: 138. Why not me?

The Memphis people knew that the Grizzlies would move to Memphis in the summer of 2001 before the last season, so they paid close attention to the 2001 draft.
To say that in 2001, the people in the small green house were regarded as the only All-Star candidates from the beginning. It was Paul Gasol of Barcelona. This era can be favored by the NBA in the high rankings. There is basically no parallelism. The possibilities are all geniuses who have played absolute dominance in Europe.
When the Wizards picked the first high school student in history, and the Bulls went to the first high school student list in history, Memphis fans fell into ecstasy.
Although Kwame Brown and Tyson Chandler at first glance are the kind of super talented men whose talents are so strong that they burst, it is unlikely that their physical qualities and defensive awareness will drown.
But whether talent can be fulfilled is not an easy task. In 2000, the Grizzlies had already bet on talent. He did n’t choose Mike Miller, who had a beep when he was a college student, and chose a super body mad Stromer. -Swift.
In this regard, the Grizzlies dispelled the idea of ​​gambling talent, after the two teams do not want Gasol, chose a solid and realistic future All-Star Gasol.
Memphis fans started their first game from the beginning of the season and began to look forward to their own Gasol to make great progress and win the first rookie in team history.
At the beginning, no one could hinder Gasol who can achieve the excellent level of the high-ranking rookies in the 1980s and 1990s. Gasol's rookie averaged 18 + 8 per year and was placed in the top three in the 1980s and 1990s. The position is not too bad, the top is a little far away, but at least the excellent one.
Who knows that Liu Mang's sudden emergence has now averaged 15 points per game, and has begun to threaten Gasol's evaluation in professional media.
The final vote for the best rookie is the vote of the media and professionals. When the data crushing degree is not so big, especially when the most important average scoring gap is not so big, the victory or defeat of the two rookies is likely to be the biggest Influencing factors!
I don't care much about this year's best rookie, just like last year's best rookie was Mike Miller. But the Memphis cares! This is the first award of the first four major league teams in the history they just greeted!
This is reflected in the local media in Memphis, where there are so five or six hundred thousand people, what the Grizzlies are the biggest news for sports fans.
Liu Mang actually felt the treatment of "superstar" in Memphis. On the afternoon of the 16th, the Hawks came to the FedEx Arena sponsored by FedEx, the largest company in Memphis, and were surrounded by reporters.
The Lakers were asked to be interviewed by the media. It is not a big deal for the Hawks to not be interviewed. Anyway, there are two topics that the Lakers can visit.
But playing the Grizzlies, the two teams are now the most popular, especially Liu Mang.
The only team in the two teams that made headlines in newspapers and magazines this season was Liu Mang.
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Interview before the game, Liu Mang was taken by coach Kruger to participate in the pre-match interview.
Arrived at the interview hall, Liu Mang was surprised, and it was actually full of reporters!
Is not just Memphis, the entire Tennessee is surrounded by Memphis, and a lot of media has come.
Although the team interview, but the first shot was really shot on Liu Mang.
"Liu, what do you think of today's game?"
Such a question Liu Mang honestly answered: "We will win."
Liu Mang is a very honest answer here, but the media here are basically inclined to the Grizzlies, most of them are Grizzlies fans, so uncomfortable.
Is it so direct! Does n’t it mean that the Chinese are very restrained?
Liu Mang is so direct, and reporters who were originally thinking about writing Chinese first-served and second-served soldiers are also welcome.
"Liu, what do you think of the Grizzlies opponent?"
"Memphis is a good place here. The Grizzlies will definitely become a great team when they move here, but not now, we are stronger."
"You are about to play against Grizzlies' best rookie hot Paul Gasol, is there pressure?"
"Of course, Paul is our best rookie in the rookie. He will be an All-Star in the future and will win the championship, but we have a better inside. Theo will use his muscles and strength to defend the inside."
The media on the scene was very unhappy, but Liu Mang's answer to this question suddenly made people very happy.
Asking a rookie Gasol to deal with Ratliff this year is likely to be the best defense and now average 3.6 blocks per game in the league's famous center, it is really a bit difficult, this sounds bad, but Liu Mang said earlier Gasol will enter the All-Star, the main thing is to win the championship, so that they feel that Liu Man is not too arrogant.
It ’s just that Liu Mang did n’t say anything, and it ’s not that he won the championship ...
A lot of media have already stopped, Liu Mang's answer is enough to make the fans happy, and then asked a little bit of the Eagles tactical arrangements, how to deal with Gasol and Jason-Williams Gemini combination of unusual questions.
But at the end of the interview a few minutes before the game, someone asked a topical question.
"Everyone thinks you and Paul Gasol will be the most powerful candidates for the best rookie. Who do you think you and Paul Gasol will get the best rookie?" A reporter with glasses asked.
It stands to reason that when the two sides have entered a pleasant interview time, the Hawks reporters will not take the initiative to pick up things on the road, and the home team ’s media will not deliberately offend the opposing team. The Bears are the last three weakest teams in the league.
Liu Mang is also a little surprised. Today he has strictly followed the instructions of coach Kruger and honestly refused to accept the interview.
Originally Liu Mang wanted to grapple with a wave of grizzly bears, but when he saw coach Kruger's expression of wanting to eat people, he estimated that if he was as decisive as he was in Seattle, the coach who took care of him probably would Heart attack was out of breath.
Coach Kruger didn't want Liu Mang to be exposed. It wasn't that he didn't want Liu Mang to become a star or Liu Mang to be famous. The key is that Liu Mang's mouth continued to fire like this.
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As a local famous college coach in Atlanta, Kruger knew very well that if Liu Mang did not bring the benefits to the team in the future, the future things would be hard to say.
So coach Kruger didn't want Liu Mang to offend so many opponents, maybe which team was Liu Mang's next home that day.
The previous questions, Liu Mang answered casually, boasting about his opponent, and then said that he should be more powerful here, all are polite answers.
But regarding the question of the best rookie, Liu Mang started to have ambitions!
Previously, Liu Mang had little extravagance for this reward, and thought it was not as easy as taking the best sixth person.
However, after arriving in Memphis yesterday afternoon, I felt the enthusiasm of Memphis fans for Paul Gasol's best rookie. He felt a very different feeling.
Is not a chance!
And just like those TV media, fans, and professionals, this is an award that a rookie can only get once in his lifetime!
A closer look, the logo of this reporter ’s microphone seems to be the New York media, it seems that he is not so harmonious with the Knicks! After losing to the Knicks in the last game, it seems that the New York side is reporting shameless rookie abuse!
This time Liu Mang's expression became very serious: "Best rookie? Of course it is me!"
"Do you mean that you are better than Paul Gasol? Will you win this best rookie contest?" The reporter from New York continued to dig decisively.
"Why not? There is always someone to win, why not me?"