Chapter 734 733. You Must Do This (for Subscription)

Sweeping the Pistons 4-0, the Eagles became the first team to advance to the second round!

For the series between the Eagles and the Pistons, the fans' attention has long been no longer on the outcome, but on the daily choke between Larry Brown and Stephen Jackson.

Even the Eagles have been ignored. What is attracting the most attention in the East right now is not the Eagles who advanced to the conference finals the first time, nor the Pacers and Nets in the tense 2-2 series. Fans The focus on the Eastern Conference playoffs is all on the Pistons' soap opera.

The series between the Nets and the Pacers was very tense and increasingly ugly. Except for the first game, which relied on Kidd and Carter, who won the away game with a gorgeous counterattack, in the next three games, the score The game was lower than the game, and both teams began to slam defense.

In the second game, the Pacers defended the home court 85 to 77. In the third game, the Nets returned to New Jersey, and the visiting Pacers contributed an even uglier drama, 75 to 71. After the Pacers came to the away game, the home team The advantage was regained.

In the fourth game, the defensive battle between the two teams reached its peak. The Nets beat the Pacers 72 to 65 and tied the score at 2 to 2. The battle of Tianwangshan will begin on May 9.

In the West, the two-round series will be much better. Relatively speaking, the gap between the Lakers and the Spurs in the series is more obvious. The Spurs lost Bowen and lost a single-defense outsider, Malik. -Ross is very good. The backup swingman Turkoglu and Devin Brown also tried their best to take turns to defend Kobe, but the effect was not good. When they met the Spurs, Kobe exploded. In the first four games The game became 3 to 1, and that magical 0.4 seconds was invisible.

The Timberwolves and the Kings played as anxiously as the Nets and Pacers. The two teams tied 2-2. It was also a home field advantage. The Kings took away the Timberwolves' home court advantage in the first game.

The Timberwolves played very hard in the second game. Fortunately, Garnett blocked the key shot at the last moment, fanning away Bibby's three-point lore and narrowly beating the Kings.

In the third game, the Timberwolves relied on the alien Cassel's lore to grab back the home court advantage and narrowly won 114 to 113.

In Game 4, the Kings fell behind in the first three quarters at home. Because the Timberwolves played a defensive battle, the two teams managed to score no more than 60 points in three quarters. In the end, the Kings finally broke out in the fourth quarter and scored 24 points in a single quarter. At the end of the quarter, they only scored 14 points and were overtaken by the Kings. The Kings reversed the Timberwolves 83-76 and tied the big score 2-2.

The game between the Kings and the Timberwolves was very interesting. In the entire series, the top three scoring averages were all Timberwolves players, but the six players from the fourth to ninth place in scoring averages were all Kings players, three-headed monster and Team basketball contest.

There seems to be suspense in the three rounds of the series, even for the Spurs. People feel that there is still suspense. Duncan's consecutive MVP in the past two years and winning the championship by defeating all opponents by himself last season are indeed impressive. The impression it brought was too shocking.

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On May 8, in the early morning of the second day after playing against the Pistons, Liu Mang followed the Eagles out of Detroit in a flash. After returning to Atlanta, the Eagles began to prepare for their next opponent.

Since Liu Mang had put all his energy on the Pistons in the past few days, even though Liu Mang knew that the Pistons had no fighting spirit, the lack of fighting spirit did not mean that the opponent did not play well. It just did not have the desire to win, but the tactical execution was still very perfect, especially the Pistons. Regarding his flanking, Liu Mang clearly felt that the opponent's flanking strategy focused on him was not relaxed at all, but because he had no fighting spirit, the continuous defensive rotation behind him was not so active.

In order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, Liu Mang has never let down his vigilance against the Pistons. It is even more impossible for other players. In the playoffs, the opponent is still a team with 54 wins. How dare you be careless, the energy of the Eagles coaching staff has been Concentrate on the Pistons here.

When it was time to prepare for the opponents in the second round, I realized that the semifinals of another division in the Eastern Conference were so intense!

Liu Mang felt that the promotion was too early!

Since the first round was played in just nine days, the second round started too early. The league hoped that the finals could start from June 1st to 4th, so the second round went back to the home and away games. The two-day rest schedule, that is, the 2-2 tie between the Nets and the Pacers on May 6, may not be finished until the 15th at the latest. The Eagles may have to rest for up to ten days! The latest start time of the next round may be delayed until the 18th!

Rest is of course good, and it is of great benefit to the recovery of veterans such as Stockton, Ratliff, Ostertag, etc., but for young players, it is okay to rest for three or four days, ten days, maybe The status is gone!

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Liu Mang felt that he had to do something. After thinking about it for a while, he got a good night's sleep. On the second and third day, he also did simple training at home or in the arena like other teammates. Mang chose Alexia, who trained at home and played games with Dinah, and inexplicably wanted to learn flower arranging, and spent the first three days after the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Counting the day when the Eagles returned from Detroit, on the 8th and 9th, the Eagles coaching staff gave the players a holiday. On the 10th, there was only regular training, that is, two tactics lessons for one and a half hours in the afternoon, nothing else .

The progress of the remaining three series was as anxious as Liu Mang expected.

The Timberwolves lost to the Kings 76-80 at home in the Battle of Tianwangshan, and the defensive battle between the two teams was considered deadlocked.

The Nets suddenly started a runaway offensive mode. Not only Liu Mang could learn from the Nets, but Kidd also learned from the Eagles' ever-changing style of play, and came up with a dangerous move. The offensive battle started, and it really succeeded for the Nets, 121 to 113. In the battle of Tianwangshan, they once again grabbed the home court advantage in the away game.

These two most anxious series, the trends are completely opposite. They both thought that the Timberwolves and the Kings were about to break out in an offensive battle, but in the end they smashed the defense to the end.

And when everyone thought that the Nets and Pacers were about to play a more miserable defensive battle, the two teams scored more than 120 more than 110.

As for the Lakers and the Spurs, the Spurs should not be underestimated. It seemed that they lost three of the first four games and lost a home game, but they played quite well in the fifth game when they went to the away game at Staples Center. The Spurs' tactics in this game changed suddenly. They learned from the way the Eagles dealt with the Lakers in the regular season.

Although Duncan was shot 14 of 21 in three quarters by O'Neal. After the first three quarters, O'Neal scored 35 points and 11 rebounds in the interior, but in the fourth quarter, O'Neal was completely exhausted. After the game, he only scored 38 points and 15 rebounds, and only scored 3 points in the final quarter.

And Duncan also responded with 33 points and 13 rebounds. At the same time, the Spurs let Kobe play the worst performance in the series. He only took 15 shots and scored 18 points on 7 of 15. Kobe's shooting efficiency in this game is still good. Always great, but 6 mistakes!

Relying on this aggressive defensive strategy, relying on Duncan and Nesterovic's desperate one-on-one defense with O'Neal to consume O'Neal's physical energy, the Spurs successfully tied the big score to 2-3.

There is a possibility of a tiebreaker in all three series, and Liu Mang had already anticipated this situation. Therefore, on the night of the 10th, the Spurs and the Lakers scored 2-3, and after all three series were tied 2-3, He's already messaged his teammates all over and it's time to take some responsibility.

The main reason is that Liu Mang waited for three days. None of the teammates were like seniors. Even Stockton didn't do this. Only he, Liu, did it!

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"Ace, I'm going to be the boss now." Stockton patted Liu Mang's shoulder with satisfaction.

"...I said John, shouldn't this kind of thing happen to an old future like you?" Liu Mang rolled his eyes.

"In theory, this is the case. The premise is that I am an old player of our team, plus my 20-year career experience, there is no problem, but I am a new veteran, and it is not suitable for me to do this kind of thing." Stowe Ketton explained.

"But why didn't I call those bastards? They were only going to come to regular training and then go back? They don't have any sense of crisis!" Liu Wei thinks that these teammates don't have any sense of crisis?

Liu Mang sent a text message to all his teammates last night. We gathered at 8 o'clock this morning. He didn't reply to the suspicious text message. His attitude was rather rigid. Everyone came this morning.

Liu Mang was the first to come. He discussed with Coach Kruger in advance. Trainers, shooting assistants, physical therapists and others also came to the arena in advance to cooperate with Liu Mang.

For Liu Mang to take responsibility for the team, coach Kruger hopes that Liu Mang will do more to cultivate Liu Mang's awareness of being the boss.

After the teammates came, they realized that Liu Mang was going to organize more intensive training. Seeing Liu Mang's rare seriousness, the sense of oppression brought by the power of the head of state, the teammates also became serious, and they were working hard before training. Warm-up preparations, one by one to see the training that the trainers planned for themselves today.

The amount of training is not so exaggerated. The players are just asked to play a 40-minute first and second half match the next day. The amount of training on the rest day has also been raised. The consumption is not as big as a real game, and it is easier to recover.

Liu Mang called his teammates together. In order to maintain their combat effectiveness and prevent them from getting lost, the teammates also responded positively.

Liu Mang was very satisfied that his teammates did not complain after receiving the task of increasing the amount of training, but he was still a little puzzled and asked his teacher.

Stockton didn't answer, but asked instead, "Ace, who are you talking about?"

"Who are they? Jason, Sharif, Rashid..." Liu Mang counted the star players of his team.

"Ace, did you misunderstand something." Stockton laughed.

"Misunderstand something? What is it?" Liu Wei didn't understand.

"They are just role players. Do you expect a role player to have such a good sense of crisis?" Stockton calmly said something that made Liu Mang want to cover his teacher's mouth.

After looking around, there was no one else, so Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief, and growled at Stockton: "John, are you going to cause conflicts in the team?"

"Ace," Stockton didn't feel that he had said anything wrong, "do you think anyone else on this team will become a superstar besides you?"

Super star?

Liu Mang looked at the group of teammates. The most talented may be Raheem and Kwame Brown. It seems that they have no chance to become a superstar. Raheem is already at his peak, and Kwame Brown is another player. question.

Rasheed Wallace and Jason Terry... There is not much room for improvement, Ratliff is old... Boozer was strong in his prime, but it doesn't matter if he is a superstar. The power to change a team's ability.

Korver, no matter how late blooming, is just a fringe All-Star player...

Stockton continued: "These people, before you came to the Eagles, before you grew up, they were nothing. It is because of you that they have achieved what they are now. These teammates like our team, I am I've seen too many players who are as talented as them but can't make a difference even together. Glenn Robinson, Sean Kemp, Vin Baker, Antonio McDyess... too many talents people, but without the possibility of superstars, our current teammates are really good, but without you, they are nothing."

Stockton's vision is quite vicious! Liu Mang was shocked by Stockton's words. He didn't expect his teacher's analysis to be so accurate!

"In addition to strength and talent, a superstar's brain is also very important," Stockton said to Liu Mang, and Liu Mang also listened honestly with a sinking heart. Stockton was very satisfied and continued: "Your teammate They have all handed over the scepter to command them, they can't think of so much, and even if they think of it, you don't have the power to command everyone, you are the future superstar of this team, these Things are what you have to bear, your needs, you have to let your teammates meet, let your teammates sacrifice for you, instead of waiting for your teammates to react."

Stockton's words touched Liu Mang a lot, he had never thought about this kind of thought.

Really want to say, too selfish!

But which superstar is not selfish?

Isn't the future Big Three of the Heat also the sacrifice of Wade and Bosh to achieve James?

After listening to Stockton's explanation of superstars, Liu Mang subconsciously said: "Teammates come and go, only the champion is eternal?"

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