From sparring to superstar

Chapter 126 124. What grade?
A 19-year-old player has been honored to have his jersey retired, which is the first time in NCAA basketball history.

But at the beginning of the month, when Southern California announced that it would hold a retirement ceremony for Li Ao in the opening game, it was not surprising.

Although Li Ao only played for one year, he directly led the team to 1 consecutive victories and won the championship. After entering the NBA, he also played immediately.

Anyone who pays attention to college basketball knows that USC will retire Li Ao's jersey sooner or later, and there is no problem in retiring now.

The NCAA Association also sent executives to watch the ceremony. Li Ao did not return to the university arena, but the contact between the florist's brand and the NCAA has begun. With Li Ao, NCAA basketball has a certain reputation in the florist.

There were even some players from the youth team of A-A clubs bypassing the team and secretly contacting the NCAA. As a result, both the club and the players were punished by the Basketball Association.

Li Ao didn't care about this matter, just read the news.

The national conditions are like this, and there are some things where it is useless to help, and you will also get into trouble, and the gain is not worth the loss.

There are really domestic players who come to the United States to play. If the opponent feels good to him, he can help out, but nothing else.

After enjoying the cheers from all the fans, Li Ao sat on the sidelines and watched the game.

Not to mention, the current Trojan team is much stronger than it was at the beginning of last season.

Facing the Bruins, the Trojans won 86-75.

After the game, Li Ao expressed his gratitude to fans, former coaches and former teammates.

He also said that he will always be a part of the Trojans, and when he has time, he will go to the Memorial Stadium to help the team train.

The fans applauded and cheered continuously, only a certain middle-aged man rolled his eyes to the sky...

...

After two days of rest, on November 11, the Clippers' ninth game day of the season arrived.

After half an hour of low-intensity tactical movement in the morning, Gentry announced the end of the preparations and rested to prepare for the game at 6 o'clock in the evening.

Li Ao asked puzzledly: "Alvin, aren't our preparations sufficient?"

"This is for health reasons and to reduce the risk of injury due to fatigue."

Li Ao imitated the big shark and bulged his biceps: "I'm not tired."

Gentry explained helplessly: "You are not tired, but your teammates will be tired. Our team has many young players, just like Big Q. The impact of fatigue is greater than the impact of insufficient training for the game."

Li Ao looked at his teammates who were full of energy after resting for two days, thought about it, and said, "That's right, when he played against the Mavericks, Quentin seemed to be squeezed dry by 12 women the night before."

Big Q, who was watching from the sidelines, was very happy when he heard that the boss called him Quentin when he was talking to others, but there were 12 women, and the opponent was the Nuggets on the eve of the Mavericks game... Putting these two key words together, McDyess's face appeared in his mind, and he shuddered.

On Li Ao's side, he understood Gentry's meaning - training new players this season is the main goal, and ensuring the health of young players is the only way to better train new players.

Glancing at his teammates, Li Ao has been in the NBA for a while, and he knows that besides the game, there are other things that affect the rookie's physical strength.

If it is a player who came out of the slums and just got a lot of money, there is a high probability that he will spend retaliatory consumption.

Buying a car, a watch, and a gold chain, and then going to a nightclub to order all the nightclub girls they drool about when they were wandering in the street, and then taste the essence and taste, and indulge in it for a long time.

Some people, after a period of indulgence, after a period of fresh energy, and their desires are satisfied, they know to restrain themselves and can get out of it. Such players can generally play for a few more years.

But most people will be addicted to it, and it will be abandoned quickly. They will never regain the belief in working hard to enter the NBA, and their careers will end hastily.

Especially here in Los Angeles.

The young teammates next to him, Big Q is already considered very good, but they just like to order takeaway when they go away.

Kenyon Dooling has been addicted to nightclubs recently, and he doesn't know if he can get rid of the temptation.

Odom is the king of nightclubs on the team, and even took Li Ao to nightclubs.

Li Ao is not worried about this guy. He is so talented that even Kardashian can't guard against him. No matter how he plays, he won't die.

O'Neal is the teammate Li Ao is least worried about.

He has a strong body and has been exercising all year round. Li Ao heard O'Neal talk about his time in the Trail Blazers. Although he didn't play much games, it was very hard for Tianzun and Sabonis to train with him. He had to train his body to be strong.

However, the reason why Li Ao is not worried about O'Neill is not because of this, but because this teammate is a person with lust but no guts, and he dare not even eat tofu when he goes to a nightclub to accompany the wine lady.

Odom and O'Neal have known each other for a long time. They met when they participated in the All-American High School All-Star Game for the first time in 95.

Odom once drank too much and broke the news to his teammates about an embarrassing incident when Jermaine O'Neal was just selected by the NBA. Jermaine O'Neal went to Portland's adult goods exhibition in the summer of 96. He dared to sneak up on the buttocks of adult actresses when there was a riot.

The other young teammates under the age of 25, Maggette, Brian Skinner, Boykins and others are very self-disciplined, but they are all functional players at present, and they are not yet fully useful, and they can only play to their strengths at certain moments.

Li Ao sighed helplessly: "What's wrong with the young players nowadays, they are all so delicate, since their physical strength is not enough, they should play in college for two more years!"

Teammates: ()
What to do, I want to rebel again!
...

There are a lot of fans gathered inside and outside the Staples Center today, because there will be two games today, the Clippers face the Knicks at 5:9, and the Lakers face the Celtics at [-]:[-].

At 5:10 in the evening, the Knicks players entered the court first.

When entering the arena, the Knicks players were very upset when they saw Li Ao's photos and data posted on the big screen.

What a stinky show!
场均24分4.5板5.4助攻1.5抢断3.9盖帽，场均命中1.1个三分球。

The 43.3 percent field goal percentage and 31 percent three-point percentage were not posted at the request of a No. 0 player who did not want to be named.

When the Clippers players entered the arena and Li Ao was the first to run out of the tunnel, nearly 2 people shouted 'Spiderman' in unison.

"Spider-Man is from New York!" Madman muttered unhappily.

After the Clippers players finished playing, the madman was even more upset when he saw fans on the sidelines holding up the slogan "The Clippers are about to be great".

He said to his teammates: "This group of people think that selecting a player can become a strong team? A bad ship will always be a bad ship!"

Several teammates agreed with the madman's statement, and echoed the whimsical slogans of the fans at the scene.

The history of the Knicks team has three bright stages. The first stage is the beginning of the establishment of the NBA, and the Knicks reached the finals for three consecutive years; the second is around 3, relying on Willis Reed to win two championships;

The current Knicks are not future star graves or retirement homes. They have reached the playoffs for 13 consecutive seasons, setting a record in team history, and have reached the finals twice in the past 7 seasons.

In the eyes of the Knicks players, they are at the pinnacle of team history, they are the team competing for the championship, and the Clippers are just a broken ship.

But the reason for their displeasure is not because Clippers fans look like upstarts who have picked up a lot of money.

But there is a rumor in the basketball circle in New York-last week, the Knicks management used multiple players as bargaining chips to apply to the Clippers to trade Li Ao.

It is said that the Knicks only retained Alan Houston, who had just renewed his contract with 6 million in 1 years and one year ahead of schedule, and Camby from the 96 class, and the other players were selected by the Clippers.

The key is that the offer from the Knicks was rejected by the Clippers!

Li Ao and Odom went to the technology table to rub chalk after the lights came on.

Odom is complaining: "Didn't you say that the new boss is very rich? Why hasn't the cheerleading team changed? When I was selected, I was looking forward to how beautiful the Los Angeles cheerleading team is. It turns out that the beautiful ones are all in the Lakers, Vaco."

Li Ao rolled his eyes and replied: "I think they are pretty good, at least they dance very professionally, and it doesn't matter how beautiful they are, they are cheerleaders, according to the regulations, you can't recruit cheerleaders."

"We can't soak, and we have more motivation when we have beautiful cheerleaders watching us during the game!"

"It's true, you have time to talk to the general manager about it."

"I knew Leo had a solution, thank you for your hard work... Wait! You asked me to go?"

"What else? It's not that I want the team to change cheerleaders."

"I dare to go and ask you for help? I really envy you, the date is either a celebrity or a socialite... By the way! You even dated the cheerleaders of the husky team!"

"Uh... don't be so jealous, I believe you will also hook up with a celebrity you like."

"Me? As poor as I am, how can people think of me?"

"Just now I watched the stars at night, and I saw the purple air coming from the east, and the dragons flying in the sky and the phoenix returning to their nests. As the saying goes, it is like a spring breeze coming overnight. In spring, the flowers bloom...Spring is the time to breed love. Although it is only winter now, your spring will always come."

"Really? Although I don't know what you're talking about, it seems to be very powerful. Is it the divination of the legendary mysterious eastern country... Wait! It's not dark yet, where did you see the astrology?"

The two were chatting, and several players from the Knicks came to them. The two stopped talking and looked at the group.

In this scene, Big Q, O'Neal Jr., Maggette, Boykins, Kenyon Dooling, Chris Mihm...and other teammates immediately came to the technical stage and stood behind Li Ao and Odom.

The longer we spend together, the more our teammates understand Li Ao's attributes.

After understanding Li Ao's nature, they also realized that Li Ao was not a random beater, so they were not so afraid of being beaten by Li Ao.

And they found that Li Ao is actually quite a nice person, with an outgoing personality, generous and enthusiastic, able to take jokes, and he just replies when he hates him. As long as he doesn’t do insulting things like Sugar Man, Li Ao has never made a move.

Other than that mouth, everything else is fine.

A group of people approached Li Ao with unfriendly expressions, and his teammates stood behind him decisively.

However, several players on the Knicks didn't move or even speak to them.

"5 wins and 3 losses, it's really lucky to have the same record as us."

"No matter how good luck is, we will let them know what a real strong team is."

"A group of recruits who don't know what is really powerful, I want to kick their balls."

"..."

"..."

Madman, Big Mom, Charlie Ward, Kurt Thomas and others started chatting on their own.

The Clippers players were confused and came to chat with them fiercely?
It wasn't until the madman left a sentence, "A bad ship is always a bad ship", that the Clippers players didn't realize it.

Che/Fake, it turns out that the other party's weird words are talking about them!
Li Ao just wanted to reply, but a group of people on the opposite side opened up and left directly.

So angry!
The New York gangsters certainly didn't run away in fear after ridiculing them. They obviously looked down on them and didn't bother to listen to their responses.

Thinking of this, Li Ao became even angrier!

"I want to win! I want to kick them!"

A teammate spoke, and Li Ao turned his head to look, very surprised, the one with the most unhappy expression was actually Zuo Mo who didn't seem to care about anything!

O'Neal chimed in: "Me too, I've never wanted to win so much."

The other teammates also looked like they were fighting against each other.

Li Ao was very surprised, when did they have such cohesion?
just had?Or did it slowly accumulate over time?
This is not important anymore, maybe this is the time to make the whole team cohesive!
With such thoughts, coupled with his displeasure with the Knicks, Li Ao yelled, "Kick their ass!"

Teammates yelled, "Kick their asses!"

At this time, the center of cohesion of the Clippers players naturally gathered on Li Ao, and all teammates could feel that the most competitive player in their team was Li Ao.

At this time, Li Ao received a mission reminder!

"Punch the Nursing Home:

Objective 1: The number of shots blocked by the host in this game must be higher than the average level of the season. (The host averaged 3.9 blocks per game this season)
Goal 2: The host needs to score higher than Latrell Sprewell in this game.

Goal 3: Beat the Knicks.

Every time you complete a goal, you will be rewarded with 1 achievement points. If you complete all the goals, you will be rewarded with an exclusive skill: Punch Nursing Home. "

A maximum of 9000 achievement points per game, this is the regular season!The rewards are very generous, and there is a skill!
There is no need to guess this skill, just by looking at the name, Li Ao knows which team the exclusive object is.

want to!

However, among the three goals, goal 1 is okay, and goal 3 is something he wants to do now, very much.

Target 2...

The best defensive team this season is not the Heat, nor the 76ers, Hornets, or Magic.

It is the Knicks led by Jeff Van Gundy, who averaged 89 points per game and conceded 85.1 points per game!
This game is going to score soaring, and the difficulty is a little too high.

Eh?Li Ao changed his mind - it's enough to defend the madman with a lower score than him!

...

At 5:28, the two teams started to come to the field.

The Clippers still started, and the Knicks sent Charlie Ward, Alan Houston, Sprewell, Larry Johnson, and Camby to the starting lineup.

Seeing the angry look of the opposite player, the Knicks players were not afraid at all.

They just want to see each other's anger, and then beat each other, trample each other under their feet!

After Li Ao came on stage, he quickly calmed down.

87评价的休斯敦、88评价的狂人、84评价的大妈、80评价的坎比、77评价的查理-沃德。

There are 5 starters on the opposite side, and 4 of them are very defensive. The standard 4-on-1 defensive combination.

Especially Camby, now he is not a stat brush in the future. He is active in defense, has a tough defensive style, and can defend from the basket to the mid-range with agility.

Yes, only the aunt who is 198 centimeters tall but weighs 113 kilograms is the one who protects the frame for the Knicks, and Camby is the one who goes out to help defend.

The referee came to the middle circle with the ball, Li Ao turned off the system screen and entered the game state.

At 5:30, the referee blew the whistle to start the game and threw the ball into the air, and the game started!

The moment the ball reached the highest point, Jermaine O'Neal bounced quickly, forcing Camby to push the ball back, and the Clippers went first!

The moment O'Neal touched the ball, Li Ao on the side of the center line turned and elbowed the madman who was pressing his arm on him, and rushed to the opposite side.

The madman took a step back in pain. It was too late to catch up, and the opponent had already rushed to the three-point line.

However, the Knicks retreated with good discipline. Li Ao was intercepted by the aunt, and he turned around to avoid the aunt and entered the three-point line while advancing.

It was Odom who received the jump ball. He quickly advanced and saw Li Ao bypassing the aunt, and immediately lobbed the ball to the middle.

Li Ao received the ball in one step inside the free throw line. At this time, Camby had already relied on the interception of Li Ao by his aunt, and retreated to the basket first.

The Knicks players confidently handed Li Ao over to Camby. Even if Li Ao made a mid-range shot, they also believed that Camby could jump up and interfere in place. They each moved between the opponent player who was running over and Li Ao, cutting off the connection between Li Ao and his teammates.

But Li Ao turned around after receiving the ball, took one step and jumped directly towards the basket!

The extended Knicks players saw this scene and stopped their feet, ready to grab the ball.

Camby has already taken off to face Li Ao, and they focused their attention on Camby's bloody hat!Look at the tragic scene where Spider-Man was knocked to the ground with a dribble... "哐"... "Boom"... "Ah"...

Someone got knocked over, but was knocked back and fell to the floor with a bang and groaning in pain, it was Camby!

Li Ao knocked over Camby and smashed the ball into the basket!

The scene was instantly ignited, and all the fans shouted "Spider-Man" chaotically.

The loud and frantic shouts of the fans failed to prevent a word from reaching the ears of the Knicks players who gathered around to grab the rebound.

"I also want to know what level the Knicks are without Ewing, and they have the same record as us?"

This word also reached the ears of the Clippers players who wanted to rush in to block the rebound.

Although Li Ao's brutal dunk on Camby shocked his teammates, he was still so arrogant in front of the 4 Knicks players surrounding him... No, it was 5, and one fell to the ground...

The teammates looked at Li Ao who ran out of the 'encirclement circle', as if they saw the evil star who pressed Olowokandi on the floor and rubbed it.

But this time, their emotion was not fear, but excitement!

Covered by the boss, turn over to the opposite side!
Offensive and defensive transitions, gnashing their teeth became the Knicks.

Of course, they are still conceited and proud.

Seeing that the rookie spider was defending him, the madman asked Charlie Ward for the ball directly.

They ridiculed the broken fleet, and the rookies of the broken fleet dared to ridicule.

Defensive genius?

The madman wants to blow up this rookie!
Madman is the Knicks' singles player with the strongest ability. Charlie Ward passed the ball with confidence, ready to watch a good show.

But after the madman received the ball, he was shocked when he saw Li Ao's open arms!
Vaco!What a big spider!

The madman felt that the entire shooting space was covered!
The madman snorted coldly, there are more players with good physical conditions, and good skills are the last word!
When his teammates pulled away, the madman immediately began to break through.

The madman leaned over to shoot the ball quickly, pulled Li Ao horizontally to move, and then accelerated his charge. The first step was very quick, he successfully occupied the breakthrough position, and continued to sprint into the inside line.

However, after entering the inside line, the madman who planned to make a sudden stop for a jump shot failed to get rid of Li Ao!

Li Ao followed closely behind the madman's left, and continued to cover the madman's shooting space!

The madman rushed to the sideline of the three-second zone before throwing off Li Ao, and saw O'Neal move up.

The crazy man who had already charged felt the atmosphere was coming, and he jumped towards Jermaine O'Neal, and he was about to buckle... "Crack"... Jermaine O'Neal's bullet speed was faster than that of the madman.
Li Ao, who followed in, snatched the ball that was bounced off the floor, happily accepted the defensive rebound, and immediately passed it to Greg Anthony, who quickly made it again.

But the Knicks retreated with good discipline, and the madman who fell down after being capped quickly got up and ran back.

Li Ao slowed down to save energy, and ran to the frontcourt with his teammates.

Jermaine O'Neal came to the low position and wanted to play high and high, but... he couldn't stand the aunt who was guarding him!
Although Jermaine O'Neal has a slight advantage in weight, the tonnage of Big Mom's 198+113 is too solid.

O'Neal chose to give up and came to the flank to cover for his teammates.

Seeing that Jermaine O'Neal couldn't get a position, Greg Anthony signaled his teammates to play tactics.

After starting to run, the Clippers players knew why the Knicks are the team with the strongest defense in the league and the lowest limit of opponents.

Crazy confrontation, extremely active switching defenses and supplementary defenses.

With Camby, an inside gate with top defensive awareness, solid defensive skills, and mobility comparable to a small forward, even Li Ao couldn't run out of open opportunities.

Jermaine O'Neal returned to the inside line, relied on his height advantage to catch the ball, and hit it high... His lower limbs were pushed by the aunt and his throwing was also affected. Iron!

The incoming Camby protects the defensive rebound!

The offensive and defensive transition, the madman no longer continues to single Li Ao, although his brain is not bright, but he has a high golf quotient, otherwise he would not be able to lead the black eight to the finals.

It's true that he is conceited, but he understood in the first round that the two young players Li Ao and O'Neal were better than he thought.

Li Ao was very sorry that the opponent did not continue to fight. After the preparations in the morning, he and O'Neal communicated how to prevent the madman's singles, but the opponent was not a strong player.

As a teammate, Charlie Ward was not surprised by the choice of the madman. Just looking at the performance on the court, the madman is definitely a top basketball player.

Charlie Ward and Big Mom pick and roll to attack.

Through interspersed running positions, Alan Houston received the ball, turned around, and made a textbook mid-range shot!

The total shooting rate is 44%, the three-point shooting rate is 41%, and the basket shooting rate is 40%. But the mid-range shooting percentage is 50%. This is the king of mid-range shooting!

The Clippers played one offense and one defense at the beginning, and the audience was boiling, but after playing a few more rounds, the cheers of the fans on the scene became less and less, and the boos became louder and louder.

After the Knicks passed the first offensive and defensive round, they began to play against the Clippers!

After playing for more than 4 minutes, Li Ao signaled Odom, and Odom called a timeout as the captain!

With a score of 7 to 3, the Knicks led the Clippers by 4 points.

Except for Li Ao's dunk at the start, the Clippers only relied on Odom's 2 of 1 free throws to score 1 point.

Gentry thought it was a good time to call a timeout, but the reason why he didn't call a timeout was because of the terrible defense of the Knicks. He hadn't thought of a way to adjust the offense, so he was going to let the players play a few more rounds. This is also a way to deal with the offensive dilemma.

But the team called a timeout at this time...

Fortunately, someone avoided his embarrassment.

"The confrontation on the opposite side is really ruthless. Since this is the case, we will also fight! Coach, going to Corey and Quentin, isn't it just a confrontation, who is afraid of whom!
What kind of expression do you have, are you afraid of losing?

There is nothing to be afraid of. We are a team of rookies, sophomores, and homeless people. If we lose, we can play again next time. They should be the ones who are afraid of losing! "

(End of this chapter)