From today on is the king

Chapter 1531. Chapter 1530. An Unbeatable Opponent

Returning to the home court, the Eagles defeated the Trail Blazers 1 to 21 at home on January 111. This time the Hawks played against the Trail Blazers at home and swept the opponent in the regular season.

Liu Mang scored 30 points in both games, 6 assists away and 30+10 at home.

The more his teammates integrated into the team, the more comfortable Liu Mang's performance became.

不过老鹰队这边刚拿到14连胜, 把战绩提升到35胜6负，马刺队那边也9连胜了，战绩提升到37胜5负。

"The three shameless men who cut their salaries are a fool!"

Liu Mang was reading the morning paper after breakfast.

Last night Liu Mang knew that the Spurs had won nine consecutive victories. The news he was watching now was the newspaper interview that the Spurs accepted last night.

"This year may be our last chance to try to get 70 wins. We really want to try. Now what we want to try is to tie with Ace and their half-time record of only losing 2005 games in the 2006-5 season."

Looking at the Q&A record of Duncan's interview, Liu Mang felt that the reporter didn't write nonsense, and directly copied Duncan's original words. This implicit but domineering words are the shameless man who cut his salary!

Duncan's entire answer revealed a kind of self-confidence, "Try to see if you can get 70 wins, and try to see if you can only lose 5 games in the half.

Moreover, although Duncan didn't talk about the first thing in the league, his goal was to only lose 5 games in the middle of the game, which means that Duncan thought that he would not lose until the All-Star Weekend!
This is clearly a disguised declaration of competing for the first place in the alliance.

"Okay uncle, you are the best, good boy, let's go quickly." Little Lolita carried her schoolbag excitedly.

"I said Dinah, why does Levia want you to go with me to play consecutive away games?" Liu Mang was puzzled. When Levia left yesterday, he asked Liu Mang to bring little loli with him when he played away games, so as not to make trouble at home. Alexia couldn't take care of it alone.

Even Price has taken care of Levia, and the team will arrange at least two bedrooms for Liu Mang.

"Mom said he's going back to New York for a few days, and grandpa's birthday is coming up." Little Loli replied.

"Then why don't you go?"

"Those relatives don't like Dinah and Mama."

Hearing this answer, Liu Mang didn't continue to ask, and chose to change the subject: "You Americans really have enough, and the junior high school has 50 days of winter vacation."

There are only two grades in junior high schools in the United States, and it doesn’t have much to do with going to school, especially for those who go to private middle schools like Little Lolita. After finishing the eighth grade, they can directly enter the high school.

During this period, American students had a lot of spare time, allowing them to develop a variety of hobbies.

Just like the current double-dan holidays, the next semester's courses will not start until Valentine's Day, February 2.

"Uncle, are you jealous of Dinah?"

"No, by the way, are you taking this thing with you again?" Liu Mang asked when he saw the big doll bear in the car when he came to the parking lot.

"Of course! Dinah said that, you can't sleep without hugging the Xiong Dinah that uncle gave you!"

"Okay, okay... Aida, let's go."

Liu Mang took a look at the luggage in the trunk and did not lose anything. He kissed Alexia who sent them to the garage, got in the car, started the engine and left.

Alexia looked at the back of the car that disappeared at the gate of the yard, hoping that little Lolita would follow along this time and watch Liu Mang a little closer.

Liu Mang is going to Los Angeles for the last five consecutive games. Alexia is not worried at all, so she spends "a lot of money" to buy up the little Lolita, and let the little Lolita go with Liu Mang to play consecutive away games.

In case Liu Mang really wants a Chinese girlfriend...

Levia doesn't have a sense of crisis, but Alexia, who has become a full-time wife, has a full sense of crisis.

……

Liu Mang didn't know Alexia's little thoughts, and he didn't think too much about other things. He was in the rising stage of his career, so he didn't have time to think about other things.

Together with the little loli who was eating and drinking, they boarded the team's chartered plane and headed to the icy and snowy Toronto together.

The Eagles have five consecutive away this time. The first opponent is the Eastern team, and the next four are all Western teams.

After getting on the plane, Liu Mang was sorting out some of the itinerary for the five consecutive passengers in the small book. For example, when he arrived in Phoenix the day before the away game against the Suns on the 29th, he wanted to treat Harden to dinner.

Sitting next to Liu Mang, little loli poked her head out to look up, pointed to the place that said 'No. 29, Xiao Dengdeng' and asked, "Uncle, who is Xiao Dengdeng? Why do you want to have dinner with him?"

"This is a loyal fan of mine, James Harden. You should have heard of Dinah. He wrote to me last time and wanted to meet me." Liu Mang replied casually, no doubt about him.

"James Harden? The Los Angeles man who imitated the uncle in college?" Little Lolita thought for a while, if she wasn't a woman, it didn't matter, she continued to peek. There was no other special itinerary, little Lolita retreated into the chair, adjusted the back of the chair, and was ready to sleep.

……

Going to play the Raptors again.

Every time he played the Raptors in an away game, it was a very sad event for Liu Mang. After the plane landed, Liu Mang began to put clothes on his body, and he even put on a coat on the outside.

Then put on the loose clothes for the little Lolita, and also wrapped it in a coat.

it's too cold!
Fortunately, because of the greenhouse effect, summers are getting hotter and winters are getting colder, and the league's schedule is much more reasonable. The Eastern teams in the southern United States basically only play three times a season with the Raptors. The four Southeast Division teams, the Eagles, Magic, Heat, and Bobcats, only come to Toronto once a season.

However, because the Wizards in the same division as the Eagles, Magic, Heat, and Bobcats are too far north, they are even further north than the Cavaliers in the Central Division. They are almost on the border with New Jersey, and they have to play against the Raptors four times a year.

The worst thing was Rondo. In the winter, he had a lot of luggage himself, and he had to help Liu Mang get his luggage, pushing a mountain-like luggage cart to the parking lot.

Fortunately, Gasol and Scola Jr. helped Rondo share the six suitcases of Liu Mang + Little Lolita.

Looking at the two ball-shaped "father and daughter", one tall, one short, one male and one female, who were walking in the front, Scola asked Rondo: "Rajon, does the boss have so much luggage for away games in winter? I thought the last time I went to Los Angeles was because his girlfriend and children also came."

"They have a villa in Los Angeles, and the women buy everything on the spot..." Rondo sneered, but didn't say anything, just replied: "Yes."

Seeing Rondo speak only one word, Scola, a mature and stable old man, didn't know how to find something to talk about...

After arriving at the hotel and putting everything away, after resting for a while, the teammates gathered in the living room of Liu Mang's suite.

The competition for the first place in the league with the Spurs is becoming more intense, and the Eagles players attach great importance to this five-game streak.

The Raptors, Nuggets, Supersonics, Suns, and Clippers are not so easy to continue their winning streak. The end of the month is not as brutal as the Hornets, Cavaliers, Bulls, Nuggets, and Cavaliers at the beginning of the month, but it is not that bad.

The Raptors are second in the Eastern Conference, and the Suns have temporarily climbed to third in the Western Conference. Although the second in the Western Conference was snatched away by the Lakers, the third Suns also climbed up, but the Nuggets have a better record than the Trail Blazers. The top four in the Western Conference.

Fortunately, the Eagles seldom have back-to-backs. They have played back-to-backs only twice in 16 games this month, and they have played all of them before.

Under such a schedule, the coaching staff did not arrange for the players to train. It was already in the middle of the season, and there were consecutive away games. The next day, when they arrived in a new city, the coaching staff asked the players to stay in the hotel to rest.

But the Eagles players spontaneously got together to discuss how to deal with the upcoming opponents after they arrived in the city where their new opponents were located the day before each away game.

Little Lolita, who was playing games on the TV in the bedroom, stretched out her head and glanced at the Eagles players who were having a lot of discussion, and sighed: "It's really tiring to be an adult, Dinah should be a cute girl..."

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Consecutive away games, one game the next day, the schedule is very tight.

This situation is not limited to the Eagles, it is basically the case with popular teams.

The stars of the Raptors are not popular individually, including Milicic, who was not very popular during the All-Star voting.

But when it comes to strength, Milicic is repeatedly regarded as the strongest among the four young centers, and many people even think that Milicic is stronger than Yao Ming.

It is true that Yao Ming's dominance at the basket is stronger, but as the core of the team, Milicic is almost recognized as the best inside core in the league.

Therefore, the Raptors are also considered a popular team, and the schedule in January is also very tight.

The Raptors have only lost 11 games so far, ranking second in the Eastern Conference and third in the league with 31 wins and 11 losses.

However, the Eagles took advantage of a small advantage. When the Eagles came to the Raptors, the Raptors were playing a game against the Bobcats in Charlotte. When they came back today, they were about to play the second back-to-back game against the Eagles at home.

In today's game, the starting lineup sent by the Eagles is still Rondo, Liu Mang, McGrady, Marion, Kwame Brown.

For the Raptors, the starting lineup of Ford, Joe Johnson, Richard Jefferson, Lewis, and Milicic debuted.

speed up!
It is the tactical core of the Eagles today!

No matter how much the Raptors try to suppress the rhythm and play positions, the Hawks will speed up.

At the beginning of the game, it was indeed the steady and steady Raptors who had the upper hand.

With Milicic as a big center, Lewis as a power forward, and Joe Johnson as the core of the outside offense, the Raptors play very well in positional warfare. The Raptors can rank second in the Eastern Conference and third in the league.

Because their defense is very fast, don’t look at Milicic’s whiteness, he weighs 120 kilograms and looks like a standing center, but his mobility is very good. It can be seen that he ranks first in the league with an average of 3.5 blocks per game.

The Eagles wanted to speed up the pace, and the opponent Liu Mang, McGrady, and Marion made a fast break as soon as the opponent shot, and in order to speed up the opponent's defense at the basket, the Eagles shot a lot of three-pointers, and the shooting percentage was not good. The Raptors scored 26 to 21 in three quarters.

The Eagles entered the second quarter trailing by 5 points in the first quarter.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Eagles were also lagging behind. Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Wade, Grant Hill, and Kwame Brown all ran and played, but they didn't get much benefit from the Raptors.

By the time of the official timeout of the second quarter, the Hawks were 34 points behind 44-10.

This official pause, though, is a turning point.

The Eagles deliberately speeded up, so the Raptors had to retreat quickly. Although the Raptors' players who could run suppressed the Eagles' fast break at first, but in the second half of the second quarter, the Raptors' physical problems began to become prominent.

If it was normal, the Raptors would not have physical problems so early, even if they kept running with the Eagles, like the last time they played against each other, the Raptors survived to the end and lost in an overtime with the Eagles.

However, it is now in the middle of the season, and the physical fitness of the teams has already been affected. The Raptors are back to back and have fallen into the trap of the Eagles' "physical tactics"!

第二节官方暂停刚回来，刘莽和布拉德-米勒各投进一个三分，1分钟内打出一波6比0，把比分从34比44追到了40比44.
Just one minute after the end of the official timeout, the Raptors were forced to call another timeout!
Milicic was in a low mood. In other words, when he played against Liu Mang, no matter how many points he was leading, he was terrified. This time, it was the same. When he was leading by 10 points, he saw that the opponent only scored 34 points in one and a half quarters and did not look depressed. He still felt unsteady.

Sure enough, after the timeout came back, the Eagles played a wave of 6-0!

This feeling of fear coming true made Milicic even more frustrated.

"How can I beat Ace? It's good to win even once! I don't want an opponent that can never be defeated!"

(End of this chapter)