From today on is the king

Chapter 561. 560. Alliance Structure
In the first half month of the offseason, the NBA seemed to be blown by a tornado. Many things have changed people's perceptions. The NBA seems to have a new pattern. It is no longer the defending champion who is ranked first in the strength list.

The Lakers saw that the OK combination was about to collapse, but the Lakers traded away Robert Horry and Mark Madsen, freed up salary space and added two All-Stars. Not only did they not collapse, but they also had an unprecedented combination of terrifying giants.

The Timberwolves, another dazzling combination of madmen and wolf kings in the West, used a five-year, 5 million contract to poach former Bucks point guard Sam Cassell at the end of July.

After forming the Big Three combination, the Timberwolves have become another team that people expect to be able to snipe the Lakers.

Garnett, although he is not ugly, but the expression matched with that face is really scary.

Sprewell, with his ugly face and weird haircut and chokehold, was always scary.

Cassel...scary.

There is no cultural difference. Basketball fans all over the world have chosen a three-headed combination for the Timberwolves' Big Three combination.

On the Kings side, after losing to the Mavericks in the second round, they failed to win Malone, but the 800 million salary space should not be wasted, so they made a poisonous offer. With a starting salary of 800 million and a fat contract of 7 million in 6400 years, Brad Miller, who only averaged 13 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, was dug from the Pacers.

It's not that the strength of the Kings has not been strengthened. After Divac has aged at most 20 minutes of outstanding performance in a game, the addition of a big center with similar characteristics is undoubtedly a very good signing for the Kings.

It’s just that Brad Miller’s market price is also middle-class. Wouldn’t it be good to save some money and find a qualified power forward to make up for Webber’s absence for at least ten months due to knee surgery at the end of May? A slow center was brought in, and with the slow Divac now, the inside defense is not optimistic at all.

In the East, the Eagles once again brought in an All-Star, but with the influence of last year's big dog, people are extremely unpopular with the Eagles' approach of picking up cancerous stars that other teams don't want.

The Pistons, who had just been blacked out, had Stephen Jackson as a strong support and Chris Bosh joined, and their strength has improved a lot. The main reason is that the head coach Larry Brown, who is better at defense than Popovich, has become the head coach of the Pistons.

The Nets finally reached a 7-year 6 million contract extension with Kidd at the end of July. Since Payton joined the Lakers, the Spurs have launched a crazy pursuit of Kidd. After sending away Glenn Robinson and some expiring contracts, after clearing up to 1.05 million in salary space, it is to introduce Kidd and Malone. At the invitation of Popovich, he said that he was only two victories away from the championship, and he was confident of winning the championship, so he chose to cut his salary and renew his contract with the Nets.

As long as Kidd is there, the strength of the Nets is guaranteed. After Kidd renewed his contract, the Heat's expired free agent Alonzo Mourning chose to join the Nets with a three-year 3 million mid-level clause in pursuit of the championship.

For Mourning, the Eagles have also launched a pursuit, but Mourning needs at least the playing time of the third insider and a mid-level contract. The Eagles can't afford it, and Mourning thinks that something will happen to the Eagles this year, so after Kidd renewed his contract, he decisively chose the Nets, which have reached the finals for two consecutive years.

The Pacers, one of the top three players in the Eastern Conference last year, were poached by Brad Miller. They were regarded as seriously injured and might be dropped from the first echelon of the Eastern Conference. Little did they know that they silently introduced Kenny Anderson and Anthony Johnson as two good substitutes, fired Isaiah Thomas, and introduced former Pistons coach Rick Carlisle.

The Spurs, who had freed up 2000 million salary space and couldn’t spend it, had to choose domestic sales. They renewed their contract with Ginobili, who had already shown extraordinary talent, and reached a 5-year 4200 million contract extension, which began in the summer of 2004. He reached a 6-year 4000 million contract renewal contract with the team’s Slovenian center Nesterovic, and reached a 6-year 3800 million contract renewal contract with Malik Rose. I chose to stabilize the team’s morale, mainly to stabilize Tony Parker’s uneasiness. Since Parker still has a two-year rookie contract, he can’t renew his contract in advance until December of next season at least. Therefore, renewing the contract and filling in the salary space by other people, so that Parker no longer has to worry about being traded, is also a way to stabilize the morale of the army.

The Mavericks are frantically supplementing outside singles players. In the season just ended, they lost to the Spurs because there were not many players with strong scoring ability in outside singles. All pointing to Michael Finley’s explosion, but Finley has passed his peak. The goal is clear, it is to deal with the Spurs, but I didn't expect the Lakers to form a Big Four as soon as they completed this in early July...

Under the pressure of the Lakers, the signings of the top four in the Eastern Conference and the top four in the Western Conference kicked off the prelude to the crazy signings early in July, and it also ended early. At the end of July, after the Nets renewed their contract and signed Mourning, the free market suddenly cooled down from extreme frenzy, and the entire NBA became calm and completely silent.

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On Liu Mang's side, after returning from travel, he first started recovery training. After all, he didn't have any scientific training for a month. During the few days in Hawaii, he mainly focused on recovery training to find his previous body rhythm and shooting feeling.

Liu Mang was surprised by Chip Englander's professional level. Because Liu Mang could use physical potions and injury potions, before, Liu Mang used shooting training separately from other teammates, because no one could practice as hard as he did.

The biggest effect of stamina medicine may not be in the competition, because the function of stamina medicine is to restore the physical reserve to the upper limit of the body, but you still have to pant when you are tired, and you still have to replenish energy, but after panting and drinking energy drinks, it is as if nothing happened just now, and you can continue to work.

The biggest effect, Liu Mang thinks, is the effect of training, which can be repeated non-stop.

So the former Eagles shooting coach couldn’t control Liu Reck’s training, but Chip Englander was different. He might also be curious about Liu Reck’s way of training to death, but he didn’t choose to let Liu Reck practice blindly. Instead, he had already found out about Liu Reck’s training methods. He will also take Liu Mang to the beach, dance the hula dance or something to relax, he looks like Doctor Strange dancing the hula dance, it looks very interesting, and he can also invite the three girls in the family to come out to play together, so as not to neglect them.

Chip Englander formulated a scientific and systematic training plan based on the explosion of Liu Mang's physical reserves, instead of letting Liu Mang do it like before.

After the recovery training a few days ago, Liu Wei started to use the new training plan. Although the amount of training seemed to be the same, Liu Wei felt that he did not have the feeling of needing to constantly supervise himself during the previous training.

For example, he had just practiced a set of shooting, with [-] shots in each of the five points and long distances. Usually, after such a set of training, Liu Wei felt very depressed, but because of the pressure he felt for his lack of strength, he would often force himself to continue training. Although it was effective, there would definitely be a psychological desire to slack off, and he didn’t pay much attention to his shortcomings during training.

This time, the Eagles recruited the Pistons senior basketball consultant who had guided Steve Kerr's basketball training camp from the Detroit Pistons in order to bring out Liu Mang's physical advantages in training.

Now after Liu Mang practiced a set of shots, he just felt a little annoyed with shooting, so he went for a run, lifted weights, danced, and even went to the beach while Dinah and the others were away to look at the beauties by the beach, showing his upper body muscles to win a wave of cheers, and then swim for a while.

The mood shifted, and when Liu Mang was lifting weights or running or basking in the sun at the beach, he naturally thought of what was wrong in the previous shooting training, and then discussed with Chip Englander, and slowly improved in the next training group...

The more Liu Mang looked at this teaching assistant who looked like Doctor Strange, the more he thought he had seen it somewhere, but he didn't remember it.

After more than ten days of training, Mark Madsen and Chip Englander followed Liu Mang and Schwartz, who had already arrived in the island country in advance, to various parts of Asia to start publicity.

In terms of publicity, the less than an hour of interacting with fans and signing events doesn’t take much time, and it’s not tiring. After signing with Nike this season, I participated in a lot of promotions. It’s not difficult. What’s difficult is flying every other day.

However, it was Liu Wei's two personal trainers and manager who were exhausted. Liu Mang fell asleep on the plane, trained every day, and his sleep quality was excellent. After the daily publicity, before leaving the current city, Liu Mang was training, and he did not miss the spare time every day.

Because Liu Mang is under a lot of pressure!
One is the pressure to win the championship next season, and the other is system problems.

Whether it is the training system or the lottery system, there have been huge changes. To put it simply, it is the newcomer period. Many things that were specially designed for Liu Mang’s newcomer period have been deleted. The main deletions are special cards that are too effective against the opponent. Most of the special cards that are effective on oneself are retained. Items such as manic potions that need to be used based on one’s own judgment based on people’s judgment have not been deleted.

The props that have been drawn before are still there, and have not been deleted because of the deletion of the lottery rewards.

When Liu Mang just saw the template of the new basketball superstar, he couldn't help but swear.

But after thinking about it carefully, Liu Mang also accepted it, because many things were indeed unnecessary, and now he could take charge of it alone, and he could hone himself to become stronger.

The deleted things are mainly some special cards specially used for Liu Mang's rookie period to gain a firm foothold in the NBA.

In terms of superstar value lottery, the primary superstar value lottery has been changed, and all kinds of strange special cards have been deleted, leaving only physical potions, injury potions, skill upgrade cards and stealing cards.

In terms of mid-level superstar value lottery, most of the special cards have also been deleted. Now the superstar value lottery has four categories: star cards, action packs, special cards, and props.

And the lottery drawing method has also changed, instead of specifying a one-third chance, it has become: mid-level superstar value lottery, specifying a category to double the chance of winning, or deleting a category from the lottery category.

Liu Mang thought for a while before he could figure out the general meaning. The former wanted that item especially, and he could make do with the others if he got it. The latter didn’t want one item in particular, and he could make do with the others.

This is the biggest change in the system, which made Liu Mang feel weakened a lot at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that there are indeed some things that are no longer needed now, and personal strength is the key.

But now, the star card has directly become one of the four major categories of mid-level superstar value props, that is, they can often experience the strengths of each star and learn something from it. Some players may not have high ability values ​​​​as Liu Mang, but every player who has gained a foothold in the NBA has his own characteristics.

As for the low-level superstar value lottery, it has been simplified to only a few important items. This makes Liu Mang even happier. There is no need to have a bunch of miscellaneous things, but the intermediate superstar value is enough. I just hope that I don’t have any high-level clothing aesthetic ability...

After Liu Mang thought about it, he felt that the upgrade of the system lottery is indeed beneficial, and it is more conducive to his growth at this stage.

For example, those special cards with obvious effects before are more conducive to making a name for yourself in the NBA, gaining the core position of the team, and getting the most important training opportunities for the team.

Now it’s time for me to work hard to improve my strength and grow from an ordinary star to a superstar, which is in the early 20s. Generally speaking, players who can become superstars are already superstars at the age of 23 or [-]. The next bet is opportunity and staying uninjured.

Unhappy for a while, Liu Mang soon understood where the system's help at this stage was mainly concentrated. It felt pretty good, but... the alienation card was gone, and there was only a high-level alienation card that was useless before.

In the future, if you want to cause conflicts between your opponents and provoke the opponent's anger, you have to figure out your own way. Liu Wei thinks that he is an upright, loving, and noble young man with three good qualities. He really doesn't want to do such things!
But isn’t that what basketball is all about. In addition to the battle of strength, psychological warfare is also very important. Liu Mang feels that he can only go against his original intention and study more about the opponent’s lace news when he has time. Maybe it will work.

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Liu Mang's training and publicity went hand in hand. On August 10, the Chinese men's basketball team announced that they would recruit players to participate in the Harbin Asian Games.

And promulgated a new national team policy after a lot of research and discussion.

For the warm-up matches and non-FIBA official cup games, only domestic players are recruited to participate; for the Asian Games and Asian Championships, at least one player who has played in the NBA is recruited to lead the team; for the World Series, all recruited players must return to China to participate, and strive for the collective honor of the country.

Moreover, he let go of Wang Zhizhi's "treasonous incident", and the army called Wang Zhizhi back.

When the news reached Liu Mang, who was promoting it, Liu Mang thought it was quite normal.

Although Wei Yuanli of the Blue Association is a person who attaches great importance to the national team's record, he is not stupid. Now because of Liu Mang's arrival, the NBA has more than one Chinese player who has a firm foothold.

When the Asian Games and Asian Championships had a clear advantage in strength, there was a wave of discussion in China. Under the pressure of public opinion, the official was not stupid. He made a wise judgment and chose to compromise. It was just the international competition, which did not let go.

After Liu Mang saw the new policy officially released by the Blues Association, Schwartz also received an invitation from the Blues Association to Liu Mang for the national team training.

In this regard, Liu Mang wrote an open letter to the Blue Association, expressing his support for the policy of the national team and actively preparing for the Olympic Games next year. He hoped that the teammates of the national team will achieve good results this year and play together in the Olympic Games next year. This year, because he has to train hard to prepare for winning the championship next season, he regrets not being able to participate in the Asian Games.

During the publicity period, Liu Mang was photographed by the media with a lot of photos and videos of additional training immediately after the publicity, so basketball fans have no doubts about Liu Mang's saying that he should work hard to improve himself.

The main reason is that the current trend of public opinion is that even if there are no NBA players to participate, if the group of people in their own national team can't win the Asian championship, they can learn from the failure of the islanders.

But, after Liu Mang said that he would not participate in the Asian Games, he still saw the news of Yao Ming's return to the national training team.

This was within Liu Mang's expectation. Yao Ming probably won't play any cup games and warm-up matches in the future, but he will definitely participate in such formal international competitions.

As for Wang Zhizhi, he may compromise with Lanxie. He will play cup games, warm-up matches, and an American star team composed of NBDL players he has never seen before. However, he only plays 20 minutes a game in the NBA, so it doesn’t matter if he plays these games, as long as he can return to the national team.

This summer, the team, himself, and the national team all went well in three aspects. Liu Mang feels that he has made a good start for the next season in the NBA!

(End of this chapter)