Chapter 917 916. Little Jimmy's Tragic Moment

Wade's dream of defeating Liu Mang was shattered again.

I don't know since when, the top five players in the 03 generation have regarded defeating Liu Mang as their "first goal".

But only Anthony has achieved this goal.

Therefore, in addition to being somewhat out of tune with the other four players in the top five players in the 03 generation, Anthony also seems out of tune with the other four on the court.

Why can you feel good when we are abused?

Therefore, the other four brothers are very "unhappy" with Anthony, and every time they lose to Liu Mang, they are even more unhappy.

Without O'Neal's restraining power, Wade was besieged by the entire Hawks in this game.

O'Neal averaged 23.7 points per game, and Wade averaged 24.5 points per game. The two scored almost half of the Heat's average points per game.

Without O'Neal, the Heat's offensive firepower dropped sharply, and Wade encountered more fierce defense when breaking through the inside line.

Wade's performance was good today, scoring 28 points and 13 assists. He passed the ball quickly and timely when he was double-teamed.

Without O'Neal, Wade is the "nanny" of this team, and he is both a father and a mother.

But Wade only shot 8 of 28 shots today, and missed 20 shots. If it weren't for the referee's face, he got 14 free throws and made 12 of them. Wade would have been completely finished today.

The Hawks had a full lineup, and it was too easy to play against the Heat without O'Neal.

Liu Mang scored 36 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 blocks, and McGrady scored 11 points, 14 assists, 4 steals, and 3 rebounds. The two of them joined forces, plus the double-teaming in the interior because O'Neal didn't play and had nowhere to vent, to make Wade miss 20 shots in a single game, and prevented Wade from hitting less than 30%.

Without O'Neal, Kwame Brown was like a dragon entering the sea, scoring 20 points and 15 rebounds.

With Jason Terry's 17 points, Alonzo Mourning's 12 points, 3 rebounds and 3 blocks, and Muhammad's 8 points and 8 rebounds, the Hawks scored 108 points in the whole game, and the Heat only scored 90 points in the whole game. 29 points of these 90 points came from the Hawks' miserable lineup of Jason Terry, Calderon, Iguodala, Josh Smith and Varejao in the fourth quarter, which allowed the Heat to increase their score to 90 points in the fourth quarter after only 61 points in the third quarter, making it seem that the Heat led by Wade alone were not so cold.

The Hawks easily won 11 consecutive victories!

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Liu Mang carried two huge boxes into the car. He always carried so much luggage every time he went out. Fortunately, Iguodala helped him move things from the airport to the Atlanta airport.

"Ace, be careful when you go out. Go back to the hotel after the game and don't go out to play." Alexia warned.

It has been almost a month since the pregnancy was confirmed. As she and Liu Mang stopped clapping for love to avoid affecting the fetus, Alexia felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

In fact, it was not that Liu Mang did not love her anymore. On the contrary, Alexia felt that the whole family took extra care of her. This was just because the pregnancy phenomenon in the first three months of pregnancy became more and more serious. After there was another person in the belly, the endocrine function began to adjust. This was a normal phenomenon.

This is the so-called precursor of postpartum depression.

Liu Mang looked at Alexia, who had eaten more but felt thinner because of the frequent pregnancy phenomenon. He smiled and kissed Alexia's forehead to reassure her.

After pregnancy, you will not get fat immediately. Even if you eat a lot, your digestion may not be very good. After the first three months, when the fetus begins to grow steadily and the endocrine function of the pregnant woman is adjusted, you will start to get fat due to excessive intake of nutrition.

After giving birth, the body suddenly does not need to provide nutrition to another person, and the endocrine system will begin to be disordered again. People's emotions are controlled by hormones in all aspects of the body. Postpartum depression is because of this.

Feeling Levia's eyes, Liu Mang also kissed Levia.

"Uncle... kiss..." The little girl jumped beside Liu Mang.

"..."

Liu Mang was speechless for two seconds, and also kissed the little girl on the forehead.

After saying goodbye, Liu Mang drove to the airport.

After playing the Heat, the Eagles' difficult schedule came.

5 days and 4 games, two back-to-backs, and consecutive back-to-backs.

Clippers and Warriors, Jazz and Suns.

Almost every team will have 5 days and 4 games every season, at least once or twice. Originally, for a team like the Eagles that is popular and popular, the league's arrangement of 5 days and 4 games is very easy.

The four opponents of the Eagles' 5 days and 4 games were the bottom four in the Western Conference last season.

But who knew that the Suns would explode so much this year, so the last game of the back-to-back series against the Suns became a hot game. After the Eagles had played four games in five days, whether they could avenge their opponents in the game against the Suns became a major highlight of the game.

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"This bastard! *￥%*%..." Kobe hung up the phone, then drove out to the Toyota Center training hall.

Just now, Kobe was reading a book to cultivate his sentiments, and he received a call from someone he was very upset with. He received an excessive request, and he actually agreed. He still respected people who loved training.

As for whether it is possible to make the opponent stronger and more difficult to deal with... Kobe has never considered this issue. In his heart, he is the best in the world.

But he still hated it. After cursing, he drove to the gym to take that bastard to training.

The guy Kobe called a bastard was Liu.

After more than four hours of flying, he flew across three quarters of the United States from the South Coast to Los Angeles, the largest city in California on the West Coast. Liu Mang did not go out to play or rest in his room. Instead, he called Kobe to borrow the training gym for training.

The Hawks played a game yesterday. The next game is five days and four games. Except for a simple tactical training before the game on the afternoon of each game day, there are no other training sessions.

The reason why the five-day four-game is the lowest winning rate of all teams in the league is that in addition to physical fitness, the inability to conduct targeted and effective tactical training against the opponent is also a key reason. There are many championship-level teams that cannot win a single game in five days and four games. As long as they lose the first game at the beginning, they may be unable to recover and lose all four games.

Liu Mang took a taxi to the Toyota Center training hall and explained the situation to the security guard in the parking lot. The security guard asked the Lakers management for instructions. The Lakers management did not refuse or come to greet him. They just asked the staff to prepare training clothes. Liu Mang solved the rest by himself.

Liu Mang practiced the turnaround jump shot with sideways facing the basket for a while, which is the most commonly used trick for high-post post-up singles. Liu Mang, who combined the turnaround jump shot and the fadeaway jump shot, now shoots ridiculously crooked shots. After practicing for a while, Kobe, who changed into training clothes, came

"Hey, you said you have technical problems that you want to teach me again?" Kobe came up and said arrogantly, without even calling his name, and directly used "Hey" instead.

It means asking for advice. If Liu Mang hadn't used the word "ask for advice", Kobe would have ignored him.

"Yes, Kobe, I heard that your fadeaway jump shot is the best in the world. I want to learn it." Liu Mang's tone was very arrogant.

But Liu Mang's arrogant tone was just what Kobe liked.

Unlike the Hawks, the Lakers were also a popular team at the beginning of the season. The Lakers' lineup this season looks okay. The five starters, Magic Johnson, Atkins, Kobe, Wang Zhizhi, and Caron Butler, are all good, at least they are the favorites for the playoffs. Wang Zhizhi has proved that he cannot be used to expand the Chinese market, and his popularity in China is not as high as Kobe's. Therefore, the Lakers' schedule is the same as that of ordinary strong teams, which is loose at the beginning, tight in the middle, and loose at the end.

After playing a game after the All-Star Weekend, the Lakers got 3 days of rest. The Lakers have no training plan. The coaching staff is in a mess. After coach Tomjanovich resigned, there has been no good successor. The Lakers management is actively communicating with the Zen Master, but it seems that the Zen Master is unwilling to take over the team midway. He hopes to have a new season after a complete training camp.

Today, the Lakers have no training plan. Kobe now feels that there is really a problem with his physical fitness. Instead of training more, he started to rest and lose weight. It's just that muscles are easy to train and troublesome to lose.

"Fade away? Of course, my technique is the best. I'll warm up, you wait." Kobe couldn't calm down when he heard the world's number one. He quickly warmed up and then practiced two sets of mid-range shots to make them more accurate, so as not to be underestimated by the guy in front of him.

"Watch it, I'll only demonstrate it a few times. Whether you can learn something depends on you." Kobe had the typical character of an old-school player and began to use a method similar to when Jordan taught Liu Mang, demonstrating each fade away four or five times.

Not to mention, Liu Mang felt that Kobe's basic skills were really good, and his hit rate in training was too high! In terms of Kobe's psychological quality, it was equivalent to a sure win in open mid-range shots in the game!

But this guy seems to like to create difficulty for himself when playing games...

Liu Mang came here not to learn Kobe's fadeaway technique, but to observe Kobe's fadeaway technique and observe the difference between Kobe's fadeaway and Jordan's fadeaway. He had asked McGrady to demonstrate it before. He wanted to find the difference between the fadeaway techniques of these top outside shooters and find the fadeaway jump shot technique that suits him best by combining the fadeaway action learned from Jordan.

McGrady is tall, Kobe relies on waist and abdomen strength to force a fadeaway, and Jordan relies on jumping...

After Liu Mang learned about it, he performed a few fadeaway jump shots in a proper manner, pretending to have just learned these actions.

Kobe was so angry when he saw Liu Mang "learned" it after watching it again!

Jordan and Kobe's fadeaways, if not observed carefully, are not much different. Only when observed carefully, will you find the two subtle differences that Jordan floats back more in the air, while Kobe's straight up and down fadeaway is more.

Since Liu Mang had learned the fadeaway technique from Jordan, he could quickly understand some of Kobe's fadeaway techniques by watching Kobe's movements.

Kobe's fadeaway is also very powerful. If Jordan's fadeaway relies on the extra effect brought by physical fitness, Kobe's fadeaway is the pinnacle of technical flow.

Liu Mang's physical fitness is obviously not comparable to Jordan's. Fast speed, good touch, and skill bonus are Liu Mang's strengths, but Jordan's physical fitness is incomparable to Liu Mang.

So in addition to Jordan's skills, Liu Mang also has to tolerate some skills of other top fadeaway jump shot masters.

Kobe saw that Liu Mang had "learned" all the movements he had just demonstrated, and first looked at the ceiling speechlessly, and then... drove Liu Mang away in anger.

Then, from 3 pm to 9 pm in the Toyota Center, the sound of iron hammering was endless...

After stimulating the little blacksmith, Liu Mang felt refreshed after being driven out...

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Four games in five days, the Hawks' rotation began.

On February 21, the day when the Hawks and the Clippers played, Liu Mang came to the Staples Center early for training.

The team's tactical training was scheduled in the afternoon. The other players were resting well. Liu Mang brought Emmanuel to the gym for training.

The players were resting, but the coaching staff still had to work. Liu Mang practiced for a while, and the coaching staff also came to the Staples Center.

"Ace, practice less and rest more. The next game will be very difficult. You need to spend more energy in the game." Coach Kruger saw that Liu Mang had indeed come first and warned him.

"I know, I will practice two sets of shooting and then go back. Why are you here... Hey, isn't this little Jimmy? Good morning." Liu Mang saw Jimmy Butler and remembered that Jimmy Butler was studying in California.

"Boss Ace, I'm here to train with you!" Jimmy Butler excitedly took off his jacket and pants, and he had already put on his jersey and shorts inside.

"It's this kid. We were planning to work in the hotel, but this kid came to the hotel early this morning to bother me." Coach Kruger's words were blaming, but his tone was full of pampering.

"Huh, just because of a little kid, coach, you brought him here without principles." Liu Mang said jealously.

I'm so upset with this kid. Liu Mang suddenly felt very upset with Jimmy Butler. Now that this kid has caught up with nutrition, his body has grown very fast. He has grown back the height that was "suppressed" by malnutrition before. He is almost 1.9 meters tall before he is 16 years old, almost catching up with Liu Mang's height.

But this is not the key point. The key point is that Coach Kruger used to favor him alone, and now he has a younger brother!

"Little Jimmy, do you want to train with me?" Liu Mang suddenly had an idea.

"Of course! I haven't trained with Boss Ace for a long time. The opponents in high school are too weak!" Jimmy Butler's tone was a little proud.

This is normal. Anyone who can enter the NBA, even if he is a water dispenser manager, is one of the top 500 basketball players in the world. If you don't have dominance in high school, how can you play in the NBA? Not to mention the NBA, you can't even enter the NCAA school team.

Anyone who is selected by the NBA, even those who are not selected, has been the pride of a place.

"Oh... Well, you go warm up, Emmanuel, you help little Jimmy stretch." Liu Mang agreed to train with Jimmy Butler.

"Got it! I warm up well in every game, and I can play a full 40 minutes in a game!" Physical freak Jimmy Butler responded excitedly, and quickly pulled the yawning Emmanuel to warm up.

Coach Kruger looked at the two children and smiled as they were as "harmonious and friendly" as before, and took Stockton, Mike Woodson and Chip England to the lounge arranged by the Clippers to continue discussing reinforcements and contacting some favorite targets.

During this period, many veterans want to cling to the thighs before retirement. The Hawks are still short of one spot. Many veterans are ready to discuss buyouts with the team and join championship teams. The Hawks are naturally one of the first choices. After the All-Star Weekend, many weak teams have released the rights of veterans who intend to leave the team to contact other teams early in order to save salary.

The Hawks must make a decision quickly, otherwise the good veterans will be snatched away by other championship teams.

Ten minutes later, Jimmy Butler came to the half court where Liu Mang was practicing shooting. After Liu Mang finished a group of shooting training, he immediately said excitedly: "Boss Ace, let's start practicing! I want to challenge you!"

"Challenge?" Liu Mang smiled a little weirdly, "Okay, you attack first..."

Liu Mang kicked the extra ball out of the half court, picked up the last one, and threw it to Jimmy Butler.

Jimmy Butler is so excited now. He is almost done with his freshman year. Thanks to a better living environment and an excellent instructor and godfather like Coach Kruger, he has entered the top 50 high school students in the United States after his freshman year. Although he is a little far behind OJ Mayo, the top high school student in the United States, he can occasionally make the news. He is expected to enter the top 20 or even top 10 high school students in the United States before graduating from high school. His self-confidence has risen.

Jimmy Butler's hands are shaking when he holds the ball. This is the most difficult challenge! The man in front of him, whom he regards as his brother, is the target he admires and wants to defeat the most.

Liu Mang clapped his hands and signaled Jimmy Butler to start.

Jimmy Butler started dribbling and saw that Liu Mang was full of defensive loopholes. Except for crouching and supporting his knees with his hands, he didn't look like a player at all.

Jimmy Butler felt despised and became angry. He rushed to the inside!

Liu Mang went from extremely quiet to extremely fast and pressed towards Jimmy Butler.

Jimmy Butler felt the huge power coming from Liu Mang, and he didn't back down. He squeezed under the basket and made a layup...

"Ding... Hot Pot Feast Level 5 is triggered..."

"Pa..."

Liu Mang not only did not despise Jimmy Butler, but was completely focused! Even the skill was triggered, and the slap completely covered the ball, directly fanning the ball until it hit the wall!

Jimmy Butler looked at the smile on Liu Mang's face, that evil smile. When he watched the Eagles game live at the high school coach's house where he was boarding, mainly when he watched the Eagles and Cavaliers games, Jimmy Butler saw Liu Mang's smile countless times.

Jimmy Butler felt Liu Mang's deep malice!

Liu Mang picked up the ball that bounced off the wall and threw it to Jimmy Butler: "Come on, little Jimmy, keep going, the game has just started..."

Jimmy Butler saw that Liu Mang was so serious. He just played a ball and wanted to cry: Boss, do you need to be so serious about a high school student?

However, Jimmy Butler was just as Liu Mang expected, not afraid!

Liu Mang knew that Jimmy Butler was not someone who could be easily defeated. He just saw that Jimmy Butler seemed to be in the top 50 in the United States, and he seemed to feel a little complacent.

The living environment has improved, which will inevitably have some impact, so Liu Mang is ready to let this younger brother face the reality.

It is definitely not jealous that Coach Kruger treats little Jimmy better! Liu Mang will never admit this.

Then, Jimmy Butler began the darkest morning of his basketball career...

The coaching staff who were meeting in the lounge next to the training ground suddenly heard a roar: "Go to your basketball dream!"

Coach Kruger dropped the pen in his hand. It seemed that only Liu Mang and his baby son were training in the court. Liu Mang's excited voice must be bullying.

And he said it so much!

Where are the two brothers who promised to love each other?

When Liu Mang's parents went to visit him under the leadership of Levia, Coach Kruger also gave each of them a big gold watch!

But...unexpectedly, Jimmy Butler's unwilling roar was heard next: "Boss Ace, come again! I will definitely score a goal!"

Coach Kruger was about to stand up, but sat down again.

"This kid is really a bit like Ace back then."