From today on is the king

Chapter 78 78. How to deal with them?

Liu Mang pierced through the crotch, causing exclamations from the scene, but Liu Mang who entered the three-point line was having a hard time!Strickland immediately switched positions to make up for it, and Eddie Jones, who was pierced through the crotch, also caught up. The three players in the frontcourt were blocked from receiving the ball. Liu Mang was forced to stop the ball, leaving only Jacques Vaughn at a 45-degree angle.

Seeing that the two of them were about to make a steal, and the chance of being caught in the trap was not high, Liu Mang passed the ball in pain, but soon regretted it after passing the pass, why not make a strong shot himself!

Jacques Vaughn was completely open and actually made a three-point shot!Directly into the hands of Brian Grant!Liu Mang immediately ran back from Eddie Jones and Strickland to his own half to defend against counterattacks.

However, Liu Mang was overthinking. After Strickland received the ball, he slowly pushed forward, passing the half-court just before the 8-second violation time.

Liu Mang never thought that defense would become such a pain in the ass. He used to think that defense is either to prevent the opponent from making a shot, or to be scored by the opponent. He never thought that even if the opponent cannot make a shot, it would be so painful.

When playing against the 76ers, the 76ers' defense is also good, but the rhythm is not slow, but the 76ers can prevent the opponent's shooting rate from extremely low, and then defeat the opponent with rich experience in low shooting rate.

But the Heat are different. They just press the tempo and grind the opponent to death. Especially this year, they start to play poorly. Let alone whether they win or not, they don’t care about the offensive rhythm of their own players.

Liu Mang was very melancholy, the Heat are already doing this, how will they break the Spurs in the future?In two years, Larry Brown will go to the Pistons. How can he play with the lowest tempo in history?
The Heat missed another shot that was nearly exhausted in 24 seconds. This time, Iron Man Mourning rose to make up the ball.

Liu Mang received the serve and advanced to the frontcourt. After coming over, he found that Eddie Jones was very different. Before, he was only entertaining and wanted to abuse food, but now he was completely irritated by Liu Mang's sentence "You are not Kobe", and put all his energy to defend Liu Mang.

The 30-year-old Eddie Jones is still at the tail end of his peak, and his defense is terribly strong, and he doesn't have to take offense like Payton.

Liu Mang has no chance to shoot from the outside, and the opponent doesn't stick up for the foul, and he can't break through.

Liu Mang called a pick-and-roll, Ratliff came out to block Eddie Jones, and Liu Mang took the opportunity to cut in.

Entering the three-second zone, Liu Mang was at a loss. Mourning stood on the edge of the three-second zone with his big white teeth bared. He didn't come out to defend.

Seeing that Strickland seemed to be coming over to form a pincer attack with Mourning, Liu Mang thought about what happened when he passed the ball to Jacqui Vaughn last time, so he decided not to wait for the opponent's defense to have a gap, and directly made a mid-range shot!

Probably due to the distance from the free throw line, Liu Mang shot pretty well, bounced on the rim, and scored!

Open the pot!

10 to 9, the Eagles lead by 1 point.

After almost 10 minutes of playing, the Eagles scored 10 points, the Heat scored 9 points, and the total was only 19 points!
It was a difficult time for Liu Mang, the Eagles, and the fans. The Heat maintained a high-efficiency defense until the end of the first quarter. The Eagles entered the intermission with a 14-11 lead by 3 points.

Playing for 5 minutes in the first quarter, Liu Mang scored 5 points on 2 of 4 shots. All of them were mid-range shots, and he didn't give a chance outside the three-point line!

Fortunately, Mourning didn't post it because he was afraid of Liu Mang's speed. Liu Mang could pick and roll every time and then stop at the mid-range position and wait for Ratliff to go down and take Eddie Jones away before shooting easily.

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During the break, Coach Kruger is very worried. This is a very unsolvable thing in the current NBA. Whether it is the Spurs or the Heat, this kind of team with a hopelessly slow pace is very difficult to deal with. The Spurs are actually relatively good. They have a very athletic combination of Duncan and the Admiral inside, and they can also play defensive counterattacks.

Because of this, almost all teams in the Eastern Conference that are likely to enter the top four will fight with the Heat to prevent them from getting close to the playoffs, otherwise anyone who encounters them in the playoffs will peel off their skin.

There is really no way to deal with this kind of team. There are not many three-point masters these days, and many teams don’t even have players who are good at three-pointers. Facing the Heat who stick to the basket and have defensive giants like Eddie Jones and Strickland on the outside can lock up three-pointers alone, there is really no way.

When Coach Kruger was distressed, he saw Liu Mang approaching him, and seemed to dare to speak when he wanted to speak.

"Ace, what's the matter?" Coach Kruger asked angrily.

Tell you to go up and make a foul, but you missed the shot. Fortunately, you made two shots, otherwise you would be completely killed by the Heat.

Liu Mang has always had an idea when he saw the Heat's iron bucket formation, but he felt that if he said it, he might be hammered to death by the big forehead coach, but he still wanted to say it.

After hesitating for a while, Liu Mang said slyly: "Coach, I have a way to increase the speed!"

"Huh?!" Coach Kruger was having a headache about this matter. Although he felt that Liu Mang was getting more and more unreliable, but there seemed to be more and more cleverness, so he hurriedly asked, "What can I do?"

Liu Mang didn't answer right away, but called Jason Terry who was beaten to death today.

"What are you doing? A rookie!" Jason Terry looked impatient, but he still came over.

Liu Mang didn't get angry with Jason Terry either. The more familiar he was, the easier it would be for him to understand his character.

Coach Kruger was curious, and the three got together.

"Coach, Jason, we are so, so and so..."

Liu Mang talked about his thoughts in detail. Jason Terry's eyes widened after hearing this, his black face and big white eyes were full of excitement and worry, this rookie dared to think too much!

After hearing this, Coach Kruger really wanted to beat this student to death. Nima, is this a player from Georgia Tech... It seems that all Georgia Tech players are like this. Stephen Marbury, Mark Spray, and Kenny Anderson are not safe masters.

However, it seems that there is no other way!It seems sloppy, but, if it's against the Heat...

"Coach, do you want to do it or not!" Liu Mang seemed to have horns on his head and a tail behind him, no one knew... No, he was just a little devil tempting others to do bad things.

Coach Kruger gritted his teeth and said: "Okay! You two go! If we lose this game, you will practice [-] more shots for me when we arrive in Detroit in the next two days!"

Ah hello!Coach, you really agreed?Agree to this rookie's sloppy tactics?Also, what does extra practice have to do with me?I didn't bring it up!
Jason - Terry very melancholy, but very excited!
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Back from the break, the second quarter began.

The Heat are very good, one of the top five starters missed and continued to play.

The Eagles sent Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Ira Newbell, and Muhammad.

The fans were a little puzzled when they saw these five players playing without a serious center forward. No matter how degraded Mourning is, he is still a two-meter-one big man with excellent skills!Can it be defended without sending a tall center forward?

The fans have not been given time to think about why. The fans were dumbfounded when they saw the Eagles' defensive position.

Jason Terry, Raheem, Newbell, and Muhammad caught Mourning and Brian Grant inside and outside the three-second zone.

The Eagles don't even think about whether they can defend against Mourning, okay?There are six people under the basket, Mourning can count as a great player if he can score!

(End of this chapter)