From today on is the king

Chapter 1535 1534. The Suns' Response
On January 1th, the day of the game between the Eagles and the Suns, Liu Mang got up to take a shower and replenished his regular medicine.

A rogue is worth 17213369 points, and a superstar is worth 437985 points.

After replenishing the standing medicine, Liu Mang still has 40 superstar points left.

Usually playing against weaker teams, Liu Mang would draw his star card to experience the playing styles of various stars, improve his comprehensive skills, and find any useful tips, which consumes a lot of money.

Now Liu Mang has to start saving superstar points. If he really wins the fourth MVP in his career this season, and it is a three-consecutive MVP, the superstar value will definitely be a lot. Last year's two consecutive MVPs have increased a lot of superstar points.

If you can break a million, you can draw another attribute fruit.

Work hard, Liu Mang has it, but there is a slight gap in talent, even if it has been compensated by so many superstars for so many years, it is still a little bit worse than the top.

Of course Liu Mang wanted to get better.

Fortunately, Liu Mang still has room for improvement. There is no complete bottleneck period. For example, practicing the three-threat play style when playing against weak teams is an area where he can improve, so Liu Mang is not so urgent.

Practice what you have learned to the best first, so as not to be greedy for too much. Rather than learning all the skills, Liu Mang prefers to draw some characteristic role player star cards at this stage to learn some small skills.

For example, Raja Bell's defensive skills to avoid the referee's small moves, Doug Rivers's cutting skills when stealing the ball, etc., these small skills do not need to take too long to train, just need to slowly develop defensive habits in the game.

Of course, it would be even better to be able to get the star cards of those superstar stars or even era-level superstars that Liu Mang wanted. Liu Mang’s block blocking under the basket is getting stronger and stronger. In addition to the feature of "giant killer", he has experienced the star cards of major insiders many times, including Shaquille O'Neal, Ben Wallace and other big shot blocking stars. Played a big role.

Relatively speaking, the consciousness of blocking shots inside and the judgment of when offensive players will make shots are much better than defensive champions on the outside.

It is Liu Mang's mentality that allows him to continuously improve and refine various techniques.

After washing, Liu Mang wanted to go to Little Lolita's bedroom to ask Little Lolita to wake up and have breakfast, but found that Little Lolita had already woken up.

"Dinah, why did you get up so early today?"

"The All-Star starting list will be announced this morning, uncle, hurry up to breakfast!" Little Lolita hurriedly pushed Liu Mang back to the room and asked Liu Mang to change his clothes.

Only then did Liu Mang remember that today is the day when the All-Star starting roster is announced.

Before the second stage of voting ended on January 1, the votes for the second stage were announced on the 17th. The other positions did not change much, only the Western forward Anthony was overtaken by Josh Smith.

Liu Mang and Little Lolita went to have breakfast together. After breakfast, it was past eight o'clock. While having breakfast, they met some teammates. They went back to Liu Mang's suite together and watched the TV. They watched the final results of the NBA's official announcement of the All-Star voting together at 9 o'clock.

There is no change in the Eastern Conference. It is too stable. Dwight Howard won the Eastern Conference with 279 million votes.

The second Kwame Brown has only 113 million votes, and the gap is too big.

For forwards, LeBron James ranked first with 233 million votes, and Garnett ranked second with 196 million votes.

The third place with 135 million votes has a big gap between Raheem and the first two.

For defenders, Liu Mang ranked first with 255 million votes, and McGrady ranked second with 233 million votes.

Wade saw that he was ranked third among the defenders with 149 million votes. Although he had already made mental preparations, when he saw the final number of votes, he still felt a little envious.

On the west side, the only one who broke 300 million votes this year is Yao Ming, the center position in the west, with 306 million votes.

As for the forward, Duncan's 219 million votes are unshakable All-Star starters, but the other forward position, the last counterattack is Carlos Boozer with 169 million votes!
Boozer beat Josh Smith with 169 million votes and Carmelo Anthony with 161 million votes with 155 million votes, and was selected to the All-Star starting lineup for the first time.

The Jazz have a good record, and Boozer is Liu Mang's former teammate, so he was unexpectedly selected as the All-Star starter.

Guard...Kobe has 244 million votes, Iverson has 225 million votes, and was selected as the All-Star starter without any suspense.

The combined votes of Nash, Paul, and Iguodala can surpass Iverson, but if the three votes are almost the same, then it will not work.

Looking at his 113 million votes, which is so far behind the No. [-] Howard, Kwame Brown feels that the All-Star starter has gone away from him.

In fact, if it weren't for the 60E Lakers fans who helped O'Neal back then, even if Kwame Brown was Liu Mang's teammate, it would be difficult to have a chance to be selected as the All-Star starter.

After O'Neal left the Eastern Conference, Kwame Brown's All-Star starter also came to an end.

But Kwame Brown is already very satisfied to be selected as two All-Star starters, but what he got before is now lost, and there is always some regret.

On the contrary, Liu Mang and McGrady, coincidentally, both became All-Star starters in the 02-03 season. Whether they are on the same team or not, they have been partners in the Eastern Conference since they became All-Star starters.

There was no surprise, the teammates also dispersed, went back to the room to rest for a while, and gathered in the conference room of the hotel at 10 o'clock for the pre-match meeting.

……

Eagles VS Suns, this game has received widespread attention.

The Suns are gaining momentum now, ranking second in the Western Conference. They are currently in a four-game winning streak. They just defeated the Lakers and Spurs. Can they make persistent efforts to end the Eagles' winning streak?
Or will the Eagles continue to maintain that unstoppable state, winning streak all the way, catching up with or even overtaking the Spurs before the All-Star Weekend?

Everything depends on tonight's game.

After the Eagles finished playing the Suns, the difficult mid-season schedule is over. The next opponent is the No. 31 Clippers. The first five games next month are the Nets, Wizards, Pistons, Bobcats, and Warriors. It is not until the last two games before the All-Star Weekend that they will play against the Rockets and the Cavaliers.

If the Suns fail to stop the Eagles from continuing their winning streak, it is basically impossible for the next six opponents of the Hawks to stop the Eagles, and the next six games of the Hawks will be played by the Hawks at home, except for the Clippers and Warriors.

Judging from the public opinion on the Internet, most fans are more supportive of the Suns.

Who is the Eagles... mainly because a certain No. 24 player pulls too much hatred.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang took Little Lolita and followed the team to the Meixi Arena to conduct pre-match tactical drills and prepare for the game.

After training, he rested for a while. At four o'clock, Liu Mang gave the front-row ticket he got from the Suns to Harden, who had been squatting in the parking lot for two hours, and then returned to the training ground to warm up.

When it was almost six o'clock, players from the two teams entered the field...

……

Listening to the cheers of the fans on the home team Suns players, Liu Mang is a little puzzled now.

"How does this guy's head grow? Aren't you afraid of being beaten to death?"

Thinking about Artest's iron elbow, Liu Mang felt that this guy probably really wasn't afraid of being beaten.

In the position directly in front of the technical table, sat the most popular local college player in Phoenix, but this popular local fried chicken in Phoenix was wearing a No. 24 Eagles jersey with a blue and white base and red trim...

So eye-catching!

Liu Mang didn't expect that Harden's down jacket was covered with his jersey.

A popular college player in Phoenix, cheering for the star of the visiting team, is still under such high attention...

There is no suspense, the camera is repeatedly shown on Harden...

Even the little girl behind the Eagles' bench felt that this college student had good basketball talent and strength, but his brain was not good enough.

Liu Mang can only hope that the future JDZ king will not be beaten.

Seeing Kwame Brown bickering with Josh Smith, and Nash chatting with Tracy McGrady, O'Neal, Grant Hill and other veterans with special expressions, Liu Mang felt the desire of the Suns to win.

The fighting spirit of both teams is very high!

At 58:[-], Liu Mang came to the sidelines to wipe off the chalk, sprinkled the chalk into the air, and played with his starting teammates.

The game is about to start.

The starting players of both teams were very focused after they came on the field!
For the Suns, the starting lineup of Nash, Raja Bell, Jason Richardson, Josh Smith, and O'Neal appeared.

For the Eagles, the starting lineup of Rondo, Liu Mang, McGrady, Marion, and Kwame Brown is also back.

To play against a strong team like the Suns, of course you have to play with all the main players.

In this way, Scola and Finley can only be wronged to wear suits, because Gasol got the chance to play today.

After the game started, Kwame Brown helped the Eagles win the jump ball, and the Eagles went first.

Liu Mang came to the high position and leaned against Raja Bell, feeling Raja Bell's small movements, Liu Mang held back his impatience and asked Rondo for the ball.

After Rondo lobbed the ball to Liu Mang, he cut inside and brought Nash in.

Rondo went inside at this point, and Nash had to keep up. The combination of Rondo's low footsteps, super long wingspan, big hands, etc., although he is a little short, but singled out at the basket is too powerful.

After all, it is the only offensive strength. After more than a year of hard training, Rondo has continued to improve his footwork at the basket. Even Liu Mang and McGrady's footwork at the basket is not Rondo's opponent.

When Rondo took a step inside the free throw line, McGrady cut in from the right at a 45-degree angle, and the two met. Rondo went up to help McGrady block Jason Richardson who was chasing him. McGrady ran to the left sideline. Nash quickly switched defenses.

Just when McGrady passed Liu Mang and Raja Bell's left high position a little inward, Liu Mang turned right and forced his way to the bottom line!
Josh Smith quickly blocked him, and Liu Mang turned and jumped in the double-team of Raja Bell and Josh Smith, facing Marion in the bottom corner!

"Ding... Aerial Magician triggers at level 5..."

Although Nash's defensive ability is not good, he is really active. He goes to defend Marion in the bottom corner, but Liu Mang passes the ball not to Marion after the jump, but to McGrady!

McGrady received a point from Liu Mang and made a three-pointer from the left sideline...

Got in on the first shot!

It was just McGrady, Marion was ready to catch the ball and cut in, and Liu Mang was also staring at Marion. No one else thought that Liu Mang's hand shook, and the target of the pass was McGrady.

Seeing that Tracy McGrady is still in such a good state, Nash took a deep breath and came to the bottom line to wait for the serve.

It's too horrific!
The current state of the Eagles is unreasonable.

Nash received the serve and advanced, and the Suns attacked.

Kwame Brown is ready to try to see if he can guard against O'Neal, and if he can't guard against it, he will find his younger brother who is already warming up on the bench to make fat with fat.

The Suns didn't focus on O'Neal at the beginning!

It was the pick-and-roll of Josh Smith and Nash!
When Nash and Josh Smith's pick-and-roll drew the attention of Eagles defenders Liu Mang, Marion and Rondo to the line, Jason Richardson ran around the three-second zone, O'Neal blocked McGrady, Nash gave the ball to Jason Richardson, and the dunk king turned over and hit a mid-range jumper!
Coach Kruger made Gasol Jr. ready to play at any time, but he ended up playing outside.

The pick-and-roll is the core tactic of the Suns besides running, bombing, and counterattack. The Suns insisted on playing from the perimeter from the start of today's game. O'Neal stayed at the basket to contain and pick-and-roll teammates around the basket!
The Eagles' unlimited rotation system based on the inside is based on the fact that most of the strong teams now have powerful insiders or at least powerful frontcourt players. Except for Milicic, it is difficult to deal with.

However, playing outside... This is the point where the Eagles are extremely strong!
After the Eagles' amazing performance against the Lakers, Spurs and other teams, the Eagles have attracted a lot of attention, but their outside line is the real lethal place, just like in the win against the Lakers, Liu Mang, Jason Terry and Tracy McGrady took off and scored more than 90 points.

The Suns played outside for more than four minutes and really couldn't hold on, so they made a substitution!
However, instead of changing the inside line to beat and run, Nash was replaced and Calderon was replaced!

Card shark combination debut!

(End of this chapter)