The motivation of the Eagles players is very high!

After a night of wandering and two days of rest, the Eagles players returned to the training ground, and their enthusiasm was obviously higher than when they played against the Nets!

The Nets are a thing of the past. In the past, the opponent that the Hawks wanted to beat the most was the Nets. Now after crossing the Nets and seeing that the championship is only 4 games away, everyone becomes more excited.

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Of course, bonuses for winning the Eastern Conference Finals are also indispensable. From reaching the playoffs to completing the first round, and after completing the second round and advancing to the second round, the team bonus received by the Eagles has reached 610,000 US dollars, and owner Price paid for it out of his own pocket.

Double that, which is 1.22 million U.S. dollars. This time to reach the finals, that is, the bonus for winning the Eastern Conference finals is 370,000 U.S. dollars. Doubling it is 740,000 U.S. dollars. The total of the entire playoffs so far has been 1.96 million U.S. dollars.

Nearly 30 players, including the Eagles players, coaching staff, trainers, team doctors, physical therapists, etc., have received an additional bonus of nearly US$70,000 in addition to their salary in this year's playoffs.

For people like Liu Mang who have big endorsements, or people like Raheem and Ratliff who make tens of millions per year, or Jason Terry and Rasheed Walai who just signed long-term contracts with a starting salary of over 8 million to 9 million.

Shit, it's not a lot of money.

But it's different for others. Even Muhammad, who has a full mid-level salary, and Kwame Brown, who has the No. 1 pick contract, are not a small amount of money, let alone most of the Eagles' players are rookies or have minimum salaries.

Originally, if it was only more than 30,000 US dollars, the players might be happy, but now it is almost 70,000 US dollars, and the excitement level is more than doubled.

Because you have reached the finals, you will either be the champion or the runner-up. The bonus for the championship this season is more than 1.63 million US dollars, and the runner-up is more than 970,000 US dollars. That is, the 70,000 US dollars that the players have already received, at least there is still money left.

To double the number is a big sum for role players.

The role players are motivated, and the main players are already full of motivation. The Hawks team is fully motivated.

It's just that in the largest office of Phillips Arena, a certain boss who once had no money and had been stingy for many years by operating his salary below the salary cap to save money. Although he is rich now, he sees hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of bonuses going to him.

After I put it out of my own little vault, I still feel pain in my body. I am used to being stingy.

The reluctance in a certain owner's eyes when he handed over the league's check and his extra double check to the team's finance staff in front of the team members was clearly seen by the players. While the players were happy, they all

Even if I criticize my boss for being so stingy.

Liu felt that this boss was awesome. After reaching the finals, the net profit from a home game has been revealed. The average ticket price for the first home game was 343 US dollars, and the ticket price for the stands was over 100 US dollars.

The ticket prices in the stands for the Spurs and Nets were twice as high as last year, and the net profit for the first game was three to four million U.S. dollars. I don’t know where this boss got into the stingy and stingy spirit.

I don’t know where I learned it from.

After the bonuses were distributed, there were tactical training, shooting training, one-on-one offensive and defensive training and other trainings. The Eagles players were very active and the coaching staff was also very satisfied. They were fully preparing for the next finals with the Lakers.

Although it has been determined that the first game of the finals will not start until June 4th, and the Eagles will have to rest for a full week, no one is relaxing in training. This opponent is not comparable to the opponents in the previous three-round series.

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Moreover, the Eagles are definitely preparing for the series with the Lakers. Although the result of last night's game was beyond Liu Mang's expectation, the Timberwolves actually tied the score to 2-3.

When watching the game last night, the Timberwolves announced before the game that Cassell would not be able to play the rest of the game due to an ankle injury. Liu Mang thought that the Timberwolves were almost finished and might start playing in the finals on the 1st.

The Timberwolves put Szczerbiak, who only came back in the playoffs and played a dozen games throughout the playoffs, back to the small forward position, and Sprewell played point guard.

Without Cassel to restrain Kobe's defense, the madman went to play point guard. Liu Mang thought that the madman was going to be bitten to death by a mad dog. Who knew that Szczerbiak returned to his position and immediately came to life! He made 4 three-pointers in the first quarter.

3. Devin George, Fisher, Payton, and Fox took turns to defend, but they couldn't defend him, forcing Kobe to defend Szczerbiak.

Relying on Szczerbiak's 3-of-4 three-pointers in the first quarter, plus a cutaway running shot, the Timberwolves scored 13 points in a single quarter. The Timberwolves showed their momentum in the first quarter, and they were playing at home again.

All of a sudden, the momentum was like a rainbow.

Then in the next three quarters, Szczerbiak was defended by Tieke with his rich experience in blacksmithing. However, the Madmen were able to beat Fisher or Payton like a duck to water. In addition to the two points in the first quarter, they won in the last three quarters.

To 26 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists, the game ended with 28 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists. The most important thing was the last three-pointer. With 4 seconds left in the game, he scored three points in the first 43 and a half minutes of the game.

The madman shot 0-for-4 and hit a key three-pointer to help the Timberwolves beat the Lakers with a 1-point deficit at 101-102.

104 to 102, the Timberwolves pretended to be 2 to 3 and extended their lives.

Judging from the scenes, the Western Conference game was really good to watch! The ending was also unexpected.

However, after watching the entire game, Liu Mang still didn't think the Timberwolves had a chance to make a comeback.

Because the Lakers offense has no problem at all, Kobe has 23 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists, O'Neal has 17 points and 13 rebounds, Malone has 14 points and 9 rebounds, Wang Zhizhi has 11 points, 2 blocks and 2 rebounds, Fisher made 7 of 11 shots and scored 18 points, the Lakers

The team's offense still played very well, and they also defended Garnett to a shooting percentage of only 38%. Of course, Garnett grabbed 19 rebounds in the game and scored 18 points and 19 boards, which was also crucial.

, but the most important thing is that Szczerbiak broke out and played an explosive performance that the Lakers were not prepared for.

Liu Mang doesn't think the Timberwolves have a chance to win three games in a row. The chance of such an explosion is too low. Even if Szczerbiak really can have such accuracy as long as he returns, it's a little late now. If he has a series

Such a performance was put forward at the beginning of the game. At that time, Cassel was not injured and might really be able to compete with the Lakers. But now Cassel is not here. From the next three quarters of the game, it seems that Szebia

At most, Ke took up Cassel's position and attracted Kobe's defense away. The Madman really broke out very hard today, driving the whole team. In this way, it just dragged the game to the last minute. If the three

No points were scored, and even if the Timberwolves broke out, the Lakers still did not fall behind with a normal performance.

Of course, Liu Mang would rather hope to meet the Timberwolves in the finals, which would be much easier to beat, but the Spurs can't beat the Lakers, let alone the Timberwolves. With such unrealistic expectations, Liu Mang still prefers to fight for

Prepare to meet your strongest opponent.

The Eagles' coaching staff and other players basically watched this game, and their thoughts were similar to Liu Mang's. This was a return to form for the Timberwolves. It was really unlikely that they would have a chance to defeat the Lakers.

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After the training arranged by the coaching staff ended in the afternoon, it was only half past two. The training started at one o'clock and lasted only one hour before the coaching staff let the players rest.

Serious training means serious training, but the training schedule given by the coaching staff is still relaxed. Today's first day of training, just after two days of rest, is mainly about tactical movement, defensive positioning, and personal shooting training and simulation.

The Lakers' style of play is one-on-one offense and defense, so the amount of training is not large. It ended early. There will be game training tomorrow.

After training ended so early, Liu Mang couldn't hold back his restless heart, so he chose a difficult team to challenge his teammate who had the best individual defense.

Liu Mang found Prince and said provocatively: "Tyshawn, let's play one-on-one?"

Prince is preparing to practice more open three-pointers. His three-pointers are already very poor against the Pistons and Nets. He doesn't want to be held back on the offensive end when playing against the Lakers. How many more days can he practice?

Also light.

Faced with Liu Mang's provocation, Prince shook his head and continued to shoot three-pointers.

"..." Liu Mang felt a deep sense of frustration in his heart when he saw this little prince who might not get a response even if he was slapped.

Where did you learn this calm character?

In Liu Mang's view, Duncan's so-called calmness and low-keyness are not as good as Prince's. When a person's calmness and low-keyness are spread among people and the whole world knows about it, looking at it on the other hand, this person is no longer low-key.

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Just like people often say that so and so is underestimated, and when this argument that a certain player is underestimated becomes generally accepted, then this player is no longer underestimated, it can even be said to be overestimated, because everyone has already recognized it.

This player's strength is beyond recognition, and may even exceed the recognition he should have received.

And Prince, in Liu Mang's view, is truly low-key. If later generations hadn't been speculating on the Pistons' five top players all day long, it would have been difficult for Liu Mang to discover Prince even if he paid attention to the year the Pistons won the championship.

The Pistons' Five are most discussed by people. Ben Wallace, then Billups, Hamilton, then Rasheed Wallace, and finally... many people have discussed the Pistons' Five for a long time, but they have never thought of it.

There’s Prince…

This girl is really low-key. One day when Prince came to an afternoon tea party invited by Rahim with his son in his arms, Liu Mang found out that this guy was already married and had a son...

No! Liu Mang is not the kind of person who gives up casually. He just wants to challenge Prince.

Since provocation is useless, and talking about it is probably useless, Liu Mang directly pulled Prince into the basket: "Let's go, you have to challenge me today!"

"..." Prince stared at Liu Mang for two seconds, seeming to be thinking about how to avoid damaging Liu Mang's self-esteem, but he seemed to have no idea of ​​a way, and said seriously: "Boss, your singles are harmful to me.

It’s useless, you will be killed by me.”

"..." Liu Mang had a mouthful of old blood welling up in his throat and swallowed it back forcefully.

Why don't you be so direct?

But what they said is really not wrong. Unless he is cheating and insists on causing a foul, otherwise when he is dueling with Prince, his one-on-one goal shooting rate is only over 40%, which is very low in a duel.

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Of course, there are even lower ones. In this year's regular season, Prince limited his opponent's field goal percentage to only 29.3%, ranking first among outside players in the league who average more than 12 minutes of playing time per game. Even though

For those superstars, their shooting percentage in one-on-one singles against Prince was as high as 35% to 40%.

In this season's high-confrontation environment, Prince's one-on-one defense is invincible. Of course, because of this season's environment, the Eagles also use the same defense during training.

Among the Hawks' perimeter players, except for Raheem, who is a bug and can dunk hard against Prince, everyone else has been abused by Prince's defense.

Looking at Prince with seriousness written all over his face, Liu Mang felt that such serious words were too hurtful!

I can't put it mildly! I am the future boss of your family!

Liu Mang acted arrogantly: "You bastard, you will be tortured to death by me today! Come on, challenge me to a duel! I used to let you, brother, but now I want you to see the real skills!"

Real technology? Prince's mind was extremely calm. After hearing Liu Mang's words, he focused on Liu Mang's last sentence.

Prince suddenly thought of Liu Mang's left-handed attack against the Spurs and Nets, and then he thought that he came early in the morning and saw Liu Mang practicing his left-hand breakthrough, and he immediately became focused.

Without saying a word, Prince picked up a ball, kicked the other balls out of half court, took a step inside the top arc and waited.

Damn, this is so cold! Who is the boss?

Liu Mang must teach this guy a lesson and reach out for the ball outside the three-point line.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Prince sent the ball to Liu Mang.

After Liu Mang received the ball, he began to look for gaps in Prince's defense.
To be continued...