From today on is the king

Chapter 446 444. Six Jordan Successor Candidates!

Any tactics will be analyzed after the game.

There are so many media and professionals who rely on the NBA to make a living. What they do every day is to analyze this and that. Not to mention, there are really many correct analyzes that have given NBA teams a lot of help.

Therefore, if it is not as strong as the OK combination, consecutive championships are very difficult. For example, like the Heat in 2013, it was thanks to Ray Allen's life-saving three-pointer, because Popovich had already studied it thoroughly after the Heat won a championship at that time.

The Hawks are still out of the playoffs, but they are the favorites, and every game is analyzed.

After the game between the Eagles and the Bucks, the analysts began to show off again. After the Eagles’ tactics against Yao Ming were analyzed, Yao Ming has been playing very hard recently. He was bullied by various short space insiders and fell into the rookie wall.

Both the American and domestic media are teasing Liu Mang for creating a problem for his country's big center.

Because the game between the Rockets and the Eagles was broadcast live in both China and the United States, everyone saw that it was Liu Mang who was drawing tactics.

Some fans in China have found a reason to black Liu Mang again, which is to trip up the players in their own country.

On the contrary, Yao Ming himself can take it easy, someone will always come up with this kind of tactic, encounter it earlier, and solve it sooner.

No, Yao Ming has already begun to develop into a flexible giant center with space technology flow.

This time, Payton was targeted for defense and was researched by people, but Payton is a veteran superstar. He restrained his desire to play singles. This defensive strategy is not effective for all teams. Not many people can irritate Payton, who is already a trash talker.

But the point is not whether this tactic can be used by most teams like Yao Ming. The point is that people are guessing whether Liu Mang or Coach Kruger came up with this defensive strategy?
Although Liu Mang rarely drew with a tactical board in this game, but this kind of shameless defense looks more and more like it was done by this second-year player?

In an interview after the game, coach Kruger said that this was the team's strategy, and he talked about him from left to right.

This pretentious answer, everyone believed that it was the trick of the second-year guy.

Ever since, Peyton's hatred for Liu Mang has grown deeper...

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NBA celebrities love to do one thing very much, which is round table meetings.

Bill Walton, Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Hakeem Olajuwon, Magic Johnson and other NBA 50 superstars, as well as Jeff Van Gundy, who suddenly resigned from the Knicks two years ago and is now serving as a temporary commentator for ESPN, held a roundtable meeting.

Before Jordan was about to retire permanently, a selection meeting of "Who is Jordan's successor" was held.

This is much more convincing than those so-called expert media, all of which are selected lineups composed of NBA celebrities or famous coaches.

In the end, among the active Mesozoic players, Tracy McGrady, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter, and Allen Iverson were selected as the most powerful candidates to succeed Jordan in the Mesozoic players.

The four major shooting guards that fans talk about may be widely circulated among the media and fans after the selection of Jordan's successor this time.

The new generation of players, among the rookies in the four years since the 1999 draft, two were selected as candidates for Jordan's successor. One of them was Liu Mang, who averaged 20+ per game in his rookie season and performed even better after the team got back on track this year!

And the other one, who has not yet entered the NBA... an over-mature guy who is still in the senior year of high school and has no three-point stability in free throws in the future. Before entering the NBA, he was regarded as one of Jordan's successors, and was listed as one of the six outside players with the most potential and strength among the Mesozoic and New Generation players.

The four shooting guards, they are all famous superstars, the worst Carter also has the title of the best team and the strongest slam dunk king in history.

Liu Mang also averaged 20+ in his rookie game, 50+ in a single game in his rookie season, and scored 54 points when he played against Jordan.

And James, sincerely relying purely on talent, was selected into this ranks, terrifying...

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After the roundtable meeting between celebrities was broadcast live jointly by ESPN and TNT, it aroused strong repercussions.

In the past, the general media was making noises about who was Jordan's successor, but this time it was different. This time, it was the real Jordan's successor selected by the superstars and former head coaches who had played against Jordan.

The title of the "Four Great Shooting Guards" composed of four Mesozoic players and Jordan's successors spread like wildfire. Of course, the title of the four major Jordan successors is mainly on the US side, because Iverson did not play shooting guards in his early years, and Carter and Tracy McGrady are not playing shooting guards now. The real shooting guard is the little blacksmith.

Mainly in China, when I saw the video clips of Iverson, Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Carter and Jordan facing off, I subconsciously regarded them as shooting guards.

And Liu Mang was selected as one of the only two Jordan successors among the new generation of players, breaking the sky in the two basketball powers of China and the United States!
Some people thought Liu Mang was being flattered too much, while others were very happy.

For the two candidates for the new generation of players, the United States is not particularly opposed. Most fans still agree. In the four years since the draft began in 1999, Liu Mang has undoubtedly performed the best. He has good personal statistics, good team records, and high popularity.

Sometimes it's so strange, but there are a lot of people mocking Liu Mang in China, and there are more comments on the Internet mocking Liu Mang for embezzling money than supporting him.

Especially seeing that there is actually an "unknown" high school student who was selected as one of the successors of the new generation of Jordan together, which gave many black fans a reason to beat Liu Mang to death and laugh at him.

As everyone knows, the 18-year-old high school student who looks about the same as the 48-year-old, the American fans saw that he was selected as Jordan's successor, and there was no objection at all. Many people even felt that Liu Mang was flattered by juxtaposing Liu Mang with their country's rare super genius in ten years...

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The Eagles have just arrived in the Denver Plateau, preparing for the third game of four consecutive away games, which is also the last game in 4 days and 3 games.

Liu Mang was really flattered when he saw the list of selected Jordan successors!

It’s too unexpected!

I was selected as Jordan's successor by the celebrities when I was only in the second grade?This is not something that the media can write about casually. A blacksmith who averaged 7 points per game in his rookie year dared to be called Jordan’s successor. A group of celebrities and coaches discussed the selection results together, but they were quite authoritative.

Liu Mang was very surprised.

However, seeing that James, who is still playing in the high school league, was also selected as Jordan's successor, Liu Mang thought that this year, as a high school student, he would overwhelm the NCAA's basketball, football, baseball, and ice hockey in major sports news... James, all NCAA stars, learned something that he could not understand in China in his previous life.

Why does a high school student get 7 million sneaker endorsements in 9000 years?

Why can a high school student's game be broadcast live across the United States?

James' name is so famous in the United States!
Jay Williams, who was too strong in the NCAA last year, is already very popular, but compared with James this year, it is more than 01:30 points behind.

Just like in the three years from 1995 to 1997, countless teams were waiting for Duncan. This year, several teams have gone crazy and tried their best to lose.

James' enthusiasm is not only about basketball, the NFL is also actively trying to promote James to join them. The historical talent that is visible to the naked eye, whether it is playing basketball, rugby or even ice hockey, is sought after by countless teams.

If it weren’t for the joint agreement of the four major leagues, participating in the draft of one of the leagues would not be able to participate in the other. Maybe there will be a double champion in the NBA and the NFL. James was already the best high school football player in Ohio when he was a sophomore in high school.

It sounds ridiculous that both the NFL and the NBA draft the same guy at the top, but it's not unheard of. The father of the future three-point king is a dual high-ranking rookie in the NBA and MLB.

Liu Mang saw that among the new generation of players in the newspaper, James among the candidates for Jordan's successor was several times larger than himself, and felt a little bit uncomfortable. He looks so old!
But so excited!

Liu Mang saw himself side by side with Kobe, McGrady, Iverson, Carter and the future little emperor, this feeling is great!
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Poisonous milk is something that I would rather believe it has or not.

Liu Mang was selected as one of Jordan's successors, and Liu Mang's fans and Hawks fans naturally celebrated together.

But this kind of title is still a very authoritative selection by celebrities, and it is very hated.

It's not just that those who weren't chosen as Jordan's successors were hostile to those who were chosen, but the rivalry between those who were chosen became more obvious.

Just like when Kobe played against James for the first time, even if he didn’t even score, he had to defend James with 20-for-6. McGrady hit James and scored eight three-pointers in halftime, which made James suspicious of life.

If it weren't for Iverson's short stature, he would also want to fuck James.

The four major shooting guards fight each other, and if they are one-on-one, it is just about the same. No one can say that they can suppress the opponent, so they can only abuse the food.

In the original selection of Jordan's successor, there were only the four major shooting guards and James, who was still a high school student. That's why there are four major shooting guards in China, because most domestic fans didn't know much about James before he reached the finals in 2007.

But now the five Jordan successors have become six, and Liu Mang has also become one of the targets.

Why are there few examples of people challenging Jordan's successors, or even few people challenging them?
Because the four major shooting guards are almost at their peak now, except for the four of them competing, there is no other outside line that can compete with them. James has not yet entered the NBA, and his strength is already very strong in the first year of entering the NBA. In the second year, he was directly promoted to the ranks of top stars with an average of 27+7+7 per game.

It's a shame that a small blacksmith got 60 points from the general.

And now, Liu Mang, who is still young, is starting to be envied by others.

Most young basketball players in the United States have higher hearts than the sky and have the patience to endure it. Just like O'Neal, who stayed on the bench for four years and changed teams to soar, he gave a lot of depressed young players a lot of motivation.

They want to find opportunities to show their abilities and get favored by other teams or the management of the current team.

And defeating Liu Mang is the best chance to become famous!
Ever since, on January 1, the Eagles came to Denver to challenge the Nuggets away in the last game of four days and three games, and encountered being "challenged" by their opponents for the first time in their lives.

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Since the Eagles have just played a back-to-back and have not recovered yet, of course, we are talking about other people except Liu Mang. After a normal back-to-back, they sleep for a day and then continue to play. Physically, it is difficult to eliminate fatigue. Moreover, Denver is a plateau area with an altitude close to 2000 meters. appear particularly prominent.

So after the start of the game, Jason Terry and Prince made 4 of 0 shots from the outside in the starting stage, Raheem was double-teamed in a row, and the Eagles were beaten 9-0 by the Nuggets at the beginning.

In this case, Nuggets head coach Jeff Bozedrick refused. Seeing that the Eagles called a timeout to replace Liu Mang, coach Bzedrick decisively replaced them with Devin Brown, Donnell Harvey, Rodney White, Chris Anderson, and Nene Hilario.

Bozedrick was directly pulled from the position of the team press officer to the position of the head coach by the Nuggets, isn't it just to show off, how could he watch the veterans of the team play so well, so he was replaced with a lineup that all entered the NBA after 2000, thinking that this would be a good loss!And it can also give young players playing time to train them, which is great.

However, this group of new-generation players, after seeing Liu Mang, were all red-eyed. Devin Brown and Donnell Harvey defended Liu Mang like a meat grinder, and Liu Mang passed the ball to Jason Terry.

Then Devin counterattacked and dunked and beat the Eagles 11 to 0...

After Liu Mang was double-teamed and passed the ball several times in a row, the shooting rate of his teammates was appallingly low.

As long as Liu Mang gets enough sleep and recovers mentally, physical fitness is not a problem, but his teammates can't!

Liu Mang could only turn on the scoring mode, but the opponent actually double-teamed him when he got the ball. Liu Mang's efficiency was average when his teammates were tired and could not get much help.

After the first quarter, the Eagles were 14 points behind 24 to 10.

After the start of the second quarter, the Eagles replaced the combination of Liu Mang, Prince, Chris Crawford, Boozer, and Murtola. They played relatively better. The physical condition of the substitutes was much better than that of the starters. The pick-and-roll power of Liu Mang and Boozer was not bad.

Who knew that the youngsters of the Nuggets looked like they had been beaten to death. The Hawks lineup was considered a strong substitute lineup in the league, but they couldn't stand up to the desperate defense of the Nuggets. After halftime, the Eagles failed to catch up with the score. The halftime score was 40 to 48, and the Hawks were still more than 5 points behind.

What scares the strong teams most about young teams is their fighting spirit!

Once you gain momentum for them, it's hard to hold back.

I was already jealous of Liu Mang's current title. The Eagles' main players played poorly at the start, giving the Nuggets a chance to start. In the third quarter, the Eagles players who came back found a little feeling. When they wanted to suppress the Nuggets in the third quarter, they found that they couldn't suppress it!
Birdman Anderson played passionately in the interior, his head slapped Ratliff's arm hard, and he defended desperately from the outside, stunned the Eagles!
Seeing the Nuggets snowball, the Eagles really have no way to go back!
In the end, in the third game of the Eagles' five consecutive away trips, the Eagles suffered bitterness in the Denver Plateau, 84 to 91. The Eagles lost to the Nuggets away. Liu Mang, who scored 23 points with 7 of 14 shots and 31 free throws, also tried his best.

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Desperately leaving the Denver plateau, Liu Mang didn't dare to go out for a stroll when he came to Portland, where the climate is quite charming. When he came out of the airport, Liu Mang saw a large number of fans who were hostile to him "pick him up" outside the airport.

Liu Mang looked at the titles of "Public Enemy of Los Angeles", "Public Enemy of Portland", "Public Enemy of New Jersey", "Public Enemy of Detroit"...these are the titles of Public Enemies of the cities where the teams that hate him so much, he understood that last year, all the local basketball fans fell in love with him.

What a big deal!

Liu Mang said that if there is too much hatred, he will not be overwhelmed.

But now he discovered one thing, that is, he was named Jordan's successor. Although it was a good thing in general, it also brought him a lot of trouble.

Just like being killed by the Nuggets, is an example.

Relying on his own performance, it is Liu Mang's honor to be named Jordan's successor by celebrities, and he is also proud of it.

However, if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight, and if you want to hold a rose, you must bear its wounds.

What does Jordan's successor mean?data?How to play?
No, it's not.

Like Iverson's style of play, no matter how nonsense it is, it has nothing to do with Jordan.

The meaning of Jordan's successor is the next player who dominates the NBA like Jordan, so Liu Mang and the four major shooting guards plus James are called candidates for Jordan's successor.

Liu Mang was very excited to get such a high honor, but just after being selected, he encountered a group of challenges. Even the new generation of players like the Nuggets who had no potential and were not seen by people were so hostile to him. Liu Mang already felt the pressure to catch up with Jordan.

Liu Mang sighed a little bit, how did the blacksmith and the high school student with forehead tattoos that can kill flies persisted until the end?Just thinking about it, Liu Mang feels horrified that he will be challenged by various contemporaries, new generations, and even future superstars who are still in primary and junior high schools in the next ten years!
But Liu Mang quickly thought about it, the matter has come to this point, the only way is to make himself stronger!And I have the opportunity to become the strongest.

Being selected by celebrities as one of the six candidates for Jordan's successor, who would refuse to be selected?Don't you see that those who were not selected are all red-eyed.

Liu Mang put aside these troubles and prepared for the next game.

With 17 wins and 20 losses, there are 5 games left. The opponents are two games against the Trail Blazers. These two games are the most difficult of the remaining 5 games. Both the Sonics and the Suns are on the edge of the Western Conference playoffs, and they are also quite difficult to deal with. Only the Clippers have completely collapsed this year.

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Playing consecutive away games, the biggest problem is not whether the opponent is strong or not, but the physical fitness and lack of time to prepare for the game.

In the game against the Nuggets, although they lost, the advantage was that Jason Terry, Raheem, Mohamed, and Ratliff played only a little over 20 minutes. Most of the time was played by Liu Mang with the second team, so now his physical fitness has almost recovered, and this aspect is not a big problem.

The main thing is that there is no time for tactical training for the game against the Trail Blazers.

This is the most difficult part in the case of consecutive away games and games every other day.

I can only study tactics, watch videos, hold a meeting, and I don’t even have time to actually practice tactics, because the Eagles flew to Portland the next day after the Nuggets, and had a rest overnight.

The Trail Blazers are now ranked fifth in the Western Conference, beating the sixth Lakers and the seventh Jazz in the Western Conference. They have the same record as the Timberwolves, 24 wins and 17 losses. However, the Timberwolves have a higher winning percentage than the Trail Blazers when they play against teams in the Northwest Division, so they rank first in the division and fourth in the West.

This year, there is no rule that the first in the division must be the top three in the division, so the Mavericks are not so sad to be squeezed to fourth. The Spurs, the number one in the West, are now 29 wins and 11 losses, the second Kings are 28 wins and 13 losses, and the third Mavericks are 26 wins and 13 losses.

The strength of the Trail Blazers this year is a bit of a flashback. Sabonis, the roof of the world, returned to the Trail Blazers after leaving the NBA for a year. The big brother of the world basketball team came back and suppressed the impetuous atmosphere in the Trail Blazers. Sometimes there is a veteran. .

The leader of the locker room seems illusory. It is difficult for others to understand the problems in the locker room of a team. However, from the beginning of the Blazers to the current record, it can be seen that the Blazers are different this season from last season.

Scottie Pippen can still maintain the same overall state as last season. Rasheed Wallace is more willing to defend than last season because the big brother is back. Bunche Wells got a four-year 4 million contract. Divide into 3000 boards.

Such a Trailblazer has once again become a strong team in the Western Conference and is considered to be able to stir up the Western Conference playoffs.

Playing the Trail Blazers, the pressure on the Eagles is also great.

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At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Eagles players came to the Rose Garden Arena to warm up before the game.

Just as the Eagles players were training, a guy with a vicious look and a bad expression came to the Eagles locker room.

Unshaven face, gloomy eyes, huge body, mainly temperament, that kind of temperament that looks like a mess, makes people feel quite uncomfortable. I think children will cry when they see it.

This man had just entered the training ground of the Eagles' away team from the player tunnel, and just came out of the bathroom next to the player tunnel.

The two didn't notice each other and knocked together.

The two "mixed society" men who bumped into each other saw the image of each other, but they didn't realize who the other party was for a while. They were simply shocked by the appearance and image of the other party. They quickly took two steps back and said at the same time: "I'm sorry."

"Uh……?"

When both of them were bending over to apologize, they were both stunned when they heard each other's apology at the same time. The scene was a bit awkward...

"Carlos, didn't I tell you to go to Tyshawn to bring me the shoes? What are you doing here? The money has been lost?...Hey, Rashid, why are you here?"

Liu Mang was still complaining that Boozer was slower when he was doing work than when he was defending. Due to the problem of blind spots, he only saw Rasheed Wallace at the corner when he got close.

Boozer bumped into Rasheed Wallace because it was a corner, and neither of them saw each other. Boozer went to the parking lot in a panic. Prince brought the sneakers Liu Mang used for training, and the Ice Generation used for the game was forgotten in the team bus.

Boozer saw Liu Mang greeting Rasheed Wallace very familiarly, and then he realized that the big man in front of him was Rasheed Wallace, the leading star of the Blazers and one of the top power forwards in the league.

Seeing Liu Mang, Rasheed Wallace's previous image of a gangster suddenly changed. He grinned and said, "Haha, Ace, I wanted to come to you yesterday, but I was afraid of delaying your rest, so I came to see you now. It seems that your current situation... is not bad, is this?"

Unlike Boozer, who is familiar with the famous star at the same position, Rasheed Wallace saw Boozer for the first time. He was very surprised. The Eagles actually found such a bad-looking player, so they are not afraid of letting their opponents misunderstand them. They chose a thug?
If Boozer knew Rasheed Wallace's impression of him, I don't know if he would want to cry or laugh...

But even though he didn't know Rasheed Wallace's thoughts, Boozer saw Rasheed Wallace's devilish smile, and he was actually... a little kind!
Because this smile is so similar to Boozer himself!They are all the kind who think they are innocent but can scare children to tears.

"This is our team's rookie, Carlos. He is very strong. Today I will rely on him to deal with you!" Liu Mang introduced his teammates forcefully, but he did not exaggerate. Boozer's shooting ability and singles skills are very important to deal with the Trail Blazers insiders tonight.

Rasheed Wallace saw that Liu Mang seemed to attach great importance to Boozer as a teammate, and felt that he should not be a bad guy: "Hi, hello, I'm Rasheed, and I'm the same as Ace. Can I call you Carlos?"

"You... hello, I'm Carlos, please give me your advice!" Boozer was more restrained. As a rookie, he didn't dare to speak too loudly with the top power forward who had been famous for many years.

However, Boozer saw that Liu Mang seemed to have a good relationship with Rasheed Wallace. Boozer felt that Rasheed Wallace should also be a good person, which may be very different from his appearance!Might be a good one!

Rasheed Wallace and Boozer suddenly looked at each other, with a feeling of being connected with the same disease. Both of them had endured the prejudice of the world because of their appearance, and they tried hard to show their kindness, but they repeatedly scared their little friends.

The two suddenly had a feeling of sympathy for each other.

Looking at Boozer and Rasheed Wallace, Liu Mang suddenly felt an atmosphere of boundless love, and Liu Mang shed a drop of cold sweat...

(End of this chapter)