From today on is the king

Chapter 500 498. Let's Play Well!
Liu Mang and Arenas didn't have much contact, the only time they met was in the All-Star rookie game a week ago.

In fact, Liu Mang helped Arenas. In a game that should not have any tactical discipline, most of the sophomores who were still playing on bad teams, didn’t know what a team is, and didn’t know what a defensive system is. Kirilenko, for example, when he joined the Jazz, the Jazz had already declined. Instead, the sophomore team in the rookie game made him feel the feeling of playing with a group of talented defensive champions. After returning to the Jazz, he played even better.

This gave Arenas more urges to become a strong team player, and the feeling of playing with a group of good teammates fascinated Arenas.

Therefore, compared to the fact that Arenas directly announced that he was the No.02 of the younger generation after he played the best performance among the new generation of guards in the 03-1 season, this time Arenas is relatively low-key, saying that his goal is to become the best player among the younger generation.

The main reason is to be afraid of Liu Mang.

But sometimes the most annoying thing is the media. They keep asking questions, and successfully put two young players who have nothing to do with each other to the opposite side.

It seemed that the questions asked by the media were very reserved, but Liu Mang obviously felt that they wanted to praise Arenas, and they used their own mouths to dig out some words that praised Arenas as the best.

Liu Mang is not timid. It seems that the media wants to promote the duel between the two to compete for the No.1 of the new generation. If this is the case, let's speak with strength!
Liu Mang also wants to secure his No.1 position in the new generation first, just like James in his rookie period in the future, he quickly established his No.1 position in the younger generation in the first two years, and then moved towards No.1 in the league.

Liu Mang is still under a lot of pressure now, followed by Arenas at the same time, and James will join the NBA after playing this year, as well as outsiders such as Wade, Anthony, and Hinrich who will soon enter the NBA. In two years, there will be Paul, Deron and so on. Everyone's age is not much different, and they will definitely be discussed together.

Liu Mang knows how powerful the group of people entering the NBA will be in the future, and the pressure to compete with them is not small. Therefore, at this stage, besides helping the team reach the playoffs and pass Kidd, Liu Mang has another very important thing to do, which is to secure the No.21 rookie in the first three draft years of the 1st century this year!
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The Oracle Arena is very lively, and there are many Eagles' red and dark blue away jerseys.

Many Chinese fans came to the scene to watch the game.

The best-selling jerseys of the Eagles are the red and blue jerseys, and the red and gold jerseys worn during the Christmas game are also very popular among fans, mainly Chinese fans and Chinese fans.

This gave the Eagles a lot of inspiration. It is said that they have begun to develop new jerseys that cater to Chinese fans' colors, and have begun to conduct research in China to see which colors domestic fans prefer.

Players from both sides entered the stadium, and the cheers received by the Eagles were actually on par with the Warriors.

When Jason Treme sat on the bench happily and Liu Mang took off his training uniform to play, the away fans cheered louder than the home fans!
"Liu Mang, 77 abilities, 83 three-pointers, 81 mid-range shots, 85 layups, 92 speed, 79 strength..."

"Pretend I'm a substitute trigger, with 80 abilities, 88 three-pointers, 83 mid-range shots, 88 layups, 94 speed, and 79 strength..."

After passing the last game, Liu Mang's ability value bonus has reached the ceiling. With the ability to play low backs, the evaluation of not triggering the bench gangsters has directly increased by two points, because this is another new ability developed.

Fortunately, Liu Mang's defensive ability will not be included in the evaluation of the ability value. The defensive ability of the system evaluation is evaluated based on the defensive ability that other people can show now. Even if Liu Mang's defensive evaluation is 100, he will not want to defend.

However, as Liu Mang's strength improves, the day when he breaks through 80 ability points will come sooner or later, and one day he will break through 80 ability points. At that time, there will be no bonus of this bench bandit, so Liu Mang needs to get talent skills even more urgently.

Liu Mang looked at the Warriors players who were silently warming up in the other half, full of fighting spirit!
Warriors side, Arenas, Jason - Richardson, Antawn - Jamison, Troy - Murphy, Eric - Dampier.

If this lineup plays together all the time, it will be amazing!

But it seems like they all ran away.

The Warriors players are very aggrieved now, nearly half of the audience are Eagles fans!
Because Liu Mang chose to "provoke" and "challenge" Arenas during the interview before the game, the scalpers made a lot of money. A large number of tickets stored by the scalpers were bought by Eagles fans, mainly Liu Mang's fans. Even many Warriors fans saw someone buying tickets at a high price, and they all sold their tickets. After all, the sense of belonging of Warriors fans is low enough.

Arenas, ability value 80, offense 87, defense 65, three-pointer 82, mid-range shooting 85, layup 84, speed 92, strength 80...

Liu Mang took a look at Arenas' ability value, and it has already exceeded 80!
There is also Antawn Jamison's ability value of 85. These two talents are the best and the strongest. The Warriors didn't retain any of them this summer?It seems that Jamison was traded away by themselves. With this operation, Liu Mang feels that the current management of the Warriors is awesome!Without the help of the logo of the Lakers after 08, the Warriors' vision is really good.

The pre-match activities were over, and during the final preparation time, Liu Mang took out the dice and prepared to draw a lottery.

This superstar value is really not enough, don't look at the energy potion and injury potion, it's only 100 points at a time, but if you can't hold it, it's a waste!It’s just that due to the difficult schedule of the recent games, the mission was not completed when playing against the Lakers. When playing against the Kings, it was a mid-level superstar lottery. The rest of the games against the Jazz and Rockets were level 1 tasks.

You have to start saving superstar points for stamina potions, injury potions, and skill upgrade cards again.

But today, Liu Mang actually saw all level 5 tasks again!
Liu Mang put away the dice without throwing them.

"Ding... special mission released: long-term mission: the king of the new generation."

"The king of the new generation: the king is the strongest player who stepped on everyone to reach the peak. The first step to become the king is to stand out from the opponents of the same generation. The king of the new generation of players is the beginning of the host becoming the strongest. The host needs to surpass all the players of the same generation. When the host successfully suppresses all the strongest players of the current generation from 00 to 05, a talent skill fragment will be rewarded. Completed: crushed the 1th class, and the 00st class has completed most of the crushing. Current goal: crush Gilbert Arenas and dominate the 01 class No.2001 status."

It's rare that this task coincides with Liu Mang's idea!

Just him!

What is the best way to beat Arenas to despair?Of course, defeat the opponent from the very beginning!Don't give the opponent a chance to fight back!

Liu Mang took a look at the very rich system space. There were several star cards. In the end, Liu Mang focused on one card, and then laughed slyly.

Prince, who was dancing happily in the square next to Liu Mang, saw Liu Mang's sinister smile and his chrysanthemum tightened...

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Game start!
The Eagles sent Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Boozer, Ratliff's starting lineup.

Relatively speaking, Jason Terry needs a power forward like Muhammad who is not afraid of hardships and tiring to do all the dirty work. The cooperation between Liu Mang and Boozer is better.

Warriors sent Arenas, Jason - Richardson, Jamison, Murphy, Dampier.

Ratliff and Dampier, the future self-proclaimed second center in the league, came to the middle circle to jump the ball.

The referee blows the whistle to start the game and throws the ball into the sky,
Ratliff overwhelmed Dampier, who was not good at jumping, and won the jump ball. Liu Mang received the ball and pushed it to the frontcourt. Arenas defended it.

In this lineup of the Warriors, except for Dampier who is a master of defense, the low post, one defense and one defense are really awesome. Together with Ratliff, they are regarded as the best low post, one defense and one big center this season.

The defense of the others is not very good, so they defend their own players. Warriors coach Eric Musselman is not a particularly good coach. It is okay to tap the potential of rookies.

Liu Mang saw that it was indeed Arenas defending him, and gestured for a single!
The others immediately opened up the space, and Ratliff was on the right side of the three-second zone, ready to wait for Liu Mang to enter the inside line and move laterally to the other side of the three-second zone to receive the ball and score directly, or to take Dampier away.

This kind of positioning is very skillful, accumulated many years of experience. If Ratliff stood on the left side from the beginning, then Dampier would be able to move laterally to the basket, and both sides could defend.

Prince went to the left corner to pull away, Raheem was on the right baseline, and Boozer wandered in the middle distance to pull Troy Murphy out.

At the same time, Liu Mang began to dribble continuously under the crotch facing Arenas.

Arenas' defensive ability is actually good when he is serious about defending. At least the average level will not drag back. For example, he is very serious about defending Liu Mang now, blocking Liu Mang with his strong upper limbs.

Arenas is ready to use his body to suppress Liu Mang. His body is very strong among point guards. Except for Baron Davis and Francis, few people can use his body to force him.

But Arenas waited for several seconds, Liu Mang just dribbled the ball like that, Arenas felt very strange, what are you doing?He couldn't help staring at Liu Mang's dribbling movement, it didn't matter if he didn't look at it, but Arenas felt so familiar!
At this time, the fans at the scene also saw that something was wrong. Liu Mang just dribbled outside the three-point line for several seconds. There were 16 seconds left from the time he advanced to the outside of the three-point line, and 10 seconds left when he was alive!
Then the local Chinese fans and the Warriors' own fans all noticed that this dribble is so familiar... Isn't this the dribble move of the Warriors' popular fried chicken Arenas this year!

"hiss……"

The fans at the scene couldn't help but gasp. Damn, they're imitating Arenas!This is no longer a provocation, it's playing on Arenas' face!
Arenas also noticed at this time that the opponent's actions were his own actions!

Just when Arenas was startled and angry, Liu Mang started to break through!Qiangtu towards the left!
Arenas hurriedly took a step back to the right, and then reacted wrongly, and quickly moved to the left rear. Arenas had studied this biggest enemy of the same class many times, and knew that Liu Mang was not good at breaking through from the left.

However, just as Arenas moved half a step to the left, Liu Mang accelerated again and directly rushed inside from the left!
Dampier, who was on the inside line, immediately turned around and stood on the arc of the reasonable collision zone, blocking Ratliff with his left hand, facing Liu Mang who was about to enter the inside line. Jason Richardson, who was defending Prince, also rushed from the baseline to the left edge of the three-second zone, preparing to double-team Liu Mang.

but……

Just when everyone thought that Liu Mang was going to attack the basket, Liu Mang made an emergency stop at the free throw line and shot.

"Emergency Stop King triggers at level 5, mid-range shooting ability +5."

Liu Mang made an emergency stop jumper from the free throw line and made a hollow hit!

Pull-up jump shot?

Still so accurate?

The fans at the scene were not calm anymore, they felt dazzled!

They usually watch this scene too many times, and they have seen it many times this year. Isn't this the emergency stop jump shot that Arenas is best at?
From the breakthrough action, to the breakthrough line, to the way of ending the attack, it is completely Arenas' style of play!
And faster and more accurate than Arenas!
The grasp of rhythm is better than Arenas!

Arenas was the most shocked, he couldn't believe it!Think it's just a coincidence!Even if Liu Mang wanted to imitate him, how could he imitate him better than himself?
An angry Arenas quickly pushed forward after receiving the serve. Unfortunately, the two big men of the Warriors were too slow inside. The combination of two insiders with a height of [-] meters or more was not of good physical fitness. The Warriors could not counterattack, so they fell into the position.

Originally, the first attack must be handed over to the boss Jamison, but this time Arenas did not. After Liu Mang defended Arenas, Arenas immediately chose singles!

Seeing Arenas's crotch dribble that was exactly the same as his own just now, Liu Mang knew Arenas's technical characteristics too well, at least now. Seeing Arenas's really good shoulder fake, Liu Mang concentrated all his attention on defense.

Arenas showed a movement of shifting his upper body to the right, and slapped the ball to the right with his left hand. Liu Mang immediately judged that this was a fake move, and it was a half-truth.

At this time, Arenas saw Liu Mang's trick, and immediately took a large step towards the left, and his body invaded towards the left front!The right hand accurately received the ball that was slapped hard by the left hand just now and bounced quickly, caught the ball and then slapped the ball towards the direction of the body...

"bang"

The muffled sound of the two people sprinting at full speed reached the ears of the two parties involved. Arenas was completely unprepared. He was leaning forward, and a dog ate shit and fell to the ground.Then the opponent has already sprinted towards his own half!
Arenas looked up and looked back, the first thing that caught his eyes was the red and blue No. 1 jersey!
It was actually Liu Mang!
Arenas thought he was knocked over by someone who defended him, but he didn't expect it to be Liu Mang!

Hadn't this guy been shaken away by himself just now?

Arenas felt a sense of panic, how could this happen!
Seeing Liu Mang rushing to the frontcourt and making a quick three-step layup, which was the same as his choice of counterattack most of the time, Arenas was going crazy!
The other party is still imitating himself!

Moreover, just now he was defended, that is to say, the opponent completely saw through his style of play!

Just as Arenas thought, Liu Mang raised his left foot just now to deceive Arenas, making Arenas think that he had deceived his opponent. Sure enough, Arenas, who was full of confidence, immediately chose to change direction and break through from the left, while Liu Mang stepped out with his left foot and kicked hard on the ground and bounced to the right, colliding with Arenas head-on. The last force was applied to the forefoot that was padded to accelerate, and it slipped directly and fell a shit!

After Arenas got up, he saw Liu Mang walking back to defend, feeling a little scared in his heart.

The Warriors continued to attack, just now Arenas failed one, Jamison will definitely not give up the offensive opportunity, come to the low post to ask for the ball in singles.

The Warriors power forward is a three-point shooter. As the No. 01 pick in the first round of 14, Troy Murphy had no chance to perform in his rookie year, but this season he averaged 11 points per game. He is an excellent big man three-point shooter.

Jamison fell to the low post to beat Raheem, and he really couldn't beat him!Jamison is good at playing mismatches. He plays small forwards, and small forwards defend him.

Jamison is best at the half-hook throw after catching the ball with his back to the basket and moving laterally. He can't use it against Raheem at all.

rebound!
The Warriors rebounded very well. The two guards averaged more than 3 rebounds per game, and the three frontcourts all averaged more than 7 rebounds. Boozer and Murphy, Ratliff and Dampier, Raheem and Jamison were all pushing and pushing at the basket.

At this time Arenas sneaked in, ready to steal a rebound, which is his best way to grab a rebound.

Arenas' rebound prediction is also very good. When this kind of inside rebound is evenly matched, it is when he misses it.

Today, Arenas was doomed to tragedy. As soon as he entered the free throw line and tried to slip in to where he judged the rebound, he was stopped by an arm.

"Rock-solid level 1 trigger."

Liu Mang had expected that Arenas would come in and rush for offensive rebounds. As a point guard, he averaged 1 offensive rebound per game. Arenas was very good. Liu Mang had been on guard for a long time, and blocking a point guard was as solid as a rock. Level 1 was enough!

In the end, the rebounding competition was still won by Raheem, the most powerful rebounder on the field. He was the closest to Jamison, and the ball hit the neck of the basket and bounced to him and Jamison's forward. Raheem beat Jamison to get a defensive rebound.

Rahim subconsciously almost threw it forward to fight back, but saw that Arenas was holding back Liu Mang after he failed to grab the rebound, so he did not throw it blindly.

Arenas waited for the two big men to run back to the half court before letting go of Liu Mang and retreating.

Liu Mang is not in a hurry, it's good to be able to counterattack, but it's fine if he can't. He still wants to take advantage of the first quarter to abuse Arenas and let him know that the position of "No.1" is not something you just want!

Liu Mang advances to the frontcourt at an unhurried pace, just like the unhurried rhythm of the Warriors after they have three lineups this year.

When Liu Mang came beyond the three-point line, he started dribbling the ball with his hips bent. He still did the same action as Arenas, with his waist bent and his face facing his opponent. The expression on his face was very calm, but his eyebrows were slightly furrowed.

And Arenas, who originally had such a calm expression, couldn't calm down anymore.

Arenas had only one thought in his mind, "No way, come again? Can we play well?"

Liu Mang and Arenas have no grievances and no enmity. He didn't intend to beat Arenas to the point of collapse. However, who said that Arenas is a stumbling block on his way to becoming the strongest player? On the road to becoming the "King", there must be "blood", which may be the blood dripping from his heart, and Liu Mang never wants the blood in his heart to become part of these blood, so he can only become the "King"!
With 9 seconds left, Liu Mang started to break through again!

Arenas was swayed once again, but this time Arenas still did not give up his defense. He chased Liu Mang and rushed to the middle distance to try to interfere or block Liu Mang's jump shot.

but!This time Arenas misjudged again, Liu Mang rushed directly to the basket, leaving Arenas behind!Jason Richardson, who also rushed to the mid-range double-team, almost collided with Arenas, who rushed over with all his strength!
Liu Mang rushed into the basket, stepped on the left edge of the three-second zone and took off. Ratliff immediately exited the three-second zone. Dampier roared and rushed towards Liu Mang, trying to give Liu Mang a big hat.

However, the ball that Liu Mang originally raised was suddenly received by his waist, and he turned slightly sideways in the air. His left shoulder hit the chest of Dampier who was pounced on him.

Accompanied by the sound of the referee's whistle and Liu Mang's muffled hum when he was knocked to the ground, the ball hit the backboard and fell into the basket!

2+1!

Liu Mang scored 6 points in a row, and there is still a chance for additional penalties!
Liu Mang came up and beat the Warriors 6-0 with an extra penalty!
This performance is already explosive enough, but it is not the place that makes the fans at the scene and the fans watching the live broadcast the most crazy, because Liu Mang has 50+ in a single game, or twice. Although this kind of performance is explosive, it is expected.

The key is that Liu Mang's style of play today is not his own style of play at all, but the style of his opponent's Arenas!

Especially the layup just now is exactly the same as Arenas' most talked about body balance ability when confronting the basket, and the choice of shots is exactly the same!It's so unreasonable, but you can get in!

The scene was going crazy, not to mention Liu Mang's fans, this time even the Warriors fans couldn't help cheering for Liu Mang.

terrible!

The Warriors have been rotten for many years. Although they have championships, they don’t have a so-called strong team tradition. Most of their stars are traded for nothing. There are no stars like Duncan, Nowitzki, the Lakers, and the Celtics who have retired from their own teams and have a long career. Chamberlain, the best star in their team history, has been traded.
Everyone can see the gap between Liu Mang and Arenas.

The stats of the two are similar, but Arenas can only get 18+4+6 now, while Liu Mang's stats are similar now, because the team only needs him to play such stats, and Liu Mang's rookie season stats are better than Arenas' current stats!
Liu Mang is a historical rookie with 20+ rookies in his rookie season who was regarded as Jordan's successor after his rookie year!

Liu Mang was slapped on the ground by Dampier, the pain stimulated his nerves, and he also got high. Today, he just wants to get dry!
Looking at Arenas' peak star card with 9 minutes and 57 seconds left, the top star card with an effect of only one quarter, Liu Mang spent such a "price", how could he not play well.

Beat Arenas until he loses the courage to face himself!This is Liu Mang's goal today!
Just like Lebron James treated DeMar DeRozan, he would beat him to death when he met him. When this guy becomes stronger in the future, he will not be able to have the courage to fight against himself!

Seeing Liu Mang's eyes, Arenas felt like crying: brother!You are brother!Let's play well, shall we?
(End of this chapter)