Chapter 1591 1590. Joint Strength Strengthening Fruit!

Liu Mang and Yao Ming know that the current national team is supported by the two of them. After removing them and the older generation players retiring without regrets after winning the World Championships, only Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi are left in the Chinese team. A player of real quality.

Winning the world championship two years ago only relied on a few of them.

But the championship means more than that. It gives hope to Chinese fans. More children will definitely join basketball. The more people like basketball, the easier it will be to make money in basketball, and more capitalists will invest money in Chinese basketball. If a career can make money, more parents will be willing to let their children take the road of basketball.

Not everyone is suitable for studying, and a country does not only need scholars, but also reading talents, business talents, technical talents, artistic talents, and sports talents.

A country that attaches great importance to literature but despises everything else would be no different from the Song Dynasty. Ordinary people can't find more ways out. There are only so many people who succeed by studying, and no other industry can make money. Then wealth will be more concentrated in In the hands of a small number of people, the country is getting richer and richer, while ordinary people are getting poorer and unable to find ways to make money.

Liu Mang is not so arrogant that he wants to change a country, but he will work hard to bring about small changes to the country within his own ability. Liu Mang will work hard to do it.

After all, my goal is to become a "celebrity" who can leave his name in the history of the country, and he always needs to do more things.

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After the two warm-up matches, the national team began to eliminate players. On July 12, the number of players was reduced by 7, from 27 players to 20.

Moreover, the 20 players will be reduced to 12 before submitting the 12-man roster on July 26.

It's cruel, but this is the national team!

Harris helped the Chinese men's basketball team win the world championship and had more say in selecting players. He couldn't decide on the 27-man roster, but he chose among the 27 people who he thought were the most suitable for the core combination of Liu Mang and Yao Ming. The lineup still has power.

Moreover, the men’s basketball team is 10,000 times better than the men’s football team. At least the 22 players selected by the Blue Association are the real top group in the CBA, unlike the men’s football team…

This is what Harris feels lucky. Wei Yuanli, the chairman of the National Basketball Association, would rather shorten the CBA schedule and reduce income to improve the national team, which has an impact on the country's overall basketball development. However, in recent years, Liu Mang and Yao Ming have been at their peak. It's very appropriate to compete for the world championship in this period.

Now that Liu Mang is back and training with the national team, Harris is very satisfied.

He has been looking forward to Liu Mang's return and showing others how much Liu Mang has paid to become the strongest player in the world!

Harris directly made a training arrangement for Liu Mang that was more than twice that of others. As a result, Liu Mang completed the training earlier than others, and the quality and quantity were guaranteed!

Director Zhang, the leader of the men's basketball team, also likes this scene very much. He wants the young players to experience Liu Mang's training and give them motivation and pressure!

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"I have returned to my motherland. Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Jade Emperor bless me..."

Yesterday, July 13th, and today, Liu Mang conducted two days of high-intensity training and regained some of the feelings he had after half a month's rest.

Next, there will be 12 days of intensive training. After the 12 days of intensive training, there will be 12 days of tactical training.

Liu Mang will spend the next 12 days adjusting his physical condition to its best.

In the past half month or so, Liu Mang has had a good rest. He has relieved himself of the pressure caused by team transactions and now focuses on the national team!

In order to perform the best in his country's Olympic Games, Liu Mang must use every means to improve himself.

After praying for a while, Liu Mang once again put on the familiar posture of five hearts in the sky, and said in his heart: "System boss, use 1 million superstar points to draw a lottery! Specify the attribute fruit!"

"Ding... the host uses the high-level superstar value to draw a lottery, and specifies the attribute fruit..."

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for obtaining the joint strength strengthening fruit."

Looking at a mini version of dragon fruit that appeared in front of him, Liu Mang fell into deep thought...

"Does this fruit need to be peeled... No, can strengthening the joints improve explosive power?"

Liu Mang now feels that he has certain limitations. Except when there is space to trigger the "strongest first step" at the basket, he plays with dexterity at other times, and sometimes there are certain restrictions.

Of course, it's just Liu Mang who feels that he is not enough. He wants to be the strongest in all aspects of himself. Even if others think that he is too strong, he still feels that he is not enough. He wants to be the best in every aspect. Good comparison.

Just like the Chinese like to compare their national strength with the United States, their romance with the French, their rigor with the Germans... and so on, Liu Mang also likes to compare his weakest aspects with the strongest players in this area.

This is the basis for his dedicated training attitude. After winning so many MVPs and championships, he still wants to become stronger and trains so hard. This is the motivation he relies on.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after eating. If it doesn't work this year, there will be next year. I will only be 26 next month. There is still plenty of time..."

After Liu Mang finished talking, he went to block the door with a chair. Since only Liu Mang's family lived in this shabby courtyard, except for the door, all the rooms inside were equipped with door bolts...

After returning to bed, Liu Mang swallowed the dragon fruit with the "shell" in it and quickly stuffed his mouth with a towel. Sure enough, the joints in various parts of his body began to hurt...

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The pain caused him to fall asleep. When Liu Mang woke up the next morning, he saw a layer of sweat stains on the sheets...

Liu Mang sighed to himself. Fortunately, he was tired from training last night and stayed in a room by himself, with his mouth gagged.

This time, Liu Mang felt the most pain when using the advanced attribute fruit!

Liu Mang stood up and moved his body, but he really couldn't feel any changes.

The strength evaluation is still 90, which seems to have really reached its peak. I can only find ways to improve it in terms of explosive power, bullet speed, etc.

But Liu Mang is used to it. It's like this every time. He can't feel any changes, but his physical fitness has improved year after year. Now Liu Mang compares himself with when he first entered the NBA and knows the improvement of his physical fitness. How big it is, just this little bit of improvement!

Fortunately, although door bolts are still used, the rooms have been renovated a long time ago. The 9 rooms have been changed into 7. Each bedroom has a separate bathroom. Liu Mang tidied the bed after taking a shower. After that, I heard my mother’s shout, a guest was coming.

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Liu Mang changed his clothes and came to the living room. He saw Coach Kruger and Jimmy Butler chatting with his father, and said hello: "Coach, little Jimmy, you are here so early!"

Hearing Liu Mang's way of greeting, Coach Kruger and Little Jimmy felt strange.

It had been about ten days since he returned to China, and Liu Mang quickly switched back to the Chinese way of chatting. Although he greeted the two of them in English, the way he spoke seemed strange to Americans.

"I'm an assistant coach for the national team." Coach Kruger responded.

"Uh..." Liu Mang really forgot about this. Popovich, his own head coach, former Suns head coach Mike D'Antoni, and Knicks head coach Mike Woodson have become A core member of Coach K's coaching staff.

Think about the coaching staff of the US team...Liu Mang feels that everything related to the US men's basketball team is exaggerated!

"Aren't you busy with the US team? Coach, do you still have time to play with little Jimmy?" Liu Mang asked.

"We have already discussed the tactics. I don't need to train. Mike is responsible for this." Coach Kruger still spoke so little.

Mike... Liu Mang didn't even know which Mike Coach Kruger was talking about, but all the Mikes on the US team's coaching staff were very good.

However, Liu Mang felt that Coach Kruger seemed to have something on his mind today and felt strange when he spoke.

"Coach, you definitely didn't come to my dad for tea today. Do you need my help with anything?" Liu Mang asked proactively.

Coach Kruger was very satisfied with Liu Mang's approach and told him something that had caused him a lot of headaches recently: "It's about little Jimmy..."

After Liu Mang listened to Coach Kruger's brief explanation, he knew that it was little Jimmy who was going to college!

Liu Mang felt that time passed too fast. Little Jimmy will turn 19 in two months!

Since little Jimmy did not have the means to study when he was a child, although he went straight to eighth grade from junior high school, he also attended a cram school for a year before entering high school after graduating from junior high school, so he was older.

In the just past 2007-08 season, Jimmy Jr. led Southern California High School to win the California High School League Championship. He was ranked sixth in the United States and became the target of many universities.

Adopted earlier and given a better growing environment, little Jimmy showed greater potential than in his original time and space.

Georgia Tech came to find Coach Kruger, an old friend, and wanted to recruit little Jimmy. Originally, Coach Kruger planned to let Jimmy Butler go to Georgetown University, where his old friends would take care of little Jimmy, but the former veteran The club was recruiting, and Coach Kruger thought it would be a good idea to send little Jimmy to Georgia Tech, as he happened to have someone to take care of him in Atlanta.

And...if little Jimmy goes to college in Atlanta and helps the Georgia Tech Jackets do well...

When Coach Kruger chose to keep one of Wade and McGrady, he kept a shooting guard. This has something to do with the talent shown by little Jimmy.

The reality is very cruel, but that is the reality.

But there are also disadvantages. If Little Jimmy goes to college in Atlanta, Little Jimmy will become more famous after college. He will inevitably be compared with Liu Mang. One is Coach Kruger’s adopted son, and the other is Coach Kruger’s biological father. The strongest disciple who is like a son, the pressure of being compared with the best players...

Understanding Coach Kruger's hesitation, Liu Mang thought of Little Jimmy's strong character and personal qualities, and answered decisively: "Let Xiaomi study in our school. Coach, you have to have confidence in Little Jimmy, he won't He will definitely make you proud of him if he embarrasses you!”