As a believer, although Rahim's character is a little cold, he has a strong sense of responsibility. Facing the growth of the team's strength and the lineup getting better and better, he chose to sacrifice some of his roles and strive to not occupy the ball.

Development, assuming the responsibility of a boss.

As T.N.T, who had no dealings with Liu Mang, said in the regular season summary of the Eagles, in order to make room for Liu Mang to grow, Rahim did not hesitate to sacrifice his own data and had the courage to make sacrifices like a boss.

Seizing the ball for your own gain is completely different.

In addition to the three young eagles, another outstanding performer was Ratliff, who led the team in consecutive blocks, averaging 7 points, 8 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game, beating Ben Wallace who averaged 3.3 blocks per game to win the block title again.

Muhammad averages 8 points and 8 rebounds per game. It's a pity that he was born too early. Otherwise, he can't do anything offensively except secondary offense. He can serve as a center. His shot-blocking ability is average but his enthusiasm is good.

, and the 88 players without the scourge of Kardashian have a proper maximum salary.

Boozer averaged 9 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists per game, Prince had 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists per game. Kevin Willis averaged 5.3 per game after returning to the Hawks. Newbell's data dropped more, averaging 7.2 per game. Others

None of them averaged more than 5 points per game. Some players did not have the opportunity to play in every game, so the data is not very referenceable.

The overall situation is pretty good. The Eagles averaged 101 points per game this season and lost 95 points per game. The offense ranked ninth and the defense ranked 13th. The overall performance of the season looks average. There is nothing that can be done about it. This is

Contest.

After looking at the data, Liu Mang flipped through the others. There was nothing special. Except for each player's individual salary payment situation, the last salary of the season will be paid on the 28th, the previous payment situation and everyone's social security.

Information etc. are listed in the respective player handbooks.

This is also the reason why Coach Kruger specially brought the season summary manual from the arena to Liu Mang and brought it to the plane instead of letting Liu Mang borrow someone else's to read it. Americans value privacy very much.

Nothing interesting to read. This season's summary manual. Liu Mang put this in his bag and showed it to Schwartz when he had the opportunity. Schwartz liked to study this kind of thing most to see if there was anything fishy about the team. Although it was almost 100%

There's nothing fishy about it, but looking for problems with the team is what agents love to do, isn't it?

The excitement of attending the graduation ceremony in the morning was almost over. Liu Mang took out the Pistons' scouting report and began to study the characteristics of his opponent.

Tactics are arranged by the coach, but how to implement them and how to change them is up to the players themselves.

Get into the playoffs! Liu Mang calmed down, put on earplugs, and studied the Pistons, which has changed a lot this year from last season.

Billups and Hamilton, these two difficult opponents, both joined the Pistons last summer. They gave the Hawks a lot of trouble during the regular season. However, at that time, the Hawks had a tight schedule and did not have much time to study the Pistons.

, it was a raw fight. Now it’s the crucial knockout round, especially since the Eagles are still in an unfavorable eighth position, Liu Mang needs to prepare even more.

Didn’t you see that even Jason Terry, a living treasure, is not making a fuss about playing cards today? The Eagles players are all studying individually or forming a team to discuss how to deal with their opponents and opponents who may be out of position.

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Black-eight, Black-eight, two very simple words.

But how difficult is it?

In the entire history of the NBA so far, there have only been two black eights!

Although they all happened in the past ten years, it does not mean that the Eagles can make eight mistakes if they want.

Moreover, this year's competition system is also very unfavorable to the Hawks. It has changed from the original best-of-five games to the best-of-seven games. Just like the Magic, who originally led the Pistons 3-1, were overturned 4-3 in the end.

A good team has a lower chance of being outplayed.

There is nothing wrong with the league making such changes. For example, if the Heat reached the Finals in 1999, with their healthier and more complete lineup, they would not be beaten by the Spurs like the Knicks.

Of course it's just a possibility, after all the Heat were eliminated in the first round.

The league is just trying to reduce the more intense later series that unfortunately cannot be seen due to accidents, and no team objects to this new system, because it will at least play one more playoff game, even if the weak team is 4-0.

Even though they were swept, they also sold tickets for one more playoff game.

Ticket revenue in the regular season is incomparable to that in the playoffs. The lowest ticket price in the playoffs is at least three times that of the regular season! For example, for the Eagles, the regular season ticket is $7 and the playoff ticket is $25.

, the price of more than 20 first-row tickets has increased from US$2,500 to US$8,600. This is still the first round. If we can reach the finals, just like the Nets and Lakers last year, courtside tickets start at US$20,000.

, making a lot of money, so the vote for restructuring was unanimously approved by all 29 teams in the league, and no team would have trouble with money.

Although the pressure is high, the Eagles players are all working hard to prepare!

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Detroit is passionate, and the Eagles are feeling it again.

And it was even more enthusiastic than the second round last season. There was a traffic jam outside the airport...

Since the Pistons' Auburn Hills Palace Arena is in the suburbs, not far from the airport, the Eagles' hotel is also on the edge of the city in the same direction. The short 40-minute drive took three hours.

The Eagles just arrived at the hotel.

Fortunately, this year the wealthy owner of the Eagles made a move and directly booked the hotel and rented an indoor basketball stadium only 15 minutes' drive away from the hotel.

Otherwise, if someone holds a party in the hotel garden like last season, and the university doesn't lend them the arena, it will be very uncomfortable.

The Pistons fans are so enthusiastic mainly because the Pistons feel the pressure.

Although they are first in the Eastern Conference, the Pistons only have 51 wins and the Hawks have 43 wins. The difference is not that big.

Especially since the Pistons went from 17 wins and 7 losses at the beginning of the season to only 8 games behind the 5 wins and 18 losses Hawks, Pistons fans cannot help but worry.

Money is king. The reason why the Eagles were able to spend so much this year on booking hotels and renting private basketball stadiums at high prices is because of their high regular season income. The financial advantage Liu Mang brought to the Eagles has begun to show.

The next day, April 19, the Eagles' training against the Pistons continued steadily without being affected by the enthusiasm of the Detroit fans. This was a good start!

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While the Eagles are actively preparing for the first round, since the regular season is over and the playoffs only start in two days, the media has nothing to reveal, so they can only make predictions and various predictions.

The first is the prediction of the teams that advance to the first round. The Hawks, Nets, Bucks, and 76ers are predicted to advance to the second round.

In the Western Conference, the four teams of the Lakers, Marathons and National Bulls are also undoubtedly regarded as teams that advance to the second round, and there is no pressure.

The regular season records of the three teams of the National Bulls are too overwhelming. The Lakers are the defending champions of three consecutive championships and are currently ranked first in the championship probability rankings.

In terms of chances of winning the championship, the Lakers are ranked first because they are the defending champions, the Kings are ranked second because they were the strongest team last year, and the Spurs are ranked third because they were forced to do so.

In the fourth.

There is not a single Eastern Conference team in the top four, and the Nets barely managed to save some dignity for the Eastern Conference, ranking fifth in terms of chances of winning the championship.

And then...the Eagles were ranked sixth in odds of winning the championship.

After the prediction ranking came out, Liu Mang saw the news and felt that he had been given a sip of pure milk produced by a certain milk giant. It was as poisonous as possible. Liu Mang wrote an anonymous report letter that night and bought one for $6.50.

Ocean stamps were sent back to China to report a wave of reports on a certain milk giant.

The privacy protection of the American emperor is very good, and it is anonymous. Liu Mang is not afraid of being discovered, because surveillance is not that developed these days, and there are mailboxes everywhere in the United States. When he ran to the rented training gym in the morning, he found one

I checked the mailbox on the roadside carefully and saw that there was no surveillance, so I took it out of my wallet and threw it in. The content was also written in English, and it was deliberately written very computerized, one stroke at a time.

Since the American imperial media is feeding the Eagles with poisonous milk, Liu Mang thought of this and fight for the health of domestic children, so Liu Mang sent it to the Hong-Kong newspaper instead of the mainland. In 2000, a certain giant

He started doing evil things, and it was not until 2008 that he started to be exposed in the Hong-Kong area.

There are some things that he can't do anything about, but Liu Mang is still willing to give it a try. As for the effect, he doesn't know, but if he doesn't do it, he would be sorry for his conscience. He should at least give it a try for peace of mind.

Putting aside the fact that he was fed poisonous milk, some media predicted that Liu Mang was quite happy.

MVP prediction, there is no doubt that Duncan will be first.

For the Most Improved Award, Reed and Arenas compete for glory. Arenas has better and more comprehensive data and a greater advantage.

As the Rookie of the Year, Yao Ming has more advantages, a better record and better statistics.

Defensive Player of the Year, Ben Wallace is finally invincible.

For the best coach, Popovich, Adelman, Carlisle, and Byron Scott are regarded as the favorites for the best coach.

There is also the best team. Except for Raheem, no one else on the Eagles is considered to have a chance to enter the best team. Only Ratliff is considered a candidate for the best defensive team.

However, in terms of the best sixth man, Liu Mang has a huge advantage. The sixth men in the league this year have not performed well. Only Bobby Jackson of the Kings averaged 15 3 3 per game. Among all the substitutes in the league, except for Liu Mang

, the only player averaging 15 per game.

Liu Mang is considered to have an 80% chance of winning the Sixth Man of the Year award again.

The 20% chance is not because Bobby Jackson's performance can threaten Liu Mang, but because the best sixth man is even more difficult to win than the MVP!

In the past 20 years, there have been MVP streaks. If you include Duncan, who is about to win the MVP streak, there have been five consecutive regular season MVP players, including Larry Bird's three streaks.

As for the best sixth man, there are only two people who can win it for two consecutive years. Celtics star Kevin McHale, whose two-year data is 18.4 7.4 and 19.8 8, and the other one is German star Nowitzki.

The previous strongest player, Detlef Schrempf, averaged 16.1 8 and 17.3 9 in two years.

If you look at many teams, they are all core insiders. Only with data like this can they win the Best Sixth Man of the Year award.

Liu Mang has an 80% chance because he averaged 19, 3.4, 5.5 per game this year. If his rebounds and assists had not improved so significantly, even if he averaged 19 points per game this year, he would have a higher chance of being the best sixth man in the NBA.

More than 50-50 with Bobby Jackson.

Liu Mang seemed to see another talent skill fragment waving to him!

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The two days of training passed quickly.

On April 21st, the opening game of the playoffs is here.
To be continued...