Chapter 1482 1481. Jordan's Successor Is Going to Hug His Thigh Again

This summer, Liu Mang's life tended to be dull.

Without winning the championship, even if he was the loser MVP, he was still a loser.

The Lakers were teased for winning the championship but not having an MVP, but they were still the champions.

After a month of training, Kobe returned to Los Angeles. Just by leaving the airport, he was on the hot news.

Liu Mang's side was much quieter. Of course, compared with 90% of the stars in the league, Liu Mang has higher attention and more news, but compared with previous years, it is much worse.

Last year, he went out to buy a pacifier for his daughter and it was on the news.

People are like this. When they have it, they say they don't care. When they lose it, they realize that they were just used to having those things before.

When Liu Mang was training in August, although Coach Kruger and Price did not disturb Liu Mang, they were not idle.

On September 3, Liu Mang returned to Atlanta to rest for two or three days, and Coach Kruger sent good news!

After careful selection, the Hawks signed Michael Finley, one of the first generation of Jordan successors who joined the Spurs after being amnestied by the Mavericks in 2005 and played for two years!

Finley played as a pseudo starter or seventh man in the Spurs in the past two years and performed well. In the past two years, he averaged 9 points, 3 rebounds and 1.6 assists in 21 minutes per game. His three-pointers and mid-range shots are his best.

But in the past two years, the 34-year-old Finley has not been able to touch the championship in the Spurs. After being eliminated by the Suns in the first round last season, Finley did not choose to renew his contract with the Spurs. The Hawks used the remaining 3.1 million middle-class contract split after the trade of Brad Miller to reach a 2-year contract with Finley for 6.3 million with a team option in the second year!

But there is also a piece of news that is neither good nor bad...

After more than two months of negotiations, Price still failed to use the injury exception he got from Wade to sign Ron Artest. It was not a matter of money. The contract with a starting salary of 8 million was one of the highest salaries offered by the teams that offered Artest this summer. The main reason was that the Hawks had sufficient forwards.

Artest, who will only turn 28 at the end of this year, will not be satisfied with the playing time like Battier or Grant Hill. This is the key to the failure of the negotiation.

Liu Mang did not force Artest to talk at this time. The management was fine. Liu Mang offered Artest such a team position, which was obviously offending him.

Different from offending people on the court, this way of offending people is really offending to death.

Of course, the management of the Hawks will fight for it. The only advantage is that the salary is higher, a short contract of 8 million a year, using the injury exception obtained from Wade. Originally, the signing of Artest this year was not planned. The team did not give Artest as much playing time as last year's offseason. The injury exception was originally intended to be used to eat Brad Miller alive, but there are always various changes in the progress of the transaction, which makes it possible for the Hawks to sign Artest. The Hawks will certainly fight for it.

The Spurs only gave a slightly higher offer than the middle class. Other teams such as the Hornets, Heat, and Lakers wanted to sign Artest, but the salary was not higher than that of the Spurs. At most, they only offered the middle class exception.

In the end, the Hawks failed to sign Artest, but at least they played a role in raising the price, raising Artest's original market price of about the middle class to 8 million, and did not let Artest choose to stay with the Spurs.

The final winner is the Rockets! The Rockets used a 3-year, 28.7 million fully guaranteed contract to poach Ron Artest, a free agent from the Spurs!

There is cooperation and competition between teams. Popovich did not find it strange when the Hawks raised their prices. The Hawks were robbed by the Rockets, which did not affect the relationship between the two sides. This is a normal market competition.

Popovich secretly sighed that it was a good thing that Battier was brought back. Finley was ready to leave after being eliminated in the first round. Artest was likely to not stay. Originally, he wanted to use results to tempt Artest to reduce his salary and renew his contract. As a result, not only did he not perform well in the playoffs, but he also had a bad relationship with Artest because he suppressed Artest's offensive performance in the regular season.

The Rockets can give more playing time and a three-year fully guaranteed contract. Although Artest and Liu Mang have a personal relationship, money is still very important.

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“Ability rating 98;

Right hand: 3-pointer 98, mid-range shot 94, layup 95;

Left hand: 3-pointer 89, mid-range shot 84, layup 94;

Speed ​​94, strength 90, jumping 97…”

Looking at the results of his training in a summer, Liu Mang was still very satisfied.

The rating of the three-pointer of both hands has improved a little, and the right hand is almost close to the critical point of the god level. After the three-pointer rating exceeds 95, the improvement is getting slower and slower. This is what Liu Mang expected. If it can be improved from about 80 to 96 in five years like before, it will be really weird.

The left hand has also reached the critical point close to the top. Liu Mang wants to participate in the three-point contest again…

The layup of the left hand has also reached a level close to the super top level, which is close to the level of close-range shooting with the right hand. However, in fact, after his left-hand layup rating broke through 90, for most of the opponent's inside players, there is no difference between Liu Mang's left-hand layup and his left-hand layup. It's just a matter of habit.

As for mid-range shots... Liu Mang is still stuck at 94. It is too difficult to make a quick breakthrough except by accumulating time. Liu Mang plans to draw more star cards during the season. If he draws Nowitzki, Alan Houston and others, he may have a bigger breakthrough.

The characteristics of star cards and the originals of star cards are different, which will affect the direction of Liu Mang's experience and learning; and the focus of use at that time will also affect learning and absorption.

Just like Liu Mang used Kobe's star card many times, basically none of them was for Kobe's mid-range shots. Most of them were used for technical purposes, so he didn't feel too much about mid-range shots from Kobe's star card.

After training with six current superstars and future superstars for a month and returning to Atlanta, Liu Mang did not have more intensive training except for training basic skills. It is also important to review the gains during training.

For example, study the problems you encountered when training three threats. At that time, you were training every day, but you didn't practice the basic skills of three threats well. Although you finally learned the three-threat moves with Kobe, you only learned the moves. In-depth training still needs to be studied carefully.

If you do something, you must study it well and do your best. This is the biggest learning attitude that Liu Mang has gained in his career over the past few years.

Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Mang's ability evaluation has been improved to 98! As he is getting closer to his peak, Liu Mang's ability evaluation is also getting closer to his peak.

On September 14, when the coaching staff notified that the training camp would start ten days in advance on September 21, Liu Mang spent half a month researching, summarizing, and trying personal training. Although his experience in triple threats has not improved much, he roughly understands how to train and improve himself in the future.

This ability to summarize is also a huge gain for Liu Mang in his many years of career, knowing how to improve himself.

Liu Mang is also preparing to participate in the team's training camp. The team structure has undergone earth-shaking changes next season. Liu Mang received the notice earlier. Tomorrow, on the 15th, he has to go to the gym to discuss the team system for next season with the coaching staff.

"Let me see, 109621574 rogue points, 587856 superstar points, I'll replenish the reserve potion and leave 550,000 superstar points. I'll use it to draw star cards in the regular season. The rogue points have increased a bit this summer, and I can draw a 100 million high-level lottery..."

Because the things drawn with rogue points will not have much direct relationship with basketball ability, and will not even have a special effect immediately, just like the Iron Mountain Backing, Iron Foot Kung Fu, and Iron Elbow Kung Fu, it took several years for the effect to become more and more obvious.

Just like the talent skill of fighting with both hands in Kung Fu, after a few years, it will only be the third level, not the perfect state of complete consistency between the left and right hands.

In addition to the ability of the left hand, there are also problems with habits. The brain can ignore the actions of the left and right hands without thinking.

Of course, Liu Mang's current left-hand ability has already made the fans feel incredible.

Moreover, it takes ten years to sharpen a sword while practicing Kung Fu. Liu Mang did not focus on that. Up to now, Iron Mountain Back is still level 1. Iron Foot Kung is relatively more used in actual combat, but it is only level 2. Only Iron Elbow Kung has reached level 3. When elbows are confronted, there is a 3-point increase in strength evaluation, and it is related to weight. The lighter the weight, the less obvious the effect.

Liu Mang's current weight of 92 to 93 kg is his best state. When dealing with most small players on the outside, Liu Mang can use strength to bully them. He still has no advantage against muscle monsters such as Deron, Baron Davis, Andre Miller, and Fisher.

So Liu Mang did not use this during training. If he drew a Kung Fu card again, he would be restless and unable to concentrate on training.

"One hundred million, what can I draw?" Liu Mang was not so excited when it broke 100 million. The main reason was that the rogue value had broken 100 million twice before, but it was only used to choose talent skills. He got excited when it was time to draw the lottery.

"Levia, help me prepare the uniform!" Liu Mang shouted to Levia who was watching a soap opera in the living room, and rushed into the bathroom to take a shower.

Levia, who was in the living room, asked curiously: "Ace, didn't you say you would take a day off and go to the gym to discuss with the coach tomorrow? Do you still need to practice? Didn't you lose interest after practicing for a while?"

"It's not practicing... Levia, just help me prepare it..."

Levia heard the response from Liu Mang's room and went to prepare the uniform helplessly.

When taking the uniform to the large balcony on the second floor that was occasionally used as a dojo, Levia looked at Guan Erye, who was called "God of Wealth" by Liu Mang. She was very puzzled. Why is a general called God of Wealth? Especially a general who is upright and incorruptible in a story...