From today on is the king

Chapter 1492 1491. Nash's Envy

Gasol played the NBA's highest-intensity defense for a few minutes, and was so tired that he slumped on a chair and panted like a dead dog.

In terms of consumption, Gasol's consumption is estimated to be several times that of O'Neal. It is not an easy job to hold O'Neal, even the 36-year-old O'Neal.

If it is O'Neal who is two or three years younger and has better physical fitness, as long as Gasol is exhausted, O'Neal will win, but the 36-year-old O'Neal... the head coach of the Suns dare not let O'Neal continue to consume Gasol.

9 to 4, O'Neal was exhausted, and Liu Mang did not dare to relax.

It's true that the Suns' positional warfare is restricted, but the Suns' running and bombing is coming!

Even the peak Spurs in 2005 could only use offense to fight the Suns, and the Eagles had never really defended against the Suns, and the bloody offense was about to start next!

For Liu Mang, the advantage is that today the Eagles took the lead in controlling the situation on the field, and everything is going according to their previous tactical plan!
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Pause back, and the game continues.

The Eagles replaced Kwame Brown, replaced Gasol Jr., and McGrady was also replaced. They will lead the second team with Jason Terry in a while.

In terms of running ability, Mason, who is still in peak physical condition, is really better than the 28-year-old McGrady. After all, he relies solely on this for food.

The lineup of Rondo, Liu Mang, Mason, Marion, and Kwame Brown played.

On the Suns side, the lineup of Nash, Raja Bell, Jason Richardson, Josh Smith, and Diaw played.

The Suns attacked, and they started running and playing as Van Gundy expected when he deployed the defense.

After running, although the Suns' defense became worse, the offensive firepower was much stronger!
The Eagles used Liu Mang, Rondo, Mason, and Marion's high-speed rotation defenses to try to pick and roll the Suns' pick-and-roll offense initiated by Nash and Josh Smith.

On Dior's side, he didn't dare to go out, and stayed inside, with Kwame Brown guarding.

Dior averaged 13+6+6 per game last season and won the Most Improved Award. He also averaged 10+4+5 per game when O'Neal came last season.

However, Diaw can also play a role in containing Kwame Brown's defense in the interior, after all, he is a pseudo center.

Raja Bell, a sharpshooter who has averaged 2.6 three-pointers per game with more than [-]% of his three-pointers in the past two seasons, made a three-pointer for the first time after returning from a timeout!
7 to 9, the point difference went from 5 points to two points in an instant.

For a running team like the Suns, a 5-point difference is nothing at all. Their three outside pitchers are too accurate.

When the Eagles attacked, Rondo began to use Liu Mang's restraint to create opportunities for his teammates.
Liu Mang's strong restraint gave the Eagles outside shooters a lot of opportunities.

Conversely, Liu Mang reduced his outside shots at the beginning and helped his teammates shoot more three-pointers, but he allowed himself to get more one-on-one singles opportunities for his outside shots in the second quarter!

A three-point shooter has the advantage of a three-point shooter, but if a three-point shooter takes 15 three-point shots and only hits 5 times, it is obviously far inferior to five three-point players who make 3 of 1 shots.

If the sharpshooter is 15 out of 5, people will be sure that your performance is not good today.

This is Liu Mang’s experience from watching Curry several times in the finals in his “previous life”. The Warriors’ defeat in the 16 Finals was directly related to Curry’s 15, 13, and 14 three-pointers in the last three games. He shot more from the outside, and his teammates naturally shot less. Barnes, Thompson, and Green only had a chance to shoot after Barnes, Thompson, and Green couldn’t make it. But at that time, the cold three-pointer feeling had spread to the Warriors.

The five shooters with a 30.00% three-point shooting rate only made one shot, and the opponent had to defend. Everyone had a relatively good one-on-one shooting opportunity. With Curry's three-point ability, shooting one-on-one three-pointers is definitely much more accurate than throwing with two people who are too confident.

Liu Mang's plan for this season is to use himself more as a threat point and let the whole team attack. If there is no Rondo, he plans to pass more, but with Rondo it will be easier for him, just follow the established tactics and run with the opponent.

After Raja Bell hit a three-pointer, Mason scored two points with a layover lob from Liu Mang after receiving a pass from Rondo.

Diaw's ability to switch defenses is indeed not as good as last season. After Kwame Brown helped Mason block Raja Bell who switched defenses, Diaw could only watch Mason dunk.

Seeing that Mason is almost 31 years old and can still dunk with a flat frame, all the fans at the scene are cheering. Mason is indeed a representative of wasted talent, but his style of play is really attractive to fans.

Liu Mang's comprehensiveness is stronger than Curry's, so he uses himself to attract firepower not only as simple as attracting outside firepower, but he can also attract defense at medium and short distances. Rondo, the core playmaker, has more choices.

And Liu Mang's "offensive transfer station" feature allows him to have the ability to transfer the ball similar to McGrady and Gasol Jr., which is very good for assisting Rondo in organizing offense!
However, Dior's role was beyond the Eagles' expectations. His setter was even better than Liu Mang's!

After all, Liu Mang relied on his characteristic predictions and his precise passing. Dior is really good at this aspect, and after gaining weight, he has enough tonnage to pass the ball against Kwame Brown. It is estimated that the Suns did not expect Dior's performance. The offensive end is better than imagined.

After the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 4 points and 4 assists. On the contrary, Rondo, the core offensive playmaker of the Eagles, only got 1 assist, but 6 points and 2 rebounds!

From the data, Liu Mang seems to be the player who organizes the offense.

However, Steve Nash, the core core of the Suns, felt like he was competing with a second-year young man!

Rondo surprised Nash last season. Nash knew that Rondo had a bright future, but he didn't expect that after only one year, the Eagles would feel relieved to hand over the burden of leading the starting lineup to a second-year player!

After seeing the opponent's intermission coaching staff arrange tactics, Jason Terry, Tracy McGrady, Grant Hill, Jr. O'Neal, Brad Miller, five well-known veteran stars actually gathered around Rondo and listened to what Rondo said...

Nash thought about how he played for four years before taking the starting position, and after playing for eight years before he became the core of the team... People are more popular than people!
Nash thought he was far better than Rondo in all aspects except defense and rebounding when he was a rookie.

Nash shook his head and put aside those unpleasant memories: "I will be 34 years old soon, and it is useless to recall those. The game is important..."

After the first quarter, the Eagles led by 31 points 27 to 4. The problem with the Suns was that they only scored 4 points in the first 4 minutes, but they were too fast to catch up because the Hawks were also very strong.

Fortunately for Nash, in the first quarter, they raced so hard that the other main players of the Eagles except Tracy McGrady ran for 8 minutes. They had to go down to rest, and Liu Mang put on training clothes.

The rotation stage is their chance!

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The Suns replaced Raja Bell with Dudley. After all, Raja Bell was over 30 years old, and his physical strength began to decline, so Dudley, a rookie, was sent.

"Jared Dudley, ability rating 71... 84 three-pointers? The Suns are also very good at selecting role players, not losing to Popovich..."

Liu Mang drank Gatorade and watched Dudley, who was replaced by the Suns. This was a rookie selected by the Suns at the end of the first round. He seemed to be a very good role player.

The Suns did not make substitutions at other positions. Gentry didn't expect Dior to be fatter, but Dior is so adaptable to this style of play, which is undoubtedly a good thing for the Suns.

Except for Raja Bell, the Suns did not change anyone else.

Liu Mang chatted with the painter very easily. Anyway, the rotation time was given to his teammates. Even if his teammates didn’t play well at the beginning, Liu Mang didn’t want to take it all in. During the three consecutive championships, his teammates could do most of the things he wanted his teammates to do.

After the start of the second quarter, the Hawks were indeed at a disadvantage. Compared with the preseason, the intensity of the regular season was much higher. The point was that the Suns were comparable to the Magic. The other opponents of the Eagles in the preseason were far behind the Suns.

In the first half of the second quarter, the Eagles have been under pressure from the opponent's offensive firepower.

Running in is always full of ups and downs.

But after the official timeout in the second quarter, the Suns replaced O'Neal. The Eagles saw O'Neal take off his training uniform and immediately replaced Gasol Jr.

It's not that the Suns didn't know that O'Neal was restrained, but that the star had to give so much playing time.

And the current Suns are different from the previous D’Antoni era. The D’Antoni era was pure running and bombing, yes, but they were not running with all their strength. There will always be times when they need to slow down and rest.

The Suns were defeated by the Spurs on offense before because they needed a certain buffer time and had no defense, but now they have a card-shark combination and strong positional warfare.

Gentry was prepared to use the seamless switch between the two tactics to deal with the Spurs from the beginning, and he succeeded in the playoffs last year.

But today I happened to meet Gasol Jr.!

Would any other team dare to replace the team's best big man with a fat rookie after 37 seconds?

The Eagles dare!
O'Neal was so angry that he wanted to compete with Gasol for being fatter. Calderon was in pain...he felt the evil power from his old club...

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