From today on is the king

Chapter 1386 1385. 58 points in three quarters!
Liu Mang made a three-pointer and scored the first goal for the Eagles.

When the Raptors attacked, Milicic scored the ball from the high post, went to the low post and received the ball again and re-distributed the ball to Richard Jefferson. Richard Jefferson received the ball and faced the Eagles' high-speed rotation. Rondo also scored a three-pointer!
The Raptors players also want to win today. Maybe Milicic has a bad mentality, but the score is not too far behind, and Milicic will not give up on himself. He is still very confident in his own strength. The Raptors did not train for so many years in vain.

Liu Mang is still accumulating experience on how to make better use of the feature of "rejecting horses". The last time Liu Mang used the effect of the feature of "refusing horses" to deal with some of Milicic's methods, this time the effect was not so good. Milicic's golf IQ is very high. Knowing that Liu Mang has a predictive ability that exceeds ordinary people, he doesn't think it is so strange. No matter how strong Liu Mang's ability is, opponents will not be surprised.

The contest of skills and tactics is always changing. Liu Mang conceives a defensive strategy against Milicic, and Milicic will respond next time.

Milicic connected with Richard Jefferson and hit a beautiful response ball!
When the Eagles attacked, Liu Mang was caught by Richard Jefferson as soon as he reached the frontcourt.

Liu Mang didn't cut in immediately, and observed the opponent's defense. It was not as exaggerated as the Spurs, but Liu Mang judged that the Raptors' first defense target was him!
There is no sense of unrestricted flanking, and the positioning is not like that, but Liu Mang can predict that when he enters the middle distance, he will be within the interference range of Milicic. Milicic is far behind Kwame Brown in jumping, but his mobility is not much worse, and he has good footsteps in assisting defense.

Come out from the inside line, no matter which side you go around, someone will make up the defense immediately.

The opponent is fully prepared!

That being the case...

Liu Mang came to a 45-degree angle to the left, carried Richard Jefferson on his left shoulder, and gestured towards Rondo.

Rondo, who pushed forward, immediately dribbled the ball towards Liu Mang. When he was close to the 45-degree angle on the left, he immediately passed the ball to Liu Mang, and went up to help Liu Mang block Richard Jefferson.

After Liu Mang received the ball, he bypassed Rondo again. TJ-Ford quickly switched to defend Liu Mang, and Richard Jefferson also squeezed in from the front to block the defense.

But... Liu Mang still had a gap and threw it away!

"Ding... the king of dry pull is triggered at level 5, and the host's dry pull jump shot will not be affected by insufficient force to take off..."

Without McGrady's height, he still dares to pull out the waves, relying on the skill of the king of fighting!
TJ-Ford's height is good against Rondo, and against Liu Mang, he can hardly interfere, especially when he is not close when switching defenses. Richard Jefferson, who is next to Liu Mang and jumping after the pick-and-roll, also failed to substantially interfere with Liu Mang.

Liu Mang felt explosive, shot decisively, and hit another three-pointer!
Richard Jefferson just returned one to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang immediately returned it again!
When the Raptors were attacking, TJ-Ford passed the ball to Joe Johnson, who relied on McGrady for the ball. McGrady defended Joe Johnson more seriously than the first time, and was very focused. However, Joe Johnson also prepared for a long time. He felt good today.

5 to 6, the Raptors also started with two shots.

When it came to the Eagles' offense, the Raptors worked very hard on the defensive end.

As for the Eagles, since the first two simple and rough styles of play were so effective, Rondo naturally chose to continue playing in the previous way.

But this time Rondo just moved to Liu Mang's side, TJ-Ford let go of him directly, and attacked Liu Mang.

However, Rondo just used Liu Mang to attract the defense. Taking advantage of TJ-Ford to pinch Liu Mang ahead of time, Rondo turned around and broke through to the inside. After attracting Joe Johnson's defense, he quickly distributed the ball to McGrady.

McGrady took the opportunity to cut into the inside and was blocked by Milicic after receiving the ball. McGrady quickly circled the baseline from the left side of the basket and went behind Milicic, bullying the big center to turn slowly, forcing Richard Jefferson to come in to defend, and going around the baseline gave Richard Jefferson a chance to help defend.

At this time, Sean Marion in the left corner came up to help Liu Mang block TJ-Ford, Liu Mang cut to the left baseline, and McGrady jumped up to attract Richard Jefferson to take off, and turned around to pass the ball to Liu Mang like looking at the moon.

Liu Mang reached the bottom line on the left side, just in time to catch the ball, and took advantage of the opportunity to pull up the bottom line for a jump shot...

Again!

Bargnani just watched like that behind Liu Mang, watching Liu Mang shoot without stretching out his hand.

McGrady predicted this, and when he saw Liu Mang, TJ-Ford, Rondo, Marion, Bargnani, and Richard Jefferson crowded on the left side of the basket, he took these situations into consideration.

Of course, the key lies in Liu Mang's ability to invest!

Compared with Rondo's more selfless style of play, McGrady's side doesn't know if it can be called selfless. When he cuts to receive the ball, he can directly attack the basket. Milicic's defense at the basket can only cause a small probability of interference. McGrady has already charged at that time. Apart from stretching his arms to interfere with McGrady's shot route, Milicic only has the option of fouling.

In such a situation, McGrady has a chance of scoring at least 60.00% of his shots at the basket, which is almost his normal layup percentage.

But after McGrady predicted that Liu Mang had a chance to score, he used complicated play to help Liu Mang get a shot.

8 to 5, the Eagles continued to maintain a three-point lead.

Judging from the results, the ball was played very successfully, and the Toronto fans didn't see anything wrong. It was a bit complicated, but it was shot, and it only took a few seconds.

However, as smart as Rondo, he naturally saw McGrady's purpose, and when he returned to defense, his face was full of confusion.

When McGrady returned to defense, he patted Rondo on the shoulder. The ball just now made Rondo's most likely assists disappear, and he was very sorry.

Rondo thought about the relationship between Liu Mang and McGrady, and thought of the fact that Liu Mang had to score 127 points in three games to complete the bold statement he made before, and he soon knew the reason.

That would be much simpler, and Rondo immediately began to think about how to get the ball to Liu Mang in the next round, and try his best to create better shooting opportunities for Liu Mang, who will definitely be dealt with and strictly guarded against.

Help Liu Mang get an open shot?
It's basically impossible. Just now, Liu Mang's mid-range shot from the bottom line has Bargnani behind him...

"Bagnani?" Rondo immediately had an idea.

To help his teammates score, Rondo can come up with [-] methods if he has enough time in a game. Of course, his teammates must have the ability to make shots. Some tactics must have the ability of teammates to surpass ordinary players to successfully implement.

If the teammates are a group of first and second graders, the skills are not good, and everyone has the heart of being a superstar, it will be difficult for Rondo in the future peak period to lead them to the playoffs.

But his current teammates, apart from him, the other four starters are all at least All-Star players. Although McGrady has a small defect that is difficult to reach the top in various skills, Marion and Kwame Brown are relatively single-function All-Stars, but their strengths are also obvious. Some are good at eating cakes and are a big threat to the basket.

If you don't consider the success rate and concentrate on helping one player score, Rondo's task is much easier than helping the whole team score!
In the following time, Kwame Brown grabbed the rebound, Marion helped Liu Mang pick and roll, Rondo took control, McGrady assisted the pass, and Liu Mang shot alone. The goal of the Eagles was very clear, and Liu Mang felt good today and scored consecutively from the outside.

Moreover, in order to distract the opponent's attention, Rondo occasionally chooses to feed Kwame Brown a cake when other teammates have perfect scoring opportunities, and occasionally throws one to Marion, trying his best to maintain the offensive threat of his teammates and help Liu Mang get better shots.

This is more efficient than Liu Mang alone.

Liu Mang originally wanted to dominate the ball, but after scoring three consecutive goals with the cooperation of Rondo and McGrady, Liu Mang released the ball. Unexpectedly, instead of reducing the number of points scored, it also increased the scoring efficiency!
Indeed, instead of holding the ball by himself, the number of shots taken is not as many as when he was scoring points against a relatively weak opponent, but his efficiency has become much higher.

首节刘莽13投7中，三分4中3，罚球5中4，首节狂砍21分！
Rondo and McGrady are mainly dominated by Rondo. McGrady quickly realized that he would use Marion and Kwame Brown's containment force, McGrady's containment force, and Rondo's personal breakthrough threat to help Liu Mang create one-on-one shots against Bargnani or TJ-Ford as much as possible.

TJ-Ford has enthusiasm, but no defensive ability. He is shorter than Rondo and does not have Rondo's defensive talent. Bargnani is tall and has good defensive conditions, but he has no defensive motivation at all. Usually, the Raptors rely on three big stars to wipe their butts in these two positions. At the same time, try to reduce the impact of a large number of running positions or direct shooting, jumping, and shooting too fast. Coupled with his three-point rating of 97 with his right hand, and a layup rating of over 90 with both left and right hands, he scored 21 points in the first quarter!
But the Raptors did not give up because they kept up with the score!

Milicic's mid-range shooting and low-post singles, coupled with his excellent passing ability; Richard Jefferson and TJ Ford's running attack basket; Richard Jefferson and Bargnani's open three-pointer; Joe Johnson's efficient singles scoring in the face of Tracy McGrady, helping the Raptors to only fall behind by two points after Liu Mang scored 21 points in a single quarter.

The Hawks led 29-27 in the first quarter and entered the second quarter with a two-point lead.

The two teams have just started for a whole quarter!
The head coaches of the two teams have no way to control the players on the field, mainly because the two teams are playing well!
Defensively, the Raptors really entered the game today, trying to make the Eagles except Liu Mang only shoot 9 of 3 shots, except for Marion-Cutting in caused one foul by Bargnani and Milicic, and made 3 of 2 free throws. The rest of the Eagles attacked the basket and were well defended.

The defense of the Eagles is also as good as possible.

However, the Eagles are ahead, and the biggest advantage is that Liu Mang can still maintain a shooting percentage of more than 21% when there is always at least one defensive player in front of him, scoring [-] points!
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By the second quarter, both teams were forced to make large-scale rotations.

Except for Joe Johnson and Milicic on the Raptors side, all other positions have been replaced.

Milicic and TJ-Ford mainly went to pinch Liu Mang in rotation and defend the inside line. He was exhausted, mainly due to Richard Jefferson. His athletic ability was so good that he was comparable to Vince Carter. The defensive end would always be able to switch defenses in place at the first time. His defensive enthusiasm was good and consumed a lot.

The Raptors sent backup point guard Juan Dixon, backup small forward Maurice Peterson, short power forward Jorge Garbajosa signed from Barcelona, ​​along with Joe Johnson and Milicic.

For the Eagles, four people were directly replaced. Except for Liu Mang who returned to the point guard position, the other four were replaced.

The rotation lineup of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Battier, Granger and Gortat played.

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The Raptors have always kept the chance to win, so it is difficult for them to do something like the Spurs who would rather lose than make Liu Mang happy.

It is difficult to have a team like the Spurs, who would rather lose a game than let the opponent's head star hit the record. Only Popovich can do it in the NBA.

The Raptors have a chance to win. They have been fighting all the time. As long as the point difference is not completely opened, they will try their best to defend the Eagles and play better on the offensive end.

Gortat, who is [-] meters tall, must be a threat standing on the edge of the three-second zone. Liu Mang dominates the ball. He was the assist leader last season. When he holds the ball, the threat of his teammates inside is even greater.

Jason Terry is one of the best substitute players in the league. Except for Ginobili and Odom, there are hardly any substitute players on the bench who can match Jason Terry.

For Liu Mang, with these two teammates, he will have a lot of shooting opportunities. In addition, Battier and Granger, who have made about one open three-pointer in the last ten games, opened up space.
The point is that TJ-Ford, who is fast, and Richard Jefferson, who is both single-defense and assisted-defense, went down to rest!

In the second quarter, Liu Mang scored 20 points in a single quarter, and in the third quarter, Liu Mang scored 17 points in a single quarter...

After three quarters, Liu Mang made 1 of 34 shots, 20 of 16 three-pointers, 9 of 11 free throws, and scored 9 points in three quarters without resting for a minute!
(End of this chapter)