"Zhuang, why are you so happy? If you don't prepare for it, the team is going to set off."

At six o'clock in the morning on March 4, 2008, at the head coach of the Manhattan Challenger, Kupchek was staring at the team's head coach Zhuang Fei holding something that seemed like an invitation letter, and at this time there was an envelope in front of Zhuang Fei's table.

Obviously, Zhuang Fei's strange expression now has something to do with the letter sent this time. Kupchek remembers that the letter was received last night and was only delivered to Zhuang Fei's table this morning. After all, the team had a game against the Warriors last night. Logically speaking, this letter was a private letter that should have been sent to Zhuang Fei's house. Who knew it was sent directly to the team.

"Haha, nothing, it's just that my nephew invited me to watch a game." Zhuang Fei put down the invitation card in his hand, then put the card and tickets into the envelope and said with a smile. After Zhuang Fei finished speaking, Kupchek's eyes lit up.

He knew that Zhuang Fei's nephew Zhuang Lin is a superstar in the high school basketball industry in the United States. Although the yellow race restrictions make his prospects not as optimistic as supernova John Wall and Jennings, who are supernovas, there is no doubt that this young Chinese point guard is the number one in the American high school industry now. And according to Kupchek, he should now take the team to play in Houston's National Invitational. If you think about this, Kupchek quickly guessed that Zhuang Fei's nephew probably has reached the final and invited Zhuang Fei to watch his game.

"I heard of Zhuang Lin. He is a high school student with NBA potential. Now it seems that he wants to congratulate him on entering the finals of the national competition again. There seems to be a great hope of defending the title." When he thought of this, Kupchek also said with some compliments, and at this time Zhuang Fei shook his head.

"What's the final? This guy hasn't played in the semi-finals yet, but the tickets he sent are the finals." Zhuang Fei said speechlessly, and Kupchek was also speechless after hearing this, but unlike Zhuang Fei. After being stunned for a while, the general manager of the Manhattan Challenger actually burst into laughter.

"Zhuang, you two are really similar. One is to create a championship ring before the finals starts. The invitation letter and ticket for the finals have been sent before the semi-finals have been played."

For Kupchek, the most interesting thing that happened in his general manager's career was that when Zhuang Fei was the head coach of the Lakers, he ordered him to create the championship ring when the finals were not started. It can be said that Zhuang Fei, who was in the Lakers at that time, could be described as domineering. Although this word does not seem to be so good, at that time, Zhuang Fei and the Lakers did have such confidence and confidence. Now, Zhuang Fei's nephew is no worse than Zhuang Fei in terms of courage. In this case, Kupchek wanted to see the legendary Zhuang Fei nephew, but it was obvious that if you want to see this young point guard, he probably had to wait until he came to the NBA. He doesn't have time to watch high school games now. Of course, Zhuang Fei actually has no time, but from now on, Zhuang Fei does not seem to be planning to refuse this invitation.

Just as Kupchek guessed, Zhuang Fei really did not refuse Zhuang Lin's invitation this time. After all, last year, Zhuang Fei promised Zhuang Lin that he would go to the scene to witness his crown this year no matter what. When Zhuang Lin won his first championship last year, Zhuang Fei was too busy because of the new establishment of the Manhattan Challenger, but this time he had a chance. After all, Zhuang Lin's game was in Houston, and Zhuang Fei's away trip with the team was also in New Orleans in the Southwest District.

In the last game, Zhuang Fei's team defeated the Warriors who came to challenge away at home. The two teams played extremely strong offensive strength in that game. Although this game was not as sensation as the game between the Manhattan Challengers and the Celtics, there is no doubt that after the game against the Celtics, such a game was played at home, which directly proves that the Manhattan Challengers are in excellent condition. In this case, although the game against the Hornets is a back-to-back away game, many people still expect this game to be able to score a big score, especially for many fans of the Manhattan Challengers.

After all, most of the fans of these Manhattan Challengers have been rebelled by the New York Knicks fans, and the reason for their rebellion is that Zhuang Fei and Manhattan Challengers' basketballs are more beautiful, so if the Manhattan Challengers can play beautiful games, then they are most willing to see them. Just like in the previous game with the Warriors, although the lowest ticket price was set at 500 US dollars by Zhuang Fei, no one felt it was worth it after the game. It was never a problem for these Manhattan Challengers fans to support Manhattan money. The problem is that Manhattan must now ensure that they can give them a reason to support Manhattan. In this case, Zhuang Fei needs to give some gifts to these new Manhattan fans in recent games, and these gifts are naturally Manhattan's victory and offense.

Now, in order to consolidate the fan market in New York and Manhattan, Zhuang Fei cannot slack off in the past few games, whether at home or away, in the past few games. After all, there has been another blowout in the new fans who have watched the fun in recent times, and most of these new fans are satisfied with the last game between Manhattan and the Warriors. Now Zhuang Fei also needs to play the Warriors' performance on the Hornets. This is not too difficult, nor can it be said that it is not difficult. After all, this is an away game.

In this away game against the West, Zhuang Fei was not prepared to let James and Roy, who played the most fiercely in the last game, play. The main theme of this game is O'Neal's one-pin tactical system. In this game against the Hornets, the starting lineup of the Manhattan Challengers is O'Neal, Durant, Korver, Azubuk and Jose Barrea.

Except for O'Neal, all the other four players are shooters. This is a tactical system that the Manhattan Challengers played in the previous game against the Rockets, with O'Neal as the core. Although this tactical system may not be as effective when encountering some teams with strong inside and meticulous defense on the outside, this tactical system is definitely enough for most teams in the league. After all, according to Green and Hebrew's predictions, the Manhattan Challengers only played this tactical system, and Manhattan can still win about 60 wins in a single season.

In this case, this game against the Hornets can actually prove this. For many teams, the biggest problem is never whether the players' lineup is strong or whether the team's tactics are strong. The biggest problem is always whether the ball can be thrown into the basket in the end. The cold feel is this the most common thing in the away game.

Some teams play as beautiful as flowers, but it is useless to not score goals in the end. In this game, the Manhattan Challengers did not have such trouble. In the first quarter, the Manhattan Challengers, who had not felt very good, opened up the situation under O'Neal's main attack. Soon, the other Manhattan Challengers who slowly recovered their touch in the game quickly harvested the game in the second half, which was also the biggest role of O'Neal in this game. If you want to break the cold back-to-back feeling away, the safest and effective way is to have an excellent offensive inside line. O'Neal did a good job in this game.

The final score of the game 122 to 100 will probably satisfy most of the fans of Manhattan Challengers. The Manhattan Challengers not only won, scored a lot, but also played quite gorgeously, especially the three-pointer in the second half of Manhattan's terrifying three-pointer.

Of course, after winning the game against the Hornets, the Manhattan Challenger's current record has reached 54 wins and 5 losses. His current record is still high, and the gap with the Wizards and the Spurs has once again widened.

After the game, Zhuang Fei also accepted Zhuang Lin's invitation to leave the team to Houston to watch this year's high school league national finals, while the Manhattan Challenger player flew to Charlotte to prepare for the match against the Bobcats.

This year's high school students' national competition in the United States is not fierce. Last year, the competition between Wake Forest High School and Oak Hill High School was terrifying. The second point guard of high school Jennings joined forces with the first high school player Beasley to fight the second person of the league Zhuang Lin and the fourth point guard of the league. It can be said that last year's high school league finals were the peak of recent years.

This year, there is only one Jennings left at Oak Mountain High School. Although Jennings averaged 33 points, 8 assists and 5 rebounds per game this season, he set a scoring record in Oak Mountain's history and performed extremely well. Many people have said that he has surpassed Zhuang Lin and became the number one player in high school, but it is obvious that even if he became the number one player in high school, he may have some tragedy against Zhuang Lin, the second in high school and Wall, the third in high school. After all, he was tragic by Zhuang Lin last year, even if he made great progress this year.

In fact, in this game held on March 6, Oak Hill High School led by Jennings lost to Wake Forest High School, and the best score was a terrifying 65-93. This was the biggest defeat in Oak Hill's history. Zhuang Lin and Wall's high-pressure point guards almost made Oak Hill even difficult for dribbling. Even point guards of Jennings made 9 mistakes in this game.

After this game, Zhuang Lin once again won the MVP of the High School Best Player and the High School National Competition with his outstanding performance this year, Zhuang Fei was also happy for him in the stands. It is obvious that Zhuang Lin saw Zhuang Fei when he celebrated with Wall this time, so when the excited young point guard shouted to the stands loudly on the court, the entire Houston University Church Basketball Hall immediately caused a sensation, which made Zhuang Fei a little helpless.

"This kid really doesn't matter the occasion."

Finally, when I looked at my excited nephew Zhuang Fei, he also smiled and shook his head. It seemed that his right hand was going to be numb again today, and his smile was about to solidify again.
Chapter completed!