To dare to shoot a lot in the middle and long distance, you need to have two points of confidence, one is the confidence in your own shooting, and the other is the confidence in your teammates' rebounding and defense speed.

The foundation of the SuperSonics' foothold this season is in these two points, three-point and rebounding, which are the advantages that the SuperSonics had last season, but they lack a passer, and Francis is the key to activating the strength of the SuperSonics.

After entering the rotation lineup, Liu Mang felt that it was time to speed up!

The supersonic lineup, except for Lewis, basically has no three-point ability, so there is no need to worry about the opponent relying on counterattacks to use Francis's threat to attract pinch shots and then catch the ball and shoot three-pointers, Ray Allen can't play, Antonio Daniels and Reedno are not star-level pitchers who can maintain efficiency for a long time, without Ray Allen, Lewis can't complete the task of two people!

Make up your mind.

The Eagles chose to serve in the front court, Liu Mang came to the top arc after receiving the ball, facing Francis, the SuperSonics team's defense was fierce, but there was no discipline, all relying on their height to be shorter than the Eagles' side, close to the defense.

Liu Mang leaned on Francis's sticky defense, let Jason Terry catch the ball, and helped Jason Terry block Murray who was defending him, and after separating a little space for Jason Terry, Liu Mang immediately rushed inside.

Francis just switched to Jason Terry, and Jason Terry just pulled up and shot!

"Watts?" Francis didn't have time to pounce, Jason Terry was one step away from the three-point line, that is, he just took advantage of Liu Mang's blocking and dismantling to the halfway point, and when he didn't completely bypass, he shot directly!

Liu Mang is already a wave enough, Francis didn't expect Jason Terry to add to the waves!

When Liu Mang rushed to the free throw line, he saw the ball fly over his head and plunge into the basket.

Jason Terry hits a three-point shot from beyond range!

27-21, after entering the rotation lineup, the Hawks suddenly stretched the difference to more than 5 points.

Offensive and defensive switching, supersonic offense, supersonic side is still playing position, and their rebounding advantage can only be reflected when they are in a good position, they are not a fast-break team.

Under Liu Mang's signal, the Hawks players Jason Terry, Iguodala, and Josh Smith all stepped back to the basket to defend except for the one that met Lewis.

Liu Mang pressed up towards Francis, and Francis saw Liu Mang pressing up again, and immediately chose to break through.

Iguodala quickly made up for the defense, but the Hawks didn't quickly rotate the defense, Liu Mang and Iguodala blocked Francis on the right side of the free throw line with one left and one right!

Francis immediately passed to Danny Fortson, just passed, Francis knew that the pass was the wrong person, Danny Fortson was on the floor, he should have burst into the interior and then Danny Fortson followed up to impact the offensive rebound or catch the ball directly, Danny Fortson was just about to follow, and his feet were still on the three-point line. Or what?

Danny Fortson, who has only made 40 three-pointers in 331 games and made only two three-pointers, has a career three-point shooting percentage of 0 on the record, and a single-digit shooting percentage per year!

Completely unguarded, Danny Fortson still chose to gamble on his luck and played a step-back three-point shot......

Three do not stick!

Iguodala blocked Francis, Muhammad knew that Reggie Evans' rebounding was powerful, so he didn't grab the rebound at all, and he was purely entangled with Reggie Evans, Liu Mang turned around and accepted the ball that fell directly from the air and counterattacked!

Jason Terry was already ready, and the cavalry arrows began to charge.

Francis retreated immediately after being blocked, the SuperSonics defense is not good, the defensive enthusiasm is very strong, Liu Mang hoisted the ball to Jason Terry, and when Jason Terry received the ball, Francis and Murray had already caught up.

Jason Terry received the ball in the front court, rushed straight to the basket with the chasing Murray and Francis, and passed back to the top arc!

Liu Mang rushed to the front court immediately after passing the ball, rushed to the opponent's three-point line at a super fast speed, received the ball in the top arc, and jumped out of the way!

Liu Mang counterattacked and chased down a three-point miss, Iguodala rushed in and jumped to touch the ball before Francis, glanced behind him when he jumped, touched the ball and pulled it back, and Josh Smith, who followed up, flew up and received the ball in the air and glided and scored two points!

Francis and Murray could only dodge and watch as Josh Smith smashed the ball into the basket with a brutal dunk.

Iguodala's selflessness and Josh Smith's explosive physicality kicked off the Eagles' counter-attacking frenzy.

29 to 21, 8 points difference!

Liu Mang's strategy is correct!

Without Ray Allen, the SuperSonics team can't be without impact, and in the starting stage, you can still rely on Ridno to make do with it, but although Ridno is a very good player, he is only a second-year role player, and when it comes to rotating the lineup, the SuperSonics should have played three stars almost all the time, but now there is one less Ray Allen, and the second-year Ridno is not enough to take on the big responsibility, and he can only change the substitute after 9 minutes, and the substitute who can be substituted, that is, Murray, does not have that kind of positive response and running awareness, The point is that running is useless!

Ray Allen's injury broke the original rotation of the SuperSonics, and when they played a weak team a while ago, they could still rely on the starters to take the lead, but against the Hawks, the starters did not gain an advantage either!

The Eagles are different, although there will be situations such as bad state and poor hand, but when the Eagles play a strong team, the lineup is always neat!

Liu Mang and Jason Terry's cavalry company began to charge!

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Liu Mang and Jason Terry started a one-to-one counter-attack shot, continued when they entered, and made substitutions if they didn't score, as well as Iguodala and Josh Smith and Muhammad to follow up quickly.

In the third minute of the second quarter, when the superSonics were forced to change to the full starters, the Hawks had a 43-27 lead of 16 points, and from the point difference to 10 points, the Hawks began to force the speed, and the opponent also played fast offense!

At the official timeout in the second quarter, the Hawks replaced Maddy with Iguodala, and the score was 52-37 at this point, and the Hawks maintained the margin at 15 points.

After the Eagles had a clear advantage, they played even more waves, and they forcibly accelerated at first, but now they are running.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry have been wavering until the end of the first half, Maddie came up after the main long pass and follow-up response, with Maddie, Liu Mang and Jason Terry can go down together fast and long, although the supersonic side scored 32 points in the second quarter, plus 24 points in the first quarter, and 56 points in the half, but the Hawks played so much, and the defense failed to prevent the supersonic side from the third minute of the second quarter, but the Hawks scored 33 points in the first quarter and 41 points in the second quarter, 74 points in the first half!

Liu Mang, who scored 15 points in the first quarter, scored 16 points in the second quarter, 31 points and 3 assists in the half, helping the Hawks lead by 18 points at halftime!

Taking advantage of the fact that the opponent was missing one of the league's best god shooters, the Hawks ran the counterattack fast break in the rotation lineup, and played a completely different second-quarter performance from the last time they met, not letting the rebounding advantage of the opposing rotation lineup come into play, but playing the fast break on their own side.

And the supersonic side has fallen into a vicious circle since the last three minutes of the first quarter when the Hawks raised the speed and couldn't shoot the basket to open up the difference, and the Hawks relied on the lead to fight back more fiercely and more confidently, and the supersonic side is always a little worse than the point of chasing, the worse one.

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After halftime and back in the locker room, coach Krueger and Mike Woodson made more polished additions to the team's second-quarter dominant play, and the Hawks went into the second half with an 18-point lead.

In the third quarter, the Hawks re-replaced Liu Mang, Maddy, and Prince on the outside, but on the inside, they replaced Josh Smith and Kwame Brown, two high school students.

Liu Mang saw that his teammates who followed him on the court were probably the lineup with the lowest education in the NBA.

In fact, when the starting lineup was on the floor in the second quarter, the SuperSonics played a 29-31 score with the Hawks in the last nine minutes of the second quarter, which was actually evenly matched, and it was the Hawks who pulled away the score in those six minutes and played the best counterattack rhythm for the Hawks.

The veteran Mo Ning really wanted to find a cigarette to light and sigh about life, there is no right to be a substitute, and he came to prepare for the away game in advance, but he didn't get a minute of playing time in the half, and he had to show his positive side as a leader in the locker room.

Then Mourning stood on the sidelines, shouting loudly to move faster when defending, stimulating the energy of his teammates.

As soon as the third quarter began, Francis played a fateful breakthrough, and at the urging of Mourning, the Hawks players played more aggressively defensively, using high-speed rotation defense to make supersonic shots quickly.

With an 18-point lead, the Eagles are no longer afraid of the opponent's accuracy, as long as they counterattack and run, they can also throw in on their side!

Liu Mang doesn't want to blow up the opponent in three or two, and in fact, he can't blow up, this is the second team in the West, he wants a high score! A score difference of more than a dozen points like this could not be more suitable!

No one knows Liu Mang's careful thoughts, the Eagles don't know, the supersonic side doesn't know, and the supersonic side still feels that there is a chance to chase more than 10 points, play harder, and work hard to chase points.

Liu Mang scored and helped his teammates score harder, shooting when he should shoot, and containing the defense when he should for his teammates, plus Maddie started to break through the ball again, Liu Mang, Prince, and Rasheed Wallace all got mid-to-long range shooting opportunities, and Kwame Brown also dunked three times under the basket.

In the third quarter, the Hawks scored 36 points, the SuperSonics scored 35 points, and although Lewis had already scored 38 points in the third quarter, Liu Mang scored 44 points in the third quarter! 14 points in the third quarter!

The Hawks finished the third quarter with a 110-91 lead and a 19-point lead heading into the fourth quarter.

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Coming back in the fourth quarter, the Hawks returned to the full starting lineup, and only Rednow, Antonio Daniels, and Jerome James rested for six minutes on the SuperSonics' starting lineup, and the others played the full three quarters, but they still had to play.

Liu Mang, who had already shot, came up to the front court to receive a pass from Maddie and threw a three-pointer directly, and the ball hit the front board on the square above the rebound and bounced into the basket, hitting the seventh three-pointer of the game, and his personal score increased to 47 points, and the Hawks also led the SuperSonics by 22 points at 113-91.

Francis was just about to bring his teammates up to try to struggle, but he was suddenly discouraged by Liu Mang's three-point shot!

Can't let Liu Mang score! This guy is going to score 50 points!

The first quarter was okay, and the second quarter was okay, but Liu Mang scored 44 points in the third quarter and led the team to a 19-point lead, which has brought the confidence of the supersonic side to the brink of collapse, and even the psychological advantage laid by the Hawks in the last game is about to collapse, and they only have one thought now, that is, Ray Allen will lose to the Hawks if he is not there.

But now Liu Mang came up in the fourth quarter and hit another three-point shot.

There is no need to run, no need to feint, just shoot a three-pointer and score!

When it came to the supersonic offense, Lewis made a three-pointer against Rasheed Wallace's defense.

When it was the Hawks' turn to attack, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and as soon as he reached the three-point line, Francis posted up, blocked the three-point break, and when Liu Mang burst to the free throw line, Redno let go of Prince and hit him.

Supersonic began to go crazy with Liu Mang, Liu Mang saw that he was going to score 50 points, how could he give up?

Liu Mang stuck his head towards Lidno, stopped the ball after making contact with Lidno, shook a shot, Lidno and Francis both jumped up, Liu Mang rubbed towards Lidno, grabbed the ball with his right hand and hit Lidno's arm......

"Beep......

The referee's whistle blows, the thug fouls!

Originally, the supersonic team would not give Liu Mang such a big physical contact, especially when he was pinching, but now they can't care about it so much, they just don't let Liu Mang make a good shot.

In the next few rounds, as long as Maddie gives the ball to Liu Mang, Liu Mang will take the ball and rush to the inside, and if the outside line has no chance, he will rush into the inside, and the one who is caught will stick to the opponent, and take the initiative to wave his arm to hit the opponent, rub it, and touch a porcelain.

In the fifth minute of the fourth quarter, Liu Mang finally got three fouls and hit 5 of 6 free throws, raising his personal score to 51 points!

The Hawks, on the other hand, also scored 14 points in these five minutes, 124 to 104, a 20-point margin ahead of the SuperSonics.

With 51 minutes to go and seven minutes to go, SuperSonics head coach Nate McMillan called a timeout and replaced the main team to announce his surrender.

He didn't want to see Liu Mang score 60 points! The 20-point difference can't catch up anyway, seeing Liu Mang's kind of data brushing, Nate McMillan knows what Liu Mang wants to do.

The supersonic side replaced the main team, and Coach Kruger saw a group of substitutes on the opponent's bench taking off their training uniforms, and also replaced the main team.

Liu Mang was happy to make fouls, and he wanted to make more free throws as much as he did against the Bulls, but now there are only 12 free throws...... And 51 points...... But he still had to point his face, and when he saw the camera facing him, he walked to the sidelines and put on his training uniform with an expression that didn't take the score in his eyes at all.

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In the end, the Hawks beat the SuperSonics by 132 to 118, a 14-point margin.

The Hawks tied the team's winning streak for the season to 43-7 and remain the league's No. 1 record.

Francis 26 points, 13 assists and 6 boards, Lewis 41 points and 4 boards, the two tried their best, but they couldn't stand Liu Mang's 50+ and Maddy's double 15+ performance in a single game!

Maddie took advantage of the rhythm brought up by Liu Mang and Jason Terry to 16 points and 17 assists, improving his average assists per game to 11.7, just 0.4 short of Nash's average of 12.1 assists per game.

Liu Mang scored 51 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, raising his average points per game to 36.7 points per game!

This is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that Liu Mang got the 20th 40+ this season and the 5th 50+ this season! It continues to set a new record for 40+ and 50+ times in a single season for active players.

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Ask for a monthly ticket, there is still a chapter, before ten o'clock, eat something, and brush up the plot of the second half of the season to speed up the pace and enter the playoffs.