freeallnovels Chapter 1083 1082. Don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of your e
Chapter 1083 1082. Don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of your e
Chapter 1083 1082. Don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of your eyes (seeking tickets)
On January 1rd, it was time for the Hawks' second game of the new year.
Liu Mang went to the Ford Center Arena for training early in the morning. From 06:30 to 10:30, it took four hours to train Gary Payton's defensive training card for half a training day.
Emmanuel was watching and fell asleep lying on the chair. I thought Liu Mang was going to practice some skills. Who knew that Liu Mang had put a few chairs and ran around them irregularly, accelerating and decelerating...
Emmanuel couldn't leave yet, Liu Mang wanted food when he was hungry, and water when he was thirsty.
The teammates came and couldn't figure out what Liu Mang was training, but Prince stared at it for a while, and asked uncertainly while Liu Mang was drinking water: "Ace, are you defending a pick-and-roll?"
"Well, I'll practice more, and I can use it against opponents who are good at defending pick-and-rolls in the future." Liu Wei replied, and finally someone understood it!
"..." Prince didn't continue talking, he set up a few chairs, and practiced along with Liu Mang on the opposite side of the half court...
The main function of this training is the various methods of going around the pick-and-roll or squeezing past the pick-and-roll in various positions. It is necessary to let the body and consciousness react naturally again and again, so the training is extremely boring.
McGrady took a look and felt so boring. Is it so troublesome to practice defense? He chose to practice catching and three-point shooting.
From the ball-holding style of play at the beginning of the season, McGrady has now transformed into catching and shooting, supplemented by ball-holding offense. The three-point shooting percentage has increased from 30.00% in the first dozen games40.00 to [-]% in the next dozen games. Now his goal is to maintain the current stable three-pointers.
At 10:30, Liu Mang's training session with the coaching staff ended yesterday, and the Eagles held a game meeting about the Hornets at 11:[-].
Coach Kruger feels weird about Liu Mang's practice of fixing training time and training intensity. He feels that Liu Mang has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and there are always some strange things.
The meeting about the Hornets was very simple. After the Lakers, the Eagles began to rest.
In November and December, the Eagles had only three back-to-backs in total, but there were three back-to-backs in January, two in February, and four back-to-backs in March.
Rest is inevitable. It is no longer Pat Riley in the eighties and 90s who took the lead in using players to death regardless of the future era. The main reason is that since the mid-90s, star salaries have increased one by one, and star health issues have received more attention.
Today Rasheed Wallace, Prince, and Mourning are not playing. Granger, who has been training with the team since the end of December, finally got a chance to enter the squad.
Horry and Barry have also started to play rotation roles, looking for the feeling of the game. In the playoffs, these veterans must be used.
After the brief meeting, Liu Mang went to the lounge with his teammates, and the team nutritionist had already prepared lunch.
"Oh... Danny, you can finally play, boss, pass the ball to Danny more!" After coming out of the conference room, David Lee was very excited, even more excited than Granger who entered the 12-man roster.
Liu Mang gave a "hmm" and didn't directly agree or refuse.
"Boss, you don't need to pass the ball to me. If I have the chance to play with you, I'll just grab the rebound for you. If I have the chance, you pass it to me, and I'll try my best to make it!" Granger was very calm.
This surprised Liu Mang, what a steady rookie!
Compared with David Lee, a rich second generation who always dreamed so big, Granger is even more admired by Liu Mang. He will soon be 23 years old, which is also one of the factors for Granger's maturity.
But...it's a little cold...
"Danny Granger, ability evaluation 74, offense 72, defense 80, three-pointer 79, mid-range shooting 68, layup 84, speed 88, strength 83, ball handling 70, passing 66...Injury tendency: extremely high."
Liu Mang looked at Granger, he was actually not bad, a tall pitcher with good mobility and solid defense.
Has a certain organizational ability, but the ball control and passing are very average, the average level of the league, you can't count on it.
But for a rookie, it's already pretty good.
The key is that Granger adapts quickly to the adult basketball world. Playing in the Development League, his ability evaluation has increased from 69 when he was selected to 74. In the Development League, he competes with those players who want to be appreciated by the NBA with his core style of play.
However, in the evaluation of Granger's abilities given by the system, there is a very eye-catching "extremely high", which is a level higher than McGrady's height. McGrady's serious injury is mainly due to heredity and being accidentally injured by his teammates in the original time and space. Granger is really a glass man.
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At [-]:[-] in the evening, after the warm-up, the players of the two teams entered the court at the Ford Center Arena.
The fans at the scene were very enthusiastic, and everyone cheered when they saw it.
First the Eagles players enter the field, and then the Hornets players enter the field.
When the Hornets players entered the field, the lights on the scene were restored, and Paul was about to go over to say hello to the big guys, but, to his surprise, the big guys from the Eagles were more enthusiastic than him!
Seeing Paul with 58 standing on his chest, Iguodala went up and put his arms around Paul's shoulders and said: "Oh, Chris, we left too early yesterday, and I didn't even have a good talk with you. You played really well yesterday. Keep working hard today and let me see your outstanding performance!"
Paul responded in astonishment, "Thank you..."
Before Paul finished speaking, McGrady interrupted: "I heard that Ace is very optimistic about you. I came to watch your game yesterday. You are much better than Ace at that time. Come on, you will be stronger than Ace!"
"With Chris here, I can defend more seriously. I don't want to be dunked by you." Kwame Brown also came up.
Paul saw a bunch of big shots surrounding him, and he didn't know what to say when he heard what the big shots said. What's going on?
Prince actually spoke at this time!
"Chris, it's a pity, if I didn't fight today, I would definitely take precautions against death today..."
Before Prince could finish speaking, someone covered his mouth and pulled him aside.
Several members of the Eagles stared at Prince, what were they talking about!Scared the children, how can they still play with... No, why do we appear to be so friendly?
Liu Mang finally said: "Chris, let me see your strength!"
After Liu Mang finished speaking, a group of Eagles players who had surrounded Paul just now dispersed, leaving Paul with a confused face.
Paul still doesn't understand what happened.
Paul received a call from James today. He heard James say that he must adjust his mentality for today's game. No matter what happens, he must not lose confidence. Paul is still very worried. When he went to greet Liu Mang and others just now, he was trembling.
But now, Paul thinks James is worrying too much!
What a bunch of people!
The players from the same company are so friendly!Compared with those veterans who want to suppress him, Paul feels that the Eagles are all good people!
……
At 59:[-], Liu Mang sprinkled chalk into the air, McGrady asked the referee to play the ball a little less for a second or two, and the starters of the two teams came to the court.
The Eagles sent Liu Mang, McGrady, Horry, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown to the starting lineup.
Horry will be the starter when he comes back. The winner of multiple championships still has some advantages when the team starts to rest.
The Hornets sent Paul, Kirk Sneijder, Desmond Mason, David West and PJ Brown to the starting lineup.
Kwame Brown beats PJ Brown on a jumper and the Eagles go first.
Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt with the ball, and Paul defended him.
Paul is so excited now, facing Liu Mang!
Very good defense, Liu Mang felt an impenetrable feeling from Paul's defense, of course, from Paul's position and footsteps.
So, Liu Mang turned his body sideways, and took the initiative to stick up to Paul.
Seeing Liu Mang approaching him, Paul immediately pressed on Liu Mang and tried to steal it, but Paul immediately felt a violent impact from his chest to his chin!
Liu Mang suddenly lowered his center of gravity, swung the ball with his right hand to the rear right, and made a quick and impactful right turn!
Paul has good defensive awareness, good positioning, excellent defensive choices, and his small moves are beyond the concealment that ordinary rookies should have.
However, the current Paul is not the later strong guy Pao Ge, who was run over by Liu Mang and turned around to break through!
Fortunately, the Hornets are aiming to win this season. Field control master Byron Scott has arranged a targeted defense. Even if the opponent is the Eagles, Byron Scott wants to fight.
Desmond Mason, a man of super physical fitness who once competed with Liu Mang for the dunk title, quickly attacked from the sideline.
Liu Mang distributed the ball to the left sideline and passed it to Horry who was open.
Horry catches the ball for a [-]-pointer...
Iron!
PJ-Brown defends the defensive rebound.
Offensive and defensive transition, the Hornets attack.
Paul advanced to the frontcourt. It was too easy for Liu Reck just now, and Paul couldn't help it.
But on the offensive end, Paul is very confident!
Judging from Paul's research, in terms of speed, he felt that he would not lose to Liu Mang. After reaching the frontcourt, he immediately accelerated his breakthrough!
Liu Mang's current defensive awareness is much better than last year's. Coupled with the blocker's level 5 prediction bonus, Liu Mang quickly judged that Paul was going to break through, and moved to Paul's breakthrough route.
Paul changed direction quickly, quite a bit of Allen Iverson's feeling, and the change of direction was huge!
All of a sudden, Liu Mang was thrown aside, but... Mai Di's attack arrived!
Desmond Mason saw McGrady going to pinch Paul, and immediately cut to the inside.
Paul was also looking for his teammate who was emptied, but Liu Mang and McGrady blocked the passing route with Desmond Mason. Even because of his height, Paul didn't see Desmond Mason make an air cut.
Paul wanted to turn around, back out or look for an opportunity to shoot, just turned around, and saw the third person!
Josh Smith is here too!
Liu Mang, McGrady, and Josh Smith put Paul in the middle and formed a circle...
Paul feels that the arena is a bit dark today!The light is blocked!
The Hornets didn't expect the opponent to defend like this, and neither did Paul!Can't pass, can't even retreat, Paul can only forcefully take off, shoot...
"Snapped……"
"Boom..."
Liu Mang jumped up high, stretched out his left hand, picked up the ball thrown by Paul, and patted it on his right hand.
Grab the hat!
Paul came up and gave Liu Mang a block!
Paul immediately hugged Liu Mang's hands holding the ball, and made a tactical foul before Liu Mang counterattacked.
Eagles throw-in.
After receiving the serve, Liu Mang advanced to the frontcourt and continued to break through and pass the ball to Horry.
But Horry still missed!
Horry's regular season... is really iron!
And Barry, the regular season is really accurate!
The characteristics of the two are completely opposite. Barry played well in the regular season, but withered in the playoffs.
Horry can't make a shot unless he hits a key shot. In the Spurs last season, Horry made 20.00% of his three-pointers in the regular season. In the playoffs, it increased to 30.00%, and in the finals it was 40.00%...
PJ-Brown is not the big center of the 92 generation who can fly and dunk. He is second only to O'Neal, Mourning, and Raphso Ellis.
The Eagles retreated quickly, and Paul received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt.
Paul has a very bad feeling, the first ball is too weird!
Paul needs to find a broad shoulder to suppress the shock, beckoning to David West for a pick-and-roll.
David West came up to help Paul block Liu Mang.
Seeing Josh Smith switching defenses, Paul didn't rush, but prepared to shoot a three-pointer...
Just when Paul grabbed the ball, Liu Mang didn't switch defenses and went directly to the line, and together with Josh Smith, Paul was caught outside the three-point line!
Paul wanted to pass to David West. At this time, McGrady had already flanked him, blocking Paul and David West, who opened to the middle distance on the right after the pick-and-roll.
It's three people defending again!
Did not choose to break through, Paul was caught by three people again!
The point is that this kind of thing was not expected at all!
Paul quickly thought of a way at this time, smashed the ball to the ground, and then dribbled to the left, trying to pretend that the ball hit the opposing player.
However, the referee at the three-point line on the left side of the basket saw very clearly that the ball did not hit the Eagles player's body, and immediately sounded his whistle, clenched his fists, and started to circle with his forearms.
Walk away!
Paul's nightmare has begun!
In the next period of time, the two teams either made mistakes or hit irons at the beginning, and the fans on the scene were about to doze off.
On Paul's side, he really wants to wake up from his "dream"!
Played a few rounds, he caused a foul, was caught once, was intercepted once, passed the ball to Desmond Mason, Desmond Mason made a three-pointer, and made two turnovers...
After more than four minutes, Paul finally understood!
What did my old high school friend mean?
The next chapter is between 12 o'clock and 1 o'clock~ I have been sleeping and sleeping today, sorry for the long wait.
(End of this chapter)