Back at home, the Grizzlies played against the Kings in a row.

This game against the Kings, the Grizzlies began to experiment with tactics again, before winning one away game against the Kings, Qiao Hai learned something from the Kings' Princeton offense, this game, he felt that he could use the fast-paced version of the Princeton offense against the original Princeton offense, and then try it out.

As a result, Princeton's tactics, which had increased the tempo, were controlled by the Kings, and the game was difficult to play, with the Grizzlies trailing at halftime.

In the third quarter, the Grizzlies returned to their normal rhythm, and Qiao Hai still wanted to win, but because of the 11-point deficit in the first half, the Grizzlies chased the score for a while.

In the final quarter, just as the Grizzlies were preparing to overtake the score in a wave, the King's substitute Pejastojakovic suddenly broke out, hitting three three-pointers in a row and scoring 9 points in a row.

The Grizzlies lost for the first time at home, and morale was a little low, but the Grizzlies fans at the scene gave the team a round of applause.

Playing back-to-back games and losing by just five points in the end, they think the team has done a good job.

Qiao Hai also thinks so, although the previous game against the Clippers was very easy, even if this game is back-to-back, it seems that it should not be lost, but don't forget, two days ago, the Grizzlies just won the game against the Lakers, and the impact of that vicious game alone is that two days of rest alone cannot be recovered.

The Grizzlies had three games in four days, two of which were tough battles, so this loss was understandable.

Qiao Hai did not blame the team, but encouraged the team, telling them that a loss in a game is nothing, especially since they lost to the Kings who had won by a large margin before, and this loss does not matter.

Three days later, the Grizzlies fought the supersonic again, and the supersonic performed very strongly at the beginning of the season, but in December, the supersonic rate fell seriously, and after various consecutive losses, the supersonics fell directly to the fifth place in the West, behind the Lakers.

The SuperSonics are not in great shape, and Paul Westphal seems to have lost control of the team, but he himself has not yet perceived this and still has not adjusted, and the SuperSonics have been losing.

Grizzlies vs. SuperSonics, playing on the road.

In the opening, the Grizzlies were dominated by the opposite, with a variety of fast-paced Princeton offenses, and they were in good shape, completely without the sluggishness of those previous games.

After speeding up the tempo, the offensive end was fully opened, and Maddie made various air cuts and catch-and-shoot shots, scoring crazy goals, and scoring 16 points in the first quarter.

The Grizzlies also led the SuperSonics by eight points at 33:25.

In the second quarter, the Grizzlies continued to extend their lead, relying on Maddy's continued outbursts to give them a 14-point halftime lead.

In the third quarter, Qiao Hai rarely let the team turn back to a slow pace, because the team did a good job in the fast-paced offense and defense, and he didn't need to interrupt this good momentum.

But in the second half, the Grizzlies' form declined, and the offense returned to the stagnation of the previous games.

And what must be complained about is that because Maddie played the first half, Qiao Hai chose to let Rahim attack in the second half, Rahim played well, but there are still problems, Qiao Hai's question is that he obviously added the iron-blooded trait to Rahim, but Rahim is still soft, the offensive end likes to dodge confrontation, and the defensive end is even more habitually not contributing.

Coupled with the average state of the Grizzlies team, the SuperSonics fought back in the second half and narrowed the gap to 8 points.

Then, Qiao Hai could only let Maddie increase his singles and stabilize the situation.

In the end, the Grizzlies won the SuperSonics 117-103, without losing streak after losing to the Kings, and gave the SuperSonics another loss, the SuperSonics continued to slide in the rankings, and rumors of Paul Westfaal's departure were rampant.

But after the game, Qiao Hai did not answer, refusing to talk about whether Paul Westphaal should be out of class.

On the other side, Raheem's injury report was released, and he suffered a scrape from the corner of his eye and needed to be out for a week.

Since the start of the game, the Grizzlies have not suffered many injuries, the only two injuries are Raheem's two minor injuries, Qiao Hai is also very happy, the Grizzlies lineup is a little thin, if there is really any injury wave, Qiao Hai will have no one available.

Now this state is what Qiao Hai wants, there are no major injuries, the players are in good shape, and the team's record is improving......

In December, the Grizzlies played nine games with a 6-3 record.

Counting November's 11-3 record, the Grizzlies have an overall record of 17-6 and continue to rank third in the West, behind the Spurs, the Trail Blazers, and the Lakers.

After playing the supersonics, the Grizzlies are back at home.

Qiao Hai also turned over the schedule for the next stage, and on December 23 and 24, he played consecutive home games against the Clippers and Nuggets, which are two weak teams, and there is no problem in winning.

Then on December 26, they played the Nuggets again, on the 27th they played the 76ers at home, and on the 29th and 30th they played back-to-back games against the Jazz and Spurs.

Therefore, the schedule shows that the Grizzlies still have 6 games in December, the first three games are against three weaker opponents, and the last three games are to take off a layer of skin, the 76ers are currently 15-10, ranking fourth in the East, with Allen Iverson in, the 76ers are the East giants, this opponent is naturally difficult to deal with.

Back-to-back games against the Jazz and the Spurs are even more devilish schedules, although the Jazz have a serious decline, but the Shuangsha still has the ability to lead the team to win, the Jazz is still a playoff-level strong team, considering that they will have to face the Spurs back-to-back in the future, if the Jazz can't solve the battle as soon as possible, don't want to win the Spurs and Grizzlies again, physical fitness alone will not support the Grizzlies to win two strong opponents in a row.

So, the schedule for the last three games in December is too tough, it's devilish.

But that was two weeks later Qiao Hai had to face, and now, before the next battle, the Grizzlies had as many as five days off, Qiao Hai arranged two days of training, and the other three days were holidays, and he was idle all of a sudden.

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In December, the cold winter is expected to be steep.

The winter in New York is a little warmer than Vancouver, but the sea breeze is biting, Qiao Hai carried a briefcase, wrapped himself in winter clothes, walked outside the airport, hailed a taxi, and went straight to his destination.

The taxi pulled up in front of an office building on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, and Qiao Hai went straight up to the eighth floor from the elevator.

This is an investment company, and Qiao Hai has set his sights on the front desk.

There were two people standing at the front desk, both of Chinese descent with a few golden words pasted on their backs: Seaater Investment company.

That's it, Qiao Hai glanced around and walked to the front desk lady closest to him: "Hello, I'm looking for your CEO Qiao Zhishui." ”

A few minutes later, Qiao Hai was led to an office in the middle, and across most of the office area, Qiao Hai saw a group of Wall Street white-collar workers who were busy, either working crazy in front of the computer, or running around, or reporting loudly.

In the innermost office, there is a sign on the frosted glass door - General Manager's Office.

The front desk leading Qiao Hai knocked on the door, and Qiao Hai heard Qiao Zhishui's voice and pushed the door in.

"Ah Shui, long time no see."

Qiao Zhishui stood up and hugged Qiao Hai: "The sea, why are you here?" Don't say hello to me before you come, I'll send a car to pick you up. ”

Qiao Hai shook his head: "I just want to come secretly so that I can see the real situation of the company." ”

Qiao Zhishui squinted his eyes: "The sea, the sea, are you still afraid that I will trap you?" ”

"Afraid, why not afraid?"

Qiao Zhishui was not happy: "Even if I dare to pit you, my father is in New York now, with him supervising, do I dare?" ”

At this time, Qiao Hai tilted his head and thought about it, with Old Qiao here, Qiao Zhishui really didn't dare to pit him.

So, the conversation turned to the other side: "What happened to the company's financial situation?" ”

Qiao Zhishui sat down and introduced the company's current business status to Qiao Hai.

"We now have 13 million funds, of which 2 million are yours, 1 million are mine, and 10 million are David Falck's, at present, most of the funds have been smashed by us to a search engine company called Google, for this investment, we have made a long-term plan, most of our investment advisers are very optimistic about Google's development prospects, so we are ready to hold Google's equity for a long time."

Qiao Hai nodded, he didn't expect that Qiao Zhishui and they actually held the equity of Google, he picked up the information in front of him and looked at it.

Seawater Investment invested a total of $8 million in Google, accounting for 20% of the shares, and if it was held for a long time until Google went public in 2004, this wave would blow up, so from this point it proves that the investment advisers of Seawater are still a bit level.

"In addition, we have two smaller investments." Qiao Zhishui continued to introduce. "An investment was placed in the stock market, and we spent $2 million on less than 70,000 shares of Amazon.com, and again, we were prepared to hold it for the long term."

This is an investment in the stock market, Amazon's famous Qiao Hai has also heard of it, and it is also a well-known foreign shopping website in later generations, if you hold it for a long time, this investment is destined not to lose.

"The last investment was a short-term investment, invested in a communications company called Haisheng in New York, the investment was $2 million at that time, and now we are recovering this investment, making a profit of more than $1 million, and it is expected that we will be able to recover more than $3 million with interest in half a month."

A total of three investments, Qiao Hai understands them all.

Both unrecovered investments have been planned for the long term, and the one that has already been recouped has earned more than $1 million.

After a general understanding of the situation of seawater investment, Qiao Hai turned his head and made a phone call to David Falck, the major shareholder of seawater investment, Qiao Hai was ready to intervene in the business of seawater investment, but before that, he had to contact David Falck, the three major shareholders to discuss, and obtain everyone's consent.

"I will stay in New York for three days, David Falke will be here tomorrow, we will discuss, the more than 3 million US dollars recovered by Haisheng Communications will be kept for the first time, I will be useful."

Qiao Zhishui nodded, indicating that he understood.

Then, he directly asked the company's front desk to arrange a hotel suite for Qiao Hai and let Qiao Hai live in.

However, before sending Qiao Hai to the hotel, Qiao Zhishui did not forget to let Qiao Hai go to his house for dinner at night: "Dahai, go to my house for dinner at night, I have already told the old man, there will be two dishes at night." ”

Qiao Hai nodded, since he was busy and came to New York, he definitely wanted to meet Old Qiao.