: 629. Coach Carlisle Revenge

The Hawks have 25 wins and 5 losses, with an amazingly high 83% win rate, which translates to a final record of 68 wins! Although it is just a conversion, it is already terribly strong.
The Pacers ranked second with 23 wins and 8 losses and a winning percentage of over 70%. After all the teams in the league have played more than 30 games, the only team other than the Hawks has a winning percentage of over 70%. There are too many strong teams this year. There are four championship teams in the east and the west. At the beginning of the season, the weak teams have a very bad record. After the season gradually deepened, the playoff teams have also more hands on each other. , The record of the strong teams also began to come down.
At this time, only the Hawks and Pacers have maintained a shooting percentage of more than 70%.
But even so, not many people are optimistic about the Pacers. First, it was third in the east last year. They were easily killed by Payton. Then this year, the Hawks have been so strong that they exploded. This time it was really fun! It really became a strong contender for the Eastern Conference champions, and then easily killed the Pistons and continued to maintain the crushing suppression of the Pistons. In people's opinion, the only Eastern Conference can become the Hawks opponent, the only one that hinders them The two-year obstacle is the Nets.
Not only did the media think so, but most of the Hawks players also thought so, otherwise they would not run out of the waves the afternoon before the game.
Really speaking, including Rahim and Rasheed Wallace, they are not considered opponents because of the strength of the Pacers, but they feel the problem of their face. Reckless regards the Pacers as opponents.
The main reason is that the Pacers lineup is really strong, and it is more suitable for the Carlisle coach to play with excellent offense and defense. It was only two to two draws with the Pistons with the five tigers before they were won by the Pistons in two consecutive games. Take away the game, once they have the ability to compete with the five tigers Pistons, but coach Carlisle is too young is not Larry Brown's opponent.
At this time, Coach Carlisle was a loser, a loser worse than the original. He was a rookie who had the best coach in the rookie season, but the best coaches were all robbed by Kruger, that is, Larry Bo. Dehui's eyes, otherwise coach Carlisle is regarded as a famous coach. It is estimated that after the Pacers and Pistons' Auburn Hills battle, coach Carlisle took five starters and three bans for half a season. After the playoffs, it was only after people saw his strength that Cuban was taken to the top of his life.
The Hawks don't pay less attention to this game, they just pay attention to it, and there is a difference from having to play hard like the Spurs and the Nets to win.
The Hawks came with the mentality to win, and the Pacers with the idea of ​​saving their dignity to keep their home!
At the beginning of the game, after O’Neal Jr. won the jump ball from Rashid Wallace, the Pacers played a halt for the Hawks. Artest held the ball fiercely and hit the inside line. After the weight loss Rahim failed to carry it!
Artest's weight of 113 kg, the most excessive thing is that he is still as flexible as a defender when the tonnage has increased by nearly 20 pounds or 9 kg compared with last season, except for a career high of 19 Points, 5 rebounds are routine operations, there are actually 3.9 assists!
Artest opened the game like a bulldozer squeezing Rahim into the basket and causing Ratliff to foul!
Although the opening free throws were so hard, he made two free throws, but then Rahim wanted to find a face in a single, and was mistaken by Artest's tough confrontation!
Artest grabbed the ball directly from the bottom, grabbed the ball in Rahim's hand, and then counterattacked Liu Mang, who took the lead to the basket with a fast break, and pushed Liu Mang away from the spot with one hand. Throw the ball into the basket.
Liu Mang was frightened. How did Artest feel like the Cavaliers 1.0 version of James?
It's exactly the same style of play!
Pressing defense, stealing counterattacks, the same free throw pit father, the same can not stop it!
It is true that Artest's ability evaluation to 90 this year surprised Liu Mang. Artest's ability evaluation was higher than that of Little O'Neal's peak of 89. When the offense is only 83, the defensive evaluation is as high as 97! More defensive evaluations than Kobe and Kidd 95.
But Liu Mang did not expect Rahim to be abused at the start!
Relying on the morale of Artest's start with one attack and one defense, the Pacers made a 14-6 start in the game. Artest's start was too fierce, and he played extremely hard, putting the Hawks to five. Minutes forced to call a timeout.
Not because of the question of the score, but in the beginning, Ratliff, who did not expect the other party to rush towards himself, made two offences at the beginning!
The Eagles were forced to replace Ratliff in advance and replaced Kwame Brown.
After the timeout, the Hawks played a little better. Raising the speed to play, the Hawks attacked a lot better.
However, after Artest repeatedly "humiliated", Rahim started fighting against Artest with all his efforts, and the two fought each other on the offensive and defensive ends.
Rahim was defended very badly by Artest at first, mainly because he did not expect Artest to be so fierce! There is a qualitative difference from last season!
Artest last season was still the best defensive second team, but this year, Rahim clearly felt that Artest's defense came even stronger than last year's Garnett!
Artest didn't talk much, but it was a bit hard.
Rahim ’s fighting spirit also burned completely. Rahim, with 92 ability evaluation, and Artest, with 90 ability evaluation. These two may be the strongest two of the league ’s real small forwards. The two fight. Now!
The Pacers did not prevent Artest from competing with Raheem. The Hawks, of course, could not lose Rahim's face. Raheem was rarely capricious and wanted to be the main attacker.
The strength of the two is indeed the same. Rahim has an advantage on the offensive end, but Rahim is the kind of player who can have 90 top level of offense or 90 top level of defense, and Artest, It is a quasi-first-class player who maintains an offensive level of more than 80 and defends directly against the best defensive player. Rahim ’s ability evaluation is higher than Artest, mainly because of his rebounding!
And speaking of it, Artest's one-on-one is really a bit unsolvable. It feels like James with a poor hand but a greatly improved defense. The ball protection is good, just grind and hit it. Entering the basket can turn it upside down.
The most important thing is that Artest's organizational ability is stronger than Rahim!
After Raheem and Artest competed, the Hawks had stabilized a little bit, and were once again suppressed by the Pacers!
After the first quarter, Artest scored 14 points, 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block. The peak Artest was stronger than last season's strength. It's a giant player!
Although Rahim also scored 15 points and scored higher than Artest, he made three mistakes in a single quarter, and the Pacers ’strategy was obvious. Rahim was irritated by Artest. Later, as long as Rahim asked for the ball, Liu Mang gave the ball to Rahim, and the other Pacers cut off the connection between Rahim and the Hawks, giving Rahim a perfect one-on-one chance.
In turn, when the Pacers attacked, David Wesley, Reggie Miller and O'Neal all opened the space at the middle and long distances. In addition to the handsome appearance of the basket, Jeff Foster was also posing there. It is also a threat to stand on the edge of the three-second zone. Kwame Brown's defense in the basket does not have the deterrent effect of Ratliff. Artest can't stop it after entering the inside.
After the first quarter, the Hawks were 10 points behind the Pacers 23 to 33!
Was completely led by the walker's nose!
Liu Mang found that the situation was not right. He looked over to the Pacers bench and saw the smirk of Kim Carrey with hair. Obviously, all this is a routine!
Moreover, the Pacers have too much faith in Artest's defense, let him come and Rahim.
Liu Mang wanted to talk to Coach Kruger and wanted to remind Rahim, but Liu Mang just had to talk to Coach Kruger, and Coach Kruger waved his hand. Obviously, Coach Kruger knew this too .
But coach Kruger didn't have a body shape, but instead arranged tactics specifically for Rahim.
Liu Mang was stunned for a moment, and after seeing Rahim ’s uncomfortable expression, he was obviously ready to go straight to Artest, and suddenly Liu Mang understood ...
The face of the star!
Liu Mang has always been recognized as the strongest Hawks player in the league even this season, but regardless of whether he is on or off the court, he is called Rahim the team leader, and he is the kind of persuasion, Rahim For the team to sacrifice itself to be a defensive pioneer, this is what Liu Mang does now, he is not necessarily willing.
Therefore, Rahim's face must be maintained!
Now the Hawks are less prepared for the Pacers. After all, after eight consecutive home games, they flew to Indianapolis the next day to play the Pacers, and the back to back is to play the Nets. The main target is the opponent. The Nets, playing the Pacers, this game was set by the opponent.
This is also one of the reasons why some teams in the regular season lose very inexplicably. Sometimes it seems that there is a team with obvious strength advantages, and there are no major problems with the feel and state, but it is the loss. It's miserable.
The regular season is much more difficult to predict than the playoffs. Because it is too long, there are too many opponents to target, so there are many times when the regular season is cold.
What's more, the Pacers are already strong. Coach Carlisle estimates that the Hawks have hated them. Robbing him the best coach. Sweeping him for two consecutive years has caused him to lose the Pistons' good lineup. Da Niaohui eyed the beads, otherwise he did n’t know where to cry, this time he seized the opportunity to give the Eagles a wave of ruthlessness!
Liu Mang understands that coach Kruger wants to maintain Rahim ’s face ~ EbookFREE.me ~ This is also a key thing for the team. At this time, you ca n’t go to Rahim and say that you are being played by the other party It is also a top small forward who has been famous for many years and can't lose face.
However, although he cannot lose face, Liu Mang still wants to win!
Let Rahim go to Artest to just score a victory or defeat, this does not mean that this game will be lost!
Rahim is not too bad. He also scored 15 points in 6 of 11 in the first quarter, but there were too many passing mistakes. At the last moment, there was no chance to pass too many balls.
The main thing is that the opening tactics are not arranged for Rahim, so Rahim seems to be suppressed by Artest on the scene.
Liu Mang sees that Kruger ’s tactics are too conventional. It is probably to put his middle distance and low post tactics on Rahim to give Rahim a chance to play singles. Liu Mang feels that this is not enough!
Liu Mang thought about it for a while!
Liu Mang stepped up, staring at coach Kruger.
Coach Kruger saw Liu Mang's eyes and clenched his pen and tactical board. What did this guy do!
Liu Mang did not directly grab the tactical board, but said to Rahim: "Sharif, we support you, beat the guy with the round head!"
Raheem heard Liu Mang ’s support, and he felt more comfortable. He also worried that Liu Mang would be unhappy, because Liu Mang made four shots in the first quarter, not making three layups and only three shots One, didn't touch the ball much at other times.
"But ..." Liu Mang dragged the end.
Rahim was puzzled and asked: "But what?"
"But Sharif, you are so stupid! You don't have to use your strengths ..." Liu Mang said, taking the tactical board from Coach Kruger ...