Chapter 561

In the first half month of the offseason, the NBA seemed to be hit by a tornado. Many things changed people's perceptions. The NBA seemed to have a new pattern. It was no longer the defending champion who was ranked first in the power rankings. .

The Lakers saw that the OK combination was about to collapse, but the Lakers traded away Robert Horry and Mark Madsen, freed up salary space and added two All-Stars. Not only did they not collapse, but they also had an unprecedented combination of terrifying giants.

The Timberwolves, another dazzling combination of madmen and wolf kings in the West, used a five-year, 33 million contract to poach former Bucks point guard Sam Cassell at the end of July.

After forming the Big Three combination, the Timberwolves have become another team that people expect to be able to snipe the Lakers.

Garnett, although he is not ugly, but the expression matched with that face is really scary.

Sprewell, with his ugly face and weird haircut and chokehold, was always scary.

Cassel...scary.

There is no cultural difference. Basketball fans all over the world have chosen a three-headed combination for the Timberwolves' Big Three combination.

On the Kings side, after losing to the Mavericks in the second round, they failed to win Malone, but the 8 million salary space was released and could not be wasted, so they made a poisonous offer, with a starting salary of 8 million, a total of 64 million in 7 years Fat contract, dug from the Pacers to Brad Miller, who only averaged 13 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and was considered a brain watt.

It’s not that the strength of the Kings has not been strengthened. After Divac has aged at most 20 minutes of outstanding performance in a game, it is undoubtedly a very good signing for the Kings to have a big center with similar characteristics. .

It’s just that Brad Miller’s market price is also middle-class. Save some money and find a qualified power forward to make up for Webber’s absence of at least ten months due to knee surgery at the end of May. Isn’t it good? A slow center, coupled with the slow Divac now, the inside defense is not optimistic at all.

In the East, the Eagles once again brought in an All-Star, but with the influence of last year's big dog, people are extremely unpopular with the Eagles' approach of picking up cancerous stars that other teams don't want.

The Pistons, who had just been blacked out, had Stephen Jackson as a strong support, and Chris Bosh joined, and their strength has improved a lot. The main reason is that the head coach Larry who is better at defense than Popovich- Brown became the head coach of the Pistons, and it fits perfectly with the Pistons lineup. He has Larry Brown's favorite slow-paced point guard and center. Last season, he was just unlucky and met the Eagles in the first round. Everyone thinks the Pistons can at least shake things up in the East.

The Nets finally reached a 6-year 105 million contract extension with Kidd at the end of July. Since Payton joined the Lakers, the Spurs have launched a crazy pursuit of Kidd and sent Glenn Robinson away. Plus some expiring contracts, after clearing up to 20 million salary space, it is to introduce Kidd and Malone, even willing to use Parker and the Nets to sign first and then give Kidd the highest salary, but Kidd hesitated. In July, he rejected Popovich's invitation on July 28. He said that he was only two victories away from the championship, and he was confident of winning the championship. He chose to cut his salary and renew his contract with the Nets.

As long as Kidd is around, the strength of the Nets is guaranteed. After Kidd renewed his contract, the Heat's expired free agent Alonzo Mourning chose to join with a middle-class clause of 15.7 million in three years in order to pursue the championship. Nets.

For Mourning, the Eagles have also launched a pursuit, but Mourning needs at least the playing time of the third insider and a mid-level contract. After Germany renewed his contract, he decisively chose the Nets, which had reached the finals for two consecutive years.

The Pacers, one of the top three in the Eastern Conference last year, were poached by Brad Miller. They were regarded as seriously injured, and they might fall behind from the first echelon of the Eastern Conference. Little did they know that they silently introduced Kenny Anderson and Anthony. - Johnson has two good substitutes, fired Isaiah Thomas and brought in former Pistons head coach Rick Carlisle.

The Spurs, who had vacated 20 million salary space and couldn't spend it, could only choose domestic sales. They renewed their contract with Ginobili, who had already demonstrated extraordinary talent, and reached a 5-year 42 million contract extension, starting from the summer of 2004 It started to be implemented, and reached a 6-year 40 million contract extension with the team's Slovenian center Nesterovic, and reached a 6-year 38 million contract renewal with Malik Rose, but Kidd was not won. Popovich chose to stabilize the team's morale, mainly to stabilize Tony Parker's uneasiness. Since Parker still has two years of rookie contract, he can't renew his contract in advance until December of next season at least. Filling in the salary space will make Parker no longer worried about being traded, and it is also a way to stabilize the morale of the army.

The Mavericks are frantically supplementing outside singles players. In the season just ended, they lost to the Spurs because there were not many players with strong scoring ability in outside singles. They all pointed to Michael Finley's explosion, but Finley has already reached his peak. However, it’s okay to break out once in a while. Pointing at him breaking out every day is equivalent to giving away a head. This year, the former Warriors small forward Antawn Jamison was introduced, traded to Josh Howard, and horses with excellent singles ability were selected from the undrafted players. Ques Daniels, with a clear goal, is to deal with the Spurs, but I didn't expect that just after they completed this in early July, the Lakers formed a Big Four...

The signings of the top four in the East and the top four in the West under the pressure of the Lakers kicked off the prelude to the crazy signings early in July, and they also fell early. At the end of July, the Nets renewed their contracts and signings. After Ning ended, the free market suddenly cooled down from extreme frenzy, and the entire NBA became calm and completely silent.

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On Liu Mang's side, after returning from travel, he first started recovery training. After all, he didn't have any scientific training for a month. During the few days in Hawaii, he mainly focused on recovery training to find his previous body rhythm and shooting feeling.

Liu Mang was surprised by Chip Englander's professional level. Because Liu Mang could use physical potions and injury potions, before, shooting training was separated from other teammates, because no one could do it like him. Practice hard.

The biggest effect of stamina medicine may not be in the competition, because the function of stamina medicine is to restore the physical energy reserve to the upper limit of the body, but you still have to breathe when you are tired, and you still have to replenish energy, but you just breathe and finish drinking After the energy drink, it’s as if nothing happened just now, so you can continue.

The biggest effect, Liu Mang thinks, is the effect of training, which can be repeated non-stop.

So the previous shooting coach of the Eagles couldn't control Liu Mang's training, but Chip Englander was different. He might also be curious about Liu Mang's way of training to death, but he didn't choose to let Liu Mang practice blindly, but He has already inquired about Liu Mang's training methods, researched them in advance, and made training arrangements for Liu Mang, combined with Mark Madsen's physical training, watching professional shooting instruction videos, adjusting the details of shooting movements, Physical training, relaxation training, high-intensity training, fixed-point training... etc., and occasionally take Liu Mang to the beach, dancing hula or something to relax, looks like Doctor Strange dancing hula, still looks pretty Interestingly, you can also invite the three girls in the family to come out to play together, so as not to neglect them.

Chip Englander formulated a scientific and systematic training plan based on the explosion of Liu Mang's physical reserves, instead of letting Liu Mang do it like before.

After the recovery training a few days ago, Liu Wei started to use the new training plan. Although the amount of training seemed to be the same, Liu Wei felt that he did not have the feeling of needing to constantly supervise himself during the previous training. .

For example, I just practiced a set of shots, with 100 shots in each of the five points and long distances. Usually, after such a set of practice, Liu Mang feels very depressed, but because of the pressure he feels about his lack of strength, he often Force yourself to continue training, although it is effective, but there will definitely be a psychological desire to slack off, and I don’t have much thought about the shortcomings that occurred during my training. I practice every day, although I can improve, but Generally speaking, it is quite limited.

This time, the Eagles recruited the Pistons senior basketball consultant who had guided Steve Kerr's basketball training camp from the Detroit Pistons in order to bring out Liu Mang's physical advantages in training.

Now after Liu Mang practiced a set of shots, he just felt a little annoyed with shooting, so he went for a run, lifted weights, danced, and even went to the beach to look at the beauties by the beach while Dinah and the others were away, showing off his upper body muscles to win a round. A wave of cheers, then a short swim.

The mood has shifted. When Liu Mang was lifting weights or running or basking in the sun at the beach, he naturally thought of what was wrong in the previous shooting training. Improve……

The more Liu Mang looked at this teaching assistant who looked like Doctor Strange, the more he thought he had seen it somewhere, but he didn't remember it.

After more than ten days of training, Mark Madsen and Chip Englander followed Liu Mang and Schwartz, who had already arrived in the island country in advance, to various parts of Asia to start publicity.

In terms of publicity, the less than an hour of interaction with the fans and the signing event did not take much time, nor was it tiring. After signing with Nike this season, I participated in a lot of publicity. It’s not difficult. The difficult thing is to fly once every other day. Sometimes it’s not just a flight every other day. Occasionally, you have to promote in different cities for two or three days. The 14-day promotion time, a total of 9 cities, if you count The first Hawaii, that is ten cities, can be described as exhausted.

However, it is Liu Wei's two personal trainers and manager who are exhausted. Liu Wei falls asleep on the plane, trains every day, and sleeps with excellent quality. After the daily publicity is over, before leaving the current city, Liu Wei is training. Spend your spare time every day.

Because Liu Mang is under a lot of pressure!

One is the pressure to win the championship next season, and the other is system problems.

Whether it is the training system or the lottery system, there have been huge changes. To put it simply, it is the newcomer period. Many things that are specifically for Liu Mang's newcomer period have been deleted. The main deletion is for the opponent. The special cards with too much effect kept most of the special cards that act on themselves, such as manic potion, which needs to be used according to people's judgment and their own judgment, and they were not deleted.

The props that have been drawn before are still there, and have not been deleted because of the deletion of the lottery rewards.

When Liu Mang just saw the template of the new basketball superstar, he couldn't help but swear.

But after thinking about it carefully, Liu Mang also accepted it, because many things were indeed unnecessary, and now he could take charge of it alone, and he could hone himself to become stronger.

The deleted things are mainly some special cards specially used for Liu Mang's rookie period to gain a firm foothold in the NBA.

In terms of superstar value lottery, the primary superstar value lottery has been changed, and all kinds of strange special cards have been deleted, leaving only physical potions, injury potions, skill upgrade cards and stealing cards.

In terms of mid-level superstar value lottery, most of the special cards have also been deleted. Now the superstar value lottery has four categories: star cards, action packs, special cards, and props.

And the lottery drawing method has also changed, instead of specifying a one-third chance, it has become: mid-level superstar value lottery, specifying a category to double the chance of winning, or deleting a category from the lottery category.

Liu Mang thought for a while before he could figure out the general meaning. The former wanted that item especially, and he could make do with the others if he got it. The latter didn’t want one item in particular, and he could make do with the others.

This is the biggest change in the system, which made Liu Mang feel weakened a lot at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that there are indeed some things that are no longer needed now, and personal strength is the key.

But now, the star card has directly become one of the four types of mid-level superstar value props, which means that you can often experience the strengths of each star and learn something from it. Some players may not have the ability value of Liu Mang. He is tall, but every player who has gained a firm foothold in the NBA has his own characteristics, and Liu Mang can learn from them and make use of their strengths while avoiding their weaknesses.

The low-level superstar value lottery has been simplified to only a few important items. This makes Liu Mang even happier. He doesn’t need to have a bunch of miscellaneous things, but the intermediate superstar value is still there. I hope that I will not show up. Advanced clothing aesthetic ability is enough...

After Liu Mang thought about it, he felt that the upgrade of the system lottery is indeed beneficial, and it is more conducive to his growth at this stage.

For example, those special cards with obvious effects before are more conducive to making a name for yourself in the NBA, gaining the core position of the team, and getting the most important training opportunities for the team.

Now it’s time for me to work hard to improve my own strength and grow from an ordinary star to a superstar, which is in the early 20s. Generally speaking, players who can become superstars are already superstars at the age of twenty-three or four. It's all about chance and staying safe.

Unhappy for a while, soon Liu Mang understood where the system's help for him at this stage was mainly concentrated. It felt pretty good, but... the alienation card was gone, and only a high-level alienation card that was useless before was left. Liu Mang felt that it would be difficult to tease the little blacksmith in the future, so thinking about it made him a little sad.

In the future, if you want to cause conflicts with your opponents, or stir up the opponent's anger, you have to figure out your own way. Liu Wei thinks that he is an upright, loving, and noble young man. He really doesn't want to do such things. !

But isn’t that what basketball is all about. In addition to the battle of strength, psychological warfare is also very important. Liu Mang felt that he could only go against his original intention. If he had time to study the opponent’s lace news, it might be useful.

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Liu Mang's training and publicity went hand in hand. On August 10, the Chinese men's basketball team announced that they would recruit players to participate in the Harbin Asian Games.

And promulgated a new national team policy after a lot of research and discussion.

Warm-up matches and non-FIBA official cup games, only domestic players are called to participate; Asian Games and Asian Championships, at least one player who plays in the NBA is recruited to lead the team; all recruited players must return to China to participate in the World Series, Fight for the collective honor of the country.

Moreover, he let go of Wang Zhizhi's "treasonous incident", and the army called Wang Zhizhi back.

When the news reached Liu Mang, who was promoting it, Liu Mang thought it was quite normal.

Although Wei Yuanli of the Blue Association is a person who values ​​the national team's record as everything, he is not stupid. Now because of the arrival of Liu Mang, the NBA has more than one Chinese player who has a firm foothold. In the original time and space, he was worried about Yao Ming. No, no big-name player can play well, but now both Liu Mang and Wang Zhizhi have a firm foothold in the NBA. Although Wang Zhizhi is not a star, he is also a good substitute. He is still playing with the Big Four. The first center of the Lakers substitute.

When there was a clear advantage in strength in the Asian Games and Asian Championships, there was a wave of discussion in China. Under the pressure of public opinion, officials are not stupid. He made a wise judgment and chose Compromise is nothing more than an international competition, and this point has not been let go.

After Liu Mang saw the new policy officially released by the Blues Association, Schwartz also received an invitation from the Blues Association to Liu Mang for the national team training.

In this regard, Liu Mang wrote an open letter to the Blue Association, expressing his support for the national team's policy and actively preparing for the Olympic Games next year. In order to prepare for winning the championship next season, it is a pity that I cannot participate in the Asian Games.

During the publicity period, Liu Mang was photographed by the media with a lot of photos and videos of additional training immediately after the publicity, so basketball fans have no doubts about Liu Mang's saying that he should work hard to improve himself.

The main reason is that the current trend of public opinion is that even if there are no NBA players to participate, if the group of people in their own national team can't win the Asian championship, they can learn from the failure of the islanders.

But, after Liu Mang said that he would not participate in the Asian Games, he still saw the news of Yao Ming's return to the national training team.

This was within Liu Mang's expectation. Yao Ming probably won't play any cup games and warm-up matches in the future, but he will definitely participate in such formal international competitions.

As for Wang Zhizhi, he may compromise with Lanxie. He will play cup games, warm-up matches, and an American star team composed of NBDL players he has never seen before, but he only plays 20 or so games in the NBA. Minutes, so it doesn't matter if you play these games, as long as you can return to the national team.

This summer, the team, himself, and the national team all went well in three aspects. Liu Mang feels that he has made a good start for the next season in the NBA!