Beverly Hills Hilton Four Seasons Plaza Hotel.

Liu Mang looked at the signboard of this hotel and heard that it was a villa hotel. The parking lot was not underground but open-air. He was curious: Why does the United States prefer the name hotel? Wouldn't it be more Western to call it a hotel...

By the way, it seems that the new meaning of hotel is a place for people to live in, which was introduced to China from European and American countries. The word hotel seems to have been introduced from foreign countries. In China, it used to be called a post station or inn. In the past, hotels seemed to sell alcohol in China...

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After thinking wildly, Liu Mang walked into the reception area of ​​the hotel where the team had booked the entire team and would stay for up to eight days with his guardians Boozer and Barnes.

He was dragging a huge suitcase behind him, a backpack on his back, a large luggage bag hanging around his neck, a large bag hanging on his left hand, and a small bag hanging on his right shoulder. By the way, he was also dragging a huge luggage bag on his right hand.

The American Jay Chou who was carrying the suitcase was as tired as a dog and looked resentfully at the back of Liu Mang with his two "bodyguards".

In addition to the luggage bag hanging around his neck, the large bag on Korver’s left hand belongs to Boozer, the backpack on the back belongs to Liu Mang, the huge suitcase on the back also belongs to Liu Mang, and the small bag on Korver’s right hand belongs to Barnes.

Wall walked from the parking lot to the door of the reception hall, just a few hundred meters away, and felt like his whole body was going to waste.

Finally, after approaching the door of the hotel reception, the hotel concierge saw Korver in extremely miserable condition and hurriedly came to help.

Korver now wanted to collapse on the ground and go straight to sleep. Seeing the 48-inch super huge suitcase that the concierge had trouble dragging alone, Korver felt so sad and angry. The little boss was bullying others!

But there is no way, who calls him a rookie? I can only hope that the team will select a few rookies this summer, and he will have the opportunity to control the rookies.

Thinking of this, Korver immediately became motivated to train hard and strive to enter the rotation next season so that he can have the power to control the rookies.

Today is June 8th. Just after noon, the Eagles arrived in Los Angeles and checked into a villa hotel in the Regal Villa District.

After defeating the Lakers at home last night, the Hawks came to Los Angeles today to prepare for the next three consecutive away games. In order to avoid disturbing the players, they stayed in Beverly Hills. Here, those few who want to cause trouble

Fans cannot come in.

Liu Mang got the room keys for himself, Boozer, Korver, and Barnes. The four of them lived in the same villa.

Taking a passenger battery car with the attitude of a waiter, he arrived at the villa where he was staying. Liu Mang saw that this villa was really luxurious. There was already a large wall around the entire hotel. This single-family villa also had a small wall inside.

Exclusive swimming pool and small garden.

When Liu Mang was waiting to get the room card, he read the hotel's introduction. This hotel has a total of 32 villas. Each villa has four bedrooms. Each room costs more than 300 US dollars... Liu Mang felt that the boss's heart was bleeding again.

Already.

It's just the boss who pays for it, so Liu Mang doesn't feel bad about living here at all.

"Mr. Liu, if you need to go out, please call the front desk and we will send someone to pick you up. There are also battery cars here, which are fully charged and can be used when going to other villas. I hope you enjoy your stay." The waiter bowed.

said.

"Thank you, sorry for bothering you." Liu Mang responded, hung his bag around Korver's neck again, swiped the room card, opened the door to the courtyard, and walked in.

Barnes and Boozer also hung their bags on Korver's body in a playful manner.

Korver looked at the backs of the three people and felt that his world was dim. He could only feel pity secretly: This handsome boy is really the young master's body and slave...

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After putting down his luggage and resting for a while, Liu Mang put on his sportswear, held the ball and prepared to go to Prince to practice ball with him.

Although the finals are already 2-0, these two games are at home, and then there will be three consecutive away games, which is very stressful.

Moreover, in addition to the pressure of three consecutive home games, this year's finals are completely different from Liu Mang's impression.

OK combination!

O'Neal's offense has always been unsolvable, but this time he worked surprisingly hard on the defensive end, even catching up with when he played the Pacers in the Finals a few years ago.

The most important thing is that Kobe had more than 5 assists in the first two games! In the last game, he had 37 points and 7 assists. This is a very tricky thing.

In Liu Mang's view, Prince was able to lock down Kobe in the original 2004 Finals. First, he was good at personal defense. This season, the league's overall defense reached the highest peak in NBA history. Prince has this advantage; second,

This is because of the perimeter defense of the top five Pistons, Kobe was further suppressed; the third point is the most critical, Kobe did not pass the ball to O'Neal and Malone!

The main reason was that Kobe was unwilling to pass the ball. The only game in which Kobe had more than 5 assists was the second game of the Finals between the Pistons and the Lakers. Kobe had 7 assists, and he and O'Neal combined for 62 points and 10 assists.

The Lakers happened to win that game.

And Liu Mang looked at the statistics of the Lakers' 15-1 playoff trip in 2001. Kobe averaged 6.1 assists per game in the entire 16 games, and O'Neal averaged 3.1 assists per game. He can guess that the reason why OK was OK in 2001

Invincible, mainly because the combined assists of O'Neal and Kobe are almost as many as the playoff assists of playmakers like Magic, Kidd, Nash, and Paul, and the combination of the two of them has more possession of the ball.

Concentrating on one organizational core makes it even more difficult to defend against!

More importantly, during the Lakers' playoff trip in 2001, Kobe and O'Neal's ball possession rate was not high. Their combined ball possession rate was only 30%. This does not include organizations that need to concentrate on the ball.

The core has a high ball-handling rate in the playoffs, because from a tactical point of view, the core of the Lakers in 2001 was Rick Fox and Brian Shaw, the two high-position playmakers who mobilized the triangle offense! These two people

Played the role of Pippen.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Generally speaking, Kobe doesn’t hold on to the ball. When he won three consecutive championships, there were always two or three players around him who averaged more than 3 assists per game.

Players, O'Neal is one, Fisher is another, Rick Fox, Brian Shaw, Robert Horry... these people all averaged more than 3 assists per game beside Kobe.

Kobe only grabbed shots, and O'Neal has always been excellent in rebounding in the playoffs. During the three consecutive championships, he averaged 14 rebounds per game in the playoffs.

In the original 2004 Finals, the OK combination only averaged less than 6 assists per game. Without Kobe not grabbing the power, he alone had more assists. It is not unreasonable for the Lakers to collapse in the Finals.

Because in that year's finals, except for Pistons fans, almost no one thought the Pistons could win. Kobe could no longer suppress his desire to win the championship MVP. Even if he fell behind 1-3, he was still confident that he could make a comeback.

When Kobe was determined to improve his statistics and win the Finals MVP, the Pistons knew that he couldn't pass the ball, so they must be better defensive. O'Neal had no one to pass the ball to him, so he could only pass the ball. Similarly, O'Neal did not take the Pistons seriously.

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In addition, in the original finals, Malone's injuries in the regular season aggravated due to his tough confrontation with Garnett in the Western Conference Finals, and his state in the finals was extremely poor.

Kobe didn't pass the ball, and O'Neal didn't pass the ball to Kobe. O'Neal's pass was usually intended for Kobe, and the connection between the two was completely broken.

In addition, the Pistons' defense that year was almost the strongest in history. Everything, taken together, caused the Lakers to be bloodbathed by the Pistons.

But this time it was different. Liu Mang did not feel slighted by the Lakers. The Hawks put a lot of pressure on the Lakers, which made the OK team start to join hands. Kobe, who was willing to pass the ball, was much harder to guard.

The comparison between the OK combination in the first three quarters of a game and Kobe's solo play in the fourth quarter can be seen as the difference between the 2001 Invincible Lakers and the original 2004 Kobe Bryant solo Lakers.

In these two situations, Kobe's Lakers team can be said to be on a different level. In the final analysis, the 2004 Finals was lost because of Kobe's solo efforts.

In the first three quarters of the last game, Liu Mang had seen the serious cooperation of the OK team, so he was under great pressure now! In addition, this was an away game, and there was no way for Rasheed Wallace to compete with the deterrent power of the OK team.

"It's really difficult, but this can also be exploited." Liu Mang walked out of the walled gate, put away the scouting report, patted the ball with his left hand, and ran towards the villa where Prince lived, whom he had just called to inquire about.

Continuously enhance the feeling of dribbling with the left hand, similar to the improvement of the feeling of dribbling with the right hand three years ago.

Liu Mang is going to find Prince to train together to improve his personal offense as much as possible. At the same time, he is also training Prince's single defense ability. He just used Kobe's star card yesterday and some high and low skills are still in his memory.

Xin, Liu Mang should seize this time to recall that feeling.

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There was also a guy doing extra training at the Toyota Center in the Lakers training facility. Although that guy was more hard-core, his training attitude was nothing to say. After returning to Los Angeles in the morning, he immediately came to the training facility to train.

There was also a sign placed beside the court with only two numbers on it.

37 and 45.

Scored 45 points by a guy who was entering the Finals for the first time, and allowed the opponent to shoot 15 of 32 from the field. From the mid-1990s, the NBA entered the iron-blooded era created by Pat Riley. The Finals

There are only two outside players who can average more than 25 points per game with a shooting percentage of more than 45%. One is Jordan in the 1996-97 season, and the other is Kobe Bryant in the 2001-2002 season when he played against the crushed Nets.

In addition, ten years later, the latest one to appear is Liu Mang.

The most important thing is that Liu Mang scored 40 points! Among active players, the only ones who can score 40 points in the finals are O'Neal and Iverson, and then Liu Mang.

Every time Kobe takes a look at that hot 45, he feels like his head is going to explode!

Kobe only felt that he did not make the shot, and did not feel that there was anything wrong with his choice of shots, so he continued to practice shooting wildly...

From the 8th to the 10th, when the finals switch between home and away games, there is three days of rest. However, during the Lakers' three consecutive home games, there is only one day of rest between the two games.

During the interval between the two games, there was definitely no way to do too much training, so on the 9th, the Eagles' team training began immediately, for a certain player who was suppressed by the opponent in the first two games.

Carry out training based on the situation in certain time periods.

The time for preparation always feels too little. June 11th will soon arrive, and the third game of the finals is coming soon.

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The company is a little busy today. I just finished writing a chapter. I will continue writing when I get home. There will be no less updates today, at least 12,000 words! Let’s change the style and try four updates. I will take the subway home right away.
Chapter completed!