As January comes to an end, the coldest period of winter is about to pass. The fatigue that fans felt watching football in the past half month or so has gradually dissipated with the change of weather, and they have slowly regained their senses.

Passion for watching football.

There are less than three days left before the All-Star voting deadline. On January 24th, the one-month All-Star voting window is about to close. Now the players who want to be selected for the All-Stars are trying their best to show their strength.

For example, for a certain player in Los Angeles, on January 22, the day the Hawks played the Nets at home, the Lakers happened to be playing the Raptors back-to-back, and the game started at 4 p.m.

A certain player saw that his opponent no longer attacked him as crazily as before. After Yao Ming offset the Raptors' strongest player, Milicic, who scored 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, the Lakers had advantages in other positions.

A certain player started taking crazy shots.

While Liu Mang was doing the stretching session of the warm-up, he was watching the national live broadcast of the Lakers and Raptors, two teams with powerful centers. When he saw that a certain player had already scored 50 points on 40 shots, he secretly cursed shamelessly.

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"Tracy, Jason, look, BIG-YAO scored 25 points on 10 of 10 shots. That guy only scored 50 points on 40 shots. If these shots were given to BIG-YAO, BIG-YAO would have scored 100 points.

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"..." McGrady was speechless, how could he still calculate it like this?

However, what made McGrady even more speechless was that Jason Terry echoed: "Yes, Ace is right, that guy only relies on high shots to score points, and his shooting rate is so low, he only made 40 shots."

16."

Ever since Liu Mang asked Jason Terry to guard James, whatever Liu Mang said seemed to Jason Terry to be the truth.

"..."

McGrady ignored these two bastards, changed into his suit and left the locker room.

The night before yesterday, McGrady played 46 minutes in the game against the Jazz. Although he had started four consecutive home games, McGrady still had to take a rest.

Looking at Tracy McGrady leaving, Liu Mang was a little confused. Kidd and Carter...the new generation of Chopi combination, if the Nets hadn't had many injuries this season, Carter was not seriously injured and Kidd was at the tail end of his peak.

, the performance will not be so bad.

The key is that the Nets are now in a fierce competition with the 76ers for ranking. Although it is only the middle of the season, both the Nets and the 76ers want to take the lead.

If McGrady and Rasheed Wallace don't play, it will still be a big problem for the Hawks.

But the Eagles cannot interrupt the rest plan that has been prepared since they knew the schedule from the beginning. Moreover, since passing the Nets in the 2004 Eastern Conference Finals, the Eagles have not let the Nets, who have passed their peak, let go.

Among the target opponents, the plan will not be broken because of this opponent. Unless it is like playing the Lakers in the first game after the All-Star Weekend, or the last game before the All-Star Weekend against the Heat, the Eagles will go all out.

Send all the main forces.

The key now is physical protection and training of young players.

And they played well. With a schedule like this in January, compared to other teams in the league, the Eagles have the first winning rate.

Although the Hawks want to surpass or tie the Bulls' historical record of losing only 5 games before the All-Star break, the Hawks are now 36 wins and 4 losses, which is the current record. The Bulls lost fifth in the 1995-96 season.

The game was relatively early, and they just won a 9-game winning streak before the All-Star Weekend, suddenly raising their record to a terrifying 48 wins and 5 losses.

However, the current schedule is somewhat different from that of ten years ago, especially the Eagles' schedule, which only has 51 games before the All-Star break.

Some people are now expecting the Hawks to break the Bulls' historical record before the All-Star Weekend, and then have a chance to hit the Bulls' record of 72 wins.

But what the Eagles coaching staff wants is stability. 72 wins in the regular season is very tempting, but winning 72 games leads to physical problems in the playoffs. Then the gains outweigh the losses. Nothing is as important as the championship.

The main reason is that the Hawks have been in the Eastern Conference Finals for four consecutive years and won the championship for two consecutive years. Although many players have been changed, Rasheed Wallace, one of the core players of the two consecutive championships, is older. Liu Mang and

Although the two absolute main players, Jason Terry and Jason Terry, are young, they still have to prevent injuries. Luckily for Liu Mang, the coaching staff regards him as an iron man. Apart from asking him to train less, nothing else can stop him, but Jason

- Terry has been rested occasionally, which proves the goals of the Hawks coaching staff and front office this season.

Breaking the 72-win mark, how could a championship be so satisfying?

After Liu Mang finished stretching and was about to move his muscles and joints, the system prompted him.

"Ding...because the host lost to the Nets in their last match, the showdown between the host and Jason Kidd has attracted widespread attention, and the series of missions of natal position suppression: Revenge of the Master of Control has been triggered."

"The first game of the master's revenge game: The host needs to have more assists than Jason Kidd in this game and lead the team to victory.

The second stop of the revenge battle of the master of court control: The host must crush Deron Williams in the next home game against the Jazz. The three data of points, assists and rebounds must be Deron Williams.

At least twice the points, assists, and rebounds data.

Mission reward: Deron Williams or Jason Kidd can choose a top star card, and the mission of natal position suppression can continue."

Liu Mang had been waiting for this task for a long time. After losing to the Nets and Jazz, Liu Mang received a system prompt that the task of suppressing his own position was interrupted, and a prompt to wait for the task to be restarted.

Locking in the title of the league's number one point guard, even if he does not have this task, Liu Mang still wants to take this title back to his name.

Moreover, those who value the title of the league's number one point guard are often not the players, but the fans.

Liu Mang currently averages 30.6 points, 6.5 rebounds, 11.2 assists, 1.9 steals, 0.9 blocks, and 3.7 turnovers per game. Especially the data of 11.2 assists has made fans regard Liu Mang as a strong contender for the league's No. 1 point guard.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Liu Mang lost to Kidd once before. In that game, Kidd scored 10 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists, an economic triple-double that he was unwilling to get even more points and rebounds.

Liu Mang only got 9 assists in that game. Although he had 35 points, from the perspective of a "point guard", Liu Mang was at a disadvantage.

However, the disadvantage was not obvious. The main reason was that the Eagles took a rest and the role players did not shoot accurately in the second half. After Liu Mang began to take over the scoring, he was double-teamed again and his teammates failed to make shots. The Eagles lost. In terms of performance,

Liu Mang is not much worse than Carter and Kidd, but it just so happens that both Carter and Kidd are desperate to win and compete for fourth place.

But for Liu Mang, it is still very stressful to organize the offense with Kidd...

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"Theo, how are you doing?"

"Not bad, how about you Ace."

"I'm pretty good too."

"That's good, I hope you can win three consecutive championships."

"Haha, of course, I won't waste the foundation of the dynasty we created together..."

Before the game, Liu Mang and Jason Terry went to catch up with the opponent's center Ratliff.

Ratliff's strength has dropped a lot now. Liu Mang took a look and found that his ability rating was only 75.

It's not about injuries. Although Ratliff has suffered from constant minor injuries, the impact is not big. These veterans have had many injuries to begin with, and because the Hawks have demonstrated to the Nets the correct way to use Ratliff, Ratliff always

He only plays about 20 minutes in each game, mainly because Ratliff is already 33 years old. Even if he has not suffered any serious injuries in the three years with the Eagles, he has not experienced a cliff-like decline, and he has not experienced his second major injury now.

Losing his previous explosive power, spring speed and lateral movement, Ratliff's number of blocks fell to a new low since he entered the third grade. He averaged only 1.9 blocks in 21 minutes per game. This was the only time in the past nine years that he did not block more than two shots.

indivual.

Although Liu Mang felt that it was not a good idea to think that way, sending Ratliff away and strengthening Kwame Brown was indeed a very wise choice by the management, even though Liu Mang himself was sad for a long time.

Looking at Jason Terry, who was chatting with Ratliff about a sexual topic, Liu Mang never expected that the last remaining member of his teammates would be this guy. This kind of pass has always been open in the past.

Liu Mang really wanted to sell this guy who couldn't add assists.

But every time Jason Terry made a key shot...Liu Mang thought...it's better to keep it...

At this time, Carter came, hugged Liu Mang and said, "Ace, Tracy is not here. You will lose to me again today. We will definitely beat you this year."

When Liu Mang heard what Carter said, he thought to himself: Does this guy want to reach fourth place and then kill him in the playoffs?

Liu Mang smiled and said: "Vince, your idea is very creative, and it is easier to realize your dream."

"Of course you have to have dreams! Isn't that what you said before?" Carter responded with a smile, said hello and went back to his home.

Carter also wants to win the championship. Although the chance is slim, Carter still feels quite happy to show off his victory in the last game.

Liu Mang looked at Carter, as if he was just here to show off that they won the last time they played against each other. It felt weird.

"I healed his foot. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I don't understand." Liu Mang looked at Carter who was no different from before. He still felt that his talent had no limits and he would talk about it in the future. Liu Mang said to the system, "

Ability evaluation of Carter and Kidd.”

"Vince Carter, ability evaluation is 94, offense is 97, defense is 84, three-pointer is 93, mid-range shot is 91, layup is 95, speed is 91, strength is 88..."

Liu Mang took another look at Carter's ability evaluation, and found that there was still a slight gap between him and the superstar. From the perspective of various abilities, Carter definitely had the ability of a superstar, but the difference was in his spirit.

"Jason Kidd, ability evaluation 92, offense 77, defense 95, passing 100, three-pointer 86, mid-range shot 71, layup 83, speed 88, strength 87..."

Kidd, I'm starting to feel a little bit like a monster.
Chapter completed!