Chapter 746
The enthusiasm of the Eagles players is very high!
After a night of surfing and two days of rest, the Eagles players returned to the training ground, and their enthusiasm was obviously higher than when they played against the Nets!
The Nets are a thing of the past. In the past, the Eagles wanted to beat the Nets the most. Now, after crossing the Nets, seeing the championship, they are only 4 games away from victory. Everyone becomes more excited .
Of course, the bonuses for winning the Eastern Conference Finals are also indispensable. From entering the playoffs to finishing the first round, finishing the second round and advancing, the team bonuses won by the Eagles have reached 610,000 US dollars, and the owner Price paid out of his own pocket Doubled, that is 1.22 million US dollars. This time, the bonus for reaching the finals, that is, the Eastern Conference finals is 370,000 US dollars, and the double is 740,000 US dollars. The entire playoffs until now have added up to 1.96 million US dollars Bonuses, nearly 30 Eagles players, coaching staff, trainers, team doctors, physical therapists, etc., have received an additional bonus of nearly 70,000 US dollars in addition to their salary in this year's playoffs.
For Liu Mang’s big endorsement or Raheem and Ratliff’s annual salary of tens of millions, or Jason Terry and Rasheed Wallace who just signed a long-term contract with a starting salary of 8 million to 9 million It's not a lot of money.
But it's different for others. Even Muhammad, who has a full middle-class contract, and Kwame Brown, who has a contract with the No. 1 pick, are not a small amount of money, not to mention that most of the Eagles players are rookies or have a basic salary.
Originally, if it was only more than 30,000 US dollars, the players might also be happy, but now it is almost 70,000 US dollars, and the excitement is more than doubled.
Because in the finals, either the champion or the runner-up, this season the championship prize is more than 1.63 million U.S. dollars, and the runner-up is more than 970,000 U.S. dollars, which is the 70,000 U.S. dollars that the players have already won. To be doubled is not a small amount for role players.
The enthusiasm of the role players has come, and the main players have no lack of motivation, and the motivation of the Eagles team has been fully raised.
It’s just that in the largest office in the Phillips Arena, a certain boss who had no money to save money for many years and spent his salary below the salary cap to save money, although he is rich now, he saw hundreds of thousands of bonuses going to him. Swipe out of my own small treasury, still feel heartache, and I am used to being stingy.
The reluctance in the eyes of a certain boss when he blocked the team's team members from the league's check and his extra doubled check before giving the team's finances was clearly seen by the players. While the players were happy, they all The boss is still so stingy in the abdomen.
Somebody Liu feels that this boss is simple. He made it to the finals. The net profit of a home game has already been posted. The average price of the first home game ticket is 343 US dollars, and the price of the grandstand ticket is more than 100 US dollars. Yes, the ticket price of the stands for the Spurs and Nets was double that of last year, and the net profit of the first game was three to four million dollars. This boss doesn't know where he got the stingy attitude and stinginess I don't know where I learned it.
After the bonus was paid out, the players of the Eagles were very active and the coaching staff was also very satisfied with tactical training, shooting training, one-on-one offensive and defensive training, etc., and they were fully preparing for the next finals with the Lakers.
Although it has been confirmed that the first game of the finals will not start until June 4th, the Eagles will have to rest for a full week, but no one relaxes in training. This opponent is not comparable to the opponents in the previous three rounds of the series .
And the Eagles are sure to be preparing for the series against the Lakers. Although the result of last night's game was beyond Liu Mang's expectations, the Timberwolves actually pulled the big score to 2-3.
When watching the game last night, before the game, the Timberwolves announced that Kassel would not be able to play the rest of the game because of an ankle injury. Liu Wei thought that the Timberwolves were almost finished, and maybe the finals would start on the 1st.
The Timberwolves put Szczerbiak, who only came back in the playoffs and played more than a dozen games throughout the playoffs, back to the starting small forward position, and Sprewell played point guard.
Without Cassell to contain Kobe's defense, the madman went to play point guard. Liu Mang felt that the madman was going to be killed by a mad dog. Who knew that Szczerbiak would come back to life immediately after returning to the starting position! In the first quarter, he made 3 of 4 three-pointers. Devin George, Fisher, Payton, and Fox took turns to defend and couldn't defend, forcing Kobe to defend Szczerbiak.
Relying on 3 of 4 three-pointers in the first quarter by Szczerbiak, plus an air-cut running shot, he scored 13 points in a single quarter, and the Timberwolves showed their momentum in the first quarter. All of a sudden, the momentum was like a rainbow.
Then in the next three quarters, Szczerbiak was defended by Tieke with his rich experience in blacksmithing, but the madman side, facing Fisher or Payton, played like a duck to water, plus two points in the first quarter, and scored in the last three quarters. Up to 26 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists, 28 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists in the game, the most important thing is the last three-pointer, with 4 seconds left in the game, three-pointers in 43 and a half minutes before the 44th minute of the game The 0-for-4 madman hit a key three-pointer to help the Timberwolves beat the Lakers with a 1 point behind 101 to 102.
104 to 102, the Timberwolves played the big score as 2 to 3 and continued for a game.
Judging from the scene, the game in the west is really beautiful! The ending was also unexpected.
But after watching the whole game, Liu Mang still didn't think the Timberwolves had a chance to come back.
Because the Lakers have no problem with offense at all. Kobe had 23 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists, O'Neal had 17 points and 13 rebounds, Malone had 14 points and 9 rebounds, Wang Zhizhi had 11 points, 2 blocks and 2 rebounds, and Fisher scored 18 points on 7 of 11 shots. The team's offense is still playing very well, and it also defended Garnett with a shooting percentage of only 38%. Of course, Garnett grabbed 19 rebounds frantically and scored 18 points and 19 rebounds. , but the most important thing is that Szczerbiak broke out, playing a performance that was beyond the preparation of the Lakers and was an explosion.
Liu Mang doesn't think the Timberwolves have a chance to win three games in a row. The probability of such an outbreak is too low. Even if Szczerbiak really can have such a goal as long as he returns to the starting lineup, it is too late now. If he He was put on the starting lineup at the beginning of the series and had such a performance. At that time, Cassell was not injured, and he might really be able to compete with the Lakers, but now Cassell is not here. From the perspective of the next three quarters, Cassell At most, Biak took the position of Cassel to attract Kobe's defense away, and the madman really exploded today, motivating the whole team, and just dragged the game until the last minute lore, if That three-pointer missed, even if the Timberwolves broke out, the Lakers still played normally and did not lose the wind.
Of course, Liu Mang’s words, relatively speaking, hope to meet the Timberwolves in the finals, it will be a lot easier to play, but the Spurs can’t beat the Lakers, let alone the Timberwolves, with that kind of unrealistic expectations, Liu Mang still prefers to play for Prepare to meet the strongest opponent.
The Eagles coaching staff and other players basically watched the game, and their thoughts were similar to Liu Mang's. The Timberwolves are a flashback, and it is really unlikely that they have a chance to beat the Lakers.
...
After the training arranged by the coaching staff in the afternoon, it was only 2:30, and the training started at 1:00, and it lasted only one hour, before the coaching staff let the players rest.
Serious training means serious training, but the training table given by the coaching staff is still relaxed. The first day of training today, I just came back from two days of rest, mainly tactical running, defensive positioning, and personal shooting training and simulation The Lakers play one-on-one offense and defense, so the amount of training is not large, and it ended early, and there will be training for the match tomorrow.
After finishing the training so early, Liu Mang couldn't hold back his restless heart, so he chose a teammate with the best single defense on a difficult team to challenge.
Liu Mang found Prince and said provocatively, "Tayshawn, shall we play heads-up?"
Prince is preparing to practice open three-pointers. His three-pointers have been poor against the Pistons and Nets. He doesn’t want to be slowed down on the offensive end when he is playing against the Lakers. He can practice for a few more days. Also light.
Faced with Liu Mang's provocation, Prince shook his head and continued to shoot three-pointers.
"..." Liu Mang felt a deep sense of frustration in his heart when he saw this little prince who might not get a response even if he slapped him.
Where did you learn this calm personality?
In Liu Mang's view, Duncan's so-called calmness and low-key are not as good as Prince's. When a person's calmness and low-key are passed around and the whole world knows, on the other hand, this person is no longer low-key. .
Just like people often say that so and so is underestimated, and when this argument that a certain player is underestimated has become recognized, then this player is no longer underestimated, and it can even be said to be overestimated, because everyone has recognized it. The strength of this player has grown, and may even exceed the recognition he should have had.
And Prince, in Liu Mang's view, is the real low-key. If it weren't for the later generations who fired the Pistons five tigers all day long, it would be difficult for Liu Mang to find Prince even if he paid attention to the year when the Pistons won the championship.
The five Pistons people discussed the most were Ben Wallace, then Billups, Hamilton, then Rasheed Wallace, and finally... Many people discussed the Pistons for a long time, but they didn't think of the five tigers. There is Prince...
This girl is really low-key. One day when Prince brought his son to the afternoon tea party invited by Raheem, Liu Mang found out that this guy is married and has a son...
no! Liu Mang is not the kind of person who will give up casually, he just wants to challenge Prince to a duel.
Since the provocations are useless, it is probably useless to talk about it, Liu Mang directly pulled Prince into the basket: "Go, today you have to challenge me one-on-one!"
"..." Prince stared at Liu Mang for two seconds, as if he was thinking about how not to hurt Liu Mang's self-esteem, but he didn't seem to think of a way, and said seriously: "Boss, your singles are against me. It's useless, you will be guarded to death by me."
"..." Liu Mang gulped down a mouthful of old blood, and swallowed it back forcefully.
Do you want to be so direct!
But there is nothing wrong with what people say, unless he cheats and insists on fouling, otherwise, in the one-on-one duel with Prince, the one-on-one goal percentage is only in the early 40s, which is very low in the duel. .
Of course, there are even lower ones. In this year's regular season, Prince's restricted opponent's shooting percentage was only 29.3%, ranking first among outside players who played more than 12 minutes per game in the league. It's those superstars whose hit rate in one-on-one singles against Prince is as high as 35% to 40%.
In this season's high confrontation environment, Prince's single defense is invincible. Of course, because of this season's environment, the Eagles also use the same defense during training.
Among the Eagles' perimeter players, except for Raheem who is a bug who can dunk against Prince, everyone else has been abused by Prince's defense.
Looking at Prince with seriousness written all over his face, Liu Mang felt that such serious words were too hurtful!
Be tactful! Young master is the future boss of your family!
Liu Mang acted arrogantly: "You bastard, today you will be tortured to death by me! Come on, one-on-one! In the past, big brother let you go, now let you see the real technique!"
real tech? Prince's mind was extremely calm. Hearing Liu Mang's words, he focused on Liu Mang's last sentence.
Prince suddenly thought of the left-handed attack that Liu Mang used against the Spurs and Nets, and then thought of coming early in the morning, seeing Liu Mang practicing his left-handed breakthrough, and immediately focused.
Without speaking, Prince picked up a ball, kicked the other balls out of the half court, took a step inside the top arc and waited.
This shit is so cold! Who is the boss!
Liu Mang must teach this guy a lesson, reaching out for the ball when he came beyond the three-point line.
Prince sent the ball to Liu Mang.
After Liu Mang received the ball, he began to look for Prince's defensive flaws.
He is tall, has long arms, and is so quick in small steps. Damn, he has no defense at all! There is no chance of a strong shot, unless it is McGrady's style of play, but Liu Mang knows that although his arms are as long as Princeby's, he is still not as long, and his height is completely suppressed, so he can only use a breakthrough!
Liu Mang snorted, and thought in his heart: Today, the breakthrough of Xiaoye is different from before!
Liu Mang was dribbling the ball, when he suddenly exerted force on his legs, and ejected towards the right side, seeing Prince sticking up immediately, Liu Mang instantly understood that Prince wanted to use his good post defense to suppress the opponent's attack Speed then block this trick from behind!
Liu Mang had been prepared for a long time. The second step with his left foot kicked hard to the ground. It was not a backward step, which was useless to Prince, but a large horizontal dribble. When he stepped out, his left hand went to the ground. With a hard slap, he took a big step sideways.
After overflowing, Liu Mang saw Prince pounced on him, and immediately kicked his right foot to the left and moved horizontally again. When his right shoulder was squeezed by the pounced Prince, he dribbled the ball with his left hand and headed towards the basket Strong kill!
However, Prince seemed to be attacking the defense and didn't really use his strength. He had already predicted that Liu Mang would use this kind of exaggerated space in one-on-one play without the interference of his teammates and opponents. The singles action was used to distract him, so the jumping action was just a defensive fake action. When he came into contact with Liu Mang's body and saw Liu Mang's quick left-hand rushing action, which he hardly ever appeared in normal times, he knew he had guessed it. That's right! Immediately move across to the right.
In the process of Liu Mang's strong attack, he originally planned to use his right hand to resist Prince and go around to the left side of the Nets to attack, but it was empty. After Liu Mang rushed to the free throw line on the left side of the Nets, he found that Prince Lins has moved over!
It was predicted!
Excellent single-defense anticipation, top-notch lateral movement!
The long legs are amazing! Liu Mang couldn't care less, he didn't slow down and started again, he slapped the ground hard with his left hand, and charged into Prince!
Only then did Prince really press up, leaning against Liu Mang, with his right arm raised above his head, ready to block the shot at any time.
Liu Mang felt that the entire shooting space was covered, so he could only jump one step to the right, but he didn't really shake Prince away. After another jump, Prince still didn't take off, and followed steadily. Liu Mang had already taken two steps. After taking a step, he had no choice but to jump, grabbed the ball with his right hand, and forced a shot against Prince's block!
Only then did Prince jump up to block Liu Mang's forced layup.
Just when Liu Mang was about to be blocked, he almost subconsciously took the ball back in the air, switched to his left hand, couldn't care less, and threw it towards Prince's back.
Prince turned his head and saw that the ball spun and hit the backboard, bounced off the rim, earned two laps and fell into it.
Liu Mang fell to the ground after scoring the goal, and excitedly shouted at Prince: "Kang Mang, the second grader, you just said you can't guard against me!"
Can this be changed? Even Prince was shocked!
He has just tried his best to defend with all his strength, and he has achieved the ultimate that he can do. He used his head, body, and gambling prediction that Liu Mang will break through with his left hand, but he still couldn't prevent it in the end. !
Not only can Liu Mang play one-on-one with no other teammates or opponents occupying space, and use a larger space to play singles, Prince also has better defensive conditions when defending than in a formal game, just not worrying about the opponent coming suddenly There is no need to worry about the opponent using other teammates under the basket to occupy space and then compress his defensive space. The conditions are beneficial to everyone.
This really surprised Prince!
Prince was very concerned about the fact that Liu Mang used his left hand to attack the opponent in the two games against the Spurs and the Nets, but Liu Mang didn’t use it in training, so he didn’t have a chance to ask. , Now I feel it myself, it's really amazing! No wonder Bowen and Kidd have been played around.
However, Prince still felt that it was a little less interesting than he imagined. He had already prepared himself for being unable to guard against the situation that Kidd and Bowen encountered. At that moment, if Liu Mang stepped back and made a jump shot, he would be unable to guard against it.
But in the end, Liu Mang didn't use the long-distance shot. He insisted on attacking the basket for a layup, or forced a layup in the air to make a lucky shot, which made Prince feel a little weird.
Prince pulled Liu Mang up and said, "Boss, let's do it again!"
"Ah?" This time it was Liu Mang's turn not wanting to come again.
If it's over now, the hit rate is 100%, how handsome, the only player on the team who has hit 100% in one-on-one duels with Prince this season is still such a difficult ball.
In the breakthrough process just now, it wasn't that Liu Mang didn't want to take a step-back jump shot, but that there were very few changes in that direction. Although the process of changing directions was smooth, there were still some discomforts in the middle, and it took time to get used to it.
"No, I'm tired." Liu Mang wanted to leave.
"Boss, I will definitely be able to guard against you, come on, try again!" This time it was Prince's turn to hold Liu Mang to prevent him from leaving.
Seeing the expression on Prince's face, the excited and happy expression, Liu Mang's whole body is not well, he really wants to leave, isn't he not interested in heads-up just now?
Liu also felt the opponent's mood when he refused to admit defeat and forcibly pulled the opponent to continue when he played games and trained various heads-ups in the past...
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