From sparring to superstar

Chapter 115 113. Both treat each other as training partners

Li Ao completed capping on the center for the fourth time in this game, which woke Kobe up.

Kobe found that he seemed, seemed, probably, should, maybe... didn't have the conditions to play a team offense.

There are too many absences and replacements of the main teammates, and now it is better to play with him alone.

Then, he chose to swing.

Usually, the third quarter is when his physical strength overwhelms everything, but today, he is a little unable to move.

I can still swing, but I can't hit five like usual...

At 9 minutes and 22 seconds into the third quarter, Li Ao seized the opportunity again, contracted and pinched, and slapped the ball raised by Foster.

Seeing Li Ao coming in, Foster raised the ball and didn't shoot, his legs didn't work hard, so he gave up.

He really wanted to tell Kobe-don't pass the ball to me. Although it is a good opportunity, I can't put it in!

Kobe also wanted to yell: Can you stop bullying the slow-moving white center forwards like Foster and Medvedenko? Give Grant a try!
Will bully the weak chicken center!There is a kind of waiting for the fat man to come back to bully him!
People always have some first time.

Kobe had looked forward to the absence of the fat man many times, and now for the first time he expected the fat man to come back soon...

Li Ao fanned the ball out of bounds and got the 7th block of the game. Zen Master called a timeout and gave up.

Kobe, who shot 53% in the first half, has now dropped to 45%, and the score has reached 70-89. The third quarter is now 12-23, and there is no possibility of struggling.

The Clippers also replaced Li Ao and Odom who had played for more than 33 minutes without a break. They let O'Neal play inside and McGinnis and Boykins played outside, and they played the rest of the time.

At 10:12 p.m., the final whistle blew.

The Clippers fans cheered and celebrated loudly.

Even though it is a preseason game, I will be happy if I win.

Moreover, Li Ao's performance was great!
出场24分钟，13投7中，其中三分球1中0，外加3中2的罚球，拿到16分3板6助攻1抢断7盖帽！

The opposing Lakers team only had 6 blocks, and Li Ao alone had more blocks than the entire opposing team!
After getting 630 achievement points, Li Ao was very excited and wanted to chat with Kobe. The opponent scored 22 points and 10 assists on 30 of 7 shots tonight. His performance was also very good, but he just lost.

But when Kobe saw Li Ao walking towards him, he didn't even pick up the towel, and walked quickly into the player tunnel without turning his head.

Seeing Li Ao returning to the opposite side resentfully, and then looking at Ryder who slipped away quietly, the Zen master also has an alpaca running in his heart.

For Li Ao's shot, what Kobe saw was - this spider looks like me;

What Zen master saw was that he had an advantage in height and wingspan and had good opportunities to shoot decisively, be flanked and stuck, decisively split the ball in the gap and protect the ball and pass it to the teammate who responded.

Bet the Grizzlies dare not choose what to do, Stud!
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场均18分4.3板7.1助攻1.3抢断3.6盖帽，49.4%的投篮命中率，32%的三分命中率。

After finishing all the preseason games, Li Ao became the unique focus among the rookies.

虽然肯扬-马丁7场比赛场均15.3分7板1.7盖帽；迈克-米勒场均14分3.9板1.7助攻，也还看得过去。

But the play style of the two, as well as the role positioning of the team, the media analyzed, the two could not play such a performance in the regular season.

The opponents in the preseason were not well prepared for defense, and Kenyon Martin's purely eating style of play gave him a lot of opportunities.

For Mike Miller, his shooting area is much wider than that of Kenyon Martin, but he is a role player. Duncan only averaged 7 shots per game in the preseason, and more than doubled it in the regular season.

And Mike Miller's three-point performance is not as good as in the NCAA period. During the preseason, he had an exaggerated 46.1% hit rate for two-pointers, but only 35% of three-pointers.

Li Ao received the opposite evaluation, and the media's evaluation of him was similar to Kobe's.

With more stable and carefully selected tactics that suit him, his performance may get better and better as the running-in increases.

When Li Ao saw these comments, he felt that he had a good time. If he had entered the NBA in the past few years...he would not be afraid, but he played well, not necessarily touting him, there would definitely be The media compares the highlight moments of other rookies with him, leading to confrontation.

This year, there is no one in the same class to compare with him. In this case, the media chose the mode of blowing up.

You have to catch a part of the audience no.

The most eye-catching thing about Li Ao is not that he has 7.1 assists in so little time with the ball. He is famous all over the United States in college and has been discussed many times.

Now he is drawing attention with 7 blocks in 25 preseason games!
Most of these blocks are concentrated in the three-second zone.

That is to supplement the defense block.

The area covered by his open arms is so large, larger than most insiders, like a big spider, and he really can't tell from the way he usually puts his hands in his pockets.

Let's take a look at Li Ao's wingspan registered on the NBA official website, which is 215 centimeters.

Gan!
Spider-Man is very popular in the United States and is one of the most popular superheroes.

Li Ao, who lives in Los Angeles, the capital of entertainment, some local fans began to call him by this nickname.

On the 27th, after the end of the preseason, the Clippers have a day off.

On the 28th and 29th, two days of preparation training were conducted.

In the past three days, Li Ao and Kobe saw the dying sunset from the window of the 'blacksmith room' together.

Kobe, who swore he would never talk to the big spider, hung up when he received the call at noon on the 27th, but he played it back later, without saying anything, and just left a sentence "see you at 4 o'clock".

No need to guess too much, Kobe knows what this guy wants to do.

Although I wanted to refuse, the idea of ​​'beating the big spider' was still lingering, and I finally went.

He asked about the schedule. Li Ao will leave Los Angeles on the 30th, which will not affect his energy for the opening game on the 31st.

However, in this sparring session, Kobe began to "play badly" on the second day.

He took the initiative to compete with Li Ao in the middle distance, instead of rushing to the basket, which made his singles success rate drop a lot, but the efficiency of duel training has been improved.

Li Ao is so happy, what he wants is to increase his defensive experience in this area, and at the same time, he can also learn the small details of the opponent's shooting.

The two sides regard each other as sparring partners.

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On the morning of the 30th, Li Ao followed the team to Salt Lake City.

Vivienne, Liam, Dean Teng, Henry Bibby and others were also going to watch the game, but this time they didn't go ahead of time and planned to take the old man's private jet.

Originally, Vivienne wanted to take the team's chartered flight with Li Ao. As a small boss, she has the right not to need Li Ao to take her.

But she heard that when Li Ao went to Seattle last time, she dated a resident singer. She faintly felt that she was a little in the way, otherwise Li Ao might have already dated a little girl in Denver.

In her opinion, although Li Ao's requirements are high, if you try a few more times, you might find the right one.

The Clippers stayed in a hotel in Salt Lake City, and Gentry asked the players to stay in the hotel to rest and go directly to the Energy Solutions Arena tomorrow.

None of the Clippers players went out to play. It was already cold, and there were anti-discrimination demonstrations outside today. Li Ao thought about it for a while, and guessed that the Anti-Racial Discrimination Association here was short of money again.

I don't know what the team was thinking. He originally had a bag-carrying boy who lived in the same room, but Gentry froze and changed him into a single room, and asked Big Q to live in the same room with the assistant coach.

But the live big Q who carried the bag still couldn't escape.

But after Big Q helped him deliver the boxes and bags to the room, he left Big Q and played PS2 together. Big Q was so happy—the boss took me to play games!
Little O'Neill also came under the name, he made a few complaints and gave up the game console to these two guys, and went to the restaurant to read the news with his notebook.

Today is the first game day of the regular season, with 14 teams playing the opener.

The opening games of the Clippers and the Lakers are tomorrow. The Lakers are the defending champions, and the Clippers can only play away games.

For the news that Li Ao saw in the past few days, the media fiddled with several lists.

The Lakers, Magic, and Trail Blazers are considered the top three favorites to win the championship.

The defending champion of the Lakers and the best combination of OK in the world.

The Magic got Duncan and took off on the spot.

The Trail Blazers successfully kept Sabonis, and also reinforced a No. [-] pick with the potential to average a double-double per game.

The fastest regressing team, there are two teams on the forecast list-the Spurs and the Pacers.

The Spurs are cold, losing Duncan, and visually they are about to fail.

Last year's overall runner-up Pacers made another show, and it was exactly the same as a few years ago-refusal to renew the contract with Mark Jackson.

In the 95-96 season, the Pacers won 52 and refused to give Mark Jackson a long-term contract. After Mark Jackson left, the Pacers' record plummeted.

This just reached the finals, and again, Mark Jackson finally assisted Carter with $2 million in two years.

Many media and experts expressed confusion-why does Larry Bird hate Mark Jackson so much?
After swiping other news, Li Ao got news about him.

The media is really fickle. In the two days just after the preseason, they were touting him.

Today, it starts to change into interrogative sentences.

Can Leo adapt to the regular season?
Can the preseason performance continue?

How much gold does the preseason data have?
Is the preseason performance a big reference?

In the past two days, he was still saying that he must perform better in the regular season than in the preseason!
But on the list of the best rookie predictions, the media made trouble and only wrote his name, as if he had schizophrenia.

After closing the webpage, Li Ao tapped the keyboard.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about the adjustment of the details of running and shooting.

Playing 7 preseason games, he gained a lot of experience.

He also learned something when he used Kobe Bryant to defend against mid-range and long-range.

Running shots don't necessarily have to be aimed at throwing off the defense, that would be too exhausting.

With his physical condition, good emergency stop and turning ability, and the bonus of "stopping level 3", he only needs to have the space to pass and receive the ball, and only needs to have a certain gap to make shooting movements, and he is a good runner. catch-and-shoot.

This will definitely be less efficient than running out of a true open shot.

But physical exertion will be reduced a lot, which will help him save energy.

Moreover, as the main attack point, it is actually difficult to get a real vacancy.

If you think your efficiency will be affected, then just practice the mid-range shot and three-pointers to be more accurate!

The plan goes through again!
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The next day, October 10, was the Clippers' first game day of the new season.

At around 6:[-] in the morning, Li Ao woke up and opened his eyes. The system screen has been turned on, showing a reminder that the update has been completed.

"Name: Li Ao, English name: Leo.

Age: 19 (August 1981, 8).

Height: 203 cm, arm span: 227 cm.

Weight: 99 kg.

Comprehensive evaluation: 77.

身体素质：速度91（爆发加速89），力量89（爆发力86），弹跳86（弹速90），柔韧性92，体力89……

Basic skills: 72 three-pointers, 86 mid-range shots, 89 layups, 65 hooks, 63 ball control, 82 passes, 87 retreats, 88 lateral moves, 88 rounds, 70 strides, 75 turns, 72 emergency stops...

Skills: 65 hooks, 74 catch-and-turn shots, 72 catch-and-shoot jump shots..."

He looked at his personal evaluation report. In the past month, he didn't improve much. Three-pointers, layups, and forwards all improved a little. The basic skills and techniques of emergency stop jump shots have all improved a little bit.

Because most of the training is team training, there is less time for individual training.

But progress is not only reflected in personal ability, but also improvement in cooperation with teammates.

He switches to the team interface.

The team's strongest, not what he expected—"Lamar Odom, 21 years old, 208 cm, 104 kg, overall evaluation 84(?)...Evaluation: Unpredictable player."

喇嘛才84的综合评价，这可是新秀年就场均16.6分7.8板4.2助攻1.2抢断1.3盖帽的球员。

Other players should give a comprehensive evaluation based on performance, right?
But seeing the question marks and player evaluations behind...emmm...the 84 makes sense.

In addition to Odom, Li Ao felt what cruelty is, and what is the difference between teams.

Although he doesn't know the situation of other teams for the time being, they deserve to be the team that got the No. [-] pick.

O'Neal 79, Greg Anthony 75, Maggette 77, Big Q73, Piakowski 76, Kenyon Dooling 70...

Li Ao regards himself as a partial student with an evaluation of 80+, and his and Odom are the only players on their team who have reached an excellent level.

However, they deserve to be the 'first-round team', with 14 first-round players, only 3 have a comprehensive rating below 70.

Regardless of the fact that the whole team is cheap, they are really cheap.

But Jermaine O'Neal and Maggette seem to have great hope of breaking through to an excellent level.

Maggette, Li Ao feels like a deluxe enhanced version of Sam Clancy, the kind of real genius with a destructive body, and has relatively good attacking skills, but now he can only be used as an assaulter.

Jermaine O'Neal is much better, from the training camp to the last game of the preseason, you can see quite obvious improvement.

In the last preseason game against the Lakers, the Lakers' backup centers were not too miserable. They were capped 6 times by Li Ao and scored 21 points and 15 rebounds by Jermaine O'Neal.

Jermaine O'Neal's current problems are inaccurate mid-range shots, inexperience in shooting under the basket against mid-range shots, a little too many hands when defending and easy fouls...but these are only a matter of time.

After exiting the team interface, Li Ao opened the lottery interface.

He now has 41995 achievement points.

The consumption during the offseason is really big!

Sometimes relying on the accumulated achievement points, he practiced several events a day, and felt that practicing one was too boring... Fortunately, it was really enough, and there were more than 9 left by the end of September.

In the past month, there was little personal training, and he usually chooses to use the task of "Basic Team Coordination Training Method Level 1" to activate the physiotherapy function of the body.

The achievement points obtained in the 7 preseason games, plus the 5 training sessions with Kobe as a sparring partner, saved thousands of points, and returned to 4+.

The reason for opening the lottery interface is that the system prompts that his NBA career has officially started today, and the mid-level lottery has started!

"Intermediate lottery draw: 10000 achievement points once, mid-level rewards can be drawn, and there is a small probability of rare rewards."

He thought about it—the new season has just started, there are many games, the game rewards are doubled compared to the NCAA, and the statistics must be better than the NCAA period... Suck him!
At present, I will save 1 yuan to buy a saliva bag... No, it is just training and physical therapy.

A command was issued, and a golden light flashed...

"10000 achievement points have been consumed, congratulations to the host for getting the reward: tie your shoelaces (white)."

"Tie up your shoelaces (white): foot equipment, which does not take effect at the same time as other foot equipment, has a great effect on preventing slipping and falling."

"This reward is very...practical?"

Li Ao couldn't think of other adjectives for a while.

But it is indeed practical.

He looked at the practical instructions, oh, he doesn't need to replace the shoelaces, if he wears the shoes, if there are shoelaces, he can take the initiative to replace them, and he can also choose the color, and the effect will be restored when he takes off the shoes.

Also very practical.

He got the equipment as soon as he got started, and he felt that he probably used up almost all of his Ou Qi today.

He opened the skill interface and looked. There were still 4 level 1 skills. 'Champion's Pride' was temporarily abolished. Let's ignore it. There were also 3 skills: 'Marathon', 'Pumping Work', and 'Perfect Warm Up'.

He inquired about the system and got a reply that he could not draw level 2 skill upgrade cards and fragments in the mid-level lottery.

He plans to upgrade these three level 1 skills to level 2 first.

He issued a lottery drawing order and drew 21 times in a row.

With a scrape-scratch mentality, he saw the golden light for the first time...

Then, another 20 white lights flashed...

"Congratulations to the host for getting an intermediate reward: a level 3 skill upgrade card."

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He remembered that he had two level 3 skill upgrade card fragments, and he was looking forward to drawing another fragment, but the first draw came directly to a finished product!

Good deeds are good deeds, but he felt a bit guilty that the reward was too good.

Seeing the reward of 20 white lights, he grinned.

3 level 2 skill upgrade card fragments, 1 level 3 skill upgrade card fragment!

After the system automatically synthesizes, switch to the props section, where there are 2 level 3 skill upgrade cards and 1 level 2 skill upgrade card.

3 Level 1 skills, he decisively chose to upgrade 'Marathon'!
He tried it in summer league and preseason, and it worked out pretty well.

When counterattacking, as long as it is not counterattacking with the ball, if it starts from its own free throw line and almost reaches the opposite free throw line, it can be triggered. Although it does not take effect for every counterattack, as long as it takes effect, it will gain stamina bonus in a single round The effect of the ball can play a role in the final touch of the end of the ball.

Positional attacks can occasionally be triggered, but the probability is not high. There is a big difference between him and Hamilton's running style in the Pistons. Under Larry Brown, Hamilton is looking for shooting opportunities by himself, with little tactical elements.

He is the main point of attack in the tactics, and it is relatively easy to get shooting opportunities. In consideration of the stability of his shooting, the coaching staff designed a tactic that is not the kind of wide-range running, but it can be used anyway.

Level 3 skill upgrade card, he did not continue to choose to upgrade 'marathon', but chose 'siege' and 'transfer expert'.

Of these two, one is related to his supplementary defense and assisting defense, and the other is related to support.

He issued an instruction, and the system prompted that the upgrade was complete, and all 3 cards had been consumed.

"Marathon level 2: When running for a long distance without the ball, the short-term physical strength will be slightly improved. After the long-distance running, if you receive the ball and shoot, you will temporarily recover to the best physical state within two seconds after receiving the ball."

After reading the description of level 2 'marathon', Li Ao's eyes widened.

The urge to go to Larry Brown to run and shoot by himself has come!

Two seconds is enough to slowly adjust the catch and shoot!
"Forget it, the two seconds it takes to counterattack are not bad, the dunk is still very cool, and the catch and shot after a wide range of running, even if the physical strength temporarily returns to the best physical state, has a great impact on shooting... "

Li Ao stopped paying attention to this and used it as an off-ball counterattack skill first.

"Level 3 Siege: When the host moves in positions such as replenishing defense, assisting defense, shrinking, pinching, etc., the speed +3 and strength +3; when the host successfully supplements the defense in place, the awareness of predicting the ball's line when the opponent shoots is slightly improved, The specific effect depends on the timing of the host's pincer attack and the timing of blocking."

"Transfer expert level 3: The host will pass the ball within two seconds after receiving the ball, the mind will be clearer and calmer, and the ball feel will be improved; if the host's pass evaluation is lower than 85, it will temporarily increase to 85 during this pass."

The effect of 'marathon' has already made Li Ao call shit.

When these two skills were upgraded to level 3, Li Ao's eyes almost popped out!
'Transfer expert' thought that the late stage was useless, it was just an excessive skill in the early stage, but he didn't expect it to start to be powerful in the late stage.

Although there is no further improvement in passing accuracy, it has been greatly improved-the trigger mechanism has been upgraded!No need to pass the ball in a fixed position anymore, you can control the ball and move!
Although a two-second limit has been added, compared to the previous limit of passing the ball in a fixed position, it is almost nothing!Two seconds is enough to do a lot of things.

And 'siege' can be regarded as 'improving talent', and the sense of smell of blocking is improved!
He looked at the bonus of 'Suspend Level 3', and felt that it was not at the same level as these two.

But after the excitement, he calmed down, and he found that he had fallen into a misunderstanding just now.

He thinks that 'transfer expert' and 'siege' are much better than 'suspend', because his talent in supplementary defense and supportive defense is just fine.

If he doesn't have those talents, these two prerequisite skills are useless skills.

And 'suspension' is a hard bonus, he only needs to practice the emergency stop jump shot to be able to use it.

After turning off the system, Li Ao closed his eyes and meditated for a while. After getting rid of distracting thoughts, he got up, took a shower, had breakfast, and followed the team to the Energy Solutions Arena to prepare for the game.

A summer of individual training, a month of team building, and achievement points were all used.

He has made enough preparations to welcome his first NBA game against Utah Shuangsha!

...

Today is another 1.5 words, asking for a monthly ticket~
(End of this chapter)