From sparring to superstar

Chapter 191 189. Why is this style of play so familiar?

The next day, a new week arrived, at 9:[-] in the morning, Li Ao came to the restaurant for breakfast.

Gentry also just arrived, and when he saw Li Ao coming, he smiled and said, "You actually woke up so late, haha, it's your first time in the playoffs, and you're not used to the enthusiasm of the away fans, right? And this is the most frenetic sports atmosphere." Texas."

Li Ao responded: "Yeah, I didn't fall asleep until 3 o'clock in the morning. I finally understand why you have to prepare earplugs, earmuffs, stereos, and walkmans. Last night, there was a group of people singing at a barbecue party on the side of the road, and there was a rock band. Performing on the street, there are actually people driving a crane to transport an abandoned broken boat to the nearby park for disassembly, and the most outrageous thing is that there are actually people performing striptease on the street... really amazing!"

"ε=(ο｀*))) Well, I called the police, but do you know how the police responded to me? He said that Texas is a multi-ethnic settlement, and everyone has different customs. Let me respect everyone's custom."

"Complain to him!"

"Haha, forget it, this is how the away games in the playoffs are. My preparations are not sufficient. I will think of a way. I will stay here for at least two nights. Maybe I will come again. Guarantee Not without sleep."

"Ah... no, you are very well prepared. Put on earplugs and earmuffs, and play the white noise of heavy rain. You can't hear the movement made by those people at all."

"Huh?" Gentry wondered, "Then why didn't you fall asleep at 3 o'clock in the morning?"

"I'm curious how late those people can stay up late, and I want to see what they are doing. I borrowed Jermaine's binoculars and asked the lady at the front desk to take me to the windows of each room to observe secretly... Otherwise, how could I You'll know what they're doing."

Gentry: (ˇˇ)
Gentry finished the food on the dinner plate in twos and twos, and left directly.

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His muscles were already tense, and he was afraid that he couldn't help but hit him.

Li Ao muttered "Eating too fast is bad for the stomach", and ate breakfast slowly.

Compared with the noise of the away game fans, he is actually more ashamed of the emerging domestic Internet media.

In the locker room interview last night, he had a big head.

Last night, Big Zhi got the chance to play in the fourth quarter, played 5 minutes, scored a three-pointer, scored 3 points and 3 rebounds.

The shock departments of various domestic Internet media actually asked him a bunch of questions about this matter.

The question that left the deepest impression on him—"Dazhi had the highest field goal percentage in the team tonight, and the most rebounds among the substitute insiders. Do you think he has gained the trust of Old Nelson?"

If Wang Zhizhi hadn't even put his heels down in the Mavericks, Li Ao would have taken the opportunity to provoke a wave.

After resting all morning, Li Ao watched two game clips at the end of the Mavericks regular season.

When it was almost lunch time, the Clippers came to the American Airlines Arena, and the Mavericks prepared a lot of ingredients.

Unlike the locker room of the visiting team on the Celtics side, there are no cabinets even with cabinet doors. Cuban’s benefits for the visiting team are particularly good. The star chefs who are on call around the clock use ingredients that can be bought in a short time. of the best.

The rest area of ​​the visiting team is huge, luxuriously decorated, with a billiard room, chess and card room, movie theater, and even a few small rooms with soft beds but poor sound insulation. In the small rooms, there are even streets where local legal business is done. takeaway call.

On the contrary, the Mavericks' own treatment is very ordinary, even worse than that of many teams.

The Silver Horn King once asked his good friends why the visiting team was so luxurious. Cuban's answer was-let them indulge in pleasure and lose their fighting spirit, and we will have a greater chance of winning.

Although I don't know why Cuban felt that this would make the players of the visiting team lose their fighting spirit, but King Silver Horn believed it and firmly supported his good friend.

The Clippers don't need this benefit for nothing. They didn't use the chef of the Mavericks. Instead, they asked Jack to prepare lunch. Harmful but defensive.

During lunch, Li Ao received a surprise!
On April 2001, 4, the NBA officially announced the Best of the Week and Best of the Month awards for the last week of the season.

4月10号到18号这个加长周，李敖以4战全胜，场均31.5分8.25板4.5助攻2.5抢断4.25盖帽的表现，拿下他本赛季第4次周最佳！
He successfully broke the rookie season record for the best number of times held by him and the Admiral.

The best of the month award, the best of the month in the last month was won by Clippers coach Gentry, with 7 wins and 2 losses, and rushed to seventh in the Western Conference.

Rookie of the Month, Li Ao has won the award for 6 consecutive months without any suspense, becoming another player after David Robinson who has won all the Rookie of the Month awards.

The best player of the month... still Li Ao!
The last award of the regular season was won by the Clippers!
4月份快船队7胜2负，李敖场均36.3分6.7板4.7助攻1.7抢断3.9盖帽。

In the best vote of the month announced by the league, No.2 is the OK combination. In April, the OK combination played 4 games together and took one game off. The Sharks averaged 8 points per game and the Black Mamba averaged 33 points per game.

In front of the Player of the Month Award, 6 Rookie of the Month, 4 Best of the Week, etc. are not important.

This time the awards were announced, Li Ao once again caused a sensation!
Since the establishment of the Player of the Month award, only Larry Bird has won the Player of the Month Award in his rookie season, and now, that's not the only one!
But this time the sensation was not controversial.

At the end of the regular season, many media predicted that Li Ao would be the number one favorite for the Player of the Month award.

50+ twice in a single month, a triple-double block, and a good record, Li Ao's performance in the final stage is too crazy!

...

The sensation caused by Li Ao winning the best player of the month even overwhelmed the popularity of Carter's 50+ single game last night.

But on his side, he is not in the mood to read the news online.

He's excited, he's going to train!
Player of the Week and Rookie of the Month each get 5000 achievement points.

This season's best rookie of the month is over, and all the rewards are in hand, so happy.

The best player of the week also got a total of 2 achievement points, cool!

Breaking David Robinson's record for the best number of times in a rookie season week, he was rewarded with an achievement - 1 advanced projectile speed attribute point.

The 1 attribute point obtained by "The Strongest Newcomer" last night, he used it on the bounce, increased the bounce to 87, and then increased the bullet speed to 91, and with this achievement reward, the bullet speed increased to 92!
It was the first time in his career to get the best of the month, and Li Ao also knew the reward of the best of the month-2 achievement points.

To reproduce Big Bird's achievement, the system gave him an achievement reward - 1 advanced flexibility attribute point.

Flexibility is back at 93.

He feels that this summer can really give a shit about gaining weight.

Gaining weight will affect flexibility and indirectly affect speed, which is the experience he gained in training last summer.

For the time being, he regards the increase in flexibility as a capital for making weight...

The teammates were very excited when they learned that Li Ao won the Player of the Month Award.

They were not surprised. The media predicted a few days ago that their Spider-Man would win this award. They had been waiting for a long time for the awards day which ended in the third week of this month.

After enjoying a sumptuous lunch, the Clippers conducted training in the afternoon.

Last night's big win over the Mavericks, but Gentry did not relax at all, and instead performed more rigorously in training.

He didn't even know how the Mavericks were going to play in the playoffs because the Mavericks played so poorly last night.

Moreover, there is no past data or video for research. The Mavericks have not made the playoffs in 10 years, and the main players basically have no playoff experience.

From the perspective of understanding the opponent, playing a game is equal to not playing.

A little more careful analysis, the abilities displayed by the Mavericks players last night are not counted. The mad scientist had a brainstorm and put Juwan Howard in the starting lineup to partner with Nowitzki. The two long-range shooting areas overlap. Maybe the mad scientist has something to think about. It's a beautiful tactic, but the Mavericks players didn't play it out, and they also constrained each other because of lineup problems...

What makes Gentry very satisfied is this group of young players. No one is slack because they have grabbed the home court advantage, and they are serious about preparing for the game. They are all eager to directly enter the match point 2-0.

...

This night, Gentry stood guard in front of Li Ao's room.

Never allow Spider-Man to affect his sleep because of watching the excitement again!
As a result, at 1 o'clock in the morning, Spider-Man didn't come out of the room...

At 8 o'clock the next morning, Gentry 'ran into' Li Ao in the restaurant with dark circles under his eyes.

Seeing Spiderman's energetic appearance, he asked unwillingly, "Leo, did you go out to watch the fun again last night?"

"How is it possible, I went to bed at 10 o'clock. After dinner yesterday, I used a trumpet to pretend to be a Mavericks fan and sneak into their forum. I read the content of the activities written in their recruitment post last night. It's nothing. New stuff, the only thing worth seeing is that a group of LSP tricked female college students to come out to striptease, I looked at the photos of the college students who signed up, it’s not my thing.”

"..."

Gentry was tired, thinking that you should beat me up if you are not a violent handsome guy.

But thinking of Sugar Man, Big Mom, Dirty Kurt... Forget it, it hurts too much for Spider-Man to hit someone.

The time came to 8 pm, and the series between the Clippers and the Mavericks started again at the American Airlines Center.

Tonight, the Mavericks' starting lineup is back to normal.

The five-man team of Nash, Finley, Edondo Najera, Nowitzki, and Bradley played.

The Clippers are still Greg Anthony, Big Q, Li Ao, Odom, and O'Neal.

Li Ao, Odom, and Matt Harprin, the three of them ensure that at least two of them are present at the same time to maintain the continuity of Nowitzki's defense.

After the game started, the Mavericks showed a completely different competitive state from the night before.

The first is defense. Although Edondo Najera, a Mexican rookie, has inconspicuous statistics, his desperate defense is the key to the Mavericks' first-class defense in the regular season. It connects Finley and Bradley, and can Fill in the gaps for Nowitzki and Nash.

Most importantly, the starting lineup tightened up the defense, and the Mavericks finally had a clear tone tonight!

In the first quarter, the Mavericks led the Clippers 23 to 21, keeping the dignity of the home game.

After confirming that his side can play normally, the confidence of the Mavericks players began to pick up. They scored 28 to 26 in the second quarter, extending the lead to 4 points, leading 51 to 47 at halftime!

In the third quarter, Li Ao chased the big hat at the beginning + turned around and hit a three-pointer, which sounded the clarion call for the Clippers to counterattack.

The Mavericks' starting lineup defended quite well, but the overall defense was only top-notch because they didn't have many players to defend against, and the continuity was not enough. They couldn't hold down the Clippers to score in the second quarter.

Relying on the momentum brought by Li Ao's chasing cap + three-pointer, the Clippers scored 31 points in the third quarter!
But at this time Juwan Howard, who played very little in the first half, became a new force for the Mavericks!
With anger, Juwan Howard made 8 of 5 shots in a single quarter, plus 3 of 3 free throws, scored 13 points, helped the Mavericks score 28 points in a single quarter, and held a weak lead, leading the Clippers 79 to 78 The team ended the third quarter with 1 point!

At the end of the quarter, the two teams that fought too hard in the previous quarter looked weak.

At this time, the Mavericks' overall offensive advantage of the "percentage" team was revealed.

As long as the old Nelson does not become old and crazy, he is still the super coach who was the best coach three times in 10 years, with a well-adjusted rotation and excellent tactical arrangements.

Although the Mavericks don't have a player like Li Ao who can score several times in a row, a player like Big Q, an assault player like Maggette, or a player with all-round skills like Odom...but they won. In stable!

However, several Clippers players who have the ability to reverse the situation under certain conditions failed to explode in the final quarter.

The Mavericks led the Clippers 20 to 16 in the final quarter and held the victory to the end!
99 to 94, the Mavericks narrowly beat the Clippers and held the second home court!

As a regular main attack point, Finley scored a team-high 21 points.

纳什12投6中拿到16分8助攻、替补上场的朱万-霍华德11投7中拿到17分。

Nowitzki's shooting was still broken, only 20 of 7 shots, but he was praised by the old Nelson.

His teammates didn't have a good chance to throw him a shot. He shot firmly. When someone needed to stand up for singles, Finley ran aside, and Nowitzki came out for singles.

Although it is more iron, it ensures the smooth operation of tactics!
20投7中、其中三分球7中2、加上4中4的罚球，诺维斯基拿到了全队第二高的20分。

快船队这边，李敖今晚18投8中，其中三分球3中1，加上8中8的罚球，拿到全场最高的25分，外加6板3助攻4盖帽。

奥多姆15中6，拿到了16分9板9助攻。

Jermaine O'Neal is going to be tricky tonight, with 19 points and 21 rebounds. In terms of rebounds, he bullied the Mavericks inside. He was too fierce, but he made 18 of 6 shots and 8 offensive rebounds in a single game. His scoring basically relied on second offense, catch-and-shoot and singles The performances were all bad.

Li Ao felt that he had already played very well here, but he was short of strength and failed to turn the situation around in the second half.

It is related to Nelson's employment strategy on the opposite side. In the first half, Juwan Howard only played in the last 3 minutes of the first quarter and 4 minutes before the second quarter. He felt like he was crazy when he played in the third quarter.

Juwan Howard's contract is ridiculously big, let him serve as the core of a strong team with 1688 million dollars, he can wear all his underwear, but!
But using Juwan Howard as a $688 million backup... Ballmer!Make money!Our team was slapped in the face with money, don't you care?
However, what Li Ao cares most about is King Silver Horn's style of play tonight. He feels inexplicably familiar, but he doesn't remember that he has played against players with similar style of play...

...

The next afternoon, the Mavericks arrived in Los Angeles.

When the Silver Horn King was flying in the sky, he was watching the video of Spider-Man's game.

Once at the hotel, continue your research.

His defensive ability and awareness, of course, is not the study of how to defend against Spider-Man.

Instead, learn Spider-Man's attack style!
This is a good way to play!
If there are enough calls, you will not say anything, and you will not be scolded if you fail to make a shot!

And when he made the shot, his teammates thought he was awesome!
The skills are not comprehensive enough. When playing with Juwan Howard, not to mention that teammates are more willing to pass the ball to Juwan Howard for the main attack. The Silver Horn King himself feels that this teammate is more stable than him in singles.

Ability is one aspect, the key is that in this round of the series, there are three players on the opposite side who can restrain him...

Let's learn from Spider-Man!
Just when King Yinjiao was happy to find a style of play that was more suitable for his current ability, a news came that he was as humble as him and couldn't help cursing.

"Howard is an idiot, he must be sick!"

Looking back this morning, Juwan Howard accepted an interview with ESPN before the Mavericks gathered to leave Dallas.

When he was asked about returning to the bench, he replied in a tone full of resentment: "I don't understand Nelson's arrangement. I was the best player on the team and he put me on the bench, and He is going to let me play on the bench next, I can't accept it, last night's game without me, can the Mavericks win?

I was able to lead the team to victory. As I said, I came here to be a leader, not to be looked down upon by Nelson and put on the bench. "

In this series between the Mavericks and the Clippers, people are curious after the first game. The Mavericks don't seem to be good anywhere. How did they get this record?
After the second game, everyone found out that the Mavericks' collapse in the first game was due to the mad scientist going crazy again.

No one is surprised to come to this conclusion.

Old Nelson has coached for more than 20 years, and can be said to be the most well-known head coach with the most slots and fun in the league today, none of them.

As an NBA fan, you may not know who Auerbach is, but you must have heard the old Nelson's nickname.

After the old Nelson stopped cramp, the strength shown by the Mavericks was basically the same as that of the Clippers.

The level of attention in this group of series continues to increase. The Mavericks have a good style of play and the Clippers have Spider-Man's first trip to the playoffs.

And we can also look forward to whether old Nelson will go crazy again...

Just when people thought that this series of games would become more and more interesting, a "big highlight" really came.

Juwan Howard, who was praised as the 'Super Sixth Man' after last night's game, publicly expressed his unwillingness to play as a substitute!

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The Clippers also flew back to Los Angeles in the afternoon.

In the evening, Li Ao, Jessica, Jordan, and a big Cuban girl appeared in a high-end restaurant.

In order to thank Jordan for helping his team improve morale on the 21st, Li Ao invited him to dinner.

He felt the tension of his teammates that day. It happened that Boss Joe went to Dallas to watch his playoff debut. He decisively shook Boss Joe to their locker room and took advantage of it.

Jordan didn't refuse. Of course he was happy to help the second most popular signing player of his own brand, just to say a few words on the scene.

During the meal, Li Ao and Jordan didn't eat much, and spent more time chatting.

Jordan's comeback plan, the design progress of Spider-Man 1 generation, summer promotional activities...etc.

Chatting and chatting, we talked about today's hottest news - Mavericks infighting.

Li Ao felt very strange about this matter.

"Michael, what on earth is Howard thinking? If he made such remarks, wouldn't it affect their team's performance in the future?
Even if he wants to express his unwillingness to play as a substitute, he should wait until the end of the season to talk about it. If he can maintain his performance last night on the bench, he will definitely get more recognition and get rid of the "bad team boss, statistic brush" ' title. "

"Leo, you are still too young. If he doesn't want to play as a substitute, he has to express his attitude now and wait until the end of the season to express his attitude. It is tantamount to telling Nelson or the future coach that although he is unwilling, the team will be able to make a statement. If he is asked to play as a substitute, he can accept it, then he may only be able to play as a substitute in the future.

Moreover, he is only 27 years old now, and there are two years left in his contract. If he is considered to accept playing as a substitute, his salary will be limited. He must know that he is not worthy of 2000 million, but he does not want to play as a substitute to get 200 million. "

"Uh... the adult world is really complicated."

"Now that the Mavericks are fighting among themselves, do you think this series can be relaxed?"

"It's not, but I'm more stressed.

Old Nelson is a stubborn person. If he wants to put Howard on the bench, Howard, in order to prove that he is worthy of starting, played harder, and then played the performance of the third quarter last night... In my opinion Come on, this is not good news for our team. "

Jordan let out a "beep" and didn't speak again.

This overly cautious big spider is really annoying!
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