From today on is the king

Chapter 832 831. Exposed Weakness, Adjustment Direction
The old man has seen a lot of worlds. Hill sent the ball to Nelson, and then took the initiative to ask for the ball to advance from the backcourt, controlling the rhythm and preventing the team from being driven by Liu Mang's strange three-pointer.

That kind of unexpected style of play is too easy to resist and want to fight back.

In other words, it's too flat!

After Hill advances to the frontcourt, he still sits and plays from the outside. Liu Mang double-teams him again. Hill immediately passes the ball to Nelson. Nelson doesn't make a strong shot and rushes to the basket from the right side to avoid Liu Mang's defense.

Christie received the ball and didn't shoot. He cut to the inside immediately after receiving the ball. Even though Christie was 35 years old, his 1.9-meter-eight tall shooting guard still had to be defended when he entered the basket. Rasheed Wallace stood on the right side of the three-second zone to help defend, and McGrady also retracted the baseline.

At this time, Christie's passing ability was reflected, and he threw it towards the free throw line, and Raheem quietly retreated to a position one step inside the free throw line to catch the ball!

Liu Mang immediately made up for it, and Raheem caught the ball to meet Liu Mang's defense, and shot a jumper from close range!
In the last year of the Eagles, he played a blue-collar role of catch and shoot for a year. What Raheem gained the most was not only the championship, but also a more stable catch and shoot ability!

Raheem's short-range jumper also hits!Started with four points in a row!

The game has entered a stalemate from the very beginning!

The Eagles tried to speed up, but the Magic insisted on playing a slow-paced tactical coordination.

Raheem knows the Eagles very well. Although the current new version of cavalry tactics is very different from the previous cavalry tactics, the concept is the same. Raheem has played cavalry tactics in the Eagles for three years. Raheem knows how scary the Eagles are when they bring up the rhythm. Especially now that the Eagles are focusing on the new version of cavalry tactics, Raheem is very afraid, so he has already discussed with Hill to control the rhythm.

And Hill is just an all-around point forward of the older generation who can control the rhythm very well.

Back hitting is one of the best ways to control the rhythm and organize the offense!

The two teams stalemate for more than four minutes. The Magic has been playing the strategy of creating opportunities for the outside and then turning to the inside to attack, maintaining a steady rhythm.

For the Eagles, they couldn’t bring up their speed for a long time, because the rebounding ability of the Magic’s frontcourt trio is too good. All three are flexible, tall and rebound-conscious frontcourt players. The Eagles are at a disadvantage in rebounding and can only speed up instead of counterattacking.

The Eagles wanted to speed up but couldn’t counterattack. They encountered a big rhythm problem. The Eagles’ physical advantage was curbed, which affected their outside shots. After Prince and Rasheed Wallace missed two open three-pointers in a row, the Magic began to put more defensive pressure on Liu Mang.

At the fourth minute and 15 seconds of the first quarter, relying on Kwame Brown's difficult offensive rebound and dunk, the Eagles led again by one point 11-10.

It was the Magic's attack again. After Nelson advanced to the frontcourt, he lobbed the ball to Hill in the top corner on the left side of the free throw line. Hill continued to play with a high post.

Only Prince, who is [-] meters tall and has a wingspan of more than [-] meters, can defend Hill. McGrady is not so good at defending against the back, and Liu Mang is short.

Just now Nelson made a three-pointer, which put pressure on Liu Mang to defend and defend the three-pointer. Nelson is also considered a convulsive player. It’s hard to say if he made the shot correctly. At this time, Hill took advantage of no one’s double-teaming, turned around and quickly cut in from the middle. He didn’t look like a guy who was worried about ankle injuries after being reimbursed for four consecutive seasons. He turned around with sharp steps, as if he was dreaming back ten years ago, and went straight to the basket from the middle.

Rasheed Wallace held Howard, Kwame Brown came out to defend, Hill made an exquisite inside pass, and sent the ball from Kwame Brown's waist.

Four minutes and fifty seconds!
12 to 11, the Magic overtook the score again!

The Eagles were the first to call a timeout at home!

Seeing that the Magic team was able to stabilize the score, they played more and more confidently, and even the pressure of the away game was restrained!

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Liu Mang saw that it was called a timeout, and was about to take a few shots to find his feel. He made a shot with his left hand, but he couldn’t make one with his right hand later.

As soon as Liu Mang asked for the ball from the referee, he heard Coach Kruger calling: "Ace, come here!"

Liu Mang immediately rushed back to the bench, is there any change for the coach?
"Ace, you and Tracy can shoot more, Andre, you go to defend Hill's back, Nazl, go up and increase the impact of the rebound..." Coach Kruger adjusted the lineup.

When Iguodala heard the back defense, he was immediately refreshed. He didn't know when he started to be the best at the back defense.

When Muhammad heard that he was going to play against Rahim, he was under a lot of pressure, but he was never a person who shirked responsibility, even if he was not strong enough, he would fight.

When Liu Mang heard about this arrangement, he really wanted to ask if he should change Josh Smith. Muhammad couldn't keep up with the speed, but he was afraid of slapping Muhammad's face. People, the higher you go, the more you worry.

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Back from the timeout, the Eagles' lineup of Liu Mang, Iguodala, Tracy McGrady, Muhammad, and Kwame Brown played.

The Magic also made substitutions. The new, middle and old "three-core" Hill, Raheem, and Howard continued to play. Hill is really an amazing player. Except for the four or five games at the beginning of the season, he only played for more than 20 minutes.

The Magic replaced Deshaun Stevenson as a point guard, Turkoglu as a small forward, and Hill as a shooting guard.

But for this lineup, the COSCO shot is extremely powerful!

When Liu Mang came up, he saw that the Magic had changed to a "one-star and four-shot" lineup!

Both Turkoglu and DeShawn Stevenson have three-point capabilities, and Hill and Raheem are both accurate in mid-range shots!And four players with a height of [-] meters and above!

The Eagles attacked and chose the frontcourt ball. After Liu Mang received the ball, Deshaun Stevenson defended him.

Stevenson, the "little emperor's old enemy" with height, speed, strength, and defensive talent, put a lot of defensive pressure on Liu Mang. When Liu Mang saw Turkoglu defending McGrady, he immediately passed it to McGrady.

McGrady received the ball and immediately accelerated his breakthrough. He ran faster and faster with the first three quick steps, leaving Turkoglu behind.

"Ding... Quick shot master level 5 is triggered, this catch and shoot will not be disturbed by running, and the shooting speed will be increased by 30.00%..."

The discomfort Liu Mang felt after running fast disappeared completely. When he turned around to shoot, he felt the same as standing there to receive the ball and turn around to shoot, and the speed of his shot became faster. Before Deshaun Stevenson actively got rid of Muhammad's pick-and-roll and jumped up, he turned around and threw the ball to the basket!
With a perfect shot feeling, Liu Mang caught the ball and turned around and hit a three-pointer!

14 to 12, the Eagles once again led by two points.

It's the Magic's offense again, and the Magic's lineup... is too tall!
The key is that Hill's possession of the ball is too good. Iguodala pressed Hill close to the audience, but failed to steal.

After arriving in the frontcourt, it seemed that he was "fearful" of Iguodala's ability to defend his back. Hill passed the ball to Turkoglu, and Turkoglu attacked with the ball in the top arc.

With a height of [-] meters, he plays the small forward position. He is a rare point forward in the league in the true sense. He is taller than McGrady who is defending in front of him.

Turkoglu's signature sideways leaning against McGrady to avoid being intercepted because of his high center of gravity, at this time the rest of the Magic began to move, and Hill cut inside to take away part of the defense.

Liu Mang ran with Stevenson. This guy played against the Cavaliers twice this season, and he became addicted to James. He was the first player to call James a "despicable clown" this season. He bluntly said that the league favored James.

But this guy is really accurate on three-pointers. Under James' defense, he has made three consecutive three-pointers. The one-on-one singles, the career-high 3 points were obtained by James, who has not yet practiced defense at the beginning of the season.

When all the attention was on Hill and Deshaun Stevenson, a man who had been low-key rebounding last season and was still easily ignored after averaging 25 points per game this season was once again ignored.

Raheem ran back, Hill helped Raheem block Muhammad, Raheem cut into the basket, Teg Crew turned his body sideways as if watching Deshaun Stevenson run, but threw the ball to the basket, Raheem dunked and scored two points!

Turkish magician!
The Magic still play position slowly and insist on position play, especially after changing to a big lineup, the rhythm is extremely slow.

When the Eagles are attacking and playing small balls, there is actually no clear shot candidate. Whoever has the opportunity will send the ball to whoever has the chance.

Thanks to Coach Kruger, Liu Mang and McGrady strengthened the duo cooperation and had a clear choice of shots, which was much better for Liu Mang.

Liu Mang did not hold the ball by himself, but sent the ball to McGrady, and McGrady advanced to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang felt it, he received the ball and made a three-pointer against DeShawn Stevenson's defense!
"Ding... Quick shot master level 5 is triggered, this catch and shoot speed is increased by 30.00%..."

"Ding... The King of Ganba triggers at level 5, this shot ignores shooting interference..."

The hand feeling came smoothly!DeShaun Stevenson never thought that Liu Mang would make such a shot. When he rushed to defend, Liu Mang's shot was too fast, and he had no time to interfere.

Liu Mang scored two three-pointers in a row!

It was the Magic's offense again, and the Eagles began to strengthen the defense at the basket. These four players over 1.9 meters plus a 3-meter-[-] [-]D shooter, except Liu Mang chasing DeShawn Stevenson outside, McGrady defending Turkoglu at the top arc, and the other three players all shrank.

Seeing this, Turkoglu made a gesture, and then directly relied on his height to shoot a three-pointer against McGrady!

Although he has a height advantage, the bounce gap is too big. Turkoglu is five centimeters taller than McGrady, but McGrady defended him and forcibly leaned back to make a shot. He decisively missed the shot.

However, the Magic's inside advantage once again showed its power. Kwame Brown had to fight Howard. Howard didn't care about anything today, so he fought desperately with Kwame Brown to grab rebounds.

Raheem attracted the attention of both Iguodala and Rasheed Wallace. Hill grabbed the offensive rebound and threw the ball to the basket when he landed, which also made a hit!

Both sides played very efficiently. The Hawks started Liu Mang's scoring show. After Liu Mang got his touch, he relied on McGrady to play for him. After the timeout in the first quarter, he maintained an efficient shooting performance. He scored 8 points in the next 16 minutes and 19 points in a single quarter. The Eagles also used this to maintain their lead.

But the Magic did not fall behind too much. After the first quarter, the Eagles scored 31 points, but the Magic also scored 26 points!
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The Magic did not waver in their style of play because of Liu Mang's soaring points, and insisted on playing on the ground.

In the second quarter, Liu Mang continued to maintain a good shooting performance. McGrady played both offense and defense to consume a lot of energy in the first quarter. Jason Terry was replaced to help Liu Mang.

But Jason Terry mainly played individual singles with the ball, and Liu Mang mainly used running positions to open up space for Jason Terry, or occasionally catch and shoot.

Liu Mang also played well, scoring 11 points in the second quarter, but Jason Terry was defended by DeShawn Stevenson!In the rare case of a counterattack, Jason Treadshawn Stevenson was blocked, resulting in the Hawks scoring only 21 points in the second quarter!
Using Iguodala to organize the offense was not easy, and Calderon came up to replace Jason Terry for a while.

The Magic has always insisted on playing. On the defensive end, Liu Mangjia defended the rebounds in the backcourt. On the offensive end, relying on his outside shooting and rebounding ability and Raheem's personal advantages, he insisted on playing positions.

At halftime, the Magic overtook the score!
靠着拉希姆半场22分9篮板的残暴表现，以及希尔和特科格鲁的节奏控制，魔术队第二节打出了28比21的单节比分，半场54比52反超老鹰队两分！
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At halftime, seeing the score was overtaken, Liu Mang finally understood what was wrong when he saw the Magic's offense at the beginning of the game. Now he finally understood that the Magic's first goal was indeed John Davis' tactic by grabbing an offensive rebound!

The magic team is playing the tactics of Howard's peak in the future!

The way of shooting from the outside and rushing to grab offensive rebounds from the inside is not how Howard played this way after he entered his peak period, but he played like this from the beginning. Since Howard, the Magic has been cultivating in this direction, and has always been working hard in the direction of cultivating Howard's rebounding and defense.

Because Howard does not have O'Neal's skills, nor does he have O'Neal's body. Except for rebounding and defensive talents, he does not have dominant talents in other aspects of his body, especially his lower body strength. There are three aspects of rebounding, second offense, and defense.

This kind of training method, when Howard originally encountered the ball-handling core Francis, who mainly focused on breakthroughs, was not suitable at all. The Magic did not touch the playoffs for the first time until Francis was sent away, and they were always away from the playoffs.

But this time was different. In addition to Howard, they also had Raheem, and Hill had the opportunity to hold the ball, and he was not delayed by Francis' sticky style of play.

That is to say, the Magic's current three-point lineup is too average. Otherwise, with Hill's high support, Turkoglu's top arc organization, Raheem and Howard's rebounding ability, and Raheem's low position, the Magic can already take off.

Liu Mang also understood why Coach Kruger did not replace Josh Smith, but Muhammad, because in the last few minutes, the Eagles were beaten 10-4 because of Josh Smith.

Doesn't Coach Kruger know that Muhammad can't keep up with Rahim?
No, it’s because Josh Smith is not as good as Muhammad in rebounding. He also went up and used Josh Smith to defend against Raheem’s mobility. With a wave of 10 to 4, they overtook by two points all at once.

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When the opponent has a top star like Raheem inside, the most important thing is that the opponent has the two inside combination of Howard and Raheem. The rebounding advantage is obvious, and the Eagles' small ball tactics have been greatly impacted!

Sure enough, the situation McGrady and Coach Kruger worried about appeared, and Mike Woodson and Liu Mang didn't have a good solution.

Back to positional warfare?
Coach Kruger did not do this. He wanted to see how many shortcomings of the team's existing small-ball style of play could be exposed, so that he could better address these shortcomings. Moreover, McGrady took a quarter of a break and played in the second half without any problems.

After playing several small ball games, coach Kruger has already seen it. As Liu Mang said, the future is an era of small ball, and they are creating a new era.

Although other teams in the league don't recognize it, Coach Kruger has seen the potential of small ball tactics, that is, defensive running and bombing. Many people now mistakenly think that the Eagles play the same tactics as the Suns, but they don't see that the Eagles' net rating is 5 points higher than the Suns during their small ball games!
The 11-point margin advantage during the small-ball strategy period is not as good as last season's 20-9 point margin advantage, but it is still the top performance in history. In the past [-] years, except for the Eagles themselves last season, the Bulls in the last three consecutive games have a higher margin than the current Eagles playing small-ball tactics!The Bulls in the first three consecutive games have only a [-]-point margin.

Because there are too many powerful insiders, other teams disdain to play this kind of game, but the Eagles do not have that kind of dominant insider. The best insiders are Kwame Brown and Rasheed Wallace. Kwame Brown is a physical man who is very suitable for small balls. On the line, Iguodala and Korver on the outside are also suitable for small ball tactics.

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After the start of the second half, Liu Mang continued to focus on scoring, which meant that he and McGrady could continue to score steadily.

Liu Mang continued to shoot mainly after the third quarter, but because the team's offense was suppressed more and more badly, the Eagles were playing, and only Liu Mang and McGrady scored. This can be seen most obviously, that is, McGrady scored 9 points in a single quarter.
Liu Mang was under more defensive pressure in the third quarter. He took 10 shots in a single quarter, only hit 3 goals and scored 11 points.

McGrady scored 9 points, but the number of assists in this quarter was only two.

The Magic team played more and more smoothly, and the defensive counterattack against the Eagles became more and more targeted.

Coach Kruger has been substituting players to try to adjust, but none of them worked very well.

Mainly rebounding!
Liu Mang scored 41 points in three quarters, but the Eagles were 75 points behind the Magic 84 to 9!

By the fourth quarter, the Magic had already gained momentum. Raheem scored 16 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter, which completely overwhelmed the Eagles inside. Raheem, who scored 33 points in the first three quarters, scored 16 points in the final quarter, and scored 49 points and 16 rebounds in the game!
Howard was bullied miserably by Kwame Brown, but the grief-stricken Howard gave Kwame Brown a lot of restrictions. Howard only scored 6 points and 9 rebounds, and Kwame Brown only scored 11 points and 10 rebounds.

But Kwame Brown was redeemed by Howard, so no one can rebound with Raheem!
The Magic's rebounds in this game were 51 to 39, grabbing 12 more rebounds than the Eagles!

Especially offensive rebounds, the Magic grabbed 18 offensive rebounds!And the Eagles only have 5!
Although Liu Mang also scored 12 points in the final quarter and 23 points in the second half, the Eagles only scored 23 points in the third quarter, 20 points in the fourth quarter, and 43 points in the half. Liu Mang scored 23 points alone!
McGrady tried to organize an offense to no avail, so he could only try his best to play for Liu Mang. Turkoglu interfered with his outside shooting, and he was flanked when he rushed in. The rest of the Eagles couldn't make shots. Only he and Liu Mang could score.

Liu Mang scored 53 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, McGrady scored 21 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists, but out of 10 assists, 7 assists were passed to Liu Mang, accounting for 70.00%. In a game, McGrady’s assists directly passing the ball to Liu Mang usually accounted for about 30.00%.

When McGrady gave 70.00% of the assists to Liu Mang, it proved that the Eagles had a big problem in offense!
In the end, Liu Mang scored 53 points and scored 74 points with McGrady, but the Eagles lost to the Magic at home 95 to 102!The seven-game winning streak came to an end!
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With 14 wins and 3 losses, the Eagles' record was tied by the Suns and Pistons.

Losing is common, but losing is worthwhile. Players like Liu Mang and McGrady are very depressed, but the coaching staff is still very satisfied.

All Liu Mang and McGrady were working hard, and everyone else was also working hard, but they just happened to be restrained.

But this game is the first time the Eagles have encountered a real challenge since they started playing small ball tactics!
But it also really discovered the team's problems.

How to deal with such a team with powerful power forwards has become another topic of research for the Eagles coaching staff.

I thought of many ways during the game, but the time was tight and I didn't really make an effective response.

Now that it has lost, the Eagles coaching staff did not blame the players, but praised the players for their efforts, and then the coaching staff had to stay up late and work overtime...

The most depressing one is Liu Mang, with 53 points!

He actually lost!
Isn't this a 50+ loser man?
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Ask for a monthly ticket~ There should be another chapter before 02:30~ Try to update a little more today, I feel guilty for only updating more than [-] words yesterday~
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