From sparring to superstar

Chapter 69. 67. The best opponent for military training

Both the Gauchos and the Aztecs have a record of 20 wins and 4 losses. When they played against each other, the former and the latter won both games, so the Gauchos ranked first... In fact, this result is not Too convincing, because most teams in the Pacific Sports League are weak, especially weak, not much better than teams in the second and third tier leagues.

The Aztecs, the team name Li Ao saw in the news more than 20 years later, reached the NCAA basketball championship finals and won the runner-up, entered the top league in one fell swoop, and became an unofficial member.

But now the Aztecs don't even have the ability to win the first place in the weak minor league.

These five teams are the training opponents arranged by the NCAA.

Today's preparations, the training content arranged by the coaching staff is tactical adjustment training, personal technical and tactical training, rather than targeted training.

In the evening, Li Ao watched the live broadcast of the All-Star Weekend. He watched all the All-Star live broadcasts in the past two nights.

This year's NBA All-Star Weekend was held next door in San Francisco.

Originally, both Vivienne and Liam wanted to invite him to watch the game live, but he refused.

There is no need to owe this kind of favor. The All-Star Weekend was not held last year, and now the enthusiasm of the fans is extremely high, and the package tickets are extremely expensive.

What's more, they don't want to waste time. Next week, they don't have to attend the player class of the Trojans. They have to devote all their time to the game the next day.

The next 9 games are the key preparation stage before they enter the crazy three.

And it's good to watch live...

Last night, Carter won the dunk contest and became the most popular star in one fell swoop.

The strongest dunker in history and the new trapeze are the hottest topics in North American sports at the moment.

The enthusiasm for the Trojans to win the championship in the division was already declining rapidly. After Carter's slam dunk contest performance, the popularity of the "dark horse" cooled down.

Although it's not cool yet, if the Trojans want to win attention again, they have to wait until the crazy three, and then they will definitely become one of the teams that people pay attention to.

After all, it is a 'dark horse', which is very hard to watch.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the All-Star Game began.

The current All-Star game is really good. The All-Stars are really doing it. The game is very anxious from the beginning. Kidd, Kobe, Garnett, Duncan, O'Neal, Iverson, Carter, Eddie Jones , Hill, Mourning.

Who said that the inside line is too crowded for three insiders to play together?

Duncan supported, Garnett made a mid-range shot, Kidd distributed the ball, and the OK combination scored. The cooperation is perfect!
Of course, this is only one game a year. Everyone is willing to sacrifice and accommodate. It feels like the past few dream teams.

After the first quarter, the Western team led the Eastern team 33 to 29, and the score did not open.

Then the East and the West also competed throughout the whole process. After halftime, the Western team led 64 to 59 by only 5 points.

In the third quarter, under the leadership of Iverson, the Eastern team once chased the score to 97, but in the last two seconds, Weber ran to the frontcourt to catch the ball, turned around and made a mid-range shot at the buzzer. The Western team took a 99-97 lead by two points. end.

At the end of the quarter, the OK combination came up and exerted their strength. Kobe fed the ball to O'Neal continuously. O'Neal scored 6 points in a row and returned an inside pass to Kobe for a dunk. They played a wave of 8 to 0. The West led by two for the first time. digit advantage.

In the following time, the Western team took control of the advantage. Iverson, Carter, Ray Allen, and Hill launched counterattacks in turn, but they were all suppressed by Duncan or O'Neal's frame protection and inside scoring.

最终，靠着奥尼尔22分9板3盖帽、邓肯的24分14板4助攻，西部队以137比126力克东部队，两人共同捧起了本届全明星正赛的最有价值球员奖杯。

Time Warner Cable Sports commentators Hubie Brown and Bill Walton commented on this All-Star Weekend-I thought that without Michael Jordan, the All-Star Game would lose its starlight.

But superstars such as O'Neal, Duncan, Iverson, Hill, Kobe, Garnett, Kidd, Webber, Carter, etc. have been able to represent the NBA and basketball.

In the era without gods, the stars are still shining!
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Li Ao was fascinated by watching the All-Star Game. At night, he dreamed that he was playing the All-Star Game, punching a big shark, kicking Peter Pan, and plucking Shi Buddha's hair by the way...

But when he woke up the next morning, he returned to reality and continued his college basketball career as a 2D puzzle player.

After completing the training in the morning, Li Ao came to the main arena and watched the game between the Western Broncos of California State Polytechnic University and the Idaho Broncos of Powys State University for a while.

At this stage of the game, there are 1 games in one day, and one game day in the next day, with 3 teams facing each other in pairs.

Li Ao looked at the sparse fans at the scene and the empty seats, and he understood why the game was arranged in this way.

It takes money to rent a venue. The Trojans can sell their own tickets. When the local team has a bad record, there are no obvious vacancies, but the other 5 teams play against each other... renting the stadium is the most expensive at night. During the time period, it will not cost much to rent together during the day, and the loss will be less.

On days when the Trojans don't play games, renting arenas for those 5 teams to play games is a pure loss.

After watching the game for a while from the perspective of analyzing competitors, Li Ao found that the overall strength of the Pacific Sports League is really not good. No.3 and No.5 are actually only slightly better than the Beaver Men's Team, slightly better than the Golden State Bears Not as good.

He didn't continue to watch, it was okay to watch the excitement, but watching the game with the purpose of analyzing the opponent, he really couldn't see it, so he chose to practice a few more sets of mid-range shots.

At 7 p.m., the game between the Trojans and the University of San Diego Aztecs began.

Unlike the usual main force that consumes the opponent first, and then Li Ao goes on the court to "catch the leak", this time he played a few rounds in the first round, and then he replaced Shelby Jordan on the court, and at the same time was replaced by Brusenthal, Replacement Charles.

Granville, Trepagnier, and White Mamba continued to fight.

The style of play is a little different from usual. Tonight, Li Ao and Brusenthal will be the main attackers!

The third offensive point is Trepagnier, Granville is responsible for distributing the ball, and the white mamba is responsible for containment and support.

The purpose of this adjustment is to enrich the style of play and diversify the tactics.

Henry Bibby said before yesterday's training-"In March Madness, every opponent of ours may be as strong as the Wildcats and the Cardinals, or even stronger. In the next 9 games, we will Every game can't be wasted, we will try our best to improve our strength, we are working hard, and so are others!"

For a star-focused team like the Wildcats and Bruins, the original core scoring points would not be happy with such a change.

But the Trojans are different. They are more like the Cardinals, willing to sacrifice for each other.

Henry Bibby didn't want to admit that this change was brought about by that kid.

For another team, there is an 18-year-old talented striker. When the team's strength is only on the edge of the crazy three, they may choose to spend a year on training new players, regardless of others.

But that kid, from the beginning, was rushing to use it as a puzzle, and after his talent was revealed, he didn't do anything superfluous.

For a long time, the coaching staff ignored the idea of ​​"playing badly and cultivating new players" and tried their best to change the team towards the team style of play.

The coaching staff ignored that choice, but the players did not. They used this as a motivation in private. For each other and for themselves, everyone was accommodating each other, adjusting their style of play, and changing their soft and cowardly habits to become stronger... This erroneous development has given them their current strong overall strength.

Li Ao and Brusenthal were the main attackers, and the other three teammates worked hard to cooperate and played very smoothly.

Although the Aztecs are the second most expensive team in the division, their strength is comparable to that of the Golden State Bears in the pac10 league.

The Trojans played quite easily, and the tactical adjustment went smoothly. If there is any shortcoming, it is that Li Ao's shooting accuracy has dropped sharply.

In the civil war stage of the competition area, facing stronger opponents, he relied on careful shot selection. Except for the first ball at the beginning, he often shot against the defense, and he was basically not greedy for merit or aggressive. His shooting percentage was quite good, as high as 49%.

But tonight, although he scored 30 points in 19 minutes of playing time, he took 17 shots and scored 7 goals. voted for...

His shot selection tonight is much worse than usual, so he has to blame the White Mamba.

Li Ao asked: "How do core scorers shoot?"

White Mamba: "When you feel that your teammates are not as good as you in shooting opportunities after receiving your pass, you have to choose to do it yourself and take responsibility, and you can't put the responsibility on your teammates."

One who dares to ask, one who dares to teach, and the one who asks dares to learn.

As a result, his shot selection tonight was much worse than usual.

It is mainly reflected in the fact that there are a lot of unskilled catch-and-turn shots and emergency stops to catch and shoot. When using these two tricks, he has a good rhythm control and can often get rid of the opponent's pursuit.

But he couldn't control his shooting stability after turning around quickly and stopping suddenly, and he hit the iron continuously.

In the eyes of his teammates, he had a chance, but unfortunately he didn't feel good and didn't make the shot, but for him, this was not a good opportunity.

To solve this problem, there are two ways, one is to find a better main attack method, and the other is to continue to improve one's shooting ability, and improve the basic skills of turning around the ball, turning around with an emergency stop, and mid-range shooting.

Fortunately, he rebounded well tonight, with 6 rebounds in a single game, including two offensive rebounds.

His active style of play allowed him to grab an offensive rebound after the opponent made 7 fouls in the first half, causing the opponent to foul. He got a 1+1 free throw opportunity and made two free throws. At the end of the first half, his defense was irritated. The opponent's pitcher, Trayn Greer, was pushed by the opponent and got a technical foul.

The Aztecs had 10 fouls in the half, and they were given two free throws for non-shooting fouls and offensive fouls. Li Ao walked to the free throw line and made one of two free throws.

Another time in the second half caused the opponent to shoot a foul and made two free throws. He made 6 of 5 free throws and scored 5 points.

There was no suspense in the game. The Trojans finally defeated the Aztecs 88 to 79 and won 19 consecutive victories!

李敖拿到19分6板3助攻3抢断1盖帽，拿到235成就点。

It's a pity that the task of 'Dark Horse Attack' will be completed after the civil war in the competition area. Otherwise, the achievement points will not be the same as those of the opponents.

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After the first game of the "Battle for the Spot" stage, everyone in the Trojans team felt how cool it is to be the first in the division!

The ability that the Aztecs showed last night is similar to that of the Golden State Bears, but the difference is that this team has been winning in the civil war stage of the division. The record of 12 wins and 2 losses looks quite bluffing. The players of this team are also very confident in their own strength. They are here to win the game, and the goal is to get the crazy three places.

The Trojans can play like the Aztecs. Although the latter was shocked by such a big gap in strength, they did not give up. Instead, they kept trying to counterattack and were capable of responding...

Such an opponent is simply a dream match during military training!

It is estimated that these teams in the Pacific Sports League are all like this, because their records are not bad.

Li Ao deliberately went to find out about the current situation of other teams in the pac10 league.

The pair of money-making brothers in Washington State suffered similarly to the top five in the Pacific Sports League. Last Saturday, they went to practice with the top-ranked University of Iowa Hawkeyes in the Big Ten.

The Golden State Bears, Sun Devils, and Beavers are not much better, and they are tied with No. 4 in the Big [-] and Big Ten. The game has already started on the day of the All-Star Weekend.

Li Ao found the Big Ten and Big Twelve very interesting. The Big Ten has 12 teams, but the Big Twelve has only 10 teams. The Big Twelve sounds more "big", but it is actually 94. The newly added top league, the Big Ten League, was established at the end of the 19th century. It was the first major sports league to join the NCAA Association when it was established.

Compared with the 5 teams in the lower half, the 4 teams in the upper half are treated much better.

Although the Cardinals and the Bruins faced opponents from top leagues or strong leagues, they were all teams outside the top four in other divisions.

The treatment of the Wildcats is almost the same as that of the Trojans. Most of the opponents are minor league teams.

When he learned about this, Li Ao also knew why the Cardinals were so unwilling after losing the final game of the division.

The treatment gap between the top two and No.3 in the six top leagues is huge.

In addition to the schedule, there is also the final ranking in the crazy three-group.

The first place in the six top leagues, when it comes to Crazy Three, no matter which group they are assigned to, they must be the top two.

The 2nd place, as long as the 'place competition' is not too late, and successfully won the crazy third place, it will also be ranked 3rd or 4th in the group.

In other words, the top 2 in the division has reached the crazy third, and the first round will always play against the 4 teams with the weakest group.

The second place in the top league division also has a situation where it is too late to make the crazy third, and it has only happened once or twice in decades.

As for the 3rd place, no matter how well they performed during the 'place competition' period, they can only be ranked 5th in the Crazy Three Group at most, and the best case is to play against the 12th place in the division.

(End of this chapter)