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Chapter 921 920. It's not that simple (please subscribe, please recommend tickets)

60 points in three quarters was an unexpected joy. For Liu Mang, in addition to pretending to be aggressive, he also gained some superstar value.

After playing the Clippers and Warriors, Liu Mang's superstar value finally exceeded 51132, reaching [-] superstar points.

The rogue value also exceeded 4000 million again, reaching 4022 million, and it is still rising.

Since last night, Liu Mang’s mobile phone has been blown up by the league players and the media who knew his mobile phone number. He shut it down decisively. After returning to the hotel and talking with the excited little girl on the computer, he didn’t care about the mobile phone. Today, he arrived in Salt Lake City, which is very close to California and an hour’s flight away.

However, there was still no call or text message from Kobe, and Liu Mang was a little regretful.

After dealing with these matters, Liu Mang calmed down.

Just like what he said when he was pretending, he just won a regular season and played a good performance, but even better is to win.

The Hawks now have a 13-game winning streak tying the Suns' previous winning streak this season, but because of Liu Mang's 60 points in three quarters, the winning streak has not attracted people's attention.

Liu Mang's goal of 18 consecutive victories, got the chance to be completed secretly.

Arrived at the hotel in Salt Lake City at 09:30 in the morning. It took Liu Mang more than half an hour to call and send text messages, and he rested until 11 o'clock. Seeing that there was still an hour before lunch, Liu Mang was about to go to the gym to train his waist and abdomen strength, but Emmanuel called him to the conference room of the hotel rented by the team.

Liu Mang came to the conference room. Coach Kruger saw him coming and immediately introduced: "Ace, this is our new teammate, Wesley Persson."

Liu Mang thought he had something to discuss, but he didn't expect to welcome a new teammate!

Persson took the initiative to say hello: "Ace, wow, it's great to be your teammate. I really want to play with you on the court with Ace now."

"Hello, I'm Ace, but it's not a good thing to play with me. I'm not good at passing." Liu Mang joked.

"Haha, it's okay, don't we still have Tracy!" Persson laughed loudly. The young core can make jokes, which proves that he is not a difficult person to get along with. Although Persson talked with McGrady on the phone, he still has doubts.

Now Persson has come into contact with Liu Mang himself. He has been in the NBA for 11 years, and he is still a role player. It is easy to see whether people get along well or not.

He has reached this time, just to realize his dream of a championship, and it is a little contribution to make a little contribution.

After getting to know each other, Coach Kruger told Liu Mang that there was nothing else to do. Liu Mang did not stay in the meeting room any longer. The team editors came and were connecting the projector with a computer. Liu Mang knew that this was to let the new teammates get familiar with the team's tactics, and the coaching staff still had to be busy.

It's not that there is no news about a certain player wanting to join the Eagles, but most of them are groundless. It may not be that people really don't have such an idea, but most of the rumors are unreliable.

Either the contract is too big and the player is unwilling to give up so much money, or the team where the player is on refuses to let him go.

Liu Mang remembers that last summer, Persson was called by the media an important signing for the Heat. A 33-year-old veteran role player got a three-year, 3 million contract, which caused a lot of discussion.

But Liu Mang has played three games against the Heat this season, and it seems that he has never seen a player named Persson play on the Heat, so Liu Mang forgot about it.

I didn't expect Persson to come to his team!And with two months left in the regular season, there must be no doubt about the basic salary. If the Heat let him go, he must have taken a lot less money. Liu Wei was very surprised.

Liu Mang hadn't had time to pretend to be aggressive on the Internet, and he didn't know about the team's signings. He was being interviewed last night, and he didn't notice the constant phone calls between the coaching staff and Price.

Coach Kruger introduced Persson to Liu Mang. In the afternoon, Coach Kruger will bring Persson to the players for acquaintance, but Liu Mang, as the absolute core of the team, needs to get to know him first.

After saying hello, Coach Kruger, Mike Woodson, Stockton and others called Persson to watch the slides, explaining the team's tactics and the role Persson would play.

Although he is just a veteran who is about to turn 34, anyone signed by the team has the opportunity to play. As long as he plays, he must pay attention to it. If a person who goes up and catches blind, why should he be replaced? It is better to train young people. Veterans need them to make contributions immediately, whether it is the contribution of the locker room or the contribution on the field.

However, Persson is also a person who wanders too many teams. Basically, he can make a contribution immediately by changing a team. With more than 10 years of rich game experience, coupled with the veteran's good mentality without salary and statistics, it is the object that the coaching staff has considered for a long time.

There are still a few days to consider, but because Liu Mang wants to win 18 consecutive victories, coach Kruger does not want to disrupt the rotation plan, McGrady's physical fitness is mediocre, Rasheed Wallace is old, and Prince needs to rest every day to defend the opponent's best singles player.

After Persson got the Eagles' signing commitment, he immediately reached a buyout with the Heat, and it's here today.

After Liu Mang left the office, he asked the system: "Persen's ability evaluation and peak evaluation."

"Ding...Wesley Persson, ability evaluation 73, offense 77, defense 70, three-pointer 88, mid-range shot 75, layup 76..."

"Ding... Wesley Persson 1997-1998 version (peak), ability rating 79, offense 85, defense 70, three-pointer 89, mid-range shooting 79, layup 85,... averaged 14.7 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists... averaged 2.3 three-pointers per game, 40.00% three-point shooting three, and 40.00% overall shooting six..."

God pitcher!And the state of the three-pointer is maintained very well!
Although he was just an ordinary starter at his peak, not a quasi-first-class star, but he was the type that all coaches liked, with accurate shooting, clear positioning, and high efficiency.

It's just that such players are often not noticed by people. If they are on a popular team, it's okay. In some less popular teams, although they play well, other than the fans of that team, other fans may not notice such a player.

Liu Mang, for example, has no impression of Persson at all.

But the strength is really good, I will be 34 years old soon, and I still have an ability evaluation of 73.

This year, the Eagles' internal and external reinforcements are very targeted, and Liu Mang's already good mood has become even better.

When the four starters are resting, the Eagles have no problem inside, and there are Muhammad, Mourning, Josh Smith, Varejao and even McCarty. Liu Mang is enough to support weak teams.

But there are fewer outsiders. Iguodala, Korver, Calderon, Jason Terry, and Liu Mang, a total of five people rotate, except for Liu Mang and Jason Terry, three first and second graders, which is enough.

Now there is a veteran pitcher with a 73 ability rating. When Korver and Calderon, the first and second graders, are not performing well, there is a veteran who doesn't even say whether he can make a goal. As far as his career three-point shooting rate is more than 40.00%, Liu Mang feels relieved when he sees it.

When a team is in the best situation, it often gets better and keeps getting better. Just like Cosmos Yong, it was a champion, and it was a 73-win team in the second year. Then Durant came, and then got Cousins.

Quickly completed the signings, Liu Mang knew that this year's team's lineup had stabilized. The lineup was young, with Rasheed Wallace as a morale booster in the starting lineup, and two veteran players, Mourning and Persson, on the bench. The team was ready for the playoffs.

Of course, Liu Mang knew that this also meant that the regular season of the team had come to an end, and there were still 25 games left. Apart from the rest, it was probably to prepare for the playoff tactics, especially since a veteran pitcher was here. His ability was not worse than that of Iguodala, and he was better than Korver and Calderon.

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Liu Mang was very excited to get a veteran to help out. The media and fans did not pay much attention to the fact that the Eagles signed a veteran with a basic salary. Now the league is hotly discussing Liu Mang's 60 points in three quarters.

However, the other favorite teams to win the championship are very unhappy with the Heat's practice of sending Persson to the Hawks.

The Eagle Team got Perison, not to mention impeccable, at least this loopholes that had no veterans outside the eagle team were supplemented. Last season, the veteran of the Eagle team was pressing on Stockon. This season, there were no veterans. Most of the substitutes were one year. Make the head coach of other championship teams very dissatisfied, isn't he afraid that the eagle team will become stronger?
How can others understand Pat Riley's calculations.

In the second game of this year's regular season, he has already used a lot of planning and tried a lot of calculations to try how to deal with the Eagles, but found that Wade is still young and can't compete with Liu Mang and McGrady.

The magic operator knows that this year is not their best year. Since they can't beat the Eagles, he doesn't want other teams to beat the Eagles. After the Eagles win consecutive championships and show slack, they will have a better chance next season.

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The outside world's hot discussion about the Eagles continues, but Liu Mang has put aside the game against the Warriors.

Streak is more important!
It has won 13 consecutive victories, and there are still 5 games left. Although the Jazz's record is poor, their lineup is not very bad, but it is not bad, just for the sake of being bad.

Who knows if the opponent will explode at this time.

On the 24th, at noon Liu Mang, Muhammad, and Jason Terry went to have a small gathering with Boozer. In the afternoon, the team had a training session for the evening game against the Jazz, and after the tactical joint practice with Persson, Liu Mang went to the lounge to rest for a while, waiting for dinner and pre-game warm-up time.

Liu Mang opened the system panel.

51132 superstar points, 4176 million rogue points, and more than 100 million rogue points in just over a day, and the acquisition of the second talent skill is in progress.

Seeing that the stamina potion and injury potion were about to bottom out, Liu Mang said to the system: "Boss of the system, 111 superstar prize draws."

"The host used 111 primary superstar value draws, consuming 11100 superstar points..."

This kind of overwhelming light blue boxes "crowded" the whole room feels so cool, after spinning together, the whole room is filled with green smoke, although only Liu Mang can see it...

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for obtaining 132 physical potions, 56 primary injury potions, and 71 skill upgrade cards."

Liu Mang looked at it, and now there are a total of 163 physical potions, 106 primary injury potions, and 106 skill upgrade cards.

It's enough to last for a while, and there are still 40032 superstar points, which is enough for troublesome situations, not to mention Wade and Ray Allen's stars are stuck there.

Liu Mang closed his eyes and rested his mind, preparing for the game at night. Mental fatigue was the most tiring thing for Liu Mang playing back-to-back consecutively.

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After the warm-up training in the evening, the Eagles players set foot on the energy solution center arena to challenge the Jazz away.

Jazz fans are very friendly to the Eagles, at least not booing. When Stockton's influence is still there, as long as the Eagles and the Jazz do not threaten each other in the playoffs, Jazz fans will probably be more friendly to the Eagles.

Shuangsha combined to return to Salt Lake City, just as the Eagles coaching staff and trainers, but the two "joined hands" again, which made Jazz fans very happy.

The Jazz had contacted the Eagles and Malone before, and the poster at the entrance of the arena stated that they would retire Malone's jersey during the intermission.

The Jazz fans now really feel that Malone has completely retired. Originally, the Eagles vacated a position when they got Mourning's trade. Malone wanted to continue playing.

After Liu Mang entered the field, seeing the lineup of the Jazz, he couldn't figure out how this team played to achieve a record of 16 wins!

布泽尔场均17.7分11.6板，基里连科场均15分6板4助攻2抢断3.4盖帽，超过了坎比的场均3.2盖帽，两人的数据都是一流球星级别的。

Not just data, but ability evaluation too!
Liu Mang looked at the ability evaluation of the Jazz players. Boozer had an ability evaluation of 88, an offense of 92, and a defense of 73. After starting, his strength was fully demonstrated and his progress became faster.

Kirilenko, ability evaluation 86, offense 79, defense 91.
Matt Halprin, 81, Mehmet Okur, 77, Carlos Arroyo, 71…

With the lineup of the Jazz, Liu Mang felt that it was not easy for Sloan to bring the Jazz to the bottom three in the league. He didn’t even want the old handsome face, just to get the little fat man who broke his heart in the future...

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Just like what Liu Mang thought, Sloan really put his face down. After getting Boozer and Okur, they had the strength to enter the playoffs, but last season was bad. There were basically three draft picks. Basically, the two with the highest picks were sent out. The duo combination of Boozer and Okur inside, plus Harprin and Kirilenko's forward-back combination, was not just for the playoffs, he wanted a new championship team.

Last year, he had pulled his face and won the No. 6 pick for the Eagles. If he pulls his face again for another year, Sloan can rest easy.

It's just that it's very rough to put it badly!Even after doing this, they are still only ranked third from the bottom.

The Jazz has 16 wins and 40 losses so far, and they are seriously losing, but they can't hold back the Hornets and Bobcats, two Charlotte-produced teams that have only won 10 games so far.

The core combination of Boozer and Kirilenko are first-class stars. This is also the key to Sloan's inability to make the team completely rotten. It is impossible not to let these two first-class stars play. These are two important components of the future core trio.

The Jazz are third from last in the league, and it is very difficult to "catch up" with the Hornets and the future Hornets. These two Charlotte-produced teams are desperately trying to compete for the No. [-] pick.
However, with the development of the NCAA this season, Sloan feels that the top three picks are enough.

Sloan's most promising point guard, Deron Williams, is predicted to be third or fourth. However, Sloan discovered another NCAA pick-and-roll player this year. He broke out from the middle of the first round to Chris Paul, who was promoted to the top five picks in his sophomore year. Sloan has more choices, not necessarily the No. [-] pick.

The most important thing is that Duncan in Australia——Andrew Bogut played so well this season, he is not inferior to Duncan back then.

Of course, if the Bobcats get the No. [-] pick, it’s hard to say. Maybe Jordan is ready to show his unique vision again after seeing Kwame Brown’s talent, but Bogut will definitely be taken away even if the first pick is not selected.

Bogut averaged 21 points, 12 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 2.1 blocks per game in the NCAA regular season this year. He scored double-doubles in all 26 games.

If Sloan gets the No. [-] pick, he will choose Bogut without hesitation. In future trades, he will not worry about losing the team. The key is that Bogut plays at the University of Utah. If Sloan gets the No. [-] pick, he must be selected.

Even if it is a subsequent trade, Sloan will have to choose Bogut first. Bogut's popularity in Salt Lake City is higher than that of all Jazz players.

The University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City. Most of the Jazz fans are the students of the University of Utah and the fans of the University of Utah basketball team. The reason why the Jazz can have a devil’s home court is because the basketball atmosphere here is quite strong. From elementary school basketball to junior high school, high school, university, NBA, basketball at every stage, Salt Lake City has a glorious history.

The University of Utah is just a university. The arena in the university is better than the Jazz arena. The energy solution center has only 20000 seats, but the basketball arena of the University of Utah has more than 22000 seats, and the stadium is full. You can see how enthusiastic the basketball fans here are.

Therefore, when the Hornets and the Bobcats were unshakable at the bottom and the bottom two, Sloan saw that the fourth-to-last Raptors and the fifth-to-last Bucks had already won 20 wins.

Then in some games, if you play well, you can play well. There are more than 20 games left in the regular season. It is time to cultivate a winning culture. When a good point guard comes next season, the rookie point guard can directly experience the feeling of the playoffs.

The old coach has rich experience, he can put his face down, and honestly implement the steady and steady team building idea, which is a blessing for the Jazz. Otherwise, it would be too difficult for such a small city to rise.

To lose is to lose, but let the players have the spirit of fighting to win. Of course, playing against a strong team requires even more hard work. If they win, it can also improve the self-confidence of the players who have been poor for so long.

For example, against the Eagles, Sloan is ready to find confidence for the players.

Boozer is very motivated to face his old club and wants to prove that he can do it if he changes teams. It’s not that Boozer hated the Eagles for trading and beat him up. On the contrary, he still belongs to the Eagles. If he fails to win the championship in other teams, the Eagles are probably the team with the most memories in his career.
Boozer just wanted to prove he could do it, simple as that.

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As Liu Mang sprinkled magnesium powder into the air, the two teams started their debut.

Boozer saw the other side, Liu Mang was the only starter, and the others were all coming from the bench... Do you look down on your buddy so much?

The Hawks sent Liu Mang, Korver, Iguodala, Muhammad, and Mourning to the starting lineup.

Jazz over there, Arroyo, Halprin, Kirilenko, Boozer, Okur starting combination debut.

Playing this lineup together reminded Liu Mang of when he was watching the playoffs between the Rockets and the Jazz in junior high school. When the Rockets were eliminated by the Jazz in the first round every year, the Jazz's lineup was only one Deron.

But they are all young. Except for Harprin, the oldest player on the Jazz is the 25-year-old Okur.

The Jazz has Boozer, who started his career with a win, will it be different from the original history?Will it become a threat to the future of their own team?
Liu Mang is very curious, but if he can play against Boozer in the finals... Liu Mang is looking forward to it.

Mourning and Okur came to the middle circle to jump the ball. Mourning was always strong and turned the ball back from the head of the young Okur.

After Liu Mang received the ball, he moved forward and quickly rushed beyond the three-point line.

The Jazz retreated unexpectedly quickly. After Liu Mang was beyond the three-point line, Harprin was already in front of him, and immediately stuck up to Liu Mang.

Feeling the rough movements of this tough white man who had experienced the tail of the jazz iron-blooded era in the 90s, Liu Mang took a step back without stopping. After the step, he kicked his right leg and broke through to the left!

Halprin quickly moved to the right, Liu Mang immediately changed direction, scooped the bouncing ball with his left hand to the right, and changed direction to the right to accelerate.

Harprin knew that Liu Mang was going to change direction, but he had to block it, otherwise Liu Mang would have rushed into the inside line from the left side, and he couldn't even make Liu Mang spend another second to change direction.

Liu Mang rushed directly to the basket from the middle. Boozer's supplementary defense came very quickly. The active defense learned in the Eagles is still maintained, but the awareness of supplementary defense...Liu Mang took the initiative to stick to Boozer sideways, took advantage of the trend, and used Boozer to block Okur.

Liu Mang used Boozer to block Okur, half turned around and relied on Boozer to make a hook shot!
It was a perfect breakthrough to catch the low post and turn around to hook, but just when the ball was about to reach the highest point, a hand shot out, and the racket that hooked Liu Mang flew away!

Andrei Kirilenko!

Just like Kirilenko's sinister face, his defense is like this, his blocking awareness is very good, his speed is as fast as a point guard, and he is very good at blocking shots from behind, just like a killer in the dark night!
The ball was caught by Kirilenko on the backboard. Mohammed on the same side reacted quickly, grabbed the ball, caught the ball with both hands and sent it towards the basket. The second attack scored two points.

The goal was scored, but Liu Mang saw that the Jazz almost surrounded him!

Halprin defended him alone, Boozer was assisting in the defense, and Okur also wanted to attack, but was blocked by Liu Mang using Boozer's poor defensive awareness, followed by Kirilenko's supplementary defense.

That is to say, in addition to Arroyo who defended Korver's three-pointer, the four Jazz guarded him alone!

The Jazz obviously want to take advantage of the absence of their four major starters and want to kill them!
Liu Mang retreated immediately, and something unexpected happened. The Jazz were so targeted on the defensive end!
What about the agreement to place the number one lottery?When Liu Mang saw Sloan's bitter face that seemed to have never smiled, he felt pressure coming.

Originally, he was so determined to rest the other four starters. He came by himself because the Warriors and the Jazz are both poor in strength, one is bad and the other is bad, but the Jazz actually wants to win now!

This was beyond Liu Mang's expectations. Watching Boozer go to the low post to ask for the ball after halftime, Liu Mang knew that this game was not as simple as imagined!
(End of this chapter)