Chapter 940 939. Tracy, Do You Want to Have This Ring?
NBA has entered the end of the season. All teams and players are fighting for victory, data, or bad performance. They are all working hard for their goals.
The only exception is the Hawks.
To use the adjective of more than ten years later, it is "Buddha-like" playing.
The remaining opponents in March are all the teams that want to impact the playoffs or are trying to secure a place in the playoffs.
The games with these opponents are very troublesome. The Hawks continue to rest and polish tactics. They are happy to win, and they don't send out all the main players for one or two more wins. Prince has played in the Eastern Conference Finals for two consecutive years. Jason Terry and Liu Mang have played in the Eastern Conference Finals for three years as the main or even core scorer. Although Liu Mang doesn't care about physical fitness or injuries, the coaching staff doesn't want them to be too tired in the regular season.
Rasheed Wallace will be 31 in September, which means he is in good shape and has good physical fitness. He is mainly tough. Like Webber, he started to suffer injuries at the age of 30.
The Hawks are playing the remaining games in March with the mentality of a championship team.
Liu Mang followed the tactics in every game, trained himself without the ball, and tried to train the fadeaway jumper and the combination of high post and fadeaway in the game. He scored 37 or 38 points in each game. In the fourth and last game of the season against the Cavaliers, he went crazy and scored 45 points, successfully surpassing Rick Barry to become the third person in history to score 40+ in a single season after Chamberlain and Jordan.
In the last game of March, Liu Mang defeated the Raptors and scored 44 points and 11 rebounds, scoring 40+ for the 30th time in the season, successfully becoming the third player to score 40+ 30 times in a single season.
James and Milicic were numb. In the other five games of the last seven games, Liu Mang played casually, treated the game as training, followed the team's plan, and played crazy when playing against them. Unfortunately, in the two games against them, McGrady passed a lot of balls to Liu Mang when he was not resting. If they hadn't double-teamed Liu Mang and let McGrady pass the ball to others, Liu Mang could have scored two more 50+ with McGrady's passes.
However, the two teams saw that Liu Mang was about to score 40 points and began to double-team him. This was a common situation in Liu Mang's next seven games. Almost every game was like that. After he scored 30 points, the opponent began to defend him tightly. He almost always scored 30+ in three quarters, but he still only scored 30+ in the whole game.
The opponents didn't want to be the background of Liu Mang's record. Only when he played against the Cavaliers and the Raptors, Liu Mang was determined to do it. When he was double-teamed, he still hit the opponent with the ball.
After the games in March, Liu Mang's average score was stable between 37.4 and 37.6 points. After scoring 44 points in the final game of March against the Raptors, Liu Mang's average score returned to 37.6 points.
With 9 games left, it is a foregone conclusion that Liu Mang will surpass Jordan's average of 37.1 points per game. Liu Mang can even rest directly and lock in the scoring champion, but the Hawks' tactics are designed around his catching and shooting.
And Liu Mang also wants to play the whole season. He has not played all the time.
McGrady's average data is stable at 15.3 points and 12 assists. He is fighting for the assist king with Nash. As long as he plays, he will brush assists.
After the difficult schedule in March, the Hawks got 5 wins and 2 losses in the last seven games, which is a very good performance. The Suns and Pistons lost more during this period. In March, the Suns got 10 wins and 5 losses, and the Pistons got 9 wins and 6 losses.
After the game in March, the Hawks' record improved to 62 wins and 11 losses, continuing to rank first in the East, the Pistons 57 wins and 16 losses, ranked second, the Nets 42 wins and 31 losses ranked third, and the Heat 53 wins and 20 losses ranked fourth.
In the West, the Suns 58 wins and 16 losses ranked first in the West, the Supersonics 53 wins and 19 losses ranked second, the Spurs 52 wins and 21 losses ranked third, the Mavericks 49 wins and 24 losses ranked fourth, the Rockets 47 wins and 26 losses ranked fifth, and the Kings 45 wins and 28 losses ranked sixth.
There are only ten teams in the East and West that have a chance to win 50 games or have already won 50 games. Generally speaking, the West has a more balanced record, while the East is polarized.
In the second half of March, the Hawks made fewer headlines. The only news that made headlines was when the Hawks won 60 games for the third time in four years and when Liu Mang surpassed Rick Barry.
Compared with the top five in the East and the top three in the West, which are firmly in the top five, the competition for the sixth, seventh and eighth places in the East is getting more and more intense, and the competition for the fourth to sixth places in the West is also fierce. The performance of the Hawks in the regular season has not received much attention.
A lot of things happened in March, in addition to the team, there are also things related to the stars.
Timberwolves' alien Cassell announced that he would not renew his contract with the Timberwolves, allowing other teams to pursue him in the summer... and then he was suspended from the Timberwolves for a week.
After Kobe scored 58 points, he was ruled out for the season from March 15th. He went to Germany to treat his damaged knee. Germany's orthopedic technology is still very good...
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"sweet...OK."
"Finally filmed, uncle, will the teacher give birth to a brother or a sister!"
"How many times have you asked me? I don't know. It doesn't matter. It's all right...Dina, run!"
"What do you mean by all right! Ace, stop right there!"
On the first day of the new month, Liu Mang and Sanniu asked their bodyguard Christine Wagner to help take a group photo.
Alexia has been pregnant for almost three months, and her belly has bulged. She went for a check-up yesterday and everything was healthy.
The doctor said that the gender would be known in about two weeks, but Liu Mang didn't care much about this, so he didn't make an appointment for this check-up.
After the first two months of pregnancy, Alexia has obviously started to gain weight, and she eats more and more...
April 1st, April Fool's Day, Liu Mang would go to record a show or something in previous years, but not this year. He would stay at home more when he had time to play at home.
On the 1st, he rested at home for a day. Of course, he didn't relax his training. He practiced shooting for two hours in the morning and afternoon.
On April 2nd, the Hawks started the remaining 9 games in April.
The Hawks' schedule in the first half of the season was easy, but from mid-January to April, it was inhuman.
From the 2nd to the 15th, the Hawks had 9 games in 14 days...
After a day of rest, on the 2nd, they faced the Washington Wizards for the last time in the regular season. Liu Mang scored 35 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, helping the Hawks to easily win 121 to 110.
On the 3rd, the NCAA finals, the NBA collectively rested for one day.
I don't know if a retired player who became a boss was not watching the game at North Carolina's home court. The North Carolina Blue Devils played very anxiously in the 64-to-32 round, and also played very ugly in the 32-to-16 round. However, since March 15, after the owner of an NBA team left Charlotte to travel, North Carolina, which was originally considered to be stopped in the quarterfinals, went crazy. In the 8-to-4 round, they beat the defending champion University of Connecticut by 22 points, and defeated the University of Kansas in the semifinals. North Carolina is strong, but it is not considered a championship seed. Raymond Felton played brilliantly in the semifinals, and directly entered the top three from the prediction of the seventh and eighth picks in the first round!
North Carolina defeated Florida State University 75-70 in the finals and won the NCAA championship. Senior Sean May won the MOP in the semifinals, and the four young players of North Carolina became famous all over the United States.
Marvin Williams, Sean May, Raymond Felton, and Rashad McCants became famous. North Carolina's point guard Raymond Felton said that the NCAA could no longer challenge him and announced his participation in this year's NBA draft. The other three young players responded and collectively announced their participation in the NBA, and all of them were regarded as lottery favorites.
In April, the Hawks had three back-to-back games, that is, one 5-day 4-game game and one 7-day 4-game game.
Except for the last two games, the rest were back-to-back games.
In this situation, it is not possible not to rest. Except for Liu Mang who was on the court, the rest of the Hawks rested more thoroughly.
In three back-to-back games, the Hawks got a record of 3 wins and 3 losses. In all three back-to-back games, they won the first game and lost the second game.
Liu Mang wanted to fight, but the team didn't give him any chance. The first place in the regular season was basically secured. There was no need to fight for the regular season wins. Just have a pleasant confrontation. If you score more points than the opponent, you will win. Practice the offensive tactics involving role players.
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"The playoffs are coming!" Jason Terry roared outside the Phillips Arena after returning to the home court.
"I don't know him, I don't know him..." The other members of the Hawks covered their faces and walked to the Phillips Mall near the Phillips Arena to buy some socks, wrist guards, elbow guards, and tapes for the playoffs.
Playoffs, new look, everything has to be replaced.
Finally, on April 11, after the Hawks lost to the Philadelphia 76ers away, the Hawks' record became 66 wins and 14 losses, and the difficult schedule was finally over.
At noon on the 12th, the Hawks returned to Atlanta and immediately started a team meeting. There were two games left, the Spurs on the 13th and the Pacers on the 15th, and two consecutive home games ended.
The Pacers were originally meant to be the final battle for the Hawks to warm up for the playoffs, but who knew that the Pacers collapsed after a fight, so the Spurs game that the TV stations didn't want to broadcast live became a national live broadcast.
After resting for nearly two months, the Hawks are finally going to play together again!
In the last two games, the Hawks coaching staff and players all wanted to play in the way of the playoffs!
In addition to resting the players' physical fitness, resting also has a very critical role, which is to prevent the players from reaching their peak too early and to do it step by step.
This was proposed by Liu Mang, who summarized it from the future Spurs system.
Moreover, this can also suppress the players' energy and let them release it in the playoffs. Now, it's the best time!
After buying their own things, the Hawks players returned to the Phillips Arena. The conference room had been set up and the Hawks started a team meeting.
It was mainly about tomorrow's game with the Spurs, which was really like the playoffs, and targeted research was made.
Of course, this is related to the fact that the Spurs are the most likely opponent in the finals.
The Spurs' three main players, Parker is still a little young, and the other two are tough guys. The Spurs' role players are very strong. Compared with the Hawks, if the Hawks had not added Persson and Mourning, the Spurs would even be better. The Hawks' bench lineup is talented, but they are all too young.
The rest period gave the Hawks players enough physical strength. After the team meeting against the Spurs, they started tactical training in the afternoon.
There is a big difference between the regular season and the playoffs. Three training sessions a week is the limit for the regular season. The regular season team training is usually two training sessions a week, while the playoffs usually start with three training sessions a week. If they advance early, they basically train every day. Of course, the playoffs training is usually half a day, half a day training and half a day studying the opponent.
Facing the same opponent for at least four consecutive games, the tactics are adjusted all the time.
The atmosphere of the playoff-level tactical training is obviously different. The main players who have been suppressed for two months caught the substitutes and abused them.
Liu Mang, McGrady, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, Kwame Brown returned to the starting lineup, and the substitute team played a 9-man rotation in the 20-minute training game, 49 to 25...
The substitutes who had more playing time in the past two months thought they had improved a lot. When they saw the strength shown by the starters in the training game with the mentality of playing in the playoffs, the veterans were fine. They knew it would be like this. Even Jason Terry and Mourning, Jason Terry knew that he was no match for either Liu Mang or McGrady, and Mourning also knew that Kwame Brown would soon be better than him, not by physical strength, but even if he had enough physical strength for ten minutes, Kwame Brown would soon surpass him. After all, the gap between him and his peak period is not a little bit.
Such a team made Mourning feel that his dream of winning the championship would come true!
After training, McGrady practiced dribbling and shooting for a while longer. Seeing that Liu Mang had left, he sneered disdainfully: "I am the one who works the hardest."
After practicing a set of shooting, McGrady returned to the locker room, took a bath towel and prepared to take a shower. When he opened the closet, he saw a ring hanging on it.
McGrady picked it up and saw "Ace Liu" written on it.
"Put it in the wrong cabinet?" McGrady was confused.
Liu Mang's cabinet was outside the two rows of cabinets on the left and right. It was located in the middle cabinet facing the locker door. The left one was McGrady's, and the right one was where Liu Mang put his shoes. McGrady thought it shouldn't be put in the wrong cabinet!
At this time, a voice came.
"Hey, Tracy, how about this ring?"
McGrady turned around and saw Liu Mang wiping his hair with a bath towel.
"What is this?" McGrady didn't react for a while.
Liu Mang threw the bath towel into his laundry basket, took the championship ring hanging on a silver chain from McGrady, and hung it around his neck.
"Tracy, do you want a ring like this too?"
The playoffs are about to start~ I spent a few hours sorting out the content behind and quickly pushed forward the regular season. I have finished writing some things about the regular season. It is not good to keep repeating the remaining games, so I will just move on to the playoffs!
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