From today on is the king

Chapter 1354 1353. The Most Difficult Year (Seeking a Monthly Pass)
O'Neill, who was played bad by Liu Mang, became the object of people's ridicule. O'Neill endured this, and this time he made the headlines of the major media.

But the Suns are now being valued again, and O'Neal is not so happy.

The Suns played so badly at the beginning, and at the end of the first month, they fell to tenth in the Western Conference. Many fans lost their minds about the Suns.

Although it is not good for the Suns in terms of ratings, it gave the Suns time to adjust slowly. It took almost a month for them to adjust the offensive aspects. The two rhythms brought them a wave of victories and returned to the sixth place in the West.

What they have to do now is the defensive end.

But Liu Mang's wave of analysis is bound to make other teams discover their current changes and target them.

For the Suns, this is a big trouble.

The playoffs in the Western Conference are fiercely competitive. The Suns are now 17 wins and 13 losses. The Rockets, the ninth in the Western Conference, are 15 wins and 15 losses.

On the night of December 12, when O'Neal loved and hated Liu Mang, Liu Mang and his teammates had already played against the Mavericks for the second time this season.

The Eastern and Western Bulls have performed so well this season, it's hard for people related to the NBA not to pay attention to them.

刘莽也一直关注着他们，小牛队20号打完了他们本赛季第30场比赛，现在还在表现最强的时候，26胜4负高居联盟第一，是排在03-04赛季、05-06赛季的老鹰队赛季和99-00赛季的湖人队之后，新世纪以来第四好的开局，比老鹰队、活塞队、太阳队在04-05赛季的开局都要好。

Not only that, but they are all outstanding performances in the history of the NBA. Those who can achieve such a start basically have a record of 65+ wins at the end of the season.

Nowitzki's performance made Liu Mang feel a little embarrassed, averaging 24.6 points, 8.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. The data has declined to a certain extent compared with the beginning of the season, but the corresponding efficiency is extremely high!

This data is obtained in an average of 32 minutes per game...

Sometimes after the first half, the Mavericks have already sealed the victory. They averaged 102 points per game in singles, which is not high. After all, the league average is close to 99 points per game, but they limit their opponents to only 92 points per game...

10 point margin!

The scariest thing is that only Dirk Nowitzki and Jamal Crawford played more than 30 minutes on the Mavericks team. One played 32 minutes and the other 33 minutes. Eleven players played more than 11 minutes, and 10 of them played more than 10 minutes...

Although the Eagles have as many as 10 players who have played more than 10 minutes, and 15 players who have played more than 9 minutes, the record gap is obvious.

The Mavericks have honed the system of multi-player rotation singles tactics and high-speed rotation defense for many years. From the regular season of this season, it has reached its peak. Compared with the Eagles, which also has multi-player rotation, their record is much mediocre.

The Eagles, who just defeated the Suns and won three consecutive victories, met the Mavericks, and the winning streak was ended.

Liu Mang scored 19 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists, McGrady scored 28 points, and Marion also scored 11 points and 13 rebounds. Whenever the Eagles were about to regain the situation, Liu Mang's mid-range shot and McGrady's cut-in points and open three-pointers did well. The Mavericks, struggling to get rid of the defending champions, held their home court.

101 to 109, the Hawks lost to the Mavericks again, the first time in four seasons that the regular season was swept by a team.

The Eagles maintained a record of not being swept in the regular season for three seasons, and it was fixed in three consecutive seasons.

Sweeping the Eagles made the Silver Horn king a big hit.

Several strong teams in the West, the Spurs, Suns, and Supersonics have all been defeated by the Eagles this season. Only the Mavericks have won both games against the Eagles!

Because the target of the sweep was the Eagles, which still maintained a good strength after three consecutive championships, Nowitzki received much more attention than in the original time and space!
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After playing against the Mavericks, Liu Mang and his teammates came to Angel City.

Being swept by the Mavericks, Liu Mang and his teammates felt uncomfortable, but they could only accept that the Mavericks in the regular season this season were too strong. Nowitzki even developed a back-up game, which was stronger than in the original time and space, and the Mavericks became stronger because of this.

Liu Reck looked at the Warriors who were fiercely competing with the Rockets for the eighth place in the Western Conference. Thinking about it, it was better not to remind the Mavericks. Although Liu Reck had no intention of reminding the Mavericks to pay attention to the Warriors, but now with the grudge of being swept in the regular season, Liu Reckless will not remind.

If the Warriors enter the playoffs as the eighth place in the Western Conference...Liu Wei thinks this is very interesting...

Regardless of whether the Warriors will create miracles or not, Liu Mang thinks it is very interesting for old Nelson to face his old club.

When he arrived in Los Angeles, Liu Mang came to his vacation villa. After the Suns team was played, and after celebrating Little Lori’s birthday with victory, San Niu and Liang Zai came to Los Angeles with their bodyguards and nanny to wait and prepare for Christmas.

On the day of arriving in Los Angeles on the 23rd, the coaching staff of the Eagles had a day off to let the players rest, and Liu Mang returned to the villa for a night.

On the 24th, Christmas Eve, the Eagles had to prepare for the game against the Lakers.

On the morning of the 24th, Liu Mang came to the arena rented by the team early, and McGrady, Rondo, and Battier also came to the arena early.

Judging from the performance of the Mavericks going crazy to win, the Lakers will definitely not let them win easily.

Liu Mang felt that the names of the new Big Four of the Lakers were a bit exaggerated, and they hadn't reached the level of the Big Four, but the addition of a drug combination... was even more exaggerated than the ordinary Big Four.

After losing to the Mavericks, the Eagles' record became 18 wins and 10 losses, which is only half a game away from the 19 wins and 12 losses of the Heat!
The Raptors, relying on the weakness of the division, secured fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 17 wins and 14 losses. After the Eagles lost another game and became 18 wins and 11 losses, the record was tied with the Heat. Since only the Eagles and the Lakers had a Christmas game this year, the next opponent of the Heat was the Eagles, who had three straight away games in the West and continued their second game in the East. Win advantage.

After the team meeting, Liu Mang, his teammates, and the coaching staff all felt Alexander.

During the warm-up, seeing McGrady frowning because he was about to face Kobe, Liu Mang smiled and said, "It's been a long time since I worked so hard for a regular season ranking. It feels a little weird."

McGrady was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and couldn't help laughing, and said, "That's right... I've been playing with you for so long, I forgot that there is such a thing as ranking in the regular season. You have always been number one."

McGrady has almost forgotten the feeling of fighting for a playoff spot in the past, and now fighting for rankings, the feeling is very similar.

"Yeah, this season is more difficult than before, even more difficult than my rookie season, the Lakers with 23 wins and 7 losses...they played two more games than us, and lost less, so difficult to deal with..."

Mai Di looked at what Liu Mang said, but he was smiling.

Seeing Liu Mang's excited look, Mai Di also smiled and didn't continue talking, everything was kept silent.

(End of this chapter)