From today on is the king

Chapter 1577 1576. Fear strikes!

After playing for a long time, I thought about a way to deal with the ferocity of the card-shark combination. It was not as effective as Liu Mang's two wild three-pointers, and immediately called the Suns to a timeout.

"All risks have entered."

Liu Mang pinched his thigh. It was really exciting to throw this kind of ball. If Jason Terry and McGrady couldn't make waves, then Liu Mang had to come.

But after entering, Liu Mang pinched his thigh to relieve the irritation, then blew with his gun finger, making the movement of retracting the gun, which caused another burst of cheers from the scene.

To sharpen the rhythm, you have to balance the strength of the opponent.

Originally relying on the card-shark combination with two pitchers and a power forward who can cut and pass, the Suns' second team can compete with the main lineup of most teams in the league, at least when O'Neal is physically strong. After all, O'Neal is still an All-Star at this stage, and many teams don't even have All-Star players for the season.

But Liu Mang seems to be going crazy, that's not what most teams' starting lineups can handle, even... no team can handle it!
The head coach of the Suns, Gentry, could only call a timeout, trying to interrupt Liu Mang's touch, and then had to change to a lineup with the same firepower, at least a lineup that could compete, that is, their running and bombing team.

If we really want to talk about stability, the card-shark combination is actually the most stable core lineup of the Suns. At critical moments, Calderon and Nash are often the double point guard combination. Nash has to play shooting guard as a spot-up shooter.

But compared to the explosive scoring ability, the bombardment is obviously more than a grade behind the Kasha combination.

Coach Kruger saw that the Suns called a timeout, and predicted that the opponent would make a substitution in all likelihood. He also made a substitution. Gasol, who played nearly half of the game, was replaced. Jason Terry and Tracy McGrady were also replaced, and replaced with a lineup of Rondo, Liu Mang, Grant Hill, Marion, and O'Neal.

Back from the timeout, the Suns really brought back Nash and Diaw, along with Calderon, Raja Bell, and Josh Smith.

The Suns sent three outside lines with a three-point shooting rate of more than 40.00% and an average of more than 1.5 three-pointers per game. Coupled with Diaw and Josh Smith, two inside lines who can pass and advance, the purpose is obvious.

The strongest pitching lineup challenged the surging Liu Mang!

Liu Mang felt that the Suns really valued him, this luxurious treatment...

The Suns played the ball in the frontcourt. After Nash received the ball, he played an outside pick-and-roll with Josh Smith. There was no way. In order to block the pick-and-roll between the two and defend Diaw under the basket, Grant Hill had to let go of Raja Bell to pinch Nash who was holding the ball.

Nash distributed the ball to Raja Bell, and Raja Bell made a decisive three-pointer from the bottom corner...

The match played well, but it didn't make it!
O'Neal's state was declining, and he was almost grabbed by Dior, an opponent who was hit by 8 centimeters. At least he slapped the ball out. Liu Mang grabbed the ball over Josh Smith's head. After landing, he swung the ball behind him and avoided Josh Smith's steal.

Raja Bell waited beyond the three-point line, waiting for Liu Mang to pass.

Suddenly, Liu Mang accelerated!

Liu Mang rushed a step in front of Raja-Bell and jumped with both feet. Raja-Bell quickly jumped up like an electric shock, but seeing that Liu Mang didn't pick up the ball, he immediately knew that he had hit the trick, and quickly reached out to grab Liu Mang.

But at this time, Liu Mang made a sharp 360-degree turn to the left. Raja Bell, who was unable to move his body in the air, could only watch Liu Mang turn around and rush in from the right side of the top arc.

Liu Mang rushed into the inside line quickly and jumped towards Dior. Dior couldn't stop him, so he could only stretch his arms to interfere as much as possible. At this time, Josh Smith threw himself in. Liu Mang switched the ball to his left hand to pull the bar, which was the same as the last time Josh Smith pulled the bar.

Moreover, Liu Mang's hands are better than Josh Smith's hands. The thrown ball spins and hits the basket and rolls into the frame!

The three are separated and everything is open!
As long as he is not stuck to death by Raja Bell, a clingy guy, Liu Mang has countless ways to put the ball into the basket!
48 to 41, the point difference came to 7 points!

Liu Mang's personal score has increased to 23 points!

12 of 7 shots, 5 of which were three-pointers!
It's only halftime!

With Liu Mang's performance like this, even though the Suns are determined to stick to running and bombing to prevent the point difference from getting bigger, they are ready to rush to win the first game fearlessly.

But... Liu Mang has already scored 23 points in one and a half quarters!

If the Suns continue to stick to their style of play, the Eagles may not have a good chance to continue to expand the point difference.

But... the players on the Suns field began to waver!If this continues... the scoring record in a single game of the finals will be refreshed!
The wavering mentality caused the Suns offense to have a little problem. Josh Smith's cut-in layup was missed!The ball flew in from under the basket, and the Suns made an offensive violation!

Seeing Rondo advance to the frontcourt and pass the ball to Liu Wei, the Suns started to get scared. Raja Bell clung to Liu Wei desperately, not allowing Liu Wei any space to take off on the outside, and would rather give Liu Wei a breakthrough.

If Marion goes out to create shooting space for Liu Mang in the pick-and-roll, they would rather let Marion go to pinch Liu Mang.

Liu Mang could see the defensive tendencies of the Suns at a glance. Except for Raja Bell and Josh Smith, the rest of their lineup has too little defensive awareness and obvious moves. Moreover, Josh Smith and Calderon both tend to shrink the basket and pinch the mid-range...

Liu Mang, who scored 8 points in a row to overtake the point difference by 7 points just now, made the Suns players think of the picture of the Bulls, the Bulls with the highest defensive efficiency in history, in the second round of last year's playoffs and couldn't take care of themselves!
What else can Liu Mang do, break through resolutely!
Sure enough, he was double-teamed by Calderon at the middle distance. Liu Mang was not in a hurry to pass the ball. He was prepared to grab the ball and take a step to the left when Calderon came up to defend, then changed direction and jumped towards the basket!

Sure enough, except for Dior, who was holding O'Neal on the left side of the three-second zone, Josh Smith and Raja Bell, who was rushing from behind, all attacked him!
Liu Mang threw the ball to the right side of the basket in the air, Rondo cut in from the right, received the ball and took off to put the basket with one hand...

Go in!It also caused a foul by Calderon who rushed forward!

Two three-pointers, a breakthrough layup and a breakthrough goal, Liu Mang helped the Eagles play a wave of 10 to 0, and there was a not-so-reliable penalty!
The anxious situation was broken by Liu Mang's unreasonable attack, and the balance of victory was tilted towards the Eagles!

(End of this chapter)