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The Eagles, who were only twelfth last summer, are in the top five on the lists of major media outlets this time!

The Lakers are undoubtedly ranked first in the major power lists, except for the Bulls who lost Jordan in 93 and Jordan and Pippen in 98; Mavericks, who lost most of their main force in 2011; The 2016 Cavaliers, almost all of the defending champions, were at the top of the power rankings at the start of their second season after winning the title.

What's more, the Lakers, who have just won three consecutive championships, have retained the core lineup, Fisher, Kobe, Robert Horry, Reagan Fox, O'Neal, Brian Shaw, Devin Brown's core lineup is all retained, this lineup is the seven core members of the team they have stayed in the past three years, no matter how others change, these seven players of the Lakers have not changed.

And this year's Lakers team has attracted more attention than in the past, it is true that Wang Zhizhi was banned by the national team because of the so-called "treason" incident, but he went to the Lakers, the world's most watched basketball team, the domestic media can not ignore his existence, no matter how much the Blue Association takes it, it is impossible to ban the Lakers, and it is said that the new chairman Wei Yuan Li who is about to come to power wants to recall Wang Zhizhi next summer to form the "Big Three" of the national team, Cheng Lanxin is going to step down, The Blue Association did not make a statement on the domestic media report that Wang Zhizhi joined the Lakers, that is, acquiesced.

Although the Lakers, who retain the core lineup, are one year older, the man who strikes iron is one year older, so the Lakers are still favored to win the championship next season.

The Kings are also the well-known second-best team in the power rankings, and Game 6 of last year's Western Conference finals in the fourth quarter is still being talked about as the team most likely to beat the Lakers this season.

The Hawks and the Spurs are on par with the Spurs for third place in the rankings, ESPN has never been waiting to see the best in the West, the Hawks are in third place with the Spurs in third place, and the Los Angeles-favored Sports Illustrated is third with the Spurs in third place and the Hawks are fourth.

The Nets, the Eastern Conference playoff champions last year, are all in fifth place.

Liu Mang looked at this strength ranking and felt that he had been poured another mouthful of poisoned milk, the kind that was forcibly poured in.

The Hawks started training camp early, and they were the first teams in the entire league to start training camp, and the Spurs and Pistons were only a week in advance, but the Hawks training camp had already started a week of training camp, and the senior who said he was going to come to the Hawks as the boss had not yet come, and no one knew where to go.

Not only could the Eagles not be contacted, but even the domestic company that wanted to find the famous first-class star to endorse could not find anyone, so Mohammed and Ratliff took advantage of it and got an endorsement contract of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Just like the players of the Rockets, the Hawks players have also begun to enjoy the dividends brought by Liu Mang.

As for Raheem and Jason Terry, the two popular players, they have signed some endorsements just after the end of last season, and Rahim, the second-team player, has doubled his endorsement fee in the summer, in addition to Nike giving him a new 5-year endorsement fee of 20 million US dollars, and the endorsement contract signed with several Chinese companies has also reached nearly 30 million soft girl coins per year, which is about the same as Nike's endorsement fee.

And the Eagles' early training camp this time has become a bit dispensable.

Glenn Robinson is not there, the team can't do the team's collective tactical training, and he is certainly one of the team's main offensive points.

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With Glenn Robinson gone, the Hawks could only practice defense and small-area coordination.

In fact, this is also very good, in addition to Glenn Robinson, the cavalry companies of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Raheem, Newbell, and Muhammad of the Eagles are still there, and they can continue to polish their cavalry tactics.

However, in addition to the regular cavalry company combination, Coach Kruger also tried to intersperse two physical players, Barnes and Prince, and Prince's three-point shooting rate made the Hawks players shine, which is almost catching up with Kukoc!

And Prince is young and can run, unlike Kukoc, who can only play in positional battles, which is too suitable for the Hawks' style of play, and can even play big forward in small-ball tactics! In addition to being a little thinner and inexperienced, the guy who was selected with the No. 21 pick in the first round was about the same as Kukoc's return.

It's the end of another day's training, and of course Liu Mang has to continue to practice.

Seeing that his comprehensive ability is constantly improving, the progress of shooting is relatively slow, which makes Liu Mang a little worried.

Liu Mang's comprehensive ability was low before, only more than 60, mainly because his strength could not keep up, the confrontation was not good, and he could only focus on scoring, so his comprehensive strength was low.

But now the strength has been greatly improved, the inside score and the mid-distance score have improved significantly, and as soon as the confrontation comes up, the ability value has skyrocketed by 11 points this summer, and it has reached 75.

In this regard, Liu Mang has improved by leaps and bounds after playing his first season with other talented rookies.

Just like James, the rookie year went from 75 to 85 after playing his rookie season, and then one summer passed, and in the second season, he directly broke 90 and became a top star.

More similarly, the Lakers drafted in 2016 against the extremely poor Brandon Ingram, who played like a parallel commodity in his rookie year, and became a quasi-first-class star the following year, and became difficult to stop after the confrontation.

Liu Mang's starting point is lower than James's, but after the confrontation, the improvement is just as fierce, even if he doesn't rely on the bench bandits, he has 75 ability points.

But in this way, Liu Mang has become very "average", with more than 80 layups, mid-range shots, and three-point shots.

This made Liu Mang feel a sense of crisis.

If you get more and more used to the strong body, play better and better, and you still have more than 1,100 skill upgrade cards, and you haven't chosen to upgrade those new skills, otherwise it is possible that after the "all-round" is up, the ability value will suddenly reach the level of a quasi-first-class star, and then the bench bandit will be invalid.

Therefore, Liu Mang will not move those skill upgrade cards for the time being, and continue to work hard to improve his shooting ability in the new season, after all, this is the foundation of his life!

Liu Mang knows very well what he has to rely on, whether it is to make fouls or want to break through, the shooting threat is the most important!

So what is a first-class quasi-first-class star, he doesn't care so much, the evaluation of ordinary stars is just ordinary stars, and the best ability to play is the strongest.

Sometimes you don't need to be so versatile, the team doesn't lack rebounds, there is no shortage of assists, you don't have to do so many things, shooting, just shooting!

After Liu Mang's afternoon training, he saw that his teammates were almost gone, and continued to return to the training ground for training.

Unexpectedly, this time Liu Mang saw that there were other people who also stayed.

Three rookies!

"Why haven't you left yet?" Liu Mang asked strangely.

The three rookies were a little nervous when they saw Liu Mang coming, but Barnes was more bold: "Sorry, did we disturb your training?" Then let's go to the away team's training ground......"

"No, it's okay, you just practice, I'll ask curiously." Liu Mang thinks that he should be very kind and kind, right, why are the three rookies usually like seeing a ghost when they see him.

Liu Mang didn't know that in addition to the original players of the Eagles, other teams had the impression of him as a new generation of players who were lawless, dared to fight with those superstars, had a bad temper, and had a bad personality.

"When we had a drink yesterday with Mr. Moron Wiley, the vice president, he told us to learn more from you." People who are calm and cold are always calmer, Prince explained.

"You drink?" Liu Mang frowned and said, actually rookies can drink? What a world!

Liu Mang asked this question so that the three rookies were stunned and drank wine...... What's wrong?

All are adults......

Wait a minute!

The three of them remembered that on the player manual, Liu Mang was one year old even if he was born according to the method of calculating age in some places, and he was born in 83 years old, and he was 20 years old......

Ask Liu Mang to go out to dinner, you can only drink juice, coffee, and milk, this is the "unspoken rule" between NBA players who are familiar with Liu Mang, but the NBA is also a circle that wants to save face, they can hate each other, they can have disagreements in private, and there can be hatred.

But the kind of opposition and hatred that can be clearly said, most things will not be exposed to the media, because they are people in a circle, and they can hate each other in the circle, but the entire NBA is still very united.

It's like basketball and football, basketball and rugby, when it comes to the public, it's still very united.

Therefore, the NBA's all-star and quasi-all-star circles will almost laugh at Liu Mang's inability to go to nightclubs and drink, but the outside world has not noticed this, otherwise Liu Mang will become a joke that people ridicule again.

How do you tell the little boss that the three of us are adults and can drink? Will this hurt the self-esteem of the little boss?

The three rookies all reacted to this and glanced at each other, so embarrassed!

Liu Mang looked at the embarrassed appearance of the three of them, and suddenly thought, as if these three people were all older rookies......

The atmosphere was awkward for a while.

Liu Mang looked at the ability values of the three rookies.

"Carlos Boozer, Ability 73, 3-point 56, 85-point shot, 86 layups, 82 speed, 87 power......"

"Tyshawn Prince, 67 Ability, 80 Three-pointers, 69 mid-range shots, 76 layups, 89 speed, 71 power......"

"Matt Barnes, 58 Ability, 67 Threes, 59 Shots, 80 Layups, 88 Speed, 82 ......Power"

Liu Mang didn't expect that Boozer was actually the strongest of the three rookies! I thought it was the little prince!

How did Boozer's strength fall into the original round before he was selected? Hell yes! This is definitely a T1 rookie! In addition to the lack of three-point ability, the scoring ability within the three-point line is absolutely first-class, the speed and strength are excellent, the body is strong, and there are few people in the lottery area who are stronger than him, even if it is the draft year of 2002, he is definitely a top ten rookie!

Liu Mang initially thought that Boozer was the type who accumulated a lot of experience after being selected with a low pick, but he didn't expect that Boozer, who had just entered the NBA, already had the ability to start!

People are really angry compared to people!

Prince is in the middle of the pack, and at this stage he is the strength of an average first-round pick.

Barnes...... The physical fitness is good, and the technique is really bad......

But......

"Ahem, since you stay and train, then ......" Liu Mang's eyes lit up, "Carlos, you come and train with me!" ”

Liu Mang suddenly thought that Buzeer seemed to be one of the new generation of twin evils in the future! I can practice with him!

"Me?" Boozer asked in surprise.

Barnes and Prince are so envious of Boozer!

Raheem has a cold personality, Jason Terry is arrogant and has nothing to talk about with rookies, Muhammad is good but good to everyone, except for Liu Mang, who is particularly young and the lowest at the bottom, he has special care for the newcomers, after all, now the Eagles have stood up, the best relationship has been cultivated, the newcomer is always the newcomer, and Ratliff is a middle-of-the-road character.

Of the six bigwigs in the team, one has not returned to the team, and four of them can't hold their thighs, leaving only Liu Mang.

And Liu Mang is a legendary super "thorn", after the three rookies entered the NBA, they couldn't find a backer, and they felt sad for a while, but they didn't expect Liu Mang to take a fancy to Boozer, who looked like a bandit, which made Prince and Barnes envious.

"Well, Carlos, you're okay with the shot, right?" Liu Mang asked.

"I'm the best at mid-range shooting!" Boozer shows his presence strongly, even if he is not good at it, he will say that he is very good at it, and the opportunity cannot be missed! And he's really good at dogs.

"That's okay, let's practice and cooperate......"

Liu Mang decisively pulled Boozer to practice some cooperation with Shuangsha last month, leaving the other two rookies who were envious and jealous.

Sometimes, talent is not only physical, technical, but also innate talent to be good at a certain aspect, Liu Mang and Boozer talked about the route of the running position, the changes of the two after the blocking, Boozer learned quickly!

Liu Mang didn't waste the other two rookies, let them be defensive sparring partners, even if the two rookies were not taken seriously, they worked hard to show their presence, so that Liu Mang and Boozer's blocking and dismantling cooperation had a very good chemistry from the beginning...... In addition to Boozer's efforts to find his own scoring position, but he couldn't catch the ball very much......

Anyway, Prince and Barnes were silently abused.

Coach Krueger is still planning for training after Glenn Robinson returns, and because he doesn't know what Glenn Robinson will bring when he returns, whether it will be good or bad, he doesn't even have a general direction.

If Glenn Robinson comes back, it will be clear what kind of problems the team will have, but now the core lineup is still the same as last season, the Hawks have played very successfully last season, and they have played almost perfectly on the existing lineup, except for the lack of experience in the playoffs and fierce opponents, the Hawks have no other problems, and this year it is natural that they can go further.

But there is one more element of uncertainty, and many things have to be adjusted.

Coach Kruger worked overtime until it was dark and was ready to go home to rest, and when he came out of the office, he happened to see Liu Mang and Boozer's blocking and pick-and-roll training, and felt ...... Seems to be very good!

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Time passed day by day, and the Eagles' regular training suddenly added one more thing, the confrontation training between the starting lineup and the bench lineup.

The starting line-up consisted of Dean Grove, Jason Terry, Raheem, Mohammed, Ratliff.

The bench consists of Liu Mang, Emmanuor, Chris Crawford, Boozer, and Medola.

Occasionally, the composition of players will be changed to make the strength of the two teams more balanced, but the focus is on the training of Liu Mang and Boozer's second team, which makes Coach Kruger feel that his team has a new tactic.

This is what Coach Kruger wants to add to the team after seeing Liu Mang and Boozer's training, Glenn Robinson is not coming back, the team can't wait, it should be practiced or practiced, it has been waiting for a week, and it is impossible to wait all the time.

Coaching Kruger is already desperate for Glenn Robinson.

That's it!

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Just when the Hawks were getting better, Glenn Robinson finally had news!

On September 29, 2002, there were two big news today.

The first one is that a new edition of the player power rankings has come out.

The Eagles have six players in the top 50 of the active player power rankings.

When Liu Mang saw this news, he said that he was numb to any poisonous milk!

Can it be more poisonous?

In the pre-season 2002-2003 Player Power Rankings, O'Neal was undoubtedly No. 1, Duncan was second, Kidd was No. 3, Kobe was fourth, Garnett was fifth, Maddie was sixth, Carter was seventh, Webb was eighth, Raheem was ninth, and Iverson dropped from second last year to tenth.

Raheem relied on his impressive performance to lead the team to first place in the East last season and entered the top 10 of the player rankings for the first time.

Eleventh through twentieth are Nowitzki in eleventh, Gary Payton in twelfth, Ray Allen in thirteenth, Rasheed Wallace in fourteenth, Michael Jordan in sixteenth, Karl Malone in seventeenth, Ben Wallace in eighteenth, Paul Pierce in nineteenth, and Ratliff in twentieth.

And Liu Mang ...... I saw that I was actually ranked fifteenth by several damn media!

Liu Mang understands, and he also understands, the media is very partial to rookies who play well, just like James, who was ranked sixth in the power rankings in the second year, and Rose was also ranked tenth after his rookie season.

But is there less hatred that those two people have drawn because of this? Both of their teams were beaten to death by the teams of the stars behind them when they were in their sophomore years! Rose didn't make much progress in the sophomore year, and James relied on his strength to endure and almost made the playoffs, but in the sophomore year, Iverson, Maddy, Carter, and Kidd, who were ranked behind them, were beaten once and again, and they grew up in the grind.

Liu Mang felt that he had a cool feeling in the next new season, he already felt that the two teachers of Shuangsha and Jordan were going to have red eyes when they saw him, and Stockton, who was also a point guard, was only ranked 22nd.

I just taught the little apprentice kung fu, and the little apprentice's ranking is higher than theirs! How can I bear it! Liu Mang already felt that someone was praising him for being handsome.

On top of that, the Eagles also attract hatred as a team.

In addition to Raheem, Liu Mang, and Ratliff, who led the team well or had a bright rookie season or won the best defensive player in the top 20, Jason Terry was ranked 25th, and Glenn Robinson was ranked 27th.

These two are understandable, there are only 25 players in the league with 20+ players in total, and the 25th in the scoring list last season is Hamilton, who averaged exactly 20 points per game, and is also ranked 35th.

Scoring is also an important indicator of whether a player is strong or not.

However, Muhammad was ranked forty-first......

That is, the six main players of the Eagles, all of whom have entered the list of the 50 strongest players in the active team......

This hatred is too big!

Fortunately, someone helped the Eagles divert their attention and made the Eagles' hatred less miserable.

Those who "contribute" to the Eagles are the Eagles players.

The guy who was going to come back on October 1 when training camp officially started has something going on in Milwaukee.

According to Gossip Magazine, Glenn Robinson's wife Frandy Robinson cheated on a male model in Milwaukee, Glenn Robinson went back to catch the rape that night when he saw the news, and then kept beating Flandi, beating Flandi all over his body, until he was tired and called the police to say that his wife was cheating...... God-like operation, and finally arrested by the police.

Seeing this news, the Eagles players are about to collapse!

Nima, what kind of teammate are we recruiting!