When the news about Malone and Stockton comes out, fans are going to explode!

Two old men are about to retire, and they want to harm our young players and recruit another man to inherit their mantles?

Fortunately for the fans, most of them are happy to see the rookie become stronger. Although there is a new Stockton, it is still a combination of Stockton and Malone, who is both capable and insidious...

Mainly because many players in the NBA are about to explode!

This little hooligan is already shameless enough, but he wants to turn into a sinister person like Stockton?

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The outside world was noisy, but Liu Mang had little impact. Atlanta fans were used to Liu Mang's various unusual operations, and it would be better if Malone and Stockton made Liu Mang stronger.

Today is a rest day. Liu Mang got up in the morning to train. After the March schedule is over, there are still nine games in the last 17 days in April.

Tomorrow, March 30, the Hawks will play a home game against the Boston Celtics.

After experiencing a period of sluggishness after the All-Star Weekend, the Celtics have now regained their form. They are closely tied with the Pistons and Nets. The Nets are now 46 wins and 26 losses, and the Pistons and Celtics are both 44.

Win 28 and lose.

Based on past experience, the Hawks' playoffs will begin on April 20th. The opponents in the first round are still unclear. The Pacers, Raptors, and Bucks are all possible. The Hornets have fallen to tenth, and they are not yet in the top spot.

They can't go up, and they can't go down. They are 4 games away from the ninth-ranked Bucks, and 4 games away from the 11th-ranked Heat. They are the legendary team that only dominates a level.

The Magic with 39 wins and 33 losses and the 76ers with 37 wins and 35 losses have firmly secured the fifth and sixth positions by the middle of the season. Playing against the Pistons or Celtics... there is not much difference for them, so the pressure on the record is also

Not big, the seventh to ninth ones have just reached a 50% winning rate.

There is no record pressure on the Eagles. If they can do better, it's better. If they can't, it doesn't matter. They have 10 games left to win 5 games and break the team's record. It's not a big problem.

On the contrary, the Magic and the 76ers really hope that the Hawks can win the game against the Celtics to prevent the Celtics from forcing the Nets to third place in the Eastern Conference. Then the Magic and the 76ers will fight for who is fifth.

The name fights to the death.

Although the Nets were brutally beaten against Western Conference teams, their dominance in the Eastern Conference was on the same level as the Hawks.

Liu Mang returned to his apartment after training in the morning. At noon, he made some food in the landlord's kitchen, a simple vegetable salad, to maintain his weight.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang lay lazily at home, relaxing and looking at the system space.

Liu Mang looked at the random star cards in the system space. He didn't know what he could draw yet, and he didn't plan to use them now.

The team is firmly ranked first in the Eastern Conference during the regular season. There is no need to waste this card in the remaining regular season. If there is a key game in the playoffs, it will not be too late to use it again.

There are another 110,000 rogue points and superstar points.

The rogue points are saved first, and the superstar points are also reserved to prevent injuries. The remaining points are used by Liu Mang to draw skill upgrade cards, injury potions and physical potions to make regular reserves for the following games and playoffs.

"System boss, use 114 junior superstar value draws!"

"The host uses 114 primary superstar value draws, consuming some superstar points..."

"Ding...congratulations to the host for obtaining 147 skill upgrade cards, 27 primary injury and illness potions, 31 physical fitness potions, 15 primary stealing cards, and special card: rebound card."

There are 147 skill upgrade cards, plus the remaining 30 cards, a total of 177 cards, with more than 60 cards left. Use the superstar value as an injury reserve. This is essential. There can be no surprises in the first playoff trip.

Because if you are injured, you will definitely not be able to play. If you can't play, you will have no superstar value. Then you can only slowly wait for the effect of the injury medicine to take effect, which Liu Mang can't stand.

Physical potions and primary injury potions are also necessary reserves.

This rebound card?

It’s rare that there is something new in the primary lottery!

In the past, I occasionally had new things, such as clothing aesthetics and hairstyle aesthetics, which were related to basketball players off the court.

Of course, those are good, but Liu Mang is in the sprint stage now, and he doesn't even rush to sign endorsement deals. For those endorsers who have found the team management, Liu Mang asked Coach Kruger to temporarily push them away until he can find an agent in the summer.

Let’s talk about it later.

"Rebound Card: When encountering a malicious attack from an enemy, the damage can be rebounded."

"!"

This thing!

not bad!

The playoffs are coming soon, and the current playoffs still maintain an iron-blooded style. This is a nice way to say it.

It sounds ugly, but it’s dirty!

Because there are still many players from the 1980s who are active in the NBA. Those players who have experienced the Bad Boys Legion and Pat Riley's iron-blooded style have a lot of tricks and tricks in the playoffs.

Some people play basketball without sportsmanship, and there will never be a shortage of such people. As Liu Mang knows, there will still be players like that in more than ten years.

Maybe opponents hate this kind of person, teammates don't like it, and even the head coach doesn't like it, but the boss likes it, and the head coach sometimes has to use him.

What the boss wants is to win, no matter what the means. Unless it is the kind of team that loves basketball, if they are purely businessmen, they don't care whether the means are dirty or clean.

You must not have the intention to harm others, but you must have the intention to guard against others!

nice one!

Liu Mang looked at 177 skill upgrade cards, 51 physical potions, 41 primary injury potions, and one intermediate injury potion. The medicine reserve was full and he was just waiting for the game!

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On the morning of the game against the Celtics, Liu Mang did the same as before. He got up at 5 a.m. for a run, went to the park to practice shooting at 6 a.m., returned to the apartment for breakfast at 7:30, sent Dinah to school, and went to the arena at 9 a.m. to continue.

train.

It's no different from a regular home match day.

After lunch ended at 12:30 p.m., Liu Mang and Emmanuel were originally going to go to the team lounge to play games and relax while waiting for the team's tactical meeting at 2 p.m.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But coach Kruger called Liu Mang, Raheem, and Jason Terry to the office together, and it was only the three of them and the assistant coaching staff.

Mike Woodson, the team's defensive assistant, was once a quasi-first-class NBA star. He averaged 17 points per game in eight seasons at his peak and 14 points per game throughout his career. After retiring, he successively played for Larry Brown and Rudy Tom.

Janovich and Don Nelson, three great defensive coaches, have served as assistant coaches and came to the Eagles as defensive assistants this season.

Quinn Buckner, the team's shooting and personal defensive coach, once served as the head coach of the Mavericks and was a regular on the All-Defensive Team as a player.

Duane Ferrell, the team's assistant coach in player analysis and rookie evaluation. He is a mediocre player. He has a high degree of education and a high IQ. He is a top student who graduated from Stanford University. He studied financial management and played in the NBA for more than ten years. His peak period was in

The Hawks had a high-quality substitute who averaged just 10 points per game in his two peak years.

Coupled with rookie coach Lon Kruger, the Eagles' coaching staff is so shabby.

Liu Mang and others arrived at Coach Kruger's office and seemed to be discussing something.

Coach Kruger seemed to have a headache. Seeing the three core players coming, he threw the blame on them.

"Ace, Jason, Sharif, do you think we need to let the Celtics improve their record to second place?" Coach Kruger asked.

"?"

When Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Raheem just arrived, they encountered such a question. How should they answer it?

And what does it mean to let the Celtics be second? We are first in the Eastern Conference!

"Look here," Mike Woodson looked very active, drawing the attention of Liu Mang and others to the rear projection image next to him, "We will play a game with the Celtics tonight, here, in April

On the 11th, we will play another game with the Celtics..."

Mike Woodson pressed the button on the remote control to turn the PPT page: "The winning gap between the Celtics and the Nets is only two games now. If we give the Celtics a chance, they may successfully advance to the Eastern Conference."

Second, the Celtics may put more pressure on the Nets in the second round, and may even defeat the Nets, and our chances of winning the Eastern Conference finals will be even greater!"

Forehead……

Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Raheem looked at each other, and that was what they were talking about!

This future bald man who is not yet bald must be thinking too far!

Didn't you consider the previous series with the Pistons?

Liu Mang was right when he thought about it. At this time, no one could have imagined that the Pistons would be the big boss in the Eastern Conference in the future.

However, coach Mike Woodson is worthy of being a coach who has worked with Nelson and Popovich. His ideas are always so bold and advanced. Liu Mang admires the vision of this bald assistant coach who is still in the jungle of the future.

Teaching assistants must have people like this who can come up with different ideas.

However, based on Liu Mang's impression of Coach Kruger, Coach Kruger shouldn't reject this idea, right? The Hawks have no record pressure. The Nets have lost 26 games. Their next schedule

It would be good to get 5 wins and 5 losses, at most 51 wins. Even if they win the remaining ten games, they will only have 56 wins. I have already won 53 games here, and I will have 5 wins in the next 10 games.

Yes, what are we still discussing? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to stumble your biggest opponent?

Liu Mang felt that Coach Kruger should have the same ideas as me, he is so visionary and thoughtful.

"I don't think this is going to work," old-school Quinn Buckner said.

It turned out that it was not Coach Kruger who disagreed, but that everyone else had the same idea. Liu Mang had a good relationship with the shooting and personal defense assistant coach, and Quinn Buckner had a good relationship with most of the players on the team.

"Quinn, what's wrong with wearing small shoes for the Nets?" Liu Mang asked curiously.

Wearing small shoes? This statement is a bit novel to Americans, but it has won unanimous approval from people around him. Mike Woodson used to be unhappy with Liu Mang, but now he finds it quite pleasing to the eye. Heroes see the same thing!
To be continued...