From today on is the king

Chapter 301. 299. Fighting as Defense
15 to 11, the Knicks have led the Hawks by 4 points.

And they still have the ball!
This boosted the morale of the Knicks players, and this is a good opportunity to open the point difference to more than 5 points in one fell swoop!
The position of the violation is on the center line, and the Knicks make free throws in the midfield.

Mark Jackson pushed beyond the three-point line after receiving the serve, Liu Mang defended him, and Mark Jackson tried to change direction to break through, but Liu Mang directly stuck to it, oppressing Mark Jackson's dribble.

It's very different from Dean Grove's mediocre defense before!
However, Mark Jackson's passing sense and ability are too good. Liu Mang posted it here to defend, on the one hand to interfere with the opponent's dribbling, and on the other hand to block the opponent's line of sight after posting it with the suppression of his height.

However, Mark Jackson made a beautiful lob, throwing off Demar Johnson and rushing to the basket. The madman received the ball and scored two points for a layup.

17 to 11, the Knicks lead the Hawks by 6 points, and the Hawks can only call a timeout again.

It took just over a minute after the fight!
Coach Kruger originally thought that Chris Crawford might not be able to keep up with Sprewell when he went up. He thought that DeMar Johnson was in good physical condition, but he didn't expect this guy to go up for a walk!
After playing for 1 minute, he was replaced. Seeing this teammate with such good physical fitness playing like this, Liu Mang probably lost his career.

The Eagles led by 6 points at the beginning, and now they are overtaken by 6 points. The madman suddenly broke out unexpectedly, and indeed no one can prevent it!

When Raheem was defending him, he made sudden kills, shot jumpers when he met the short Jason Terry, and cut air when he met DeMar Johnson. He has excellent skills and excellent ball intelligence.

The Eagles really can't deal with this old madman now!
Coach Kruger can only emphasize speeding up, not giving the Knicks, who are dominated by veterans, time to fall into the position as before and have time for singles and air cuts.

Before the timeout ended, Liu Mang called Jason Terry, Chris Crawford, Newbell, and Muhammad who were about to play together, and discussed a few words. His teammates were taken aback, and firmly stated that it would be like this!
The Eagles attacked, and Liu Mang quickly advanced to the frontcourt and handed it over to Jason Terry. Jason Terry forced Alan Houston, hit a mid-range emergency stop jumper, and recovered two points.

The ball returned to the Knicks, Mark Jackson advanced and found that the Eagles had switched defenses!

Crick Crawford rushed towards Mark Jackson fiercely. Chris Crawford was directly against Mark Jackson's chest, and he almost swung his arm to hit someone!
Although Mark Jackson is considered strong, he is much stronger than Liu Mang, otherwise it would not be possible for him to be oppressed by Liu Mang in the last round and still be able to spot the madman's air cut and send a wonderful pass.

But compared with Chris Crawford, a male striker with more than two meters of physical fitness, the difference in strength between the two is not 01:30. Mark Jackson quickly withdrew, and Sprewell ran out of the three-point line to respond.

The Knicks' ball-handling point became Sprewell.

With this delay, the Knicks had only 9 seconds left on their attack!

Sprewell immediately launched an attack, looking at the thin rookie point guard in front of him, Sprewell made a disdainful change of direction, regardless of whether he was out of space, anyway, even if he didn't get rid of the opponent, he was confident that he could directly use his body to go in and shoot, and maybe even cause fouls!

How could Liu Mang not be clear about the thoughts of the version of Nezha who jumped off the building in front of him, but he was not afraid, and pushed towards Sprewell, and he really couldn't stop it!
But Liu Mang worked hard to stabilize his core strength, and retreated with Sprewell, who was killing inside, and kept in front of Sprewell, without giving the opponent a chance to directly attack the basket!

Protruding to the edge of the three-second zone, Sprewell didn't care about anything else, he forced it!

Liu Mang judged the opponent's trick when Sprewell bent his knees, but even if Sprewell was 32 years old, his explosive power was still beyond him. So Liu Mang put his hand on Sprewell's waist at the right time when Sprewell bent his knees to take off explosively.

"hiss……"

Sprewell raised his elbow subconsciously to avoid the person pinching his waist, and the flesh on his waist was too sensitive to be pinched too painful!I can't control it at all!

This direct pushing action is like getting angry after being unable to get rid of the defense. It is different from the fierce confrontation. It is an absolute foul. The referee whistles, and the Knicks make an offensive foul!
Cang Le God!

After seven or eight consecutive rounds, the Eagles finally prevented the Knicks' offense again!

"NO! NO! NO! Referee, that guy hit me in the stomach! He, he, he..." Sprewell became anxious and couldn't speak. When his head was in a hurry, he didn't know how to describe the specific process. Otherwise, he would not have been accused by the head coach of playing wrongly during training, and he would not refute the incident of directly locking the head coach when he was angry.

The referee ignored the words of the madman. First, the label of Sprewell as a madman was too impressive. He was a person who would lose his mind when things went wrong. Sometimes the referee whistled and punished.

This is the way Liu Mang practiced to pinch himself when he saw the department manager making a joke when he was at work before, but he was afraid of being put on small shoes, and others couldn't see it.

Stretch each finger, put the palms down, press the palms on the stomach and pinch yourself with the second joint of the index finger and the joint of the thumb. It looks like you are touching your stomach, but it hurts more than pinching with your fingertips!

Sprewell is so aggrieved, let alone being called a foul for doing bad things, he obviously didn't do anything!
When the Eagles played backcourt, Liu Mang pushed forward and saw Sprewell with murderous eyes.

Brother Lockthroat, what are you doing?

Liu Mang gave the ball to Jason Terry, but he didn't hit a counterattack. It's still Jason Terry's singles time. After the All-Star Weekend, Jason Terry averaged 26 points per game. Except for the game against the Heat, Jason Terry's singles efficiency is very good at other times.

Jason Terry's singles here, Alan Houston is really unstoppable!Mark Jackson looked at Chris Crawford, who was defending him, and decisively went to double-team.

At this time, an embarrassing point for the Eagles came!
The Knicks' Harrington and Kurt Thomas are both inside the basket, and they are both dirty hands. The basket is extremely confrontational. Neither Newbell nor Muhammad has much shooting ability, so they can only block the basket. Most of his COSCO shots are catches when the time is running out. What he is good at is holding the ball like holding a dynamite bag and gouging under the basket. He is a good counter-attack dunk.

Mark Jackson is very experienced. Seeing that Chris Crawford couldn't get in the ball after receiving the ball, and he was at a loss when he made a mid-range shot, he decisively double-teamed Jason Terry without the ball with Alan Houston.

Chris Crawford saw that the pass back to Jason Terry couldn't pass back, so give it to the rookie boss!
When playing a game, those who cooperate basically look at the ball, and may ignore the side without the ball, such as now.

Chris Crawford turned his head and looked, good guy!Are you going to fight?
For Liu Mang and Madman, the physical confrontation between the two is like wrestling!
Relying on his height, Sprewell put his left hand around Liu Mang's right shoulder, and hugged Liu Mang not to give Liu Mang a chance to catch the ball. Liu Mang was not to be outdone, and pushed his opponent away with an elbow. Liu Mang's explosive elbow was getting stronger and stronger. Of course, Sprewell was not happy, and immediately stuck back and pulled Liu Mang with a bigger movement.

Liu Mang saw Chris Crawford receiving the ball. Seeing that the 24-second attack time was about to come, Liu Mang pulled Sprewell away in desperation. Sprewell quit and pushed Liu Mang back.

Now Liu Mang is completely angry, just when the 24-second attack time is up, the Eagles violated the law by attacking like this...

"You like to push people so much? Go to work at the subway station. Your strength can save the subway company from hiring several employees! Maybe one day you will lose your job in the NBA, and you can still support your family." Liu Mang was not at all afraid of the fierce-looking Sprewell, and went up to start a personal attack.

It's just that other people don't understand the stalk Liu Mang is talking about now, thinking that Liu Mang is simply scolding Sprewell.

"Rookie, this is the NBA, I can't stand even this kind of confrontation, you'd better go back to college and play, good boy." Sprewell retorted.

Sprewell felt that this trash talk was very useful, the standard American self-confidence.

But Liu Mang's answer was: "Thank you, you are the first person to call me a good baby."

Referee Steve Jarvie and the assistant coach came over immediately to separate the two.

Either there is no confrontation, or a direct fight?
Steve Javi didn't expect that his idea of ​​improving the confrontation between the two teams seems to be a bit over the top?
Liu Mang is ready for a technical foul, maybe it's a technical foul from both sides?
Then Liu Mang had some ideas, if he had to exchange Sprewell himself, the chances of his side winning would be much higher, right?
However, Liu Mang underestimated the referee of today's game a little bit.

Javi, who does things.

This is Steve Jarvie's nickname in refereeing circles. The games he calls are always full of gunpowder. It is worth mentioning that in the late 80s, he called many games of the Pistons, and the calls were extremely loose!

The referee didn't give a technical foul, not even a foul, because Liu Mang had already committed a foul, and the referee had to consider the enjoyment of the game, so he didn't call Liu Mang a foul, and Sprewell also committed a foul, so the two pushed and shoved for a long time, nothing happened.

The referee signaled the game to continue!It's the Knicks offense again.

Mark Jackson pushed forward, and Sprewell received Mark Jackson's pass. Liu Mang's side was too difficult. Although Sprewell was crazy and irritable, he was not stupid!This rookie has too many tricks, no wonder the team boss who is very difficult to get angry is so angry.

In fact, the more conflict there is, the more the players on both sides want to restrain their emotions, but human beings are not machines. Press a button to say if you are not angry or impulsive, you will not be impulsive.

But a little bit of restraint is still possible. Sprewell didn't continue to fight hard and chose to pick and roll!

Kurt Thomas, a player who entered the NBA in 2013, who could still play as a starter until 95 because of his defensive tricks like a tentacle monster, came up to cover Sprewell.

Using Kurt Thomas' pick-and-roll to enter the interior, Liu Mang bypassed Kurt Thomas to chase Sprewell. Newbell hesitated to double-team Sprewell, because Kurt Thomas is one of the representative mid-range shooters. Newbell hesitated for a while and didn't go to the defense. Before Liu Mang returned to the defensive position, Sprewell hit a mid-range jumper on the right side of the free throw line.

19 is better than 13!

So far in the first quarter, Sprewell has scored 14 points, and the score of the two sides has become 19 to 13. Sprewell alone has scored one more point than the entire Eagles team!
Sprewell today seems to be dreaming back to his second grade 8 years ago. Before the chokehold incident, he was once regarded as Jordan's successor after his first retirement. In his second grade, he could be selected for the first team and the second defense.

But the smell of gunpowder on the field is getting stronger and stronger!It’s hard to say whether the referee’s “inaction” call has strengthened the confrontation and defense between the two teams. The Eagles do not have Ratliff, and their defensive system is disabled. On the Knicks’ side, their head coach changed from Jeff Van Gundy to former Rockets head coach and former Pistons head coach Don Cheney.

Don Cheney is not only a coach, but also a former NBA player. The most worthwhile thing in his life is probably not that he won the best coach, because he won the best coach in the second year, failed to make the playoffs and was fired in the third year.

The thing he is most worthy of showing off is probably winning the championship with Russell in the 60s. In the last season before his retirement in the 79-80 season, rookie Bird picked up the ball for him.

The game is still going on, and there is no fierce defensive confrontation as the referee imagined. There are confrontations, but they are all small explosive actions similar to conflicts!
(End of this chapter)