Watching Grant Hill and Michael Finley, the two strongest swingmen for two consecutive years in 1994 and 1995, chatting happily, I didn’t have much doubt about the integration of Finley, a veteran.

In terms of strength, Liu Mang does not have particularly high expectations for Finlay. After all, he is still at this age. Liu Mang is not sure how Finlay will be in the future. What is needed is experience and Finlay's good mentality. This is Liu Mang's

I learned this from Coach Kruger when we were discussing tactics earlier.

Finley has always been a positive defensive attitude and rigorous training attitude. He has always been a role model for his teammates. He is often praised by his teammates. He also takes the team's victory as his first goal and never gets into trouble on and off the court.

He is the kind of player that coaches feel most at ease with.

The most important thing is that Finley accepted the role that he may not get a chance to play after Wade returns in the early season. This is the most important thing. Now, although a team's active list has been increased to 13, there are always two backups.

Players do not have a chance to play under normal circumstances.

Although the Eagles have developed a tradition of resting, they will only take rests when the season progresses to a certain stage. There will definitely be a period of time when two players will not get a chance to play.

Gasol is one. He is not at the NBA level yet. Except for some games where targeted plans require him, he will probably hardly have a chance to play in the first two years. He weighs 135 kilograms...

On the other hand...it will be Finlay's turn, a veteran who has been fighting for the championship, to take on such a role.

Over the past few days, Liu Mang discussed tactics in detail with Stockton, Stan Van Gundy, Coach Kruger, and Chip Englander.

Before the draft, Liu Mang discussed the team system for next season with Coach Kruger and Stockton, and clarified the signing plan. Coach Kruger also discussed with Stockton over the past two months.

Specific details were discussed many times.

Liu Mang couldn't help much with the tactical details. He just proposed a core plan, and the specific details had to be left to tactical coach Kukluger.

On the defensive side, coach Kruger and owner Price have given the task to the newcomer Stan Van Gundy.

Van Gundy's enthusiasm was beyond Liu Mang's expectations. Liu Mang didn't expect Van Gundy to come up with so many defensive plans at first. From the time he traded to acquire Van Gundy on July 1, to when Liu Mang, Stowe

The meeting between Cotton and Van Gundy lasted less than six days.

Liu Mang did not make any changes to Van Gundy's relatively traditional defensive system construction methods. It is important to respect the opponent. Moreover, if the imaginary enemy is the Lakers, Horses and Cowboys, a traditional defensive system is necessary. The specific choice must be left to Kruger.

coach.

If any offensive assistant or defensive assistant is asked to come up with a team system, he can come up with a lot. After all, he is a professional, but in the end it still has to be chosen by the head coach.

However, Liu Mang gave Van Gundy an extra defensive tactic he wanted. At that time, Van Gundy was also confused as to why Liu Mang met with him and assistant coach Stockton. When it came to discussing the team's ideal, Stockton was the one to talk about tactics.

At that time, it was Liu Mang, but he also wrote the tactical ideas proposed by Liu Mang on a small piece of paper, and went back to study them carefully.

Later, after Fan Gundy studied the defensive tactics Liu Mang gave him, he became a little obsessed...

That is a brand new defensive tactic. It can be further expanded and developed into a defensive system. After all, it is a successful defensive tactic that has been practiced many times by the Heat's Big Three and the Cosmos in the original time and space. Liu Mang only remembers roughly how

Operations, and professionals are professionals. After Liu Mang told Coach Kruger and Van Gundy his core offensive ideas and a defensive strategy he wanted, more than two months later, the offensive tactics library and the defensive tactics library

The specific defensive details given by the famous coach were much better than Liu Mang himself thought.

With this kind of detailed team system, Liu Mang is completely inferior to these two. What Liu Mang is good at is the occasional flash of inspiration.

After digging out Van Gundy, Van Gundy continuously adjusted several defensive systems based on the Eagles' signings in more than two months, which made Coach Kruger's eyes shine!

Compared with the tactical system that Mike Woodson worked with for many years, some of the defensive systems that Van Gundy thought of may be too taken for granted and have many flaws, but the big player who has never had much contact with Eagles players

Van Gundy can come up with several defensive systems, and he can also create a defensive tactic based on Liu Mang's ideas, which is already very impressive.

The next step is to slowly adjust in the training camp, preseason, and regular season. Nothing is done overnight.

In the past few days, Liu Mang discussed tactics with the coaching staff. Liu Mang didn't have many opportunities to interrupt. He mainly listened and studied.

But there are some things that Van Gundy doesn't adapt to... because Coach Kruger and Stockton always have one thing to say when they express their offensive tactical ideas...

This sentence is - "Ace, if you don't want to play alone, we will..."

The premise of the tactics is that if Liu Mang does not want to play in singles, this makes Van Gundy very uncomfortable.

Van Gundy feels even more incredible when he thinks that this team has reached the Finals in the past four years and won three consecutive championships.

But he is a championship coach and one of the top three point guards in history. After retiring, he was also an outstanding offensive assistant. He could only listen to such unreliable things.

Fortunately, no one raised any objections to Van Gundy's defensive system, which made him very satisfied.

Van Gundy's defensive accomplishments have long been well-known, and this time he was so active in giving up to 4 sets of defensive system plans that the original coaching staff of the Eagles and Liu Mang admired him.

The cultivation of team chemistry and the selection and modification of tactical systems must start in the training camp.

On the morning of the 20th, when Liu Mang arrived at the arena, he found that the ones who had arrived earlier were two veterans who entered the NBA in the mid-1990s...

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After saying hello, Liu Mang felt the excitement of the two veterans. Last season was the first time Grant Hill reached the second round, and the first time he reached the second round.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, it was the first time to reach the finals. After seeing Liu Mang come, he expressed to Finley the incredible feeling last season more actively.

This is not the first time Finley has transferred. He was a rookie of the Suns. Later, he and Nash became a bargaining chip in exchange for Kidd. In the summer of 2005, he went to the Spurs. This is already the third transfer, and the last two

The purpose of the transfer is clear, which is to win the championship and know how to get along with the teammates of the new team. The two veterans discussed it happily.

Other teammates also came one after another.

O'Neal Jr., McGrady, Kwame Brown... Looking at the three high school students who somehow got together, Liu Mang felt as if he was really on a collision course with the high school students. There was always no shortage of high school students around him.

Veterans have the advantage of being veterans. They have clear goals at this stage of their careers. There is no need to worry about conflicts between them and young players in terms of playing time. O'Neal Jr. played as a substitute from time to time with the Pacers last season and averaged only 24 minutes of playing time per game.

Brad Miller was abandoned by the Kings and accepted his fate when he came to the Hawks. He has always been a very hard-working player. From being undrafted to play in Europe to being an NBA All-Star substitute, his comeback efforts are definitely better than those of players who were core insiders from the beginning.

A lot more, and more successful than most players who start out as core players.

What impressed Liu Mang the most was the 25-year-old Greg Monroe in 2015. He turned down offers from the Lakers, Celtics, Mavericks, and Spurs and went to the Bucks. Finally, at the age of 28, he went to the Raptors to earn a minimum salary as a substitute.

Regardless of the playing time, he was fired in the end...

Wade also came to participate in the training camp that started in advance, but he followed the trainer in the physical therapy room to do rehabilitation and minimally invasive surgery. This is a long recovery process. Wade has been doing some rehabilitation since June.

After working and undergoing minimally invasive surgery, without perseverance and perseverance, it is impossible to regain the previous state.

But Mason... From the time he signed the contract on September 15th to the few days before gathering on the 20th, Liu Mang often saw this new teammate in the gym, but he never saw him in training. Instead, he often saw him on the court.

Paintings are everywhere in the museum.

Drawing people, drawing championship trophies, drawing arenas... even drawing on a pillar...

When Liu Mang learned that the starting price of a painting by Mason was US$20,000 to US$30,000 and that his painting income in the past seven years had exceeded US$10 million, Liu Mang had nothing to say.

Mason has always had a good professional attitude and dared to fight hard. As for the fact that he did not fully realize his talent in winning the slam dunk title back then, it has nothing to do with Liu Mang.

Rookie Liu Mang can talk about it. He is a veteran. It is useless for Liu Mang to talk too much. The opponent will be 31 years old in February next year. He is older than him in terms of age and playing experience.

Teammates arrived one after another, making Liu Mang feel that the whole team had a new look.

Outside: Liu Mang himself, Jason Terry, Tracy McGrady, Wade, Grant Hill, Michael Finley, Desmond Mason, Rondo.

Insider: Marion, Kwame Brown, Brad Miller, O'Neal Jr., Gortat, Luis Scola, Gasol.

There are seven new teammates. Rondo, Gortat, Marion, and Grant Hill are all only in their second season as teammates. That is, 11 of the 14 teammates are the last two.

The only ones who joined during the season are McGrady, Jason Terry, and Kwame Brown who are old teammates...

Looking at these new teammates, Liu Mang felt that his team was basically completely different from the previous Eagles team that won three consecutive championships.

Compared to being the defending champion last season, everything is a new beginning now!

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For the Eagles, the 15-man roster for the new season was determined on September 15th, and they gathered on September 20th. On the 20th, the task assigned by the coaching staff was mainly to let the new teammates get familiar with each other, and arrange the starting points.

Arrangements for the two-stage advance training camp from the 21st to the 25th and from the 27th to the 30th. October 1st is the officially arranged training camp time. There are training camp interviews and other things to do, and the arrangements are all the way to October 7th.

No., the preseason will start on October 9th.

Good teams will get better and better. The Eagles have been the top team in the Eastern Conference since Liu Mang was introduced. More and more advantages are appearing in the Eagles. For example, their execution ability now has Grant Hill.

Finley, O'Neal Jr., Brad Miller, Mason and other five veterans who had not experienced the Eagles' training camp plan were surprised. The goal was too clear!

Championship teams know how to be the best they can be from the start of training camp!

From this point alone, including Grant Hill, who joined the Eagles in the middle of last season, the five veterans all feel that they came to the Eagles this time!

They didn't think about how to play in the second and third rounds at all. They only had one goal - the championship!

The imaginary enemies were the four major teams, the Lakers, Horses and Cowboys, and the Eastern Conference didn't take them seriously at all.

As time enters late September, the Eagles start training camp, and other championship teams are still making final reinforcements.

On September 25, a trade was made that made many championship teams want to strangle the Magic's management.

The Magic reached a deal with the Lakers, sending Trevor Ariza and receiving Lakers pitcher Maurice Evans and 2 million in cash compensation.

When Liu Mang saw this trade, he felt that the Magic really treated the Lakers as if they were his own father. The Magic always seemed to like assisting the Lakers. The Lakers were short of small forwards. This summer, the Lakers have been strengthening their small forwards.
Chapter completed!