Liu Mang's knowledge of the NBA knows more than anyone now.

Before the Celtics Big Three started the huddle mode in 2008, the NBA was a group competition mode for a long time.

The Lakers Big Four did not make huddles popular, a 41-year-old veteran and a 36-year-old veteran, at that time, they really didn't give people the feeling of huddles, and Liu Mang personally experienced the same, people people Peyton and Malone joined the Lakers as two people "hugging their thighs".

So before 2008, more than a dozen consecutive wins were rare, and when the Rockets won 22 consecutive games in the original time and space, at first people thought that the Yao Mai combination of the Rockets had really risen, but who knew that there would be injuries and illnesses later.

However, in the era of superstar huddles after 2010, because many teams no longer have top stars, and some teams don't even have first-class stars, for super teams, winning streaks sometimes come very easily.

After 73 wins over the Warriors, they won more than 20 consecutive games at the beginning, and the results were ......

On Dec. 24, the Hawks prepared for tomorrow's Christmas game with the Suns at a rented college arena after a night's rest in Phoenix.

24 consecutive wins, it must be a good thing for Liu Mang, why not win 24 consecutive wins, teammates are now confident in three consecutive championships.

But Liu Mang clearly sensed that his teammates were starting to become complacent.

I felt it when I played the Bobcats in the last game, and the shots were very casual, but fortunately, the team's defensive discipline was very good, and they beat the Bobcats without danger.

But in fact, Liu Mang already felt that the team had a sense of pride.

Tomorrow against the Suns, the Hawks are still training very seriously, but the atmosphere is not as nervous as when they played the Heat at the beginning of the season, and the mentality is very relaxed.

This made Liu Mang feel very complicated, everyone in the team has the right to shoot, and everyone has hope, which is very good for the team's enthusiasm.

The relaxed atmosphere can also give them a better mentality to prepare for the game, and they can also be bold in the game, the second-year substitute players dare to take on the role of organizing the attack, and the role players dare to shoot, which can make their tactics play better.

But it also made Liu Mang feel that his teammates no longer took any opponent in their eyes.

After the tactical training, Liu Mang practiced mid-to-long shooting, and Maddy, Korver, Barry, Horry, Jason Terry, Calderon, and Korver were also practicing one to two sets of shots.

This made Liu Mang feel even more contradictory, and his teammates were very serious about improving themselves.

After the training, the teammates went back to the hotel one after another.

Phoenix is a famous face-loving city, the city is more gorgeous than Los Angeles, but the economy is getting more and more sluggish, now the economy is developed, except for New York, Los Angeles, Houston, most of the others are cities with vigorous development of network technology, and Phoenix, which says that the tourist city is not a tourist city, that the agricultural city is not an agricultural city, and that the industrial city is also the fourth largest city in the west that was once glorious, is about to pass this year, Phoenix's GDP is not as good as Detroit, The NBA's 30-team ranking in the city, the Suns are only ranked 19th, lower than Detroit and San Antonio, and there is not much for the Hawks players to play, plus the players have brought their families, and tonight, Christmas Eve, they all go back to the hotel to accompany their families.

Liu Mang and Maddie left last, and said to Maddie with some uneasiness: "Tracy, don't you think we've been too relaxed lately!" ”

"Of course," Maddie asked curiously, "we've been winning!" Of course it's easy, what's wrong Ace? ”

Liu Mang felt that he might be too careful, and his sense of crisis might be too strong.

After watching 27 consecutive wins for the Heat and almost being overturned by the Spurs, and watching the Warriors start with 24 consecutive wins and 73 wins in the season but did not win the championship, Liu Mang has a strong sense of crisis and pays attention to this aspect.

Liu Mang began to change his playing style, and it was because he had a strong sense of crisis at the beginning.

"It's okay, I just think we're too relaxed, come to my house for dinner? My mom made a big meal tonight. Liu Mang sent out an invitation.

"Cool! Although the food made by my aunt is strong, I like it very much, so I'll pick up my wife and come to your house in a while. "The eldest cousin will not let go of the opportunity to take advantage.

"Okay, I'll go back first, see you in the evening."

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Christmas Eve, Christmas, one of the most important holidays in the United States.

In previous years, when there were four to six Christmas games every year, half of the eight to twelve teams they played against would complain about why they had to travel all the way to fight the Christmas games.

But now, the league is letting them rest, and those stars still think it's weird.

However, only four teams will participate in this year's Christmas game, and it was already confirmed when the schedule was announced in September.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Christmas game between the Hawks and Suns begins and continues at eight o'clock after the Heat and Lakers Christmas game is broadcast on television stations for half an hour off.

Both games were high-profile matches.

The Hawks have not lost a game so far this season, 24-0, and the Suns are not as wild as last season, playing 29 games, 20-9, and third in the West.

On the Eastern side, in addition to the Hawks, who have the first record and win all, the next best record is the Heat, 21-7, the third is the Pistons, 18-10, the fourth is the 76ers 15-14, the fifth is the Cavaliers, 16-12, the sixth is the Bulls, 15-13, the seventh Wizards, 15-14, and the eighth Pacers, 16-16.

The ninth-place Bucks got Joe Johnson, but there was an improvement, although Bogut was not excellent, but it was not water, the passing line of the champion, together with Joe Johnson and Reed, played a 14-16 record, and still had a chance to enter the playoffs.

But the rest of the teams are almost collectively rotten, playing in the East for two months, the top eight barely reached a 50% win rate, and teams such as Magic and Celtics completely collapsed.

The Knicks, who are in the bottom of the table, have only won 5 games, 5-24, and are the bottom of the league.

In fact, the penultimate is not terrible, there is an Italian version of Nowitzki in this year's draft, which has made many bad teams look forward to it, but the point is that the Knicks have already traded the 06 draft pick in the original trade of Marbury, and it is still unprotected!

The Bulls provided space to eat the Knicks' garbage contract in that trade, and got this first-round pick, which was not expected, and was expected to be the middle of the first round, after all, the Knicks were still a playoff powerhouse in the 03-04 season, but I didn't expect that now, they have become the favorite to sign the champion!

The current rhetoric of the 2006 draft was that of a super draft year.

The 2003 draft drained the five most promising rookies, the 2004 draft drained the immediate power, and the 2005 draft drained the last four point guards and the last group of high school rookies, leaving the NCAA with little talent left for this season.

The labor negotiations that just past the offseason went as smoothly as the league began to make money, and the players took a fifty-three percent share of the gross income and passed a five-year agreement with little debate, effective in the summer of 2006 and until 2011, without worrying about the shutdown.

But when the collective bargaining agreement was negotiated in the summer, the NBA officially introduced a new rule that refused high school students to participate in the NBA draft until at least one year in college, or one year after graduating from high school, before they could participate in the NBA draft.

Therefore, Kevin Durant, Greg Oden, Mike Conley, who were originally going to participate in the 2006 draft, and OJ Mayo, who is only a junior in the new season but is already the first high school student in the United States, have no possibility of entering the NBA ahead of schedule, resulting in almost no highlights in the 2006 draft.

Originally, the summer of 2006 was a year full of talented players from high school students, with Garnett, Kobe, O'Neal Jr., Maddy, Kwame Brown, James, Howard, Josh Smith and other high school students entering the NBA as pioneers, many talented high school students vowed to join the NBA in 06, but the NCAA suggested that the NBA introduced a rule, which suddenly turned the original high-profile 2006 draft into a talent-exhausted draft.

Of course, from the current perception of the players in the NCAA in the new season, Liu Mang knows that there are many outstanding stars this year.

But the super year does not mean that there is no team to swing badly, but because it is a super year, the swing becomes even crazier!

At this stage of the season, the management of some teams has clearly understood the strength of their own team, such as Boss Joe, who has determined that the team will continue to play badly, Bo that Italian Nowitzki.

Back in 2003, when 18-year-old Andre Banyani led Twessona to defeat the Nets, who were out of Kidd at the time, Andrea Banyani was already making a name for himself in the United States when he led Twey to victory over the Nets, who were absent from Kidd at the time.

Similar to Nowitzki's style of play, soft touch, excellent shooting ability, although weak strength and lack of explosiveness, but the speed and flexibility of being able to play the outside, just like a copy of Nowitzki.

Liu Mang remembers that in the original time and space, the Bulls got the Knicks' 2006 unprotected draft pick, got the pick, and sold them to the Trail Blazers cheaply, just because they didn't look down on anyone who ran in the 2006 draft except for Bargnani.

Sometimes it's not that the team is bad in the big year of the draft, this kind of extreme draft year, there is a player who looks full of talent and has a promising future, but it makes some teams more positive.

Because other draft picks don't seem to be of much use other than getting the No. 1 pick, since they can't make the playoffs, it's better to give Banyani a go.

Boss Joe saw that Okafor had not improved much in the second year, and the defense was more than enough and the offense was insufficient, so if he wanted to choose another interior with strong scoring ability, Banyani was naturally the best choice.

However, the Bobcats are rotten and the market value has become low, which is a good thing for the current Boss Joe, who wants to buy the Bobcats completely, and it is cheaper.

In the West, the Spurs are 24-5 and are far ahead in the West, while the second-place Mavericks are 20-8 and are competing with the Suns for second place in the West.

The SuperSonics are fourth in the West with 18-10 in the Northwest Division, the Lakers are fifth in the West with 19 wins and 9 losses, and the Clippers continue to perform well with 17 wins and 13 losses to finish sixth in the West.

The top five are very stable, from the sixth-place Clippers to the eleventh-place Pelicans, the winning rate has reached 50%, and for three playoff spots, it is now in a white-hot battle.

With the exception of the Spurs and the SuperSonics at first and fourth place, nine of the top 11 teams in the West are in a fierce battle.

Wild West ...... The key is that because of Liu Mang's relationship, the stars of the Pistons and Wizards also want to go to the West......

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The Eagles, who have won 24 in a row, have always dominated the headlines, with some fans hoping to see them continue their winning streak, while others hope that a team can end their winning streak.

But the Eagles' schedule for the first two months was too easy, and the Eagles gave people the feeling that they were invincible!

Even more invincible than the previous two years!

An average of 116.5 points per game, an average of 102.5 points conceded per game, and a net score of 14 points, which is too exaggerated!

Liu Mang's average of 32 points, 5.5 rebounds and 10 assists per game is exaggerated enough, if it weren't for Kobe Bryant's average of 35.5 points per game and James's average of 32.4 points per game, Liu Mang would be second in the scoring list and assist list.

The Hawks have four players who are averaging 15+ per game this season, Maddy is averaging 21.5 points, 4 rebounds and 7.5 assists per game, Jason Terry is averaging 18 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and Kwame Brown is averaging 16.5 points and 12.7 boards per game.

Finally, when it came to the Christmas War, there was a team that could play against the Eagles.

The Suns, who average 111 points per game and are second in the league, give hope to fans who want to see the Hawks lose.

On the morning of Christmas, Liu Mang went to the hotel early to meet with the team, team meetings, tactical training, and the team held a luncheon at noon, inviting the families of all the players to have a Christmas party together.

Of course, the players are just eating and eating, and the main thing to play is the players' girlfriends or wives, and the children are not brought.

In the afternoon, when Liu Mang rested, he had been studying the Suns.

Losing to cheer up your teammates and be less relaxed? Liu Mang doesn't do this kind of thing, if he can win, of course he has to go all out to win!

Who doesn't want a 33-game winning streak!

Instead of taking the initiative to seek defeat, it is better to go all out in every game, and wait until you really can't beat the opponent and lose, and then talk about it.

Now Liu Mang's goal is to win 33 consecutive victories.

Liu Mang didn't pay much attention to the Suns before, the main point is to know that they have no playoff threat, last year's Suns were already at the peak of their regular season, and this season has dropped a lot.

There are many reasons for the Suns' decline, the most important of which Liu Mang feels is the reimbursement of Stoudemire's season and the departure of Joe Johnson.

Although the performance of Dio and Raja Bell made up for the lack of Stoudemire and Joe Johnson, which also made Stoudemire appear "dispensable" in the Suns, the fans' prejudice against Stoudemire's strength began at this time, and there was a feeling that Nash could lead the team to 60 wins by giving a few people at random.

It's not too hard to say that Nash can get 50 wins and 60 wins if he just gives some people, and Nash has increased his scoring average to 19 points per game this season, a career high, and has an average of 11 assists per game, which is really powerful.

After Liu Mang rested, he went to the hall where his teammates were, and was ready to go to the Meixi Arena to warm up.

When I arrived in the hall, I found my teammates gathered in front of the computer again.

This is......

Without waiting for Liu Mang to ask, Kwame-Brown excitedly said to Liu Mang: "Boss Ace, I got more votes on the first day than O'Neill!" ”

Liu Mang remembered, there was no game in the NBA yesterday, and the All-Star voting began, but he didn't care too much, he was selected as an All-Star, but he didn't expect Kwame Brown to get more votes than O'Neal!

Liu Mang seems to have seen the Lakers O'Neal go berserk tonight......

"Brother Yao! Come on! Liu Mang sent his blessings to Yao Ming, and then also gathered to look at the ballots on the first day.

The first-day ticket king was Yao Ming, who got 190,000 votes on the first day.

The second is Liu Mang's 170,000 votes on the first day, ranking as the king of votes in the east and west on the first day.

The second place in the West is Kobe Bryant with 150,000 votes, and the second place in the East is Maddie with 140,000 votes.

But Kwame Brown beat O'Neal's 70,000 votes with 130,000 votes!

Kwame Brown has really hit the ground running!

Maddie and James were both put in the forward position this time, for fear of affecting James and Iverson to be selected as All-Star starters, and the temporary All-Star starters in the East are Liu Mang, Iverson, Maddy, James, and Kwame Brown.

For the time being, the West is Kobe, Nash, Duncan, Garnett, and Yao Ming.

The three Nail Households in the East and the four Nail Households in the West continue to dominate the All-Star starting position.

After a while, the Eagles players got on the bus and headed to the West Jersey Arena to prepare for the evening's game.

Liu Mang looked out the window at the very bustling streets, and the Christmas road was full of red things, Liu Mang was thinking about the opponent, because of his own team, and the influence of various future memories, finally, Liu Mang had been waiting for a long time The task prompt came!

"Ding...... King's Landing Phase 3 series of quests triggered, Quest 1: Wild Christmas Eve. ”

"Wild Christmas Eve: Objective 1: Assist more than Steve Nash in the fight against Steve Nash. Objective 2: Win 25 in a row. Reward: 10,000 superstar points to start the next mission. ”

Liu Mang woke up from his confusion in an instant!

Here it comes!

It's finally here!

Quest Rewards...... It's a little little!

But at least the mission has begun!

Although the reward for the first task is a little less, and the superstar value of three games is played, Liu Mang wants to have another 1 million superstar value lottery!

It's better to have a training card or something, so that he can break through the bottleneck of 94 three-pointers!

Liu Mang seems to be going to shoot like Curry and Thompson.

Now Liu Mang's superstar value has reached 573961 point, it was already 600,000 before he fought the lynx, but it took 30,000 superstar values to replenish the standing medicine.

This year, the Eagles won too easily, Liu Mang did not encounter any obstacles, there were few tasks, except for the 90-point skyrocketed by more than 100,000 yuan, there were no tasks in the next few games, and Liu Mang was in a hurry.

Finally!

Before the match with Nash, the mission came!

Fight against the assist king...... Liu Mang seems to feel the excitement of last year's showdown between Maddie and the assist master!