Six fouls left in the preseason, which is all too rare, but on the first day of the preseason, eight players left the court with six fouls in nine preseason games, and all of them were outside players, all of whom were the team's best outside defense.

Wade is one of them.

In the game between the Hawks and the Heat, Liu Mang alone caused Wade to commit four fouls, Wade didn't know how to play in the back, so he could only try to adapt to the new rules, but in that case, it was too difficult to limit Liu Mang's speed and shooting, if he was tall enough, he would be able to contact his chest and waist like Maddie, and he could cover the shot by preventing breakthroughs, even if it was Kobe, Kobe was also tall in scoring guards.

But Wade is as tall as Liu Mang, Liu Mang's arm span has an advantage, and he is used to the previous style of play that can be pulled and defended, and now Wade has no way to defend for a while, and Liu Mang's high back is not particularly good, but he is a big threat, causing Wade to commit four fouls in the half.

Since it was a preseason game and he didn't care about winning or losing, after Big Van Gundy found out about the problem, he asked Wade to be on the floor to adapt to the new rules.

At halftime, thanks to the scores of Liu Mang and Maddy, the Hawks had a 12-point lead at 49-37.

After Jason Terry came up in the third quarter, he quickly sent Wade out of the game with six fouls.

However, Maddie, who had a career that started as a defender, and Prince, who had a higher defensive talent and a similar size, studied the new rules together, and was already ready for the new rules, and neither of them had many fouls, Maddie twice, Prince three.

Maddy's side was in the limelight, teaming up with Kwame Brown or Rasheed Wallace to score just 11 points on 4-of-15 shooting in the third quarter, and 13 points in his own relatively easy half.

Liu Mang teamed up with Maddie to bully Wade, scoring 20 points on 5-of-9 shooting.

Prince, on the other hand, didn't look like the stats were impressive, but Eddie Jones didn't get the ball most of the time when Prince was there.

That's what makes Prince a feature, the All-Stars never look after him, and he doesn't care about the stats and just defends.

Liu Mang's defense on the outside is now easier, except for the bag, there is no need to think too much about the defensive end, you can put all your thoughts on the offensive end, and prepare more options on the offensive end in advance.

Although Maddie can't put too much pressure on O'Neal like Rahim, he can also do what Raheem can't, he can defend and defend!

And the Heat team is not a Lakers, without Malone and Wang Zhizhi, Brian Grant is used to exchange for O'Neal, the big forward is Haslem and Malik Allen, these two have mid-range shots, but compared with Malone and Wang Zhizhi's mid-range shots, the shooting distance is too close, when O'Neal's fitness begins to decline, Rasheed Wallace can easily make choices in the package and expanding the defense.

Big Van Gundy had a good idea to let Wade adapt to the current rules, but his on-the-spot response was too bad, plus it was a preseason, and he didn't make too much preparation to give a particularly good way to deal with it, even if O'Neal easily got 16 points and 6 boards in the half, he couldn't save the defeat.

After Wade was picked up with six fouls by Jason Terry, who was getting more and more chicken thieves, the Heat surrendered.

The Eagles, on their side, began to adapt to the style of play with veterans and newcomers, and it was not too surprising that among the players in the first and second years, the best performances were Calderón, Iguodala and Vallejo.

Calderon, who has studied with Stockton for more than a year, received special training from Stockton in the summer, how to adapt to the confrontation given by the world's top outside players with relatively mediocre physical fitness, and grasp the mid-range shooting after blocking and dismantling when playing with the inside line, the three points are still very miserable, but he entered the NBA two years ahead of schedule, and he improved relatively quickly, and his ability evaluation reached 67, which is much faster than Korver's three-point and defensive progress, and Korver's ability evaluation is only 65.

However, Calderon is a little better than when he entered the NBA in the original 05-06 season, and after more than a year of learning from Stockton, he has better passing awareness.

It's just that the confrontation is still not enough, and the NBA experience is lacking, and it is estimated that it will take some time to really sit on the main bench position.

But with Iguodala it's no problem, the top confrontation, although the passing awareness is not as good as Calderon, but it is very good in the swingman, and he got 4 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists in 11 minutes on his debut, although it is a preseason, but the strength and talent are visible to the naked eye, the most important thing is defense! Awareness is fantastic!

In the first preseason game, the Hawks easily won 98-87.

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After playing the Heat team, seeing that Liu Mang and Maddie did a good job in the distribution of the ball, especially Maddie, there was no dissatisfaction with Liu Mang's concentration of the ball, because Liu Mang was good at that, and Coach Kruger breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Coach Kruger and Maddie have talked many times before, Maddie has made it clear many times that he wants to win, and he has already got the data, so he doesn't care about these things.

But even if Maddie said so, Coach Kruger was still worried, but seeing that in the game, if Liu Mang took the initiative to ask for the ball, Coach Kruger was a little relieved.

In fact, this can be seen from Maddie's time in the Rockets, after he was originally traded to the Rockets, his shooting power was gradually declining, and he once played a career-high 6.5 assists per game, just because Yao Ming is getting better and better, and he averages 25 points per game later, but Yao Ming's physical problems, the Rockets' reluctance to bring in powerful role players and other issues make Maddie's "selflessness" in the Rockets like a roller coaster, and Yao Ming's most powerful 06-07 season is Maddie's most selfless time. He played 71 games that year and got 50 wins and 21 losses, but then both of them were seriously injured, and after coming back, Yao Ming declined compared to before the big injury, and Maddie herself began to decline and began to go solo again.

The main thing is that Maddy didn't feel like he had a chance to win a championship with the Rockets in the first place, and he said after his first first-round elimination that they were far from a championship and just wanted to win once in the playoffs, but in the end they didn't do it.

The current Maddie has Liu Mang's ability evaluation of 90, Prince's ability evaluation of 80, Rasheed Wallace's ability evaluation of 89, and Kwame Brown's ability evaluation of 81, all of which are all quasi-first-class or above starting teammates, and there is also a first-class star substitute with an ability evaluation of 86, and the bench has endless potential, allowing him to destroy the good atmosphere inherited from last season.

Maddy's side, a player who is regarded as an "instability factor" by the team and fans, is not unstable, but uses his teammates to open up space, play efficient performances, and are willing to pass the ball, and Coach Kruger is relieved.

On September 11th, when he returned to play the Bobcats at home, Coach Kruger let Liu Mang take a rest, and the whole team was still accommodating Liu Mang's style of play, so he didn't need to run in too much at this point, so that Tony Allen and Maddy partnered in the backcourt, and Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown partnered in the frontcourt, and began to adapt to various combinations.

After his teammates were weakened a lot, Maddie, who was the core of ball control, also learned not to hold the ball and just do it, and this group of people, including Tony Allen, are all physically fantastic, Maddie played for a while and found that his teammates really had problems with their long shots, either they were too tender and the running position was not good enough to practice, or they really didn't shoot and needed to practice from scratch, as the commander on the court, Maddie chose to change tactics and play one of the alternative tactics of defensive counterattack.

Without Liu Mang and Jason Terry, they counterattacked and attacked the basket.

The most amazing thing about this game is Josh Smith, who can be regarded as a first-class speed among point guards, strong bounce, every time he defends it, even if it is under his own basket, he can run to the front court as one of the fastest players, receive a pass from Maddie or Iguodala and dunk.

Of course, the premise is to defend down, and the lack of experience is a problem with this lineup, except for Maddy and Kwame Brown, everyone else has good defensive talent and physicality, but the experience is too poor, and the outside defense has become very difficult, and the whistle is blown at every turn.

When the main lineup was only Maddie and Kwame Brown, the game was really ugly, of course, the Bobcats also played ugly, except for Blevin Knight and Jason Hart when they were on the court, they could send the ball to Okafor, and no one else could play as well as the Hawks' blind run-in style of play, after all, it was a new team.

Maddie was still running in with a group of substitutes, but it was Jason Terry who went up and did it, and the difference opened up all of a sudden, after all, he was the sixth man......

In the next preseason, in addition to needing to try the lineup, Liu Mang is to let Maddie and a few rookies adapt to the team's style of play, Calderon also got a lot of playing time, seven games down, Calderon averaged 6.7 points and 4.4 assists per game, not limited to blocking and shooting to score, catching and shooting Calderon did better!

Liu Mang didn't expect that Calderon played so well, mainly because the turnover rate was too low, 4.4 assists, an average of only 1 turnover per game, more than 4 to 1 assist-to-turnover ratio, which made Liu Mang very sad, he himself averaged 6.0 assists per game last season, and had 2.6 turnovers.

The new players, Maddie is definitely not counted, the five rookies played, even if Iguodala's ability evaluation is so high, 73's ability evaluation is in the 21st century, most years are the initial ability evaluation of the top three picks, but the performance is not as good as Calderon.

One more year of NBA experience is still very different, Calderon knows his position better, and knows that he only needs to play his strongest aspects, and not do what he is not good at.

This point is what Stockton taught Calderon, Calderon is the core guard in the Spanish team, but in the NBA, it is impossible to have that kind of treatment, Stockton asked Calderon to see how Liu Mang played when he was a rookie, Calderon saw that Liu Mang at that time would only score and focus on scoring, and what he learned was that he would only pass and shoot in the middle and long range, so focus on these two points.

Someone taught it very differently, and Calderon quickly gained the favor of Coach Kruger.

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After six preseason games with the benches, Maddie has become more in-depth in understanding the team, more comfortable in organizing the offense, and the Hawks are getting better and better.

Mainly, the coaching staff and the players have an understanding of the team's adaptation to the NBA.

After the preseason, the Hawks' starting lineup was completely determined, and Kwame Brown relied on the performance of averaging 14 points and 11 rebounds per game without possession of the ball in the preseason, and sat firmly in the starting position, and the score will inevitably decline in the regular season, but the rebounds may be higher, without Raheem, he needs to contribute more to interior defense and rebounding, which Muhammad can't do, so Kwame Brown locked the starting position.

Maddie is still better at playing point guard, has a significant height advantage, is a very important advantage at the point guard position, Prince returned to the small forward position, and Rasheed Wallace started the power forward.

In terms of benches, Jason Terry is the first substitute, Iguodala and Muhammad are the main substitutes on the inside and outside, the position of the team's ninth man, the other four rookies and Korver did not get the position, but Calderon became the team's third choice on the outside bench after losing the draft in 03.

Tony Allen, Ariza and Kevin Willis were put on the inactive list, and Josh Smith and Vallejo became bench players along with Korver because they were insiders, so they could play.

The three-point work of Tony Allen and Ariza still needs to be practiced.

The preseason on the 23rd is over, from the 24th to the 26th, the Hawks coaching staff has determined some problems with the players in the 12-man squad, as well as the lack of ability of the players, and carried out targeted training and long-term training plan arrangements for the players, there are too many rookies, and new trainers have been hired additionally, and the Hawks' logistics reserves this year have spent more money than before, when a player in the team has an injury, there can be better medical protection.

The Eagles worked with a good hospital, and the Eagles team doctor was good, but to be on the safe side, Price hired Thomas Carter as the team's medical advisor.

The medical care of the NBA team is mainly divided into two parts, the team doctor and the cooperative hospital.

But there are also Suns kinds, with team doctors and cooperative hospitals, but they still need to find a chief surgeon and medical consultant.

The Suns have been cooperating with NASA for a long time, so Thomas Carter, the head of NASA's medical team, will become the chief surgeon of the Suns, and the Hawks can hire someone to be a consultant, and Price has put a lot of thought into it...... and money, Liu Mang recommended it for two years before reaching a cooperation with Thomas Carter.

Tony Allen and Ariza may be sent to the NBDL to practice more there, and once everything is in place, the Hawks will officially enter the regular season.

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When the team announced the list of activated lineups for the first game of the regular season on September 28, Liu Mang was not able to enter the activation list for Tony Allen and Ariza, and they did not have the emotional mood they had before.

Now the new teammates are hardly able to have the same feeling of fighting together to win the world as before.

Now, it's more about the urgency of "guarding the country", the strength is not good, that is, no, they will not use the regular season to give them exercise, and if they can't grasp the opportunity, they can only be a cold bench.

On September 27, the Eagles had a day off to prepare for the opener on the 28th.

This year's opener was different from the past, with a large number of tickets to each player, as well as a lot of tickets to City Hall, the state government, and local celebrities and celebrities in Atlanta, for the simple reason that it was time to hand out the 2003-2004 championship rings!

Raising the championship flag and issuing a championship ring are the biggest things to do at the beginning of the new season.

Players can invite their friends and family to join in, and officials from Atlanta and Georgia, as well as local university celebrities, celebrities, and celebrities, will join in the fun.

Liu Mang gave a few tickets for Dinah to pretend to be forced by her classmates, and the front-row tickets for the Eagles' opening game this time couldn't be bought, and almost all of them were used to give away.

The rest of the tickets went to Alexia and Levia.

After going to the team in the morning to get the tickets, Liu Mang and Jason Terry went to get together with Raheem, who had just returned to Atlanta, for the Hawks' opener against the Magic.

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There are two more chapters, and the next chapter is about six o'clock, asking for a guaranteed monthly pass~