From today on is the king

Chapter 1396 1395. The Confrontation of the Inner and Outer Shot Blocking Kings
Indeed, Garnett knew that he pushed Liu Mang, and pushed him several times, but the previous moves were not that big.

This time, the movement of exerting force was really big, and I made the movement of pushing it with all my strength.

But just as Garnett met Liu Mang, Liu Mang had already flown out.

Not to mention, he admitted that he is also a master of flopping.

But what were the words Liu Mang yelled when he fell to the ground?

Garnett has never seen such a miserable sale, and he shouted out for losing money!

Most of Garnett’s nervousness and focus were gone, and he lost his temper at all by the words Liu Mang yelled after he made a foul. He used to yell and yell after making a foul. This season, after the referee had zero-tolerance power, he fouled several times, but today he didn’t feel like complaining to the referee at all.

The word "losing money" lingered in Garnett's mind. He was very confused. Liu Mang's skillful movements and miserable calls... were too similar to some hooligans who wanted to blackmail people after suffering a small loss. Before Garnett played in the NBA, he was a slum at the bottom of society.

On Liu Mang's side, seeing that the referee ignored him, Garnett ignored him, and his teammates were far away, it was Battier who was kind enough to pull him up, so he didn't continue calling.

Anyway, it's cheap.

After only playing the first round, Garnett got a foul on his back. This is good news!

The referee signaled the Eagles to attack and urged the Eagles to serve.

For Liu Mang, the referee already has a strong resistance, they can stabilize their minds no matter what Liu Mang does, but this time they are still a little at a loss...

Fortunately, they are professional.

Liu Mang went to receive the ball from the referee, passed it to McGrady, and ran towards the frontcourt without the ball.

Even if Rondo is not there, Liu Mang will attack in the simplest way. Of course, there are many benefits without the ball, and McGrady can hold the ball to attract defense.

Rondo was placed on the bench mainly because Liu Mang wanted to switch to guard Garnett himself, which was much more useful than predicting Garnett's pass.

Unlike Gasol and Milicic, who don't take scoring as the first goal, before Garnett came to the Bulls, he was also a first-class scorer who averaged 20 points per game for nine consecutive years.

There is no good way for Rondo to switch 100% to Garnett, but Liu Mang figured out a way!
Liu Mang wanted to take advantage of Garnett's "fight and retreat".

And fighting and retreating is not just about Garnett's performance during quarrels. Garnett's offense is also dodging shots. Cuts are almost always empty cuts. There are very few insiders who face the defense.

There is an old saying called "In hindsight", after the last game, Liu Mang came up with a lot of postures to make Garnett foul after the game, but the game had already been lost at that time, so it was useless to think so much.

Fortunately, there is still a big difference between the NBA and life. If you lose once, you will have the next match. The previous experience can be used in the next match.

This time it will be used. If Garnett caused a foul at the beginning, with Garnett's cautious style of play, his super ability and habit of avoiding fouls and leaving the field with six fouls twice in his ten-year career will definitely cause Garnett to have some problems on both offense and defense.

of course……

This kind of thinking is very good, but Liu Mang obviously underestimated Garnett's ability, the number one favorite of the best defensive player, not just given...

McGrady used himself and Liu Mang's containment force to create an air-cut opportunity for Marion, and Garnett, who was rushed up, slapped him on the backboard!
It is true that Garnett, who is 31 years old, has a disadvantage in bounce and velocity compared to Kwame Brown, who is only 25 years old now, but that is Kwame Brown...and only in bounce.

Speed, mobility, these two points Kwame Brown is not as good as Garnett, Kwame Brown has always been better than Garnett in single defense, but assist defense... no one in the league can find a better assist defense ability than Garnett now!
The opening foul did not affect Garnett's enthusiasm and decisiveness in assisting defense and blocking at all.

Liu Mang made a wrong estimate this time. Garnett has always been able to maintain a very strong foul-avoidance style of play. Liu Mang thought that Garnett would be afraid of fouling at the beginning and then fouling again, but Garnett was the last to avoid fouls.

The most important point is that there are Ben Wallace and Kwame Brown stuck in the basket, and Ben Wallace is also a master defense...

Instead... when the Bulls were attacking, Liu Mang fouled Garnett earlier, making Garnett a bit timid on the offensive end.

Garnett continued to pick and roll with Hinrich. After Liu Mang switched to Garnett, Garnett cut directly to the basket!
Liu Mang looked at the group of people under the basket. Hinrich was blocked to the middle distance by Marion, and Hinrich did not continue to break through. Liu Mang, Garnett, Kwame Brown, and Ben Wallace were crowded under the basket!
Hinrich defends a mid-range jumper against Marion...

miss!
Ben Wallace grabs the offensive rebound and gets back to…

"Snapped"

Liu Mang jumped up from the basket and slapped Ben Wallace's forced layup. Marion turned around and grabbed the defensive rebound that Liu Mang slapped.

Almost at the same time that Marion grabbed the ball, the Bulls immediately retreated. Ben Wallace was old and could not jump anymore, but his speed did not drop too much. The Bulls quickly retreated and did not give the Eagles any chance to counterattack.

The Eagles have to continue the battle with the Bulls.

The two teams started the game as if the basket was covered. Although Liu Mang failed to make Garnett's defensive performance abnormal as expected, he accidentally blocked Garnett's mid-range jumper.

Garnett's mid-range shot is crucial to the Bulls. It is very important for him to be able to pull out the shot and create opportunities for Ben Wallace or the big Z who comes off the bench to catch the ball and directly attack the basket. However, Garnett's ability to avoid Liu Mang's offensive foul caused the Bulls' entire offense to stagnate!
Garnett averaged 18 points, 9 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 3.6 blocks per game this season. The assists are career highs. As the Bulls' high-post transfer station, his high-post scoring is very important to the Bulls' offense.

But... The Eagles' offense was also poor. Except for Liu Manglang's three-pointer, McGrady's mid-range pull-up, and Kwame Brown's tip-up, the Eagles only scored 8 points in the entire half of the quarter!
The Bulls only scored 9 points in half a quarter!
When entering the official timeout, the Eagles trailed by one point 8-9, but they were not at a disadvantage. After the Bulls scored the last ball before the official timeout, the Eagles called a timeout, and the time was exactly 12 minutes and [-] seconds.

In this half of the game, the two teams each called a timeout, but the offensive end of the two teams has been playing poorly.

The key is that the two shot-blocking masters interfered with the shooting at the basket to the extreme when both teams blocked the outside line!

Liu Mang and Garnett, one is the outside block leader this season, and the other is the league block leader this season.

Liu Mang averaged 2.3 blocks per game, setting a new record for guards in NBA history, which was exactly his teammate Tracy McGrady's record of 1.9 blocks per game.

On Garnett's side, averaging 3.6 blocks per game beat Marcus Camby's 3.4 blocks per game, ranking first in the league.

In terms of shot-blocking ability at the basket, Garnett is actually not as good as Liu Mang, but the threat of both of them is there, and both of them can block. As long as they block once, the opponent will be afraid, and the ability to finish at the basket is easily affected. Moreover, both of them have successfully affected the opponent's attack at the basket, so that the two teams' defense against three-pointers has become better. In terms of mid-range shots, the Eagles have Liu Mang to "threat" Garnett, and the Bulls have Garnett and Ben Wallace, two mid-range defense masters...

So... a feast of blacksmithing lasted for half a quarter...

　Let’s add 7000 words today. I’m exhausted today. I’m a little busy on the second day after resuming work.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)