From sparring to superstar

Chapter 20 19. Increase the intensity of training
A few mouthfuls of turkey can spoil a stuffed table prepared by two top chefs.

Fortunately, because of the soreness of his arms, Li Ao remembered that the physiotherapy function of the body was not yet used. He was planning to use it after meals, so he used it quickly.

Finally, with a soaring appetite, he was attracted by the pile of delicacies beside him, and started to eat Hesai. He was even with the aunt who was also eating, and was full.

After packing up the restaurant, Li Ao sent away Liam who had booked a hotel and was ready to shake people, chatted with Vivienne for a few days and met an old man who is very good at hooking, and then went back to the room to rest .

On Liam's side, the taste is getting stronger, but Li Ao is not worried about his 'safety'.

That guy is just lustful and not stupid. On the contrary, he has been educated in this area since he was a child. The idea of ​​safety first is engraved in his bone marrow. There is no cash in his wallet, but small balloons.

Lying on the bed after taking a shower, Li Ao thought about the dinner tonight, and felt that this Thanksgiving holiday was quite...happy.

It feels a bit like being with family in China a few years ago.

When I first crossed over, although I had the memory of receiving my previous life, I still felt strange and scared about my family in this life.

But a filial son was born under the stick, a kid who just graduated from junior high school, who was still playing for love and got drunk. After he was discharged from the hospital, he was chased and beaten by his cheap father on nine streets.

Feeling homesick, Li Ao got up and came to the landline, and made a transoceanic call to his mother's mobile phone. After connecting, he called "Mom" enthusiastically.

Unexpectedly, it was not his mother who answered the phone, but his father. After hearing the shout, he immediately sprayed: "You bastard, did you fight again? You want to escape after hitting someone you can't afford?"

Well, Li Ao's homesickness was suddenly wiped out by cheap dad.

My mother's voice rang on the other end of the phone, and the phone was snatched.

"Don't be afraid, Xiao Ao. Your father is very talkative. He is worried about you. He means that if you are not happy in the United States, you can come back. He is really serious. He heard that he can send you to study in the United States, but he doesn't listen to you. I sent you out for my opinion..."

Mom's loving mother mode is on. He has been in the United States for so long, and his mother has also learned that the real America is different from what the public is advocating, especially the racial discrimination that contemporary Chinese people have almost never encountered or even understood.

She used to hear that the United States is the most anti-racist country, but now she knows that the reason why the United States is so loud about anti-racism is because there is discrimination everywhere.

However, Li Ao knows that his mother really loves him, but it depends on the time.

The time he was chased and beaten for 'getting drunk for love', my mother watched the whole process. If it wasn't for the lack of cameras on mobile phones these days, the whole process would have been videotaped.

It wasn't until he was almost beaten up that my mother returned to the role of a loving mother. She felt very distressed, and she was really distressed.

But if you really want to teach him a lesson, you have to be really ruthless!
Fortunately, she is now a loving mother.

"Are you short of money? If you have no money, tell your family that you were robbed at gunpoint last time. Why didn't you tell your family? Or did Professor Yang tell your father about it while drinking and getting drunk with your father? When I have no money to eat, I go to work as a cook for others. My son is a student from a famous foreign university, how can he be a cook..."

A phone call, 5 minutes, reached the limit that Li Ao could accept, he finally said the next chat reluctantly, although he didn't say a few words, his father didn't have a chance to interject a few words, but this is His familiar smell and the melancholy of homesickness were finally appeased.

With nothing on his mind, he quickly entered a heartless state, lying on the bed and falling asleep every minute...

...

The new week has arrived, and Li Ao has re-invested in learning and training.

After making a phone call with his family, he paid more attention to his studies, which is a sense of responsibility.

It is hard to say that it is difficult for him to study abroad at home, but it is not a casual thing. Since he studied abroad, hundreds of thousands of soft sister coins a year still have an impact on the cash situation of his small factory. After all, the per capita annual income of the imperial capital was just over [-] at this time.

Most importantly, the acquired knowledge is his own.

After a day of study, Li Ao happily came to the Memorial Stadium and followed the team to prepare for the Duke team of the University of Oregon.

During the meeting, he is responsible for listening, training, and studying hard, just like usual.

But his eyes are brighter than before.

This is the embodiment of going from feeling fun and interesting to loving.

At 6 p.m., the team meeting and the first training session for the Duke team ended, and the Trojans' activities for the day also ended.

The teammates are still very busy, 18 of the 17 people stayed for extra training, and Li Ao was one of them. He had already told the assistant aunt of the hospital to ask the physical therapist to work later.

Xavier Johnson got off work early today, and Sam Hayes was in charge of helping the women's team train. Li Ao was about to shake the old man and practice shooting together, when Henry Bibby stopped him.

"You have a special passing training today, and there will be a special passing training every week in the future. Usually, you will practice passing more when you have time. From next week, you will be tested on shooting, defense and passing every week, Kevin. , he gave it to you."

Henry Bibby left after finishing his speech. He has been going to the training field to observe secretly in the past 4 days, and he was almost caught by the curator's father as a gangster. He knew that this kid was very tough, and he said that he would increase the amount of toss This kid must be added!
Kevin Henderson accepted the overtime arrangement very happily, and took over the quarrel: "Let's go, Leo, the small training ground has been set up. Looking at your passing foundation, I didn't expect you to be so good. The support talent, you made a good pass the time you almost got into a fight with Sam, but I thought it was an accident that time, but I didn’t expect... Tsk tsk, you’ve made a lot of money, don’t look at Henry’s ugly words, he said Yes, if your progress satisfies him, he will consider applying for a basketball scholarship for you next semester..."

Li Ao, who was looking at the task reminder just arrived, was stunned for a moment. With his incredible strength, it is possible to get a scholarship?

Power +1 again!

Following in the footsteps of Kevin Henderson, Li Ao walked towards the small training ground while looking at the task that had just been triggered.

"The team training task is started, the host needs to actively cooperate to complete the training task and test arranged by the team, complete all the training arranged every week, and achieve satisfactory performance in the test to the coach, reward 500 achievement points, each training and Tests are counted separately."

Lots of rewards!

But since there is a test, there are requirements. If the goal is to apply for a basketball scholarship in the next semester, the requirements may be very high.

But people have to be reasonable, it is impossible to let him reach that level next week, he reckoned that even if these coaches have higher requirements, it is still possible to achieve their satisfactory performance step by step.

Xavier Johnson and Kevin Henderson are easier to talk to, and Sam Hayes... is really a good coach who makes him hurt and happy.

It is also particular about choosing a test on Monday.

The schedule of the Pacific Ten Schools League's civil war is fixed. The games of each team are concentrated on Wednesday and Sunday. There is one home and one away game, and the home and away games alternate every week.

This was discussed with the TV station. There are so many NCAA competition areas, and the fixed schedule makes it easy to arrange live broadcasts.

At the same time, it is also convenient for students participating in the competition to arrange their study time. After all, most college athletes have nothing to do with professional athletes.

With such a schedule, Li Ao and his teammates alternately skip classes on Mondays and Tuesdays, and may go to the away game on Tuesdays, but on Mondays, they either have classes or come back from the away game, and they can test in the afternoon.

When he came to the small training ground, Li Ao was sure that in the previous passing training, the chief assistant who said he was a genius in front of him was just slacking off!

There are not so many auxiliary training tools in front!
Well, at that time, no one had hope for him who had no passing foundation, and it was normal for the chief assistant not to put in effort.

Thanks to the skill of 'transfer expert', the coaching staff saw his passing 'talent'.

However, he misunderstood one thing. What the coaching staff paid attention to was not his first-class pass accuracy when triggered by the 'transfer expert level 2', but his awareness of distributing the ball in actual combat.

He was very happy to see such a professional auxiliary training tool, but regretted it not long after.

The previous passing training was like playing, but the difficulty of the real passing training to polish the basic skills is completely different.

To pass the ball, start with the catch.

The gesture of catching the ball and the angle of the arm should be kept when catching the ball from different angles. This is related to whether to immediately pass or protect the ball or control the ball.

Then, it is the correction of the body movements and force-generating parts of the three basic passing movements of hitting the ground, passing the ball, and lobbing the ball.

There are so many professional tools, there is a board on the ground, there is a round hole in the middle of the board that is bigger than a ball, there are hanging rings, and there is a pass hitter that automatically rebounds after being knocked down...

It's all useless!
From 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock, for nearly two hours, Li Ao has been practicing the most basic things, and he is about to vomit.

But thinking that since the team asked him to practice this, it means that his "talent" in this area is in the team's plan. After he develops this ability, he may be added to the team's tactical system. He insisted down.

"Leo, these basic movements may not be completely suitable for you, but these are the most universal movements that have been studied and polished by various experts, players, and trainers for decades. They are most suitable for laying the foundation. Once you have polished your basic ball skills, then you have to think about your personal characteristics. Rome wasn’t built in a day... Well, today’s training is over, go back and have a good rest, and the next passing training is on Friday.”

Kevin Henderson left gracefully after finishing his speech. He didn't shed a drop of sweat in this special training, and his feet were full of vigor.

On Li Ao's side, to his surprise, he received a reminder to pass the training!

He felt that he had made a wrong judgment in one matter. The standard of this chief assistant teacher is really low!
Xavier Johnson loves to encourage people, but his standards are not low, and Kevin Henderson seems to be able to see it.

As everyone knows, on the other side...

Kevin Henderson returned to the office and excitedly said to Henry Bibby who also just finished overtime: "Oh, Henry, can you believe it? Leo has learned all the first lessons and practiced very hard! I have been in the team for so many years, and he is the only rookie who is willing to patiently learn the basic movements. When I gave Brandon a special training pass, he impatiently let me go to the next link... It's a pity that those The training equipment was arranged for nothing."

"It's a good thing. It's related to his passing habits. Having a good habit at the beginning will be good for the future. Things like passing the ball may be a little bit worse at critical moments." Henry Bibby affirmed , but the point ends.

Seeing that the head coach is still so pretentious, Kevin Henderson took over the words and boasted: "Although he has just touched basketball, he is only 18 years old. He has just touched basketball at this age, and he is still not impatient. It seems the most useless. The training that will have a big impact on the future is not easy to deal with, his talent... Anyway, he is the most talented kid I have seen since I came to our school."

Henry Bibby didn't refute. Now that he thinks of Li Ao, he only thinks about how to spend time and use extra training to torture this kid.

...

On Tuesday, after Li Ao completed the team training in the afternoon, he continued with special training again. Today is special shooting training.

Although there is a game tomorrow, that's how Henry Bibby arranged it.

Li Ao's debut performance, the entire coaching staff is very satisfied, but it does not mean that he will be given too much playing time in the second game.

The difficulty of this shooting training has suddenly increased. In the previous training, there was basically no training requirement for single-group shooting, but this time there is.

And also increased the supporting basic skills training for catching and shooting.

Li Ao took the initiative to develop this during the Thanksgiving holiday, which made Xavier Johnson praise him repeatedly, and then began to correct and strengthen the details of the basic skills.

The training intensity is at least 50% higher than before Thanksgiving!

Don't look at Xavier Johnson as if he followed up the quack group, in the end, he still didn't give a qualified evaluation.

Li Ao hopes to have a dozen chief assistants!
Fortunately, he has completed the training task of mid-range shooting and catching, and he can also use the physiotherapy function of the body.

The time came to Wednesday, the second game day of the season for the Trojans. At 7 pm, the Duke team ushered in a challenge at home.

Li Ao did not step up to the main position on the top of the sky. He was still half of the water dispenser manager, but he was no longer a 'full' water dispenser manager. In the middle of the first half and the beginning of the second half, he played a combined 9 minutes for Shelby- Jordan creates rest time.

When he played tonight, there were not as many boos as there were booing-like cheers.

But his role positioning has not changed, and his performance is neither good nor bad. In the first half, he did a good job of defending the opponent's backup power forward Julius Hicks. .

Fortunately, the 5 minutes in the second half did not affect the team's victory. White Mamba and Trey Pagnier played better in those minutes!
The characteristics of the Duke team are similar to the Trojans. A group of mainstay players, with a comprehensive evaluation of 70+ is the main strength, and those with 80+ are all starters, the main team, but the Duke team with 85+ is only Fred Jones.

When it came time to compete for stars, the Trojans relied on the White Mamba and Trey Pagnier to establish their advantage, and then the Trojans also played the main team and competed with each other to the end.

In the end, the Trojans relied on 23 points from the White Mamba and 17 points from Trey Pagnier to narrowly beat the Dukes 89-81, starting their two-game winning streak!
Li Ao played 9 minutes and failed to make two shots. Once he cut to the layup and caused a foul and made two free throws. He scored 2 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist, plus 1 impulsive contraction. Lewis Wright.

Although his performance was unremarkable and pure defensive coolie performance, Henry Bibby still felt satisfied, of course he didn't say anything.

At this time, Li Ao did not rush forward impulsively, but worked hard honestly, which was the greatest help to the team.

And with the experience of several team trainings and the last game, Li Ao is obviously much better in coordinating the movement of his teammates' zone defense tonight, and the improvement in defense can still be seen.

After defeating the Dukes, the Trojans had no training schedule on Thursday and Friday, but Li Ao continued to receive special training treatment. Although there was no team training, the training hours were extended. Moreover, the team's defense on Thursday During the special training, he also arranged 5 sparring partners, all of whom were the most powerful strikers outside the 18-man roster in the club.

These people, also get the treatment of Sam Hayes' defensive coach, teach them how to analyze the opponent's defense, they are happy to be sparring... And they don't feel that they are sparring, because when they are training one-on-one, they all It's the one in charge of offense, and only Li Ao is in charge of defense.

Although they didn't make the big list this year, it's not like they don't play basketball anymore. They usually practice and like to play basketball in their spare time. They look forward to being on the big list next year.

Li Ao felt the difficulty of the suddenly strengthened training, but he enjoyed it so much that he even wanted to shout, 'That's it? '.

But thinking of Sam Hayes' character, forget it.

You can't let your teammates suffer together, right? It's bad enough that they didn't make the list.

On Friday, it's time for passing drills.

This time it was not so boring. I practiced a few sets of catching and passing the ball, and then began to enter the passing training with auxiliary facilities.

But the difficulty increased sharply!
In the first group of ground passes, the hole was only 10 cm larger than the diameter of the ball. He failed to pass the ball 10 times, making Kevin Henderson cover his face.

Kevin Henderson was wondering, the game the day before yesterday, and last week's game, the kid passed the ball very sharply a few times!

He made up his mind, it should be that he had to make a quick decision during the game, and he was just starting to play a high-level game at the professional level, his emotions were high, and the small universe exploded.

But it doesn't matter, he removed the board with the small circle and replaced it with the board with the largest round hole, the one that anyone can drill through, let's start from scratch, this talent, what more bicycle is needed.

This training lasted all afternoon. Li Ao had no class this afternoon, and he stumbled all afternoon, which greatly lengthened the training time.

In the end, even Kevin Henderson, who has never been very demanding, did not give Li Ao a qualified evaluation.

At around 5 o'clock in the evening, Li Ao's heart ached when he saw Kevin Henderson, who seemed to have a headache and whose expression was completely different from Monday's when he left.

changed!

The chief assistant has changed!

On the difficulty level, Li Ao began to miss Xavier Johnson, an ashes user of Kuaguaqun.

These two passing training sessions were obviously aimed at allowing him to develop his professional-level passing ability, and he didn't feel bad about it.

Regardless of this, if he had time to practice passing more, he used the inside line to dial the property's phone number, shook the old man over, and practiced the task of catching and shooting.

Now that he knows that the old man will not lose his job in his later years because of this, Li Ao has no psychological pressure when shaking people.

The only thing that hurts is that the old man really wants to drive him for a ride. After showing his golf skills, he also wants to show his driving skills. He can only run fancy after the training mission is over.

Although it is free to take this free ride, it can be fatal!
(End of this chapter)