The day before the Hawks and Nets game, the Nets had come to Atlanta, and the atmosphere of Atlanta fans was becoming more and more frenetic, and the most hostile and hated enemy of Atlanta fans now was the Nets.

Losing to the Nets in the playoffs in the first two years, and just one win away from stepping into the Finals, has left Hawks fans haunted, and no matter what the media and fans elsewhere say, the Hawks' own fans will always be the most supportive of their own team.

The last away game against the Nets made Hawks fans have greater expectations and a greater obsession with beating the Nets.

Yesterday, the Hawks had a day off after returning to Atlanta, of course, Liu Mang and Jason Terry did not rest, one took the initiative to practice, one practiced penalty, of course, the Hawks coaching staff did not rest, other opponents can not fight so hard in the regular season, but the Nets, the Hawks coaching staff basically did not sleep last night, in the meeting to study the tactics against the Nets, to be fully prepared, and strive to defeat the Nets in the regular season, and prepare for the playoffs to meet the Nets again.

The Hawks will definitely be aiming for all home-court advantage in the regular season this year, aiming to be first in the league in the regular season.

Judging by the Nets' past regular season record and the current situation in the East, the Nets may eventually enter the playoffs as third or fourth in the East, and the Pacers' strong strength at the beginning makes them second in the East second only to the Hawks, and their head coach is Coach Carlisle, who competes with Coach Krueger for the best coach in his rookie season, and the Pacers are likely to keep it after playing so steadily at the beginning.

Then the only thing the Nets can shake is the Pistons, and the Hawks are ready to play against the Nets in the second round or the Eastern Conference finals.

The Hawks coaching staff needs to give their players confidence, and the best way to do that is to be fully prepared to have an advantage against the Nets in the regular season, to establish a psychological advantage, and not to let the loss to the Nets in the first two playoff games put pressure on the players when they meet the Nets in the playoffs.

After a day's rest, the Hawks began to work on the offensive and defensive tactics that the Nets displayed in their last game against the Nets.

The Nets, on their side, are also preparing for the game against the Hawks after arriving in Atlanta.

Both teams want to establish a psychological advantage, so for the next game, both teams are fully preparing.

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The Hawks, on their part, are working hard for their season goals, and there are some big and small things happening in the league, and some trade rumors are starting to circulate.

First of all, the Magic, which has lost nine in a row at the beginning, announced the dismissal of Doug Rivers!

Yesterday, after the Magic team suffered nine consecutive defeats, Maddie couldn't stand it anymore and publicly said that he didn't want to play in the Magic team anymore and had applied for a trade with the team.

Drew Gooden also expressed his dissatisfaction with the team, he felt that he should have enough opportunities to perform, but the head coach inexplicably trusted some veterans, Drew Gooden was relegated to the bench after playing two or three games, and the two veterans of Juwan Howard and Andrew De Klerk have been occupying the starting position, which made Drew Gooden quite dissatisfied and also requested a trade.

In order to appease the players, the Magic announced the firing of Doug Rivers and the appointment of assistant coach John Davis as interim head coach.

Doug Rivers became the first coach to be fired this season.

Also on this day, the first trade after the start of the season was made.

The Raptors made a deal with the Bulls, using interior players such as Antonio Davis, Jerome Williams, and Corey Blunt to make a deal with the Bulls to get the Bulls' Donyel Marshall and Jalen Rose.

The Bulls continue to weaken their own strength, the purpose seems to be to continue to rot, they are now 3-7 ranked tenth in the East, and they can't go up or down, and they simply sent away all the powerful players except for the young potential stocks, although the 5-year 65 million big contract signed by Antonio Davis and the Raptors after being selected as an All-Star in 01 has become a garbage contract, the Bulls can use him to teach Curry and Chandler two young players to defend, which is also good.

On the Raptors' side, this trade completely corrected Milicic and allowed Milicic to return to his best center position, and with Marshall as a pitcher-type forward, the Raptors are determined to completely rebuild around Milicic.

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The Magic's firing of Rivers is not a big deal, and after the Magic team started with a six-game losing streak, the Orlando media have begun to spread the word that Rivers' position is unstable.

Orlando fans are also notoriously impersonal, when Rivers won the best coach before, local fans said that their team had their own cardinal, and after Maddie played out, he said that he had his own superstar, and after the start of this year's N consecutive defeats, Orlando fans have begun to shout to fire Rivers and trade Maddie.

The management of the Magic team is inexplicably quite concerned about the fans' remarks, saying that they will be fired, saying that they want to trade Maddie, and they have already begun to peddle Maddie, but they have not yet received the ideal offer.

However, the Raptors' trade surprised people.

The Hawks' afternoon team practice is over, and they are resting together, continuing to practice, and some are holding their laptops and scrolling through the news, and it is surprising to see these two news, especially the Raptors trade.

"Ace, are the Raptors trying to get rid of Carter? What do they think? Raheem saw the Raptors' trade problems.

Jalen Rose is a standard player who absolutely can't play well without the ball, his ability is average, but the ball possession rate is about the same as Kobe Bryant and Maddy, and he also holds a 6-year 80 million big contract, and the Raptors must not be idle when he trades him, so Carter, who has already had a decline in ball possession, will definitely have a further decline in ball possession.

Maybe Carter will make the deal himself.

But after Carter's ball possession declines, the stats will also decline, and the trade value will also decline as a result, what are the Raptors trying to do? Such a star who has proven his strength, will give up when he says to give up? Raheem didn't get it.

Not only Rahim, but the entire league did not understand the Raptors' approach, Milicic had to develop with all his might, which was expected by everyone, but trading a Jalen Rose to hinder Carter's play, no one understood.

Liu Mang didn't understand it, but there are always management in the league who have a bad head, and he has long been used to it, so he replied casually: "Maybe the Raptors management likes to listen to rap songs, so they traded Jalen over, but we also have Jay on the team." ”

“……？？？” Raheem is confused, what does Jalen Rose have to do with rapping? And when did Liu Mang and Jaylen Brown have such a good relationship? All names? Unless it's a chat between friends, Americans usually call their surnames, and the most important thing is, when did our team have a guy named Jay?

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On the morning of the game with the Nets, Liu Mang was just about to send Dina and Alexia to school, and they all had to go to the scene to watch the Nets game again tonight.

After Liu Mang went home last night, Dinah insisted that Liu Mang send her to school, saying that Liu Mang hadn't sent her to school for a long time, and Liu Mang couldn't bear the grind, but sending an increasingly cute little Lori to school would also have more face, so Liu Mang agreed.

But in the morning, after breakfast, when I was about to go out, the doorbell rang.

"Who! Dislike! Dinah felt a little bad, it was rare for her uncle to send her to school, and she felt like she was going to be disrupted!

Hearing Dinah's disgruntled complaints, Alexia patted Dinah's little head and went to pick up the phone that connected to the door.

Alexia spoke to the phone, then pressed the switch on the door.

"Ace, Boozer came to you for something, I'll take Dinah to school first?" Alexia opened the door and returned to the restaurant and said to Liu Mang, her teammates came to visit early in the morning, there must be something, although she also wanted Liu Mang to send her to work, but Liu Mang's matter mattered.

Dinah's bad premonition came true, and she was very dissatisfied: "It's really annoying to come early in the morning to disturb!" ”

"Be polite to Dinah!" Liu Mang pinched Dinah's dissatisfied little face and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll pick you up in the afternoon!" ”

Alexia also came to pinch Dinah's face: "Don't delay your uncle's work, didn't Dinah say that she grew up?" ”

"Humph! Uncle and teacher know about bullying Dinah! They all like suits Dinah," Dinah felt like her face was going to be pinched into a bun, "let it go!" Both the uncle and the teacher are badass ......"

After Dinah emphasized several times that Liu Mang couldn't forget to pick her up, Alexia took Dina away, who was rubbing her pinched red face, and after a while, Levia, who had gone upstairs to change her clothes after breakfast, came downstairs.

"Ace, who's coming?" Levia heard the commotion and asked.

Before Liu Mang could answer, Buzeer just parked the car and walked in, and Liu Mang pointed to Boozer.

"Hi, Ace, Levia." Boozer said hello.

"It's Carlos, I'll make you tea, Ace, you're still milk, right? Carlos, do you want coffee or black tea? "It's time for Levia to show off her tea skills again.

"Black tea, thank you." Boozer is much more polite than he looks.

After Levia answered and went to the kitchen, Boozer was a little puzzled: "Ace, why is Dinah looking at me strangely today?" I don't think I forgot to give him a red envelope in the training camp, right? ”

Liu Mang saw Buzeer's confused look and said, "Maybe it'...... Seeing Carlos in the morning, you're a little uncomfortable. ”

"......" Boozer knew that the little boss was teasing his appearance again.

But this was born by Mom and Dad, and Boozer can't help it! happened to be born near the overseas base of the German American army, everything was so coincidental, and he was also helpless!

After making fun of Boozer, Liu Mang smiled and said, "Okay, no kidding, I didn't ...... after breakfast" Seeing Boozer shaking his head honestly, Liu Mang shouted to the kitchen: "Levia, take some snacks out and give them to Carlos." ”

After greeting Boozer, Liu Mang looked at Boozer and seemed to be in a little heavy mood after joking, and asked curiously: "Carlos, what's wrong, you came to my house so early with a sad face." ”

At this time, Levia took out the snack first, and Boozer smiled politely to express her gratitude, and then said, "Ace, have you heard the news?" ”

"News?" Liu Mang thought for a while, and at breakfast just now, he saw a lot of rumors in the newspaper about the alliance recently, "Carlos, are you talking about those trade rumors?" ”

Boozer nodded.

Liu Mang knew that Buzeer was now suffering from some gains and losses, so he came to talk to him.

The trade between the Raptors and the Bulls kicked off the trade of the league this season, and the trade deadline for this season is February 24, because the strong teams are too strong this year, and the weak teams are too weak, especially in the East, which has shown a tendency to have less than fifty percent of the playoff teams, so the teams that feel that their teams have no chance of making the playoffs this year have begun to completely rot.

The best way to play too many games without being so deliberate and to ensure that your own players don't "get in the way" is to follow the Bulls' example, trade everything you can play, and leave some potential players to develop slowly, and it will naturally rot.

Strong teams also want to get stronger, except for teams like the Lakers and Timberwolves whose space is filled with giants, they all want to strengthen.

Some teams that have a chance to make the playoffs but are inconsistent, or teams that want to go one step further in the playoffs, are actively looking for trades.

The Hawks have also received trade requests, and many teams are interested in the Hawks' bench lineup, with Jason Terry and Boozer and Kwame Brown being the three who have received the most offers, especially Boozer.

As for the other Kevin Willis is too old, the contract is not small, Barnes is of little use now except as a coolie defender, too young to have defensive talent and no experience, the weak team is not patient to give a defensive coolie playing time to let him slowly polish the defense, and the strong team can't give the Hawks the return they want, at least they have to come back with a draft pick.

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The Eagles are the hottest in the trade market, and the other teams want the most. It's Boozer, Jason Terry, Kwame Brown.

Jason Terry is okay, the strengths and weaknesses are obvious, the offense is a good player, and the defense is a defensive black hole if he doesn't have the Eagles' team defense to help him fill the gaps.

Although Kwame Brown has shown his talent, he has the same advantages and disadvantages, the advantage is physical fitness, that is, the key to him becoming the champion, and the talent on the defensive end is becoming more and more the envy of teams without good big centers, but he wasted two years of time, and he will be 22 years old in March next year.

Boozer is quite hot in the trade market, and Boozer's ability to be the core of the interior offense has made many teams hot, and the Hawks have received the most trade requests.

Trade rumors were rampant and came to the Hawks before the game between the Hawks and the Nets.

Jason Terry and Kwame Brown were affected by the trade rumors, Jason Terry's thoughts are similar to Liu Mang's, he wants to win the championship together, and he has already received a big contract extension, he feels very happy to play the sixth man in the Hawks, and he can win with the ball.

Kwame Brown no longer has the idea of becoming the core, it is rare to have such an inclusive team, and he is already planning to follow Liu Mang, learn from Ratliffe, and become the future interior pillar of the Hawks.

Neither of them was interested in changing teams.

Boozer's side was the most affected.

Liu Mang knows Boozer very well, in the past year or so, the two have spent more time on the field and playing in private, to say that those teammates last season, including Muhammad, Jason Terry, Prince, the three players who cooperated with Liu Mang the most in the game, Boozer has the best chemistry with Liu Mang, and the relationship between the two is naturally very good.

Liu Mang knew that when Buzeer first entered the league, he never thought that he would one day become one of the most powerful forwards in the league like he is now.

Boozer played very average in college, four years in college, and the best year he played was the 2000-2001 season, and he was only ranked third in the United States, counting the frequent high school students in recent years, Boozer was not selected in the 2001 draft, so he played another year, and only ran in 2002, if it wasn't for Liu Mang to choose him, he would not have a team to gamble until the second round, he never thought that he would one day be regarded as a candidate who could be used as the core of the NBA team.

In the past two days, because of the Raptors' selection of core problems, the league's high-quality interior line has become more precious, Boozer, a player who is still playing on the bench for the Hawks but has shown core potential, is naturally one of the most mentioned players, and those offers from other teams to the Hawks that are either fabricated or really revealed by intelligence sources have made Boozer a little troubled.

Who doesn't want to be the core? Who wouldn't want to take a big contract?

After Liu Mang guessed Boozer's current mentality of gaining and losing, he didn't get angry, but asked very calmly: "Carlos, do you want to leave?" ”

When Buzeer heard Liu Mang's words, he was stunned and shook his head: "I don't want to." ”

Seeing Boozer shaking his head and saying NO, this time it was Liu Mang's turn to be stunned, why didn't he play according to the routine? At this time, don't you want to leave, and the master will stay? Then what are you doing with a sad face!

The master even thought about it if he kept it! And they're all ready to start the Führer mode!