Vol 2 Chapter 402: Year-end Ceremony: Two Little Giants (middle)

Cheers and laughter at the reception dinner.
This year ’s atmosphere is particularly good. Wang Ai ’s relaxed speech changed from the same drowsy style in previous years. He spoke in just five minutes and was interrupted five times by applause. The audience ’s participation was extremely high. The "Support for the Winter Olympics" appealed by Nature Wang Ai also played an excellent role.
Therefore, at the banquet, the coaches and athletes of the Winter Olympics team constantly came to express their gratitude to Wang Ai, including Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the pair of golden boys and girls of figure skating. ten years. Because as athletes, Zhao Hongbo, 30, and Shen Xue, 25, are already at the end of their careers.
Their current best results are last year's bronze medal at the Nagano Winter Olympics and a more niche figure skating championship. Therefore, standing in front of Wang Ai and other top ten athletes, there is still a bit of restraint.
But Wang Ai knew that the two were typically older and more spiritual. Just like Zhao Hongbo, in the first 30 years, he was a little known in the small group of less than a thousand people across the country in the ice and snow project. Out of this group, even few people in the sports industry knew him. Liu Guoliang has been a national table tennis coach for five years, and he is still playing Xiao Mengxin in the primary stage. He earns a thousand dead wages if he is tired for a month.
If it weren't for the poor foundation of the Winter Olympics project and there was a shortage of people, he might have retired or switched careers. In this way, from the teens to the twenties, from Ben three to Ben four, they are always athletes, they are always the two of them, the average audience may not pay attention to his age at all, and they ended up in 2010 When he won his first gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, he was 38!
In Chinese sports, it is not without sports longevity, such as Wang Yifu, 44 can still win the gold medal. But it's very rare for large-volume sports like figure skating. These two people truly reflect the valuable qualities of athletes: higher, faster and stronger.
So Wang Ai respected the two of them, and held them for a long time to chat, of course, a bit of ridicule of the relationship between the two of them, but unfortunately the two of them have faced too many such "bad intentions" peeping, pretending A serious one. Even if Wang Ai attacked directly and asked directly, the two of them also had a "No No" and a "No No".
I believe in your ghost! Your old Zhao is thirty years old and not getting married. This girl is right next to you. Do you think I'm fine?
"Maybe they have discipline in their team." Yao Ming, who has been sitting with Wang Ai, said after the two people's busy resignations, "Many of our projects have rules in this area in order to allow athletes to concentrate on training. After all, this kind of thing , May make moods ups and downs, not conducive to performance. "
"Do you understand?" Wang Ai raised her eyebrows: "Then you ..."
"Don't do it!" Yao Ming quickly shook his head. "Let's say something else, and you're so young, I don't want to teach you bad."
"Cut!" Wang Ai pouted, my girlfriend has more than you.
"Yi Xiaowang, I really want to ask you something." Yao Ming leaned his arms around the table and tilted his head: "Have you been abroad for several years? I heard that you went out alone, foreigners everywhere. Then, how did you handle the relationship with your teammates? I watched the live broadcast of your last match and I found that although you are not the captain, everyone is convinced. "
"I……"
"No, no, I know you're the boss, but that's different. I can see that they are convinced by you not because you are the boss, not just because of your skills. So I'm curious, you guys How did the rapport come about? "
Wang Ai frowned: "Do you want to say Francis?"
Yao Ming froze, and then laughed: "Do you know this?"
"You see my game, I also watch your game, I want to go to the scene to see you play."
"You must come when you have the chance. I'll give you tickets, first row. You tell me what you think?"
Wang Ai pondered for a long time because he had never encountered such a thing. Within a week of the Tubingen team, he bought the team. Then facing a group of amateur players, his status as a golden boot can be suppressed. Go slowly to today.
The Houston Rockets have a tradition of center. For example, the great Olajuwon before was the core of the team without a doubt and has the most central tactical position.
This is not only a matter of income, but also who is the center determines the team's tactics. If the center is determined to be the core of the tactics, then the center is of course the most comfortable, with the strongest protection, the most opportunities, the best performance, and vice versa. And Yao Ming is not just representing him personally at this moment. He carries the heavy burden of Chinese basketball, Chinese sports, Chinese athletes and even China's image in the United States and the world. He has a better status and better performance at an early date. Urging him.
But Francis really meant it to him. Yao Ming's humble character can grow without bullying in the straightforward and bold black group, which is inseparable from the protection of Francis. As we all know, black people are very united, but they are also very exclusive. Not to mention yellow people, they are even excluded from white people.
Therefore, Yao Ming is now facing a painful problem. In order to develop better and even better team results, he needs to obtain a core position in tactics. As the CBA MVP, there is no doubt the first person in Chinese basketball, the NBA champion. What does it take for a long time to beat someone? But this will again face conflict with Francis. Francis' protection is actually based on the "I am the boss" mentality. Once this is overturned, what Francis will do is really hard to say.
"Dao Yao, I haven't encountered this kind of problem. I said that my thoughts will serve as a reference for you. I think the adjustment of teammate relations should start from the team's performance. This is the common interest of everyone, as long as your contribution Big and contributing, even if your status is getting higher and higher than Francis, he ca n’t object even if he is uncomfortable. For example, you led the team to the playoffs, the finals or something. This is the case for both of us You and I know that as long as one day is a victory. So we should strive for a smooth transition as much as possible, which is best for ourselves and our country. "
"Smooth transition." Yao Ming repeated it again, thinking for a moment: "It is really an image, and I also feel that I should have a good relationship with others, whether it is from the person's duty, the team's unity or even the team's performance, but there is no You said so briefly. By the way, if you have the opportunity to come to Houston, I will introduce you. He is very good, very interesting, and a bit like your Northeast character. "
Wang Ai smiled and nodded secretly, Francis meant enough to you, but his private life was also a mess. If you had n’t lived a Puritan-like life in the United States and became widely known, you would have to be dragged down by your image.
"Da Yao, have you seen" Slam Dunk "?"
Wang Ai didn't want to continue talking about Francis, and instead asked such a naive question curiously.
"Well ... have you seen" Soccer Player "?" Yao Ming asked with a smile.
Wang Ai froze, and the two laughed. For professional athletes, especially their top athletes, cartoons are just science books for ordinary fans.