From today on is the king

Chapter 1368 1367. Still not as good as Liu Mang

It worked!
When the game was about to start, Rondo was shocked when he heard Liu Mang's opening attack plan, but the boss said so, so he tried his best to complete it.

Suddenly became the starter, Rondo was excited but scared, this is his

Such passes have been completed. For Rondo, his confidence has been greatly improved!
Coach Kruger is also very happy with the subtle cooperation between Rondo and Liu Mang. He originally wanted Battier to start, but Battier played the starter, and Jason Terry was the only experienced substitute on the bench. It happened that Mike Woodson suggested using Rondo to defend Iverson. Try it, just like the Lakers tried to use Tyronn Lue to defend Iverson.

However, on the offensive end, Rondo can send assists when both Liu Mang and McGrady play off the ball...

This is great!
But the point is defense!
Liu Mang didn't celebrate after scoring a goal, and immediately retreated. The track and field team ran fast!

After upgrading Andre Miller to Iverson, the Nuggets will not only upgrade to a higher level, but still have a lower level, at least better than the Sonics, and better than the Jazz, which is expected to win 50 games this year.

Iverson advanced with the ball, and when he got to the frontcourt, he saw that the rookie Rondo was guarding him.

Thirty-year-old Iverson is very different from the past. He no longer despises rookies, especially the rookies of the Eagles.

After Iverson arrived in the front court, when he was more than one meter away from the three-point line, he suddenly accelerated to the right.

Rondo didn't fall for the pressure, but moved half a step sideways with small steps.

Iverson immediately stopped the pace of the breakthrough, controlled the ball well, and was not in a hurry.

As a super scorer, Iverson's judgment on the opponent's defense is very good. He feels Rondo's defensive awareness that ordinary players can't learn. If he breaks through without preparation, he will inevitably be compressed into an uncomfortable position by the opponent.

Seeing Rondo at first, although Iverson did not despise him, he still felt a little regretful that the person guarding him was not Liu Mang, but now, Iverson is interested...

"Rookie, can you guard against this?"

After Iverson finished speaking to Rondo, the cat lowered his waist and started a large change of hands to dribble.

Rondo watched Iverson dribble and felt... full of flaws!
Although Rondo is very talented, he is still a rookie, and he couldn't help reaching out when Iverson took the ball down again!
Iverson keenly judged the movement of Rondo's body leaning forward before reaching out. This time, he took the ball extremely fast, moved laterally suddenly, and broke through from the middle!

Kwame Brown blocked up quickly and blocked Iverson with one step inside the free throw line. Iverson's pull-up jump shot is the way he scores more than half of his points now. Iverson passed the ball to Camby on the left baseline. Just as Camby was about to dribble in, Liu Mang had already switched to him.

Simultaneously, there was an off-ball pick-and-roll by Nene on the other side. McGrady defended Anthony very seriously. Anthony had not been able to get rid of McGrady's close defense until Nene helped pick-and-roll, and he got the opportunity to cut in from the right.

Marion switched defenses quickly, but was still overtaken by Anthony. Camby's height was his advantage in passing the ball. Although he couldn't see JR-Smith who was vacant at a 45-degree angle behind him, he passed the ball to Anthony who cut in!

Anthony received the ball and took off to dunk!

"Snapped"

Capped!
Kwame Brown defended against Iverson and successfully let Iverson pass the ball, then turned around and went inside, rushed up and just gave Anthony a big cap!
But Anthony grabs the rebound himself, and again!
Liu Mang also came in at this time, and flew forward. Anthony just lifted the ball up, and the ball just left his hand, and was slapped down again. Anthony quickly moved sideways, grabbed the ball again, and continued to push...

"Ding...the hot pot feast triggers at level 5..."

"Snapped……"

With a 30.00% chance, Liu Mang triggered the hot pot feast again, perfectly judged Anthony's shot route, and slapped the ball in Anthony's hand again...

Anthony's hands seem to have the "gravity" of the offensive rebound, and the ball still reaches him...

Finally, it seemed that the referee couldn't see it anymore. When Anthony continued to force himself, he was photographed by Kwame Brown. The referee blew his whistle. When Anthony took off, Kwame Brown pushed for a foul!

Anthony got two free throws.

At the beginning of the game, two shots by Liu Mang and Anthony had already blown up the scene.

Liu Mang was really amazing that time. The last time I saw such an attack was when Stockton was around, but Anthony's attack...

When Liu Mang went up to complain to the referee that Kwame Brown didn't push the ball, the referee smiled and compared the movement of the pusher. The referee is so professional that he couldn't help but want to laugh.

Brush 3 boards in anger!
In 5 seconds, Anthony got three-sevenths of his rebound share in a game...

Anthony walked to the free throw line and made two free throws. He scored 2 points and 3 rebounds in one round. He was very happy...

Liu Mang saw that Anthony made two free throws, and felt that this guy was really out of place with the other four in the top five in the 03 class. Milicic only made 70.00% three free throws, Bosh 70.00% fours, Wade 60.00% nines, and James 60.00% threes. As for Anthony, there has never been a year in his career when his free throws were lower than 80.00%...

The Nuggets retreated quickly. George Karl advocated defensive counterattacks. Although the defensive effect was mediocre, it can be seen from their average of 106 points per game and 103 points conceded per game, but their defensive discipline was not bad.

The ball was sent to Rondo, and the Eagles also advanced quickly. Liu Mang ran to the frontcourt and cut in from the middle.

2 to 2 tie, although the Eagles scored two points, this is the first offense of the game in the true sense of the Eagles. Facing JR-Smith's defense, Rondo saw Liu Mang leading Iverson to cut inside, and immediately broke through!

The unlucky version of Kobe really couldn't defend, JR-Smith defended very hard, but unfortunately the defensive awareness was like that, and Rondo passed it in one step.

When Liu Mang came out from the left side of the basket, he happened to see this scene, and at the same time, he noticed that Nene was about to move towards a 45-degree angle. Liu Mang did not continue to run to the left 45-degree angle, and came out to the free throw line!
JR-Smith didn't have the consciousness to switch defenses, and rushed in with Rondo. Kwame Brown blocked Iverson, and Camby didn't dare to extend out because Rondo rushed in. Marion noticed Nene's tendency to defend Liu Mang, and immediately cut to the basket.

Rondo lobs the ball behind his back!

At this time, Anthony came to defend Liu Mang. Although Anthony gradually lost the desire to defend, just like the future king of JDZ, he was unwilling to defend after scoring a good score, but he was still very serious in defending Liu Mang, so he quickly defended him.

But all of this was expected by Rondo!
McGrady received the ball outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the right!
Adjusted a bit, the three-point shot with a big gap...

hit!

Stunning!

As a rookie, Rondo is amazing every time he plays!
Not to mention how he saw McGrady when JR-Smith and Anthony, who were taller than him, were behind him. Just such a precise pass is enough to make people sincerely praise it!

However, there was not much time for the Eagles fans to feel the surprise of Rondo's pass. Camby immediately picked up the ball after being shot for a three-pointer, exited the baseline and sent it to Iverson. Anthony, Nene, and JR-Smith have already rushed up!
When Iverson received the serve and rushed, Liu Mang pressed up to block Iverson, but was thrown away by Iverson's change of direction. Iverson rushed beyond the three-point line and gave the ball to JR-Smith.

Run and boom!

The Nuggets run and bomb!

Although Iverson was a little reluctant to admit it, he did learn this way of advancing the organization's offense from Nash, who he despised before.

Iverson didn't learn the ability to organize an offense more deeply. He couldn't learn Nash's positional battle and forced a fast break, but he can still learn this simple and rough forward pass, and he is faster than Nash!Even though he is about to be 32 years old, he is still faster than the peak Nash!

As soon as Liu Mang ran back to the free throw line, Rondo, who rushed back to his basket first, immediately sent the ball to Liu Mang.

"Boss, hurry up!" Rondo shouted anxiously towards Liu Mang.

Because Rondo saw the opponent's messy defensive formation!

"This brat!"

Liu Mang slandered in his heart, and immediately moved forward quickly.

Now that they are all running, let's run and fight!When the lineup is not perfect, use offense to smooth out the flaws.

When Liu Mang saw McGrady running across the center line, he immediately passed it to McGrady. McGrady received the ball and swayed a shot. Anthony jumped up. McGrady passed Anthony with a cat waist.McGrady rushed in and scored two points with an easy layup.

It's messed up!

Both teams started a chaotic battle mode. Liu Mang took the ball if he had a chance to shoot, and passed it if he didn't. Now that he has decided to let McGrady and Rondo control the ball, he must stick to it.

Liu Mang's three-pointer is a point that the opponent wants to block. He takes advantage of this point, and more shots will appear in the middle distance and the basket.

After Kwame Brown fouled the two teams at the beginning, there were no fouls. The referee wanted to play hard and couldn't find too many opportunities. In the 7th minute of the first quarter, the Nuggets finally ushered in the second foul of the half quarter. They fouled Liu Mang, who received the ball from beyond the three-point line and swung a shot to break through.
……

Relying on Marion and McGrady each making a three-pointer, the Eagles are 21 to 18, temporarily leading by three points, and Liu Mang still has two free throws.

It is also dual-core on the outside, and the Eagles have a bigger advantage here.

But such an advantage...

Coach Kruger feels his forehead is starting to hurt again!
When Rondo debuted as the starting point guard, he didn't know how to control the rhythm at all!

Rondo's judgment on the opponent's defensive loopholes and the accuracy of passing the ball are indeed very good, but the choice of organizing the attack at the slightest chance is not appropriate at all.

It is good to take advantage of the opponent's defensive loopholes, but it is necessary to retreat while attacking. Rondo has not yet understood this.

"Not everyone is Ace..." Coach Kruger sighed.

He was looking forward to letting Rondo take control from the beginning of the game, try it out, the result is mediocre, their starting lineup is still very advantageous, but they failed to control the rhythm.

It’s not enough to replace Rondo in advance. Without Rondo, there will be no such fast-moving point guard. McGrady is not good at that kind of organization.

Therefore, Coach Kruger did not replace Rondo in advance and lasted until the official timeout.

不过嘛，瑕不掩瑜，隆多7分钟拿到1分2板3助攻1抢断2失误，给夸梅-布朗、麦迪、马里昂各送出了一次精妙的助攻。

Coach Kruger is generally satisfied with Rondo's performance.

Can't compare to Liu Mang... Definitely not, Liu Mang averaged 20+ per game as a substitute in his rookie season, a historic rookie performance, except for James, other top picks since the new century can't match Liu Mang's performance in his rookie season.

But coach Kruger was very satisfied with getting 7 assists within 3 minutes. There were two turnovers, and Iverson also had two turnovers. One of them was Rondo stealing from behind and giving Liu Mang a counter-attack dunk.
It's just that Iverson still scored 3 points on 2 of 5 shots, and Rondo couldn't keep up with his flattery.

After comforting myself, Coach Kruger started to make substitutions.

Since Liu Mang had two free throws yet to be made, Coach Kruger thought about it and began to make personnel adjustments: "Ace, Jason, go up and keep running..."

……

The Eagles here send...

Liu Mang...Jason Terry...Battier...Granger...Marion...

There is no one left!

Why didn't Liu Mang prevent Rondo from making mistakes in rhythm control?It is because they now have no real center except for Kwame Brown and Hollins!

Granger has reached the position of power forward, and Marion has reached the position of center forward. In fact, Granger is a little taller than Marion...

Before playing, Coach Kruger patted Liu Mang on the shoulder and said, "Ace, don't be stressed. Our third is very stable. If you are tired, take a rest."

Liu Mang said... he is not under pressure, just go up and vote!
Battier and Granger are very excited, with their main teammates gone, they can play earlier!
Although it was sad that some teammates left, they had already thought of this at the time. Only when someone leaves, someone will have a chance to take over!
"Ace, how are we going to fight?" Jason Terry was eager to try.

"Just vote! Seduce the guy on the opposite side who is five centimeters shorter than you to vote with us!"

"That's a good idea... wait, what do you mean being shorter than me!"

(End of this chapter)