Chapter 681: 680. The So-Called Loyalty
"Ding... Black Mamba's Enemy quest completion times +1, award mid-level superstar worth 1 lottery draw."
"Ding... Kobe's hostility to the mission completion (7/8), Kobe Bryant's hostility towards the host has reached the highest point, the next time the host and Kobe Bryant fight, Kobe Bryant's hostility to defeat the host Desire reaches its peak and will continue every time you fight the host throughout your career."
"Ding... Black Mamba's road to counter-war suppression task completion (1/2 of the 03-04 season has been completed.)"
"Ding... the host is regarded by the fans as the most popular MVP of the regular season this season, the attention has skyrocketed, and the rogue value has entered a peak period of growth."
"Ding... the regular rewards of the game, winning the game and data rewards total 3125 superstar points..."
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Looking at a bunch of quest progress and quest reward reminders, Liu Mang felt that it was best to play the little blacksmith. Although he was a little tired, the rewards were really many!
After the All-Star Weekend and defeating Kobe and Garnett in two games, Liu Mang's rogue value has reached 63.12 million points, which is one step closer to 100 million.
As the most popular MVP, the United States, as the center of world basketball, naturally caused a sensation. Maybe the influence of the American football team is the strongest in the four major leagues in the United States, but the influence of the stars, the superstars of the NBA are all sports in the United States. In the project, the most influential and most intuitive example is the number of Twitter fans in the future. James will have nearly 20 million Twitter fans in the future, which is the highest among American athletes.
After Liu Mang became the most popular MVP, the attention in the United States has also increased. After all, sports competition is based on strength and performance on the field. In the past two summers, many fans have said that Liu Mang has reached his limit every year. Yes, but Liu Mang will perform even better next season. Now that he has become the MVP favorite, the fans are really convinced by Liu Mang!
Of course, those who should hate Liu Mang are still hated, and those who should be hated are still hated, but even the fans who hate and hate Liu Mang have already regarded Liu Mang as a real top ten player in the league!
During the All-Star Weekend, Liu Mang first defeated the inside player with the best performance this season, and then the outside player with the strongest overall offensive and defensive performance this season. Liu Mang's current limelight is second to none in the league!
In terms of personal strength, obviously not many people think that Liu Mang is the strongest player, including Eagles fans, but this does not affect that Liu Mang is now recognized as the best player this season!
If we really want to talk about the ranking of strength, Liu Mang has proved that he is worthy. At the beginning of the season, the major media ranked him tenth in the league. His performance this year is worthy of such a ranking.
But just like the future Derrick Rose only ranked seventh in the strength list in the second season after winning the MVP, the seventh strength does not mean that he cannot be the best player.
Liu Mang is now similar to Rose in the future, one step at a time a year, making steady progress. In the third season, the team formed a lineup that almost perfectly fit him around him, allowing him to perform like an MVP.
After defeating Garnett, the strongest insider, and Kobe Bryant, the strongest outsider, Liu Mang's call for MVP is even higher!
In addition to the fact that the rogue value is getting closer and closer to the super mark of 100 million, the accumulation of superstar points is also progressing steadily. When it comes to the playoffs, it may need to consume a lot of superstar points. This year's goal is only the championship, so Liu Mang To save as much star value as possible, there are already 23117 points.
There are also two mid-level superstar reward draws after defeating Kobe, and everything is progressing steadily as Liu Mang imagined.
It's just that Liu Mang felt that the little blacksmith with a bad face had already been defeated seven times and only won once. Sometimes he was just serious, but when he was guarding against the young master, he turned into a super mad dog, which was really hateful.
After despising the little blacksmith 10,000 times in his heart, Liu Mang took a bath and went to bed. The brutal Liu Lianke had just finished the first round, and he was still tired after that.
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The Eagles defeated the Lakers, and defeated the Lakers with a crushing attitude, which surprised the fans!
Unsurprisingly, Liu Mang, who got 46+10, became the focus of discussion.
In addition, the defensive strategy used by the Eagles to deal with O'Neal has made other teams shine. It seems that there is a way to defend the strongest team in the Western Conference this year!
But the coaching staff of other teams studied it and found that it was not the case!
The Eagles' defensive strategy against the Lakers seems irreproducible!
It is true that many teams can use O'Neal's move, but there is Kobe on the outside and Malone at the power forward!
Not all teams have the perimeter defense ability of the Eagles to restrain Kobe. The fans, coaching staff and players of other teams found that even if the Eagles gave a strategy to deal with the Lakers, they had no way to learn from it. .
As for the Eagles, on the second day after playing against the Lakers, the Eagles departed from Los Angeles in the afternoon and came to Portland, the Rose City. Trail Blazers.
Returning to Portland, the most excited is Rasheed Wallace who "returned to his hometown".
Last summer, Rasheed Wallace was abandoned by the Blazers, and he was almost given away for nothing. The Antoine Walker he got this year only averaged 14 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists per game.
Without Rasheed Wallace, the Trail Blazers can't even touch the playoffs this year. The West will enter the playoffs this year and win at least 45 wins, and only the Nuggets are a challengeable goal. But the Blazers are now only 22 wins and 30 losses.
Originally, after getting Antoine Walker, the first All-Star player of the 96 golden generation, the Trail Blazers fans were very excited. They felt that Randolph’s offensive end was no worse than Rasheed Wallace, and there was an extra Antoine Walker. Towan Walker is much better than the old Pippen. Before the start of the season, Trail Blazers fans thought that their team had another chance to hit the championship. Damon Stoudemire, Derek Anderson, Anderson Towan Walker, Zach Randolph, Dale Davis, almost an "all-star lineup", made Trail Blazers fans feel full of hope.
However, when the season started, except for Zach Randolph, who relied on his super personal offensive ability to average 20+10 rebounds per game, it was in line with the desire of Trail Blazers fans for 20+10 stars. Rasheed- Wallace hasn't put up numbers like this in his years with the Blazers, but everyone else has fallen well below expectations.
Without the accommodation of "little brother" Pierce, Antoine Walker came to the purgatory team environment of the Trail Blazers, and there were not so many opportunities for wave shots. Zach Randolph and Damon Stoudemire The two will not accommodate Antoine Walker. Randolph himself has to use statistics to try to renew his contract early after this season. He wants to become another player in the 2001 class who has received a maximum salary.
Trail Blazers fans sprayed Rasheed Wallace for more than half a year after Rasheed Wallace left and even cut his salary and renewed his contract with the Eagles early, but now they find out that without Rasheed Wallace, They can't even make the playoffs!
When Rasheed Wallace came to Portland to play away games, many fans found that there was no motivation to boo Rasheed Wallace! The main reason is that he doesn't have that face boo!
In this game, Liu Mang took the initiative to play for Rasheed Wallace. The two played unskilled pick-and-roll cooperation. Rasheed Wallace showed a fierce desire to attack from the very beginning of the game.
As for defense... Don't look at the Blazers with 20+10 Zach Randolph, Little Flying Squirrel, Antoine Walker, and Derek Anderson are all players who average 14 points per game, but the total score of the Blazers' entire team is only averaged. 89 points, everyone is busy collecting data, and the iron is not necessary. This season so far, the Blazers have not scored more than 100 points. There is no need for Rasheed Wallace to defend desperately, even the Eagles Neither side sent Ratliff out, and used the starting inside combination of Rasheed Wallace and Kwame Brown. The defensive end only needs to grab rebounds.
Rasheed Wallace released his gorgeous offensive performance in this game, which was second only to Webber in the West. After receiving the ball, he sent the ball to the basket in various ways in the Blazers' terrible defense. Liu Mang's assists skyrocketed today. He only needs to pick and roll with Rasheed Wallace once. The opportunity for Rasheed Wallace to cut into the interior or run back outside the three-point line to open up the catch and shoot will come out all at once. , Liu Mang played 17 minutes in the half, scored 11 points and 6 assists, and Rasheed Wallace scored 22 points in the half. The two joined hands to lead the Eagles to a score of 57 to 44 in the half.
In the third quarter, Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and Rasheed Wallace all started shooting wildly, shooting when they had the opportunity. Everyone wants to brush up on the big data contract.
Liu Mang played a full third quarter, scoring 9 points and 5 assists, Jason Terry scored 12 points in a single quarter, Rasheed Wallace scored 13 points in a single quarter, and the Eagles played a 37-22 single quarter in the third quarter The score, after three quarters, the Eagles easily led 94 to 66 by nearly 30 points.
20 points, 12 assists and 2 rebounds in three quarters. Liu Mang clocked out after three quarters. Rasheed Wallace scored a season-high 35 points in three quarters. When he left the field, the audience finally booed.
I don't know if the fans are booing Rasheed Wallace or the Blazers management, probably both...
In the fourth quarter, the Eagles finally sent Stockton, the old man who loves to collect statistics, to collect statistics with Boozer. There was no defense, and the scores of both teams skyrocketed.
In the end, the Eagles beat the Blazers 129 to 100 by 29 points and won four consecutive victories!
Once again, Liu Mang, who got 20+10, happily got more than 2,700 superstar points and accepted the victory of the game.
With 45 wins and 8 losses, the Eagles are only 5 games away from winning 50!
There are exactly 5 games left in this month, and there are still 4 consecutive away games in the 6 consecutive away games and another match against Zhan on February 29. If these five games are won, the Eagles will become the best team since 1995. -After the 1996 season, the first team to get 50 wins in February!
only……
Jazz, Pistons, 76ers, Kings...
The Jazz and the 76ers are okay, the Pistons and the Kings...
It's really difficult!
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Salt Lake City, the place where the dream of Shuangsha began.
"What's the matter, John, why do I feel like you're going to cry? Wow, I didn't expect John to be so attached to this city!"
On the bus from the Salt Lake City airport to the hotel where he was staying, Liu Mang looked at Stockton who was looking out the window with tears in his eyes, and couldn't help joking.
Stockton put away his memories, smiled at Liu Mang and said, "Yeah, I never thought that I would leave here to play in other cities... One day you may understand my feelings."
Stockton pointed out that the current NBA is no longer the NBA of the past. Players are more willing to think for themselves. The team can make money no matter what it does, the owners of all other teams rely on their love to pay their players salaries. They are supported entirely by their love for basketball, such as the local tyrants of the Blazers.
But now more team owners want to make money. Since the Magic Birds in the 1980s and Jordan brought up the NBA's income in the 1990s, the NBA has changed a bit to some extent.
Loyalty is not such an important thing anymore. The players and the team no longer put loyalty in the first place. Even Olajuwon, the number one star in team history, will be traded in his later years.
One of Stockton and Malone survived until the age of 40, and the other survived until the age of 41 without being traded, which is already very rare in the NBA.
Liu Mang didn't pay much attention to Stockton's emotional words, and responded casually: "Probably..."
Regarding the matter of NBA loyalty, Liu Wei feels that it is mutual. He has won a big contract, played worthy of the contract, and made due contributions without violating his conscience during the contract period. This is loyalty. The team is here Giving full support during the period is also loyalty.
It's not that the players have to stick to it, and the team will give the players big contracts regardless of whether they play well or not. That's not what is called loyalty.
True loyalty is mutual, never a personal affair.
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When they arrived outside the hotel, the Eagles players suddenly found that outside the hotel where they were staying, there were actually fans holding various signs of cheering for Stockton on the side of the road!
February in Salt Lake City is not too warm, even very cold. After all, this is the venue for the Winter Olympics. The fans are braving the cold wind. It is estimated that they have been waiting for a long time. Eagles players have seen some fans wiping their noses .
Even Stockton didn't expect that when he was young, the fans didn't do this, and he didn't expect that after he became a player of other teams, the fans would support him like this.
Stockton, who had been sadly missed before, did not continue to miss, but took the initiative to wave to the fans...
Liu Mang watched this scene without saying a word, he actually felt a little envious...