After Liu Mang and Duncan complimented each other, they returned home.

He needs to think carefully about how to deal with the Spurs. He has watched some video clips of the Spurs' games this morning. The Spurs' new system is already very good. It is slightly different from Liu Mang's impression but similar.

The biggest feature of the Spurs system is that it takes shape quickly! It doesn't need too many players with too much talent... Thinking of this, Liu Mang felt that something was wrong. It's not that they don't need talent, but that they don't need too versatile talent.

The Spurs system is like a large machine. Duncan is the skeleton, Parker and Ginobili are the bearings. It’s not that there is no talent in other positions, but with the core combination of the troika, other positions are full of distinctive players.

The Spurs system is to bring out the characteristics of this unique player.

For example, Bowen's role in the Spurs has become more and more marginalized in the past two or three years after he was unable to defend his opponents as before. But this year, when they began to implement the Spurs system, Bowen was also activated, playing the first 9 games.

He averaged 1.2 and nearly 1.3 three-pointers per game, with a shooting percentage of 43%. The offensive threat was obviously much greater.

Big shooters like Bonner have also become more outstanding, and even Demar Johnson, who only has physical fitness, can become a rushing and cutting option in the defense.

Liu Mang thought of a word to describe the wonderful feeling the Spurs give people... that is "role differentiation"!

It is different from the small-ball style that will dominate the league in the future. The small-ball style is just throwing three-pointers. Super three-point teams like the Rockets and Warriors in the original time and space. Half of the shots in a game are three-pointers.

A team like the Thunder, which only shoots 334% from three-point range, still has to make more than 30 three-pointers in a game, but now the Eagles have Liu Mang, who is currently the number one three-point shooter in history.

It is indeed No. 1 in the league. So far this season, the team has averaged only 26.5 three-pointers per game, and the team as a whole has averaged 9.8 shots per game with a 37% shooting rate.

The Spurs' Spurs system is a team offense just like the small ball game. However, the Spurs don't just throw and throw. Instead, they bring out the characteristics of various unique players. Every position and every player on the field can play.

It has its own characteristics, unlike in the future where everyone will be thrown around from point guard to center...

This is the biggest feature of the Spurs!

But these are not important. What makes Liu Mang feel the most miserable is that Duncan will only turn 32 in April next year, Ginobili just turned 30 this summer, and Parker is now 25 and has just entered his prime.

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"These three shameless guys are really willing to give up! At this age, they actually want to play team basketball? Let's see..." Liu Mang flipped through the Spurs' scouting report and saw Ginobili's recent contract extension.

Record, couldn't help but say: "The bald man is really shameless! Renewed his contract for 50 million in 4 years? This bald man is only 30 years old and can get 60 million in 4 years or 80 million in 5 years if he changes the team! Lewis is worth 60 million in 4 years!"

Liu Mang also saw Duncan extending his contract to 2012...

"It's shameless to have facial paralysis! Two years and 40 million to extend the contract for two years? This contract is extended for two years and he is 36 years old. The Bulls gave the strong man a three-year and 70 million contract extension until 2012, which is not enough for others! They want 100 million!"

They are both No. 21, and they are too unambitious. The Spurs won’t give them a big contract at the age of 31, but they will give it to them at the age of 36?”

Liu Mang looked at Ginobili, Parker, and Duncan's combined salary for this season, which was only 37.92 million. He knew why the Spurs "interested so and so" every summer and became "San Antonio's team interested in all the stars in the league." In 2003, they really

Liu Mang remembers that in 2015, the Spurs had Leonard, who had just signed a maximum salary extension, plus the troika, Diao Ge, Zhang Tielin and other players, and they could sign Aldridge naked...

At that time, the salary cap hadn’t skyrocketed yet…

Although the Lakers and Suns are still competing in the West, and the Mavericks, Jazz, and Nuggets cannot be underestimated, the Spurs are still playing the Spurs system at their peak...

Liu Mang felt that the situation in the league was beginning to become very subtle: "You cannot use the Spurs system in your memory to judge the strength of the Spurs team now. The three shameless men who took salary cuts are still at their peak. Let's take a look first..."

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"Ding... due to Gregg Popovich's praise of the host and the host's team, the mission: triggered by the first encounter with the Spurs system."

"First encounter with the Spurs system: The Spurs system is one of the most practical systems in basketball history. The host Hawks have one of the most luxurious systems in basketball history. Mission goal 1: In the next game against the Spurs,

The host needs to get at least 10 assists. Mission goal 2: In the next game against the Spurs, the host's team must limit the Spurs' score to less than 100 points, and the host's team must score at least 100 points. Mission

Reward: Tim Duncan's 2007-2008 season star card. Failure penalty: Publicly admit that the Spurs system is stronger than the Hawks system. Note: The completion of this task will have an impact on the host's talent and skills: the fourth characteristic series of tasks

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On November 15, 2007, after a day's rest, the Hawks ushered in the last game of four consecutive home games and faced the challenge of the San Antonio Spurs.

As soon as he arrived at the training ground in the afternoon, Liu Mang received this task.

Liu Mang didn't even need to check the news to know that Popovich was bragging about him by name again.

"Eagle system? Our style of play actually has such a name? What does this second task goal mean? The opponent's score is below 100, but we score above 100? Isn't it just to win? There is also Duncan's star card, Xiao

It will definitely be useful if I am a center or power forward. He is the number one power forward in history, as great as Michael Jordan in the post, but I am a defender!"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Liu Mang complained a lot, he focused on the last "note".

"Even Zhu's second and third characteristic tasks have not been completed, and the third characteristic task has not been triggered yet. The fourth characteristic is already coming? Co-writing is really not one after another. As long as you complete one of them, you can use the talent.

Upgrading skills, right? The effect of Lian Zhu itself is more useful to me, but the characteristics given are also very easy to use. Horse rejection is good, but the talent skills are too difficult to upgrade. The left and right fighting is only level 3, and Lian Zhu is only at level 3.

Level 2... Anyway, just win first!"

Liu Mang put away his messy thoughts and devoted himself to the warm-up. Tonight's game is very important!

One is to win against the strongest team in the league and gain a psychological advantage; the other is to find out the bottom line of the Spurs system!

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"Tim Duncan, ability evaluation 97, offense 94, defense 99, three-pointer 44, mid-range shot 94, layup 95, speed 82, strength 94..."

Looking at Duncan's defensive evaluation, it's amazing!

Liu Mang remembered that Duncan was selected for the second defense and third team in the 2014-2015 season... He was 39 years old at that time. He still remembers that in the 12-13 season, Duncan was selected for the first and second defense at the age of 37!

However, Duncan's strength has dropped below 95, which is still top-notch, but compared with the super-top figure he played with O'Neal in the previous playoffs, his strength is one notch weaker!

Seeing that Duncan's score under the basket has dropped to almost below the top, you know that Duncan has lost weight.

Lao Dengtou is amazing! He will be 32 years old in less than half a year, and he has actually changed some of his playing styles!

"Manu Ginobili, ability evaluation is 87...Tony Parker, ability evaluation is 89..."

Parker began to enter his peak period. Liu Mang didn't know whether Parker could break through the bottleneck between first-class and top. Ginobili began to decline. This was just as Liu Mang expected. Although Ginobili was thin, his

The physical quality of the game is very explosive. Among the current guards, there are only three players who can complete a European step with a large change of direction and then dunk. Two of them are in the Hawks, and the other one is Ginobili.

However, Ginobili is not a particularly stable player to begin with. His characteristic is that he is a monster. In the original time and space, Ginobili was almost 37 years old in the 13-14 season, but he defeated the 32-year-old Wade in the finals.

The two average points per game, but Ginobili has twice as many assists as Wade. Ginobili's shooting percentage is just over 50%, while Wade's shooting percentage is just over 40%...

Liu Mang was looking at the ability evaluation of the opponent's main players. Some old players from the two teams were saying hello. The fans at the scene... did not boo the Spurs. The fans were curious about how the Spurs managed to win the first 9 consecutive games.

At 4:55 p.m., Liu Mang came to the technical stage to apply magnesium powder and waited for the game to start.

The game between the Hawks and Spurs is at 5 p.m. For now, the league regrets this schedule.

It was originally expected that the major television stations would not broadcast too many national broadcasts of the Spurs. After all, the live broadcast ratings of the Spurs' games against popular teams in the past few seasons were also very low. The major television stations scheduled each team's live broadcast before formulating the schedule.

In terms of the number of games, the Spurs only have 6 scheduled games, so most of the Spurs games start early.

Who knew that the Spurs would suddenly become popular at the beginning of the season. Unlike before, where Duncan was only popular, now the whole Spurs team is popular, especially in the past two days, and it has become popular outside the United States!

After entering the Internet age, information spread very quickly, and the Spurs quickly gained a group of new fans.

Just like now, T.N.T has added the broadcast of this game, but the court station in China wants to broadcast it too early, and it cannot be broadcast at 5 o'clock in the morning in China.

While applying powder, Liu Mang was thinking about the defensive strategy arranged by the coaching staff during the team's tactical meeting in the morning. It was a very conventional defense. This is what Liu Mang wanted. Just defend normally at the beginning. According to the situation on the scene,

Make adjustments according to changes. As for the offensive end, of course, you have to follow your own style of play and change the formation as effectively as possible.

Taking a deep breath and seeing that the time was almost up, Liu Mang was about to reach out to grab the magnesium powder... Suddenly! A big arm stretched out in front of him, grabbed a handful of magnesium powder and threw it into the air...
Chapter completed!