Chapter 916 915. Wade Is Out of Luck Again

In three hours, Liu Mang could learn any action Jordan demonstrated. Although he missed nine out of ten shots because of some new and unfamiliar additional actions, as long as he became familiar with these actions, everything would fall into place.

It took Jordan a total of 13 years from entering the NBA to mastering the fadeaway jumper, and he only achieved it after retiring for two years in between.

But now, Liu Mang had learned all the moves in three hours, Jordan's proud back-up technique to get rid of the defense in the last three consecutive games.

Although the conflict with the original shooting action caused the shot to be inaccurate for a while, and Liu Mang had no experience in technically relying on fadeaway jumpers. In his previous fadeaway jumpers, he was forced to lean back to avoid defensive blocks. Whether you can score or not depends purely on touch. You don't have the experience of proactively using your back to get rid of the defense, but these can all be practiced by making more shots and playing more.

After mastering the technical moves and tricks to get rid of defense, as long as you have the talent for mid-range shooting, everything will fall into place with more and more training and use.

Liu Mang is famous for his good shooting talent, and he can quickly develop his left hand. He is also famous for being a prodigal when playing. He dares to shoot any move, and he can practice that kind of ugly sniper very well. allow……

The three-hour instruction of Jordan's Suspicious Life was over. Jordan had given Liu Mang all the technical moves and tips on leaning back, and there was nothing left to teach him. The next step was for Liu Mang to train himself and gain practical experience.

After Liu Mang turned off the peak training mode, Jordan was wiping his sweat and suddenly felt very tired. In addition, he was exhausted from teaching Liu Mang. He suddenly felt as if his body had been hollowed out...

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After learning the techniques and know-how from Jordan, Liu Mang excitedly took Levia back to the hotel. Alexia, Little Loli and the bodyguards had already packed their luggage and headed to the airport together. , the flight returns to Atlanta at 7 o'clock in the evening.

After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, we arrived in Atlanta. We returned home at 10:30, took a shower, and had a good night's rest.

After the All-Star Weekend, the Eagles entered the second half of the regular season. On February 18, the Eagles team training restarted in preparation for the Heat game tomorrow, the 19th.

After a few days of wandering, most of the Hawks' players were not selected for the All-Star Game. On February 16, the day of the All-Star Game, they returned to Atlanta to start training. The Hawks' four All-Stars' invitation time also ended. On the Comprehensive Game Day on the 15th, after the All-Star Game is over, the All-Star MVP will definitely be treated to a treat. Not everyone is like a certain Atlanta main point guard who won the All-Star MVP in the second round. During Xiu's two-year rookie contract, the cost of the celebration party in the evening was paid by Raheem, the team boss at the time.

Moreover, the Hawks' role players are also very conscious. When the coaching staff resumed work yesterday, under the leadership of Muhammad and Jason Terry, except for the four All-Stars who just returned to Atlanta yesterday, the other Everyone has begun to resume training and prepare for the second half of the season.

If in the first half of the season, the Eagles basically relied on the main lineup to dominate the world because the first- and second-year players were still young, then after the All-Star Weekend, the Eagles will have to start relying on the depth of the lineup.

The reason why the Eagles need to rest is not only because the coaching staff is worried about players playing too long and being injured due to the brutal schedule, but also because of their condition.

Fatigue is accumulated game by game. The main players were already very tired in the first half of the season. They finally had a little more than a week's rest during the All-Star Weekend. If the second half of the season continues, how will they be in the playoffs? It's really hard to say, especially for veteran players such as Prince and Rasheed Wallace, who played 99 games last season.

In the second half of the season, half of the season has been played, and the young players have also reached the "elimination stage". The first and second-year players who perform better will get more playing opportunities, and the worse they will perform. , the more likely he is to become a trading chip after the season.

Survival of the fittest, natural selection, is the same in the NBA biosphere.

Liu Mang has also devoted himself to recovery training. He has had enough rest during the All-Star weekend.

The main thing to practice is to practice the skills you have learned before. The most important thing is to practice the skills you know better. Of course, you must also practice new skills, but you cannot ignore one and neglect the other, and you cannot waste your existing strengths.

The joint training of the team on the 18th went smoothly. The veterans don't have to worry about fighting spirit. Most of last season's lineup was split. If I have to say the advantages, they are Liu Mang, Jason Terry, Rasheed Wallace, Pu Lins, Kwame Brown, and Mohammed, the six core players who stayed from last season, are no less eager to win than last season. They all want to prove that they can still win the championship even if Raheem and others have left.

The newcomers McGrady and Mourning have not won a championship yet. McGrady wants to prove that his role is no worse than Raheem. It is not because he came here that he will be unlucky and cannot win the championship. Mourning does not have to worry about his The problem of fighting spirit is that a veteran of 13 seasons was immediately reimbursed for the season when he was at his peak. Mourning, who had already transferred 130 million in salary before this season, still insists on playing in the NBA even after a kidney transplant. He has only one purpose-to serve the president. Champion, otherwise even if he retires, people will only pity him instead of becoming a joke like other uncrowned kings.

Veteran Walter McCarty, although he has never been on the active roster once, but in order to hold on tight and win the championship, he works hard to help young players improve during training, and wears a suit behind the bench during games. He is also the one who cheers the loudest.

As for the first- and second-year players, Calderon and Korver were marginal players last season. The three new rookies all want to seize the opportunity to strive for stability when the team strictly implements the rest plan in the second half of the season. Rotation time.

Major changes in the lineup will inevitably cause fluctuations in strength in the new season, and will make the old players who stay on the team have to work harder at the beginning, but the team will not slack off because of the championship. This is probably the benefit of the major changes in the lineup.

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After the last team training session at 4 p.m., Coach Kruger announced that there would be no trades this season before the trade deadline on the 23rd. The targeted reinforcements would use the team’s last roster spot and double-year quotas. The contract is strengthened.

This statement is not an official press conference statement, but an internal statement from the team. As the head coach and deputy general manager of operations of the Eagles, Coach Kruger speaks better than Price, but also with a little worry. Players, completely relieved.

This kind of team statement without trade rumors basically means there is no need to worry about being traded.

After stabilizing the morale of the army, coach Kruger went to work again.

The team currently has 14 players, and the rotation will not change. The reinforcements only need to strengthen the leader of the locker room, or a veteran who can step up and hold down the lineup when the team's starting lineup rests.

What is needed at this time is not strength. It is best to have a veteran like Kevin Willis. Unfortunately, Kevin Willis no longer has much thought about playing after winning the championship. After helping the Eagles complete the contract matching transaction, He immediately chose to retire.

Liu Mang is the happiest person to see that at least the team's lineup is stable by the end of this season.

It seems that he no longer cares about transactions, and the team management is also very happy that they don't have to worry about him being unhappy when operating, but this is just a relative "maturity".

So when he got Mourning's salary-clearing deal, the rookies designated to be traded were Ariza and Tony Allen, who had less communication and a more general relationship.

After the team lineup is determined to be stable, the Eagles players are fully committed to preparations for the second half of the season!

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On February 19, the Heat took a morning flight to Atlanta.

Miami is very close to Atlanta. Not only the Heat's games against the Hawks sometimes come on the same day, but the Hawks also occasionally go there on the same day.

It mainly depends on the game time arrangement.

The Heat also resumed training yesterday. For the sake of the integrity of the first training day after the All-Star weekend, they chose to come this morning. Florida and Georgia feel like Guangdong and Hainan Island, only However, the difference is that Florida is a peninsula and Hainan Island is an island.

Taking a charter flight from Miami to Atlanta only takes more than half an hour, which does not affect your physical fitness or waste time.

After arriving in Atlanta, after getting out of the plane and boarding the shuttle bus chartered by the team, Wade stood in front of the shuttle bus for a minute, blowing the wind from the foothills of Appalachia, with a kind of rustling wind and cold water. The feeling of a strong man once gone and never coming back.

After looking at all his teammates who had already boarded the bus, Wade took heavy steps and boarded the shuttle bus.

Today, the shuttle bus seems to be a little faster because the Heat have lost more than 140 kilograms of weight. Wade really hopes that the shuttle bus can be slower, but he feels that he has reached the airport passage in no time. Not far ahead is the pick-up station. Place for luggage.

Haslem is a little happy today because he no longer has to help the team boss carry the exaggerated luggage bag.

Because O'Neal is absent today!

Wade feels extremely miserable now because O'Neal is absent!

Before the All-Star break this season, the Heat played 51 games, and O'Neal played in 46 of them. He only missed five games, which was the first half of the season in the five years since O'Neal's MVP season in 1999-2000. Best year for attendance.

O'Neal only played 61 games last season, and only 35 games before the All-Star break, missing one-third of the games. He has only missed 5 games so far this season, which is already the attendance of the 99-00 season. show.

O'Neal practiced dance for a few days during the All-Star Weekend and took a good rest for seven or eight days. Now the lazy cancer has occurred again, and his weight is the first in the league. Although losing weight has made him healthier, his average per game 38 minutes of playing time is still too much, and it is really tiring, so once you relax for a while during the All-Star Weekend, you will need some time to rebuild your mentality.

O'Neal is more terrifying than Yao Ming. The strongest thing may not be his unrivaled dominance in his peak period, but his physical ability.

Yao Ming is still a young man under the age of 25. Playing 32 minutes in a game is already the limit to maintain his strength. Before the age of 30, O'Neal averaged 39 minutes per game, and once averaged 40 minutes per game in a single season. Minutes of playing time is a performance that is difficult for ordinary jumping centers to achieve. The playing time of the inside line is usually much less than that of the outside line.

Ben Wallace averaged 38 minutes per game under Larry Brown last season. In the previous two years, he averaged about 35 minutes.

But O'Neal's weight, playing style, and the fact that he can still have the same physical strength as an outside player during his peak period are the most terrifying things about him.

This season, O'Neal averaged 38 minutes per game, and he was very tired. After weighing the pros and cons, Van Gundy and Pat Riley also agreed to let O'Neal rest for a few more days. They can force O'Neal, but they can't force him to death.

Pat Riley wanted to squeeze out O'Neal's last strength, not to force O'Neal to a dead end.

So Wade once again faced the situation of fighting against the Hawks alone.

Moreover, this time there was not even Odom...

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Liu Mang, Kwame Brown, and Mourning were still discussing how to deal with O'Neal, who would definitely be furious after not being selected as an All-Star starter, in the afternoon, and they were still discussing whether to cut a shark or something.

Mourning said that he could take on the responsibility of fouling, anyway, he played less time, and the foul crisis was no problem.

Since it was the first game after eight days of rest, the players were in good physical condition. The main reason was that the four All-Stars of the Hawks played only for a short time in the All-Star Game two days ago, and they were almost exhausted. This was something that Coach Kruger had not expected.

The first game was against the Heat, and there was no need to rest. The Hawks were very excited to face the challenge of the Heat and wanted to get off to a good start in the second half of the season.

But before the game, when the Heat players came to the Phillips Arena to warm up, Liu Mang secretly took a look and found that the opponent's fattest player was not there!

Maybe he didn't want to train. Liu Mang didn't feel surprised that O'Neal didn't participate in the training.

But when they arrived at the game, Alonzo Mourning and Kwame Brown, who were ready to cut the shark, saw the two starting inside players Haslem and Mike Doriak when the Heat players came on the court...

O'Neal missed today's game!

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Liu Mang looked at the "Shark's Fury" task in the Avengers series of tasks in the task panel, and the completion rate of the latter quietly changed from (0/2) to (1/2).

Liu Mang didn't know what to say.

This fat man with the most nicknames in NBA history is simply an amazing figure!

Before the All-Star Weekend, he was still angrily criticizing the Hawks, saying that he would break Kwame Brown's kidney in the next game. He was also angrily scolded by Alonzo Mourning, criticized by many kidney patients, and warned by the league.

So the Hawks attached great importance to this game. Who knew that when playing against the Heat, O'Neal said that he was tired... and didn't want to play...

Liu Mang looked at the reward of the "Shark's Fury" task, O'Neal's star card this season... Sure enough, this kind of useless reward is not difficult...

O'Neal's absence made the Hawks "disordered".

Originally, the Hawks started with all the main lineups to target O'Neal. Korver rested for a long time during the All-Star Weekend and was sent to play in the Development League to find his form. No player was rested.

Who knew that O'Neal would not play, so who should they target now?

Liu Mang discussed with a group of teammates who had learned to be more and more sinister from someone unknown. The five starting players plus a few regular rotation players looked maliciously at a sophomore player wearing the same number jersey as McGrady who was holding the ball and preparing to practice mid-range shots.

Wade knew where the cold air coming out of his vest came from without turning around.

With Rasheed Wallace's Tianzun triggered, Wade was in trouble again today...

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