From sparring to superstar

Chapter 157 155. As long as your score is lower than mine
In the current period, Pierce's nicknames among the florists' fan groups are not truth, phoenix or something.

Daily bragging and big talk are Pierce's labels.

The top 5 in the draft predictions and fell to the 10th pick is because he caused a lot of off-court trouble with his big mouth in college.

The Lakers didn't use Eddie Jones to trade No. 76 pick Pierce with the 8ers, which also turned him from love to hate when he frantically expressed his love for the Lakers.

Pierce's offensive performance has soared this year, but he has been criticized by the media for a serious decline in defense, which is not as good as his rookie season.

When the media predicted the All-Star bench, it was generally believed that no coach would select Pierce on the bench, a pure scorer without defense, and Stackhouse who scored more.

Every word Li Ao said in the interview hit Pierce's pain point.

It also touched the excitement of the fans!
ESPN's two-way provocation, fans' eyes are drawn to tonight's game between the Clippers and the Celtics.

ESPN strikes while the iron is hot, announcing that the game will be added to the broadcast, igniting the fans' enthusiasm for watching the game, and the hostile relationship between Li Ao and Pierce, the two young talents, has also been formally established.

With all eyes on, in the evening, the Clippers took on the Celtics at the Staples Center.

At 7:40, the Celtics entered the field first.

The second master Pierce was the first to appear, and he was greeted with deafening boos.

"Paul Pierce, 23 years old, 201 cm, 104 kg, overall evaluation 89..."

Li Ao looked at the evaluation report and was quite surprised that Pierce hadn't reached the top level yet.

But only a little bit.

He retweeted Pierce after he had done his homework and grasped the pain points to retweet, and every sentence was 'present the facts and make sense'.

The system evaluation report will not consider 'how well the players focus on defense', but only look at the performance on the court.

Pierce played very well offensively this season, but the defensive end is also really bad. None of the top scorers against him did not explode. Among them, Carter exploded the most. This season, Carter shot 45.8%. High, averaging more than 25 points per game outside the scorer second only to Kobe Bryant's 46.6% shooting percentage.

But when facing Pierce, Carter hit O'Neal's shooting percentage, averaging 3 of 17 shots per game in three games, and his shooting percentage was as high as 10%.

But even so, this is an opponent that Spider-Man can't handle alone.

Of course, he has no intention of going one-on-one with Pierce. To respond to the opponent's provocation, the best way he knows to respond is to win!
After the Clippers players entered the field, Pierce ran directly to the Clippers to find Li Ao and challenged him: "Rookie, tonight I will let you know what a real All-Star is!"

Li Ao responded blankly: "You were scored 40 points by Stackhouse."

"..."

Pierce choked.

Li Ao then added: "He made 28 of 14 shots."

It's not over, is it?
Talking about his defense again, everyone is talking about his defense!
Isn't it just 39 points scored by a player with a 50% shooting percentage and a 40% shooting percentage?

As for two months and still use it every day to talk about things?
Pierce said angrily, "I'm going to score 40 points on your head tonight!"

"Oh?" Li Ao's eyes lit up, and he asked, "What if you can't do it? Are you running around outside the Staples Center with your butt naked?"

This...Pierce was stunned.

What kind of quarrel is this?
Never met before!
Li Ao said disdainfully: "Is this cowardly?"

Pierce couldn't stand the excitement, and shouted: "Anyway, I will score more than you, a pitcher who can only rely on teammates to pass the ball!"

Li Ao chased after the victory: "What if your score is not as high as mine? Running around the Staples Center with your butt naked?"

"Run bare butt, run bare butt! Am I afraid of you?"

"Then it's a deal! If you're a man, keep your word!"

"Whoever speaks does not count is not a man!"

"Many enough!" Li Ao gave a thumbs up.

Pierce was a little proud at the moment, overwhelmed the opponent with arrogance.

He now has the pride of entering the enemy line alone to challenge the opponent's general's head.

Eh?
Wait, something seems wrong?But he couldn't say it...

Seeing the back of Pierce leaving with pride, Li Ao couldn't help laughing.

He didn't have much confidence to score higher than Pierce. Before he played against Kobe, he once prevented Kobe from making 24 of 9 shots. In the end, Kobe still scored 37 points.

As the team's key training target, he can be regarded as having unlimited firepower, similar to Durant in the rookie period.

But if you want to score against these really-top scorers, forget it.

But if Pierce plays really badly tonight and doesn't score as much as he does, it will be interesting.

Just then, the task came!
"The host started a contest between men... Task: Triggered by a pure man."

"Pure man:
Goal: The host needs to score higher than Paul Pierce tonight.

Reward: Pure Man (fixed level skill).

Pure man (*): When the host suffers from a mild injury, it only needs to consume 100 achievement points, and can recover quickly within 12 hours; if the host suffers from a mild injury or more, when using the healing mode, the consumption of achievement points is halved.

Note: The duration of treatment and the consumption of achievement points depend on the specific situation of the injury. "

...

Amidst the fanatical cheers of the fans, the starting players of the two teams came to the field.

Celtics: Randy Brown, Bryant Stitch, Pierce, Anthony Walker, Tony Barty.

Clippers: Greg Anthony, Li Ao, Matt Harprin, Odom, O'Neal.

Afro looks withdrawn, but in fact he also likes to watch the excitement. He was sitting on the sidelines in a suit, staring at Li Ao.

If you quarrel, you quarrel, why mention him?
But he is the one who is being praised, forget it, let him be the one who is used as a gunman.

Watch the fun first!

At 8:[-] p.m., the referee blew his whistle to toss the ball into the air and the game began.

Jermaine O'Neal overwhelmed Tony Batty to win the jump ball, and the Clippers went first!

Li Ao was stuck by Pierce when he reached the frontcourt.

Pierce, who is serious and committed to defense, has a really good defense and does a good job of defending Li Ao off the ball.

But Li Ao just went around and took time, and finally he came to the left side of the free throw line to open up space.

Jermaine O'Neal went to the low post on the right side of the three-second zone and asked for the ball against Tony Batty.

After Li Ao stood still, Pierce still stuck to him tightly.

Li Ao struggled to resist, and his lips began to move: "Paul..."

"Don't call me by my name! I don't know you that well!"

"Okay, Paul."

"..."

"You work so hard on defense, what should you do if you have no strength to attack?"

As soon as Li Ao said this, Pierce fought harder.

Suddenly, Li Ao withdrew, turned around and retreated, and Pierce almost jumped out.

Pierce turned his head and saw Odom and O'Neal clapping back in celebration.

When bickering with Li Ao, he saw that Odom was still on the left sideline, that is to say, just now Odom directly bypassed Anthony Walker and rushed to the basket to receive a pass from O'Neal to score. His position, is it possible? Blocking Odom, Anthony Walker, who is chasing and defending, can also make up for Li Ao.

But when he thought about it, he didn't care about it.

He's going to blow up Spider-Man!
Pierce came to the frontcourt and was stuck by Li Ao before reaching the three-point line.

Pierce avoided Li Ao and went around to the middle distance. Li Ao followed closely and continued to stick tightly.

Pierce had to use brute force to hold Li Ao, and reached out to Randy Brown for the ball.

However, the hand stretched out from behind Pierce was farther than the distance he stretched out!
Randy Brown didn't even dare to pass after picking up the ball!
Greg Anthony immediately pressed on Randy Brown. Fortunately, Anthony Walker ran out to meet it, and Pierce didn't make a mistake this time when he asked for the ball.

Anthony Walker singled Odom, under the interference of Odom, stepped back and hit a three-pointer!

Odom gritted his teeth and shook his head. He worked very hard, and Mr. Football couldn't scold him.

This Fat Toutuo is too wavy!And can really score goals!
He averaged 2.8 three-pointers per game and hit the league's first, not blowing it out!
When it came time for the Clippers to attack, Li Ao led Pierce to run, and the running route was different from usual.

Matt Harprin saw the area where Li Ao was moving, and his poker face showed a bit of astonishment, but he immediately understood what the boss meant, and began to move in Li Ao's running route.

At this moment, the two admired each other a little more.

In order to be able to better partner with this teammate who has a long two-point catch and a sharp cut to the frame, Li Ao has been trying to remember the opponent's running habits in the past few games. After the video editor prepared the video, he put the horse Te Halprin's regular running lines are all memorized.

Matt Halprin did the same!
A tacit understanding is developed from these little details.

When Odom received the ball from the bottom line and made a transition, he saw an unfamiliar person appearing in a familiar position, but he still passed it.

Matt Harprin catches the ball and makes a two-pointer!

This assist is comfortable!

Much easier than passing the ball to Spider-Man!

It’s not that Matt Harprin’s running and shooting are better than Li Ao’s, but that the Celtics’ focus on defending off the ball is on Li Ao’s side. Matt Harprin’s running and shooting are easier. It is naturally easier for Dom to play the ball.

When the Celtics attacked, Pierce was stuck by Li Ao again. Although he had an advantage in strength, he did not have an advantage in explosive power and starting speed. He had to stand in position. His short arm of 208 cm, compared with this big spider It's like breaking a hand.

He wanted to turn around and cut to catch the ball, but he saw that the same muscle monster who played football in the corner on the same side began to retract, and O'Neal under the basket also moved up...

Was targeted by the opponent!

Pierce tried to run, but his running ability couldn't get rid of Li Ao, and Li Ao didn't care about his cutting, leaving the back to his frontcourt teammates... Finally, this attack became Anthony Walker singles.

Anthony Walker put on a breakthrough posture, Odom defended honestly, Anthony Walker suddenly received the ball and retreated to make a three-pointer, Odom couldn't defend it..."哐"...It's iron!
The ball hit the front of the basket and bounced back, and Odom, who turned around and grabbed the ball, doubted his life...

Seeing this, Pierce immediately turned around to face Li Ao, and followed closely.

Since the opponent targeted him, he targeted Li Ao in turn.

The two sides competed with each other on the defensive end for several rounds, and Pierce couldn't hold it anymore!

After a few rounds, he didn't have a good shooting opportunity. Even unless he dribbled the ball directly from the backcourt to attack, it would be difficult to catch the ball, but he played directly with the ball from the outside and didn't please him. Now he Although the offensive skills are very comprehensive, compared with the future offensive kaleidoscope, the technical strength is still much worse, and he plays very impatiently. Facing Li Ao's single defense interference, he has two singles with the ball.

When it was the Clippers' turn to attack, Pierce couldn't care what happened to the team. He leaned against Li Ao and shouted in a low voice, "You defend me so much, do you have the strength to score?"

Li Ao responded to such a familiar question, "It doesn't matter, as long as your score is lower than mine."

Pierce said angrily: "Do you think you can score higher than me? If I can't score, neither can you!"

"Try it, how will you know if you don't try it? And even if I lose, I have nothing to lose. If I win, I can see you running outside the arena with your butt naked."

"hiss……"

Pierce gasped!
He finally understood what it was that was wrong before.

For this bet, only he has the penalty of losing, not this big spider!

　Today is 1.1 characters, and I finally got the guarantee. After get off work, I went to eat hot pot and sing karaoke with my colleagues. If the monthly pass is over 2200, it will be added tomorrow~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)