From today on is the king

Chapter 391 389. The Last Yugoslavia
Liu Mang returned to Atlanta, and all the domestic media went to Indianapolis to cover the World Championships. When Liu Mang came back, he first went to the arena for a stroll, but none of the domestic reporters nearby saw it. It was estimated that he couldn’t stand it after waiting for more than one or two months. Moreover, the World Championships will start in more than half a month, and all the attention was attracted there.

After returning to the apartment for one night, I really can’t take it easy. There are too many skills I want to practice, such as three-pointers, layups, mid-range shots, change of direction breakthroughs, pull-up layups...

The main reason is that now that his strength has become stronger, although his layup ability has increased to 85, it is estimated that his dunk ability has become stronger, because Liu Mang feels that he is not used to it when he lays up.

So Liu Mang didn't even have the idea of ​​resting, and started training alone again... It seemed that he couldn't be lonely either.

"Dinah, my training is boring, what are you doing here!" Liu Mang was about to go out, when he saw the little loli in sportswear following behind him, Liu Mang was speechless, it's not that he didn't want to see the little loli, it's just that the training was too boring, he was afraid that Dinah would go home after a while, and his training would have to be interrupted.

"It's okay, Dinah helps uncle pick up the ball! Watch the uncle train! I haven't seen him for a long time, Dinah misses him so much!" Little Lolita's big eyes seemed to be filled with stars.

Liu Mang rolled his eyes: "Stop! Tell me, what's the purpose!"

Being seen through, being cute doesn't work?Then act like a baby!Dinah went to Liu Mang's side and grabbed Liu Mang's hand and said, "Uncle...can I buy ice cream for Dinah..."

Depend on!This trick again!
Liu Mang felt that this little loli seemed to have caught his own weakness!
Liu Mang resisted the urge to agree: "No, Levia said that you are changing your teeth, and you will develop tooth decay!"

"Dinah rinsed her mouth after eating ice cream, uncle..." Dinah continued to act coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, but you can't go home after going to the training hall, you have to wait for me to finish training!" Liu Mang said helplessly.

"Uncle is the best!" Dinah jumped up, and Liu Mang quickly hugged Dinah.

"Let's go!" Dana slumped in Liu Mang's arms and waved her small fists...

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Sometimes the little loli is very helpless and desperate, and sometimes she is very obedient and cute.

When she arrived at the training hall of Phillips Arena, Dinah bought a bunch of snacks at the only convenience store in the arena that was open all year round, and then she really obediently watched Liu Mang train at the side of the training ground, and occasionally helped Liu Mang pick up the ball when she got tired.

Dinah followed Liu Mang to the training hall, not just to eat every day. Sometimes she would bring some books to read, sometimes she would bring a drawing board, and draw whatever was interesting. Most of the time, she would draw Liu Mang’s shooting posture. Sometimes she took a book similar to the "phonetic symbols" for learning English in China to practice Chinese by herself. Occasionally Alexia would come with her.

Seeing Liu Mang repeating the same movements and training every day, Dinah was sometimes puzzled...sometimes she practiced according to Liu Mang's movements...

It's not that Liu Mang practiced to death and didn't know how to rest. Occasionally after training in the morning, he would take Dinah and the occasional Levia or Alexia out for a stroll in the afternoon. While relaxing, he thought about the lack of training. It is also very important to balance work and rest.

As time passed, the World Championships started on August 8.

There was a big upset in the group stage.

The competition system of this year's World Championships is very characteristic. In addition to the 12 countries that originally qualified for the competition according to the allocation of places on each continent, four participating countries including Canada, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Algeria were added to the qualifying round. The group stage is divided into two rounds.

At the beginning, it was divided into four groups A. Each team played three games first, and then grouped again after the game. After the grouping, it was not possible to repeat the existing match of the first grouping, and then played three more games.

Ever since, after the US team won the first five games in a row, they met Argentina in the sixth game...

After that, there was the amazing performance of Yaodao. Argentina ended the dream team's 58-game winning streak and defeated the US team 87-80.

Popovich, who has the right to sign Ginobili, was ecstatic, and immediately gave Ginobili a two-year contract of 400 million yuan.

The performance of the Chinese team was not bad. Although they were overthrown by Pierce when they were leading by 12 points in the group match against the US team, they lost 19 points in the end, but they won the group match against Algeria and ranked No.12 in the world after the group match.

And some American fans believe that if Liu Mang participated in this World Championships, there will be no embarrassing situation where the Chinese defender cannot complete the dribble from the second quarter.

In the first quarter, when the U.S. team didn’t implement a full-court press, because Yao Ming crushed the dominance of the U.S. center in the interior, a group of pitchers from the outside of the Chinese team stunned the U.S. team. However, when his teammates couldn’t do it after dribbling the ball, Yao Ming had to turn back and run.

However, Yao Ming has six group games and two qualifying games, a total of eight games. He can get anything he wants against almost any opponent. He averaged 21 points, 9 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game. For the first time in his national team career, he won the honor of the best center lineup in the World Championships.

This allowed Yao Ming, who did not participate in the summer league, to reassure Houston fans. Playing Ben Wallace is the same as playing for fun, provided that the ball can be delivered to Yao Ming.

Kobe, who was watching the U.S. team game at home, cursed the idiots of the U.S. team, touched Vanessa's stomach, and exclaimed: That damn rookie... No, it's a bastard in the second grade, not bragging!This big guy is really powerful!

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to the knockout stage.

Originally, even if the U.S. team lost a game in the group stage, U.S. fans were still not worried about their performance. They were the Dream Five team led by two top stars, Ben Wallace and Pierce.

As a result, they met Yugoslavia in the first round of the knockout round...

I was abused again, this time with no temper. The US team fell behind from the beginning to the end of the game, and was killed without the ability to struggle.

After that, Yugoslavia crushed all the opponents all the way. In the end, Yugoslavia strongly defended its glory. Before it completely disintegrated, it won the last world championship.

Peja Stojakovic also won his first World Series Player of the Year award, but also the last.

The golden generation of Argentina can start to step into the top, won the No.2 World Championships, and the German team with Nowitzki won the third place.

New Zealand has achieved the best record in Australia's history, ranking No.4. New Zealand's national team does not have a single NBA player. The best player is Kirk Penny, the star of Barcelona in La Liga, and a former teammate of Pau Gasol.

The U.S. team suffered a series of disastrous defeats at home, was eliminated in the first round of the knockout round, and then won the first qualifying game in the 5th to 8th place, advanced to the 5th to 6th qualifying competition, and then met Spain...

Seeing that Gasol is even better than Yao Ming, playing Antonio Davis and Ben Wallace, the American fans are going crazy. When did there be so many big bosses?Why are all the opponents so powerful?How come international centers can beat our country's top defensive centers so badly?

When the US team lineup was released, although fans complained that there was not a single NBA first team, and there was no All-Star starter, they still felt that this lineup was enough.

Now I find out... What a fart!All opponents are Gundams!

The U.S. team only got No.6 in the end. Except in 1998 because of the lockout, no NBA players participated in the World Championships. This year’s World Championships is the first time since the establishment of the Dream Team that they did not win the championship. It is even the worst record in the history of the U.S. team.

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After the World Championships, it was already mid-September.

Most of the Hawks players have returned to Atlanta one after another, and some players have already started to come back for training. There is only one exception. Glenn Robinson has not come to Atlanta to report.

On September 9th, Liu Mang went to the movies with Dinah, Alexia, and Levia in the morning. Liu Mang had really seen very few American movies in his previous life, except for those superhero movies of Marvel and DC, or some comedies.

It was the first Bourne movie starring Matt Damon. Liu Mang watched it very enthusiastically. He thought it was fine if Dinah watched it enthusiastically. Unexpectedly, the two women also watched it very enthusiastically.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang brought Dinah to the Phillips Arena.

Unlike Dinah who is young and has excellent language talent, the two adult women are much slower in learning languages, and their Chinese is far behind Dinah. Dinah can express simple ideas in crappy Chinese, but the two women are unconvinced. Alexia and Levia are learning Chinese every day during the long vacation as a teacher.

When she arrived at the arena, Dinah saw a team staff greet them warmly.

Dinah "disdains" playing with the school children, but she is very enthusiastic about the adults. After staying in the arena for almost a month, almost everyone knows Liu Mang, a beautiful "daughter".

Seeing Dinah "bluffing and cheating" everywhere as her daughter, cheating snacks everywhere, Liu Mang expressed despair and helplessness, but there was nothing he could do.

However, after taking Dinah into the arena, Liu Mang found that there seemed to be more people than before.

Although some teammates have returned to Atlanta before, they did not come to the arena to train during training. They only came occasionally, and most of them practiced at home. Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff all have their own single-family houses. Even if they are not villas, they also have their own yards and open-air courts.

Liu Mang led Dinah, who had cheated another ice cream and a bunch of snacks, into the training ground, and saw Coach Kruger, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, leading three rookies to give orders.

"Coach, are you back?" Liu Mang asked in surprise.

Doesn't the training camp start on October 10st?

"Ace, you're here. We started the training camp two weeks earlier today. Because you've been training, we didn't notify you." Coach Kruger looked at Liu Mang's growing body and smiled with satisfaction.

At the end of June, Liu Mang told Coach Kruger that he was going to start strength training. Coach Kruger felt that this student was really great. People who work hard will always be liked, such as Vujacic. The Zen Master has said more than once that Vujacic is his favorite Lakers player. Even Vujacic couldn’t find a job in the NBA. After Zen Master became the president in New York, he brought Vujacic there again.

Even if you can't play, it's good to set an example for your teammates in training, isn't it?
"Coach, Dinah is here too!" Dinah saw a few new adults who could be 'baited' again, trying to show her sense of existence.

"Dinah?" Coach Kruger saw Dinah for the first time. He had heard of it, but he had never seen it. Coach Kruger asked, "Ace, this is yours..."

"Dinah is the uncle's daughter!" Dinah started bluffing again.

Although Coach Kruger knew that Liu Mang could not have a daughter, Liu Mang was recruited into the jacket team by Coach Kruger less than two months after he came to the United States to study, but Dinah was so cute. Coach Kruger followed Dinah's words and said hello: "So it's Ace's daughter. Hello, Dinah, my name is Ron Kruger, beautiful young lady, can you tell me your name?"

"Uh..." Liu Mang looked at the childlike Coach Kruger, damn, this little loli is a scourge!Swindle everywhere!
"Dinah's name is Dinah-s... Dinah-Liu! Mr. Kruger, it's the first time we meet, here's the red envelope!" Dinah stretched out her devil's little paw after speaking.

"Red envelope?" Coach Kruger asked suspiciously when he heard this new word.

Liu Mang was in so much pain, if he knew it, he would not have told domestic stories to this little loli. Liu Mang could only start popularizing science again: "This is a custom of meeting in China. When we meet the elders for the first time, the elders will wrap their hearts in red paper and give them to the younger generation. Nowadays, they usually put money in it, and let the children choose what to buy."

Why again?Because the little loli has cheated a lot of red envelopes recently, ranging from 1 dollar to 100 dollars, Dinah doesn't care how much money she has, she just wants to have fun.

"Haha, okay, I see, Dinah, when you come back tomorrow, I will prepare a big red envelope for you." Coach Kruger is very happy today!
"The coach can't tell lies! Otherwise, the nose will get longer!" Dana said excitedly.

"OK, the nose gets longer when you lie!"

After getting a satisfactory answer, Dinah ran to the fan area beside the training field and found a place to sit and eat snacks without Liu Mang's instructions.

If you want to talk about why Coach Kruger is so happy today, isn't it because the three selected rookies performed well in the summer league!

After the summer league ended, the Eagles signed contracts with all three rookies, and then advanced part of their salaries, allowing the players to go home for two months of summer vacation, and now they are reporting to the team.

"Come on, Ace, meet your new teammates. I don't know if you have forgotten them. This is Carlos, Matt, and Tyshawn. This is Liu Mang. You should all know him." Coach Kruger introduced three new teammates to Liu Mang. Of the four new teammates who joined this season, three of them have already arrived.

Barnes, Prince, and Boozer were very excited when they saw Liu Mang. Three months ago, with Liu Mang's finger, the three of them were definitely selected by the Eagles.

What does this represent?
The team has the right to speak!

However, only three months have passed!Liu Mang, who used to be thin, now looks about the same as Barnes, the strongest of the three. Boozer and Prince are both 21 years old at the same age, while Barnes is already 22 years old. In addition, he has been on the streets all year round, and his physical development is obviously mature, which is closer to the standard size of the position played in the NBA.

And when Liu Mang first met three months ago, he was still a thin guard. Although he is not a muscular guard now, he is obviously much thicker!It's just that the naked eye can tell that there have been obvious changes.

Whether it's out of gratitude, out of fear of "power", or out of respect for Liu Mang's hard training, all three of them respect Liu Mang very much.

Relatively speaking, although Boozer looks like a bandit, he raised his head bald after the summer league and his hair loss became more serious. He looks more like a bandit, but he is a shy person, and Prince doesn't talk much.

Sure enough, Barnes, who was still physically and mentally consistent, took the initiative and was the first to say hello: "Hi Ace, I'm Matt, and I will take care of my buddies in the future."

Followed by Boozer and Prince both said hello.

"Hi, Ace." Prince still said little.

"Hello, Ace, your daughter is so beautiful. I also have a beautiful daughter who is a little younger than your daughter." Boozer scratched his head as he spoke, very restrained.

Liu Mang has an overwhelming achievement!

I also have the treatment of a "senior", and I am no longer a rookie!
However, the three people gave Liu Mang a completely different impression.

Barnes is really enthusiastic, and he deserves to be a man who dares to bring his teammates home.

It's not that Boozer is unwilling to talk, but he's not familiar with him yet, so he's a little shy, which doesn't match his appearance.

Prince, who looks like a stranger, is cold and indifferent, like a new... cool guy Newbell?

After saying hello, coach Kruger gave Liu Mang the new season's player handbook, and then took the three rookies to do a physical examination.

Liu Mang flipped through the player handbook, mainly to see the new team lineup.

There are a lot of teammates whose names are gone.

Names like Jacqui Vaughn, Alan Henderson, Kukoc, Strickland, and Reggie Lester, who was signed after Hannah Mettola was reimbursed for the season, and the veteran Dick Simpkins who played a short-term job, seem to have retired without much attention.

Looking at the new lineup, Liu Mang felt a little sentimental.

But also looking forward to the new season!
The Eagles lineup is pretty explosive right now!

Back line: Liu Mang, Dean Grove, Jason Terry, Emmanuel and Glenn Robinson.

Up front: Raheem, Prince, Barnes, Muhammad, Newbell, Boozer.

There are Ratliff, Mettola, and Leon Smith at the center position.

Strong soldiers and strong horses require talent and talent, and strength and strength!

Liu Mang went to the locker room to change into a training suit and came out. He saw his teammates coming one after another on the report day of the team's early training camp. Many people had already returned to Atlanta. Raheem and Jason Terry also came to see Liu Mang's training before.

Finally seeing his familiar teammates, Liu Mang really feels that a new season is coming this time!
But...Liu Mang caught the little loli who was asking for red envelopes everywhere, it was too embarrassing!
(End of this chapter)