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After the intra-team match, Duncan and Li Yang, who were on the same team, walked to the sidelines together, and when they heard Duncan's praise, Li Yang immediately replied:

"Thank you for the compliment, Tim, I think I still have a lot to improve. ”

Li Yang can be arrogant in front of people like Justin Duntumon and Eric Dawson, but in the face of Duncan, who is also a great and good man, Li Yang can't help but show a humble side.

"Young, I'm not complimenting, not every player who comes to Spurs is able to adapt quickly, but you're doing a good job. As he spoke, Duncan patted Li Yang and walked away.

After hearing Duncan's evaluation, Li Yang's spirit was lifted, and it was obvious that if there was anyone in the Spurs who was qualified to say this besides Popovich, Duncan was definitely one of them. From Duncan's evaluation, Li Yang also knew that his performance today should be quite qualified.

Li Yang's shortcoming is projection, his strength is the impact and defense of the inside, although in the intra-team confrontation, Li Yang basically did not get the opportunity to attack the inside with the ball, however, through air cutting and running without the ball, he still scored a few goals.

Overall, Li Yang's own offense is not much, but he is well integrated into the teamwork on the offensive end, whether it is covering for his teammates, or his off-ball running, or occasionally transferring the ball, he has a good performance.

Of course, this is due to Tyler Jenkins's help in Li Yang's tactical training in the past month, and also thanks to Li Yang's own good understanding ability.

Li Yang's performance on the defensive end is more brilliant than the offensive end, excellent movement speed and defensive enthusiasm coupled with continuous learning in recent months, so that he has done very well in both single defense and co-defense, Leonard is not too aggressive today, Li Yang showed his co-defense ability more.

Although the cooperation between Li Yang and his teammates in the game is not very tacit, and there will occasionally be some defensive loopholes caused by small mistakes in coordination, his ability and hard work are still seen.

This is also why Duncan has such an evaluation of Li Yang when he walks down.

After the team competition training, Li Yang, like the Austin Bulls, stayed on the court and prepared to continue his training.

However, at this time, he found that except for Jackson, Dior and a few other players left, most of the Spurs stayed at this time, whether it was Duncan, Ginobili, Parker, who were already old qualifications, or young players such as Leonard, Mills, and Split, they were all doing their own training in a targeted manner.

"NBA, it's really different from the development league!"

When making such an exclamation, Li Yang also thought that perhaps this has something to do with the culture of the Spurs, although the outside world rarely sees reports about the Spurs players training hard, but a team like the Spurs can always have such a stable performance, the players' training efforts will definitely not be comparable to ordinary players.

Thinking of this, Li Yang felt even more motivated, after practicing dribbling and layups for a while, he plunged into the strength room, and after completing the strength and physical training, Li Yang returned to the training ground to continue the free throw training.

It wasn't until he felt more tired after practicing that Li Yang took a towel to wipe off the sweat stains on his body, and when he looked around, he found that the players in the training hall had basically walked clean, except for him, Kawhi Leonard and Dante Green were still there.

For veteran players such as Duncan, their age is there after all, and it is unlikely that they will maintain the same intensity of training as when they were younger.

After wiping off his sweat, Li Yang prepared to go back to the locker room to change his clothes, and then find a relatively affordable hotel nearby, because he would stay here for the next ten days.

"Yang!"

The voice came, and Li Yang looked at Leonard who took the initiative to call him with a little surprise.

There was contact between the two in Austin, and Li Yang knew that Leonard was a person who spoke very little, for example, after coming here today, Li Yang and most of the other players had a sentence or two of communication, but he had not spoken to Leonard.

At this time, Leonard suddenly took the initiative to speak out, which was really a bit unexpected by Li Yang.

Finding that Li Yang had already heard it, and didn't care why Li Yang shouldn't, Leonard continued: "Do you have a place to live, if not, I still have a room at home." ”

"Well, that's so thankful, I'm thinking about where to find a place to sleep. Li Yang accepted Leonard's kindness almost without thinking, although he didn't know why Leonard took the initiative to help him, because of the contact between the two in Austin, or whether Leonard was not as ruthless in private as he was with the Spurs.

But one thing Li Yang knows very well is that Li Yang has a good impression of Leonard, a player who is in the same position as himself, and he also hopes to have more contact with Spurs players to understand Spurs and the NBA, although on the surface Leonard does not seem to be too suitable for chatting.

Ten minutes later, Li Yang got into Leonard's "car", an old Chevrolet that Li Yang couldn't tell what year it was.

"Kawai, if all the NBA players were as frugal as you are, I'm sure no one would go bankrupt. ”

After driving out of the arena in Leonard's car, Li Yang couldn't help but joke with Leonard.

"Even if you go bankrupt, at least you still own an antique. Leonard grinned, and although he didn't really laugh, it surprised Li Yang.

And immediately afterwards, Li Yang found that Leonard who came out of the stadium was much more "lively", and on the way from the stadium to Leonard's residence in the suburbs, the two were almost chatting all the time, although Li Yang was asking and Leonard was answering, but at least, Leonard did not resist chatting, and even occasionally had a funny sentence or two.

Of course, whenever Li Yang doesn't ask, Leonard will still be as silent as before.

It wasn't until a few years later that Li Yang knew why Leonard was different from what he knew before.

When the two became acquainted a few years later, Li Yang asked Leonard why he invited him to his house. Leonard replied to Li Yang, look at you pleasing to the eye.

Li Yang asked Leonard again why he was always expressionless as soon as he entered the stadium. Leonard replied to Li Yang that whenever he entered the arena, he would maintain 100% concentration, and at this time, he would not have too many mood swings.

Leonard's home is a two-story house about 400 square meters in the northwest corner of San Antonio, which he bought after being drafted by the Spurs last year, and Leonard told Li Yang that he lives with his mother.

At Leonard's home, Li Yang met his mother, a very ordinary black woman, who was called by a very common name, Kim Robertson.

Kim Robertson cleaned up a guest room for Li Yang, and the problem of Li Yang's residence was temporarily solved, and of course, the problem of eating was solved by the way.

The next day, the Spurs did not play and did not arrange team training, Li Yang and Leonard came to the stadium to train together, except for returning home at noon to eat and sleep at night, the two spent most of the day in the training hall.

At this time, Li Yang realized that he was not the only one who trained hard, Leonard was also a training maniac, even better than himself.

On the third day of Li Yang's arrival in San Toonio, Li Yang and Leonard only practiced in the morning, and then they stayed at Leonard's house for the whole afternoon to rest, because on this day, the Spurs had a game, and it was also the first of three games in Li Yang's ten-day short contract, at home against the Washington Wizards.