Super Basketball Manager

Chapter 286 Struggling in a desperate situation...

On May 2010, 5, Nancy Alexander was buried...

Seeing his ex-wife, who resolutely took out a breakup fee of 1 million US dollars at the time of his most difficult time, and the old woman who had contributed to the Houston Rockets, passed away suddenly, Alexander was heartbroken...

Yes, some people are good, and you can only truly appreciate them when they disappear...

Ron was exhausted when he led the team out of the church and flew to San Antonio.

Before the funeral, he and Alexander had a long talk at 5 a.m. to comfort each other about the loss of his wife.

The two men reminisced about the past, the stains from these days, the happy time at the family party, the gentleness and kindness of old Nancy, her good cooking skills, and the strength that bloomed in the last days of being tortured by kidney disease...

"Sometimes, you will find her chattering annoying, and sometimes you two will be together for a long time, and you will even feel hairy when you look at her..." Alexander said with red eyes: "But, you know? When I was young, there was a time when I didn't see her even for a minute, and I didn't want to stay... The first time I saw her... I felt... I felt that she was as beautiful as a flower..."

yes!Yes... Men are all the same... Ron nodded and smiled wryly.

At this moment, Ron wanted to pick up the phone and call Scarlett...

He firmly understood that the day when she went to Europe was not far away...

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There should still be time...and...

Soon…

How far is it?how much longer?
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The plane flew across the night sky.

Tired, but the memory drives the sleepiness, Ron can't stop recalling: Tyson Chandler's lame jokes that only amuse himself, the scene of OJ Mayoken knocking on the door of his house for the first time, Kyle Lowry's focused eyes when listening to the tactical layout, Allen Iverson's roaring speech in the locker room, Nick Young's sad eyes before leaving Los Angeles, Yao Ming from a young chasing boy to a groom at a grand wedding...

G3 was about to start, and Ron fell into an unprecedented loss.

Yes, even when it was learned that Yao Ming's return date was undecided and he lost the Lakers for the first time...

Even when the team was suspended and criticized by everyone...

Ron had never been so lost and worried.

Today, the tenacious civilian team he personally built is heading for decline at a constant pace due to various reasons. This slow but real decline process is undoubtedly more terrifying than McGrady directly announcing that he will be reimbursed for the season in 2008, and Yao Ming never came back after falling in the semifinals in 09.

It's like watching the woman around you grow old day by day, but you can't do anything about it...

Contract-year players start to worry about their new contracts, and future...

Rookies want more playing time and shooting rights...

The veterans, whose bodies have been ravaged by injuries, spend almost every day soaking in ice water. If they are not careful, they will go back to the locker room and check repeatedly...

Yao Ming's injury magnified the structure of the Houston civilian team.

Alexander is still dealing with the funeral in his hometown. According to his words, he also hopes that the seventh game will be held smoothly...

And Scarlett...

Of course he may not realize that he has upgraded to become an unwed father...

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In the training hall before the G3 game, Ron's eyes occasionally flickered with loneliness.

"Hey! Manager, why don't you make some changes?" Mayo came over, he could always read Ron.

"Change... you mean the lineup?"

"Oh, no, I mean your beard."

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yeah, change...

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But the long-awaited championship road still makes him want to transform from a mortal to a godfather, although the hope of becoming a godfather is not great—it is more likely to transform into a bustard...

His well-built team and many disciples-OJ-Mayo (Brooklyn also made a bold statement that it will join the overall situation of competing with New York for Mayo), Dragic (following the Suns general manager Kerr who just got out of class, the new Colangelo has a strong interest in him), Tyson Chandler (Mavericks owner Cuban is willing to kneel and lick), Kyle Lowry (almost all teams that lack good point guards have shown their strong interest), Luis Scola (cheap diamonds no one cares about? Are you kidding? Go!), Nick Young and even Trevor Ariza, who is the only player under contract -- all are likely to find another job because of the team's success this season.

Is a team falling apart simply because the results are too good?

No, obviously including miscalculations due to injuries.

Either you just win the championship directly... the disintegration after winning the championship, at least you can brag with others in terms of face...

"Look, we proved ourselves last season... let XXX die!"

This is called a dilemma...

If you lose, there must be troubles.

And who can say that if you win, you won't have more new troubles?

It can be said that Houston's finances would have been impossible to maintain this team next season...

What's more, everyone knows that this team actually spent the money that should be spent, but the playoffs are still the same old routine - relying on Yao Ming is nothing more...

What about the future?
With the team's stinginess and financial austerity, the Rockets after Yao Mai can no longer rely on the Chinese market to fool any valuable free agents.

It is conceivable that this autumn, when Ron put away his razor due to Mayo's instigation, and rubbed his cheeks in front of the bathroom mirror every morning, what he quietly examined was loneliness...

His subordinates, besides Yao Ming, who was scrapped in this series, are a group of cheap CBA whose names are unknown...or Gvilang Valley Vipers-who knows...

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G3 Yao Ming went out with the team, and made his debut during the warm-up before the game, and made a few runs without the ball with the team...

Just this has already made many media reporters gossip - Yao Ming is back?
"The San Antonio Spurs have done well at home this season, but the Houston Rockets are a rare away team in the league... With Yao Ming's comeback, the suspense of the series between the two sides is once again in full swing..."

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"Ron, tell me, do you want Yao Ming to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair?" Qing Itachi blushed, turning his head to the side to look helpless...

"...I remember you said you would give me back a 100% healthy Yao Ming..."

"..." He shook his head, hesitated to speak, but his eyes were red. "I didn't expect him to be so tough. He spent most of his time in G1 running on the court with a broken bone... (a sore nose) I can't even figure it out. A player whose bone cracks have been broken for a long time can still score more than 40 points and pick up more than 20 rebounds...I really don't admire many people in my life...Damn...a guy like him who has already made enough money, is still fighting for dreams and glory on the basketball court, and sacrifices everything..."

"My fucking favourite!!!!"

Ron held back his body from twitching, but closed his eyes...

"Tell Jones, Adelman, tell them that Yao Ming can't play this game...um...yes. I am willing to take full responsibility..."

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G3…

When Chandler became the starting center, when Yao Ming wore a thick training uniform and did not intend to take it off, all the Spurs fans in the att center were finally relieved...

Lowry, Mayo, Trevor Ariza, Scola, Chandler, Aaron returned to normal, intending to fight...

Perhaps the seasoned Spurs stole a laziness and stretched their waists... The game is so rare and inextricably played, and it tends to become fierce...

Although the Houstonians played very hard in this game, almost showing the strongest strength of the Rockets without Yao during the Eastern Conference road trip before the All-Star Game in the middle of the season, it was still not enough to snatch a victory in the Holy City...

89:92, when Iverson missed a desperate ultra-long-range three-pointer, Houston also tasted the taste of losing streak in the playoffs for the first time...

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"I want to win~~~" Walking out of the ATT Arena, Ron glanced at the hazy sky, and heaved a long sigh...

　I didn’t expect him to be so tough. He spent most of his time in G1 running on the court with a fractured bone... (a sore nose) Even I can’t figure out that a player whose bone cracks have broken a long time ago can still score more than 40 points and take off more than 20 rebounds...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)