Chapter 886 885. McGrady Went Astray... (Asking for Double Monthly Tickets)

"Avengers Mission Series: MVP Battle."

"MVP battle: The host needs to defeat the team led by Steve Nash the next time they play against the Suns led by Steve Nash. Mission reward: Steve Nash peak star card, 1 endurance fruit. Failure penalty: Stamina -3.”

The endurance fruit has no level, that is, it can only +1 point like the charm fruit, but this is the most critical point for Liu Mang!

Liu Mang's current endurance is 94. If it is raised to 95, he can use the skill he got from Hamilton: Speed!

The touch will not be affected by running, which is one of Liu Mang's most needed abilities without the ball.

Liu Mang's off-ball talent is good, but there is still a gap compared with real off-ball shooters. He can only rely on running positions to quickly catch and shoot outside the three-point line to maintain a long-range shooting feeling. When receiving the ball from mid-range and shooting, the efficiency can only be said to be average.

Liu Mang must complete this task!

Although the reduction of endurance is not a big deal for him, at most the consumption of physical potions will be greater. Of course, it may also be affected by the reduction in running distance because he has become accustomed to the endurance of 94 within a certain distance, but this This kind of influence can be adapted quickly.

But what's more important is the skill of divine speed! It can make his off-ball movement and cooperation with Tracy McGrady better.

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With a new revenge mission, Liu Mang has additional motivation for the game against the Suns in addition to the motivation of playing against the strongest offensive team and wanting to beat them.

Liu Mang felt that he should carefully plan the game against the Suns.

There were many interviews last night. Liu Mang fell asleep when he got home. When he got up in the morning, he took a plane to San Antonio. Liu Mang failed to analyze carefully what went wrong in the loss to the Suns.

Liu Mang went to have lunch at noon. The team had no training schedule in the afternoon. Liu Mang did not go to the gym or the training hall rented by the team to train. Instead, he found the editor and got the video clips used by the coaching staff yesterday. , went back to the room and watched the clips of last night’s game carefully.

Almost every offense of the Suns throughout the game can be regarded as a "textbook" demonstration of running and gunning.

This game can be said to be the pinnacle of the Suns' running and gun play.

At least that's how Liu Mang feels. The Suns will never have a similar opportunity to perform the same as last night in the future.

Liu Mang's 7-for-7 start, Liu Mang also wants to attack them, Stoudemire is not injured yet, Joe Johnson is still with the Suns... everything is difficult to replicate.

And Liu Mang really can't remember the Suns having a better performance than this game. Liu Mang can regard this as the Suns' most gorgeous performance.

It's a pity that he is not the audience, but the background. Therefore, Liu Mang's memories of this game are not only the feeling of enjoying the offense, but also the displeasure of losing.

It is true that losing to the opponent in the regular season is not a big deal. In the future, the Cosmos Warriors can still be massacred by the Jazz by 30 points in the regular season. However, in the playoffs, apart from being shocked by the Rockets, the Warriors were stunned in a cold sweat in other series. They all won easily, especially in the finals with the help of the opponent's best sixth man, they easily swept their opponents and won the championship.

Losing one or two games in the regular season, or even many games, is not a problem at all as long as the playoffs win to the end.

But the method still needs to be thought of. It’s okay to lose one game, but not both. If the Suns really defeat the Spurs and enter the finals and lose two games to the opponent, Liu Mang will be fine, but his teammates may be under psychological pressure. It's so big.

Liu Mang watched every offense and defense on his side and the Suns' side twice, and discovered a lot of things.

As the saying goes, the authorities are obsessed with bystanders hahahahaha...

Liu Mang watched this game from the perspective of a bystander. Indeed, he didn't find any big problems with his own style of play. It was just that the Suns played too well!

Liu Mang was the first to deny the media's claim that his side did not try its best to defend the Suns, leading to the loss.

It's definitely not a matter of not defending, because the defensive rhythm has been destroyed by the opponent's shocking play. The Suns' shooting percentage was too high at the beginning. Nash has fully activated the Suns' offense. The Eagles insist on playing defense. It might be even worse!

The Eagles' ability to last until the end depended on their offense. If they couldn't even maintain their offense, they might have been killed early.

The Suns scored 171 points, which is really terrible. The Eagles' score is already shocking enough, and the Suns' offense is even more terrible!

Moreover, Liu Mang also saw that the Suns' offense was actually not just an offense.

The Suns seemed to have no defense, but in fact their offense was the best defense. When they scored 18 three-pointers in a single game, the Hawks' defense had completely collapsed and they could only fight on offense.

It seemed that the Suns were just playing blindly, but Liu Mang saw something different. The Suns' idea was very interesting, and it was so interesting that Liu Mang didn't even want to try.

The Suns are taking a gamble! Betting on your own good touch is the best defense.

In addition, there is also the issue of the referee's whistle blowing. In this game, Liu Mang felt some small habits of the referee's whistle blowing scale, which allowed Liu Mang to better figure out what aspects affect the referee's whistle blowing scale. .

This also gave Liu Mang a deeper understanding of the original time and space, when the Spurs easily defeated the Suns in their best offensive year in the 2005 Western Conference Finals.

The referee's whistle has a habit of whistling!

The live broadcast of a game by a TV station is usually two and a half hours, that is, 150 minutes.

Excluding the 30 minutes of two intermissions and one halftime break, there are still 120 minutes, and each quarter is about 30 minutes on average.

Since fouls and timeouts will stop the clock, the referee will choose to blow the whistle less in the game of a defensive team like the Spurs due to excessive physical contact, to avoid too many fouls and too long stop time, which will lead to "accidents" in the live broadcast.

Therefore, in addition to whether there are stars on both sides, which side is at home, whether the league supports who, and whether the referee hates Duncan, there are other factors related to the scale of the referee's whistle.

In the game between the Hawks and the Suns, the referee's habit of whistling is to whistle a lot of fouls, not necessarily shooting fouls, but maybe like Josh Smith used his chest to hit Nash on the outside line and he fouled.

Because the Suns and the Hawks played at such a fast pace, there were few dead balls, so the referee had to create dead ball opportunities to extend the game time. However, even so, the two teams only played for 135 minutes, a full 15 minutes less than usual, and about half of these 15 minutes were advertising time for the game.

The reduction in advertising time is a broadcast accident for NBA live broadcasts!

Because the two teams played at a fast pace, the referee was used to calling a lot of fouls. Because of this inertia of calling fouls, once the Hawks played rough defense, they would be fouled.

But the Hawks' fouls were not deliberately prepared to disrupt someone's rhythm like the Spurs. They were normal defensive fouls that did not affect the Suns' rhythm, causing the Hawks to be passive everywhere.

Liu Mang studied the details of the game with the Suns for an afternoon, and these were probably all he could think of. His head was a little swollen, and this kind of thing should have been done by the coaching staff.

But the first year of the Suns' run-and-gun was their peak in the regular season. No team could stop them in the regular season, and the coaching staff had no choice, so Liu Mang had to do it himself.

Liu Mang took out a small notebook and wrote down what he thought of one by one, so that he could discuss it with Coach Kruger, Stockton, and Mike Woodson. The key point was that the three coaches would study it. He was good at using the advanced things in his memory to analyze the opponent, and he would also come up with some tricks, but the real direction of dealing with a team still had to be left to professionals.

At dinner time, Liu Mang handed several important findings he had written to Coach Kruger and Mike Woodson. After reading them, the two stared at Liu Mang, wanting to open Liu Mang's head to see what was in this guy's head!

They were thinking hard about how to deal with opponents from a tactical perspective, but Liu Mang's thinking angle was completely different from theirs!

This gave the coaching staff a new idea to deal with the Suns!

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“Tracy, didn’t you learn how to pass the ball from John? Do you need to learn more?”

“I only learned how to pass the ball more accurately from John in the summer, but I didn’t learn how to organize the offense. I just watched and passed the ball.”

“…”

Liu Mang was speechless about McGrady. He shouldn’t “waste” his talent like this. He averaged 11.6 assists per game with a few random passes.

However, Liu Mang felt that the difference between McGrady’s passing now and when the Big Three played with Rondo and when Rondo played with the Big Three was the same?

On the morning of the game against the Spurs, it stands to reason that such an important opponent should have a good rest in the morning, listen to the tactics in the team meeting at noon, train well in the tactical training in the afternoon, and work hard to win the game at night.

But he was not woken up by McGrady at more than seven in the morning.

McGrady wanted to learn how to organize the offense from Stockton, instead of being a professional breakthrough player and passing the ball to his teammates when he saw that there was an open space.

McGrady is not willing to just be such a "core of the organization". He wants to be like Nash, who can drive his teammates by passing the ball and make them better!

If McGrady goes to a team that needs him to score, he will not be very touched when he sees Nash organizing the offense. He will only feel that he is amazing, and then envy Joe Johnson or Stoudemire for having such good teammates to pass the ball for them.

But in the Hawks, McGrady thinks that Nash is so amazing. If he can pass the ball like him to make his teammates better, that will be enough.

Now McGrady can only make most teammates play their own strengths, free Liu Mang from controlling the ball, and shoot recklessly like Jordan without worrying too much.

But McGrady feels that it is not enough. He wants to make his teammates stronger like Nash!

McGrady can clearly feel that in terms of talent, the Suns are far inferior to the Hawks he is in now, but Nash, like Kidd, can make his teammates perform beyond their original abilities, and McGrady wants to do the same.

Some people are talented in this aspect, but some people need to learn.

McGrady can use his threat to pass the ball to his teammates, and can rely on Liu Mang's running position to pass the ball to Liu Mang, but he wants to be like Nash, but he doesn't have the talent in this area. This is a kind of consciousness, not something that can be acquired by learning things quickly and having good physical talent. It is another kind of talent.

Then McGrady can only learn, and find someone with this talent to learn from.

And the Hawks happen to have such a person.

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Liu Mang and McGrady found Stockton, who was working out on the elliptical machine in the gym with Malone.

Stockton is a super point guard who is not inferior to Nash in organizing offense.

If Baylor, who averaged 38 points per game, is the footnote to Chamberlain's seven consecutive scoring titles, then Malone is the most tragic footnote to Jordan's 10 scoring titles in 12 seasons, except for his rookie year in the Bulls era.

Malone ranked second in the scoring list for five seasons. Coincidentally, Jordan ranked first.

Of course, this is good enough, and Malone's performance is inseparable from Stockton.

"Tracy, do you want to learn to organize the offense? Are you going to give up being a scorer? Once you embark on this road, it will be difficult to give up." After hearing McGrady's intention, Stockton smiled.

"It's difficult to give up?" McGrady asked doubtfully.

"Yes, when you start to really learn to organize the offense, one day you will find that you will hate the kind of guy who shoots casually, the kind of guy who only knows how to shoot but not pass the ball, and you will feel that you don't want to be that kind of person in your life." Stockton said and glanced at Malone and Liu Mang.

Liu Mang and Malone looked at each other, and both of them had the same expression in their eyes: Is this middle-aged uncle talking about us?

"Why?" McGrady was curious.

"Because when you become a real organizer, you want all your shots to be taken at the best opportunity, but often the reality is not like this." Stockton smiled after saying that.

"You mean, when you are an organizer, you can't shoot casually?" McGrady expressed his understanding.

"No, when you are an organizer, the first choice is to shoot yourself!"

"Huh?"

There is another chapter tonight~ I don't know the specific time, I will update it after I finish writing it, I will go home to have a meal and rest before writing. Thank you so much for the rewards, five leaders! The distance from the homepage is all leaders... Well, you always have to have dreams, just in case it comes true.