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1492. The wonderful feeling of being caught in the middle

Last summer, O'Neal worked hard to perform reasonable and effective weight loss training according to Thomas Carter's guidance, just for this year...

At the beginning of the season, O'Neal felt that his physical condition was much better than at the beginning of last season. Thomas Carter's training plan was very different from Pat Riley's devil training camp.

Help him recuperate his body and maintain his condition.

O'Neal is confidently preparing to bully the legendary center with the strongest single defense in the league in the opening game.

He was indeed bullied twice, but... O'Neal never imagined that he would fall into the hands of a rookie!

"Despicable and shameless Eagles! How dare you let that high school student come out for a duel! Damn high school students know how to hide behind giants, shameless..."

Nash listened to the fat man next to him talking nonstop, and was not in the mood to comfort him.

Instead of changing to a positional battle lineup, the running and gunning lineup is not good enough to maintain physical fitness. Instead, change to a positional battle lineup. The opponent has a lineup specifically designed to suppress it.

It feels like the other party is always one step ahead of them!

Last year they relied on this change of tactics to defeat the Eagles once, but this year the Eagles are well prepared.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Suns collapsed...

Taking advantage of O'Neal's presence, the Eagles went on a 13-4 run, suddenly opening the point difference to 15 points.

O'Neal played 18 minutes and scored 6 points and 5 rebounds on 2 of 8 shots...

This...set a new low for O'Neal's scoring in the first game of any season in his career...

When the fans in front of the TV saw O'Neal, the first thing they felt was not how well Gasol defended him, but... the sense of déjà vu.

Liu Mang played for 30 minutes and made 7 of 17 shots, including 2 of 6 three-pointers and 6 of 7 free throws. He scored 22 points and 4 rebounds, but had 9 assists!

Rondo really doesn't covet those assists. He only had 4 assists in 28 minutes. More than half of Liu Mang's assists were attributed to Rondo.

Rondo wanted to cry when he saw 6 points in the first quarter and 9 points in the game...

Rondo with 9 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists, Liu Mang with 22 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists, Jason Terry with 21 points and Tracy McGrady with 17 5 5, together with other teammates, finally got the win after three quarters of bloody battle with the Suns.

Seize the opportunity in the fourth quarter and widen the point difference in one fell swoop.

In the end, the Hawks defeated the Suns at home 117-106 and won their first win of the new season!



The Suns felt that the Hawks had formed their lineup for them, and a certain Western Conference team who watched the game in the locker room also felt that the tallest player in the league was being targeted.

After the game between the Hawks and the Suns, and before the game between the Lakers and the Cavaliers, fans were hotly discussing the unexpected effects of the Hawks' enigmatic lineup this year.

Brad Miller, paired with Tracy McGrady or Liu Mang, can play Princeton. The Hawks originally had Princeton's style of play, but now they have a center who can pass the ball better than Rasheed Wallace, who was still at his peak back then.

, is more suitable for this game, but the tacit understanding is a bit poor, and was suppressed by the Suns' running and gunning for half the game.

O'Neal is better offensively than Gasol, he shoots more accurately and has better defensive mobility.

Kwame Brown and Marion worked as hard as ever. The Hawks' lineup's running and gunning style was able to compete with the Suns' running and gunning.

Except for Scola and Gortat, who did not get a chance to play in the first game, the other five insiders showed their own characteristics.

The preseason games were mainly based on running tactics. It was difficult to see the performance in real intense confrontations, but you can see it today!

Just like Bill Simmons' analysis of the Eagles, the Eagles want to create an interior group that can adapt to any game1

But after all, it is only the first game, and it will take time to verify whether it can really run in so smoothly. After all, the Suns' defense is still not valued by people, even though the Suns defended very well in the playoffs last season.

But the Eagles really have that idea, which has shocked many fans!

This is simply a whimsical thing. No team would ever want to build an inside line that can adapt to all opponents, but the Eagles already have it in terms of hardware!

The five big men the Eagles played today each have their own characteristics. The two combinations are quite wonderful, and there are two more on the bench!

Eagles fans never imagined that a fat man would be selected in the draft. They thought Price was drunk, but they didn't expect that he was used for this!

Even if Gasol can only play four games a year, if he can have such an effect, the 28th overall pick in the first round will be worth it!





Listening to Jason Terry and Mason having their heads cut off after drinking too much, Liu Mang patted Gasol on the back and was very happy, not wasting his expectations!

After playing the Suns, the Hawks have three days to rest and will not play their second game until the 31st.

After winning the opening game, the coaching staff had to watch the game between the Lakers and the Cavaliers. Both teams were one of the coaching staff's imaginary enemies. The players and the coaching staff rarely agreed to let them have fun that night after the game. After all,

Played well on the first day.

This season the Eagles still had an easy start to the season, but the schedule became tighter in the last three months.

In November, December, and January next year, there will be 14, 14, and 15 games respectively. 11 games in February is not bad, but 17 games in March and 9 games in April are very tight, especially

It’s 9 games in 17 days in April.

The Eagles have two games at the end of October, on the 27th and 31st.

However, such a schedule is better for the Eagles in the middle of the season. However, if the Eagles want to improve their record in March and April, it will be more difficult than before.

Liu Mang has also looked at the schedules of other teams. Strong teams all have one characteristic: the schedule in the second half of the season is relatively tighter than the first half.

Especially for the Lakers, Cavaliers, and Bulls, it is obvious that these three teams have 10 games in April, all of which were played on the 17th regular season closing day.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Liu Mang guesses that the league does not want the historical winning record to be broken. After all, it took the Bulls more than 20 years to break the Lakers' 69 wins. If it had been a few years,

If it was broken within a year, such a record would not look so great.

The word "great" is very important to NBA executives. David Stern doesn't want to make the NBA's "creating greatness" a bad thing. He doesn't like to make the NBA a joke.

Although the lack of a schedule with loose games in the front, tight games in the middle, and loose games in the back will cause the team more troubles in the second half of the season, Liu Mang didn't feel bad. Everyone was like this, and it was him who benefited.

The first record in history is maintained by Liu Mang and his team. Of course he hopes it will never be broken. To break it, it is best to raise the first record in history with his own hands!

Liu Mang took out a small notebook and looked at the upcoming schedule. The Pistons will be played on the 31st. The first six games next month will be the Nets, Celtics, Bobcats, SuperSonics, Bucks, and Wizards until November 15th.

No. 1 has the next formidable opponent, the Spurs...

Next, there are the Timberwolves, Heat, Bucks, Kings, 76ers... until they play the Mavericks at home on the 28th and the Bulls away game on the 30th, it is another easy schedule.

The next month is quite easy. There are weak teams to adjust the tactics, and then the Spurs will be tested. After playing the Spurs, new problems will be solved and there will be weak teams to adjust. Finally, the Mavericks and Bulls will be tested.

Except for the Bobcats, Wizards, and Pistons who may have playoff potential, Liu Mang doesn't think the problem is big for other weak teams. The two major pitchers that the SuperSonics rely on for survival are gone. The Celtics are expected to continue to be bad, and there may be

The trade has not happened yet. The Heat are definitely in trouble. The Nets...

The next 15 games are the key to setting the tone for the team's new season!





On the day of the opening game, the Lakers and Cavaliers followed the Hawks in the opening game, and the Lakers were defeated at home...

99 to 97, relying on Billups' buzzer-beating three-pointer, the Cavaliers defeated the Lakers in the away game and won the opening game!

After a defensive battle and an overtime, in the last three seconds of overtime, James passed the ball to Billups. After receiving the ball, Billups took a step and hit a three-pointer at the buzzer.

Defeat the Lakers!

In overtime, neither team scored more than 100 points, which shows how well the two teams defended.

Liu Mang had a few drinks with his teammates and when Levia drove to pick him up, he realized that the Cavaliers actually won the away game!

He still thought Billups' court control would conflict with James' court control, just like Billups and Garnett couldn't cooperate.

After Liu Mang got home, he checked the news and saw that Billups threw 11 three-pointers...

A sense of déjà vu with J.R. Smith, who has a passing mind, is good at defense and has strong secondary defense! In other words, he is the ultimate enhanced version of Snow!

It's true that Billups has poor shot selection and his overall shooting percentage is low, but Billups has always been very strong in three-pointers. His three-point shooting percentage is 39.6% in his career.

They averaged 1.9 three-pointers, and they were very prolific. When they met James, they really had the same chemistry. One was willing to pass the ball, while the other was willing to throw it in any situation.

In this way, Liu Mang felt that Billups' 61 million was well spent by the Cavaliers! Billups still maintained a good condition in the 2010-2011 season, until his Achilles tendon ruptured in the 2011-2012 season.

Status avalanche.

He can reach the Western Conference Finals together with Anthony, who is a black hole of ball rights. Partnering with James, Billups also cooperates very well. Billups likes to shoot three-pointers, and the core of the team does not dare to shoot at critical moments!

I thought that all the opponents were in the West, and only the Bulls in the East needed attention. Unexpectedly, the Magic and Cavaliers were not bad either.

Liu Mang thought he would push the NBA to a point where superstars would only have opponents in the West, but it turned out that there were also unexpected opponents in the East.

In addition, Milicic has grown up for another year from the Raptors and also acquired Sharad Lewis...
Chapter completed!
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