From today on is the king

Chapter 1534 1533. Goal: Champion streak
The Suns beat the Lakers and Spurs in a row, which is quite unexpected.

But people's attention is on the league's No. [-] battle between the Eagles and the Spurs.

Although the Spurs' record of 39 wins and 6 losses still overwhelms the Eagles' 38 wins and 6 losses.

But the number of losses for the two teams is the same!

They only lost six games!
The Eagles continued their winning streak with 17 consecutive victories.

The next opponent of the Eagles happens to be the Suns, a team that just beat the Spurs.

The Eagles have defeated the Spurs once before, but the outcome of a regular season matchup will not greatly affect the judgment of the fans and the media on the strength of the two teams.

But the two teams have encountered the same opponent one after another, and the win or loss against the same opponent is very intuitive!
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"Uncle, can't you find your way? Why don't you call a taxi?"

"I didn't ask you to follow, isn't it good for you to play games in the hotel?"

"Let such a beautiful girl stay alone in the hotel, what if she is kidnapped?"

"Uh...it's really pitiful who kidnapped you..."

"Uncle, you are too much..."

"Then why did you follow, Dinah?"

"Uncle, don't you know? The Arizona Sun Devils ended the 23-game winning streak of the UCLA Bruins! That fan of yours is amazing! Of course Dinah wants to see him."

This Liu Mang really didn't notice that he put all his energy into the game in consecutive away games...

While chatting with Little Lolita, Liu Mang finally found the restaurant that Harden mentioned in the car after searching everywhere.

After flying from Seattle to Phoenix in the morning, Liu Mang and Little Loli took a rest at the hotel and left at 11 o'clock to go to the restaurant they had made an appointment with Harden.

Chatting with little loli while asking for directions...

Little Lolita has a much better understanding of the NCAA than Liu Mang. Liu Mang thought that Harden was from the Wildcats, but after listening to Little Lolita's introduction, he realized that Harden was from the Sun Devils.

Although the Arizona Sun Devils are not as famous as the Arizona Wildcats, they are also a member of the Pac-[-], a strong team in the first division.

At 12:10, it took about an hour to finally arrive at the restaurant recommended by Harden, which was quite a restaurant in the suburbs. Liu Mang parked the car and took a look around. From the outside, it was indeed a very distinctive restaurant full of South American style.

Harden had been waiting at the door, and when he saw Liu Mang and Little Lolita coming, he rushed up excitedly.

"Ace, oh, Mr. Liu, ah...Ace...God, you are really here...Can you sign me..."

Seeing Harden frantically taking out a photo and a pen from his notebook, the little Lolita was frightened. It turned out that the old man was so popular.

Liu Mang is very used to it, and helped Harden sign his Chinese name on the front of the photo.

Harden took the autographed photo and looked at Liu Mang, excited like a 100kg fat man, not knowing what to say.

Liu Mang looked at Harden with a happy expression, and felt something strange. After thinking about it, he finally thought of it, and asked, "James, right? Why don't you grow a beard?"

Seeing that Liu Reck was looking at him all the time, Harden was looking forward to what Liu Reck would say to him, but in the end Liu Reck said something out of his head...

"Grow a beard?" Harden blurted out.

"Yeah, if you had a beard, I think you'd look a lot like a ****."

"..."

Little Lolita looked at Liu Mang speechlessly like an idiot...

As for Harden, thoughtful...

"I've been told that I'm soft, can changing my beard scare people?"

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After the friendly and cordial fans met the idol, the three entered the restaurant together and ordered something.

It was mainly what Harden and Little Lolita wanted to eat. Liu Mang ordered a salad, and he would not eat indiscriminately at this stage.

After sitting down, Harden, who was astounded and thinking about it, began to talk excitedly about his past and the process of growing up in the basketball world.

Liu Mang was very curious, and Little Lolita was also interested because of Harden's outstanding performance two days ago.

Originally, Harden was worried that Liu Mang would find it annoying, but he found that Liu Mang was very interested and spoke more happily.

Through Harden's introduction, Liu Mang and Xiao Luoli learned that Harden's physical development was late, he was fat and suffered from asthma when he was a child, and he couldn't even enter the school team in junior high school.

When I entered high school, I finally grew to 1.8 meters, and I couldn’t dunk. I could only practice the basic skills and the three-pointer from the bottom corner. In my freshman year, Harden averaged 13.2 points per game, and free throws accounted for half of it...

By the time Harden was halfway through his sophomore year of high school, his height had grown a few inches, and various skills were gradually developed.Harden averaged 18.8 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game as a sophomore and began to become the core of Adesia High School.

In the third and fourth years of high school, the grown-up Harden made his body stronger through hard work, got rid of his asthma, and began to show his physical fitness. As the absolute main force, he led the school team to achieve 33 wins, 1 loss and 33 wins. 2 losses in the past two years, and won the California High School League championship for two consecutive years.

In his senior year of high school, Harden was selected to the All-American High School All-Star team, was admitted by Arizona State University with a full scholarship, and entered the Arizona Sun Devils.

On January 1th, Harden led the Sun Devils to beat the UCLA Bruins, who had won 26 consecutive victories from the beginning of the new season to 69 at the Phoenix Suns' home stadium, 61-23.

In the game against Russell Westbrook, Harden scored 25 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists and 6 steals in the face of the sophomore who basically locked the best defensive player in the Pac-[-] league!
哈登大一到目前打了22场比赛，场均17.1分，除此之外还有6.1板和6.1次助攻3.1次抢断。

Among them, Harden's average steals per game surpassed the Pac-2.9's freshman record of [-] steals per game created by the famous Gary Payton in his freshman year!

Liu Mang and Xiao Luoli listened to Harden's introduction that he was rejected by the school team in junior high school, improved year by year in high school, and became the core of the school team in the third year of high school. Finally, he can play the performance that is second only to OJ-Mayo in the NCAA point guard this season. Even Liu Mang feels that it is not easy.

When Liu Mang was chatting with Xiao Luoli in the car, he learned that after Harden defeated UCLA, he was ranked fifth in the 2008 draft prediction by the draft prediction website!
The top four are No.1 and No.2 tied OJ-Mayo and Michael Beasley.

There is no way for those two. They are very talented, and they also performed well after graduation from college. Moreover, they have been known to basketball fans since high school or even junior high school. They have been geniuses since they were young, and they have always been geniuses.

The third forecast is currently Brook Lopez, and the fourth is currently DJ-Augustin.

Currently predicted to be fifth is Harden, who just defeated UCLA, soaring further from the previous 10th pick in the first round.

A college point guard averaging 17.1 points and 6.1 assists per game is already very good. For now, Harden will enter the draft after finishing his freshman year, and his predicted pick is also higher than Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love and others!
Rose and Westbrook have one thing in common when they were in college. Rose is currently averaging 14 points per game as a freshman, and Westbrook is averaging 13 points per game. They haven't shown much offensive talent, and both of them are the best defensive players in their respective leagues. The favorites are not the same as their future play in the NBA...

At this stage, Harden, who is also a freshman, is more marketable!Of course, this is also related to Harden's intention to imitate Liu Mang's style of play.

"James Harden, ability rating 73..."

Before finishing his freshman year, Liu Mang was shocked when he saw Harden's ability evaluation, he was really talented.

And it was beyond Liu Reck's imagination. Harden had such a good performance in his freshman year. Liu Reck did not expect it. However, considering that Harden was the third pick in his sophomore year, Liu Reck didn't think it was so strange.

Liu Mang has heard that Rose was selected as the No. [-] pick because he is from Chicago, and that Westbrook was selected by the Thunder because of how good the Thunder’s vision is. He has never heard that Harden’s selection as the third pick is due to luck or the Thunder’s vision, because Harden was originally the top three picks back then.

However, when Liu Wei asked Harden if he would participate in this year's draft, Harden replied: "I want to be selected with the first pick, I want to be the first, and I will become your strongest opponent in the future!"

"Uh, why are there so many people who want to be my opponent...Come on." Liu Mang could only answer like this.

Do you want to tell Brother Xiaodeng that next year there will be a white monster who will be the champion in his freshman year?

From Liu Mang's point of view, it's not like Harden has no chance of winning the No. 2010 pick this year. His careless statistics are better than those freshman point guards in the No. [-] point guard movement since [-]!
将来2011年状元控卫凯里-欧文大一才场均17分5助攻，2010年的状元控卫约翰-沃尔大一也才场均16分6助攻。

That is to say, from the perspective of talent and freshman performance alone, Harden is better than those two No. 2009 picks. It is only because of the presence of Blake Griffin in [-] as the locked No. [-] pick, and the Grizzlies bet on Thabeet.

Liu Mang felt that if Harden, Wall, and Irving were drafted together after finishing their freshman season across time and space, even if they didn’t open their eyes, Harden would be the No. [-] pick in all likelihood. Harden was not an upset choice like Westbrook.

It's just... Seeing the front page cover of Sports Illustrated that Harden took out like a treasure, looking at the data posted next to Harden's photo...

Liu Mang's egg hurts. Harden averaged 17.1 points per game, 7.6 of which were free throws, averaging 8.5 free throws per game and making 7.6 of them!
In college, he averaged 8.5 free throws per game!
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After meeting the future king of JDZ, Liu Mang felt that his position in the Porcelain industry would be seriously affected in the future.

However, Liu Reck didn’t have any suggestions for Harden. Harden is still in college, so it’s enough to practice his basic skills. Learning from Liu Reckless’s playing style doesn’t conflict with practicing his basic skills.

After chatting with Brother Deng for a while, and having lunch, Liu Mang sent Brother Deng back to the Lake Hasuva campus, and then returned to the hotel with little Lolita. After taking a nap, he was woken up by his teammates, and discussed together tomorrow, the 29th, the last strong enemy of the month—the Suns!

Playing the Suns, this game is very important for the Eagles to compete for the first place in the league!

Now the Eagles are suffocating this breath. It is rare to be in this state of winning streak. Once the winning streak ends, it is bound to enter a period of adjustment.

Because the state in the winning streak is so good, there are many things that don't need to be considered, just play according to the opponent.

But after this state is interrupted and the winning streak is ended, the opponents behind will find a breakthrough, and the Eagles will have to enter a state of adjustment again, from the kind of heart that crushes everything without scruples and adjusts to a normal heart.

And it has already won 17 consecutive victories, and another win will be an 18-game winning streak!
Playing against the Suns, which has been so hot in recent days, this game is very important to the Eagles no matter from which point of view!
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