Chapter 1100 1099. Endless Training

"Emmanuel, you are so energetic today!" Liu Mang teased.

When Liu Mang arrived at the gym at 7 o'clock this morning, Emmanuel had already prepared the things he needed for training.

"Of course, it is my honor to help you train, Ace." Emmanuel's eyes sparkled, and he rubbed his hands and said, "By the way, Ace, after training today..."

Seeing Emmanuel's look, Liu Mang smiled and said, "Which store are you going to in the evening? Tell me, I'll call them to keep my account. You can bring your friends with you, just play casually."

"Ahem, I'm not doing this, I love my job!"

"Yes, yes, yes..."

The morning after the game with the Nets, Liu Mang came to the gym early for defensive training.

On the last day of training, Liu Mang went to bed at 11:30 last night and woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning. He woke up without asking the little girl to wake him up.

After completing the warm-up stretching with the help of Emmanuel, Liu Mang started the last training session.

At around eight o'clock, teammates came one after another. At around nine o'clock, Liu Mang had completed a quarter of the training task. While resting and eating to replenish energy, he saw his teammates gathering in the lounge and followed them in to take a look.

Seeing his teammates surrounding Kwame Brown, who looked nervous and expectant, Liu Mang listened to what his teammates said for a while, and then he remembered that today was the day to announce the All-Star starting lineup!

At ten o'clock in the morning, the official NBA press conference broadcast live on ESPN Sports began.

This year's Houston All-Star starting lineup was announced!

As the All-Star voting time is getting shorter every year, the NBA official screening for online voting is more stringent, and Liu Mang's historical record of breaking 3 million votes is probably impossible to break.

Yao Ming, who has just joined Los Angeles, won the All-Star vote with 2.42 million votes.

Liu Mang won the Eastern Conference vote with 2.21 million votes.

It's not that Liu Mang's popularity is not high enough, but that Chinese fans want Yao Ming to win the vote once when he goes to Los Angeles, including domestic fans who like Liu Mang.

Just like in the 1995-96 season, when the Bulls had such a good record, Jordan didn't get the vote and Grant Hill got it. People want to see a challenger. Domestic fans hope that Yao Ming can get a lot of honors like Liu Mang and become stronger.

This is the best thing for the national team. After all, domestic sports are almost all national systems, and national honor is the first. This concept has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Yao Ming ranked first in the West with 2.42 million votes. The second place in the center position was Yao Ming's substitute, Chris Mihm, with only 520,000 votes...

Kevin Garnett ranked first in the West forward with 1.47 million votes, Duncan ranked second with 1.41 million votes, and Wang Zhizhi ranked third... 1.33 million votes. Because of Yao Ming's joining, Wang Zhizhi was placed in the forward position, almost knocking out Duncan and Garnett.

In terms of guards, Kobe ranked first with 2.06 million votes, Nash got another All-Star starting position with 1.02 million votes. The second position of the Western guard was fiercely contested, Ginobili 960,000 votes, Francis 930,000 votes, and the gap with Nash was very small.

In terms of Eastern guards, Liu Mang ranked first among guards with 2.21 million votes, Iverson ranked second with 1.49 million votes, Wade ranked third with 970,000 votes, and Jason Terry ranked fourth with 610,000 votes.

In terms of Eastern forwards, McGrady ranked first with 2.01 million votes, James ranked second with 1.65 million votes, and Carter ranked third with 1.51 million votes.

In terms of Eastern centers, when Liu Mang saw this, he felt that O'Neal had to imitate a certain Los Angeles player and cry in the toilet for four consecutive years.

Whether in the West or the East, they were all criticized by Chinese fans. Kwame Brown ranked first among Eastern centers with 1.44 million votes, and O'Neal ranked second among Eastern centers with 1.3 million votes.

As the recognized No. 1 center in the league, O'Neal missed the All-Star starter for four consecutive years.

Players from the Hawks and Lakers, even role players, received a lot of votes in the All-Star voting, and almost every player made it into the top ten in their respective positions.

After Liu Mang finished reading the votes, he went back to training.

Starting in the All-Star Game was no longer something Liu Mang pursued. He was sure to make it, and he didn't care much about whether he was the top vote-getter or not.

This time, Liu Mang didn't even receive the system notification that O'Neal was angry. I guess O'Neal was used to it...

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Finally it was six o'clock in the afternoon. Liu Mang trained until 11:40 in the morning, started warming up at one o'clock in the afternoon, and continued training at nearly two o'clock. He trained until six o'clock, and the system notification finally came.

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for completing the Gary Payton defensive training card training task and obtaining the defensive feature: Gloves Level 1."

"Gloves Level 1: When the host is performing one-on-one defense, it will give people a sense of psychological pressure of being completely enveloped. When the host triggers the oppressive pressing and hot pot feast, there is a 5% chance of accurately touching the ball. Note: The skill level of this feature is related to the host's defensive ability. As the defensive ability improves, the skill level will also improve. To reach level 5, the best defensive player's defensive ability is required.

When the host is fully defending, according to the system's judgment, the defensive ability rating can reach 88, and it is eligible for the second team of the best defensive lineup."

Hearing this system prompt, Liu Mang spurted out "Fuck".

Emanuol, who was excitedly packing up, was frightened by Liu Mang's roar and almost fell down.

"Ah, Emmanuel, it's ok, you're going to Charm City, right? I called them at noon, you and your friends can go and have fun, they will send me the bill tomorrow."

"Oh! Ace, I love you so much!"

"Get lost! I'm not interested in fat men... No, I'm not interested in men!"

Emmanuel walked away with a heartless pace, this guy can show off to his group of friends tonight.

After sending Emmanuel away, Liu Mang repeatedly looked at the feature introduction and saw that he had a defense rating of 88 when he was fully defended by the system.

Although this was not counted in Liu Mang's comprehensive ability evaluation, Liu Mang's comprehensive ability evaluation was still based on the evaluation of speed, strength, jumping, shooting and other offensive aspects, with an ability rating of 96, but he estimated that if defense was included, his effect would be about 98, which was about the same as McGrady's full-strength one-on-one when he was in good physical condition.

And it might be even better!

Liu Mang felt getting closer and closer to the real No. 1 in the league!

Relying on the training of Gary Payton's defensive training card, Liu Mang's defense has reached a level close to the top level from being close to first-class before. In the past, he could only do excellent defense against speed-type and running shooting-type opponents, and his help defense was also okay, but he was not particularly proficient in single defense and help defense. But now Liu Mang's single defense has also improved a lot, and he is getting closer and closer to a real offensive and defensive superstar!

Originally, Liu Mang was tired of defensive training, but now, he has rekindled his motivation!

In NBA history, only three or four guards have won the best defensive player, and only Payton has won it since the 1990s. Liu Mang looked at his estimated defensive ability evaluation and found that it was still a bit far away. It is particularly difficult for guards to win the best defensive player, not to mention relative to centers, even relative to small forwards. The limitations of the position are there.

Liu Mang looked forward to reaching his peak and perhaps becoming an era-level superstar with an ability evaluation of over 100... I think it's better to train hard.

As long as you stay in the NBA for one day, there is no end to training!