From today on is the king

Chapter 689 688. The next stop is Detroit (the third one is coming!)
After Iverson directly announced his surrender, the Eagles replaced all the starters in a face-saving manner, and let Jason Terry take Barnes, Korver, Mohammed, and Kwame Brown up to maintain a lead of more than 10 points. Both teams started freestyle offense and defense.

In the end, the Eagles easily won the game with a lead of 111 to 99, 12 points, and their record improved to 47 wins and 8 losses. They still have a chance to win 2 games before the end of February, and there are three games left in the next five days!
上场30分钟拿到，23投13中，拿到34分4板4助攻，刘莽今天的表现完全压制住了艾弗森！
Moreover, the task of preventing Iverson from scoring 20 points was also achieved!

Although in the eyes of others, Iverson didn’t want to win the bet, Liu Mang won the disgrace, and felt that the bet was not counted, because there was still more than one quarter in the game, and Iverson insisted on taking it. It might be impossible to get 30 points or even 25 points. However, exceeding 20 points is as easy as drinking water, and you won’t be choked. It’s just that Iverson doesn’t want to get that point during garbage time.

But Liu Mang doesn't care so much, if he wins, he wins, and when the task is completed, it is completed!
Liu Mang, who was taking a shower in the bathroom of the locker room, looked at the system panel prompting him to get the star card of Iverson's peak year, and laughed like a pig...

The teammates who had just changed their clothes after taking a shower and were about to leave the locker room for an interview heard Liu Mang's laughter. Even though this laughter is very common, they are still not used to it, it's too obscene!

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After the duel with Iverson, Liu Mang originally thought that he had offended Iverson this time, but when he went back to the hotel to watch the news, Liu Mang saw that Iverson was in a good mood when he was interviewed in the news!
"Ace, that bastard, I'll make him look good next season!"

"Am I angry at his provocation? Kang busy Beibi, that guy is afraid of me passing the ball, didn't you see that?"

"There is nothing fair or unfair about winning. If he wins, he wins. If I lose, I lose. I only scored 19 points. This is a fact."

"Glenn Robinson? He is very good, but we are not suitable to be teammates. I don't want to say anything about him receiving the ball and not shooting. I hope the management can make a good choice. It's time for us to start rebuilding the winning culture. I am confident that my breakthrough points are very strong, but I need my teammates to cooperate with my mobilization, complete the running positions I need, and let me organize the offense. Some teammates are obviously not."

"I won't force the team to do something, but I will communicate with them. I am 29 years old. We need a healthier and better future plan. Will I use the contract extension as a bargaining chip? Of course, I will definitely. I need them to feel the pressure. Just to tell you, I envy Ace's teammates, but our teammates are also great. We reached the finals back then, but we are getting older, so we need to do it all over again..."

Watching the TV screen, Iverson, who was trying to restrain his unruly character and wanted to communicate with the media, still couldn't stop himself from "domineering sideways leakage". Liu Mang touched his chin, and the stubble grew again. He took out the razor from the box and shaved off the beard.

This guy is so proud when he loses, that's enough.

However, Liu Mang still has a little expectation. Although Iverson is really a key point in his career at the age of 29, if he succeeds in his transition and has good teammates, it will be a very troublesome opponent for Liu Mang, but he really wants to fight against the different Iverson.

In the 01-02 season, Iverson was at the pinnacle of personal offense. Liu Mang played against that Iverson and learned about Iverson’s strength at that time. Now the 29-year-old Iverson has returned from major surgery. Even if he continues to use the previous style of play, even if the rules are more favorable to the outside line, Iverson is unlikely to be able to play the invincible personal offense of the 26-year-old three years ago, and it is difficult for such an Iverson to have a strong opponent.

Just like the 2016 All-Star, James was reluctant to let Kobe retire, and Liu Mang was not willing to lose such a strong opponent as Iverson, and kept his previous style of play. Apart from switching to another team, Iverson might not have good teammates to join him.

After turning off the TV, Liu Mang took a good look at the rewards he got today.

Iverson's pinnacle star card, this... is it good against the OK combination?It is estimated that it will work well!It is definitely better than Iverson in the 01-02 season!
The hooligan value increased by hundreds of thousands, and then the hooligan value increased by hundreds of thousands. The first reason is that Liu Mang provoked Iverson before the game and offended many Iverson fans. Later, the fans found that things were obviously different from what they imagined. This seems to be the normal way of communication between Iverson and Liu Mang.

There is still more than 1900 superstar points. There is nothing special about beating the 76ers. Even if they have Iverson, the task is only related to Iverson alone, and the others basically cannot provide obstacles.

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After beating the 76ers, the Hawks still had two games in their six-game streak. On July 7th, they came to Milwaukee after a long journey. After a night's rest, they played against the Bucks for the third time this season.

In the last four days of this month, from the 26th to the 29th, the Eagles will play three games in four days. The opponent Bucks in this game is relatively the weakest. Then there will be back-to-back games against the Pistons and the Heat. Those two are the most difficult problems.

The Bucks are quite unexpected this year, and it is also beyond Liu Mang's expectations.

Liu Mang didn't know much about the Bucks in the past few years. From Ray Allen and Payton's team swap to Payton's going to Los Angeles, even with Reid, not many Chinese fans paid attention to the Bucks after that. It was not until the Bucks selected Yi Jianlian that they entered the sight of Chinese fans again.

Before the All-Star Weekend, the Bucks had been fluctuating in the seventh, eighth, or ninth place in the Eastern Conference. Public opinion generally believed that after the All-Star Weekend, when the teams competing for the playoffs began to go all out for the playoffs, the Bucks would fall. Who knew that after the All-Star Weekend, the Bucks won a wave of five consecutive victories!There was also one of four games in five days, and the Bucks won all of them. So far, the Bucks' record has improved to 26 wins and 30 losses, beating the Hornets and Knicks, ranking sixth in the Eastern Conference!
And the Celtics, which were originally highly optimistic, have fallen to ninth in the Eastern Conference!The record has been caught up by the Cavaliers, all with 22 wins!
To everyone's surprise, the Bucks did not collapse this year because of the loss of core guard Payton, but stood up tenaciously!

And the Eagles didn't dare to be careless in this game. They didn't dare to lose a game here. Who told someone to boast that Haikou will win at least 68 wins!

Moreover, slowly the Eagles players and coaching staff have become very motivated to achieve this achievement. According to the current turbulent league situation, especially a team called the Bobcats in Charlotte is about to come out to snatch people. The Eagles, which has a bunch of high-quality young players, will definitely be their target. That is, after the end of the season and before the end of the draft, the Eagles will definitely make big moves to avoid direct losses. This is also the choice of most strong teams, and the Eagles are no exception.

In the future, it will be very difficult for this group of people to get together. Now that there is an opportunity to create a career together, everyone is very focused on winning every game.

Even if the physical problem is so big now!
If you switch to other teams except the Hawks and Rockets, there will not be so many physical problems during this period. There are less than 30 games left in the second half of the season.

Who made the Eagles and Rockets the key entry point for the league to open up the Chinese market!
Therefore, in order to slow down the physical fitness of the players, coach Kruger took turns to rest Rasheed Wallace and Raheem. For the next game against the Pistons, Ratliff first came back to play the Bucks to find his feeling.

Originally there was Ostertag, but after he went to Atlanta to report for his physical examination, the Eagles sent him to Detroit to prepare first. The next game was the most difficult game. The Eagles could continue to play with the depth of the lineup.

In this game, the Eagles sent a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Prince, Barnes, Boozer, and Ratliff.

The Bucks sent a starting lineup of TJ-Ford, Reid, Van Horn, Desmond Mason, and Joe Smith.

Compared with the previous game, the starting lineup has changed three times. The Eagles have no physical problems in the starting lineup, and they are very active on the field.

The local fans in Milwaukee felt chills when they saw the Eagles changed their lineup and still looked so scary.

Just like what the fans thought, seeing another core combination of Liu Mang, Boozer and Ratliff made me feel cold.

Meeting Reid and TJ-Ford again, Liu Mang was very excited to break through the inside line at the beginning of the game. The Bucks also put in all their strength in this game. The Bucks played very aggressively against the Eagles who were forced to take a break in consecutive away games and their physical fitness declined. However, the best defender among the three perimeters of TJ-Ford, Reed, and Van Horn was actually Reed!
Reid can move laterally, and steals fiercely, but the opponent is Liu Mang!

Only halfway through the first quarter, Reed was fouled twice by Liu Mang.

Reed originally wanted to fight Liu Mang, but he didn't expect to be too active and got himself involved.

As for the Eagles, Liu Wei saw that the two defensive front lines were unable to play, so he took on more tasks. The offensive end worked hard to kill, and the defense worked hard to prevent TJ Ford.

They are indeed sixth in the Eastern Conference and are becoming more and more stable, but their winning percentage is still less than [-]%, which is completely different from the playoff teams in the Western Conference. Except for the Nuggets, the top eight teams in the Western Conference have a winning percentage of more than [-]%.

Liu Mang played 7 minutes in the first quarter, scored 6 points and 2 assists in 11 of 2 free throws, made 7 free throws, made 7 of 6 free throws, and stole TJ Ford twice. Liu Mang's speed is not as good as TJ Ford, and no one in the league can match him.

After Stockton came up, he played more pick-and-roll offenses with Boozer, coupled with the increasingly experienced Kwame Brown and corner musketeer Jason Terry, Liu Mang and Stockton led the team successively. They easily scored 26 to 17 in the first quarter, leading the Bucks by 9 points after the first quarter!
Originally, Reid should be the vanguard of the Eagles in this game, but he defended Liu Mang too aggressively in the first quarter, and Liu Mang made two shooting fouls. After re-starting in the second quarter, he played timidly, defending against Stockton and Boozer's pick-and-roll. 11 points!

Although consecutive away games will bring a great impact on physical fitness, it will also allow the player's state to continue as long as the physical fitness is sufficient. The Eagles will rest the players who are obviously tired and use players with relatively better physical fitness as the main force.

Stockton finished with 4 points and 3 assists. Although he seemed to have only 3 assists, when he and Boozer led the second team, the Eagles opened up a 10-point gap, which was even worse than Liu Mang's 7-point gap in the first 5 minutes, because the Bucks' second team was so bad!
The Bucks started well, but as a substitute, Tim Thomas was sent to New York to save money. It seems that only Kukoc was left as a good substitute. In November, Kukoc happily renewed a 11-year 2 million contract pension with the Bucks, and he still played 700 minutes per game. He has no shortage of championships, and he is the happiest among the capable players who have left the Eagles.

In the second half of the second quarter and the third quarter, it was time for Liu Mang to play. In 19 minutes, Liu Mang scored 23 points, 3 assists and 4 rebounds, helping the Eagles to open the point difference to 77 to 55 before the end of the third quarter. The Eagles led by 22 points in the third quarter!
Liu Mang scored 34 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in three quarters and clocked in to get off work!Because of the first two fouls, Reed became timid throughout the game and played extremely badly. The Bucks fans were dissatisfied. Now there is a disease among Milwaukee basketball fans called "icophobia", which means that Reid plays badly every time he meets Liu Mang.

In the end, the Eagles easily defeated the Bucks 100 to 79 to get eight consecutive victories.

The record has also improved to 48 wins and 8 losses, continuing to refresh the record since the new century!

After the Bucks, the Eagles started to run around again. After the All-Star Weekend, the real powerful opponents for the six-game streak are the Lakers, Kings, and Pistons. The Lakers and Kings have been defeated by the Eagles. The Eagles have already won the top five opponents of the five-game streak. The final challenge is the next stop!
(End of this chapter)