king of defenders

Chapter 1051 Almost reaching the limit!
2月27日，热火主场以105:102击败76人队，整个2月的比赛全部结束，孟云再一次当选东部月最佳球员。

Entering March, the NBA's playoff competition has become more and more intense. Except for the top-ranked and destined to miss the playoffs, other teams are competing for playoff tickets.

The Western Conference is particularly fierce. The Western Conference playoff battle between strong teams has entered a white-hot stage, which has also affected the Heat to a certain extent. After all, many of these teams have to play against the Heat. Some teams, they can only make the playoffs.

The Heat have no worries about tickets for the playoffs. Coach Spoelstra even began to recuperate, allowing the players to reserve their physical fitness for the playoffs.

There is only one exception, and that is Xiang Long.

In fact, coach Spoelstra didn't have much expectation for Xiang Long, at least this season he didn't have too much expectation for Xiang Long. He knew Xiang Long's talent and potential, but in the expectation, Xiang Long At least one or two seasons are needed before it can be of great use.

In the eyes of coach Spoelstra, the "talent is worthy of great use" refers not to the regular season, but to the playoffs.

However, Xiang Long's performance exceeded Coach Spoelstra's expectations. Xiang Long played very well in the early part of the regular season, and after the All-Star Weekend, Xiang Long played even better.

This made Coach Spoelstra change his decision. Perhaps without waiting another season or two, Xiang Long can perform in the playoffs this season.

Therefore, after the All-Star Weekend, led by Meng Yun, except for the players on the fringes of the rotation lineup, other players have reduced their consumption in the conscious operation of Coach Spoelstra. Specific games, selective play.

Sometimes, even give up some games.

This is almost the case for all main rotations, but Xiang Long is an exception. His playing time and tasks have not decreased, but have increased a lot.

Coach Spoelstra took this opportunity to temper Xianglong and accelerate his growth, hoping to perform well in the playoffs.

American Airlines Arena, Training Arena.

"Shhhh."

Today's training has ended, even Meng Yun's extra training has been completed, and he sat on the sidelines to rest, but Xiang Long did not stop, and was still training.

Sweat was swaying, and Meng Yun could even see the sweat falling off Xiang Long's hair, and he could hear Xiang Long's heavy breathing, he was almost at his limit.

"Xiang Long." Meng Yun shouted: "Stop it, it's almost done."

"Wait another 5 minutes." Xiang Long didn't stop, and with a flick of his wrist, he threw the ball, and the basketball bounced off the basket.

Meng Yun frowned secretly, got up and walked to the field, grabbed the basketball, and said in a deep voice: "I know you want to become stronger, in fact you are indeed getting stronger, but this is not a matter of a day or two, the coach wants you You can grow up as soon as possible, but you put too much pressure on yourself."

Xiang Long looked at Meng Yun, shook his head, and said, "I know what to do. I'll practice for another 5 minutes, just 5 minutes."

Meng Yun looked at Xiang Long seriously, and finally threw the ball to him: "Just 5 minutes, I will time it for you, not more than a second."

Xiang Long nodded and continued to shoot.

As soon as the 5 minutes were up, Meng Yun immediately called a stop. Xiang Long had just finished throwing a ball, his legs were a little weak due to the huge consumption, the landing was unstable, and his feet were staggering.

Meng Yun quickly stepped forward and supported him.

In fact, sometimes Meng Yun admires Xiang Long very much. He has trained hard enough, and he has to practice more after the regular training every day. However, Xiang Long is no worse than himself, and he also trains every day. Now it is only the next day. If there is no competition, you have to practice until your hands and feet become weak, and then stop when you reach the limit.

At the same time, Meng Yun was also worried about Xiang Long.

When Xiang Long stood firm, Meng Yun said: "Xiang Long, you can't continue practicing like this. Haste makes waste. Besides, you are still young, so there is no need to be so anxious. Your practice method is very harmful to the body, even if you With the most excellent nutritionist team and medical team, this will still cause irreparable overdraft to your body, and even shorten your career.”

Xiang Long's family is rich, very rich.

How rich is it?

Before, Under Armor offered Meng Yun a sky-high contract worth one billion US dollars, and even if Meng Yun signed that contract, he was not as rich as Xiang Long's family.

Therefore, Xiang Long does not live on the team's salary at all. With sufficient financial support, he hired the most professional nutritionist team, training team, and medical team.

Yes, including the medical team, not a doctor, but a team, Xiang Long is still the only one in the entire Heat team.

It can be said that so far, Xiang Long's investment in basketball has even exceeded his salary. After all, he is still on a rookie contract, and his salary is not particularly high, but the professional teams he hired are gold swallowing beasts. Costly.

To give an example, in order to maintain his physical condition, LeBron James hired a team of nutritionists. The salary of the nutritionist, plus the expenditure on ingredients, costs millions of dollars every year.

So why James was able to maintain such a competitive state in his thirties, apart from talent, this is also one of the reasons.

Xiang Long spent almost the same as James, and even more.

It is precisely because these support Xiang Long that he can practice more like Meng Yun every day, but his body can still bear it. After he trains every day, he will have a professional masseuse to massage him, do physical therapy, and supplement him with food supplements. Maintain daily consumption and offset the load on the body from high-intensity training.

In terms of physical talent, Xiang Long is much stronger than the average Asian player, but there is still some gap with European and American players, so he has to do so.

But Meng Yun doesn't need these.

But even with the most professional team behind him, Xiang Long's crazy training still made Meng Yun worry.

Xiang Long shook his head and said, "I know what you said, but I have no other choice."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm almost at the limit." Xiang Long said: "My physical fitness has almost reached the limit. Since I left the ncaa and played in Spain, I hired a professional team. With their help, the two In the past three years, my physical fitness has improved rapidly, which allows me to fight against inside players like the NBA, even if it is not enough to beat them, I will not suffer too much physically.”

"But I'm almost at my limit now."

Hearing this, Meng Yun immediately understood that Xiang Long had a professional team in the past two years, and his physical fitness had improved rapidly, but it was precisely because of this that he reached the limit faster than others.

Other players generally enter the league for 3-5 seasons before reaching their physical fitness limit, but Xiang Long is almost reaching his limit now.

(End of this chapter)