From today on is the king

Chapter 816 815. Let me teach you to win the championship
Liu Mang and Levia went to a restaurant outside with Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson for a meal.

After eating, Yao Ming saw that neither Liu Mang nor Levia had the intention to be hosts, and sighed inwardly. Fortunately, Richard Jefferson took the initiative to pay the bill.

After Richard Jefferson arrived at the Rockets, he became very familiar with Yao Ming.

The reason is simple, he has never been so noticed before!
In the past three seasons, the Nets were very popular. They reached the Eastern Conference Finals for three consecutive years and the Finals for two consecutive years. However, only Kidd was popular in the Nets.

Richard Jefferson was not happy when he was traded to the Rockets in the summer. The Rockets were in the West and it was too difficult to reach the conference finals like the Nets.

However, when Richard Jefferson met Yao Ming as a teammate for the first time at the Toyota Center after Yao Ming returned to Houston to prepare for the new season after playing the Olympics, he felt like he was living in a dream!

Neither Carter nor Kidd had as many reporters with Yao Ming. Not only Chinese and Asian reporters, but also many reporters from the United States interviewed Yao Ming after he returned to Houston. Richard Jefferson, as the most important signing of the Rockets in the summer, naturally became the second most watched star of the Rockets after Yao Ming.

All of a sudden, from a small supporting role next to Kidd and Carter, he became the second male lead, and Richard Jefferson felt unprecedented attention.

This kind of attention can easily fascinate people. He quickly decided that he wanted to become good brothers with Yao Ming, and he would go wherever Yao Ming went every day.

Although the purpose was very strong at the beginning, the two still hit it off, and soon they really became good friends.

Richard Jefferson is the kind of player with leadership talent. James, who has become famous in the future, strongly invites him to be the leader of the Cavaliers. In the case of 1 to 3 behind in the finals, he scored 6 points on 4 of 8 shots in the fifth game and played a big role in helping the Cavaliers reverse the process.

The fact that he didn't show leadership in the Nets before was entirely because Carter couldn't be a leader with Kidd, let alone Richard Jefferson.

But now, when it comes to the Rockets, Yao Ming's leadership ability is not strong, and Richard Jefferson's leadership ability is displayed.

Most importantly, Richard Jefferson has improved so much!

In the last year of his rookie contract, Richard Jefferson averaged 23.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 4.4 assists per game. He was able to play with the ball. Although he was not top-notch, his breakthrough points and open three-pointers after receiving Yao Ming's points were very accurate.

Yao Ming has also made great progress, averaging 22 points, 10.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.9 blocks per game. There are only two centers in the league averaging 20+ per game, one is O'Neal and the other is Yao Ming.

Yao Ming can play such a good performance in the Rockets, and Liu Mang is also happy for Yao Ming. Anyway, the Rockets can't play in the West. Since they can't play in the West, Liu Mang hopes that the Rockets will be as strong as possible, so as to create more troubles for those strong Western teams in the playoffs.

The most regrettable thing is that the Rockets are reluctant to pay. After the Mavericks gave up on Nash, it takes less than four hours to drive from Houston to Dallas in Texas. The Rockets now have two core players on rookie contracts, which add up to less than $800 million.

How would Nash fight Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson?It was also a very interesting situation for Liu Mang, but unfortunately it didn't happen.

Yao Ming, who has an ability rating of 90, is only 24 years old and has a promising future. There is also Richard Jefferson, who is also 24 years old and three months older than Yao Ming, who has an ability rating of 88. Both of them have not yet reached the peak of theory. It is a pity that the point guard next to him is Bob Sura, who averages 10 points and 5 assists per game...

The Rockets have two very strong points, one is even the strongest in the West, but they can only be in the second half of the Western Conference playoffs...

I have deep sympathy for Yao Ming's encounter with Liu Mang. He has already said what he can say. Whether Yao Ming can find a showdown with Dawson or Alexander and ask for a point guard who can pass the ball to him does not require him to keep scoring in singles. It depends on Yao Ming himself.

Although Liu Mang has a good relationship with Yao Ming, he can't tell him not to.

However, the Rockets are not that strong now, so they can be used as targets to try out new styles of play!

After having lunch with Yao Ming, Liu Mang and Levia took Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson back to the hotel, and then took Levia to visit McGrady...

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"Ace, you said we're going to fight and run away?" McGrady asked in confusion, thinking that this attention was too ridiculous and unreliable, everything would work, but this would not work.

"No, no, it's a small ball, not a run!" Liu Mang emphasized. After talking for a long time, why can't this guy understand?

Liu Mang just told McGrady the small ball tactics he had discussed with Mike Woodson many times, but Liu Mang seemed to think that McGrady took this as a run and gun.

However, it's not that McGrady can't understand, it's just that he can't accept it: "Ace, I understand what you said, using a high-speed rotation defense to suppress the opponent's mistakes and counterattack, but O'Neal, Yao, Garnett, Duncan, J-O'Neal and other players, it is useless for us to use a small lineup to suppress the defense!"

Unexpectedly, McGrady was worried about this, and Liu Mang replied: "Then we don't need a small lineup to beat them, and our lineup is not small. Kwame and Rashid are both fast big men, and they also have inside height."

"..." Mai Di found that no matter what he said to Liu Mang, Liu Mang always had a wrong reason!
"Tracey, think about it. It's because of you that we have the opportunity to play this style of play! Don't you want to win the assists title? You've already won the scoring title, isn't it interesting? I'll take it later. Think about it. You serve as the starting point of the offense, allowing teammates to score when they have a chance. We bring the defensive pressure and play a beautiful transition between offense and defense..." Liu Mang began to flicker... No, he persuaded McGrady, and the power of the head of state was activated.

McGrady still misses the assist king very much!Playing with Liu Wei, don't even think about the scoring champion. Although McGrady is not too obsessed with the data champion, who doesn't want to win it?
However, McGrady still resisted a little, which was out of the ordinary: "But I can't run and gun! The coach will not allow us to fight and run! He should not be the kind of coach who can fight and run."

The coach knows it, he should know it... In Liu Mang's view, Coach Kruger is just a super awesome college coach who can think of a way to integrate tactics into the team. He is just in his early 40s, his forehead area is getting wider and wider, and his hair is getting thinner.

Forcibly believing that Coach Kruger can run and shoot, if he wants to deceive others, he must first deceive himself. Liu Mang's speech style has become more and more stylish, and he said to McGrady very firmly: "Tracey, what tactics does the coach not know? He knows the triangle offense, Princeton, and pick-and-roll tactics! And ours is not running and shooting, but small ball tactics! We are another giant leading the development of basketball! We succeeded this time and will be recorded in history!"

Seeing Liu Mang's full momentum, McGrady asked weakly, "Did you fail?"

"There is no failure! We will definitely succeed!" Liu Mang continued to say with confidence.

"But I don't know how to play this way..." McGrady still wanted to struggle, he felt that he was about to be convinced, this feeling was a bit weird.

"It's okay, I will teach you to win against the Rockets tomorrow..."

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Liu Mang rang the doorbell, and a middle-aged Caucasian woman opened the door. After seeing Liu Mang, she greeted enthusiastically, "Ace, why are you here? I'm so happy. After Little Jimmy left, our house was so deserted. This is..."

Liu Mang hurriedly introduced: "Santa, this is my girlfriend Levia, Levia, this is the coach's wife, Santa."

"Hello, I'm Levia." Levia naturally stepped forward and hugged Liu Mang's "mother".

"Of course I know you, Levia, but Ace seems to be with one of my female students... Wow, Ace, I have you..." Santa teased Liu Mang for a while, but didn't care. She also had a good impression of Levia.

Santa knows Alexia very well. She used to be her student, but she didn't know Levia. Now that they met for the first time, she felt that Levia was a nice person, so she didn't think too much about it.

The big stars of the four major leagues in the United States, whose private life is so innocent.

Liu Mang actually felt shy when he heard his wife's ridicule, but he felt sorry for Coach Kruger and his wife. Such a good couple, especially the friendly Santa people, actually lost the chance to have children.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Mang and Levia came to Coach Kruger's residence, which is a suite-style apartment next to Georgia Institute of Technology, where many professors of Georgia Institute of Technology have real estate.

Coach Kruger used to be the head coach of the Georgia Institute of Technology Jacket team, and he was paid at the professor level, with a lot of bonuses. He was quite rich. Santa Kruger was also a lecturer at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Since little Jimmy went to high school in Southern California, Coach Kruger and his wife, Santa Kruger, have become "empty nesters" at home.

After Santa had an accidental miscarriage more than ten years ago, she lost her chance to have children. Except for little Jimmy, she did not adopt other children, which is a common situation in European and American countries.

Santa seldom appears in the public eye. Except for Liu Mang’s memory of occasionally seeing her teacher at Georgia Tech during college, it seems that she has never seen her in the past three years since entering the NBA.

"Ace, Levia, come in quickly..." Santa warmly greeted the two to go in: "Lang, Ace and Levia are here, come out quickly, I'm going to make tea, do you want black tea or coffee?"

"Black tea, mine has less sugar and less milk, what about you, Levia?" Liu Mang asked.

"Let me help Santa, Ace, talk to the coach." Levia said and walked to the kitchen with Santa.

"Leviia, you want to help me? That's great. I haven't made tea for Ace yet. I don't know what flavor he likes. It would be best to have your help. By the way, Levia, how did you and Ace meet..."

Listening to the gossip sound getting quieter, Liu Mang felt very painful. This mistress is good at everything, but she is too gossip. It is exactly the same as in memory. Women gossip regardless of age or national boundaries!
After a while, Coach Kruger came out. He seemed to have deliberately combed his hair, oiled it up, and changed his shirt.

Not only did Liu Mang not feel that there was anything wrong with coach Kruger always maintaining his manners in front of the players, but he also envied Coach Kruger, a young man who always maintained his manners.

If he is in his 40s and still has coach Kruger's strict motivation, Liu Mang thinks it will be very difficult!
"Ace, it's rare, you actually came to my house, what's the matter?" Coach Kruger said majesticly.

This kind of majesty is very effective in the Eagles team, but for Liu Mang, this kind of majesty already has a strong immunity.

Liu Mang stood up and sat next to Coach Kruger across the coffee table, smiling nonstop.

Seeing Liu Mang's smile and this familiar behavior, Coach Kruger's heart twitched, and an ominous premonition shrouded...

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A few minutes later, Liu Mang and Levia were kicked out before they had time to drink tea.

"Ace, what did you say to the coach? Why did he get angry all of a sudden?" Levia said worriedly, it's nothing to be kicked out, the key is whether this will affect Liu Mang's future?
"It's okay, the coach is like this, just get used to it, this is full of love!" Liu Wei is very happy now.

Coach Kruger just drove him away angrily, and didn't pull him into a heart-to-heart talk, which means that Coach Kruger has most likely agreed!

Seeing that Liu Mang was so happy, Levia didn't know what to say. It would be best if nothing happened. Levia decided to visit Coach Kruger alone one day and give some gifts. Now she can only pull Liu Mang into the car: "Okay, let's pick up Dinah from school..."

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As Liu Mang expected, after Liu Mang left, Coach Kruger's anger turned into helplessness.

"Lang, why did you drive Ace away?" Santa complained.

"I'm busy now, and I get angry when I see that kid, and it adds to my workload, and I didn't say this kind of thing earlier, so I'm causing trouble now." Coach Kruger explained.

"What's wrong with Ace?"

"That bastard, he said he wants to play small ball! Well, I'm going to be busy, call Mike for me..."

(End of this chapter)