Liu Mang returned to Atlanta, and the domestic media all went to Indianapolis to cover the World Championships, Liu Mang came back and first went to the stadium for a walk, and a domestic reporter nearby didn't see it, it is estimated that he couldn't stand it after waiting for more than two months, and there was still more than half a month for the World Championships to start, and the attention was attracted there.

I went back to the apartment for one night, I really couldn't be idle, and there were too many skills I wanted to practice, such as three-pointers, layups, mid-range shots, change-of-direction breaks, and pull-up layups......

The main reason is that now that the strength has become stronger, although the ability to make a layup has increased to 85, it is estimated that the ability to dunk has become stronger, because Liu Mang feels that he is not used to it when he goes to the basket, and the shooting is also the same, although the shooting without confrontation has become a little stronger, but it is really hard to say in case of confrontation.

So Liu Mang didn't have the idea of resting, and started training alone again...... It doesn't seem to be lonely.

"Dinah, I'm bored with training, what are you doing here!" Liu Mang was just about to go out, watching the little Lori in a sportswear follow behind her buttocks, Liu Mang was speechless, not that he didn't want to see the little Lori, but the training was too boring, he was afraid that Dinah would have to go home for a while, and his training would have to be interrupted.

"It's okay, Dinah helps Uncle pick up the ball! Watch Uncle Training! I haven't seen Uncle in many days, and Dinah misses Uncle so much! Little Lori's big eyes seemed to have a starry feeling in her eyes.

Liu Mang rolled his eyes: "Come less!" Say, what is the purpose! ”

It's seen through, and it's ineffective to sell cute? Then be spoiled! Dina leaned next to Liu Mang and grabbed Liu Mang's hand and said, "Uncle...... Would you like to buy ice cream for Dinah......"

Depend on! It's another trick!

Liu Mang felt that this little Lori seemed to have caught his weakness!

Liu Mang resisted the urge to agree: "No, Levia said that you are changing your teeth, and you will have tooth decay!" ”

"Dinah eats ice cream and goes to rinse her mouth, uncle ......" Dinah continued to be coquettish.

"Okay, okay, but you can't go home when you go to the training hall, you have to wait until I finish training!" Liu Mang said helplessly.

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

"Let's go!" Dina collapsed in Liu Mang's arms and waved her little fists......

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Sometimes little Lori is very helpless and desperate, and sometimes she is very well-behaved 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 stadium that is open all year round, and then really watched Liu Mang train obediently on the side of the training ground, and occasionally helped Liu Mang pick up the ball when she was tired.

Dinah followed Liu Mang to the training hall, not every day just to eat, sometimes she would bring some books to read, sometimes she would bring a drawing board, and she would draw what she saw interesting, most of the time she drew Liu Mang's shooting posture, sometimes she held a book similar to the "phonetic transcription" of learning English in China Chinese practicing by herself, and occasionally Alexia would come along, and the two of them would talk in a broken Chinese on the side, and sometimes they would read according to the book......

Watching Liu Mang repeat the same movements and training every day, Dinah sometimes wonders...... Sometimes I will practice according to Liu Mang's movements......

Liu Mang doesn't practice to death and doesn't know how to rest, occasionally after training in the morning, he will take Dinah and the occasional Levia or Alexia out for a walk in the afternoon, and think about the shortcomings of training while relaxing, and the combination of work and rest is also very important.

As the days passed, the World Championships began on August 30.

There was a big upset in the group stage.

In addition to the 12 countries that originally qualified according to the quota quota allocated by each continent, the four participating countries of Canada, Venezuela, Lebanon and Algeria were added to the qualifying round, and the group stage was divided into two rounds.

At the beginning, it was divided into four groups, each team played three games first, and then was divided into groups again, and after the grouping, it must not be repeated with the existing matches in the first group, and then three more games.

As a result, after winning the first five games in a row, the United States team met Argentina in the sixth game......

After that, there was a performance that amazed the world, and Argentina ended the Dream Team's 58-game winning streak and defeated the United States 87-80.

Popovich, who has the right to sign Ginobili, was ecstatic and immediately gave Ginobili a two-year, 4 million contract.

The Chinese team's performance was okay, although in the group stage against the United States, they were overturned by the rampaging Pierce when they led by 12 points at one point, and finally lost by 19 points, but they won Algeria in the group stage and ranked 12th in the world after the group stage.

And some American fans believe that if Liu Mang participated in this World Championships, there would not be an embarrassing situation that the Chinese team's guards could not complete the dribble for more than half from the second quarter.

In the first quarter, when the American team did not implement full-court pressing, due to Yao Ming's dominance of crushing the American center on the inside, a group of pitchers on the outside of the Chinese team made the American team stupid, but when his teammates couldn't dribble for half the court, Yao Ming could only turn back and run.

However, Yao Ming played six games in the group stage and two qualifying rounds, a total of eight games, and he could get what he wanted in the face of almost any opponent, averaging 21 points, 9 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game, and won the honor of the best center team in the World Championships for the first time in his national team career.

This reassures Houston fans that Yao Ming, who did not participate in the summer league, that playing Ben Wallace is like playing, provided that the ball can be delivered to Yao Ming.

Kobe Bryant, 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 second-year bastard, no bragging! This big guy is really powerful!

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It's time for the knockout stage.

Originally, even if the U.S. team lost one game in the group stage, American fans still didn't worry about their performance, they were a dream five team led by Ben Wallace and Pierce, two first-class stars.

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

was abused again, this time without temper, under the final peak Sabonis raging basket, the United States team fell behind from the beginning to the end of the game, and the ability to struggle was killed.

After that, Yugoslavia crushed all its opponents along the way, and finally Yugoslavia defended its glory strongly, winning the last world championship before it completely disintegrated, and then the various member countries began to argue that the championship should belong to them.

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

Argentina's golden generation could start to reach the top, finishing second at the World Championships and Germany with Nowitzki finishing third.

New Zealand had the best record in Australia's history, finishing fourth, while New Zealand's national team did not have a single NBA player, and the best player was Kirk Penny, the star of La Liga Barcelona, who was once a teammate of Pau Gasol.

The U.S. suffered heavy defeat after defeat at home, being eliminated in the first round of the knockout round, then winning the first game of qualifying for the 5th to 8th place, advancing to the 5th-6th place qualifying round, and then meeting Spain......

Seeing that Gasol is even more mouthful than Yao Ming, and beating Antonio Davis and Ben Wallace don't want it, American fans are going crazy, when will there be so many big bosses? Why are all opponents so powerful? How can international centers beat the best centers in our country's defense so badly?

When the roster of the U.S. team was released, although fans complained that there was no NBA first team and no All-Star starters, they still felt that this lineup was enough.

Discover now...... That's a fart! All of your opponents are Gundams!

The U.S. team only finished sixth, except for the 1998 World Championships when no NBA players participated in the World Championships due to a shutdown, this year's World Championships is the first time since the establishment of the Dream Team that they have not won the championship, and even the worst record in the history of the U.S. team, the first time they were eliminated in the knockout round.

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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 begun to come back to practice, with one exception, Glenn Robinson has not yet come to Atlanta to report, because he has become Liu Mang's teammate, Glenn Robinson's exposure has increased greatly, it is said that he is singing in Las Vegas every night, and it is estimated that he has been intoxicated with gentleness for a long time.

On September 17th, Liu Mang went to watch a movie with Dinah, Alexia, and Levia in the morning, American movies, Liu Mang watched really few movies in his last life, except for those superhero movies of Marvel and DC, or some comedies, I have seen very few others.

watched the first "Spy Shadow" starring Matt Damon, Liu Mang watched it very energetically, he thought that Dinah could watch it well, but he didn't expect the two women to watch it very energetically.

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

Unlike Dinah's young age and excellent language talent, the two adult women learn the language much slower, far worse than Dinah's Chinese, Dinah can express simple ideas in broken Chinese, but the two women are stunned, Alexia takes advantage of the long vacation as a teacher, and Levia is learning Chinese every day.

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

Dinah is very "disdainful" to play with the children at school, but she is very enthusiastic about the adults, and after staying in the stadium for almost a month, almost everyone knows Liu Mang, a beautiful "daughter".

Watching Dina "swagger" everywhere as her daughter and cheating snacks everywhere, Liu Mang said that she was desperate and helpless, but there was nothing she could do.

However, after taking Dina into the arena, Liu Mang found that there were more people than before today.

In the past, although some teammates have returned to Atlanta, they do not come to the stadium to train when they train, only occasionally people come, most of them practice at home, Jason Terry, Rahim, Mohammed, 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 tricked another ice cream and a bunch of snacks, into the training ground, and saw Coach Kruger, who he hadn't seen for a long time, was taking three rookies to order something.

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

Didn't the camp start on October 1st?

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

At the end of June, Liu Mang and Coach Kruger said that they were going to start practicing strength, and Coach Kruger felt that this disciple was really great, and people who work hard will always be liked, such as Vujasic, Zen Master has said more than once that Vujacic is his favorite Lakers player, and even Vujacic couldn't find a job in the NBA later, and the Zen master brought Vujacic over again after becoming president in New York.

Even if you can't play, it's good to be a role model for your teammates in training, isn't it?

"Coach, Dinah is here too!" Dinah saw a few new adults who could 'pit' and tried to show her presence.

"Dinah?" Coach Kruger saw Dinah for the first time, he had heard of it, but he hadn't seen it, and Coach Kruger asked, "Ace, this is your ......"

"Dinah is Uncle's daughter!" Dinah began to swagger 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 too likable, and Coach Kruger greeted Dinah's words: "It turned out to be Ace's daughter, hello, Dinah, my name is Ron Kruger, beautiful little lady, can you tell me your name?" ”

"Uh......" Liu Mang looked at the childlike Coach Kruger, Nima, this little Lori is a scourge! Swindle everywhere!

"Dinah's name is Dinah-s...... Dinah Liu! Mr. Kruger, in addition to this meeting, bring the red envelope! Dinah stretched out her devil's little paw.

"Red envelopes?" Coach Kruger asked suspiciously, hearing the fresh word.

Liu Mang is so painful, he knew that he wouldn't tell domestic stories to this little Lori, Liu Mang could only start popular 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 generations, and now the words are usually put money in it, so that the children can choose what to buy." ”

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

"Haha, okay, I know, Dinah, when you come back tomorrow, I'll prepare a big red envelope for you." Coach Kruger is happy today!

"Coaches can't lie! Otherwise, the nose will be longer! Dinah said excitedly.

"OK, the nose is getting longer when you lie!"

After Dina got a satisfactory answer, she didn't need Liu Mang's instructions, so she ran to the fan area next to the training ground to find a place to sit and eat snacks.

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

After the summer league, the Hawks signed contracts with all three rookies, then advanced a portion of their salaries and sent the players home for two months of summer vacation, and now come to the team to report.

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

Barnes, Prince, and Boozer were all very excited to see Liu Mang, three months ago, it was Liu Mang who pointed to them, and the three of them were selected by the Eagles.

What does this mean?

The right to speak in the team!

It's only been three months! Liu Mang, who was originally skinny, now looks about the same as Barnes, the strongest of the three, Boozer and Prince are both 21 years old, and Barnes is 22 years old.

And when Liu Mang first met him three months ago, he was still a thin guard, and now although he is not a muscular defender, he is obviously a lot thicker! It's just that with the naked eye, you can see that there has been a noticeable change.

Whether it was out of gratitude, fear of "power", or respect for Liu Mang's hard training, the three of them all respected Liu Mang quite a lot.

Relatively speaking, although Boozer looks like a bandit, and after the summer league game with a bald head after the hair loss was more severe, he looks more like a bandit, but he is a shy man, 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: "Hello Ace, I'm Matt, take care of my buddies more in the future." ”

Boozer and Prince greeted each other.

"Hello, Ace." Prince still talks so little.

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

Liu Mang has a kind of explosive achievement!

I also have the treatment of "seniors", and I am no longer a rookie!

However, the impression that the three people gave Liu Mang was completely different.

Barnes is indeed enthusiastic and worthy of the man who dares to bring his teammates home.

Boozer is not reluctant to speak, but he is not familiar with it yet, so he is a little shy, which is extremely inconsistent with his appearance.

Prince, who looks like a new ...... Cool brother Newbell?

After saying hello, Coach Kruger gave Liu Mang the player manual for the new season, and then took the three rookies to go for a physical examination.

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

Many of my teammates' names are gone.

Names like Jacqui Vaughan, Alan Henderson, Kukoc, Strickland, and Rejay Leicester, who was signed after Hannah Mentola's season reimbursement, and Dick Simpkins, a veteran who worked on a short-time job, also seem to have retired without much attention.

Liu Mang looked at the new lineup and was a little sentimental.

But also full of anticipation for the new season!

The Eagles' lineup is quite explosive right now!

On the back line: Liu Mang, Dean Grove, Jason Terry, Emmanuol and Glenn Davis.

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

In the center position, there are Ratliff, Metola, Leon Smith.

Soldiers are strong and strong, they must be talented and talented, and they must be strong and powerful!

Liu Mang went to the locker room to change into a training uniform, and saw that the reports of teammates training in advance of the team came one after another, many people had already returned to Atlanta, and Raheem and Jason Terry had also come to see Liu Mang train before.

Finally saw his familiar teammates, Liu Mang really felt that the new season was coming this time!

But...... Liu Mang grabbed the little Lori who asked for red envelopes everywhere, it was too embarrassing!