Unconsciously, the stars of the 98 and 99 generations have become Mesozoic players, and they have reached the sixth or fifth year of their careers, and Kidd, who entered the NBA in 94 and has been in his tenth season, has become a veteran.

As for the players who entered the NBA from 90 to 93, those who still played in the NBA as starters don't add up to ten people.

Since the 96 generation, the Mesozoic generation and the new generation of players have led teams to become active in the NBA, and Liu Mang and Baron Davis, two representatives of the new generation and the middle generation of point guards, who are not at all traditional, are often compared.

This year, Liu Mang wants to hit the best team, that is, one of the six best guards in the league, and Baron Davis, Francis, Nash, Marbury, Sam Cassel and others are his biggest enemies who want to enter the best team.

Of course, the small goal that Liu Mang set for himself was the third formation, preferably the second formation, and as for the first formation...... Let's just put it this way, Carter, Nash, Nowitzki and others have been fighting for so many years, and it has nothing to do with a while.

With the end of the pre-match activities, soon, with the referee's whistle urging the start of the game, Liu Mang and Boozer hugged and walked onto the court.

The Eagles, for their part, continued to field their meat grinder starting lineup, Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rashid Wallace, and Ratliff.

The Hornets, for their part, fielded the starting lineup of Baron Davis, David Wesley, Jamal Marshburn, PJ Brown, and Jamal Magloyle.

Rashid Wallace and Magloyle came to the center circle to jump the ball.

The two men were of similar height and physical fitness, and the referee ran the ball into the air, and both of them bounced out at the same time, with Magloyer narrowly flicking the ball towards the backcourt.

When Margloyer's fingertips touched the ball, Liu Mang instantly rushed out and rushed to Barang Davis to steal, Barang Davis just received the ball, alertly guarded the ball, and was startled when he saw Liu Mang rushing up, but fortunately he was not robbed.

Liu Mang stupidly retreated to the half-court defense.

Baron Davis was a little annoyed, whenever he thought that the other party actually wanted to sneak attack, Baron Davis advanced to the frontcourt, and it was Liu Mang who came up to defend him.

The Hornets' three outside scoring abilities are first-class, the three starting outside points account for more than half of the team's total scores, the Hornets average 93 points per game this season, and the three outside lines average 57 points per game, the Hawks' three outside defensive capabilities will be tested, so no one changes the room, and they defend their own defenders.

Liu Mang faced Baran Davis at the top arc, Prince defended David Wesley, a short shooting guard with excellent air cutting ability and three-point ability, and Rasheed Wallace defended Jamal Marshburn, who is known as the league's best scoring small forward.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Baron Davis, unlike most point guards, suddenly accelerated beyond the three-point line.

Don't look at the body is a little bloated, especially the lower half of the body looks bloated, but Barang Davis's lower body is full of muscles, and the acceleration of the explosion is quite rapid.

However, Liu Mang had already expected it, and quickly took a step back to the left, blocking in front of Baron Davis, wanting to stop Baron Davis.

However, when Liu Mang and Baron Davis collided together, Baran Davis walked to the side of the body, dug his butt when he came into contact with Liu Mang, forcibly squeezed Liu Mang away, and then quickly half-turned around and left Liu Mang behind!

Huge buttocks open the way!

Barang Davis was within the distance of the free throw line, Rasheed Wallace was pulled out by PJ Brown, who mainly scored from mid-range shooting, and Ratliff quickly took a step forward to intercept Baron Davis outside the reasonable collision zone to avoid being dunked by this guy, at this time Barang Davis just turned and stepped into the free throw line, and suddenly grabbed the ball and threw it to the right side of the basket!

Magloyle!

Magloyle rushes in from the right side of the three-second zone and presses the ball into the basket!

"Bang"

Baran Davis and Magloyer are on the line!

Liu Mang didn't say that he was unprepared, but it was too ferocious, and Liu Mang was kicked away by Barang Davis, which led to problems with the interior defense.

Looking at the air connection between Baran Davis and Magloyer, Liu Mang thought of a word - the city of air connection!

Barang Davis is too good at giving inside passes like that.

Moreover, Barang Davis's breakthrough came very suddenly, and he broke through directly in the connecting section when the Eagles' defensive formation was stable, and the timing was very well judged.

The offense and defense converted to the Eagles' offense, Liu Mang received the serve and advanced over, and the same directly chose to break through, and when he reached the three-point line, he took a step towards the right side!

Barang Davis hurriedly blocked it to the left rear, but Liu Mang was not ready to break into it at all, just entered the three-point line, and retreated suddenly!

For Liu Mang's step-back jumper, Baron Davis was prepared and immediately pounced, but Liu Mang's retreat was not a retreat, but a step to the left, Baran Davis judged Liu Mang's retreat, and pounced out when Liu Mang's right foot kicked forward, but he pounced from Liu Mang's side, Liu Mang bounced to the left rear arc and threw a sniper!

Basically, there is no interference, Liu Mang's three-point sniper shot has a perfect rhythm and is easy to hit.

On the offensive end, Barang Davis is very strong, but his defense is simply spicy, he loves to rush, and when he defends, he often presses up without fear, and then is cleaned up by the opponent.

It's time for the Hornets to attack again, this time the Hawks' defense is tight, Liu Mang knows a lot about Baron Davis, the guy who later made a black eight in the Warriors, and knows the characteristics of this guy, and it was completely unexpected to be beaten up just now.

This time, Liu Mang didn't give Balang Davis a chance to make a sudden attack, Balang Davis pressed towards Balang Davis when he was transported, so as to avoid being knocked away by this guy when he was fully starting, but stuck to Baran Davis, although he couldn't stop Balang Davis from breaking through, but Balang Davis wanted to rush in with the basket like last time but had no chance, and was stuck by Liu Mang and could only rush from both sides.

Isn't this a chance for the Hawks to help defend the bag, break in from the middle, Baron Davis is not afraid of Ratliffe, he accelerates and no one can stop him, but if he walks on the wings, Ratliffe's ability to help defend makes Baron Davis very jealous, so Baron Davis decisively started to shoot outside jumpers.

It's that quick-witted, but it would have been nice if Barang Davis had a great mid-range shot, but he's shooting 39 percent from the field so far in his career, and that's the overall shooting percentage with his 55 percent shooting from the field.

Playing and fighting, whether Baron Davis organizes offense or shoots, he focuses on medium and long distance, mainly self-confidence, and has a forward line in the interior line, and Baron Davis shoots in the middle and long distances As long as he has the opportunity to make a decisive shot, and the passing is very good, whenever his teammates have a chance to qualify, he can send it to his teammates as soon as possible.

On the Hawks' side, the starting lineup is mainly defensive, Liu Mang also relies on the overall defensive strength of his teammates, Liu Mang's restrictions on Baron Davis are not good, the only thing that can be done is to limit Baron Davis's breakthrough, as for Baron Davis's shooting, he can not limit much, mainly because Baron Davis himself is really iron.

And Prince, Raheem, and Rasheed Wallace, who are focused on defense, hold David Wesley, Mashburn, and PJ Brown to the death, and the odds of Barlang Davis passing the ball into an assist are low, and the Hawks win at this point.

And the offense of the Hawks' lineup basically points to Liu Mang, the Hornets are not the Raptors, and they are not so easy to deal with, so Raheem and Rasheed Wallace focus on the defensive end, and on the offensive end, they catch the ball and shoot to help Liu Mang open up the space.

Both teams' offense is pressed on the point guard, and the fight is the defense, as well as the point guard's scoring ability!

On the defensive end, the Eagles undoubtedly have a huge advantage, and Liu Mang's offensive options are much stronger than Barang Davis, and his offensive means are much more comprehensive than Barang Davis.

Barang-Davis stuck tightly, Liu Mang broke through, and Magloyle's ability to go to the basket was too far behind Latliffe's, and Liu Mang repeatedly rushed to the basket and stepped to the basket to make a layup.

If Barang-Davis lets go of a little distance, Liu Mang will play back.

Baron Davis didn't dare to press too much, and Liu Mang's ability to make fouls was a must-have in the league.

As they fought, the Eagles slowly widened the difference.

By the fifth minute of the first quarter, the Hawks had stretched the deficit to 13-7, 6 points.

The Hornets called a timeout, Coach Tim Fried let Mashburn hold the ball more, Barang Davis is strong, since becoming the core of the team, he has been the league's top point guard all year round, but he has led the team to the playoffs very rarely, but when he was not the core, he made the playoffs in all four years of his rookie contract.

Baran Davis is awesome, and his absolute speed is too perverted relative to his weight.

There are many players with strong power who are particularly explosive, but Davis is not only good at explosiveness, but also very fast.

But he has such a strong first step explosiveness and big ass, but he is a player who mainly relies on mid-to-long-range finishing, averaging 7 three-point shots per game in the past two years, shooting 32%, especially in the playoffs, Iverson blocked from the outside and shooting more than 20 percent of mid-to-long-range shooting, which made their head coach Paul Silas jump to his feet with anger last season.

Coach Tim Fried distributed the ball from Barang Davis to three outside players, allowing all three outside players to get shots.

Sure enough, the decision was the right one, as Barang Davis didn't become less of a threat after he had less ball-handling, and his ability to open up space and cut into the air to attract defenders was the strongest of all the Hornets all, stronger than Mashburn.

Coupled with David Wesley, who is a great threat in both air cutting and three-point shooting, although Marshburn's passing is not as good as Barang Davis, Marshburn is willing to rush inside, no matter how he can attract defense, the pass effect is better, and the Hornets' offense began to normalize.

But the Hawks also changed the lineup, replacing Ratliffe, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, and Rasheed Wallace's lineup, and the Hornets' three outside lines opened a rapid rotation of offensive and defensive mode.

Liu Mang handed over the ball to Jason Terry, and he focused on guarding Baron Davis, receiving and shooting on the offensive end, and Prince was the same, and the Hawks could shoot in five positions on this lineup, and the firepower was stronger than that of the Hornets!

At the end of the first quarter, the Hawks were 28-23, still leading the Hornets by 5 points!

Liu Mang scored 15 points in a single quarter! He started the game well, and Jason Terry came off the bench and took the initiative to make the ball for Liu Mang, taking on the role of the core of the rotation lineup.

In terms of overall strength, there is not much difference between Liu Mang and Barang Davis, but Liu Mang will rely more on his teammates and have better offensive options, mainly because of his accurate outside shooting, scoring 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting in the first quarter.

If the Hornets starting lineup could still withstand the Hawks' starters, in the second quarter, when the two teams sent a rotating lineup, the Hornets quickly collapsed.

The Hornets' bench lineup is okay, with Baron Davis staying on the court to lead the team, and Kenny Anderson, Steve Smith, David West, and Elton Campbell are also doing well.

But the Eagles have Stockton, Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, Kwame Brown.

After Stockton came up, he and Boozer launched a blocking and dismantling tactic, both of them have mid-to-long range shots, which is a great threat, but the two are not the main scoring points, the main scoring points are Jason Terry and Prince, the two are doing their best to make the ball for these two pitchers, the Hornets are really helpless in the face of the old and young version of the double brake, Stockton and Boozer play blocking and dismantling, which is more powerful than Liu Mang and Boozer playing blocking and dismantling, plus Stockton has more experience, and repeatedly sends opportunities that Liu Mang and Boozer may not be able to see when they cooperate.

Kwame Brown is also trying to find open cuts and opportunities for his teammates to block off the ball, and although he is a rookie on the offensive end, he is trying to make his own space.

On the Hornets' side, it's Baron Davis left.

Although Stockton is so old, but the defense is ruthless, and because he is not the core, he is not worried about fouls, as long as Barang Davis breaks through, he will be directly knocked down, Stockton, who has the face of a teacher, when facing the young Barang Davis, gave Liu Mang, who was sitting on the sidelines, a good lesson, what is called Sven and elegant subordinates!

As a result, Barang Davis can only shoot on the outside, his biggest problem is self-confidence on the outside, cowardice on the inside, although there are often performances of violent dunks from others, but when encountering a murderous opponent like Stockton, he has to shoot on the outside.

Barang Davis' cowardly performance made his new head coach Tim Fried almost angry.

Stockton came up and took a bench to play a 10-4 scoring shockwave, and the difference was stretched to 38-27, an 11-point difference.

It was the veteran Steve Smith who stepped up to take over the ball and beat his old club two, and Steve Smith, who shot accurately, helped the Hornets stop the bleeding.

But Steve Smith is 35 years old, and he is not the kind that maintains a particularly good condition, he won the championship with a 9.9 million contract with the Spurs last season, and he has long been satisfied.

After six minutes in the second quarter, the margin was stretched to 45-32, and Jason Terry scored 10 points in a row! 3 of 5 three-pointers, a beep!

There was just one three-point foul and only one of the three free throws hit.

The Hornets called a timeout, and Tim Fried saw that David Wesley and Mashburn were almost rested, so he quickly called a timeout to replace the two and re-field the starting lineup, trying to solve the unfavorable situation on the court with a three-outside individual single.

The Hawks also made substitutions, Stockton, who got 3 assists, walked off the court satisfied, it seems that today's assists have a chance to break through 5, the team wins, and the Magic opens up a gap of five or six assists in total assists per game, Stockton is so satisfied with coming to the Hawks to play...... Except that when he saw Liu Mang go up to fight, it seemed to him that he was blind and a few fights, and the way he played was very painful......

Liu Mang is a real wave!

After being teammates with Liu Mang, Stockton refreshed his impression of Liu Mang, yes, Liu Mang attaches great importance to cooperation, but almost every round of play is different, there is no fixed routine, maybe three rounds in a row, respectively, with triangle attack, blocking tactics, Princeton all over again.

Stockton really admires the Eagles' teammates, and they didn't go crazy by Liu Mang.

Stockton asked Muhammad, who has been partnering with Liu Mang for the longest time and also has a great role on the offensive end, and often cooperates with Liu Mang, Muhammad sighed and left a sentence: Get used to it......

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After the game restarted, the starting lineup of the Hornets came back and tried to compete with the Hawks as they did in the second half of the first quarter, and the lineup sent by the Hawks was Liu Mang, Willie Green, Barnes, Muhammad, and Kwame Brown, which made the Hornets feel that there was an opportunity.

But...... Seeing that Barnes's skills are not good, but the ferocious defense increases the confrontation on the field, and the rest of the Eagles also follow the defense fiercely, including Liu Mang's physical fitness, the five physical fitness men of the Eagles all started a fierce physical confrontation, the Hornets were stunned, and the singles from Mashburn were directly stealed by Liu Mang and Barnes!

With this lineup, the Eagles' counterattack took off!

Kwame Brown ran as fast as a guard, following Liu Mang who was holding the ball, Liu Mang threw the ball into the air, Marshburn and David Wesley, who were next to Liu Mang, did not dare to block it, Kwame Brown smashed the ball into the basket in the air, and howled loudly in his chest after landing on the ground.

Tim Fried sat on the sidelines and was silent.

Just like Stockton's pain right now, Tim Fried didn't react much when he watched Baron Davis get the ball and was about to get rid of Barnes and sent him to the free throw line.

When Tim Fried was still in the Bulls last season, he also saw the waves on the offensive end of the Hawks, but it didn't reach this extent, mainly Liu Mang held the ball alone, and in general, there are traces to follow, nothing more than the outside singles and the ball after the inside breakthrough and blocking, and there are still traces to follow.

But this year, Liu Mang has a different style of play outside the three-point line, mid-range, inside and even without the ball, and the Hornets have a good start, but how many games have they played? They are not a team like the Pacers, Pistons, and Nets, and in the face of the Hawks' routine of changing a group of people and changing their style of play, Tim Fried now has only one thought: This Hawks will change their style of play after a few minutes, isn't it tiring!

And the Eagles, on their side, said they were not tired!

We're just a lot of people!