From today on is the king

Chapter 1484. Chapter 1483. The training camp starts ahead of schedule, aiming for the championship

Watching Grant Hill and Michael Finley, the strongest forward and guard swingman for two consecutive years in 1994 and 1995, chatting happily, there is not much doubt about the integration of Finley, a veteran.

In terms of strength, Liu Mang will not have particularly high expectations for Finley. After all, at this age, Liu Mang is not sure how Finley will be in the future. What is needed is experience and Finley's good attitude. This is what Liu Mang learned from Coach Kruger when discussing tactics.

Finley's positive defensive attitude and rigorous training attitude as always have always been a role model for teammates on the same team. He is often praised by his teammates, and the type of player who takes the team's victory as the first goal and never messes with gossip on and off the court is the kind of player that coaches are most assured of.

The most important thing is that Finley accepted the role that Wade may not get a chance to play after Wade's comeback in the early season.

Although the Eagles have developed a tradition of taking turns, they will not take turns until the season progresses to a certain stage. There must be a period of time when two players will not get the chance to play.

Gasol Jr. is one. He is not yet at the level of the NBA. Except for some targeted games that require him, it is estimated that he will hardly have the chance to play in the first two years. He weighs 135 kilograms...

The other... It will be Finley's turn to take on such a role as a veteran who has his thighs for the championship.

In the past few days, Liu Mang discussed tactics in detail with Stockton, Stan Van Gundy, Coach Kruger and Chip Engelland.

Before the draft, Liu Mang discussed the team system for next season with coach Kruger and Stockton, and clarified the signing plan. Coach Kruger also discussed the specific details with Stockton many times in the past two months.

Liu Mang couldn't help much with the tactical details. He just proposed a core plan, and the specifics had to be handed over to the tactical coach Kruger.

Defensively, coach Kruger and owner Price have given the task to newcomer Stan Van Gundy.

Van Gundy's enthusiasm was beyond Liu Wei's expectations. At the beginning, Liu Wei did not expect that Van Gundy would come up with so many defensive plans. It took less than six days from the July 7 trade to get Van Gundy to the meeting between Liu Wei and Stockton and Van Gundy on July 1.

Liu Mang did not make any changes to Van Gundy's relatively traditional defensive system construction methods. It is important to respect the opponent, and if the imaginary enemy is the Lake Horse Niu Ri, the traditional defensive system is necessary, and the specific choice should be left to Coach Kruger.

Any offensive assistant coach or defensive assistant coach, if he is asked to come up with a team system, he can come up with a lot. After all, he is a professional, but in the end it is up to the head coach to choose.

However, Liu Reck gave Van Gundy an extra defensive tactic that he wanted. At that time, Van Gundy was also very confused. Why did Liu Reck and assistant coach Stockton meet with him and talk about team ideals?

Later, after studying the defensive tactics given by Liu Mang, Van Gundy became a little fascinated...

It is a brand-new defensive tactic. It can be further expanded and developed into a defensive system. After all, it is a successful defensive tactic after many times of practice by the Big Three of the Heat and the Cosmos in the original time and space. Liu Mang only remembers how to operate it, and professional is professional.

This kind of detailed team system, Liu Mang is completely inferior to these two, what Liu Mang is good at is the occasional flash of inspiration.

After finding Van Gundy, Van Gundy has continuously adjusted several defensive systems based on the signings of the Eagles in more than two months, which made Coach Kruger shine!
Compared with the tactical system that Mike Woodson has worked with for many years, the defensive systems that Van Gundy thought of may be taken for granted and have more flaws, but Van Gundy, who has never had much contact with the Eagles players, can come up with several defensive systems.

The next step is to slowly adjust in the training camp, preseason, and regular season. Nothing can be done overnight.

In the past few days, Liu Wei and the coaching staff discussed tactics together. There were not many opportunities for Liu Wei to intervene, mainly to listen and learn.

But there are some things that Van Gundy is not used to...because coach Kruger and Stockton always have a word when they express their offensive tactics...

This sentence is - "Ace, if you don't want to play singles, we will..."

The premise of playing tactics is that if Liu Mang doesn't want to play alone, this makes Van Gundy very uncomfortable.

Thinking that this team has reached the Finals in the past four years and won three consecutive championships, Van Gundy feels even more incredible.

But he is a champion coach and one of the top three point guards in history, and he is also an excellent offensive assistant coach after retirement, so he can only listen to such unreliable things.

Fortunately, no one raised any objections to Van Gundy's defensive system, which made him very satisfied.

Van Gundy has long been famous for his defensive accomplishments, and this time he actively proposed as many as four defensive systems, which made the former Eagles coaching staff and Liu Mang appreciate it.

The cultivation of the team's chemical reaction and the selection and modification of the tactical system must start from the training camp.

On the morning of the 20th, when Liu Mang came to the arena, he found that the two veterans who had entered the NBA in the mid-90s had come earlier...

After saying hello, Liu Mang felt the excitement of the two veteran players. Last season, it was the first time that Grant Hill made it to the second round, the first time in the Eastern Conference finals, and the first time in the finals. After seeing Liu Mang coming, he expressed to Finley more actively the incredible feeling he had last season.

Finley is not the first transfer. He is a rookie of the Suns. Later, he and Nash became a bargaining chip for Kidd. In the summer of 05, he went to the Spurs.

Other teammates came one after another.

O'Neal, McGrady, Kwame Brown...Looking at the three high school students who played together somehow, Liu Mang felt as if he was really in conflict with high school students, and there would never be a shortage of high school students around him.

Veterans have the benefits of veterans. They have clear goals at this stage of their careers, so there is no need to worry about any conflicts between them and young players in terms of playing time. Jermaine O'Neal played as a substitute for the Pacers from time to time last season, averaging only 24 minutes per game.

Brad Miller was abandoned by the Kings and came to the Eagles and accepted his fate. He has always been a very hardworking player. From being undrafted to play in Europe to being an NBA All-Star substitute, his comeback efforts are definitely much more than those players who were core insiders from the beginning, and he was more successful than most players who were core players from the beginning.

What impressed Liu Mang the most was the 2015-year-old Greg Monroe in 25. He rejected the invitations from the Lakers, Celtics, Mavericks, and Spurs, went to the Bucks, and finally went to the Raptors at the age of 28 to play as a substitute with a basic salary.

Wade also came to participate in the early training camp, but followed the trainer to do rehabilitation and minimally invasive surgery in the physiotherapy room. This is a long recovery process. Wade has been doing some rehabilitation work since June. After minimally invasive surgery, without perseverance and perseverance, it is impossible to get back to the previous state.

But Mason... From the signing of the contract on September 9th to the few days before the meeting on the 15th, Liu Mang often saw this new teammate in the arena.

Drawing people, drawing championship trophies, painting arenas... even painting against a pillar...

When Liu Mang knew that the starting price of a painting of Mason was 1000 to [-] U.S. dollars, and his painting income in the past seven years exceeded [-] million U.S. dollars, Liu Mang had nothing to say.

Mason's professional attitude has always been very good, and he dares to fight and fight hard. As for not fully realizing the talent that won the slam dunk champion back then into strength, it has nothing to do with Liu Mang.

Rookie Liu Mang can talk about it. He is a veteran player. It is useless for Liu Mang to talk too much. The opponent will be 2 years old in February next year. He is older than him in terms of age and playing experience.

Teammates who arrived one after another made Liu Mang feel that the whole team took on a new look.

Outside: Liu Mang himself, Jason Terry, McGrady, Wade, Grant Hill, Michael Finley, Desmond Mason, Rondo.

Inside: Marion, Kwame Brown, Brad Miller, O'Neal, Gortat, Luis Scola, Gasol Jr.

There are seven new teammates. Rondo, Gortat, Marion, and Grant Hill are all teammates in their second season. Of the 14 teammates, 11 have joined in the last two seasons. Only McGrady, Jason Terry, and Kwame Brown are old teammates...

Looking at these new teammates, Liu Mang felt that his team was basically not the same team as the previous three-peat Eagles team.

Compared to being the defending champion last season, everything is a brand new start now!
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For the Eagles, the 9-man roster for the new season was confirmed on September 15th, and they gathered on September 15th. On the 9th, the task assigned by the coaching staff was mainly to let the new teammates get acquainted with each other, and arranged the two-stage advance training camp arrangement from the 20st to the 20th, and from the 21th to the 25th. game.

A good team will get better and better. The Eagles have been the top team in the Eastern Conference since they had Liu Mang. More and more advantages have appeared on the Eagles. For example, their execution ability now makes Grant Hill, Finley, Jermaine O'Neal, Brad Miller, Mason and other five veterans who have not experienced the Eagles training camp plan very surprised. The goal is too clear!

Championship teams know how to be the best they can be from the start of training camp!
From this point alone, including Grant Hill who joined the Eagles in the middle of last season, the five veterans feel that it is the right time to come to the Eagles this time!
They didn't think about how to play the second round and the third round at all. They only had one goal - the championship!
The imaginary enemy is the four major teams of the Lakers, Horses and Niuri, and the East doesn't pay attention at all.

As time entered late September, the Eagles started training camp, and other championship teams were still sitting on their final reinforcements.

On September 9, a deal that made many championship teams want to strangle the Magic management was born.

The Magic and the Lakers reached a deal, sending Trevor Ariza, and got the Lakers pitcher Maurice Evans and 200 million cash compensation.

When Liu Mang saw this deal, he felt that the Magic really treated the Lakers as their own father. The Magic seemed to always like to assist the Lakers. The Lakers lacked small forwards. This summer, the Lakers’ small forward reinforcements have been targeted by other teams, just like the Eagles were targeted last summer, but the Magic actually sent a small forward to the Lakers!
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