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Chapter 719 718. Second in History! (seeking subscription)
Memphis, Liu Mang's blessed land.

Back then, it was here that he yelled "Why not me", and Liu Mang began to enter the fans' sight by taking advantage of the counterattack psychology deep in the fans' hearts.

With the princely general Xiangning's kind mentality, Liu Mang counterattacked all the way to the present.

In the last game at the end of the season, on April 4th, the Hawks players had a day off at home. On the morning of the 12th, they flew for half an hour to Memphis. On the 13th, they played the last game of the season and challenged the Grizzlies away.

After getting out of the airport, I took the bus to the city center. The big hotels in Memphis basically hit the city center, because there are not many people in this city.

In this place, more than 150 years ago, because of yellow fever, a quarter of the people died, and half of the people fled here. Later, after the yellow fever vaccine came out and eliminated the large-scale outbreak of yellow fever, the population slowly increased.

Therefore, the buildings here have not changed much for 60 or 20 years. After the end of World War II in the middle of the 19th century, it still retains the appearance of the [-]th century. Because it was a Spanish colony, it retains a large number of Spanish buildings. The protection consciousness of humanities and buildings in the United States appeared very early, so most of the buildings built later are also European style.

Liu Mang looked at the buildings outside the window, why didn't he realize that the buildings here are quite interesting?

When I came here before, how could I be so relaxed and comfortable, I came once a year, the rookie season was still busy gaining a foothold, and the second-year team almost fell out of the playoffs.

This year, the Eagles' record is second only to the Bulls with 72 wins. It is best to win 70 wins. If they don't get it, it will still be the second regular season record in history. There is no pressure at all.

Liu Mang looked at those buildings, and Stockton introduced them to Liu Mang. 60.00% of them were Spanish buildings, and 90.00% were European-style buildings. He thought, no wonder Gasol is willing to live in this small city with a population of only 60 million people, a city whose GDP is less than 300 billion US dollars, and the four or five cities in the entire Memphis metropolitan area add up to less than 700 billion US dollars. I have lived in Memphis, a mountain village, for so long. The largest pillar industry here in Memphis is probably the headquarters of FedEx. There is the second busiest airport in the world after Hong Kong, and it is all cargo transit.

In Liu Mang's memory, Gasol is a person who prefers to enjoy life, either to go to a big city, listen to a symphony, watch an opera, or live in a familiar environment. Memphis used to be a Spanish colony. After the city was rebuilt, most of the people who came back here were Hispanics. Gasol is not used to living here.

And the other cities where Gasol originally stayed, Los Angeles, Chicago, the second largest city and the third largest city in the United States, when he went to the Spurs, they all went to get a big contract to retire, and the Spurs are also extremely rich compared to Memphis.

Liu Mang considers himself a gentleman, and Gasol, a rare gentleman in the NBA, of course wants to get closer. As the leader of the 2001 class... the leader, Liu Mang thinks this title is better than the leader. Many opponents, and a good relationship with many young stars.

No, Liu Mang hasn't seen Gasol for a long time, and he came to get close to Gasol.

At this time, Liu Mang was missing Gasol, and his heart was so desolate.

Usually in the West, it's okay to be yelled at by Garnett four times a year. After Rasheed Wallace went to the East, he also became a yelling brother.

The last time the Grizzlies played the Eagles away, Gasol was yelled at by Rasheed Wallace, and Rasheed Wallace became angry when he saw the so-called most gorgeous power forward of the new generation, and yelled the most vigorously...

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Since the first round of the playoffs last season changed from a best-of-five 5-inning system to a 3-inning 7-inning system, the time dragged on for too long, and this season's playoff schedule has changed significantly.

The end of the regular season has been brought forward to April 4, and the playoffs will start on April 14. The previous playoff schedule, which had a two-day break every time there was a home-away game change, also had to be changed to one day. When the first four games of the series alternated between home and away, the rest time was two days. After four games, if there is a fifth game, there will be a two-day break between the fourth and fifth games. But when the home and away games of the possible sixth and seventh games are replaced, all of them will only have one day off.

According to the original playoff system, a series may take up to 17 days to play. If a team really wins seven games in each round, it may take two months and eight days to play, not counting the rest days between the two rounds of the series.

Before the 90s, there was still a huge gap in strength between the top four teams in the division and the bottom four teams. There were very few underdogs, and black eight was a dream.

However, after the 80s NBA revenue began to rise sharply due to the advent of the Magic Bird era, the team became richer, and the training facilities for players, nutritional supplements, and the parents of their children became more optimistic about the prospect of their children playing basketball. More parents let their children take basketball as a future career, all of which promoted the development of the NBA and greatly improved the overall strength of the league.

Of course, for those superstars, in addition to the improvement of scientific and medical technology, the difference in the treatment of stars is not that big, and the improvement of the strength of stars is not as high as imagined. Even if it is the theory of evolution, decades, there is no way to improve the physical fitness that is already top-notch.

But for role players, the improvement of overall strength is very obvious. Since the 90s, those children who started to learn to play basketball in the early 80s began to enter the NBA due to the surge in NBA income.

The Black Eight of the Nuggets, the Rockets who set a record and won the championship with the lowest ranking in the sixth division, and the Knicks Black Eight who reached the Finals all benefited from this wave of role players.

From 96 to 99, the golden generation reached the peak of talent. From 99 to last season, the core of the championship and the team's second-in-the-millennium players were all players of this generation.

Due to the improvement of the overall strength of the league, the playoffs have become more exciting, and the strength gap between the teams has become smaller, but it has also led to an unreasonable schedule in the past. Now David Stern is gradually improving.

There is still the last game of the season. Most teams are on April 4th. The last game of the season has already been played. There are only a few games left.

In the East, the playoff rankings, the Hawks ranked first with 69 wins and 12 losses, the Pacers ranked second with 60 wins and 22 losses, the Nets ranked third with 46 wins and 36 losses, the Pistons ranked fourth with 53 wins and 29 losses, the Hornets ranked fifth with 40 wins and 42 losses, the Bucks ranked sixth with 38 wins and 44 losses, and the Heat, which has two years of poor experience, successfully slipped to 37 wins and 45 losses and ranked seventh. The Knicks ranked eighth with 36 wins and 45 losses, and it seemed that they didn't want to win the last game. As a team with 36 wins, the Knicks actually announced that they would rest their main players...

At least in this game, the Knicks and the Eagles have a feeling of a level, resting all the main players, it sounds so domineering...

Aside from fan expectations and James Dolan's bad relationship with Price, is there any difference between playing the 60-win Pacers and the likely 70-win Hawks for the Knicks?It's better to fight the strongest one with the mentality of black eight, and it won't be too embarrassing if you lose.

The playoff rankings in the Western Conference have also been determined, with the Timberwolves ranking first in the Western Conference with 57 wins and 25 losses.

The Lakers are 55 wins and 26 losses, and there is one game left, but they can only be second. The third Spurs are 53 wins and 28 losses, and they also have a game. The opponent happens to be the Lakers.

The fourth is the Kings, 52 wins and 30 losses, and the fifth is the Mavericks, also 52 wins and 30 losses. The two teams tied 2-2 in the regular season, but the Kings won more games in the Western Conference than the Mavericks, so the Kings ranked fourth, and the Mavericks could only rank fifth.

The sixth is the Grizzlies, 50 wins and 31 losses, and there is no game in the game. The seventh Rockets are also 50 wins, but 32 losses have been determined, and in the compete with the Grizzlies, Yao Ming has been repeatedly exploded by Gasol. Gashal is true to Yao Ming. Whether it is a thin version or a strong version, Yao Ming has no good way to Kasar. 3. Even if the Grizzlies lost in the last game, the Rockets could only be seventh and the Lakers in the first round.

The Rockets are only one breath away from being able to avoid the most terrifying Lakers in the West, but they are only one breath away. If Yao Ming was beaten by Gasol and the record is the same, he can only be seventh. It is better to say that there is still a gap in overall strength.

However, it is also a huge improvement for the Rockets to win the first 50 wins since the Rockets of the Big Three of Olajuwon, Barkley, and Drexler.

The eighth Nuggets, 44 wins and 38 losses, sit firmly in eighth place. The only team in the Western Conference failed to compete in the top seven, and has a clear record advantage over the 39-win Trail Blazers, who are ninth in the Western Conference.

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On April 4, the Eagles came to the largest and most expensive building in Memphis history, the FedEx Center, the home of the Grizzlies, to challenge the Grizzlies away.

The atmosphere of the two teams is quite harmonious. There is no pressure on the ranking in the playoffs, and there is no possibility of a playoff match. The core relationship between the two teams is still very good. Even the fans of the Grizzlies are not so hostile to Liu Mang.

Originally, Grizzlies fans were hostile to Liu Mang because Liu Mang and Gasol were competing for the best rookie, but this kind of hostility was based on the fact that the two were evenly matched. Now Liu Mang and Gasol are obviously not in the same class.

Corruption culture has already spread in the United States, which mainly inherits British culture and is the most developed country in the world. Fans saw that Liu Mang and Gasol had a happy chat together, and came up with a magical idea-can they rely on Gasol to hook Liu Mang to their side?My own team has nothing, there is Gasol and a lot of salary space!

There is still one year left on Gasol’s rookie contract. The Grizzlies’ ability to play this year is due to the rookie bonuses of Gasol, Mike Miller, and Battier. They got James Posey and Bunch Wells. Both of them have high-quality and cheap contracts, including Bunch Wells. Before Battier, the Grizzlies could free up nearly 600 million in salary space at once, and they could give Liu Mang the biggest contract.

As a result, some fans at the scene began to shout "IP-double-group", which is the name of the AB combination, which is the abbreviation of Liu Mang and Gasol, similar to the OK-double-group of Kobe and O'Neal...

With the leader, it slowly spread, and the audience collectively began to shout "IP-double-group...IP-double-group...IP-double-group..."

Gasol is so embarrassed now, to attract Liu Mang to Memphis?If it weren't for the living environment here, he is very used to it, he himself would not want to stay here, and Rasheed Wallace, who was already full of hostility towards him, looked at him with more ferocious eyes, making Gasol embarrassed and desolate.

Rasheed Wallace is jealous!After the away fans started shouting IP-double-group, he also joined Liu Mang.

"Paul, it seems that your fans here really want us to form a team, and our style of play seems to be quite compatible, think about it?" Liu Mang teased.

Gasol felt that Rasheed Wallace's eyes had changed from fierce to full of murderous intent, and immediately said: "I like it here, you know I'm Spanish, here makes me feel like I'm in Barcelona."

Rasheed Wallace was satisfied with Gasol's statement, and his eyes softened a little, but he still gave Gasol a look, and then left to contact Ratliff for a shot.

Rasheed Wallace and Pau Gasol never thought that Liu Mang would play in Memphis, and Liu Mang is even less likely to come here. The bustling Atlanta with a comfortable pace of life is not waiting, come here?Unless it's head in the water of the Mississippi River.

Gasol looked at Liu Mang laughing non-stop, and saw the back of Rasheed Wallace leaving, and his heart was desolate and firm again!Da Diao Ruan also has a tough side in her heart. He vowed to work hard to improve his strength, and to take revenge on those who yelled at him in the future!

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At this stage, Gasol is really miserable when he encounters real top power forwards. Whether it is Garnett, Duncan, Jr. O'Neal, or Rasheed Wallace, when he encounters these powerful defensive power forwards, he plays very averagely.

From the jump ball, Rasheed Wallace held Gasol down. Rasheed Wallace's defensive mentality is very interesting. He is trying to defend every game with the mentality that his own data is not good and the opponent's data is bad...

Rather Stick to your guns!
Rasheed Wallace is such a forceful and alternative person. He has a hard time himself, and he will not make it easy for his opponents!
The Grizzlies are really strong this year, and their offense and defense are doing very well. Their old coach Hubie Brown was ordered to accept the position of head coach and general manager of the Grizzlies when he played eight games last season. Thiel, along with Stromile Swift, Lorenzen White, Earl Watson and others, rose strongly.

Although coach Kruger led the Eagles to the best record since the new century, in terms of the best coach, the old coach Hubie Brown became the biggest favorite!
Take a team that has been poor in a row and won the second pick last season, directly to the sixth place in the Western Conference, and with 50 wins, the improvement is comparable to that of the Eagles two years ago.

After Rasheed Wallace won the jump ball, Liu Mang faced White Chocolate Williams who was becoming more and more "mediocre". Seeing that White Chocolate began to focus on defense and organization of offense, and even improved his three-point shooting percentage to 30.00%.

Looking at the previous two games, I tested many styles of play, and eliminated all the tactics that looked very attractive but did not match the team. Now the tactics used by the Eagles are suitable for the team and suitable for dealing with the Grizzlies.

The main thing is stability!

On the offensive end, Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace split the ball after the pick-and-roll, others cut into the running position, and Liu Mang and Raheem's singles tactics.

On the defensive end, rely on Rasheed Wallace to deal with Gasol, and everyone else also defends one and one, let Rasheed Wallace yell at Gasol... Rasheed Wallace's single defense to limit Gasol is the most important part of Mike Woodson's tactical defensive strategy, and it is also the most difficult part.
This set of tactics is improved from the Timberwolves' style of play...

Restricting Gasol, the steady white chocolate is no longer as magical as it used to be. With the Eagles playing this game seriously, the Eagles have steadily gained the lead.

After the first three quarters, the Eagles led 76 to 69 by 7 points. The Grizzlies were really strong, worthy of a 50-win team. However, in the fourth quarter, Liu Mang, who had been playing steadily in the first three quarters and scored 16 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, suddenly started the wave shooting mode in the fourth quarter. He scored 10 points in a row.

Liu Mang's sudden outburst stunned the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are in good shape now. The Eagles have gone through rest and tactical drills, and they are in their best form now!Playoff Mode!
After relying on Liu Mang to score 10 points in a row to widen the point difference, the Grizzlies never narrowed the point difference to less than 10 points.

In the end, relying on this leading edge, they kept the leading edge until the end!
靠着刘莽全场拿到30分5板8助攻，拉希德-华莱士把加索尔限制到只拿到14分6助攻，老鹰队以112比101，客场击败灰熊队！

With 70 wins and 12 losses, the Eagles became the second team in NBA history to win 70 wins!

Get 70 wins!The biggest regret is not that they didn't get 72 wins, but that the last game was an away game... Even the league can't do anything about it. Who knew the Eagles could play to this level?The players can only go back to the locker room to celebrate.

Liu Mangz's head exploded after the game!

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