Chapter 410 408. The Start of Yao Ming's Miserable Rookie Season

In the first quarter, Liu Mang organized an offense to drive the team to slowly gain an advantage, and got 5 assists in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Liu Mang took a break to play. The team used Jason Terry and Raheem as the main attack points. Liu Mang was mainly responsible for widening the space to catch and shoot. Mang got 7 assists in the half.

After the start of the third quarter, Liu Mang charged with last season's version of the cavalry company and sent 4 assists in a single quarter, helping the Eagles widen the point difference to 20 points in one fell swoop.

The strength of the Hawks is what people expected. The Hawks are now very hungry for winning. Facing the team on the edge of the playoffs, they will definitely go all out. The Eagles feel good today, so they played from the first quarter After the end, the fans are already sure that the Eagles will win.

It is not surprising that the Hawks led the Rockets by 20 points in three quarters, but Liu Mang scored double figures in assists for the first time in his career!

15 points, 11 assists and 4 rebounds!

This is even more unbelievable than Liu Mang scoring 30 points at halftime!

Liu Mang wants to score 30 points in halftime and 40 to 50 points in three quarters. Fans may be shocked, but he is a player who scored 50 points in his rookie season. Relatively speaking, surprises are more than shocks.

The highest number of assists before Liu Mang was 9, and Liu Mang played 78 games last season, and there were less than 20 games with more than 5 assists.

Liu Mang got a double-double last season, but it was scoring and rebounding. This suddenly came with 11 assists in three quarters. When Liu Mang's clock-in and off-duty data for three quarters was displayed, the fans were stunned.

This is a starter, and the passing has become stronger?

Liu Mang is very excited. He has the potential for further development in both scoring and assists, and he has proved that both aspects can be fulfilled, which makes him have stronger confidence in his ability to advance to a higher level. !

Liu Mang didn't know it. He dug a sinkhole for his teammates in the national team, so that a short-handed No. 11 player with a height of 2.26 meters was restrained by the opponent's inside line who had the ability to shoot and circle forward in his rookie season. The road has become quite bumpy over the years.

On Yao Ming's side, today he was reduced to only 8 points and 6 rebounds, which is not too bad, but certainly not good. He feels that his mid-range and long-range shooting needs to be improved, and it is best to develop three-pointers.

While the domestic commentators were happy for Liu Mang’s first double-double of points and assists, they said that Yao Ming needed to strengthen his shooting ability. The old cat Mobley fell into a situation of being double-teamed by many people.

Yao Ming had three-pointers in the CBA period, but in the NBA it became a long-range mid-range shot. The 334% long-range mid-range shot rate is really impossible to use as a regular offensive method.

The famous coach Tomjanovich who has been thinking about Yao Ming's development direction is also thinking about this issue...

In the final quarter, the two sides sent pure substitutes, the Rockets also gave up, and Francis was once again furious.

105 to 92, the Eagles won three consecutive victories at home!

Boozer was playing high today. He was the player who benefited the most when Liu Mang organized the offense. He scored 22 points and 11 rebounds, scoring 20+10 for the first time in his career.

It seems... Boozer has already started the road of eating, sleeping and burning clay kilns. Every time he sees Yao Ming, 20+10 has already started...

At the end of the game, Liu Mang got a reward unexpectedly!

"Ding... Yao Ming's career style of play may change due to the host. The host exposed Yao Ming's biggest weakness early, and gave Yao Ming a new direction for the development of his style of play. The host gets a random skill card."

"!" Liu Mang was astonished and full of surprises!

Although it only gave Yao Ming a chance to change, Yao Ming's original development direction has already been seen. It is powerful, but it is also very limited.

Although I don't know what the new development direction will be like, but this is very exciting! Liu Mang really wanted to see a different Yao Ming.

How can it not be worse than the original? Originally, Yao Ming only made it to the second round once in his career, and he was completely reimbursed when he was less than 30 years old. Try a different style of play?

"By the way, the boss of the system, who is it that Dayao changed his style of play?"

"Ding...Because Yao Ming's development direction may change, which may have a huge impact on his teammates, Steve Francis has a chance to change his career."

"..."

Depend on! It was that guy!

Forget it, Liu Mang probably understood the matching method of the balanced mode.

After reading a lot about the system's tasks and skills, Liu Mang probably understood it.

The so-called skills are the systematic analysis of the strength of NBA players. This has been explained systematically before. The skills that Liu Mang stole or drew are real skills. For other players, it is the same as the evaluation of ability values. It is a systematic analysis.

In the balanced mode, what Liu Mang understands is: if the injury is cured, the match is the injury number; if the play style is changed, the match is almost the same as the play style, and the talent is also similar.

Otherwise, the achieved influence will not match.

Regardless of Yao Ming and Francis, Liu Mang was pleasantly surprised to get a random skill card today!

Taking advantage of today's 15 points and 11 assists and the good luck brought by Christmas, Liu Mang decided to use it now!

"Boss of the system, use a random skill card!"

"The host uses a random skill card and randomly obtains one of any skills..."

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for obtaining the skill: Rock Solid Level 1."

"Rock-solid Level 1: When competing for defensive rebounds, there is a 10% chance to perfectly block the opponent who is stuck with the host, and block the opponent who is stuck, as unshakable as a rock."

"Grooving! Rebounding skills! The boss of the system is so cool today! Dude was just wondering why his rebounding ability is not good, and he can't grab too many rebounds, otherwise he would have a triple-double... Wait, the boss of the system, Is this the skill to help others grab rebounds?"

"Analyzed from the literal meaning, the biggest role of the rock-solid skill is to help teammates get stuck and rebound."

"your sister……"

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After defeating the Rockets, the Eagles won three consecutive victories and their record became 8 wins and 18 losses.

The Eagles had a relatively easy schedule for the first three months of the game. From the time they played against the Rockets to the deadline for All-Star voting on January 31, there are still 37 days to go, with a total of 17 games.

Although the Hawks will be a popular team in January to boost ratings, and the opponents they will play against are a bit cruel, but there are also many rest periods in the game, and the schedule is easy. It is very hopeful to try to bring the winning percentage back to about 50% before the end of January. !

In this way, it will reduce the pressure on the two monster schedule months of February and March, and strive to keep the winning percentage at 50% at the end of March, and finally hit the playoffs in the last 9 games in April!

This is the plan formulated by the Eagles coaching staff after winning the Bucks and Hornets. It is quite organized and logical. After winning three consecutive victories, this idea has a perfect start.

It's just that Liu Mang feels miserable now, and when he was interviewed after the game, he looked very haggard, which made the media very puzzled. Judging from the game footage after the three quarters, he just broke his career assist record. Liu Mang is very happy! Why did you suddenly feel haggard?

Is it haggard to see Francis' all-around explosive data of 33 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists?

The media don’t care if it’s like this, anyway, they’re going to write it like this, and they can make some news…

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Early the next morning, Yao Ming came to Liu Mang's house to get together again. The Rockets' flight at noon was discussed with the head coach and owner before Yao Ming came to Atlanta. He returned later after the Eagles game.

The main reason is that the next meeting with Liu Mang will be two months later. The next time the two teams will meet is on February 10th before the All-Star Weekend. Sincerely, they can only see each other two or three times a year.

We got together for a while and had breakfast. I don't know how early Yao Ming got up and how far he went to buy the meat buns. Liu Mang hasn't eaten meat buns for a long time, and he feels pretty good.

After eating breakfast, I hurried back to the hotel at nine o'clock and wanted to go back to Houston with my teammates.

Liu Mang is also very impressed by this. There are not many like-minded people. No matter what industry you are in or what job you do, if you have a dream and struggle for everything, or to support your family, the connection between you and your friends will become stronger. The less we come, the less time we spend together.

After sending Yao Ming out to take a taxi, Liu Mang went back to Levia's living room to help clean up the dining table. After washing the dishes and putting them on the rack to dry, Liu Mang came out of the kitchen and saw the pile of dishes in front of Levia. A bunch of newspaper magazine posters and stuff.

"What are you looking at, Levia?" Liu Mang asked.

"I live in a relatively suitable house that is relatively close to Dinah School and Phillips Arena." Levia looked through many houses for sale, but was not very satisfied.

"Leviia, you really want to buy a villa!" Liu Mang asked in surprise, "I thought you said that to help me save face."

"Ace, you are a big star now, it's inconvenient to have guests come to live in the apartment, it's better to buy the house earlier." Levia replied.

"Leviia..." Liu Mang was so moved, "I'll pay for the house after you look at it! I'm also a rich man now!"

Levia was stunned for a moment, and immediately assumed the attitude of a big boss: "You also know that you are rich? You don't know how to raise the rent on your own initiative! You still come here every day to eat and drink! You still want to become a landlord yourself? Impossible You'd better be your tenant honestly, if I'm unhappy that day, I'll kick you out."

"..." Liu Mang's emotion was trampled to pieces by the vile iron rooster in front of him.

"Also, Dinah is about to grow up, so I want to change to a bigger house, with a garden, a swimming pool, and a lot of rooms for her to play in." Levia said another purpose.

Several million dollars to buy a big house for Dinah to play with... Liu Mang thinks of the little girl who is still sleeping in the room, and feels that the world of the rich is really incomprehensible...

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The Hawks have just two games to play in the final six days of December.

Sufficient time means that you can make sufficient preparations.

Pacers Pacers, Wizards.

These two teams, which had defeated the Eagles before, made the Eagles players grin when they saw their opponents.

The thoughts of great men are actually admired by many people in European and American countries, and even ordinary people in European and American countries praise great men even more than ordinary people in China.

Compared with other countries, it can be regarded as an absolutely safe society. There is no curfew at night, and you can wander on the road in the middle of the night without carrying a gun. This is basically impossible in capitalist countries.

The thoughts of great men have also influenced people in Europe and the United States in many ways. From a strategic point of view, the Eagles know that they must be better than these two teams!

But tactically, the Eagles did not dare to be sloppy at all, and were very focused on preparing for the next two games.

Because the Eagles don't have the capital to relax occasionally like they did last season.

After a day's rest, on the morning of December 27, the Eagles came to Indianapolis, the city that broke the heart of American basketball fans in the summer.

In the city where the Pacers are located, the Eagles rented the basketball gymnasium of the famous local school Butler.

Universities in the United States are really desirable, mainly for holidays.

The school just started in September, and Butler University has already had winter vacation before Christmas, and then it will start in mid-February, and the summer vacation will be at the end of May.

This made the former college dog Mr. Liu Mang envious and jealous.

On the afternoon of the 27th, the Eagles were training in the gymnasium of Butler University.

It is mainly to make some tactical adjustments. Coach Kruger found that there are many places where his team can change.

Such as inside shooting.

And the defense of the back line.

For Liu Mang's vision in selecting candidates, coach Kruger thinks that Liu Mang will be snatched up by the bosses of the teams if he retires to become a scout. He might be given the title of the most expensive scout in history.

It’s hard to say for Barnes, the NBA doesn’t have the ability now. Before the Eagles came out to play away games, they sent him and Emmanuel to the Development League team jointly owned by the Eagles and the Magic. Now the Seahawks are named after Sweet and Sour That's My Yogurt.

But the other two really chose too well! Two top 20 picks in the first round got a lottery-level talent and a rookie with excellent immediate combat ability.

Since Prince averaged 8 points, 3 rebounds and 1.5 steals in the last three games, Emmanuel has no more positions. The NBA is very cruel. It's a pity to come out, but the NBA is a league where the weak can eat the strong. If you don't work hard to redeem your potential, when the potential is consumed, the team is impatient, and new potential people are cultivated, the fat one, About to be eliminated.

Therefore, during the tactical drill in the afternoon, Liu Mang suddenly discovered that the starting lineup had become Jason Terry, Prince, Raheem, Mohammed, and Ratliff.

Liu Mang remembered that Prince used to defend Kobe to less than 40% of his field goals in the finals. Prince is very good at defending against shooting guards on the defensive end!

As for Prince's poor ball-handling attack, the Eagles have three top ball-handling points, which is not a problem! His three-pointer is accurate enough!