From today on is the king

Chapter 635. 634. The Beginning of the Nets' Crash

It was only half an hour after Liu Mang attended the press conference. Liu Mang and his teammates who were both surprised and delighted entered the home arena of the Nets to make the final preparations before the game against the Nets.

Liu Mang suddenly announced such a big event without discussing it, which frightened his teammates.

However, while the teammates were frightened, they were more focused on the next game.

The words have been released, and the Eagles players can only accept their fate.

What's more, they are used to Liu Mang's behavior of making it difficult even if it is not difficult...

Moreover, listening to what Liu Mang said, although this goal is a bit scary, but looking at your own record, it is not impossible!Thinking about having a chance to surpass the regular season record of the Lakers in 2000, I am a little excited!

In short, the Eagles players have a very clear goal. Starting from the new year, no game can be easily lost!

The Nets on the other side were already quite unhappy with the Eagles, and now they are even more unhappy!

Liu Mang wants to announce that they want to have the best record in the new century. The players of the Nets actually have no objection. They are also very envious of the record of the Eagles. They say that they don’t care about the record.

But Liu Mang didn't announce it sooner or later, and he announced it when he was beating them.

In addition, they were originally very hostile to the Eagles. The two teams played against each other twice in the regular season this year, and the Eagles both won. Kidd not only felt the future pressure brought by Liu Wei, he felt that his team's dominance in the Eastern Conference was already in jeopardy!

The regular season has already lost two games, and the Nets can no longer afford to lose!
Last year, he was able to rely on his experience in the playoffs and other things to narrowly beat the Eagles in the tiebreaker. This year, Kidd has already felt the tyranny of the Eagles. If he loses another game in the regular season, he really has no psychological advantage in the playoffs!
The Nets’ signings failed again this year. Although Mourning’s performance in the Nets was far worse than last season, he was still a defensive threat at the basket. At any rate, he averaged 3.2 blocks per game in the first ten years of his career. The deterrence at the basket was there, but after the first month of Mourning’s play, kidney disease broke out. The kidney disease developed from kidney disease to acute kidney failure and required a kidney transplant. The three-year middle class that the Nets just signed with Mourning was directly in vain.

Kidd is under a lot of pressure, very much!

At [-] o'clock in the evening, the Eagles' back-to-back away game against the Nets officially started!
The Eagles sent Liu Mang, Prince, Raheem, Rasheed Wallace, and Ratliff to the starting lineup.

If the Pacers played the Hawks in the third quarter honestly yesterday, it might dig a big hole for the Hawks in the second back-to-back game. Ratliff will definitely not be able to play back-to-back.

But the Pacers "helped" the Eagles to let Ratliff rest for a long time, and only played 9 minutes in the third quarter. Through massage and other physical therapy methods during the day, Ratliff's current physical condition is not bad.

The Nets sent a lineup of Kidd, Kittles, Richard Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, and Jason Collins.

After Mourning was reimbursed, the Nets returned to the style of play in the past two years. From the lineup to the way of playing, there was basically no change except for Richard Jefferson's offense with the ball.

At the beginning of the game, Kidd was in a hurry to establish an advantage at the beginning and lead the team to launch an offensive. Taking advantage of the fact that the Eagles may not be in good shape at the beginning of back-to-back games, they played against the Eagles in the opening wave.

Generally speaking, in the second game of back-to-back games, especially the second game of back-to-back away games, there will be two situations. One is that the team played well at the beginning, but their physical fitness is not enough later, and the other is that they did not rest well.

In short, almost all teams in the league have a common problem in the second game of back-to-back games, which is poor shooting feel and weak performance, so the winning percentage of the second game of back-to-back games in the entire league is not high.

Kidd set the Nets' strategy at the beginning of the game as a single defense and a fast counterattack. He wanted to take advantage of the Hawks' back-to-back weak stage to defend the Eagles' offense with a single defense, and then counterattack the opponent's lack of physical fitness and defense.

Kidd's idea is very good, but the Eagles have Liu Mang!

The Nets chose man-to-man defense. Liu Mang came up and threw the ball. One shot and four others robbed. They played directly in the way that everyone's physical fitness declined in the fourth quarter.

Kidd made a play aimed at the lack of physical fitness of the Eagles. Coach Kruger had expected that the Nets would do this, so he played a strange move from the beginning!

After Byron Scott left, the new head coach of the Nets, Lawrence Frank, was completely a puppet. Everything on the court was carried by Kidd.

Kidd's coaching attributes on the field are very strong and powerful, but he is just a player after all, so he takes it for granted!
Liu Mang threw 6 three-pointers at the start, and made 6 of 3 shots. Two of the shots were missed shots and his teammates grabbed offensive rebounds. Liu Mang made another shot. Liu Mang missed three three-pointers, and his teammates grabbed offensive rebounds three times. There was also one time when Raheem made a tip-up, that is, 5 rounds.

Because Liu Mang was able to make the shot, when he couldn’t make the shot, because the Nets’ single-defense strategy was insufficient, the Hawks hit the offensive rebounds consecutively. They failed to counterattack.

Following Liu Mang's third three-pointer, the Nets were beaten 3-9 by the Eagles after only 4 minutes into the game, and the Nets had to call a timeout.

Seeing Liu Mang's confident shot, seeing the Eagles' targeted defense, completely seeing through their own offense by the Eagles, Kidd seemed to have seen the end of the previous two matches again!

The Eagles already know them all too well!
With an unchanging lineup and not many changing styles of play, Kidd has clearly felt that other strong teams are less and less afraid of them this season, and they already know them too well, but they failed to make any substantial signings in the summer. No big-name players are willing to come to the Nets, even if they have reached the finals for two consecutive years.

And the opponents have strengthened one by one. This year, most of the opponents' play styles have changed drastically, especially the Eagles, which are completely different from last season's play style!
During the timeout, the Nets didn't make too many adjustments. Although Byron Scott's on-the-spot command ability is average, when he has a super point guard, he always leads the team with many bright spots, such as stability, being good at using the advantages of a super point guard to avoid disadvantages, and fully exerting the strength of a super point guard.

And Lawrence Frank was far behind. He saw that the Eagles obviously let Kidd block other people's defenses, allowing Kidd to start with 3 of 2 shots and hit [-] mid-range shots. He chose to let Kidd focus on the attack!

If it was Byron Scott, he would choose to suppress Kidd's desire to shoot, and let Kidd use his own offensive threat to attack the team's offense. But now, after Kidd had a good start, he wanted to shoot more.
Back from the timeout, the Nets attack.

Liu Mang originally wanted to guard against Kidd's organizational offense and stick to Kidd to interfere with Kidd's passing space. Unexpectedly, Kidd came up and used the pick-and-roll to shoot directly!
Kidd's mid-range shots and open three-pointers after the pick-and-roll are not bad, but only good. If it is used as an auxiliary offensive method and used as an end point in tactics, it is okay to score 30.00 or 30.00 points in a game, maintain a [-]% mid-range shooting percentage and a [-]% three-point shooting percentage. But as the first offensive option, then the problem is big!
After Kidd came back from a timeout, he shot in a hurry. When he and Kenyon Martin picked and rolled the first ball, Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace didn't switch defenses in time and were shot. But after the Eagles paid attention to Kidd's defense, Kidd started to hit the iron continuously.

The Eagles, on the other hand, started to play as a team. After Liu Mang threatened from outside, Kidd's defense against Liu Mang became a close defense, and it was very tight.
Taking advantage of Kidd's close defense, Liu Mang attracted the Nets' flanking attack after consecutive breakthroughs. This was different from the initial single-defense strategy. After Liu Mang made three three-pointers in the opening game, the Nets' defensive focus was attracted by Liu Mang. Liu Mang took the ball and the Nets' attention was all on him.

Liu Mang was double-teamed by Kenyon Martin, Kittles, and Richard Jefferson in the mid-range, and he was assigned to Rasheed Wallace, Raheem, and Prince for mid-range shots. When he broke into the basket and was defended by Jason Collins, he was assigned to Ratliff.

When the Nets didn't dare to continue double-teaming, Liu Mang started his offensive performance!

The fiery touch at the beginning continued, and there were three-pointers, mid-range shots, weird footsteps at the basket, fouls or layups!
首节刘莽11投7中爆砍21分4助攻，带领老鹰队打出了33分的超高得分！

On the other hand, for the Nets, coach Lawrence Frank took over the Nets too early. If he has passed the initial pains of the Nets, accepted the top three in the Eastern Conference with a record much higher than theirs, and started to settle down and play. When there are signs of recovery, he will not be completely a puppet coach like he is now. One of the characteristics of his coaching is that he played very well in the second half of the schedule, and his coaching ability in the playoffs is very good. Of course, this is the original In history, he took over the Nets in mid-January this season and achieved excellent coaching performance in the future. He is just a rookie coach who has just moved from assistant to head coach.

Liu Mang's appearance has an increasing impact on the league, and the most obvious one is naturally the Nets, which has the most contact with Liu Mang's Eagles, because the Eagles beat the Nets in the two games before the season, and the Nets' Byron Scott was dismissed in advance, and the Nets fell into a series of mistakes!
After an initial miscalculation by coach Lawrence Frank, the situation got out of hand.

Kidd was under a lot of pressure, and he was very unhappy with Liu Mang's "targeting him everywhere". The 4 of 3 shots in the opening game made him unable to stop behind, especially seeing Liu Mang's wanton scoring.
In the first quarter, Kidd made 70.00% of his three-for-four shots from the beginning. By the end of the first quarter, he was only 12-of-5.
The Eagles led by 33 points 16 to 17 in the first quarter!
After the start of the second quarter, Stockton, who basically didn't play in the last game except for the garbage time in the fourth quarter, came up with Jason Terry, Prince, Boozer, Kwame Brown and Kidd's lineup of Rodney Rogers, Richard Jefferson, Aaron Williams and Kenyon Martin.

Kidd was obviously a little flustered. Before this game, he was only angry and a little unwilling to be reconciled to the pressure brought by Liu Mang, but now he saw that his side was scored 33 points by the Eagles in a single quarter, and he was facing Stockton, the rival in the Western Conference. With the team's obvious advantage in strength, instead of narrowing the point difference, the Nets fell into a 5-minute scoring drought in the second quarter, without a single sports game goal!
And Stockton and Boozer's pick-and-roll cooperation, although the scoring efficiency is not very high because of the Nets' defense, they also scored 5 points in 9 minutes!
The Nets were called timeout again, 42 to 16, and the Eagles came up in the second quarter to open the point difference to 26 points!
The Nets played 17 minutes and only scored 16 points!
This defense is simply moving!
The entire home court of the Nets fell silent. Except for the voices of the players on the court, there were almost no fans booing or cheering!

Stockton returned to the bench surrounded by the Eagles players and got two more assists. Although not many, one is worth one. Magic Johnson has retired, and Mark Jackson is almost out of play this year. Stockton is happy to get an assist!One more is one!He seems to see that when he is lying on the bed and dying in a few decades, he still ranks first in the history of the NBA in assists, and he is far ahead!

(End of this chapter)