1108. The wolf kings roar
Garnett is going to explode on the spot!
After working hard for so long, the opponent came up and hit two unreasonable three-pointers, suddenly widening the point difference to 8 points!
As for his two best outside teammates, Szczerbiak performed poorly against strong teams, and Ricky Davis was unreasonable and unreasonable no matter who he played, maintaining a shooting percentage of over 40%.
, the Spurs had this kind of shooting rate against the Lakers, and the Bobcats, Trail Blazers, and Knicks also had this kind of shooting rate, but although Ricky Davis is easy to use, it is not enough to deal with Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, and even Jason Terry.
look!
Starting from the second half of the first quarter, the Eagles started with Liu Mang finishing with McGrady, and McGrady finishing with Jason Terry.
The Eagles ship doesn’t even need an oar! Although the Eagles have obvious flaws on the perimeter, the Timberwolves’ perimeter trio all have the ability to attack with the ball. Rashad McCants was the scorer in the Atlantic Division during the NCAA period.
Wang, beat Jason Terry and scored three consecutive times, allowing the Eagles to start a double attack. The Timberwolves' scoring efficiency also improved, but the Eagles scored more!
The effect was immediate. The Hawks' Three Eagles were replaced, quickly changing the slow-paced offense dominated by the Timberwolves into the fast-paced offense they are better at.
When the Eagles shoot faster and the Timberwolves have more scoring opportunities, the Timberwolves' rhythm naturally picks up, because if you go faster, you will have scoring opportunities, but if you slow down, the Timberwolves players will not be able to play in isolation.
Well, the natural rhythm followed the Eagles.
This is the strategy of the Eagles. Give up part of the defense, give the opponent a little sweetness first, and bring the opponent's rhythm up. Slowly, it transitions from the Timberwolves' rich experience of using low scores to the Eagles' wave-playing style.
Rich in experience!
After the first quarter, the Eagles led the Timberwolves by 7 points, 29-22, entering the second quarter.
After the second quarter, the rhythm began to be truly controlled by the Eagles.
Garnett can no longer control it!
He can use his unique temperament to let his teammates focus on defense to defeat strong teams repeatedly. But after all, the Timberwolves are a lineup composed of contract-year players. When they see a scoring opportunity, how can they not rush to play.
The Timberwolves usually work hard on the defensive end, mainly because their opponents see that their offense is poor, so they want to use defense to make their offense worse. Instead, they enter the Timberwolves' rhythm-breaking style of play.
Don't look at the Timberwolves' record, which is second to last in the Western Conference. With a record of 18 wins and 25 losses, it's not that bad. It's just that the Western Conference is too wild. Except for the Trail Blazers, who are last at 10 wins and 33 losses, even 18-win teams like the Timberwolves and the Rockets
A team like this with 19 wins can disrupt the bottom half of the Eastern Conference playoffs by going to the East.
Those teams that lost to the Timberwolves were just like the Hawks playing the Timberwolves for the first time this season. They did not expect the Timberwolves, the second-to-last team in the Western Conference, to be so defensive. They were defeated by the Timberwolves who took advantage of their rich low-scoring experience.
And not many teams take the Timberwolves seriously. After all, they are only the second-to-last team in the Western Conference.
But this time the Eagles are different. The coaching staff and players attach great importance to this team that defeated them. After feeling the strength of the opponent's defensive end in the first half of the first quarter, they immediately changed their style of play and did not continue to press the Timberwolves.
Score, but give a little sweetness to let the Timberwolves run!
In the second quarter, after he started running completely, Garnett began to fall into despair.
For the Hawks, Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, Jason Terry, Korver, and Rasheed Wallace took turns throwing three-pointers. Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown were not running.
People can block it. The eight-man rotation of the Eagles at the beginning of the second quarter completely kicked off the offensive rhythm, and the waves were flying!
Garnett's roar gradually became desperate, and his teammates tasted the joy of scoring. Like a group of addicted drug addicts, they began to lose sight of defense and wanted to score points for themselves.
However... although Garnett hates this kind of scoring, he still eats well, runs the most aggressively, and his scoring begins to improve.
The two teams scored 35-30 in the second quarter. After halftime, the Eagles led 64-52 by 12 points!
Garnett finished the half with 19 points...
Starting from the second quarter, Garnett couldn't yell at his teammates anymore, so he started a sharp attack.
In a fast-paced game, Garnett at his peak is really good. He can make emergency mid-range shots, can make air cuts, and can also be a leading counterattack. He is an inside line that is beyond the times. Compared with the future in Liu Mang's impression,
The number one center in Anthony Davis, Garnett can be regarded as an enhanced version of Anthony Davis. The key is that he can lead the team to the Western Conference Finals without getting injured when the team only has one All-Star teammate.
Anthony Davis is not good at this. Anthony Davis withered in the second round of the playoffs.
It's a pity that Garnett roared again and again and took shots again and again, but he couldn't stop the Eagles, a big ship driven by waves, from moving forward!
This time the Eagles were fully prepared. As soon as they saw that relying on defense was not working, they started to make waves. The Eagles, who had already studied the shortcomings of the Timberwolves, made waves one after another.
Finally, in the third quarter, the Timberwolves tried to use the waves to control the waves, but they just missed the Hawks' huge waves and were beaten to death on the shore.
In the third quarter, the Eagles scored 32 points in a single quarter, while the Timberwolves only had 23 points. At the end of the three quarters, the score was opened to 96 to 75 by the Eagles, a 21-point difference!
Liu Mang made 6 three-pointers in three quarters!
Although there were few assists today, he still had 7 assists in three quarters and scored 25 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists in the three quarters.
Tracy McGrady scored 18 points in the third quarter and made 4 three-pointers. Jason Terry scored 12 points and made 3 three-pointers. There will be more waves.
In the fourth quarter, the Hawks' three eagles were not sent out at first. Coach Kruger wanted the team's three main scorers to rest more and reserve physical fitness for the Spurs game the day after tomorrow.
Seeing Garnett still play in the fourth quarter, coach Kruger was still a little worried.
However, after the fourth quarter of the game started, Kwame Brown, as the high school representative of the Eagles, got angry at the opponent's high school student Garnett on the court, imitating Rasheed Wallace's roar to counter the roar. With Calderon
, with the help of Iguodala, Korver and Josh Smith, they withstood Garnett's offensive performance of 11 points and 2 assists in the fourth quarter, limiting Garnett to only two steals in the fourth quarter.
A rebound helped the Eagles maintain their lead until the end.
In the end, with Kwame Brown's 8 rebounds in a single quarter, the Hawks defeated the Timberwolves 122 to 106, a 16-point advantage.
Garnett scored a lonely and desperate 41 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 blocks and 2 steals. Looking at the opponent Mitaka talking and laughing on the bench with Duncan next to him, Garnett walked lonely to the tunnel.
"Ding... The Wolf King's ultimate roar mission is completed. Congratulations to the host for gaining 10,000 superstar points."
Hearing the news, Liu Mang thought of Garnett's performance today, and thought of Garnett's roar everywhere today. Liu Mang still felt a little sentimental. He might never hear Garnett, the Wolf King, again in the game.
Nate roared. Maybe Garnett will go to a strong team, have better teammates, and have a better record, but the Wolf King will no longer be the Wolf King.
Although the team-up was the start of the peak team-up mode between the Big Three of the 2003 generation, Garnett's success in team-up was the trigger for a series of team-ups after that. After all, the Big Four of the Lakers in 2003-04 did not succeed, and Garnett's team-up was not successful.
Success, and only success, can bring hope to others...
However...Liu Mang doesn't want those who join forces to succeed...
No matter where Garnett goes, Liu Mang is confident that he will take them down.
"Ace...Ace..."
Liu Mang was patted on the shoulder. He turned around and saw that Duncan and others had already stood up. Duncan called out to Liu Mang who had been thinking about it for a long time. He couldn't help but patted him: "Ou, Ace, what are you thinking about?
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Liu Mang watched Kwame Brown, who scored 22 points and 21 rebounds today, going to be interviewed, and responded to Duncan: "It's nothing, I was thinking about our party tomorrow, and I accidentally got distracted."
"Oh, let's see you tomorrow. When can I come?" Duncan is looking forward to tomorrow's party. Usually few NBA players invite him to play with him.
"Come here early and let's play music together!"
"Cool! See you at nine o'clock tomorrow morning?"
"See you at nine o'clock..."
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39 wins and 4 losses!
After returning home, the Eagles won three consecutive games.
Next comes the "Spring Festival War" or the "Championship Revenge Game" that fans in both China and the United States are paying close attention to. The Eagles play the Spurs at home.
Domestically, even on the important New Year's Eve, fans are paying attention to the pre-match news about this game.
Duncan has a unique charm. Even though he doesn't like to be pushy, has few gossips, and doesn't have those particularly explosive performances, fans still like him.
Before Duncan was in China, only professional fans noticed him, but after the Spurs and the Hawks, the most popular team in the country, played in the finals last year, Duncan's unpretentious but extremely powerful style of play almost
It can be regarded as a level above other power forwards in NBA history, and has won the love of a large number of domestic fans.
Regarding this point, the famous American media "USA Today" analyzed during Christmas that Kobe and Duncan, Tracy McGrady, Iverson, Carter, Garnett and others are so popular in China. American reporters were very puzzled.
, Tracy McGrady and Kobe Bryant were already very popular in China before they partnered with two Chinese players, Liu Mang and Yao Ming. Especially Kobe Bryant and Iverson, Tracy McGrady inexplicably had such high popularity in China, and the fans
They are all diehard fans, and they are another unsolved mystery in the NBA.
Just when the fans were imagining whether the unpredictable team of the Hawks and the evil team of the Spurs were carrying out some conspiracy plan, the core players of the two teams were in China on New Year's Eve.
Chapter completed!