Chapter 446: Six Jordan Successor Candidates!
Any tactics will be analyzed after the game.
There are so many media and professionals who rely on the NBA to make a living. What they do every day is to analyze this and that. Not to mention, there are really many correct analyzes that have given NBA teams a lot of help.
Therefore, if it is not as ridiculously strong as the OK combination, it will be very difficult to win consecutive championships. For example, like the Heat in 2013, it was thanks to Ray Allen's life-saving three-pointer, because at that time the Heat had already won the championship once. Popovich has studied it thoroughly. In 2010, the Lakers won two consecutive championships because the champions of the previous two years were the two teams that fought in the finals, and they knew each other thoroughly.
The Hawks are still out of the playoffs, but they are the favorites, and every game is analyzed.
After the game between the Eagles and the Bucks, the analysts began to show off again. After the Eagles’ tactics against Yao Ming were analyzed, Yao Ming has been very frustrated recently. Bullying inside, getting caught in the rookie wall.
Both the American and domestic media are teasing Liu Mang for creating a problem for his country's big center.
Because the game between the Rockets and the Eagles was broadcast live in both China and the United States, everyone saw that it was Liu Mang who was drawing tactics.
Some fans in China have found a reason to black Liu Mang again, which is to trip up the players in their own country.
On the contrary, Yao Ming himself can take it easy, someone will always come up with this kind of tactic, encounter it earlier, and solve it sooner.
No, Yao Ming has already begun to develop into a flexible giant center with space technology flow.
This time, Payton was targeted for defense and was also researched by people, but Payton is a veteran superstar, he restrained his desire to play singles, this defensive strategy is not effective for all teams, and it is the king of trash talking Payton didn't piss off many people.
But the point is not whether this tactic can be used by most teams like Yao Ming. The point is that people are guessing whether Liu Mang or Coach Kruger came up with this defensive strategy?
Although Liu Mang rarely drew with a tactical board in this game, why does this kind of shameless defense look more and more like it was done by this second-year player?
In an interview after the game, coach Kruger said that this was the team's strategy, and he talked about him from left to right.
This pretentious answer, everyone believed that it was the trick of the second-year guy.
Ever since, Peyton's hatred for Liu Mang has grown deeper...
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NBA celebrities love to do one thing very much, which is round table meetings.
Bill Walton, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Hakeem Olajuwon, Magician Johnson and other NBA 50 superstars and the sudden resignation from the Knicks two years ago are now serving as interim at ESPN Jeff Van Gundy, the commentator, held a roundtable together.
Before Jordan was about to retire permanently, a selection meeting of "Who is Jordan's successor" was held.
This is much more convincing than those so-called expert media, all of which are selected lineups composed of NBA celebrities or famous coaches.
In the end, among the active Mesozoic players, Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, and Allen Iverson were selected as the most powerful candidates to succeed Jordan in the Mesozoic players.
The four major shooting guards that fans talk about may be widely circulated among the media and fans after the selection of Jordan's successor this time.
The new generation of players, among the rookies in the four years since the 1999 draft, two were selected as candidates for Jordan's successor, one of whom averaged 20+ per game in his rookie season, and performed even better after the team got back on track this year Liu Mang!
And the other one, who has not yet entered the NBA... an over-mature guy who is still in the senior year of high school and has no three-point stability in free throws. Before entering the NBA, he is regarded as one of Jordan's successors and included in the Mesozoic Era And among the new generation of players, one of the 6 most potential and powerful outside players.
The four shooting guards, they are all famous superstars, the worst Carter also has the title of the best team and the strongest slam dunk king in history.
Liu Mang also averaged 20+ in his rookie game, 50+ in a single game in his rookie season, and scored 54 points when he played against Jordan.
And James, sincerely relying purely on talent, was selected into this ranks, terrifying...
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After the roundtable meeting between celebrities was broadcast live jointly by ESPN and TNT, it aroused strong repercussions.
In the past, the general media was making noises about who was Jordan's successor, but this time it was different. This time, it was the real Jordan's successor selected by the superstars and former head coaches who had played against Jordan.
The title of the "Four Great Shooting Guards" composed of four Mesozoic players and Jordan's successors spread like wildfire. Of course, the American Emperor's side is mainly the title of the Four Jordan Successors, because Iverson was not a shooting guard in his early years. Yes, Carter and McGrady are not playing shooting guards now, the real shooting guard is the little blacksmith.
Mainly domestically, when I saw those video clips of Iverson, Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Carter and Jordan playing against each other, I subconsciously regarded them as shooting guards. Of course, when they played against Jordan, they were indeed shooting guards. , There is nothing wrong with it, anyway, the names of the four shooting guards are widely circulated in Asia.
And Liu Mang was selected as one of the only two Jordan successors among the new generation of players, breaking the sky in the two basketball powers of China and the United States!
Some people thought Liu Mang was being flattered too much, while others were very happy.
The United States is not particularly opposed to the two candidates for the new generation of players. Most fans still agree. Liu Mang is undoubtedly the best performing rookie in the four years since the 1999 draft, with good personal statistics. , The team's record is good, and the popularity is high.
Sometimes it's so strange, but there are a lot of people mocking Liu Mang in China, and there are more comments on the Internet mocking Liu Mang for embezzling money than supporting him.
Especially seeing that there is actually an "unknown" high school student selected as one of the successors of the new generation of Jordan together, which gave many black fans a reason to beat Liu Mang to death and laugh at him.
As everyone knows, the 18-year-old high school student who looks about the same as the 48-year-old, American fans saw that he was selected as Jordan's successor, and there was no objection at all. The juxtaposition of super geniuses is to flatter Liu Mang...
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The Eagles have just arrived in the Denver Plateau, preparing for the third game of four consecutive away games, which is also the last game in 4 days and 3 games.
Liu Mang was really flattered when he saw the list of selected Jordan successors!
What a surprise!
I was selected as Jordan's successor by the celebrities when I was only in the second grade? This is not something that the media can write about casually. A blacksmith who averaged 7 points per game in his rookie year dared to be called Jordan’s successor. A group of celebrities and coaches discussed the selection results together, but they were quite authoritative.
Liu Mang was very surprised.
However, seeing that James, who is still playing in the high school league, was also selected as Jordan's successor, Liu Mang thought that this year, as a high school student, he would beat the NCAA's basketball, rugby, baseball, ice hockey... all NCAA in the major sports news. James, a star player, learned something that he couldn't understand in China in his previous life.
Why does a high school student get 90 million sneaker endorsements in 7 years?
Why can a high school student's game be broadcast live across the United States?
James' name is so famous in the United States!
Jay Williams, who was too strong in the NCAA last year, is already very popular, but compared with James this year, he is more than a little bit worse.
Just like in the three years from 1995 to 1997, countless teams were waiting for Duncan. This year, several teams have gone crazy and tried their best to lose.
James' enthusiasm is not only about basketball, the NFL is also actively trying to promote James to join them. The historical talent that is visible to the naked eye, whether it is playing basketball, rugby or even ice hockey, is sought after by countless teams.
If it weren’t for the joint agreement of the four major leagues, participating in the draft of one of the leagues would not be able to participate in the other. Maybe there will be a double champion in the NBA and the NFL. James was already the best high school football player in Ohio when he was a sophomore. athlete too.
It sounds ridiculous that both the NFL and the NBA draft the same guy at the top, but it's not unheard of. The father of the future three-point king is a dual high-ranking rookie in the NBA and MLB.
Liu Mang saw that among the new generation of players in the newspaper, James among the candidates for Jordan's successor was several times larger than himself, and felt a little bit uncomfortable. He looks so old!
But so excited!
Liu Mang saw himself side by side with Kobe, McGrady, Iverson, Carter and the future little emperor, this feeling is great!
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Poisonous milk is something that I would rather believe it has or not.
Liu Mang was selected as one of Jordan's successors, and Liu Mang's fans and Hawks fans naturally celebrated together.
But this kind of title is still a very authoritative selection by celebrities, and it is very hated.
It's not just that those who weren't chosen as Jordan's successors were hostile to those who were chosen, but the rivalry between those who were chosen became more obvious.
Just like Kobe played against James for the first time, even if he didn't score, he had to defend James with 6 of 20. McGrady hit James and scored eight three-pointers in the half, making James doubt his life. Z rode a dunk on his head and gave James a glare.
If it weren't for Iverson's short stature, he would also want to fuck James.
The four major shooting guards fight each other, and if they are one-on-one, it is just about the same. No one can say that they can suppress the opponent, so they can only abuse the food.
In the original selection of Jordan's successor, there were only the four major shooting guards and James, who was still a high school student. That's why there are four major shooting guards in China, because most domestic fans didn't know much about James before he reached the finals in 2007.
But now the five Jordan successors have become six, and Liu Mang has also become one of the targets.
Why are there few examples of people challenging Jordan's successors, or even few people challenging them?
Because the four major shooting guards are almost at their peak now, except for the four of them competing, there is no other outside line that can compete with them, and James has not yet entered the NBA, and he is already very strong in the first year of entering the NBA. In 2019, he was directly promoted to the ranks of top stars with an average of 27+7+7 per game. No one of the five players could beat them in their peak period.
It's a shame that a small blacksmith got 60 points from the general.
And now, Liu Mang, who is still young, is starting to be envied by others.
Most young basketball players in the United States have higher hearts than the sky and have the patience to endure it. Just like O'Neal, who stayed on the bench for four years and changed teams to soar, he gave a lot of depressed young players a lot of motivation.
They want to find opportunities to show their abilities and get favored by other teams or the management of the current team.
And defeating Liu Mang is the best chance to become famous!
Ever since, on January 21, the Eagles came to Denver to challenge the Nuggets away in the last game of four days and three games, and encountered being "challenged" by their opponents for the first time in their lives.
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Since the Eagles have just played a back-to-back and haven’t recovered yet, of course, they are talking about other people besides Liu Mang. Fatigue, and Denver is a plateau area with an altitude close to 2000 meters above sea level. 2000 meters does not look high, and it is not a big problem to travel or something, but for NBA athletes who need to consume a lot of oxygen, this little The difference between them is particularly prominent when they have problems with their physical fitness.
So after the start of the game, Jason Terry and Prince made 0 of 4 shots from the outside in the starting stage, Raheem was double-teamed in a row, and the Eagles were beaten 9-0 by the Nuggets at the beginning.
In this case, Nuggets head coach Jeff Bozedrick refused. Seeing that the Eagles called a timeout to replace Liu Mang, coach Bzedrick decisively replaced Devin Brown and Donnell Bzedrick. Harvey, Rodney White, Chris Anderson, and Nene Hilario are players in the first and second grades, and the oldest is Birdman Anderson in the third grade.
Bozedrick was directly pulled from the position of the team press officer to the position of the head coach by the Nuggets, isn't it just to show off, how could it be possible to watch the team's veterans play so well, so they replaced all It's the lineup that entered the NBA after 2000. I thought it would be a good loss! And it can also give young players playing time to train them, which is great.
However, this group of new-generation players, after seeing Liu Mang, were all red-eyed. Devin Brown and Donnell Harvey defended Liu Mang like a meat grinder, and Liu Mang passed the ball to Jason Te. Here, this guy actually softened his hands and voted for three non-stick...
Then Devin counterattacked and dunked and beat the Eagles 11 to 0...
After Liu Mang was double-teamed and passed the ball several times in a row, the shooting rate of his teammates was appallingly low.
As long as Liu Mang gets enough sleep and recovers mentally, physical fitness is not a problem, but his teammates can't!
Liu Mang could only turn on the scoring mode, but the opponent actually double-teamed him when he got the ball. Liu Mang's efficiency was average when his teammates were tired and could not get much help.
After the first quarter, the Eagles were 10 points behind 14 to 24.
After the start of the second quarter, the Eagles replaced the combination of Liu Mang, Prince, Chris Crawford, Boozer, and Murtola, and played relatively relatively well. The starters are much better, and Liu Mang and Boozer's pick-and-roll are not bad.
Who knew that the youngsters of the Nuggets were all bloody. The Eagles lineup is considered a strong substitute lineup in the league, but they can't stand the Nuggets. Defensively, the Eagles failed to catch up with the score after halftime. The halftime score was 40 to 48, and the Eagles were still more than 5 points behind.
What scares the strong teams most about young teams is their fighting spirit!
Once you gain momentum for them, it's hard to hold back.
Originally jealous of Liu Mang's current title, the Eagles' main players played poorly at the start, which gave the Nuggets a chance to start. In the third quarter, the Eagles players who came back found a little feeling and wanted to play in the next quarter. When the Nuggets were suppressed in the third quarter, they found that they could no longer suppress it!
Birdman Anderson played passionately in the interior, his head slapped Ratliff's arm hard, and he defended desperately from the outside, stunned the Eagles!
Seeing the Nuggets snowball, the Eagles really have no way to go back!
In the end, in the third game of the Eagles' five-game streak, they were in Denver Plateau, 84 to 91. The Eagles lost to the Nuggets away. Liu Mang, who made 7 of 23 shots and scored 14 free throws and scored 31 points, also tried his best. Helplessly, the opponent fought hard today, and they all worked so hard.
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Desperately leaving the Denver plateau, Liu Mang came to Portland, where the climate is quite charming. Liu Mang didn't dare to go out for a stroll. When he came out of the airport, Liu Mang saw a large number of fans who were hostile to him "picking up the plane" outside the airport. ".
Liu Mang looked at "Public Enemy of Los Angeles", "Public Enemy of Portland", "Public Enemy of New Jersey", "Public Enemy of Detroit"...he understood the titles of the public enemies of the cities where the teams that hated him so much, last year It's already made all the local basketball fans fall in love with him here.
What a big deal!
Liu Mang said that if there is too much hatred, he will not be overwhelmed.
But now he discovered one thing, that is, he was named Jordan's successor. Although it was a good thing in general, it also brought him a lot of trouble.
Just like being killed by the Nuggets, is an example.
Relying on his own performance, it is Liu Mang's honor to be named Jordan's successor by celebrities, and he is also proud of it.
However, if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, and if you want to hold a rose, you must bear its wounds.
What does Jordan's successor mean? data? How to play?
No, it's not.
Like Iverson's style of play, no matter how nonsense it is, it has nothing to do with Jordan.
The meaning of Jordan's successor is the next player who dominates the NBA like Jordan, so Liu Mang and the four major shooting guards plus James are called candidates for Jordan's successor.
Liu Mang was very excited to receive such a high honor, but just after being selected, he was challenged by a group of people, even the new generation of players like the Nuggets who had no potential and were not seen by people, all treated him like this Hostile, Liu Mang already felt the pressure to chase after Jordan.
Liu Mang sighed a little bit, how did the blacksmith and the high school student with forehead tattoos that can kill flies persisted until the end? Just thinking about it, in the next ten years or so, he will be challenged by various contemporaries, new generations, and even future superstars who are still in elementary school and junior high school, Liu Mang feels horrified!
But Liu Mang quickly thought about it, the matter has come to this point, the only way is to make himself stronger! And I have the opportunity to become the strongest.
Being selected by celebrities as one of the six candidates for Jordan's successor, who would refuse to be selected? Don't you see that those who were not selected are all red-eyed.
Liu Mang put aside these troubles and prepared for the next game.
17 wins and 20 losses, and there are 5 games left. The opponents are two games against the Trail Blazers. These two games are the most difficult of the remaining 5 games. Quite difficult to deal with, only the Clippers have completely collapsed this year.
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Playing consecutive away games, the biggest problem is not whether the opponent is strong or not, but the physical fitness and lack of time to prepare for the game.
In the game against the Nuggets, although they lost, the advantage was that Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff played only a little over 20 minutes, and most of the time was played by Liu Mang. I am fighting with the second team, so now my physical fitness has almost recovered, and this aspect is not a big problem.
The main thing is that there is no time for tactical training for the game against the Trail Blazers.
This is the most difficult part in the case of consecutive away games and games every other day.
I can only study tactics, watch videos, and hold a meeting. I don’t even have time to actually practice tactics, because the Eagles flew to Portland the next day after the Nuggets. They had a night’s rest. On the 23rd, the Trail Blazers will be played at night, and there is no time to rent an arena for training. To waste that time, it is better to watch more game videos to study opponents.
The Trail Blazers are now ranked fifth in the Western Conference, beating the sixth Lakers and the seventh Jazz in the Western Conference. They have the same record as the Timberwolves, 24 wins and 17 losses, but the Timberwolves are playing against teams in the Northwest Division. At that time, the winning percentage was higher than that of the Trail Blazers, so they ranked first in the division and fourth in the Western Conference.
This year, there is no rule that the first in the division must be the top three in the division, so the Mavericks are not so sad to be squeezed to fourth. The Spurs, the number one in the West, are now 29 wins and 11 losses, and the Kings are second with 28 wins and 13 losses. The Mavericks are 26-13.
The strength of the Trail Blazers this year is a bit of a flashback. Sabonis, the roof of the world, returned to the Trail Blazers after leaving the NBA for a year. The big brother of the world basketball came back and suppressed the impetuous atmosphere in the Trail Blazers. , Sometimes there is a veteran, it is really like having a family with a treasure, this kind of veteran with some strong prestige, any team wants it very much, although this year Sabonis is far from the state before the truce for a year, and he can't even start. It's up, but he is in the Blazers, so the Blazers can get back on track.
The leader of the locker room seems illusory. It is difficult for others to understand the problems in the locker room of a team. However, from the beginning of the Blazers to the current record, it can be seen that the Blazers are different this season from last season. .
Scottie Pippen can still maintain the same overall state as last season, Rasheed Wallace is more willing to defend than last season because the big brother is back, Bunch Wells got a 4-year 30 million contract , Dale Davis has old seniors to share the pressure on the inside, and Zach Randolph, a second-year student, has made significant progress under the guidance of Sabonis. He and Sabonis have learned a lot. Beautiful footsteps, obvious progress, averaging 8 points and 5 rebounds per game this season.
Such a Trailblazer has once again become a strong team in the Western Conference and is considered to be able to stir up the Western Conference playoffs.
Playing the Trail Blazers, the pressure on the Eagles is also great.
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At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Eagles players came to the Rose Garden Arena to warm up before the game.
Just as the Eagles players were training, a guy with a vicious look and a bad expression came to the Eagles locker room.
Unshaven face, gloomy eyes, huge body, mainly temperament, that kind of temperament that looks like a mess, makes people feel quite uncomfortable. I think children will cry when they see it.
This man had just entered the training ground of the Eagles' visiting team from the player tunnel, and just came out of the bathroom next to the player tunnel. The boss looks vicious and vicious.
The two didn't notice each other and knocked together.
The two "mixed society" men who bumped into each other saw the image of each other, but they didn't realize who the other party was for a while. They were simply taken aback by the appearance and image of the other party, so they quickly took two steps back and said at the same time: "sorry."
"Well……?"
When both of them were bending over to apologize, they were both stunned when they heard each other's apology at the same time. The scene was a bit awkward...
"Carlos, didn't I tell you to go to Tyshawn to bring me the shoes? What are you doing here? The money has been lost?...Hey, Rashid, why are you here?"
Liu Mang was still complaining that Boozer was slower when he was doing work than when he was defending. Due to the problem of blind spots, he only saw Rasheed Wallace at the corner when he got close.
Boozer bumped into Rasheed Wallace because it was a corner, and neither of them saw each other. Boozer was going to the parking lot in a panic. Brought it, Ice Ice for the game was forgotten in the team bus.
Boozer saw Liu Mang greeting Rasheed Wallace very familiarly, and then he realized that the big man in front of him was Rasheed Wallace, the leading star of the Blazers and one of the top power forwards in the league.
Seeing Liu Mang, Rasheed Wallace's previous image of a gangster suddenly changed, he grinned and said, "Haha, Ace, I wanted to come to you yesterday, but I'm afraid it will delay your rest, so I come to see you now." Looking at you, it seems that your current situation... is not bad, is this one?"
Unlike Boozer, who is familiar with the famous star at the same position, Rasheed Wallace saw Boozer for the first time, and was very surprised that the Eagles actually found such a bad-looking player, so they are not afraid of being misunderstood by their opponents They picked a thug?
If Boozer knew Rasheed Wallace's impression of him, I don't know if he would want to cry or laugh...
But even though he didn't know Rasheed Wallace's thoughts, Boozer saw Rasheed Wallace's devilish smile, and he was actually... a little kind!
Because this smile is so similar to Boozer himself! They are all the kind who think they are innocent but can scare children to tears.
"This is our team's rookie, Carlos. He is very strong. Today I will rely on him to deal with you!" Liu Mang introduced his teammates forcefully, but he did not exaggerate. Hall's shooting ability and singles skills are very important.
Rasheed Wallace saw that Liu Mang seemed to attach great importance to Boozer as a teammate, and felt that he should not be a bad person: "Hi, hello, I'm Rasheed, and I'm the same as Ace. Let's call you Carlos. ?”
"You... hello, I'm Carlos, please give me your advice!" Boozer was more restrained. As a rookie, he didn't dare to speak too loudly with the top power forward who had been famous for many years.
However, Boozer saw that Liu Mang seemed to have a good relationship with Rasheed Wallace. Boozer felt that Rasheed Wallace should also be a good person, which may be very different from his appearance! Might be a good one!
Rasheed Wallace and Boozer suddenly looked at each other, with a feeling of being connected with each other. Both of them had endured the prejudice of the world because of their appearance, and they tried hard to show their kindness, but they repeatedly scared Little friend.
The two suddenly had a feeling of sympathy for each other.
Looking at Boozer and Rasheed Wallace, Liu Mang suddenly felt an atmosphere of boundless love, and Liu Mang shed a drop of cold sweat...