The Eagles players are very motivated!

After a night of wandering and a two-day rest, the Hawks players are back on the training ground, and their motivation is significantly higher than when they played against the Nets!

The Nets are in the past, the Hawks used to want to beat the Nets the most, and now after crossing the Nets, seeing the championship, it is just four games away, and everyone is more excited.

Of course, the prize money for winning the Eastern Conference is also indispensable, from entering the playoffs to the first round, the second round and promotion, the Eagles have received a team bonus of 610,000 US dollars, and the boss Price has doubled out of his own pocket, that is, 1.22 million US dollars, this time to reach the finals, that is, the prize money for winning the Eastern Conference Finals is 370,000 US dollars, which is 740,000 US dollars, and the entire playoffs have added up to 1.96 million US dollars, Hawks players, coaching staff, trainers, team doctors, physical therapists...... Nearly 30 people have received an additional bonus of nearly $70,000 in addition to their salaries in this year's playoffs.

For Jason Terry and Rashid Wallace, who have a large endorsement or a tens of millions annual salary like Rahim and Ratliff, or a long-term contract with a starting salary of more than 800 9 million, it is not a lot of money.

But it's different for others, even the full mid-class Muhammad and the first-round pick Kwame Brown are not a small amount of money, not to mention that most of the Hawks' players are rookies or base salaries.

Originally, if it was only more than 30,000 US dollars, the players might be happy, but now it is almost 70,000 US dollars, and the excitement is not as simple as doubling.

Because he reached the finals, he was either the champion or the runner-up, and the prize money for the championship this season was more than 1.63 million US dollars, and the runner-up was more than 970,000 US dollars, that is, the 70,000 US dollars that the players had already gotten in their hands, and it may have to be doubled, which is a large amount for role players.

The role players are motivated, and the main players are not short of motivation, and the motivation of the Eagles team is all raised.

It's just that in the largest office of Phillips Arena, a boss who used to have no money to cut the door for many years and put his salary below the salary cap to save money, although he is now rich, he still feels pain when he sees hundreds of thousands of bonuses drawn out of his small treasury, and he is used to picking at the door.

The reluctant look of a certain boss when he blocked the league's check and his own extra doubled check in front of the team's players to the team's finances was clearly seen by the players, and the players were happy at the same time, they were slandering the boss for still being so stingy.

Liu felt that this boss was simply, he reached the finals, the net profit of a home game has been hung out, the average price of the first home ticket is 343 US dollars, and the price of grandstand tickets has exceeded 100 US dollars, which is twice as high as the grandstand ticket price of the Spurs and Nets last year, and the net profit of the first game is also three or four million US dollars.

After the bonus was distributed, tactical training, shooting training, one-on-one offensive and defensive training, etc., the Hawks players were very active, and the coaching staff was also very satisfied, and they were fully preparing for the next Finals with the Lakers.

Although it has been determined that the first game of the Finals will not start until June 4, and the Eagles will have a full week of rest, no one has relaxed their training, and this opponent is not comparable to the opponents of the previous three series.

And the Hawks, on their side, are sure to be preparing for the series with the Lakers, although the result of last night's game was unexpected by Liu Mang, and the Timberwolves actually pulled the big score to 2-3.

When watching the game last night, before the game, the Timberwolves announced that Cassel could not play the rest of the game because of an ankle injury, and Liu Mang thought that the Timberwolves were almost over, and maybe the No. 1 would start playing in the Finals.

The Timberwolves put Szczebiak, who only returned to the playoffs and played more than a dozen games throughout the playoffs, back to the starting small forward position, and Sprewell played point guard.

Without Kassel to contain Kobe's defense, the madman went to play point guard, Liu Mang felt that the madman was going to be bitten to death by the mad dog, who knew that Szebiak would return to the starting position and come back to life immediately! In the first quarter, Devin George and Fisher, Payton, and Fox took turns to defend but couldn't defend it, forcing Bryant to defend Szebiak.

Relying on Szzczebiak's 3-of-4 three-pointers in the first quarter, plus an air-cut running shot, he scored 13 points in a single quarter, and the Timberwolves played out the momentum in the first quarter, plus they were fighting at home again, and the Timberwolves were suddenly like a rainbow.

Then in the next three quarters, Szzambiak was prevented by Tieke with rich experience in playing iron, but on the madman's side, in the face of Fisher or Payton, he played like a fish in water, plus two points in the first quarter, and got 26 points, 3 boards and 7 assists in the second three quarters, 28 points, 3 boards and 7 assists in the whole game, the most critical thing is the last three points, when there are 4 seconds left in the game, the madman who played 44 minutes and a half minutes before the 43 and a half minutes of three-point 0 hit the key three points to help the Timberwolves fall behind by 1 point at 101-102. Lore Lakers.

104-102, the Timberwolves dressed up the big score to 2-3 and continued their lives.

The game in the west, judging from the scene, is really good! The ending was also unexpected.

However, after watching the whole game, Liu Mang still didn't think the Timberwolves had a chance to turn the tables.

Because the Lakers' offense has no problem at all, Kobe Bryant has 23 points, 7 boards and 8 assists, O'Neal has 17 points and 13 boards, Malone has 14 points and 9 boards, Wang Zhizhi has 11 points, 2 blocks and 2 rebounds, Fisher scored 18 points in 7 of 11, the Lakers' offense is still playing very well, and Garnett's shooting rate is only 38 percent, of course, Garnett grabbed 19 rebounds all over the court, and it is also critical to get 18 points and 19 boards, but the most critical thing is that Szczebiak broke out, It played an explosive performance that was not prepared by the Lakers.

Liu Mang doesn't think that the Timberwolves have a chance to win three games in a row, the probability of this kind of outburst is too low, even if Szczebiak really can have such an accurate head as long as he returns to the starter, but now it's a little late, if he was put on the starting line at the beginning of the series with such a performance, at that time Kassel was not injured, and he might really be able to fight with the Lakers, but now that Kassel is not there, it seems from the next three quarters of the game, Szczebiak at most took the position of Kassel to attract Kobe's defense away, And the madman really broke out today, driving the whole team, just dragging the game to the last moment, if the three points didn't score, the Timberwolves broke out, and the Lakers still didn't fall behind in their normal performance.

Of course, Liu Mang's words, relatively speaking, prefer to meet the Timberwolves in the finals, which will be much easier to play, but the Spurs can't beat the Lakers, let alone the Timberwolves.

The Hawks coaching staff and other players basically watched this game, and their thoughts were similar to Liu Mang's, the Timberwolves were a return to the past, and it was really unlikely that they would have a chance to beat the Lakers.

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After the training arranged by the coaching staff in the afternoon, the time was only half past two, and the training started at one o'clock, which lasted only an hour, and the coaching staff let the players rest.

Serious training is to train seriously, but the training table given by the coaching staff is still relaxed, today's first day of training, just two days of rest back, mainly tactical running, defensive positioning and personal shooting training and one-on-one offense and defense simulating the Lakers' style of play, so the amount of training is not large, it will end early, and there will be confrontation training tomorrow.

After finishing the training so early, Liu Mang's restless heart couldn't hold back, and he chose a teammate with the best single defense on a difficult team to challenge.

Liu Mang found Prince and said provocatively: "Tyshawn, let's play heads-up?" ”

Prince is preparing to practice more open three-pointers, playing the Pistons and Nets His three-point shooting is already very poor, and he doesn't want to drag his feet on the offensive end when he plays the Lakers.

In the face of Liu Mang's provocation, Prince shook his head and continued to shoot three points.

"......" Liu Mang saw that this little prince who might not be able to respond with a slap in the face, felt a deep sense of frustration in his heart.

Where did you learn this calm character?

In Liu Mang's view, Duncan's so-called calmness and low-key are not as good as Prince, when a person's calmness and low-key are spread by people and the whole world knows about it, on the other hand, this person is no longer low-key.

Just as people often say who is undervalued, and this argument that a player is underrated becomes recognized, then the player is no longer underestimated, or even overrated, because everyone has recognized the strength of this player, and it may even exceed the recognition that he should have.

And Prince, in Liu Mang's view, is really low-key, if it weren't for the five Tigers of the Pistons all day long, Liu Mang would have been difficult to find Prince even if he paid attention to the year the Pistons won the championship.

The most talked about by the Pistons Five is Ben Wallace, then Billups, Hamilton, then Rashid Wallace, and finally ...... A lot of people talked about the Pistons Five for a long time, but they didn't think about Prince......

This girl is really low-key, one day when Prince came to the afternoon tea party invited by Rahim with his son, Liu Mang knew that this guy was married and had a son......

No way! Liu Mang is not the kind of person who will give up casually, he just wants to find Prince to fight alone.

Since it is useless to provoke, it is useless to say it well, Liu Mang directly pulled Prince into the basket: "Go, you have to fight with me today!" ”

"......" Prince stared at Liu Mang for two seconds, as if he was thinking about how not to hit Liu Mang's self-esteem, but he didn't seem to think of a way, and said very seriously: "Boss, your singles are useless to me, you will be prevented by me." ”

"......" Liu Mang took a mouthful of old blood to his throat and forcibly swallowed it back.

Don't be so direct!

But there is really nothing wrong with what people say, unless he is cheating and insisting on making fouls, otherwise when he goes head-to-head with Prince, the one-on-one goal shooting rate is only more than 40%, which is very low in heads-up.

Of course, there are even lower, in this year's regular season, Prince's shooting rate of restricted opposing players was only 29.3 percent, ranking first among outside players in the league who played more than 12 minutes per game, and even those superstars had a shooting rate of between 35 and 40 percent in one-on-one singles against Prince.

In this season's high-confrontation environment, Prince's single defense is invincible, and of course, because of this season's environment, the Eagles also use the same defense when training.

Among the Hawks' outside players, except for Raheem, who is a bug and can stand up to Prince's strong dunk, everyone else has been abused by Prince's defense.

Looking at the serious Pink Princes with his face written all over his face, this kind of serious words, Liu Mang felt too hurtful!

To put it mildly, no! Master is the future boss of your family!

Liu Mang played tricks: "You bastard, you will be tortured to death by me today!" Come on, heads-up! In the past, I let you, big brother, but now I will let you see the real technology! ”

Real technology? Prince's mind was unusually calm, and when he heard Liu Mang's words, he focused on Liu Mang's last sentence.

Prince suddenly thought of Liu Mang's left-handed offense against the Spurs and Nets, and then thought that the morning came early, and when he saw Liu Mang practicing left-handed breakthrough, he immediately became focused.

Without speaking, Prince picked up a ball, kicked the others out of the half, and walked inside the top arc to wait.

This Nima is so cold! Who's the boss!

Liu Mang must teach this thing a lesson, and reach out for the ball outside the three-point line.

Prince sends the ball to Liu Mang.

After Liu Mang received the ball, he began to look for holes in Prince's defense.

Tall, long arms, and so fast with small broken steps, this girl has no defensive flaws at all! There is no chance at all to make a strong shot, unless it is Maddie's style of play, but Liu Mang knows that although his arms are longer than Prince, they are still not long, and his height is completely suppressed, so he can only use breakthroughs!

Liu Mang snorted, thinking in his heart: Today's master's breakthrough is not the same as before!

Liu Mang dribbled and dribbled, suddenly his legs exerted force, and he bounced out to the right side, and saw Prince immediately pasting over, Liu Mang instantly understood that Prince wanted to use the speed he was good at to suppress the opponent's speed and then block this move from behind!

Liu Mang was prepared, and the second step of his left foot kicked the ground, not a step back, which was useless to Prince, but a large horizontal dribble, and when he stepped out, he slapped his left hand the ground and moved a big step horizontally.

After overflowing, Liu Mang saw Prince pounce, and immediately kicked his right foot to the left side and moved sharply sideways again, and when his right shoulder was squeezed by Prince, he dribbled with his left hand and killed under the basket!

However, Prince seems to be a defensive action, and he doesn't really exert force, he has predicted that Liu Mang will use this exaggerated single action that occupies a lot of space to distract him in a one-on-one play style without the interference of teammates and opponents, so the action of pounce is just a defensive feint, and when he touches Liu Mang's body and sees Liu Mang replaced with a fast forward movement with his left hand that he usually barely appears, he knows that he guessed correctly! Immediately move sideways to the right.

In the process of Liu Mang's strong burst, he originally planned to use his right hand to resist Prince and go around to the left side of the Nets to attack, but after he was empty, Liu Mang rushed to the left side of the Nets and took a step inside the free throw line, and found that Prince had moved sideways!

It's been predicted!

Excellent single anticipation, top-notch lateral movement!

The long legs are amazing! Liu Mang couldn't care so much, he didn't slow down and come back, he slapped his left hand the ground, and rushed in towards Prince!

Prince really pressed it up, sticking to Liu Mang, with his right arm raised above his head, ready to seal at any time.

Liu Mang felt that the entire shooting space was covered, and he could only jump one step to the right, but he didn't really shake off Prince, and then jumped a step, Prince still didn't jump, and followed steadily, Liu Mang had already taken two steps, and could only jump, grabbed the ball with his right hand, and forced his shot against Prince's block!

Prince jumped up and went to block Liu Mang's forced layup.

Just when Liu Mang was about to be covered, he almost subconsciously took the ball back in the air, changed it to his left hand, and couldn't care so much, and threw it towards Prince's back.

Prince turned his head to see the ball spinning and hitting the rebound, bouncing off the basket and making two laps and falling in.

Liu Mang fell to the ground after scoring a goal, and yelled at Prince excitedly: "Kang is busy, a second-year, just say that you can't prevent my eldest brother!" ”

Can this all change hands? Rao is Prince, and he was shocked!

He had just done everything he could to defend with all his might, and he had done what he could, and his head, body, and gambling prediction that Liu Mang would break through with his left hand were all used, but in the end he still couldn't prevent it!

Not only can Liu Mang use no other teammates or opponents to occupy space in one-on-one and play alone with more space, but Prince also has better defensive conditions than in official games when defending, that is, he is not worried about the opponent's sudden blocking, and he does not have to worry about the opponent using other teammates under the basket to occupy the space and compress his defensive space, the conditions are beneficial to everyone.

This really shocked Prince!

Prince was very concerned about Liu Mang's use of left-handed offense to beat the opponent in the two games of the Spurs and Nets, but Liu Mang didn't use it during training, and he didn't have a good time asking, but now he feels it, it's really amazing! No wonder Bowen and Kidd are all in the cross.

However, Prince still felt that it was a little less interesting than he imagined, and he was ready to follow the situation that Kidd and Bowen encountered, and he couldn't prevent it.

But Liu Mang didn't use a mid-to-long-range shot in the end, but forced a layup under the basket, or forced a hand-to-hand layup in the air to throw it by luck, which made Prince always feel a little weird.

Prince pulled Liu Mang up and said, "Boss, let's do it again!" ”

"Huh?" This time it was Liu Mang's turn and he didn't want to come again.

If it's over now, the shooting rate is 100 percent, how handsome, the only player on the team this season who hits 100% one-on-one with Prince is still this kind of difficult ball.

In the breakthrough process just now, it was not that Liu Mang didn't want to step back and jump shots, but there were few changes in that direction, although the change of direction process was very smooth, but there were still unaccustomed to it in the middle, and it took time to adapt.

"No, I'm tired." Liu Mang wanted to leave.

"Boss, I will definitely be able to prevent you, come, try again!" This time, it was Prince's turn to pull Liu Mang and not let him go.

Seeing that Prince actually had an expression on his face, he was very excited and happy, Liu Mang's whole person was not good, he really wanted to leave, wasn't he interested in heads-up just now?

Liu also felt the mood of his opponent when he used to play games and train all kinds of heads-ups, and when he lost and refused to admit defeat and forcibly pulled his opponent to continue......