4. Eerie atmosphere
Liu Ren came to the team's training ground and found that the atmosphere of the team was a little weird. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
He felt two extremes of opposing momentum, and the two extremes of collapse and holding his breath permeated the team strangely.
Generally speaking, the Lakers players are divided into two types, one is the type that wants to fight for a breath, led by Howard, the Lakers, who were in the top three in the West last season, have performed so poorly this season, largely because of his arrival, regardless of how he thinks about it, the outside world is like this, he does not have the scenery of the previous Magic period at all, and he is now holding his breath and wants to enter the playoffs.
Clark, who played this year, is also a member of the spirit, and it is not easy to get consistent playing time, this year is his contract year, and he is fighting for the next contract.
Blake is also holding his breath, and he is likely to be the Lakers' starter next season.
Then there's the frustration, which is the majority within the Lakers, and Howard is very frustrated in addition to wanting to fight for a breath.
Howard, who is not yet 28 years old, naturally does not feel that he has a problem with his strength, and he complains more often about his ball possession.
The most important thing is that if such a lineup doesn't even make the playoffs, Howard, who is not good at dealing with public opinion, can be drowned by the media's saliva.
This collection of contradictions.
When it comes to the most frustrating is Jamison, who ran to hug his thighs, but he became a thigh, Howard's unfocused offense, Gasol's constant injuries, stop-and-go, and he actually became the team's most consistent interior scoring point.
Originally, Gasol still had the idea of not fighting for steamed buns, but Kobe Bryant was injured, he collapsed completely, lost the championship hope, he didn't even want to struggle, and the knee injury that he had been dragging was not ready to hold on.
Gasol is different from Howard and Jamison, he does not lack playoff honors, he does not have Howard's idea of wanting to lose face, and he does not have Jamison's collapse of championship distance, he and Kobe Bryant have taken the Lakers to good results in the past few seasons, and also won two consecutive championships, he is sad that he put up with D'Antoni for a season, and even accommodated Howard's need for interior space to play on the bench, and the final result is that he doesn't want to struggle at all.
Jordan Hill has suffered another back injury, and the Lakers who have been leaking overnight are only four on the inside line: Clark, Howard, Jamison, and the ever-energetic Thackeray.
By the way, there is also a guy who is full of fighting spirit and constantly cheers up his teammates, Charity World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest, he is now about to become a spiritual mentor, and after winning a championship, he is sublimated, without desire......
Kobe's first substitute, Meeks, was also unlucky, half an hour before Kobe Bryant's injury, otherwise it would not have been Liu Ren's turn to play at the last moment.
As for the other fringe players, Ibanks, Chris Dujon, and rookie Goldroy don't care very much, and it seems that they won't be able to play anyway.
If it was Liu Ren before, he definitely belonged to the mentality of a marginal player, but now he just wants to recover his strength in a short period of time.
Liu Ren was very cowardly before, rarely went to communicate with his teammates, if it wasn't for Jamison to take care of him, it is estimated that there would be no sense of existence at all, and the best relationship with him was Thackeray, but most of them were Thackeray who took the initiative to chat with him, and he has always been an introvert.
However, feeling the strange atmosphere of the team, Liu Ren decisively closed his mouth and practiced shooting.
Liu Ren's current shooting is very bad, and he can only rely on training to re-feel the application of power.
Whether it's in the previous life, or the previous owner of this body, he is a very hard-working master, and the ball sense is trained very well, and there is no problem with dribbling or breaking through.
The most incongruous part is shooting.
Shooting masters will have muscle memory, whether it is Liu Ren's body in his previous life or his current body, he has worked hard to train to that extent.
So the problem is, the shooting movements of his two bodies are very different, and the strength and height are very different.
Although the previous owner of this body is cowardly, it is an NBA-level body, not comparable to the body in the previous life.
And his consciousness retains the feeling of shooting in his previous life, and his body is accustomed to the muscle memory of the former owner of this body.
This led to a result, Liu Ren's shooting action imitated Kobe Jordan's shooting action because of his brain memory, and the muscle force was used to the power habit of the previous owner of the body, which was very embarrassing.
The only solution to this situation is hard work.
This season is coming to an end, Liu Ren, who knows the results, has a lot of time to train in the summer, and in the remaining games, he feels that what he has to do is not to play a beautiful game, but to overturn people's previous perceptions of him, as a young player who has not yet reached the age of 20, the most terrible thing is not people's doubts about his strength, but questions about whether he has the heart to become a star, and whether he dares to be an opponent with the best players in the world.
Don't look at Liu Ren's peculiar thoughts, his somewhat upright thoughts are indeed easy to simplify troublesome things.
Liu Ren tried shooting a few times, and mastered a little feeling, the strength is smaller, the smaller is bigger, slowly adjust, the accuracy is good, that is, the control of strength should be practiced slowly, which is a pleasant surprise.
Liu Ren was training alone in the corner when Thackeray walked up to him.
"Liu, Mike told you to go to his office."
Nodding, Liu Ren followed Thackeray to the head coach's office.
"Brother, I heard that Mike is very happy with your tough performance in the last minute yesterday, now the team has no defenders, you have to take advantage of the opportunity in the remaining two games!" Thackeray said as he hooked Liu Ren's shoulder.
"Robert, looks like you're going to be able to stay next season?" In his memory, Thackeray was the best relationship with him on the Lakers, and he was not polite at all.
Looking at Thackeray's happy face, Liu Ren guessed that his team option for next season might have been exercised, and the average career of a second-round pick was less than three years, and it was not easy to get a contract extension.
Liu remembers Thackeray playing for Kobe Bryant's retirement season, and his dedication and love for basketball made him an indispensable mascot for a team.
"Haha, that's right, the great Thackeray will stay with the Lakers next season!" Thackeray looked excited, "Liu, you have to stay, otherwise I will be too lonely to sit on the bench alone, and those guys don't understand my art at all." ”
The art of waving a towel? The corners of Liu Ren's mouth twitched, should I say that this big man didn't pursue good, or did he say that he was too self-aware......
"Congratulations, but I'm not trying to stay, I'm sure I'll stay!" Liu Ren said lightly.
"Huh?" Thackeray was a little surprised Liu Ren's answer, usually this guy is so gentle that he refuses to speak, what seems to be different today?
Thackeray looked at Liu Ren and felt as if something had changed, but he couldn't tell.