I'm good at basketball too

Chapter 245 Follow my footsteps, don't fall behind!
"mission completed."

"Progress evaluation."

"The total achievements you have achieved are: Rookie of the Month, Rookie of the Month, Player of the Week, Player of the Month, Slam Dunk Contest Champion, Three Point Contest Champion, Skills Challenge Champion, Most Improved Player, All-Star Game MVP, Defensive Player of the Year, Regular Season MVP, Championship, Finals MVP."

"Your career is: 2 years."

"Your rating is: S+"

"The reward is being calculated..."

The system stopped at this point, and Li Ran was waiting like a mouse, oh no, it was like a duck's neck was scratching in his heart.

Li Ran didn't receive the system reward until the game.

It seems that Li Ran's explosive performance made the system very difficult. . .

In the evening, before the start of the game, Li Ran stood in front of his own locker, which was the center of the entire locker room, looked at his teammates who were preparing their equipment for the game, and suddenly clapped his hands.

Everyone subconsciously stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Li Ran.

"In the first round, the Blazers didn't give us any trouble."

The Grizzlies players had proud and smug expressions on their faces.

"Next, we will challenge the strongest players and teams in the league."

The team members looked serious.

"But are you ready?"

Li Ran looked down upon his teammates, even Calipari in the corner was looking forward to what he would say next.

"Are you ready to follow me to win the championship?"

"My pace is fast, I hope you can keep up with my pace, don't fall behind!"

Curry stood up first.

"champion!"

The other players also stood up at the same time.

"champion!"

The big hands were put together, and finally this deafening word was gathered together, which resounded throughout the locker room.

When Li Ran stepped onto the court, all the Grizzlies fans shouted MVP to cheer him on.

Li Ran also opened his hands and waved towards the fans.

Kobe stood on the other side, looking seriously at Li Ran, who was attracting everyone's attention.

He never imagined that the Huaxia boy in the training hall could catch up with him so quickly and become one of the top people in the league.

Now Li Ran has undoubtedly become a superstar in the league, and he is comparable to Kobe, James, Anthony, Duncan, Nowitzki and others.

Unlike growing up under the protection of Anthony, O'Neal, Billups and others last year, this season, Li Ran has his own team and perfectly fulfilled his task as the team leader.

"I'm sorry, Kobe, I blocked you from the finals last year. It seems that you can't even make it to the conference finals this year."

When passing by Kobe, Li Ran deliberately stopped and said to Kobe seriously with a smile.

Kobe was taken aback for a moment, then laughed too.

"It's me who should say that. We have already booked this year's championship in advance, and no one can stop us."

There is also incomparable confidence in his words.

The Lakers he leads now look stronger than when the OK combination was back then. He has every reason to continue to compete for his fourth championship ring.

Seeing that Li Ran stopped talking to Kobe, the fans started clamoring.

The game started quickly, and the main players of the two teams stood around the middle circle.

Both sides sent their strongest lineup.

Memphis Grizzlies: Stephen Curry, Li Ran, Andrei Kirilenko, Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol.

Los Angeles Lakers: Steve Blake, Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Pau Gasol, Yao Ming.

This round of the series is really full of highlights.

The duel between Kobe and Li Ran, two top perimeter players.

The China Derby between Li Ran and Yao Ming.

Gasol and Gasol's brother duel.

Even the duel between Artest and AK47, once the strongest defensive wing in the league, is one of the highlights.

Artest is only 31 years old this year. Although he averaged just over [-] points per game in the Lakers this season due to tactical status issues, he is still a reliable defensive gate for the Lakers outside.

Needless to say, Kirilenko, after coming to the Grizzlies, he seemed to be back to his peak after he was already on the decline. His average of 2+ steals and blocks per game made the outside line formed by him and Li Ran an unbeatable prospect for everyone. Defensive combination willing to face.

Xiaojia successfully won the ball over Yao Ming's head by virtue of his jumping a little higher than a matchbox.

Curry dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. While observing his teammates' running positions, he passed the ball to Li Ran who was standing next to him.

Li Ran stood in front of Kobe, but he was not in a hurry, he just dribbled the ball unhurriedly, until Xiaojia came out to block himself, and then directly wiped past Kobe.

After entering the paint, he didn't challenge the twin towers of Yao Ming and Gasol. Instead, he made a jump shot as soon as he reached the free throw line and made a steady hit.

From the beginning to the end, Kobe's defense had no problems, and even passing the gear was only slightly behind Li Ran by half a body.

But with this half body gap, he could only watch Li Ran throw the ball in with his very similar shooting posture.

To be precise, Li Ran's shooting is not like Kobe, but like Jordan.

His hands are bigger than Kobe, and his wingspan is stronger than Kobe, which makes his shooting posture in the air extremely stretched, very much like Jordan back then.

Kobe frowned. He wasn't bothered by Li Ran's scoring, but because Li Ran didn't choose his best breakthrough for the first attack, but relied on mid-range shots to score.

This is a bad signal.

What he is most afraid of is not Li Ran in the regular season, but once Li Ran develops his ability to combine sudden shots, it will be extremely difficult for him to defend.

Even if Li Ran doesn't have the ability to break through and score the ball, the choice of shots after the breakthrough is enough for the Lakers to have a headache.

The next game process just confirmed Kobe's guess.

Li Ran was extremely active on the offensive end, but today he took a lot less shots directly into the paint than usual, and a lot more mid-range shots.

In fact, Li Ran also followed the strategy formulated by Calipari before the game.

After all, the two towers of the Lakers are too deterrent in the interior. Even if Li Ran breaks through and enters the interior, he can still score, but his efficiency will inevitably decline.

In this way, the space in the middle distance is Li Ran's ideal shot area.

It's not that Li Ran can't shoot three-pointers, but there is already a top three-point shooter in the team. Li Ran doesn't want to bet the outcome of the game on three-pointers with unpredictable shooting rates like some other three-pointers.

As strong as Curry, didn't he also play games like 13 for 1 and 12 for 1 three-pointers?

Seeing Li Ran scoring mid-range points frequently, not only Kobe Bryant, but even Phil Jackson off the court started to have a headache.

(End of this chapter)