From sparring to superstar

Chapter 211 209. King Silver Horn: Am I isolated?

22号下午，李敖随队来到休斯敦，休息了一晚后，23号，李敖出场31分钟，拿到21分3板3助攻1抢断3盖帽，乔丹出场28分钟，拿到20分3板3助攻，奥多姆9分6板5助攻、小奥尼尔11分11板，快船队以98比81轻取火箭队。

On the morning of the 23rd, the Clippers returned to Los Angeles, took a break at noon, and began preparations for the final game of the preseason in the afternoon.

The day after tomorrow, that is, on the 25th, they will usher in the final preseason game at home against the Mavericks.

In this game, the Clippers are preparing for the regular season.

Time to test the results of training camp and preseason.

The training tasks are heavy, but the Clippers players have changed from complaining to complaining about how little time there is.

Through the high-intensity training in the past week, they clearly feel that they are one step ahead of other teams!
If they can have another ten days and a half months of training time, they will further improve their defensive system and improve their offensive coordination...

After the training on the morning of the 24th, Gentry did not arrange training in the afternoon and gave the players an afternoon off, but he did not stop the players from training spontaneously.

Jordan crossed his hips and directed 10 teammates to conduct offensive and defensive duels, Mike Bibby, Piakowski, Matt Harperin, Rafonso Ellis, Jaron Collins, Greg Anthony , Big Q, Gerald Wallace, Odom, Sean Lukes first team.

Seeing this scene, Gentry felt the benefits of having a player like Jordan.

It is very difficult to get the approval of the basketball god, the revolution has not yet succeeded, and he still needs to work hard.

The other 4 team members are also busy.

Steve Kerr is teaching Boykins to practice open three-pointers and O'Neal to practice free throws.

Although it is only the third choice of the point guard line, there are still times when Boykins needs to be contained on the wing.

This player with a height of less than 1.7 meters has a very good shooting talent. Last season, he made 39.4% of his mid-range shots. He averaged 1.9 shots per game and 0.8 hits. 0.8 hits, 0.3 hits.

O'Neal needs to improve his free throws. Last season, he made 63% of his free throws, which is almost on par with O'Neal and Duncan.

They were not so valued by their opponents last season, and no opponents took advantage of this, but it will be hard to say in the new season.

With Jordan, their forward and defensive strength has been greatly improved, but it has also attracted more attention and been feared by more opponents.

Li Ao did not train at the team training ground, but came to the blacksmith room, and with the help of Xavier Johnson, he trained the basic skills of three-pointers.

In the past month, his three-pointers have increased from 78 to 79!
Hurry up and practice more, and strive to increase to 80 as soon as possible.

At 3:[-] in the afternoon, Li Ao finished his two-hour and three-minute basic skills training, and the neighbor next door who hadn't seen him for a long time came.

"Yo, Snake, it's been a long time since I saw you. I wanted to share with you the joy of being teammates with Michael Jordan."

Kobe didn't even look at Li Ao, and after nodding to Xavier Johnson and the two trainers who served and picked up the ball, he warmed up on his own.

In the speechless expression of Xavier Johnson, Li Ao motioned for the opponent to practice mid-range shots for a while.

After Kobe's physical activity started, he reached out to the trainer for a ball and came to the right side of the free throw line.

Li Ao received the reminder that the "excellent training partner" was turned on, and immediately stopped the CIC training, told Xavier Johnson that he could get off work, and ran to catch the ball and leaned against Kobe.

"It's been a long time since I trained with you, I can only train with Jordan, it's too pitiful..."

After Li Ao finished speaking, he felt the power behind him suddenly grow stronger.

Li Ao turned around, and Kobe relied on his strong physical fitness to control his body. He didn't rush out because of the pressing action. With excellent prediction and solid basic skills, he took half a step back and moved sideways in time to block Li Ao who turned around. .

But Li Ao had already had the opportunity to lift the ball up, facing Kobe's interference, and made a mid-range shot within one step from the free throw line!

Top-level offensive awareness, skillful turning, excellent technical connection behind the back... Kobe confirmed painfully that the big spider, who has not yet started the second-year season, has been able to use high post-ups as a regular singles method in the new season.

What was he doing in second grade with the Black Mamba?At the age of 19, he was still playing as a substitute, averaging 8 points per game in the playoffs, and was bullied by the old villains of the Jazz.

Kobe took a deep breath, got rid of distracting thoughts, devoted himself to defense, and used Li Ao to practice back defense.

This year, one of the strongest post-up opponents in all perimeters in NBA history appeared... maybe not just the strongest perimeter player in history.

In the past month, Payton, Bryan Russell, Dan Marley, John Starks and others were almost annoyed to death. If it weren't for Kobe's polite words, they would all want to curse. They and their wives don't call that much.

There are only a few days left to fight against that one again, and he has to make preparations!
...

An hour and a half later, Li Ao slumped on the floor, watching Kobe put on his coat and leave... Pooh, scumbag, don't even pull him up, just leave when he's done!

After recovering from his stress, Li Ao pulled the trainer to stand up, wiped off his sweat, ate a hamburger, and used the 'body physiotherapy function', which quickly relieved his fatigue.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, one day, it was my turn to attack all the way in the duel practice, and the little blacksmith defended me for more than an hour as a sparring partner!

When Slag Snake left, he left a sentence to continue training after the preseason games. Will he still practice like today?
His defense is really good, the strength of the hand-to-hand combat is incredible. I shot well at first, and then I started to hit the iron... Let me see, 50 goals, 20 iron dunks... Hey, I practiced for an hour and a half , only 300 achievement points, it is better to practice against the god of basketball. "

After mumbling a few words, Li Ao put the matter aside first.

Playing the Mavericks tomorrow, he wants to win.

First he lost 3 games in a row, then won 3 games in a row. At present, the results are mixed, and there is 1 game left. He wants to correct his record. Although it is only a preseason game, he can't hold back his damn competitive spirit.

Moreover, tomorrow's game will be played as a regular season, and they will go all out to verify their advantages, find out their shortcomings, and prepare for the 4-day preparation time after the end of the preseason.

But the preparations have been done as best as possible. In the past half a month, he not only provided the coaching staff with defensive ideas, but also sorted out the offensive ideas later, wrote them in a newly bought small notebook, and gave them to Gentry. .

The advantage of 'prophet', if you can grasp it, grasp it first. This advantage will 'expire', and he will not think of 'reserving it for himself as a coach in the future'.

Not to mention whether he still wants to be in the basketball industry after retirement, just seeing the scene where Jordan is used to watching Gentry and chatting a few more words, and not being used to being completely unreasonable, he feels that being a coach is not suitable for him.

He regretted that Xia Tian didn't think of these at the time, but he didn't personally feel the impact of the rule change, so it was really hard for him to think of so much. Xia Tian was busy improving himself, so he didn't have the heart to think about anything else.

But it's not too late to fix it, and they haven't reached the stage of losing the sheep, and now they have the upper hand.

Thanks Jim Carrey!
When he thinks about those things, first of all, he must put him into it.

On the offensive end, he has a tall shooter who mainly plays from the outside and back. On the defensive end, he has a striker with comprehensive defensive capabilities. The first thing he thought of was the Mavericks with Nowitzki and Marion in 2011.

Whether the Mavericks' style of play suits them is not important. He just wants to tell the coaching staff that Jim Carrey's mature and ultimately successful tactical thinking.

He didn't fully remember what the Mavericks' tactical system was like. He wrote some thoughts on offensive and defensive coordination and some tactical coordination based on the team's play style in his impression and combined with the professional knowledge in his mind. The method, and how to operate it, depends on Gentry and his coaching staff.

...

On October 2001, 10, the last game day of the Clippers' new season preseason arrived.

At 7:[-] in the evening, Li Ao and his teammates entered the stadium, and the daily 'fan meeting' came again.

Li Ao endured it, and when the regular season was played, he would not see this scene again.

When I returned to play the Warriors and Kings at home, the enthusiasm of the opponents had dropped a lot before the game.

Having not seen Wang Zhizhi for a long time, he went to say hello out of politeness, but he didn't talk too much.

The main reason is that Wang Zhizhi's character is too boring, so boring that Li Ao can feel familiar. No, all the players of the Mavericks ran to find Jordan to take a photo, but Wang Zhizhi didn't go.

Although Wang Zhizhi didn't get too many opportunities to play last season, he played a total of 8 games, 5 games in the regular season and 3 games in the playoffs, but the old Nelson who was quite optimistic about him still gave him a basic salary contract.

Li Ao was very happy to see this scene. He heard that Battelle had already got a contract with the Nuggets, but he would not be able to join the NBA until the contract with the Aoshen team ended in February next year.

The Chasing Youth and the Mobile Great Wall are already in place, and the only thing left is a big bamboo pole.

Instead of going to join in the excitement of the "God of Basketball Fan Meeting", Li Ao and Wang Zhizhi finished greeting each other and were about to practice shooting in the opponent's half next to them. Nowitzki, who had taken a photo with Jordan, took the initiative to find him.

"Hello, Spider-Man, finally fighting against you again." Nowitzki seemed very excited.

Li Ao joked: "You actually expect to play against us? Matt and I have improved our defense again."

Silver Horn King: (#`n)
Can you speak well and scare people when you open your mouth!
Nowitzki responded after a bit of slander: "Don't underestimate me, you're not the only one making progress! Steve and I... Hey, where's Steve?"

Nowitzki turned his head to look, knock!

It was agreed to go and take a photo together to come over to provoke Spider-Man's son of the wind, and now he is still rubbing the camera next to Jordan.

I suddenly felt a little ashamed, forget it... "Hey, Spider-Man, why don't you leave!"

Nowitzki looked at his opponent who was shooting the ball on his own, and then at his partner who was still laughing silly. For some reason, he felt a strange feeling of being isolated...

The pre-match preparation time is over, and the two teams start to play.

Mavericks starters: Nash, Finley, Edondo Najera, Nowitzki, LaFrentz.

Clippers starting: Mike - Bibby, Li Ao, Jordan, Odom, O'Neal.

Li Ao glanced at Van Exel on the bench, and Cuban exchanged Juwan Howard for Van Exel and LaFrentz, using up all the room that could be raised during the transaction.

This is not over yet, Cuban also split the middle class and signed Tim Hardaway, who averaged 14.9 points and 6.3 assists per game with the Heat last season, and big center Irving, who averaged 3.4 points and 4.9 rebounds per game with the Nets last season. -Eschmeyer.

Using the two-year exception, $2 million in two years poached Danny Manning, who averaged 300 points per game last season, from the Jazz.

Small forward John Newman, who averaged 10.9 points and 2.1 rebounds per game with the Nets last season, was waived by the Suns after being traded to the Suns along with Kidd. Cuban won the veteran's basic salary of $1 million for one year.

Regardless of whether the players are suitable or not, Cuban first gathered a bunch of people and let Nelson use them at will. The depth of the lineup is difficult for teams to match, highlighting a rich and powerful man.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the game began.

LaFrentz relied on top bullet speed to overwhelm O'Neal to win the jump ball, and the Mavericks went first!

Seeing Li Ao take a step forward and forcefully brake and turn to retreat, O'Neill was short of breath. After LaFrentz entered the inside line, he immediately pressed up and fought violently.

LaFrentz has never been considered tough, so he quickly pulled out to the outside line, Odom switched defenses and followed, relaying O'Neal for hand-to-hand combat, he fled, he chased, he couldn't fly...

The Clippers fight hand-to-hand when they come up, LaFrentz wants to scold the street, he is a soft pitcher, as for that?
Another insider of the Mavericks is also dumbfounded now.

He thought it was either Li Ao defending him or Odom, Li Ao went to defend Finley, Odom chased LaFrentz to fight, and it was Jordan who stood up to him!

The point is, he feels that Jordan's confrontation is more fierce than Li Ao, Matt Harprin, and Odom!

After Nash advanced to the top arc, he observed for a few seconds. He didn't understand the defense on the opposite side, but it didn't matter, go first!

He didn't signal Finley to catch the ball and single, he came by himself.

Faced with Mike Bibby's post defense, Nash took a step back and waved for a pick-and-roll.

LaFrentz quickly ran up to help Nash block Mike Bibby as if seeing a savior.

Nash used the cover to break through, Odom switched defenses, and pressed up to defend the three-pointer. Nash deftly changed direction to avoid the defense, and rushed to the inside. When he was about to get out of Odom's shooting interference, Li Ao waved his arms to make up for it. up.

Nash tried to pass Finley, but Li Ao's flailing arms cut off the space for his pass to the right, and passed to Edondo Najera who cut in from the left. Odom strode to the free throw line when Li Ao made up. One step inside, cut off the middle.

Fortunately, Finley has a good sense of off the ball and moved to the bottom line. After being stuck by Li Ao, Nash took the ball in time and sent it to Finley on the right side of the three-second zone.

But this little pass delay has given O'Neal the opportunity to move from outside the left sideline of the three-second zone to the right side of the basket. Finley was blocked as soon as he entered the three-second zone. He jumped up and scored the ball. Eduardo Najera cuts to catch the ball for a layup... "snap"... Letting go of Nowitzki and recovering from the left baseline, Jordan jumped high and gave Eduardo Najera a big kick from behind cap!
(End of this chapter)