The Pacific Division is about to go "brilliant".

This season in the Pacific Division, the Kings are temporarily sixth in the West, the Lakers are temporarily ninth in the West, the Clippers are temporarily ranked 10th in the West, the Warriors are temporarily 11th in the West, and the Suns are the first in the West, which looks thriving.

According to this momentum, the Clippers and the Warriors have the possibility of entering the playoffs in the next two years, the Lakers will return to the playoff team after Kobe Bryant loses weight next season, the Suns are the top team for many years to come, and the Kings completely fell out of the championship contenders after trading away Webb, but the playoff strength is still there, and it is possible that there will be five teams in the same region and the same season in the playoffs at the same time next season.

On the morning of the 21st, after Liu Mang abused Jimmy Butler, who was still a child, to doubt his life, he left a sentence "You are still far away......

At noon, the team had a tactical meeting to focus on the Clippers, resting Prince and Rasheed Wallace, announcing that Iguodala would be the starting small forward for tonight's game, Josh Smith would be the starting power forward, and the two physical rookies and Maddy would go together to deal with Magetti.

Korver flew straight from Chicago to Los Angeles after playing in the Development League in Chicago the day before yesterday, and after the rest of the rotation, Korver also returned to the 12-man squad, but this time as a substitute, with two strong players Maddy and Iguodala used to deal with Margety, the strongest outside player in the league today.

The five-day, four-game back-to-back road game is off to a good start, so Maddy stays to deal with the Clippers and maintains the most stability of his strength.

The Hawks are currently 48-7 and are two wins away from reaching 50 wins in two consecutive seasons, so the fighting spirit is high!

In particular, Iguodala and Josh Smith, who are going to start, are excited.

After training in the afternoon, Liu Mang was going to see the game clip about the Suns, there was not much time to prepare for the Suns, and it was a little time to have a little time, after being kicked out of the Toyota Center training hall by Kobe Bryant yesterday, Liu Mang returned to the hotel and began to watch the game clips of Nash's completely different style of play this season and previous years.

Liu Mang came to the lounge, watched the game video and waited for the meal time before the afternoon warm-up training, at this time, a task that Liu Mang had been waiting for a long time came!

"Ding...... King's Landing Phase 2 Trigger Quest: Juggernaut Trigger. ”

"Juggernaut: There have been seven consecutive wins of at least 18 times in NBA history so far, and the teams that have won seven of these 18 consecutive wins have won the championship that season. Objective: The host must lead the team to at least 18 consecutive wins this season, and when the objective is completed, the second phase of King's Landing will be triggered. Mission Reward: Win streak multiplied by 1000 Superstar Points. ”

There is no failure penalty, but it does not trigger King's Landing Phase 2 quests.

Liu Mang has been looking forward to this series of missions for King's Landing for a long time, and the reward for the first phase of King's Landing's missions before the finals last season was a high-level endurance fruit, which increased Liu Mang's stamina to 94, and now he needs to win the Suns to get another ordinary endurance fruit, which can reach 95 stamina.

King's Landing also has a branch task to defeat Duncan in the playoffs, that is, to defeat Duncan in the finals, but the second phase of the task has not been started for a long time, and Liu Mang thought that he would not come back until the playoffs or even the finals, but he didn't expect it to come at this time.

It's just that it's actually a trigger mission!

And it's an incredibly difficult task like 18 consecutive wins!

Liu Mang kept hinting that he had calmed down.

Just like the mission introduction of the system, the NBA has been in its 59th season so far, but there have been only seven of the 18 consecutive wins!

The last time was the Lakers in the 99-00 season, when the Lakers won 67 and won 19 in a row midway through the season.

If this task does not come, it will be so brutal when it comes!

And now when the team starts to rest, God knows if it will meet the team that breaks out, and now it is in a difficult consecutive away game in five days and four games, and the last away game is still the Suns.

All at once, all at once!

Liu Mang figured out his thoughts and looked at the schedule first.

Now it's 11 wins in a row, which means at least seven wins in a row.

The opponents of the four-game are the Clippers, Warriors, Jazz, and Suns.

Then on the 27th, he returned to the home court to play the Mavericks, and the Bucks and 76ers in the first two days of next month, three consecutive home games, and if you count it, it will be three back-to-back in 10 days!

It's so good to die, when this mission comes, there are still 7 wins, 7 games, and three back-to-back!

It's a sass!

Liu Mang calmed down and looked at these opponents, the difficult ones were three opponents, the Suns, Mavericks, and 76ers, and the other four opponents were all crushed by strength.

But the biggest problem is that now the team is going to start a rotation strategy.

Triggering the King's Landing mission, Liu Mang wants it very much, but he can't delay the team's playoff plan.

He can ensure that his teammates are not injured, but he can't guarantee the physical fitness of his teammates, if by the time it comes to the playoffs, several cores have physical problems because of playing so long games for two consecutive years, then it is useless to be healthy!

In the fourth year of the three championships in four years, the Universe Yong gave up the regular season, did not get 60 wins, and rested when several All-Stars were injured and tired, and tried their best to prepare for the playoffs.

This season, Liu Mang's obsession with how many games he won in the regular season is not so deep, just because of these "experiences".

"The mission must be completed, and the team's plan cannot be broken!"

Liu Mang thought about it for a while and felt that it was time for him to take on more responsibility!

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At dinner time before the warm-up training, Liu Mang came to the coaching staff's lounge after eating the unpalatable nutritious meal sent by the team's nutritionist to the lounge, and wanted to talk to Coach Kruger about something.

As a result, after taking a detour in the Staples Center and arriving at the Clippers' lounge next to the interview hall where the Clippers had arranged the Hawks coaching staff, he just pushed the door open and heard the smell of barbecue......

At this point in time, the coaches didn't expect the players in the team to come back to disturb them, shouldn't they all rest and wait for digestion to do warm-up training to prepare for the evening game?

A group of people stared at Liu Mang, so embarrassed!

Among them, there is also Coach Kruger, who is holding an iron skewer that is still dripping with oil, biting a piece of meat in his mouth and not biting it off yet!

The two coffee tables in the lounge are full of iron skewers, dinner plates, drinks and other things.

"Damn! We're suffering over there, but you're here to eat barbecue! Okay, what do you eat like us? Liu Mang angrily pointed to the coaching staff, a group of trainers from the team, and Jimmy Butler and others who had eaten sesame oil and splashed all over him.

"Ace, you're mistaken, today we finished a job and are celebrating!" Stockton lied without a draft, and Liu Mang could see it clearly when he unconsciously picked up a napkin and wiped his hands repeatedly.

"John, do you think I'll believe it?"

"No, it won't."

"Damn! It's too much! ”

"Okay, okay, Ace, when your season is over, I'll treat you to a barbecue!" Coach Kruger put the iron stick back on his plate and said a perfunctory word.

Liu Mang felt like he was being treated like a three-year-old child.

Without waiting for Liu Mang to continue complaining, Coach Kruger asked: "Ace, you must have something wrong, don't delay our dinner, say it quickly." ”

I was also complained about disturbing their dinner!

Liu Mang is so tired, but the coaching staff and trainers are not athletes, so there is nothing wrong with them eating these, and they secretly hide them to eat, which can be regarded as "thinking" about the players.

"Coach, I'll tell you when you come out." Liu Mang swallowed his saliva, quickly turned around and walked out of the lounge, Coach Kruger looked at the two tables of food, and also walked out, knowing that these things were too tempting.

Liu Mang deliberately closed the door when he saw Coach Kruger coming out, just like doing something unseemly, and this skillful operation habit, at a glance, he knew that it was not the first time he had done this kind of thing.

Coach Kruger took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, then asked, "Ace, you must have something important looking for me, right?" ”

Liu Mang didn't care about what happened just now, and said his thoughts again and again: "Coach, in order to play the next game between the Suns and the Mavericks, start from tomorrow's back-to-back, let Tracy and Tyshawn rest when they play the Warriors and Jazz, and start preparing for the games against the Suns and Mavericks in advance!" ”

"Giving up two games for those two games? And Rashid and Kwame also need to rest. Coach Krueger asked strangely, who wins is not to win, although winning a game against the Suns will be good for the Finals if they meet the Suns, but just do your best.

And it's a little easier to take down the first three weak teams, and it's no joke to play four games in five days, when all teams in the league have four games in five days this season, the average win rate of four games is only 33 percent, and no team has won all four games.

"Even if Tracy and Tyshawn, Kwame and Rashid are all rested, and I take the bench to play the Warriors and Jazz, I am confident that I can win!" Liu Mang said confidently.

"Why?" Coach Krueger still doesn't understand that he doesn't need to fight hard for the regular season this season, the second-fastest regular season win in history was just won last season, and the players will not shake their confidence in the playoffs because of the victory or defeat in the regular season.

Liu Mang simply and directly stated the reason: "I want to win 18 consecutive victories!" ”

"Watts?"

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In Coach Kruger's view, even if Liu Mang leads the team alone, to a group of pitchers and a few interior muscle men, he still has playoff strength.

It's just a team led by the outside, although it also has a chance to make the playoffs, but if it faces a weak team with a little bit of strength to break out, there is no chance to block it, the Eagles have only lost 7 games so far, although there are also teams that have been defeated by the outbreak, but very rarely, most of the time the team that encounters the outburst has held on, and when the opponent's outburst is over, the opponent will be defeated.

It's just that it's five days and four battles! In early January, Kobe Bryant led the team in five days and four games, all of which were defeated, and quickly slipped from sixth in the West to eighth in the West, causing the Lakers to fall out of the top eight in the West in early February.

But it doesn't matter, Liu Mang's physical strength fights for a few games, and Coach Kruger thinks it can still be done, but Liu Mang said that he wants to win 18 consecutive games.

That's the famous championship streak!

As strong as Jordan, he only completed an 18-game winning streak in the 95-96 season, and it only happened to be an 18-game winning streak.

Although the league as a whole was not as strong as it is now, the longest winning streak in the 90s was only 18 consecutive wins.

A winning streak is a thing, and if one of them accidentally loses one in the middle, it's not a winning streak.

But Liu Mang loves to do things so much, he must do it when he says it, and he refuses to give up until he finishes it.

Coach Kruger couldn't resist Liu Mang, so he could only respond.

But it's not publicized, just play the Clippers after this game.

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At seven o'clock in the evening, the first game of the Eagles' five-day, four-game game began.

The Hawks, on their side, fielded a starting lineup of Liu Mang, Maddy, Iguodala, Josh Smith and Kwame Brown.

It's all steel musclemen! Liu Mang's confrontation is also very strong in point guards, just to deal with the Clippers' Margetty and Brand's two muscular male forward combinations, this lineup was specially sent, Rasheed Wallace was scored 31 points by Brand when he played against the Clippers in the last game, he is too unsuitable to deal with Brand, a short power forward with strong explosiveness.

Although the two starters were rested, the lineup sent by the Hawks to specifically restrain the Clippers was still very effective, and it was effective to put others, such as Maddy and Iguodala to hit Margeti with the ball, or Maddy and Josh Smith to catch the ball and Brand.

The key is that the Clippers don't have a point guard!

There was originally a Livingston, Livingston played very well in the first half of the season, although he entered the NBA with constant injuries, and only played 30 games in the first three months, but the performance in the rookie year was very good, averaging 7 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists per game, and he only played 27 minutes per game to have this data, so that the Clippers have been pressing the Timberwolves, who were the first in the West last season, in terms of record.

However, Livingston's body was too fragile, and when he returned from training at All-Star Weekend, he had just recovered from an ankle injury, followed by a torn calf muscle, and the remaining half of the season was reimbursed.

In fact, since the beginning of February, the Clippers have no point guard again, and the offensive end can only rely on star singles.

After gaining experience in the last game against the Clippers, Coach Kruger used Maddy, Iguodala, Josh Smith, and Muhammad to take turns to pinch Margeti and Brand, and Kwame Brown and Mourning guarded under the basket.

Relying on defense to limit the Clippers, Liu Mang began to shoot wildly, although he couldn't shoot accurately under the defense of Margety, the league's most physical outside lineman, but he got a lot of free throws.

In the third quarter, he shot 11 of 26 and 1 of 9 three-pointers, and the efficiency was a little poor, but Liu Mangbo made 14 free throws, 12 of 14 free throws, and got 35 points, 5 boards and 3 assists in the whole game.

The Eagles are on a 12-game winning streak!

Playing the Clippers game, it was originally regarded as the easiest game by the Hawks, because it was easy to target the opponent, Liu Mang and Maddie and Jason Terry on the bench were all there, and there was no shortage of firepower on the offensive end.

The offense is guaranteed and the defense can limit the opponent, so Coach Kruger was not worried in the first game.

The next morning, the Eagles took a 20-minute charter flight to Oakland, and the difficulty came.

At noon team meeting, Coach Krueger announced a new schedule for the next two games, with Maddy, Prince, and Kwame Brown resting for the next two games for the game against the Suns on Feb. 25.

Coach Kruger's arrangement was for the game against the Suns, and the players could understand that being swept by one team in the regular season was not acceptable to the Hawks players.

However, this arrangement is too much of a test for Liu Mang, because Coach Kruger's arrangement is that after Rashid Wallace plays the game with the Warriors, he will go to Phoenix, Arizona, with Prince, Maddy, and Kwame Brown, and wait for the Hawks to go to Salt Lake City to meet in Phoenix after the game, and go directly to play the Suns together.

At this time, the pressure is on Liu Mang, can he lead the substitute lineup to win both games? Coach Kruger wasn't sure either.

If they all win, Coach Kruger has nothing to say, if he loses even one game, he will have the opportunity to teach Liu Mang a good lesson! Coach Kruger has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

Of course, Coach Krueger still hopes to win, the head coach who has won 18 in a row...... It's awesome, too!

However, Liu Mang was not afraid, and led the team to play two games alone, which still made him look forward to this kind of thing.

So far, Liu Mang's average score per game is almost fixed at 36.7 points, the more games played, the more difficult it becomes to increase the average score per game, the Eagles have played 56 games, 49 wins and 7 losses, that is, the next game needs to score 5.6 points more than 36.7 points, that is, at least 43 points, Liu Mang's average points per game can increase by 0.1 points.

Therefore, Liu Mang is now ready to wield the long knife and start scoring points!

Wins, points per game, 18 consecutive wins, he wants it all!

In addition, there is another goal that makes Liu Mang's fighting spirit even higher.

If the Warriors win this game, the Hawks will get 50 wins, reaching 50 wins for two consecutive seasons, which is another goal that Liu Mang wants to accomplish.

Although it is not an important thing for Duncan, Ma Long, and Stockton, who have won 50 games for many years in a row, it is quite tempting for Liu Mang.

There are two and three ...... There are more consecutive 50 wins!

Three starters are rested, four starters are rested in the next game, and the first- and second-year players are all hi! That means they'll have more chances to play!

Looking at the strength is not good, but a few first- and second-year teammates who are full of spirit, Liu Mang's fighting spirit also burned.

Fight the Warriors! It was the beginning of his journey to the NBA!

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