On October 31, early in the morning of the second day after the game, Li Liang left home and rushed to the team's Los Angeles airport.

After playing the opener, the Lakers will play Game 2 of a back-to-back, and on the road, to challenge the Portland Trail Blazers.

At the Los Angeles airport, there is a VIP lounge dedicated to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Because we won last night, everyone is in a good mood.

If it's usual, their boss, Jerry Buss, will follow the team to the away stadium to watch the game.

But old Bass's health deteriorated, and he could no longer withstand the fatigue of traveling.

Buss Jr. and Jeanne Buss were both with the old man and did not go with the team to watch the game away.

With the wonderful performance in the first game, Li Liang's status in the team has improved visibly.

First of all, when entering the waiting room, the staff will take the initiative to greet him.

Prior to this, Li Liang had a relatively cold attitude towards the trainers and staff regardless of whether he was training or playing preseason games with the team.

But this is also normal, NBA teams have a lot of personnel changes, they have worked on a team for more than ten years, and there are too many players to be sent, and it is normal to be cold to a second-round pick.

As long as you perform well in the arena and have a solid position, people's faces will naturally improve.

Then, veteran players like Nash and Ci Shiping didn't let him carry his bag.

When he went to Las Vegas for the preseason before, Li Liang still had to carry a bag for Ci Shiping.

Now this glorious work is all done by Thackeray.

Of course, Li Liang's bag still has to be carried by himself.

In the end, Li Liang can choose a favorite seat on the plane.

Although the Lakers are famous giants in the league, the Buss family is really poor.

Not only is the training hall in the basement, but taking a plane to the away stadium is also an airport charter flight.

They signed an agreement with the airline to charter United planes for modifications and fly to away games across the United States.

Like some teams whose owners are local tyrants, such as the Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers, they all have their own team planes, so they don't have to wait at the airport at all, they can fly directly on the plane and other take-off instructions, as long as they need to.

On the charter flight, Li Liang chose a relatively forward position and sat next to Nash.

The position in the last row of the plane is always Kobe's, and he likes to stay alone in the back and quietly pretend.

Listen to songs, read newspapers, and live like an old man.

I think that when Sun Yue was in the Lakers, he sat with Kobe Bryant on the plane.

Li Liangcai didn't want to sit with Kobe.

It's fun to play with him, and it's so boring to talk to him.

I don't read much, I don't have much culture, I know how to play, and I can't talk together.

In contrast, he still prefers to sit with players who are a little higher in the cultural bench like Nash and Gasol.

Recently, Li Liang has been doing tasks in terms of organization and passing, so there are a lot of questions I want to ask Nash.

Unlike a stalker-like defense, an offensive playmaker requires more patience and intelligence, as well as a lot of experience.

These are all things that Li Liang lacks.

Of course, he is not in a hurry, and he does not expect to improve his passing and organization to a relatively high score in a short period of time.

The subsequent passing tasks are too challenging for him at the moment.

The so-called passing and control are not separated, his ball control skills are not up to the requirements, and it is too difficult to complete the number of assists in the task game.

Playmaking strikers like John Johnson and Havlicek, who don't need to be on the ball, are the ones he learns from.

On the plane, Li Liang and Nash chatted about organizing the attack.

Nash was also interested in Li Liang's shooting and three-point shooting, and asked him about some of his preferences in shooting.

"Well, my favorite position is the bottom left corner, and the front is also good. I shot from a distance, one or two steps from the three-point line was not a problem. As long as there's no one in front of you. The receiving point... It's on the chest, it can be a little bit lower, I don't aim at it much, it's all up to feeling. Li Liang replied one by one.

That's what Nash is used to as a point guard.

He needs to understand the attacking characteristics of each team-mate, especially the shooter who relies on rhythm.

A comfortable and appropriate pass can greatly improve the shooter's shooting percentage.

When Don Yell Marshall arrived at the Utah Jazz, he shot a career-best 53 percent from the field in both seasons because of Stockton's feeding.

In terms of passing assists, Nash is no worse than Stockton.

Through his usual training, preseason, and the first game, he has seen that Li Liang is a high-quality pitcher.

He has all the qualities that a shooter possesses.

One of the most important and deadly of these.

It's that he is unusually calm, and his hands are unexpectedly hard.

Being able to hit a key three-pointer in the first game of his career is not something anyone can do.

If Li Liang knew that Nash thought so, he would definitely laugh and tell Nash that it was not the first time!

I'm experienced in the NBA, don't want to.

Maybe I'll meet you at the top of the system mission in the future, and I'll definitely say hello to you when the time comes.

The plane arrived in Portland three hours later, and the Lakers took a bus to their hotel.

The game will be played at half past seven p.m. Pacific Time.

Therefore, the Lakers did not have a chance to practice at all, and after arriving at the hotel, they repaired on the spot and prepared for the night's game.

The team played away, and there were more than 40 players, coaches, and staff.

Each person has a room, and the players' rooms are specially modified.

Needless to say, the beds are all super large, the bathrooms are larger and wider, the doors are higher, and there are fitness equipment on the floor.

The facilities of the Portland Hotel are still very good, and Li Liang slept on the soft bed for a while.

He entered the system and checked his runes.

In August and September, while he was promoted through the ability system, he also completed several small tasks released by the achievement system.

At the moment, he has opened 5 rune slots and has 9 runes.

Among them, there is one blue LV2 Offense-Feel Rune, four Blue LV1 Attack-Feel Runes, one Red LV1 Defense-Prediction Rune, one Red LV1 Defense-Focus Rune, one Yellow LV1 Energy Stamina-Rune, and one Yellow LV1 Energy-Energy Rune.

In addition to this, there are two rune fragments, and one more will upgrade one rune again.

Before the start of the game, Li Liang thought about it, and the five rune slots were loaded with three attack-feel runes.

In this way, the feel can be increased by 2%, which may not seem like much, but it is better than nothing.

If this can improve the shooting percentage by 2%, then maybe you can score an extra goal in a game.

Just invest more.

With the remaining two slots, Li Liang was equipped with yellow energy-stamina and energy-energy runes.

To be honest, Li Liang didn't know what the essential difference between physical fitness and energy was.

The Stamina Rune says it increases stamina while helping to improve feel and defensive intensity.

The energy rune affects defensive prediction and concentration, and it is all positive anyway, so there is no harm in pretending.

Li Liang felt that the journey was tiring and back-to-back, so he had to take a little refreshment.

A few hours later, the Lakers were on the road, at Portland's famous Rose Garden Stadium.

Along the way, Bryant's face was grim.

When he entered the dressing room through the players' tunnel, he kept a cold face.

Because the Rose Garden is really not Kobe's blessed land.

He entered the league in 1996 and played 28 games in Rose Garden for more than a decade.

They won only five of them, losing the other 23.

This red field of thorny roses really didn't like Kobe Bryant.

Compared to Li Liang, of course, he didn't feel anything, he didn't wear the coat designed for him by Bai Xiaoting today, and only wore an ordinary Lakers tracksuit.

Even so, the reporter still favored this young man who made his debut amazingly.

There was a local Portland photographer with a newspaper in his hand and followed Li Liang and said, "Bruce, Bruce Lee, please wait a minute, please take a look, take a look." ”

Li Liang stopped and looked at the newspaper in his hand, which was the Los Angeles Times.

It was found out that it was yesterday at the Staples Center, after the game, and he asked Kevin Ding to shoot him.

He was wearing clothes designed by Bai Xiaoting, and he looked very cool.

Li Liang was quite satisfied with his image.

The reporter said: "Hello, I'm Nike photographer Ned, I want to ask, what brand of shoes are you wearing?" ”

It turned out that this was a photographer from Nike, because many players in the NBA wear Nike shoes, so Nike will have a photographer to take pictures of the stadium as a promotional photo of the sneakers.

Moreover, Portland is also home to Nike's headquarters, so it's normal to have a photographer.

This question stumped Li Liang, he scratched his head and said, "Well... It's a shoe designed by a friend of mine himself, no brand. ”

"Oh, really?" The photographer was a little surprised.

Li Liangdao: "Of course it's true, my clothes are also designed by her, her name is Skylar White, and she does fashion design in Los Angeles. Well, she's amazing. ”

After speaking, Li Liang entered the locker room.

He thought to himself, did these shoes really look that good in shoes that looked like they had stepped on?

Why don't you feel it at all?