"Kang, Emmanuel, pass the ball more accurately! You are a defender after all! How can you pass the ball so far!"

"Oh, Ace, you've been practicing for three hours, aren't you tired?"

"Three hours? Tired? When I used to practice with Moron, we always practiced seven or eight hours a day!"

"God! We are playing an away game now, we are very tired!"

"You're too fat! Every time Moron plays away games with us, he loses a few pounds. Why do I feel like you've gained weight again!"

Emmanuel lowered his head and looked at his feet...well...he couldn't see them.

Emmanuel is so sad. After becoming a trainer, his weight has reached 200 kilograms. The key is that he is only a little over 1.9 meters.

Putting aside this sad topic, Emmanuel said: "Ace, it's already past four o'clock, and there will be a welcome meeting for new teammates later. Let's finish today's training here!"

Liu Mang looked at the time and saw that it was really past four o'clock. He felt that he was practicing vigorously now. As expected, training was always so boring during consecutive away games.

After the Eagles played the Bucks on the 26th, they flew to Detroit early in the morning on the 27th. This was the shortest flight for the Eagles on this road trip, only one hour.

However, the players were already very tired, and there really wasn't much to do in Detroit, a motor city, so the Eagles stayed in the hotel to rest.

After having lunch at noon, he caught up on his sleep. After recovering mentally, he injected a physical potion into his tired body. Then he checked the system space and clicked the superstar value. Liu Mang drew 5800 superstar points into the junior superstar value lottery and added

After stocking up on physical potions, I went to the gym with an indoor basketball court chartered by the hotel to practice ball.

Liu Mang's main training now is to move without the ball, catch and shoot. There is no one to teach him, so he goes to the team's editor to edit out highlights of Hamilton and Reggie Miller's movements, and learns to run.

Now that Liu Mang has become a master of fast shooting, he has begun to train more of his abilities in this area.

Different from the difficulty in developing skills such as high and low post plays during the season, off-ball movement is relatively easier to practice. Practice makes perfect. However, post plays and other things will be slow if it does not take a long time and is continuous.

Thinking about it slowly is just practicing blindly and not directly practicing mid-range and long-range shots.

In the past, Liu Mang didn't practice running, catching and shooting very much, mainly because he was not stable enough when catching and shooting after running for a long time. Now that he has a fast shooting master, this aspect is not a problem, so he practices very vigorously.

The feeling of catching the ball and throwing it into the basket is very fascinating.

Liu Mang worked hard to train his movements without the ball, mainly to bring something different to the team in his last year in Stockton, such as the double-shattering tactic, which may be very effective in the playoffs.

, and he is the best third point besides the pick-and-roll combination of double-shattering tactics.

It doesn’t mean that you can just practice uncommon tactics. If you want to bring out the best power, even uncommon tactics must be practiced to your satisfaction. This is Liu Mang’s basketball philosophy.

He is practicing vigorously now, but he has to hold a welcome party for his new teammates in the evening, and Liu Mang has to start preparing.

If it was a rookie or a not-so-famous teammate, it would be okay, just meet and shake hands, but this is a fairly famous new player, a center who has played in two finals.

"Okay, Emmanuel, you really need to lose weight. You are poor now and you won't be able to find a girlfriend!"

"Damn! Having two girlfriends is amazing!"

"It's just amazing..."

…

Liu Mang went to take a shower first, and then the physical therapist came to give him a massage to relax his muscles. It was almost five o'clock. He went back to the room and changed into casual clothes. He went to the restaurant chartered by the hotel. There were already teammates and team work.

People eat and drink tea there.

As soon as Liu Mang entered the restaurant, Stockton came to Liu Mang's side with a huge giant who looked no different or even bigger than the fat man in Los Angeles.

"Ace, you are finally here. Let me introduce you to Greg. You have met before. Now we are all teammates!" Stockton happily introduced Ostertag to Liu Mang.

After the Eagles came to Detroit this morning, everyone else went to rest. Only Stockton came to Ostertag's room immediately to catch up with the Eagles.

It's not that Stockton doesn't like his new teammates, but the feeling of playing together for eight years is very different.

Liu Mang raised his head and said, Damn, O'Neal's size is exaggerated enough! This guy is actually taller and bigger!

"Hello, Greg, this is Ace, can we find a place to sit down and chat? I'm afraid of cervical spondylosis!" Liu Mang took the initiative to extend his hand and said hello.

"Haha, of course, Ace, you are more humorous than I thought." Ostertag roared with a loud roar of laughter and shook hands with Liu Mang.

The three of them took some food and drink and found a seat to sit down. They didn't speak at first, and they didn't speak... that is, they were eating, observing each other, and organizing their words.

Ostertag, like Malone, disliked Liu Mang at first. Later, Malone and Stockton became very close to Liu Mang. At most, he felt bad or bad about Liu Mang because of Liu Mang's

The rumors outside were so scary. When I was traded to the Eagles, I was happy and a little worried at the same time.

Fortunately, he can play with Stockton again and has a chance to win the championship. Although he was eliminated in the playoffs last season after playing only a few games, he personally played the best game of his career.

His playoff performance, averaging 9.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game, was the best of his career! His regular season statistics last season were also the best of his career, averaging 7 points and 7 rebounds per game.

But after Stockton left this year, his data dropped sharply because no one was willing to patiently launch an offense around a meat shield center. He didn't have much performance other than beating people under the basket and making tip-ins.

Ostertag is on the verge of retirement, not because his strength is no longer good, but because his role is very single, which is to deal with centers. But the centers in the league now are not like the five or six super powerful centers and centers in the 1990s.

The center position is known as the power forward. Now except for O'Neal, Yao Ming and Duncan are no longer needed when playing other teams. Last summer, after Malone and Stockton retired, Ostertag

Tertag only got a one-year contract worth 2 million, and he didn't want to go to the Spurs, so his market was getting worse and worse.

Now Ostertag is excited to play with Stockton again.

But there are also concerns. Will his teammates on the new team not accept him? Will the Chinese player on the legendary "reign of terror" team have a bad temper?

Ostertag has been playing with the Jazz since entering the NBA. This is his first time changing teams, so it is normal to have doubts.

But now, looking at Liu Mang who is no different from an ordinary young guy, even more active and has a sense of humor, Ostertag feels pretty good about meeting Liu Mang for the first time after officially becoming teammates!

On Liu Mang's side, while looking at Ostertag's strength, he complained in his heart and was secretly surprised at the same time!

"Ding...Greg Ostertag, height 2.18 meters, weight 135 kilograms, ability evaluation 73, offense 63, defense 83, layup 80, speed 68, strength 99..."

This is really the slowest player Liu Mang has ever seen! No one is slower than this guy! But this power is so strong! He is worthy of being the only player to prevent O'Neal's shooting percentage in the series so far.

More than 50% super human shield!

And this height and weight are even more exaggerated than O'Neal!

And what surprised Liu Mang the most was that after this guy donated a kidney to his sister in 2002, although he couldn't control his weight, he became fatter. Compared with the 1278 kilograms that he could control well back then,

After gaining another seven or eight kilograms in weight, I actually played better than before!

It's just that now Ostertag has no more markets except for a few teams that need to deal with O'Neal, and those teams are all in the West and are his old rivals. He doesn't want to go to the Jazz either.

Will send him there, so he was traded back by the Hawks for Willie Green, and also received a second-round pick from the Jazz.

With a body that is even bigger than O'Neal, and the experience of eliminating O'Neal twice in the playoffs, Liu Mang feels like he has made a lot of money from this transaction!

With an ability evaluation of 73, and a performance of 7+7 last season and 9+9 in the playoffs, Liu Mang feels that it is not only used to give experience to his teammates, but will really have a big effect if he faces O'Neal in the finals.

!

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The team has a good team atmosphere, and it is easy for new players to integrate. Ostertag is a big white bear with a rough personality, and it is easy to integrate into the atmosphere of the Eagles.

After being traded to the Hawks a few days ago, he was ready to be the third center, so his posture was not so arrogant. He didn't rely on being a two-time runner-up center to chat with his new teammates.

Very open.

In fact, Ostertag feels that the Hawks are more comfortable than the Jazz he was with back then!

The Jazz's Sloan's iron tactics don't have the friendly atmosphere of the Eagles...

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…

There was no drinking at the welcome party last night. It was just eating, chatting, and meeting new teammates. It was enough for Ostertag, a veteran center who has played in the playoffs for eight consecutive years and reached the finals twice.

His face allows him to integrate into the team and play for the team more attentively.

We have to deal with O'Neal in the finals. The role of this veteran cannot be ignored! Even more important than the young Kwame Brown!

The next morning, Liu Mang got up early, of course to continue training!

As a result, Emmanuel began to be "tortured" by Liu Mang again.

Finally, at around ten o'clock, a team member came to Liu Mang and said that the coaching staff was looking for him. Emmanuel was finally able to rest, and he lay on the floor and refused to get up.

Liu Mang was very confused. Wasn't the tactical meeting at one o'clock in the afternoon?

After wiping his sweat and putting on his training clothes, Liu Mang went directly to the conference room and saw Coach Kruger and five assistant coaches there.

"Ace, are you training again? There is a game tonight, don't waste your energy." Coach Kruger was really worried that Liu Mang had trained himself badly.

"It's okay, I'm just practicing my moves. By the way, coach, what do you want?" Liu Mang responded and asked.

"It's nothing. We are having a meeting to study the playoff matchups. I heard that you have started training again, so I asked you to rest first. But you are here, let's take a look at our predicted playoff matchups!"

Coach Luger pressed the remote control in his hand, and the projector screen switched to the Eastern Conference playoff lineup.

The possible opponent for the Hawks in the first round is predicted to be the Knicks, which is no problem, and then the predicted opponent in the second round is... the Pistons? The Nets in the Eastern Conference Finals?

"Coach, aren't the Pistons third now? They are 6 games ahead of the Nets, so there's no way they could fall to fourth!" Liu Mang asked strangely.

In Liu Mang's view, the Pistons and Pacers have evenly matched records. It's hard to say who will reach the Eastern Conference Finals, and both teams will definitely suffer losses. The Hawks only need to overcome the most difficult opponent Kidd's Nets and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

The decision will be easy.

Seeing Liu Mang asking such a retarded question, Coach Kruger said speechlessly: "The Pistons have a better record than the Nets, and the Nets can't catch up with the Pistons, but the Nets are first in the Atlantic Division and ranked in the playoffs.

The position will definitely be third."
To be continued...