On January 3rd, the Eagles' second game of the new year arrived.

Liu Mang went to the Ford Center Arena early in the morning to train, from half past six to half past ten, four hours, for half a day of training for Gary Payton's defensive training card.

Emmanuol was lying on the chair and falling asleep next to him, thinking what technique Liu Mang was going to practice, who knew that Liu Mang put a few chairs and ran around the chair irregularly, accelerating and decelerating......

Emmanuol couldn't leave yet, Liu Mang was hungry and wanted to eat, and when he was thirsty, he wanted to drink.

The teammates came, and they couldn't figure it out when they saw what Liu Mang was training, but Prince stared at it for a while, and asked uncertainly when Liu Mang was drinking water: "Ace, are you blocking and dismantling?" ”

"Well, I'll practice more, and the opponent who is good at blocking and dismantling can use it in the future." Liu Mang responded, and finally someone understood!

"......" Prince did not continue to speak, set up a few chairs, and practiced on the opposite side of the half of the court where Liu Mang was contacted......

The main function of this training is to make the body and consciousness react naturally again and again, so the training is also extremely boring.

Maddie came to see it, and felt so bored, so troublesome to practice defense, he chose to practice catch-and-shoot three-point shooting.

From the early season with the ball, Maddy is now converted to a catch-and-shoot focus, supplemented by an offense with the ball, and his three-point shooting rate has increased from 36 percent in the first dozen games to 42 percent in the next dozen games, and now his goal is to maintain his current stable three-point shot.

At half past ten, Liu Mang's training time agreed with the coaching staff yesterday was over, and the Hawks had a game meeting about the Hornets at 11 o'clock.

Coach Kruger feels strange about Liu Mang's practice of often fixing training time and training intensity, and feels that Liu Mang has obsessive-compulsive disorder, there are always some strange things.

The meeting about the Hornets was simple, and after playing the Lakers, the Hawks started to rest.

In November and December, the Eagles had only three back-to-backs combined, but there were three back-to-backs in one month in January, two in February, and four back-to-backs in March.

Rotation is inevitable, and it's no longer the time of the eighties and nineties when Pat Riley took the lead in putting players to death regardless of the future, mainly since the mid-90s when the salaries of stars became higher and higher, and the health of stars has been paid more attention.

Rasheed Wallace, Prince, and Mourning didn't play today, and Granger, who has been training with the team since the end of December, finally got a chance to be in the squad.

Horry and Barry have also begun to take on rotation roles and find a feel for the game, and when it comes to the playoffs, these veterans will inevitably be used.

After a brief meeting, Liu Mang went to the lounge with his teammates, and the team's nutritionist had already prepared lunch.

"Wow...... Danny, you're finally on the court, boss, pass the ball to Danny! "As soon as he came out of the room, David Lee was excited, even more excited than Granger in the 12-man squad.

Liu Mang said "um", and did not directly agree or refuse.

"Boss, you don't have to pass the ball to me, if I have the opportunity to play with you, just help you grab the rebound, if I have the opportunity to pass to me, I will try to shoot!" Granger was very calm, not being carried away by the opportunity to play, and using it as an opportunity for him to turn over.

This surprised Liu Mang, such a calm rookie!

Compared with David Lee, the rich second generation who always dreams so big, Granger is even more admired by Liu Mang, who is about to be 23 years old, which is also one of the factors in Granger's maturity.

But...... It's a little too cold......

"Danny Granger, Ability Rating 74, Offense 72, Defense 80, Three-Point 79, Shooting 68, Layup 84, Speed 88, Power 83, Ball Handling 70, Passing 66...... Injury propensity: Very high. ”

Liu Mang took a look at Granger, who was actually not bad, a tall pitcher with good movement ability and solid defense.

There is some organizational ability, but the ball control and passing are very average, the average level of the league, and I can't count on it.

But for a rookie, it's already outstanding.

The key is that Granger adapted quickly to the adult basketball world, playing in the Development League, and his ability rating improved from 69 when he was drafted to 74, and in the Development League, he fought for the right to play with those players who wanted to be appreciated by the NBA, and he didn't give up because he was sent to the Development League, he has been working hard and has made great progress.

However, in the evaluation of Granger's ability given by the system, there is a very eye-catching "extremely high", which is a grade higher than Maddie's, Maddie's major injury is mainly due to genetics and the original time and space when he was accidentally injured by his teammates, and Granger is a real glass man.

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At 7:10 p.m., the players from both teams entered the stadium at Ford Center after warming up.

The fans were enthusiastic and cheered at everyone.

First the Hawks players entered, then the Hornets players entered.

When the Hornets players entered, the lights were restored, and Paul was ready to go over to say hello to the bigwigs, but, to his surprise, the bigwigs of the Hawks were more enthusiastic than him!

Seeing Paul standing on his chest at 58, Iguodala pulled up and put his arm around Paul's shoulders and said, "Oops, Chris, we left too early yesterday, I couldn't talk to you properly, I played so well yesterday, continue to work hard today, let me see your excellent performance!" ”

Paul was stunned and replied, "Thank you......"

Before Paul finished speaking, Maddie interrupted: "I heard that Ace is very optimistic about you, I came to see your game yesterday, you are much more powerful than Ace at that time, come on, you will be stronger than Ace!" ”

"With Chris here, I have to defend more seriously, I don't want to be blocked by you." Kwame Brown also came up.

Paul saw a bunch of bigwigs coming up, and when he heard the bigwigs, he didn't know what to say, what was the situation?

At this time, Prince actually spoke!

"Chris, I'm going to take care of ...... today"

Before Prince could finish speaking, someone covered his mouth and pulled aside.

Several members of the Eagles glared at Prince and said something! It scared the children, how to play with it...... No, why do we seem so friendly?

Liu Mang finally said: "Chris, let me see your strength!" ”

After Liu Mang finished speaking, a group of Eagle Degree players who were still surrounding Paul just now all dispersed, leaving Paul with a confused face.

Paul didn't even understand what was going on.

Paul received a call from James today, and heard James say that today's game must adjust his mentality, no matter what happens, he can't lose confidence, Paul is still very worried, and when he went to say hello to Liu Mang and others just now, he was trembling.

But now, Paul thinks James is overthinking!

What a great bunch of people!

The players from the same company are so friendly! Compared to those veterans who want to suppress him, Paul feels that the Eagles are all good guys!

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At 7:59, Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air, and Maddie asked the referee to choose a ball that was slightly less angry and played for a second or two, and the starters of the two teams came to the court.

The Hawks, for their part, fielded the starting lineup of Liu Mang, Maddy, Horry, Josh Smith and Kwame Brown.

Horry is back as a starter, a multiple championship winner, and still has some advantages when the team starts to rest.

The Hornets fielded a starting lineup of Paul, Kirk Sneijder, Desmond Mason, David West, PJ Brown.

Kwame Brown won the jump ball against PJ Brown and the Hawks attacked first.

Liu Mang advanced to the front court with the ball, and Paul defended it.

Paul is so excited now, and he is in the opposite position with Liu Mang!

Quite an excellent defense, Liu Mang felt an airtight feeling from Paul's defense, of course, from Paul's position and footsteps.

So, Liu Mang leaned sideways and took the initiative to stick to Paul.

When Paul saw Liu Mang sticking towards him, he immediately pressed towards Liu Mang and tried to steal, but Paul immediately felt a violent impact from his chest to his chin!

Liu Mang suddenly lowered his center of gravity, slammed the ball to the right back with his right hand, and turned around quickly and impactfully!

Paul has good defensive awareness, good positioning, excellent defensive selection, and small actions that are beyond the average rookie should have.

However, the current Paul, who is not the later strong guy Brother Cannon, was crushed by Liu Mang and turned around to break through!

Fortunately, the Hornets are aiming to win this season, and Byron Scott, the master of the field, has arranged a targeted defense, even if the opponent is the Hawks, Byron Scott wants to fight.

Desmond Mason, a super physical man who once competed with Liu Mang for the dunk king, quickly came from the sideline.

Liu Mang distributed the ball to the left sideline and passed it to Horry, who was in the empty space.

Horry catches the ball and makes a three-point shot......

Iron!

PJ Brown defends the rebound.

Offense and defense switched, and the Hornets attacked.

Paul advanced to the frontcourt, and was too easy to be by Liu Mang just now, and Paul couldn't help it, he couldn't bear it.

But on the offensive end, Paul is very confident!

Judging from Paul's research, in terms of speed, he felt that he was not losing to Liu Mang, and when he arrived at the front court, he immediately accelerated to break through!

Liu Mang's current defensive awareness is much better than last year, coupled with the predictive bonus of the blocker's level 5, 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 Aaron Iverson's feeling, and the change of direction was huge!

Suddenly threw Liu Mang aside, but ...... Maddie's pinching is here!

Desmond Mason saw Maddie go to pinch Paul and immediately cut inside.

Paul was also looking for a teammate who was released, but Liu Mang and Maddy blocked the pass route with Desmond Mason, and even because of his height, Paul didn't see Desmond Mason cut in the air.

Paul wanted to turn around, quit or look for an opportunity to cast, and as soon as he turned around, he saw a third person!

Josh Smith is here too!

Liu Mang, Maddie, and Josh Smith sandwiched Paul in the middle and formed a circle......

Paul feels like it's a little dark in the arena today! The light is blocked!

The Hornets didn't expect the other team to defend like this, and neither did Paul! Can't pass out, can't retreat, Paul can only force up and jump, shooting......

"Smack......

"Bang ......"

Liu Mang jumped high, stretched out his left hand, and directly picked up the ball thrown by Paul and slapped it on his right hand.

Grab the hat!

Paul came up and gave Liu Mang a cap!

Paul immediately hugged Liu Mang's hands holding the ball, and made a tactical foul before Liu Mang counterattacked.

Eagles sideline ball.

After receiving the serve, Liu Mang advanced to the front court and continued to break through to Horry.

But Horry still missed!

Horry regular season ...... It's 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 and wilted in the playoffs.

Last season with the Spurs, Horry's three-point shooting rate in the regular season was in the twenties, and in the playoffs, it increased to more than 30 percent, and in the finals more than 40 percent......

PJ Brown is not the big center of the 92 generation who can fly and dunk back then, second only to O'Neal, Mourning, and Lafso-Ellis, and has no ability to continue to fly, but this veteran of the fourteenth season still has a good defensive rebound, a strong card position, and grabs the defensive rebound.

The Eagles quickly retreated, and Paul received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt.

Paul had a very bad feeling that the first ball was so weird!

Paul was looking for a broad shoulder to crush the shock and beckoned David West to block it.

David West came up to help Paul block Liu Mang.

Paul saw Josh Smith switch defenses, and instead of forcing a strong shot, he was ready to shoot a three-pointer......

Just when Paul grabbed the ball, Liu Mang didn't change the defense and went around the line directly, and sandwiched Paul outside the three-point line with Josh Smith!

Paul wanted to pass to David West, but at this point Maddie was already in the middle of Paul and David West, who pulled away from the right midrange after the pick-and-roll.

It's a three-man defense again!

Without choosing to break through, Paul was caught by the three again!

The point is that this kind of thing was not expected at all!

Paul quickly figured out how to smash the ball to the ground and then dribble to the left, trying to feign that the ball had touched the opposing player.

However, the referee at the three-point line on the left side of the basket saw clearly that the ball did not hit the Hawks player's body, and immediately blew the whistle, clenched his fists, and began to circle his two forearms.

Walking!

Paul's nightmare begins!

In the next period of time, the two teams either made mistakes or hit iron at the beginning, and the fans on the scene were dozing off.

Paul, on his part, wanted to wake up from his "dream"!

After a few rounds, he drew a foul, was offended once, was tackled once, passed to Desmond Mason, Desmond Mason made a three-pointer and missed twice......

After more than four minutes, Paul finally understood!

What the hell did my old high school friend mean by what he said!

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