Chapter 887 886.29-year-old Mentally Retarded Youth

It was a pity for Stockton that he did not trick Liu Mang into becoming an organizational point guard. He originally thought that no one could truly inherit the mantle, so Stockton was a little regretful.

Although Deron Williams is Sloan's favorite candidate to succeed Stockton, Stockton felt nothing like him after watching Deron University play.

It is true that he did an excellent job using the pick-and-roll, but Stockton didn't look down on Deron's shooting efficiency at all.

Deron's shooting talent is indeed average, and he uses his physical strength more in playing.

Liu Mang is the perfect candidate in Stockton's mind to take over his mantle.

But Liu Mang plays like a combination of Isaiah Thomas and Jordan. His passing is "practiced" very accurately, but his offensive organization is average, and he loves shooting more than passing.

Originally, Stockton could only choose to work hard to train Calderon, a guy whose physical fitness is far inferior to him. Unexpectedly, McGrady came to the door himself!

This feeling is good!

McGrady's talent is so good, whether it is shooting talent or passing talent, he is very good. Stockton pointed out several elements of McGrady's passing in the summer. McGrady just relied on one summer to practice his passing accuracy. At the top level, he averaged 11.6 assists per game and only 3.7 turnovers, exceeding an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3 to 1.

McGrady's talent is so good that he can learn everything quickly, but McGrady lacks the awareness of a real organizer.

On the one hand, this awareness is talent, but more importantly, it is the experience after entering the NBA.

McGrady had nothing to do with the playmaker from the beginning when he entered the NBA. In his rookie year, he had point guard Stoudemire who averaged 8+ assists per game. Since his second year, Carter and Damon Stoudemire have almost occupied the ball. Right, third-year McGrady is the core of the Raptors' perimeter defense and has nothing to do with ball possession.

When Tracy McGrady arrived with the Magic, he originally wanted to play Pippen for Hill, but Hill was reimbursed and could only shoulder the burden of scoring, and assists could only break through and score. If he wanted to win the scoring title, he could also organize the offense like Stockton. It's impossible. McGrady's assist numbers have always looked good during the Magic period, but most of them were simple and direct breakthroughs.

For pure breakthrough and distribution, if your teammates are mainly shooters and your breakthrough is too strong, then you can be like James. The effect of breakthrough and distribution is very good, but if your teammates' shooting is average, the effect will not be very good. It is like looking at the sky. Have a meal.

When an organizer and a passer need to see different things, it is enough for the passer to deliver the ball to his teammates, while the organizer is not only responsible for offensive passing, but also has to predict the opponent. Defend, anticipate teammates' movements and... see through the opponent's offensive movements like Rajon Rondo, and direct teammates' defensive positions.

Stockton recognizes McGrady's talent very much. He is very good at shooting and passing. His mid-range shooting rate has exceeded 40% in his career so far. His three-point shooting rate has increased from more than 20% during the Raptors period. In the 2002-03 season when the Magic won the scoring title, they shot 38% from three-point range. The talent is so good. As for whether McGrady can learn to truly organize an offense... Stockton doesn't care about this. He is only responsible for teaching. How much he can learn is up to McGrady.

A disciple with good talent can fool anyone...

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McGrady followed Stockton to learn to organize offense and put it on the agenda. The Eagles' tough mid-regular season schedule continues.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Hawks held a team meeting to prepare for the Spurs game in the evening, and there was also tactical training in the afternoon.

The starting lineup of the troika Ganestrovic and Robert Horry, as well as Bunch Wells and Brent Barry, who have been reinforced in the past two summers to compensate for Bowen's habitual ankle dislocation. Players at the forward position, including Bowen who can play more than 10 minutes, rookie point guard Benno Udrih who shoots 40% from three-point range, Devin Brown, the 2002 undrafted player, and many who are in the 2003 contract year The great Malik Rose, who helped the Spurs win the championship and spent 6 years with the full mid-level salary, cheated the Spurs, and Glenn Robinson, the big dog who was re-signed by the Spurs with a minimum salary...

Liu Mang was about to vomit blood when he saw the Spurs' 12-man roster!

Should the lineup be so explosive?

The key is that Liu Mang calculated the Spurs' salary. With such a lineup, the salary is 47 million U.S. dollars... which is more than 3 million dollars away from the salary cap...

In addition to Bunch Wells' annual salary of $7 million, the Spurs signed Barry, Big Dog, and Devin Brown in the summer with minimum salaries. Starting small forward Horry also earned a veteran minimum salary, and rookie Udrih earned $800,000. Beautiful knife...

Liu Mang saw that the Spurs and his side seemed to be two extremes, but they reached the same goal by different routes. While his side was taking advantage of the rookie bonus, the Spurs picked up a large group of veterans who wanted to win the championship at the end of their careers when they still had the strength.

Of course, the Spurs are more ruthless and can make players' contracts smaller and never pay more than 1 million. Except for Duncan, who has the maximum salary, the Spurs only have Ginobili, Nesterovich, Malik Rose, and Bunch Wei. The contracts of the four of them have reached the middle-class level or slightly above the middle-class level. They have overcome the middle-class trap of last season's Robert Horry, Ron Moser, and Bowen. Horry signed a minimum salary, and Bowen signed a minimum salary. After Wen signed a 1.5 million contract, the Spurs had a lot of salary space. In the summer, they spent more than 10 million in one go and signed many high-quality role players.

Seeing the Spurs' salary space, Liu Mang thought of the Lakers. They were supposed to survive the mid-level trap after last season, but the core lineup had collapsed.

Seeing the Spurs' lineup, Liu Mang no longer had any hope that the Suns could beat the Spurs in the playoffs. Popovich is the kind of chef who cooks whatever ingredients he has. Such a lineup is not much worse than before Bowen was injured, but may be even stronger!

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At 7:10 pm, the first match between the Hawks and the Spurs this season will begin in 20 minutes.

The Hawks players came out first. The Spurs fans were very enthusiastic about the Hawks and gave enthusiastic boos to each player, especially when Liu Mang came out, the boos exploded.

After Liu Mang came out, he listened to the boos from the fans and couldn't help but pick his ears, and the earwax was about to come out.

Although Bowen wanted to abolish Liu Mang and caused him to be abolished, when the incident happened, the fans at the scene were ashamed of Bowen's behavior and did not boo Liu Mang, but the Spurs were beaten by the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals last year, which was directly related to Bowen's injury. Otherwise, at least the two teams would be evenly matched. Anyway, that's what the Spurs fans think, and they think that they failed to defend the title last season. Liu Mang is to blame.

When the Spurs players came out, cheers resounded throughout the stadium.

After Duncan was the last to come out, Liu Mang stared at Duncan for a long time. Duncan felt Liu Mang's eyes and smiled at Liu Mang...

"Fuck!" Liu Mang was shocked when he saw Duncan's smile!

Duncan now has a short beard and long hair, and looks like he has a head full of hair... Let's not talk about that, the key is that smile, it's too evil!

Where's the referee? Liu Mang looked at the referee Joey Crawford who was chatting with Coach Kruger and Coach Popovich, and called a technical foul on this guy!

Duncan's smile was so demonic that Liu Mang shuddered. Just when he wanted to find Ginobili and Parker to ask if their boss was crazy, he saw Duncan asking the staff for two balls, holding one in each hand, and then jumping towards him.

That's right, he jumped and jumped, like a hairy monster who was about to turn 29 years old, and walked in front of Liu Mang.

"Ace, here's the ball. You don't have enough balls. Not enough for the five of you to train." Duncan gave two balls to Liu Mang.

Liu Mang looked at the basket next to him. The Spurs only gave three balls at home. How stingy! I'll drink up all their Gatorade soon!

However, what does Duncan mean by his behavior, which is like that of a 29-year-old with underdeveloped intelligence? Liu Mang didn't know what to say, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "Thank you."

Duncan turned around with satisfaction after hearing Liu Mang's words... and walked back in a hopping manner. Since he didn't have the ball in his hand, his hands were swinging with the rhythm of the beating...

Liu Mang even forgot to find Ginobili and Parker to catch up.

Liu Mang threw a ball on the ground and started to practice shooting. He needed to slow down. The guy just now was too weird.

On the other side, Ginobili, who saw Duncan's weird behavior just now and Liu Mang's stunned expression, bit his braces and had nothing to say.

In such a team, he felt that everything was normal. Even if Duncan saw Liu Mang "getting sick" again today, he felt that it was normal.

Ginobili no longer cared about this aspect. He was more concerned about his hair volume. When he washed his hair recently, he pulled out a handful of hair...

The game was about to start. Liu Mang looked at the system tasks. There were two tasks related to the Spurs. One was "The Future is Mine" in the King's Landing series of tasks. When playing against Duncan in the playoffs, he had to beat the opponent.

The other one was related to Ginobili. If he could beat Ginobili in the finals, he could get Ginobili's peak star card again.

The Spurs were different from the Suns. Although the Spurs had a lot of reinforcements, the core was still the troika. The Hawks were already familiar with the Spurs. On the contrary, this time the Spurs did not understand their current lineup. Liu Mang felt that he had a slight advantage.

You must win against the Spurs. Unlike the Suns, where they are just a regular season team and you can play recklessly, Liu Mang must win against the Spurs to establish a psychological advantage for the finals!

In the pre-match tactical training, he had made full preparations for the game against the Spurs. The key to dealing with the Spurs was the mid-range shots of Liu Mang, Jason Terry, and McGrady, but Liu Mang felt that it was not enough. He thought of Duncan's smile and Rasheed Wallace, and immediately called Rasheed Wallace aside...