From today on is the king

Chapter 557 556. This kind of thing can't be forced

On the domestic Internet, I don't know when a topic started to spread.

Without Liu Mang and Yao Ming, two of the best domestic players, wouldn't they even be able to win the Asian Championship?

After this topic came out, it triggered a heated discussion. At first, there were basically mixed opinions.

Some people think that after Hu Weidong, Liu Yudong and others have just retired, they need powerful players to lead the team.

Some people think that the young players playing in China are enough to win the Asian Championship. Didn’t they win the Asian Championship back then with a group of young domestic players? Now it’s just that group of players who have retired. Why not give new players more opportunities to hone their skills.

These two views contend on the Internet.

Because this summer, the Basketball Asian Championships will be held in China, football collapsed, Yao Ming entered the NBA and won the Rookie of the Year, Liu Mang played another year of outstanding performance, Wang Zhizhi even relied on O’Neal’s side to play with an average of 9.2 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.2 blocks per game. Among the domestic sports fans, the number of basketball fans has surged, so the topic has been discussed very enthusiastically.

Just when the two viewpoints were arguing on the same level, the number of people who supported the idea that the national team could win the Asian championship without Liu Mang and Yao Ming suddenly surged, dominating the comments on various related topics in a crushing manner, and domestic forums, not only basketball forums and sports forums, but also a large number of forums and post bars that had just started testing. .

Interested people found that there seemed to be many comments supporting that Liu Mang and Yao Ming could win the Asian championship. It seemed that they were repeated in every post, but their replies, like sand sculptures swept by sea water, were submerged as soon as they came out.

At the same time, there are also examples of European stars who played in the NBA and then went back to play some insignificant games for the European national teams. They played too many games and were injured and could not participate in the World Championships, the Olympic Games and other world competitions.

Not long after, another point of view came out. If Wang Zhizhi came back to lead the team, he was just a role player in the NBA. He was not tired from playing in the NBA. It would be enough for him to come back and lead the team to play in the Asian Championships. There is no need to expose all his strength.

With the escalation of this topic, there is no need for guidance, and some arguments gradually come up, which are more brutal. For example, if there are no NBA stars, the Asian championship will not be won, and the Blue Association and domestic players can all die. Internet trolls have already gone online.

The treason incident has passed for a long time, and the limelight has also passed. In addition, Wang Zhizhi has made a lot of appearances in China by playing for the Lakers.

It’s not just Liu Mang and Yao Ming who make the Chinese people feel honorable. Any domestic athlete playing in the NBA makes the Chinese feel honorable. , As for the fourth one, it is Battelle who just won the championship with the Spurs.

The domestic basketball atmosphere is gradually rising, and more and more people are participating in the discussion, and it seems to be deliberately guided. The mainstream view has become that even if there is no Liu Mang and Yao Ming, and Wang Zhizhi leads the team, it is enough to win the Asian championship.

As for Battelle...he seems to have no interest in the national team. The strangest thing is that he has not been criticized too much. Just when the Blue Association wanted to criticize him, Wang Zhizhi stood up strongly and attracted the limelight away...

There are also some countries that are stronger than basketball, such as Russia, Yugoslavia, Germany, Greece, Argentina and other countries' training camps and the remarks of the national team's training camps, etc...

At first, this topic was only circulated on the Internet, and later it was reprinted by some newspapers. Not only could Yao Ming and Liu Mang win the Asian championship, but also let Wang Zhizhi lead the team, and let Liu Mang and Yao Ming, two stars who played more than 80 regular season games and extra playoffs, take more rest and other topics have become the focus of domestic sports circles.

If there is no criticism of the national team's policy, it is such a gentle discussion that made this topic easily appear in the major mainstream media, and even the People's Daily reprinted this news and various remarks.

At the beginning, the Blue Association and the State General Administration of Sports didn't pay much attention to this matter, but they didn't expect that the influence of a mere network would be so great. Over the past few years, relying on the improvement of integrated technology of electronic chips and the reduction of costs, the Internet has begun to spread in developed areas of the country, and Internet cafes in remote places have also sprung up like mushrooms.

But what cannot be ignored is what cannot be ignored. It is not that no one ignores them. For example, traditional news media still look down on online media at this time.

But when the Internet storm affected the People's Daily to reprint their topic, the matter was completely fired. The General Administration of Sports asked Wei Yuanli, the new director of the Blue Association, to drink tea...

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On July 7th, Liu Mang's 7:[-] p.m. flight flew directly from Atlanta to Shanghai.

Fortunately, Delta Air Lines, one of the top 500 US top [-] companies, is headquartered in Atlanta, so there are direct flights to major cities all over the world. Atlanta's airport transfer station is also ranked among the top three in the world. Many countries have to transfer here when they want to go to another country.

Back then, Liu Mang's parents asked him to apply for Georgia Tech, partly because of the convenient transportation here.

Schwartz came to Liu Mang's house the morning before Liu Mang's return to China.

Schwartz still wants to stay in the United States. He signed some undrafted players, including Haslem introduced by Liu Mang. He also signed Wade, the No. 5 pick, and two second-round picks James Lang and Brandon Hunter.

When Liu Mang heard that there were more players from the same company, he had to lament the sharpness of Schwartz's vision. He had never heard of any of these two players.

Schwartz is going to Las Vegas and Orlando to wait for them to play the summer league, the kind that flies back and forth, and if those undrafted picks have a chance to sign, he will have new NBA players.

Liu Mang's commercial promotion will start in August, and then Schwartz will come to cooperate with Nike to participate in the promotion with Liu Mang.

After Schwartz reported the domestic news to Liu Mang, he asked Liu Mang worriedly, "Ace, can this really help Big-By return to the national team?"

Schwartz very much hopes that Wang Zhizhi can return to the national team. One aspect is that he did not think carefully last year, which led to Wang Zhizhi being banned from the national team. Another aspect is of course money. Wang Zhizhi’s current commercial value has been greatly damaged, which is not as high as that of Liu Mang’s teammates in the Eagles. Because all domestic endorsers have terminated their contracts with Wang Zhizhi. Only when Wang Zhizhi returns to the national team can he have a chance to develop Wang Zhizhi’s commercial value.

Wang Zhizhi doesn't care about those, otherwise he wouldn't join the Lakers with a basic salary. The Clippers, Nuggets and other teams have given him better offers, but Schwartz makes money from commissions, so he cares a lot!
"I think it can be done." Liu Mang shrugged and said, "It didn't cost much anyway. If it succeeds, it will succeed. If it doesn't, just keep waiting."

Having said that, Liu Mang knew that Wang Zhizhi would definitely return to the national team. First, he gave a violent online offensive and used a gentle approach to get ordinary traditional media involved in this topic, forcing the Blue Association to let go of Wang Zhizhi's return to the national team due to the pressure of the domestic masses, and let go of Liu Mang and Yao Ming's right to choose to participate in some irrelevant events in Asia.

People these days don't understand the power of cyber violence, but Liu Mang does!
The cyber violence this time is not aimed at a certain person, but at the Lanxie.

Instead of directly criticizing the Blue Association, raise a topic and use a roundabout tactic.

Why make everyone blush? Liu Mang has been thinking about this matter for a long time. According to his foresighted understanding of the Internet, after the playoffs, he asked Schwartz to do this. First, he throws out an argument, asks people to post it on basketball forums and sports forums, collects enough arguments that he wants, and then uses bombing-style water army attacks to occupy domestic forums and post bars.

Since there was no direct attack on anyone, it was just a discussion, which triggered a topic of discussion among the whole people, and everything went quite smoothly.

As for the reprinting of the People's Daily, it was a complete accident.

Liu Mang didn't want to confront Lan Cooperate head-on, that kind of harmless, milder method is still a sharp knife for killing people.

It’s not that Liu Mang doesn’t want to participate in the national team’s competition, it’s just the Asian Championships and Asian Games. Now there are Jiao Jian, Li Ke, Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Zhang Jinsong, Li Nan, Sun Jun, Fan Bin, Liu Wei, Guo Shiqiang, etc., plus Wang Zhizhi, which is enough to win the championship in Asia. In addition, there will be Yi Jianlian, Sun Yue and others who will join the national team in the future. Wouldn’t it be good to give them a chance to gain experience in Asian competitions?If you insist on taking care of everything yourself, it will hinder their development.

So Liu Mang wanted to give himself and Yao Ming the right to choose whether to play in the Asian tournament. Liu Mang really wanted to participate in the World Series, but he didn't think it was necessary in the Asian tournament. Everything revolved around the two of them. Whether the others should improve.

On Yao Ming's side, Liu Mang felt that Yao Ming might still choose to participate in some games. Liu Mang's goal was to give Wang Zhizhi a chance to return to the national team and put pressure on the Blue Association so that they would not let Yao Ming participate in those warm-up games that he did not have.

If it was just the Asian Championships, the Asian Games, the World Championships, and the Olympics, Yao Ming's participation would not matter much. His injuries were never caused by these four major competitions, but those warm-up matches that he didn't win, such as the Stankovic Cup, which is called the World Series but is useless.

And when Yao Ming saw that even without him, after Yi Jianlian and others entered the national team, they could lead the national team to win the Asian championship without worrying so much, Liu Mang would slowly persuade Yao Ming to play less in the Asian Championships and Asian Games.

As for Wang Zhizhi's matter, first give the soft knife, or the soft knife that came out suddenly without knowing why the Lanxie itself, let them let go, no matter whether they really invited Wang Zhizhi to return to China, and then let Wang Zhizhi take the initiative to admit his mistake and give the Lanxie face, this matter will be over.

The most important thing is that the matter of Wang Zhizhi originally happened like this, but Wang Zhizhi had already faded out of the NBA at that time. Now relying on Wang Zhizhi's fairly good performance in the NBA and the advantage of the public opinion that was slowly guided, the Blue Association took the initiative to let go and help Wang Zhizhi return to the national team in advance.

After seeing off Schwartz, who was worried about gains and losses, Liu Mang continued to move the things prepared by the two beauties to the pickup truck, and also contacted the domestic car rental company. Seven or eight large boxes, half of which were empty boxes, went to the airport to buy those duty-free Chinese-made drinks and tobacco. Moutai and other drinks and tobacco in the United States are cheaper than domestic ones.

Liu Mang is also convinced by this!

Liu Mang couldn't wait to go home.

(End of this chapter)