Chapter 884: Joining the team
Basketball technology in the '80s was still in development.
The boys at Palo Alto High School were born in the '60s and grew up watching Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, and others play.
There is no three-point line, the technical details of the shooting action are not perfect, and the dribbling technique is still at the stage of one-handed dribbling.
For such a group of high school students, even if Li Liang loses all his skills, it is not difficult to deal with them.
Anyway, in this mission, I practiced with Nate Thurmond.
Nate Thurmond is better than these stinky boys, right?
[Mission, defeat the Vikings, mission requirements: Vicis Davidson in one-on-one heads-up, mission reward: be able to join the Palo Alto Vikings.] Difficulty: Rookie. 】
At this time, the system reminded Li Liang that everything in front of him was just a mission.
To be honest, this [Spiritual Ability] mission is really too realistic, and staying here for a long time will make Li Liang feel like he is out of order.
He settled down, handed over his coat to Gan Guohui, warmed up a little on the sidelines, and then went to the court.
Li Liang was in his early two meters tall at this time, and Virgin Davidson was slightly taller than Li Liang, but his height was limited.
Virgin Davidson is not very strong.
In the 80s, the nutritional conditions of the players were not as good as they were later, and the strength training of high school students was not very scientific and standardized.
And after Li Liang took off his shirt, he was bigger than Virgin Davidson.
During this time, while practicing the inside line technique with Thurmond in the system, he was crazy about eating barbecue - the big Nate barbecue restaurant was released to Li Liang to eat, and Li Liang's weight and muscles in the task were slowly rising.
Looking at it this way, Davidson felt that Li Liang didn't seem to be too easy to deal with.
"Three balls, win more than two goals against the opponent to win, you first or I first?" Li Liang clarified the rules.
Three goals are heads-up, the ball is rotated, and you have to score three goals and lead the opponent by two goals to win.
For example, if one side plays to 3:2, then it has to continue to advance, and 4:2 is considered to win.
Davis saw Li Liang's confident appearance, and his heart was already a little drumming.
But if you let it out, of course, you can't take it back, and you pretended to be generous and gave up the opening ball to Li Liang.
Li Liang got the ball, took a deep breath, he slapped the ball a few times, and first had to adapt to his current skills.
The gap between this skill and reality is still quite big, so you need to adapt to it and give yourself an accurate positioning.
Although the ball skills have regressed, the consciousness is still there.
Davidson stood in front of Li Liang, and Li Liang quickly saw that he was not in a standard position in defense, and he was covered in broken bones.
If it is Li Liang in reality, a tentative step, and then one step can pass him.
Not now, Li Liang's level in the mission is not high among high school students.
Li Liang has carefully analyzed that his current advantage is mainly in strength, and the strength of this body is amazing.
I don't know if I ate it from beef.
For inside confrontations, strength is decisive and plays a greater role than height.
Therefore, after Li Liang took the ball, he dribbled sideways, made direct physical contact with Davidson, and then squeezed under the basket from the ribs.
This was a common one-on-one heads-up pattern for players at the time.
Unlike later, the street flavor became heavier and heavier, and the dribbling became more and more fancy.
Davidson immediately felt that this person's strength was so great that he couldn't resist it.
Li Liang hit the top close to the basket in two clicks, then stood on his left foot, moved with his right foot, turned around, and faced the basket sideways, with a simple hook shot.
Although the practice time is not long enough, Li Liang's technical movements are simple and generous, without the slightest dragging mud and water.
Arching your back from near the free throw line to the basket, two footsteps are complete.
The turn wasn't fast, but it was standard, and it jammed Davidson so he couldn't get off the block.
The final hook action is a little stiff, but it's okay to enter, whether he's stiff or not.
scored the first goal, the ball was given to Davidson, and Li Liang defended.
Li Liang's defense is different, he is too experienced, and Davidson is standing in front of him again.
With a dribble, Li Liang went directly to the confrontation and broke Davidson's ball.
The reason why Li Liang dared to confidently defeat this Davidson was because his defensive ability was still there.
Defending the body is one thing, awareness is very important.
If in offense, the body, technique, and consciousness are 4:4:2, then the defense is 3:2:5, and the awareness experience should account for half of the role.
How could Davidson, a member of the varsity team in an ordinary high school, be the opponent of an old fritter like Li Liang.
Then came Davidson's humiliation.
In four rounds, Li Liang beat Davidson 3:0, and the last ball was a one-step pass over Davidson, and the violent dunk of both hands was successful.
Gan Guohui was excited to watch from the sidelines, applauded loudly, and threw Li Liang's coat out.
This task was successfully completed, and the Vikings players did not look good.
I thought this kid with an Asian face was joking, but I didn't expect it to be really powerful.
In the 1980s, there were not many Asians living in the United States, and their status was even less high.
Traditionally, Asians are nerds who only study with glasses, and they have nothing to do with sports.
Even more than 30 years later, this impression has not changed in Europe and the United States, let alone on the black-dominated basketball court in the 1980s.
Li Liang defeated Davidson, which surprised the entire Viking team, and everyone looked at each other and stopped talking.
At this moment, a voice came from the other side of the arena, "Everyone assemble!" What are you doing there! ”
A middle-aged man in a brown suit walked up to the court and swept his fierce gaze at everyone.
Everyone on the basketball team shuddered, and they all moved to continue practicing.
Li Liang knew at a glance that this person must be the head coach of the Vikings.
The middle-aged man is Vikings head coach Bellman, and he watched the scene of Li Liang's easy defeat of Davidson on the court just now.
He walked up to Li Liang and said, "Which school are you from?" ”
Li Liang arrived at school on his first day, just enrolled, and of course Bellman didn't know him.
"I'm from Palo Alto High School, and I just transferred here."
Bellman's eyes lit up and said to Li Liang: "I'll report to the basketball team tomorrow." ”
As soon as he finished saying this, the subtitle "Mission Completed" popped up in front of Li Liang's eyes, and he successfully joined the basketball team.
It was dark all around, and Li Liang came out of the mission.
Through a heads-up, Li Liang was favored by the coach and joined the basketball team.
Li Liang thought to himself, the screenwriter of this task is really a third-rate level, and he has read too many comics.
How can it be so simple to join the team normally, think about how much effort it took him to enter the NBA, and how much money it took to enter Kentucky.
However, this plot really aroused Li Liang's interest, and made him want to continue playing and see what would happen later.
And training in this mission, the improvement in technique feels very solid.
For example, the back body, hook hands, these skills Li Liang's foundation has always been very poor.
For example, the hook value has always been in the single digits, and it is difficult to start the task.
After the foundation training in this task, he found that his foundation was slowly being firmly laid, which may be conducive to his future training of internal skills.
Li Liang thought to himself, do you really want to be a center?
Then the system, you let me grow a little taller, it's too tiring to be a center forward with a height of 2.06 meters.
Stretch my arms a little longer, and my legs a little longer, and that's fine......
Li Liang thought about it and entered the real dreamland.