It is too rare to leave the game with six fouls in the preseason, but on the first day of the preseason, in 9 preseason games, eight players left the game with six fouls, and all of them were outside players, all of whom were the team's outside defenders.

the best.

Wade is one of them.

During the game between the Hawks and the Heat, Liu Mang single-handedly caused four fouls on Wade. Wade didn't know how to play until later, so he could only try to adapt to the new rules, but in that way, it would be difficult to guard against Liu Mang.

It's too difficult to limit someone with speed and shooting. If he's tall enough, like McGrady, he can rely on his chest and waist to make contact, prevent breakthroughs and cover the shot. Even Kobe can do it. Kobe is also a shooting guard.

Considered a tall man.

But Wade is as tall as Liu Mang, and Liu Mang has an advantage in wingspan. He was used to the pull-type defense style in the past. Now Wade has no way to defend him at all, and Liu Mang's high post is not useful.

He played extremely well, but he was a big threat and caused Wade four fouls in the half.

Since it was a preseason game and he didn't care about winning or losing, Van Gundy discovered this problem and asked Wade to adapt to the new rules.

At halftime, thanks to Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady's scoring, the Eagles already led 49 to 37 by 12 points.

After Jason Terry came up in the third quarter, he quickly forced Wade to commit six fouls and leave the game.

On the other hand, McGrady, who started his career on defense, and Prince, who has higher defensive talent and a similar body shape, studied the new rules together and were already prepared for the new rules. The two of them committed no more fouls.

More, Tracy McGrady twice and Prince three times.

McGrady made a big splash here, teaming up with Kwame Brown or Rasheed Wallace to defend Wade to 4 of 15 in three quarters and only score 11 points, while he scored 13 points in the half with relative ease.

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Liu Mang teamed up with McGrady to bully Wade, scoring 20 points on 5 of 9 shots.

On Prince's side, the data doesn't seem to be eye-catching, but Eddie Jones didn't have a chance to catch the ball most of the time when Prince was on the court.

This is the characteristic of Prince. The All-Stars will never favor him. He doesn't care about statistics and is responsible for defense.

Liu Mang's defense on the outside is now easier. In addition to double-teaming, he does not need to think too much about defensive issues. He can focus all his thoughts on the offensive end and prepare more offensive options in advance.

Although McGrady can't put as much pressure on O'Neal as Raheem did, he can also do what Raheem can't do, he can guard the point guard!

And the Heat are not the Lakers. They don't have Malone and Wang Zhizhi. Brian Grant was used to replace O'Neal. The power forwards are Haslem and Malik Allen. These two have mid-range shots, but with Malone and Wang Zhizhi,

Compared with his mid-range and long-range shots, the shooting distance is too close. When O'Neal's physical fitness began to decline, Rasheed Wallace was able to choose between double-teaming and spreading the defense with ease.

Van Gundy's idea is very good, allowing Wade to adapt to the current rules, but his on-the-spot response is too bad, plus it is the preseason, he is not fully prepared, and he cannot give a particularly good response method, even if

O'Neal easily scored 16 points and 6 rebounds in the half, but could not save the defeat.

After Wade was forced to commit six fouls by Jason Terry, who was becoming more and more thieves, the Heat surrendered.

The Eagles have begun to adapt to the style of play where veterans lead newcomers. Not surprisingly, among the first- and second-year players, the best performers are Calderon, Iguodala and Varejao.

Calderon, who has been studying with Stockton for more than a year and received special training from Stockton in the summer, how to use his relatively mediocre physical fitness to adapt to the confrontations given by the world's top perimeter players in terms of physical fitness, grasp and

When playing pick-and-roll inside, the mid-range shot after the pick-and-roll is much better, but the three-pointer is still miserable. However, he entered the NBA two years early and improved relatively quickly. His ability evaluation reached 67, which is only three-pointers and three-pointers than Korver.

The improvement in help defense is much faster, Korver only has an ability rating of 65.

However, Calderon is even better than when he entered the NBA in the 2005-06 season. He has learned from Stockton for more than a year and his passing awareness is even better.

Just confrontation is not enough, and the NBA lacks experience. It is estimated that it will take some time to truly secure the position of the main substitute.

But with Iguodala, there will be no problem. He has top-notch confrontation and passing awareness. Although he is not as good as Calderon, he is very good among forwards and defenders. He scored 4 points and 3 points in 11 minutes in his first appearance.

The data of 4 rebounds and assists, although it is a pre-season game, but the strength and talent are visible to the naked eye. The most important thing is defense! The awareness is great!

In the first preseason game, the Eagles easily won 98-87.

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After playing against the Heat, I saw that Liu Mang and McGrady did a good job in distributing the ball rights, especially McGrady. I have no dissatisfaction with Liu Mang's concentration of ball rights, because Liu Mang is good at that, and Crew

Coach Ge breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Coach Kruger and McGrady have talked many times before, McGrady has made it clear many times that he came here to win. He has already obtained the data and does not care about these things.

But even if McGrady said that, Coach Kruger was still worried. But when he saw that during the game, if Liu Mang took the initiative to ask for the ball, McGrady would give it to him, Coach Kruger breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, this can be seen from McGrady's time in the Rockets. After he was originally traded to the Rockets, his shooting rights gradually declined. He once averaged a career-high 6.5 assists per game because Yao Ming became more and more powerful.

After that, he averaged 25 points per game, but Yao Ming's physical problems and the Rockets' reluctance to spend money to bring in powerful role players made McGrady's "selfless level" in the Rockets like a roller coaster. Yao Ming was the most powerful in the middle of the game 06-07

The season was when McGrady was most selfless. He played 71 games that year and scored 50 wins and 21 losses. But then both of them were seriously injured. After coming back, Yao Ming declined compared to before the serious injury, and McGrady himself also began to decline.

Started to be alone again.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The most important thing is that McGrady did not feel that he had a chance to win the championship with the Rockets from the beginning. He said after being eliminated in the first round for the first time that they were far away from the championship.

, just wanted to win once in the playoffs, but in the end it didn't happen.

Current Tracy McGrady has teammates with Liu Mang's ability evaluation of 90, Prince's ability evaluation of 80, Rasheed Wallace's ability evaluation of 89, Kwame Brown's ability evaluation of 81, all of whom are near-first-class or above, and there is another ability

A first-rate star substitute with a rating of 86, he still has a lot of potential on the bench. It's not troublesome for him to destroy the good atmosphere inherited by the team from last season. Why don't we just win the game?

McGrady, a player regarded as an "unstable factor" by the team and fans, is not unstable. Instead, he can use his teammates to open up space, perform efficiently, and is willing to pass the ball. Coach Kruger is relieved.

On October 11th, when they returned to play against the Bobcats at home, Coach Kruger gave Liu Mang a rest. The whole team was still accommodating Liu Mang's style of play, so he didn't need to get used to it too much and let Tony

- Allen and McGrady partnered in the backcourt, and Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown partnered in the frontcourt, starting to adapt to various combinations.

After his teammates were greatly weakened, McGrady, as the core ball-handler, also learned to play without holding the ball. This group of people, including Tony Allen, all had great physical fitness. McGrady played for a long time.

He found that his teammates really had problems with long-range shooting. Either they were too young and their movements were not good enough and needed practice, or they really didn’t have the shooting skills and needed to practice it from scratch. As the commander on the court, McGrady chose to change tactics and use alternative tactics.

A defensive counterattack.

Without Liu Mang and Jason Terry, just counterattack and hit the basket.

The most amazing thing about this game is Josh Smith. Among point guards, he has top-notch speed and explosive jumping. Every time he is defended, even in his own basket, he can be the fastest.

One of the players ran to the frontcourt, received a pass from McGrady or Iguodala and dunked.

Of course, the premise must be defended. Inexperience is a problem with this lineup. Except for McGrady and Kwame Brown, everyone else has good defensive talents and physical fitness, but the experience is too poor, and outside defense becomes very difficult.

Just sound the whistle.

When only Tracy McGrady and Kwame Brown are left in the main lineup, the game is really ugly. Of course, the Bobcats also play ugly. Except for Brevin Knight and Jason Hart, the Bobcats are on the court.

, he was able to get the ball into Okafor's hands, but no one else could. He didn't play as well as the Eagles did with a few random attempts at running-in. After all, this is a new team.

McGrady and a group of substitutes were still getting used to it, but Jason Terry came up and took it, and the point difference suddenly widened. After all, he was the sixth man...

In the following preseason games, Liu Mang not only needed to try out the lineup, but also let Tracy McGrady and several rookies adapt to the team's style of play. Calderon also got a lot of playing time. After seven games, Calderon

Long averaged 6.7 points and 4.4 assists per game. He was not limited to scoring in pick-and-roll mid-range shots. Calderon did better in catch-and-shoot mid-range shots!

Liu Mang never expected that Calderon would perform so well. The main reason was that his turnover rate was too low. He averaged 4.4 assists and only one turnover per game. The assist-to-turnover ratio exceeded 4 to 1, which made Liu Mang very sad. He

Last season, he averaged 6.0 assists and 2.6 turnovers per game.

The newly added players, Tracy McGrady certainly does not count, the performance of the five rookies, even if Iguodala's ability evaluation is as high, the ability evaluation of 73 will be the initial ability evaluation of the top three picks in most years after the 21st century, but

He didn't perform as well as Calderon.

One more year of NBA experience is still very different. Calderon knows his position better and knows that he only needs to use his strongest aspects and not do what he is not good at.

This is what Stockton taught Calderon. Calderon is the core defender in the Spanish team, but in the NBA, it is impossible to get that kind of treatment. Stockton asked Calderon to see what Liu Mang was like when he was a rookie.

How to play? Calderon saw that Liu Mang at that time could only score, so he focused on scoring. What he learned was that he only knew passing and long-range shots, so he focused on these two points.

Someone taught him something different, and Calderon quickly gained the favor of coach Krueger.

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After six preseason games in which he played a lot with the bench, McGrady has become more in-depth in understanding the team, has become more comfortable in organizing offense, and the Eagles' integration is getting better and better.

Mainly, the coaching staff and players all have an understanding of the team members' adaptation to the NBA.

After the preseason, the Hawks' lineup is completely determined. Kwame Brown relied on his performance in the preseason to average 14 points and 11 rebounds per game without taking possession of the ball. He has secured his position. When it comes to scoring in the regular season, it is inevitable.

It's down, but the rebounds may be higher. Without Raheem, he needs to contribute more in interior defense and rebounding. Muhammad can't do this, so Kwame Brown has locked in his position.

McGrady is still better at playing shooting guard and has an obvious height advantage, which is a very important advantage in the shooting guard position. Prince returns to the small forward position and Rasheed Wallace is at power forward.

In terms of substitutes, Jason Terry is the first substitute. Iguodala and Muhammad are both the main substitutes inside and outside. They are the team's ninth man. The other four rookies and Korver have not taken the position.

, on the contrary, Calderon, who was undrafted in 2003, became the team's third choice outside substitute.

Tony Allen, Ariza, and Kevin Willis were placed on the inactive list. Josh Smith and Varejao were on the bench together with Korver because they were inside players, and at least they had a chance to play.

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Tony Allen and Ariza still have to practice hard on their three-pointers.

The preseason ended on the 23rd. From the 24th to the 26th, the Eagles coaching staff conducted targeted training and long-term training for the players on the 12-man roster, as well as the players' lack of ability.

The arrangement of the training plan included too many rookies, and additional new trainers were hired. This year, the Eagles spent more money on logistics reserves than before. Two years after Liu Mang suggested it, they successfully hired NASA

Thomas Carter, the head of the medical team, serves as the team's medical consultant and can provide better medical protection when a player on the team is injured.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The hospital the Eagles cooperate with is very good, and the Eagles team doctor is also good, but to be on the safe side, Price hired Thomas Carter to serve as the team's medical consultant.

The medical care of NBA teams is mainly divided into two parts, team doctors and cooperative hospitals.

But there are also teams like the Suns, which have a team doctor and a cooperative hospital, but still need to find a chief surgeon and a medical consultant.
To be continued...