From today on is the king

Chapter 1350 1349. Card shark combination!

Liu Mang thought that Calderon would be very good in other teams after playing in a strong team for a few years, and he also knew that he had good statistics, but he didn't expect that he would be so good!
Unlike when the Hawks came off the bench, Jason Terry, Tracy McGrady, and Iguodala also controlled the ball. In the Suns' second team, Calderon was the absolute core of possession. O'Neal admired Calderon's passing.

"Ding... Features: Level 4 of the engine is triggered. In slow-paced offense and defense, there is a clear judgment on the situation on the court. The tacit understanding of teammates is improved. It comes from Jose Calderon."

The skill prompt is to give Liu Mang an intuitive explanation of Calderon's effect on the field, and Calderon relies on his strength to play the same effect on the field as the system's prompt to Liu Mang!

And because he had partnered with Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady and others, Calderon commanded O'Neal and he was not afraid. Josh Smith was an old teammate. He knew that Calderon passed the ball well, so he actively cooperated. At first, Calderon was only regarded as an addition to Josh Smith. The role was only a pitcher. But with the support of Josh Smith, Calderon became the core of the second team.

When the Suns traded Marion for Calderon and Josh Smith, they were scolded miserably by Suns fans, and some non-Suns fans also ridiculed them, mainly because they were dissatisfied with the Suns’ help when the Hawks were targeted by everyone, so that the Hawks could survive the aging crisis of Rasheed Wallace, and also helped the Eagles solve the crisis that Josh Smith could not be traded in the third grade and the value of the fourth-year deal plummeted, because the Hawks did not have the conditions to renew Josh Smith.

If Josh Smith and Iguodala are not traded, they will definitely be rotten and robbed by other teams in the future. Suns fans are also dissatisfied with using a 20+10 per game, second team, All-Star power forward to trade these two people.

But Josh Smith came to the Suns and quickly won the love of the Suns fans with his brutal physical fitness. After Gentry played the role of treating O'Neal as a false starter-true sixth man, Calderon and O'Neal partnered.

Calderon has performed very well in recent games, averaging 9 points and 7 assists in the last ten games. From the beginning, he was just a steady pitcher next to Nash, and became the core of the second team!

Nash's efficiency this season is even higher than last season, and Calderon has contributed a lot. It not only allows Nash to get a full rest, but also can be a steady shooter when he is partnered with Nash to hit three-pointers and mid-range.

Rondo... was abused by Calderon, a senior!
Even when facing Kidd or Baron Davis, Liu Mang never saw Rondo being abused so badly, but against Calderon, Rondo couldn't defend at all!
On the offensive end, because O'Neal was under the basket, it was useless for Rondo to break through Calderon easily. When Calderon saw Rondo rushing in, he went to block the Eagles' three-pointer off-ball pick-and-roll and movement.

Gentry used a beautiful 5-defense-4 tactic, with four small men blocking the perimeter and relying on O'Neal's huge body to defend the basket.

Rondo made 4 of 2 shots and scored at the basket in half a quarter. His personal score was pretty good, but his teammates didn't have any good shooting opportunities!Rondo was playing, and he didn't know what to do, just like LeBron James in the 2014 finals in the original time and space, neither holding the ball in the middle distance, nor passing!

Originally, the Eagles wanted to rely on the second team to put up a four-point lineup to open the score, but the second team led by the duo of Calderon and O'Neal turned the Eagles' second team to blow up!
The scoring efficiency of the Suns must be much worse than that of the starting lineup, but they are stable!

Calderon is a solid point guard, and O'Neal is probably the most solid center ever...

Many people think that O'Neal is the most dominant center in history, but they ignore how stable he was in the 34 years from entering the NBA to the age of 14!

But think about winning three consecutive championships with a No. 24 partner who dares to smash the basket with an iron head, can you be unstable...

In the 4th minute of the second quarter, with Barbossa hitting a three-pointer from the bottom corner, the Suns overtook the Eagles with a three-pointer 39-36!
The Eagles call a timeout!

……

Liu Mang was just about to go, but was pushed back to his seat by coach Kruger.

"Jason, Tracy, you go up, Danny, you continue to defend Josh, Kwame, you go up to defend O'Neal..."

Coach Kruger made personnel adjustments and replaced McGrady, who played the first quarter, early.

After being beaten 10 to 5 by the opponent's second team, the Eagles could only switch to the main force early.

However, Liu Mang's fighting strategy remains unchanged, Liu Mang can only sit down.

He understands that this is the experience learned from the way the Rockets and the Lakers used them during the defending season of Olajuwon and O'Neal. Not everyone is like Jordan, who won three consecutive regular season championships every year.

Jordan is still the most stalwart mountain in people's minds.

The reason why Liu Mang is considered the most qualified to challenge Jordan's junior is because during his three consecutive championships, his regular season record did not decline, but broke the historical record in the third year.

But this is the defending season after three consecutive championships. Even though the Eagles are very confident in Liu Mang's physical fitness, they have to keep playing, and as the season progresses, the implementation will be stricter, even if there are unexpected situations.

Liu Mang felt relieved when he saw Jason Terry and Tracy McGrady on the field, partnering with Rondo on the perimeter, and Granger and Kwame Brown on the field.

Sure enough, after the timeout came back, there were McGrady and Jason Terry, and the Eagles were not at a big disadvantage like they were at the beginning of this quarter.

However, Calderon played against Rondo's defense with ease, focusing on stability, and the pace was maddeningly slow.

O'Neal doesn't have to worry about his physical strength. He still has the main force when he is tired, so he tries his best to exert his strength. Even if he is so old and will soon be 35 years old, he has to guard against Kwame Brown.

Although with Jason Terry and McGrady, it becomes easier for Rondo to organize offenses, the strangest thing about the geek Rondo, apart from his shooting, is that the stronger his teammates, the greater the effect.

The Suns have always maintained a weak lead. Rondo and McGrady tried their best to organize the offense and break through the inside, helping Jason Terry and Granger get outside shots, or helping Kwame Brown get outside shots. And the offensive performance is already very good.

However, the Suns still firmly maintain their lead!

After the official timeout, the stalemate was still there. When the game was 53 points behind 59 to 6, the Eagles called a timeout again!

Liu Mang took off his training clothes, there were more than two minutes left in the second quarter, and he had to take advantage of this time to narrow the point difference.

Liu Mang has to say... Gentry's head is really easy to use!
O'Neal can't beat Kwame Brown. Among the active inside players, Kwame Brown can play one-on-one with high efficiency. Except for Yao Ming, Duncan, Nowitzki, Elton Brand, Garnett, Milicic, and O'Neal Jr., there are only fake inside players like Turkoglu and Lewis. It is impossible for O'Neal to single-handedly beat Kwame Brown.

But put Shaquille O'Neal in the second team... Invincible!
O'Neal's playing time has been reduced from 345 minutes at the beginning of the season to 234 minutes now, of which 6 and [-] minutes are played with the substitute in the second and third quarters. No team's inside substitute can compete!
Moreover, after the Eagles replaced two of the three Eagles, the Suns only replaced Kurt Thomas with James Jones to suppress Jason Terry and McGrady.
This is a rare occurrence for the Eagles to be restrained by the opponent's tactics!

Calderon + O'Neal, the core combination of the strongest second team in the league!
Even better than Liu Mang imagined before, Gentry tore this team apart!
They don't have a star like Liu Mang who can seamlessly switch between various rhythms, but they have a lot of people!
The roles were reversed, but it just made the opponent feel cruel and turned into the Suns!

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After the timeout, the three eagles will play together. The advantage of playing the Suns and the Eagles is that they can send the three eagles together without worrying about the problem of perimeter defense. First, it is difficult to defend against the fast-paced offense and defense of their main lineup. rebound.

Of course, the limit is not large. When O'Neal is not around, their main lineup is even stronger than last season. After all, they did not have Stoudemire last season. In addition, the Hawks wanted to tie the score before halftime. They played in a panic. Instead of narrowing the score before halftime, they were pulled away by two points!
After halftime, the Eagles trailed the Suns by 57 points 65 to 8!
In terms of assists, because Liu Mang and Nash played at the same time, Liu Mang was only 4 behind 5 to 1. But in terms of three-pointers, Nash and Calderon led the Suns to attack successively.
At first Liu Mang was still thinking about how to complete the three mission objectives, which is good...the whole line collapsed!
The card-shark combination...it's too much to put in the second team!

(End of this chapter)