From sparring to superstar

Chapter 142 140. Take advantage of his illness to beat hard!

"The gaze of the fortune teller:
The host scored in this game: 22 points, goal 1 completed.

Congratulations to the host for getting the reward: 2 level 1 skill upgrade card.

The host successfully led the team to defeat the Heat.

Congratulations to the host for getting the reward: 1 basic attribute point. "

After celebrating, Li Ao went back to the locker room and took the task reward while relaxing his muscles.

After getting the level 2 skill upgrade card, he immediately upgraded the 'shark' to level 2.

"Shark level 2: When the host catches the ball under the basket, if the host successfully shakes the opponent away to get a shot space, the bullet speed +3, and the layup +3; if the opponent has and only one defensive player under the basket, the host chooses to dunk, the bullet speed +4, explosive power +4, if the defensive player's strength evaluation is below 92, the opponent's regular confrontation will be ignored."

Li Ao's eyes lit up!
The increase in the bonus of regular basket offense is not very effective for him at present.

The trigger condition of 'one-on-one buckle is unstoppable' becomes that the opponent's strength is below 92, which has a huge effect!
Now he can press the button in the face of an opponent whose strength will reach the top level.

He's definitely not an afro aimed at some Force 91.

Attribute points, currently he has 1 general, 1 speed, and 1 bullet speed, and another general point can increase the speed to 92 and drive the start to 90 at the same time.

As for the bullet speed, if you get a reward, you can increase it, if you don't, you can let it go. His bullet speed of 90, plus equipment and skills, are enough.

Looking back at the game with the Heat, he learned a lot.

Mainly learned a lot of defensive skills from Bowen.

Bowen's ability to use the help of his teammates when he is off the ball is too strong. He once felt that there was no running space, as if there were people in front, back, left, and right.

As for Bowen's single defense ability, he hasn't experienced it yet.

Bowen defended Maggette several times and was knocked to death.

This game can be won, as his teammates say, relying on him to "predict" Pat Riley's intermittent brain twitch time this season.

However, the main reason for being able to hold the advantage is that the Heat actually do not have a clear core on both ends of the offense and defense.

The Heat's style of play is very stable. A team with a better defense may not always win. When playing against a real strong team, it means tossing the opponent.

Not as strong as the future Grizzlies in Li Ao's impression.

...

On December 12th, at noon on the second day after defeating the Heat, Li Ao came to Phoenix with the team.

Hundreds of local fans came to the airport to meet Li Ao...

Li Ao has already begun to look forward to the grand occasion when he played the Pacers away.

Last year, both the Wildcats and the Sun Devils were shaved by the Trojans, and finally became the No.1 Li Ao in the history of the Trojans. He is currently the most hated player by Arizona State University basketball fans.

Yesterday, NCAA superstar Eddie House, whom Phoenix basketball fans still linger on, was intercepted once and blocked once by Li Ao when he replaced Eddie Jones. It stung them, and today they formed a group to boo Li Ao.

Taking the team bus to the downtown hotel, Li Ao heard Odom sighing.

"It's good to change the boss. I heard that the hotel we stayed at this time is only 10 minutes' walk to the American West Arena. Last year, when we played here, it took more than 40 minutes to take a bus from the hotel to the American West Arena. Puth Center is far away."

Li Ao is also very happy.

Last month, the accommodation arrangements for their away game were still arranged by Baylor.

Wally Walker just took office, the team has a lot of mess to deal with, and there is no time to deal with these chores.

It wasn't until the end of last month when Lu Lian came back from the away game that he heard complaints from the assistant who went with the team to the away game. He didn't notice this aspect, and sent someone to rearrange the away game itinerary. By this time, the away game finally solved the away accommodation problem.

This thing looks simple, but it is actually quite troublesome to operate.

Just looking at the regular season, they go to a city at most twice a year. It is very difficult to discuss cooperation with hotels, but safety issues are extremely important, especially when going to Detroit, where blacks account for more than 80%. The police station communicated the patrol time.

Therefore, after most teams choose a satisfactory hotel in the away city, unless the hotel closes down, they will not change their place for ten or twenty years.

When he arrived at the hotel, Li Ao Lima dragged James Worthy, who had come to Phoenix with the Clippers, to the American West Arena, and went directly to the visiting team's training ground for additional training, developing back-ups!
James Worthy came here with him, AJ was paid, and he had a board and lodging subsidy, so he had no objections.

But worried about Li Ao's physical problems and health problems.

If Li Ao was injured while he was instructing the training, wouldn't the signboard be smashed?

But when he met Li Ao at the airport this morning, he couldn't see the traces of Li Ao being exhausted after the 35-minute iron-blooded battle last night.

I'm a little jealous.

After Li Ao completed his warm-up, James Worthy got rid of distracting thoughts and started teaching.

Like the day before, James Worthy couldn't have been more satisfied after he started teaching.

He has worked as a trainer for many NBA players in the past few years, but when almost every young player develops skills, he has no patience to polish the details of the most basic movements of the skills, nor does he have the patience to listen to the analysis. Hurry up and practice the technique itself.

But the super genius in front of him, whom he regards as the "ceiling of the genius world", is doing these extremely boring trainings patiently, and he will also actively think and ask questions based on his own actual situation.

Work, make a living, no matter how much you like the industry, it will always be annoying after a long time.

However, customers actively cooperate, respect your work and the fruits of your labor, and the enthusiasm for work will naturally rise.

As for Li Ao's broken mouth, James Worthy is 40 years old. Like Gentry, he quickly got used to it, and he just replied a few words when he couldn't stand it, which made the working atmosphere more lively and cheerful.

The two people who were putting their backs open didn't notice a head sticking out from the open door at some point.

Kidd observes secretly.gif
The Suns did not arrange training today. He came here to discuss tactics with the coaching staff and discuss signings with Colangelo Jr.

Both things are not going very smoothly. The coaching staff really can't think of how to improve their strength in their current situation.

Colangelo Jr. also wants to sign in, but the two teams wearing suits occupy more than 2000 million US dollars in space, no conditions!
Thomas Carter, the chief sports medicine expert of the American Aviation Administration, examined the two and told him that Pence still has hope of playing healthy, but his style of play needs to be adjusted. It is impossible to play at the level of last season and he must continue to receive treatment.

Gugliotta was completely hopeless. He injured his left foot in the 98-99 season. After he was cured, the former team medical team did not observe and treat his uninjured foot for fatigue.

After Gugliotta recovered from his left foot injury and completed his rehabilitation, the team doctor directly allowed him to play. As a result, he suffered a stress fracture in his right foot, and now both legs are useless.

Thomas Carter suggested from a doctor's point of view that Gugliota should retire and continue to play, maybe he will have to use crutches for the rest of his life.

Next year, another group of players from the class of 97 will enter the free market. The contracts of the rookies of the class of 98 will also expire in the following year.

But no team takes advantage of it.

Gugliotta's salary for the next three years will be more than 1000 million US dollars, and the penny contract will not expire until 06, with the highest annual salary of more than 1500 million US dollars.

Not surprisingly, they have to stay until the contract year of these two to see which team has the need to clear the salary space.

But their Suns also have the need to clear the salary space...

Things are not going well, Kidd is depressed.

After he finished his work, he wandered around the arena to relax. When he came to the visiting team's training ground and saw the door was open, he wondered which Clippers player came to practice today after playing the game yesterday.

I didn't expect it to be Spider-Man who didn't ask him to take a photo!

Kidd was very surprised. It is said that the super genius who won the MOP after just playing for a few months and became the NBA No. [-] pick worked so hard?
Seeing Li Ao patiently doing the basic movements again and again, he also took the initiative to discuss with James Worthy according to his actual situation whether this movement is suitable for him or he is not used to it, and whether he should adjust it...

Kidd's scalp tingled.

His basic skills are really poor.

Passing control and defense are of course not bad, and he has full basic skills in these areas.

But he was not good at scoring since he was a child, and he was extremely perfunctory when developing offensive skills, such as shooting. The Suns just picked someone out, and the details of shooting movements were better than him.

He can now score 1 three-pointer per game, not because he is good at three-pointers, but because he shoots a lot of three-pointers. So far in his career, he has averaged 3.8 three-pointers per game, except for Tim Hardaway. Purely relying on three-pointers, no point guard can shoot more three-pointers than him, including Steve Nash and Mike Bibby.

After secretly observing Li Ao's back development for a while, Kidd left silently, came to the home team's training ground, shook a trainer, and practiced three-point shooting.

Some people have been suggesting to him - let's practice shooting. There are at least 10 open three-point opportunities in each game, and he can only make one. It's too wasteful.

But he is very rebellious, the more others tell him what he should do, he won't do it!

He even had the idea of ​​'I just want to prove to you that you can succeed without knowing how to shoot', and he did it stubbornly.

However, the opportunity for a person to change always comes suddenly and unexpectedly.

...

Sometimes the game is all about luck.

No, the Clippers are now lucky and can't stop them.

太阳队14号、15号、17号、18号，连续打了一个两连客和一个两连主，5天4战，4个对手里有3个是强队，其中有1场比赛打到了加时赛。

The Suns had a day off yesterday and played their 7th game in 5 days today.

When arranging the schedule, the league should regard the Clippers as a belly for the Suns to relax.

But the actual situation is different from what was expected. Although the Clippers are not very strong, with 8 wins and 4 losses in the past 4 games, their players' talent, positive defensive attitude, and defense around Li Ao and Jermaine O'Neal have built a preliminary framework. The system can already be used as a stick.

Tonight, instead of enjoying a relaxing game, the exhausted Suns players felt the sad reminder of "a tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by a dog".

Marion played 21 minutes tonight and made 7 of 0 shots, including 1 of 0 three-pointers, missed free throws, ate eggs, got 4 rebounds and 1 block.

Kidd scored 11 points and 15 rebounds, but only 3 assists, a new low for the season.

Before that, he had the lowest assists of 4 times, and he met the Jazz, which is best at cutting off the offensive connection.

Although Tony Delk scored 23 points and Rodney Rogers scored 25 points as a substitute, they were all singles. Except for the three of them, no one in the team scored in double figures.

Not only is the offense poor, but the defense is also poor.

Kidd had a great impression of Li Ao's efforts yesterday, and today he called Li Ao "a dozen thugs".

This rookie really dares to vote!
And as a rookie, his open shots are so accurate, it makes people angry just looking at him.

27投15中，借掩护后大空档的接球三分6投3中，外加8中8的罚球，李敖单场拿到41分6板3助攻2抢断4盖帽！

加上奥多姆的11分7板8助攻、小奥尼尔的15分11板、大Q的11分、马盖蒂的19分……

109 to 88, the Clippers beat the Suns by 21 points in an away game!
When the final whistle sounded, the Clippers players cheered excitedly and defeated another strong team!
Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, after the Clippers players found that the opponent's state was sluggish at the beginning, they were all excited and wanted to fuck the opponent, and they were very relieved.

On the other hand, the Suns players were not particularly depressed.

With such a poor state, the opponent seized the opportunity to play so hard, and the victory was what the opponent deserved. Even Kidd felt that they deserved to lose this game.

but……

penny!Hacker!
He won the post-match interview, and the two of you went to rub the camera?
Penny, you're wearing a suit!Your knee doesn't hurt anymore?

Hacker, you still have the face to praise others for their good shots and good at seizing opportunities. They got 41 points on your head!
Come back quickly!Do you want to lose face?

...

The next morning after playing the Suns, the Clippers returned to Los Angeles non-stop.

The away and home games alternate back-to-back, playing the Timberwolves tonight.

Coming out of the airport, Li Ao drove to the school. After having lunch with the auntie of the hospital assistant, he came to the Memorial Stadium to practice the basic movements of the back for a while.

Coming out of the locker room, Li Ao met a yawning Gentry and said, "We played the Suns and Timberwolves back-to-back. The Timberwolves also won 50 games last season. They returned home and away. The people who arranged the schedule are really not human."

Looking at Li Ao who had changed into his training uniform, Gentry joked, "I guess the league has considered your physical strength before arranging the match schedule like this."

"Then really hope they think about me in other ways."

"Haha, don't practice for too long in the afternoon. Although your physical strength recovers quickly, you should also pay attention to rest. Don't tire yourself out to develop skills, and delay training even more. Our current record is not bad, 13 wins and 12 losses. If we can Keep it up and we can get back to 8% winning percentage after 50 years."

"Our current schedule is relatively easy. Even if we have this back-to-back away home game, 10 of our last 7 games are home games. It's hard to say after Christmas."

"Oh, Spider-Man, can you stop spoiling my fun and make me happy for a few more days..."

After chatting for a few words, Gentry arranged for a trainer to accompany Li Ao to practice back kicks.

In the training plan discussed with James Worthy, there are no special training sessions on match days.

Thinking of the record of 13 wins and 12 losses, and the last time the Clippers got a 5% winning percentage, Gentry was actually happy and hurt.

The last time the Clippers reached the playoffs in a season of 41 wins and 41 losses, coincidentally, he was the assistant coach here, and the head coach at that time was called Larry Brown.

If Pat Riley is the person who kicked off the Jagged Age, Larry Brown is definitely the promoter.

He hated that style of play so much that he wouldn't want to be a defensive assistant on any team after he left Larry Brown.

In the end, he ended up living in a way he hated...

But, it's really a pleasure to win!

...

At 5:[-] in the evening, the entire Clippers team came to the Staples Center to start pre-game preparations.

Although it was back to back, last night they played very easily as a team.

Li Ao was the only one who was playing desperately.

Li Ao didn't rush to get high scores at the beginning, but thought about back-to-back and opponents in poor form. If he played harder, his teammates would be more relaxed.

He did help the team by doing so. The starters of their team last night, except for him who played 37 minutes and Odom who played 31 minutes, the other three starters all played 3 to 24 minutes.

The rest of the Clippers are in good spirits.

At 7:40, Li Ao and his teammates came to the entrance of the player channel, opposite, the Timberwolves took the lead.

Nesterovic, Billups, Trier Brandon, Szczerbiak, Garnett five starters.

Raffonso Ellis, Anthony Peeler, Reggie Slater, Todd Daye, Sam Mitchell five high-quality role players.

With a lineup of more than 4700 million US dollars, the role players are quite well matched.

Before entering the NBA, Li Ao always thought that when Garnett was in the Timberwolves, his teammates were very poor, and the boss was stingy and unwilling to sign in. When renewing the contract with Cassell and Madman, he searched and searched, and the last one left the team and the other retired.

However, the last time he was suspended, the Clippers played against the Timberwolves. He went to learn about the Timberwolves and found that it was very different from what he thought.

The real situation-the owner of the Timberwolves is willing to spend money, McHale did not want to learn from Larry Bird, and the operation was okay, and the head coach has top-notch ability.

Garnett's 6-year 1.2 million-dollar contract blocked the team space. When he wanted to introduce Joe Smith in 98, the salary cap totaled 3000 million. Garnett's new contract accounted for half of the first year. The Timberwolves owner All outrageous means were used in order to spend money on signings.

He even entered into a yin-yang contract with Joe Smith, signing a 3-year minimum salary first, promising to give a 7-year long-term contract of 7000 million US dollars after obtaining the bird rights, with other benefits worth 3000 million US dollars to make up for the loss of Joe Smith's 3-year minimum salary , It is equivalent to using 10 years of 1 million US dollars to find an inside helper for Garnett, who has a 6-year salary of 1.2 million US dollars.

That's it, Garnett points back!

The yin-yang contract was exposed, and the league forcibly terminated the contract between Joe Smith and the Timberwolves. Joe Smith was not allowed to join the Timberwolves within one year.

Although Garnett was a bit of a backer, Li Ao felt that the treatment the Timberwolves gave Garnett was much better than the treatment he remembered for Duncan from the Spurs.

At present, the strength of the Timberwolves is at the same level, and they can enter the playoffs in the West. However, they have been eliminated in the first round for 4 consecutive years. The round of summoning aliens and madmen is getting closer.

Li Ao shook his head and withdrew from the perspective of 'spectators'.

Regardless of whether the Timberwolves are seven stars or not, regardless of Garnett's ability to lead the team, this opponent and this superstar in front of them are terrible enemies for them!

“凯文-加内特，24岁，211公分，115公斤，综合评价97……场均22.4分11.6板5.2助攻1.4抢断1.8盖帽……”

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(End of this chapter)