Chapter 56: In-team training
"Ming, your interview has been very well received! A lot of people have tweeted me to take good care of you! Hee-hee! β
βγγγγγγ However, this is also a little too sensational! β
"Oh, if you can be recognized by the fans, it means that your own story is touching! Don't talk about that, you've been doing well lately, haven't you?! Did you mess around outside? β
"No, I've been training lately, and I'm going to play an intra-team training match tomorrow to confirm the starting lineupγγγγγ"
"Hehe, that's good, I'll fly to New York tomorrow and come back in two days, Ming, are you here to pick me up?"
"If you have timeγγγγγγ"
"Okayγγγγγ Then I'm hanging, I miss you... β
"Me tooγγγγγ"
After hanging up the phone, Li Ming directly turned off the light and went to sleep.
It's Lisa's fifteenth day out for interviews and the fifteenth day of the Bulls' closed practice, and they've been making phone calls every night, just like couples in love.
During this period, Li Ming's interview was also released, and the story in the mountain also spread throughout the United States.
This was something Li Ming didn't expect, and it also made him appreciate once again how strong Lisa's influence as a journalist is.
"No wonder the impact of my quarrel with Daddy was so great, this loser!"
All right! O vengeance-bearers! I even have a girlfriend!
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"Today is the last day of closed training, and the pre-season will start in two days, so today we will play in groups and only play one quarter, but we all have to get serious and find the feeling of confrontation! Next, I'll start signing up, and the top five players will play against the bottom five! β
In the quiet arena, only the voice of head coach Hojberg was left, and next to him were several assistant coaches with whistles, apparently to act as referees.
Li Ming was the first to be called out, along with Robin Lopez, Jerry Ann Grant, Pobbi Portis, and Paul Zipzer.
Among these players, Li Ming is most familiar with Robin Lopez, because his brother is Brook Lopez, the former All-Star center who was the Nets leader and is now with the Lakers.
And Jerry Ann Grant is no stranger, and he has one thing in common with Li Ming, he was the MVP winner of last year's Las Vegas Summer League.
The other two, Bobbi Portis and Paul Chipze, are not so famous, and Li Ming only met the two when he entered the Bulls.
"Below, Holiday, Valentine, Nwaba and Mirotic and Kanin!" As Hojberg continued to roll call, five people from another group also came out.
In fact, the difference between the Bulls' starters and benches today is not very big, even an old man like Holiday does not say that he has the strength to be an absolute starter. So Hojberg arranged the alignment like this, and Li Ming really didn't know whether he was a starter or a substitute, but there were still things that made him happy: Holiday, Valentine and Nwaba, the three guys who had gaps with him, were all on the opposite side of him.
"Gotta give these guys a little color!" These days of closed training, Li Ming has observed these guys, Valentine and Nwaba are not worth mentioning at all, it is not certain whether they can stay in the NBA after two or three years, but this Holiday may have been in the major leagues for a long time, and he has practiced a good offensive skills, which is not easy to deal with.
Of course, it's just a little troublesome, but after a summer of practice, Li Ming is now a step ahead of the summer league, and his defensive ability is naturally needless to say, even if he doesn't defend against Holiday and the latter, the latter is not his opponent.
"Let's go!"
Pinckney acted as the referee in the training match, took the ball to the center of the court, Lopes and Kanin stepped forward to fight for the ball, for Kanin, a comrade in the summer league, Li Ming is quite familiar, seeing him come out, he knew that the first attack must not be on his side, no way, this kid's height and arm span exceed Lopez too much.
And the jump ball relies on these two things.
Sure enough, the old-timer LΓ³pez couldn't take advantage of Canin either, and the ball was directly dialed into their lineup by Canin, and it was Holiday who got the ball.
Looks like this guy is playing point guard.
"I'm here to guard against this guy!" Li Ming said to Grant, who nodded and switched to defend Valentine.
"Cut, I don't know how thick the sky is!" Holiday saw all this in his eyes, snorted disdainfully, and was not worthy of Li Ming, dribbling the ball towards Li Ming, "You will regret it!" β
Don't put Li Ming in his eyes, but he really attacked, Holiday was really not so reckless, first a few careful tentative steps, but Li Ming didn't move, helpless, Holiday could only increase the amplitude of the dribble, trying to shake Li Ming's center of gravity through rhythm.
"Ho!" There was a muffled snort in front of him, and then Holiday only felt that his hands were empty, and when he looked down, the ball had been taken away directly, and he turned his head in a daze, only to see a galloping back, rushing to the basket and jumping up is a violent dunk.
That figure is Li Ming!
"Huh?!" Hoiberg, who was watching silently from the sidelines, made a rather unexpected sound in his mouth when he saw this scene, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Li Ming who came back from jogging thoughtfully.
This guy is not simple!
"He actually cut me off directly!" Holiday gritted his braces, his face became ugly, and he was directly slapped in the face in an instant after throwing off the cruel words in front of him.
"Hey, man! It would be nice if your technique was as good as your mouth! Li Ming rushed into trash talk with Holladay, there was no way, the inheritance from Reggie Miller couldn't bear it at all.
"Cut, it's still early!" Holiday won the ball again, and walked in front of Li Ming unbelievingly, "If you have the ability, you will γγγγγ β
"Ho!" There was another soft drink, and before Holiday finished speaking, he only felt a burst of pressure in front of him, so he quickly turned around to protect the ball in his hand, and didn't do the next action! I only felt a force coming from my waist, and his whole body was resisted.
"You can go on and on!" Li Ming's faint voice came from his ears.
"Cut!" Holiday had something to say in his heart, but he didn't dare to talk anymore and be distracted, so he could only hold back.
"Holiday !" Valentine popped up from the side and shouted.
Holiday couldn't get rid of Li Ming's entanglement, so he could only pass the ball over.
"That's it! I really don't know where the confidence comes from, and I am fighting bulls! As soon as the ball was given out of his hand, Li Ming's trash talk came again, and Holiday was anxious and angry, but he really couldn't refute anything, after all, he was indeed suppressed to death now.
"This guy really isn't a fuel-efficient lamp! Shh Holiday hated it so much that she almost snapped her braces.