Chapter 86: Three Years Fly by (Part I)

"Huh!"

"Li Qiang! It's Li Qiang! Directed the lore again! The Timberwolves defeated the Heat 4-1 to win the championship! O'Neal, who was sitting in front of the podium, shouted excitedly on the screen regardless of his image.

In this game, Li Qiang got 67 points, 8 assists, 12 rebounds, 4 steals and 6 blocks! It’samazing!! It’sincredible!! Attention, it's the playoff finals! ”

Li Qiang happily lifted the second championship trophy he won.

Yes, time is like flowing water, and it is three years in a flash.

In the first year, Li Qiang and Kobe, Howard, Gasol, and Nash formed a dream team, and the fantastic lineup sublimated the old Zen master's triangle offense, because there were five main forces in the team. The current Lakers are playing a five-corner offense!

In the playoffs, the Lakers defeated the powerful Heat and Spurs in a row, as well as the Land Rover Grizzlies and Nuggets, and won the championship cup relatively smoothly. Li Qiang's performance throughout the season can be described as an astonishing improvement.

If Li Qiang averaged 21 minutes per game in the first 30 games and got 16 points, 4 assists and 5 rebounds, or Jackson was clumsy, then in the last 42 games, Li Qiang played an average of 33 minutes per game and scored 26 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds after starting the game, which fully demonstrated Li Qiang's strong strength! After entering the playoffs, the Lakers have almost no rivals in front of the team under the fantasy lineup with a more balanced age function. Every time you beat your opponent, you win by a relatively large number of games.

The Lakers have an astonishing record of first place in the regular season, first place in the playoffs and 16 consecutive wins in the playoffs. And the Li Ke combination of Li Qiang + Kobe Bryant is well-known all over the world.

In the second year, Bryant was injured unexpectedly at the beginning of the regular season, and since then the injury has recurred, and he has not had many opportunities to play. And Li Qiang is the two strongmen Gasol and Howard who take on the role of the team.

At this time, Li Qiang has already cultivated most of the trick of changing his organs and intestines, especially his heart and lungs. With a strong body as a foundation, Li Qiang also practiced several other moves in the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Descending. Li Qiang's physical fitness has gone against the sky!

Li Qiang's peak bench press is 320 kg! The pinnacle bounces 145 cm on the spot! The 100-meter run has finally entered the 10-second mark! And Li Qiang has been able to maintain his peak state (the dragon descending magic skill is full of firepower) for 20 minutes!

As soon as the regular season began, Li Qiang showed incomparably strong firepower. Halfway through the season, I have an average of 34 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds per game! The three-point shooting rate as a big killer has also reached 45%! Li Qiang has slowly become the leader of the team and has taken over the banner of Kobe. At the All-Star Game, Li Qiang was also selected as MVP.

However, in the second half of the season, Kobe Bryant returned strongly from injury, and there was a lot of conflict between Li Qiang, who was used to the team's first position, and Kobe, the team's former leader.

Although last season, the Li Ke combination was once in the limelight, and the cooperation between the two was also very tacit, after all, time has passed, and the stronger and stronger Li Qiang and Kobe Bryant, who came back from injury and tried to continue to prove themselves, can no longer go on.

Although the team's management understands that there is no doubt that Li Qiang's potential is far better than Kobe, who has passed his playing years, and wants to trade Kobe, fans who have been with the Lakers for countless years disagree, and Kobe Bryant has the right to veto the trade in the contract. Helplessly, Li Qiang was traded to the weak team Timberwolves! The Timberwolves replaced the Lakers and began to pay for Li Qiang's big contract of more than 20 million a year!

Li Qiang, who came to the Timberwolves, quickly became the leader of the team, and Li Qiang finally got his wish and could start his reign!

Suddenly, Li Qiang discovered a very embarrassing thing. It seems that he will not be able to make the playoffs this year!

The Timberwolves have lost too many games this season, with 12 wins and 34 losses. In the face of such a bad result, Li Qiang is also lacking in skills!

The only person in the team who can play a role other than Li Qiang is the original boss inside center Kevin. Lefou. Others don't value it at all! However, the management is still very optimistic about Li Qiang, especially the owner of the Timberwolves, Glenn Taylor, the old man who has been smiling, and encourages Li Qiang to come back next year!

Obviously, even Glenn has no hope for this team's performance this year. Originally, the Timberwolves came to put it badly, but the Lakers actually cleared Li Qiang, a habitable wonder. Naturally, Glenn will snatch Li Qiang even if he spends his blood!

Of course, after a period of turbulent contention, as well as unknown shady scenes, including negotiations and exchange of interests with the big family behind the Lakers, Glenn finally did the right thing in his life.

However, geniuses also have to be cultivated slowly, and Glenn, who got Li Qiang, was naturally very satisfied, and immediately issued a holy decree: The Timberwolves' tactics this year are to fight blindly! Focus on cultivating Li Qiang!

However, Li Qiang and Timberwolves coaches are obviously not satisfied with continuing to mess around. In order to provoke everyone who led the team, Li Qiang ran to the position of guard and became the role of point guard + score! After a game, the cooperation between Li Qiang and Lefu and other players became more and more tacit.

Although Li Qiang, who got the right to fire unlimitedly, handed over a terrifying average of 39 points, 10 assists and 4 rebounds per game in the second half of the season (rebounds became less because Li Qiang has been on the outside and Lefu grabbed a lot), the three-point shooting rate reached 50%, leading the team that had just begun to re-run into the game to achieve a good record of 18 wins and 8 defeats, but the previous fish belly team lost too many games, and the Timberwolves still missed the playoffs with 30 wins and 42 losses.

Li Qiang can be said to have lost very unjustly.

But Li Qiang is improving! His body has become extremely powerful after the cultivation of the five internal organs, so that he is in the best state anytime and anywhere, and there are few times when his hands are cold when he shoots three-point shots! This makes it possible to shoot half of the three-point shots.

But Li Qiang is changing! He's going from a ferocious firepower point to the leader of a team! He slowly learned to attack with the ball anytime and anywhere, learned to encourage his players when they were down, learned to take the initiative to stand up for the ball when the team couldn't open, and used three times the strength of normal NBA players, the speed of world-class athletes, the bounce of world-class athletes and the extremely ferocious breakthrough to tear apart the opponent's defense.

The Timberwolves led by Li Qiang lost, but the responsibility is not on him, in the management of the Lakers and Timberwolves. Faced with the situation of midway transfer, Li Qiang can't enter the playoffs no matter how strong he is.

Undoubtedly, Li Qiang's goal of creating a historic record such as winning the championship ten times in a row has been overshadowed. But Li Qiang finally let go of something.

Yes, Li Qiang finally let go of his obsession with victory and defeat. Race, then try to win. No, let it be! Li Qiang finally stopped stating for the sake of data, his game is just for the love of basketball!

Li Qiang didn't know that his state of mind at this time was secretly in line with the purpose of the Yijin Sutra Buddhism of "no self, no one, and no sentient beings", and the cultivation speed of the five internal organs and six internal organs had improved again! His state of mind also makes Li Qiang not be knocked down by adversity during the game!

Of course, there is another good news in the second year, that is, Liu Mengqi came to the United States. When applying to major universities in North America, she only chose a few Ivy League schools such as Harvard and Yale, as well as the world's top schools such as MIT and Caltech.

Liu Mengqi's background is very good, and her grades rank second in the whole grade in Guangming Middle School, a key school in the city. What's more, she has a unique story about the most important part of her school application materials, her personal statement.

In PS, she writes:

"My boyfriend, Li Qiang, his goal is to become the greatest star in the history of the league. He is working in this direction. He got a five-year, 120 million contract with the Lakers. So far this season, he has averaged 16 points, 4 assists and 5 rebounds in 21 minutes per game as the Lakers' best sixth man.

And my goal is to provide him with a strong backing to achieve this goal smoothly. It is foreseeable that in the next five years, he will have at least more than $100 million in cash flow. Combined with all kinds of commercials and sponsorships, this number is likely to reach two to three hundred million. Such a large sum of money requires a reliable person to manage it. More importantly, the person who manages for him is truly from his perspective and considers his long-term interests. As his girlfriend, I feel obligated. That's why I applied for a major in business administration. ”

With excellent grades and an excellent personal statement, she received an offer and a full scholarship from Harvard University to major in business administration and minor in psychology, which interests her. In this way, Liu Mengqi came to Boston, North America to study, although it is still a few hours away from Apollis, Minnesota, but there is no doubt that it has become easier for Li Qiang to meet her.