From sparring to superstar

Chapter 207. 205. The Talented Spider-Man

During the first two days of Jordan's comeback, the media cheered and celebrated.

But after those two days passed, yesterday and the day before yesterday, there were more controversies.

"Is it appropriate for Jordan to get a maximum salary?"

"How much strength does he have now? Can he compare to Ma Long after he hasn't played for three years?"

"Will Jordan become the next Ewing or Olajuwon and ruin the atmosphere of the team?"

Jordan had expected such remarks a long time ago, but when he saw them, he was still very angry.

He wants to prove that he is still the king on the court in the new season!
First of all, he needs to prove his abilities to his new teammates and let them know that he is not just missing the scenery on the court, and he is not here to play tickets.

The method is very simple, just prove that he has the ability to throw the ball into the basket.

Directly demonstrate his once-unrivaled mid-range shooting ability in the league!

He was very satisfied when his teammates praised him, "The god of basketball is amazing", "This is too accurate", "I'm going to call my mother and tell him I'm watching God's training"... He was very satisfied.

But throwing and throwing, something is wrong, why did these teammates start to exaggerate the spider?

"Spider-Man is also very accurate!"

"As expected of the boss!"

"Who is more accurate in mid-range shots, the boss or the basketball god?"

"It's hard to say, the God of Basketball hasn't played a game for three years after all...he is the God of Basketball, after all, he is the God of Basketball!"

Jordan stopped training, turned his head to look at the next half, and saw Li Ao circling the distance from the free throw line, moving sideways to catch the ball and making one, constantly moving positions and making shots... Really accurate!
He felt more accurate than what he saw when he occasionally watched Li Ao's shooting practice in the past 3 days!

Naturally, he didn't feel that Li Ao had improved so much compared to yesterday. He only thought that maybe Li Ao's training state was not that good in the first three days, or that his state was particularly good today.

But no matter what, he became competitive!
The big spider is breaking his head with him?

interesting!
After Li Ao finished practicing this group, Jordan said, "Are your hands warm? Let's compare a group of mid-range shots when it's hot?"

The teammates were immediately excited when they heard this, and booed one after another.

Li Ao responded casually: "Don't do it, it will be embarrassing for you to be defeated by a 20-year-old second-year player."

Jordan tilted his head, squinted his eyes and let out a contemptuous "wow", and said, "Being defeated by a 38-year-old man who retired for three years, wouldn't you be more ashamed?"

"Then you just wait and see, and see what an unparalleled genius is!"

"I opened my eyes and waited!"

The teammates burst into violent cheers, which startled the coaching staff who had just arrived at the training ground.

They hurried up to watch, without asking, they knew what happened when they heard the team members chirping and booing.

Gentry: (￢_￢)
It's just the first day of the training camp, just assembled, and you're on the bar?

Either way, he is very confident in Spider-Man's mid-range shot, even if it is not as good as the basketball god, it is enough for the basketball god to approve.

Seeing several teaching assistants and consultants excitedly rushing to the front to watch, Gentry is also ready to move... No matter, the crowd first!

Both Li Ao and Jordan are moving their bodies again, and their tone of voice is very contemptuous and casual, but they are more serious than the other when preparing, and they are fully committed.

Big Q, who volunteered to be the referee, waited until the trainers were ready to serve and pick up the ball, and then waved his hand down.

"start!"

The referee served the ball. Li Ao and Jordan caught the ball and shot quickly. After the shot was made, they immediately moved their positions and continued to make another shot. Neither of them stood at a fixed point to shoot.

Watching Jordan catch and shoot consecutively on the move, his teammates praised him as the god of basketball, with such a wide shooting range.

Many people only remember that Jordan was invincible in back-to-back singles in the last three consecutive stages, and his fadeaway jumper was even stronger than Chamberlain, ignoring that he was not bad without the ball for three years.

In Jordan's 11-year career, there were only three years in which the ball possession rate was lower than 3%, which were the three years in the last three consecutive years.

Leaving aside the sophomore who was reimbursed for the season, the three years in which Jordan averaged the lowest assists per game were also the last three consecutive years.

During Jordan's first three consecutive games, the NBA was still at the tail end of the offensive era, but in Jordan's second three consecutive games, the assist rate increased instead of falling.

But seeing Li Ao's side, the teammates kept exclaiming!
Their Spider-Man has a wider shooting range than Jordan!

The key is the hit rate, Spiderman and the god of basketball are evenly matched!
Because Li Ao's 'training' this time is not a 'training state' but a 'competition state'.

"Catch and shoot expert level 5" is on, he has worked hard to reach the top edge of 90's basic mid-range shooting skills, and raised it to 95, surpassing the top and historical level!
In fact, Jordan's CIC basic skills are even higher than this.

However, the basic shooting skills, after reaching the top level, the difference in training is not big. What continues to improve is the shooting stability after physical exertion, the continuity of the touch after encountering confrontation, the speed of finding the touch, and so on.

In a real game, it is necessary to rely on technology to support the basic shooting skills, so Li Ao and Jordan are far behind.

But the current duel... is not at all inferior!
Moreover, Jordan only added catch and shoot to his style of play, which broadened the shooting range, not limited to the two wings, but the strongest is still on the two wings. Li Ao is different, Li Ao's mid-range shot covers all aspects!

It seems that Li Ao's catch-and-shoot is even more impressive!
The most important thing is that Li Ao narrowly won!

At the end of the 100-ball matchup, Jordan made 94 shots, and his teammates felt too good.

But Li Ao scored 96!Won the cheers of teammates!

Steve Kerr was the first to say: "Ooooooh, Spider-Man, you're stronger than the god of basketball!"

The teammates followed suit.

Give face to the god of basketball, comfort the god of basketball?never!Including big Q are booing.

Of course they know that a set of shooting duels is nothing, the gap of only 2 goals, it is okay to say that it is an error, but the loser is the god of basketball, so that is different.

Jordan's face became even darker, and he shouted, "Start again!"

At this time Doug Collins said: "Next time, Michael, it's time for the physical examination."

Jordan squinted at Doug Collins, feeling targeted.

But even the mentor spoke up, and he still accepted the arrangement.

Gentry is now very satisfied with signing Doug Collins as a consultant. It is quite necessary for them to have an old coach who can listen to Jordan.

Jordan was depressed for a while, but he didn't take it to heart. He wished that Li Ao would become stronger, so that he might be able to compete with the OK combination in the playoffs.

Fighting against Li Ao was purely due to his competitive spirit.

Li Ao, who won, was very happy, but he didn't take it seriously, he just wanted to have fun.

Li Ao called his teammates together and introduced them to Jordan.

I saw it at the press conference a few days ago. When Jordan broke his ribs last year and before the playoff opener against the Mavericks, he also met with the young players of the Clippers, but there was no real communication. know.

When Li Ao introduced the teammates he worked with last season, he introduced them in great detail. He carefully introduced the characteristics of his style of play, made fun of his personality, and casually mentioned a few hobbies of his teammates.

As for the newcomers like Mike Bibby, Gerald Wallace, Lafonso Ellis, Jaron Collins...etc, he just introduced the names, not blindly.

Jordan listened very carefully. Spider-Man's introduction saved him a lot of time getting to know his teammates.

But he was also very surprised - this big spider, who is so angry that it doesn't pay for his life, is actually such a careful person.

There's something to be said for bringing together this talented but disorganized team!
...

After Li Ao helped Jordan get acquainted with his teammates, Larry LaRue and Doug Collins began to arrange for the players to conduct physical and technical tests in groups.

Every player is actively working hard to show his strength or progress, and wants to win more playing time for the new season.

The coaches are most concerned about Li Ao and Jordan.

Both were focused and brought out their best sides.

Although since June, some trainers have provided regular training reports for the two.

But reading the report is definitely not as good as seeing it with your own eyes.

Li Ao needn't say much.

Jordan is not afraid to expose his current shortcomings. Instead, he wants to tell the coaching staff as much as possible what he can do and what he can't do now.

On the coaching staff side, although they were mentally prepared, they were still speechless when they saw Li Ao's test results.

Li Ao's weight has increased to 105 kg, which is close to that of Odom, but his speed is even better than the physical test in the training camp last year!
Speed, strength, jumping, starting, explosive power, bullet speed... all have been improved!
Jordan was also very curious about Li Ao's physical test report. After the test, he looked at the coaching staff and nodded: "The physical fitness is barely enough."

Coaches: (ˇˇ)
If another person said this, they would think that person had a brain problem.

But Jordan...well, they accepted that Spider-Man was mediocre.

Not to mention, with Jordan's words, the Clippers coaching staff became calmer when they saw Li Ao's basic skills and technical progress, and they were even calmer when discussing tactical adjustments based on Li Ao's technical progress and expansion.

At 4 p.m., all the assembly tests were over, but the work of the Clippers players was not over yet, followed by makeup photos and promotional posters.

Li Ao, Jordan, Odom, Jermaine O'Neal, Bibby and other 5 people also have a shooting job that other teammates don't have - the main poster.

When filming the main poster, the three teammates encountered difficulties, how should they stand?
At this time, Jordan put on a humble attitude and asked Li Ao to stand in the middle, Odom and O'Neal took a step back to stand on the left and right sides of Li Ao, and he and Bibby stepped forward to stand on the far side.

Li Ao was not surprised by this.

Jordan is a good-looking person. The most respectable position for him at this time is not the C position. He will be accused of stealing the limelight from young people. He took the initiative to stand on the side. If it gets out, then he will get the reputation of 'giving up the C position on his own initiative'.

Li Ao remembers that he saw a poster in his previous life. Kwame Brown was ridiculed as "the pinnacle of the ball"-Jordan on the left and Kristen Laettner on the right. All three were players with the top three picks. In the middle of the war.

He stood on the C position with a big face.

Jordan: (▼ヘ▼#)
Can you excuse me a little bit?

O'Neal: (╯﹏╰)
Another step away from the boss...I want to fight! (`へ*)ノ

Bibby: (ˇˇ)
Partnering with these four, I'm not dreaming!
Odom: ￣﹃￣

When do you leave work?Being stared at by the captain for a serious test today is more tiring than playing a game...

...

On the second day, on the 26th, the Clippers entered the tactical training phase.

After the test yesterday, the coaching staff has distributed the first version of the tactical manual for the new season to the players, so that the players can remember the tactics to be practiced on the first day.

But during the tactical running training today, before each tactic, Gentry explained to each player in detail their role in the tactic and what to do.

Even so, Gentry doesn't expect everyone to remember it, but it doesn't matter, as you practice, you will get used to it.

And there are still a few who memorize the tactics, Bibby, Li Ao, Jordan, Odom, Jermaine O'Neal, the top five starters, except for Odom, the other four are actively helping teammates correct their running mistakes and helping teammates familiarize themselves with the tactics. The running route, and although Odom didn't help his teammates get familiar with the route, he could see that he remembered the tactics when he ran.

Greg Anthony, Steve Kerr, Matt Halprin are doing those things on the bench.

Especially Li Ao, who satisfied Gentry the most. Before the training started, Gentry asked if he remembered the tactics, and Li Ao replied that he memorized them all.

Gentry didn't think Li Ao was bragging, because he questioned it last year, but Li Ao really memorized it all.

Seeing that most of the players have the enthusiasm and awareness to take the initiative to master tactics, Gentry is in a good mood.

That's right, Jordan doesn't pay much attention to him as the head coach today...

Because all the tactics of training today revolve around the tactics of 'passing the ball to Spider-Man and shooting'.

In the training camp stage, whoever is the main tactic is practiced first, which means who is more important in the head coach's mind.

Gentry knew that with such an arrangement, Jordan would definitely be awkward, but this was what he had to do. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Ballmer's decision was right.

Especially after seeing Li Ao's progress in yesterday's test, he became more determined to 'Spiderman first'.

On Jordan's side, apart from being awkward with Gentry, his training attitude has not been affected. He is active in personal training and guiding his teammates.

In fact, in the tactic of passing the ball to Li Ao as the goal, he is still the leading offensive player, one of the dual cores, and the other offensive core is Odom.

And he saw that in the tactical manual, there are more offensive tactics around him, and the cooperation between Odom and Bibby is the second most, followed by Li Ao.

His ability and diversity of scoring methods have all been valued in tactics.

Regarding the decision of 'Spider-Man first', after seeing the training sequence in the tactical manual yesterday, he was annoyed and understood what the coaching staff wanted to convey.

And he can understand the reason why the coaching staff made this decision, he supports the team to focus on training Li Ao.

But he still gets angry!
He certainly won't act recklessly. It's not easy to come back at this age with such a group of teammates.

He wants to use his performance on the court to slap Gentry in the face!

(End of this chapter)