687. The magical brains of the four shooting guards(1/2)
Liu Mang slapped Glenn Robinson in the face and then counterattacked with a one-stop dunk. After Liu Mang's verbal attack, Glenn Robinson exploded on the spot! As long as he holds the ball, he will play alone, guard him
The people are constantly changing between Liu Mang and Prince. It's not about who is more suitable to guard Glenn Robinson. Both of them can guard Glenn Robinson. The main thing is to see whether Iverson can catch the ball when being flanked.
No matter which direction he runs after reaching the ball, the one who is closer will chase Iverson, and the other person will guard Glenn Robinson alone.
When the ball was transported to the frontcourt by Glenn Robinson, everything was irreversible. Iverson had no ability to off the ball, or in other words, no one could pass the ball to him. Since he was limited in height, his teammates' sight was limited.
It's true that no one can pass the ball to him. Glenn Robinson obviously doesn't want Iverson to continue to score.
Glenn Robinson's serious, focused and fierce singles play is indeed very good. With Liu Mang and Prince desperately trying to block his defense, he can score a goal even after playing two or three times, which also caused Liu Mang's failure.
One foul resulted in three free throws, but overall, it was difficult for him to beat Liu Mang or Prince.
Originally, the Eagles had already chased the score to 31-33 after Liu Mang's two consecutive dunks. After the start of the second quarter, the Eagles quickly overtook the score and reached the fifth minute of the second quarter. In five minutes,
Glenn Robinson took almost all the 76ers' shots, but only made 2 of 7 shots and 2 of 3 free throws, only scoring 6 points!
And every time, regardless of whether Glenn Robinson can make a shot or who is guarding him, Liu Mang goes up and continues to stimulate him. This guy has the same personality as he has throughout his career. He is ignited at the slightest moment and his talent is real.
Well, he can do everything. He tried every means to get the ball and had to challenge him. He really got six points. Less than half of the second quarter was played, and his personal total score had already reached 20 points.
However, this is an absolute benefit to the Eagles!
The Hawks seized the opportunity to counterattack, but the defensive awareness of the 76ers was not in Iverson. Larry Brown has been thrown to the Pistons for more than half a season. Liu Mang and Jason Te
Here, Prince and Kwame Brown continued to counterattack, Jason Terry's three-pointer and Kwame Brown's cut-in dunk also opened up. In five minutes, a wave of 14 to 6 scoring shockwave was launched, which led to a 14-6 scoring shock wave in one fell swoop.
The score went back to 41 to 39, and the Eagles led by two points!
76ers head coach Chris Ford couldn't sit still, and Glenn Robinson was so screwed! He continued to play singles even though he knew the success rate of singles was not high. He could endure it when the score was not overtaken, but now
If overtaken, a timeout is called immediately.
Iverson is going to explode. It’s one thing that he can’t catch the ball. It’s also his fault that he doesn’t have the ability to stand outside the three-point line without the ball. But this teammate continues to play even though he can’t score, and he passes the ball anyway.
Teammates, please distract the other party's attention!
If Iverson had been in contact with Liu Mang in the past two years and before he became Liu Mang's opponent, he would never have thought of using the threat of his teammates to increase his scoring opportunities, but now that's really what he thinks.
The 76ers began to make large-scale substitutions. On the Eagles' side, Coach Kruger saw that this situation was different from the tactics he had arranged, and it was really successful. He was speechless and moved towards Liu Mang as much as possible.
Thinking about substitutions, he guessed that Glenn Robinson would definitely be replaced, so the defense was preparing for Iverson personally.
Glenn Robinson is really nothing to say in terms of strength alone. He is really talented. It is already the tenth season of his career. Except for this year and the shortened season, he averaged 20 per game in the other eight seasons. Except for Duncan, O'Neal, Jordan, and Ai
Ferson, in the past ten years, only Glenn Robinson has achieved such an achievement.
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Finally, Glenn Robinson was replaced during the timeout, but Iverson's suffering really began now!
For Iverson, one of the most dreamy things in the two games he came back from was that he had a teammate in Glenn Robinson who was definitely an All-Star in terms of strength. Every time he broke through and passed the ball,
As long as Glenn Robinson receives the ball and takes an open shot, his shooting percentage is extremely high. In the last game against the Pistons, he had a shooting percentage of 49%. In the first quarter of this game, he made only 4 of 6 shots from the field.
A high shooting percentage was the key to their 6-point lead at the start.
Iverson was able to organize his offense so well in the first quarter because Raheem, the Eagles' best help defender, was restrained by Glenn Robinson's fixed-point shooting. Prince and Liu Mang were both strong in single defense and help in defense.
Generally, Raheem is the connection point between the Eagles' internal and external defense.
For Iverson, the best perimeter teammate he has had in his career is Glenn Robinson. The saddest thing is that for the first time in his career, he has an All-Star-level perimeter teammate, and it is Glenn Robinson!
And compared to his teammates who won the MVP, ranked first in the Eastern Conference, and reached the Finals two years ago, the current 76ers are really miserable! In addition to the blue-collar insiders the team has been collecting, all the outsiders are gone.
, the original outside contact points such as Jumaine Jones, Kevin Ollie, Rodney Buford, and Fran Maxwell, who shot over 30% of their three-point shooting percentages, are all gone.
When Glenn Robinson was replaced, Iverson found that there was no one to pass the ball to from the outside!
Snow and Aaron McGee were replaced. Snow has played for almost nine years in his career and has made a total of 27 three-pointers, almost exactly three a year. Prince ignored him.
, directly guarding behind Liu Mang to block Iverson. Liu Mang tried his best to force Iverson into the circle with Prince. Aaron McGee has been okay after getting older in the past two years and has practiced a certain three-pointer.
Ability, but he is undoubtedly far behind Glenn Robinson. Raheem can easily shrink in and block Iverson together. Inside, the Eagles replaced Rasheed Wallace and
The Kwame-Brown combination is defensive to the death.
Iverson's passing to his teammates from the outside was a problem, and his passing to the inside and catching the ball inside were all problems. After giving the ball to Snow or Aaron McGee, the two's singles were even more unreliable. The singles of Prince and Raheem
, both of them were fighting, and Iverson started a constant singles mode again. If he played one or two, he could still maintain a shooting percentage of close to 40%, but when playing one on two, he still had to guard against Rahim's supplementary defense...
Iverson hits the street...
After the second quarter, Iverson, who scored 9 points and 5 assists in the first quarter, only scored 3 points and 1 assist in the second quarter. He was even worse than Glenn Robinson, who could still play one-on-one.
He was always one on three! In a single quarter, he made 0 of 8, only caused two fouls, made 3 of 4 free throws, and did not score a single goal in a sports game.
The 76ers scored 33 points in the first quarter. In the targeted defense of the Eagles, after Iverson lost Glenn Robinson, the best quasi-All-Star assistant in the first quarter, the 76ers offense collapsed! Second
Only 9 points were scored in the quarter! Except for Iverson and Glenn Robinson, no one else scored a point!
After the Hawks alienated Iverson and Big Dog, who had no "friendship" as teammates through Liu Mang's dirty tricks, the 76ers had the most disparate score in the two quarters, with a 24-point difference in scoring between the two quarters!
The 76ers, who scored 33 points in the first quarter, scored 9 points in the second quarter, adding up to 42 points, which is not bad.
As for the Eagles, the scoring was still steady. Liu Mang scored 17 points in a single quarter, plus his teammates' air-cut dunks and three-pointers in the counterattack, as well as Raheem, Kwame Brown, and Rasheed Hua in the position battle.
With the second attack guaranteed by Rice or Boozer's offensive rebounds, the Eagles scored 29 points in the second quarter. After halftime, the Eagles scored 56 points at halftime, going from being 6 points behind after the first quarter to taking the lead.
14 points!
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At halftime, the atmosphere in the Eagles locker room was very high. After Liu Mang celebrated with high-fives and his teammates, he sat in the corner and thought about what kind of reaction Iverson would have in the second half.
It can be seen that after Glenn Robinson came off the court in the second quarter, Iverson also tried to organize the offense and passed the ball to his teammates for singles, especially giving the ball to his teammates for singles. This was something he had difficulty doing before.
Behavior, Liu Mang feels that Iverson has indeed changed a lot now.
But when his teammates are so bad, will Iverson return to his previous style of play or continue to challenge himself? This makes Liu Mang very interested.
Liu Mang thinks it won't be too difficult to win the game. The strength gap between the two teams is really not that small. If the star perimeter combination of Allen Iverson and Glenn Robinson can play well together, the two can still have a good performance.
In terms of combat effectiveness, Iverson can also play more easily. After all, he is his only All-Star teammate who is still at the tail end of his peak.
Thinking of this, Liu Mang felt that he should not be too careless in the second half. He must not only limit Iverson's score to less than 20 points, but also win! This is the most critical thing.
Liu Mang and Mike Woodson got together again, and the two sinister men continued to figure out how to deal with Iverson and Iverson's contact with his teammates...
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The halftime break is about to end, and players from both teams return to the court.
The fans at the scene lost some interest. They were excited when they took the lead in the first quarter, but after discovering that annoying guy Glenn Robinson started to be selfish again, the fans' mentality exploded in the second quarter. Seeing Glenn
-After Robinson left the game, Iverson was left alone and the fans lost interest.
The strength gap is too big! Even with Iverson, they can't compete with the Hawks' strength.
76ers fans are confident that their star Iverson is the best player in the world. He is better than the bastard on the opposite side who doesn’t know whether to hate or like him. However, the other team’s teammates are stronger. Liu Mang scored 12 points in the first quarter and 17 in the second quarter.
At halftime, he had already scored 29 points on 10-of-18 shooting. Iverson only scored 12 points on 4-of-17 shooting. The two were not in a fair competition environment at all.
The Eagles continued to send Liu Mang, who played the entire first half, and the combination of Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Kwame Brown. Obviously, they still focused on defense.
Iverson of the 76ers also continued to play, and Glenn Robinson, Kenny Thomas, Mark Jackson, and Dalembert played together in order to increase the height of the inside and enhance the rebounding ability.
When Liu Mang was waiting to serve, he saw this lineup of the 76ers. Is this to allow Iverson to shoot in singles from the outside? For Liu Mang, this situation is great!
After receiving the serve, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt and saw Iverson guarding him. Liu Mang originally wanted to play in singles, but saw that the person guarding Jason Terry was Glenn Robinson...Liu Mang immediately passed the ball to the frontcourt.
Jason Terry.
As long as he gets the ball, Jason Terry only has eyes for the basket! After he played as the sixth man, this style of play became more and more common, just take the ball and do it!
Glenn Robinson's poor defense, Jason Terry made a sudden step and then suddenly stopped and changed direction. He jumped sideways and jumped to a 45-degree angle outside the three-point line, and took a three-pointer directly!
Also hit!
Jason Terry, who was in average form in several games after the All-Star Weekend, faced the 76ers' poor defense on the outside and began to successfully thrive!
59 to 42, the Eagles lead by 17 points!
The 76ers, who were trailing by 14 points at halftime, did not give up. They made adequate preparations for adjustments during the halftime break. As soon as the Eagles took a shot, Iverson ran into the paint. After Jason Terry's three-pointer,
Mark Jackson immediately picked up the ball and passed it to Iverson. He was so quick that he was well prepared!
Liu Mang's defensive strategy of suppressing Iverson and preventing Iverson from catching the ball was broken! Liu Mang immediately called on his teammates to retreat. The Eagles' retreat speed was not comparable to that of the 76ers, and it immediately became a flood.
Generally retreat to the backcourt.
Liu Mang waited for Iverson to push forward. When Iverson had just pushed to the center line, Liu Mang started to spit out: "Allen, you better shoot it yourself. What, you have no confidence in yourself? Kang
Busy, come on, let’s play one-on-one, I’ve already scored 29 points, how many points did you score? 12 points? You don’t look like a scoring champion!”
Iverson looked at Rahim, who was obviously ready to cover up the defense. Kenny Thomas had a close shot and a second offensive rebound, but he was 2.01 meters tall but had no mid-range shot! But the Hawks' inside line
The three high rebounders are ridiculously strong. All three have the ability or potential to average 10 rebounds per game. Rahim can have the opportunity to make up defense.
Jason Terry didn't care about Glenn Robinson's open shot. Liu Mang and Mike Woodson's idea was to flank Iverson even if Glenn Robinson shot. This guy is the most terrifying. As for Glenn
Len Robinson can make a shot or not...as long as the Eagles lead the score, that's fine?
To be continued...