Chapter 1088 1087. The Little Emperor Pushed Forward by Pressure

Half of the Gary Payton training card course, four hours of training, Liu Mang will train well as long as he has time and a gym available.

Look, Liu Mang started training at the Quicken Loans Arena the night he arrived in Cleveland.

James sat helplessly on the chair and trained with Liu Mang.

"Tracy, what is Ace doing?" James didn't understand what Liu Mang was doing with his eyes closed and moving around.

"He is imagining how to defend in a certain situation and how his body should respond. I think so." McGrady replied without raising his head while flipping through the book.

"God, Ace is already so good, and he still wants to practice defense?" James felt so powerless, no matter how he thought, he couldn't think of a way to beat Liu Mang.

Just yesterday, Bosh, one of the five great stars of their 03 generation, was beaten by Liu Mang again.

So far, only Anthony, who is not sociable in anything, has won the Hawks once when the Hawks were unprepared. The other four have never won against Liu Mang.

McGrady looked at James strangely when he heard what James said.

"Shouldn't the stronger you become, the more you want to improve yourself and make yourself unattainable to your opponents?" McGrady didn't say this out loud. He just felt a little puzzled that James would ask such a question.

James looked at the two big guys, one training and the other reading. If he had known, he would not have gone to say hello to Liu Mang. He thought about taking the two big guys to dinner tonight, but he didn't expect to be pulled directly to his own team's stadium for training.

"Tracy, what are you reading?" James was really bored and found a topic to talk to McGrady.

McGrady turned the cover to James and said, "Muscle Exercise and Joint Care, LeBron, why don't you take a look? Ace often uses his academic qualifications to attack us high school students. I'll see when I have time to sign up for Georgia Tech and go to college."

"..." James didn't understand. Why are these two people so hardworking?

James felt that he had worked hard enough, but these two people actually worked harder! During the consecutive away games, he was still strengthening his strength. McGrady, who was always known for his poor physical fitness, did not dare to practice too much for fear of delaying his physical fitness in the middle of the season, but he was also learning how to protect his body.

Looking at McGrady's thick glasses, James wished that the glasses were one millimeter thicker.

James waited for a long time, and finally couldn't help it. He went to the locker room to take out his game console and went to the lounge to play games.

James came out from time to time to see that Liu Mang had been training all the time... a total of four and a half hours!

From 4:30 in the afternoon to 9 o'clock in the evening, Liu Mang had been training all the time.

James was just wondering why Liu Mang was still working so hard. This season, Duncan's performance was the worst so far in his career. Only Kobe and Nash's performance could be compared with Liu Mang, and Liu Mang was the one who had an absolute advantage.

But now I see that Liu Mang has practiced for four and a half hours at once, except that when McGrady called the hamburger shop to send food, Liu Mang spent more than 20 minutes eating and resting, and then continued to train immediately.

It was a full four hours!

Originally, James wanted to ask Liu Mang something today, and wanted to ask him during dinner, but Liu Mang did not go to the restaurant with him, but came to practice.

James had been waiting for Liu Mang to finish his shower to help pick up the soap... No, he was taking a shower together to ask a question.

James really wanted to ask Liu Mang, the "big brother" who had taken good care of him from the beginning, for advice, of course, the care was limited to outside the game.

Since the beginning of this season, the league directly made the layup of taking two steps after taking three steps into a reasonable rule for NBA layups. James found that when his team was not so strong before, his opponents did not have much dissatisfaction with his extra steps, but now that his team's record can rank fourth in the East and the team ranking is fifth in the East, and he can challenge the real strong teams, everything has changed.

Now everyone is dissatisfied with him, and his defensive actions are getting bigger and bigger. The referee does not blow James' extra steps, because the new rules have come out. This is a step that complies with the rules. The opponent cannot complain to the league, and will be fined, so they vent on him.

In James's opinion, Liu Mang, McGrady and others like to suppress him with their strength, even if they abuse him, it is already very gentle.

Other teams have a feeling of wanting to beat him to a bloody pulp, especially the two violent people in Indiana and the guy who can't be stabbed to death in Boston, who want to kill him every time.

James used to be friendly with everyone, and had a good relationship with many players, showing his communication skills to the fullest, but now, he has made many enemies, and the stars of other teams who could easily be invited to dinner and play together before are getting fewer and fewer.

James really wants to ask Liu Mang where he is not good enough, and wants to ask Liu Mang if he also wants to deal with him.

But in the end, after sending Liu Mang and McGrady back to the hotel, James didn't ask.

He didn't need to ask, he already knew some things.

The league takes care of Liu Mang and gives Liu Mang preferential treatment, which is no less than that of James. James asks himself that he can't match Liu Mang's strength now, but Liu Mang is still working hard to strengthen his skills.

Seeing that Liu Mang didn't let him get rejected like others did, and even took the initiative to ask him for help to borrow the stadium, James knew that Liu Mang and McGrady had not changed, and were still the same as before. Apart from the game, they were good brothers.

However, James thought that he was still taking advantage of the league's extra rules, and he couldn't bring himself to ask, and everything was clear.

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"Oh…"

"Wow…"

"Oh…"

"LeBron…"

"Tracy…"

The fans at the scene were shouting the names of James and McGrady, wanting them to join in.

McGrady ignored them, why was he dunking in a suit!

It was 6:45 pm on October 8.

The players of both teams had entered the Quicken Loans Center.

James leaned against the technical table and didn't dunk. He heard that Liu Mang was going to perform for the fans, so he didn't try to steal the limelight.

James puffed his mouth maliciously to be cute. He watched Liu Mang's dunking performance before the game started. He was able to jump and jump and was full of energy. He really wanted to take Liu Mang's body apart to see how he looked!

After training for four hours last night, James also heard that Liu Mang came to the gym at around 7 o'clock this morning to find the security guard to open the door. According to the team staff, Liu Mang started training at 8 o'clock in the morning and did not stop until the other players and coaching staff of the Hawks came to the gym at noon.

Such a training maniac, trained for eight hours in 20 hours!

The key is that he is still so jumping now!

James wants to call the police!

However... James is more impressed... He also has the motivation to train harder and wants to change some things.

He would not realize it so quickly, but when Liu Mang himself did not know how to inspire this little brother who looked a little old, he had some realization.

But now... James returned to the player's channel to look in the mirror and adjust his hairband. He felt that he was still so handsome and could not see blushing. He would continue to play like that for the time being! Now he still needs to use his current style of play.

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Liu Mang dunked a few baskets to satisfy a letter from a Cleveland fan of his sent by the Cavaliers staff this afternoon, who wanted to see his dunks.

Liu Mang felt very happy. He asked the Cavaliers' owner for a ticket. It was not a courtside ticket, but it was also a more expensive ticket on the bottom floor. Then he used the training mode to trigger the skill to dunk a few of LaVine's dunks before the game started.

After the performance, Liu Mang began to practice shooting three-pointers.

Today we play against the Cavaliers, we have to keep the winning streak against the Cavaliers!

We have to keep the high-pressure domination over the players of several strong teams of the 03 generation.

Mainly James and Wade!

We have to play well in this game today. McGrady and Rasheed Wallace are both resting. Larry Hughes of the Cavaliers has returned in January. It has no effect on James' offense. James is the absolute core play. Larry Hughes can only choose to cut.

Although it is a bit sorry for the maximum salary, the characteristic of James is that no matter who you are, you have to cooperate. On the defensive end, Larry Hughes has given the Cavaliers a lot of help. Snow, Larry Hughes, James, except for James, are still a little tender.

"LeBron James, ability rating 93, offense 91, defense 83, three-pointer 78, mid-range shot 68, layup 94, rebound 84, pass 85, speed 92, strength 91..."

Liu Mang looked at James, his defense is still the same. He is only in the third grade and is not a defensive player. It is already very good to have a defense of 83.

The overall ability rating has dropped a little, the offense has dropped to 91, and the layup has dropped to the top, not the super top before.

The NBA has rationalized the four-step layup, which seems to be helping James, but it actually limits James. At most, he can add one jump step. If he adds more, he will be called for traveling. James can't "do whatever he wants" like before.

However...

Snow's defense rating is 84, Larry Hughes's defense rating is 90, and James's defense rating is 83. If Snow is not too old, Larry Hughes is too fragile, and James is too tender, the Cavaliers have a perfect perimeter defense combination.

And even so, the Cavaliers' perimeter defense has put a lot of pressure on Liu Mang when McGrady is not there.

Looking at the starting lineup that he was paired with today, Liu Mang wondered why Coach Kruger liked veterans so much? It seemed that NBA players all liked to let veterans play more when they had the chance.

James, seeing that McGrady and Rasheed Wallace were not playing, had a hope of winning today. Before the game started, he took the tactical board and arranged tactics for his teammates who were starting today. Mike Brown, like a defensive assistant coach, kept nodding beside him, as if thinking: "It turns out that tactics can be played this way!"