921. 14 assists in a single quarter!
"Ding...... As the Jazz try to use the host's solo game as a stepping stone to rebuild the team's confidence, the Challenger Mission: Rogue Fury is triggered. ”
"Rogue Fury: The host needs to lead the team to a win against the Jazz and score at least 30 points. Reward: 10,000 Superstar Points. Failure Penalty: 20,000 Superstar deducted. ”
The name of the task of the rogue's anger Liu Mang doesn't mind for the time being, what is at least 30 points? Liu Mang felt that the system was looking down on him...... Thinking that the other party might continue to play four defenses or even three defenses against him because the other three on their side did not have very good shooting ability except for Korver and him, Liu Mang's heart was put away.
Iguodala's three-point ability evaluation is only 74, and his open shot is not stable, maybe the opponent still expects him to pass the ball to Iguodala.
Liu Mang looked at Boozer, who squeezed Muhammad into the three-second zone and stuck the position to ask for the ball, so depressed, this guy won the championship with nothing!
However, the Jazz seemed to want to win today, Boozer was decisive, Okukura had space for three-pointers, Halprin was ready to impact offensive rebounds, and Kirilenko was running with Korver to contain the defense......
Liu Mang saw that the Jazz team seemed to be ready to win, and he felt interesting, using the young master as a stepping stone to accumulate confidence? Liu Mang felt it was so interesting.
After Arroyo pushed in, Liu Mang immediately defended it, this little point guard was in the limelight last summer, and if the other party wanted to play well, Liu Mang didn't dare to despise it.
Arroyo didn't compete with Liu Mang, and immediately hoisted it when he saw Boozer asking for the ball.
The NBA is different from the national team, Arroyo has played for a few years with the Jazz, and he already has a self-knowledge, what to do and what not to do, as a draft pick, and the strength is not very strong, without a little awareness of this, he will soon not be able to mix.
Boozer received the ball and felt the fierce physical contact given by his familiar old teammates behind him, he knew very well the characteristics of Muhammad, but Muhammad's strongest point was not as strong as him!
Boozer slammed into the rear, Muhammad resisted with all his might, but was still knocked back half a step, Boozer turned very quickly in a low position, Muhammad just took half a step back, Boozer took advantage of the situation and half-turned Muhammad to press Muhammad aside.
At this time, Kover, who has an excellent sense of helping defense, struck over when Boozer just turned around, Liu Mang saw this, he secretly screamed badly, and immediately went to Kirilenko to make up for the defense, but Boozer had already passed the ball out, Kirilenko received the ball from behind Korver and threw it head-on, and it was too late when Liu Mang pounced.
Boozer's low position is amazing! A power forward who averages 3 assists per game!
After Kirilyenko scored a goal, he shouted to his teammates to retreat quickly, Liu Mang tried to force a counterattack but had no chance, and after receiving Mo Ning's serve, he continued to fall into the positional battle.
As Liu Mang expected, after he dribbled the ball across the middle line, he obviously saw that the opponent had a tendency to shrink the middle, he didn't notice it just now, but now he noticed that Harprin just wanted to block the breakthrough on both sides of him, put him in the middle, and be able to wrap him!
Liu Mang looked at the timer on the Jazz basket and immediately called a timeout.
“……”
The Jazz players are ready to pinch Liu Mang, it was an accident that Muhammad scored just now, Boozer and Oku's defense squeezed together, and the two exchanged a little when they retreated, and discussed the defensive level of pinch Liu Mang.
Who knew that it was only one round, and Liu Mang called a timeout!
The Hawks players returned to the bench, and Coach Kruger knew that Liu Mang was going to change pitchers, and he also saw the Jazz's defensive strategy.
Who's better? Jason Terry is definitely not good, and he will have to go up to the waves in a while, Calderon is the best candidate, and he has a tacit understanding.
However, it is not bad to let the new players go up, and the other party probably does not understand their style of play after adding a new player.
As for defense, the opponent does not have a strong point on the outside, as long as he is active enough to chase the off-ball player and prevent the opponent from cutting and shooting from the outside.
"Wesley, you go up, Andre you come down, Ace, you pay more attention to passing, Nazr you pay attention to help Ace block the opponent who is pinching, Alonzo pays attention to receiving the ball and dunking, Ace may pass the ball at any time......" Coach Kruger immediately made a tactical response.
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When I came back from the timeout, Coach Sloan didn't know what to say when he called a timeout just now, because there was nothing to say!
The Eagles continued to attack, and just now Liu Mang pushed to cross the halfway line in 6 seconds, and it took two seconds to observe, and there were 16 seconds left to attack.
Korver sent the ball to Liu Mang, Liu Mang received the ball and dribbled to the top arc, and chose to break through again!
Sure enough, the other party still wants to let him into the middle lane! Knowing that there was a pit in front of him, he still had to jump in, Liu Mang changed direction and entered from the middle, and the opponent immediately came over, and this time it was Boozer who came up first, and Oku was under the basket ready to block and grab rebounds.
Liu Mang continued to break into the inside line and leaned on Boozer, jumping!
Kirilenko and Halprin pounced.
Liu Mang didn't jump up to shoot, it was the best way to hook his hand like he did just now, he jumped up to pass the ball!
Liu Mang threw the ball in the air to his new teammate Persson, who ran to the bottom right corner of the basket, and Persson took a quick three-point shot......
It's a three-point shot!
Persson came on for 6 seconds and scored the first goal of his Hawks career!
After steadily throwing the three-point shot, Persson roared back to make an "OK" movement with his right hand, and put the circle of his thumb and index finger against his right eye, which was his celebratory move!
The good veteran quickly entered the state, and after Liu Mang accepted the initiative, he hurriedly retreated.
When it came to the Jazz's offense, the Jazz still attacked with Boozer's low singles, taking advantage of the fact that Rasheed Wallace was not there, and Boozer became an absolute strong point against the Hawks.
The Jazz team played well, and the offense launched by Boozer was very lethal, and he shot without wrapping him, and passed the ball with the pack, showing a very comprehensive offensive technique.
On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang's breakthrough points began to be the mainstay, and the Jazz's defensive execution was very good, and they resolutely pinched Liu Mang.
But Arroyo alone really can't guard against two three-point shooters!
When Persson made his first three-pointer shot, Korver felt a sense of crisis, and he shot more resolutely and accurately! The Jazz team strictly implemented the defensive strategy of pinching Liu Mang, and the two opened 4 of 7 three-pointers!
Although the Jazz side relied on Boozer and Kirilenko's passing, receiving, and receiving and other very good forward tactics to play a good offense, there is a saying that although it is a bit vulgar, it makes a lot of sense in this case.
Halfway through the first quarter, although the Hawks only shot 5 of 12, they made 4 of 7 three-pointers, plus Liu Mang's two free throws, and a basket from Muhammad, scoring 16 points in the first quarter!
Although the Jazz shot 6-of-10 from the field, they only scored 12 points!
The addition of a veteran pitcher alleviated the crisis of being caught in the middle of Liu Mang.
If you have a pitcher, you can be willful!
Although Liu Mang only relied on free throws to score two points at the beginning, he didn't score a single shot in 3 shots, and Mo Ning's catch-and-go layup was also interfered with by Oku, but there was a fixed-point pitcher with a three-point evaluation of 86 and a veteran pitcher with a three-point evaluation of 88, and Liu Mang got 4 assists in the first half of the quarter!
The Jazz called an early timeout, and the game went into its first official timeout.
Coach Sloan didn't know Persson's awesomeness, although Persson was at the peak of the Cavaliers, but the rookie of the Suns, in his rookie season, he helped Barkley in the second round of the playoffs and the defending champion Rockets to tie seven, although in the end Persson's key three points were not shot, and even the tie-break was only 1 of 6 in the whole game, resulting in the Suns 114-115 with a one-point difference unfortunately failed to enter the Western Finals, but Persson made these head coaches of Western playoff teams that year have an impression, This is a great shooter who has played 700 games and has made at least one three-pointer in 500 games.
But the reason why Coach Sloan let the team strictly implement the pinch strategy is not because Liu Mang scored 60 points in the last three quarters?
It's just that Coach Sloan didn't expect Liu Mang's pass to fall, it was still so accurate, and he scored 60 points in the last game, and he didn't rush to shoot in the second game!
This frustrated Coach Sloan's setup from the beginning, and the kid on the other side had a different head than an ordinary person!
Liu Mang returned to the bench and had 4 assists in the first quarter, which was quite stylish.
Korver and Persson played for half a quarter, and at this time they were almost replaced, one young and one old, Korver made two three-pointers at the beginning, but after Persson's three-point shot of 2 out of 3, he was very uncalm and shot two three-pointers in a row, one was anxious to show himself, and one followed the defensive end to run and played half a quarter of physical decline, and it was time to rest.
However, it was enough to hold up at the beginning, Coach Kruger replaced Jason Terry and Iguodala, and replaced Muhammad and Vallejo on the inside, and it was time to protect the rebound, because Liu Mang and Jason Terry were going to play!
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After the pause, the Jazz side officially suspended and did not make any substitutions, but they still started all the games, obviously to fight.
The Jazz attacked, Boozer played a few in the low post, and he couldn't move a little, and the opponent in the low post was replaced by Vallejo to prevent him from coming, and the Hawks began a wheel war tactic.
Boozer pulled out to block and dismantle Arroyo, the extreme poor version of the blocking and dismantling combination, Liu Mang saw Arroyo actually playing blocking and dismantling, and immediately took a step back, blocking Boozer who wanted to go down, and it was Muhammad who followed Boozer out, he also took a step back, not afraid of Arroyo's three points at all, the NBA's three-point line is too long for Arroyo, this guy has played almost 60 games this season and made 12 three-pointers, which is not to be afraid of.
Sure enough, Arroyo didn't dare to throw three points after blocking and dismantling, which violated the first criterion of the ball carrier of the pick-and-roll tactics, and he had to shoot himself if he had the opportunity, otherwise how could he help the split object attract defense?
The Jazz came back to play a pick-and-roll, but it stalled at the beginning!
Arroyo hesitated for a second, Liu Mang and Boozer had already switched defenses back, Arroyo couldn't help it, and suddenly made a long two-point shot from a mid-range pull-up jump shot...... Under Liu Mang's interference, he almost didn't stick to it and wiped it on the basket.
Vallejo had excellent rebounding awareness, grabbed a defensive rebound, and immediately passed it to Liu Mang.
At this time, Jason Terry had already run away, Kirilenko and Harprin chased after Jason Terry, Liu Mang immediately held the ball and attacked quickly, Iguodala and Muhammad who defended to the middle distance flew together, and the cavalry company charged!
Liu Mang reached outside the three-point line, and suddenly found that the other party did not go to Jason Terry, Kirilenko flew up to prevent Liu Mang from chasing three points, Liu Mang reacted quickly, did not grab the ball, and dribbled to the left, and Haprin had already pasted it.
Liu Mang decisively threw the ball to the basket, and Iguodala followed up and rushed in to score two points with an empty dunk.
5 assists too!
Jason Terry was so depressed, he tried his best to jump up and catch it empty, but Liu Mang threw it too high, so he could only look at Liu Mang depressedly, and he would die if he passed the ball directly to the basket!
When it came to the Jazz offense again, Boozer could only continue to play singles, this time in the middle of the high-level frame singles, facing Mohammed's defensive mid-range shot, Muhammad defended well, Boozer was forced to fall back, and the ball hit the basket and fell into the basket twice.
This is the time to rely purely on the feel, the Jazz side is missing a playmaking core, although there is real strength on the edge of the playoffs, but playing the Hawks, although the lineup is much worse but has defensive discipline, is still difficult to deal with, and can only rely on Boozer to play an advantage before he has a chance to play tactical cooperation.
It's time for the Hawks to attack again, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, and the Jazz team changed their strategy, blocking Liu Mang to the middle distance before, Liu Mang passed to the outside, and this time Halprin and Kirilenko were directly in the top arc!
Liu Mang also let it go, if you want to wrap it, then pass the ball and pass them to death!
Kirilenko, who was originally defending Iguodala, came to attack Liu Mang, Iguodala thought about it off the court for a long time, how to play when he was released and blocked by a few big men on the inside, and he thought of a way, he went to help Jason Terry block and dismantle without the ball!
Jason Terry couldn't run and couldn't get rid of Arroyo's aggressive marking, and was overjoyed to see Iguodala's block, which ran towards the bottom corner with Iguodala's off-ball block.
Liu Mang protected the ball with difficulty, waited for his teammates to have an opportunity, and immediately passed to Jason Terry, Jason Terry received the ball in the bottom corner, this time he didn't dribble twice, and he caught the ball and shot three points!
"Huh"
The Hawks hit their fifth three-pointer in a single quarter! Liu Mang got the sixth assist in a single quarter!
Liu Mang's assist soared!
21-14, the Hawks lead by seven points!
In the next period of time, although Boozer, Halprin, and Kirilenko's singles all had a certain effect, and Oku also pulled out and scored a three-pointer, the Jazz's defensive method of staring at Liu Mang and expecting the rest of the Hawks to shoot made Liu Mang's assists soar!
Fighting, the Jazz team's pinching didn't dare to be so active, but Liu Mang was not happy, he was stunned to rush inside with the ball, forcing the opponent to wrap up, and the Jazz team couldn't watch Liu Mang rush in to score, whether it was Kirilenko or Haplin, they couldn't prevent Liu Mang's change of direction and breakthrough, and he threw three points directly if he didn't stick to Liu Mang, Liu Mang's three-point threat made him break through too much in this kind of one-man game!
In the last attack of the first quarter, the Hawks possessed the ball, Liu Mang rushed into the interior to attract Oku's bag and threw it to the right baseline, and Josh Smith, who replaced Muhammad, received the ball and rose into the air, slid in the air and smashed the ball into the basket!
This is Liu Mang's fourteenth assist in a single quarter!
In addition to 14 assists, Liu Mang also scored 7 points, made 1 three-pointer and four free throws, 7 points and 14 assists in a single quarter, of which 5 passes were three-point assists, and the Hawks scored 26 points in the second half of the first quarter!
At the end of the first quarter, the Hawks were 42-28, leading the Jazz by 14 points in a single quarter.
It's not that the Jazz offense is not playing well, they have used their advantages as much as possible, 28 points in a single quarter are outstanding, more than their usual offense, but they continue to pack and even wrap Liu Mang in advance in order to prevent Liu Mang from scoring, Liu Mang did not hand over the ball to Jason Terry after thinking sideways, but let Jason Terry go to the middle and long distance to respond.
Jason Terry came up and threw two three-pointers and two mid-range shots, scoring 10 points in the first half of the quarter, Liu Mang never handed over the ball in the second half of the quarter, all of which were when he attracted the ball to the bag, and his teammates also gave it a force, that is, he could throw, from the beginning of the game, Persson ignited the feeling, and the original shot was out of control, and the Hawks scored 7 three-pointers in a single quarter! The three-point shot alone accounts for half of the team's scores! was so scared that the Jazz didn't dare to let go of the Hawks' mid-range shots except for Liu Mang, and also let Liu Mang pass to Josh Smith and Vallejo on the inside to get several assists.
The Jazz didn't want Liu Mang to score high scores, and didn't let Liu Mang score 15+ points in three consecutive games like he did in the last game against the Warriors, which they did, but it also stimulated Liu Mang, allowing Liu Mang to use the Jazz's defense to get 14 assists in a single quarter, tying the all-time single-quarter assist record set by John Lucas in 1984!