From today on is the king

Chapter 1591 1590. Joint strength strengthening fruit!

Liu Mang and Yao Ming knew that the current national team was supported by them. If they were excluded, and the older players retired without regret after winning the World Championships, the Chinese team would only have Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi as two truly capable players.

To win the world championship two years ago, only a few of them were relied on.

But the meaning of the championship is more than that. It gives Chinese fans hope that more children will join basketball. The more people who like basketball, the easier it is to make money in basketball. There will be more capitalists investing money in Chinese basketball. If they can make money, there will be more parents willing to let their children take the road of basketball.

Not everyone is suitable for studying, and a country does not only need scholars, but also needs scholars, business talents, technical talents, artistic talents, and sports talents.

A country that emphasizes literature but despises all other things. Such a country is no different from the Song Dynasty. Ordinary people can’t find more ways out. Only a few people succeed in studying, and other industries can’t make money. Then wealth will be more concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. The country is getting richer, and ordinary people are getting poorer and can’t find a way to make money.

Liu Mang does not have the idea of ​​being so arrogant that he wants to change a country, but he will try his best to bring about a small change in the country within his own capabilities.

Anyway, my goal is to become a "celebrity" who can leave a name in the history of the country, so I always need to do more.

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After the two warm-up matches, the national team began to eliminate players. On July 7, the number of players was reduced by 12, from 7 to 27.

而且将在7月26号递交12人大名单之前, 把20名球员缩减到12名。

It's brutal, but that's the national team!
Harris helped the Chinese men's basketball team win the world championship, and has more say in the selection of players. He can't decide the 27-man roster, but he still has the power to choose the lineup that he thinks is most suitable for the core combination of Liu Mang and Yao Ming among the 27 players.

And the men's basketball team is 22 times better than the men's football team. At least the [-] players selected by the Basketball Association are the real top group of the CBA, unlike the men's football team...

This is a point that Harris feels lucky. Wei Yuanli, the chairman of the Blue Association, would rather shorten the CBA schedule and reduce income to improve the national team. This will have an impact on the overall basketball development of the country, but it is very suitable when Liu Mang and Yao Ming are at their peak in the past few years.

Now that Liu Mang is back and training with the national team, Harris is very satisfied.

He has been looking forward to Liu Mang's return, to show others how much Liu Mang has paid to become the strongest player in the world!

Harris directly gave Liu Mang more than twice the training schedule of the others. As a result, Liu Mang completed the training earlier than the others, and the quality and quantity were guaranteed!

Coach Zhang, the leader of the men's basketball team, also liked this scene very much. He wanted to let the young players experience Liu Mang's training and give them motivation and a sense of oppression!

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"I have returned to the motherland, Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Jade Emperor bless you..."

Yesterday, that is, July 7th and today, Liu Mang had two days of high-intensity training and regained some of the feeling he had after resting for half a month.

There will be 12 days of intensive training next, and after the 12 days of intensive training, there will be 12 days of tactical training.

Liu Mang will adjust his physical condition to the best in the next 12 days.

In the past half a month or so, Liu Mang has had a good rest, and the pressure brought by the team's trade has been released, and now he is focusing on the national team!
In order to perform at his best in his country's Olympic Games, Liu Mang will do everything possible to improve himself.

After praying for a while, Liu Mang once again put on the familiar posture of being upbeat, and said in his heart: "Boss of the system, use 100 million superstar points to draw a lottery! Designated attribute fruit!"

"Ding... the host uses high-level superstar value to draw a lottery, and specifies the attribute fruit..."

"Ding... Congratulations to the host for obtaining the joint strength strengthening fruit."

Seeing a mini dragon fruit appearing in front of him, Liu Mang fell into deep thought...

"Does this fruit need to be peeled... No, can strengthening joint strength improve explosive power?"

Liu Mang now feels that he has certain limitations. Except when he has space to trigger the "strongest first step" when he reaches the basket, he plays with dexterity at other times, and sometimes there are certain restrictions.

Of course, Liu Mang just feels that he is not enough. He wants to be the strongest in all aspects of himself. Even if others think that he is already too strong, he still feels that he is not enough. He wants to compare with the best in every aspect.

Just like the Chinese like to compare their national strength with the United States, their romance with the French, their rigor with the Germans, etc., Liu Mang also likes to compare his weaker aspects with the strongest players in this aspect.

This is the basis for him to maintain a dedicated training attitude. After winning so many MVPs and championships, he still wants to become stronger and trains so hard. This is the motivation for him.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after eating. If this year is not good, there will be next year. The young master will only be 26 next month. There is still plenty of time..."

After Liu Mang finished chanting, he went to block the door with a chair. Since only Liu Mang's family lived in this broken courtyard, except for the gate, all the rooms inside were bolted...

Back on the bed, Liu Mang swallowed the dragon fruit with the "shell", and quickly covered his mouth with a towel. Sure enough, the joints of his body began to hurt...

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The pain directly caused him to fall asleep, and when Liu Mang woke up the next morning, he saw a layer of sweat stains on the bed sheet...

Liu Mang secretly sighed that it was good that he lived in a room by himself because he was very tired from training last night, and even gagged his mouth.

Using the high-level attribute fruit this time is the most painful time for Liu Mang!
Liu Mang got up and moved his body, but he really couldn't feel any changes.

The strength evaluation is still 90, which seems to be really at its peak, and I can only find ways to improve it in terms of explosive power, bullet speed and so on.

However, Liu Mang is used to it, it is like this every time, and he can’t feel any changes, but his physical fitness has improved year after year. Now Liu Mang compares himself with when he first entered the NBA, and knows how much his physical fitness has improved.

Fortunately, although things like door bolts are still used, the rooms have been remodeled long ago. 9 rooms have been changed to 7, and a separate bathroom has been added to each bedroom. After Liu Mang took a shower and tidied up the bed, he heard his mother shouting that a guest had arrived.

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Liu Mang changed his clothes and came to the living room. When he saw Coach Kruger and Jimmy Butler chatting with his father, he said hello: "Coach, little Jimmy, you're here so early!"

Hearing Liu Mang's way of greeting, Coach Kruger and Little Jimmy felt weird.

It has been more than ten days since he returned to China, and Liu Mang quickly switched back to the Chinese way of chatting. Although he greeted them in English, the way he spoke seemed weird to Americans.

"I'm an assistant coach of the national team." Coach Kruger replied.

"Uh..." Liu Mang really forgot about it. Popovich, his own head coach, former Suns head coach Mike D'Antoni, and Knicks head coach Mike Woodson became the core members of Coach K's coaching staff.

Think about the coaching staff of the U.S. team... Liu Mang feels that everything related to the U.S. men's basketball team is exaggerated!
"Aren't you busy with Team USA? Coach, do you still have time to play with little Jimmy?" Liu Mang asked.

"Our tactics have been discussed, I don't need to train, Mike is in charge of this." Coach Kruger still said so little.

Mike...Liu Mang didn't even know which Mike Coach Kruger was talking about, but all the Mikes in the US team's coaching staff were very good.

However, Liu Mang felt that Coach Kruger seemed to have something on his mind today, and felt weird when he spoke.

"Coach, you definitely didn't come to see my dad for tea today, do you need my help?" Liu Mang asked proactively.

Coach Kruger was very satisfied with Liu Mang's way of acting, and told him about his recent headaches: "It's about little Jimmy..."

After listening to Coach Kruger's brief introduction, Liu Mang knew that Jimmy was going to college!

Liu Mang feels that time flies too fast, Jimmy will be 19 years old in two months!

Because little Jimmy was not able to study when he was a child, although he went directly to the eighth grade in junior high school, but after graduating from junior high school, he went to high school after a year of cram school, so he was too old.

In the 07-08 season that just passed, Jimmy Jr. led Southern California High School to win the California High School League Championship. He was ranked 6th in the United States and became the target of many universities.

Being adopted earlier and getting a better growth environment, little Jimmy showed stronger potential than in the original time and space.

Georgia Tech came to find Coach Kruger, an old friend, and wanted to recruit Jimmy Jr. Coach Kruger originally planned to let Jimmy Butler go to Georgetown University, where his old friend would take care of Jimmy Jr.

And... if Jimmy Jr. goes to college in Atlanta and helps the Georgia Tech Jackets get good grades...

When Coach Kruger chose one of Wade and Tracy McGrady to stay at the shooting guard, it has something to do with the talent shown by Jimmy Jr.

The reality is cruel, but it is what it is.

But there are also disadvantages. Putting little Jimmy in Atlanta to study in college will become more famous after he goes to college. He will definitely be compared with Liu Mang. One is the adopted son of Coach Kruger, and the other is the strongest disciple of Coach Kruger who is like his own son. The pressure of being compared with the best players...

Knowing Coach Kruger's hesitation, Liu Mang thought of Jimmy's strong character and personal qualities, and answered decisively: "Let Xiaomi study in our school, coach, you have to have confidence in Jimmy, he won't embarrass you, he will make you proud of him!"

(End of this chapter)