Chapter 136: Shoes, Socks, and Shoelaces

A thrilling victory, and Dwight Howard on the inside played comfortably.

He finished with 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting, 7-of-13 from the free-throw line, 14 rebounds, two blocks and three assists.

After the game, he was named the best player of the game, and he was interviewed by reporters on the sidelines, and he was so happy to smile.

Warcraft is an emotional player, as long as the offensive end is open, the defensive end will do his best to defend and grab rebounds.

It's really the same as a child, and I have to coax to play, and I'm 28 years old.

In comparison, Li Liang is much more mature, and he has paid too much for this team, and he has worked hard.

I'll do the dirty work, and you'll do the data and performances.

Although passing is addictive, Li Liang can't help it, who makes our tactical position not enough, and our ability is not very strong.

When our ability goes up and the status of the team improves, it's not like throwing it as much as we want.

Back in the locker room, Li Liang was interviewed by reporters after changing his clothes.

Now he is no longer the "untouchable" of the Los Angeles media, but a real sweetheart.

Li Liang began to get used to facing a lot of thick and black microphones after each game, saying something insincere.

After responding to the reporter's questions, Li Liang took a shower and cleaned up and left the Stamp Center.

In the players' tunnel, it was rare for fans to gather together and ask Li Liang for an autograph.

Li Liang is absolutely friendly to the fans, and fulfills their wishes one by one, several of whom are local Chinese fans and children.

When he arrived at the parking lot, Li Liang thought that Zhu Shu should call a taxi and wait for him.

After thinking about it, no, Zhu Shu went on a business trip today and left at noon.

The first day of Zhu Shu's absence.

Think... Think about what to eat at night?

Li Liang took a taxi home first, and he considered buying himself a car.

After arriving home, he was hungry, and Wei Dazhi was not at home, and he was not at home!

Since the last time he went to that party, this kid's heart has become wild, and he often doesn't come home at night.

The next day, when asked where he had been, he said that he was going to a social event and that he was going to make a career in Los Angeles.

I really don't know how a dead fat man like him, who is bigger than his biceps, broke out in Los Angeles.

Li Liang rummaged through the refrigerator, which contained dishes left by Zhu Shu, steaks, pizzas, pork belly, ice cream, and baked egg tarts, which were rich in variety and quantity.

Li Liang looked at it and thought, so little, it's enough to eat two meals.

Zhu Shu said that it would take more than two weeks to go out, and when he came back, Li Liang went to play away.

What to do, he will do it himself, but it's troublesome.

No woman really ...... No, there is another woman, isn't Bai Xiaoting there.

Li Liang walked to the door of Bai Xiaoting's room and knocked lightly.

After two minutes, the door opened, and Bai Xiaoting put a mask on her face, which startled Li Liang!

Bai Xiaoting glared at Li Liang and said, "What are you doing?" β€œ

Li Liang said: "I... I ask you if you eat a late-night snack? ”

"If I don't eat, I'm going to lose weight."

"What? Do you want to reduce? You're so rich, you still have to lose weight? ”

"What does weight loss have to do with being rich, where do I have money, I live with you if I have money."

"You bring your own airfield, and you don't have the money yet."

Bai Xiaoting was about to close the door, but Li Liang blocked it and said, "Hey, can you do some housework at home?" Make something for me to eat, and don't draw inside with the door closed every day. What are you drawing? You can't draw a book, do you? ”

"Fuck off! There's a fashion show tomorrow, I'm going to make a few proofs, don't mess with me. Bai Xiaoting is now addicted to work and is too lazy to quarrel with Li Liang.

Li Liang said: "Hey, wait, do you want to show it to me and give you some reference?" You help me with hot stuff to eat, I'm too lazy to get it. ”

This proposal is a bit tempting, Li Liang's vision is indeed very unique, and Bai Xiaoting can gain something every time he puts forward his opinions.

"Okay, then you can take a look at my design samples and choose five of them, and the theme is 'industry, metal, winter'."

"Good, good." Li Liang said yes, thinking in his heart that this Nima is breaking the theme, these people who are engaged in fashion art are many moths.

Li Liang put on the cloak of [Rogue Frazier] and began to review Bai Xiaoting's manuscript.

As soon as he put on the cloak, Li Liang entered the role of a poisonous critic and began to give opinions little by little.

Bai Xiaoting gave Li Liang hot dishes in the kitchen, and while listening, she felt that it made sense.

As the so-called bystander is clear, if there is a high-level connoisseur on the side, many questions will be opened.

Carrying it, Li Liang felt that something was wrong, why did it smell burnt?

"Hey, hey, hey! Don't listen to me, you've fried the steak! ”

Bai Xiaoting listened too carefully, but she didn't pay attention to turning the steak over and was confused.

Li Liang looked at the black steak, sighed, and said in his heart that Bai Xiaoting should not be allowed to do this kind of work.

Bai Xiaoting didn't care, and said, "I'm not suitable for cooking, you better wait for Zhu Shu to come back and cook it for you." ”

"Forget it, I'll do it myself, ......it's unreliable" Li Liang returned the album to Bai Xiaoting, and put on an apron to make a supper to replenish his energy.

"Oh, there's something, Nike called at noon today and mentioned the sneakers." Bai Xiaoting said.

"Huh? Nike? Calling you? Why didn't you look for Zhu Shu? "Li Liang is a little strange, business cooperation is all about finding an agent.

Besides, how could Nike have Bai Xiaoting's phone.

Bai Xiaoting said: "It's not that you leaked my information, did you say that I designed those shoes?" ”

Li Liang remembered that in the second game of the regular season in Portland's Rose Garden, a Nike photographer approached him and asked him where the shoes on his feet came from and what brand they were.

Li Liang told him that it was designed by Skyler White, which was Bai Xiaoting's English name, and he just said it casually.

Unexpectedly, Nike really found Bai Xiaoting through various means and relationships, and learned that she was indeed a designer in Los Angeles, so he asked about the pattern design cooperation of sneakers.

"Pattern design collaboration? What is this? Is Nike going to buy my shoes? Li Liang asked.

"No, you know that sneaker designs are also patented, and Nike is interested in the design of the shoes on your feet and wants to buy its patents."

Li Liang thought about it, the so-called Y series sneakers on his feet have a very unique design, and they have never been seen on the market.

And I don't know what material, anyway, the quality is pretty good, I don't know what black technology is used.

But Li Liang himself can't tell where these shoes came from, so he can't say that he picked them up in the toilet, right?

There are indeed handmade shoes, but if you pick up these shoes and look closely, you will know that you will never be able to make such shoes by hand.

Uppers, soles, soles, must be industrially processed, at most hand-spliced.

It is impossible to make it by hand, and it is not an old Beijing cloth shoe.

Now there will indeed be some sneaker manufacturers that accept customization from customers, including Nike itself.

But Li Liang doesn't have anything here, no blueprints.

Li Liang scratched his ears and cheeks and thought for a while, and said, "Otherwise, the design of this shoe will belong to your name, and you will cooperate with Nike?" ”

Bai Xiaoting glanced at Li Liang with disdain and said, "Who wants your broken design, I don't want to steal the fruits of other people's labor." I'm not interested in how you got these shoes, but I can remind you that you can make a profit by going to the patent office and applying for a patent and selling it to Nike. And, I guess you'd like to have your own sneakers, right? ”

Li Liang thinks this is certain, and when he becomes a superstar in the future, he must not only have his own exclusive sneakers, but also have his own exclusive brand!

So, Li Liang asked Bai Xiaoting to go to the patent office to apply for a patent for his sneaker design, and then go to Nike to negotiate and sell the design of the shoe first.

There is also a lottery in the evening, maybe you will get another pair of shoes?

In the end, Li Liang still did it himself, and ate a big meal to replenish his energy.

Entering the system at night, the lucky wheel really shines again.

Li Liang approached the big turntable, muttered in his mouth, "Heaven and earth, the queen mother will appear soon," and then turned the big turntable.

The big turntable squeaks and squeaks, and here... Wrong, the turntable stopped, and today's prize appeared:

[Congratulations, you won a pair of basketball socks in the raffle, please pick them up in the drawer of your bedside table.] 】

What? Socks! Last time, I had a pair of shoes and pills, but this time it's socks?

Li Liang got up, opened the drawer of the bedside table, saw a pair of white basketball socks lying inside, picked it up and took a look:

[A pair of socks, suitable for professional basketball players, function: can reduce the chance of ankle injury. Description: May stink. 】

Li Liang saw that the thing was a good thing, and it turned out that this pair of socks actually had the function of reducing the risk of ankle injury.

Injuries are inevitable for any NBA player, and the longer you play and the older you get, the more likely you are to get injured.

Even if he is a famous ironman player in the NBA, it is only that there are no major injuries, and minor injuries will not break.

Kobe Bryant is iron enough, his shooting iron body is even more iron, he has played more than 1,000 regular season games and more than 200 playoff games in his career for more than ten years, and he is already very durable compared with players like Maddy, Hardaway, and Yao Ming.

Even so, he has not broken since his rookie season, with a hip flexor strain, a severe ankle sprain, a fractured bone in his left leg, elbow bursitis, a hip injury, a dislocated right shoulder, a torn ligament in the little finger, fluid in the knee, and a torn deltoid muscle in the right wrist......

Basically, he has encountered more or less injuries that a backcourt player can encounter, which is still relatively serious, and there are countless daily minor problems.

A water cooler like Li Liang has also suffered a lot of injuries in the four years he has been on the University of Kentucky basketball team.

What hip muscle strain, finger bone crack, ligament contusion, ankle redness and swelling, etc., is all too common.

If this pair of socks is really as useful as the system says, then he must wear it in training and competitions in the future.

As an ankle finisher, in a very competitive sports league, where black hands and black feet are everywhere, it's really important to have something to protect you secretly.

As for the stinky? It doesn't matter, just prevent a little side effect from the injury.

Anyway, people don't think their feet smell, and they stink others in the locker room...... It's okay, everyone will be tolerant of me.

Thinking so, Li Liang put away the socks and made a mark for them in the future.

I just don't know if it will wear out after wearing it for a long time? What should I do if I wear it out?

Let's talk about it later, Li Liang still wants to do a task at night.

After the start of the new season, Li Liang's frequency of doing tasks slowed down.

After all, I usually don't have enough energy, and the consumption of the body is very large for competition and training.

If you still enter the system at night to do competition-type tasks, I am afraid that you will have to sleep for a day the next day, and you will not be able to play the game.

Therefore, in addition to the "Blue LinkedIn Heroes" game task, Li Liang mainly found some class-type tasks to do.

Li Liang thought about it tonight and decided to improve the quality of his blocking and dismantling cover.

With the improvement of Li Liang's tactical position in the team, not only the defense must contribute, but the offense must also be responsible for grooming.

The Lakers' million-dollar dollar is really worth it, and there is no better contract than this.

When passing the ball at the top of the arc and at a 45-degree angle, Li Liang found that one of his problems was that there were too few backhands to block and cover.

In the past, when he was training at the University of Kentucky, Calipari trained Li Liang as a forward sparring partner.

There are very few things like blocking and pick-and-rolling, and high-post passing, and no system has been improved.

After taking Johnson's passing lesson, Li Liang has a certain foundation, and the basic passing is quite qualified and can deal with it.

The quality of his cover is also very good, because the core strength is stable, the arms are solid, and he can block every time.

It's just that after blocking and dismantling, covering, there is only one trick of cutting outside.

Li Liang knows that if you only have one or two tricks, after a long time, as the season deepens, the opponent will study you thoroughly.

Once you study it thoroughly and make targeted arrangements when defending, you will be miserable.

Therefore, taking precautions, Li Liang decided to improve the [Blocking, Demolition and Cover] ability in the [Tactical Literacy] dimension.

Entering the system, I took a look at the six-dimensional panel, and the ability value of [Blocking and Dismantling Cover] was 45, which was so-so, barely enough.

Click on the task:

[Mission: Coach John Wooden's training course, mission content: Complete 10 class hours of blocking and covering tactical training sessions, task reward: blocking and covering tactical awareness and ability +20, and get a special item.] Difficulty: Normal】

The length of this lesson is 10 lessons, which is okay.

Li Liang thought about it and estimated that it would take two weeks to complete, and it was December at that time.

From December, the Lakers will end the sweet schedule at the beginning of the season and start a continuous road trip, raising the blocking and dismantling cover, and the away game is not easy to play.

Looking at the course content again, it is Mr. John Wooden, the legendary coach with the most championships in UCLA history and the pioneer of basketball tactics, Li Liang still knows something.

Mr. Wooden, like Li Liang, is elegant and easy-going, not Bob Nat's kind of squirting people.

This kind of Li Liang likes, although the hair dryer is very useful, but he only likes to blow others, and he doesn't like to be blown.

The surroundings slowly brightened, and when he came to an old arena, Li Liang had changed into a powder blue UCLA jersey.

"Bruce Lee, tie your shoelaces."

A coach in a light brown suit walked over and said to Li Liang.

He was John Wooden, with a face, glasses, and hair neatly combed.

Li Liang looked down at his feet, wearing a pair of Converse sneakers, and the laces were not scattered.

John Wooden added: "Tie your shoelaces, it's not right for you to tie them like this, untie them, re-tie them, be firm, but not too tight." Wear your socks too, I don't want blisters on your feet. ”

Wooden conducted a detailed examination of Li Liang's makeup before training and asked to be meticulous.

It's UCLA in 1966, and the Bruins have just welcomed their super-newcomer, the man who beats everything with a sky hook - Lou Alcindor.

Years later, he changed his name to Kareem Abdullah Jabbar.

Li Liang saw Abdul-Jabbar in college, a freshman in college, who could not participate in official competitions because of NCAA policies, and could only show his talent in training.

This is not the first time Li Liang has met Abdul-Jabbar in a mission, there was a backcourt rebounding task before, [Brave as a Truck], which was to compete for rebounds with Abdul-Jabbar in 1977.

However, that game was not as difficult as Li Liang imagined, because Abdul-Jabbar is not a center who likes to physically fight for rebounds in the backcourt, and he even hates muscle collisions under the basket.

Li Liang also doesn't have to worry about the Lakers' interior bodyguard Hankormit Washington, because that mission game was on December 13, 1977.

Four days ago, on December 9, Washington punched Rudy Tomjanovic out of his brain and was suspended.

Therefore, Li Liang successfully completed that task and picked up 20 rebounds on Abdul-Jabbar's head.

In 1977, Abdul-Jabbar had begun to lose his hair a little, and in 1966, he was in the prime of his life, and his head was full of hair.

Li Liang stepped forward to say hello to Jabbar, who glanced at Li Liang and responded to it.

This giant has always been so eccentric and cold.

John Wooden blew his whistle and started this training session.