From today on is the king

Chapter 1416 1415. It's them again
I have to say that even though a star like Garnett disgusts fans who don't like him, all his actions.

However, a superstar of his type, if he is a group of players who are eager to win, will very much want to be teammates with him, because he can change the team culture of a team.

The Bulls before Garnett were a talented team, but they didn't have that kind of toughness, and they didn't have that kind of spirit that was about to die.

But now with Garnett, the Bulls have not only become a top team in the league, but even if Garnett is rested due to injury, their players also have strong self-confidence and resilience!
Liu Mang originally thought that he could beat the Bulls without Garnett casually, just like in the past two years, playing casually. After all, they didn't even have Ben Gordon, Chandler, and Eddie Curry.

but……

In this game against the Bulls, the Eagles were beaten 22 to 14 in the first quarter!

The Eagles only scored 14 points in the first quarter!
The resilience of the Bulls on the defensive end gave the Eagles, who underestimated their opponents, a blow.

Fortunately, the Eagles coaching staff kept a hand. Although the opponent did not have Garnett, they still used the full main lineup. Originally, because the Bulls had a good defensive system and defensive discipline, they could be used as opponents for practical tactics without Garnett.

In the second quarter, McGrady showed his power when Liu Mang didn't feel good. He scored 15 points in a single quarter, helping the Eagles to chase the score to 38 to 42 before halftime, and the difference was only 4 points.

It was Jason Terry and Grant Hill's turn to score 20 points in the third quarter. Liu Mang's performance in the first three quarters was mediocre, with only 15 of 3 shots. The other two of the three Eagles, plus Rondo, Grant Hill, Marion, Kwame Brown and others, helped the Eagles tie the Bulls 63-63 at the end of the three quarters.

After three quarters of improvement, Liu Mang finally found his sight in the fourth quarter. He scored three three-pointers in a row as soon as the fourth quarter came up. However, the Bulls, lacking the backbone, were still a bit worse after all.

刘莽全场打了39分钟，23投8中，拿到24分6板5助攻3抢断1盖帽4失误，帮助老鹰队以91比77，逆转公牛队。

Although Liu Mang's shooting was extremely poor in the first three quarters of this game, it was not useless, and he did a good job defending.

Of course, thanks to Tracy McGrady, who scored 15 points in a single quarter, and Jason Terry and Grant Hill, who both scored 10 points in a single quarter, otherwise it is really possible to capsize in the gutter.

……

After defeating the Bulls, the Eagles' record became 56 wins and 20 losses. There are six games left, and they are expected to win 60 wins!
The Bulls had 56 wins and 18 losses. The number of victories has been tied by the Eagles, but they played two games less. The last few games of the Bulls were not strong. The key is that they did not have Garnett.

However, Liu Mang didn't care about this either. It would be pretty good if he had a chance to win 60 games.

What surprised Liu Mang was that there may be five teams winning 60+ games this season. There have been cases where the top four teams in the Western Conference have won 55+ games before, and the eighth team in the Western Conference has 50+ games.

This has a lot to do with the fact that after the Eagles won the three-peat championship, those strong championship teams spared no expense in reinforcing the championship in order to seize the Hawks' weak strength after the three-peat championship.

Often after two consecutive championships or three consecutive championships, some stars will be forced to form a group, but at this stage, it is okay, almost all the stars who voluntarily leave the team to form a group are over 30 years old.

Entering April, the race schedule flew from hell to heaven...

Pistons, Pacers, 76ers, Heat, Pistons, Bucks.

The opening game of the playoffs is determined to be April 4.

The last game the Eagles played against the Bucks at home was on April 4. There were 16 games in 16 days, and Liu Mang really couldn't get used to it for a while.

4号才有比赛，1号到3号休息三天，7号打第二场，9号打第三场，11号、13号、16号是剩下三场比赛。

With only 10 games in 3 days, Liu Mang couldn't help posting a photo of himself "Ge Youtan" and the rest of the regular season schedule in April on Facebook.

The brash Liu Mang once again aroused heated discussions.

The Hawks have entered the final six games of the playoffs as other teams battle for playoff rankings.

Fans on the Internet ridiculed Liu Mang's behavior one after another, making it clear that he was spreading hatred.

During the two days off on the 1st and 2nd, besides training and teasing the two cubs and the little loli, Liu Mang accompanied the two girls, and went to the TV station to record a few episodes of "Details".

The rest day passed quickly, and soon on April 4, the Eagles began preparations for the game against the Pistons.

……

"All the main players?" Liu Wei was quite surprised to see that the next six games will be played with all the main players.

"However, the schedule in April is so easy. All the main players should be in order to make the final run-in for the playoffs and strive for a better chemical reaction..."

Liu Mang immediately understood what the coaching staff was thinking at this stage.

Before you know it, it’s this time again, and it’s the sixth time to start the playoffs. Liu Mang recalled that it was like yesterday when he partnered with Dean Grove, Jason Terry, and Emmanuel in the back line. Looking back, Emmanuel, who was directing the trainers to arrange the training field, was already a ball...

Over the past few years, Emmanuel has become the leader of the Eagles' trainers, mainly because Malone and Mark Madsen don't want to be the so-called leaders, so Emmanuel was asked to do the job of Moron Willie.

Time flies like water...

In the team meeting in the morning, the Eagles coaching staff announced the arrangements for the next few games in the meeting.

As Liu Mang expected, after entering April, it was time to really train for the playoffs.

Training for the playoffs, there will be no rest, but the main force. After resting the players to get enough rest and adjusting the individual status of the players to the playoff mode as much as possible, now it is time to adjust the team status to the playoff mode.

And this matter seems to be nothing special, but it is very important.

This is the successful experience that the Eagles have explored in the past few years, and it is also the wealth of the team that Liu Mang has enjoyed. Liu Mang has always felt that the biggest problem for the Mavericks this season is that they don’t know how to suppress and adjust their state. When the young general Johnson saw a chance to break the team’s winning record, he rushed forward sullenly.

However, such an arrangement means that some inside players such as Mark Jackson, Hollins, and Gortat will not get the chance to play.

Marion, Kwame Brown, David Lee, Gortat, Swift, Mark Jackson, Hollins, a total of seven insiders, and Grant Hill and Granger also appeared in the power forward position of the Eagles' small lineup most of the time.

The main reason is that there are more people at the center position. Kwame Brown, Gortat, Mark Jackson, and Hollins are all centers. Swift is more suitable for playing a small lineup center, just like Stoudemire. Of course, it is the cliff-jumping version of Stoudemire.

Among those who were not put into the activation list by the coaching staff, one was Hollins, which was expected, and the other was Mark Jackson...

Compared with other teams who prefer to use veterans at this stage, Mark Jackson is not much stronger than Gortat. Mark Jackson has reached the end of his career and was not trained by the team. Coach Kruger chose to let Gortat enter the active list for the playoffs.

The Eagles coaching staff tends to prefer young players selected by themselves.

But Liu Mang also likes the arrangement of the coaching staff, and Mark Jackson... After all, he is not familiar...

……

……

"Chauncey, you don't know, I've been so boring these days, I have to rest every day, it's really troublesome."

Billups looked at Liu Mang who was pretending to be on the opposite side, and really wanted to stab the bastard to death with a fork.

During the 4 days of April, the Pistons had 16 games, two back-to-backs. Hearing what Liu Mang said, he was going to be pissed off!

Yesterday the Pistons just had a bitter fight in Chicago, and it was a bit difficult to catch up with the Magic. They flew to Atlanta early this morning and played the first back-to-back against the Bulls last night.

Billups, who just woke up at noon, received a call from Liu Mang asking him out for dinner. Billups was quite happy, but this guy was purely for showing off!

"Ace, there's a power pole over there." Billups pointed to the power pole outside the window.

"Yes, what's wrong?" Liu Mang asked looking at the telephone pole.

"Take off your clothes and dance with the pole, the police will come and take you away, so you won't be bored." Billups said lightly.

Such a poisonous mouth!

Liu Mang didn't expect this guy to be so ruthless when he opened his mouth!
With 38 wins and 36 losses, the Pistons are currently ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference. The distance from the Magic with 40 wins and 35 losses is not very big, but it is still very difficult to catch up. Compared with the popular Magic, the Pistons have always had a miserable schedule. Yesterday they played against the Bulls, and today they are going to play against the Eagles. It is extremely miserable...

"Chauncey, you can jump out of the contract after finishing this season, will you renew your contract with the Pistons?" Liu Mang asked.

"No, they don't see me as part of the future anymore," Billups replied.

When Billups said this, Liu Mang didn't hear too much emotion.

Liu Mang was right after thinking about it. The Pistons hadn’t achieved real success, and couldn’t accumulate as much deep affection as in the original time and space. Maybe Billups was upset when he was not taken seriously at the beginning, but now that Billups is about to part ways with the Pistons, the feeling will definitely fade.

Thinking of the current ranking of the Pistons, Liu Mang felt so nostalgic... It was time to play the playoffs with the Pistons again. For the first four years of his career, Liu Mang played the Pistons in the playoffs. It was a pity that Liu Mang couldn't play against the Pistons last year.

Thinking of playing the playoffs with the Pistons again, Liu Mang was very happy.

But Billups on the opposite side couldn't be happy...

The Nets and Wizards, who are seventh and eighth, have a winning percentage of less than [-]%. The Pistons can’t fall, and they don’t want to fall. It’s also difficult to play against the Bulls or the Cavaliers. What they want most is to rush to fifth, so they can go to the Raptors, but they can’t make it. At this stage, it seems that Billups feels that he is about to play the playoffs with Liu Mang for the fourth time...

Billups felt like an "experienced baby" in Internet parlance, allowing Liu Mang to fight monsters and upgrade...

……

In the evening, the Eagles' first game of April began.

With Billups, Hamilton, Delfino, Bosh, and Antonio McDyess, it is not difficult for the Pistons to make the playoffs.

Bosh is already a top star, a three-time All-Star power forward, averaging 22 points and 10 rebounds per game this season, Hamilton is also at his peak, averaging 19+4+3 per game, and Billups has not declined yet, averaging 17 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists per game.

For them, the biggest problem is that the team is no longer of one mind.

Since last season, the cohesion of the Pistons has been broken, and it was broken up by Liu Mang in the 05 playoffs.

The Eagles waited for work and played with all the main force. The Pistons fought a defensive battle with the Bulls yesterday, where both sides only scored more than 70 points.

The Pistons were completely defeated, and they were beaten by the Eagles 41 to 13 in the first quarter...

The opponent scored 40+ in a single quarter, and he scored 13 points in a single quarter. The Pistons did not tend to struggle throughout the entire process.

Liu Mang, Tracy McGrady, and Kwame Brown left the game early, leaving Rondo and Marion behind. Grant Hill didn't really want to abuse his old club. After playing for a while, the substitute voluntarily applied to leave the game. This game became a performance time for the Eagles' substitutes.

Under the leadership of Rondo and Jason Terry, the Eagles used the substitutes to practice tactics, and the effect was not bad.

隆多全场打了31分钟，拿到5分7板7助攻，贾森-特里得分最高，全场打了34分钟拿到32分4助攻。

Blake got 11 points and 2 assists, Shane Battier had 10 points, and Swift scored the second highest with 19 points.

而刘莽和麦迪只打了首节，刘莽拿到12分3板1盖帽……赛季新低……麦迪3分2助攻就开始休息了……

比卢普斯或许是把剩下的力气用来在中午吃穷刘莽上面了，打了22分钟，只打出了9投1中拿到6分1板4助攻的数据。

Bosh performed quite well. The Pistons collapsed across the board in the first quarter, but after playing the Hawks rotation, Bosh played well, scoring 25 points and 11 rebounds on 30 of 6 shots.

114 to 89, the Eagles beat the Pistons by 25 points.

The fans in front of the TV watching the game felt very bored. The time period with the highest ratings for this game was actually the new episode of Liu Mang's "Details" after the game.

"Details" has become ESPN's main "basketball analysis" program. Since Kobe's episode, ESPN has formed an "analysis team" to study the details of Liu Mang. Later, after "Snake Science" became popular, this program with no fixed time has become a main program in ESPN's basketball program.

Over there in Denver, Iverson was about to cry watching "Allen Iverson in Details" after the live broadcast of the Eagles and Pistons!

The season is coming to an end, and it's finally his turn!

only……

Liu Mang received a call when he was doing physical therapy after the match...

"Ace, explain to me why that bastard took 30 minutes to analyze and I only had 20 minutes?"

(End of this chapter)