From today on is the king

Chapter 898 897. The Little New Year's Eve Battle
"Speak! Uncle, what are you trying to do! Do you want to trick Dinah into buying you something again? Dinah's pocket money is about to run out! No money!" Little Lolita hid far away, last time she was tricked by the evil uncle into buying a laptop with an ice cream, and now little Lolita is quite afraid of Liu Mang.

"..." On the way home from training, Liu Mang saw that Dinah's favorite dessert shop had new products, so he bought a box specially, but who knew it was taken as a conspiracy to cheat her out of money!

Liu Mang is so angry, is he that kind of person?
Angrily, Liu Mang put the snacks on the table, and angrily went to the backyard to continue shooting with the ball.

Little Lolita saw Liu Mang gone, so she carefully opened the snack box, took a bite, it was not poisonous, it was delicious, and then she ate it...

In the three days from the 27th to the 29th, the Eagles players on the 27th will have a day off, and the coaching staff will meet to continue to study how to play the next game.

On the 28th, the remaining six opponents before the All-Star Weekend will play the Rockets away; the Clippers, Bulls, and Timberwolves at home;

On the 29th, I was in Atlanta for training for the game against the Rockets. The game against the Rockets had a four-day rest period, so there was no need for a rotation. It was also a rehearsal for the first game after the All-Star Weekend - against the Heat.

Because Liu Mang is going to have a child of his own in more than nine months, he wanted to have a little girl, but he didn't expect to be rejected!
Alexia now sees Liu Mang being courteous and avoids Liu Mang, for fear that Liu Mang will do something wild.

Liu Mang just wanted to pay more attention to his girlfriend who was pregnant with a child!
Only then did Liu Mang know what it means to go too far, so he simply stayed the same as usual, and then spent the night with Levia for the past few days...

On the morning of January 1th, Liu Mang and Dinah came back from a morning run together, took a shower, and then set off for the airport, to Houston, to fight Yao Ming!
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"Ace, you are amazing this year! It's amazing!" Yao Ming exclaimed.

Liu Mang is now averaging 36.5 points per game, which is a steady beep, and because he is competing with Kobe for the 40+ ranking, Yao Ming feels that Liu Mang's scoring average may still rise.

Kobe Bryant is really an iron man. The team doctor said that he had to rest for a few games, but he just persisted and played, just like Liu Mang's memory. Kobe would survive until two months left in the season.

Moreover, due to Liu Wei's relationship in this time and space, Kobe's progress in the summer was faster than before. At this time, the Lakers' coach Tomjanovich has been absent for a month on and off, and they haven't completely collapsed.

However, for Kobe this season, Liu Wei feels that the threat is not too great. Kobe can score more than 50 points when he is superb, but due to his physical collapse, he often plays dozens of iron games. This season Kobe has two "classic battles". When he played against the Bobcats for the second time, he threw 46 times and only made 22 shots to score 55 points. The Lakers were beaten by the Bobcats by 15 points.

Unfortunately, Boss Joe didn't watch the home game because he was hammered by the Eagles last time...

And when Kobe made more shots and made fewer shots, it was miserable. In one game against the Pistons, he only made 28 of 7 shots and scored 17 points. The Lakers were beaten.

But with Kobe, who can always score high, Yao Ming feels that Liu Mang will feel the pressure, and there will definitely be more 40+ scores.

Yao Ming is really envious. So far, he has scored 40+ twice.

"Dayao, you are also very good, the No. [-] center in the Western Conference, babble..." Liu Mang teased.

"Haha, that's because O'Neal went to the East, otherwise he would be the best." Yao Ming did not refuse the title of the No. [-] center in the West.

"He is older than you, as long as you protect your knees and feet like him, you will definitely be the number one center in the NBA one day!"

"I will, I believe you will become NBA No. 1 one day."

Liu Mang and Yao Ming looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

Commercial flattery always makes one feel good...

The Eagles arrived in Houston in the afternoon. After taking a nap, Liu Mang received a call from Yao Ming and asked him to have dinner at his home.

He only made an appointment with Liu Mang, and Yao Ming was mainly afraid that he would treat guests to dinner at home. Others would not be used to the Chinese food cooked by Ye Li, who accompanied Yao Ming in the United States after retiring from the WCBA.

Liu Mang hasn't eaten Chinese food for a long time, so he won't be taboo today, he ate a big meal, at worst, he will train two more sets of fat loss training.

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Liu Mang and Yao Ming had dinner happily together, and at dawn in China, the day before the game between the Eagles and the Rockets, the heat from the game had already begun to heat up.

The court sports station will broadcast live on February 2, BJ time, which is the morning of the New Year's Eve. The day before the game, domestic fans are looking forward to this "Chinese Derby" approaching the new year.

The Eagles are currently ranked first in the Eastern Conference with 38 wins and 7 losses.

Although the Rockets' record is not that good, their record of 30 wins and 16 losses is also ranked first in the league. It is firmly ranked fifth in the Western Conference, overwhelming the Kings, the top western team in the past few years.

The Rockets are stronger

Not only in China, but also in the United States, the game between the Eagles and the Rockets has also attracted much attention.

The Eagles and Rockets are the representative teams of the old and new NBA styles of play. The Eagles are naturally the representative team of the "run and bomb" tactics that are now rising strongly, while the Rockets are the representative team of the traditional positional team.

The Rockets have a characteristic, the closer to the middle of the season, the better they play!It's a very strange feature. At the end of December, the Rockets were overtaken by the Nuggets and the Kings for a while, but after fighting, the Rockets returned to fifth place in the West.

The most important thing is that the Rockets seem to be able to restrain the running and bombing teams. The Rockets played against the Suns four times this season. They lost miserably in the first game, losing 87 to 107 by 20 points.

It relied on Yao Ming and Richard Jefferson's rebounding advantages to grab offensive rebounds and reduce the opportunity for the Suns to directly launch a fast break. Yao Ming grabbed 22 rebounds in that game, including 11 offensive rebounds, setting a career offensive rebound record.

The third match against the Rockets went a step further and restricted the Suns' positional battle. Richard Jefferson defended Nash with only 6 points and 10 assists. The Suns were killed by the Rockets 89 to 95.

In the seventh game that the Suns lost not long ago, the opponent was the Rockets again. This time, both teams played very well. In the end, relying on the Rockets' new aid Mike James to score 11 points in the final quarter, they defeated the Suns by 99 point 98 to 1.

The Rockets have also become the only team in the league that has a record advantage over the Suns!
The reason why the Rockets can't get up to speed is mainly because of Yao Ming. Yao Ming's presence makes the pace of the game difficult to speed up, so no matter how the Suns speed up, the Rockets look like the Spurs and have been playing steadily.

The Rockets' winning rate in Yao Ming's games this season is as high as 70.00%. He has played a total of 40 games and won 28 games. In the 6 games he did not play, the Rockets only won [-] games.

When a team like the Rockets, which seems to be born to restrain the running and bombing team, meets the famous "running and bombing" team of the Eagles, both Chinese fans and American fans are very interested in this game.

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On January 1st, which is February 31st in China, at 2:1 p.m., the Eagles' away game against the Rockets was about to start, and players from both teams had already entered the field.

Going to Houston to play an away game is a wonderful thing for the Eagles, because there are not many boos. The locals in Houston are too calm, and they are all high-level intellectuals.

Moreover, this game attracted many Chinese tourists, as well as fans from Chinatown in various cities in Texas to watch the game, as well as many Asian fans. When Liu Mang's Eagles team played, they received cheers.

After Liu Mang entered the field, he took a look at the strength of the opponent's players.

Yao Ming's ability evaluation is 90, offense is 92, defense is 89, three-pointer is 61, mid-range shooting is 88, layup is 98, speed is 72, and strength is 98.

Such coquettish strength, the mid-range shot and the basket are so strong!
Richard Jefferson, ability evaluation 87, offense 86, defense 88, three-pointer 85, mid-range shot 77, layup 92.

The strength of the Rockets' core duo is still very strong, which is the key to the Rockets' ranking fifth in the Western Conference, but the others are average.

Rockets guard Bob Sura has an ability rating of 74, and power forward Juwan Howard has an ability rating of 76. The best player in the starting lineup besides Richard Jefferson and Yao Ming is actually David Wesley, a 12-year-old veteran who was traded from the Hornets at the end of December!
David Willis has an ability rating of 79, 79 offense, 80 defense, 84 three-pointers, 79 mid-range shots, 85 layups, 77 strength, and 92 speed.

However, the Rockets' bench lineup really doesn't know what kind of players they have assembled, Mike James from the Bucks, Joan Barry from the Nuggets, Mutombo from the players cut by the Knicks...or they are homeless, or they are players who are too old.

Liu Mang felt that Yao Ming was really pitiful, and when more than 2000 Chinese-speaking or simple Chinese fans shouted to "throw the sniper", he went up and threw a Los Angeles-style slap, and the "kuang" was beautiful and sweet.

Yao Ming hated it so much, why don't he see so many Chinese fans?The usual home court is not angry at all, and the players are not interested in playing at home.

Van Gundy Jr. was also very depressed. Usually the fans didn’t move at all. He also gave free tickets to college students, allowing college students to pretend to be fans of the away team to boo their own team, so that their team felt like they were playing away.

The Rockets won 30 games, 21 of which were away victories, and only 9 at home. Little Van Gundy really didn't understand.

The day before the match, Liu Mang and Yao Ming had a very friendly relationship, but the next day it was different.

This kind of game is related to the "face" of the two. Now that the Chinese New Year is approaching, the game between the Eagles and the Rockets has very high ratings in China. It has broken 1 for a long time. This Chinese derby will have even higher ratings.

Who wouldn't want to win the game that fans in their country care about most?Both Liu Mang and Yao Ming wanted it very much. Before the game, their parents called and said they got up and waited to watch the game, so they would work harder!
The game is about to start, and the Eagles practice their own. Those who should do the pre-game moves are doing the pre-match moves. When Prince dances, there are fans with Asian faces dancing with him. Except for the Knicks, he is always booed when he dances away from home. Unexpectedly, when he dances away from the West, the opposing fans actually give him cheers!Let Prince twist even more excited!

As for the Rockets, playing at home, Van Gundy Jr. habitually called the players together.

"You want to win honor for the fans at home! Hope, no, definitely! We must score more than 100 points today, and we must score the 100th time at home this season, and win hamburgers and Coke for the fans..." Van Gundy was helpless, why did he do such a job!

But just like he said that when he won the honor for the home fans, the players unconsciously looked at the fans who hadn't responded to the game. In the end, he could only talk about that weird way to encourage the players.

These home fans, only hamburgers and Coke can make them happy.

And the Rockets players, mysteriously, cheer up to win hamburgers and Coke for home fans.

As for why these high-level intellectuals and senior white-collar workers with an estimated per capita annual income of $[-] are rewarded with a hamburger and Coke set meal, the Rockets management and coaching staff are also very confused.

And why the Rockets players get excited because they want to give gifts to the fans also makes the Rockets management and coaching staff very confused.

The Rockets have scored 13 points 10 times this season. The most absurd thing is that the home win rate is so low, but [-] times they have scored [-] points at home.

In the away game, the Rockets scored more than [-] points. At the beginning of the season, they did not score more than [-] points in the first month. The Rockets once fell to ninth in the Western Conference due to poor offense. The Rockets management and McDonald's, which sponsors the Rockets, thought of a way.

Unexpectedly, just after the event came out, the Rockets players became more active in playing at home. As long as burgers and Coke were mentioned, the players were very excited.

The Rockets management and coaching staff don't understand this at all.

Anyway, Liu Mang, who came next to Yao Ming and put his hand on Yao Ming's shoulder, didn't understand.

"DiBain, don't worry, we are playing against the Eagles today with such a fast pace, we will definitely score 100 points!" Yao Ming said to his substitute Mutombo, and then saw Liu Mang, patted Liu Mang on the shoulder and said: "Right, Ace, we will definitely score 100 points!"

"Yeah." Liu Mang quickly responded twice.

Yao Ming turned his head to encourage other teammates to pay attention at home, when he suddenly felt something was wrong... Why is that bastard Liu Mang here!
Yao Ming turned his head to stare at Liu Mang. The Rockets players felt something was wrong when they heard Liu Mang's voice just now, and then all the Rockets stared at Liu Mang.

So...

Liu Mang was thrown back to the Hawks bench between Mutombo and Juwan Howard...

This scene happened to be noticed by the sharp-eyed cameraman in advance, and the live TV footage continued until this scene. The fans in front of the TV sets in China and the United States laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, especially Yao Ming.

When Liu Mang was pushed back to the visiting team's bench between Juwan Howard and Dikembe Mutombo, the fans were already laughing...

Liu Mang originally planned to sneak over to listen to the tactics. The Rockets, the only team in the league that has defeated the Suns at least twice, can restrain the fast break. Liu Mang really wants to know, who knows that the other party is discussing hamburgers!

Could it be that when hamburgers are distributed to home fans, these players can also get one?Get a hamburger and coke set that adds up to only $4?
Enough!

Liu Mang didn't know what kind of material the brains of the Rockets were made of.

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At eight o'clock, Liu Mang sprinkled chalk towards the Rockets' bench full of malice, and walked onto the court under the speechless eyes of a group of league officials on the technical table.

For the Eagles, today’s game was rested for four days, so they played with all the main players. Against this legendary opponent with the most experience in dealing with running and bombing teams, it was Varejao’s turn to play in the Development League this time, because Varejao hardly got the chance to play. Korver’s three-pointers are getting better and better.

Liu Mang, McGrady, Prince, Rasheed Wallace, and Kwame Brown made their debut.

The Rockets sent David Wesley, Bob Sura, Richard Jefferson, Juwan Howard and Yao Ming to the starting lineup.

Yao Ming and Kwame Brown came to the middle circle to jump the ball. There was no suspense. When Kwame Brown met the "first center", he jumped up like a chicken blood, and pushed the ball backwards on Yao Ming's head, which only bounced from a matchbox.

Liu Mang received the ball and threw it to McGrady, and rushed towards the frontcourt.

To Liu Mang's surprise, when he rushed to the center line, he was bumped by Yao Ming trying to block someone, and almost fell to the ground. He finally stabilized his body, and his speed was lost all of a sudden. Seeing that the Rockets retreated in place, Liu Mang glared at Yao Ming.

Liu Mang was so angry, he stared at the referee and pointed at Yao Ming and made an Orlando-style complaint: "Referee, he hit me!"

(End of this chapter)