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 walk. He didn't see a single domestic reporter nearby. He must have been waiting for one or two more.

Yue really couldn't stand it anymore, and the World Championships were about to start in more than half a month, so all the attention was attracted there.

I went back to the apartment and stayed for one night. I really couldn't take any time off. There were so many skills I wanted 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, his dunk ability has probably become stronger, because Liu Mang feels that he is not used to it when he goes for a layup. The same goes for shooting, although his unconfronted shooting has become stronger.

A little bit, but it’s really hard to say in case of confrontation.

So Liu Mang had no idea of ​​taking a break and started training alone again...it seemed like he couldn't get lonely.

"Dina, my training is boring, why are you following me!" Liu Mang was about to go out when he saw a little lolita in sportswear following behind him. Liu Mang was speechless, not that he didn't want to see the little girl.

Loli, it’s just that the training is too boring. He is afraid that Dinah will make a fuss and want to go home, and his training will be interrupted.

"It's okay, Dinah helps uncle pick up the ball! Watch uncle train! I haven't seen uncle for many days, Dinah misses him so much!" The little Loli's big eyes seemed to have stars in them.

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

After being seen through, being cute is ineffective? Then act coquettishly! Dinah came to Liu Mang's side and grabbed Liu Mang's hand and said: "Uncle... can you buy ice cream for Dinah..."

Damn! It’s this move again!

Liu Mang felt as if this little loli had caught his weakness!

Liu Mang resisted the urge to agree: "No, Levia said that you are changing your teeth and you will get cavities!"

"Dina went to rinse her mouth after eating the ice cream, uncle..." Dinah continued to act coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, you can't go home without going 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 quickly hugged Dinah.

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

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Sometimes the little loli is very helpless and desperate, and sometimes she is very well-behaved and cute.

Arriving at the training hall of Phillips Arena, Dinah bought a bunch of snacks from the only convenience store in the arena that was open all year round, and then she really watched Liu Mang's training obediently on the sidelines of the training field. Occasionally she would sit down when she was tired.

Will help Liu Mang pick up the ball.

Dinah followed Liu Mang to the training hall, not just for food every day. Sometimes she would bring some books to read, and sometimes she would bring a drawing board and draw whatever she saw interesting. Most of the time she would draw Liu Mang's shooting.

Sometimes, I would practice Chinese by myself with a book similar to the "phonetic symbols" used for learning English in China. Occasionally, Alexia would come along, and the two of them would converse in broken Chinese. Sometimes they would

Read according to the book...

Watching Liu Mang repeating the same movements and training every day, Dinah sometimes felt puzzled... Sometimes she would practice 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 walk in the afternoon to relax and think about the shortcomings of the training.

A balance between work and rest is also very important.

As time passed, the World Championships started on August 30.

There was a big upset in the group stage.

The competition system of this World Championship is very unique. In addition to the 12 countries that originally qualified according to the allocation of places on each continent, Canada, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Algeria were also added to the qualifying round. In the group stage

Divided into two rounds.

At the beginning, they were divided into four groups A. Each team played three games first. After the games, they were divided into groups again. After the grouping, they must not repeat the previous matches in the first group, and then played three more games.

Ever since, after winning the first five games in a row, the U.S. team met Argentina in the sixth game...

Then there was Yaodao's stunning performance. Argentina ended the Dream Team's 58-game winning streak and beat the United States 87-80.

Popovich, who had the rights to sign Ginobili, was overjoyed and immediately offered Ginobili a two-year, $4 million contract.

The Chinese team performed well. Although in the group stage against the United States, they were upended by the rampant Pierce when they were leading by 12 points and lost by 19 points in the end. However, they defeated Algeria in the group stage and ranked first in the world after the group stage.

12th place.

Moreover, some American fans believe that if Liu Mang had participated in this World Championships, there would not have been the embarrassing situation where the Chinese team's defender was unable to complete the dribble from the second quarter onwards.

In the first quarter, when the U.S. team did not implement a full-court press, due to Yao Ming's dominance in the interior, a group of shooters from the outside of the Chinese team made the U.S. team stupid.

When he arrived, Yao Ming could only turn back and run.

However, Yao Ming played six group matches and two qualifying matches, a total of eight games. He could get anything he wanted from 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.

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This gave Houston fans reassurance that Yao Ming, who did not participate in the summer league, would feel like playing against Ben Wallace, as long as he could get the ball to Yao Ming.

Kobe, who was watching the U.S. team's game at home, cursed the idiots on the U.S. team, touched Vanessa's belly, and exclaimed: That damn rookie... No, he's a second-year bastard. He's not bragging! This big guy is really

Very powerful!

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It's the knockout stage.

Originally, even if the American team lost one game in the group stage, American fans were not worried about their performance. They were the Dream Team led by two first-class stars, Ben Wallace and Pierce.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As a result, they met Yugoslavia in the first round of the knockout round...

They were abused again, this time with no temper. The American team lagged behind from the beginning to the end of the game, and they were killed without any ability to struggle.

After that, Yugoslavia crushed all its opponents. In the end, Yugoslavia defended its glory strongly and won the last world championship before completely disintegrating. Then all the participating countries began to argue, saying that the championship should belong to them.

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

Argentina's golden generation can begin to reach its peak, finishing second in the World Championships, and the German team with Nowitzki finishing third.

New Zealand achieved the best record in Australia's history and finished fourth. However, New Zealand's national team did not have a single NBA player. The best players were Kirk Penny, the star of the Barcelona team in La Liga, and Pau Gasso. My former teammate.

The American team suffered disastrous defeats again and again at home. They were eliminated in the first round of the knockout round. Then they won the first qualifying match for the 5th to 8th place and advanced to the competition for the 5th to 6th place. Then they encountered another Arriving in Spain...

Seeing Gasol being more aggressive than Yao Ming, beating Antonio Davis and Ben Wallace for free, American fans are going crazy. When did there become so many big bosses? Why are all the opponents so powerful? ?How come every international center can beat our country’s top defensive center so badly?

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

Now I realize...that's ridiculous! All of my opponents are Gundams!

The U.S. team only finished sixth in the end. Except for the 1998 World Championships when no NBA players participated due to the lockout, this year's World Championships was the first time since the Dream Team was established that it did not win the championship. It even had the worst record in the history of the U.S. team. For the first time, he was eliminated just after entering the knockout round.

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After the World Championships ended, 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 for training. There is only one exception. Glenn Robinson has not yet reported to Atlanta. Since he became Liu Mang's teammate, Glenn Robinson was exposed. His popularity increased greatly, and he was said to be partying every night in Las Vegas. It is estimated that he has been intoxicated in the gentle land for an unknown amount of time.

On September 17th, Liu Mang went to see a movie with Dinah, Alexia, and Levia in the morning. Liu Mang had seen very few American movies in his previous life, except for Marvel and DC. Those superhero movies, or some comedies, but I have seen very few others.

What he was watching was the first "The Bourne Supremacy" starring Matt Damon. Liu Mang watched it with great enthusiasm. He thought that Dinah watched it with great enthusiasm, but he didn't expect that the two women watched it with great enthusiasm.

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

Unlike Dinah, who is young and has excellent language talent, the two adult women learn language much slower, which is far behind Dinah's Chinese. Dinah can express simple ideas in broken Chinese, but the two women are stunned Unconvinced, Alexia took advantage of her long vacation as a teacher to study Chinese with Levia every day.

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

Dinah "disdained" playing with the children at school, but she was quite enthusiastic about the adults. After staying in the arena for almost a month, almost everyone got to know Liu Mang, this beautiful "daughter".

Seeing Dinah pretending to be his daughter and cheating her out of snacks everywhere, Liu Mang expressed that he was desperate and helpless but had no other options.

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 in the past, they did not come to the gym for training. Only occasionally people came, and most of them practiced at home. Jason Terry, Raheem, Muhammad, and Ratliff all practiced at home.

It has its own single-family house, even if it is not a villa, it still has its own yard and open-air court.

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

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

Doesn’t the training camp just start on October 1st?

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

At the end of June, Liu Mang and Coach Kruger said that they would start training strength. Coach Kruger thought at that time that this disciple was really great. People who work hard will always be liked by others, such as Vujacic and Zen Master.

He said more than once that Vujacic was his favorite Lakers player. Even Vujacic later couldn't find a job in the NBA. After becoming the president of New York, Jackson brought Vujacic with him.

Even if you can't play on the court, setting an example for your teammates during training is still a good thing, right?

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

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

"Dina is uncle's daughter!" Dinah started to bluff and lie again.

Although Coach Kruger knew that Liu Mang could not have a daughter, Liu Mang was recruited into the Jackets team by Coach Kruger less than two months after Liu Mang came to the United States to study. However, Dinah was too cute, and Kruger

The coach followed Dinah's words and said hello: "It turns out she is Ace's daughter. Hello, Dinah, my name is Lon Kruger. Beautiful little lady, can you tell me your name?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Uh..." Liu Mang looked at the childlike Coach Kruger and said, Damn, this little lolita is a scourge! She is swindling everywhere!
To be continued...