When the Malone and Stockton News interview came out, the fans were going to blow up!

Two old yin people are about to retire, and they are going to harm our young players together, and then make another yin person come out to inherit their mantle?

Fortunately, most of the fans are happy to see the rookie get stronger, although there is a new Stockton, or a combination of Stockton and Malone, which can be elbow and insidious......

The main thing is that a lot of players in the NBA are going to blow up!

This, the little rascal is shameless enough, and he wants to become a yin man like Stockton?

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The outside world is noisy, but Liu Mang's side has little impact, Atlanta fans are used to Liu Mang's various alternative operations, and it would be better if Malone and Stockton made Liu Mang stronger.

Today is a rest day, Liu Mang gets up in the morning to train, after the March schedule is over, there is a journey of 9 games in the last 17 days in April.

Tomorrow, March 30, the Hawks will host the Boston Celtics.

The Celtics are back in shape after a slump after All-Star Weekend, and they are tied to the record of the Pistons and the Nets, who are now 46-26 and the Pistons and Celtics are both 44-28.

According to past experience, the Hawks' playoffs will begin on April 20, the opponents in the first round are not yet clear, the Pacers, Raptors, and Bucks are all possible, and the Hornets have fallen to tenth, and they can't go up or down, and they have a 4-win gap from the ninth-place Bucks, and a 4-win gap from the eleventh Heat, which is the legendary team that occupies a grade.

The 39-33 Magic and 37-35 76ers were stuck in the fifth and sixth spots by mid-season, playing the Pistons or the Celtics...... There is not much difference for them, so there is not much pressure on the record, and the seventh to ninth in the back has just reached a win rate of 50%.

There is no record pressure on the Eagles' side, it is better if it can be better, it is nothing if it can't, and it is not a big problem to get 5 wins in 10 games to break the team's historical record.

On the contrary, it is the Magic and the 76ers, and I very much hope that the Hawks will play the Celtics, and the Hawks can win to avoid the Celtics forcing the Nets to third in the East, so that the Magic and the 76ers will fight to the death for who is the fifth place.

Although the Nets are crazy and abused in the West, their dominance in the East is on the same level as the Hawks.

Liu Mang returned to the apartment after training in the morning, and got some food in the kitchen of the landlord's house at noon, a simple vegetable salad, to maintain his weight.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang lay lazily at home, relaxed, and looked at the system space.

Liu Mang looked at the random star cards in the system space, and he didn't know what he could draw for the time being, and he didn't plan to use it now.

The team is first in the East in the regular season, and there is no need to waste this card in the rest of the regular season, and if there is a key game in the playoffs, it is not too late to use it.

There are another 110,000 rogue points and 21,456 superstar points.

The rogue value is saved first, and the superstar value is also left with 10,000 points to prevent injuries, and the remaining 11,400 points are used by Liu Mang to draw skill upgrade cards, injury potions and physical potions to make regular reserves for the next games and playoffs.

"System boss, use 114 junior superstar value draws!"

"The host uses 114 primary superstar value draws, consuming 11,400 superstar value ......"

"Ding...... Congratulations to the host for obtaining 147 skill upgrade cards, 27 primary injury and illness potions, 31 stamina energy potions, 15 primary steal cards, and special cards: rebound cards. ”

147 skill upgrade cards, plus the remaining 30 before, a total of 177, more than 60 pieces are missing, 10,000 superstar points are used as injury reserves, this is essential, there can be no accidents in the first playoff trip, because the injury will definitely not be able to play, and if you can't play the game, there will be no superstar value, and then you can only wait for the effect of the injury medicine to play, Liu Mang can't stand it.

Physical potions and primary injuries and illnesses are also necessary stocks.

This bounce card?

It's rare that there is something new in the junior lottery!

In the past, there were occasionally new things, such as clothing aesthetics and hairstyle aesthetics, which were related to basketball players off the court.

Of course, those are not bad, but Liu Mang is now in the sprint stage, and he didn't even rush to sign endorsements, and those who found the spokespersons of the team management, Liu Mang asked Coach Kruger to push it for the time being, and wait for the summer to find a good agent.

"Bounce Card: When encountering a malicious attack from an enemy, it can reflect damage."

“！”

This thing!

Yes!

The playoffs are coming soon, and the current playoffs are still in an iron-blooded style, which is a good thing to say.

If it's ugly, it's dirty!

Because there are still many players in the 80s who are active in the NBA arena, those players who have experienced the bad boy army, Pat Riley's iron-blooded style, and there are a lot of small moves in the playoffs.

Some people play basketball without sportsmanship, this kind of person will never be less, Liu Mang knows, more than ten years later, there are still that kind of players.

Maybe this kind of person is disgusted by opponents, teammates don't like it, even the manager doesn't like it, but the boss likes it, and the manager sometimes has to use it.

The boss wants to win, the means or something, unless it's the kind of team that loves basketball, if it's just a businessman, they don't care what means are dirty or clean.

You can't have the heart to hurt people, but you can't have the heart to prevent people!

Great stuff!

Liu Mang looked at 177 skill upgrade cards, 51 physical energy potions, 41 primary injury potions, and an intermediate injury potion, the medicine reserve is full, just waiting for the game!

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On the morning of the game with the Celtics, Liu Mang did the same, getting up at five in the morning to run, going to the park at six o'clock to practice shooting, returning to the apartment at half past seven for breakfast, sending Dinah to school, and continuing to train at the stadium at nine o'clock.

Together is no different from the usual home game day.

After lunch at 12:30 p.m., Liu Mang was going to go to the team lounge with Emmanuol to play games, relax, and wait for the team's tactical meeting at 2 p.m.

However, Coach Kruger called Liu Mang, Raheem, and Jason Terry to the office together, and it was just the three of them and the assistant coaching team.

Mike Woodson, the team's defensive assistant coach, was once an NBA quasi-first-class star, averaging 17 points per game in eight seasons at his peak, and 14 points per game throughout his career.

Quinn Buckner, the team's shooting and individual defensive coach, was a former head coach with the Mavericks and was a regular on the All-Defensive Team as a player.

Doon Ferrer, assistant coach in the team's player analysis and rookie evaluation, plays average, highly educated and highly intelligent, graduated from Stanford University, studied financial management, and played in the NBA for more than ten years, and spent his peak years with the Hawks, and was a high-quality substitute who averaged 10 points per game for two years.

With the addition of rookie coach Ron Kruger, the Hawks' coaching staff is so shabby.

Liu Mang and the others arrived at Coach Kruger's office and seemed to be discussing something.

Coach Kruger seemed to have a bit of a headache, and when he saw the three team cores coming, he threw the pot at them.

"Ace, Jason, Sherleaf, do you think we need to let the Celtics improve their record to second?" Coach Krueger asked.

“？”

Liu Mang, Jason-Terry, and Rahim just arrived, and they encountered such a question, how did they answer?

And what does it mean to have the Celtics second? We are the first in the East!

"Look here," Mike Woodson looked very positive, drawing the attention of Liu Mang and others to the rear projection image next to him, "We will play the Celtics tonight, and here, on April 11th, we will also play the Celtics......"

Mike Woodson pressed the button of the remote control to turn the page to the PPT: "Now the difference between the Celtics and the Nets is only two games, if we give the Celtics a chance, they may be able to advance to the second place in the East, then the Celtics may put more pressure on the Nets in the second round, and may even beat the Nets, and our chances of winning the Eastern Conference Finals will be greater!" ”

Forehead......

Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Rahim glanced at each other, and it turned out that this was what they were talking about!

This is not yet a bald future big bald head, and it is too long-term to think about it!

Didn't you think about the previous series with the Pistons?

Liu Mang is right to think about it, at this time, no one could have thought that the Pistons would be the **oss of the future East.

However, Coach Mike Woodson is worthy of being a coach who has worked with old Nelson and Vicky, and his ideas are always so bold and advanced, and Liu Mang admires the vision of this future bald assistant coach who is still in the bush.

Teaching assistants, you have to have this kind of person who can come up with different ideas.

However, based on Liu Mang's impression of Coach Kruger, this kind of thinking Coach Kruger should not refuse, right? The Hawks have no record pressure, the Nets have lost 26 games, it would be good for them to get 5 wins and 5 losses in the next schedule, 51 wins at most, even if they have 10 wins left, they are only 56 wins, they have 53 wins on their own side, and 5 wins in the next 10 games are stable, so what else is there to discuss? Wouldn't it be good to stumble on your biggest opponent!

Liu Mang feels that Coach Kruger's ideas should be the same as mine, that is, he is so visionary and thoughtful.

"I don't think that's going to work." Old-school Quinn Buckner said.

It turned out that it was not that Coach Kruger disagreed, but that everyone else thought that Liu Mang had a good relationship with the shooting and individual defense assistant coach, and Quinn Buckner had a good relationship with most of the team's players.

"Quinn, what's wrong with wearing little shoes for the Nets?" Liu Mang asked curiously.

Wearing small shoes? This statement is a bit novel for Americans, but it has won the unanimous approval of the people around him, Mike Woodson has always looked at Liu Mang unpleasantly, but now he thinks it is quite pleasing to the eye, and the hero sees the same thing!

Quinn Buckner thought about it, this game is played by players, the coach has to give the established tactics, and the executor is still the player: Quinn Buckner said: "We have a good idea, let the Nets play the Magic or 76ers in the first round, and give the Celtics home court advantage in the second round, let them fight with the Nets, but we only had 2 wins and 0 losses with the Celtics before, and we now have an absolute psychological advantage, if they let them tie us 2-2 in the regular season, our psychological advantage will be snatched away by the opponent, Because they are the ones who beat us after trading. ”

Forehead......

Very calm thoughts!

It does make sense!

No wonder Coach Kruger was so hesitant and shook the pot when he saw the three of them coming in.

Liu Mang wants to say...... The master is just a rookie, don't put pressure on the master!

Liu Mang looked at Coach Kruger, and Coach Kruger's eyes were clearly threatening: You decide!

Depend on!

Doon Ferrer, the assistant coach is not usually on the team, and he doesn't care about anything, he is in space.

Liu Mang looked at the team's eldest and second child, and Jason Terry and Rahim also stared at him.

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This group of people!

There are no human rights in the second round of the show! I have to take the blame every day!

If there is really an accident in the playoffs, if their Hawks really make it to the Eastern Conference finals, and then the Celtics really upset the Nets, and then they kill their Hawks, reach the Finals, and continue the yellow-green battle with the Lakers......

This kind of risk, this kind of superb black cauldron, Liu Mang doesn't want to carry it!

At this time, Liu Mang wanted to follow the steady path and go step by step.

"That's not right!" Liu Mang suddenly thought that this season and next season, it should be the Nets invincible in the East! How can there be any possibility of losing to the Celtics, the Pistons have been swept by them! And the Celtics originally really reached the Eastern Conference finals this season, but they killed the second-place Pistons with the third, and the Pistons were only regular season teams in the two years before the two Wallace combinations and Billups entered their prime.

And even if they play the Celtics, even if the Celtics really kill the Nets and reach the Eastern Conference finals, the Hawks should thank them for taking out the team that has been invincible in the Eastern Conference playoffs in the past two years.

Liu Mang came to the front of Coach Kruger's office: "Coach, borrow your pen and paper." ”

Coach Kruger has a question mark written on his face, what is this about? Still give.

Liu Mang is about to show a wave of real technology!

A simple mathematical analysis.

The Hawks released the water, the Celtics defeated the Nets to the Eastern Conference finals in the second capacity, and the Hawks also went to the Eastern Conference finals, the Hawks played the Celtics with a 100% winning rate, and they only lost two games when they were rested, and the Celtics would not be easy to win the Nets, with a lot of physical consumption, and the Hawks had a high winning rate.

The Nets have reached the Eastern Conference finals, under normal circumstances, now the Hawks and the Nets play one win and one loss, and then there will be one game on March 3, the outcome is not easy to say, the Hawks players have little playoff experience, last season was the first time in many years to enter the playoffs, and was swept, and the Nets win rate is lower than that of the Celtics.

The Hawks don't let go of the water, the Celtics don't have a home-court advantage, it's hard to have a chance to win against the Nets, the Nets advance to the Eastern Conference finals more easily and smoothly, and the Hawks enter the Eastern Conference finals against the easier Nets, and the winning rate is lower.

The Hawks lost to the Pistons and couldn't participate in the Eastern Conference finals, which made no sense.

Looking at the three consecutive analyses written by Liu Mang, there was no need for Liu Mang to say it, and he didn't continue to quarrel, everyone else knew Liu Mang's answer.

Coach Kruger looked at Liu Mang a little surprised, this kid is okay!

If you say the answer directly, whether it is a conservative answer or a radical answer, you will always offend someone.

In this way, all four possibilities are written, there is no quarrel, but it is easier for everyone to accept.

In this way, the answer is clear.

"I'm a person who likes to be safe, and in my opinion, Mike's idea is more secure, we need to weaken the opponent's strength to the minimum! I think let's let the Celtics go second! Liu Mang said with a smile.

Jason Terry and Raheem want to clap their hands!

They are afraid of offending people, and Liu Mang is just a rookie, only 19 years old, straightforward and fast-hearted, unless he is a person with a very small heart, otherwise he will not hold grudges, so they decisively sold Liu Mang, but they didn't expect Liu Mang to forcibly say that the radical approach is a conservative and prudent method.

It's really black and white!

Quinn Buckner looked like it was really like that! My own thoughts turned out to be not as secure as this deliberate losing practice!

Something seems wrong...... Quinn Buckner is a little dazed, but feels so reasonable!

"Ace, your analysis is good, let's follow your ideas!" Coach Kruger never forgets to pit his disciples.

Liu Mang is helpless, what do you call my thoughts! Don't you yourself think so! I was also when I cut sharks before! Depend on!

"But how are we going to lose so that it doesn't look so fake?" Doon-Ferrer asks a question.

That's right! The other three coaches didn't think of this stubble yet.

"Uh......" Liu Mang said weakly: "Shouldn't we take turns to rest?" ”