All-Star Weekend is over!

The carnival in Atlanta continues. Liu Mang won the All-Star Grand Slam, setting an NBA historical record and allowing Atlanta fans to see a rising young superstar.

Generally speaking, low-ranking rookies, no matter how well they play, will be said to be ready for combat and have no talent, just like after last season. People have high evaluations of Liu Mang's rookie season, but various media

However, his evaluation has the feeling that a rookie is at his peak.

But after winning a slam dunk title, Liu Mang was immediately crowned the most talented player in the 2001 rookie class.

On February 17th, the morning of the second day of the All-Star Weekend, Liu Mang drank skim milk and made cereal. Looking at the comments about himself in the news, Liu Mang felt that these media were really weird. He wanted to win a dunk king.

Does it mean talent?

However, Liu Mang feels pretty good about becoming the leader of the rookies in his class.

It's a pity that this leisurely and comfortable breakfast time of drinking milk, cereal and eating vegetable salad will be difficult to enjoy again for a while.

In the afternoon, Liu Mang will go to Houston with the team to continue the brutal and unsolvable schedule.

Liu Mang thought that this leisurely breakfast might be the last leisurely breakfast for more than a month, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

But after watching the news, I suddenly felt that Liu Mang was very strange, as if something was wrong.

By the way, Uncle Ben is about to go to the West to fight against the Western Sixth Series. Where are the Dinah people? Shouldn't they be here to be cute and order gifts or something? Why is there no one there so early in the morning?

When I was just making cereal, I saw this little loli sneaking up and down the stairs.

Liu Mang went to Dinah's room and checked, but no one was there. He went to the kitchen, but there was still no one... Finally, he found this little lolita in a room that he thought was an empty room.

I don't know when this room was "renovated" into an honorary "museum". Liu Mang's All-Star Weekend trophies, Best Rookie, Best Sixth Man trophies, etc. were all neatly arranged.

, and there is a card placed in front of the trophy, with some comments similar to it written in crooked Chinese.

I saw the little loli writing something in front of the slam dunk contest trophy she just got two days ago. She didn’t even notice that she had entered. She looked so serious... Sure enough, the serious little loli is the cutest.

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Liu Mang watched quietly for a while, then gently closed the door and prepared to leave without disturbing the serious Dinah.

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After the seven-day All-Star weekend break, the Eagles embarked on a six-game road trip.

First of all, the Hawks came to the space city of Houston. The first game of six consecutive games was an away game against the Rockets.

The Rockets have been doing well recently and have gained the upper hand in the competition with the Suns for eighth place in the Western Conference. Although Yao Ming has been in a bit of a slump recently, rookies are like this. The Suns' Stoudemire has also been targeted because of his lack of shooting ability.

The rookie game.

However, Francis and Mobley are in good condition, and it seems that the Rockets have hope of returning to the playoffs this year.

Since Yao Ming and Stoudemire have similar statistics and their team records are similar, it is basically certain that whoever makes the playoffs will win the Rookie of the Year award. All votes are cast because the Suns made the playoffs.

Stoudemire won the Rookie of the Year award in 2016, and the difference between the two was less than ten first-place votes.

In Liu Mang's memory, the Rockets have always been a magical team. They obviously didn't deliberately try to mess up the team, but somehow they had high-ranking stars. Unknowingly, the rebuild was completed and they became a competitive team.

team.

Just like now, the trio of Francis, Mobley, and Yao Ming are all talented and capable.

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The night the Hawks came to Houston, Yao Ming came to the hotel and took Liu Mang to his home.

Yao Ming is really a standard domestic man, diligent and thrifty, and bought a villa in a middle-class villa area in Houston. The price is $450,000. The house covers an average area. It is said to have two floors, but in fact it only has three.

The room has two living rooms, a kitchen and a dining room, plus a bathroom that Americans inexplicably love very much.

The house is generally large, and there is no yard or anything. There is a flower bed at the door. Rather than a villa, it is more suitable to be a single-family house. Stepping over the flower bed, it is the flower bed of the house next door...

Liu Mang thinks this kind of life is great, mainly because he has neighbors and is closer to him. Levia's home is good, but Yao Ming's life Liu Mang feels is more suitable for him.

But... if Liu Mang were asked to change, he wouldn't even be willing to be beaten to death.

Just kidding, everyone will lament that it's pretentious, just like Jack Ma's pretentious statement that he prefers the life of being a university teacher and receiving a salary every month. It's just pretentious and pretentious.

But it’s not bad to experience this kind of life occasionally.

Yao Ming is really a standard domestic single man, and he actually ordered takeout for a treat. This is just... perfect for Liu Mang's taste. They are all old men, and there are no girls. Going to such a high-end restaurant is simply embarrassing. Ordering takeout is so suitable.

Chinese people are accustomed to living.

Liu Mang asked Yao Ming to order a vegetable salad for himself.

While eating takeout, the two started chatting.

After Yao Ming experienced the rookie wall in January when he was cheated by his compatriots without realizing it, he fell into a period of confusion. Should he gain weight to increase his positioning ability and low-post dominance? Or should he develop the direction of a tall pitcher with flexible feet?

As your future development direction?

This needs to be decided by Yao Ming himself. Yao Ming asked Liu Mang. Although Liu Mang was young, he had many bad ideas and had entered the NBA a year earlier. Yao Ming valued Liu Mang's opinion.

Liu Mang would not tell Yao Ming what he should do so hastily. He would just analyze the pros and cons of the two development directions for Yao Ming and let Yao Ming make his own decision.

Gain weight, and with Yao Ming's height and his surprisingly good flexibility and touch, he can have extremely strong dominance and rebounding ability in the interior second only to O'Neal, and become a dominant center.

But the disadvantage is that he is prone to injury. It is best to rest for more than a dozen games in the regular season every year, just like O'Neal.

Except for world-class competitions, that is, the Olympic Games and World Championships, only by avoiding other miscellaneous Asian events can we ensure our health.

This is Liu Mang’s analysis of Yao Ming’s original career.

Yao Ming's continuous reimbursement and retirement before the age of 30 are definitely not only a problem of the national team, nor only a problem of the team.

It's a question of how to use it.

Liu Mang didn't know exactly how to give Yao Ming advice, so he gave Yao Ming advice directly based on O'Neal. Yao Ming would train harder on his own. If he could participate in less irrelevant games like O'Neal, he would not be under the control of Adelman, the first generation Thibodeau.

If you are devastated, pay more attention to rest, and your career will definitely last longer.

The second development direction is similar to that of Gasol and Nowitzki, who do not gain weight and play flexible offense from the outside. Yao Ming can play that style of play now, and this style of play can have a long life.

Career career, and playing for the national team is probably not a big problem. Just like Gasol Nowitzki, who has played almost all the European Cups, World Championships, and Olympic Games without any major injuries, this style of play is not prone to injuries.

But this style of play basically has no so-called dominance, and Yao Ming does not have Gasol's organizational ability. He may become a better scorer both inside and outside, but compared with Nowitzki and Gasol all year round

Being called a softie means he has no dominance at all.
Chapter completed!