Chapter 536
"Coach, we came here so early, what if the Bucks win?"
"Didn't I ask you that night? You said the Nets would win."
"...I'll just say it casually..."
"It's okay, the reporters already know that because of your suggestion, we will come here first and wait for the Nets."
Coach Kruger hummed a little tune and got on the bus.
Liu Mang is so sad, Coach Kruger is getting naughtier the older he gets! Well, this time the Bucks hated Xiaoye again!
Liu Mang has no choice but to carry this hatred on his back, so that if there are too many people who hate him, he will not be overwhelmed.
On May 23rd, the sixth game between the Nets and the Bucks, the match day when the Bucks played against the Nets at home, the Eagles left Philadelphia and came to New Jersey ahead of schedule, living in Rutherford Elementary School, where the Nets are located. The nearest town is Jersey City.
As soon as this news came out, it overshadowed the pre-game news of the Nets and the Bucks. After investigation by the media, Liu Mang believed that the Nets would definitely eliminate the Bucks, and the Eagles came to New Jersey ahead of schedule.
Whether this matter will affect the fighting spirit of the Bucks, whether the Bucks will work hard or be hit, and whether the Nets will benefit from it or kill the Bucks in anger, the Eagles can't control it.
In fact, Coach Kruger didn’t want to come to New Jersey so early, and Philadelphia is also very good, but Jersey City’s Seaport Center Hotel can be booked for 20,000 dollars a night, and the Hilton Hotel in Philadelphia is 45,000. Although the boss is generous Yes, but it also hurts! But Price can't show stinginess in front of the players, and it's hard to show the impression of grandeur. Price also wants to save face, so he only discussed with Coach Kruger which city to go to in advance, whether it's Milwaukee or Zee. Westside, the price is much cheaper than Philadelphia, the fifth largest city in the United States, especially Jersey City, which has a poor tourist market. It is not as famous as Milwaukee, and the hotel industry is bleak. It is also a five-star hotel. The house price in Jersey City is cheaper than Philadelphia More than half.
Of course, if there is a slap in the face and the Bucks work hard to kill the Nets, there must be someone who is responsible, and this person is of course Liu Mang.
Moreover, it is to stumbling the opponent anyway. What is sad is the two potential opponents, and even if they don't stumbling them, how friendly they can be to the Eagles. To win the championship in the core situation, if you can reach the Eastern Conference Finals, you must work hard, and the relationship between him and Liu Mang is not good.
Needless to say Kidd, the hostility between the Hawks and the Nets began last season.
However, the hotel industry in New Jersey is indeed very sad. Compared with when the Eagles played the 76ers, because of the relationship between Iverson and Liu Mang, some fans were not fans of the Eagles and 76ers, but fans of Iverson and Liu Mang. The hotels in Atlanta and Philadelphia were packed, and the hotel in New Jersey was empty. Except for the Eagles fans and simple Liu Mang fans, hundreds of people had made reservations in advance, and they were unsecured reservations. If the room is not available, the reservation can be refunded for free, because it is possible that the next opponent of the Eagles will be the Bucks.
Not many people come to New Jersey to watch the game. Even the locals in New Jersey have a weak sense of belonging to the Nets. The 2009-2010 season was the peak season when Yi Jianlian scored 12 points, 7 rebounds and 1 block in the NBA. The Nets created the record for the lowest attendance at home in the NBA since the merger of the NBA and the ABA in 1976. The attendance rate was just over 50%, which directly led to the Nets owner declaring that the Nets club was bankrupt with a lot of debt. Sold to Russian owner Prokhorov.
This is the most important reason why the Nets are not valued by the government of New Jersey, and it is also the main reason why the Nets can't wait to move after changing a rich owner who is trying to make money.
New Jersey is too difficult to attract stars. It is an industrial port city with a per capita GDP of 60,000 US dollars and a per capita annual income of nearly 40,000 US dollars. However, the environment is terrible, and there is no such thing as Manhattan Beach and New Orleans Beach in Los Angeles. Miami Beach is attractive, and stars are reluctant to come here to play.
Especially the town of Rutherford, even though it was playing a series against the Bucks, in the previous fifth game, few hotels in the town of Rutherford were full of people, and most people would rather live in Jersey City, Willing to drive for two hours.
The Nets couldn't bring much income to New Jersey, and even the town of Rutherford couldn't bring much income, so after the Russian local tycoon bought the Nets, he immediately went to New York to apply for land and repair the arena.
Of course, even if they moved to New York, there was no improvement. The management operation was too bad. In the end, the Nets became a team owned by the Chinese owner. Ma’s brother Cai Chongxin bought half of the shares of the Nets.
Another reason why the Eagles management and coaching staff decided to come to New Jersey first is that it is close to Philadelphia, which is quite close, and it takes only half an hour to arrive by plane, which is convenient.
Sadly, Liu Mang took the blame again, and took the bus to the Harbor Hotel in Jersey City.
I went to the hotel to rest for a while, and the Eagles players didn’t know what to do. Jersey City, the second largest port city in New Jersey, has only about 200,000 people. Apart from working people, it’s hard to find entertainment facilities. Well, the four well-known places here are Greenville Industrial Park, Claremut Industrial Park, Montgomery Industrial Park, and Liberty Industrial Park...all of them are industrial parks.
The teammates got together to play blackjack at one time, those who played billiards played billiards, and some bought computers to play games.
Liu Mang and Prince came to the gym and ran for half an hour, doing some exercises with equipment. Compared with gambling, Liu Mang prefers training and training. First of all, of course, it is to save money...
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The night the Hawks came to New Jersey, the Nets challenged the Bucks in Milwaukee.
This time the entire Eagles team gathered to watch the live broadcast of the game. Although there is no nationwide live broadcast, it is also a sad reminder, but at least there are regional live broadcasts in New Jersey and Wisconsin from Time Warner Cable, a professional regional live broadcaster. Only then can the Eagles have the opportunity to watch the game. .
This game is definitely the favorite type of game for technical and tactical fans. The two teams played very beautifully organized offense and defense. Payton organized the offense with the ball, and Kidd connected the teams with a pass.
Eight players from the Bucks took part in the battle, and the starting lineup has undergone major changes. Using the name of Alvin Johnson, like the Magician, a defensive pillar center who once averaged 11 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game, mentioned the starting lineup, increasing the number of positions. The success rate of the method, with Payton and Cassell's double point guard play, with the long-range shooting expert Tim Thomas and the physical fitness of the No. The main success rate.
The Nets' defensive lineup of Kidd, Kittles, Jefferson, Kenyon Martin, and Jason Collins is on the field. Jefferson and Kenyon Martin fly together, Jason Collins and Kittle Si, one inside and one outside pick-and-roll, fell into the positional battle, and wanted to rely on fast passes and cuts to start the fast break.
With Ray Allen in exchange for half of the Sonics starters and a large group of substitutes, the Bucks are really playing better and better. After winning the previous game, Desmond Mason and Anthony Jr. - Mason took turns putting pressure on Kenyon Martin, attacking the inside on the offensive end, and preventing Kenyon Martin from getting close to the basket on the defensive end, which achieved good results. Jason Collins watched Kenyon Martin being targeted but was powerless Give too much help, he is slow, good low post, a lot of small moves, the kind of up and down, he has a good performance when defending Duncan and O'Neal, so he can be a stable starter in the Nets.
But Jason Collins couldn't stop the impact of Anthony Mason Jr. and Desmond Mason. Drilling into the basket, Kenyon Martin couldn't stop it, Jason Collins was slow but active in making up defenses, and soon fell into a foul crisis.
At this time, no one expected that Mutombo, who had just come back and played less than 10 minutes in the first few games, stood up and became a key turning point in the game.
Mutombo played in the second half of the third quarter when Jason Collins had four fouls on his back. Anthony Mason frightened and forgot about the matter of catching the ball and rushing to the basket as instructed by the head coach George Karl, and ran to the outside to attack with the ball, making Payton and Cassel two point guards with strong organizational skills. Set aside!
Although the extent of Mutombo's decline this year has surprised people, his deterrent power is still the same, especially when he came up with three consecutive blocks. The Bucks were so scared that they continued to shoot from the outside, with a mediocre shooting rate. They were caught by the Nets and counterattacked several times. After three quarters, they overtook the score in one fell swoop.
The momentum came to the Nets. The Nets were stronger in the first place. There was no chance for the Bucks to comeback. The Nets finally reversed the Bucks 109-100 away and eliminated the Bucks with a big score of 4-2. , The Nets advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals!
After the game, the Bucks fans did not hate the Nets that defeated them. The relationship between Payton and Kidd is well known in the world. They hated the Eagles, especially the Eagles, who they went to New Jersey early to wait for. Ace Liu of...
Although the general opinion of the media and fans is that the Nets can win the Bucks, it is the first time in NBA history that the team is directly sent to New Jersey to wait for the Nets to win the Bucks like Liu Mang.
When Liu Mang was watching the forum before going to bed at night, he saw the comments of the Bucks fans abusing him and the comments of other teams teasing him with poisonous mouth. Just go and catch him, he was definitely the one who fell down crying, he felt that he was worse than Meng Jiangnv, more wronged than Dou E...
The Nets defeated the Bucks to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Eagles and the Nets met in the Eastern Conference Finals for the second consecutive year. This has received much more attention than which team the Spurs will play in the Western Conference Finals next. Lu Many Eagles fans came to Jersey City one after another, but not many were willing to come to watch the game. However, after the schedule came out, the sales of the live broadcast of the two teams' games were even more popular than last season.
After the series between the Nets and the Bucks, the Mavericks and the Kings had a tiebreaker in the West. The Kings had already won the Tianwangshan battle, but before the start of the sixth game, Webber’s old knee injury recurred and he was unable to participate For the rest of the game, the core of the Kings became Peja, who was highly expected because he led the Kings to an impressive record of 15 wins and 5 losses during the regular season when Weber was absent for 20 games.
However, sometimes expectations are too high, and the final result is really ugly. Peja was too soft at the critical moment. In the last two games, he made 12 of 40 shots. Then, because of the absence of Webber's restrictions, Nowitzki on the opposite side scored two consecutive goals. With 30+ games and a 60% shooting rate, the Mavericks won two games in a row and reversed the Kings 4-3, reaching the conference finals for the first time in team history!
When the Mavericks tied the score in Game 6, the schedule for the East and West finals had already been released.
May 25th is the tiebreaker between the Mavericks and the Kings. On May 27th, the Eastern Conference Finals between the Nets and the Eagles will be played in New Jersey, and the Western Conference Finals will be played in San Antonio on May 28th.
For the Eagles, on the night of May 23, after seeing the Nets eliminate the Bucks, the next morning, they went to the basketball court on the Jersey City Campus of the University of Phoenix to start training early in the morning, preparing for the next game against the Nets!