From today on is the king

Chapter 910 909.9 consecutive victories!

Dare to take a lot of shots at medium and long distances, you need to have two points of confidence, one is confidence in your own shooting, and the other is confidence in your teammates' rebounding and defense speed.

The foundation of the Supersonics this season lies in these two points, three-pointers and rebounds, which are the advantages that the Supersonics had last season, but they lack a passer. Francis is the key to activate the strength of the Supersonics.

After entering the rotation lineup, Liu Mang felt that it was time to speed up!
The Supersonic lineup, except for Lewis, basically has no three-point ability. In this way, there is no need to worry about the opponent relying on the counterattack to use the threat of Francis to attract the pinch and then catch the ball and shoot a three-pointer.

make up one's mind.

The Eagles chose to serve in the front court. After receiving the ball, Liu Mang went to the top arc. Facing Francis, the Sonics defended fiercely, but there was no trick.

Liu Mang leaned on Francis' defense and asked Jason Terry to catch the ball. He took advantage of the opportunity to help Jason Terry block Murray who was defending him. After separating a little space for Jason Terry, Liu Mang rushed inside immediately.

Francis just switched to Jason Terry, and Jason Terry pulled up and shot!

"Watt?" Francis didn't even have time to pounce on it. Jason Terry was a step away from the three-point line, that is, he just took advantage of Liu Mang's pick-and-roll to go around halfway, and before he had completely gone around, he shot directly!
Liu Mang has had enough waves, Francis didn't expect Jason Terry to make more waves!

When Liu Mang rushed to the free throw line, he saw the ball fly over his head and plunge into the basket.

Jason Terry's ultra-long three-pointer!
27 to 21, after entering the rotation lineup, the Eagles suddenly opened the point difference to more than 5 points.

Offensive and defensive transition, Supersonic offense, the Supersonics still play position, and their rebounding advantage can be reflected only when they are in a good position. They are not a fast-break team.

Under the signal of Liu Mang, the Eagles players, Jason Terry, Iguodala, and Josh Smith, all stepped back to the basket to defend except when they encountered Lewis.

Liu Mang pressed on Francis, and Francis saw Liu Mang pressing on again, and immediately chose to break through.

Iguodala quickly made up the defense, but the Eagles did not quickly rotate the defense. Liu Mang and Iguodala blocked Francis on the right side of the free throw line from left to right!
Francis immediately passed the pass to Danny Fortson. As soon as the pass passed, Francis knew that the pass was to the wrong person. Danny Fortson was on the court. He should have rushed into the paint and followed up with Danny Fortson to hit the offensive rebound or catch the ball directly.What else?
Danny Fortson, who has only taken 331 three-pointers in 40 games and only made two three-pointers, has a record of 0 three-pointers in his career, and his mid-range shooting percentage is in single digits all the year round!
Completely unguarded, Danny Fortson still chose to gamble on luck, and even played a step-back three-point shot...

Three do not stick!
Iguodala blocked Francis, and Muhammad knew that Reggie Evans was good at rebounding, so he didn't grab rebounds at all. He was only entangled with Reggie Evans. Liu Mang turned around and received the ball that fell directly from the air, and counterattacked!

Jason Terry was already ready, and the cavalry arrows began to charge.

Francis retreated immediately after being blocked. The Sonics' defensive ability was weak and their defensive enthusiasm was strong. Liu Mang lobbed the ball to Jason Terry. When Jason Terry received the ball, Francis and Murray had already caught up.

Jason Terry received the ball in the frontcourt, rushed directly to the basket with the chasing Murray and Francis, and passed back to the top arc!

After Liu Mang passed the ball, he rushed towards the frontcourt immediately. He was the first to rush beyond the opponent's three-point line at a super fast speed, received the ball at the top arc, and took advantage of the momentum to take off!
Liu Mang counterattacked and missed a three-pointer. Iguodala rushed in and took off to touch the ball before Francis. When he took off, he glanced behind him, touched the ball and pushed it out. Josh Smith, who followed up, flew up, received the ball in the air, gliding dunked and scored two points!
Francis and Murray ducked and watched as Josh Smith slammed the ball into the rim with a brutal alley-oop dunk.

Iguodala's selflessness and Josh Smith's explosive physical fitness opened up the Eagles' counterattack frenzy.

29 to 21, 8 points difference!
Liu Mang's strategy is correct!
Without Ray Allen, the Sonics could not have no impact. In the starting stage, Ridnour can still make do with it. Although Ridnour is a very good player, he is only a second-year role player. Lei, without the awareness of active support and movement, the key is that movement is useless!
Ray Allen's injury broke the original rotation of the Sonics. A while ago, when they played against a weak team, they could rely on their first start to gain an advantage, but they did not gain an advantage when they played against the Eagles!
But the Eagles are different. Although there will be situations such as poor condition and poor hand feeling, when the Eagles play a strong team, the lineup will always be neat!

Liu Mang and Jason Terry's cavalry company began to charge!

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Liu Mang and Jason Terry started a one-by-one counter-attack shot, and continued if they made a shot. If they couldn’t make a shot, they were replaced, and Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Muhammad quickly followed up.

In the 3rd minute of the second quarter, when the Sonics were forced to switch to an all-starter, the Eagles had already led 43 to 27 by 16 points. From the point difference to 10 points, the Eagles began to force the speed up, and the opponent made a shot and played a fast break!

During the official timeout of the second quarter, the Eagles replaced McGrady with Iguodala. At this time, the score was 52 to 37, and the Eagles kept the point difference at 15 points.

After the Eagles had a clear advantage, they played even more turbulently. At the beginning, they dared not play and forcibly increased their speed, but now they are also running.

Liu Mang and Jason Terry kept going until the end of the first half. After McGrady came up, they mainly made long passes and followed up. With McGrady, Liu Mang and Jason Terry could go down straight together. Although the Supersonics scored 32 points in a single quarter in the second quarter, plus the 24 points in the first quarter, they scored 56 points in the half. Scored 3 points, scored 33 points in the second quarter, and scored 41 points in the half!
首节拿到15分的刘莽第二节拿到16分，半场31分3助攻，帮助老鹰队半场领先18分！
Taking advantage of the fact that the opponent lacked one of the best shooters in the league, the Eagles started a counterattack fast break in the rotation lineup, and played a second quarter performance that was completely different from the last time they played against each other. They did not let the opponent's rotation lineup's rebounding advantage play out, but played out their own fast break.

The Supersonics have fallen into a vicious circle since the Hawks picked up their speed in the last 3 minutes of the first quarter and failed to make shots to widen the point difference.

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After the intermission, after returning to the locker room, coach Kruger and Mike Woodson made more perfect supplements for the team's dominant play in the second quarter. The Eagles entered the second half with an 18-point lead.

In the third quarter, the Hawks replaced Liu Mang, McGrady, and Prince on the outside, but on the inside, Josh Smith and Kwame Brown were replaced by a pair of high school students.

Liu Mang saw his teammates playing with him, probably the lineup with the lowest education in the NBA.

The Supersonics continued to use the starting lineup, and the starting lineup could still compete. In fact, when the starting lineup was present in the second quarter, the Supersonics scored 9 to 29 against the Eagles 31 minutes after the second quarter. In fact, they were evenly matched. It was the Hawks who opened the score in those 6 minutes and played the best counterattack rhythm of the Eagles.

Veteran Mourning really wanted to find a cigarette to light up and sigh about life. Being a substitute has no human rights. He came to prepare for the away game in advance, but he didn't get a minute of playing time after half the game, so he had to show his positive side of the locker room leader.

Then Mourning stood on the sidelines, yelling loudly to move faster when defending, to stimulate the vitality of his teammates.

As soon as the third quarter came up, Francis made a desperate breakthrough. Under the urging of Mourning, the Eagles players played more defensively, using high-speed rotation defense to let the Supersonics make quick shots.

Leading by 18 points, the Eagles are no longer afraid of the opponent's accuracy, as long as they counterattack and run, they can also make shots!

What Liu Mang wants is not to blow up the opponent in twos and twos, but in fact he can't blow it up. This is the second team in the Western Conference. What he wants is high scores!A difference of more than ten points like this couldn't be more appropriate!

No one knew Liu Mang's careful thinking, the Eagles didn't know it, and the Supersonics didn't know it. The Supersonics still thought they had a chance to catch up with 10 points, so they played harder and tried their best to chase points.

Liu Mang also played harder to score and help his teammates to score. He shot when he should shoot, and restrained the defense when he needed to help his teammates. In addition, McGrady started to break through and score again.

The Hawks scored 36 points in the third quarter, and the Sonics scored 35 points. Although Lewis scored 38 points in the third quarter, Liu Mang scored 45 points in the third quarter!14 points in the third quarter!
The Eagles finished three quarters, 110 to 91, leading by 19 points and entering the fourth quarter.

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Back from the fourth quarter, the Eagles put on the full starting lineup again. Only Ridnour, Antonio Daniels, and Jerome James took a 6-minute break for the Sonics. The others played all three quarters, but they still got to play.

Liu Mang, who was already shooting high, went to the frontcourt and received a pass from McGrady and threw a three-pointer directly. The ball hit the front board and hit the square above the backboard and bounced into the basket. He hit the seventh three-pointer of the game and his personal score increased to 48 points. The Hawks also led the SuperSonics by 113 points 91-22.

Just as Francis was about to bring his teammates up to try to struggle, he was discouraged by Liu Mang's three-pointer!

Can't let Liu Mang score!This guy is going to score 50 points!

The first quarter was okay, and the second quarter was okay, but after three quarters, Liu Mang scored 45 points in three quarters and led the team to a 19-point lead. The confidence of the SuperSonics was on the verge of collapse. Even the psychological advantage established by winning the Eagles in the previous game would also collapse. Now they only have one thought, that is, they will lose to the Eagles without Ray Allen.

But now Liu Mang made another three-pointer in the fourth quarter.

No need to move, no need to fake, just make a hard three-pointer and score!

When it came to the Sonics offense, Lewis scored a three-pointer against Rasheed Wallace's defense.

When it was the Hawks' turn to attack, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt. As soon as he was beyond the three-point line, Francis stuck up and blocked the three-pointer to make a breakthrough. When Liu Mang suddenly reached the free throw line, Ridnour let go of Prince to attack.

The Supersonics began to double-team Liu Mang crazily. How could Liu Mang give up when he saw that it was going to score 50 points?
Liu Mang stuck his head towards Ridnour with a sullen head. After contacting Ridnour, he stopped the ball and swayed his shot. Both Ridnor and Francis jumped up. Liu Mang rubbed against Ridnor, grabbed the ball with his right hand and bumped towards Ridnor's arm...

"Beep..."

The referee whistles, the thugs foul!
Originally, the Supersonics would not give Liu Mang such a big body contact, especially when flanking, but now they can't care so much, just to prevent Liu Mang from taking a good shot.

In the next few rounds, as long as McGrady gave the ball to Liu Mang, Liu Mang would take the ball and rush to the inside. If the outside line had no chance, he would rush to the inside.

At the 5th minute of the fourth quarter, Liu Mang finally got three fouls, made 6 of 5 free throws, and raised his personal score to 53 points!
The Eagles also scored 5 points in these 14 minutes, 124 to 104, leading the Supersonics by 20 points.

With 53 points and 7 minutes left, Supersonics head coach Nate McMillan called a timeout and replaced the main players to declare surrender.

He didn't want to see Liu Mang get 60 points! With a 20-point difference, they couldn't catch up anyway. Seeing Liu Mang's stat brush behavior, Nate McMillan knew what Liu Mang wanted to do.

The Supersonics replaced the main players. Coach Kruger saw a group of substitutes taking off their training uniforms on the other side's bench, and also replaced the main players.

Liu Mang was just happy to make fouls, and he wanted to make as many free throws as he did with the Bulls. Now he has only 12 free throws...and 53 points...but he still has to show his face.

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In the end, the Hawks beat the Sonics by 132 to 118, 14 points.

The Eagles tied the team's winning streak this season, and their record became 43 wins and 7 losses, continuing to maintain the league's first record.

弗朗西斯26分13助攻6板，刘易斯41分4板，两人尽力了，但架不住刘莽单场50+和麦迪的双15+表现！

With the help of Liu Mang and Jason Terry, McGrady scored 16 points and 17 assists, increasing his assists per game to 11.7, only 12.1 away from Nash's 0.4 assists per game.

Liu Mang scored 53 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, raising his scoring average to 36.7 points per game!
这还不是最关键的，最关键的是刘莽拿到了本赛季第20次40+，也是本赛季第5次50+！继续刷新着现役球员单赛季40+和50+次数的记录。

At the moment when the final whistle came to mind, Liu Mang couldn't help laughing out loud as he listened to the system prompt.

Ray Allen's star card is here!
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Asking for a monthly ticket, there is another chapter, before ten o'clock, eat something, and go through the plot of the second half of the season and need to speed up the pace to enter the playoffs.

(End of this chapter)