"David, come here." Liu Mang called David Lee to the side of the stool to make it.

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

"It's okay, David, I just wanted to interview you." Liu Mang reassured, and he wondered, how scary did he look?

"Interview?" David Lee saw Liu Mang put the tripod on the set up and the camera on, which seemed to be the team's cameraman.

"Hmm." 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 do I have to interview?" David Lee didn't get it!

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

Yesterday played the Heat, today came to Memphis, this time the four consecutive visitors are the Heat-Grizzlies-Magic-Wizards, overall not far apart, after playing the Heat, then rest for two days, and then play the first back-to-back of the season, No. 11 and No. 12 back-to-back games against the Grizzlies and Magic.

On the afternoon of the 9th, I arrived in Memphis, and in the evening the Hawks players invited Pau Gasol, Mike Miller, and Caron Butler, who were also going to rest for two days, to have dinner together.

Gasol and Liu Mang have a good relationship, Mike Miller is Maddy's iron buddy, Caron Butler and Kobe Bryant are brothers, so the relationship with Maddy is good, and the three strongest players of the Grizzlies are invited to come together.

After eating and drinking, everyone began to gamble, David Li was just about to join, but he was pulled aside by Liu Mang, and he thought he was going to encounter a situation where he was bullied by a rookie, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to interview him!

"I heard that you are reluctant to take over your father's chain restaurant brand and chose to pursue your dream of entering the NBA, which is so moving, come, tell me about your mental journey, my son needs a role model when he grows up." Liu Mang said enthusiastically.

It turned out to be this! David Lee was shocked, his body is strong, although he is a rookie, he is actually about to be 22 years old, and all aspects of his skills have been polished and matured in college, so unlike Josh Smith and Vallejo, whose rookie seasons can only start from garbage time, he can appear early in regular time.

The proudest thing about David Lee is that he has turned his hobby into a profession and has become one of the 500 best players in the world.

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

"Uh...... Tell me how miserable you are now helping Rashid carry bags every day and how much you regret not taking over your father's business...... Eh, David, don't go, I've borrowed all the cameras......"

David Lee stepped aside in shame and ignored Liu Mang, co-authoring him to be a negative teaching material?

"Haha, David, don't be angry with Ace, he's doing you a favor, lest you gamble with that group of superstar players and lose all your pocket money." Rasheed Wallace, the team's most caring veteran for David Lee, went up to hook David Lee's neck, burped as he spoke, and let out a breath of wine.

David Lee feels so strange about this team!

Liu Mang is rumored to be very brutal and ruthless, but he has nothing to do to spoof his teammates, and he is not the kind that makes people really angry, but Liu Mang's delicate appearance is too deceptive compared to Americans, and it will only make people feel depressed.

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

Hearing Rashid Wallace say this, David Lee saw that those star players bet 100 US dollars on the ante and often gambled for thousands of US dollars, and thought about his wallet, and he was really a little scared.

David Lee has not gambled like this, he has played a bigger gamble before, he is 15 years old to donate all the 50 million US dollars to his grandfather to give him the second generation of rich people and the third generation of rich people, his father is the big boss of a chain restaurant brand, his grandfather is an industrialist, but his grandfather donated most of his assets for charity, but he is definitely not short of money.

It's just that after he announced his participation in the NBA draft after his junior year, his father stopped giving him money and wanted to force him to go back.

Just after dinner, when Jason Terry invited his teammates to gamble for money, David Lee immediately responded in order to get close to the big guys, completely forgetting that he is now only a rookie with the 30th pick in the NBA, and he has just received the first two weeks' salary to repay the money he borrowed from Rasheed Wallace.

It is not a good thing to owe money, the more you borrow, the more you owe favors, 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......

Now that I think about it, David Lee found that he almost owed money again, and looking at that group of "gamblers", it is definitely not a good stubble.

But...... When David Lee saw Liu Mang, what did he think about it, and how did he think that this boss definitely didn't just want to help him? And there is a feeling of simply wanting to use him as a turning textbook!

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Flying around every day, staying in different cities every day, needing to adapt to the living habits of various cities, especially in a culturally mixed country like the United States, where NBA teams are in big cities, and you can find people from almost 90% of the world's countries in big cities in the big cities, sometimes very Marfa.

However, now the Eagles players like to play away.

For NBA players, playing at home has a better chance of winning, but playing away from home is happier!

The Eagles are probably one of the most restrictive teams in the league, and they can't go to nightclubs or take people back to hotels for the night before games on the road.

But it is possible to win, everything is not a problem.

In fact, if you are more and more familiar with your teammates, for example, if you have been playing for several years and have a good relationship, slowly, playing consecutive away games will make a team's teammates more cohesive.

Home games, it's over when it's over, it's over when you win a game, you celebrate in the locker room, you get depressed when you lose, you discuss what didn't play well, and then you go home.

But after playing an away game, even if you can't go to a nightclub to play together, you can play together when you go back to the hotel, and you can stay together for more time.

At this time, there are two situations, if the relationship within the team is not good, then the more you play the away relationship, the worse the relationship.

But a team like the Eagles, which has a harmonious atmosphere in the team, has been away from home in a row, even if you can't go to a nightclub, it's a carnival day for everyone.

You can't go to a nightclub to drink, but if it's not a game the next day, the coaching staff doesn't 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 to, even if they are a marginal player.

Liu Mang saw David Li who ran away when he met him, and felt really sorry, and went to play video games with Maddie, who lost two thousand US dollars, and the new expansion pack for Command and Conquer 3 just came out on November 1st, and Liu Mang is now playing this game with little Lori.

To play away, of course, you have to bring a game console! Anyway, Iguodala takes the luggage.

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Gasol is a little depressed this season and can't win!

The team has no defense, no outside offensive starting point, Mike Miller and Butler are not ball-handling players, and the best point of possession is Damon Stoudemire......

Damon Stoudemire played relative to his age, averaging 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game in the first seven games, at the age of 32, and is still less than 1.8 meters tall, worthy of his salary of more than 3 million US dollars.

But that's not enough for the Grizzlies at all!

With 2 wins and 5 losses in the opening game, the Grizzlies are third from the bottom in the West, and the Grizzlies are in a posture of rushing to sign for the top pick.

Without an offensive system, without a defensive system, the Grizzlies are just running and shooting, ranking seventh in the league with an average of 103 points per game and conceding 109 points per game...... Now the Grizzlies are purely betting on whether the outside shot can score or not, and if they shoot accurately, they will have a chance to win, and no matter how much they lead when they play loosely at the beginning, when they need to play positional battles at critical moments, they will be overtaken by the opponent in a wave, and it will be difficult to score in the final quarter.

The Grizzlies averaged 82 points per game in the first three quarters of their first seven games, second in the league behind the Hawks, but averaged just 21 points per game in the fourth quarter, 19th in the league and first from the bottom in points conceded...... Especially when they conceded more than 30 points per game in the final quarter, it didn't look like they were going to win.

No one thought that just the loss of Sean Battier and Stromeyer Swift, two defensive players inside and outside, the Grizzlies could collapse to this extent, especially without understanding the loss of Jason Williams, the Grizzlies were completely disorganized on the offensive end.

Jason Williams' stats on the Grizzlies are similar to Damon Stoudemire this year, but Jason Williams is really going to play!

After the Hawks arrived in Memphis for two nights of rest and played the first game of a back-to-back with the Grizzlies, Liu Mang began to play health ball again.

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

But when the opponent was not so strong, Liu Mang started paddling again, making his teammates happy.

Playing the Grizzlies, Liu Mang scored 10 points in the first quarter, 7 points in the second quarter, 13 points in the third quarter, 30 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the third quarter, and easily clocked out of work.

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

He comes when he needs to organize the attack, when Maddie wants to break through, he goes to the running position to catch the ball and shoot, and when Iguodala and Josh Smith are there, he breaks through to attract the pinch, handles the ball to the two, and exercises the ability of the two to handle the ball.

A talented player is good, and soon the two got used to such a role, but they passed back a lot of balls to Liu Mang.

With 11 of 18 shots in the third quarter, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws, Liu Mang easily scored 30 points in the third quarter, and he occupied very little of the ball!

With such a style of play, Liu Mang's hit rate is quite high! For the first time in his career, he broke a 50% shooting rate, and now Liu Mang has averaged 4.3 three-pointers per game, and after six games, he has made 26 three-pointers! So far this season, he has shot 53 percent from the field and 44 percent from three-point range, both setting career highs!

At the end of the third quarter, the Hawks scored 80 points again, scoring 86 points in the third quarter.

On the Grizzlies' side, they shot a lot, very much, when the Grizzlies played with some teams with relatively average defense, if the opponent's defense was not tight at the beginning, the Grizzlies would shoot more than 80 points in the third quarter, but the Hawks just defended normally, and the Grizzlies scored very hard, the Hawks' fast-rotating defense was too difficult for the Grizzlies, they only scored 61 points in the third quarter, and Liu Mang scored 13 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, easily stretching the difference to 25 points.

From the second half of the third quarter, the game became garbage time, with Calderón going up to handle the ball and taking the benches with him.

In the end, the Hawks easily defeated the Grizzlies 112-90 and won six in a row.

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The Pistons, for their part, also lost, and the league didn't lose a single game, leaving only the Hawks.

Before the start of the season, there was a lot of talk circulating around the league.

For example, the Eagles have won two consecutive championships, and they may be slacking off, but they don't.

For example, Rashid Wallace is another year older and has not lost his offensive ability, and the Hawks will become very weak inside.

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

Due to the lot of garbage time in the first four games, David Lee has the opportunity to come out and play a dozen, and now he is averaging 7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.

The progress of Josh Smith and the emergence of David Lee, with Kwame Brown's strong performance of 15+12 per game, closed the hole of Rashid Wallace's declining stats and Muhammad's departure.

Now people find that the strongest seems to be the Eagles!

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

The Heat's outburst was reversed by the Hawks, and fans felt sorry for the teams in the East with the Hawks.

But at this time, Liu Mang was quite depressed.

Seeing the comments on the Internet, I am not praising them for their good record and good play, but complaining about him!

"Paddling", "Health Ball", "Practicing Tai Chi on the Field", "Old Man's Three-point Playing Style"......

is mainly domestic fans, who have made a lot of "exclusive terms" for Liu Mang!