Chapter 1023 1022. Liu Mang's Health-Preserving Basketball

"David, come here." Liu Mang called David Li to sit on a stool aside and get ready.

"Boss Ace, what's wrong?" David Lee felt like he was being called into a dark room by a gangster. He looked at his teammates who were gambling and playing games on the other side of the restaurant, and really wanted to escape.

"It's okay, David, I just want to interview you." Liu Mang comforted him, and he was confused. Did he look so scary?

"Interview?" David Li saw Liu Mang setting up the tripod and installing the camera. This camera seemed to belong to the team's cameraman.

"Yeah." Liu Mang adjusted the camera, put on the suit jacket and tie that he had just put aside, and tidied up his clothes.

"Boss Ace, what can I interview?" David Lee didn't understand!

Why do you suddenly have to interview him, a rookie?

After playing the Heat yesterday, I came to Memphis today. This time, the four consecutive visits are the Heat-Grizzlies-Magic-Wizards. Generally speaking, they are not far apart. After playing the Heat, I will rest for two days before starting this season. For the first time back-to-back, No. 11 and No. 12 played the Grizzlies and Magic back-to-back.

We arrived in Memphis on the afternoon of the 9th. In the evening, the Hawks players invited Pau Gasol, Mike Miller, and Caron Butler, who also had two days of rest, to have dinner together.

Gasol has a good relationship with Liu Mang, Mike Miller is McGrady's best friend, and Caron Butler and Kobe Bryant are brothers. Therefore, he has a good relationship with McGrady and invited three of the Grizzlies' strongest players to come together. .

After eating and drinking, everyone started gambling. Just when David Li was about to join, he was pulled aside by Liu Mang. He thought he was going to be bullied as a rookie, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to interview him!

"I heard that you were unwilling to take over your father's chain restaurant brand, but chose to pursue your dream and enter the NBA. This is so touching. Come on, tell me about your journey. When my son grows up, he needs a Role model." Liu Mang said enthusiastically.

It turns out to be this! David Lee's body was shocked. He has a strong body. Although he is a rookie, he is actually 22 years old soon. All aspects of his skills have been polished and matured in college, so he can only start from scratch during his rookie season with Josh Smith and Varejao. Garbage time started to play differently, and he was able to appear early in regular time.

The thing that David Lee is most proud of is that he turned his hobby into a career and became one of the 500 best players in the world.

"Boss Ace, what do you want me to say to encourage Becas?" David Lee's tone of voice changed, he was very excited and urgent.

"Uh... Just tell me, you didn't inherit your father's largest restaurant brand in Louisiana and chose to play in the NBA. You can only play as a substitute. Tell me how miserable you are now and how regretful you are helping Rasheed carry his bag every day. I didn’t take over your father’s business... Hey, David, don’t leave, I’ve borrowed all the cameras..."

David Li walked aside in shame and anger and ignored Liu Mang. The co-author wanted him to be a negative example?

"Haha, David, don't be angry with Ace. He is doing you a favor to prevent you from gambling with those superstar players and losing all your pocket money." Rasheed Wallace The veteran who took care of David Lee the most on the team went up and hooked David Lee's neck, burped as he spoke, and breathed out a breath of alcohol.

David Lee feels like this team is so strange!

Liu Mang is rumored to be very cruel and cold, but he actually has no problem playing pranks on his teammates, and he is not the kind of person who can really make people angry. On the contrary, compared to Americans, Liu Mang's delicate appearance is too confusing and only makes people angry. Feel depressed.

And Rasheed Wallace, the king of technical fouls, is like a kind-hearted middle-aged uncle, taking care of him as a younger brother, except that this big brother looks really... It’s hard to put it into words, what David Lee is most grateful for. It was Rasheed Wallace who often taught him how to get along with his teammates.

Hearing what Rasheed Wallace said, David Lee saw those star players placing bets of $100 each and easily making thousands of dollars off of them. He thought about his wallet and it was really a bit strange. Afraid.

It’s not like David Lee has never gambled like this before. He has played bigger bets before. He is a second- and third-generation rich man who donated all the US$50 million in entrepreneurial capital given to him by his grandfather at the age of 15. His father is a big boss of a chain restaurant brand, and his grandfather is an industrialist. However, his grandfather donated most of his assets to charity, but he is definitely not short of money.

But after he declared for the NBA draft after his junior year, his father stopped giving him money and wanted to force him to go back.

Just now at dinner, when Jason Terry invited his teammates to gamble, David Lee immediately agreed in order to get close to the big guys, completely forgetting that he was only the 30th overall pick in the NBA and had just received the invitation. The first two weeks of salary paid off the money previously borrowed from Rasheed Wallace.

Owing money is not a good thing. The more you borrow, the more favors you owe. David Lee, who was born in a wealthy family, does not like to borrow money from others. Of course, borrowing money from banks or investors does not count...

Thinking about it now, David Lee found that he almost owed money again. Looking at those "gamblers", they were definitely not good people.

But... when David Li saw Liu Mang, how did he feel that this boss definitely didn't just want to help him? And there is a simple feeling that I want to use him as a negative example!

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Playing away games consecutively seems to be a very troublesome thing. Flying back and forth every day, staying in different cities every day, you need to adapt to the living habits of each city, especially in a country with mixed cultures like the United States. NBA teams are all in big cities. In big cities in the United States, you can find people from almost 90% of the countries in the world. Sometimes it is very strange.

However, now the Hawks players like to play away games.

For NBA players, the chance of winning at home is greater, but playing away games is more fun!

The Hawks is probably one of the teams with the strictest team rules in the league. During away games, you cannot go to nightclubs or bring people back to the hotel to stay overnight.

But if you can win, everything is not a problem.

In fact, if you are getting more and more familiar with your teammates, such as playing for several years and having a good relationship, slowly, playing consecutive away games will make the teammates of a team more cohesive.

Home games are over. If you win the game, celebrate in the locker room. If you lose, be depressed together, discuss where you played badly, and then go home.

But when playing away games, even if you can't go to the nightclub together, you can still play together when you return to the hotel, and spend more time together.

There are two situations at this time. If the relationship within the team is not good, then the relationship will get worse the more away games you play.

But for a team like the Hawks, which has a harmonious atmosphere within the team, it is a carnival day for everyone even if they can't go to the nightclub for consecutive away games.

You can't go to the nightclub to drink, but if there is no game the next day, the coaching staff will not stop the players from drinking in the hotel restaurant, drinking, gambling, playing video games, men's happiness is not limited to going to nightclubs to pick up girls. NBA players will not lack women if they want, even if they are marginal players.

Liu Mang felt really sorry when he saw David Lee running away when he met him. He dragged McGrady, who was distressed because he lost two thousand US dollars, to play video games together. The new expansion pack of Command and Conquer 3 just came out on November 1st. Liu Mang plays this game with the little loli when he has nothing to do.

When playing away games, of course you have to bring a game console! Anyway, Iguodala will carry the luggage.

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Gasol is a bit depressed this season, he can't win games!

The team has no defense, and there is no outside attack starter on the offensive end. Mike Miller and Butler are not ball-handling players. The best ball-handling point is Damon Stoudemire…

Damon Stoudemire played relatively well for his age. In the first seven games, he averaged 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game. At the age of 32, he is still less than 1.8 meters tall, which is worthy of his salary of more than 3 million US dollars.

But this is not enough for the Grizzlies!

Starting with 2 wins and 5 losses, the third from the bottom in the Western Conference, the Grizzlies are looking like they are going for the No. 1 pick.

Without an offensive system or a defensive system, the Grizzlies just run and shoot. They rank seventh in the league with an average of 103 points per game, and concede the most points in the league with an average of 109 points per game... Now the Grizzlies are just betting on whether their outside shots can go in or not. If they can shoot accurately, they have a chance to win. Moreover, no matter how much they lead when they play loosely at the beginning, when they need to fight a positional battle at the critical moment, they are overtaken by the opponent in one wave, and it is difficult to score in the last quarter.

The Grizzlies averaged 82 points in the first three quarters of the first seven games, second only to the Hawks, but only 21 points in the fourth quarter, 19th in the league, and the last in points lost... Especially in the last quarter, they lost more than 30 points per game, which does not look like they are going to win.

No one thought that the Grizzlies could collapse to this extent just by losing two defensive players, Shane Battier and Stromile Swift, one inside and one outside. Especially no one thought that the Grizzlies lost Jason Williams, and the offensive end of the Grizzlies was completely disorganized.

Jason Williams's statistics in the Grizzlies are similar to Damon Stoudemire's this year, but Jason Williams can really organize the offense!

After the Hawks arrived in Memphis and rested for two nights, Liu Mang started playing health-preserving ball again in the first back-to-back game against the Grizzlies.

After scoring 53 points, his average score soared to 31 points per game, ranking third in the league, second only to LeBron James' 33.5 points per game and Kobe's 33.3 points per game.

But when the opponent is not so strong, Liu Mang starts to slack off again, letting his teammates have fun.

In the game against the Grizzlies, Liu Mang scored 10 points in the first quarter, 7 points in the second quarter, and 13 points in the third quarter. He scored 30 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in three quarters, and easily clocked out.

The key is that Liu Mang does not occupy the ball!

He came when he was needed to organize the offense. When McGrady wanted to break through, he went to run and catch the ball and shoot. When Iguodala and Josh Smith were there, he broke through to attract double teams and passed the ball to the two of them to train their ability to handle the ball.

Talented players are good. Soon the two got used to such roles and passed a lot of balls back to Liu Mang.

In the three quarters, Liu Mang easily scored 30 points with 11 of 18 shots, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. Moreover, he had very little possession of the ball!

With this style of play, Liu Mang's hit rate is quite high! For the first time in his career, his hit rate broke 50%. So far, Liu Mang has averaged 4.3 three-pointers per game. After six games, he has already made 26 three-pointers! The shooting percentage so far this season is 53%, and the three-point shooting percentage is 44%, both of which set a career high!

At the end of the three quarters, the Hawks scored more than 80 points again, scoring 86 points in three quarters.

The Grizzlies shot a lot. When the Grizzlies played against some teams with relatively average defense, if the opponent's defense was not tight at the beginning, the Grizzlies would score more than 80 points in three quarters. However, the Hawks only played normal defense, and it became very difficult for the Grizzlies to score. The Hawks' fast rotation defense was too difficult for the Grizzlies. They only scored 61 points in three quarters. Liu Mang scored 13 points in the third quarter, easily widening the gap to 25 points.

From the second half of the third quarter, the game became garbage time. Calderon was replaced to handle the ball and led the substitutes to play.

In the end, the Hawks easily defeated the Grizzlies 112 to 90 and won six consecutive games.

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The Pistons also lost. The only team in the league that had not lost a game was the Hawks.

Before the start of the season, there were many arguments in the league.

For example, the Hawks had won two consecutive championships and might have slacked off, but they didn't.

For example, Rasheed Wallace is one year older, but he has not lost his offensive ability, so the Hawks' inside line will become very weak.

It is true that Rasheed Wallace plays less and less in a game, and now he has an average of 25 minutes per game in six games, but with reduced playing time, Rasheed Wallace has maintained his defensive efficiency, and Josh Smith can defend and pass the ball. The key is that the Hawks have found a treasure in the low draft. David Lee, a rookie, has an unexpectedly good offensive ability under the basket. He scored 7 points and 5 rebounds in the game against the Heat, and played the entire second half in the third quarter against the Grizzlies, scoring 11 points and 8 rebounds.

Because there was a lot of garbage time in the first four games, David Lee had the opportunity to play, and now he averages 7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.

Josh Smith's progress and the appearance of David Lee, with Kwame Brown's strong performance of 15+12 per game, made up for the loopholes of Rasheed Wallace's declining data and Muhammad's departure.

Now people find that the strongest team seems to be the Hawks!

It depends on whether the Spurs, Mavericks, and Lakers, who are ranked first to third in the West, can beat the Hawks.

The Heat were defeated by the Hawks even when they exploded, and fans felt sorry for the teams in the East with the Hawks.

But Liu Mang was quite depressed at this time.

When I saw the comments online, they were not praising them for their good record and good play, but complaining about him!

"Padding", "health ball", "practicing Tai Chi on the court", "old man's three-point play"...

Mainly domestic fans, they have come up with a lot of "exclusive terms" for Liu Mang!

It's a bit late, sorry.

Please vote for the monthly ticket! I was overtaken. . I'm so upset. . .