From today on is the king

Chapter 1554. Chapter 1553. The Bulls who want to play the main force

Good news one after another!

The media began to add fuel to the flames, advocating that Liu Mang won the season's sixth best of the month in April, and the number of best of the week broke the historical record.

Garnett only got two blocks, temporarily interrupting the competition with Liu Mang...

Judging from the current small goals, Liu Mang attaches great importance to competing with Garnett for the block list, and playing back-to-back home games against the Bulls on the 12th and 13th.

But this season started in December, and Liu Mang has a big goal for the season... a super record that only two people have accomplished in NBA history, and now it is getting closer and closer!

Originally in April, the last month of the regular season, Liu Mang wasn't sure if he could get the best of the month. If it wasn't for the 4 blocks per game in 4 games in the first week, Liu Mang would definitely not get the best of the week in the Eastern Conference.

The Raptors originally finished their games in March, and the hope of 3 wins was a bit slim, but they won all 60 games in the first five games in April, from 4 wins to 5 wins, and 52 wins are in sight. The contemporary Jordan Joe Johnson averaged 57 points in 60 games in 7 days, 5+ three times in 37.4 games, and all games were above 5 points.

But Liu Mang's stats of 28+10+5+6 this week are astonishing. Even Joe Johnson's performance was taken away by Liu Mang for the best of the week.

This makes the goal that Liu Mang wants to achieve seem to be a step further.

After playing two games against the 76ers, the Eagles have 5 games left. On the 8th, they had a day off. On the 9th, they ushered in the last match against the Pacers this season.

122 to 106, the Eagles defeated the Pacers without bloodshed at home. The Eagles' defense in this game was quite poor, and they were scolded by Coach Kruger after the game.

However, the pace is fast and the Pacers players have many opportunities to cut inside. Liu Mang turned into a jumper and got 6 blocks!
Although the real defensive effect is not as good as Liu Wei's usual two to three blocks per game, the Pacers coaching staff doesn't want to win, but the players want to fight if they have the opportunity, and the Eagles' offense is also worthwhile. The Pacers, the team that has re-"climbed" to the bottom of the Eastern Conference, won easily.

33分8板9助攻6盖帽2抢断！刘莽继续保持着4月份的爆炸数据！
After defeating the Pacers, the Eagles' record has improved to 66 wins and 12 losses. There are still four games left in the regular season.

The next home game against the Bulls on the 12th and 13th is time to verify the strength of the team.

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"Lian Zhu's four characteristic missions, the first one related to Milicic has been completed. The "Prisoner" characteristic mission of Wrath of the Wind Chaser is still going on, and the feud related to Garnett is now at a critical moment; the special mission of Dynasty Restoration has not yet started; and this one related to the Spurs system..."

Sitting on the plane to Chicago, Liu Mang was studying Lian Zhu's four characteristic missions.

After defeating the Pacers on the 9th, Liu Mang took a day off in Atlanta on the 10th. On the 11th, he went to Chicago with the team. The next 12th and 13th are the key back-to-backs that are regarded as the preview of the Eastern Conference Finals.

However, now that Liu Mang averaged 2.91 blocks per game, he has already firmly surpassed Garnett's average of 2.85 blocks per game. He has taken the lead, and then he just needs to keep it, and then win at least one game in the two Bulls games.

However, the last three features seem to be progress and opening time... there is something wrong!
"It doesn't mean that the task that comes out first must be completed first?"

Liu Mang discovered a problem, that is, the characteristic of the second characteristic task of "Prisoner Killing" is too powerful!
"Prison and Kill: It has an excellent restraint effect for teams with a high concentration of ball possession and attacks around the core of the ball."

Although I don't know the specific effect because I haven't got this skill yet, but it looks very powerful from the description.

Entering the era of point guards in the future, almost half of the teams will attack around the core of the ball, and the tendency will become more and more serious in the future, and there will be more and more tall point guards with good athletic ability... Then as time goes by, this characteristic is simply against the sky!

In this way, Liu Mang feels that this task is not that simple. The completion of Garnett's "grievance" task here will definitely not be the end, because Garnett is not the core of leading the offense with the ball, and now he plays smarter when he is older.

Liu Mang had a premonition that the dynasty might be restored, and the "Prisoner Killing" hadn't been obtained yet, and it might even be the same as the "Spurs system" that was defeated at its peak, and it would not be completed until the end!
However, there are some things that can’t be rushed, so Liu Mang didn’t think about it after a while, and took out his laptop to watch the Bulls game video.

The game in the regular season is difficult to say, the preparation time is too short, especially in the middle and late seasons, the Eagles only have one or two days of preparation time to face each opponent, sometimes even one day or even none, so many strong teams will be upset.

The Bulls are already strong. This season, they averaged 99.3 points per game and 91.6 points allowed per game. Although they did not have the historical top defensive efficiency of last season, their defensive efficiency still ranks first in the league. The offense also has Reed, a guard with excellent offensive ability, who is quite a troublesome opponent.

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Time passed quickly, and I came to Chicago to rest for a night. On April 4, the game between the Eagles and the Bulls started.

The Eagles will play all the main players in this away game!

The second round of last year's playoffs was a bit weird. Both teams played better away games, and this time it seems to be the same.

And Garnett face brush block...

This Liu Mang really doesn't know how to do it. The Bulls are probably the team that least wants him to get blocks. Garnett's actions in the past few games are his teammates who support him the most.

In terms of height, it's much easier for Garnett to block shots than Liu Mang. If you don't consider the role of the defensive end, it will be much easier to block shots, just like DeAndre Jordan averaged 2.5 blocks per game in his peak season.

Therefore, Liu Mang did the opposite, everyone, don't block it!
Whoever Garnett is guarding, Liu Mang will play a pick-and-roll with that teammate, let Garnett switch to him, and then pass the ball out to contain Garnett.

On the defensive end, Liu Mang defended well and defended normally.

At this time, Liu Mang didn't go to block shots anymore, and playing the Bulls back to back was the best opportunity to test the strength of the team.

But... the normal style of play, when Liu Mang played against the Bulls, he didn't deliberately block shots, and there were quite a lot of them!

With Reed, who is an excellent scorer in three-pointers and mid-range shots, and Hinrich, who is also a good three-pointer, the Bulls' two outside lines opened up space, and the Eagles guarded them strictly.

As a result, Liu Mang's blocked shots increased, and they were blocks with normal defensive effects!

The Bulls fans at the scene had been scolding with the Eagles fans on the Internet, calling Liu Mang a brush for blocking shots, and blocking shots looks good.

But... When the Bulls fans saw Liu Mang slapping the Bulls frontcourt players' cutting dunks or layups again and again under the basket, they realized that it seemed to be different from what they imagined!
Naturally, Bulls fans would not like to watch the Eagles game. It is hard to describe their hatred for the Eagles, and their subjective consciousness is very strong. Someone suggested that Liu Mang was blocking shots, so they thought Liu Mang was blocking shots all season.

It is only now that I think about it, before entering April, Liu Mang had already averaged 2.7 blocks per game and did not lose to Garnett.

Liu Mang scored 19 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 blocks!

Garnett had 12 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 blocks.

In the first back-to-back game against the Bulls, Liu Mang blocked more shots than Garnett!

Liu Mang led the starting lineup, Wade led the rotation lineup, of course, the center rotation of Kwame Brown and Jermaine O'Neal, and the power forward rotation of Marion and Grant Hill.

92 to 85, the Eagles took the lead in back-to-back away games and defeated the Bulls by 7 points!

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It is currently 3 to 0!Liu Mang won the first two games against the Bulls. In terms of blocks, Liu Mang's average of 2.91 blocks per game is temporarily ahead of Garnett's 2.84 blocks, and the advantage is huge!

But Liu Mang didn't have time to be happy, so he went back to the hotel to sleep quickly after the Bulls game. Early the next morning, Liu Mang went back to Atlanta with the team and caught up on a few hours of sleep. At noon, he had something to eat and went to the arena to prepare for the back-to-back game in the evening.

Winning the game last night was actually not easy. The Bulls' defense was great. With Wade on the Eagles side, they could continue to defend when they rotated the lineup. They relied on the outside defense to have a lot of strong players, and the inside center position could help Liu Mang block the inside line and let Liu Mang play a defensive threat. Only then did he maintain a single-digit lead to the end.

Public opinion is also a very important aspect. It may be that the local fans in Chicago said that Liu Mang said too much about "blocking shots", and their players really believed it.

He is the real defender's historical block king!The [-] meter big Z's basket was blown away.

At [-]:[-] p.m., the second game of back-to-back games between the Hawks and the Bulls began.

In tonight's game, the Eagles still let Wade, Marion, and McGrady rest in rotation. Marion and McGrady have done too much dirty work and need to rest. The playoffs are about to begin. Last night's game has verified how strong the team's defensive end is based on the rotation of the inside. Back-to-back does not need to be verified.

It's not a suspended season, and there are no back-to-back playoffs.

On the Bulls side, coach Thibodeau is simply a god. Four of their five starters averaged at least 40 minutes per game, and they still played back to back with all their main players!
Even the Eagles didn't expect this. The Bulls' fourth place in the Eastern Conference is basically stable, but they still won't let the starters who have been fighting for the whole season take a break when they arrive back-to-back!
Want to use up the main force?

Even Liu Mang felt incredible about Thibodeau's playing arrangement. Liu Mang thought that the reason why Derek Rose suffered a serious injury for the first time was that Thibodeau still let the exhausted Rose continue to play during the garbage time. The Bulls led by more than ten points at the end of the game, and ended up crippling Rose.

Liu Mang remembered that Thibodeau didn't stop even if Ross was played badly. Later, he used the same usage to Luol Deng, Noah, and Jimmy Butler.

After Liu Mang drew 18 with the Bulls in the first quarter, he saw that the Bulls continued to send four starters in the second quarter, but the center was replaced...

Liu Mang has only one thought now: "Jimmy must not be allowed to play under Thibodeau!"

(End of this chapter)