From today on is the king

Chapter 747. 746. On the eve of the storm (for subscription)

Time passed quickly, Liu Mang and his teammates trained together for a few days, and soon came May 5, the last four days of preparation for the finals.

At 9:33 p.m. last night, the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Timberwolves came to an end at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The Lakers, who returned home in Game [-], did not give the Timberwolves another chance, and the Timberwolves also failed to create miracles.

Different from the previous game, Kobe stared at Szczerbiak from the very beginning and did not give Szczerbiak a chance to shoot open shots. In this game, Payton finally performed the task that the Lakers wanted him to complete. The defensive end played at the level of last season. He defended Sprewell to 17 of 4 shots and only scored 14 points and 4 assists. Since six games in the series, the Madman scored no more than 20 points for the first time.
Even the madman was blocked. Szczerbiak was killed by Kobe. Garnett scored 22 points and 17 rebounds in this game. But because the madman was blocked, Garnett was forced to hold the ball more and was defended by the Lakers 11 turnovers. An embarrassing alternative triple-double, plus the highest single-game turnover record in team history.

The Lakers defeated the Timberwolves 87-75 and advanced to the finals 4-2.

The start time of the finals between the Eagles and the Lakers is also determined to start on June 6.

In the past few days, after the team's training is over, Prince will pull Liu Mang to challenge Liu Mang one-on-one.

Liu Mang's singles against Prince, the success rate has been greatly improved compared to before!

Although it was a bit difficult at the first time, he became more and more proficient in the fight, changing hands in the air and changing his footsteps. At first, Liu Mang was desperate to be entangled by a guy who was obsessed with one-sided defense, but after feeling his progress, Liu Mang also enjoyed it.

Prince tried to use various methods to defend Liu Mang, but the more ways he thought of, Liu Mang became more and more proficient in using his left hand in the breakthrough. The ten-ball duel was better than Liu Mang's two or three hours of training alone.

What Liu Mang thought was right, when he played against a real defensive champion and polished his offense, it was much better than practicing alone.

Similarly, Prince also found room for improvement in the matchup with Liu Mang. In the past, when he defended against left-handed players like Ginobili and Reed, he would always have some discomfort. Now he is gradually adapting to the feeling of playing against left-handed players.

The Eagles are steadily preparing for the finals. Liu Mang's singles skills are honed, Prince's single defense continues to strengthen, and the team's offensive and defensive tactics are also steadily preparing for the next finals.

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The fact that the Eagles and Lakers joined forces in the finals has a huge influence. If the basketball circles around the world are counted, it even exceeds the level of Jordan and Shuangsha in the finals for two consecutive years!

The attention contributed by Chinese basketball fans is naturally the bulk of it. Chinese players have led the team to the finals as a core player, and they have already turned the world upside down in the country.

Domestic hardware strength is increasing year by year, and has been increasing rapidly since the 90s. The economic aggregate has continued to break through, especially the economic growth rate, which has broken through 90% again after the Asian economic crisis in the mid-to-late [-]s. From a national perspective, it is indeed very gratifying.

However, in terms of software strength, it seems to have regressed. Entertainment and culture have been invaded by other countries.

Of course, under such an atmosphere, there must be many people who are disgusted with this xenophobia atmosphere, and certainly in terms of the number of people, there are more people who dislike xenophobia and want to correct it than xenophobia.

However, I am disgusted and want to correct it, but there is no way to correct it, because the domestic software strength has experienced a serious regression in the lost decade, and even sports, which people place high hopes on, is not as good as every year.

Small ball sports such as table tennis and badminton and fringe sports such as diving are great, but their influence is too low; football has high hopes, but the greater the hope, the deeper the despair;

Under such circumstances, even if the country wants to correct this atmosphere of xenophobia, it cannot correct it, and there is no argument that can be used to correct it.

Therefore, when Liu Mang gained a firm foothold in the NBA, the highest hall of basketball in the world, especially after he won the MVP this year and led the team to the finals, the finals were hyped by the official media in China. Since the Eagles advanced to the finals, almost every day there are basketball feature documentaries on the court sports channel, including the origin and development of Chinese basketball. About to touch the pinnacle of honor in the NBA.

Liu Mang's rogue value has been rising these days, even faster than his MVP and 70 wins in the regular season. As the system predicted, this season is the year he established his status in the NBA and the domestic sports world.

Liu Mang also pays attention to the domestic news from time to time, but there is one thing that is beyond his expectation, that is, there is not much media hype about the Chinese Derby in the final match between him and Wang Zhizhi.

From this point of view, Liu Mang felt a kind of confidence in the domestic basketball world!
The less confident you are, the more you will use some small things that are not the point at all in the eyes of others to paralyze yourself.

For example, in the future, Jeremy Lin will be forcibly tied up, and Zhou Qi, who has no dominance in the Development League, will be promoted as a superstar embryo, etc., and this is almost impossible in Yao Ming's peak period.

But now, Chinese players have Liu Mang in the east and Yao Ming in the west. They are both top players in their respective positions. They have given domestic basketball fans strong confidence. Similarly, they have also inspired many children to want to play basketball.

If it’s just the original Yao Ming, although many people in China fell in love with the NBA and basketball because of this, Yao Ming’s sense of distance to ordinary people is too great. There is only one Yao Ming in China. In addition to Yao Ming in world basketball, there are other players with his height and strength. Sabonis is also Sabonis. Although Big Z is tall, the gap between them is not ordinary.

There is only one Yao Ming, which is almost impossible to replicate. Although the fans fell in love with basketball, they did not have the urge to devote themselves to the sports career, nor the urge to become a dream.

But Liu Mang is different. Although 1.9 meters 1999 is tall, it is not out of reach. In 1.6, the average height of domestic adult men reached [-] meters [-]. That is to say, for every Guo Jingming, there must be at least one Guo Ailun.

In China, the proportion of adult men with a height of 1.8 meters and over has exceeded 1.9%, the proportion of adult men with a height of [-] meters and over is close to [-]%, and the proportion of people with a height of [-] meters and over has reached about [-]/[-].

Although the proportion is far from the height of 12.00% of people in the United States whose height is above 1.9 meters, the country has a large population and a large base, and tall people are no less than those in the United States. It can be seen from the National College Basketball League and volleyball games that height requirements are stricter than American college athletes, and the average height is higher. The average height of the CBA is also higher than that of the NBA.

In the past, most of the successful basketball players in China were insiders. Director Zhang, Battelle, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming, who had a little influence in the world, were almost all insiders.

But now after Liu Mang appeared, everything is different. The children in China are more enthusiastic about basketball!
Because compared to Yao Ming, Liu Mang's height is not out of reach. There is no shortage of players of this height in college, and even some high schools have players who are close to 1.9 meters. They all see hope!

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The domestic hype for the finals between the Eagles and the Lakers is mainly to promote Liu Mang, and the attention in the United States is not low.

Everyone wants to see the Lakers lose in the finals too much. The three consecutive championships allowed the Lakers to establish a position for at least 20 years at the beginning of the new century, but it also made countless fans want to see the Lakers collapse.

Right now the Lakers are on the tightrope, either they win the championship and step over the tightrope and survive the middle-class trap, or they fall off the tightrope and crash straight into rebuilding.

The Eagles broke the record set by the Lakers in the 1999-2000 season one after another. From the number of regular season wins to the historical record of winning streak in a single season in the playoffs, the records kept by the Lakers were broken by the Eagles one by one.

The influence in the entire basketball world is even greater than when Jordan won three consecutive championships!

It's not that Liu Mang's influence is greater than Jordan's or that the Hawks have greater influence than the Bulls, but that the Hawks have the opportunity to defeat a dynastic team, which brings huge influence!

Moreover, compared to the original Pistons in history, the Eagles are obviously more popular. The current impression of the Pistons is still the impression of the bad boys in the late 80s. Not many people like it, but the Eagles are different!
When the Lakers also advanced to the Finals, in terms of public opinion, there were many more fans who supported the Eagles than those who supported the Lakers.

Just like the Beat-LA that the Celtics yelled back then, except for the Lakers fans, almost all fans supported the Eagles to kill the Lakers!
In addition, the Shuangsha Finals matchup, the continuation of the MVP battle between Kobe and Liu Mang, and the title of the strongest lineup in history all detonated this basketball season!

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"Ace, the Lakers are coming to Atlanta." Stockton came to the lounge and said to Liu Mang.

Today's training is over, Liu Mang is reading the newspaper delivered in the afternoon in the lounge.

The main reason is that the winning odds of gaming companies and the championship predictions of major websites have come out.

It is not without reason that the Lakers are hated, because in terms of the probability of winning the championship given by major media and gaming companies, the Lakers have a 70.00% five, which is a three-quarters chance of winning the championship, while the Eagles only have a one-quarter, 20.00% five chance.

The odds of the Lakers winning the championship are [-] to [-], while the Eagles are [-] times. Obviously, the media is more optimistic about the Lakers.

Liu Mang understands better why the fans hate the Lakers so much. He hates the Lakers. From the bottom of his heart, he is optimistic about the Lakers and fears that the Lakers will continue to win the championship.

For Liu Mang, this was an extra motivation.

Hearing Stockton say that the Lakers had arrived in Atlanta, Liu Mang asked, "So early? By the way, John, how do you know? I didn't see it in the news just now?"

Liu Mang is a bit strange. The Lakers just finished playing the Timberwolves yesterday, and they are here today. You must know that two years ago, after the Lakers led the Nets 2-0 at home, they played an away game for the third time. Other teams went back the next day to familiarize themselves with the away game. However, the Lakers only arrived in New Jersey the evening before the game and lived in Jersey City. They went directly to the away game the next day.

"Carl called me and asked me out for dinner, Ace, are you going?" Stockton shook his phone.

It turned out to be like this, Liu Mang smiled and said: "I won't go, you and Karl get together, we will be rivals with him from now on."

"OK." Stockton didn't force it. Sometimes it's not good to have a third person in a man's friendship, even if it's a little apprentice.

After Stockton left, the last teammate who stayed in the arena also left, and the entire arena fell silent.

In this quiet environment, Liu Mang can finally be alone for a while.

He didn't leave after the afternoon training, mainly because he wanted to be alone.

It's amazing that the arena, which was originally the busiest, is actually the quietest place.

Liu Mang closed his eyes and let his mind go for a while. After feeling calm, he opened the system panel and watched the change of a task after the Lakers advanced to the Finals last night.

"As an official, Mo Ruozhi Jinwu, facing the strongest team in NBA history, the host's path to becoming a superstar in the NBA era has officially begun. In this season when all heroes rise together and old-school basketball reaches its peak, the mission is triggered: King's Landing."

In the past, this task was just placed there, and there was no other specific task content. After the Lakers advanced to the finals last night, the task content finally came.

"The first stage of King's Landing: Defeating the Los Angeles Lakers, the strongest team in the new century, to win the championship. Task reward: advanced endurance fruit. Failure punishment: the relationship between the OK combination is restored, the relationship between Shaq O'Neal and the Lakers is repaired, Shaq O'Neal recognized Kobe Bryant in advance, and Kobe Bryant began to recognize Shaq O'Neal's lazy behavior in the regular season."

Endurance fruit... Liu Mang has been longing for it for a long time, but he has tried to spend millions of rogue points in random draws. Except for such and such strange survival skills, what kind of cognition tree species extracts liquid from trees, repairs water pipes, repairs ceilings, even repairs computers, repairs bicycles, etc. Weird skills in industries that are still profitable in the United States and some weird wilderness survival skills, nothing useful is drawn.

Liu Mang has been storing it for a long time but it is still level 0, and a special skill that cannot be activated forcibly: super speed level 0, which is the skill he got from Hamilton back then, still can't be used.

Because no matter how hard Liu Mang tried, there was basically no room for physical improvement.

The stamina of 90 was reached last season, and it still exceeded the original upper limit of endurance. The original system gave Liu Mang an upper limit of stamina of 85, but with the increase of the upper limit of strength and his own speed reached the upper limit of 94, the upper limit of endurance has also been improved. It reached 90, which is regarded as the top physical fitness.

But compared with the epic physical fitness of Hamilton and Kobe, it is too far behind.

The skill of super speed, the minimum activation requirement is 95 stamina.

As for stamina, it seems inconspicuous. If you give a player with average ability, like an ordinary starter between 70-80, it is useless. Even if he has the physical strength to play the whole game, even if he plays hard and rarely gets injured, the coach will not give him a chance.

But when it comes to the strength of quasi-first-class stars or the strength of first-class stars, it is different, such as Hamilton.

If it reaches the top, or even the strength of a superstar, such as Kobe, endurance is the comprehensive ability of physical strength and injury resistance. Hamilton is the kind of physical strength and first-class injury resistance, while Kobe is the kind of super physical strength and super injury resistance.

Kobe’s biggest feature is that he can survive. First he survived Jordan until he retired, then he survived the peak periods of Carter and Iverson, and then McGrady.

However, Kobe is like Carina Lau who survived Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Wang Zuxian, Zhong Chuhong... Kobe also survived these people, and was selected for the first round in 2013. At that time, even Wade couldn't make it to the second team.

For superstars, stamina is one of the most important aspects of physical fitness. Liu Mang himself does not have much talent in this area. Like ordinary domestic basketball players, he loses physical energy quickly under high-intensity confrontation, so physical potions and quick shooting masters are extremely important to him.

As for the skill Liu Mang coveted for a long time, if it is normal, he will not be able to use it in his life.

But now the mission is here, advanced stamina fruit!

"Advanced Endurance Fruit: Increase endurance by 3 to 7 points."

Compared with the 8 to 15 points of the ultimate fruit, there is a gap, but if it can be increased by 5 points, it is enough for Liu Mang. He only needs to meet the requirements of only using it. As for the consumption of physical energy, it is not a problem for him.

The early repair of the relationship between O'Neal and Kobe is bound to be a huge obstacle for Liu Mang to dominate the NBA in his future career!Even if O'Neal's peak can only last until 06, there are still two years to be the league's number one center, and the most important thing is that O'Neal, who played with Kobe, played much more easily than when he was in the Heat. Pat Riley of the Heat used O'Neal as Ewing to squeeze him out.

For example, in the Western part of the Lakers' playoffs this year, O'Neal's performance was not very good throughout the whole process, but his deterrent power was there. He beat Yao Ming against the Rockets, Duncan and Nesterovic against the Spurs, and Garnett and Olowokandi's defense against the Timberwolves.

Liu Mang can believe that if O'Neal continues to play with Kobe, it is estimated that his excellent performance will be extended for two to three years. In fact, O'Neal also averaged 08 points and 09 rebounds per game in the 17.8-8.4 season and was selected as an All-Star.

Therefore, this gave Liu Mang the pressure and motivation to win the championship!
Liu Mang couldn't count himself, how many expectations and pressures he was carrying and the motivation brought by these expectations and pressures, and at the same time, the fruit of endurance was in front of him!

Moreover, even putting aside all the expectations and pressures and the rewards of the system, Liu Mang is full of motivation just because he has a chance to win the championship.

The closer you get to the championship, the deeper the desire for the championship becomes!

and……

Liu Mang took out his mobile phone, and found a text message sent by a guy who pretended to be aggressive and slapped his face a few days ago, who obviously lost the game at night.

Play the finals with this guy, play the finals with the OK combination!
From this point alone, Liu Mang's motivation to beat the Lakers is about to burst from his heart!
　There may be another chapter tonight, try to write as much as possible, the finals are about to start~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)