From sparring to superstar

Chapter 146 144. He only has the ticket king in his eyes (full 1600 monthly tickets plus more)

The happy time always passes quickly, and two days passed like this.

On December 12, the last day of the Clippers' third rest day, Li Ao arrived at the Memorial Stadium before 26 am.

There is preparation training today, followed by a wave of 4 days and 3 battles.

Li Ao came to the training ground with a big box on his back, planning to secretly put Christmas gifts in every corner of their Clippers area before his teammates came, to surprise his teammates.

As a result, as soon as I entered the training ground, I saw the big Q coming out of the training uniform...

Li Ao: ()
Big Q hurried up to help Li Ao carry the cardboard box together, and asked, "Boss, what is this?"

Li Ao was speechless for two seconds, and replied, "Christmas gift."

Big Q's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Do you have mine?"

"Yes, the top one."

Big Q hurriedly supported the bottom of the cardboard box with one hand, opened the concealed box with the other hand, and saw his gift...a postcard?

He picked it up and looked at it, and exclaimed, "Oumaika, this is Brandy's phone number?"

"Yeah, didn't you say that your dream was to date Brandy Norwood? I asked Vanessa for it."

"Vanessa? Bryant's girlfriend? Oh, yes, Bryant seemed to be with Brandy a few years ago... Wait, boss, you asked Bryant's girlfriend for his ex-girlfriend's number? "Big Q touched the knowledge blind spot.

"If I ask Kobe, he will definitely not give it to me. Vanessa happened to be sitting next to me last night. I asked her for it, and she said she didn't know."

"Then how did you get Brandy's phone number?"

"I just got home last night and Vanessa called me on Kobe's phone and gave me Brandy's number."

"..." If Big Q didn't have a third hand, he would definitely give a thumbs up.

What a pity - Bryant... But the sympathy of the big Q is not long, thanks to Bryant!

Li Ao was in a more complicated mood at the moment, he asked: "Quentin, why did you come so early?"

"I came to practice three-pointers early, practiced the catch and shoot well, and I finally got the starting position. It would be bad if Eric snatched it back. He comes to practice at 8:8 every rest day. I have to be earlier than him. ! I start training at [-] o'clock!"

If the facts can be put aside, Li Ao really wants to say: What are you working so hard for?Isn't lying flat happy?

Well, training hard, improving your strength, winning the cheers of the fans and making your opponents angry and unwilling by your performance on the field is happier than lying flat.

Big Q suddenly thought of something, and asked: "Boss, why did you come so early? Shouldn't you just take a break and go to work? Could it be that you want to give us a gift, and want to see our joy of receiving the gift sooner?" It looks like you're here early?"

"I came an hour early, because I wanted to hide the gift before you came, and wait for you to find it."

"..."

Big Q looked at the postcard with 'To Quentin' written in his hand, and fell silent.

Seeing Big Q's expression of self-blame, Li Ao felt much happier.

Suddenly, Big Q put the postcard with Brandy's phone number back into the box.

"Boss, let's hide presents together! You have to hide my one well, I have to find my presents by myself! I have to hurry, Eric may be here soon."

After speaking, Big Q took the box and walked to the locker room.

This time it was Li Ao's turn to be stunned.

He immediately smiled.

The joy of hiding gifts and arranging surprises by one person is lost, so two people can enjoy the joy of arranging surprises for teammates together!

...

For today's "team activity" of the Clippers, find the gifts that the boss has hidden in various places on the training ground!

Not just the players, but also coaches, trainers, team doctors, and even the cleaning staff responsible for their hygiene.

Some people find someone else's and will tell the teammate. Some people find a gift and see that it is not theirs, so they immediately hide it in another place, making it harder to find.

Today's training was affected, but the 'initiator' went to the blacksmith room for training with James Worthy, but Gentry was very happy. It was the middle of the season, and the training volume was already small. Focusing on the cohesion within the team and creating a relaxed and happy atmosphere may have a greater effect on the game than training.

Little O'Neill, who found his gift early, regrets it!
Why didn't he think of buying a gift?
The progress of competing for the position of the boss is one step slower than Spider-Man!
However, he looked at the game disc box in his hand, all of which were games that had just been launched, some he had, most of them didn't, but each one was his favorite type of game.

Although he thought that he and Li Ao were in a state of competition, the relationship was not bad. On the contrary, he was the first teammate who got to know Li Ao well, and would sit and chat together when he had nothing to do.

He likes to play games, and his teammates know that, but he doesn't know when he told Li Ao what kind of games he likes to play.

Not only him, he was very surprised when he saw his teammates got the gift, saying that it was what they wanted.

Even the cleaning aunt received the perfume of the brand she wanted but was reluctant to buy.

He used to think that Li Ao talked too much, he could chat with everyone, and he didn't have the temperament that a star player should have.

Now, seeing his teammates happy, he feels completely different...

But if he wanted to break his mouth like Li Ao, he would forget it after thinking about it.

He is a man who wants to become a superstar, and he wants to conquer his teammates with his strength!
...

At noon, Big Q, who finally found the postcard that the boss had stuffed into the crack of the bathroom ceiling, wept with joy.

He said that he should hide better, but he didn't expect the boss to hide in such a dark place.

If he hadn't just entered that cubicle, sitting on the toilet with his hair up and wondering where the boss could hide, he would never have guessed that the postcard would be there.

If I had known, I would secretly write down the phone number!
But the postcard sent by the boss is still a good collection!

After finding the big Q of Brandy's number, he immediately ran to Li Ao's usual eating place, just in time, Li Ao's private nutritionist + physiotherapist was preparing lunch.

Li Ao complained: "Why are you here to eat again?"

Jack laughed and said, "Leo, don't be so stingy, it's more lively to eat with one more person, isn't it? I invite you!"

Big Q didn't care about being dismissed at all, he sat down with a few laughs, and asked Li Ao: "Boss, can you become an All-Star starter in your rookie year like Hill?"

Today, there are 3 hot topics about the NBA.

The Clippers temporarily canceled training this morning. After some players found gifts early, they sat and chatted together. The content of the chat was inevitably related to the NBA, and the chat was naturally a hot topic at the moment.

One is about yesterday's Christmas fight.

一共两场比赛，西部头号冠军争夺者湖人队以104比109输给了开拓者队，东部头号冠军热门魔术队也败了，艾弗森狂飙36分12助攻，干翻了拿到25分14板的邓肯、17分10助攻的麦迪，率领76人队以100比96复仇魔术队。

截至目前，湖人队19胜8负西部第一、开拓者队17胜10负西部第三、魔术队18胜9负东部第一、76人队16胜10负东部第二。

In the East, the Pacers did not leave Mark Jackson and Rick Schmitz retired, and they collapsed long ago; the Knicks were defeated by Li Ao; the Heat had a good record, but Mourning suffered a sudden illness and no one was optimistic How far can they go in the playoffs...

The Magic and the 76ers are the only two top teams and championship contenders in the Eastern Conference this season.

In the West, the Lakers and the Trail Blazers were the two sides facing each other in the Western Conference Finals last season. The two teams played against each other, and there is a saying of "the sequel to the Western Conference Finals".

Both the Lakers and the Magic were beaten last night, and the topic of the championship has become hotter.

The second topic, this morning the league announced the start of voting for the All-Star starters.

The third topic is related to the second topic - Li Ao won the best of the week.

This is the fifth consecutive season that a rookie has won the player of the week award.

96-97赛季是艾弗森、97-98赛季是邓肯、98-99赛季是卡特、99-00赛季是弗朗西斯。

From the current point of view, these people are the most representative players in their draft.

Li Ao won the best award of the week, so he was naturally placed alongside these people.

This does not need to consider which rookie is strong or weak. The best player of the week is won by competing with all players in the league.

Like the rookie talents gathered in the 95th class, but none of them won the best of the week in their rookie season, and no one was used to tie with those few people in this respect.

Li Ao actually won the player of the week award yesterday, but yesterday the fans focused their attention on the two popular Christmas games in the evening, and today it was used to hype him again. The official website of the NBA won him the best player of the week and the All-Star starter Voting side by side in the headlines...he smells the maknae.

Big Q mentioned about the fact that the first rookie after Hill was selected as the All-Star starter, Li Ao rubbed his chin... Hey, when will the stubble harden.

Forget it, Li Ao stretched his neck and replied: "All-star starters, I'm sure I can make it."

Big Q gave a thumbs up in admiration: "As expected of my boss, he just has confidence!"

Li Ao shrugged and said: "You don't know how many people there are in our country. Even if one in a thousand people votes for me, I will start. But I guess there are not so many people in our country who can vote, but my popularity in Los Angeles It’s still possible, I heard that I’m taller than Kobe, if it weren’t for Garnett and Webber in the West, I might be able to compete for the top vote, what a pity...”

Big Q was stunned. He thought that it would be an unattainable goal for a rookie to compete for the All-Star starter.

In the 24 years since the merger of the NBA and the ABA, the number of players selected as All-Star starters in the rookie season is not enough. These players are Magician, Jordan, O'Neal, Hill, and they are gone.

Even supernovas such as Bird, Admiral, and Duncan who had the best team in their rookie season were not selected for the All-Star starter.

When it came to Li Ao, the All-Star starters didn't pay much attention to him, and his eyes were fixed on the ticket king!

As expected of the boss of his big Q!

By the way, how many flower growers are there?

Big Q is curious.

After lunch, he went to the coaches' office to borrow a computer to check...

Vaco!Boss cheating!

...

After the Christmas game, the All-Star starting voting began, and the NBA kicked off the mid-season.

After Li Ao got up in the morning on the 27th, he took a shower and changed his clothes, burned incense for Master Guan, and started the lucky draw!
2个3级技能升级卡碎片在那放着，早想要抽一波凑齐3个，选1个2级技能升级。

Finally got 3 achievement points, the rest time is over, let's get started!
After drawing for the 17th time, I finally got the level 3 skill upgrade card fragments.

Fortunately, the previous 16 draws just happened to draw 3 level 2 skill upgrade card fragments... and 1 basic attribute point!

Thank you Guan Erye for your blessing!
He immediately converted the original 1 basic attribute point and the newly drawn one into the speed basic attribute point, gathered 3 speed basic attribute points, raised the speed to 92, and even raised the explosive acceleration to the top level of 90 !

At this time, the system prompts!
"Congratulations to the host's comprehensive evaluation from 78 to 79. The host is only one step away from an excellent star. He needs to develop a main offensive ability with the ball, or his defense can reach the top level, and he can be among the ranks of excellent stars."

It's the same as Li Ao thought!
His system evaluation method is different from others. As long as others play the performance of top stars, they will be evaluated by top stars, but he is more demanding here.

It has been three months since the training camp started, and he has actually made a lot of progress. The basic skills and skills of each meeting have improved to some extent, but the speed of comprehensive evaluation improvement is faster than that of the previous year after the basic skills and skills have been improved. Ascension is much slower.

He had guessed whether the system's evaluation of him was more comprehensive.

Like before when he developed hooks, emergency stop jumpers, and turnaround jumpers, his improvement speed was much faster than single-handed mid-range shooting.

Now his conjecture has been confirmed.

Coincidentally, he's just developing his ability to handle the ball right now, before reaching a 79 overall rating.

If you don’t develop offense with the ball, you can still take the defensive line, but that is too difficult, and it’s just defense, the upper limit is not high, and the top defense can only reach an excellent level of 80, that is, top defensive players. In the eyes of others, they are only good at best. Players, the input-output ratio is too low.

It's not that he doesn't pay attention to defense anymore, but his defense has reached a relatively high level. It can't be done simply by hard training. He needs to play more games, play against more different types of opponents, and learn those defenses in the game Some contingency skills of the master...

He has already started the development of back hitting ahead of time, so there is no need to worry about this aspect.

He opened the skill section, and there were 2 level 3 skill upgrade card and 1 level [-] skill upgrade card.

Level 3 skill upgrade card, he chose to upgrade 'Shark' without hesitation.

The upgraded skill details appear on the system screen.

"Shark Level 3: When the host catches the ball under the basket, 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 +5, the explosive power +5, if the defense Players whose power rating is below 92 will ignore the opponent's regular confrontation."

At first glance, Li Ao thought there was no upgrade.

The projectile speed and layup bonus values ​​​​in one-to-many situations have not changed.

The upper limit of triggering for 'One-on-One Buckle Unstoppable' has not changed, only the one-on-one projectile speed and explosive power bonus has been increased by 1 point, becoming +5.

But take a closer look, the one-to-many trigger limit is gone!
You no longer need to shake your opponent away, and you can directly get the bonus of projectile speed and layup.

If the technique of scoring under the basket is developed, it will be incredible!

After calming down his excitement, he looked at the remaining three level 3 skills.

'Pride of Champions', ignore.

That leaves 'Pumper' and 'Perfect Warm Up'.

The 'pumper' worked fine at the start of the season.

But now, it is difficult for him to score consecutively. Opponents are paying more and more attention to him, and they know more about his style of play.

Then came the midseason of another 17 games in a single month.

Thinking of the next 4 days and 3 games, he tasted the bitterness of the big team before January.

Upgrade to 'Perfect Warm Up' first!

This is the first skill he got. He relied on this skill when he scored his first goal in the NCAA. Li Ao feels embarrassed that he hasn't upgraded yet.

Li Ao issued an instruction, and soon, the details of the upgraded skills appeared on the system screen.

"Perfect warm-up (level 2): ​​In the warm-up phase before the start of the competition, the system will provide the most suitable warm-up guidance for the host, and the host will warm up strictly according to the requirements to obtain the fullest warm-up effect.

After the system judges that the warm-up training is qualified, 1. The host feels hot when shooting for the first time in this game, and 2. Start the game with the best physical condition.

Note: Only after a full meal can you have the strength to play the game. If the host is too physically exhausted before the game, you need to prepare for a full meal. "

Li Ao blinked his eyes...

It seems that this new addition has a very strong effect, but he already has the function of organic physical therapy, and with professional physical therapy, back to back does not affect his physical strength.

This new effect means that he can have a shot before warming up?He thought he would be broken by the auntie assistant...

Cough, no, Li Ao thinks this increases the time he can train.

On the previous match day, he could only do light training to avoid affecting his physical condition during the match. Now it doesn't matter if he trains wildly before the match!
But, if you have to play games at night, practice all day during the day, and play games at night, your enthusiasm will be affected to some extent.

How about pumping up the iron when you are in the mood and energetic on the game day?

I haven't done strength training for a few months, and now I'm in the middle of the season. If I gain muscle and weight, I can adapt the fastest!

Such a happy decision.

Li Ao looked at the other things he got, and got two new recipes. He was very satisfied, and he could cook new dishes for the hospital assistant aunt again.

The corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise when he thought of the scene where the hospital assistant auntie smelled the fragrance and poked her head out of the door frame to peek.

...

After drawing prizes and upgrading skills, Li Ao cooked a sumptuous breakfast and enjoyed it with the hospital assistant aunt.

Vivienne is currently on vacation, but she still goes out early to help Li Ao choose a location and look at the house.

There are quite a lot of requirements. The environment must be good, quiet enough, close to the Memorial Stadium and the Staples Center, and the road traffic should be good. It is best to have a room in the school district and have a good infant and child education environment.

Vivienne rolled her eyes when she heard that, but nothing is difficult in the world, except that there is no money.

Now the house has a price but no market, just like the stock market, it keeps going up and down. Some homeowners sell their houses to pay off their debts, so just choose slowly.

Li Ao came to the Staples Center to prepare for tonight's game.

He disliked 'the dogs don't practice on game days' in his heart, but after the morning meeting and the team's 20-minute running training, he immediately went to the blacksmith's room and shook James Worthy over, wanting to get the 'high position' early. Post-ups' level 1 training method developed well.

James Worthy's teaching habits are similar to Xavier Johnson's, step by step, step by step, which is in line with Li Ao's learning habits.

Once the training method is well developed, you can get additional training results!
James Worthy originally refused to work overtime, but Li Ao made a phone call, and AJ told him that there was overtime pay, so he came here in a hurry.

As long as you pay enough overtime pay, it doesn't matter if you work overtime every day!
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(End of this chapter)