Judging from the name of the trait "Prisoner Killing", Liu Mang felt like he had turned the other party's core into a trapped beast fight.

However, it has not been activated yet, and Liu Mang has not introduced it in detail after reading it.

And it's a series of missions, so it's not something that can be completed in one or two missions.

Upgrading a talent skill from level 1 to level 2 seems quite easy, but upgrading from level 2 to level 3 makes it much more difficult all of a sudden.

There's no end to the road to making yourself stronger......

Just when Liu Mang was thinking about the sea of stars and feeling the cruelty of time, a little Lori squeezed next to Liu Mang: "Uncle, what are you worried about...... Are you worrying about what gift to give to Dinah? ”

"Want a gift? Didn't they all bring you to play? ”

"Of course!"

"Does it have to be?"

"Definitely!"

“…… Cheaper, don't be too expensive, there is no money to buy stocks......"

"Stingy!"

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"Ace, thanks to you, we don't have to fight the Christmas war this year." Nash didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed.

Originally, if the Hawks and the Suns played the Christmas war, it may be like the Lakers and the Heat have played a Christmas war on their respective home courts two years ago, and the Suns players got Atlanta to play the Christmas war this time.

But this year, the league only scheduled a Christmas game between the Hawks and the Lakers.

The protagonists of the Christmas game have long been decided, and have nothing to do with the record, and before the start of the season, although people were ecstatic about the Suns piling up so many stars, Nash, Barbosa, Dio, Josh Smith, O'Neal, Jalen Rose, Raga Bell, Kurt Thomas, Tim Thomas, Calderon, James Jones...... This lineup looks at the name, it's too luxurious.

But this lineup is still a little worse than the lineup of Kobe, Gasol, and Yao Ming.

The salary of the two teams is much different, the highest salary of the Suns is O'Neal's 20 million, the second highest is Nash's 10.5 million, and the highest remaining is the middle class of double Thomas and James Jones, as well as Laga Bell's 4.5 million, and the rest are low-paid players or rookie contracts, and the Suns salary is only 67 million......

After the Lakers got Gasol and Yao Ming's contract extension with Ace clauses, plus Kobe's largest 7-year 136 million contract in history, the total salary reached more than 86 million, and Yao Ming's salary of more than 10 million was the key.

And after the start of the season, Nash really didn't have any interest in any Christmas games, and he had a lot of headaches.

After Nash returned to Phoenix in the morning, he joined Josh Smith and Calderon for lunch with several Hawks stars at noon, which was attended by Liu Mang, Maddie, Marion, Jason Terry, Kwame Brown, Rasheed Wallace and others.

"I don't want to go away for Christmas either, it's too much trouble." Although Liu Mang is full of expectations for playing against the Lakers, he wants to try how much his 'sniping' feature can be used for the Lakers.

But having lived in the United States for so many years, Christmas and Christmas Eve are certainly not as important as Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival in Liu Mang's heart, but the girls are all Americans, and spending their "New Year" with them is also something that Liu Mang attaches great importance to.

But as Nash said, Liu Mang and Kobe Bryant's No. 24 matchup, Gasol and Kwame Brown's battle for the best player in the class of '01, Liu Mang and Yao Ming's Chinese derby...... There are too many things to watch, if there is no Liu Mang, the Suns who got O'Neal, who was still the league's No. 1 center last season, in the summer, will definitely be another opponent in the OK battle and the Yao Shark war.

But with Liu Mang, the Lakers and the Hawks still have grievances in the finals last year, and the two warring sides in the Christmas game must be these two teams.

And...... Only these two teams!

Maybe there will be some double bull battle, double 21 battle, Liu Mang and James's 23vs24, Kobe Bryant and James's 23vs24...... Blah blah blah, but this year, the Hawks and Lakers have a Christmas game that everyone is looking forward to.

"I want to fight!" Josh Smith said enviously.

This season, the Suns have a poor record, Josh Smith has never lost so many games, he partnered with Howard in high school, dominated Virginia, entered the NBA with Liu Mang and won two championship rings, and also broke the NBA regular season win record, and now the Suns only have a 17-12 record, only ranked sixth in the West, Josh Smith feels very awkward.

However, Josh Smith's average of 21 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.9 blocks per game has exploded compared with last season's average of 8 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game, and has become a favorable contender for the Most Improved Award.

"If I can really want to give you this opportunity......" Liu Mang was a little depressed, he used to play Christmas games at home, and at that time he played against eastern teams, and now he is playing Christmas games with western teams, and the first time he played against them, it was definitely away, which was conducive to live broadcast.

The inner and outer cores of the two teams, who used to be teammates, chatted about some miscellaneous things together, but did not talk about things related to tomorrow's game.

is mainly the two big stars of the Suns' inside and outside, as well as Calderon, whose data has risen to 11 points and 6 assists after arriving at the Suns, has a poor record this year and doesn't want to mention this aspect.

The Hawks' "poor" record is mainly compared with their team's performance in previous years, if another core power forward is aging and adding new stars, and the team with almost all the role players has changed its lineup, it can still have such a performance, and it can blow to the sky.

It's only because they're the Eagles that they feel bad.

O'Neill didn't come for the simple reason ...... He has been humiliated by his performance this season.

Mainly physical fitness and injuries, he is still difficult to guard against a size like him, but his playing time has dropped from an average of 38 minutes per game and 37 minutes per game in the previous two seasons to an average of 27 minutes per game this season, with 14 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists, and the blocks have dropped to a career-low average of 1.8 per game.

O'Neal is a career low except for assists that are a little higher than in his rookie season, and assists are only a new low except for his rookie season, averaging 3.8 fouls and 3.2 turnovers per game, which is a new high since he averaged 3.8 turnovers and 4 fouls per game in his rookie season...... Especially with such negative numbers in 27 minutes of playing time......

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"We can't be careless, the opponent's recent performance is good, we can't despise the opponent because of the opponent's poor record, before playing against the Lakers, we must win the ...... two games" Coach Kruger did the pre-game mobilization.

Liu Mang thought of the recent situation of his own team, except for those guys who abused the 03 generation, how dare they be careless when playing other teams! When the Bobcats led by 27 points at halftime, they were beaten 26-10 by the opponent in the third quarter, and they had to play a critical moment in the final quarter, allowing Liu Mang to score 40 points......

This season, Liu Mang played like this, and he got 4 times 40+, as well as three triple-doubles, and the total number of triple-doubles increased to 14 times.

However, the Suns really can't be taken lightly.

As the season deepened, the Suns gradually shifted from the beginning of O'Neal's style of play to Nash, Josh Smith as the core, and the Suns' record showed a slight sign of recovery, with a recent wave of 4 consecutive wins and climbed to sixth in the West.

The Hawks and Suns have the same number of wins, but the Hawks have to play three games less, so the Hawks still look a lot better than the Suns.

The head coach of the Suns, Gentry, Liu Mang was very impressed, in the original time and space, the Suns did not enter the playoffs in the 2008-2009 season, only ranked ninth in the West, Nash was considered old, but after Gentry officially became the head coach in the 09-10 season, the Suns immediately recovered, Nash got the fourth assist king in his career, the Suns did not simply play the combination of running and bombing and playing positional warfare, offense and defense, and running and bombing, Averaging 110.2 points on 82 shots per game, the highest offensive efficiency in NBA history at the time, the Suns also swept the Spurs, their long-time bitter host, in the playoffs, all the way to the Western Conference finals.

This head coach may use Nash better than D'Antoni, and he is not so rigid and flexible, and Liu Mang is very jealous of him.

Take this season as an example, with such a dismal start to the season, the Suns gradually got better, reusing role players, reducing O'Neal's playing time, and reducing the importance of O'Neal's tactics......

For D'Antoni, 100% would not dare to use it like this.

Kurt Thomas, Raga Bell, Sean Marcos, Jalen Rose...... These guys who are not clean at all in defense have arrived, and although O'Neal is old, he is such a big man and has never been a good stubble...... It's a headache for an opponent.

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On the afternoon of December 18, when the Hawks were having a team meeting, the Suns were also doing a team meeting to mobilize enthusiasm.

Not selected for the Christmas game, the Suns players were unhappy with the arrangement except for Nash.

With the results getting better, they still have confidence because they have Nash!

But Nash himself really doesn't want to fight the Christmas war, and Nash is quite happy now that he didn't arrange them.

The dismal results at the start of the season were too torturous for them.

For Nash right now, beating the Hawks is much more important than the Christmas game.

The Hawks are still regarded as the championship favorites, even if they have a mediocre record, they are still the championship favorites, everyone knows that the Hawks are not at their best, and after the regular season, Rondo, David Lee, Granger, the three rookies and sophomores must have improved tremendously after a long regular season, just like Iguodala and Josh Smith.

The Eagles' advantages in the draft and developing rookies are the envy of many teams, and it has formed a great virtuous circle.

Nash wants to do Liu Mang to boost the team's morale!

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After the team meeting, the Eagles prepared for a training session in the afternoon to simulate the tactics and focus on tomorrow.

Just when Liu Mang was warming up, the first task of the "Wrath of the Wind Chaser" series of tasks related to Nash came!