The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 239
With 35 points, 18 rebounds and 4 blocks, Li Pu's debut in the Kings was perfect, comparable to Harden's performance in the Rockets' first game.

Not only that, but more importantly, under his leadership, the team actually defeated the defending champion Thunder!
This severely slapped the face of the so-called "expert" who had been questioning Li Puda's status as the head of the team before, and proved that he can not only cut luxurious statistics, but also lead the team to win.

In addition to Li Pu's performance, the performance of other players is also remarkable, not as bad as everyone thinks.

Both Thomas Jr. and Butler scored the team's second-highest 16 points, and Bledsoe scored 13 points. A total of four players in the team scored in double figures.

Although Middleton only scored 4 points, he completed the lore at the end of the game!

The core is strong and the teammates are reliable, which also makes the fans begin to have illusions about the Kings' impact on the playoffs.

The only downside is that this perfect debut was held away in Oklahoma City, not at home.

Therefore, when the Kings returned home, the second game was sold out. Such a hot scene has never appeared before!
However, in the first game back home, the Kings suffered a loss.

On November 11st, the Los Angeles Clippers, known as the city of lobs, came to Saskatchewan as a guest.

In this game, although Li Pu scored 31 points again and Thomas Jr. also contributed 24 points, the team still lost to the Clippers 101:110.

Compared with the Kings who only scored in double figures with 3 players, the Clippers had 6 players who scored in double figures, blowing up the Kings on both offense and defense.

This is not over, and the next day, the Kings came to Oakland to challenge the Golden State Warriors.

These two teams, who had played against each other twice in the preseason, now meet again in the regular season. Both sides know each other quite well, so from the beginning of the game, they played extremely anxiously.

The two sides fought for each other and fought fiercely for 4 quarters.

In the end, the Warriors were even better with Curry and Thompson hitting 8 three-pointers together.

The king also lost by one point at 107:108, and Xiti lost two games in a row.

In this game, Li Pu continued to carry the whole game, scored 32 points and 20 rebounds, and the team still lost.

In less than a week, the fans of Saskatchewan felt like a roller coaster, falling from the peak to the bottom in an instant.

Winning the Thunder gave the fans hope, but in the blink of an eye they lost two games in a row, making them realize that the team is still a weak team, and instantly poured cold water on their hot heads.

At six o'clock in the morning, the city of Saskatchewan was as quiet as an empty city. A Mercedes-Benz GLE slowly drove into the parking lot of the King's training hall.

After the car was parked, Giannis got out.

Li Pu did what he said, he knew that Giannis was in short supply, so he really brought Giannis to the garage at home and asked him to pick one.

Anyway, he already has seven or eight luxury cars in the garage, just one car, and he doesn't care at all.

For this, Giannis is of course grateful, and feels that he did not admit the wrong boss!

But now, looking at this luxury car that he likes very much, he is not happy at all.

Li Pu was so kind to himself, naturally it was to let him perform well on the court, but after three games, he averaged 5 points and 3 rebounds per game.

Such a performance made him ashamed to continue driving this car!

Therefore, after he woke up before five o'clock this morning, he couldn't fall back asleep.

After tossing and turning on the bed, he decided to come to the training hall to practice in advance, to vent on the court, so as to make himself feel more at ease!
When he came to the door of the training hall, he saw bright lights inside and the sound of basketball hitting the ground from time to time.

"Who is training so early?"

Confused Giannis walked into the arena, but saw Jimmy Butler training seriously at this time.

He did not perfunctory because he was not accompanied by a trainer. He completed every movement and every shot meticulously.

What surprised Giannis was that Butler's T-shirt was already wet with sweat at this time. Obviously, his practice time at the moment definitely exceeded an hour.

"What time did you come?" Giannis asked after Butler finished his last shot.

"Four o'clock, I forgot!" Butler replied casually to Giannis, wiping the sweat off his face with his clothes.

"So early?"

Giannis was surprised.

He has always heard Kobe's phrase "Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning", but he has always regarded this sentence as a meme, but now, someone actually did this, is this still a human being?

Thinking of this, Giannis suddenly understood why Li Pu often exaggerated that Butler was the most hardworking player he had ever seen?
Because the team's training is usually scheduled at 10:9 or [-]:[-] in the morning, and he arrived almost before [-]:[-] in the morning.

But he has never seen Butler, usually Butler will step on the point to come to the team.

This makes Giannis very puzzled. How can such a person who comes at a pinch point be a hard-working player?

Even if he has extra practice after the training, we also have it!

Therefore, Giannis has always had a bad impression of Butler, thinking that he became the second head of the team because of his nepotism with Li Pu!
I can replace him sooner or later!
Now Giannis understands that Butler, the co-author, goes back after practicing every morning, and comes back when the team is training.

In other words, they practiced twice a day, while Butler practiced three times a day!
Calculated in this way, he has to practice more than four hours a day than himself!

For a long time, Giannis thought he was a very hardworking player, but now it seems that compared with Butler, he is still far behind!
So, Giannis stopped talking, changed his clothes immediately, and devoted himself to training.

Because of their mediocre relationship, the two had little to say on the court. They just practiced and did their own things. It wasn't until almost 8 o'clock in the morning that Butler packed up his things and prepared to leave.

After seeing Butler leave, Giannis hesitated for a moment, but packed his things and prepared to leave.

If I don't rest for two hours and keep spinning like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on to this day's training at all.

However, he was a bit unwilling to admit defeat in his heart, and he still made up his mind that he would come to train at four o'clock starting tomorrow, and he must not lose to this Butler!

Just when Giannis finished packing and left the arena, he bumped into Middleton who came to train.

"Hi! Giannis, who is this?"

"Oh, go home!"

Giannis nodded to Middleton and headed for the parking lot.

Looking at the back of Giannis leaving, Middleton instinctively sensed something was wrong.

Now is the time for training, why did he walk back, not to mention sweating profusely?
Could it be that he is practicing more?

No, I can't lose to him!

For a long time, Middleton has been very dissatisfied with his own games in these few games.

Even though there was a lore in the first game, the overall performance was still very bad, so he got up so early in the morning to train.

But now it seems that a rookie came earlier than himself, how can he admit defeat?

Therefore, Middleton secretly made up his mind that he would come to train at six o'clock in the morning tomorrow!

Just like that, without Li Pu knowing it, the inside of the Kings team began to stir up.

(End of this chapter)