Chapter 189: Li Tian and Adelman's Troubles

PS: (PS: The display of the first order in the background still did not break 400 in the end, a little bit, just a little bit.) However, I still thank my friends for their support, so I still add a new chapter, thank you! )

The Kings vs. Trail Blazers game is still being talked about by fans, but they have a new game to play, back-to-back against the Cavaliers. That's the NBA, and the packed regular season schedule doesn't even give players and fans more time to relive the games that ended.

Back-to-back games are not easy to play, but fortunately, the Cleveland Cavaliers are a weak team in the East, and since James left to join the Heat, the Cavaliers have been reduced to a belly team.

This game is a great chance for the Kings, and the only thing that bothers them is that it is back-to-back, after all, they also played overtime with the Trail Blazers in the previous game, and it is a great challenge in terms of physical fitness, especially for players with poor physical fitness like Li Tian.

In the previous game against the Trail Blazers, Li Tian's whistle shot to grab the rebound in the front court also became the top ten of the day's top ten balls, but it is obvious that this game is also a huge consumption for Li Tian.

After the game, when Li Tian walked back to the locker room, the excitement on his body gradually faded, and he felt deep exhaustion.

He played 28 minutes in this game, which has exceeded his normal playing time for more than 3 minutes, and more importantly, Matthews constantly interfered with his body during the game, which consumed Li Tian's physical energy a lot.

In the fourth quarter and overtime, whether it was offensive or defensive, Li Tian fought very fiercely, which also made Li Tian feel that his physical consumption had almost reached the limit after the game.

The result of such exhaustion is that when he was playing knights back-to-back, Li Tian's state was extremely sluggish, and his body was in a state of complete exhaustion, resulting in no mental exaltation.

Played 20 minutes at full-time. Li Tian only scored 6 points, which is a huge difference from his normal scoring efficiency.

In fact, it's not just Li Tian, several of the King's starters are in very bad shape, and it's not just Li Tian who fought fiercely in the previous game, Li Tian also got a break in overtime, and the rest of the starters except Thompson played the entire overtime. Most of the playing time was more than 40 minutes.

So when facing the Cavaliers, although the opponent's strength was not strong, after the start of the game, the Kings were always in the trailing stage, and in the middle of the first quarter, the Kings once trailed by 10 points. It wasn't until late in the first quarter, when the Kings' bench players came on the court, that the score slowly caught up, but even so. The Kings also trailed by five points after the first quarter.

After seeing that the starters were in poor shape and the substitutes were in excellent shape, in the second quarter, Adelman directly used all the substitutes, and this play was the majority of the quarter.

It worked out well, as the Kings' bench players played well in the quarter, not only helping the Kings close a five-point deficit, but also giving the Kings a three-point lead at the end of the first half.

After all, the Kings are stronger than the Cavaliers, and the Kings' starters have not improved significantly on the offensive end since the start of the second half. But on the defensive end, they managed to limit the Cavaliers and hold the lead into the second half of the third quarter.

When the two sides came off the bench again in the second half of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter. The Kings' bench lineup once again showed overwhelming strength, directly widening the gap to 15 points.

88:101, 13 points advantage, the Kings finally won the game, and after two consecutive defeats, ushered in a three-game winning streak.

At this time. The king had a three-day break.

On the second day of the three-day break, Adelman organized a low-intensity intra-squad training session, and there was no intra-squad confrontation, and Adelman mainly practiced tactics.

"John!" After finishing Adelman's tactical training, Li Tian found the team's physical trainer.

As the game progresses. Li Tian has become more and more aware of the problem of physical weakness for himself, the previous two games are obvious, in the overtime against the Trail Blazers, the coach chose to let himself go off the court, and then against the Cavaliers in the slump, all because of lack of physical strength.

Therefore, although the physical training has not had a too obvious effect, Li Tian has been persistent, and when Tie Shu does not know when the project on physical fitness will be unsealed, he can only hold the psychology that training will definitely bring progress.

Shortly after Li Tiancai trained with John, Adelman came over.

"Coach!" "Boss!"

Seeing Adelman's arrival, Li Tian and John greeted Adelman at the same time, Adelman nodded and asked Li Tian, "Lee, have you recovered from the fatigue of that day's game?" ”

"Yes, Coach!" After Li Tian answered, he said helplessly: "My physical fitness is really terrible. ”

Adelman didn't answer directly, but turned to the physical trainer John at this time and asked, "John, how effective is Lee's training?" ”

"It's not very good, since last season, Lee has approached me to do targeted training, but the efficiency is not very ideal, and the improvement is relatively small." John replied directly.

"Does that mean that Li Tian's physical fitness doesn't have much room for improvement?" Adelman asked.

John pondered slightly, thought for a while, and then shook his head and replied: "That's not the case, there is a possibility that because of the difference in Li's physique, his previous training has always been in a process of quantitative change, and it is very likely that he has not reached the critical point of qualitative change." ”

However, this is only a speculation, if true, when the energy in his body accumulates to a certain stage, it is possible to reach this critical point, and then there will be a more obvious improvement in physical fitness. Of course, such a time is uncertain. ”

"Another possibility is that Lee's physical improvement has reached the limit in the current situation, and if he wants to improve, it will take a lot of devilish training to stimulate the potential in his body. However, it should be noted that if you take this approach, he will reach the limit every time he trains, so it will have a huge impact on the last game, which will take about two to three months, but it should be noted that I can't predict whether this potential will have a huge effect. ”

At this point, John stopped, and Adelman fell into a deep groan.

After a short while, under the gaze of Li Tian and John, Adelman shook his head slightly and said: "The second way doesn't work now, we can't wait for Li to not play for two or three months, continue to stick to your current training plan." ”

After speaking, Adelman said to Li Tian again: "Li, in the game, you need to allocate your physical strength more intelligently, and you can communicate more with John about this." ”

"Okay, Coach!"

After Li Tian answered, Adelman nodded and left, sighing secretly in his heart, now he has more and more discovered Li Tian's excellence and importance to the team, but one of the problems he has to face is that Li Tian's physical condition is very bad, which restricts Li Tian's playing time.

In general games, Adelman will arrange Li Tian's playing time as reasonably as possible, but the game is often unpredictable and uncontrollable, such as the overtime against the Trail Blazers, the use of Li Tian made him very entangled, and he did not dare to send Li Tian on the court until there was only more than one minute left in overtime.

"Let's train Chris as soon as possible, when Lee is not there, Chris needs to be able to perform well." Adelman said to himself.

At this time, when Adelman was worried, Li Tian was also worried, his training had no results, and the iron book had not been unsealed for the time being, which made his physical condition not improve for a long time.

Recently, whenever he played a better performance in the game, he would go to see the iron book, but the iron book was not unsealed.

"Could it be that only by getting 40 points can you unseal the Iron Book?" Li Tian frowned secretly.

But in the case of about 25 minutes on the court, it is really difficult to score 40 points, even if he deliberately brushes the score, when the score comes to a certain stage, it will be strictly guarded by the opponent, and it is more difficult to score at this time, and the physical consumption is also greater.

"Stamina!" Looking up at the sky and sighing, Li Tian shook his head helplessly, and devoted himself to physical training again. (To be continued......)