From today on is the king

Chapter 158. 157. Eagle "Three Young Masters"

After Christmas, the NBA officially enters the middle of the season.

From the Christmas game until the start of the All-Star weekend, it is the most difficult period for all teams.

Physical fitness, war-weary emotions, and a long schedule will all have a huge impact on each team.

Often this period of time is also a period of high incidence of injuries.

But at the same time, this period of time is the time for the strong and weak teams to widen the gap. The real strong team can rely on their overall strength to survive this tough schedule and not collapse!

All teams understand this truth, but not many can do it!

The Eagles are now firmly in fourth place, and the fifth-ranked Magic is good, but they can only win by relying on McGrady's superb performance. This way of winning is unreliable. Even if McGrady has indeed become a superstar this year, the Magic can maintain No.5. No problem, but it is really difficult to go further.

So the Eagles are in a position to sit around and look around.

Hold on, hold on to the fourth place. In the mid-season, which is both difficult and also an opportunity, the coaching staff expects the players that if the Pistons can't hold on, they will take advantage of the situation!

Second in the East!This goal makes the Eagles players full of motivation.

They all wanted to do better, and after four days of rest, the Eagles, who had suffered two consecutive defeats and humiliation, embarked on the journey again.

The first bad luck to encounter them is the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers are bad, but they are not completely bad. They are third from the bottom in the Eastern Conference. They have a heart that wants to be bad, but their skills are not as good as the Heat and Bulls.

Seeing that they were pitiful, the Eagles decisively helped them.

On December 12, the Eagles played their first game after Christmas, and the Cleveland Cavaliers were at home.

A few days ago, they were abused back-to-back by the Pacers and the Pistons. The Eagles were very unhappy, but they couldn't even take revenge for a while.

You have to find a team to vent!

Coincidentally, the Cavaliers are here.

After the start of the game, Raheem, who had been miserably hated by O'Neal and Ben Wallace in two consecutive games before, went on the field and turned on the rampage mode.

Who are we to provoke!
Raheem went crazy and played, Jason Terry came again, all kinds of wild shots, but Jason Terry is still practicing three-pointers these days,...

After the first quarter, when Raheem and Jason Terry were replaced for a rest, the Cavaliers felt that they could probably play well, and Liu Mang came...

The last time the Eagles went to Cleveland to play, Liu Mang performed well, but not very well. At that time, Liu Mang only had one way, making fouls, making all kinds of fouls, and only scored more than ten points.

The idea of ​​the Cavaliers players is that you just draw fouls, draw whatever you want, as long as you don't get violent like Jason Terry and Raheem.

However, Liu Mang's progress is beyond the imagination of Cavaliers players.

When Liu Mang repeatedly pretended to be strong and took a step back, then appeared in a strange posture and scored three three-pointers in the second quarter, the players of the Cavaliers collapsed...

Give me the ball and I'm going home!This is the voice of the Cavaliers players...

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112 to 87, the Eagles slaughtered the Cavaliers in the first game after Christmas to end their two-game losing streak!

刘莽13投8中，三分8中5，罚球6中4，第二节和第三节加起来砍下25分！效率炸天！

Raheem played in the first quarter, scoring 20 points in a single quarter. Jason Terry played in the first and third quarters, took 20 crazy shots, and scored 20 points on 12 of 28 shots.

Liu Mang, Jason Terry and Raheem combined for 73 points!
Gradually, due to the team structure of the Eagles, which consisted of a guard, a powerful small forward, and a backup scorer, the team basically relied on these three people for scoring. Slowly, in Atlanta, the three got a nickname of "debuting in a group"-the Eagles Three!

When Liu Mang heard this nickname, it hurt so much, what does this indicate?
This nickname is not very good!

Also, Liu Mang feels that he and Jason Terry are called "young", and he reluctantly accepts it. He is a rookie, and Jason Terry is only 3 years old, but Raheem has played in his sixth season and is 25 years old...

25 years old?
Liu Mang thought about it, it seems that he is not too old, the future triple-double king will be over 30, isn't he still called "young"...

It's enough, at least there is a nickname, isn't it...

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Playing against the Cavaliers was so irritable. In addition to venting the anger that had accumulated for four days, there was also the fact that he was leaving Atlanta for an away game the next day, and Texas had two consecutive away games.

Two opponents, the stronger one is the opponent on the first day of the new year in 2002, the San Antonio Spurs.

But for Liu Mang, the more important opponent is the first one, an away game against the Houston Rockets on December 12!

After so long, Liu Mang almost forgot about this matter, but when he saw the schedule and the familiar red team logo, Liu Mang immediately remembered it.

The first opponent when coming to this world!
The first first-class star to play against, Steve Francis!

Boss F!

This man with a bold personality, but too stubborn, finally ended hastily in the NBA.

For Francis, Liu Mang has a generally good impression. He helped Dayao fight back against opponents who bullied Dayao. In the third game of the first round of the 04 playoffs against the Lakers, he scored four consecutive three-pointers at critical moments and scored the first and only victory in his career.

After that, Francis was traded to the Magic, and he lost his temper. Afterwards, he suffered constant injuries and retired after playing seven or eight seasons.

But now Francis is really popular!
The eye-catching, unprecedented combo guard style of play, single-handed scoring and organization activated the scoring ability of the old cat Cardinal Mobley. In addition to the poor shot selection, it can be said that this year Francis has indeed perfectly interpreted the name of combo guard, which does not yet exist.

It's just that the Rockets are really poor inside. Let's put it this way, when a team's rebounding leader is a point guard, you know that the team is 100% off the mark.

The last point guard who was the team's rebounding leader was Oscar Robertson, a top ten player in history. In those years when he won the rebounding leader, the Kings he led did not pass the first round. On the contrary, it was the lowest rebounding years of his career. The playoffs were so strong that he successfully won the championship.

It is worth mentioning that he went to the Bucks in those years and partnered with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Even if Magic Johnson rebounds so well, he is not the team's rebounding leader. It is still worth mentioning that Magic has never left Kareem Abdul-Jabbar since winning the championship.

The scariest thing is coming, Okas Robertson is a star in the 60s, and Magic is a star in the 80s...

No matter whether there is a task or not, Liu Mang is very excited to fight against Boss Fu!
The first time he played against Boss Fu, Liu Mang hadn't fully realized what happened, so he just finished the game in a daze, and spent a precious top star card.

Now Liu Mang knows how precious the top-level star card is. The first star card made him feel the three-pointer feeling of a historical-level pitcher. With a foothold, the second star card gave him a new understanding of the already powerful counterattack.

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When he arrived in Houston, Liu Mang felt like he had come to a modern city from the "sub-modern" "old city" Atlanta!
It's not that Atlanta is dilapidated, but that it's a problem in this era. Basically, there is nothing that can be regarded as high-tech by Liu Mang in Atlanta.

But it is different in Houston. Although it is true that it is still many years behind the modernization in Liu Mang's mind...but at least it can breathe the smog!

It’s not a particularly exaggerated kind, it’s the kind of feeling that looks like the fog has not completely dissipated from a distance, but you are sure that there is no possibility of fog in this weather.

This is the familiar modern city!

But there is something strange about Liu Mang coming to Houston.

Generally speaking, when he goes to a city where he has conflicts with the opponent's star this year, not to mention being "picked up" and ridiculed by the opponent's fans at the airport, he will at least see some game promotions, such as ridicule, but Houston does not!

　Huh... It seems that I can’t hold on today. I’m typing, chatting, and drinking some wine. I’m already a little drunk. There’s only one chapter left to add an update. Tomorrow will be the third update.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)