"Ace, the first time you have entered the playoffs with such a low ranking, there is no home advantage in the whole process, for the first time to enter the playoffs as the eighth place, will there be a change in the goals you shouted at the beginning of the season?"

"It was a great experience, we had so well last year and we thought it was going to be just as smooth this year, life should have its ups and downs, we learned lessons and lessons and we were eighth, but we're in the playoffs, we're in the championship and we're still going to be the best team."

"That's today, we're going to prepare for Black Eight? Shouldn't we keep a low profile, it's not good to be heard by the opponent! ”

"It doesn't matter, they don't understand Chinese."

"Haha......"

……

Because of the previous three days, the Hawks declined all interviews, except for the season summary meeting that Liu Mang did not attend, and then went to Detroit for three preparation days, did not accept any interviews, and on the day of the series with the Pistons, the Hawks finally opened interviews.

Liu Mang accepted an exclusive interview with Youtai ESPN, domestic imperial court TV, and a pre-game press conference.

Liu Mang and the Eagles maintained full confidence throughout the whole process, and they were all full of confidence in advancing to the second round.

While the Pistons are better this year than last season, the Hawks are also better, with all three Eaglets making significant improvements, and with the addition of two strong rookies, Prince and Boozer, the Hawks have no reason not to be confident.

This made the Pistons players very unhappy, especially seeing that Emmanuol and Leon Smith, who were not even put on the activation list by the Hawks, were surrounded by a bunch of reporters, and even Ben Wallace, the most popular star on the Pistons' side. T and a few local reporters in Detroit interviewed, and the Pistons players were even more unhappy!

The treatment gap is also obvious!

What Liu Mang finally accepted was an interview with Zhang Weiping, who had to follow the Hawks throughout the playoffs and served as a guest commentator for most of the games.

Today, the Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the Pistons, finally gave the Hawks a rest area, a training field, energy drinks and even game consoles, computers and small cards that I don't know which staff member left in the locker room.

The things in front are what the away team must provide at home, and the back is an additional benefit, just to let the Eagles relax, especially the small card, when Coach Kruger angrily went to complain, the operation department of the Auburn Hills Palace said that the monitoring was broken during the cleaning yesterday, and it was impossible to find out who deliberately prevented the card, and Detroit did not prohibit prostitution, this is not illegal......

Industrial cities, cities with the highest percentage of blacks in the country, young men are energetic, and in order to reduce the crime rate, this is understandable.

Coach Kruger saw a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water and the Pistons' operations manager, so he had to go back to the locker room and reiterate to the players that all clubbing activities were prohibited during the playoffs.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, after accepting all the interviews, the Hawks once again declined the media's request for training interviews, and the afternoon was the final preparation time for the Hawks, the Hawks and Pistons playoff opener was put in the penultimate game of the day, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time, and the final game was the Lakers in the west of the United States against the Timberwolves at home.

After eating a nutritious meal at noon, two sets of 10-minute 5V5 confrontation training were conducted at half past one in the afternoon, with a 20-minute break in between, and the overall time spent about 50 minutes.

After more than two hours, you can watch the upcoming Nets and Celtics playoffs, you can play games, you can gamble money, and you can even sleep for more than two hours, air conditioning, quilts, and massage tables are available, but you can't practice and watch videos about the Pistons.

Everything that can be prepared in the past few days has been prepared, and in the last two hours of rest, the Eagles coaching staff chose to let the players rest well and ease the tense nerves.

What can you do in two hours? It's about the same as a waste of physical strength.

The two-hour study video can't be better than the established tactics that the entire coaching staff and all the players have studied before, just play according to the prepared ones when the time comes, don't make anything whimsical because of these last two hours, it's okay if you succeed, but you are only aggrieved if you fail.

The Eagles' strength is not worse than that of the Pistons, but they have an obvious advantage in strength, and they don't need those empty heads.

……

Liu Mang is also ready to rest, he has indeed practiced enough in the past three days, not less than these two hours.

After receiving the task released by the system yesterday, Liu Mang's pressure was not very great, the original Magic team was able to lead the Pistons 3-1, and the Eagles could definitely do better.

The point is that the Pistons players are crazy!

"I've started thinking about the next round of opponents: In the first round of the 2002-2003 playoffs, against the Detroit Pistons in the first round, the host had to lead the team to three wins to win the series, and in the post-game interview with the third win, he openly said that he was already thinking about the next round opponent.

Mission Completion Requirements: After issuing the declaration, the host team must lead the team to successfully eliminate the Pistons and advance to the second round of the playoffs.

Quest Complete Reward: Detroit Fury. Failure Penalty: None.

Note: When the host leads the team to the series match point and makes a declaration, the Detroit Pistons will trigger the detroit rage. ”

"The Detroit Fury: The temperament of Steel City is tenacity, and the iron-blooded character makes them not give up because of a huge disadvantage, and the team's defensive cohesion has been greatly improved, physical strength has been greatly improved, and fighting spirit has been greatly improved, and the effect will continue to be in all the remaining games of the current series. Note: There are no side effects of this special card. ”

When Liu Mang saw the full description of this task, he knew why Maddie was overturned with a 3-1 lead, the Pistons' defensive foundation is too strong, although Coach Carlisle is not so good at coaching such a purely defensive team, and the defensive system is not as good as when Mike Woodson will be a defensive assistant coach in the future, but if they play life defense, only Maddy's magic alone will be difficult to deal with the rampaging Pistons.

However, Liu Mang's pressure was not great, the Magic team's 3-1 lead was overturned, mainly because in the fifth game, after the Pistons returned to their home court, they used the momentum of the home court to defend the Magic team to only score 67 points, and the Pistons team's 88-67 bloodbathed Magic to make the score 2-3, and the confidence was beaten back, and the sixth game after that the Magic was not without a chance to win, and once led nearly ten points at halftime, but the Pistons team had already played with momentum, and reversed the Magic in the second half by defense and tied the big score.

From 3-1 to eliminate the opponent, was chased to a 3-3 draw, this time it was the Magic's turn to lose their fighting spirit, the Magic team trailed the Pistons by nearly 30 points after the third quarter of the seventh game, even if Drew Gooden scored 20 points in the final quarter when Ben Wallace was defended to zero points in the first three quarters, leading the Magic to a single-quarter score of 33-20, but only because the Pistons replaced the pure bench, and in the end, the Magic lost miserably with a 15-point difference and was reversed by the Pistons.

The Magic team was overturned 3-1 because the strength of the Magic team was not very strong, but it relied on Maddie to kill the Pistons for three games, and Maddy himself was proud and said the words that stimulated the Pistons players.

Originally, Liu Mang didn't want to do much, and there was no punishment for this task, but that special card made Liu Mang very excited!

In case you reach the Finals, this card will be useful against the Spurs who have Duncan, who are invincible this season!

So, the task is definitely to be done! So it took a good look at the key to the Magic team's overturn by the Pistons, and the key point was in the fifth game, when the Pistons returned to their home court to bloody the Magic and regain confidence.

The key lies in this, Liu Mang wants to avoid letting the Pistons return to the home court and use the home court advantage to play a furious defense.

Therefore, Liu Mang's goal, or ambition, is not just to eliminate the Pistons to complete the Black Eight, but to ...... Sweep the pistons and complete the Black Eight!

Since the Pistons' key turning point is Game 5, it is okay not to let Game 5 happen!

The Magic can lead the Pistons 3-1, why can't the Hawks play a 3-0 score in the first three games? The Eagles are comparable to the Magic snatch!

After taking a 3-0 lead, he took advantage of the home field to suppress the furious Detroiters and eliminate them directly!

After analyzing the strategy of the first round, Liu Mang made up his mind, his confidence was still sufficient, and he was ready to take a nap for an hour, and then get up to watch the second half of the Nets and the Celtics, and see if the Celtics could create a little surprise.

This athlete sleeps well, and when he says he sleeps, Liu Mang soon fell asleep.

At this time, the system came to another small task: "Ding...... In response to the host's strong desire, the system released the task: the strongest black eight in history. ”

"The strongest black eight in history: eliminated the Pistons with an absolute crushing score of 4-0 and achieved the title of the strongest dark horse in history. Mission reward: A random star card of the NBA historical Black Eight team, with a minimum of a quasi-first-class star card. ”

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I woke up from a nap and looked at the mosquito-like task reward, which was similar to chicken ribs.

The Black Eight team, that is, the weakest team in the playoffs, is a team that played very average in the regular season, and there are almost no Black Eight teams like the Hawks, who were the first in the division last season and only the eighth next season, so there are basically no particularly powerful stars, except for the Knicks' madman and Alan Houston, the Nuggets' Mutombo, the Warriors' Byron Davis, the Grizzlies' Black Eight Bears, and the 76ers' Iguodala.

These are all first-class stars at most, except for Mutombo, the years of the other black eight have basically nothing to do with the top stars.

But there's one task that's better than nothing!

Liu Mang's one-hour alarm clock, after waking up, he went to the bathroom to wash his face, and then went to the rest area with a TV, watching Kidd abuse the Celtic twin stars while looking at his own system panel.

Ability 78, three-point 84, mid-range shot 83, layup 85, speed 92, bounce 92, power 79.

There are also 28,328 superstar points, two intermediate superstar value draws, and 322 skill upgrade cards.

There are four skills at level 1: pressing pressing, high back body skills, pull-up layup masters, and turnover jump shots.

High-post back-to-back and pull-up layups are not needed for the time being, Liu Mang is ready to upgrade the master of pressing and turn-over jumpers!

1 skill from level 1 to level 5 requires 295 skill upgrade cards, that is, a total of 590 skill upgrade cards are needed to upgrade two skills, and 322 skill upgrade cards are not enough to upgrade two skills to full level, but Liu Mang also has a special skill upgrade card, which can directly upgrade skills from level 4 to level 5, that is, only 350 skill upgrade cards are enough.

Liu Mang saw that there were only 22 physical energy potions left, and he just filled the warehouse reserves.

Leaving 20,000 superstar points, Liu Mang used 8,300 superstar points to conduct a primary superstar value lottery, and drew 46 physical energy potions, 44 skill upgrade cards and 30 primary injury and illness potions, as well as 5 hairstyle appreciation ability cards.

Liu Mang took a picture of his hairstyle with the small black screen of his mobile phone, what hairstyle does Nima want to appreciate with an inch of hair! But I still use it, who doesn't want to improve their aesthetic ability a little.

69 physical energy potions, 51 primary injury potions, as well as 1 intermediate injury potion and 1 rebound card, these should be enough for this year's playoffs, just save some superstar value in case of injury.

There are already 366 skill upgrade cards, which is enough.

Level up your skills!

"System Boss, use 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade the Flip Jump Shot Master to level 5!"

"The host consumes 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade the flip jump shot master."

"Ding...... Flip Jumper Master Level 5: When playing with a back, a turnaround jumper has a 50% chance of not being interfered with. ”

Sure enough, it is the same as Liu Mang guessed, similar to the king of dry pulling, there is no direct effect on improving the shooting ability, even if it is not disturbed after triggering, it is still up to you to be able to throw it in.

Liu Mang already has two full-level skills, low-post turning skills and back-to-back turnover jumpers, and the system's prompts follow.

"Ding...... The host has become a mature star with both internal and external scoring skills, and the ability value evaluation has been improved in an all-round way. ”

"Ding...... The host now has 81 stats, 84 three-point shots, 83 mid-range shots, 85 layups, 92 speeds, 92 bounces, and 79 power. ”

"Ding...... If the host's ability value exceeds 80, the bench bandit fails, and the intermediate superstar value is compensated for a lottery. ”

Liu Mang looked at his new ability value evaluation, and it hurt.

When he heard about the all-round improvement, Liu Mang couldn't wait to see what his new ability value was, but only the ability value was increased from 78 to 81, and nothing else moved!

The compensation for the failure of the bench bandits also made Liu Mang feel distressed, and it took 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade to level 5, which turned out to be an intermediate superstar value lottery.

However, there is still compensation, which is more conscientious than Tencent, and Liu Mang feels that it is acceptable.

Upgrade another skill too!

"System Boss, use 55 skill upgrade cards and special skill upgrade cards to upgrade the oppressive rush to level 5!"

"The host consumes 55 skill upgrade cards, and the oppressive rush is upgraded to level 4, and the special skill upgrade card is consumed, and the oppressive rush is upgraded to level 5."

"Pressing Pressing Level 5: When the player with the ball is pressed closely, the prediction of the opponent's dribble is greatly enhanced, and the ability to rush is greatly enhanced."

Liu Mang couldn't wait to take a look at his ability value again, and the result was ...... Or 81.

His defensive ability is still not taken into account in the overall ability value.

Liu Mang estimated that his ability value of 81 was actually about the same as that of 85!

Although the higher the ability value, the lower the advantage in the lower gram, but at least you have an advantage!

Everything is ready, Liu Mang didn't continue to watch Kidd torture the Celtics, there was no suspense at all, and the Celtics still looked like they were swept by the Nets.

This year's Nets are indeed stronger than last year, these teams in the East, except for Payton's Bucks, who won two games in this year's playoffs, the other Celtics and Pistons, all of them were swept by the Nets, and the two swept series were all big wins, 8 games, with an average score difference of nearly 15 points, worthy of the title of the Great Demon of the East.

Liu Mang didn't want to see the Nets being too awesome and affected his mentality, so he went to Coach Kruger half an hour in advance, applied for an early warm-up, and had time to practice more low-post skills before the game started.

Liu Mang came to the training ground and, with the help of the trainer, began to warm up.

It is said that he is not nervous, and there is not much pressure to play the Pistons, but Liu Mang is more of a teammate who can be trusted, and himself, it seems that the ability value has increased to 81, but in fact, his ability has declined compared to before, the speed of 94 at the original personal limit, only 92 is left, and the three points are dropped from the three strongest people in the league, Peja, Ray Allen and himself, although the three points of 84 are also very accurate, but it is definitely not as good as 88, and there is a small hurdle of 85 in the middle!

Shooting and layups have no effect, the main impact is three-point and speed, although the impact is not big, but it will definitely have an impact.

Therefore, Liu Mang knew that he needed to play smarter and use his already rich arsenal of offensive weapons!

At the same time, make better use of your teammates to create opportunities for yourself or use yourself to create opportunities for your teammates!

Liu Mang regards this year's playoffs as a new starting point for his own take-off!