Chapter 795

Six fouls left in the preseason, which is too rare, but on the first day of the preseason, in 9 preseason games, eight players left the field with six fouls, and all of them were outside players, all of which were the team's outside defense the best.

Wade is one of them.

In the game between the Eagles and the Heat, Liu Mang caused Wade to foul four times alone. Wade didn't know how to play after that, so he could only try to adapt to the new rules. This kind of speed and shooting is too difficult to limit. If he is tall enough, he can make contact with his chest and waist like McGrady. He can defend against breakthroughs and cover shots. Even Kobe can do it. He is tall.

But Wade is as tall as Liu Wei, and Liu Wei has an advantage in his wingspan. He is used to the defensive style that he used to be able to pull and defend. He played very well, but he was a big threat, causing Wade to foul four times in the half.

Since it was a preseason game, he didn't care about winning or losing. After Van Gundy discovered this problem, he asked Wade to adapt to the new rules on the court.

At halftime, relying on Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady's scoring, the Hawks had already led 49 to 37 by 12 points.

After Jason Terry came up in the third quarter, Wade was quickly sent off with six fouls.

On the contrary, McGrady, who started his career as a defender, and Prince, who is more talented in defense and of a similar size, worked together to study the new rules. They have already prepared for the new rules. More, McGrady twice, Prince three times.

McGrady made a big splash here, teaming up with Kwame Brown or Rasheed Wallace to defend Wade to 4 of 15 in three quarters and only scored 11 points, while he scored 13 points in a relatively easy half .

Liu Mang teamed up with McGrady to bully Wade, scoring 20 points on 5 of 9 shots.

On Prince's side, it seems that the statistics are not impressive, but when Eddie Jones was on the court, he didn't have the chance to catch the ball most of the time.

This is the characteristic of Prince. The All-Stars will never favor him, and he doesn't care about statistics, he is responsible for defense.

Liu Mang's defense on the outside is easier now. Except for double-teaming, he doesn't have to think too much about the defensive end. He can put all his thoughts on the offensive end and prepare more offensive options in advance.

Although McGrady can't put too much pressure on O'Neal like Raheem, but he can also do what Raheem can't do, he can prevent and control defenders!

And the Heat are not the Lakers. Without Malone and Wang Zhizhi, Brian Grant was used to replace O'Neal. The power forwards are Haslem and Malik Allen. Compared with the mid-range and long-range shots, the shot distance is too short. When O'Neal's physical fitness begins to decline, Rasheed Wallace can choose between double-teaming and expanding defense with ease.

Van Gundy's idea is very good, let Wade adapt to the current rules, but his on-the-spot response is too bad, plus it is a preseason game, he has not made enough preparations, and he cannot give a particularly good response method, even if O'Neal easily scored 16 points and 6 rebounds in the half, but failed to save the defeat.

After Wade got six fouls off the court by Jason Terry, who was getting more and more chicken thieves, the Heat surrendered.

The Eagles have started to adapt the play style of veterans leading newcomers. It is not too unexpected. Among the players in the first and second grades, the best performers are Calderon, Iguodala and Varejao.

Calderon, who has studied with Stockton for more than a year, received special training from Stockton in the summer, how to adapt to the confrontation, grasp and When playing inside the pick-and-roll, the mid-range shot after the pick-and-roll is a lot better, and the three-pointer is still miserable. However, he entered the NBA two years earlier and improved relatively faster. His ability evaluation reached 67, which is only three-pointer than Korver. Assisted defense has improved much faster, and Korver's ability evaluation is only 65.

However, Calderon is a little better than when he entered the NBA in the 2005-06 season. He has studied with Stockton for more than a year and has a better passing awareness.

Just confrontation is not enough, and the lack of experience in the NBA, it may take some time to really secure the position of the main substitute.

But with Iguodala, there is no problem. Top-notch confrontation, although the passing awareness is not as good as Calderon, but he is very good among the swingmen. He scored 4 points and 3 in 11 minutes of his first appearance. The data of 4 assists in boards, although it is a preseason game, but the strength and talent are visible to the naked eye, the most important thing is defense! Awareness is great!

In the first preseason game, the Eagles easily won 98 to 87.

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After playing the Heat, I saw that Liu Mang and McGrady did a good job in distributing the ball, especially McGrady. I have no dissatisfaction with Liu Mang's concentration of the ball, because Liu Mang is good at that, Crewe Coach Ge breathed a sigh of relief.

Although coach Kruger and McGrady have talked many times before, McGrady made it clear many times that he came here because he wanted to win. He has already got the data and doesn't care about these things.

But even if McGrady said so, Coach Kruger was still worried, but seeing that during the game, if Liu Mang asked for the ball, McGrady would give it to him, Coach Kruger was a little relieved.

In fact, this can be seen from McGrady’s time in the Rockets. After he was originally traded to the Rockets, his shooting rights have gradually declined. He even averaged a career-high 6.5 assists per game, because Yao Ming is getting better and better. Afterwards, they averaged 25 points per game, but Yao Ming's physical problems and the Rockets' reluctance to pay for powerful role players made McGrady's "selflessness" in the Rockets like a roller coaster. Yao Ming's most powerful halfway through 06-07 The season was when McGrady was the most selfless. That year he played 71 games and scored 50 wins and 21 losses. But after that, both of them were seriously injured. After returning, Yao Ming declined compared to before the serious injury, and McGrady himself also began to decline. Started to be alone again.

The most important thing is that McGrady didn't feel that he had a chance to win the championship in the Rockets. He said after being eliminated in the first round for the first time that they were far away from the championship and just wanted to win once in the playoffs. In the end it didn't work out.

Now McGrady has Liu Mang's ability rating of 90, Prince's ability rating of 80, Rasheed Wallace's ability rating of 89, and Kwame Brown's ability rating of 81, all of whom are all above the first-class starting teammates. The first-class star with an ability rating of 86 is a substitute, and the potential of the bench is endless. Let him destroy the good atmosphere of the team inherited from last season.

McGrady, a player who is regarded as an "unstable factor" by the team and fans, is not unstable. Instead, he uses his teammates to open up space, play efficient performances, and is willing to pass the ball. Coach Kruger is relieved.

On October 11th, when he returned to play against the Bobcats at home, coach Kruger let Liu Mang take a break, and the whole team was still accommodating Liu Mang's style of play, so he didn't need to adjust too much, let Tony - Allen and McGrady partnered in the backcourt, and Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Kwame Brown partnered in the frontcourt, and began to adapt and cooperate with various combinations.

After his teammates weakened a lot, McGrady, who is the core of the ball, also learned not to hold the ball and just do it, and this group of people, including Tony Allen, are all very physical, and McGrady played for a long time. I found that my teammates really have problems with long-range shots. Either they are too young to move well enough and need to practice, or they really have no shots and need to practice from scratch. As the commander on the field, McGrady chose to change tactics and play one of the alternate tactics. A defensive counterattack.

Without Liu Mang and Jason Terry, counterattack and hit the basket.

The most amazing thing in this game is Josh Smith. Among the point guards, he can be regarded as a top-notch speed. One of the players runs up the court and gets a pass from McGrady or Iguodala for a dunk.

Of course, the premise has to be defended. Lack of experience is the problem of this lineup. Except for McGrady and Kwame Brown, everyone else has good defensive talent and physical fitness, but the experience is too poor, and the perimeter defense becomes very difficult. Just blow the whistle.

When the main lineup is only Tracy McGrady and Kwame Brown, the game is really ugly. Of course, the Bobcats are also playing ugly. The Bobcats have nothing but Brian Knight and Jason Hart. , Can send the ball to Okafor, no one else can, and the game is not as good as the Eagles' blind play style, after all, it is a new team.

McGrady led a group of substitutes and was still running in. On the contrary, Jason Terry went up, took it and did it, and the point difference was opened up at once. After all, he is the sixth man...

In the next preseason, besides trying out the lineup, Liu Mang let McGrady and a few rookies adapt to the team's style of play. Calderon also got a lot of playing time. After seven games, Calder Long averaged 6.7 points and 4.4 assists per game. He was not limited to scoring mid-range pick-and-roll shots. Calderon did a better job of catching and mid-range shots!

Liu Mang did not expect that Calderon played so well, mainly because the turnover rate was too low, with 4.4 assists and an average of only 1 turnover per game. The assist-to-turnover ratio of more than 4 to 1 made Liu Mang very sad. I averaged 6.0 assists and 2.6 turnovers per game last season.

McGrady certainly doesn’t count the new players. Even Iguodala’s ability rating is as high as that of the five rookies. After the 21st century, the ability rating of 73 is the initial ability rating of the top three picks in most years, but Didn't play as well as Calderon.

One more year of NBA experience is still very different. Calderon is more aware of his position, knowing that he only needs to play to his strongest aspects, and not to do what he is not good at.

This is what Stockton educated Calderon. Calderon was a core defender in the Spanish team, but in the NBA, it is impossible to have that kind of treatment. Stockton asked Calderon to see how Liu Mang was when he was a rookie. How to play, Calderon saw that Liu Mang could only score at that time and focused on scoring. What he learned was that he only knew how to pass and mid-range shots, so he focused on these two points.

Being taught is very different, and Calderon quickly won the favor of Coach Kruger.

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After six preseason games played with the substitutes, Tracy McGrady has become more in-depth in understanding the team and has become more comfortable in organizing offenses. The Eagles' run-in is also getting better and better.

Mainly the coaching staff and the players have an understanding of the adaptation of the team members to the NBA.

After the preseason, the starting lineup of the Eagles is completely determined. Kwame Brown is able to average 14 points and 11 rebounds per game without occupying the ball in the preseason. It will decline, but the rebounds may be higher. Without Raheem, he needs to contribute more to the interior defense and rebounding. This is impossible for Muhammad, so Kwame Brown locked the starting position.

McGrady is still better at playing shooting guard, and has an obvious height advantage, which is a very important advantage in the shooting guard position. Prince returns to the small forward position, and Rasheed Wallace starts at power forward.

In terms of substitutes, Jason Terry is the first substitute, Iguodala and Muhammad are the main substitutes inside and outside the team, the team's ninth man position, the other four rookies and Korver did not get the position , instead, Calderon, who was undrafted in 2003, became the team's third outside substitute.

Tony Allen, Ariza and Kevin Willis were placed on the inactive list. Josh Smith and Varejao became bench players with Korver because they were insiders, so they had a chance to play .

Tony Allen and Ariza's three-pointers still have to be practiced.

The preseason game ended on the 23rd. From the 24th to the 26th, the Eagles coaching staff conducted targeted training and long-term training for the players in the 12-man roster. The arrangement of the training plan, there are too many rookies, and additional new trainers have been hired. This year, the Eagles spent more money on logistics reserves than before. After Liu Mang suggested it for two years, they successfully hired NASA. Thomas Carter, the head of the medical team, acts as the team's medical consultant, and can have better medical security when a player on the team is injured.

The hospital that the Eagles cooperate with is very good, and the Eagles team doctor is also good, but just to be on the safe side, Price still invited Thomas Carter to serve as the team's medical consultant.

The medical treatment of the NBA team is mainly divided into two parts, the team doctor and the cooperative hospital.

But there are also those like the Suns, who have a team doctor and a cooperative hospital, but still need to find a chief surgeon and medical consultant.

The Suns have cooperated with NASA very early, so Thomas Carter, the head of the NASA medical team, will become the chief surgeon of the Suns. The Eagles can invite someone to be a consultant. With a lot of thought...and money, Liu Mang recommended it for two years before reaching a cooperation with Thomas Carter.

Tony Allen and Trevor Ariza may be sent to NBDL to practice more. After everything is arranged properly, the Eagles will officially enter the regular season.

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After the team announced the active lineup list for the first game of the regular season on October 28, Liu Mang felt that Tony Allen and Trevor Ariza were not on the active list, and that each of them lost the emotion they had before.

Now the new teammates, it is difficult to have the feeling of fighting together and fighting the world together.

Now, it's more about the urgency to "defend the country".

On October 27th, the Eagles had a day off to prepare for the opening game on the 28th.

This year's opening game is different from the past. The team sent a lot of tickets to each player, and also sent a lot of tickets to the city hall, the state government, and Atlanta's local celebrities and celebrities. The reason is very simple. The 2003-2004 It's time for the championship ring of the season!

The hoisting of the championship flag and the distribution of championship rings are the biggest things at the beginning of the new season.

Players can invite their relatives and friends to help out. Officials from Atlanta and Georgia, as well as local university celebrities, social celebrities, and stars will all come to join in the fun.

Liu Mang gave a few tickets to Dinah to go to the students to pretend to be aggressive. The front row tickets for the Eagles' opening game this time can't be bought, and almost all of them are used to give away.

The remaining tickets were given to Alexia and Levia.

After going to the team to get the tickets in the morning, I went home to finish the ticketing. Liu Mang and Jason Terry went to get together with Raheem who had just returned to Atlanta. The Eagles opened the game. It's the Magic.

McGrady VS Raheem, when Liu Mang first saw the schedule, he knew that the league wanted to make trouble again.

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