Chapter 525
"Ace, it's the first time to enter the playoffs with such a low ranking, and there is no home court advantage throughout the whole process. For the first time to enter the playoffs as the eighth, will the goals you shouted at the beginning of the season change?"
"It was a great experience. We went so well last year, we thought it would be the same this year. Life is supposed to have ups and downs like this. Let us learn lessons and experiences. And, although it is only eighth, we entered the season. After the playoffs, there is hope for a championship, and we will still be the best team."
"That is to say, today, we are going to prepare for the black eight? Should we keep a low profile, it is not good to be heard by the opponent!"
"It's okay, they don't understand Chinese."
"Ha ha……"
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Because the Eagles declined all interviews in the previous three days, except for Liu Mang who did not attend the season summary meeting, he did not accept any interviews during the three preparation days in Detroit. On the day of the series against the Pistons, the Eagles The team is finally open for interviews.
Liu Mang accepted ESPN from Youtai, an exclusive interview from the domestic court station, and a pre-match press conference.
Liu Mang and the Eagles maintained full confidence throughout the process, and they were all full of confidence in advancing to the second round.
Although the Pistons are better this year than last season, the Hawks are also better. The three eaglets have improved significantly, and they have also joined Prince and Boozer. Two powerful rookies, the Eagles have no reason not to be unconfident .
This made the Pistons players very upset, especially seeing that Emmanuel and Leon Smith, who were not even included in the activation list by the Eagles, were surrounded by a bunch of reporters. The most popular star, Ben Wallace, was only interviewed by T.N.T and a few local reporters in Detroit, and the Pistons players were even more upset!
The pay gap is also obvious!
The last thing Liu Mang accepted was that he had to follow the Eagles all the way in the playoffs. Most of the games had to be an interview with Zhang Weiping, who was the on-site commentator.
Today, the Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the Pistons, finally provided the Eagles with rest areas, training grounds, functional drinks, etc., and even provided game consoles, computers, and small cards left by some staff in the locker room.
Those things in the front must be provided by the visiting team at home, and the latter are extra benefits, just to make the Eagles relax, especially the small card. When Coach Kruger complained angrily, the operation department of the Palace of Auburn Hills said Yesterday, when I was cleaning, the monitoring was broken, and I couldn’t find out who deliberately guarded the card, and Detroit can’t stop prostitution, this is not illegal...
In an industrial city, the city with the highest proportion of blacks in the United States, the young men are full of energy. In order to reduce the crime rate, this is understandable.
Coach Kruger saw the operation manager of the Pistons who looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, so he could only go back to the locker room and emphasize to the players again that all nightclub activities are prohibited during the playoffs.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, after accepting all the interviews, the Eagles once again declined the media's request for training interviews. The afternoon is the last time for the Eagles to prepare for the game. The opening game of the playoffs between the Eagles and the Pistons was placed in the penultimate game of the day The game starts at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and the last game is the Lakers vs. Timberwolves in the west of the United States.
After eating a nutritious meal at noon, two sets of 10-minute 5V5 confrontation training were carried out at 1:30 in the afternoon. There was a 20-minute rest period in between. The overall time spent about 50 minutes. Before the warm-up before the game at five o'clock, everyone is prohibited from any training.
You can rest for more than two hours, you can watch the upcoming Nets and Celtics playoffs, you can play games, you can gamble, and you can even sleep for more than two hours. There are air conditioners, quilts, and massage beds, but Cannot practice and watch videos about the Pistons.
Everything that can be prepared in the past few days has been prepared. During the last two hours of rest, the Eagles coaching staff chose to let the players take a good rest to ease their tense nerves.
What kind of tricks can be practiced in two hours? It's almost like wasting energy in vain.
It is impossible to study the video for two hours better than the established tactics studied by the entire coaching staff and all the players before. When the time comes, just play according to the prepared ones. Don’t come up with something whimsical in the last two hours. , It’s okay if you succeed, but you will be aggrieved if you fail.
The Eagles are not inferior to the Pistons in strength, but have a clear advantage in strength, and they don't need those empty-headed things.
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Liu Mang was also preparing to take a rest. He had indeed practiced enough in the past three days, not less than two hours.
After receiving the task issued by the system yesterday, Liu Mang's pressure is not too great. The original Magic team can lead the Pistons 3-1, and the Eagles can definitely do better.
The point is that the players on the Pistons are crazy!
"I've already started to think about my opponent in the next round: when facing the Detroit Pistons in the first round of the 2002-2003 season playoffs, the host needs to lead the team to win three games first to win the series match point, and win the third game In the post-match interview, he publicly stated that he was already thinking about his opponent in the next round.
Task completion requirements: After issuing the declaration, the host needs to lead the team to successfully eliminate the Pistons and advance to the second round of the playoffs.
Mission Completion Reward: Detroit's Rage. Failure Penalty: None.
Note: When the host leads the team to win the series match point and makes a declaration, the Detroit Pistons will trigger the fury of the Detroiters. "
"The fury of the Detroit people: The temperament of the Iron City is tenacity. When the series has lost three games, the iron-blooded character prevents them from giving up because of a huge disadvantage. The team's defensive cohesion has been greatly improved, and the physical strength has been greatly improved Improvement, the fighting spirit is greatly improved, and the effect lasts for all remaining games in the current series. Note: This special card has no side effects."
When Liu Mang saw the full description of this task, he knew why McGrady was overturned in a 3-1 lead. The Pistons have too strong a defensive foundation, although Coach Carlisle is not so good at coaching such a purely defensive team. , The defensive system is not as good as when Mike Woodson was their defensive assistant in the future, but if they play life defense, only McGrady can play Magic alone, and it is obviously difficult to deal with the runaway Pistons.
However, Liu Wei’s pressure was not great. The Magic’s 3-1 lead was overturned. The main reason was that after the Pistons returned to the home court in the fifth game, they used the momentum of the home court to defend the Magic to only 67 points, and the Pistons 88. After the 67 bloodbath, the Magic tied the score to 2 to 3 and regained their confidence. In the sixth game after that, the Magic had no chance of winning and once led by nearly ten at halftime, but the Pistons had already shown momentum. In the second half Relying on defense, they reversed the Magic and tied the big score.
From 3 to 1, the opponent was about to be eliminated, and was chased to a 3 to 3 tie. Now it was the Magic's turn to lose their fighting spirit. After three quarters in Game 7, the Magic trailed the Pistons by nearly 30 points, even though Drew Gooden was ahead in the final quarter. In the three quarters, Ben Wallace defended to zero points and scored 20 points in the last quarter, leading the Magic to a 33-20 single quarter score, only because the Pistons replaced a pure substitute, and finally the Magic scored 15 points. The point difference was a disastrous defeat and was reversed by the Pistons.
The magic team was overturned 3-1 because the magic team was not very strong in the first place, but relying on McGrady, they defeated the Pistons for three games, and McGrady himself was proud of himself and said the words that stimulated the players of the Pistons .
Originally, Liu Mang didn't want to be troublesome, and there was no penalty for this task, but that special card made Liu Mang very excited!
In case of reaching the finals and facing the Spurs with Duncan who is invincible this season, this card is quite useful!
Therefore, the task must be done! So there is a good analysis of the key to the Magic's comeback by the Pistons. The key point lies in the fifth game. After the Pistons returned to the home court, they bloodbathed the Magic and regained their confidence.
The key lies in this. Liu Mang wants to avoid letting the Pistons return to the home court to use the home court advantage to play a violent defense.
Therefore, Liu Mang's goal, or ambition, is not just to eliminate the Pistons and complete the Black Eight, but...to sweep the Pistons and complete the Black Eight!
Since the key turning point for the Pistons is the fifth game, then just don't let the fifth game happen!
The Magic can lead the Pistons 3-1. Why can't the Eagles score 3-0 in the first three games? The Eagles are much better than the Magic!
After taking a 3-0 lead, they took advantage of the home court to suppress the furious Detroiters and eliminated them directly!
After analyzing the strategy for the first round, Liu Mang made up his mind and was still full of confidence. He planned to take a nap for an hour, and then got up to watch the second half of the Nets and Celtics, to see if the Celtics could create some surprises.
This athlete sleeps well, and sleeps as soon as he says he sleeps, and Liu Mang soon fell asleep.
At this time, the system came up with a small task: "Ding... In response to the strong desire in the host's heart, the system issued a task: the strongest black eight in history."
"The strongest black eight in history: eliminated the Pistons with an absolute crushing score of 4 to 0, and achieved the title of the strongest dark horse in history. Task reward: a random star card for the black eight team in NBA history, the lowest is the first-class star card. "
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Woke up after sleeping, looking at the mission reward like mosquito meat, which was almost tasteless.
The black eight team is the weakest team in the playoffs, a team that played very average in the regular season, and there is almost no eagle team that ranked first in the division last season and will only be eighth in the next season. team, so there are basically no particularly powerful stars, except for the madman of the Knicks and Alan Houston, the Nuggets' Mutombo, the Warriors' Baron Davis, the Grizzlies' black eight-double bears, and the 76ers' Andre Iguodala.
These are top-notch stars at best. Except for Mutombo, the years of others' black eights basically have nothing to do with top stars.
But having such a task is better than nothing!
Liu Mang set an alarm clock for an hour, and after waking up, he went to the bathroom to wash his face, and then went to the rest area with a TV, watching Kidd abuse the Celtics, while looking at his own system panel.
The ability value is 78, the three-pointer is 84, the mid-range shot is 83, the layup is 85, the speed is 92, the bounce is 92, and the strength is 79.
There are also 28328 superstar points, two mid-level superstar value draws, and 322 skill upgrade cards.
Level 1 skills, there are four: oppressive press, high post skills, pull-up layup master, turnaround jump shot master.
High backs and pull-up layups are not needed for the time being, Liu Mang is going to upgrade the master of oppressive pressing and turnaround jump shots!
It takes 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade a skill from level 1 to level 5, that is, a total of 590 skill upgrade cards are needed to upgrade two skills, and 322 skill upgrade cards are not enough to upgrade two skills to full level, but Liu Mang also has a special skill upgrade card, which can directly upgrade skills from level 4 to level 5, that is, only 350 skill upgrade cards are enough.
Liu Mang saw that there were only 22 physical potions left, so he just filled up the warehouse reserves.
With 20,000 superstar points left, Liu Mang used 8,300 superstar points to draw a primary superstar point lottery, and got 46 physical potions, 44 skill upgrade cards, 30 primary injury potions, and 5 hairstyle appreciation ability cards .
Liu Mang took a photo of his hairstyle on the small black screen of his mobile phone, and appreciated what hairstyle he wants for a cut! But I still use it, who doesn't want to improve their aesthetic ability a little bit.
69 Physical Potions, 51 Primary Injury Potions, 1 Intermediate Injury Potion and 1 Rebound Card, these should be enough for this year's playoffs, save some superstar points for when injuries strike A spare is fine.
There are already 366 skill upgrade cards, which is enough.
Upgrade skills!
"Boss of the system, use 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade the turnaround jumper master to level 5!"
"The host consumes 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade the turnaround jumper master."
"Ding... Turnover jump shot master level 5: When playing post-up singles, the turnaround jump shot has a 50% chance of not being interfered with by the shot."
Sure enough, as Liu Mang guessed, similar to the king of dry drawing, it has no direct effect on improving shooting ability. Even if it is not disturbed after being triggered, it is up to you whether you can make a shot or not.
Liu Mang already has two full-level skills, the low-post turn skill and the back-up turn-around jumper, and the system prompts follow.
"Ding... Host has become a mature star with both inside and outside scoring skills, and his ability evaluation has improved in all aspects."
"Ding... The host's current ability value is 81, 84 three-pointers, 83 mid-range shots, 85 layups, 92 speed, 92 jumping, and 79 strength."
"Ding... The host's ability value exceeds 80, the bench bandit is invalid, and there will be a lottery draw to compensate for the mid-level superstar value."
Liu Mang looked at his new ability evaluation, it hurts.
When he heard about the all-round improvement, Liu Mang couldn't wait to see what his new ability value was. Yes, only the ability value increased from 78 to 81, and nothing else was moved!
The compensation for the failure of the bench gangsters also made Liu Mang feel distressed. It took 295 skill upgrade cards to upgrade to level 5, but it turned into a mid-level superstar prize draw.
But anyway, there is compensation, which is more conscientious than Tencent, Liu Wei thinks it is acceptable.
Upgrade another skill too!
"Boss of the system, use 55 skill upgrade cards and special skill upgrade cards to upgrade the pressure to level 5!"
"The host consumes 55 skill upgrade cards, the oppressive rush is upgraded to level 4, and 1 special skill upgrade card is consumed, and the oppressive rush is upgraded to level 5."
"Pressing level 5: When pressing close to the player with the ball, the anticipation of the opponent's dribbling is greatly enhanced, and the rushing ability is greatly enhanced."
Liu Mang couldn't wait to look at his ability value again, the result...it was still 81.
One's own defensive ability is still not considered in the comprehensive ability value.
Liu Mang estimated that his ability value of 81 is actually about the same as around 85!
Although the higher the ability value, the lower the advantage in the next game, but at least I have the advantage!
Everything is ready, Liu Mang did not continue to watch Kidd kill the Celtics, there is no suspense, the Celtics still seem to be swept by the Nets.
The Nets this year are indeed stronger than last year. Except for Payton's Bucks who won two games against the Nets in this year's playoffs, the other Celtics and Pistons were all swept by the Nets. The sweeping series were all big victories. In 8 games, the average point difference was close to 15 points, and they deserved the title of the Great Devil of the Eastern Conference.
Liu Mang didn't want to see the Nets being too good to affect his mentality, so he went to find Coach Kruger half an hour in advance, and applied for an early warm-up, and had time to practice low-post skills before the game started. Coach Kruger couldn't hold back Liu Mang , I went with Liu Mang, which was equivalent to letting Liu Mang warm up half an hour in advance.
Liu Mang came to the training ground and began to warm up with the help of the trainer.
It is said that he is not nervous and the pressure to play against the Pistons is not great, but Liu Mang has more teammates he can trust, and himself, it seems that his ability value has increased to 81, but in fact his ability has declined compared to before. His original personal limit With a speed of 94, only 92 is left. The three-pointer is behind Peja, Ray Allen and himself, the three strongest players in the league. Although the three-pointer of 84 is also very accurate, it is definitely not as good as 88. There is still a small hurdle of 85 in the middle!
Mid-range shots and layups have no effect. The main impact is the three-pointer and speed. Although the impact is not large, it will definitely have an impact.
Therefore, Liu Mang knew that he needed to play smarter and use his already rich offensive arsenal!
At the same time, make better use of your teammates to create opportunities for yourself or use yourself to create opportunities for your teammates!
Liu Mang regards this year's playoffs as a new starting point for him to take off!