Chapter 1346 1345. The Second Characteristic Series of Tasks Begins

"Ace, look, you're dominating the headlines again."

"Oh..."

Liu Mang saw these news stories when he got up in the morning and had breakfast with his little girl after running. It seems that those media can't find anything to write about? They use him as a traffic attractor no matter what.

"MVP who improves faster than rookies"

A loud headline appeared on the headline of ESPN.

"Is Ace, who takes on so much, hindering the development of rookies?"

Another loud headline appeared on the headline of T.N.T.

The two most authoritative sports media in the United States actually said similar things, but from different angles.

ESPN's report is based on Liu Mang's progress this season compared to last season.

The turnover rate has decreased. In the past, most of Liu Mang's mistakes were due to his preference for jumping to pass the ball. Not only did he deceive his opponents, but Liu Mang's teammates had a nearly 50% chance of not being able to catch the ball when he jumped to pass the ball. When he won the assist king last season, the assist-to-turnover ratio was close to 3 to 1. With Liu Mang's accurate passes, it is quite difficult to understand.

But this season, there are fewer jump passes.

The main reason is that he dares not to waste time, and the weaker the opponent, the less he dares to waste time. The weaker the opponent, the longer the coaching staff lets the substitutes play. When Liu Mang and other main players come on, they have to save money for the substitutes to make mistakes.

This point was praised by ESPN as mature.

The rebounding rate, which is quite good among guards, has become higher. He has reduced his playing time by nearly 7 minutes, and still has 7 rebounds per game, ranking third in the Hawks. It is one of the effective guarantees for the Hawks' 46.8 rebounds per game to rank first in the league.

In addition, the defense has become better. The defensive contribution has reached Liu Mang's career high. The average of 1.5 blocks per game is completely unlike what a guard should have. At the same time, there are 1.3 steals per game. The steal efficiency is not as good as Prince, Rondo, and Marion, but this is obtained when Liu Mang needs to actively participate in the defense, which is very good.

Especially when playing against the Raptors, the command of teammates' defensive positions and switching defenses, and the ability to judge the object of Milicic's pass from time to time to make up for the defense in advance, showing Liu Mang's leadership ability on the defensive end.

Shooting Liu Mang is already the best shooter outside the three-point line in the league. It will take time to improve. Liu Mang is only 24 years old and has enough time to get better. When people thought that Liu Mang had reached a bottleneck last season, Liu Mang's progress in defense, controlling turnover rate, and cooperating with the inside line this season still surprised people.

Comparing the performance of rookies entering the NBA this year and last season's rookies in their second year, Liu Mang has improved more than most first- and second-year players!

Liu Mang's data so far this season ranks fourth in the league with an average of 27.7 points per game. Dwyane Wade, who averages 30.6 points per game, Gilbert Arenas, who averages 28.9 points per game, and LeBron James, who averages 28.5 points per game, are higher than Liu Mang. Behind Liu Mang are Kobe Bryant, who averages 27.3 points per game, Anthony, who averages 27 points per game, Vince Carter, who averages 26 points per game, and Dirk Nowitzki, Zach Randolph, and Chris Bosh, who average 25.1 points per game.

The average rebounds per game of 7 ranked second among guards, second only to Jason Kidd's average rebounds of 8.8.

The average assists per game of 5.3 ranked first in the Hawks.

In the Hawks, the progress of the rookies is not as fast as Liu Mang's.

These are the comments used by ESPN to praise Liu Mang's performance this season.

As for T.N.T, the same content was explained from a completely different perspective.

The fourth place in average points per game was seen as a way of taking on too much, and a large number of shots delayed the growth of the rookies and took away the ball rights of the stars on the same team.

The comparison object was actually another No. 24 player after Gasol's comeback.

In the few games after Gasol's comeback on December 7, Kobe averaged only 24 points per game, which caused Kobe's score, which originally averaged 28 points per game, to drop a lot.

Liu Mang's average points per game during this period were still rising.

Liu Mang's block and rebounding are more, which is regarded as rebounding and blocking, resulting in gaps when the defense is not switched in time...

ESPN is naturally making a point to "excuse" Liu Mang by putting the blame on the substitutes for the fact that the Hawks' record did not meet the fans' expectations after nearly two months.

T.N.T, who has always been against Liu Mang and the Hawks, can find criticisms in any data of Liu Mang, and attributed all the reasons why the Hawks' performance is not as good as in previous years to Liu Mang.

Rational fans know that Liu Mang's performance with more concentrated ball possession this season is mainly due to a significant reduction in playing time, from an average of 39 minutes to nearly 40 minutes per game last season to an average of 33 minutes per game this season. Although it is only less than seven minutes, it makes Liu Mang have to seize the opportunity to widen the score difference or chase points when he is on the court, so it is natural to concentrate the ball possession.

The contraction leads to gaps in the outside line, which is basically a free-for-all against the weakest link of outside shooting, which is also out of consideration for team defense.

But most fans just believe everything they hear…

Most teams have played 30 games so far this season, and the Hawks have played 26 games, with a record of 17 wins and 9 losses. This record is not bad, but compared with the previous three years' record, it is definitely not satisfactory.

The strangest thing is that those who are often dissatisfied with the Eagles' record are not Eagles fans...

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"Ding... Congratulations to the host for winning the title: Rookie Destroyer. Obtained 100,000 rogue points."

"Congratulations to your seventh uncle!"

When Liu Mang heard that he had achieved another title, he achieved it while lying down, he felt his balls aching so much.

Not many people spread good things, but there are always people who like to spread bad things. For T.N.T., the data for Iguodala and Josh Smith more than doubled when they arrived at the new team, and for Rasheed Wallace, After McGrady came to the Hawks, his data dropped significantly, and it was all attributed to Liu Mang.

As for McGrady winning the assists title in his first year with the Hawks, Kwame Brown's reinvented performance after coming to the Hawks was completely ignored.

What else could Liu Mang do? When she saw the news in the morning, Dinah, who was already in sixth grade and knew how to play football, was so angry that she went to the Internet to transform into a primary school student and started trolling some anti-fans. Liu Mang had to comfort her. .

The day after playing the Raptors, Liu Mang took his family on the team's chartered flight to Phoenix, starting a three-game trip.

Play the Suns on the 19th, the Mavericks on the 22nd, and the Lakers on the 25th.

In addition to Liu Mang's family, the Eagles management specially booked a hotel in Los Angeles. The families of the Eagles players can stay there first and spend Christmas Eve together.

Going away to play the Christmas Day game is not friendly to the Hawks at all, but who wants the opponent to be the Lakers...

This season is just a Christmas battle.

The Suns acquired O'Neal and the Lakers to form the ultimate top three. The Mavericks ranked first in the league this season. Before the start of the season, these three teams were very eye-catching, but I didn't expect the Suns to collapse in the end.

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When they arrived at the hotel in Phoenix City, Liu Mang and his family stayed in a suite and a double room. The bodyguard slept in the living room and the two servants slept in a double room. Liu Mang and his family stayed in a three-bedroom suite.

This time I didn't bother Nash. Nash is still playing away games and will not return to Phoenix until tomorrow, the 18th. The Eagles arrived in the West today, the afternoon of the 17th, to experience the time in the West early.

After a long journey and a night's rest, the next morning, when he received the news that the Suns had returned to Phoenix from Oakland, Liu Mang received a system prompt.

"Ding...Lian Zhu's exclusive mission: The Wrath of the Wind Chaser series of missions is triggered."

"Wrath of the Wind Chaser: Chasing in the footsteps of the strongest offensive player. Mission goal: to be triggered. Mission reward: to be triggered. Failure penalty: to be triggered. Note: There is no statute of limitations, and there will be corresponding consequences for each mission failure. Reward or punishment. When the final mission of the series is completed, the reward feature is: Prisoner."

"Prisoner: It has an excellent restraint effect on teams that have a high concentration of ball rights and attack around the core of the ball."

The task of the second characteristic of the talent skill came unexpectedly!

But the exclusive task of this talent skill does not seem to be as simple and direct as leveling up from level one to level two. You will be upgraded after completing one task. This time the task has become a series of tasks!

But the object of restraint for this second characteristic... Liu Mang initially felt that it was to deal with opponents like Nash and Kidd, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that he was targeting banana boats...