From today on is the king

Chapter 1364 1363. The Difficult Schedule Is Coming

On the night of December 12th, on the South Coast of the United States, the "battle" between the Heat and the Hornets was going on at the American Airlines Center Arena.

The head coaches of both teams are trying their best... trying to find a way to lose.

Field control master Byron Scott and Pat Riley, who may be the best head coach in history, are trying to replace everyone who plays well and lose as much as possible.

Neither team can afford to win. At this stage, the coaches of both teams are working on this season for the future of the team.

While Pat Riley has to worry about losing, he also has to think about what Wade can bring back in return.

Pat Riley doesn't want players who have already been developed by the Hawks, lest the team be too strong, be on the edge of the playoffs, and end up with nothing this season.

He wants the Eagles to select someone who has just started training, or a player who doesn't help much on the offensive end. Pat Riley believes in the vision of the Hawks.

Riley wanted the raw material, polished it himself, added a sense of belonging to the team, and didn't want the kind of player who had already integrated into other teams.

Or it is a player like Prince who has little effect on the offensive end, but can affect the game and has a high trading value.

The key is that Prince is very loyal, just like Wade, he will not leave easily when he gets to a team. This is Prince's best quality.

Pat Riley proposed a trade plan that the other party could not agree to, and the Hawks rejected it as he expected.

To be specific, no one can guarantee the state of a player who has undergone minimally invasive surgery until he recovers and plays again, even if it is a player who has just turned 25.

It is not so easy for the Eagles to take advantage of Pat Riley. Even if no one is optimistic that Wade can return to his previous state, Pat Riley will not let go easily.

For Pat Riley, the biggest problem is that Wade's torn cruciate ligament without a meniscus is the first since there is an injury record in the NBA!
Different from Jordan’s fracture, Wade’s cruciate ligament was damaged when the meniscus was removed. What needs to be done is a minimally invasive surgery that every team is extremely reluctant to allow players to do. There are many examples of 26-year-old and seven-year-olds who underwent minimally invasive surgery at their peak. So far, no team has shown a slight tendency to want Wade.

That's a tricky question for Pat Riley.

But Pat Riley still wants to take a bite of the Eagles, but Pat Riley himself has no idea what to get.

Pat Riley wouldn't think so much if the Hawks simply turned him down when he replied that he wasn't good enough.

But the Eagles responded, feeling like they wanted to gamble on the small probability of Wade's recovery. Pat Riley is naturally more active. There are two options, one is to get chips that can be used to trade superstars or All-Star players, and the other is to supplement role players.

Pat Riley also knows that if the asking price is too fierce, the other party will definitely not agree to it. The momentum is good. At most, it will take a year or two for the role players to grow up, and they will soon be a dynasty-level lineup, especially Liu Mang will probably enter his peak period in a year or two. McGrady is only 28 years old, so he is not in a hurry.

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On December 12th, the game day between the Eagles and the Nets arrived.

During the day, I discussed with Pat Riley again, but I still didn't agree.

For the Eagles, no matter what kind of return they use to get Wade, 100% of their strength will be lost this season. Wade will definitely not be able to return until next season. Liu Mang may use injury medicine to help Wade treat some potential injuries, but he will definitely not do something that goes against common sense by using superstar value to speed up recovery.

In this way, the Eagles will not trade Wade at a particularly high price, and they will be taken advantage of.

The transaction is temporarily at a standstill, and both teams are weighing.

Liu Mang is not in a hurry, anyway, this season, there is no way to partner with Wade, and this season's games still have to be played game by game, let's beat the Nets first!

At seven o'clock in the evening, the game between the Eagles and the Nets began.

After the game started, the Nets gave Liu Mang a very special feeling.

Carter and Kidd seem to cooperate well, but there is no communication during the whole process!

The Eagles' style of play is very simple. Liu Mang and Prince or Rondo and Battier flank Carter, and the offense can be played normally.

This season, the Nets point to Carter to score and win. With Kwame Brown and Marion guarding the basket, the Nets' weak inside offensive ability is basically helpless.

On the offensive end, McGrady or Rondo holds the ball, and Liu Mang takes the shot.

Liu Mang played for 35 minutes, facing Kidd's defense, made 31 of 14 shots, 10 of 5 three-pointers, and scored 42 points. The Hawks easily defeated the Nets 110-95 and won two consecutive victories.

After adapting to the Heat, Liu Mang played more freely against the Nets. He scored 40+ in three consecutive games, helping the Eagles improve their record to 20 wins and 11 losses, ending the 2006 journey.

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Another 0.2 points per game increase, Liu Mang's average points per game has increased to 29.6 points.

At this time, Arenas, who had come to Atlanta to prepare for the game against the Eagles, was about to cry!
At the beginning of this season, almost no one in the league was competing for the scoring title. Arenas topped the scoring list two months before the start of the season. He thought his spring was coming.

Although the Wizards are only on the fringes of the playoffs, his individual performance is outstanding.

Who knew that Liu Mang's name suddenly started to soar!

连续三场40+啊！这赛季已经7次40+了，这才两个月！阿里纳斯觉得自己一个赛季能拿7次40+就不错了。

Arenas feels that the winter in Atlanta is extraordinarily cold...

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Liu Mang didn't take the scoring championship seriously at all. It's not that he hasn't won the scoring championship before, he has already won it twice, and he can't attract his attention anymore.

He scored high points and took a lot of shots in his playing time, just to give the substitutes an advantage to squander when they came on the court, and to give young teammates a chance to make mistakes.

Only by making mistakes can we find our own shortcomings and improve them.

Liu Mang didn't know when it started, he began to like the feeling of seeing the new players on the team improve little by little.

After playing for two months in the new season with a bleak future, Liu Mang gradually liked this feeling. His teammates did not play well, and he needed to work harder to win. He also liked this feeling of hard work.

If there is an occasional situation where a substitute can open up the point difference so that he can sit and watch, he is also happy.

2006 is over, except for the Hawks who only played 31 games and the Lakers who only played 33 games, most teams played 34 to 36 games.

In the East, the Cavaliers and Bulls are still fiercely competing for the number one spot in the East.

The Eagles are in third place because of the Heat's three-game losing streak.

The Raptors are fourth in the East with a record of 19 wins and 15 losses.

The Heat's 18 wins and 16 losses are still fifth in the Eastern Conference, but there is no gap with the Eastern Conference's sixth Magic with 17 wins and 18 losses.

Starting from sixth in the East, the winning percentage of other teams in the East has not exceeded [-]%.

In the West, the Mavericks rank first in the league with 30 wins and 5 losses, the first team in the league to win 30 wins.

The Lakers ranked second in the West with 26 wins and 7 losses.

The Spurs followed with 23 wins and 11 losses.

These three teams are the strongest in the West.

Due to the collapse of the Heat, there is no pressure on the Eagles for the time being. It is no problem to maintain the top four. The first and second Eagles have no intention of fighting. More or less of the players in the final quarter lacked physical strength and performed poorly.

Since there is no record pressure, Liu Mang doesn't pay much attention to unimportant opponents.

In the next 1 days and 10 games in early January, the opponents were relatively weaker. It was not as scary as the Suns, Mavericks, Lakers, Heat, and Nets.

There are still four months to go, a total of 51 games, and the Eagles' schedule immediately switches from the easiest in the league to the toughest in the league.

1月份有17场比赛，2月份12场比赛，3月份16场比赛，四月份又一下子变成了最轻松，15天时间只有6场比赛。

The 1 days and 1 games from January 10 can be regarded as a relatively easy opponent for the Eagles to get used to the difficult schedule.

Wizards, Grizzlies, Rockets, Timberwolves, Celtics, Bucks.

For such an opponent, Liu Mang focused on bargaining with the Heat.

Liu Mang is not in a hurry. He tries his best to score and grab rebounds during the game to help the team win. In his free time, he spends time with the boss and coach Kruger, negotiating with Pat Riley.

Although the operation on Wade's side was very successful, the minimally invasive surgery on the knee is bound to have a considerable impact on Wade's explosive power, and Pat Riley became the one who was more anxious.

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"Uncle, come and see, the results of the first round of voting are out!"

At nine o'clock in the morning, Liu Mang had just finished his run, practiced a set of shooting, came back to take a shower, and was about to go back to sleep, when he was dragged to her room by the little Lolita.

On the computer screen are the voting results of the first stage of the 2007 All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas.

The new All-Star is not held at any team's home court, but in Las Vegas, where the desert is a little greener.

Liu Mang was pulled in front of the computer, and the first thing he saw was the Eastern Conference All-Star voting.

Kevin Garnett ranked first in the Eastern Conference with 116 million votes.

This is expected. Garnett's popularity is already high, just like in the original time and space when he arrived at the Celtics in 2008 and immediately became the top voter. When he arrived in Chicago, a big city, he played such a good record in the regular season, ranking second in the MVP rankings.

Garnett temporarily ranked first in the Eastern Conference with 116 million votes, and James ranked second with 97 votes.

For defenders, Liu Mang ranked first with 105 million votes, and McGrady ranked second with 99 million votes.

There are relatively few stars in the East, so the number of votes is relatively concentrated.

However, the center position is not concentrated. Three players have more than 40 votes, but none have more than 60 votes.

Among them, Dwight Howard's 59 votes beat Kwame Brown's 51 votes and Milicic's 46 votes temporarily ranked first among the Eastern Conference centers!

霍华德场均17分13板2盖帽，夸梅-布朗场均14分10板1.7盖帽，米利西奇场均13.6分9.4板5.5助攻2.8盖帽，战绩相差不太多，数据也差距不大，人气都是杠杠的。

Ben Wallace, who ranked fourth among the eastern centers, only had 11 votes, and the three of them basically took all the votes for the eastern centers!
But the number of votes surprised Liu Wei.

"Happy boy is so popular!" Liu Mang said in surprise.

"Happy boy? Uncle, you're giving people random nicknames again." Little Lolita gave Liu Mang a white look.

"Dinah, does that guy like to giggle when he's playing ball? He smiles when he wins, and he laughs when he loses. Isn't he just a happy boy?" Liu Mang said while pinching little Lolita's face.

Little Lolita didn't resist. Recently, Liu Mang's intimacy with her has become less and less. His face was pinched and he rolled his eyes and said, "Uncle, you study a lot, and Dinah can't beat you. When Dinah also goes to college, uncle can't beat Dinah."

"Dinah, when you were in college, your uncle went to study for a master's degree."

"Uncle is too much! Dinah must tell mom that you want to bully Dinah for the rest of your life!"

"..."

Liu Mang stared at the little loli with an angry expression, why didn't she look the same, she was getting taller and taller, but she was still so...cute...

However, Liu Mang was very fascinated by Howard's popularity. In the original time and space, even when his state collapsed later, his statistics were not bad, and his performance on the field was good, but he suddenly couldn't make it to the All-Stars since 2014. Not only was he a substitute for the All-Stars, but no one voted for him in the starting lineup. Before that, he had won the All-Star votes many times.

Another point……

McGrady was put on the guard again this year.

Obviously McGrady is still more popular than James. Liu Mang feels that the league will do everything to get James into the All-Star starter!It's too casual to change positions for McGrady!

Liu Mang and Xiao Luoli complained about the bad behavior of the league in favor of James, and continued to watch the votes in the West.

Yao Ming ranked first in the West with 122 million votes, and he is also temporarily the All-Star vote king.

Forward is too much, Gasol has more votes than Duncan...

Gasol had 81 votes, Duncan had 76 votes, Anthony and Nowitzki only had 39 votes and 37 votes...

Follow Yao Ming and have meat to eat.

In terms of guards, the rivals of the 96 generation took over. Iverson ranked first among guards with 101 million votes, and Kobe ranked second with 98 votes. Nash, who is also a member of the 96 generation, is sad again...

(End of this chapter)