In the first half of the offseason, the NBA was like a tornado, and many things changed people's perceptions, and the NBA seemed to have a new pattern, and it was no longer the defending champion who was ranked first in the power rankings.

The Lakers saw that the OK combination was about to collapse, but the Lakers traded Robert Horry and Mark Madsen away, freeing up salary space and returning two All-Stars.

The Timberwolves, another dazzling combination of madmen and wolves in the West, poached former Bucks point guard Sam Cassel on a five-year, $33 million contract at the end of July.

After forming a triumvirate combination, the Timberwolves have become another team that people are looking forward to sniping the Lakers.

Garnett, although he is not ugly, his expression with that face is really scary.

Sprewell, who is ugly and has a strange hairstyle, and a throat lock, has always been scary.

Kassel...... Scary.

There are no cultural differences, and basketball fans around the world have given the Timberwolves' triumvirate a triumvirate.

On the Kings' side, after losing to the Mavericks in the second round, they failed to win over Malone, but the 8 million salary space came out and could not be wasted, so a poison offer was made, with a starting salary of 8 million and a total of 64 million in 7 years, from the Pacers to Brad Miller, who only averaged 13 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, was considered to have a head watt.

It's not that the strength of the Kings team has not been strengthened, in the case of Divac's aging and 20 minutes of outstanding performance at most, there is a big center with similar characteristics to join, which is undoubtedly a very good reinforcement for the Kings.

It's just that Brad Miller's market price is also mid-class, save some money to find a qualified power forward to make up for Webber's absence for at least ten months because of knee surgery at the end of May, and find a slow center, plus the current slow Divac, the interior defense is not favored at all.

On the eastern side, the Hawks once again brought in All-Stars, but with the influence of last year's big dog, people are extremely unoptimistic about the Hawks' approach of picking up cancer stars that other teams don't want.

The Pistons, who have just been black-eight, have Stephen Jackson, a strong reinforcement, and Chris Bosh joining, and their strength has improved a lot, mainly because Larry Brown, the head coach who is better at defense than Popovich, has become the head coach of the Pistons, and the Pistons' lineup can be said to be a perfect fit, with Larry Brown's favorite slow-paced point guard and center, last season was just unlucky to meet the Hawks in the first round, and this year people think that the Pistons can at least stir up the storm in the East.

On the Nets' side, Finally reached a 6-year 105 million contract extension with Kidd at the end of July, since Payton joined the Lakers, the Spurs have launched a crazy pursuit of Kidd, sending Glenn Robinson away plus some expiring contracts, clearing up up to 20 million salary space, just to introduce Kidd and Malone, and even willing to use Parker and the Nets to sign first and then exchange for Kidd's highest salary, but Kidd hesitated for a month and refused Popovich's invitation on July 28, he said that he was only two wins away from the championship, and he was confident of winning the championship, so he chose to reduce his salary and renew the contract with the Nets.

As long as Kidd is there, the strength of the Nets is guaranteed, and after Kidd's contract extension, the Heat's expiring free agent Alonzo Mourning chose to join the Nets on a 3-year, 15.7 million mid-level clause in order to pursue a championship.

For Mourning, the Hawks have also pursued, but Mourning wants at least the third interior playing time and a middle-class contract, the Hawks can't afford it, and Mourning feels that the Hawks are going to have something happen again this year, so after Kidd renewed his contract, he decisively chose the Nets who have reached the Finals for two consecutive years.

The Pacers, who were in the top three in the East last year, were poached by Brad Miller, which was regarded as a major injury and may be about to fall from the first echelon of the East, but they silently brought in Kenny Anderson and Anthony Johnson, two good substitutes, fired Isaiah Thomas, and brought in former Pistons head coach Rick Carlisle.

The Spurs, who had freed up 20 million salary space and couldn't spend it, could only choose domestic sales, and Ginobili, who had already shown extraordinary talent, renewed the contract in advance, and reached a 5-year 42 million contract extension, which was implemented from the summer of 2004, and the team's Slovenian center Nesterovic reached a 6-year 40 million contract extension, and Marrick Rose reached a 6-year 38 million contract extension, but did not win Kidd, Popovich chose to stabilize the team's military heart, The main thing is to stabilize Tony Parker's uneasiness, because Parker still has two years of rookie contract, and he can't renew his contract until at least December next season, so renewing someone else fills the salary space, so that Parker no longer worries about being traded, and it is also a way to stabilize the morale of the army.

The Mavericks are crazy to supplement the outside singles players, the season just ended, they lost to the Spurs, because there are not many players with strong scoring ability in outside singles, all pointing to Michael Finley to break out, but Finley has passed his peak, and it is okay to break out occasionally, pointing to him breaking out every day is equivalent to giving away people's heads, this year the introduction of former Warriors small forward Antoine Jamison, traded to Josh Howard, and selected Marquis Daniels, who has excellent single ability, from the unselected players, with a clear goal, It's just to deal with the Spurs, but I didn't expect that as soon as they completed this in early July, the Lakers formed a Big Four......

Under the pressure of the Lakers, the introduction of the top four in the East and the top four in the West kicked off the prelude to the crazy recruitment early in July, and it also fell early, and at the end of July, after the Nets renewed his contract and recruited Mourning, the free market suddenly cooled down from extremely frenzied to instantaneous, and the entire NBA became calm and completely silent.

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Liu Mang's side, after returning from the trip, first started recovery training, after all, there has been no scientific training for a month, and in the few days in Hawaii, it was mainly recovery training, to find the previous body rhythm and shooting feeling.

Liu Mang was surprised by the level of Chip-England's business, because Liu Mang could use physical medicine and injury medicine, before, shooting training was separated from other teammates, because no one could practice like him.

The biggest effect of physical energy medicine may not be in the game, because the role of physical energy medicine is to restore the physical energy reserve to the upper limit of the body, but when you are tired, you still have to gasp, and you still have to replenish energy, but after you have gasped and drank the energy drink, it will be the same as if nothing happened just now, and you can continue to be rigid.

The biggest effect, Liu Mang thinks is the effect of training, which can be repeated and non-stop training.

So the shooting coach of the Eagles couldn't manage Liu Mang's training before, but Chip England was different, he may also be curious about Liu Mang's way of practicing to death, but he didn't choose to let Liu Mang practice blindly, but had already inquired about Liu Mang's training method, studied it in advance, and made training arrangements for Liu Mang, combined with Mark Madsen's physical training, and watched professional shooting guidance videos, adjustment of shooting action details, physical training, relaxation training, high-intensity training, and fixed-point training...... Wait, occasionally take Liu Mang to the beach, dance hula or something to relax and relax, looks like Doctor Strange dancing hula, it looks quite interesting, and you can also call the three girls in the family to come out to play together, so as not to snub them.

On the basis of Liu Mang's physical reserve explosion, Chip England formulated a scientific and systematic training plan, instead of letting Liu Mang be blind as before.

After the recovery training a few days ago, Liu Mang used the new training plan, although it still looks like the same training volume, but Liu Mang feels that he doesn't have the feeling of constantly pushing himself when he trained before.

For example, just practiced a group of shots, five points in the long distance each of the 100 shots, usually after such a group of practice, Liu Mang felt very depressed, but because of the pressure of his own strength is not enough, so he will often force himself to continue training, although there is also an effect, but there will definitely be a psychological aspect of wanting to slack off, and there is not much thought about the shortcomings of their training, they practice every day, although they can also improve, but in general there are many limitations.

This time, the Hawks poached the basketball consultant of the Pistons team who had coached Steve Kerr's basketball training camp in the 90s from the Detroit Pistons, just to give full play to Liu Mang's physical advantages in training.

Now after Liu Mang practiced a set of shots, he just felt a little annoyed with shooting, so he went to run, lift irons, dance, and even went to the beach to take advantage of Dinah's absence to look at the beauties on the beach, showing his upper body muscles to win a wave of cheers, and then swim for a while.

The mood shifted, and Liu Mang naturally thought about what was wrong with the previous shooting training when he was lifting iron or running or basking in the sun at the beach, and then discussed with Chip England to slowly improve in the next group of training......

The more Liu Mang looked at this teaching assistant who looked like Doctor Strange, the more he felt that he had seen it somewhere, but he didn't remember it.

After ten days of training, Mark Madsen and Chip England followed Liu Mang and Schwartz, who had already arrived at the island nation in advance, to start the propaganda around Asia.

In terms of publicity, the interaction with fans and the signing meeting of less than an hour does not consume much time, and it is not tired, and this season after signing with Nike, there are a lot of times to participate in publicity, which is not difficult, the difficulty is to take a plane every other day, sometimes not only a plane every other day, occasionally have to promote in different cities for two or three days in a row, 14 days of publicity time, a total of 9 cities, if you count the beginning of Hawaii, that is ten cities, can be described as exhausting.

However, it is Liu Mang's two personal trainers and agents who are tired of running around, Liu Mang sleeps on the plane, trains every day, and has excellent sleep quality.

Because Liu Mang is under a lot of pressure!

One is the pressure to win the championship next season, and the other is the system problem.

Whether it's the training system or the lottery system, there have been huge changes, to put it simply, it's time to go through the rookie period, and many things that have been specially designed for Liu Mang's rookie period have been deleted, mainly deleted are special cards that have too much effect on the opponent, and most of the special cards that act on themselves are retained, such as manic potions, which need to be used to see people and things and see their own judgment, have not been deleted.

The items that have been drawn before are still there, and they have not been deleted because the lottery rewards have been deleted.

When Liu Mang first saw the template of the new basketball superstar, he couldn't help but burst into foul language.

But thinking about it carefully, Liu Mang also accepted it, because many things are really unnecessary, and he can now take charge of himself and hone himself to become stronger.

The things that were removed were mainly some special cards that were specifically used for Liu Mang to gain a foothold in the NBA during his rookie period.

In terms of the superstar value lottery, the junior superstar value lottery has been changed, and those strange special cards have been deleted, leaving only physical potions, injury potions, skill upgrade cards, and steal cards.

In terms of the intermediate superstar value lottery, most of the special cards have also been deleted, and now the superstar value lottery has four categories: star cards, action packs, special cards, and props.

And the lottery method has also changed, instead of specifying a one-third odds, it has become: the Intermediate Superstar Value Lottery, specifying a category to double the odds of winning the lottery, or removing a category from the lottery category.

Liu Mang thought for a while before he figured out the general meaning, the former especially wanted that thing, and the others could still be drawn, and the latter didn't want one of the items, and the others could be compromised.

This is the biggest change in the system, which made Liu Mang feel a lot weakened at first, but he thought about it carefully, as if there were indeed things that were no longer needed, and personal strength was the key.

And now, the star card has directly become one of the four categories of intermediate superstar value props, that is, you can often experience the strengths of each star and learn something from it, there may be players who are not as high as Liu Mang's ability value, but every player who has a firm foothold in the NBA has his own characteristics, Liu Mang can learn from it, and develop his strengths and weaknesses.

And the junior superstar value lottery has been streamlined to only a few important props, which makes Liu Mang even happier, you don't need to have a bunch of miscellaneous things, but the intermediate superstar value is still there, just look forward to not having any high-end clothing aesthetic ability......

After Liu Mang thought about it carefully, he felt that the upgrade of the system lottery was indeed beneficial, that is, it was more conducive to his growth at this stage.

For example, those special cards with obvious effects before are more conducive to playing a famous role in the NBA, getting the core position of the team, and getting the most important training opportunities for the team.

Now it's time for me to work hard to improve my strength and grow from an ordinary star to a superstar, which is the early 20s in the past few years, generally speaking, a player who can become a superstar is already a superstar at the age of twenty-three or four, and the next thing to bet on is chance and staying uninjured.

was upset for a while, and soon Liu Mang understood where the help the system gave him at this stage was mainly focused on, and it felt good, but it was just ...... The discord card is gone, only a high-level disjunction card that was useless before, Liu Mang feels that it will be difficult to tease the little blacksmith in the future, and it is a little sentimental to think about it.

In the future, if you want to cause contradictions among your opponents or something, you have to find your own way to provoke the anger of the other party, Liu Mang thinks that he is an upright, loving, and noble young man, he really doesn't want to do this kind of thing!

But isn't basketball like this, in addition to the strength of the fight, psychological warfare is also very important, Liu Mang feels that he can only go against his original intention, and have time to study and study the opponent's lace news, maybe it can work.

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Liu Mang's training and propaganda were parallel, and on August 10, the Chinese men's basketball team announced that it would recruit players to participate in the Harbin Asian Games.

In addition, a new policy for the national team has been promulgated after a lot of research and discussion.

Warm-up matches and non-official FIBA cup competitions only recruit domestic players to participate; For the Asian Games and Asian Championships, at least one player who plays in the NBA will be recruited to lead the team; In the World Series, all players who have been called up must return to their home countries to participate in the struggle for the collective honor of the country.

Moreover, he was relieved of Wang Zhizhi's "treasonous incident", and the troops summoned Wang Zhizhi back.

When the news reached Liu Mang, who was being promoted, Liu Mang felt that it was normal to listen.

Now Wei Yuanli of the Blue Association is a person who attaches importance to the national team's record for everything, but he is not stupid, now because of the arrival of Liu Mang, so that the NBA has more than one Chinese player who has a firm foothold, the original time and space, is worried that Yao Ming is not there, no big-name players can not play well, but now Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi have a foothold in the NBA, although Wang Zhizhi is not a star, but he is also a good substitute, and now he is still playing with the Big Four, the Lakers' first center substitute.

When there was an obvious advantage in the Asian Games and the Asian Championships, there was a wave of discussion in China, under the pressure of public opinion, the officials were not stupid, he made a judgment very wisely, and chose to compromise, but the international competition, this point did not relax.

After Liu Mang saw the new policy officially released by the Blue Association, Schwartz also received an invitation from the Blue Association to Liu Mang's national team training camp.

In this regard, Liu Mang wrote an open letter to the Blue Association, saying that he supports the policy of the national team, actively prepares for the Olympic Games next year, hopes that his teammates in the national team will achieve good results this year, and play the Olympic Games together next year.

Liu Mang was photographed by the media during the publicity period and practiced immediately after the publicity, so basketball fans have no doubts about Liu Mang's words to train hard to improve themselves.

The main reason is that the current trend of public opinion is that even if there are no NBA players involved, if the group of people in their national team can't win the Asian championship, they can learn from the fate of the island people who fail.

However, after Liu Mang said that he would not participate in this Asian Games, he still saw the news of Yao Ming's return to the national training team.

This is expected by Liu Mang, Yao Ming probably won't play any cup matches and warm-up matches in the future, but this kind of official international event will definitely participate.

And Wang Zhizhi's side, maybe he will compromise with the Blue Association, and he will play any cup games, warm-up games, and games with the American star team composed of NBDL players who have never seen him, but he only plays about 20 minutes in the NBA, so it doesn't matter if he plays these games, as long as he can return to the national team.

This summer, the team, himself, and the national team are all going well in all three aspects, and Liu Mang feels that he has made a good start to the NBA next season!