From sparring to superstar

Chapter 198. Part 196
What Jordan thought was very different from the actual situation.

Li Ao has made a lot of preparations before developing this trick.

In the past ten days, I have been practicing straight-line acceleration breakthroughs.

The basic skills of emergency stop have already been practiced in college, and by the end of the regular season, they have reached an excellent level.

He developed this trick after laying a solid foundation, so naturally it will get twice the result with half the effort.

But he can't explain this, seeing the surprised expression of the basketball gods, he feels really good!
However, in the past few days, Li Ao has also lamented that Jordan is indeed the god of basketball.

On the second day of training, Jordan began to adjust the rhythm of his play.

Although after the adjustment, he played worse, as if he couldn't play anymore.

But up to now, in just 6 days, Jordan has made clear the direction of adjustment. During sparring, the performance of technical movements and the rhythm of playing have stabilized.

Therefore, in the past two days, he has stopped taking pleasure in "bullying the old", and paid more attention to the details of Jordan's play style, shooting habits, etc. when defending, so as to prepare for the future against Jordan in real games.

On the 7th, in the playoffs, the 76ers beat the Magic 97-88 in the tiebreaker.

场均30.7分6.7助攻的艾弗森、场均16.3分13.7板的穆托姆博，击败了场均23分12.3板的邓肯、场均19分6.3板7.3助攻的麦迪。

Li Ao watched the live broadcast of the tiebreaker, and felt that Iverson was really fierce, and Mutombo, who had not yet declined, was also very strong. The best defensive player in the fault was really not covered, and he could limit Duncan to this point.

Li Ao felt a little regretful that he could not see Ke Mai in the finals, but if the Magic enters the finals, it is estimated that the end will be similar to that of the Kings and Trail Blazers. It is more worth looking forward to the answer that there will be a big explosion from time to time in this year's playoffs.

Looking forward to watching the liveliness of the finals, Li Ao did not fail in training. With the guidance of God, Cobra, and Skywalker, he does not want to waste this opportunity and trains hard every day.

On the 10th, Jordan stopped the duel training. He has gradually gotten used to his current physical condition, and he has made it clear how to adjust. He has devoted himself to the recovery training of basic skills and the adjustment training of skills.

Li Ao also adjusted the training items, leaving aside the rest, focusing on basic skills, supplemented by passing and controlling, and adding weight gain and strength training with the help of trainers and nutritionists.

The foundation of the direction to be strengthened in this offseason has been laid. Now we must first complete the weight gain plan and strength training, and then carry out intensive training in order to have enough time to adapt.

There is one thing that really hurts him. After more than 20 days of practice, the biggest improvement he has made is actually his physical strength, which has increased from 91 to 92...

时间来到了6月17号，总决赛结束了，湖人队4比1轻松击败76人队拿下总冠军。

The G1 that Li Ao was looking forward to still appeared. He and his father went to the scene to watch the game. He insisted that the 76ers could win, but he was despised by his father. An OK combination that plays normally, no team has the ability to beat them, not even a game.

After the match, he proudly laughed at his father, who pulled out his belt and chased him down the street.

After the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers rested for 11 days, and entered the Finals with 11 consecutive victories. 11 points behind.

Although O'Neal led the team to catch up with the score in the second half, and the score increased to 44 points in regular time, surpassing Iverson's 43 points, but in overtime, O'Neal C stopped moving and did not score a point. The defense of Aaron McGee, Raja Bell, and Eric Snow also withered. Iverson scored 7 points alone, which was higher than the Lakers' 6 points.

Iverson became the sixth player in NBA history to score 6 points in a single game in the Finals. He led his team to defeat the Lakers 50-110 in overtime, sniping the Lakers' goal of winning the championship.

Although Iverson lost more than ten points in each of the next 4 games, and ushered in the crazily revenge of the big-minded OK combination, but that game was enough to establish him in the hearts of fans of this era. status.

...

After watching the live broadcast of Game 5 of the finals, Li Ao was even more eager to become stronger.

The next-door neighbor has another championship banner.

The team from the same city won the championship, and he certainly wouldn't be happy about it. The only thing he found interesting was that the big shark was holding the FMVP trophy and smiling, while the afro holding the O'Brien Cup was expressionless.

As the finals came to an end, the NBA2000-2001 season came to an end.

On the second day, Li Ao trained the thief hard, frightened the trainer, and advised him to train moderately.

James Worthy and David Thompson weren't surprised by that, as they would have had a few days in that state after watching other teams win championships.

After two days of crazy training, Li Ao's inexplicable agitation finally faded away.

But just as he adjusted his mentality, a failed transaction offer made him call the fuck out again...

After the finals, the NBA draft trading window has opened, and teams can trade with the goal of getting this year's draft pick.

On the morning of June 6th, Yahoo Sports broke the news that the Clippers made an offer to the Suns, using Odom, Maggette, Chris Mihm, Kenyon Dooling, and two first-round picks as bargaining chips. In exchange for Kidd, was rejected by the Suns.

Odom, the core of the Clippers' offense, averaged 14+8+8 per game.

Maggette, in the just-concluded playoffs, played an excellent performance, in double figures in many games, and played an important role in the series that defeated the Mavericks 3-1.

Chris Mihm, a white man shield center, is the main substitute for the Clippers center.

All three are young players who entered the NBA in 99 and 00. Even Kenyon Dooling is a 2000 lottery rookie who can still try to scratch.

With the addition of two first-round picks, everyone who saw this offer felt that the Clippers were sincere.

Unless a team trades superstars and the Suns for Kidd alone, fans can't think of any team that can give a better offer than the Clippers.

But the Suns actually refused. Could it be that the rumors are false?The Suns didn't sell Kidd?Not in contact with multiple teams?
But the matter soon settled down.

In the morning, Yahoo Sports just broke the news that the Clippers' offer was rejected, and in the evening the Nets officially announced the deal.

The Nets sent Stephen Marbury, Johnny Newman, Somay Samak, and exchanged Kidd and Chris Dudley from the Suns!
As soon as the news came out, fans thought the Suns management was crazy!

Without the Clippers' offer, the fan reaction wouldn't have been as great.

After all, the 24-year-old Marbury has just been selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career, and it is the Eastern Conference where star guards get together.

The Suns have lost a bit, but there are rumors that Kidd is determined to leave the Suns. The two highest-paid Suns have suffered serious injuries in a row and the salary space is bloated. He can't see the future.

At present, Kidd’s 9-year rookie contract of 6000 million US dollars has passed 7 years. The closer the contract expires, when Kidd is determined to leave, the transaction value will become lower and lower. If it is delayed until the end of next season , Maybe the team that wants to get Kidd will choose to stay for another year, and the offer will not be too high.

But with the Clippers' offer, the Suns' deal looks like the management collectively lost their minds!
...

"If you want to trade me back for Kidd, I'm still very strong in the management's mind!"

Li Ao looked at the silly Odom, speechless.

Seeing the news of the rejection of the trade offer yesterday, he was going to crack up.

Let's not talk about the sale of teammates who have been partners for a year and have a good relationship.

It's okay that the transaction is completed. Li Ao feels that this quotation is definitely not a loss, and the change is exchanged, and it is 80 changes for 100.

But being rejected and being exposed is a completely different situation.

It will inevitably affect the mentality of teammates who are regarded as bargaining chips.

Especially Odom.

He didn't have the mind to train at all yesterday, waiting to see the team's follow-up operations.

What can I do if I get rejected?Add money!

In the end, Kidd was sent to the Nets, and their Clippers' attempt to trade ended in failure.

He thought about it yesterday, no matter whether the final deal is successful or not, he will come to appease Odom today.

He was worried that this guy's mentality would explode, so he ran to the nightclub to find 7 women, fired guns, smoked, drank heavily, and then entered the ICU...

In the end, this product was actually being silly because it could be used as a bargaining chip to trade Kidd!
At this time, Li Ao remembered that in the original time and space, Odom had never been traded, but only when he was traded by the Lakers, Odom gave up on himself.

The situation was different that time. Just followed the Lakers to win two consecutive championships, and accepted the bench to get the best sixth man. The Mavericks who ate Odom only exchanged for a first-round pick and a special case of an 800 million-dollar trade, which can be regarded as a humiliation.

That kind of extreme blow made Odom completely collapse.

At this point in time, with Odom's idiot personality being used as a bargaining chip in exchange for Kidd, a double-team boss, he really might think he's amazing and be happy about it!

Li Ao didn't know why he felt like he was feeding the dog with sincerity... But for the sake of the big table in front of him, forget it, let's just treat it as a meal.

Odom was startled when he saw Li Ao coming to his house, thinking that Li Ao knew about his helping Olowokandi with water, and immediately called a restaurant to order a table of food, and was going to beg for mercy, hoping not to be beaten so miserable...

After lunch, Li Ao returned home. He was not in the mood for training today. He checked the news and saw two rumors related to his team.

Their offer was rejected, and the Suns took the initiative to disclose the news to Yahoo Sports.

Another rumor-the Suns don't want to trade Kidd to a strong team, especially a team in the Western Conference playoffs, and they don't want to have one more competitor. They reject the Clippers and the Clippers deal because of this.

Sending Kidd to the Nets, the team with the seventh-worst record last season, is most in line with the Suns' idea of ​​not wanting to be an enemy.

These two rumors, Li Ao believed to be true.

Colangelo Jr. is an ambitious general manager, as can be seen from the big-spending introduction of Anfernee Hardaway and Gugliota.

He analyzed it with his auntie and father, and he felt that the Suns exchanged for Marbury because they definitely didn't think Marbury was better than Kidd.

But Marbury is young, only 24 years old!
The Suns can survive until the contracts of Anfernee Hardaway and Gugliota expire, or become valuable bargaining chips in the contract year. By then, Marbury has just reached his peak and still has extremely high transaction value. .

Therefore, this trade of the Suns is not about rebuilding, but about retaining Kidd's trade value to the greatest extent and planning for the future.

After figuring this out, Li Ao still felt regretful.

But their general manager is not bad!
Using Blevin Knight as a cover to inquire about the price, when it was time to make a move, he was very decisive, willing to make a bold offer for the player in his hand...

When Wally Walker first arrived last year, Li Ao asked Gentry, an old assistant coach who had been in the basketball world for many years, to inquire about the ability of the new general manager, not to be another talent like Elgin Baylor.

Gentry told him some successful trades of Wally Walker. What impressed him the most was that when Wally Walker was the general manager of the Trail Blazers in 89, he exchanged several young potential stocks from the Nets. The three-time All-Star insider Buck Williams supplemented the last shortcoming of the Trail Blazers. The Trail Blazers became the strongest team in the Western Conference and entered the Finals twice in three years.

It's a pity that I finally met the Bad Boys Legion and the God of Basketball.

...

During this turmoil, Li Aoquan took a two-day rest, and on the 22nd, he returned to training.

Team reinforcement is very important, but improving one's own strength is even more important.

Odom will be silly because he is regarded as a bargaining chip for a trading superstar. He is not so optimistic.

Ballmer made a good point and wanted him to be the totem of the team, but in the situation where the Magic sent Duncan and the Lakers sent Kobe, how would the Microsoft tycoon choose?
If you want not to be traded as commodities, and if you want to have the right to decide whether to stay or not, you have to become stronger!At least at the same age, he wants to become the strongest!
The time has come to June 6, and the NBA's annual draft is here.

After a day of training, Li Ao went home with his auntie and his parents to have a meal, and stayed in front of the TV. The four of them watched the talent show together.

Li Ao's junior was predicted to be picked at the end of the first round and the beginning of the second round, so it's not a big problem for them to win.

What he wants to watch now, and what he is curious about is whether there will be the first high school student No. [-] pick in history this year?

The results of the draft lottery in the middle of last month were different from what he had imagined. The Wizards, the second-to-last in the Eastern Conference and the third-to-last in the league, did not get the No. [-] pick, but the Eagles, who got the No. [-] pick.

The Wizards only got the second pick, and the Spurs got the No. [-] pick. Only one of the top three picks was drawn by the bottom three.

Bulls No. 4 pick, Warriors No. 5 pick, Grizzlies No. 6 pick, Nets No. 7 pick...

At 8 p.m., just as the draft began, a trade shocked the audience in front of the TV.

On the night of the draft, the No. [-] pick was traded!
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