Sometimes it's okay to lose a game, that's what Coach Kruger thinks.

After the loss to the Magic, he clearly saw that the players were more active in training, and the two-player and three-player off-ball blocking and pick-and-roll training became more serious.

If you can still maintain a high frequency and orderly blocking and dismantling when you are forced into a positional battle by the opponent, you will not be limited by the Magic team.

But it's because I'm not skilled enough, so I will be lost by the other party.

The most satisfying but worrying coach Kruger is Liu Mang, home games, mainly when he is at home in a row, Coach Kruger mostly comes to work at seven o'clock in the morning, Liu Mang has trained a lot, and these two days are even more excessive, yesterday is the second, when Coach Kruger arrived at the stadium at half past seven Liu Mang has already arrived at the stadium, and Coach Kruger has been working overtime lately late, leaving at eight or nine o'clock, which is a common situation for the head coaches of most teams in the NBA when the team has problems to study, and it is not necessarily a rest when going homeWhen the head coach is not on the sidelines for more than two hours, the training is over after a guide, otherwise how can there be so many head coaches in the Mediterranean, who are gray in their forties.

When Coach Kruger came this morning, Liu Mang had already arrived again, and in Coach Kruger's opinion, Liu Mang was stimulated by Rahim.

Seeing that Liu Mang is so keen on training, putting aside his worries, it really makes Coach Kruger happy, he has already won so many honors, big contracts and super endorsements, and he still hasn't slackened, but has become more and more serious in training, what a good disciple.

Seeing Liu Mang's training attitude, Coach Kruger felt that the best thing in his basketball career was to meet Liu Mang, a disciple.

The loss brought not only the efforts of the team's players, but also the public opinion, although it looked down on them a lot, but gave them a chance to breathe.

After the Suns defeated the Knicks on the night of December 1, their record improved to 15-3, surpassing the Hawks to rank first in the league.

The Pistons, on the other hand, lost the game at No. 2 and improved their record to 15-4, half a game behind the Suns.

While the Hawks are still the favorites to win the regular season, with the Suns and Pistons competing at the same time, the Hawks are not as hated as they were last season.

Coach Krueger felt that he could hone his tactics slowly and with peace of mind, and it was not too late to explode in one fell swoop after All-Star Weekend, so that the team's chemistry would become better and there would be a strategy to deal with various situations.

And the regular season championship has already been won twice, so it doesn't matter now, preparing for the playoffs is the most important thing.

There were only 14 games in December, with a lot of breaks in between, and just as the team had identified the problem, the coaching staff had time to work on what to do.

Losing to the Magic exposes some of the Hawks' problems to other teams, but there are some benefits that make other teams not feel that the Hawks are unbeatable.

No, during a few days of rest, the Eagles were questioned more and more, and Coach Kruger was satisfied with this, and the team could slowly develop obscenely.

Just when Coach Kruger was thinking about tactics with the mentality that he could develop lewdly, the door was pushed open by the team's vice president of logistics, Moron Wiley.

There was no knock on the door, and Moron Willy rushed in.

When Coach Kruger saw this familiar picture, his heart suddenly burst into his heart, and he quickly asked, "Moron, what's wrong?" ”

"Lang, no!"

Sure enough, Moron Willy said this sentence that was familiar to Coach Kruger and painful.

"Is it?" Coach Kruger asked, with a hint of luck.

"Yes, Ace recorded another TV show!"

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ESPN hacked Liu Mang, Liu Mang still has to cooperate with them, it's all business, they need to attract people's attention to increase ratings, Liu Mang needs exposure to increase commercial value, and everyone just takes what they need.

And Liu Mang's idea, since he is going to offend people, let's do something! Just increase the rogue value, before 2007, it is not easy to get together 100 million rogue value.

On the afternoon of December 3, 2004, ESPN Sports announced an impromptu additional interview with a mysterious football star at 8 p.m. using satellite communication technology.

Temporary additional interviews are rare in major TV stations in the United States, because temporary additional broadcasts mean that the publicity is not enough, and sports TV stations are even more so, and the interviews of players in the four major leagues in North America, especially the interviews with NBA players, will start to promote many days in advance, and they need to rely on this to increase ratings, and if the publicity is not enough, it will affect the number of viewers, which is a waste of resources for TV stations.

The four major leagues in North America, ice hockey, baseball, and rugby, all emphasize team-oriented, and they are all teams with more valuable and commercial value.

The NBA is different, the NBA emphasizes individual heroism, and the value of the team is driven by the star, Jordan is the greatest example, one person brought the NBA to the world, and the magic bird laid the foundation for Jordan to bring the NBA to the world.

Generally speaking, NBA players and TV stations want to see as many interviews as possible, some stars to promote their positive image, some to whitewash, and some to be on TV......

This kind of sudden thought is a play, and there is only one person who says that he wants to be interviewed and will be broadcast immediately.

Fans don't have to guess a lot to know that this is the long-awaited Ace Liu interview!

TV station + Liu Mang, there has never been a shortage of ratings!

Not only in the United States, but also in China and other countries, the excitement has risen, and the excitement of the first month of the season in November has been relatively dull since the start of December, and fans want to see something worth exciting.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, ESPN North America, ESPN Taiwan, ESPN Asia TV is also Japan, the ratings are not enough, the Japanese station and Taiwan station on the Asian side, early in the morning, millions of people turn on the TV on time to watch the program, the United States is prime time, tens of millions of people switch to ESPN sports.

As soon as it was eight o'clock, ESPN's additional interview program began, first with the ESPN Sports logo, and a photo of ESPN's current showrunner, Playboy Edrews, appearing first.

Then the screen switches to the live screen, and at a glance, you know that it should be a conference room of a rented hotel.

The focus is not on the background, the camera zooms in from afar, and Erin Andrews appears in the center of the TV frame.

Erin Andrews is the host of interview shows that are now involved in both the NFL and the NBA, and ESPN's ratings are guaranteed.

"Welcome to the ESPN special interview, I'm Erin, I received a boss saying to let me work overtime, wow, I was about to go on a date with Brad Pitt, I was asked to work overtime, I said I don't want to come, the boss asked me to submit a resignation report, Ace, how do you compensate me for my loss?" Erin Andrews came up with a long talk show.

Liu Mang didn't expect this woman to have been in the TV circle for more than a year, and her mouth had changed, Liu Mang made a stunned expression, ignored the matter of compensation, and asked, "Uh, Erin, does Brad Pitt know about dating you?" ”

"I don't need him to know."

"Crooked?"

"Do I have to get his permission to dream? God, I also dreamed that I was standing on the deck with Leonardo and blowing the wind! "Erin Andrews made a 'that's what I said' face.

"Hahaha...... You win. Liu Mang couldn't help laughing.

"OK, that's all for the opening remarks, we have limited time for the interview, Ace, can you inform us early next time, when I arrived in Atlanta, I didn't even bring pajamas." Erin Andrews spoke out on behalf of the crew sent by ESPN.

"Oh, Erin, trust me, I'll be sure to let you know next time." Liu Mang said very seriously.

"I won't believe a word of what you say......" Erin Andrews rolled her eyes, and the cameraman was very good at cutting to the close-up immediately, the first shot was professional, and the angle was so accurate.

"Okay, Ace, let's get down to business," Erin Andrews saw that the opening was almost exhausted, and asked: "This time last year, I remember when we first met, and I also did an interview for you, at that time you announced that you were going to win the scoring title, you had to get at least 68 wins, you have done all this, for this year's scoring champion, Ace, do you want to say anything this time?" ”

"Erin, who do you think will win the scoring title in the NBA this year?" Liu Mang asked rhetorically.

"Oh, Ace, are there any questions about that? You're the top scorer, you're like Michael Jordan, everyone else is a long way apart. Erin Andrews cooperated, and then asked in a sharp tone: "Ace, everyone said that you are brushing data and relying on the strength of your teammates to make yourself better, what do you have to say about this?" ”

“NONONONO…… Erin," Liu Mang waved his hand, "It's not that I want to win the scoring title, I don't want to win the scoring champion at all." ”

"Haha, Ace, are you kidding me?" Erin Andrews teased.

"No, Irene, I don't want to be the scoring champion this season, but I don't know how to be at the top of the scoring list, Irene, do you know what I mean?" Liu Mang said that, and his face was obviously full of pride.

"Oh? So Ace, what do you mean? Erin Andrews asked cooperatively.

"What I'm trying to say is, I don't really want to be the top scorer, it's just that there's no one to compete with me, you know?" Liu Mang said and took a deep breath: "It's not that I'm too good at scoring, I think my scoring ability is very average, it's just that the opponents are too rubbish, I'm not targeting anyone, but for all the players who don't average as much as me in terms of points per game......"

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The end of the five-minute live interview is already the maximum limit that ESPN can give, so they adjusted the program plan for the entire night, which is not a small project, in this place in the United States, if the laundry detergent does not say that it is forbidden to eat, it will be accused of hundreds of thousands of US dollars, and the TV program is adjusted for too long, and who may be sued.

After watching the whole interview, after seeing Liu Mang and Erin Andrews shaking hands, they switched to the TV screen of the commercial, and in the president's office in the Phillips Arena, the coaching staff and the boss were speechless, and they knew that they couldn't let this kid be idle.

Coach Kruger felt a trace of despair: This bastard boy, the biggest failure in my life, is to bring this kid into the basketball world!