907. Another Steve
At 7:40 p.m., the Eagles finished their pre-game warm-up and entered the playing field at Key Arena.
When the Eagles players came out, they all received boos, especially Liu Mang, who was the public enemy of Seattle, detonated the scene, and the boos were all over the place!
Liu Mang despises the fans here, and in a few years this team will abandon you! Boo them and you'll be left without a home team!
Looking at Liu Mang's disdainful expression, the fans at the scene booed even more.
When players play, the court station often does not broadcast, but a bunch of advertisements will not cut to the game screen until the ball is jumped, but the advertising in the United States is a little different, they use technology to replace the advertisements on the billboards on the sidelines with the advertisements they receive, and the advertisements placed before the game will be much less, focusing on the advertising when the game is suspended.
That's why billboards at NBA stadiums aren't worth much, as they're usually only visible to fans in the stadium.
In order to give fans a better viewing experience, American TV stations have been broadcasting live footage from half an hour before the start of the game, and the cheerleading team dancing and some performances before the game are also very interesting.
Therefore, Liu Mang was very excited from the beginning, put himself into the state of the game, and as the boss of the team, he wanted to tell his parents in this life through the TV screen that he mixed well in the United States, and he didn't have to worry about him.
Francis and Yao Ming are not teammates anymore, and they don't need to give Liu Mang face, and in the same way, Liu Mang didn't give Francis face in the first place, and now he won't give it.
The two have so many grievances, and they still give face to each other, they are too wronged by themselves, and competing with each other is what the two want to do most.
In the final preparation time before the game, Liu Mang took a look at the current situation of the supersonic team.
Ray Allen is not there, and the strongest player on the SuperSonics team is undoubtedly Francis.
"Steve Francis, Ability rating 88 (peak), offense 92, defense 75, three-point shooting 68, shooting 73, layup 95, speed 91, power 89, rebounding 78, passing 84......"
Francis is a model of people going to the peak of the right team to last longer, if they go to the Magic, they will already be wasted, and they will delay both of them by grabbing the ball with Hill in the first year, but when they came to the SuperSonics, they maximized their strength and played in the top ten of the MVP rankings.
averaged 17.6 points, 6.7 rebounds and 9.2 assists per game, ranked third in rebounds among point guards, second only to Liu Mang and James, ranked third in the league in assists, second only to Nash and Maddy, and ranked six to ten in the MVP rankings for a long time, more than Maddy has been in the top ten of the MVP weekly rankings, and has won three weekly awards.
Another first-class star is Rashad Lewis.
"Rashad Lewis, 85 (peak), 90 on offense, 75 on defense, 89 from three-point range, 87 from the field, 88 from the ground...... Averaged 21.6 points, 5.3 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game ......"
Mr. 100 million yuan is not taking a contract of 100 million yuan for nothing, Mr. 100 million, who is now 26 years old and has entered his peak, has no dead ends in medium and long-distance shooting!
The sixth man of the SuperSonics, Luke Ridno, a rookie in the class of '03, has an ability rating of 76, averaging 10 points and 4 assists per game, and averaging 1.2 three-pointers per game.
and Antonio Daniels, the No. 4 pick in '97 who was activated by Francis, has an ability rating of 79 and averaged 12 points and 5 boards per game for the first time in his career.
With the exception of center Jerome James, almost all of the SuperSonics players have been helped by the team's acquisition of Francis.
After directly observing the opponent's current ability evaluation, coupled with the scouting report, Liu Mang has a deeper understanding of the strength of the supersonic team at this stage.
Much like the Suns, teams that are weak in offense and defense are averaging 102 points per game and conceding 99 points per game, the lowest point difference among the league's five best teams.
They win not by throwing the opponent to death at once, or by preventing the opponent to death at once, but by relying on the stability of a group of pitchers, dragging the game to the end, relying on accurate shooting, and using the key ball ability of Ray Allen, Lewis and others to defeat the opponent at critical moments.
The pace is not very fast, but it is accurate! Sometimes, if you explode with a steady degree of accuracy, you can beat the top team.
Just like the last time the Hawks lost to the SuperSonics, they also scored 118 points, but the opponent broke out ridiculously accurately, scoring 122 points.
Since this is the case, Liu Mang's goal is clear, just prevent the other party from being inaccurate!
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Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air and played with his teammates who started the game.
Liu Mang, Maddy, Prince, Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown started the game.
Yesterday's game, Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown both played just 24 minutes yesterday and there were no fitness issues today.
On the supersonic side, Francis, Ridno, Antonio Daniels, Lewis, and Jerome James started the game.
Kwame Brown and Jerome James, nicknamed Donut because of his love of donuts, came to the center circle to jump the ball.
For yesterday's jump ball loss to Swift, and also the opening game was deducted by Swift, Kwame Brown did not dare to take any opponent lightly in the second game in at least 24 hours, the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game, threw the ball into the air, Kwame Brown jumped with all his might, touched the ball first, and flicked the ball to the back.
After Liu Mang received the ball, he immediately passed to Maddie to play fast attack, but the supersonic team's retreat was particularly fast, Jerome James is a center with physical flow, and the supersonic side actually has no interior line except for Jerome James, Lewis played small forward last season, and only switched to power forward this season.
After Liu Mang ran to the front court, he saw that the opponent quickly landed in a defensive position, Francis pasted up to himself, Liu Mang cut from the middle to the inside line empty-handed, Francis suppressed Liu Mang with a strong body, the action was very fierce, Liu Mang was full of strength, still couldn't squeeze, and was pressed from the middle to the right side of the three-second area.
This bastard Francis is really strong enough!
Francis is proud of holding Liu Mang at bay, his physicality is fundamental to his footing, and the 28-year-old is at his best.
At this time, Rashid Wallace came over to help Liu Mang block Francis, Liu Mang planned to go directly to the bottom corner to open up space, and with the help of Rashid Wallace, he immediately bypassed Rashid Wallace and cut inside.
Francis was too impressed by Liu Mang's explosiveness after the blocking, and the SuperSonics were also very wary of it, Francis and Lewis didn't care about Rashid Wallace anymore, because they saw Maddy's high lob ball, Francis bypassed Rashid Wallace to chase Liu Mang, and Lewis also went to chase Liu Mang.
Liu Mang went around from the three-second zone to the other side of the three-second zone, Francis and Lewis both went to block Liu Mang to catch the ball, the two were ready to grab the ball, Liu Mang was stunned when he came out of the left side of the three-second zone, and the SuperSonics also played the hand of the Bulls?
Liu Mang was about to come out of the left side of the three-second zone and run to the bottom left corner to catch the ball and shoot, but he didn't expect the other two to wrap up, he didn't see Maddie pass in, and he didn't think that Maddie would pass the ball to a point guard who went deep into the basket outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle, which was too dangerous.
Moreover, Maddie's pass was not hung to Liu Mang!
Rasheed Wallace saw the ball fall and knew that it was passed to him, received the ball and turned around and took two steps straight to the basket and jumped!
This is all a matter of more than a second, Jerome James was still watching to see if Lewis and Francis could steal Liu Mang to catch the ball, and suddenly heard the exclamations of the fans at the scene.
Jerome James turned his head, and a scary face was getting closer and closer to him......
Rashid Wallace smashes the ball into the basket through Jerome James!
This scene is so familiar to Seattle fans! Not many people were surprised by the Lasheed Wallace slam, which is how Rasheed Wallace played back in the day, a fellow Western team that Seattle fans saw twice a year.
Kwame-Brown secretly thought that he was lucky to be agile and retreat quickly, otherwise he would have been detained by his teammates.
"Whew......" Rashid Wallace ran back excitedly and bumped into Maddie's ass in the middle circle.
Although Liu Mang didn't score, his teammates scored well, and he actually attracted two people to block the defense by running blindly, which is quite proud to think about.
Francis and Lewis felt that they had been slapped in the face, and the two of them were as if they were blind, and they chased after Liu Mang when they saw Liu Mang blocking and demolishing.
This has a lot to do with the poor defensive awareness of the two.
However, the supersonic side did not rely on defense to win, Francis received the ball and advanced, and he wanted to return one!
When Francis came to the front, sure enough, that scene appeared again!
Liu Mang is about to retreat to the free throw line!
"Do you dare to vote?" Liu Mang clapped his hands at Francis and said provocatively.
Francis wanted to throw it out with a backhand, but he restrained himself and beckoned Lewis out.
Liu Mang looked at Francis, this is ...... Want to block and dismantle?
What the hell, 1 hit 0 outside the three-point line to block and dismantle?
Lewis came out with Rashid Wallace's defense, Francis handed the ball to Lewis and went up to block Rashid Wallace!
Not good!
Only then did Liu Mang understand the other party's intentions, and hurriedly rushed forward to make up for the defense.
But Lewis took advantage of Francis's perfect resistance to Rasheed Wallace, received the ball and moved sideways, and made a quick three-point shot!
"Huh"
Hit!
Liu Mang pounced on it and didn't make a difference, watching Francis and Lewis high-five in celebration while retreating, with a bright smile on his face, Liu Mang really didn't expect that the other party would play more and more!
Both sides hit each other and one was taken by surprise!
Although the SuperSonics have one less top star Ray Allen, they still have more three-point shots, and the space is particularly open, unlike the Suns who also have counter-attack dunks and the team's scoring champion is Stoudemire, the SuperSonics eat by shooting, averaging 9.8 three-point shots per game more than the Suns, which opens the space and gives Francis and Lewis the opportunity to play like this in the top arc.
Francis was stunned when he saw Liu Mang defending him like this a few years ago, but this season he has a brain! I started to play with my brain, averaging 9.2 assists per game, not purely by sudden points!
After a round of attack, Liu Mang has a better understanding of the supersonic team, what is called Wang Ba looking at mung beans, it is about them, a point guard who declined significantly last season plus the supersonic who is fourth from the bottom in the West, jumped to the second in the West, if it weren't for the Suns and Nash to match, maybe Francis is the one who competes with him for MVP.
After the temptation, I started to do it with real knives and guns!
The Hawks began to speed up the offensive tempo, Liu Mang and Maddy began to speed up, the Hawks lineup can run better than the opponent in every position, Maddie holds the ball, and the other four led by Liu Mang began to intersperse the running position, Maddie took advantage of Liu Mang's containment defense, and accelerated three steps to get rid of the single defense of his fellow No. 4 show Antonio Daniels rushed to the basket, Jerome James saw Maddie rushing in front, and Kwame Brown was eager to cut in and respond, this situation Jerome James began to think about life......
Maddie scored two points with an easy dunk, and Jerome James just watched Maddie dunk in like that.
What else can I do? The other party has already rushed up!
Maddie almost received the ball and advanced to the front court, walked straight to the free throw line, and dunked the ball in with a jump, and the Hawks played like a fast break this time, taking only 8 seconds.
Francis was eager to try and told Jerome James to serve quickly, and when he was fast, he couldn't resist the urge to play fast.
Coach Nate McMillan didn't remind the players not to be led by the other side this time, the last game they played the Eagles, they relied on the rhythm to get up, they shot when they had the opportunity, the shooting percentage was high, and they beat the Eagles, this time he wants to repeat the success of the last encounter! Wave at the players and let the supersonic players follow the rhythm.
Encouraged by Francis, he dribbled quickly towards the front court.
This time, Liu Mang didn't give Francis so much space anymore, but pressed it directly!
When Francis saw Liu Mang pressing up, he immediately squeezed Liu Mang and forced him, and wiped Liu Mang at once, and just wiped Liu Mang into the three-point line, Francis saw Maddie make up for it, so it means that Reedno is empty!
Francis glanced at his teammates, found Reedno, immediately passed over, took a look, and slowed down, Francis is also the kind of breakthrough type of breakthrough, this season's style of play is a poor man's version of James, talking about ability, awareness of sudden points, is the sudden consciousness of James at his peak.
By the time Ridno received the ball, Prince had already switched his guard and Ridno immediately found Antonio Daniels and passed the ball over.
However, when Maddie switched to Francis, Liu Mang did not change Maddie's original defense, but went directly to block Antonio Daniels to catch the ball!
There is an offensive anticipation for offense, and there is a defensive anticipation for defense!
The Eagles' outside trio predicted the distribution route of the opponent once they successfully broke through at the beginning!
Liu Mang steals the ball that Ridno passes to Antonio Daniels! Fight back as soon as you grab the ball!
"Ding...... Riding solo at level 5 triggers ......"
Liu Mang's speed increased sharply in the counterattack, rushed to the opponent's three-point line, and made an emergency stop, and Liu Mang chased after three points......
Flipped a shot and waited to catch up with Francis!
When Francis saw that Liu Mang was about to chase after three points, he immediately jumped up and pounced on Liu Mang, and Liu Mang rubbed back......
"! *##...#¥...... "Liu Mang was knocked forward and flew out all of a sudden, but fortunately, he still remembered that he was going to make a foul and pushed the ball to the basket!
"Ding...... King of Dry Pull Level 5 triggers ......"
Luck can't stop it! Liu Mang made an emergency stop outside the three-point line without adjustment, waiting for the opponent to collide and jump out directly, just triggering the king of dry pulling!
Liu Mang's body was knocked crooked, but his shooting posture was stabilized! And because he rode past all the opponents alone, his strength was improved in this counterattack, and Liu Mang's jump height after being hit by Francis was enough! Enough power!
The ball is thrown headlong into the basket!
Liu Mang made a surprised expression and looked at his hands as if he was saying to himself: "It turns out that winning by three points is so simple!" No wonder Steve is so simple to win with this group of teammates, he doesn't need to do anything, throw the ball to his teammates and shoot three points, and there will be an offense, and it doesn't matter whether his teammates score or not, a few more passes, there will always be an assist, isn't it. ”
Seeing Liu Mang's unbalanced appearance, Francis narrowly held back, and he already had the strength to resist Liu Mang's provocation.
And Liu Mang is talking about "Steve", there are two named Steve this season who rely on teammates to win the game with a group of three-point teams, and Francis can't find fault with it.
Francis raised his hand at the referee who was blowing the whistle, and the referee blew the whistle when Liu Mang was hit by Francis, Liu Mang's three-point goal was valid, and a penalty had to be added!
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