From sparring to superstar

Chapter 322 320. The youngest MVP in history!

The opponents in the second round were announced, and the Clippers' targeted preparation training began.

In this training, Gentry increased the intensity, and the team members complained endlessly.

After the day's training, Big Q complained: "Are we so serious about playing the Timberwolves?"

Jordan scolded: "You just need to practice hard, why are you talking so much nonsense?"

Da Q felt aggrieved and did not dare to refute.

Li Ao patted Big Q on the shoulder and said, "Don't be careless. Look at the Kings, how badly they lost."

Big Q muttered: "That's why they were so miserable because Webb was beaten by Garnett."

"Yes, Garnett's performance is really strong this year. With such a group of teammates, he has won more than 50 games. Although he does not have the dominance at the basket like Duncan and O'Neal, his ability is more comprehensive and he has many advantages in the game. More ways to solve the problem, and the state will be no worse than those two. You forget, they are the only team that defeated us twice in the regular season."

"Oh! That's right, we lost the last time we played against them! No, we can't relax, I have to practice two more sets of three-pointers!"

Seeing that Big Q stopped complaining and ran to practice more, Jordan had a black line.

This big spider wants to squeeze out the last bit of value from his basketball god, right?
I’ve learned how to be a good person this year!
Forget it, the God of Basketball has been playing the role of a whiteface all his life. Trying to be a 'qualified veteran' after two years of trying is completely unworkable. Just be a whiteface.

The next day, the Clippers conducted another morning of intense training.

After training at a high intensity for a day and a half, Jordan and Li Ao were responsible for adjusting the preparation attitude of the teammates. The training performance of the team members quickly met Gentry's expectations. He was ready to lower the intensity and adjust the focus of training to technical and tactical aspects.

At noon, Li Ao was eating a nutritious meal in the restaurant. Suddenly, a group of teammates rushed into the restaurant. He was startled, thinking that his teammates were going to rebel, and they all got into fighting postures.

Although I don’t know when I offended my teammates, there are definitely times when I offend my teammates.

Gerald Wallace ran to Li Ao before Big Q and said: "Boss, you won the MVP!"

Li Ao, whose fists were already clenched and his muscles were tense, was stunned by his junior brother's words for two seconds before speaking in Mandarin: "What did you say?"

...

2003年5月3号中午12点，NBA官方公布了2002-2003赛季常规赛MVP和DPOY。

Li Ao received 115 of the 59 first-place votes, with a first-choice rate of over 31.09%, accounting for [-]% of the total points, and won the regular season Most Valuable Player Award.

Kidd, No. 2, got 29 first-place votes, accounting for 25.03% of the total points; Garnett, No. 3, got 11 first-place votes, accounting for 16.03% of the total points; Duncan, No. 4 , got 10 first-place votes, accounting for 13.3% of the total score; No. 5 Kobe, got 6 first-place votes, accounting for 4.07% of the total score.

Duncan won the regular season Defensive Player of the Year award, receiving 115 of 36 first-place votes, with a first-choice rate of 31.3% and a total score of 28.6%.

O'Neal, No. 2, got 41 first-place votes, with a first-choice rate of 35.6% higher than Duncan, but the number of votes in other picks was less than that of Duncan, accounting for 25.8% of the total points, and he unfortunately lost the best defensive player.

Li Ao sat on the sofa in the lounge, holding his notebook and reading the headlines on the NBA official website. It took him a while to come back to his senses.

I opened the system and looked at the newly obtained rewards. I double confirmed that he was the MVP.

"The host won the 2002-2003 regular season MVP. Congratulations to the host for receiving the reward: 100000 achievement points."

“宿主成为NBA最年轻的常规赛MVP，恭喜宿主获得成就奖励：随机技能1个、随机高级属性点1个、5级技能升级卡1张、紫色级装备升阶卡1张。”

The youngest MVP, 4 top-level rewards, it couldn’t be more luxurious.

After coming to his senses, he immediately received the reward.

"Congratulations to the host for acquiring the skill: Duel Level 1."

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 advanced physical attribute point. It has been used automatically. The host's physical strength has been increased from 94 to 95, which has exceeded the top level of physical strength."

Li Ao's eyes lit up. Currently, for him, the most direct way to improve physical fitness is speed, and the second is to enhance continuous physical strength.

This skill is pretty good, how about a duel?Is it the one-on-one challenge he understood?
He opened the skills section and looked at the newly acquired skills... Well, no.

"One-on-one combat level 1: When the host engages in one-on-one combat, the rhythm will be slightly improved."

Rhythm... Li Ao thought of Jordan's back and Kobe's face frame, both of which were masters of rhythm.

砸了3.8万成就点，1张2级技能升级卡、1张3级技能升级卡到手，把这个技能升了。

"One-on-one level 3: When the host engages in one-on-one singles, the sense of rhythm is improved. After hitting a shot in singles, if the host continues to play singles in the next round, the hand feel will increase slightly."

Upgrading to level 3, the skill intensity has been greatly improved. Li Ao feels that this skill should be very useful. The stronger the singles ability, the more useful it is. It also has something to do with the way of singles... During the offseason, you can learn from your former landlord how to control the rhythm of singles.

Level 5 skill upgrade card, currently he has 4 level 4 skills.

'Lie Back' has related tasks to obtain level 5 skill upgrade cards, which will not be considered.

In 'Besieged City', if you later encounter big centers such as Little Giant, Big Shark, and Stone Buddha, there may be related tasks, but they are also put on hold.

That leaves 'Vertical Master' and 'Gap Killer'.

After hesitating for a moment, he chose to continue to strengthen his ability without the ball and become an 'open killer'.

"Open Killer Level 5: 1. When catching and shooting in an open position, the shooting speed increases by 25%. 2. When the hand feels cold, open shots will speed up the recovery of shooting feel and rhythm. 3. After hitting an open shot, if the next round Continue to get open shooting opportunities, with a 25% probability of feeling hot, and can be stacked with skills such as 'Punch Nursing Home'."

The speed of open shots and the probability of feeling hot when taking consecutive open shots have been increased by 10%!

The final upgrade card for purple-level equipment cannot be used for the time being. There is no high-level equipment. We will wait until we have orange-level equipment in the future.

After turning off the system screen, Li Ao was still very excited.

He thought Kidd would definitely win the MVP, and neither Duncan nor Garnett could stop him.Kidd is the offensive core of the Nets, leading in scoring, rebounding, assists, and steals. He is also a court commander, the strongest single defense point, and a defensive coordinator... He has become a dominant player as a point guard. .

If the Nets get rid of Kidd, the Nets are definitely capable of competing for the first high school No. [-] pick in history.

No player can replace Kidd and lead the Nets to the same performance.

Spider-Man had a good record this season and became an MVP candidate, but he never thought he could win the award.

He has a very clear understanding of him. He has many strong points, such as the league's leading open shooting ability, which makes him even better than Peja, Alan Houston, and Reggie Miller in catching and shooting.

He is also very confident in his defensive ability. He is good at single defense and even better at assisting and making up defense.

But he knows very well that he was able to perform as he did this season because there is a team system that suits him and teammates that suit him. He is not the kind of player who can support a team by himself.

If he leads the team alone, Kidd, Duncan, and Garnett can't compare to any one of them.

But since this award has been given to him, he will definitely not give in. This is his!
He is the youngest MVP in history!

Now, he has a new goal - double MVP!

As of now, only 8 people including Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Bird, Magic, Jordan, Dream, and O'Neal have accomplished this achievement, and he wants to be one of them!
With this great goal set in his mind, his pressure came and his excitement gradually calmed down.

He switched the page to the news about the best defensive player.

Duncan actually won the award!
In his impression, during his 19-year career, Shi Fo was among the top five defensive players in the league for about 15 seasons and among the top three defensive players in the league for more than 10 seasons, except for a few seasons when his playing style was adjusted and the retirement season. Which season is the league's best? It's ridiculously stable, but it's not like the outstanding defensive performance of Ben Wallace, Howard, Artest, and Leonard in certain seasons.

However, the comparison of the defensive performances of Duncan and O'Neal posted on the website shows that O'Neal played the highest defensive performance of his career this year, which is very strong, but Duncan is even better.

Li Ao recalled it and understood the difference between Duncan and the original time and space.

In the original time and space, Duncan was with the Spurs. He was responsible for isolation, shooting, cutting into the frame, pick-and-roll, wing screen, offensive rebounding, support, blocking, rebounding, frame protection, close defense, outside defense, pick-and-roll and switch defense. ...almost anything to do!

Although Duncan is comprehensive, he is not as comprehensive as Garnett. If he wants to maintain the standard in every aspect, his physical strength and concentration must be dispersed. He can do everything well, but he can't be the best at anything. .

It's different here. McGrady and Cassell help with offense and organization of offense. Clifford Robinson helps with defense, support, and pick-and-rolls. Duncan can devote his physical strength and energy to scoring and defense, which he is best at, and plays his strongest game. Level offense and defense!
Wait, Duncan has won DPOY. This guy has already won MVP, championship, FMVP, first team, first defense... a Grand Slam of top honors.

After playing 6 seasons, he became the number one power forward in history?
...

In the afternoon, the Timberwolves came to Los Angeles early to prepare for the game.

McHale didn't want the players to go to Los Angeles so early. He hated a team there, but the players were restless. Who wanted to stay in Minneapolis if they could stay in Los Angeles for a few more days?He could only agree.

However, not every Timberwolves player wants to come to Los Angeles so early. After arriving at the Los Angeles hotel, Garnett doesn't want to watch TV, newspapers, surf the Internet, or even go out.

All the news is about Li Ao becoming the youngest MVP and Duncan being named the number one power forward in history before the sixth year of his career.

When he arrived at the hotel parking lot, a passerby even asked him, "How does it feel for Duncan to play for 6 years and achieve something you will never be able to achieve in your life?" If the passerby hadn't looked like he weighed 300 pounds, he would have definitely shown off his weight. of iron blood.

He dialed the number of another high school student. He felt that the high school student must be able to empathize with him at this moment...but he couldn't get through!
The mobile phone is turned off and the line is busy.

In the evening, Garnett stayed in his hotel room watching the G76 game between the 6ers and the Pistons. Tonight, he was a fan of Ray Allen, hoping that Ray Allen could lead the team to comeback all the way and defeat Iverson, like that If so, he is the only single-core counterattacker.

But his expectations were in vain.

雷-阿伦27投14中、其中三分球4中3、加上7中5的罚球，拿到36分4板4助攻1抢断。

比卢普斯20投8中，其中三分球6中2，加上4中3的罚球，拿到21分3板11助攻1抢断。

阿泰斯特也拿到了19分8板1助攻2抢断2盖帽、本-华莱士7分14板表现也不错……

但艾弗森26投14中、其中三分球7中4，加上16中13的罚球，狂轰46分4板12助攻，外加恐怖的10次抢断！
Under the leadership of Iverson, Van Horn scored 18 points, Kenny Thomas scored 16 points, Aaron McGee scored 10 points...

107 to 103, the 76ers narrowly defeated the Pistons, with a big score of 4 to 2, and Black Seven advanced to the second round!

Garnett felt like he had been stabbed.

Not only is his honors greatly surpassed by Duncan's, he is not even the only special one in this year's playoffs!

...

The ability to lead a team alone is indeed far behind the answer - Li Ao commented after seeing the 76ers' black seven.

Iverson was able to force back the angry Pistons. After McGrady angered the Pistons, he was beaten by the angry Pistons by a total of 3 points in the next three games. The gap was obvious.

Seeing that the answer of 'Consider the next round' was successful, Li Ao was amazed by Iverson's strength and felt that it was a little less fun.

The media's hype was in the hope that the answer would turn into a joke, but in the end, it made the answer look fake.

Isn't this as interesting as thinking about getting drafted in the next round?
After Iverson shined at the Palace of Auburn Hills, the other two superstars who had not yet advanced to the top four shooting guards also became furious.

主场作战的卡特13投10中，其中三分球4中4，加上9中8的罚球，拿到32分6板4助攻2抢断1盖帽，率领猛龙队以96比79大胜步行者队，猛龙队4比2晋级第二轮。

玫瑰花园球馆，客场作战的科比26投14中，加上3中3的罚球，拿到31分8板8助攻3抢断、加上奥尼尔的18分16板2助攻4盖帽，两人携手率队以101比85击败开拓者队，4比2晋级第二轮。

The Magic, Nets, Clippers, Timberwolves, 76ers, Raptors, and Lakers have advanced to the second round, leaving only the Jazz and Mavericks, who tied 3-3, yet to decide the winner.

The second round waits for no one. On May 5, the day of the tiebreaker between the Jazz and the Mavericks, the first game of the series between the Clippers and the Timberwolves, who advanced to the second round at the earliest comprehensive time, will also start today.

At 8:22 pm, the Jazz defeated the Mavericks 91-86 in the tiebreaker and advanced to the second round.

At the end of the warm-up session, Li Ao learned the news from the team staff. He felt that Silver Horn King and Weber were both unlucky. If they changed their opponents, they might both win, but they happened to encounter an opponent who could restrain them. ……etc!
The Jazz advance to the second round, doesn't that mean that Shuangsha will meet the OK combination again?
If Malone lost to the OK group, would he still have the nerve to join?
(End of this chapter)