The previous four consecutive away games were all weak and collapsed teams. Every year, various teams collapse. This is nothing new. Occasionally losing to a weak team is nothing new.

, weren’t the Pacers also killed by the Raptors?

The future Invincible Universe team will be defeated once a year by the Lakers in the small trench of the West Coast.

The Eagles' next opponent is the top priority.

The last game of five consecutive away games is an away game against the New Jersey Nets.

The Nets have established their unique image in the past two years. Regardless of their regular season record, they are the most attractive team in the Eastern Conference in the playoffs.

Although this year they were beaten by the top three in the Eastern Conference and only started with 4 wins and 4 losses, their starts have been like this in each of the past two years, with 50 wins at most, and they will explode with ferocious strength in the playoffs.

So no team dares to underestimate them.

The Eagles were still a little depressed when they came to the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, but most of the Eagles already had their own ways of relieving their depression. Most of them were veterans who had played for many years, including Rasheed Hua.

Rice and Jason Terry, two people who were depressed in the second half of last night's game, took Muhammad, Barnes, Boozer and others to the hotel in Rutherford Town at noon.

These people went to Jersey City in the early afternoon, leaving early and returning early. The coaching staff did not allow the players to stay overnight outside the booked hotel on the eve of an away game.

Stockton, who may have been overwhelmed, went fishing on the sea with Kevin Willis and Ratliff in the afternoon.

New recruit Willie Green formed a team with Calderon and Kwame Brown to play StarCraft.

As for Liu Mang, he doesn’t like going to nightclubs, and playing games is no match for those Internet-addicted teenagers. Fortunately, Rutherford Town has made basketball here because of the Nets’ unprecedented record in team history in the past two years.

The atmosphere deepened a lot. In the summer, the Rutherford branch of Jersey City Bay Area High School built a new basketball gym. The Eagles rented this basketball gym for the players to train. Liu Mang took a break at noon and asked about it in the afternoon.

When I arrived at this school, I went to this arena to prepare to continue training.

Although we know that losing in the regular season is inevitable, and most of the time, we lose not to the strong opponents we are guarding against, but to the unexpected teams. As the famous coach Zhang said, when there is no opponent to score,

When there are too many, you will naturally lose.

But depression will always lead to depression, especially such a big reversal.

Liu Mang couldn't think of what his team still lacked, so he didn't bother to think about it. He was going to train. Exercise was the best way to relieve stress.

Originally, losing one game and two would not be a big problem, but suddenly being placed at the top of the strength list, there was suddenly a lot of pressure.

Liu Mang took a taxi to the Bay Area High School. Although this was the territory of the Nets, most of the people were from Philadelphia and were quite friendly to Liu Mang. The guard took Liu Mang to the small arena that was only opened in the new semester.

The arena is not large, about the size of a small warehouse. Liu Mang estimated that it would only be a stadium plus several hundred thousand seats and stands on the second floor.

When he walked into the arena, the facilities inside were similar to what Liu Mang expected, but people were already here.

A white man who looks exactly like a Chinese music king who dreamed of becoming a basketball superstar when he was a child but lost his height at the age of 16 is training in the gym. He is already sweating profusely and the towels on the sidelines are soaked.

Already.

"Keller, I didn't expect you to be training here. Wow, how long have you been here? Why didn't you go play with them?" Liu Mang greeted him and asked in surprise when he saw that Korver seemed to have been training for a while.

road.

"Boss, didn't you come to train too? You are so strong and you still come to train. I don't even have time to rotate now, so I must work harder." Korver's mentality is really good.

"This is great." Liu Mang was noncommittal, picked up the bounced ball thrown by Korver, tried a three-pointer, and made a hollow hit.

Such an easy and free shot made Korver's eyes widen. If he could have the ability to make three-pointers in the game, he felt that with his good defense ability and three-point ability, he would at least be able to do it.

Get a certain amount of playing time.

Liu Mang looked at Korver's ability evaluation, and it was still 64. Offense 62, defense 66, three-pointers 78, mid-range shots 65, layups 66, and offense with the ball was basically zero.

In terms of three-pointers, Korver's three-point ability is better than that of Liu Mang when he first entered the NBA. He is indeed talented. In this era where three-pointers are not emphasized as king, it is very strong for a rookie to have such three-pointers.

, it may be the same reason that Liu Mang had a slight chance of entering the NBA back then. There are always teams in need of a fixed-point shooter.

As for defense, in team training, Korver cannot defend alone, but he can appear in the right position every time as a helper. Coupled with his fixed-point shooting ability, he can occasionally beat Barnes to enter the 12-man roster. As for the other two

Watching Korver wring out the water from the towel and then wipe the sweat from his body, Liu Mang asked: "Keller, you won't start training when you get here at noon, right?"

"That's right, I heard Emmanuel say, boss, you spend at least twice as much time training every day as other people, and that's why you have the strength you have today, so I have to work harder!" Korver laughed.

He smiled, looking more like a certain person.

Liu Mang didn't expect that guy Emmanuel would have such awareness after becoming a trainer, and he would take the initiative to guide rookies in training... But Liu Mang didn't see Emmanuel! He asked doubtfully

Next: "Keller, where are the Emmanuels?"

"He and Boss Terry went to Jersey City. They arranged the same training tasks for me as you did before, Boss, and left."

"..."

…

Liu Mang took out his training clothes from his backpack and changed them. Half an hour later, Liu Mang finished warming up and saw Korver continuing to train. He asked curiously: "Aren't you worried that if you train like this, you won't get anything in the end?"

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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Liu Mang is very curious. Korver's attitude seems to have lasted throughout his entire career. How does he maintain this good mentality?

Liu Mang is very familiar with Kyler Korver, mainly because he will be the oldest player to be selected for the All-Star Game for the first time in future history. He wandered around and played as a substitute for nine years in his career, and in the tenth year of his career

, it was only after the Hawks lost Joe Johnson that the Hawks had no manpower, and then they got out of hand and averaged 45% shooting rate for 7 consecutive seasons, averaging more than two shots in each season.

Three-pointers, Korver was already 32 years old when he became a main player for the first time. Later, he was selected to the All-Star for the first time in his career at the age of 35, and won the Eastern Conference Best of the Month in January 2015. This may have been scored many times.

No one who has ever been an All-Star has ever won an honor. There has never been an example of someone who wandered around as a role player when they were young and then became an All-Star when they got older.

How can Korver maintain such a mentality?

Hearing Liu Mang's question, Korver did not get angry, but smiled and said: "I believe that one day I will succeed. Although I don't know when it will come, I will always succeed, especially after I heard that

After knowing your experience, boss, I am more sure that you will succeed if you work hard, don’t think too much, just do your best.”

You will succeed if you try your best? Don’t think so much?

Isn't this Liu Mang's own belief? But because this year's lineup has been strengthened so much, after losing a game, Liu Mang began to doubt himself and suspected that the team was missing something.

Hearing Korver's words, Liu Mang suddenly realized why he was thinking so much. Didn't he see that everyone else was just depressed? This was the beginning of the season, and the unpredictable season was still going to be long!

Ignore it for now, let’s play one game at a time! Liu Mang’s mood suddenly improved. They said that smart people don’t worry about annoying things. Liu Mang believed it and said to Korver: "Keller

, you are right, how about you, do you want to compare one to three points, I think your three points are pretty good."

"Okay! I've always wanted to challenge your three-point shot, boss! It's so accurate. It's even so accurate in the game!"

"Then be prepared to go home crying, rookie!"

"Haha, boss, come on!"

…

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Early the next morning, the Hawks players were all dragged to the basketball gym where Liu Mang and Korver scored a three-pointer yesterday, and conducted tactical training to prepare for the away game against the Nets in the evening.

The training time in the morning was not long, just one hour. It was mainly about tactical movements and simulating how Kenyon Martin, Richard Jefferson and Kidd would work together to defend. Prince and Raheem imitated this.

Of the two, Kidd was replaced by Stockton.

After training, the Eagles returned to the hotel to wash up, have lunch, and then have a team meeting.

Liu Mang looked at Jason Terry, who was as soft-footed as Korver, who had trained all afternoon yesterday and competed with Liu Mang until around seven o'clock in the evening. He asked worriedly: "Jason, what are you doing?"

What did you do last night?"

For Korver, it's normal for his feet to be weak. He trained for so long yesterday. Not everyone has Liu Mang's physical fitness. It's okay to practice to death.

But what does Jason Terry’s limp-footed situation mean?

Jason Terry looked at the people around him and didn't notice them. He smiled lewdly at Liu Mang and whispered: "Ace, you don't know, the girl I brought back last night was so hot! Then

Butt, that waist..."

"..." Liu Mang was speechless, and it was indeed because of this.

"I heard that she is one of the top fifteen contestants in the United States on Dancing with the Stars. I never thought that their program crew would come to Jersey City for filming. I'm so lucky! If you like Ace, I'll give you her phone number...

..." Jason Terry seemed to still be thinking about it.

Liu Mang originally wanted to leave, but when he heard the show Dancing with the Stars, he seemed to have an impression that all the people who came out of it ended up being 'socialites'. In other words, they were the "celebrity barrels" of the superstars, saying that they were stars.

, but they don’t have any works, or even no works at all, but they are very popular, and they are not ordinary flesh and bones. They can do it without paying money. They are sought after by a large number of black athletes, and they even make more money than real athletes.

There are more superstars.

Liu Mang asked: "What's the name of that celebrity you dated?"

"Oh oh oh, Ace, you have grown up! Are you interested too?" Jason Terry seemed to have discovered a new world, "Her name is Jin, what is Jin?... By the way, Kim Kadai

Shan, how's it going? Do you want her phone number?"

"!!!" Liu Mang was so frightened that he took several steps back!

"What's wrong Ace?" As soon as Jason Terry took out his phone, he saw Liu Mang's horrified expression.

Liu Mang calmed down his panic, quickly pulled Jason Terry and said: "Jason, stay away from that woman!"

"Why?" Jason Terry asked strangely.

"He's poisonous!" Liu Mang said solemnly.
To be continued...