: Six hundred and eighty-one. The honor that belongs to Stockton alone!

"Ace, are you serious?"
During the pre-match training, when the team submitted the starting list, Liu Mang took the initiative to go to coach Kruger and said that he was ready to give the starting position of this game to Stockton.
Originally, coach Kruger wanted to put Prince on the bench for a while. Since Ratliff took a break today, coach Kruger is going to let Boozer and Rashid Wallace partner to start inside. Play double tactics.
But Liu Mang offered to give up
Hearing Stockton's words, Liu Mang responded: "Ah ... yes!"
These two days have been moved by the passion of Salt Lake City fans to Stockton who can no longer be touched, and the voice said a little hoarsely: "Ace ..."
"Fuck! John, you are all in your 40s, how can you be so hypocritical!" Liu Mang said with disgust.
"Haha! Well, Ace, just for today's friendship, I must help you train a substitute before leaving the eagle!" Stockton patted Liu Mang's shoulder and laughed.
"What? That's so cool, by the way, John, who are you going to train as my substitute? Is it Willie?" This reward is better than any, Liu is very excited.
Are you going to train Willie Green? This guy's physical fitness is really good. The second round is completely due to attitude problems. There are famous places like Stockton to guide. Maybe he can come back. After all, this is a pure physical talent, and has averaged 10 per game. + A combo guard with scoring performance.
"No, Lang All-Star asked me on the weekend, who is more suitable to be my replacement and then to serve as a substitute for you. I chose Jose, maybe the team is going to trade, we need a third center. "Stockton didn't care at all because his words might change the fate of the two.
This is the NBA. It's cruel. Sometimes it's really a sentence of a player with league status, which can make a player be abandoned.
"Calderon ..." Liu Mang thought of the guy who can now be squeezed to the ground by the opponent. It is not that Calderon has no potential, but that Calderon is not the kind that is suitable for early in the NBA. Players playing.
Some players are suitable for entering the NBA early to shine, and improve themselves in the best leagues, but some players need time to allow their bodies to reach the level of NBA confrontation.
This is not something that can be done by training, but it really needs to reach the peak of physiology to have that ability. Some players have less good physical talents, forcibly enhance confrontation, and training can definitely strengthen, but there may be The original flexibility and speed, soft touch and other things are lost, so he has to boil his own body to grow to the peak of physiology in order to have the ability to survive in the NBA.
Calderon is that type of player. He can make a positive contribution in the NBA, that is, in the peak seven years from 25 to 31 years old, he averaged 12 points and 8 assists per game in these seven years. When he could not fight, Only the scoring is passable. There are no three-pointers in the open, but he also averaged a few assists per game to five points per game.
Hearing Liu Mang's questioning voice, Stockton laughed: "It's okay, he is the same as me at the beginning, and I will let him be your backing like me."
"... you are a teacher, you have the final say ..." Liu Mang said this on his mouth, but he began to brainstorm in his head. What are the remaining pearl point guards in this year's draft?
Calderon will be very powerful in the future, and will also receive an annual salary of ten million yuan. But in these two years, Liu Mang is really not optimistic about this guy. He is too thin, and he is thinner than Liu Mang when he first entered the NBA. Iverson is ten centimeters shorter than him.
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Stockton may be the first and only time in his career to return to Salt Lake City as an away player, and this time the Energy Solutions Arena will be full for the first time.
This year's box office of the Jazz is quite miserable, mainly to get a high pick, Sloan was forced to start to ruin ahead of schedule. Originally their lineup did not say that they entered the playoffs. More than 30 wins can still be obtained. , At least not so ugly, after all, Kirilenko and Carlos Arroyo, who broke out after a year of training in Stockton, plus the poor version of Honasek Matt-Haplin, who is at its peak The Jazz won't go bad until they want Deron or Paul's 04-05 season.
The reason why there is no doubt about Stockton's disciples is because Liu Mang saw Arroyo's progress after studying with Stockton for one year!
Arroyo was unable to hit the ball, and was signed by the Jazz base salary. The Jazz not only had a bad box office, this city is very miserable, there are not too many sports clubs, and there are no big-name stars willing to come, so they can only pick up Arroyo to cultivate.
Then Arroyo averaged 12 + 3 + 5 this year.
As a result, the Jazz's attendance this year fell directly to the bottom of the league. Even when Malone returned, he was not fully seated. This is the only team this season that has played more than 50 games and has not been fully occupied. Even the Magic are only 10 The 44-win record has been played several times.
But Stockton returned and the Energy Solutions Arena was detonated again!
Compared with Malone's enemies against the Lakers, Stockton went to his apprentice as the leader of the town, the fans are more understandable.
And the fans of Salt Lake City have become more fond of Liu Mang today!
Previously, it was just because Liu Mang and Boozer played a pick-and-roll. It was still a pick-and-roll under the guidance of Stockton, which made the Jazz fans have a mysterious love for Liu Mang.
But today, after the big screen on the scene hit the starting list, Salt Lake City fans love Liu Mang even more!
Stockton replaced Liu Mang as the starter of the game!
It's not that bullying Prince is in the second grade, but Liu Mang personally made the starter, which means very different things!
However, since they are enemies, the fans paid the highest respect to Stockton!
When Stockton as the team's "boss", the last time to enter the scene, a fierce booing broke out on the scene!
Such a boo, the last time it appeared, was the final of Shuangsha VS Jordan!
Liu Mang was wearing a training suit, and the first and last Stockton high-five, the boos on the scene exploded, and system prompts followed.
"Ding ... The devil triggered at home, from the fans of the Jazz Energy Solution Arena. The excitement of the Jazz players has greatly increased, and the Jazz players have largely offset the negative emotional impact caused by the suppression of the strength of the host team."
Devil is really a good thing at home! Liu Mang has no doubt about this.
The Hawks lost only 4 games at home this year. One was lost when the Devil had n’t started. Two games were suspended by Rashid Wallace and Liu Mang was also suspended. That is to say, since After losing the Devil's home, the Hawks only lost one home!
It's just that the Devil's home at home is based on Rashid Wallace, and there is still a big difference from the Jazz's more than a decade of strong strength that has been laid down slowly.
Liu Mang felt that he still had a long way to go.
But just right? Keeping the hunger for honor forever is Liu Mang's first motivation to maintain his original intention after he took the sky-high endorsement contract.
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The game started.
The starting lineup for the Eagles Stockton, Prince, Raheem, Boozer, Rashid Wallace.
The Jazz sent Arroyo, Haplin, Kirilenko, Jaylon Collins and Ostertag's starting lineup.
Liu Mang sat on the sidelines and watched the Stockton show today! Watching Salt Lake City fans love Stockton, Liu Mang felt pretty good.
Jay Collins and Rashid Wallace jumped into the middle circle to jump the ball.
Relative to his brother Jason Collins is the kind of master of the meat pile anti-back fight, Jay Collins is a man with a manic physical fitness, good physical fitness, beat Rashid Wallace to win the jump ball.
Today, the Jazz players are very excited. First, Stockton came back. Second, there was the most enthusiastic cries this season. The Jazz players knew that the gap between the players and the Hawks was too big, but they still did not counsel. dry!
There is also the return of Stockton today. In addition to giving a big hug, Sloan also made a defensive arrangement for Stockton.
Other games can be lost casually, but today in this game, Sloan does not want to give up directly, but just wants a wave!
Stockton is also very excited about this. He is no different from last year. He is still one of the best pure point guards in the league. The Jazz initially played the Hawks for a few rounds with the air pressure. Stockton was not in a hurry, and signaled his teammates not to panic.
Stockton, in the case of the Jazz's face-saving defense with Kirilenko, was stunned to play a pick-and-roll with Boozer and bit the score.
And the Sloan coach of the Jazz knows Stockton very well, and Stockton also knows Arroyo very well. This is the apprentice he taught himself!
While playing, Stockton found the feeling and began to suppress Arroyo on both ends of the offense and defense. Morale is a thing that can allow players to play at a super level, but if none of the super levels can play an advantage, then the morale is very good. It will soon fall down.
In the first half of the first quarter, after Liu Mang replaced Prince to play, the Jazz had no room to resist.
Stockton, Liu Mang, and Boozer's double-bracket tactics, the origin of this tactics team jazz is not necessary.
Live fans seemed to dream back six years ago. Stockton has good teammates. Although he is old, his shooting ability and passing ability have not declined significantly. When he has enough physical energy, he is still the performance of top point guards.
It's just that playing this kind of performance is not your own team, but your opponent!
In the first quarter, in addition to the Jazz leading the first three minutes, the Jazz no longer have the opportunity to lead.
Stockton was tired and went to the corner to wait for Liu Mang or Jason Terry to pass the ball. Liu Mang and Jason Terry took turns. Jason Terry would either be a fixed-point shooter or he would Like Liu Mang, he continued to dominate the offense when Stockton took a rest.
Fans have already burst into tears at the scene!
At halftime, no fans went to the toilet or bought halftime snacks, etc., because the Jazz boss saw the tickets sold out before the game, and it was one of the only two Jazz live broadcasts this season. The atmosphere on the scene was so fanatical. Today's game, the Hawks also sold the Jazz face. It wasn't as bad as the abuse. After the score difference was more than 10 points, the defense began to loosen and maintain the offensive level. Embarrassed, so the Jazz boss announced that he would retire Stockton's jersey today!
Unlike other teams who will retire the contract the day before the veteran retires, the Jazz boss is so different. When Stockton was playing in the NBA, he announced that he would retire Stockton ’s jersey and want to After Stockton won the championship, give Stockton a statue!
It was so straightforward that the Jazz boss personally supported the Eagles to win the championship.
As for the possible fines, the Jazz boss admitted! Whether it is to support the Eagles to win the championship or retire Stockton's jersey without submitting an application, the rules of the league are not allowed.
The Jazz fans, at least this season, also regard the Hawks as the "home team"!
This treatment is too far away from the coldness of Malone's return!
Other players on the court looked at Stockton's treatment, and the more they envy, the more the Hawks have the opportunity to retire the jersey. Perhaps Liu Mang and Ratliff, one is a quasi-MVP, one is the best defensive player If the Hawks retire the jersey standard is a little lower, if they win this season, Rahim and Jason Terry, Rashid Wallace are also possible ~ EbookFREE.me ~ and no one else is feasible Sex, the Jazz side is even a player with no possibility.
And without retiring, he retired the jersey, which is the only one in NBA history!
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Stockton was shocked and delighted to get a player's second highest honor and the promise of the highest honor in a team. Stockton scored 11 points and 4 assists in the half. After the old tears, the second half Fight harder.
Still giving the Jazz face, Coach Kruger let the players relax their defense, you play one by one, and I play happily.
Coach Sloan did not deliberately engage in things there, nor did he expect that his boss would be so impulsive that he would retire the Stockton retired jersey while playing, and expressed support for the Eagles in his testimony.
After this gave the Hawks a chance, coach Sloan was also reluctant to force a wave, and getting hatred was one aspect. The most important thing was that this was his best disciple!
Although Malone is better and stronger, Malone did not discuss with him before leaving the jazz, and Stockton communicated with him several times. He did n’t mind the disciples trying to hug a thigh in the last year, but everyone was There are likes and dislikes.
In the end, Liu Mang scored 26 points and 3 assists, Jason Terry scored 22 points, Boozer, Kwame Brown, Rashid Wallace scored 44 points, Stockton played 48 minutes He scored 20 points, 11 assists and 4 steals. For the first time this season, it may be the only 20 + 10 to help the Eagles beat the Jazz 117 to 106 and get a five-game winning streak.
It didn't make the game so ugly, and it played a beautiful match-up.
However ... Liu Mang was embarrassed today because the fans on the scene were always shouting "Heir to Shuangsha ..." in the second half
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