"Wow, Ace, are these your new shoes?" Rashid Wallace watched enviously as Liu Mang took out a pair of Nike basketball shoes that were still red from the unopened shoebox.

Liu Mang's second generation of Ace this time has two kinds of high-top and low-top like the first generation, and Liu Mang wears low-top sneakers by himself.

The advantage of low-top sneakers is that they do not affect their flexibility in disguise, and the disadvantage is that they do not have the same ankle protection as high-top sneakers.

However, defenders, more suitable for low-top shoes, high-top or low-top shoes, for ordinary people, high-top shoes may be better to protect the ankle, but for professional athletes, the main thing is the usual training, if the ankle is strong enough, the chance of injury is small, otherwise such a high confrontation, that protection is basically equal to zero.

"Yes, Ace II, No. 29 is on sale in the store opposite the stadium, this is for me to wear when I opened the game, I wear it when I am training, so as not to get used to it, this signature shoe is good, you see, this workmanship, this design, this ...... Ouch I was wrong, Rashid, don't kick my ass...... Murdered ......"

Liu Mang was habitually hunted down, and his teammates were no longer surprised.

Especially old teammates such as Jason Terry and Raheem, laughing and sighing, I didn't expect that the best mix in the team was actually the inconspicuous second-round show that year, which was simply unreasonable, and he was so embarrassed that he deserved to be beaten.

This is also not envious of them, although Rahim signed a 5-year 20 million endorsement contract just past summer, as well as the reward clause of the All-Star and the best team, but he did not sign shoes, and the sneakers he endorsed were ordinary sneakers.

The major sneaker brands not only sell signed shoes, but also more non-signed shoes, and the endorsement of these sneakers is handed over to the relatively less popular stars to endorse, and everyone else in the Eagles except Liu Mang has sneaker endorsements.

Liu Mang saw that Rashid Wallace had actually learned badly with that group of hateful teammates, and he felt that the world was cold and people's hearts were not ancient......

Just after the preseason, the Hawks had a day off on the 25th, and on the 26th, when it was the last four days for the sneakers to start preparing for the final training for the regular season, Nike sent the sneakers that had shown Liu Mang the design drawings a month ago.

The regular season is just an appetizer after a long rough break.

After watching the preseason games, where confrontation and desire to win were average, people's desire for the regular season became even more urgent.

And the players' desire for real games is becoming more and more urgent, first playing basketball, it is a happy thing, if you put aside those grievances, honor competition, it will be even happier.

Of course, those who don't feel happy with grievances and honor competitions are generally losers.

In addition, when the regular season starts, it is equivalent to having another salary to receive, which is for the three rookies of the Hawks, as well as players like Barnes, who spend as much as they want, and finally start to have money again.

After the players had a bit of a fight, Coach Kruger arrived with the coaching staff and summoned everyone to the team meeting room first.

This is the practice after the pre-season of each season.

First of all, during the training camp, let the players remember a lot of tactics, and then practice, play a confrontation game within the team, and delete the relatively inapplicable, but it is not enough, when it comes to the preseason, try every tactic again, see which ones are easily targeted, and which ones are generally effective in the official game, and then continue to delete and delete them......

Finally, the performance of the players in the preseason and the problems exposed are included as much as possible, and the coaching staff conducts a final tactical discussion, and finally selects one or several tactics that implement the team's style of play, which becomes the team's established tactical system.

Like last season, the Hawks played an offensive system based on pick-and-roll offense, defensive counterattacks, and individual singles, which was quite simple.

And this time, when Coach Kruger announced the offensive system for the new season, the old Hawks players are okay, last season's system is enough to spray occasionally, this time though...... It's a little more exaggerated, but with Liu Mang, a guy who makes a moth from time to time, it's not a problem.

But the players who just arrived, especially Stockton, looked at Coach Kruger's rigorous face, and couldn't tell that this coach was such a bold coach!

In the previous training camp, seeing dozens of tactics prepared by Coach Kruger, Stockton still felt that there were too many tactics, too troublesome, until now, he would rather trouble a little, and now this tactic is no longer concise and can be described, it is simply simple and rude! Moreover, some of them are not very understandable!

But seeing the old players of the Eagles one by one, they all felt normal, Stockton didn't want to rely on the old and sell the old, but he felt that he had entered a den of thieves, looking at Liu Mang and others seemed to think that this tactic was normal, including the newcomer Rashid Wallace, who was just puzzled for a moment, and then showed a suddenly realized expression, as if he had realized something, Stockton's three views were refreshed, he didn't know what Rashid Wallace's expression had realized!

Stockton feels like the Eagles are ...... It's unreliable!

It's a pity that it was discovered too late, and Stockton didn't expect this team to be so unreliable because of the rigorous screening tactics in the previous training camp and preseason.

Fortunately, the defensive end is quite reliable, which gives Stockton a little comfort......

……

When Chip England took the other assistant coaches to train the players on the team system that had been established, Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson stayed in the office, both of them were nervous before the announcement of the offensive and defensive system for the new season, but after the announcement, the two were relieved, but there were still worries.

"Long, will our system work for the new season?" Mike Woodson is still a little worried.

"Mike, you just need to do a good job of defense, that's our foundation, you can adjust if you have problems on the offensive end, but you can't have problems on the defensive end, it's all up to you!" Coach Kruger took a sip of his coffee.

After spending most of the night last night, just hesitating about the tactical system, and after a few seconds of silence, Coach Kruger continued: "Every successful offensive system, before it succeeds, no one can imagine that it will succeed, right? Perhaps the improvised mixed play that we were forced to use last year has become the key to our success. ”

The Eagles' concise offensive play last season was purely a big dog tossing and turning, and they were temporarily forced to be helpless, so they used such a concise tactical system, mainly handing over the ball to the players themselves, but I didn't expect the effect to be so good, and the players were used to it.

This year, Coach Kruger and the rest of the coaching staff felt that this was not the case, so in the summer, they studied more than 50 tactical systems, and the results were good, and after training camp and preseason, it was found that last season's offensive system, which was based on the triangle offense and Princeton, and the combination of cavalry tactics and Mike Woodson's defensive counter-attacking system, still seemed to be the most suitable for this lineup.

Mike Woodson was a little worried, but when Coach Kruger said this, he was really looking forward to it!

As Coach Krueger said, before the success of every system, the person who designed or chose the system did not necessarily think that the system would be successful, but in the end, if it succeeded, he became famous and became the spokesperson of a well-known tactical system.

For example, Pat Riley's iron-blooded defensive system, Adelman's Princeton system, Phil Jackson's triangle offense, and the future D'Antoni's running and shooting, Popovich's Spurs system, and so on.

Mike Woodson and Coach Krueger are both caught up in a rosy vision.

On the other side, Stockton, who was on his way to the training ground to practice, called Rasheed Wallace, the best of the new players, to the side during the warm-up.

"John, what's the matter?" Rasheed Wallace and Stockton are considered 'old friends' and have played against each other quite a few times.

"Rashid, I want to ask, do you understand what our team's tactical system is?" Stockton was curious about Rashid Wallace's expression just now, in addition to understanding how to play defense, Stockton only had one feeling on the offensive end, that is, it was too simple.

"Got it!" Rasheed Wallace thought Stockton was testing him, and nodded decisively.

"You understand? What does our offensive system mean? Stockton was even more curious, and hurriedly asked, he was in his 40s and didn't understand what this system was about.

"Defend, grab the ball, give Ace!"

“……”

Stockton looked at the ceiling speechlessly, he finally understood where it was unreliable, not only the tactical system was unreliable, but even his teammates were unreliable! Is this called enlightenment? Sort of......

Stockton felt that the last years of his career were so bleak!