"Busy, Emmanuor, pass the ball accurately! You're a defender! How can it be so biased! ”

"Oh, Ace, you've been practicing for three hours, aren't you tired?"

"Three hours? Tired? I used to practice with Moron seven or eight hours a day! ”

"God! We're playing away from home and we're tired! ”

"It's you who are amazing! Every time Moron plays away with us, he loses a few pounds, how do I feel that you are fat again! ”

Emmanuol looked down at her feet...... Belch...... Can not see.

Emmanuol is so sad, after becoming a trainer, his weight is 200 kilograms, and the key is that he is only 1.9 meters.

Putting aside this sad topic, Emmanuol said: "Ace, it's already past four o'clock, and there will be a welcome party for new teammates in a while, let's go here for today's training first!" ”

Liu Mang looked at the time, it was really past four o'clock, and he felt that he was practicing energetically now, and sure enough, he was always so tired of training when he was away from home in a row.

After the Hawks played the Bucks on the 26th, they flew to Detroit early in the morning on the 27th, which was the shortest flight of the Hawks' road trip, only one hour.

However, the players are already tired, and Detroit, the motor city, really doesn't have much to play, so the Hawks stay in the hotel to rest.

After eating lunch at noon, I made up for sleep, and after recovering mentally, I gave my tired body a physical energy potion, and then looked at the system space, 35878 superstar value, Liu Mang drew a junior superstar value of 5800 superstar value, replenished the reserve of physical energy medicine, and then went to the gym with an indoor basketball court chartered by the hotel to practice.

Liu Mang's main training now is to run without the ball to catch and shoot, and no one teaches him, so he went to the team editor to edit out the highlights of Hamilton and Reggie Miller's running and learn to run.

Now that Liu Mang has a fast shooting master, he has begun to train more in this area.

Unlike when it is difficult to develop techniques such as high and low back play during the season, running without the ball is relatively easy to practice, practice makes perfect, and back play or something, if there is no long time and continuous time to ponder slowly, it is pure blind practice, and it is not directly practiced in the middle and long range of shots.

In the past, Liu Mang practiced less running to catch the ball and shoot, mainly because when he received and shot after running for a long time, the stability was not enough, and now there is a fast shooting master, which is not a problem in this regard, so he practiced very energetically, and the feeling of receiving the ball and throwing it into the basket is very fascinating.

Liu Mang worked hard to train the off-ball run, mainly in order to bring something different to the team in the final year of Stockton, such as the double-brake tactic, which may play a great role in the playoffs, and he is the best third point outside the blocking and dismantling combination of the double-brake tactic.

It's not that you can practice casually if you don't usually use the style of play, if you want to give full play to the best power, even if it is an incommonly used tactical style of play, you have to practice until you are satisfied, this is Liu Mang's basketball concept.

Now he is practicing energetically, but he has to hold a welcome party for his new teammates in the evening, and Liu Mang has to start preparing.

If it's a rookie or a not-so-famous teammate, it's fine to shake hands in person, but this is quite a well-known new signing, a two-time Finals starter center.

"Well, Emmanuor, it's really time for you to lose weight, you're poor now, you won't be able to find a girlfriend!"

"Damn! It's amazing to have two girlfriends! ”

"It's just amazing......"

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Liu Mang first went to take a shower, and then the physiotherapist came to massage him to relax his muscles, it was almost five o'clock, returned to the room and changed into casual clothes, and came to the restaurant chartered by the hotel, where there were already teammates and team staff eating and drinking tea.

As soon as Liu Mang entered the restaurant, Stockton came to Liu Mang's side with a huge giant whose body shape looked no worse or even bigger than the fat man in Los Angeles.

"Ace, you're finally here, I'll introduce you, Greg, you've met, and now we're all teammates!" Stockton was pleased to introduce Ostertag to Liu Mang.

After the Hawks arrived in Detroit this morning, everyone else went to rest, but Stockton came to Ostertag's room for the first time to catch up with the Eagles.

It's not that Stockton doesn't like his new team-mates, it's that eight years together feel very different.

Liu Mang raised his head, Nima, O'Neill's size is exaggerated enough! This guy is even taller and bigger!

"Hello Grieg, I'm Ace, can we find a place to sit and talk? I'm afraid of cervical spondylosis! Liu Mang took the initiative to stretch out his hand and say hello.

"Haha, of course you can, Ace you have more humor than I thought." Ostertag laughed loudly in a rough voice and shook hands with Liu Mang.

The three of them took a little food and drink, found a place to sit down, and did not speak at first...... That is, while eating, observing each other, and organizing the language.

Ostertag was the same as Malone at first, he didn't like Liu Mang very much, and later Malone and Stockton had a good relationship with Liu Mang, and he felt bad about Liu Mang at most, because Liu Mang's outside rumors were too terrible, and when he was traded to the Eagles, he was happy and a little worried.

Happily, he can play with Stockton again, and has a chance to win the championship, although he was eliminated in the playoffs last season after not playing a few games, but he personally played the best playoff performance of his career, averaging 9.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, the best of his career! Last season, he also had a career-best regular season stats, averaging 7 points and 7 rebounds per game.

But after Stockton left this year, his stats slipped sharply, because no one was willing to patiently attack around a meat shield center, and he didn't have much performance except for the top man under the basket and the basket.

Ostertag is on the verge of retirement, not because his strength is not good, but, his role is very simple, that is, it is used to deal with the center, but now the center of the league is not like the nineties There were five or six super powerful centers and the inside line who played the center position known as the big forward, and now in addition to O'Neal Yao Ming and Duncan, when playing other teams, Ostertag is not needed, last summer, after Malone and Stockton retired, Ostertag only got a one-year contract of 2 million, and he didn't want to go to the Spurs, So his market is getting worse and worse.

Now that he can play with Stockton again, Ostertag is excited.

However, there are also worries, will the teammates of the new team not accept him? Will the Chinese players of the fabled "Reign of Terror" team be grumpy?

Ostertag has been playing for the Jazz since he entered the NBA, and this is the first time he has changed teams, so it's normal to have doubts.

And now, looking at Liu Mang, who is no different from ordinary young guys, and even more active and humorous, Ostertag feels good about the first meeting after officially becoming teammates with Liu Mang!

Liu Mang's side, while looking at Ostertag's strength, complained in his heart, and secretly surprised!

"Ding...... Greg Ostertag, two meters tall, 135 kilograms, 73 ability rating, 63 offense, 83 defense, 80 layups, 68 speed, 99 ...... power"

This is really the slowest player Liu Mang has ever seen! No one is slower than this guy! But it's so powerful! So far, the only super meat shield to keep O'Neal's shooting percentage below 50 percent in the series!

And this height and weight are even more exaggerated than O'Neill!

And what Liu Mang was most surprised by was that after this guy donated a kidney to his sister in 2002, although he became fatter because of this weight, he gained seven or eight kilograms of weight compared to the well-controlled weight of 1278 kilograms, and he actually played better than back then!

It's just that now Ostertag has no more markets except for a few teams that need to deal with O'Neal, and those teams are all in the West, they are all his old rivals, and he is unwilling to go to the Jazz and will not send him, so he was traded back by the Hawks with Willie Green, and by the way, he also accepted a second-round pick from the Jazz.

This is a bigger size than O'Neal, and with the experience of eliminating O'Neal twice in the playoffs, Liu Mang feels that this transaction has made a lot of money!

73's ability evaluation, there were 7+7 and 9+9 performances in the playoffs last season, Liu Mang feels that it is not only used to give experience to his teammates, but if he faces O'Neal in the finals, it really has a great effect!

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A team with a good atmosphere, the new players are easy to fit in, and Ostertag is a big white bear with a rough personality, and it is easy to fit into the atmosphere of the Eagles.

After being traded to the Hawks a few days ago, he was ready to be the third center, so his posture was not so proud, and he didn't rely on the fact that he was a two-time runner-up starting center, and he had a good chat with his new teammates.

Even, Ostertag felt that the Hawks felt more comfortable than the Jazz team he was on back then!

The Jazz's Sloan doesn't have the friendliness of the Hawks......

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Last night's welcome party didn't have a drink, just a meal, a chat, and a meeting with his new teammates, giving Ostertag, a veteran center who has played in the playoffs for eight years and reached the Finals twice, enough face for him to integrate into the team and play for the team more attentively.

In the finals, the role of this veteran cannot be ignored against O'Neal! Even more important than the little young Kwame Brown!

The next morning, Liu Mang got up early, of course, to continue training!

As a result, Emmanuol began to be "tortured" by Liu Mang again.

Finally, at ten o'clock, the staff of the team came to Liu Mang, saying that the coaching staff was looking for him to go, and Emmanuol could finally rest, lying on the floor and refusing to get up.

Liu Mang was puzzled, wasn't the tactical meeting one o'clock in the afternoon?

Wiping his sweat and putting on his training clothes, Liu Mang came directly to the conference room and saw that Coach Kruger and the five assistant coaches were there.

"Ace, training again? There's a game tonight, so don't run out of energy. "Coach Kruger is really worried that Liu Mang has broken his training.

"It's okay, I'm just practicing running, by the way, coach, what's the matter with you?" Liu Mang asked after answering.

"It's nothing, we're in a meeting, we're studying the playoff matchups, and I've heard you're training again, so I'll let you rest first, but you're all here, let's take a look at the playoff matchups we predicted!" Coach Kruger pressed the remote control in his hand, and the projector screen switched to the Eastern Conference playoff table.

The Hawks' first round prediction is the Knicks, which is no problem, and then the second round prediction is ...... Piston? The Eastern Conference finals are the Nets again?

"Coach, isn't the Pistons third right now? They have a six-game lead over the Nets, so they can't fall to fourth! Liu Mang asked strangely.

In Liu Mang's view, the Pistons and the Pacers have a half-pound record, and it is difficult to say who will make it to the Eastern Conference finals, and it must be a situation where both teams lose and lose, as long as the Hawks cross the Nets of the most difficult opponent Kidd, it will be easy to enter the Eastern Conference finals.

Seeing Liu Mang ask such a mentally retarded question, Coach Kruger said speechlessly: "The Pistons' record is better than the Nets, and the Nets can't catch up with the Pistons, but the Nets are the top in the Atlantic Division, and the playoffs will definitely be third." ”

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was ridiculed by the coaches in the conference room, Liu Mang returned to the room stupidly, he always thought that he would meet the Nets in the second round, but now it seems that to meet the Nets, he must first reach the Eastern Finals on his side, and the Nets have to beat the Pacers to enter the Eastern Finals?

Liu Mang is confident that his team can easily enter the Eastern Conference Finals without encountering the Nets, but the "Big Three" on the Nets' side?

Liu Mang feels so cheating!

If Kidd hadn't made it to the Eastern Finals, what would have happened to the mission that spanned the strongest man in the East at the beginning of the century?

Liu Mang felt his inner thoughts, he scared himself, he actually began to expect the Nets to be stronger and be able to kill the Pacers to enter the Eastern Conference Finals!

The Pacers will certainly have no problem getting to the second round, and the teams outside of the top four in the East and the top four in the East are completely two worlds.

Liu Mang never thought that one day, he would actually pray that Kidd's team would be stronger!

Liu Mang looked at the star card in his system space.

The best one is undoubtedly the random star card of the strongest point guard in NBA history in all eras after sweeping Kidd in the regular season and the peak star card of Iverson's 00-01 season.

Originally, one was used to play momentum when preparing to dry Kidd, and one was used to play momentum when preparing to play the Lakers...... Is it possible that you won't need it now?

What about the mission? Liu Mang now hopes that the Nets' big three will "play a championship style" and reach the Eastern Conference finals......

Putting aside this idea of having a head watt, since he will meet the Pistons in the second round, Liu Mang can't be a little careless when facing the Pistons team, and he must sweep them in the regular season!

"Avengers Series Mission Pistons' Revenge: The Pistons' desire to beat the host is at its deepest, and every time the host team beats the Pistons in the regular season this season, the Pistons face the host team in the playoffs are 25 percent less motivated. Completion: (2/4, the Pistons have lost faith in defeating the host's team.) ”

Beat the piston to despair! Fight until they completely lose their fighting spirit! This is what Liu Mang wants, if the goal of the playoffs is to win the championship, the previous obstacles are, of course, the less the better, the Nets and the Lakers, who are most likely to reach the finals, are troublesome enough, and the opponents in front of them can be miserable!

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By five o'clock in the afternoon, the Eagles players had entered the court at Auburn Hills Palace after warming up.

The Hawks have swept the Pistons in the past two years, and the Hawks have won the first two meetings this year, and there are not many fans and expert media who regard the Pistons as the Hawks' opponents.

In people's eyes, the Pistons already have an "ice phobia", and they are abused every time they meet Liu Mang.

But the local fans in Detroit are still very fanatical, and after entering the stadium, Liu Mang once again felt the noise of the fans at Auburn Hills Palace!

The Eagles are probably the least popular team for Detroit fans right now, and each time they come to Auburn Hills Palace, they become more unpopular.

This is the second time the Eagles have been here this season, and the number of security guards on site has become significantly larger than the last time!

The league is worried that the Hawks, a troublemaker, and the Pistons, a grumpy team, will fight, after all, it's not like they haven't played.

It's just that it's impossible to fight anymore.

First of all, what the two teams want right now, is not on the same level.

The Pistons are aiming to make it past the second round, and the Hawks are aiming for a championship.

Of course, the slogan on the lips of the Pistons is still the championship, but they are much worse than their original history.

The main reason is that their lineup has not changed particularly much since the beginning of the season, especially the five core lineups of Billups, Hamilton, Stephen Jackson, Bosh, and Ben Wallace, which have not changed much.

This also makes it difficult for the Pistons' mood to change.

Billups has been suppressed by Liu Mang for many years, especially in the first two meetings between the two teams this season, he was pressed by Liu Mang very badly, not the original He gradually played the "if I am king" mentality this year, but is satisfied with being the core of a team, becoming a quasi-All-Star, and becoming a candidate for the best team.

Thinking that in the past few years, I couldn't even pass the first round with Garnett, and now I lead the team and have a chance to reach the second round, and I am still a little excited about Billups!

It was a complete accident that he didn't make it to the second round last year, and Billups was also desperate, he met the Hawks in the first round, everyone thought they would be blacked eight, and then they were blacked eight, and the Pistons after the four teams in the playoffs were not afraid, Billups could finally taste the feeling of the second round, and maybe he would taste the second round before Garnett in the West.

In today's game, Billups just came with the mentality of trying hard, but as soon as he entered the court, he found a fiery gaze - Ace Liu from the opposite side!

Billups's heart burst out: "Brother! What are you doing! ”