Chapter 816 815. I Will Teach You How to Win the Championship

Liu Mang and Levia went to a restaurant outside with Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson to have a meal.

After the meal, Yao Ming saw that Liu Mang and Levia were not aware of being the host, and he sighed inwardly. Fortunately, Richard Jefferson took the initiative to pay the bill.

After Richard Jefferson came to the Rockets, he got along very well with Yao Ming.

The reason is simple, he has never received so much attention!

In the previous three seasons, the Nets were very popular, reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for three consecutive years and the Finals for two consecutive years. However, the only popular thing about the Nets was Kidd. The team was not popular, and the other players of the Nets were even less popular except Kidd. Kenyon Martin left Kidd for this reason. Only Carter could get more attention than Kidd.

Richard Jefferson was not happy when he was traded to the Rockets in the summer. The Rockets were in the West, and it was too difficult for them to reach the Division Finals like the Nets. As a result, Richard Jefferson, who still had a rookie contract, lost a lot of income.

However, when Yao Ming returned to Houston after the Olympics to prepare for the new season, Richard Jefferson felt like he was living in a dream when he met Yao Ming as a teammate for the first time at the Toyota Center!

Carter and Kidd, there were not as many reporters following Yao Ming, not only reporters from China and Asia, but also many reporters from the United States who interviewed Yao Ming after he returned to Houston. Richard Jefferson, as the Rockets' most important signing in the summer, naturally became the second most watched star of the Rockets after Yao Ming.

From a small supporting role next to Kidd and Carter to the second male lead, Richard Jefferson felt unprecedented attention.

This kind of attention is easy to fascinate people. He soon decided to become a good brother with Yao Ming, and he would go wherever Yao Ming went every day.

Although they were very purposeful at the beginning, the two of them got along well, and soon they really became good friends.

Richard Jefferson is a player with leadership talent. James, who will be successful in the future, has tried his best to invite him to the Cavaliers to be a leader. When he was trailing 1-3 in the finals, he scored 8 points with 4 of 6 shots in the fifth game, which played a big role in helping the Cavaliers to reverse the situation.

He did not show his leadership skills in the Nets before, because Kidd was there. Carter could not be a leader, let alone Richard Jefferson.

But now, in the Rockets, Yao Ming's leadership ability is not strong, and Richard Jefferson's leadership skills are revealed.

The most important thing is that Richard Jefferson has made great progress!

In the last year of his rookie contract, Richard Jefferson averaged 23.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. He has practiced the ball-handling attack. Although he is not the best, his breakthrough pass and open three-pointers after receiving Yao Ming's pass are very accurate. He can play with the ball and without the ball, and cooperates well with Yao Ming.

Yao Ming has also made great progress, averaging 22 points, 10.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.9 blocks per game. The only two centers in the league who average 20+ points per game are O'Neal and Yao Ming.

Liu Mang is also happy for Yao Ming that Yao Ming can play so well in the Rockets. Anyway, the Rockets can't play in the West. Since they can't play in the West, Liu Mang hopes that the Rockets will be as strong as possible and create more trouble for those strong teams in the West in the playoffs.

The most regrettable thing is that the Rockets are reluctant to spend money. After the Mavericks gave up Nash, it only takes less than four hours to drive from Houston to Dallas in Texas. The Rockets now have two core players on rookie contracts, which add up to less than 8 million US dollars. After sending away Francis and Mobley, although Juwan Howard was taken over, the idle salary space is still very huge, but Nash was not given a contract worth tens of millions of dollars in the first place, and Nash was missed.

How would Nash play against Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson? It is also a very interesting situation for Liu Mang, but it did not happen.

Yao Ming, who is rated 90, is only 24 years old and has a promising future. There is also Richard Jefferson, who is also 24 years old and three months older than Yao Ming, with an ability rating of 88. Both of them have not yet reached their theoretical peak. Unfortunately, the point guard next to them is Bob Sura, a point guard who averages 10 points and 5 assists per game...

The Rockets have two very strong points, one of which is even the strongest in the West, but they can only be in the second half of the Western Conference playoffs...

Liu Mang deeply sympathizes with Yao Ming's situation. He has said what he can say. Whether Yao Ming can realize it himself and confront Dawson or Alexander to ask for a point guard who can pass the ball to him instead of him scoring alone all the time depends on Yao Ming himself.

Although Liu Mang has a good relationship with Yao Ming, he cannot order him around.

However, the Rockets are not that strong now, so they can be used as a target to try out new playing styles!

After having lunch with Yao Ming, Liu Mang and Levia sent Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson back to the hotel, and then took Levia to visit McGrady...

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"Ace, you said we should play run-and-gun?" McGrady asked in confusion, thinking that this idea was too ridiculous and unreliable. Everything was fine, but this was not.

"No, no, no, it's small ball, not run-and-gun!" Liu Mang emphasized. After talking for a long time, why couldn't this guy understand?

Liu Mang just told McGrady about the small ball tactics that he had discussed with Mike Woodson many times, but Liu Mang saw that McGrady seemed to regard this as run-and-gun.

However, it's not that McGrady can't understand, it's just that he can't accept it: "Ace, I understand what you are saying. Use high-speed rotation defense to force the opponent's mistakes and counterattack, but O'Neal, Yao, Garnett, Duncan, J-O'Neal and others Players, it’s useless for us to use a small lineup to press the defense!”

Unexpectedly, McGrady was worried about this. Liu Mang replied: "Then we don't need a small lineup to beat them, and our lineup is not small. Kwame and Rasheed are both fast big men who also have inside height." "

"..." McGrady discovered that no matter what he said to Liu Mang, Liu Mang always had something wrong!

"Tracy, think about it, it's because of you that we have the opportunity to play this style of play! Don't you want to win the assists title? You've already won the scoring title. It's boring, right? ? Let me take it from now on. Think about it, you serve as the starting point of the offense, allowing your teammates to score when they have the opportunity. We bring up the defensive pressure and create a beautiful transition between offense and defense..." Liu Mang started to fool... No, After convincing McGrady, the power of the Head of State was activated.

McGrady still misses the assist king very much! Playing with Liu Mang, don't even think about scoring the title. Although Tracy McGrady is not too obsessed with the data title, who can win it and doesn't want to win it?

However, McGrady was still a little resistant. This was too outrageous: "But I can't run and gun! The coach won't allow us to play run and gun! He shouldn't be the kind of coach who can play run and gun."

The coach knows it, he should know it... From Liu Mang's point of view, Coach Kruger is a super awesome college coach who can figure out a way to integrate the tactics into the team no matter what tactics are thrown at him, but he is only 40 years old inexplicably. In my early teens, my forehead area became wider and wider, and my hair became thinner and thinner.

Forcibly believing that Coach Kruger can run and gun, if you want to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself. Liu Mang's speech mode became more and more sophisticated, and he said to McGrady very confidently: "Tracy, what tactics does Coach not know?" ? Triangle offense, Princeton, pick-and-roll tactics, he knows it! And we are not running and gunning, it is small ball tactics! We are another giant who leads the development of basketball! We will be recorded in history!"

McGrady saw Liu Mang's full momentum and asked weakly: "Did you fail?"

"There is no failure! We will definitely succeed!" Liu Mang continued to say with certainty.

"But I don't know how to play this way..." McGrady still wanted to struggle. He felt that he was about to be convinced. This feeling was a bit strange.

"It's okay. I'll play against the Rockets tomorrow and I'll teach you how to win..."

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Liu Mang rang the doorbell, and a middle-aged white woman opened the door. When she saw Liu Mang, she greeted her warmly: "Ace, why are you here? I'm so happy. After little Jimmy left, our house was too deserted. Yes, this is..."

Liu Mang quickly introduced: "Santa, this is my girlfriend Levia, Levia, this is the coach's wife, Santa."

"Hello, I'm Levia." Levia naturally stepped forward and hugged Liu Mang's "wife".

"Of course I know you, Levia, but Ace seems to be with one of my female students... Wow, Ace, I have you..." Shanta teased Liu Mang, but didn't care, and said to Levi Ya's impression is also very good. She is generous, polite, and polite. She is not the kind of person who wants to get involved with Liu Mang to cheat money. That's enough.

Shanta knew Alexia very well. She used to be her student, but she didn't know much about Levia. Now that they were meeting for the first time, she felt that Levia was a nice person, so she didn't think too much about it.

Among the big stars of the four major leagues in the United States, who has a simple private life?

Liu Mang actually felt shy when he heard his wife's teasing. He just felt sorry for Coach Kruger and his wife. Such a good couple, especially the friendly Santa people, actually lost the chance to have children.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Mang and Levia came to Coach Kruger's residence, which is a suite-style apartment next to the Georgia Institute of Technology. Many professors from the Georgia Institute of Technology own real estate here.

Coach Kruger used to be the head coach of the Georgia Institute of Technology Jackets, and his salary was at the level of a professor. He also had a lot of bonuses and was quite rich. Santa Kruger was also a lecturer at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Since little Jimmy left for high school in Southern California, Coach Kruger and his wife, Santa Kruger, have become "empty nesters" at home.

After Shanta had an unexpected miscarriage more than ten years ago, she lost the chance to have children. Except for little Jimmy, she did not adopt any other children. This is a common situation in European and American countries.

Shanta rarely appears in the public eye. Except for Liu Mang's memory of occasionally seeing this teacher's wife at Georgia Tech during his college days, it seems that he has never seen her once in the more than three years since entering the NBA.

"Ace, Levia, come in quickly..." Shanta greeted the two of them in enthusiastically: "Lang, Ace and Levia are here, come out quickly, I'll make tea, do you want black tea or coffee?"

"Let's have some black tea, less sugar and less milk for mine, what about you, Levia?" Liu Mang asked.

"I'll go help Santa. Ace, you talk to the coach." Levia said and walked to the kitchen with Santa.

"Levia, you want to help me? That's great. I haven't made tea for Ace yet. I don't know what flavor he likes. It would be best to have your help. By the way, Levia, you and Ace How did we meet Si..."

Listening to the whispers of gossip getting quieter and quieter, Liu Mang felt extremely painful in his balls. This lady was good at everything, but she was too gossipy. It was exactly the same as in his memory. Women gossiped regardless of age or nationality!

After a while, Coach Kruger came out. He seemed to have combed his hair, oiled it, and changed his shirt.

Liu Mang didn't think there was anything wrong with Coach Kruger always maintaining his manners in front of the players. He envied Coach Kruger's youthful attitude.

If he was in his forties and still had Coach Kruger's motivation to be strict with him, Liu Mang felt it would be difficult!

"Ace, it's rare that you came to my house. What's the matter?" Coach Kruger said majestically.

This kind of majesty is very effective in the Eagles team, but Liu Mang has already developed a strong immunity to this kind of majesty.

Liu Mang stood up and sat next to Coach Kruger across the coffee table, smiling non-stop.

Seeing Liu Mang's smile and familiar behavior, Coach Kruger's heart was beating, and an ominous premonition was shrouded in him...

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A few minutes later, before they had time to drink their tea, Liu Mang and Levia were driven out.

"Ace, what did you say to the coach? Why is he suddenly angry?" Levia said worriedly. Being driven away is nothing, the key is whether this will affect Liu Mang's future?

"It doesn't matter, the coach is like this, just get used to it, this is full of love!" Liu Mang is very happy now.

Coach Kruger just drove him away in anger, and didn't pull him to talk, which means that Coach Kruger has probably agreed!

Seeing Liu Mang's mysterious happiness, Levia didn't know what to say. It would be best if nothing happened. Levia decided to visit Coach Kruger alone one day when she was free and give him some gifts. Now she could only pull Liu Mang into the car: "Okay, let's go pick up Dina from school..."

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As Liu Mang expected, after Liu Mang left, Coach Kruger's anger turned into helplessness.

"Lang, why did you drive Ace away?" Santa complained.

"I have a lot to do now. I get angry when I see that kid. He adds to my workload. And this kind of thing didn't even tell me earlier, and now it's causing trouble for me." Coach Kruger explained.

"What new ideas does Ace have?"

"That bastard said he wanted to play small ball! Okay, I have to get busy. Please call Mike for me..."