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

After eating, Yao Ming saw that Liu Mang and Levia did not have the consciousness of being hosts, and sighed sadly in his heart, but fortunately, Richard Jefferson took the initiative to pay.

After Richard Jefferson arrived with the Rockets, he became familiar with Yao Ming.

The reason is simple, he has never been so noticed!

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, but only Kidd was on fire in the Nets, this team was not hot, and the Nets were even less popular except for Kidd, and there was no shortage of reasons for Kenyon Martin to leave Kidd, only Carter could have a higher level of attention than Kidd.

When Richard Jefferson was traded to the Rockets in the summer, he was not happy, and the Rockets were in the West, and it was too difficult for the Nets to reach the division finals like the Nets, so that Richard Jefferson, who still had a rookie contract, was a lot less income.

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

There are not many reporters with Carter and Kidd next to Yao Ming, not only reporters from China and Asia, but also many reporters in the United States who interviewed Yao Ming after he returned to Houston, Richard Jefferson, as the most important reinforcement of the Rockets in the summer, naturally became the second most concerned star of the Rockets after Yao Ming.

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

This kind of attention is easy to fascinate people, and he quickly decides that he wants to become good brothers with Yao Ming, and he will go wherever Yao Ming goes every day.

Although the purpose was strong at the beginning, the two fell in love, and soon the two really became good friends.

Richard Jefferson is the kind of player with a talent for leadership, and James, who has already made a name for himself in the future, has strongly invited him to be the leader of the Cavaliers, and he scored 8 points on 4-of-6 shooting in Game 5 when he was down 3-1 in the Finals, helping the Cavaliers turn around.

I didn't show leadership skills in the Nets before, all because with Kidd, Carter couldn't be a leader, let alone Richard Jefferson.

But now, when it comes to the Rockets, Yao Ming's leadership ability is not strong, and Richard Jefferson's leadership talent is on display.

The main thing is that Richard Jefferson has improved too much!

In the last year of his rookie contract, Richard Jefferson averaged 23.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, and he practiced the offense with the ball.

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

Yao Ming can play such a good performance in the Rockets, Liu Mang is also happy for Yao Ming, 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 point is that the Rockets are reluctant to pay, after the Mavericks gave up Nash, in the same Texas, Houston drove to Dallas in less than four hours, the Rockets are now two core rookie contracts, adding up to less than 8 million US dollars, after sending away Francis and Mobley, although they ate Juwan Howard, the free salary space is still very huge, but they did not send Nash tens of millions of contracts at the first time, missing Nash.

How will Nash fight Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson? It was also a very interesting situation for Liu Mang, but unfortunately it didn't appear.

Yao Ming, who has an ability evaluation of 90, is only 24 years old and has a promising future, and Richard Jefferson, who is also 24 years old and three months older than Yao Ming, has an 88 ability evaluation, both of whom have not yet reached the peak of theory, but unfortunately the point guard next to him is actually Bob Sula, a point guard who averages 10 points and 5 assists per game......

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

Liu Mang is deeply sympathetic to Yao Ming's situation, what he can say has already been said, whether Yao Ming can come to his senses and find Dawson or Alexander for a showdown to ask for a point guard who can pass the ball to him without him scoring single-handedly, it depends on Yao Ming himself.

Although Liu Mang has a good relationship with Yao Ming, he can't order others not to.

However, Team Rocket is not so strong now, so it can be used as a target to try out new plays!

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 Maddie......

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"Ace, you said we're going to fight?" Maddie asked in confusion, feeling that this attention was too, too unreliable, anything would work, this would not work.

"No, no, no, it's a ball, not a run!" Liu Mang emphasized, after talking for a long time, why can't this guy understand?

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

However, it's not that Maddie can't understand, it's just that he can't accept it: "Ace, I understand what you said, use high-speed rotation defense to press the opponent's mistakes and counterattack, but O'Neal, Yao, Garnett, Duncan, J-O'Neal These players, we use a small lineup to press the defense is useless!" ”

Unexpectedly, Maddie was worried about this, Liu Mang replied: "Then you don't need a small lineup to play them, and our lineup is not small, Kwame and Rashid are both fast big men, and they have the same interior height." ”

"......" Maddie found that no matter what she said to Liu Mang, Liu Mang always had crooked reasons!

"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 assist title? You've already won the scoring title, it's not interesting, right? I'll take it in the future, you think about it, you are the starting point of the attack, so that the teammates can score when they have the opportunity, we bring up the defensive pressure and play a beautiful offensive and defensive transition......" Liu Mang began to flicker...... No, it was to convince Maddie that the Führer's power was turned on.

Maddie still misses the assist king! Playing with Liu Mang, don't think about the scoring king, although Maddie is not too obsessed with the data king, but who doesn't want to take it?

It's just that Maddie is still a little resistant, which is too out of line: "But I won't run away!" The coach won't allow us to run and bang! He's not the kind of coach who can run and shoot. ”

The coach would, he should be...... In Liu Mang's view, Coach Kruger is a super awesome college coach who throws any tactics to him, and he can think of a way to integrate tactics into the team, but he is inexplicably only in his early 40s, his forehead area is getting wider and wider, and his hair is becoming more and more thin.

Forcibly believing that Coach Kruger will run and bomb, if you want to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself, Liu Mang's speech mode is becoming more and more stylish, and he said to Maddie very firmly: "Tracy, what tactics does the coach can't have?" Triangle offense, Princeton, pick-and-roll tactics, he'll do it all! And we're not running and bombing, it's a small-ball tactic! We are another giant leading the development of basketball! We succeeded this time, and we will go down in history! ”

Maddie saw that Liu Mang was full of momentum, and asked weakly, "What about failure?" ”

"No failures! We will definitely succeed! Liu Mang continued to say very firmly.

"But I don't play like that......" Maddie still struggled, feeling like he was about to be convinced, which was a bit weird.

"It's okay, tomorrow I will play the rocket, and I will teach you to win the championship......"

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

Liu Mang hurriedly 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 "teacher".

"Of course I know about you, Levia, but Ace seems to be with one of my schoolgirls...... Wow, Ace, have your ......" Santa teased Liu Mang, but he didn't care, he also had a good impression of Levia, generous, polite, and polite, not the kind of person who wants to get involved with Liu Mang and cheat money, it's enough.

Santa knows Alexia very well, she used to be her student, she didn't know much about Levia, but now that she met for the first time, she didn't think too much about it when she saw that Levia felt good.

The big stars of the four major leagues in the United States, whose private life is so simple.

Hearing the ridicule of the teacher, Liu Mang actually felt shy, but felt sorry for Coach Kruger and his wife, such a good couple, especially the Santa people are so friendly, actually lost the opportunity to have children.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Mang and Levia came to Coach Kruger's residence, which is a suite-style apartment next to Georgia Tech, where many Georgia Tech professors have properties.

Coach Kruger used to be the head coach of the Georgia Tech jacket team, and the salary was also a professor, and he had a lot of bonuses, which was quite rich, and Santa Kruger was also a lecturer at Georgia Tech.

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

After Santa had an accidental miscarriage more than ten years ago, she lost the opportunity to have children, and except for little Jimmy, she did not adopt other children, which is a very common situation in European and American countries.

Santa rarely appears in the public eye, except for the occasional meeting of Liu Mang at Georgia Tech when he was in college, and he seems to have not seen him once in the more than three years since he entered the NBA.

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

"Black tea, my less sugar and less milk, what about you, Levia?" Liu Mang asked.

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

"Levia, you're going to do me a favor? That's great, I haven't made tea for Ace yet, I don't know what flavor he likes, it's best to have your help, by the way, Levia, how did you and Ace meet......"

Listening to the whispering gossip, Liu Mang felt extremely painful, this master is good at everything, but it is too gossip, exactly the same as in memory, women's gossip is really regardless of age and borders!

After a while, Coach Kruger came out, and it seemed that he had combed his hair on purpose, oiled it, and changed his shirt.

For Coach Kruger always maintaining his demeanor in front of the players, Liu Mang not only felt that there was anything wrong, but also envied Coach Kruger, a young man who always maintained his demeanor.

If he was in his forties and had the motivation of Coach Kruger to be strict with himself, Liu Mang felt that it would be very difficult!

"Ace, it's rare, you actually came to my house, is there anything wrong?" Coach Krueger said with great majesty.

This kind of majesty is very effective in the Eagles, but this majesty already has super immunity for Liu Mang.

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

Seeing Liu Mang's smile and this familiar behavior, Coach Kruger's heart suddenly felt a sense of foreboding......

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A few minutes later, before the tea could be drunk, Liu Mang and Levia were kicked out.

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

"It's okay, the coach is like this, just get used to it, it's all full of love!" Liu Mang is happy now.

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

Seeing Liu Mang's fascination, Levia didn't know what to say, it was best if she was fine, Levia decided to visit Coach Kruger alone one day and give some gifts or something, and now she could only pull Liu Mang into the car: "Okay, let's pick up Dinah from school......"

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

"Lang, how did you get Ace away?" Santa grumbled.

"I'm busy now, I get angry when I see that kid, and I increase my workload, and I don't say this kind of thing earlier, and I'm only getting trouble now." Coach Krueger explained.

"What's Ace's idea?"

"That bastard boy said he was going to play small ball! Okay, I'm going to get busy, help me call Mike......"