From today on is the king

Chapter 488 486. Yao Ming's Rookie Wall

All-Star weekend is over!

The carnival in Atlanta is still going on. The All-Star Grand Slam won by Liu Mang created a record in NBA history, allowing Atlanta fans to see what a rising young superstar looks like.

Generally speaking, no matter how well a low-ranked rookie plays, they will be said to have immediate combat power and no talent, just like the end of last season. People speak highly of Liu Mang's rookie season, but the evaluations of various media have a feeling that a rookie is the pinnacle.

However, a slam dunk king was won, and Liu Mang was immediately crowned the title of the most talented player in the 2001 rookie class.

On February 2th, which is the morning of the second day of the All-Star Weekend, Liu Mang drank skim milk and made oatmeal. Looking at the comments about himself in the news, Liu Mang felt that these media were really weird. To win a slam dunk king means talent?

However, Liu Mang felt pretty good about becoming the leader of the rookies in the same class.

It's a pity that it's hard to enjoy this kind of leisurely breakfast time of drinking milk, oatmeal and eating vegetable salad again for a while.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang will go to Houston with the team to continue the cruel and unsolvable schedule.

Liu Mang thought that this leisurely breakfast might be the last leisurely breakfast for the next month or so, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

But watching the news, I suddenly felt that Liu Mang was very strange, as if something was wrong.

By the way, Uncle Ben is going to play the Western Sixers, and the Dinahs!Shouldn't you come to sell a cute gift or something, why is there no one in the early morning?

When I was just making cereal, I saw this little loli sneaking up and down the stairs.

Liu Mang went to Dinah's room to check, but there was no one there. He went to the kitchen, but there was still no one... Finally, he found this little loli in a room that was originally thought to be empty.

I don’t know when this room was “transformed” into an honor “museum”. Liu Mang’s All-Star Weekend trophies, Best Rookie, Best Sixth Man trophies, etc. were all neatly arranged, and there was a card in front of the trophies, with some similar comments written in crooked Chinese.

Seeing that little Lolita was writing something on the front of the slam dunk contest trophy that she just got two days ago, she didn't even notice that she came in, that kind of serious look... Sure enough, the serious little Lolita is the cutest!
Liu Mang watched quietly for a while, then closed the door softly, ready to get out of the way, without disturbing the serious Dinah.

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After the seven-day All-Star weekend break, the Eagles started a wave of six consecutive trips.

First of all, the Eagles came to the aerospace city of Houston. The first game of the six-game streak was an away game against the Rockets.

The Rockets have been doing well recently, gaining the upper hand in the competition with the Suns for the No. [-] spot in the Western Conference. Although Yao Ming has been in a downturn recently, that's the case for all rookies. The Suns' Stoudemire was also caught in the rookie game because of his inability to shoot.

However, Francis and the old cat Mobley are in good condition. It seems that the Rockets have hope of returning to the playoffs this year.

With Yao Ming and Stoudemire having similar statistics and team records, it is basically certain that whoever makes it to the playoffs will win the Rookie of the Year award. The entire voting is because the Suns made the playoffs and Stoudemire won the Rookie of the Year award. The difference between the two is less than ten first-place votes.

In Liu Wei's memory, the Rockets have always been a miraculous team. They obviously didn't deliberately play badly, but inexplicably there were high-ranking stars, and the reconstruction was completed before they knew it, and they became a competitive team.

Just like now, the trio of Francis, Lao Mao Mobley, and Yao Ming has both talent and strength.

...

The night the Eagles came to Houston, Yao Ming came to the hotel and took Liu Mang to his home.

Yao Ming is really a standard domestic tycoon, diligent and thrifty, and bought a villa, actually in a middle-class villa area in Houston, the price is 45 US dollars, the floor area of ​​the house is very average, it is said to have two floors, but in fact there are only three rooms, two living rooms, a kitchen and a dining room, plus the inexplicably favorite bathroom of Americans.

The house is generally big, and there is no yard or anything. Just a flower bed at the door, it is more suitable to say that it is a single-family house rather than a villa. The flower bed is the flower bed of the next door...

Liu Mang thinks this kind of life is also very good, mainly because he has neighbors and is closer. Levia's home is good, but Yao Ming's life like this is more suitable for Liu Mang.

But... If Liu Mang was asked to change, he would not be willing to kill him.

Just kidding, everyone will feel a little hypocritical, just like Jack Ma hypocritically said that he prefers the life of being a university teacher and receiving a salary every month, it is purely pretending to be hypocritical.

But it's nice to feel this life once in a while.

Yao Ming is really a standard domestic single man. He actually treats his guests to order takeaway.

Liu Mang asked Yao Ming to order a vegetable salad for himself.

While eating takeaway, the two chatted.

After experiencing the rookie wall in January that Yao Ming was cheated by his compatriots without knowing it, he fell into a period of confusion. Is he gaining weight to increase his ability to block and dominate the low post?
This needs to be decided by Yao Ming himself. Yao Ming asked Liu Mang. Although Liu Mang is young, he has a lot of ideas, and he entered the NBA a year ago. Yao Ming attaches great importance to Liu Mang's opinion.

Liu Mang would not directly tell Yao Ming what he should do hastily. He just analyzed the pros and cons of the two development directions for Yao Ming and let Yao Ming make his own decision.

Gain weight, with Yao Ming's height and his amazing flexibility and touch, he can have a strong dominance in the interior and rebounding ability second only to O'Neal, becoming a dominant center.

But the disadvantage is that it is vulnerable to injury. It is best to rest a dozen games in the regular season every year, just like O'Neal.

Except for world-class competitions, that is, the Olympics and the World Championships, other miscellaneous Asian competitions are not played, so as to ensure health.

This is Liu Mang's analysis of Yao Ming's original career.

Yao Ming's continuous reimbursement and retirement before the age of 30 is definitely not just a problem of the national team, nor is it just a problem of the team.

It's a question of how to use it.

Liu Mang didn’t know exactly how to give advice to Yao Ming, so he directly referred to O’Neal to give advice to Yao Ming. Yao Ming trained harder by himself. If he could participate in less irrelevant games like O’Neal, and not be destroyed by Adelman, the first generation of Thibodeau, and pay more attention to rest, his career would definitely be longer.

The second direction of development is similar to that of Gasol and Nowitzki, who does not gain weight and can attack flexibly from outside. Yao Ming can play. He is playing that way now.

But this style of play basically has no so-called dominance, and Yao Ming does not have Gasol's organizational ability. He may become a better scorer who can be both inside and outside.

Liu Mang shared his views on the two development directions with Yao Ming. Among them, the pros and cons, and how to choose mainly depends on Yao Ming himself.

(End of this chapter)