickets, and after the first quarter, they left directly!

Not only the New York fans, but even the Knicks players have completely lost confidence!

They tried their best to raise their fighting spirit to the highest level before the game, and faced this game with an almost dream-like mentality, but the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment!

In the second quarter, the Knicks had a good offense in the second half of the first quarter, but after the start of the second quarter, in the face of the Hawks' obviously weaker strength, Jason Terry and Korver replaced Liu Mang and Prince, and the Knicks' offense played even worse!

The second quarter started playing for a full three minutes, and the Knicks didn't score a point, all of them were iron!

The Eagles played a wave of 8-0 scoring climax, and they came up to stretch the difference to 24 points!

Later, relying on the strong sudden play of Marbury and Anfernee Hardaway, the momentum of the Hawks slowly declined, and the scores of the two teams began to enter a very balanced state, and the Hawks played laxly, and the Knicks were on par with the Knicks for a long time in the future.

However, this makes the Knicks players feel even more bleak.

Even Marbury began to doubt life, and the Hawks were completely playing with each other, and they didn't cut off the score!

It's mainly Kurt Thomas, the Knicks' strongest insider, who is completely locked up by Rasheed Wallace's more vicious style of play and more terrifying face!

By the end of the third quarter, the margin was still more than 20 points, and the Hawks were 81-56, 25 points ahead of the Knicks!

Liu Mang played three quarters, played 29 minutes, 11 of 17, 2 of 5 three-pointers, successfully scored 6 times on counterattacks, 9 of 11 free throws, and scored 33 points, 2 boards and 4 assists in the third quarter!

In the final quarter, the Hawks brought Jason Terry on and went up to garbage time with a lineup of Korver, Barnes, Mohammed and Kwame Brown.

The Knicks didn't have the kind of motivation that they wanted to replace the Hawks with the main force just now, and they were completely beaten down!

Marbury, who played the first three quarters, had 15 points, 2 rebounds and 6 assists, and Anfernee Hardaway had 18 points and 4 assists. Anfernee Hardaway shot 7-of-20, and both of them shot less than 40 percent!

Marbury was originally the most combative, but after the game, it was Marbury who felt the most miserable!

In the end, relying on Liu Mang's performance of 33 points, 4 assists and 2 rebounds in the third quarter, the Hawks easily defeated the Knicks with a 107-83, 24-point advantage and won the first win of the playoffs!

There is almost no suspense, except for the Hawks being beaten by Anfernee Hardaway at the beginning, Liu Mang is estimated to become the background of the two top five, and one is the background of the opponent and the other is the background of his teammates, and the Knicks can bring very little pressure to Liu Mang.

The difference in strength between the two teams is too big!

After the game, the Hawks players happily returned to the locker room, it was almost 12 o'clock, go back early after the ice shower, the first game as the last opener, the Hawks and the Lakers, the first game, in fact, is the most tired in the eight-round series, and now the playoff schedule is tighter, the first round of four games a day, there is no longer so easy to play the series of higher-ranked teams with one more day of rest, and now the first round of games has become more and more experience, The league now has four games a day for the first four games of the first round.

The Hawks finished playing the Knicks today, with a day off, and the 20th is about to play the Knicks again, although this win is easy, but the Hawks' purpose is: to try their best to abuse the opponent in the game without the desire to fight back.

I have to go to the away game to play the Knicks in the future, so in the first two games, not only to win, but also to win beautifully! Beat each other to doubt life!

After playing the first game with the Knicks, Liu Mang finally understood why the Knicks' Avengers series of missions rewarded so "exciting", and the Knicks' 03-04 season star card was almost the same as if there was or not.

People say that Garnett has never broken through the first round, in fact, Marbury is the same, even if it is the original time and space, he played the second round in the Celtics in the 08-09 season, and never reached the second round in his career for more than ten years before, he is even more miserable in this time and space, and met someone Liu, Marbury has played the playoffs in addition to his rookie season and sophomore years, and now he is playing the playoffs for the third time, because Liu Mang has changed Yao Ming's progress trajectory slightly, and Marbury was also "deprived" of a chance to play the playoffs by Liu Mang.

This time Marbury came with great ambition, but after this game, he felt that his ambition had been trampled on!

What Liu Mang wants is to crush Marbury's fighting spirit!

The NBA is a brutal place, the average career length of the NBA has doubled since the 80s and early 90s, but it is only 4.1 years on average.

This is a league of the jungle, and Liu Mang will never sympathize with opponents, especially in the playoffs!

Sympathy for the opponent is cruelty to oneself, Liu Mangdong has been killed for two consecutive years, how can the other party ever sympathize? On the court, especially in the playoffs, Liu Mang never thought of sympathizing with the other party, just like he wanted to sweep every time he played the Pistons, in the face of this team that had originally reached the Eastern Finals for six consecutive years in the East, Liu Mang wanted to beat them to the point where he was afraid when he saw them in order to avoid them becoming strong and difficult to deal with in the future!