"David, come here." Liu Mang called David Li to sit on a stool aside.

"Boss Ace, what's wrong?" David Lee felt like he was being called into a dark room by a gangster. He looked at his teammates on the other side of the restaurant who were gambling and playing games, and really wanted to escape.

"It's okay, David, I just want to interview you." Liu Mang comforted him, and he was confused. Did he look so scary?

"Interview?" David Li saw Liu Mang setting up a tripod and setting up a camera. This camera seemed to belong to the team's cameraman.

"Yeah." Liu Mang adjusted the camera, put on the suit jacket and tie that he had just put aside, and tidied up his clothes.

"Boss Ace, what can I interview?" David Lee didn't understand!

Why do you suddenly have to interview him, a rookie?

After playing the Heat yesterday, I came to Memphis today. This time, the four consecutive visits are the Heat-Grizzlies-Magic-Wizards. Generally speaking, they are not far apart. After playing the Heat, I will rest for two days before starting this season.

For the first time in back-to-back games, No. 11 and No. 12 played back-to-back against the Grizzlies and Magic.

We arrived in Memphis on the afternoon of the 9th. In the evening, the Hawks players invited Pau Gasol, Mike Miller, and Caron Butler, who also had two days off, to have dinner together.

Gasol has a good relationship with Liu Mang, Mike Miller is McGrady's best friend, and Caron Butler and Kobe Bryant are brothers. Therefore, he has a good relationship with McGrady and invited the three strongest players from the Grizzlies to come together.

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After eating and drinking, everyone started gambling. Just when David Li was about to join, he was pulled aside by Liu Mang. He thought he was going to be bullied as a rookie, but he didn't expect Liu Mang to interview him!

"I heard that you were unwilling to take over your father's chain restaurant brand and chose to pursue your dream of entering the NBA. This is so touching. Come on, tell me about your journey. When my son grows up, he needs a

Role model." Liu Mang said enthusiastically.

It turns out this is it! David Lee's body was shocked. He has a strong body. Although he is a rookie, he is actually 22 years old soon. All aspects of his skills have been polished and matured in college, so he and Josh Smith, Varejao rookies

The season can only start in garbage time. He can appear early in regular time.

The thing that David Lee is most proud of is that he turned his hobby into a career and became one of the 500 best players in the world.

"Boss Ace, what do you want me to say to encourage Becas?" David Lee's tone of voice changed, he was very excited and urgent.

"Uh... Just tell me, you didn't inherit your father's largest restaurant brand in Louisiana and chose to play in the NBA. You can only play as a substitute. Tell me how miserable you are now and how much you regret helping Rasheed carry his bag every day.

I didn’t take over your father’s business... Hey, David, don’t leave, I borrowed all the cameras..."

David Li walked aside in shame and anger, ignored Liu Mang, and asked him to serve as a negative example?

"Haha, David, don't be angry with Ace. He is doing you a favor to prevent you from gambling with those superstar players and losing all your pocket money." Rasheed Wallace.

The senior member of the team who took care of David Lee the most went up and hooked David Lee's neck, burped as he spoke, and breathed out a breath of alcohol.

David Lee feels this team is so strange!

Liu Mang is rumored to be cruel and cold, but he actually has no problem playing pranks on his teammates, and he is not the kind of person who can really make people angry. On the contrary, compared to Americans, Liu Mang's delicate appearance is too confusing and only makes people angry.

Feel depressed.

And Rasheed Wallace, the king of technical fouls, is like a kind-hearted middle-aged uncle, taking care of him as a younger brother, except that this big brother looks really... It's hard to put it into words, what David Lee is most grateful for.

It was Rasheed Wallace who often taught him how to get along with his teammates.

Hearing what Rasheed Wallace said, David Lee saw those star players placing bets of 100 US dollars and easily losing thousands of dollars in bets. He thought about his wallet, and it was really a bit strange.

Afraid.

It’s not like David Lee has never gambled like this before. He has played bigger bets before. He is a second- and third-generation rich man who donated all the US$50 million in entrepreneurial capital given to him by his grandfather at the age of 15.

His father is a big boss of a chain restaurant brand, and his grandfather is an industrialist. However, his grandfather donated most of his assets to charity, but he is definitely not short of money.

But after he declared for the NBA draft after his junior year, his father stopped giving him money and wanted to force him to go back.

Just now at dinner, when Jason Terry invited his teammates to gamble, David Lee immediately agreed in order to get close to the big guys, completely forgetting that he was only the 30th overall pick in the NBA and had just received the invitation.

The salary of the first two weeks has repaid the money I borrowed from Rasheed Wallace.

Owing money is not a good thing. The more you borrow, the more favors you owe. David Lee, who was born in a wealthy family, does not like to borrow money from others. Of course, borrowing money from banks or investors does not count...

Thinking about it now, David Lee found that he almost owed money again. Looking at those "gamblers", they were definitely not good people.

But...when David Li saw Liu Mang, how did he feel that this boss definitely didn't just want to help him? And he felt that he simply wanted to use him as a negative example!

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Continuous away games seem to be a very troublesome thing. Flying back and forth every day and staying in a different city every day, you need to adapt to the living habits of each city, especially in a culturally mixed country like the United States, where NBA teams are all in the city.

Cities, you can find people from almost 90% of the world's countries in big cities in the United States, sometimes it's very mafa.

However, now the Eagles players actually like to play away games.

For NBA players, playing at home has a greater chance of winning, but playing away is even happier!

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Eagles are probably one of the teams with the strictest team rules in the league. During away games, they are not allowed to go to nightclubs the night before games, and they are not allowed to take people back to the hotel to stay overnight.

But if we can win, nothing will be a problem.

In fact, if you become more and more familiar with your teammates, for example, after playing for several years, and if your relationship is not bad, then gradually, playing consecutive away games will actually make the teammates of a team more cohesive.

Home games are done when they are over. If we win the game we celebrate in the locker room. If we lose the game we are depressed together and discuss where we did not play well, and then we go back to our respective homes.

But when we play away games, after the game, even if we can't go to the nightclub to play together, we can still play together back at the hotel, and we spend more time together.

At this time, there are two situations. If the relationship within the team is not good, then the more away games we play, the worse the relationship will be.

But a team like the Eagles, with a harmonious team atmosphere, plays consecutive away games. Even if they can't go to the nightclub, it's still a carnival day for everyone.

You are not allowed to go to nightclubs to drink, but if there is not a game the next day, the coaching staff does not stop the players from drinking, drinking, gambling, and playing video games in the hotel restaurant. Men's happiness is not limited to going to nightclubs to pick up girls. NBA

If players want to, there will be no shortage of women, even if they are marginal players.

Liu Mang felt really sorry when he saw David Lee who ran away when he met him. He took Tracy McGrady, who was distressed after losing two thousand dollars, to play video games together. The new expansion pack for Command & Conquer 3 will be released on November 1

The account had just come out, and Liu Mang was playing this game with the little Lolita now that he had nothing to do.

When playing away games, of course you have to bring your game console! Anyway, Iguodala is the one carrying the luggage.

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Gasol is a little depressed this season and can't win!

The team has no defense, and there is no outside attack point on the offensive end. Neither Mike Miller nor Butler is a ball-handling player. The best ball-handling point is Damon Stoudemire...

Damon Stoudemire played well for his age. In the first seven games, he averaged 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists per game. At the age of 32, and still less than 1.8 meters tall, he is worthy of his 300.

A salary of tens of thousands of dollars.

But that wasn't enough for the Grizzlies!

With a start of 2 wins and 5 losses, the Grizzlies are third to last in the Western Conference. The Grizzlies seem to be chasing the No. 1 pick.

With no offensive system and no defensive system, the Grizzlies just run and shoot, ranking seventh in the league with an average of 103 points per game, and leading the league in conceding 109 points per game... Now the Grizzlies are purely betting on whether outside shots will go in or not.

If they get the ball and make accurate shots, they have a chance to win, and no matter how much they lead when they play loosely at the beginning, when they need to fight positional battles at the critical moment, they will be overtaken by the opponent, and it will be difficult to score in the final quarter.

The Grizzlies averaged 82 points per game in the first three quarters of the first seven games, second in the league behind the Hawks, but averaged only 21 points per game in the fourth quarter, 19th in the league, and ranked last in points allowed.

...Especially in the final quarter when they lost more than 30 points per game, it didn't look like they were going to win.

No one thought that the Grizzlies could collapse to this extent just by losing Sean Battier and Stromire Swift, two defensive players inside and outside.

Sen. Williams, the Grizzlies are completely disorganized offensively.

Jason Williams' statistics for the Grizzlies are similar to Damon Stoudemire this year, but Jason Williams can really organize offense!

After the Hawks rested for two nights in Memphis and played the first game of a back-to-back with the Grizzlies, Liu Mang started playing health ball again.

After scoring 53 points, his scoring average soared to 31 points per game, ranking third in the league behind LeBron James's 33.5 points per game and Kobe Bryant's 33.3 points per game.

But when the opponent was not that strong, Liu Mang started paddling again to let his teammates have fun.

In this game against the Grizzlies, Liu Mang scored 10 points in the first quarter, 7 points in the second quarter, 13 points in the third quarter, 30 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the third quarter, and easily clocked out.

The key is that Liu Mang does not occupy the ball!

When he is needed to organize the offense, he will come. When McGrady wants to break through, he will run to catch and shoot. When Iguodala and Josh Smith are there, he will break through to attract double attacks and let the two of them handle the ball.

Exercise the ability of two people to handle the ball.

Talented players are good, and soon the two of them got used to such roles, and actually passed a lot of balls back to Liu Mang.

In the three quarters, Liu Mang made 11 of 18 shots, 4 of 8 three-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. Liu Mang easily scored 30 points in the three quarters, and he occupied very little possession of the ball!

With this style of play, Liu Mang's shooting percentage is quite high! He broke 50% for the first time in his career. So far, Liu Mang has averaged 4.3 three-pointers per game. After six games, he has made 26.

Three-pointers! So far this season, the field goal percentage is 53%, and the three-point shooting percentage is 44%, both setting career highs!

At the end of the three quarters, the Eagles scored over 80 points again, scoring 86 points in the third quarter.

The Grizzlies shot a lot, a lot. When the Grizzlies played against some teams with relatively average defenses, if the opponent's defense didn't tighten up at the beginning, the Grizzlies would have scored more than 80 points in three quarters, but the Hawks

The team just defended normally, and it became very difficult for the Grizzlies to score. The Eagles' fast-rotating defense was too difficult for the Grizzlies. They only scored 61 points in three quarters. Liu Mang scored 13 points in the third quarter.

points, easily widening the point difference to 25 points.

Starting from the second half of the third quarter, the game became garbage time. Calderon was replaced to handle the ball and lead the substitutes.

In the end, the Hawks easily defeated the Grizzlies 112-90 and won their sixth consecutive victory.
To be continued...