From sparring to superstar

Chapter 173 171. The Youngest Mr. Triple-Double
Goal 1 only needs to win 20 of the last 11 games.

But goal 2... Li Ao estimates that he must win at least 13 games, which is a winning percentage of 55 wins.

And maybe 13 games won't work...

Turning off the system screen, he didn't want to go so far, first of all, take down the collapsed opponent in front of him!

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Clippers played against the Nuggets at home.

The Clippers quickly gained the upper hand. On the offensive end, Odom launched an offense, Li Ao responded + a mid-range shot, O'Neal moved at close range and under the basket, Greg Anthony responded, Matt Harperin covered and cut, every Individuals are determined to do what they are good at.

On the defensive end, Li Ao led the defense from the top arc, Jermaine O'Neal guarded the inside line, and Matt Harprin blocked and cut in from the flank. All three of them defended very well. Anthony, and Greg Anthony has rich experience in the game, and he has done a good job in defense.

After entering the rotation lineup, Gentry has a degree of mobilization, and he needs to use defense to suppress opponents tonight. The players he played in the first quarter were Big Q and Chris Mihm to ensure the continuity of the defensive end.

In the first quarter, the Clippers scored 26 points steadily, and defended the Nuggets to only 17 points!
The Nuggets got off to a good start and were at one point in the same league as the Suns, Mavericks, and Jazz.

The starting combination of Van Exel, Voshan Leonard, James Posey, Antonio McDyess, and Lieve LaFrentz, if you want to attack, you have to attack, and if you want to defend, you have to defend. A three-point center, Van Exel and Antonio McDyess are as comfortable as they are on the offensive end.

Also on the bench are the evergreen tree Kevin Willis, George McLeod who once averaged 3.3 three-pointers per game, Robert Pike, Mark Strickland, Zeon Clark...etc. Quality role players.

The Nuggets once averaged 99 points per game + conceded 95 points per game.

At the end of December, the Clippers were hammered once by the Nuggets.

But in the middle of the season, as soon as the intensity of the Nuggets' schedule increased, their performance began to decline. Before the end of January, they dropped to No. 1 in the Western Conference, and were later surpassed by the Clippers and dropped to No. 11.

In mid-January, when Odom was still absent, the Clippers could rely on Li Ao's 1 points, 33 assists and 8 blocks to narrowly beat the Nuggets.

In the second half of the more intense season, the Nuggets have completely become soft-footed shrimps. Now the average points lost per game has exceeded the average points per game, with an average of 96.7 points per game and an average of 97 points lost per game.

The Clippers, who played against the Tunneling Team again, really can't tell where the opponent collapsed, and the style of play is still the same as it was in the early season.

It should be that the strength of play is not enough, and other strong teams are getting better as the season progresses, and the Nuggets are still at the strength of the early season.

In the second quarter, the Clippers scored 25 to 17, extending their lead to 16 points. The gap between the Western Conference playoff-level teams and non-playoff teams was revealed.

After the intermission, the Clippers let Odom and O'Neal rest, Chris Mihm and Brian Skinner partnered inside, and their defensive performance declined. The Nuggets scored 27 points, but the Clippers got 32 points from Bo Ekins and Blevin Knight took turns leading the team and scored [-] points in a single quarter!
The Nuggets' defense was completely gone again. Boykins broke through and scored, and Blevin Knight broke through and scored, all like visiting the back garden.

At the end of the quarter, Gentry replaced the combination of Greg Anthony, Big Q, Li Ao, Maggette, and Chris Mihm. Li Ao launched an attack with a high back, and his teammates cooperated with the movement.

Yes, Li Ao mentioned this matter to Gentry, and Gentry planned to spend some time practicing on the next training day. Unexpectedly, the training opportunity came before the training day.

He specially arranged for Li Ao three young players who can run, Big Q, Maggette, and Chris Mihm, plus Greg Anthony, an experienced veteran point guard, to command the field.

Under the leadership of Li Ao, the Clippers' offense was under attack in seconds, and the offense collapsed, scoring only 16 points.

This was expected by Gentry. Li Ao can fly off James Posey without the ball, but he can attack this defensive genius with the ball, let alone him, Kobe, Carter, Ray Allen, etc. Everyone's performance will decline in front of James Posey.

Li Ao scored 7 out of 4 shots in the final quarter, scoring 2 points and 7 assists... plus [-] rebounds in a single quarter!

Compared with Van Exel's 5 of 1 shots in garbage time, Li Ao's shooting rate is actually considered good.

What Gentry thought was that the point difference in the final quarter would be narrowed, but in the end the point difference was widened by 4 points, and the Nuggets only scored 12 points in the final quarter.

It was true that the mentality exploded. In the final quarter, the Nuggets made a few blind shots and scored 22 goals in 4 shots.

Originally, Clippers fans thought this game was nothing to watch. The strength shown by the opponent was not even worthy of the current record of 30 wins and 33 losses. In the past 6 games, 0 wins and 6 losses can better represent the strength of the Nuggets.

As a result, the opponent sent the board in the final quarter...

李敖首节4分1板3助攻1盖帽、第二节5分2板2助攻1抢断1盖帽、第三节11分1板4助攻。

At the end of the quarter, Li Ao scored 4 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block!

With 24 points, 11 rebounds, 11 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks, Li Ao scored double figures in assists for the first time in his career.
99 to 73, the Clippers beat the Nuggets by 26 points and won their 36th victory of the season!
The fans at the scene were excited in the last few minutes. When Li Ao got the 10th rebound, everyone was overjoyed.

He also got 10 rebounds and told him excitedly that he only knew the triple-double, and he felt that there were a lot of rebounds in the final quarter...

Not only do they have more defensive rebounds here, but also the opposite side. Kevin Willis completed 3 rebounds in a single quarter for the third time in his career.

This triple-double came very suddenly, just like in the Crazy Three finals, he was not interested in the sewer, so he didn't expect to get it!
That's right, 11 rebounds, 7 of which came in garbage time... The fans don't care if it's garbage time, so he doesn't care, enjoy the cheers!

...

Li Ao won a triple-double. In this stage where the NBA's exciting games are emerging one after another and the NCAA crazy three is about to start, even if it is a slinging game that is nothing to watch, he still won a headline!
First rookie triple-double of the season!

There are not many players who got triple-doubles in their rookie season, but not many.

Including Li Ao, in the past 5 years, only 4 people have been drafted.

The other three are Anthony Walker, Francis and Odom.

Francis 1 time, Anthony Walker 2 times, Odom most 3 times.

At the age of 19, Li Ao broke the record of the youngest triple-double held by Odom at the age of 20 years and 45 days.

The youngest Mr. Triple-Double is born!

With a wave of 2 wins and 5 losses in front, the Clippers' enthusiasm has cooled down, but relying on back-to-back two-game winning streak + Li Ao's youngest triple-double in history, the fans' attention has returned to the Clippers.

The next morning, after Li Ao got up and finished his morning exercises, he checked the news for a while.

Whenever he plays well, it is a day of suffering for Lakers fans.

The Lakers were once again mocked by the crowd.

As the defending champion of the Lakers, the OK combination is in full swing in the league.

Fans of other teams seize the opportunity, but don't laugh too hard.

The more this is the case, the more regretful and unwilling the Lakers fans are. This emotion becomes deeper as time goes by and as Li Ao's performance on the court becomes better and better.

Of course, there will also be Lakers fans who will stand up and fight back-Spider-Man's triple-double was done during garbage time.

There was a counterattack, and the fans of other teams became even more excited.

"Have any players on your Lakers team got a triple-double this season?"

"No one in your garbage time can get a triple-double."

"Has anyone on your team ever had a triple-double?"

The fans of other teams were attacked violently, and the Lakers fans were speechless.

Not to mention, the Lakers players have never gotten a triple-double this season.

Not just this season, among the 15 players on the Lakers this season, only one has a triple-double in their career, and this person is O'Neal, who scored 1 points and 24 points in the sophomore regular season against the Nets. Plate 28 caps.

Touting looked very happy, but Li Ao turned off the computer before he was about to float away again.

He turned on the system screen and looked at the two reminders of 5000 achievement points for winning a triple-double in his rookie season and 10000 achievement points for breaking the record for the youngest triple-double in history. He felt that this was more realistic.

Now he has accumulated 77595 achievement points, and still needs to work hard!

After the 10 consecutive victories, the accumulation speed of achievement points dropped sharply. These achievement points are not enough, and Xia Tian needs to use more.

He calculated that this summer's training time may be shorter than last year, but the daily consumption will become greater, because he has more training content and the level of training tasks has increased.

The body stopped sweating, Li Ao turned off the system screen, took a shower, packed his luggage, and came to the living room, where his mother had already cooked the meal.

Zhou Limei rushed over as soon as the visa issue was settled. Due to the nature of her son's work, she planned to stay here until Vivian finished confinement. After Vivian heard about confinement, she was very interested.

Li Weidong had to arrange the work of the factory before coming back, and he had to run away.

He is quite happy about this, he can come to Yingjiang's house to practice his spoken English.

In Li Ao's eyes, his father spoke bad English and chatted and laughed happily with others, which was awesome, but in his father's heart, he felt quite ashamed. He wanted to practice his son's Californian accent, and no one could lose to him. son.

Kobe has already arranged the wards of the Beverly Hills Sanatorium. There is a one-year queue or something.

Li Ao is going to treat the afro to dinner to express his thanks after the next Texas three-link game is over.

Familiarity returns to familiarity, and quarrels return to quarrels. There must be some human relations.

After breakfast, before Li Ao set off for the airport, his mother found him and said a few words, although Vivienne was beautiful and sexy, but before the child was born, she had to restrain herself.

The mother knows best what kind of virtue her cub has.

Relying on a small face and a sweet mouth, he was a class flower in junior high school, and in high school he coaxed the beautiful young lady who went to college in the neighbor's house into saying that he would wait for him to grow up...but he was kicked to the United States by the young lady's grandfather.

Li Ao felt that his mother was worrying too much. To prevent accidents, the hospital assistant was always ready to shake Jessica or Liz Caplan over...

...

On March 3, the Clippers came to Houston's Toyota Center to challenge the Rockets away.

The Rockets can't play this game.

The top scorer, Mobley, is good at mid-range shots and post-ups. He has comprehensive scoring methods, but he is not top-notch in all aspects. Every time he encounters a tough defensive opponent, his scoring and shooting percentage drop sharply. He is suitable as a third player and secondary scorer Hands, unable to attack tough, organizational offensive performance is lower than the average level of players with the same ball possession rate.

Francis was enough to beat Maggette, but now there is an extra Matt Harprin, rushing to the street...

Most importantly, in the last few games, Olajuwon took the initiative to 'injury' because of conflicts with the management.

The Rockets gave Olajuwon a three-year pension contract of $3 million. He was not satisfied with the price. During the All-Star Weekend, the 1300-year-old claimed that he was greater than Malone and Stockton combined. He didn't ask for a two-year $37 million contract that Malone got in 99, but it was higher than Stockton's two-year $2 million contract.

I don’t know if the Jazz did it on purpose. Two days after Olajuwon said this, the Jazz officially announced that they will complete the contract extension with Stockton for 2 years of 1450 million US dollars, and 2 years of 3760 million US dollars. Dao and Malone completed the contract renewal.

Now Olajuwon can't take it back, and the relationship with the Rockets has become more tense.

Olajuwon was 'injured', the two shots in the backcourt were restrained, and only Maurice Taylor was left inside, but Maurice Taylor did not understand why Odom and O'Neal defended him so aggressively.

In fact, this is the grievance of the Clippers Twin Towers...

Maurice Taylor averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in the Clippers last season. If he can stay on the team, Odom and O'Neal's offensive and defensive pressure will be reduced a lot, and his salary is not high, 225 million dollars this season .

And his performance this season is very good, even Alexander, who is so stingy, gave him a five-year contract extension of 5 million US dollars.

The Clippers defended hard and were active throughout the game. The Rockets scored 21 points, 24 points, 21 points, and 21 points in the four quarters.

In terms of offense, Li Ao's back-to-back attack was first revealed tonight!

9 post-ups, 8 of 5 shots, and a three-pointer with a big Q in the corner!
Of course, the main reason is that no one on the Rockets can prevent him from playing back.

Mobley was too short, Shandon Anderson couldn't stand it, and Tomjanovich even used Morris Taylor to defend, but Li Ao turned and rushed to attract the bottom line pincer and sent an assist.

李敖全场22投12中，其中三分球5中2，外加6中6的罚球，拿到32分5板6助攻4盖帽，率领快船队以99比87轻取火箭队，拿下三连胜！
On March 3, the Clippers came to San Antonio, the second stop in Texas, and beat the Spurs 14-104 away.

Li Ao worked hard tonight, he worked hard, he worked hard, he was tenacious...he made 13 of 3 shots.

He ran beyond the three-point line. When he received the ball, there were two people in front of him, one sticking to the shot and the other blocking the breakthrough.

How honored is he to be worthy of such a defense?

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(End of this chapter)