In the opening game between the Eagles and the Magic, except for Liu Mang dunking on Howard, which became a classic scene of bullying the rookie No. 1 pick, there was nothing else worth mentioning. The Eagles were overwhelmed by their strength, and the Magic couldn't give anything.

In response, the game scene was good to watch, but there was nothing much to say about the game. However, this became the most surprising thing for the media and fans.

Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady did not conflict over the ball rights!

There was no conflict in the preseason because it was just a preseason game. The Eagles only had 4 wins and 3 losses in the preseason. They were not aiming to win at all. They were always running tactics, so it was normal that there was no conflict over the ball.

But in the regular season, McGrady reversed his desire to rank among the top three in the league in shots per game in the past four consecutive seasons. He only took 13 shots. The key is that Liu Mang's shots have also dropped. The Hawks sold the most number of shots to Jia Mang.

Terry's 23 shots.

This surprised the media and fans, and became a hotly debated point.

For this Hawks' lineup, even if most of the role players are missing, mainly due to Stockton's retirement and Barnes' departure, but with McGrady, theoretically speaking, McGrady is undoubtedly better than Raheem.

, it mainly depends on the running-in...or whether you are willing to sacrifice, or who will be the sacrificer.

McGrady will be ranked first and third on the player strength list, and the dispute is only about who is better between him, Garnett and Duncan, not whether he is worthy of the top three. This illustrates the point very well. Fans and media

Everyone thinks that if McGrady goes to a strong team, he may be able to perform as the strongest player in the league. No one doubts that McGrady is better than Liu Mang, not even the Eagles fans.

Then the question arises, whether Liu Mang sacrifices or McGrady sacrifices, it seems difficult to make a choice.

Liu Mang is a double MVP. Among active players, only O'Neal and Duncan have achieved this. Both of them can already lock in the top ten in history. There is no ninth player in NBA history who has a more brilliant career than their current stage.

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But McGrady is really strong!

Relatively speaking, Liu Mang, who is good at attacking with the ball but also good at playing without the ball, is considered to be more likely to take the initiative to sacrifice.

However, after the game started, there was no need for discussion or argument. Liu Mang started to play blindly. Tracy McGrady took the initiative to play without the ball. When he had the ball, he actively supported the offense. He guarded the rebounds defensively and also blocked three shots in a single game.

, played a first-class defensive performance, as if he dreamed back to five years ago, but his strength was stronger, allowing him to easily get comprehensive statistics with an efficient performance of 6 of 13 shots.

Seeing that McGrady had such a high shooting percentage but only had 16 7 7 3 statistics, the consensus of the questions asked by the media after the game was to ask McGrady whether he chose to sacrifice voluntarily, but McGrady's answer was this.

"I don't think it's a sacrifice. Every team has a clear division of labor. Ace is the scorer! Isn't it normal for him to shoot? If I can make my teammates better, that's the best for me.

The thing is, it's not a sacrifice, it's just a difference in division of labor. Last year, Ace defeated me in terms of labor, didn't he?

If I can use my abilities to improve Ace's scoring efficiency, that would be great. This may be why the team needs me. That's what Sharif did last season. He won the rebounding title, which is considered a sacrifice.

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I think I can try to challenge the assist king? It seems a bit difficult, but who would have thought that Ace could win the Most Improved Award and the MVP last season, I think I can too."

During the first game, Tracy McGrady thought about a lot of things. Most of them were just random thoughts on his own. Regarding the team's tolerance for Liu Mang, and whether the Hawks could win and win the championship, he gave it to himself.

I found a very reasonable explanation.

This explanation gave McGrady a sense of mission. When Liu Mang was playing blindly, he had to support the team!

McGrady has thought about assisting Liu Mang, but even if he is a substitute, he will feel that he is overqualified. He can win the scoring title himself. Even if he does not come to the Hawks, he has had the experience with Iverson and Kobe Bryant.

The ability to compete for the ranking of the player strength list was even better at one time, so he has been trying to understand what kind of team the Eagles are and what he should do.

Now, McGrady feels that he understands what he should do. The main reason is that he is not at ease with Liu Mang!

He liked to cause trouble with the guy so much that McGrady felt that he had to take on more responsibilities and help Liu Mang deal with the aftermath.

In this way, even if the data drops, McGrady does not feel that he is a sacrifice, but is taking on a more important task!

McGrady chatted with Rahim after the press conference, lamented that it was not easy for him, and said to Rahim: "I played a game with Ace, and I know how difficult it is for you, but

I will do better than you, clean up the mess that Ace made when he was playing. I always thought you were sacrificing, but I didn't expect you to shoulder such a heavy task. Ace is too careless.

Right."

Rahim didn't expect McGrady to think so much. He felt that he was really just sacrificing. He couldn't do as many things as McGrady could do, and he didn't think that much at all. But McGrady thought like this.

Having such a new helper for Liu Mang, Sim felt relieved and felt much less guilty.

Not knowing how to answer McGrady's misunderstanding, Raheem could only bite the bullet and replied: "Tracy, playing with Ace, it is true that sometimes the brain cannot react, but the process and results are very interesting."

With Rahim's approval, McGrady seemed to be ignited, and he felt that his idea was right!

Suddenly I felt like a nanny.

When McGrady returned to the locker room, Liu Mang saw that McGrady was full of energy, and his head was full of doubts. Why did this guy go to a press conference and get a shot of chicken blood?

There is an obvious change. Before, Liu Mang felt that although McGrady played well, he was lazy. Now McGrady seems to be full of fighting spirit!

Tracy McGrady has simply found a goal to work hard for this season. After working hard this season, the decision to renew or not to renew will also depend on the choice made this time. What will be the result after the season is over? Of course

, it is also possible that a decision can be made in the middle of the season.

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"Kwame, relax, don't get too excited, just fight casually." Liu Mang felt extremely relaxed every time he met the general. Although the Wizards' strength has skyrocketed this year, the opponent is Arenas!

But every time Kwame Brown meets the Wizards, he always looks like he's getting better, which makes Liu Mang feel that his data is in jeopardy! This year he has to win consecutive scoring titles, and the team also has Tracy McGrady, so he needs to share

McGrady has the ball, and Jason Terry is on the bench...

"Ace, if Kwame wants to play, let him play. You don't know, when I first came to the Magic, I would play hard every time I saw the Raptors." McGrady said with a smile, "Ace, you can also take more shots.

, Kwame worked hard to grab a few offensive rebounds.”

"Ah?" Liu Mang felt as if Tracy McGrady suddenly changed. Was he confused by his nonsense at the start of the last game?

Stop it! Liu Mang is still pointing at McGrady to help win the championship!

Seeing McGrady seeming to be more relaxed and relaxed, taking Kwame Brown with him and discussing how to help Kwame Brown pass the ball, Liu Mang's outlook on life exploded.

After easily defeating the Magic at the beginning, the Hawks are about to face the Wizards. In October, the Hawks will have only these two regular season games, and there will be 15 games in November. The schedule is very easy, mainly because the opponents are not very strong.

There are four or five powerful opponents in the second half of November, and the previous opponents seem to be just to increase the number of wins for the Eagles.

The defending champion always gets preferential treatment.

Seeing Tracy McGrady discussing with Kwame Brown how to feed him, Liu Mang felt that something was wrong...

During the rest of the day, the Eagles mainly continued to run tactics. Tactics are actually the same as technology. Some people may not have any talent for tactics, such as Kwame Brown. His offensive awareness is very poor, but this

A person with a soft personality will become very arrogant at some point.

Before coming to the Eagles, Kwame Brown would accept his fate and feel that he was a parallel import. Even if he occasionally performed brilliantly, he still felt that he was a parallel import. This shows how versatile he is.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that when Kwame Brown finds motivation, he works hard to complete all training. Even the running positions that he is not good at, he practices them again and again, so that he can remember what to do when and what to do when others do it.

After training and two or three games, a tactic can already be used in a good way. He needs to train three to five times and play more than ten games to make progress, but he still works hard to learn.

Therefore, tactics are something that practice makes perfect. After the Hawks added many players without NBA experience, when entering the season, most of the team training consisted of these things. As for personal abilities, the team has already arranged a training plan.

, if the rookies practice well, they may be able to stay in the future. If they don't practice well, they can only take advantage of their talent to be traded out while other teams are jealous of them.

However... Coach Kruger has nothing to say about Liu Mang and the agency behind Liu Mang. He selected five rookies, all of whom worked very hard and had their own talents. He was reluctant to trade any of them.

We can only slowly cultivate and make choices, because there are too many potentials and we cannot keep them all.

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On October 30, the Hawks faced their second opponent in the regular season, the Wizards, who had already won two consecutive games at the beginning.

The Wizards came out one by one, first Jamison, then Jared Jeffries, Haywood, Larry Hughes, and Arenas.

The Wizards have done a great job this year. They acquired the Mavericks' Antoine Jamison like a freebie. Suddenly, they exchanged a shotgun for a cannon and became one of the most powerful teams in the Eastern Conference.

In order to get Double 12 center Dampier from the Warriors, the Mavericks gave the star-level power forward Jamison from the Warriors to the Wizards for almost nothing.

The current Wizards team can definitely be called the Capital Warrior Guards.

The core players Arenas and Jamison are former Warriors players. Arenas won the Sixth Man of the Year award with the Warriors. Jamison averaged 24.9 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in his third year with the Warriors.

Nowitzki, who was in the same class, received a six-year, 84 million contract.

Larry Hughes, the Wizards' perimeter defender, also made a name for himself with the Warriors.

The three prodigies of the Musketeers were all trained by warriors.

The Mavericks and Wizards, specifically picking out the Warriors...

At the beginning, they beat the Bobcats first and then the Celtics. The Wizards were able to beat the weaker teams. They also had an advantage against the Celtics who re-signed Antoine Walker and got a team that averaged more than 20 points per game.

An insider with the ability to rebound 10 rebounds at the same time can definitely play a qualitative role in a team with outside stars!

Jamison, who can play well at both forward and forward positions, seems to be the first swingman in the Eastern Conference.

However, when the home team players came on the field, they were not afraid of playing against anyone. Last season, without Jamison, they dared to compete with the Pistons, Arenas of the Pacers, McGrady, who was the first to appear, and Kwame in the middle.

-Brown, Prince, and Rasheed Wallace were even ignored, but when Liu Mang finally came on the court, Arenas saw Liu Mang's casual expression and the people standing in two rows.

The teammates high-fived each other, thinking all about that time when Liu Mang played exactly the same way as him and was even better than him.

Even Arenas now doesn't think he can match Liu Mang's performance in that game.

After Liu Mang entered the stage, he took a look at the strength of his opponents.

Arenas has an ability rating of 88, 93 offense, 70 defense, 74 rebounds, and 83 passing. He is a first-class star who can stand alone no matter where he goes.

Larry Hughes, ability evaluation 88, offense 80, defense 92, rebounds 76, passing 79.
To be continued...