There was no idle time to catch up with Yao Ming, the Eagles arrived at the hotel in Houston at three o'clock in the morning, and Liu Mang slept until noon and got up for lunch.

In the afternoon, the players continued to take a nap and went to the Toyota Center at 6 p.m. to start pre-game training with the Rockets for back-to-back games.

This game is the least important of the Hawks' Texas trifecta, and it is also the least important one for American fans, but in the eyes of domestic fans, this game is the much-anticipated Chinese derby!

At half past ten in the morning on December 10th, Beijing time, the long-awaited Chinese derby by domestic fans is about to start!

The court sports station has been promoting this game since last week, and this time the commentary lineup is still a double-draw combination that makes domestic fans can't help but press mute.

"Imperial Court TV, Imperial Court TV, hello everyone, welcome to the game between the Houston Rockets and the Atlanta Hawks brought to you by Imperial Court TV, I am the commentator Sun Zhengping, the commentator we invited today is still everyone's favorite Zhang Weiping Zhang Guide, the Rockets and the Eagles are our favorite teams, both teams are the top teams in the league, this game must be very exciting, Director Zhang, what do you think of this game?" Sun Zhengping continued his official opening.

Hearing Sun Zhengping's opening, Director Zhang was already very calm, this time it was not bad to say that it was the Atlanta Rockets, Director Zhang took over the conversation: "The performance of the Rockets and the Hawks this year is very gratifying, the Hawks are the first in the league, 16-4, the winning rate is as high as 80 percent, and there can be an 80 percent winning rate when playing 20 games, there have only been 99 times in NBA history, and among these nine times, there are eight times when the team finally finished the season, winning more than 65 games."

The Rockets have performed well this year, and they can compete with the Grizzlies and the Mavericks for the fifth place in the West, but the strength of the Hawks is still much stronger than that of the Rockets, but yesterday the Hawks just played back-to-back, and the Hawks' main lineup has been playing for a long time, and there may be people who take turns off, which is good news for the Rockets......

Coach Zhang still understands the ball.

Domestic fans and TV media are looking forward to this game being played excitingly, and the Imperial Court Sports Station broadcast the first of this big battle between Liu Mang and Yao Ming only twice a year without suspense.

Although the domestic propaganda is to promote that Liu Mang and Yao Ming's teams are going to compete for the championship, but the domestic media is not stupid, Liu Mang's side is definitely going to compete for the championship, but Yao Ming's side, the championship is also a slogan, the two teams have no possibility of playing each other in the playoffs, 0.1 percent, so it is advertised that the goal of the two teams is to compete for the championship, but the court sports station has promoted the two matches in the regular season as a bigger game than the finals.

Even if it was the Rockets that formed the Yao Mai combination in the original history, Maddie never thought that he could lead the team to win the championship, and the last time he played in the NBA was when he joined the Spurs in the playoffs in 2013, he made it very clear that he never felt that he had even a moment in his career to get close to the championship trophy, so even if he kept the water cooler, he wanted to try.

Maybe the domestic media is the group of people who carry out the "heart of the champion" to the end.

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At the scene of the game, the players of the two teams had already entered, Liu Mang and Yao Ming said hello, and then went to the domestic media on the sidelines to take a group photo.

This is the first time Liu Mang has met Yao Ming after four months since he met in Shanghai in the summer.

Grow stronger!

It was much earlier than Liu Mang's memory of Yao Ming's growth and strength, Yao Ming originally skyrocketed by ten kilograms in the summer of 05, and his weight soared to more than 140 kilograms.

Yao Ming's weight gain is not a problem, the problem is that the change is too sudden, the first three years are shooting thin bamboo poles, in the summer of 05, last season was still mainly shooting, the next season will be a low-post monster, there is no gradual adaptation process, not to mention, but also after gaining weight, the playing time has been increased, which is the key to Yao Ming's injury.

This time, after Yao Ming listened to Liu Mang's analysis, he was different from the Yao Ming who would have only listened to the advice of the unreliable Jeff Van Gundy, this time Yao Ming had his own ideas, under the guidance of the trainer, he slowly gained weight from the second grade and slowly adapted, and did not destroy his COO throw because of the sudden weight gain, nor did he choose to keep floating, but gradually increased a little weight every year to adapt to adaptation.

After learning this from Yao Ming, Liu Mang felt quite happy, although he didn't know how it would end, but it would be worse than the original career reimbursement before the age of 30?

At least Yao Ming has his own ideas, and it seems quite reliable

Liu Mang said hello to Yao Ming and came back to see Jason Terry spewing trash talk with Francis again, every time Jason Terry met Francis of the same class, he was so positive, Liu Mang saw that Jason Terry was so energetic, and it didn't seem to be too affected by yesterday's game, Liu Mang's heart was a little more settled.

Mainly, during the warm-up this afternoon, some of the main players of the Eagles were too weak!

Last night, three of the Hawks' top five starters played more than 40 minutes, namely Liu Mang, Raheem, and Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown and Jason Terry both played more than 30 minutes off the bench.

Although Ratliff only played for ten minutes, he was tossed enough by Nowitzki, and he definitely couldn't play today, Rashid Wallace was gone, he hadn't played much for too long, and for him he was still slowly grinding to play defense, shooting three-point shooting was a little easier, and in order to play the next game with the Spurs, and in order to avoid injury, Coach Kruger also took him on rotation.

Fortunately, Raheem is relatively less tired of playing fast break and defense after losing weight this year, and continues to play.

To say lucky, Stockton only played 7 minutes, got 3 points and 3 assists, Boozer because he didn't look able to keep up with the rhythm, it is estimated that he will be shot dead by Nowitzki or Jamison and not play, these two are in good spirits today and have not been affected by back-to-backs.

Now Liu Mang sees that Jason Terry is in good shape, and feels that this game is still very promising to win.

Liu Mang's side was hurting because he was about to play a new game less than 24 hours after the end of the previous game, and Yao Ming's side saw the hope of defeating Liu Mang!

Liu Mang is now the first person in domestic basketball, all of them play basketball, and they are all the top in China, although Yao Ming said that it doesn't matter who is the first person, everyone is a teammate of the national team, but in his heart, how could Yao Ming not care!

Although Yao Ming and Liu Mang have a good relationship, this does not mean that he will be happy to lose to Liu Mang all the time!

There was no chance before, Yao Ming played against the Hawks for the first time last season, and I thought that I might be able to win, at that time, the Hawks were almost the first in the East, but it was so good that the Hawks just recovered, and the Rockets were tyrannical, and at the same time, Yao Ming's weaknesses were revealed, so that Yao Ming once fell into the rookie wall, it is impossible for Yao Ming not to be depressed, today, Yao Ming saw that Ratliff and Rasheed Wallace on the Hawks' side were both wearing suits, plus the Hawks were still back-to-back, and the state must have declined, Yao Ming's tiger body was shocked: My old Yao's glorious moment is coming!

The goal, kill Liu Mang!

Liu Mang's side, when he took the ball and threw it, his hand trembled, and he threw a three-no-stick, and Coach Kruger, who saw it on the sidelines, frowned for a while, worried that Liu Mang also had physical problems today.

"Ding...... Avengers series of missions: Yao Ming's ambition. ”

Yao Ming's ambition: Yao Ming and the host are both one of the two best players in Chinese basketball, and both have huge expectations to become the first player in domestic basketball, and the competition between the host and Yao Ming for the first player in Chinese basketball began. The host's mission goal in this game: to block Yao Ming and defeat Yao Ming's team, and the goal of the next game against Yao Ming: to block Yao Ming and defeat Yao Ming's team, both mission goals are achieved, and the host will get a Francis peak star card. ”

Liu Mang was trying to shoot in practice, and suddenly heard the task prompt, and scolded him, and then turned his head to look at Yao Ming, Yao Ming's thick eyebrows and big eyes, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, there was such a careful thought? However, what Liu Mang is most curious about is that he defeated Yao Ming for Mao to get the Francis star card? These two must have a secret to tell!