From today on is the king

Chapter 1013 1012. Devil's Steps

Some things are unavoidable, you can only accept it, and then find a way to deal with it.

For example, the rules are changed, the defensive free throw line is not allowed to start, the head coach who can adapt will continue to survive, and the one who does not adapt will be eliminated. This is the difference between Popovich and Larry Brown.

Only James’ style of play can make him perform like a superstar. If the league wants to praise him, it will naturally not brag about his walking. Otherwise, before his current skills are polished, he will be the ultimate version of Steve Francis.

The league will certainly not change the whistle on James, so it has to find a way to deal with it.

James' special three big strides have become part of his strength, and it is indeed difficult to defend. He can only choose to shrink and attack, and the Cavaliers will have a chance from the outside.

Tactics are also a kind of biological chain. The Heat are afraid of the Bulls with high-speed rotation defenses. The Bulls are afraid of the Supersonics led by players like Francis who break through and cannot be defended, but the Supersonics are also afraid of the Heat.

The Cavaliers are another version of the Sonics this season. The Cavaliers are much weaker than the Sonics in pitching, but James is much better than Francis even though he is only in the third grade, and the center of the Cavaliers can also shoot, which is one more shooting spot than the Sonics. The real one-star shooter, Kwame Brown has to follow the big Z, and the big Z relies on mid-range shooting for his food.

McGrady capped James while he was too excited, which was actually an accident.

Immediately after the Cavaliers attacked, James continued to break through. Because Kwame Brown was pulled to the middle distance of the bottom line by Gooden, it was difficult to defend the inside line. The Eagles could only block it with three outside lines. After James rushed to the basket, he was flanked by McGrady, Liu Mang and Prince.

However, James' breakthrough and scoring is really nothing to say, the timing is very good, his teammates don't need to know so many skills, they just need to catch the ball and throw it in.

Damon Jones has degraded seriously this year, and only three-pointers have maintained a first-class level, which just meets James' needs for his teammates. He hit the first three-pointer after receiving the ball!
8 to 10, the point difference returned to two points.

When the Eagles attacked again, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt. Seeing the Los Angeles-like McGrady asking for the ball from the top arc, Liu Mang could only turn into a fish and pass the ball out.

McGrady's superstar status was challenged, and it was the referee's provocation. How could he bear it? Liu Mang had confidence in McGrady, passed the ball to McGrady, and pulled himself to the left at a 45-degree angle to catch the ball and shoot.

McGrady received the ball and took a step forward to the right to get close to the three-point line. James immediately slammed on McGrady.

McGrady is very focused now and reacts quickly. The moment James posted it, McGrady stepped out with his long right leg, started quickly, took two steps in a row, and was already within the distance of the free throw line!
Rao is James, who can't keep up with McGrady's movements even if he is close!

McGrady was still quick in the third step, and grabbed the ball. After taking the third step, he took off and jumped. Big Z pounced on him. McGrady threw the ball to Kwame Brown.

12 to 8, the Eagles continued their offensive firepower.

From the point of view of play, the Cavaliers really restrained the Eagles, just like the Supersonics restrained the Eagles. It is difficult for the Eagles to prevent the sudden points of such a super breakthrough master.

But the Eagles are not at all cowardly.

If the style of play is restrained, it should be restrained. If the defense is not good, try to defend as much as possible, starting from the offensive end!
The Supersonics can't beat the Eagles, let alone the Cavaliers?

When the Cavaliers attacked, Liu Mang, McGrady, and Prince's defensive pincers became faster. At the same time, Liu Mang's expansion after the pincers was also faster. After James broke through and attracted the pincers to release the ball, Damon Jones took a slow shot. He was still thinking about adjusting the same as the last shot, and was slow for half a second. Liu Mang threw himself in front of him.

The Cavaliers built a team around James. The advantage is that the space is wide open, allowing James to break through and score or split the ball, but the disadvantages are also obvious, rebounding!

McGrady and Prince sandwiched James, Kwame Brown rushed in and picked up the rebound, and immediately handed it to McGrady. When McGrady was in the position, he kept paying attention to his teammates. Liu Mang took the lead to cross the half court. Snow and Damon Jones chased towards Liu Mang.

However, McGrady's pass was not to Liu Mang. Liu Mang, the leading scorer in a row, was regarded as an object of hatred. McGrady's pass was to follow-up Rasheed Wallace!
Rasheed Wallace follows the top arc, catches the ball just in time, and makes a chasing three-pointer...

The summer was not in vain, and Rasheed Wallace also scored a three-pointer!

15 to 8, the Eagles lead by 7 points!
After confirming that the defense was restrained by the opponent, Liu Mang arranged defensive counterattack tactics when Coach Kruger asked the referee to reason.

The Cavaliers can make a shot, but there is no way, if they can't make a shot, they will fight back!
Liu Mang knew that Coach Kruger was looking for the referee's theory, and it would not change the referee's tolerance for James' whistle, so the tactical arrangement was very decisive, just like the pre-match arrangement of the coaching staff, just try to speed up the rhythm!

The key point is that the Eagles dare to wave!Without Liang Jingru, the two consecutive championships gave the Eagles players the courage to wave.

More than 4 minutes, 7 points difference, and the Cavaliers called a timeout!And it was James who called the timeout.

Back on the bench, James took the board from Mike Brown, and Mike Brown just watched James lay out plays.

The TV screen did not broadcast this live, but Coach Kruger noticed it. Seeing what happened to the opposing coach, Coach Kruger was very happy!The frustration of the referee blowing McGrady's technical offender was offset.

……

Back from the timeout, the Cavaliers have the ball.

The first long timeout came too early, with no substitutions on the Hawks side and no substitutions on the Cavaliers side.

After James received the ball in the frontcourt, he dribbled it to the top arc, Prince defended within the three-point line, and Liu Mang was ready to pinch at any time.

James still chose to break through. Breakthrough points are his greatest strength, and there is nothing else for the time being.

James broke into the inside, and under the defense of Prince, he entered the defensive range of Kwame Brown's basket. James didn't have a good jumping space, so he didn't take three big steps, and rushed to the basket.

The Cavaliers' tactics have changed!

On the offensive end, the Cavaliers put the big Z closer to the basket. This strategy is very smart. With Kwame Brown at the basket, the Hawks will have fewer people to shrink.

10 to 15, still 5 points difference.

James is really good. Even if there is no extra footsteps to find space, it is unsolvable to break through alone. The extra footsteps are also based on unsolvable breakthroughs, and he has a high golf quotient. He quickly changed the disadvantage of too few offensive options.

But... the Eagles are playing more aggressively!
McGrady received the ball from Liu Mang in the frontcourt and continued to break through. The Cavaliers quickly shrank and wrapped McGrady into a dumpling!
At this time, McGrady threw the ball to the left weak side when James' swaying arm and Gooden blocked the right pass line, and Big Z pushed Kwame Brown under the basket.

It was such a tacit understanding. Liu Mang ran without the ball and cut in from the left side of the three-second zone to receive the ball. At this time, Kwame Brown, who was crowded with the big Z, immediately became the one crowded by Kwame Brown.

Kwame Brown is speechless, can't he make a good layup?Usually do not buckle, do you have to buckle every other?Teammates don't let go?
In exactly 5 minutes, the Eagles scored 17 points!
17 to 10, still a 7-point difference!

The Cavaliers played well offensively, but the Hawks were even better!
Obviously, the Cavaliers are very uncomfortable with the fast pace of the Hawks. Just like the 76ers, the season has just started, and they haven't figured out how to solve the problem that the Hawks are too accurate outside, and the two big perimeter breakthroughs are strong.

Perhaps as the season progresses, other teams will find many ways to limit the Eagles' style of play, but now, the Cavaliers can't hold it!
Especially McGrady's crazy core offensive player's style of play does not require McGrady to defend alone. The Cavaliers' starting lineup only has James' singles strength, and everyone else's style of play is limited to eating cakes.

In addition to the counterattack, the Eagles are now playing McGrady's outside three-pointers and breakthrough shots, which seem to be the same as James' style of play.

The same style of play, the threat of the two breaking through is not the same, but McGrady can now say what he dreamed of for a long time during the Magic team: I have teammates who are better than everyone!
Tracy McGrady and James continued to confront Biao. When the first quarter was officially suspended, the Cavaliers scored 7 points in 16 minutes, a very high score, but the Eagles scored 24 points!
James performed very well, relying on breakthrough points, scored 6 points and 3 assists, but McGrady scored 8 points and 4 assists!

Except for Prince's mediocre performance, mainly due to his poor offensive performance, which made the overall performance very mediocre, 2 for 0 three-pointers, and everyone else scored!

McGrady led the Eagles to 7 points in 24 minutes. They were not replaced during the official timeout. Coach Kruger was not happy, let McGrady continue to play them, replaced Liu Mang, replaced Jason Terry, McGrady, Iguodala, Josh Smith, Rasheed Wallace's lineup, and continued to let McGrady lead the offense.

The Cavaliers also began to rotate, replacing the lineup of James, Ronald Murray, Donyell Marshall, Gooden, and Varejao.

……

Sitting on the sidelines, Liu Mang didn't expect that he would have a day when he was so relaxed that he could watch his teammates lead the team to abuse their opponents on the sidelines.

Tracy McGrady and Jason Terry went up to take turns, it was too cruel. Both of them were in their best physical condition at the beginning of the season, especially Tracy McGrady, who practiced for so long in the summer, and there was no wasted time. After the training camp and the preseason, they were in a very good state.

James' data can be played very beautifully, but judging from the scene, there is no doubt that the Eagles have the absolute upper hand.

They are all rotation lineups, but since Larry Hughes is not around on the Cavaliers side, the bench lineup is not bad, but this time even the Big Z is gone. The best ones are actually Varejao and James.

After the first quarter, the Eagles scored 38 points!
The Cavaliers played well and scored 26 points, but the Eagles scored too many points and led by 12 points in a single quarter!
……

The score was too exaggerated. The TNT commentators Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley who broadcast the game live did not know how to describe the game. The Eagles' game completely pinched the opponent.

Although Kenny Smith and Barkley are usually gags, they still have professional knowledge. Kenny Smith made an inference: "The Hawks understand the current rules one step earlier than other teams and make use of them. Liu said after the last game against the 76ers that they just made all the shots that should be made. However, the Cavaliers missed many shots that should be made. Perhaps in the future, shooting will become the master of the league."

Kenny Smith, as a pitcher, is looking forward to that day.

But Charles Barrick doesn't like this statement: "The real basketball is the hand-to-hand combat at the basket. Look at Ace and McGrady. The main attack is still at the basket. McGrady just uses three-pointers as a tool to attract the opponent's defense."

"Maybe you're right. It's like I got two rings for shooting three-pointers, and you hit the basket empty-handed." Kenny Smith didn't know when he took out the championship ring and put it on.

"Kenny, I want to fight you!"

"Are you talking about my donkey? It seems to fall in love with you, and it can't eat anymore..."

……

McGrady is the protagonist today, the one who played the best, leading the Eagles to continuously expand the score.

In this contest with James, McGrady has the upper hand, and it is obvious that the Hawks' pitchers are better than the Cavaliers' pitchers. The Cavaliers' best pitchers are Donyell Marshall and Damon Jones, but the average three-point hits of the two of them are equal to Liu Mang...

In the 3rd minute of the fourth quarter, Liu Mang made his fourth three-pointer and finally scored 20 points. He also had 22 rebounds and 5 assists. Looking at his statistics, Liu Mang felt that he was the ultimate version of Derek Fisher, except that he didn't like his teammate's wife.

Scoring depends on eating cakes, assists rely on catching and passing the ball or splitting the ball when cutting in. He doesn't need to do too much at all. When McGrady doesn't need to spend a lot of effort on the defensive end, he performs really well on the offensive end.

打了34分钟了，拿到30分6板11助攻！力压詹姆斯那边的27分4板10助攻！

James is the kind of player whose stats are never bad, but the Cavaliers are not. In the third minute of the fourth quarter, with Liu Mang's three-pointer, the Eagles scored 3 points!The Cavaliers only had 107 points. It's not that the Cavaliers' offense is bad, but that they can't defend at all.

Three minutes after the start of the fourth quarter, the point difference was finally opened to more than 3 points!
James has worked very hard, but watching Eric Snow make another open mid-range shot and Liu Mang got a defensive rebound.

Liu Mang saw that the Cavaliers' bench had already started to make moves, so he didn't give the ball to McGrady, so he made the last attack himself!

This guy is 30+10!
Liu Mang wants to get his score to 25 points!Don't stop until you get three points in this attack!

Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt and saw Snow pounced on him like a mad dog. Liu Mang dodged sideways and rushed inside. Two points are also possible, 24, what a number!

Liu Mang rushes to the free throw line, grabs the ball, prepares for a squirming layup, and shows his face at the last moment. At this time, Snow turns around and catches up. James is also mistreated and attacks Liu Mang. Liu Mang takes a step, and Snow catches up with him. Another step, James comes, and the third step goes out without a chance!
In the blink of an eye, Liu Mang decisively took the fourth step!

The referee's whistle was in his mouth, but he put it down.

It's not just that the opponent is not used to the three-step layup with one jump step, the Cavaliers themselves are not used to it. Liu Mang stepped out on the fourth step and landed on both feet, turning over and throwing...

"Uh..." Liu Mang felt his face slap.

It is agreed that whoever can take an extra step can invest in it?
Liu Mang's toss cast a bridge, three non-stick!The ball fell to the floor, a group of people under the basket scrambled, and the ball went out of bounds.

Cavaliers head coach Mike Brown called a timeout.

McGrady came up and patted Liu Mang, holding back a smile, the players on the bench for the Eagles had already started to take off their training uniforms, and the same was true for the Cavaliers.

Depressed, Liu Mang followed McGrady to the bench, watching Jason Terry excitedly bring the bench up to prepare for the stats, so depressed!
It's not suitable at all!
No wonder in Liu Mang's memory, after the league changed the jumping rules, James was the only one who played that way, because he was the only one who was used to that style of play, while the others were used to the normal three-step layup, and taking two extra steps would ruin their own rhythm.

One more step for a layup requires that ability!
This time, Liu Mang understood the meaning of "you can do it, you can go up", and not everyone can do the three-step jump and one more step for a layup.

If the league really confirms the change of the rules and defines this extra step as "legal", then James' current performance is his true strength. Nothing in the NBA will change, and it is impossible for others to learn this move so easily.

……

Just as Liu Mang thought, David Stern, who was watching the TNT live broadcast, saw Liu Mang imitate James' layup and actually made a three-point shot, and his old eyes immediately lit up.

As the president of the NBA, he has a lot of professional knowledge about basketball. Being the president of the NBA for more than 20 years is not for nothing. Seeing that Liu Mang's skills are so good and players who can play with both hands are not used to this kind of layup, he immediately decided to change the rules!

From the 03-04 season, many fans attacked the league and praised James. It's just that James' Cavaliers were weak at that time and could not affect the strong teams. Except for the Spurs and Pistons, the strong teams were very popular. That is to say, most fans didn't care so much.

This year, on the basis of James and Big Z, the Cavaliers supplemented Larry Hughes and dug up several high-quality role players. There is no problem in making the playoffs, but it is much worse to become the face of the league like Liu Mang.

Jordan, Olajuwon, Malone, O'Neal... Even Iverson, when he was acting as the face, the team's record is one of the best in the league.

David Stern is right to praise Liu Mang, but Liu Mang is a foreigner, and David Stern needs to take care of American fans, so he has to create a new facade.

James must be allowed to perform well, even if criticized by thousands of people.

From the perspective of David Stern, he can see that James has great potential to become a superstar of the era like a magician, a king, a god, and a shark.

So changing the rules, it's on David Stern's schedule, the kind that needs to be done.

Since so many teams complain and so many players complain, it is enough to justify it.

……

22 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, very comprehensive statistics, but Liu Mang is not the protagonist. His most "perfect" shot in this game is probably the four-step layup and three non-stick shots.

麦迪打了34分钟能达到30分6板11助攻成为本场比赛的MVP，帮助老鹰队三节领先18分，第四节带着22分的领先优势下场。

最终，老鹰队靠着麦迪的30分11助攻，刘莽打了28分钟7投4中的三分拿到22分6板4助攻，夸梅-布朗的18分17板，拉希德-华莱士的三个三分，老鹰队128比104，24分的分差狂胜骑士队！
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