Before Hood entered the University of Kentucky, his future was bright.

The blonde, blue-eyed white lad is a graduate of North Hopkins High School in Madisonville, Kentucky.

In his senior year, he averaged 29.4 points and 12.1 rebounds per game to earn the Kentucky Mr. Basketball honor.

Calipari recruited Joe Hood in his first summer at the University of Kentucky.

Hood did not hesitate to accept the scholarship offer from the University.

After all, it is every basketball player's dream to play for their hometown team.

What's more, he can play under a coach like Calipari, and the University of Kentucky, where he works, is an NCAA giant.

Unfortunately, after entering Kenda, Hood's game began to stagnate.

His physical development has entered a period of retardation, and his technical and tactical level and confrontation ability have improved very slowly.

In his first season at Kenda, he played an average of more than 2 minutes in 38 games, which was only a little higher than Li Liang.

Li Liang is 0.

In the later stages, he basically evolved into Water Dispenser No. 2, plus a tactical messenger on the field.

In his sophomore year, he played more than 30 minutes in total, which was still only higher than Li Liang.

In the game, Li Liang was responsible for cheering and cheering and watching the game.

Hood is a little stronger than Li Liang, he knows more tactics and can assist Calipari in explaining tactics.

After this kid graduates, there is a good chance that he will go on the path of coaching.

Of course, at this point he hadn't given up playing.

After missing a championship season due to injury, he was back on the pitch.

His persistence in basketball is undoubtedly admirable, and Li Liang has a very good relationship with him.

After all, the people of the head iron are attractive to each other together.

At the beginning of training, Hood stood on the bottom line with the ball and looked at Li Liang.

He found that Li Liang, this kid, seemed to be a little different from the past?

The last time he went to see the president, Hood felt that Li Liang had changed.

This time I changed into a jersey and saw where the change was.

The calves and arms are stronger, and the whole person has grown stronger, and the whole body is tightened up and down.

It's like a loose spring, which suddenly becomes compact and full of power.

It has only been more than a week since Hood resumed training, and when he saw Li Liang like this, he felt a little nervous.

This is not scientific, Li Liang has always been the oil bottle of the whole team in the past.

In defensive training, Li Liang's main role is to make the players find confidence.

How do you feel that you don't have any confidence at all in the face of Li Liang this time?

"Beep!"

Calipari blew the whistle for the start of practice, the first group.

Hood dribbled and ran towards the middle line, Li Liang lowered his center of gravity, kept a certain distance from Hood, and began to defend with others.

Hood wanted to speed up and get rid of Li Liang, but Li Liang followed closely with an acceleration.

From the bottom line to the middle line, with a short distance of more than ten meters, Li Liang's follow-up defense can be called four words: inseparable!

The scale is very good, not far or close, so that Hood feels that he can't get rid of him at all.

On the halfway line, Hood passed the ball back to Alex Perisrees, and Li Liang ran back to the baseline to continue the defense.

Perisreis is a strong black guy, and dribbling is not his forte.

In the process of dribbling, Li Liang added a little confrontation, and Perisry's dribble stumbled a little.

Barely reached the middle line, and then passed back to Hood, Li Liang then returned to the baseline to start the third round.

Round after round, a total of ten rounds, Li Liang's performance was quite good.

The lateral cross-step is smooth, the sideways movement is fast, and the distance is well controlled.

This defensive feeling, those who know the ball can know it at a glance, and it is the material of a defensive giant.

Calipari watched from the sidelines, and said to himself, Bruce Lee, how can this kid improve so quickly?

In the past, Li Liang was restricted by reaction speed, and it was easy to slow down when defending, and this slowness was the rhythm of being clean.

Today, Li Liang's performance on the training ground completely lacks the feeling of being slow in the past.

On the contrary, he can not only keep up with the speed of the ball carrier, but also make some predictions occasionally.

In fact, this is normal, Li Liang's basic defensive ability on the outside has reached 60 points, and lateral movement is also the same, so there is no problem at all in terms of speed and skills.

Yesterday I was reflexed by Fraser's cloak.

Now he always feels like he's wearing a cape when he's defending, and if he doesn't keep up or bumps into an opponent, he's going to be electrocuted.

It seems that this electricity still has an effect.

After ten rounds, Calipari said: "OK, let's strengthen the confrontation, carry out the defense, and ask for physical contact!" ”

It's time to start intensifying.

Li Liang had just finished warming up, and he wiped the beads of sweat from his head, ready to strengthen the confrontation.

Hood immediately felt that something was wrong, and the momentum of Li Liang standing in front of him made him a little uncomfortable.

Defensive strongmen in the NBA will have a strong momentum in one-on-one situations to intimidate and overwhelm opponents.

The typical one is Kevin Garnett, whose wolf-like fierce eyes and superb defensive skills often confuse ball carriers.

Of course, Li Liang can't reach the level of the wolf king, but he already has some charm.

Hood dribbled from the bottom line, he unconsciously slowed down, and the dribbler retracted backwards, for fear of being broken by Li Liang.

In fact, Li Liang hasn't posted it yet.

When Li Liang stepped forward to defend, Hood immediately felt a sense of oppression coming to his face.

This feeling of pressure can only be experienced when you are in the same position as a starter in the team.

No, the Wildcats' starters may not be able to defend so well like Li Liang.

Hood found it difficult to dribble forward, and Li Liang kept exerting confrontations, while moving sideways well to resolve Hood's acceleration one by one.

If it is put in an official game, 8 seconds can not pass the half, and Hood will have a violation.

“Shi-t！” Hood managed to squeeze all the way to the halfway line, and he pouted his ass all the way through.

"Are you alright?" Li Liang saw that Hu De was rude, and realized that he had just become a little stronger.

After all, Hood has just returned from injury, and it is a major injury such as a torn anterior cruciate ligament, so the confrontation should be more leisurely.

"It's okay, I'll continue later." With that, Hood threw the ball to Perisrys, who was waiting on the baseline.

Perisreis got the ball, relied on his strong body, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, and took the ball first and rushed towards Li Liang.

The two bumped into each other with a "bang", and Perisreth wanted to knock Li Liang away, and then accelerate to get rid of it.

It's a pity, no matter how strong you are Perisrys, you can have Artest?

Can you rush past the Jeep of Atay?

You are so naïve, lad! Do you know that you are rushing and rushing?

Li Liang tightened his torso and didn't take the initiative to exert his strength, so he was hit a few times by Perisrith.

The others just fell back a little, and their feet were not moving, how to prevent it.

Perisrith is still too young.

Seeing that he didn't open the space, he wanted to dribble and change hands.

How could Li Liang give him this kind of opportunity, he took it out and took out the ball in his hand.

The ball rolled back to the baseline, and Perisrees had to run back to pick up the ball and start from the beginning.

Periss is also a well-known player in high school, ranking 17th in this year's ESPN Top 100 High School Players.

He has a strong physique and great potential up front.

But apparently he's strong and doesn't have very good dribbling skills, which Calipari sees.

He didn't fancy Peris's ball-handling either, but he couldn't pass Bruce Lee, and he really didn't expect it.

Also, what kind of panacea did Bruce Lee take, could it be that he developed a second time?

Calipari observed for a while and came to the conclusion that Li Liang's defense had indeed reached the level of the NBA.

As for whether it can be used in the real competition, it depends on the afternoon competition.