On the way to the destination of the last away game of the 6th consecutive away game.

Liu Mang looked at the clouds one after another outside the window. It was so good...

It's great to be a cloud. Standing at the highest point, you don't have to work hard. At worst, it will turn into rain and eventually return to the sky.

Liu Mang took out the new scouting report and read the new record report and analysis of the league situation.

These are all the jobs of scouts. Don’t think that scouts are so easy. They only need to watch games at public expense, travel, and submit a few lists of people they think have potential. Miscellaneous jobs like this are all part of their job.

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The Hawks traveled to the West for six consecutive games and had a record of 4 wins and 1 loss in the first five games. They successfully unseated the Magic, which was eighth in the Eastern Conference, and climbed to eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

With 29 wins and 24 losses, there is a gap between the top five Pistons, Nets, Pacers, Hornets, and 76ers, but not much behind the sixth and seventh-placed Celtics and Bucks.

The Wizards have almost fallen behind. Sixth to ninth in the Eastern Conference are competing among the Celtics, Bucks, Hawks, and Magic.

It’s almost the last two months, and the approximate rankings of each team are obvious.

In the West, the Kings and Spurs are fiercely competing for first place in the league, while the Mavericks and Timberwolves are trembling in third and fourth place.

The aging Lakers and soon-to-be prison Blazers are vying for fifth place in the Western Conference.

The Jazz have fallen behind from the ranks that may have hit 50 wins, but seventh place in the Western Conference is still very stable.

The Rockets continue to compete with the Suns for eighth place. Because of Liu Mang's influence, Yao Ming has two clear choices for his future.

Although I am still a little confused as to how to choose between the two paths, I still have a temporary goal. Now that I am still light, I rely on my mobility and shooting ability that are not consistent with my height to attack, and on the defensive end, I rely on my height advantage and lateral movement ability.

Guard the basket, take full advantage of your existing advantages first, and then wait until you finish your rookie year.

The clear short-term goals prevented Yao Ming from having a peak regular season like his original rookie season.

Originally, Yao Ming's rookie season had a miserable start. He started well after playing the Lakers, and then had a period of highlights. After the All-Star weekend, his weaknesses were discovered, and he began to be targeted in the second half. He fell into the rookie wall. The Rockets' record began to decline. At the end of the season

The key position battle was eliminated by the Suns, and it was a pity that he lost the best rookie.

At that time, Yao Ming was very confused after the All-Star Weekend, and no one could give him much size. Tang Shuai would train centers, but the main thing was to train skills, rather than helping Yao Ming plan for the future.

Because there have been giants like Yao Ming who are one size bigger than ordinary big centers, but at most they were Boll's type who could only block shots. There has never been a Yao Ming with such height and such mobility.

A young center with great touch.

Although Sabonis is also tall, his type is completely different. Sabonis is a defensive passing type, while Yao Ming has the talent to dominate on the scoring end.

Therefore, Tang Shuai could only teach Yao Ming techniques and helped him find Olajuwon, who had just retired, to teach him his steps.

As for Yao Ming's future plans, Tang Shuai didn't know how to do it. He waited until Van Gundy later to formulate Yao Ming's future playing style.

Something is different now. Liu Mang clearly pointed out two paths for Yao Ming. Although Yao Ming was still hesitant about the final choice, Liu Mang confirmed that his current style of play that relies on touch, footwork and height is also feasible. Although

There may not be much dominance. Just like Nowitzki, a boss who is willing to spend money needs to find a bunch of people to make up for the loopholes in this style of play, but the strength is definitely very strong.

So Yao Ming is not confused now. He quickly determined his style of play for the rest of the season. He has slowly regained his feeling and returned to the good performance of 15 points and 8 rebounds per game in the middle of the season.

Performance.

Originally, Yao Ming's season statistics were similar to those of Stoudemire. Yao Ming started low and moved high, while Stoudemire started high and moved low. In the end, they struggled at the end of the season. After their rookie year, the two averaged 13.8 per game.

However, due to Liu Mang's intervention, Yao Ming took the lead to get out of the quagmire, and together with Francis and Mobley, led the Rockets to hold on to eighth place, beating the Suns by two games.

As for the Eagles, who are eighth in the Eastern Conference, although in fact the gap between the top eight in the Eastern Conference is not particularly large, just a bit large, not many people are still optimistic about them entering the top five, and they themselves have no extravagant expectations. In these 13 games in February

The game is just an appetizer. The next 17 games will be the biggest obstacle for the Hawks to enter the playoffs. The last day of February and the first day of March will be back-to-back for the Western Conference.

, is the most exciting in the Eagles schedule.

After reading the scouting report, Liu Mang looked at the morning paper he picked up when he arrived at the airport in the morning, and of course, he turned to the sports section.

Sure enough, he made headlines yesterday with 25 points in the first quarter.

Although he only scored 25 points in the game, his strong performance that crushed Arenas to death, and his successful and perfect crushing performance, seemed to be like James in the future, no matter how difficult it is to beat the Pacers, when it comes to playing

When the Raptors were there, they beat DeRozan's team until they couldn't take care of themselves.

When he was torturing Arenas, Liu Mang scored 25 points after the first quarter. He originally wanted to score 20 points, but the Warriors struggled for a while, and he went up later and scored more than ten points.

I broke through 40 and got my seventh 40. If I'm lucky, I got a 50. Wouldn't it be wonderful?

Unexpectedly, the Warriors collapsed as soon as they said they collapsed. Liu Mang didn't even come up to continue playing. The score was almost 40 points after halftime, and the score difference was almost 50 points after three quarters.

Liu Mang feels that it is not the most important thing that he did not score 40 or 50 points. He likes statistics very much, but he is not ready to wear a No. 0 jersey. But the most important thing is that his team actually beat the opponent.

55 points!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, if you look at the two things separately, such as scoring 25 points in a single quarter, or just the team beating the opponent by 55 points, Liu Mang thinks there is nothing wrong with it.

, the first one proved that he is the strongest in his class, and the second one proved that his team is strong enough.

However, when the two things were put together, especially before the game, Liu Mang also expressed his intention to deal with Arenas, many so-called expert media expressed their opinions that night - Liu Mang was a petty person, and there was no such thing as

Sportsmanship, trying to kill the basketball dreams of Warriors players.

Regarding this view, Liu Mang was quite ashamed at first. He was indeed the one who started it, and then Jason Terry came up and beat the opponent until he couldn't take care of himself.

But several morning newspapers in California had the same tone, and Liu Mang got tired of reading them after reading them too many times.

Yes, I just want to kill the Warriors’ basketball dream!

Arenas? Jamison? Jason Richardson?

Fuck your basketball dreams! I’ll fuck you next time...as if you won’t be teammates next season...then do it three times!

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At six o'clock in the afternoon on February 26, 2003, the Eagles made their last stop in the Western Conference.

Holy City, ATT Center, Duncan stood in the Hawks half court, looking at the Hawks basket and not knowing what to think.

The surrounding Eagles players seemed not to see this person, and were just practicing their shooting skills.

Originally, when Duncan came to the Eagles' side, Raheem would push Duncan away unhappily, but after so many times, he simply ignored it.

Seeing Liu Mang ignoring himself standing next to him and practicing his mid-range shot, Duncan approached Liu Mang.

Liu Mang was startled. If this guy doesn't act as a quiet background, why would he come next to me?

Liu Mang ignored Duncan, moved a step, and continued practicing his mid-range shot.

CIC is a good thing!

In the last game against the Warriors, I experienced an Arenas star card and experienced the top-level mid-range shooting ability that is close to 90. Although I don’t know how dazzling the god-level mid-range shooting ability of Jordan, Kobe, and Nowitzki is.

, but Arenas’ ability value of 89 is enough, and he is worthy of being a scoring master who can face the peak Kobe Bryant and score 60 points in a single game.

Every offensive method has no distinction between high and low. O'Neal and Olajuwon's low-post singles; Curry and Durant's three-pointers; and Cogjono's mid-range shots are all great weapons.

After the three-pointer reached a small bottleneck in his progress, Liu Mang's development direction began to focus on mid-range and scoring at the basket.

Liu Mang's three-pointers are already very good. Even if he doesn't trigger the bench gangsters, he is still the best three-pointer of the team. The next step is to accumulate time and improve naturally. The most important thing Liu Mang needs to develop now is

Mid-range shots and basket scores.

Now it’s time for Liu Mang to put pressure on himself to improve his strength. In the playoffs, the Eagles may not even have a home court advantage. This is very important in the playoffs. Without a home court advantage, you must have the strength to crush the opponent before you dare to say so.

There is a solid chance of winning.

Duncan came close to Liu Mang. Liu Mang continued shooting without even looking at him. Duncan faintly called out: "Ace..."

Liu Mang glanced at Duncan in confusion, is there really something going on?

Liu Mang thought that Duncan was just here to act cute. This foot-picking uncle really likes to forcefully act cute.

Liu Mang asked: "What's wrong, Tim? Is there something wrong?"

Duncan responded: "Ace, are you..."

Duncan said, paused, turned his head and looked at the basket with a concerned expression.

Liu Mang waited for Duncan to answer, but Duncan looked at the basket mid-sentence. Liu Mang waited for a few seconds, then silently took the ball and moved to the Spurs' half court.

Is this guy with a paralyzed face here to disturb my training? Okay, you are the uncle, Uncle Deng, you are the MVP. If you can’t offend me, why can’t you hide away?

After Duncan finished making a sad gesture, he turned back to look at "Liu Mang" and said, "Ace, you really can't see me..."

Before Duncan could finish speaking, he discovered that Liu Mang was missing!

I looked around and saw Liu Mang. Liu Mang was talking happily with Ginobili, the rookie who had just arrived from the Spurs this year.

Duncan seemed to hear the sound of his own heart breaking, Ace, buddy, you haven't finished talking yet!

Also, when did my teammates become so enthusiastic?

Parker and Ginobili, two new generation players who entered the NBA at the same time as Liu Mang, had a lively conversation with Liu Mang.

Duncan's heart was not only broken, but also crushed to pieces!

When he was training in his own half, his teammates didn't even give him the ball. When the opponent's players came to his own half, because of their good relationship, Liu Mang, as a leader of the younger generation, has a not bad personality and a strong personality.

In terms of leadership ability, Parker and Ginobili both rushed to pick up the ball for Liu Mang, and even complimented Liu Mang enthusiastically. They didn't want to see Liu Mang go berserk when he hit them, and they didn't want to become the next Arenas.

How strong Arenas is. These two rookies and second-year players at the same time who are both Western Conference players know very well. Arenas was beaten like that by Liu Mang, and they probably have psychological barriers.

I don't want to be the next Arenas.
To be continued...