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Sweeping the Pistons 4-0, the Eagles became the first team to advance to the second round!

For the series between the Eagles and the Pistons, the fans' attention has long been no longer on the outcome, but on the daily choke between Larry Brown and Stephen Jackson.

Even the Eagles have been neglected. What is attracting the most attention in the Eastern Conference is not the Eagles, who were the first to advance to the conference finals, nor the 2-2 series between the Pacers and the Nets. The fans' focus on the Eastern Conference playoffs is all on the Pistons' soap opera.

The series between the Nets and the Pacers was very tense and increasingly ugly. Except for the first game, which was won by Kidd and Carter in an away game with a gorgeous counterattack, the scores in the next three games were lower and lower, and both teams began to slam their defenses.

In the second game, the Pacers defended the home court 85 to 77. In the third game, the Nets returned to New Jersey and contributed an even uglier show with the visiting Pacers, 75 to 71. After the Pacers came to the away game, they regained the home court advantage.

In the fourth game, the defensive battle between the two teams reached its peak. The Nets beat the Pacers 72 to 65 and tied the score at 2 to 2. The battle of Tianwangshan will begin on May 5.

In the West, the two-round series is much better. Relatively speaking, the difference in strength between the Lakers and the Spurs in the series is obvious. The Spurs lost Bowen and lost a single defensive player on the outside. Seconds are gone.

The Timberwolves and the Kings played as anxiously as the Nets and Pacers. The two teams tied 2-2. It was also a home field advantage. The Kings took away the Timberwolves' home court advantage in the first game.

The Timberwolves played very hard in the second game. Fortunately, Garnett blocked the key shot at the last moment, fanning away Bibby's three-point lore and narrowly beating the Kings.

In the third game, the Timberwolves relied on the alien Cassel's lore to grab back the home court advantage and narrowly won 114 to 113.

In Game 60, the Kings fell behind in the first three quarters at home. Because the Timberwolves played a defensive battle, the two teams scored no more than 24 points in three quarters. In the end, the Kings finally broke out in the fourth quarter and scored 14 points in a single quarter. The Timberwolves only scored 83 points in the final quarter.

The game between the Kings and the Timberwolves was very interesting. In the entire series, the top three scoring averages were all Timberwolves players, but the six players from No.4 to No.9 in scoring per game were all Kings players, a contest between the three-headed monster and the team basketball.

There seems to be suspense in the three-round series, even for the Spurs, people feel that there is still suspense. Duncan's consecutive MVP in the past two years and winning the championship by defeating all opponents by himself last season are really shocking.

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On May 5, in the early morning of the second day after playing against the Pistons, Liu Mang followed the Eagles out of Detroit in a flash. After returning to Atlanta, the Eagles began to prepare for their next opponent.

Since all the energy was put on the Pistons in the past few days, even if Liu Mang knew that the Pistons had no fighting spirit, the lack of fighting spirit did not mean that the opponent did not play well. It just did not have the desire to win, but the tactical execution was still very perfect, especially for his flanking.

In order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, Liu Mang has never let down his vigilance against the Pistons. It is even more impossible for other players. In the playoffs, the opponent is still a team with 54 wins. How dare you be careless, the energy of the Eagles coaching staff has always been concentrated on the Pistons.

When it was time to prepare for the opponents in the second round, I realized that the semifinals of another division in the Eastern Conference were so intense!

Liu Mang felt that the promotion was too early!
Since the first round was finished in just nine days, the second round started too early. The league hoped that the finals would start from June 6st to 1th, so the second round returned to the schedule of home and away games with two days of rest. That is, the series between the Nets and Pacers, which was tied 4-5 on May 6, may not be completed until the 2th at the latest. The Eagles may have to rest for up to ten days!The latest start time of the next round may be delayed until the 2th!
Rest is of course good, and it is of great benefit to the recovery of veterans such as Stockton, Ratliff, Ostertag, etc., but for young players, it is okay to rest for three or four days. After ten days, the state may be lost!

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Liu Mang felt that he had to do something, thought about it, and had a good night's sleep. On the second and third days, he also did simple training at home or in the arena like other teammates. Liu Mang chose to train at home and play games with Dinah, and Alexia, who inexplicably wanted to learn flower arranging, spent the first three days after the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Counting the days when the Eagles came back from Detroit, on the 8th and 9th, the Eagles coaching staff gave the players a holiday. On the 10th, there was only regular training, that is, two tactical lessons for one and a half hours in the afternoon, and nothing else.

The progress of the remaining three series was as anxious as Liu Mang expected.

The Timberwolves lost to the Kings 76-80 at home in the Battle of Tianwangshan, and the defensive battle between the two teams was considered deadlocked.

The Nets suddenly started a runaway offensive mode. Not only Liu Mang could learn from the Nets, but Kidd also learned from the Eagles' ever-changing style of play.

These two most anxious series, the trends are completely opposite. They both thought that the Timberwolves and the Kings were about to break out in an offensive battle, but in the end they smashed the defense to the end.

And when everyone thought that the Nets and Pacers were about to play a more miserable defensive battle, the two teams scored more than 120 more than 110.

As for the Lakers and Spurs, the Spurs should not be underestimated. It seemed that the Spurs lost three of the first four games and lost a home game, but they played quite well in the fifth game when they went to the away game at Staples Center.

Although Duncan made 21 of 14 shots in three quarters by O'Neal, O'Neal scored 35 points and 11 rebounds in the paint after the first three quarters, but in the fourth quarter, O'Neal was completely exhausted, and both offensive and defensive ends began to fall off a cliff. After the whole game, he only scored 38 points and 15 rebounds, and only scored 3 points in the final quarter.

Duncan also responded with 33 points and 13 rebounds. At the same time, the Spurs allowed Kobe to play the worst performance in the series. He only took 15 shots and scored 15 points on 7 of 18. Kobe's shooting efficiency in this game is still good.
Relying on this aggressive defensive strategy, relying on Duncan and Nesterovic's desperate one-on-one defense with O'Neal to consume O'Neal's physical energy, the Spurs successfully tied the big score to 2-3.
There was a possibility of a tiebreaker in all three series, and Liu Mang had already anticipated this situation. Therefore, on the night of the 10th, the Spurs and the Lakers scored 2-3, and after all three series ended 2-3, he had sent all the messages to his teammates, and it was time to take some responsibility.

The main reason is that Liu Mang waited for three days. None of the teammates were like seniors. Even Stockton didn't do this. Only he, Liu, did it!

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"Ace, I'm going to be the boss now." Stockton patted Liu Mang's shoulder with satisfaction.

"...I said John, shouldn't this kind of thing happen to an old future like you?" Liu Mang rolled his eyes.

"In theory, this is the case. The premise is that I am an old player of our team, plus my 20-year career experience, there is no problem, but I am a new veteran, and it is not suitable for me to do this kind of thing." Stockton explained.

"But why didn't I call those bastards? They were only going to come to regular training and then go back? They don't have any sense of crisis!" Liu Wei thinks that these teammates don't have any sense of crisis?

Liu Mang sent a text message to all his teammates last night. We gathered at [-] o'clock this morning. He didn't reply to the suspicious text message. His attitude was rather rigid. Everyone came this morning.

Liu Mang was the first to come. He discussed with Coach Kruger in advance. Trainers, shooting assistants, physical therapists and others also came to the arena in advance to cooperate with Liu Mang.

For Liu Mang to take responsibility for the team, coach Kruger hopes that Liu Mang will do more to cultivate Liu Mang's awareness of being the boss.

After the teammates came, they realized that Liu Mang was going to organize more intensive training. Seeing Liu Mang's rare seriousness, the sense of oppression brought by the power of the head of state, the teammates also became serious, and they were making good warm-up preparations before training. One by one, they watched today's training that the trainers planned for themselves.

The amount of training is not so exaggerated. The players are just asked to play a 40-minute first-half match every other day. The amount of training on rest days has also increased. However, since it is not an official game but only training, the real mental and energy consumption is not as great as that of a real game, and it is easier to recover.

Liu Mang called his teammates together. In order to maintain their combat effectiveness and prevent them from getting lost, the teammates also responded positively.

Liu Mang was very satisfied that his teammates did not complain after receiving the task of increasing the amount of training, but he was still a little puzzled and asked his teacher.

Stockton didn't answer, but asked instead, "Ace, who are you talking about?"

"Who are they? Jason, Sharif, Rashid..." Liu Mang counted the star players of his team.

"Ace, did you misunderstand something." Stockton laughed.

"Misunderstand something? What is it?" Liu Wei didn't understand.

"They are just role players. Do you expect a role player to have such a good sense of crisis?" Stockton calmly said something that made Liu Mang want to cover his teacher's mouth.

After looking around, there was no one else, so Liu Mang breathed a sigh of relief, and growled at Stockton: "John, are you going to cause conflicts in the team?"

"Ace," Stockton didn't feel that he had said anything wrong, "do you think anyone else on this team will become a superstar besides you?"

Super star?

Liu Mang looked at the group of teammates. The most talented may be Raheem and Kwame Brown. It seems that they have no chance to become a superstar. Raheem is already at his peak, and Kwame Brown is another problem.

Rasheed Wallace and Jason Terry... There is not much room for improvement, Ratliff is old... Although Boozer was strong in his prime, it doesn't matter if he is a superstar. He has no ability to change a team by himself.

Korver, no matter how late blooming, is just a fringe All-Star player...

Stockton continued: "These people, before you came to the Eagles, before you grew up, they were nothing. It was because of you that they achieved what they are now. Like these teammates on our team, I have seen too many players who are as talented as them but can't make a difference even if they are put together. Neither."

Stockton's vision is quite vicious!Liu Mang was shocked by Stockton's words. He didn't expect his teacher's analysis to be so good!
"In addition to strength and talent, a superstar's brain is also very important," Stockton said to Liu Mang. Liu Mang also calmed down and listened honestly. Stockton was very satisfied and continued: "Your teammates have given you the scepter of commanding them. They can't think of so much, and even if they think of it, you don't have the right to command everyone. You are the future superstar of this team. These things are your responsibility. Your needs must be met by teammates and teammates. Sacrifice for you instead of waiting for your teammates to react."

Stockton's words touched Liu Mang a lot, he had never thought about this kind of thought.

Really want to say, too selfish!

But which superstar is not selfish?

Isn't the future Big Three of the Heat also the sacrifice of Wade and Bosh to achieve James?

After listening to Stockton's explanation of superstars, Liu Mang subconsciously said: "Teammates come and go, only the champion is eternal?"

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