In the first half month of the offseason, the NBA was like a tornado. Many things changed people's perceptions. A new pattern seemed to have emerged in the NBA. The defending champion was no longer ranked first in the power rankings.

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The Lakers saw that the OK combination was about to collapse, but the Lakers traded away Robert Horry and Mark Madsen, freed up salary space, and later added two All-Stars. Not only did they not collapse, but they also created an unprecedented combination of terrifying giants.

The Timberwolves, another dazzling combination of Madman and Wolf King in the West, poached former Bucks point guard Sam Cassell with a five-year, $33 million contract at the end of July.

After forming the Big Three, the Timberwolves have become another team that people expect to be able to snipe the Lakers.

Although Garnett is not ugly, his expression and that face are really scary.

Sprewell is ugly, has a weird hairstyle, and has a chokehold. He has always been scary.

Kassel... scary.

This is regardless of cultural differences. Basketball fans all over the world call the Timberwolves' Big Three a three-headed monster combination.

The Kings, after losing to the Mavericks in the second round, failed to win over Malone, but the 8 million salary space they had available could not be wasted, so they made a poisonous offer, with a starting salary of 8 million and a total of 64 million over 7 years.

With a fat contract, he poached Brad Miller from the Pacers, who only averaged 13 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and was considered to have a watt head.

This is not to say that the Kings have not strengthened their strength. After Divac has aged and performed well for at most 20 minutes in a game, the addition of a big center with similar characteristics will undoubtedly be a very good signing for the Kings.

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It's just that Brad Miller's market price is only in the middle class. Wouldn't it be better to save some money and find a qualified power forward to make up for Webber's absence due to knee surgery at the end of May, which will require at least ten months of rest? I found him.

With a slow center and the now slow Divac, interior defense is not expected at all.

In the East, the Hawks once again introduced All-Stars, but with the influence of last year's Big Dog, people are extremely unfavorable to the Hawks' approach of picking up cancerous stars that other teams don't want.

The Pistons, who had just been hacked, have strong support from Stephen Jackson and the addition of Chris Bosh. Their strength has been greatly improved, mainly due to head coach Larry who is better at defense than Popovich.

Brown became the head coach of the Pistons, and it can be said that he is a perfect fit with the Pistons' lineup. He has Larry Brown's favorite slow-paced point guard and center. Last season, he was just unlucky to meet the Hawks in the first round. This year

Everyone thinks the Pistons can at least stir up trouble in the East.

The Nets finally reached a 6-year, 105 million contract extension with Kidd at the end of July. Since Payton joined the Lakers, the Spurs have launched a crazy pursuit of Kidd and sent away Glenn Robinson.

After adding some expiring contracts and clearing out a salary space of up to 20 million, it was just to bring in Kidd and Malone. They were even willing to sign Parker and the Nets first and then exchange them for Kidd's highest salary, but Kidd hesitated.

On July 28, he rejected Popovich's invitation. He said that he was only two wins away from the championship. He was confident of winning the championship and chose to cut his salary and renew his contract with the Nets.

As long as Kidd is around, the Nets' strength is guaranteed. After Kidd renewed his contract, the Heat's expiring free agent Alonzo Mourning chose to join with a three-year, 15.7 million mid-level clause in pursuit of the championship.

Nets.

The Eagles have also pursued Mourning, but Mourning needs at least the playing time of the third inside line and a mid-level contract, which the Eagles cannot afford, and Mourning feels that something will happen to the Eagles again this year, so in the base

After Germany renewed his contract, he decisively chose the Nets, which had reached the Finals for two consecutive years.

Last year, the Pacers, who were among the top three in the Eastern Conference, poached Brad Miller and were considered to be severely damaged. They may fall out of the first tier of the Eastern Conference. However, they did not know that they quietly introduced Kenny Anderson and Anthony.

- Johnson had two good substitutes, fired Isaiah Thomas and brought in former Pistons head coach Rick Carlisle.

The Spurs, who had freed up 20 million in salary space but could not spend it, had no choice but to sell domestically. They renewed their contract with Ginobili in advance, who had already shown extraordinary talent, and reached a five-year contract extension of 42 million, starting in the summer of 2004.

Started to implement, and reached a 6-year 40 million contract extension with the team's Slovenian center Nesterovic, and reached a 6-year 38 million contract extension with Malik Rose, but he did not win over Kidd.

Popovich chose to stabilize the team's morale, mainly to stabilize Tony Parker's uneasiness. Since Parker still has two years of rookie contract, he will not be able to renew it in advance until at least December next season, so other people have to renew the contract.

Filling up salary space allows Parker to no longer worry about being traded, and it is also a way to stabilize military morale.

The Mavericks are frantically replenishing outside singles players. In the season that just ended, they lost to the Spurs because there were not many players with strong scoring ability in outside singles. They all pointed to Michael Finley's explosion, but Finley was already at his peak.

However, it's okay to have an occasional outburst, but pointing out that his outbursts every day is equivalent to giving away his life, this year he introduced former Warriors small forward Antoine Jamison, traded for Josh Howard, and selected Ma, who has excellent singles ability, from undrafted players.

Quess Daniels had a clear goal, just to deal with the Spurs, but he didn't expect that as soon as they completed this in early July, the Lakers would form a Big Four...

Under the pressure of the Lakers, the signings of the top four in the Eastern Conference and the top four in the Western Conference kicked off the crazy signings early in July, and they also came to an end early. By the end of July, the Nets renewed their contracts and signed Mo.

After Ning ended, the free market suddenly cooled down from extremely frenzied, and the entire NBA became calm and completely silent.

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For Liu Mang, after returning from the trip, he first started restorative training. After all, he had not done any scientific training for a month. The days in Hawaii were mainly restorative training to find the previous body rhythm and shooting feeling.

Liu Mang was surprised by Chip Engelland's professional level. Because Liu Mang could use physical strength medicine and injury medicine, before, shooting training was separated from other teammates because no one could do it like him.

Practice to death.

The biggest role of physical potions may not be in competitions, because the function of physical potions is to restore physical reserves to the upper limit of the body. But when you are tired, you still have to pant, and you still have to replenish energy. After you have panted, you have to drink it.

After taking the energy drink, it will be as if nothing happened just now and you can continue.

The biggest effect, Liu Mang thinks, is the effect during training, which can be done repeatedly and non-stop.

Therefore, the previous shooting coach of the Eagles had no way to control Liu Mang's training, but Chip Englund was different. He may also be curious about Liu Mang's death-defying training method, but he did not choose to let Liu Mang practice blindly on his own.

I had already learned about Liu Mang’s training methods, studied them in advance, and made training arrangements for Liu Mang. I combined them with Mark Madsen’s physical training, watched professional shooting instruction videos, and adjusted the details of his shooting movements.

Physical training, relaxation training, high-intensity training, fixed-point training... etc. Occasionally, I will take Liu Mang to the beach to dance hula and relax. He looks like Dr. Strange and dances hula, but he still looks good.

What’s interesting is that you can also invite the three girls at home to play together so as not to neglect them.

Chip Englander developed a scientific and systematic training plan based on Liu Mang's explosive physical reserves, instead of letting Liu Mang do it blindly like before.

After the recovery training of the past few days, Liu Mang started using the new training plan. Although it seemed that the training volume was still the same, Liu Mang felt that he no longer had the same feeling of needing to constantly supervise himself during the previous training.

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For example, he just practiced a set of shooting, including 100 shots each from five points, medium and long range. Normally, after such a set of practice, Liu Mang would feel very depressed, but because of the pressure he felt due to his own lack of strength, he would often

Force yourself to continue training, although it is effective, but you will definitely have the psychological feeling of wanting to slack off, and you don't have much thought about the shortcomings that occurred during your training. You just practice every day. Although you can also improve, but

Overall, it has quite a few limitations.

This time the Eagles hired the Pistons' senior basketball consultant from the Detroit Pistons, who had guided Steve Kerr's basketball training camp in the 1990s, in order to bring Liu Mang's physical advantages into full play in training.

Now after Liu Mang practiced a set of shooting, he felt a little bored with shooting, so he went for a run, lifted irons, danced, and even went to the beach to look at the beauties on the beach while Dinah and the others were away, showing off his upper body muscles to win a prize.

Wave cheers and then swim for a while.

His mood changed. When Liu Mang was lifting irons or running or basking in the sun at the beach, he naturally thought of what was wrong in the previous shooting training. Then he discussed with Chip Englander and slowly started the next group of training.

Improve……

The more Liu Mang looked at this assistant who looked like Dr. Strange, the more he thought he had seen him somewhere, but he couldn't remember.

After ten days of training, Mark Madsen and Chip Englund followed Liu Mang and Schwartz, who had already arrived at the island country in advance to wait, to start promotions throughout Asia.

In terms of promotion, the interactions with fans and autograph sessions that lasted less than an hour did not consume much time and were not considered tiring. This season after signing with Nike, I participated in a lot of promotions. In this regard

It's not difficult. What's difficult is flying every other day. Sometimes it's not just flying every other day. Sometimes you have to promote in different cities for two or three days in a row. The 14 days of promotion time, a total of 9 cities, if you count

In the beginning, Hawaii had ten cities, which can be described as being exhausted.

However, it was Liu Mang's two personal trainers and manager who were exhausted. Liu Mang fell asleep on the plane and trained every day. His sleep quality was excellent. After the daily promotions and before leaving the current city, Liu Mang was training without letting up.

Spend your free time every day.

Because Liu Mang is under a lot of pressure!

Firstly, there is great pressure to win the championship next season, and secondly, there are system issues.

Whether it is the training system or the lottery system, there have been huge changes. To put it simply, it means that he has passed the rookie period. Many things that were specifically designed to be effective during Liu Mang's rookie period have been deleted. The main ones deleted are for opponents.

Most of the special cards that have too much effect have been retained. For example, props such as Manic Potion, which require people to see things and use their own judgment, have not been deleted.

The props that have been drawn before are still there and have not been deleted due to the deletion of lottery rewards.

Liu Mang couldn't help but curse when he saw the template of the new basketball superstar.

But thinking about it carefully, Liu Mang accepted it, because many things were really unnecessary. He could now take charge of himself and train himself to become stronger.

The deleted items are mainly special cards specifically used for Liu Mang to gain a foothold in the NBA as a rookie.

Regarding the superstar value lottery, the junior superstar value lottery has been changed. All the weird special cards have been deleted, leaving only physical potions, injury potions, skill upgrade cards and stealing cards.

As for the mid-level superstar value lottery, most of the special cards have also been deleted. Now the superstar value lottery has four categories: star cards, action packs, special cards, and props.

Moreover, the lottery method has also changed. Instead of specifying a one-third chance, it has become: a mid-level superstar value lottery, specifying a category to double the chance of winning, or deleting a category from the lottery category.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Liu Mang thought for a long time before he figured out the general meaning. The former wanted that thing very much, and he could make do with the others if they were drawn. The latter

If you don't particularly want one of the items, you can make do with the others.

This was the biggest change in the system, which made Liu Mang feel weakened a lot at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that some things were no longer needed, and personal strength was the key.

Now, star cards have directly become one of the four categories of mid-level superstar value props, which means that you can often experience the strengths of each star and learn something from them. Some players may not have Liu Mang's ability value.

High, but every player who has established a foothold in the NBA has his own characteristics, and Liu Mang can learn from them and use his strengths to overcome his weaknesses.

The junior superstar value lottery has been streamlined to only a few important props. This makes Liu Mang even more happy. There is no need for a bunch of miscellaneous things, but the intermediate superstar value is still there. He hopes that he will not show up.

Just the ability to appreciate high-end clothing is enough...

After Liu Mang thought about it carefully, he felt that the upgrade of the system lottery was indeed beneficial, and it was more conducive to his growth at this stage.

Special cards like those that have obvious effects in the past are more conducive to making a name for yourself in the NBA, gaining the team's core position, and getting the most important training opportunity for the team.

Now it's time to work hard to improve your own strength and grow from an ordinary star to a superstar, which is in the early 20s. Generally speaking, players who can become superstars will already be superstars in their twenties, thirties, or four years old.
To be continued...