On April 17, Liu Mang was participating in various team and individual activities, and the Wizards had come to Atlanta.

Atlanta officially entered the atmosphere of the playoffs, but for the Wizards, the fans were very "enthusiastic", and many fans went to give them a "pick-up".

Didn't boo the Wizards or scold the Wizards, or even cheer because they came......

Since last season, the Wizards have not won against the Hawks, counting the 02-03 season, the Hawks are currently facing the Wizards with 10 consecutive wins! Sweeping them in the regular season for the second year in a row to play the Wizards is too happy for Hawks fans.

In the eyes of Hawks fans, what suspense is there in such a series? Have a little wine and watch the game, and get drunk and it's another big win!

Not only Hawks fans, but even the media predicted that in the first round of matchups, only the Hawks this group of series is written that the Hawks beat the Wizards 100%. The celebrities invited by the T side voted, and the celebrities of the 16 teams in this year's playoffs voted together, and all of them wrote that the Hawks beat the Wizards 4-0, and even Wizards legend Elvin Hayes voted for the Hawks to beat the Wizards 4-0.

This set of series is the least suspenseful.

The Pistons vs. the 76ers and the Suns vs. the Grizzlies have suspense, and the Magic vs. the Nets and the Rockets vs. Mavericks are regarded as the most suspenseful two-round series in the East and West.

The playoff power rankings of major media were announced one after another on the afternoon of the 17th.

The top three rankings are basically unified, with the Eagles in first place, the San Antonio Spurs in second, and the Phoenix Suns in third.

The four to nine Heat, Pistons, SuperSonics, Nets, Rockets, and Mavericks are ranked differently and are considered to be the teams in Pot 2, and the Heat and Pistons are a little higher in the overall rankings.

The remaining Kings, Nuggets, Grizzlies, Bulls, Magic, and 76ers are in the 10th to 15th place, and the Wizards are the only one, 16th.

Such a ranking makes the Wizards players who arrived at Atlanta very angry, but helpless.

They met the Bitter Eagles, so what's the point of coming in second?

After the Wizards arrived in Atlanta, the league announced the playoff schedule in the afternoon.

In the series between the Hawks and the Wizards, the times of the first four games are No. 19, No. 21, No. 24, No. 26, and if there is a fifth game, it will be on the 28th.

On the night when the schedule was announced, there was a tall man wearing a hood, sunglasses and a mask outside the Phillips Arena, who was 1.9 meters tall, and he was looking at the stadium that was going to be renovated in the summer......

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After participating in the charity event, Liu Mang can finally take a good rest, get some sleep, start team training tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow will be the day of the playoffs opener.

After two busy days, I finally finished my off-court work as a player, and then I threw myself into the playoffs.

Liu Mang looked at the tips for the completion of the tasks that have been completed one after another in the past two days.

"Congratulations to the host for completing the Legendary Quest: King of Scoring. Reward: One talent skill shard. ”

"Congratulations to the host for completing the King of Scoring Branch Quest: The Prologue to Epic Scorer Showdown. Bonus Special Card: Shooting Epiphany. ”

"Congratulations to the host for completing the King of Scoring subquest: The Man Who Can Score Anything More Than God. Awarded Michael Jordan 1986-1987 Season Star Card. ”

"Congratulations to the host for completing the King of Scoring subtask: Surpassing Rick Barry. Bonus Rick Barry 1974-1975 Edition Star Card. ”

"Congratulations to the host for making the playoffs, and the career mission: The Road to Kings has been completed for the fourth year in a row. The host's team has 68 wins, surpassing the 26 wins of the last place in the playoffs and awarding 26,000 superstar points. ”

"Goal for the season: the prelude to the era of running and bombing. Mission Objective 1: The team of the host team in the regular season needs to finish first in the NBA scoring average rankings, which has been achieved. Mission Objective 2: Win the 2004-2005 regular season MVP, to be announced. Mission Objective 3: Helped Tracy McGrady win the 2004-2005 Assist Championship, achieved. Mission completion (2/3). ”

Two Star Cards in hand!

The main one is Jordan's first peak, that is, the star card at the peak of his personal data, Jordan in the third grade!

Liu Mang tried the star card of first-year Jordan, although he didn't make the Nets, but it also made his control of the breakthrough timing better.

"Michael Jordan 1986-1987 Edition: Ability Rating 99, Offense 99, Defense 93, Three-Point 50, Shooting 92, Layup 105, Speed 93, Power 89......"

I took a look at Jordan's third-grade ability evaluation...... This is still the ability evaluation of the third grade after the second-grade fracture reimbursement, and Liu Mang wants to ask where the building is higher......

"Rick Barry 1974-0975 Edition, Ability Rating 91, Offense 94, Defense 80, Three-Point None, Shooting 90, Layup 94, Free Throw 99, Speed 87, Power 90......"

Barry here...... No ......

The main thing is that there were no three points in those days......

If there was a three-point line in those days, with Barry's shooting touch, although the action is not good-looking, he must be able to practice a good three-point line, and he used to be the king of free throw shooting percentage! He is also the second-most free thrower in history by averaging more than three free throws per game, and no one is better than Barry except for Cavaliers legend Mark Price.

Barry's star card ...... Liu Mang thought about it and could use it to experience it...... What does it feel like to have a urinal?

Decisively broke into the cold palace......

For Liu Mang, in addition to the talent and skill fragments, the most important thing is not the more than 20,000 superstar values, nor these two star cards, but the special card of shooting epiphany!

"Special Card: Shooting Epiphany: Function: All-round shooting ability +1, How to use: In three to six hours of uninterrupted comprehensive shooting training, increase muscle adaptability and shooting muscle memory and shooting stability, after completing the training, all-round shooting ability +1."

This is good!

Liu Mang has been waiting for a long time!

After the regular season this season, Liu Mang, who has been training non-stop, finally raised the evaluation of the ability of the right-handed mid-range shot to 89, and is about to break through 90, but 89 and 90 are a gap, and there are only a handful of players in NBA history who can break the mid-range shooting ability evaluation of 90, just like the three-pointer, some players have the first-class three-point ability of 89 at a young age, and they are the strongest of the first-class three-point players, but they can't break through 90 until they retire.

It takes not only hard work, but also talent.

But Liu Mang has a problem......

"System boss, this shooting epiphany...... Can you do it with your left hand? ”

"Ding...... The host chooses six hours of uninterrupted comprehensive shooting training, and the all-round shooting ability can be improved a little. ”

Six hours......

Gotta die of exhaustion! Even if you have physical potions, you have to starve or die of thirst!

Liu Mang immediately contacted the coaching staff and trainers to conduct assault shooting training for the playoffs at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning......

That's when the system's playoff mission comes.

"Ding...... Title Quest Trigger: Essington. ”

"Estownton: The host needs to lead the team to a 4-0 sweep of the Washington Wizards. Mission Reward: Title: Essingerton, Washington, D.C. fans are more obsessed with the host than the Wizards. ”

Essington ......

Another American nickname.

There is still a shame to hear.

But this is more attractive to Liu Mang than the two titles after killing the bull and the piston!

Although the Wizards' ball market is average, they are in the imperial capital of the United States! Convince the fans of the imperial capital of the United States...... Just think about it!

It's a pity that the Wizards are too weak and don't even have a reward......

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"Ace is crazy, I feel like I'm going to lose half a pound today!" After passing the ball to Liu Mang for half an hour, Emmanuol was panting and resting on the side, resting for half an hour, he had to replace another trainer who was passing the ball to Liu Mang.

"What's wrong with Ace? I remember he was already training when I first arrived, and he's still practicing? Maddie asked curiously, he arrived at the arena at half past eight and went to discuss tactics with Stockton, it was half past ten o'clock, and Liu Mang was still practicing.

"Ace arrived at five o'clock! By the time I arrived at the arena at 5:50, he had already finished warming up, and he had not rested except for eating hamburgers and drinking electrolyte water for 10 minutes! Emmanuol cried out in misery.

"Coach, Ace is crazy, right?" Maddie was frightened by Liu Mang's crazy training, and his own training lasted two hours at most.

"Let him go, he said what kind of playoff assault training he was going to do, and he was going to do training for his lack of shooting ability...... "Coach Kruger's head hurts.

Fortunately, the opponent in the first round is the Wizards, and even if Liu Mang doesn't play, he can press the opponent to the ground and rub it.

Practicing six hours a day is not a particularly difficult thing, but Liu Mang has been practicing shooting for four and a half hours in a row, and Coach Kruger is afraid to panic, but Liu Mang is getting more and more energetic the more he practices, and it is not the kind of strength training or breakthrough and running training that may be injured, so he catches the ball and shoots, or alternates between the left and right hands, that is, the burden is not so big, and Coach Kruger is happy with Liu Mang.

If Liu Mang's shooting ability can be a little stronger, it would be better for the team.

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Liu Mang's side, constantly shooting, felt that his body was going numb, every time he shot out, it felt like his body was moving by himself, and his muscles were exerting force by himself.

This feeling is the meaning of "epiphany" in this special card, practicing and practicing, Liu Mang felt that he couldn't stop shooting, and when he was tired, he took a physical fitness potion, and drank half a cup of Gatorade after a group of exercises......

Shot again and again, five directions, three points in each direction, a total of fifteen shooting points, 50 shots from the left and right hands at each point, an average of two seconds each shot, a group of shots for about 55 minutes, drink water, slowly, just one hour a group.

Finally, at twelve o'clock at noon, in addition to eating and drinking some water, I shot 9,000 baskets almost non-stop, and the use of the special card of "Shooting Epiphany" was finally completed!

Liu Mang fell to the floor panting, the training was finally over!

The physiotherapist who had been prepared for a long time immediately came up and put on the yoga mat, asked Liu Mang to move it, and then began to give Liu Mang physiotherapy.

"Ding...... Congratulations to the host for completing six sets, 15 points, and 50 times of each point's left and right hand extreme shooting training within six hours, and reaching the special card: shooting epiphany. Consume a special card: Shoot an epiphany, and the body function is being repaired ......"

I don't know if it's the effect of the physiotherapist's massage, or the effect of this special card, Liu Mang feels sour all over his body, and the feeling of painful and sore but very comfortable muscles exploding......

When the half-hour therapeutic massage and ice pack is over, the system prompts you to come!

"Ding...... Congratulations to the host for +1 all-round shooting.

Right hand: 92 three-pointers, 90 mid-range shots, 93 layups.

Left hand: 77 three-pointers, 71 mid-range shots, 91 layups. ”

"Ding...... Congratulations to the host for increasing the overall ability evaluation to 93. ”

The ability evaluation of the shooting circumference exceeded 90, which increased Liu Mang's comprehensive ability evaluation to 93!

So far in the season, he has improved his ability evaluation by three points, which is faster than the improvement of Kobe's 01-02 season and 02-03 season in Liu Mang's impression!

It's a little bit close to the 94 ability evaluation of the limit of the top stars.

This little difference is the limitation of physical talent, if Liu Mang's physical talent is better, with his shooting ability and skills, he is already a superstar.

Speed Liu Mang is no problem, bounce and strength are big problems.

Now Liu Mang's strength and bounce have been improved to this level by relying on kung fu cards and attribute fruits.

In terms of the two congenital disadvantages of the yellow race in terms of explosiveness and bounce, flexibility and speed, Liu Mang is now the top physical fitness among the yellow race, for example, most black people are not bad, but it is much worse than the super top physical fitness men in the black race, such as Kobe Bryant and Wade.

Liu Mang's current performance is based on his skills, skills, and the most critical brain, as well as his self-proclaimed handsomeness, as well as the reasonable use of his teammates, to play a superstar performance.

There was a little girl who was annoyed by the advertisement and said that she wouldn't click anywhere......

Limited by the body, strong strength will not be able to maintain speed and flexibility, so it can only rely on the attribute fruit of the system, which makes Liu Mang more motivated to win two consecutive championships and get the high-level strength fruit to improve his strength!

At least increase your power rating to 85!

The all-round improvement of strength will make Liu Mang more comfortable in various techniques.

Whether it is Liu Mang or the Eagles, there is only one goal this season - the championship!

Any other outcome is unacceptable to them, or even unbearable.

If Raheem is replaced by Maddy, an assist king who has not won the championship, he will definitely be criticized, the team management and Maddy will be attacked, and the Hawks management can't explain yet, and it can't be said that Raheem is leaving on his own, so where will Maddie's face go, although the contract renewal is almost negotiated, but it has not yet been officially signed.

And he also had to leave a good impression of Liu Mang's "human touch" of the management.

After the tactical discussions between the coaching staff and Maddy, Calderon, Rashid Wallace, and Iguodala in the morning, the team practiced in the afternoon, and Liu Mang was arranged to sit and rest, while others practiced tactics.

The next day, April 19th, the series between the Hawks and the Wizards will start in the evening!

After the tactical training in the morning, the afternoon was the rest time, and the players studied the time of their opponents to deal with by themselves.

"The playoffs are going to start tonight, we've been working hard for six months, it's been almost seven months since training camp, we got the first place in the regular season, and then, our goal is still to be first, the first place in the playoffs is the championship, winning the championship is our only goal, except for the championship, any other result, I think not only me, but any one of us can not accept it! For the overall championship! Liu Mang simply and directly said the declaration of winning the championship.

Jason Terry agreed and yelled, "For the championship!" ”

Liu Mang's strength as a head of state and Jason Terry's cooperation ignited the passion of his teammates at once.

"For the championship!" The Eagles' enthusiasm for winning the championship flooded the training ground!