Seeing that Jessica seemed to be about to fall asleep, I carried her to the bed first, so that she could rest first, and I myself watched the game video until one o'clock in the morning, I still didn't feel too sleepy at this time, but I knew that I couldn't continue to stay up late, which would have a very huge damage to my body.

After nearly two hours of video viewing and analysis, I feel that I have gained a lot, and this kind of harvest may not be reflected in one or two games, but I believe that in the long run, it will definitely be able to make my strength get a big improvement.

All I need now is a good night's sleep, so that all the learning and thinking about basketball tonight will naturally integrate into my brain, and I also want a dreamless night, even if I have dreams, it must be the kind of dream that is just me and Jessica.

I took a cold shower before going to bed, and I was even a little excited when I watched the game footage, and I really felt the urge to rush out to play the game as soon as I got the basketball.

As the cold water droplets slid down my head, the huge icy stimulation kept my mind highly awake, in this case a second seemed to become as long as a minute, in just a few minutes, I completely relived the video of the game I watched tonight in my mind, those key technical movements were like martial arts moves in martial arts, scene by scene appeared in my mind, and then deeply imprinted into the subconscious.

I didn't sleep all night, although I fell asleep with Jessica, but I didn't seem to have any dreams with Jessica, not even other dreams, this feeling of sleeping until dawn is what I like very much, because it means that my body has the fullest rest and recovery, then I will definitely have a pretty good performance in today's training and competition.

Thinking about my last game at North Shore Garden, home of the Boston Celtics, I can't help but feel a little guilty about whether my three-point shooting percentage can be recovered by me today.

Of course I have a whole day to train and I'm going to do it, but I'm definitely going to need to cut down the time slots for this long time.

Breaking it apart from the whole day doesn't seem like a long day, and considering that there are so many training programs to do, I don't even think the whole day is a bit too long.

I don't have to think about whether my physical fitness is sufficient, in fact, Kobe's body has been undergoing high-intensity training for a long time, and I am very young, and I pay a lot of attention to nutrition and rest and body stretching and relaxation.

Of course, I'm not really crazy enough to train for more than ten hours straight, and even if I did, I wouldn't do that, in fact, my training is often based on hours, and every hour or so of training, I will give myself a break for five to ten minutes, and I will also take time to watch past game videos, which are both Lakers and other teams, both team and personal, as well as some documentaries of past NBA stars.

For example, the personal documentaries of legendary stars such as Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Dr. J.O.Irving, and Michael Jordan caught my eye.

On the other hand, I also specifically asked the Lakers nutritionist and physical trainer to find me some professional and amateur books on nutrition and fitness, once you develop the habit of reading and learning, then it is difficult to quit, just like when you develop the habit of regular training, it is also very difficult to quit, you will feel uncomfortable if you don't train for a day, just like those who have a smoking addiction go to the whole body to feel uncomfortable if you don't smoke for a day.

When your desire to win the game slowly evolves into cherishing every second of your training time, you will find that you will really become more and more powerful and perfect under your own super high demand.

When I left Jessica's house, she hadn't woken up yet, in fact I woke up at seven o'clock in the morning, but the quality of five and a half hours of sleep was enough to recharge me, and too much sleep would only have a negative effect on my body, as I realized early on.

I am quite sensitive to my own physical state, what kind of state it is in my heart is quite numerous, this may also be some kind of talent, but through acquired practice can also be improved to a certain extent, just like our brain or muscles are more and more developed, this kind of feeling and control of our own body can also be strengthened through continuous succession.

Entering the Pistons' home arena with almost no people, the court was still dark, and the staff turned on the lights in the stadium for me, and I was very grateful to the staff, hoping that he wouldn't think I was wasting electricity.

At the beginning, the training started with body stretching, because my own body flexibility was already better, so when I did body stretching, I would gradually increase the difficulty of stretching, in addition to maintaining the previous flexibility of the body, I also tried to improve the reaction speed of some muscles and nerves through stretching.

Of course, it remains to be seen whether this method is effective, but after all, it is difficult to really quantify it, so even if it doesn't work, I think it's psychological comfort.

There are many ways to train body flexibility, among which practicing yoga is definitely a great choice, in this era of NBA, there are actually many people who are improving their body flexibility through practicing yoga, of course, it has not completely become the mainstream, after all, if you want to achieve the flexibility of easily completing yoga movements, it is difficult to do so, so it is often those players who are more flexible to consider further improving their flexibility by practicing yoga.

The flexibility of the body is very important, in addition to allowing you to make some incredible movements in the air, it can also greatly reduce the possibility of you being injured during the game, of course, if you are very flexible and injured, then it is often a relatively large injury, so I will sometimes be careful not to let myself try too much to get close to the limit of my body's endurance of the action, so even if you have very good flexibility, it may lead to very serious physical injury.

It's like if you have a rubber band with excellent flexibility, if you try to pull it, it can indeed be pulled much longer than the average rubber band, but once it exceeds its bearing limit, then the rubber band will still break, and the force generated when it breaks will be greater.

The body of an athlete is the same, although the physical fitness of athletes will be better than that of ordinary people, but there is also a limit, once the exercise intensity exceeds the limit of the body, then the difficulty of recovery after injury is actually greater than that of ordinary people, so many very good athletes will be plagued by injuries, because the physical pressure experienced by professional athletes is too huge, and the long-term accumulation of fatigue makes their bodies extremely fragile. Sometimes it's a small situation that can lead to a big injury, the so-called straw that breaks the camel's back.

Of course, regular training can effectively reduce the probability of injury, but it is impossible to completely eliminate the occurrence of injury, especially in sports such as basketball and football, which are extremely physically confrontational, and there will always be too many unexpected situations when playing on the court.

After the stretching exercise, I began to do a jogging that lasted for dozens of minutes, which is actually a very important part, first of all, jogging can exercise cardiopulmonary function, in the competition your endurance determines how long you can continue to do high-intensity exercise, and these endurance is not improved by anaerobic exercise, more often rely on aerobic exercise to cultivate.

On the other hand, running can exercise most of the muscles of the whole body, can make your body's muscles get a balanced movement, if you only train a part of the muscles in the body, then there may be an imbalance in the strength of the local muscles, which will lead to some unbalanced body force during exercise, which will not only easily lead to the deformation of your technical movements, but also cause injury and illness due to the unbalanced force of the body muscles.

Therefore, when I train the strength of the body muscles, I will try to involve most of the muscles in the whole body as much as possible and develop in a balanced manner.

Basketball is a sport that requires a lot of comprehensive physical fitness, you don't need to run the fastest, jump the highest, have the best physical strength, and have the best flexibility, you only need to maintain these physical functions at a relatively balanced high point, without any physical fitness, you may be limited and targeted by the opponent in the game.

Of course, there are some positions where players will pay special attention to strengthening certain physical qualities, such as outside players will need more speed and acceleration ability, as well as physical reaction speed, while interior players will need better strength and weight, as well as some explosiveness.

The physical qualities required by the strikers are relatively balanced, of course, each person's specific physical talent is different, and sometimes it is very important to be able to maximize their strengths on the basis of balanced development.

I jogged around the basketball court, five laps in a round, and after five laps, I would rest for about a minute, then do the second round of jogging, and then after about five rounds, I would rest for another 10 minutes for the next workout, the sprint.

My sprint run is from one end of the basketball court to the other as fast as I can, and then back as fast as I can, which is a round, and I run five rounds in a row, then I rest for five minutes, and then run five rounds in a row, and so on about three times until I have completely used up the energy in my body.

At this time, I will do some stretching exercises and try to maintain my breathing rhythm so that the strength of my whole body gradually calms down.

I'll take a break for about an hour after the sprint workout, and during that time I'll go into the Lakers' strategy room, where I'll watch some game tapes, and of course I'll pick some of the more important games, not necessarily the most recent games our Lakers have played, and there may be some game footage in history.

In my opinion, in fact, the NBA of this era and some ancient eras in the past are inferior to the later NBA in terms of tactical arrangement and game rhythm, but to be honest, these earlier games will be a little special, although their tactics and game arrangements are not directly used for reference to a certain extent, because in fact, the tactics they used at that time were relatively simple, and with the invention of the three-point line, the NBA's game tactics have become more and more diverse.

Of course, I don't necessarily have to learn anything from these games, in fact, it's good to just treat them as more interesting videos, many games in that era were still very intense, and those bloody confrontations could still be seen in the NBA in the 90s, but as time went by, the NBA became more and more harmonious, and it was rare to see those very bloody scenes anymore.

I actually can't say whether this is good or bad for the NBA, after all, as time goes by, the rules of the game must be more and more perfect, the team's tactics must be more and more complex, and the players' tactical execution and understanding will definitely gradually improve, but when some become too regular, the NBA is more and more lacking in a kind of wildness that only ancient times will have, that is closer to pure basketball or pure sports.

What is the fundamental spirit of competitive sports, of course, is competition and hard work, of course, there is fairness, the reason why competitive sports has endless charm is that it can release the primitive wildness of our human beings, so that our hormones can be released in a controllable way, so that we can re-feel the evolutionary history of our human running, jumping, confrontation with other people such a process, this memory is imprinted in the genes of all human beings, so the charm of competitive sports will be so lasting and powerful, It's hard for anyone to resist the temptation it brings.

In my previous life, I used to think about what true sportsmanship is, whether it is the result of winning and defeating the opponent, or the process of constantly surpassing oneself in order to defeat the opponent, or whether both are equally important.

I think that in fact, the true meaning of sportsmanship is ultimately based on the process of constantly improving oneself in order to defeat the opponent, because the most difficult opponent in the world is not others, but ourselves, sportsmanship is a process of constantly challenging the limits of oneself, the reason why we build some strong opponents for ourselves, just to better stimulate our own potential, in the final analysis, this is an attempt for us human beings to surpass the limitations of their own abilities, and even beyond the limitations of fate.

So the reason why we humans like to watch sports is that we put ourselves in the shoes of the athletes who are playing on the field, and we watch them overcome themselves and their opponents, as if we have defeated ourselves and our opponents.

That's why so many fans are willing to go crazy to support their favorite players and teams, and even be happier than these players after their players win matches with their teams.

I don't stay in the tactical analysis room for long, because I do it again every training session, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, like I just did a more intense sprint, I would choose to rest a little longer, and after those less intense trainings I would probably only stay for more than 10 or 20 minutes and then leave.

Once my body was recovering, it was time to train my basketball skills.

The so-called basketball skills training, in fact, is including dribbling, turning, offense, defense of the basic action training, this part is a very important basic skills training in basketball, but the training process will be relatively boring, because you need to repeat some of the same actions for a long time, but to be able to endure loneliness is also very important, you must cultivate your patience and concentration, can not be affected by the surrounding environment, all attention should be focused on the training itself, Only in this way can the training effect be maximized.

Of course, I also use some training equipment, such as obstacles, to create different situations for myself, and then I continue to do a lot of repetitions over and over again.

In fact, sometimes you will suddenly feel particularly tired during training, and suddenly have a situation where your physical state and basketball skills have been forgotten, maybe you will feel that you will suddenly not be able to dribble the ball, or that the turn is not as smooth as before, these situations are actually very normal, which may indicate that your training intensity is a little too much, you need some rest, when your body is tired or mentally tired, and then training will make your competitive state decline.

However, when I face these situations, I usually increase the training intensity further, because in fact, you either have to rest or increase the training intensity, but the training intensity often needs to be increased a lot, which is enough for you to directly ignore this psychological fatigue, provide yourself with a more difficult goal, and let yourself regenerate a passion to challenge the goal.

As long as the flame in your heart is rekindled, then the previous feeling of weakness will disappear without a trace in an instant.

Time flies relatively quickly when training, and when I don't notice that the time has come to twelve o'clock at noon, I first went to take a hot and cold bath, because I have now developed such a habit, after a relatively high intensity of training, I will go to take this kind of hot and cold bath, the purpose is to make the body recover faster.

After taking a shower, I go out to eat some foods that are high in protein, such as chicken breast and steak, as well as some vegetables and fruits, and try to make them more nutritious while ensuring adequate protein intake.

After eating, I would meditate for about an hour, and I would probably sit on the side of the basketball court or in the audience on the sidelines.

Occasionally I would go to different seats to see what the game would look like from different seats, and now it seems like I'm hard to get a chance to sit in the back of the audience and watch an NBA game, but I do feel like sitting in those seats and watching the game from the bench on the sidelines are completely different feelings.

If you're watching a game from the sidelines, you'll be more aware of what's happening on the field, while if you're just sitting far away from the stadium, you're more likely to be able to watch the game from the camera on the huge screen above your head, or feel the atmosphere and emotions of the other spectators around you to get involved in the game.

From this point of view, the atmosphere of the home fans is very important, because the emotions of the home fans will determine many things, after all, there is a mutual influence and contagion between people's emotions, if you have a very warm atmosphere of the home stadium, then the fans here will become more enthusiastic in this atmosphere.

And once you have a home atmosphere like the Houston Rockets' home stadium, the unenthusiastic fans will also make the originally enthusiastic fans less enthusiastic, and the stadium that can accommodate tens of thousands of people will become less atmospheric.

In fact, it is difficult to see the bottom of the game venue directly in many locations, and the most important thing to spend money to watch an NBA game is actually to feel the warm home atmosphere, this experience is quite special, just like the concert you see on TV at home is a completely different experience from the concert you see on the spot.

Thinking that many fans may only have the opportunity to come to the NBA once in their lives to watch a game, I suddenly felt that I had a sense of responsibility and obligation to dedicate the most regular games to the fans.

In the afternoon, the training is mainly based on shooting, I still shoot from the closest to the basket, in fact, shooting under the basket is also a very important training program, sometimes the more easy it seems to be a point, the easier it is to become a place that we ignore.

Although theoretically speaking, the closer you are to the basket, the easier it is to score goals, but in practice this is not necessarily the case, especially in the area directly below the basket and one meter from the side of the penalty area, where the players rarely shoot here, so in fact, the shooting percentage in these places is not very high during the game.

When you have a really good chance to attack in these areas of the game, and then you end up missing key goals because you neglect them in your own training, then you must be very sad about that.

Of course, in fact, these areas themselves are not as good as imagined, because our habit of shooting has been formed early on, and the position of about one meter below the basket and outside the side penalty area does not belong to the position we are more accustomed to, so the general shooting methods and habits are easy to throw, and some special training is needed for these areas to allow you to get a better shooting feeling in these positions.

I spent a while training in these special offensive areas, and the training effect was quite good at the beginning, but then it will enter a bottleneck period, if you want to further improve the shooting rate in this area, you need to put in a lot of effort, and I don't think it is necessary to spend so much energy to train these unpopular areas for the time being, after all, the benefits are really small.

I will gradually expand the shooting training area from the inside out, each area will be tested for a certain period of time, I don't set myself a goal of how many shots I will make at the beginning of the warm-up, but as I put more balls into that point, I will eventually set myself a goal for the shooting percentage in training, of course, these goals are dynamic and constantly reset.

For example, I would divide the free throw practice into five groups, each group made about 10 free throws, and then count the shooting percentage of each of the five free throw training groups.

For example, mid-range jumpers on the spot, mid-range jumpers in pull-up, mid-range jumpers in turnover, small hooks, throws on the spot, small throws on the go and pull-back jumpers after dribbling, as well as some special offensive moves, I will test them in groups until each offensive skill has reached my expected shooting percentage, and then I will move on to the next step of training.

It takes a lot of time, especially after a period of intense training, my body will enter a period of fatigue, and it will be difficult for my shooting percentage to be guaranteed.

Once I feel that the level of physical fatigue is already very high, I will choose to take a break first, or simply go to the team's tactical analysis room to watch the video of the game first, so that I can also achieve the purpose of combining work and rest.

Of course, when I watch the video at this time, I will watch more of the video that records the player's individual offensive skills, before I watched and analyzed Jordan's technical movements, today I am mainly studying the game video of Magic Johnson, why watch his video, in fact, I am not to learn his passing skills, but more to learn how he dribbles with a height of more than two meters.

Magic Johnson's dribbling skills are very special, when I analyze his dribbling action through the videotape, I will find that every dribble he is actually quite powerful, perhaps because his height is too high, the center of gravity is too high, in order to make up for the disadvantages of slow dribbling speed brought by this, Magic Johnson will use a lot of force to slap the basketball when dribbling, so that the basketball is faster between the ground and his palm, which can effectively reduce the probability of being taken out by the opponent.

Of course, there is another characteristic of Magic's dribbling, that is, his palm is very accurate in judging the trajectory of the basketball in the process of dribbling, many times his dribbling and passing are combined, you don't know which dribble will end or start the stage directly converted into a pass, and because Magic Johnson's dribbling speed is very fast, there will be a natural force from the basketball when passing, so that he can pass the ball faster and more steadily.

Of course, this kind of power technique should be quite difficult, and it is not something that can be learned by watching the video, especially at the interface between dribbling and passing, which requires a lot of training and talent, because the fingers must be very precise in controlling the basketball, and I wonder if there is no way to do this now, and the magic is indeed worthy of his reputation.

Of course, I can still improve my dribbling strength and speed, which I can learn from, and faster dribbling speed can also allow me to break through the opponent's defense at a faster pace, of course, these skills still have to be studied slowly in actual combat, and these skills are not always used at all times.

IN ADDITION TO MAGIC JOHNSON'S TECHNICAL MOVES, I ALSO TOOK A LOOK AT THE TEAM'S TACTICAL POSITIONING AND WONDERFUL ASSISTS DURING THE LAKERS SHOWTIME, OF COURSE, MOST OF THE OFFENSIVE GOOD SHOTS WERE INITIATED THROUGH MAGIC JOHNSON AS THE CORE, BUT I NOTICED THAT JAMES-WORTHY ALSO PLAYED A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE LAKERS AT THAT TIME.

He's a very important finisher because he's very physical, so he's very good at finishing under the basket, and he's played the role of playing the fast-break with Magic in most of the fast-break counter-attacks led by Magic Johnson, and although opponents often know that there will be a connection between Magic Johnson and James Worthy, they just can't stop them, whether it's Magic Johnson's elusive passing route or James Worthy's courageous basket charge.

Many times the connection between them is incredible, because even from the perspective of others, it is difficult to imagine those incredible passing times and passing angles, and the most important thing is that these passes are obviously even imagined, even without going through the brain just by instinctive reaction, whether it is a passer or a receiver has a great chance of making mistakes.

How did they establish such an incredible understanding? That's actually the most important thing I want to know.

Our Lakers team actually has one player who can control the ball and pass the ball like Magic Johnson, I can play the role of James Worthy, Shaq can play the role of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but who will play the role of Magic Johnson?

I EVEN FANTASIZE THAT IF LEBRON JAMES CAN JOIN FORCES WITH ME AND SHAQ, A STRENGTHENED VERSION OF THE LAKERS SHOWTIME ERA WILL BEGIN, OF COURSE, THIS IS AN ILLUSION AFTER ALL, AND THE REALITY IS THAT NO ONE ON OUR LAKERS TEAM CAN DO WHAT MAGIC JOHNSON ONCE DID, SO WE HAVE TO GO AND CARVE OUT A PATH THAT BELONGS TO US.

After watching the video, it was about 3 p.m., and I was back on the basketball court to practice shooting and other basic technical moves.

But after about half an hour or so, another group of people came to the court, and I saw that this was not our Lakers bench players again, and I remember the last time I played a three-on-three game with them in two groups.

Eddie Jones smiled when he saw me, and walked up to me to talk.

"Holy, do you come so early every time?"

"In fact, I've been practicing here for five or six hours."

"What the hell! You're really a little too energetic, come and wait for the two of us to pick up dozens of balls, I think you're about to become the best individual player on our team, and I have to learn from you. ”

"You don't have to be so modest, your personal singles ability is not weak, I still have a lot to ask you for."

Sure enough, it was the same bench players who played a three-on-three game with me last time, and to be honest, their training enthusiasm was much better than that of other Lakers players, and the other players would probably enter the court around five o'clock in the evening game.

I thought there would be an in-house Lakers practice game this afternoon, but then I called head coach Silver Fox Harris to find out that there was no in-house practice game this afternoon.

The reason he gave was to make the players recover from the previous back-to-back games faster, and today was also an away game, so he didn't arrange additional training for the team, of course, the players themselves are willing to do additional training, which is quite a good thing, but he will not make mandatory arrangements.

I think it's enough for this Silver Fox Harris, I'm almost certain that he is only doing this to take care of a few guys led by Shaq, but thinking about Shaq's status and influence in the team at this time, head coach Silver Fox Harris does have to take proper care of him.

I just sighed softly, didn't think anything more, and pulled Eddie Jones into the tandem training.

Since Eddie Jones wants to fight me head-to-head, I'm naturally very happy, but I've been practicing here for so long, and it seems a little unfair to him to fight him now, so we decided to do a wave of two-man training first, using each other as each other's sparring partners for simulated confrontation training.

To be honest, Eddie Jones' height, weight, athleticism, and playing style are all somewhat similar to mine, so it's only fitting that the two of us can be each other's sparring partners, in fact, Eddie Jones is also a bit of a nerve knife, and if he is in a really good state one day, then even if I put in 100 percent effort to defend him, it will be very difficult.

After Eddie Jones had completed the basic warm-up, we started to shoot each other with interference, and of course for the other side to shoot defensively.

One of us defends the opponent's jump shot with all our might, while the other shoots against the opponent's full defense, making ten shots per round, and then switching offensive and defensive roles.

Eddie Jones' shooting feels very good today, especially the time he has been in the state for a short time, just after the warm-up has already felt hot, and I may be a little tired because of the training time, the continuity of the hand does not seem to be particularly good, and the stability of the shot has also declined to a certain extent compared to usual.

Of course, with my character, I will not be defeated by this little difficulty, the more bad the hand, the more I have to train desperately, so that I can have the opportunity to break through this bottleneck and complete the further improvement of the competitive state.

Of course, this process will undoubtedly be very difficult, and it will be a test of my willpower.

In the first few sets of anti-interference shooting drills, Eddie Jones shot 10 to 20 percent more than me, which means that he would shoot one or two more shots than me for every 10 balls.

I shook my head slightly, and all my attention was focused on the basket, and when my attention was completely focused on the little dot on the basket, that was when I entered a completely different state.

Sure enough, when I took my attention up a notch, in the next training round between me and Eddie Jones, the shooting percentages of both sides were basically the same, and considering the difficulty of this kind of anti-interference strong shot, Eddie Jones and I were still in good shape today.

This was followed by a step-by-the-go pass and a quick break, which helped us improve our passing accuracy and positional sense on the field, as well as improve our mutual understanding.

In fact, in the last few games, since Eddie Jones entered the bench and I entered the start, the team will still arrange a period of time for me and Eddie Jones to be on the court at the same time, and this time is often the most critical fourth quarter of the game, so the tacit understanding between me and Eddie Jones is also extremely important, often the game is often the one or two goals will determine the winner, so the higher the tacit understanding between our players, the lower the possibility of mistakes at critical moments, The better the chance of victory.

Then we had three-point shooting and three-point shooting, and three-point shooting with the ball, but fortunately, my three-point shooting in training today has recovered, and if I can't shoot three-pointers like I did in the last game, it will be really troublesome.

Although my strength is breakthrough and mid-range jumpers, if I can't shoot my three-point shot at all, it will put a lot of defensive pressure on myself, because the opponent will just let go of my three-point shot and choose to shrink the defense, after all, my breakthrough power is still quite large.

What's more, I've become more and more of a focus on the opposition in these recent games, and as I get into the starting lineup, other teams will analyze my past games and issue scouting reports before the game, so that their players know my attacking habits and make very targeted defensive plans accordingly.