Chapter Eighty-Six: Learning from Jordan

After the last game with the Indiana Pacers, Coach Harris found Liu Han for some communication, and he hoped that Liu Han would not be dissatisfied with the team because of the reduction in playing time in the future, because the team will trade Van Exel at the end of this season, so the team will arrange Van Exel to play more in the next game, in order to strive for a more valuable player in the future, which is bound to reduce Liu Han's playing time. However, Coach Harris has put forward some new requirements for Liu Han.

"Liu, your performance has excited all of us, you are very good, there is a possibility that your playing time will be reduced in the next games, I hope you don't get me wrong. The team will definitely trade Van Exel in the next game, so I have to arrange for him to play more to get a higher trade value in the future. Harris did not say anything about Liu Han, but directly told Liu Han about himself and the team's purpose.

"Well, yes, I wouldn't have a problem with the team's approach, but I want to try not to play with Nick, he won't pass the ball to me, and I don't feel comfortable without the ball in my hand." Liu Han did not refuse the team's arrangement, and Van Exel's departure is good for Liu Han, at least there will be one less person to grab the ball with him.

"Liu, you haven't thought about playing the point guard position? Even though you've been playing point guard and you've done a great job, have you ever felt like it's going to be a little harder to face the opposition's pick-and-roll or strong defense when you're in the point guard position, and the team's offensive tempo is much slower? "Liu Han's current status can be said to be the highest in the team except for O'Neal, even Coach Harris must consider Liu Han's mood and state, Liu Han brings attention and exposure to the team is unmatched by Harris, if Liu Han and Harris have a conflict, it must be Harris who leaves.

"You have a point, but if I don't have the ball I have fewer chances, and the team doesn't have a proper point guard other than me and Nick right now." Liu Han is now very concerned about his chances, and he now knows very well that in the NBA, it is the players who have the strength and attention to decide everything for themselves.

"Liu, I don't mean to let you play shooting guard now, the team has now locked up the Western Conference playoff spot, so I want you to gradually get used to this position, think about it, Jordan is not a point guard, but he can get the scoring title for many seasons, your height and physical condition can cause more threat and damage to the opponent in the position of scoring guard, and after trading the Knicks, you can exchange for a guard who is willing to pass the ball to you, So if you have a bag again, the team's offense will be organized, you just have to complete the scoring task, just like Jordan did with the Bulls, attract the defense, teammates get open spots, meet the single defense, you can solve the battle yourself. At the beginning, Harris thought that Liu Han was just a player that the owner paid attention to, so he paid more attention to Liu Han, but after getting along with Liu Han for so long, he discovered Liu Han's talent, which is a young man who is worthy of any team in exchange for any value, so Harris is now very optimistic about Liu Han, and he hopes that the team can make a breakthrough in the playoffs this year.

Harris's words made Liu Han fall into deep thought, he had not thought about such a question before, so Coach Harris's words made him start to think about whether his way of playing was really flawed.

After a day of rest, the Lakers came to Dallas to challenge the Mavericks away, Liu Han's streak of 40+ in a single game was interrupted, he only played 22 minutes in this game, but still scored 23 points and 6 assists, and the Lakers also defeated the Mavericks to continue to rank second in the West.

After the game, some media questioned Liu Han's reduced playing time, but Coach Harris prevaricated to prevent Liu Han from being injured unnecessarily.

After the game, some reporters interviewed Liu Han whether he was a little dissatisfied with the team's reduction of his playing time, but Liu Han's answer was not leaky, he said that he was not very suitable for the tight rhythm of the NBA, and he felt very tired for seven consecutive 40+ games.

After returning to Los Angeles, Liu Han found a lot of Jordan's game videos and watched them carefully, the Lakers lost their strength in the two games with the Bulls before the All-Star break, Liu Han felt that he was very good when he defended Jordan in the first game, he felt that Jordan seemed to be able to see through his defensive movements, and would always find the weak position of his defense and seize the opportunity to score or pass.

When watching Jordan's game video, Liu Han was impressed by Jordan's amazing ball skills, although the opponent was much weaker than Liu Han in three-point ability, but Jordan's gorgeous offensive skills, domineering dunks and unrelenting momentum at critical moments made Liu Han have an impulse to imitate.

"My dear, why do you keep watching this guy's videotapes, although his skills are very good, he is very bad, he is just a big gambler and a scumbag." When Liu Han watched Jordan's video at home, Safina said to Liu Han.

"Oh, I don't learn from him, I'll learn his skills, don't you think his skills are really good? It's like this step-back jumper, it's just beautiful. Liu Han has been deeply fascinated by Jordan's basketball skills, although he has seen a lot of Jordan's game videos before, but at that time he was still more confident in his three-point shooting.

"Honey, his moves are not so easy to learn, you look at so many players in the league, why don't there be a single player who can learn his moves."

"Haha, it's okay, you know I'm a fast learner." Liu Han is confident in learning Jordan's skills, and he feels that he can learn the skills of the other party.

"Yes, you do learn very quickly, including certain exercises that require you to do things in bed...... "Western women tend to be very direct in some ways, and they enjoy the intimate time with their lovers.

In the following period, the Lakers players found Liu Han in training for a new workout, and he always practiced some movements alone in the corner of the training hall, which seemed very uncoordinated at first, just like Liu Han did when he first started dribbling drills.

Liu Han's behavior made some players think that Liu Han was dissatisfied with the team's reduction in his playing time, and it looked as if the team was going to give up on Liu Han. Kobe Bryant thinks so, so he's starting to increase his training time as well, hoping to prove in the game that he's better than the pesky guy.

Liu Han slowly adjusted his movements during training, and while he mentally replayed Jordan's movements when he watched the video, he began to imitate these movements himself. At first, he felt very difficult, because many of Jordan's movements and skills are based on his strong physical condition, Liu Han's physical condition is not as good as Jordan's, for example, it seems that the simplest step-back jumper, in fact, all players can do this action, but it is almost impossible to reach the level of Jordan in terms of backward amplitude and airtime, and players whose physical conditions can reach Jordan's level will not have his excellent hand.

Now Liu Han's hand is good enough, but he lacks the most important basic conditions, so Liu Han's training has come to a standstill, he can learn Jordan's movements and skills in a short time, but when he makes it, he can never reach the opponent's level.

Liu Han did not give up, he has been insisting on this kind of training, every action has been repeated training again and again, the training time began to gradually increase, the intensity of training has also increased, the rest of the Lakers players have begun to worry about Liu Han, they are afraid of Liu Han's almost masochistic training defense, not every player can accept the training time from 5 am to 8 pm.

Safina is also a little worried about Liu Han, on the one hand, she is worried that Liu Han's body will be harmed, and on the other hand, she is worried that Liu Han will not be able to learn those movements and skills at all, which will cause Liu Han's psychological blow.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Liu Han actually persevered, except for the game days, Liu Han trained like this every day, and probably no one thought that Liu Han's body gradually began to change under such ultra-high-intensity training.

Although Shi Lei and Li Rui knew that Liu Han had the ability to learn motor skills quickly, they did not conduct further tests on Liu Han's body, and the current testing methods probably did not completely discover the secrets contained in Liu Han's body. In the past, Liu Han's body was not fully developed due to the limitations of living conditions, but now after living in the United States for three years, Liu Han's body has absorbed enough nutrients, and his muscles can develop indefinitely like a sponge without the upper limit of water absorption. Otherwise, Liu Han's body would not have developed to the extent that he was discovered by Zhou Yibin under the living conditions like when he was a child.

Of course, Liu Han himself didn't know the secrets of his body, he just didn't want to give up easily, but he didn't expect that under such intense training, Liu Han actually persevered, and the only change was that his appetite began to soar, and Liu Han, who had the support of economic conditions, began to consume a lot of food every day, and these foods underwent some unexplained changes after entering Liu Han's body, Liu Han's muscles and various organs of the body began to develop again, and this development was carried out towards the goal of Liu Han's training.