564. The opening battle is coming
Maddie wearing glasses?
Liu Mang couldn't help but poke it with his hand, there are really lenses!
"Ace, what are you doing, these are real glasses!" Maddie laughed and scolded and slapped Liu Mang's hand away.
"I'm curious if it's real or not." Liu Mang took his hand away in embarrassment.
"I forgot to bring my contact lenses, but fortunately the glasses are in the locker in the locker room, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see the score clearly." Maddie expertly pushed the beam of the spectacle frame on the bridge of her nose with her middle finger.
"Wait, Tracy, do you usually wear contact lenses when you play?" Liu Mang asked.
"If you don't wear it, that thing will affect my judgment of distance, what's wrong?" Maddie wondered why Liu Mang asked this.
This is common sense, generally speaking, people who play basketball, if they have been wearing contact lenses during training, they will definitely wear glasses, if they are usually used to not wearing glasses, and only wear glasses when reading books, reading newspapers and watching TV, they will not wear glasses.
"Oh, it's okay, I'm just curious, I haven't been short-sighted."
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Maddie is actually short-sighted!
Once upon a time, Liu Mang saw countless fans of Maddie's blurred eyes on domestic basketball websites, touting Maddie's indifference in everything, and touting Maddie as a chic and uninhibited elf in the world......
Now I know that people are simply short-sighted and can't see clearly.
Seeing Maddie getting stronger and stronger, and her muscles are propping up the suit, theoretically speaking, Maddie is about to enter her peak this year.
In May after the end of last season, Maddie spent his 24th birthday in fishing, which is almost the age when all the physical functions have ended, and the body began to hang meat, similar to the knight Zhan in 08 and 09, even if he did not deliberately gain weight, it was obvious that he was getting stronger and stronger year by year.
Maddie, who won the scoring title at the age of 23 last season, was selected for a while at the age of 22 last season, and in the eyes of people, Maddie has a bright future.
So, whether it's the preseason or the regular season, the Hawks' opener game is against the Magic, the team that was squeezed out of the playoffs by the Hawks last season.
The idea of the league is good, to find the right opener opponent for each of the favourites.
The Eastern side is now considered to be the strongest team, still the Nets that have reached the Finals for two consecutive years and introduced Mourning's Nets on the basis of ensuring the core lineup, and the Western side is undoubtedly the Lakers, from all aspects of expert media, fan interviews, and bookmaker odds, people believe that the Lakers and Nets may meet again in the Finals, so when the league arranges the schedule, it also arranges for the two teams to play the regular season opener.
The defending champion Spurs beat the three-headed monster Timberwolves, the No. 21 matchup, the feud between the Kings and the Mavericks last year to grab seven, the head coach revenge of the Pistons and Pacers, and the continuation of last season's battle for eighth place in the West between the Suns and Rockets......
When it was the Hawks' turn, the shadow of the Hawks last year was too big, and the league was worried, so it didn't give a particularly exciting opener, but like the eighth and ninth in the West last season, there was a continuation of the playoff battle, and the Hawks played Magic.
Maddie is still very interesting to pick the Hawks, but in this preseason game, Maddie is sitting behind the technical table in a suit to watch the game, he is injured, and his waist was pushed by his teammates during training camp, and conservative treatment will take two weeks to recover.
Coincidentally, Liu Mang also sat behind the technical table in a suit to watch the game.
The preseason game is not just to run in the lineup, and each of the 8 preseason games has a task, and the first task is to integrate the new players into the team's style of play.
So on the first day, Liu Mang and Ratliff didn't start, Stockton and Kwame Brown started, and Prince, Raheem, and Rashid Wallace started together.
Not only has the Hawks strengthened this year, but the Magic team has also strengthened a lot, only with the big guy Tyronn Lue, Michigan Five Tigers' Juwan Howard, 98 assist king Rod Strickland, and other strong reinforcements to join, although Hill has not played a direct game this year, and it is not over last season, so it is determined that this season will not be able to play, so the Magic team applied for an injury exception, so there is so much room for reinforcements.
Since there is no limit to the squad in the preseason, if the 20 training camp squads are filled, 20 people can be rotated at will, so in this game, Coach Krueger and Coach Rivers have a tacit understanding and focus on training at the same time, and both teams are constantly rotating to test which new players can better cooperate.
On the Hawks' side, Liu Mang and others cooperated very well, and they could be seen in training, so Liu Mang was rested in the first game, mainly practicing who cooperated better when Stockton controlled the ball, and Willie Green and Calderon also tried to control the main game.
On the Hawks' side, when Stockton was there, he played tightly and methodically, and a point guard like Stockton can partner well with anyone, even if he is 41 years old, so after trying Stockton for a few minutes, I found that it was as imagined, and it was probably the best playmaking guard in history that was not a joke, but Calderon and Willie Green in the back were in charge, and that was called a disaster.
On the Magic side, it was Maddie who was injured and forced to run in with others, which lacked the only core of the team, so he could only try the cooperation of the first playmaker on the bench and others.
The two teams played that called one...... Rookies peck at each other.
This rookie pecked each other vividly, both teams ran happily, although there were more mistakes, more iron, but the rhythm was fast, after a mutual peck, the Hawks lost to the Magic 97-105 away.
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The first preseason game gave the Eagles coaching staff a clearer understanding of how the new players played in official games.
So some changes were made to the rotation in the next few days, and by Oct. 9, the Magic were coming to Atlanta, and the two teams played again.
Stockton rested in this game, because he already knew that no matter what system he was in, he could find a way to play well, and it was Liu Mang's turn to run in.
can be said to be a run-in, how can Liu Mang's excitement of breaking through 85 ability points be suppressed, he wanted to go up in the last game, but he was rotated off, and there was no playing time for a second.
This time on the field, Liu Mang first thought about his own happy wave, and when he went up, he brushed and threw a dozen in a single section, and when he remembered to cooperate with his teammates, the rhythm of the whole game was brought to both sides...... In the end, relying on Liu Mang's 44 points in the preseason, the Hawks easily won 122-105.
The first two games did not run into any fame, and when it came to the next three preseason games of Atlanta, New Orleans, Las Vegas and the Hornets, both teams were really fighting, the Hornets went on a rampage, the outside line hit a high rate, the Eagles chiseled to the inside, the success rate was also high, and the game was impressive, most of the players of the Eagles had a good ball quotient, and they could distinguish the situation very clearly, how to play, although it was not necessarily in accordance with the tactics, but the cooperation was still good, With the Eagles conceding one Ratliffe, the Eagles won two and lost one of the three games.
In the last three games against the Bulls, Bucks, and Magic, the Hawks were all one-sided, and the opponent didn't defend much, and they just did it blindly with the ball.
This tactic is to create easy scoring opportunities, what to do when there is a scoring opportunity, and like the two fools, the Hawks won three games easily.
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The Hawks preseason ended with a 6-2 record, which is not bad to say, and it's just a preseason, the team's goal is mainly to run in, and it doesn't matter if you win or lose.
But the run-in of the Eagles not only makes those expert media who have been staring at and want to pick thorns incomprehensible, but the Eagles coaching staff themselves can't understand it, but one thing is certain that their biggest reinforcement this time is very different from what they imagined!
On October 24, after eight preseason games, it was time for the Hawks to prepare for the final regular season, and on October 30, the regular season opener between the Hawks and the Magic will start at the Hawks' home court.
The remaining days are the last days for the Eagles to sum up the experience accumulated in the preseason, and after that, it is time for the regular season to be in full swing!
The coaching staff developed a lot of backup tactics in the offseason, all designed based on the Hawks' current roster, and then when it came to training camp, they deleted more than half and in the preseason they deleted the other half.
With the final five days of preparation for the regular season, the Hawks coaching staff found out...... There are only a few frameworks left!