From today on is the king

Chapter 547. Chapter 546. Blame the Mavericks
After the Eagles won the game away, the Mavericks in the west also received encouragement and worked hard. The main reason was that Michael Finley broke out at the Spurs home court. In this game, Finley made 20 of 12 shots in the away game, especially 14 of 9 mid-range shots.Finley made 12 free throws and scored 36 points on the road without making a single 105-pointer to lead the Mavericks to a 90-[-] win over the Spurs.

The Mavericks chased the big score to 2 to 3!

In the two division finals of the East and West, the big score became 3 to 2, and both became suspenseful situations.

This situation makes fans and expert media very puzzled. Why, all four teams are away dragons?

All four teams have won on the road, and none of them can defend the home game.

Not to mention, although the other three teams are not popular except for the Eagles, the suspense will skyrocket if this rhythm continues!No matter which two teams reach the finals, it is very interesting, because unlike many series, they defend their own home court and then rely on home court advantage to win, including the second three-peat. The Invincible Bulls played six games in the finals three times.

Most teams have a more stable home court, so most of the time, the team with home court advantage in the finals wins.

This makes this year's already unanticipated finals suddenly very interesting. Many people want to know, will there be a tiebreaker in the finals this year?
Since Olajuwon defeated Ewing 1994-4 in the 3 finals in a direct dialogue with Ewing and established the No.1 position of the four major centers, there was no suspense in the next eight finals. In 95, Olajuwon beat O'Neal 4-0. Although the Rockets had a poor record in the regular season that year, they went all the way without home court advantage in the Western Conference. In the finals, not many people thought the Magic had a chance to win. Well, there is no suspense for the Lakers' three-game winning streak.

To be honest, whether it is the Hawks or the Nets who reach the finals, facing the Spurs or the Mavericks, it is the most suspenseful finals in nine years.

The West is definitely stronger than the East at this stage, but none of them can crush the Eastern teams as strong as the Lakers in previous years. This season, the Western Conference teams in the regular season really want to say that the record is crushing the East. It is not the regular season champion Spurs, but the Kings who are second in the West, but the Kings have already been killed.

The NBA series matchup does not mean that the Mavericks killed the Kings. The Kings crushed the Eagles and the Nets, which means that the Mavericks can crush the Hawks and the Nets. This is the most interesting part of the NBA.

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"I just came back yesterday, and I'm playing today. What's the difference between a home game and an away game?" Jason Terry, who came off the bench the day before yesterday and ran with Liu Mang for three and a half quarters, complained.

"Okay, okay, stop complaining, kill the Nets today, and let's go to the finals!" Liu Mang took a nap, and he was not tired after his mental rest.

This is the legendary person who can stand and talk without back pain.

"It's all the Mavericks' fault. They've been procrastinating and making a tiebreaker every round. Do you think they will play the tiebreaker with the Spurs again this time?" Jason Terry blamed the time compression of the Eastern and Western Conference Finals on the Mavericks.

But it is true, the Mavericks are the only team that reached the tiebreaker in the first two rounds of this year's playoffs, and the other three teams have waited for the Mavericks for a long time.

"I don't know, I'm just curious. If the Western Conference goes to the tiebreaker again, the division finals end on the 11th, and the finals also reach the tiebreaker, what will happen to the draft? What about the joint trial training of 29 teams? Or is it that the team that played in the finals will be kicked out of the joint trial training?" Liu Mang is very interested in this question.

"I don't know, I just know I'm tired, very tired." Jason Terry continued to complain.

Playing to the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years, I played more than a dozen games in a season than when I couldn’t make it to the playoffs before. What’s worse than last year is that this year’s Eastern Conference Finals is like playing consecutive home and away games, with one game every other day. I have played 10 games in the previous 5 days, and I am almost catching up with the two months with the tightest regular season schedule.

"We are tired, they must be tired too, maybe, hurry up, warm up, be careful you will get cramps later in the game!" Liu Mang pulled Jason Terry up from the massage table in the locker room, and went to the physical therapy room for massage and stretching.

For the Eagles, the biggest problem is that they have no experience in how to deal with physical distribution in such a tight schedule. If it is the regular season, it is okay to say, if it is not possible, just take a rotation, but this is the Eastern Conference Finals!

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While sitting in physical therapy, Liu Mang looked at the system panel. The superstar value was 37127. After the fifth game, he got more than 1000 superstar points. In the last game, he only scored 18 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. Those who failed to complete the third-level task got 20+5+5 data. They also spent 1 superstar points. In addition to the number of lucky draws for the two mission rewards, there were five mid-level superstar value draws in total to get good things. The top 10 language high-level charm fruit, but Liu Mang already has the same cohesive force as the head of state in his own team, which didn't play much role.

The second one is an action pack, Nate Robinson’s dunk pack. The jumping ability required to unlock all the actions is actually 99, which is higher than the dunk packs of Carter and LaVine. For Liu Mang, he can only use it if he has several people in a row in a counterattack. It is basically useless. The main reason is that the moves are not so good.

The item drawn in the third lottery was a mid-level injury potion, which is good, but it seems that it is not very useful for the time being.

The item drawn in the fourth lottery is a special skill upgrade card, which is fine, but now Liu Mang doesn't have a level [-] skill for him to upgrade.

Finally, for the fifth time, with a one-third chance, Liu Mang used five lucky draw chances to draw a special card. The effect is very special, because it is more suitable for using on his teammates rather than against opponents.

The effect of death is that someone with poor scoring ability like Kidd will infinitely magnify his own shortcomings on the offensive end. If it is used on Kobe, O'Neal, James, Curry... these people, they will probably run away for an hour and torture the opponent to the point where they can't take care of themselves. It can be seen from Kidd's defense in the last game.

Liu Mang was very puzzled by the fact that it is becoming more and more difficult to get good things in lottery draws, especially in primary lottery draws, and asked the system: "Boss of the system, I want to ask, why do I feel that the higher my ability value is, the lower the chance of getting something with great effect?"

"Ding...Because the host is about to leave the rookie stage, many props used to assist the host in the rookie stage to gain a foothold in the NBA will be invalid. Some items in the host's lottery have begun to be removed. When the host ends this season and officially leaves the rookie stage, the system will be upgraded to an auxiliary system that is more suitable for the host in the middle of his career."

"So that's it, that is, there are a lot of things gone now? The lottery has become uneconomical? Why didn't you say it earlier! By the way, I'm only 21 years old after finishing this year, and I'm in the middle of my career so soon?"

"Whether the lottery is worthwhile depends on the needs of the host, and the rookie period is judged according to the end of the host's rookie contract."

"That is, if I was lucky enough to be a first-round pick, the rookie period would be four years?"

"Correct."

"Damn! The talent in the first round is better, but it's still the four-year rookie period? Is this the legendary child of the poor who heads home early? If you are poor and have no background, you are not a genius, so you have to adapt to society earlier?"

Seeing that there were more than 7000 superstar points left, Liu Mang gritted his teeth and decided not to draw. The last time he drew five times, it was equivalent to spending [-] superstar points to get a special card. This time, he may not be able to get good things if he draws three times. Let’s talk about it later when there is more need. The next game is home.
Liu Mang settled down to do warm-up before the game. Tonight's game is bound to be won!

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Too many tie-breakers have made this year's conference finals schedule very tight. On June 6, the Hawks returned to Atlanta to rest for a night. On June 7, they immediately ushered in the sixth game of the Eastern Conference finals against the Nets.

However, it is still much better than the lockout season. The lockout season and even the playoffs have back-to-back in almost every round. The veterans who experienced the lockout season four years ago can accept this kind of playoffs with only one day off.

In the lockout season, the Eagles also reached the second round under the leadership of Mutombo, but the players on that team at that time, now the entire Eagles only has Chris Crawford. The second-year Chris Crawford took a salary of 24 dollars, and gave the current Spurs Steve Smith the role of handing the towel on the bench.

Liu Mang is curious that the finals may have passed the time of the draft, and the league is also a headache. June 6th is the day of the draft. If the division finals reach the tiebreaker, that is, it will reach the 27th. Then the finals will start on the 11th at the earliest.

If it doesn't work, the draft can only be postponed.

This will also affect many operations in the league that want to trade with chips with draft picks after the finals and before the draft.

The league didn't expect that as soon as the first round of the best-of-seven schedule came out, there would be a tiebreaker in the first round. Just this round of the series would extend the playoffs by almost a week. Otherwise, even if the second round to the finals all went to the tiebreaker, the finals would end around June 6.

Originally, when formulating the playoff schedule, the league made it according to the expected strength. Who knew that the Mavericks could reach the tiebreaker in every round?

Just like Jason Terry's complaints, the league's schedule officials also blamed the Mavericks for the tiebreaker every round...

The league is already considering whether next season's regular season schedule can start a few days earlier, and whether the end of the regular season can end a few days earlier.

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Neither side had much time to prepare. Since the first game of the Eastern Conference finals, the Hawks and Nets have had similar timelines. They arrived in Atlanta almost yesterday, and then they had to hurry up for training in the afternoon. After two or three hours of training, they rested. In the evening, they watched the Mavericks beat the Spurs in an away game. They got up the next morning, had an interview, had a team meeting at noon, and rested in the afternoon...

At 6 p.m., the second game within 48 hours started at the Phillips Arena, home of the Eagles!

The atmosphere in the Phillips Arena was frenzied, and all the fans were very excited for the team to regain the home court advantage again.

Today, many of the tickets for the seats on the sidelines were taken away by celebrities, Jordan, Wilkins, Lou Hudson...

The Eagles have more than a dozen team celebrities at home. A lot of celebrities from the 60s to the 80s have come, and they all want to see the Eagles return to the Finals after nearly 50 years.

Seeing a lot of celebrities sitting on the sidelines, the atmosphere of the fans was completely ignited.

This home atmosphere also ignites the soul of the Eagles players. If there is no rest time, no time for the Eagles players to feel the warmth of home, no time for the Eagles players to comfortably hug their wives and children after winning the game and listen to the encouragement of their families... Well, this has nothing to do with Liu Mang, but if there is any advantage to playing at home, it is the cheers of the fans!
The referee blows the whistle to start the game, and the final preparation time before the game ends.

The starting lineup is here!

Liu Mang and Boozer's appearances have been fixed. Boozer knows that his performance in the Eastern Conference Finals is not good, so he plays his only role as much as possible, which is to cheer for Liu Mang!

After beating his chest with fists and fists, Boozer gave Liu Mang a warm hug, which made Liu Mang push this guy away quickly, Nima is too lovable!
The Eagles continued to send Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Mohammed, and Ratliff to the starting lineup.

On the Nets side, Coach Byron Scott gave Mutombo a chance to perform again after careful consideration, and sent a combination of Kidd, Kittles, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, and Mutombo.

The fans watched Ratliff lose the jump ball to Mutombo again, and really didn't know what to say, cooperating with our dignified Eastern Conference finals team, won the jump ball 20 times a year?

The N unsolved mysteries in the NBA, where did Ratliff get so many blocks with his bounce?
The other shot-blocking kings are all capable of jumping and jumping, but Ratliff gets stuck here and squeezes people there, and then caps off the opponent.

Now that the network has just experienced a leapfrog development, after the start of this round of the series, many people want to analyze how Ratliff’s blocks come from. There are so many blocks without top jumping.

Kidd received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, but at a very slow speed, so slow that it reminded people of the second game.

Liu Mang stepped up to defend Kidd. Seeing Kidd's slow play, he yelled inwardly. This guy wants to drag the game into a rhythm that neither side wants to enter from the very beginning - a defensive battle!
It's not just that the Eagles don't want to enter the rhythm of defensive battles that are slow and uncontrollable. In fact, the Nets don't want to enter that rhythm either, but today the Nets did just that!
Liu Mang immediately stuck to Kidd's body, spouting trash talk, trying to provoke Kidd again, but Kidd took two steps back to protect the ball, and dug his left hand into his ear, took out a sponge earplug, showed it to Liu Mang, and then put it back.

These earplugs are useful!Liu Mang was so angry that he was ridiculed instead!

However, this shows that Kidd is quite calm today. The main reason is that Kidd has become immune to the trash talk about his wife after he was defeated by the Eagles in the last game. The earplugs just want to stimulate Liu Mang in turn.

As for Kidd, there are not many places he can attack. It is nothing more than poor shooting, being beaten by his wife, and 3J jealousy.

Kidd ignored Liu Mang's trash talk and firmly controlled the ball. With 10 seconds left, Kidd dribbled the ball close to the three-point line.

The pick-and-roll on both wings cuts in, Kenyon Martin picks and rolls for Kittles, Muhammad can keep up with Kittles after switching defenses, which Boozer can't do, and after Mutombo helps Richard Jefferson pick-and-roll, Kidd immediately passes the ball to Richard Jefferson who has just finished the pick-and-roll. The pick-and-roll is stronger than Jason Collins or even Kenyon Martin, and Raheem is pinched and can't get around it!Liu Mang decisively chose to shrink, and together with Ratliff double-teamed Richard Jefferson, Richard Jefferson passed the ball back to the top arc!
The Eagles did not expect that the Nets' tactics were actually prepared for Kidd!The last game was so bad, he made 3 three-pointers and 0 shots, and he actually gave Kidd a chance!
Kidd's open three-point shot!
Luckily, Liu Mang didn't make a hit, and Liu Mang took advantage of Ratliff to block Richard Jefferson and grabbed a defensive rebound.

Immediately after Liu Mang took the rebound, he yelled, "Counterattack!"

But Richard Jefferson squeezed from Ratliff to block Liu Mang's first wave of impact, Mutombo also blocked Raheem on the other side, Kidd followed the fast-moving Prince, limited Prince's speed, and the Eagles' counterattack was blocked!

Looking at the Nets players who quickly returned to the backcourt after blocking the first attack, Liu Mang's heart trembled. The Nets were fully prepared this time!And he spared no effort to suppress the rhythm from the very beginning!

The game was forced into a slow positional battle from the very beginning!

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt, made a gesture of singles, dribbled the ball continuously, and suddenly pulled up a three-point shot!

Kidd thought that Liu Mang was going to make a breakthrough, but Liu Mang made the shot as soon as he said it, and the rest of the Eagles haven't opened up the space yet!
Liu Mang got off to a good start, and unexpectedly shot Kidd a three-pointer and made a direct hit.

3 to 0, the Eagles took the lead in scoring a three-pointer at the start.

Liu Reck wanted to raise the tempo, but the Nets were unmoved by a three-pointer. Liu Reck felt unprecedented pressure as he watched Kidd slowly push the ball over.

Kidd's calm expression made Liu Mang seem to see the Kidd from last year's Eastern Conference Finals!
Kidd made up his mind to play high-confrontation and slow-moving positional battles. After coming over, he continued to play pick-and-rolls, and his movements were very rough. It took 10 seconds to start the real action, and then there were 3 seconds left in the final shot.

It's a bit of a fairy ball, and the Nets once again blocked the Eagles' fast break after making the shot, preventing Liu Mang's idea of ​​speeding up.

The Eagles were forced into a slow-paced stalemate this time!

(End of this chapter)