Chapter 63: The Heart of Basketball, Awaken!
Through the Jazz game, as well as the commentator's analysis, everyone seems to have found a way that can effectively weaken Li Du's defensive effect, that is, to arrange a second outside core in the team! And the style of this second outside core can also be matched, it can be strong organizational ability, or strong offensive ability!
No matter what style the second core is, he only needs to cooperate with the first core, and when the first core is restricted by Li Du, he can shoulder the heavy responsibility of attacking! Or, if Li Du comes to defend the second core, the first core player can play normally!
So, for a while, there was a craze in the NBA to find excellent outside players, and even some players who had a single ability and were not good at defense and were almost abandoned by the team also took advantage of this craze to become indispensable people for the team!
However, Li Du, who set off this craze for the core of the second outside, is now locking himself at home and seriously learning the basic skills of basketball!
Since losing to the Jazz, I know that as a professional player, I can no longer focus all my energy on practicing boxing. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info since you are a professional player, you should do what a professional player should do. Moreover, basketball has brought me great honor, and my teammates have given me sincere friendship, so I should not just love basketball, but love basketball!
These days, Li Du is holding the basketball information every day, although he likes basketball, but he doesn't know about the sport itself. He knows a lot of NBA stars, but what have these stars done? What kind of results have you achieved? Why do so many people worship them? Li Du also didn't understand this.
With the help of Kobe, Odom, and even Zen masters, Li Du quickly learned about basketball, knowledge and skills about the NBA, and also learned a lot of stories about basketball celebrities.
The more he understands, the more he admires the superstars who have left immortal legends in NBA history! In the 100-year history of basketball, there are too many predecessors worthy of admiration and reverence, and it is precisely because of their appearance and their contributions to basketball and the NBA that there is now basketball and the current NBA!
For a long time, Li Du has hardly had too many emotional changes on the court, which is the influence of the national martial arts competition on him, because during the competition, he must be extremely calm to perceive the opponent's actions and feel the opponent's emotions, so as to accurately judge how the opponent will shoot.
Li Du also once heard the master say that a real master of national arts can hear the sound of human blood flowing, and through the blood flow, he can judge the opponent's combat effectiveness, as well as what kind of action will be next, how destructive this action is, and so on.
But basketball and national arts are different, and games and competitions are even more different. Basketball needs passion, competition doesn't need to! Basketball can make people's blood boil and make people move to tears!
The contest is to kill, or to be killed, and it is the cruelty that every contestant must accept! Even in the period of the Republic of China, in that era when everyone was united and saved the country, everyone and the grandmasters of the National Art Hall went to compete with patriotic enthusiasm, and the result was the same, either kill or be killed!
Because Guoshu starts from actual combat and aims at killing, many tricks are how to be vicious and how to use the most lethality. Walking between life and death will make people change a lot, but one thing is certain, that is, people will no longer be enthusiastic and impulsive!
But basketball is exciting, many times it is impulsive, that is, to release the emotions in your heart, all of which are incompatible with the national art play!
If Li Du doesn't make any changes, in fact, it is okay, with the strength he is showing now, he is still a desperate defender in the NBA, and on the offensive end, he is still the most stable and accurate shooter! With these two points, any team in the NBA will open the door to him!
But in this case, he is just a role player of the team, at most an important role player, to put it mildly, it is a championship puzzle, but he will definitely not be a superstar who leads a team to win, leads a team to good results, or even wins the championship!
For the current Li Du, the word "superstar" is still too early, but he has this condition, and Li Du hopes to use basketball to attract everyone's attention to himself, so as to spread Chinese culture as much as possible, which is not only the master's wish, but also what Li Du has always wanted to do, so, in Li Du's heart, he must become an NBA superstar, must become a basketball superstar like Kobe, famous all over the world!
So, Li Du chose to change himself!
Of course, his own advantages cannot be given up, and his own shortcomings, Li Du decided to learn how to dribble and break through first, and then learn how to take the initiative to attack in the game!
For basketball, careful attention to the game did not allow Li Du to find the exact direction of his progress in the NBA all at once.
In the next Lakers home game against the Bucks, Li Du continued to show his desperate defense, Bucks star Michael Reed is a very good combination of sudden shots, an average of 26.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists per game, but under Li Du's defense, he only scored 5 points in the whole game, no rebounds, and no assists!
And Li Du didn't deliberately force Reed throughout the game, he just followed his normal defensive principles to stick to Reed. In this game, Li Du set a new record, he defended the opponent's core players almost breathlessly, and he didn't even have a foul!
Through the post-game replay, sharp-eyed fans were surprised to find that several balls, when Michael Reid tried his best to get past Li Du, Li Du turned out to be with his eyes closed!
At first, everyone thought that they were wrong, but after careful comparison, many people finally found out that Li Du was indeed forcing his eyes to prevent Reed!
As soon as the news came out, it caused a sensation in the alliance! Reporters kept asking Li Du how he managed to prevent Michael Reid with his eyes closed?
Li Du didn't want to admit it at first, but the reporters immediately took out the enlarged photos of the video, in these photos, Li Du was closed with his eyes, but his body moved with Michael Reed, no matter how Reed shook, he couldn't get past Li Du!
With photos and video replays to back it up, Li Du had to admit it, and finally had to explain: "Michael Reed is a player who combines breakthrough and shooting perfectly, and I was feeling his movements when attacking, hoping to learn some offensive skills from him." ”
When Reed heard Li Du's remarks, he had no choice but to shake his head and smile bitterly, he knew that Li Du was a very good person off the court, and Li Du didn't give him too much pressure on the field. But every time he shoots and every time he breaks through, it seems to be expected by Li Du, and now Li Du is learning from himself, and Reed can only think that Li Du is touting himself. He really didn't know what he had to learn from Li Du!
Not only Reed, but even reporters and commentators think so, they just think that Li Du is modest, and only the players and coaches within the Lakers know that Li Du is telling the truth!
Since losing to the Jazz, Li Du has been working hard to improve all his knowledge and skills about basketball, and the level of crazy devotion that even a training maniac like Kobe Bryant can look at in his heart! Garcia, the Lakers' trainer, even wanted to force Li Du to stop training!
Only the Zen master looked at Li Du with a smile, did not support or object, but Garcia expressed his worries, afraid that when Li Du was injured due to overtraining, the Zen master stopped Garcia, and then said to him with a smile: "Don't worry, Li Du has a better grasp of his physical condition than us, he knows where his limits are, you just need to remind him, don't go beyond your own limits indiscriminately!" ”
Kobe Bryant asked the Zen master why Li Du suddenly trained so wildly, and when he was crazy about learning, the Zen master said leisurely: "Li's basketball heart has finally awakened!" ”