From today on is the king

Chapter 1195 1194. Tuition fees are always paid

The Eagles are always like a clean stream in the playoffs.

The Lakers play the Suns, the Lakers are grinding their defense, and the Suns are desperately attacking. The Lakers seem to have a great advantage, but the point difference can't be widened, because they are prone to habitual arrogance, and they will be caught up by the opponent if they relax a little.

The Heat played the Nets, and the tactics were against Biao.

The next game between the Spurs and the Mavericks will be a battle between Duncan and Nowitzki. The Spurs and Mavericks are not far behind in terms of strength.

But the Eagles beat the Cavaliers.

At first glance, James has 12 points and 4 rebounds in the half, 25 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in the game, which looks very good.

However, James made 29 of 8 shots...

It took him all his life to get 25 points. In the end, he had no choice but to take a shot across the three-point line. He really scored two ultra-long three-pointers for him, otherwise he would not have scored 20 points.

In the first game between the Eagles and the Cavaliers, David Stern watched the first half and felt like he was going to be depressed...

West Spurs, East Eagles, people are going crazy!
Especially the Eagles, people love and hate.

The first round, which was originally thought to be nothing to watch, made the Eagles a big upset in the first round, allowing the Pacers to win one game, which made the ratings of the next four games very good.

But in the second round, this high-profile series, the Eagles gave full play to their dominance, tactical variability, and star characteristics, and gave the Cavaliers no chance at all!

Prince's defense of shooting, Tracy McGrady's defense of breakthroughs, Liu Mang's ability to pinch and supplement defense, rebounds, and the mobility of the Eagles at the basket...

刘莽全场17投8中，拿到23分8篮板5助攻3抢断1盖帽，麦迪全场20投9中拿到25分3板9助攻3盖帽，两人带领老鹰队单场拿到107分。

As for the Cavaliers, they only scored 83 points, and the Eagles were 107 to 83. In the first game, the Cavaliers didn't even know how to play!
James is also great. No matter how he plays, since the second grade, almost every game has more than 20 points, seven or eight rebounds and several assists.

But today, James was sleepwalking throughout the court, hesitating to dribble. He only made a hit two or three times, and he didn’t dare to pass to the outside line. Only Larry Hughes or Newbell and other teammates with no shooting ability were the ones who passed.

Just like Popovich exposed the weaknesses of James during the Big Three period of the Heat and James was unable to respond, now James has encountered the same situation, and it is even worse!

James' four-step layup at the basket was not easy. The defense discussed by Liu Mang and Mike Woodson mainly used Popovich's Spurs system defense on the outside. On the inside, Rasheed Wallace used the Celtics Big Three to deal with James. Although James still made 8 goals, James missed 21 shots!
During the Big Three period of the Heat, James only had a poor mid-range shot, and the three-pointer was considered top-notch.

Although the current James has greatly improved his three-pointers, he is just at the quasi-first-class edge level with a three-pointer evaluation of 80. He is still far away from the most accurate 40.00% three-pointer during the Big Three era of the Heat.

Anyone watching the game can see that James is doubting his life.

Just like the Eagles coaching staff’s worries about advancing prematurely, James is very confident. Ever since he confirmed that he will enter the playoffs as No.5, he has been studying how to deal with the Eagles. He has thought of many ways, how to deal with Liu Mang, how to deal with McGrady. After discussing with Mike Brown, he instructed Big Z to study how Yao Ming can deal with the Eagles inside. In addition to the 76ers, they are also thinking about how to deal with the Eagles.

But during the game, James found that the method he wanted to use to deal with Liu Mang was all in vain. His preparations were more adequate, more targeted, and more complete!

Moreover, dealing with his biggest weakness, infinitely magnified, except for him holding the ball to go to the basket and using the good touch of the basket to score, he has almost no solution!

The fourth quarter of the game turned into garbage time. When James was replaced, the fans felt that the third grader was too pitiful... couldn't help but send him a shout of encouragement...

It's just that when James heard this comforting voice, he doubted life even more...

Even the opponent fans think he is pitiful, James feels so bleak...

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Sufficient preparation, excellent execution ability brought about by the tacit understanding cultivated in two years, plus Liu Mang and McGrady were both stronger than James now, and now the Eastern Conference is about to be destroyed by Liu Reckon's leadership. Liu Reck and McGrady's single-handedly leading the team will not be worse than James' fifth place in the Eastern Conference... and other factors combined, Liu Mang made James explode in the first game.

Liu Mang has been preparing for how to play against James in the playoffs since a long time ago, and according to the current time and space, the two people's technical changes are constantly fine-tuning.

It’s not just about using the known methods of defending them. After all, what he can remember is that general idea. Liu Mang has been discussing with Mike Woodson, the top three in the league and maybe even the best defensive assistant at the moment. Liu Mang uses the concepts he knows, adds Mike Woodson’s defensive knowledge, and some new methods proposed by Liu Mang after learning technical and tactical knowledge. After a long period of planning and improvement, plan and improve...

After repeated consideration and pondering, until last night to see how the Lakers dealt with the Suns, they were still strengthening their defensive tactics against James.

James has done a good job, but compared to Liu Mang, a scheming hooligan, the preparations James made look like a child's game strategy...

After the game, ESPN made a very good comment on the first playoff matchup between the two Chinese and American stars that their TV station favored.

ESPN reporter and NBA column beauty writer Cassidy Harperth wrote a long article after the game. She is from Ohio and a die-hard fan of James. The core content of his long article is as follows:
"The playoffs between the Hawks and the Cavaliers has lost its suspense since the first game. Ace has played two more years of college basketball and two more years of experience in the NBA to take advantage of all LeBron's weaknesses. LeBron exposed all his weaknesses in this game. He is not good at shooting, not good at how to make adjustments when encountering difficulties, and not good at how to solve problems when the extra steps at the basket cannot be used. He is still too young.

Ace has been playing with adults for seven years, and LeBron is only in his third year. There is no denying that Ace is much better than LeBron. Ace is the greatest regular season MVP of all time, but LeBron still has a long way to go.

In this series between LeBron and Ace, fans don’t have to expect a special result in this series with the mentality that LeBron can beat Ace. LeBron needs to pay tuition fees. He can see his weaknesses clearly in this round of the series and then improve them.

The strength of the Eagles against the Cavaliers is undoubtedly crushing. Ace played so seriously because he regarded LeBron as a true friend and wanted to teach LeBron. The playoffs are not that simple. Just using referees is not enough. LeBron has improved a lot this year, but still needs to improve. I think this is the reason why Ace is so serious.

I look forward to the next time LeBron is on the playoffs stage again, there will be a lot of improvement. "

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ESPN reporters wrote a long article specifically for this series. On May 5, the second day of the series between the Eagles and the Cavaliers, the news was released, which caused a lot of repercussions.

ESPN's rare and neutral article, even if the reporter is a die-hard James fan, the words and tone are also very neutral.

After all, both of them are stars that ESPN touts.

Not only is it neutral, but the advice is also very pertinent.

When Liu Mang saw this article, he felt weird. He just wanted to kill James, but he didn't expect that the reading comprehension ability of American journalists was comparable to that of Chinese teachers!He even saw that he had the idea of ​​wanting to guide James, which he didn't even know...

So... at noon, Liu Mang rested at home in the morning. When he went to the arena to eat a nutritious meal to prepare for the afternoon training, when he was surrounded by reporters for an interview, Liu Mang said: "LeBron and I are brothers. We train together every summer. When we met in Indiana, he asked me what he should improve. At that time, I didn't answer. We were hitting historical records at that time. Now I told him what he should improve."

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James looked at the morning and evening papers in front of him with mixed feelings.

After losing to the Eagles yesterday, his mentality was about to collapse.

I was so dazed all day today that I didn't even dare to watch the news.

But James is a child born in the 80s, who likes to surf the Internet and get in touch with news, and is easily influenced by public opinion. He finally read these two newspapers, and they read them together.

I saw the ESPN column and the interview with Liu Mang...

James' emotions are very complicated now, and he really wants to ask Liu Mang: "What happened that night in Indianapolis!"

(End of this chapter)