"Ace, you give me back the starter!"

After the afternoon's extra up after returning from Philadelphia, Jason Terry lay on the floor wailing.

"Get out!"

"I'll take you to have fun, I know a few girls who live very well."

"Go away, you and the coach secretly discussed that you want to play as a substitute and throw the starter to me, the starter is not something you want to sell, you can buy it if you want to sell! I finally made it to the starter, will I give it back to you? Think beautifully...... By the way, what is the girl's phone number? ”

"I didn't give it to you, I had to be dragged into the water when I was found doing community labor, and I wanted a girl? Find it yourself at your Georgia Tech! ”

"Stingy!"

“……”

“……”

Liu Mang and Jason Terry had a joke after the team's practice, and then they continued to practice.

It's time for the playoffs, there is no pressure for the playoff seats, the pressure of the playoffs is coming, and it's not easy to play eighth in the East!

The Hawks' record became 40-36 after back-to-back home and away games with the 76ers, pulling the Magic team a little further away from another loss, the Magic team had a 37-38 record, and there were two more back-to-backs, and the opponents were strong, and the Magic's playoffs were basically cold.

The Hawks just finished back-to-back home and away games, first at home because of the first tactical change in play, the offensive performance was extremely unstable, and was killed by the 76ers away.

Then the Hawks flew to Philadelphia with the 76ers that night, and played back-to-back games well, pulling one back and tying it 2-2 in four meetings this season.

The Eagles have a back-to-back record of 1 win and 1 loss.

The main thing is that there is no pressure, and the whole team is cooperating with the transformation of Jason Terry and Liu Mang.

How much ball possession Liu Mang needs to hand over, how much ball possession Jason Terry needs to add, and how to grasp this degree is the key.

……

The season continues, and after winning back-to-back games with the 76ers, the Hawks have two consecutive home games, Seattle SuperSonics and Cleveland Cavaliers.

is the so-called humble gentleman, gentle as jade.

In the NBA, it's probably Ray Allen, who is one of the few pitchers who has been choked enough by Liu Mang's scourge and has not complained about Liu Mang off the court.

The gentleman's friendship is as light as water, and it is the character of Ray Allen, who can make surprising moves, such as leaving Pierce, Garnett, and Rondo in the future, and joining the sworn enemy Heat.

But his character is like that, a game is a game, and he doesn't mix those personal grudges into his career.

After being traded to the SuperSonics, after a period of running-in, Ray Allen successfully brought the Musketeers culture from the Bucks to Seattle, and formed the Supersonic Musketeers camp with Lewis, Radmanovich, and Brent Barry. Relying on these four sharpshooters who averaged more than 1.5 three-pointers per game, the SuperSonics' record slowly improved after getting Ray Allen, although the gap from the playoffs is obvious, just like the gap between the Knicks and the playoffs, but this is the real hope, Ray Allen is at his peak, Lewis and Radmanovic are gradually growing, Barry is old and strong, as long as a good passer joins, they will take off just around the corner!

The goal of the supersonic is very clear, that is, not to mess up, to show their strength to everyone, they are capable, just a point guard.

If there's one team that wants the Nets to be eliminated in the playoffs more than the Hawks, it's the SuperSonics, whose contract expires at the end of the season, and their goal is Kidd.

And the Hawks are probably Kidd's main opponent in the playoffs, and the Hawks will definitely pay attention to Kidd in this game, so everyone on the supersonic side is fighting hard! Play hard at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends!

The SuperSonics are a wonder in the West, obviously a team of pitchers, the defense is actually good, the offense is average, shooting 7.1 three-pointers per game, but the overall offense averages 93 points per game, and the average points conceded are only 92 points per game.

Coach Nate McMillan is truly remarkable, and although he is only in his third year in charge, he has already shown great coaching talent and put the team's system in order.

The team has a clear plan, the coaching staff is executed, and the players are looking forward to attracting a super point guard in the summer, so they are working hard.

Thereupon......

The Eagles were taken out by the Hypersonics.

The Eagles are still in the throes of the run-in of a new style of play, and it's okay to play slowly, but they can't stand the supersonic speed so desperately, and the Eagles are panicking when they are playing, Liu Mang wants to win the ball to dominate the offense, and he has to take care of Jason Terry's style of play, and when he encounters this kind of anxious game, he becomes unable to take care of the head and the tail.

If there is a reason to lose to the already good superSonics, then the Hawks and the Cavaliers are desperate for two consecutive home defeats to the Cavaliers!

The Cavaliers were originally 16-62, only "leading" the Denver Nuggets by 1 loss, but in this game, the Cavaliers felt amazing, and the Hawks played weirdly, and the Cavaliers actually led to the end from the beginning! In the end, the Cavaliers defeated the Hawks 95-89!

The head coach of the Cavaliers is old, and his record has actually tied with the Nuggets!

……

……

The record became 40-38! The Eagles didn't worry about big pains, but they didn't expect it to be so big, and they actually lost two consecutive home games.

It's time to go into the playoffs, and that's a bit of a bad situation!

On the night after the loss to the Cavaliers, the Hawks couldn't calm down for a long time.

Coach Kruger and his coaching staff stayed up late to discuss what to do, and they did not show any pressure in the last four games, but encouraged the players to continue to play according to the new strategy.

But privately, the pressure on the coaching staff is very high!

Because in the past two years, the Eagles' starting lineup and the opponent's starting lineup have just been head-on, and Liu Mang dominated the ball to defeat the opponent after coming on the court, which has been a very successful style of play.

But Coach Krueger is not satisfied with the Eastern Conference finals, he knows very well that the current style of play of the Hawks, when they meet the Nets in the playoffs, has little chance of winning!

Mainly only Liu Mang, a serious core point guard who can organize offense, Raheem and Jason Terry assists are good, but they are not playing as core ball handlers.

A second point of possession is required.

Jason Terry's style of play with his starting partner has been fixed, so it needs to change, and putting him on the bench has proven to be a viable strategy, but that's the occasional release that catches the opponent off guard, and Jason Terry has been put on the bench once in a while, and there is no pressure on his mind.

But now it's different, and after it's become the norm, the pressure on Jason Terry is on.

Not only that, after Liu Mang arrived at the starting lineup, during the rotation of the lineup, he was not firm in his choice to take the ball from Jason Terry, and sometimes Liu Mang needed to control the ball more, but he was worried about delaying Jason Terry's adaptation to the new style of play, resulting in a near-collapse of the offense!

Unless it's like the second game of the 76ers, the team shoots well, otherwise most of the time the team's offense is sluggish!

The coaching staff considers whether the tactics are feasible or not, for this kind of details, the players grasp it, and the coaching staff has a good idea, but when it comes to the implementation of the players, there is a problem, and in just a few days, the coaching staff can not judge which link is wrong, and the coaching staff can only work overtime to discuss whether the tactical structure is wrong.

……

……

Liu Mang has not had a good time in recent days, and after playing as a starter, the team not only did not get better, but showed signs of collapse.

This made Liu Mang very depressed.

Liu Mang is sure that after this transition from a single ball-holding core to a two-person ball-holding core, the team will become more threatening.

There are many examples of Liu Mang making this kind of judgment, such as Paul and Westbrook in the future single-core period, which collapsed in the playoffs, an avalanche, and they were in the west at the time, far worse than Liu Mang's environment in the east, and they were killed when they entered the playoffs at most when they reached the second round, even if they played at the MVP level in the regular season and led the team all the way forward, especially Westbrook's style of play, they couldn't pass the first round of the playoffs alone, even if they were superstar teammates.

Instead, after Paul and Harden partnered, they took off in an instant.

Liu Mang roughly analyzed the problem encountered by the Hawks now, that is, he and Jason Terry are at a loss, how to choose between holding the ball and not holding the ball.

When both players need to carry the ball, especially when both players want to be selfless, but they need to make a choice, this situation is a difficult dilemma for the Hawks to break through right now.

What to do?

Liu Mang is inexperienced!

After playing the Cavaliers, he returned home and took a bath, Liu Mang still couldn't calm his heart, originally thinking that there were still 4 games, and after slowly running in, there might be a way suddenly?

But after taking a bath, Liu Mang not only did not get rid of these troubles, but became more entangled.

Liu Mang didn't resist at all at all about the single core becoming a double ball at first, but felt that the pressure would be much less, mainly because he remembered successful examples - James and Wade during the Heat Big Three, both of whom were first-class organizational cores with an average of 7+ assists per game, but in the first year of the duo, they quickly completed the run-in, and reached the finals that year.

However, now Liu Mang has found a problem, that is, he knows that there are such examples of successful run-in between two ball-holding cores on the outside, but in the history of the NBA, there seem to be very few examples of this kind of successful run-in between two superstars of small forwards and guards, and it is difficult for him to find someone to learn from him, especially this example of two guards holding the ball to control the ball, even less.

This is also a headache for the Hawks coaching staff, because Liu Mang's previous style of playing with the ball after coming on the court was too successful, and Jason Terry's style of focusing on scoring was also very successful, which suddenly had to change, it was too difficult!

Liu Mang thought about it, and it seemed that there was really no example of two star defenders with the ball running together when both of them had to hold the ball.

On the contrary, small forwards have!

Liu Mang suddenly thought of someone and asked him?

This thought couldn't be stopped, Liu Mang ignored the fact that it was already the middle of the night, picked up his mobile phone, and dialed a number......

……

Far away in the suburbs of Charlotte, in a luxury villa, a middle-aged man who has just retired and has the title of god in the basketball world is holding up his belly that has begun to grow after retirement, and is working on a female model with a good figure.

Charlotte is good, the city is not developed, the green mountains and green waters, the environment is beautiful, and it is interesting to do reproduction work in this kind of place.

Just when this man was working hard, suddenly the mobile phone rang, this man almost collapsed, but fortunately he endured it at a critical moment, and it was still somewhat useful to come back and play two seasons to get his body strong again.

That's right, this man is Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, after Charlotte bought a house and settled down, Old Man Joe was full of food and thought**, and found a female model to open the meat, but he didn't expect the mobile phone to ring at a critical moment!

Jordan wanted to smash the phone directly, but still glanced at the screen to see who it was.

It's okay not to watch it, but it's even more angry to watch it!

It's that bastard!

It's been two months since Jordan retired, and this kid hasn't called once to say hello, but he actually called at a critical moment when he rarely wanted to be hi once when he got older!

When calling at this time, Jordan immediately guessed that this kid must be in a hurry.

Jordan is even more angry, don't call to say hello if it's okay, and call when there is an emergency!

Jordan picked up the phone with a blank face.

Sure enough, an eager voice came from the other end of the phone: "Michael, I have something I want to ask ......"

"Wait, Ace," Jordan interrupted Liu Mang, "do you know what time it is?" ”

......Liu Mang on the other end of the phone really didn't pay attention to what time it was, and looked at the alarm clock: "Half past eleven." ”

"Yes, you know it's half past eleven...... Jordan couldn't help but squeeze a mountain peak in anger, and the female model couldn't help but let out a coquettish ......

Liu Mang suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and when he heard the voice on the phone, as well as Jordan's not salty and non-indifferent tone, he guessed that he had ruined the good thing of this old rascal!

The worst possibility is that the 40-year-old rascal may have a problem with some aspect of the function!

Depend on! Liu Mang didn't expect that the 40-year-old old rascal would still have this leisure!

What to do?

Liu Mang knew this situation and wanted Jordan to give him advice...... It's very difficult to estimate!

What to do?

This dog will jump off the wall when he is in a hurry, not to mention that he is a little rascal, and he really came up with a way for him at once.

Pretending not to hear the woman's voice, Liu Mang continued to say in an anxious tone: "Michael, there is really no way to call you so late, because you are my teacher, the only teacher, and I have encountered the biggest problem in my career, so I can only look for you." ”

"Teacher?" Jordan's tiger body was shocked, "Ace, you wait, I'll go to the balcony, the mobile phone signal is not good." ”

This title is so fresh!

Moreover, Liu Mang's words made Jordan feel that he was very valued!

Although it feels a little wrong, I have to say that when people reach middle age, the mentality of the elders naturally rises.

Hearing that Liu Mang was the first to find himself, and he was so anxious, he could see that Liu Mang was indeed in a hurry, and when he was in a hurry, he immediately thought of himself, Jordan felt a sense of responsibility from an elder!

He is Liu Mang's master!

At this moment, Jordan completely forgot that Liu Mang was scolded in the center of anger just now, and he didn't call until he thought of him.

At this moment, Old Man Qiao's old brother suddenly withered, and the female model's eyes showed a disappointed expression, but it didn't work for a while.

There is something to talk about, Old Man Qiao threw the female model aside, this kind of woman who wants to borrow his name to become famous, he waved his hand and came, put on a bathrobe and came to the balcony, although some things are not unsightly, but when discussing things, Jordan prefers no one to disturb, but he didn't expect to give the female model recruited this time such an impression, so that in the future, his road to picking flowers will become a little bumpy......

Coming to the balcony, blowing the warm sea breeze in April, Jordan picked up his phone: "Ace, what did you just call me?" ”

Liu Mang waited here for more than a minute, this minute seemed to be a year, too anxious, he didn't know if Jordan was still angry, finally, Jordan's voice came again, but the content of this speech made Liu Mang speechless.

Oh yes! This old rascal just wants to take advantage of the master!

However, after all, the two have a master-apprentice relationship, and they don't suffer a loss, Liu Mang screamed in his heart: "Teacher." ”

Hearing this title, Jordan said with great satisfaction: "Well, okay, I won't blame you this time, next time I remember to call me early, I'm old, I'm going to sleep at this time, by the way, Ace, what's the matter with you?" ”

Jordan doesn't know the current situation of the Hawks, he has the impression that the Hawks have been performing very well since they set things right, and there should be no big problem in the playoffs, and now the playoffs are coming soon, what is the problem of calling him so urgently in the middle of the night to harass him?

In the two months since he retired, Jordan has completely stayed away from basketball and is ready to wait until the playoffs to pay attention to it, and now he really doesn't have the heart to pay attention to basketball anymore, and he has found a lot of fun things outside of basketball.

If you have been in contact with something for too long, you will feel bored one day, just like the words that Kobe Bryant said when he announced his retirement made fans very sentimental: I find that I really don't want to hold on to it now.

Paranoid like Kobe Bryant, there will be a day, Jordan does not want to contact basketball for the time being, after all, he has just left the NBA for two months, and it is not yet time to reminisce about his youth and re-pay attention to the NBA.

Even watching Liu Mang's talk show, Jordan only saw the news from the entertainment newspaper and went to watch it, otherwise he was almost cut off from the NBA in the past two months.

Liu Mang sighed secretly, this old guy, the older he gets, the more naughty he becomes, didn't you really hear the voice of the woman over there? Don't you just want the master to call the teacher again!

That's enough!

But now that he has coaxed this increasingly naughty basketball god, Liu Mang said his own question: "Teacher, I want to ask, how did you balance your ball after you and Pippen became teammates?" ”

Jordan thought that Liu Mang had something to ask, but it was actually this question, the key was that there was no cause and effect, how could he answer it?

The only thing Jordan guessed was that the Hawks had a problem with the ball, which was a nuisance! He asked in a deep voice, "Ace, you can be specific, what's wrong with you." ”

Liu Mang talked about the changes that the Eagles want to make, what they want to achieve, and the imminent problems that arise.

“…… Or should we not change? After finishing speaking, Liu Mang was a little unsure, is this change really good?

Jordan listened to Liu Mang's doubts and finally understood the question Liu Mang wanted to ask.

Jordan seems to see himself when he was young, controlling everything for the Bulls in his early years, in the first year of his partnership with Pippen, he once averaged 8 rebounds + 8 assists per game, but lost to the Pistons in the playoffs, mainly because the ball was too concentrated.

At this time, Pippen showed his strength, Jordan learned that the ball was overly concentrated in the playoffs and faced the weakness of a really strong team, and began to hand over some balls, but there is no doubt that Pippen is far inferior to Jordan to organize the offense himself, Pippen plus Jordan, is definitely not as strong as Jordan and Jordan, Jordan saw that Pippen sometimes really can't complete the work of attracting the bag and passing, wants to get the ball back, and is worried about hindering Pippen's progress and the team's new style of play, and forcibly resists not grabbing the ball, but he doesn't see Pippen have obvious progress, in the playoffs, it was still killed by the Pistons.

At that time, Jordan also had the same confusion as Liu Mang, whether he should change or not, but he determined from the bottom of his heart that change was good, but it was difficult to grasp the appropriateness of the choice of giving up the ball and recovering the ball.

Jordan thought of when he was younger, and he really missed it a little.

They were confused for a year!

It wasn't until the third year that Jordan and Pippen partnered that the Zen master came and taught Jordan what to do, although they still lost the East Finals that year, but they played a tie-break with the Pistons, which was a little bit closer, that is, their run-in can actually be regarded as truly complete.

What the Zen master taught Jordan was not a big truth, but a very simple sentence.

Liu Mang waited for a long time, and he didn't know if Jordan was asleep or what, just when he couldn't help but want to ask questions, Jordan finally spoke.

"Ace, you should follow your heart, and when you feel that the ball is more suitable for you, you can take it! You have to firmly believe that no one does it better than you! ”

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