Chapter 11: Counterpoint Leonard

Because of his previous judgment, after seeing RC Buford and Greg Popovich, Li Yang did not stare at the two like other teammates, and his gaze quickly fell on a figure behind the two. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The well-proportioned Kowhi Leonard combed his furrow, his head slightly lowered and quietly followed behind a few people, like a big boy next door, only when Li Yang looked at him, he raised his look, but there was no expression on his face, and his head was quickly lowered again.

"I wonder if the coach will arrange for us to be in place?" Li Yang also turned his gaze away, falling on Tyler Jenkins.

Li Yang still has some expectations for the alignment with Leonard, the two are of similar height and the same position, Leonard's physical fitness is also excellent, and the opponent's defensive ability is very strong, Li Yang is looking forward to the opportunity for the two to have the opportunity to play against each other in today's training, so that he can feel the strength of the NBA team's starting small forward, and at the same time test his current strength.

Just as Li Yang was thinking this, a group of people who came in dispersed, RC Buford and Popovich and others walked to the sidelines and sat down, while Taylor Jenkins and others walked towards Li Yang and others with Kawhi Leonard and Corey Joseph and Nando De Colo who appeared again.

"Guys, Corey and Nando are going to stay with us for a while, and Kowai, he's coming here for rehab, all right, boys, let's go warm up, we've got an intra-squad game in ten minutes. ”

Tyler Jenkins let everyone warm up with such a simple two sentences, and did not mention that the arrival of Spurs management would have a matter of scouting players, which made the Austin Bulls players who were originally full of expectations a little disappointed, but soon most people thought that it seemed like a better way to investigate through team training, so they scattered and found a place to warm up.

Li Yang walked back to the corner where he was originally staying to prepare for training, and at this time he found that Kawhi Leonard had also come over, so he took the initiative to say hello:

"Hello, Kehuai, my name is Li Yang, you can call me Yang, they all call me that. ”

"Hello!" Kawhi Leonard replied with a simple word, then stopped talking and began to warm up.

"Sure enough, it's a Spurs style, and the words are like gold. Li Yang muttered in his heart, although Kawhi Leonard simply replied with two words, but Li Yang did not think that the other party was ignoring him, he already knew from media reports that the other party did not like to communicate with others.

Just muttered in his heart, Li Yang also began to continue the dribbling and layup training he had interrupted before.

Ten minutes later, Tyler Jenkins gathered everyone together and divided into groups for today's confrontation drill. I don't know if Tyler Jenkins is clear about Li Yang's expectations, or in order to balance the strength, Li Yang and Kawhi Leonard were placed in two different groups, and they can just be matched.

In the Li Yang group, Jermichael Green is on the inside, Li Yang and Reed Brown are the two forwards, and Nando De Colo and Corey Joseph are on the back line.

Kawhi Leonard's partner is Julian White at forward, Eric Dawson on the inside, and Brad Wanamaker and Justin Duntmon on the backline.

After arranging the grouping, Tyler Jenkins asked an assistant to be the referee, and he walked to where RC Buford and Popovich were staying and started saying something.

Most of the people present were curious about what Tyler Jenkins would say, but at this time they didn't have time to think about it, and the matchup on the court had begun.

Because of the arrival of the Spurs management, the players paid special attention to this match, when Corey Joseph dribbled to the halfcourt, Justin Duntumon stared at Joseph tightly, and he was rarely serious when his defensive ability and attitude were average.

Recently, because of Tyler Jenkins' arrangement, Li Yang often controls the ball in his hands to launch an offense, and today he added three Spurs players, but Li Yang really didn't notice this for a while, and after coming to the half, he went around the left three-point line as usual and began to reach for the ball.

When Joseph passed the ball over, Li Yang realized that it was Joseph who controlled the ball and not Duntmon, but he didn't feel anything wrong, and after receiving the ball, he smashed the ball on the floor, and then started to rush forward, Li Yang's attention at this time was already focused on the alignment with Leonard.

Kawhi Leonard, as a player who entered the Rookie of the Year last season and has already secured the Spurs' starting small forward position, did not take a development league player like Li Yang lightly, and when Li Yang dribbled forward after receiving the ball, he immediately followed up and prepared to defend.

This was somewhat surprising to Li Yang, who originally thought that at least at the beginning of the game, Kawhi Leonard should not put too much defensive pressure on himself.

"You want to be on guard, you're moving too slowly!"

Although there was some surprise in his heart, Li Yang's movements did not stop in the slightest because of this, and the soles of his feet on the floor exerted heavy force, and Li Yang, who lowered his center of gravity, suddenly rushed forward.

Li Yang's first step of extraordinary speed was perfectly displayed at this moment, even if Leonard's physical fitness and movement speed on the opposite side were also quite good, but when Li Yang took the second step, he was already half a body ahead of the opponent.

Leonard was obviously not prepared for Li Yang's excellent speed, and he was not able to prevent Li Yang's first step, and it was impossible to stop Li Yang's breakthrough, so he could only hope for the help of other defensive players.

However, Eric Dawson clearly doesn't have the defensive awareness of Kawhi Leonard, and even though he takes this intra-team training seriously, the awareness and pace of the help defense are not something that can be improved immediately.

When Li Yang broke through Leonard's interception and rushed to the free throw line, Eric Dawson had just moved from the right baseline to the basket, and his speed of movement was obviously not comparable to Li Yang.

As for Leonard, without his teammates to help delay Li Yang, all he can do is follow closely behind Li Yang's body, looking for opportunities to defend.

However, Li Yang was not ready to give the opponent a chance, with the inertia of impact, Li Yang, who entered the free throw line and took a step into the free throw line, rose directly into the air and flew to the basket with the ball high.

Eric Dawson knew very well how good Li Yang's physical fitness was, and he didn't want to be the background of Li Yang's dunk, so he symbolically rushed back to the basket, but did not jump up to stop Li Yang's dunk. And after seeing this scene, Kawhi Leonard also knew that it was impossible for him to stop Li Yang anymore.

No one stopped Li Yang from abusing the basket wantonly, compared to when he had just been reborn into this body, Li Yang's dunk at this time was more free, his raised arm was like a giant axe, and he quickly chopped down, and Li Yang smashed the ball into the basket fiercely!

"Bang!"

"What a pervert!"

Although Li Yang has often staged violent dunks for more than two months, after completing this dunk, Jermichael Green still shouted exaggeratedly.

In contrast to Jermichael Green, Eric Dawson pouted, and as for Kawhi Leonard, there was no expression on his face.

Li Yang ignored the reactions of these people, and after completing the dunk, he shook his fist and retreated to the half court to prepare for defense. Li Yang has not forgotten that he still needs to play against Leonard on the defensive end, although the opponent is not known for attack, but Li Yang will not and is not qualified to be taken lightly.

So, naturally, Li Yang didn't notice that Taylor Jenkins had been saying something to Buford and Popovich on the sidelines.

"He's got a lot of physicality, he's very explosive, he can use his speed to tear apart the opposition's defense. ”

"Well, I know you'd think there's a lot of players in the NBA or the NBDL who are athleticly talented, but ...... Let's keep looking, and lo and behold, he's got good rebounding too. ”

On the court, Li Yang was originally prepared to defend Leonard's offense, but he did not get such an opportunity in the first defense.

Perhaps it was the presence of Spurs management that made Justin Duntumon eager to show himself, and after coming to halfcourt, he used Eric Dawson's block to find space in the middle range and shoot directly, but his shot was interfered with by Corey Joseph, who followed closely, the ball bounced out of the basket, and Li Yang rushed inside to grab the rebound.

Li Yang knew very well where his advantage was, that is, the impact, so after picking up the rebound, he did not pass the ball to his teammates, but directly dribbled the ball to the other half court.

When Li Yang rushed up with the ball, the speed of the offensive and defensive conversion was suddenly brought up by him, and everyone quickly ran to the other half, and Li Yang relied on his speed to continuously complete the overtaking.

Li Yang ran all the way to the right three-point line, and in front of him, he also stopped Kawhi Leonard, and the Spurs small forward, who was accustomed to NBA-level defense, did not get messed up because of Li Yang's impact.

His eyes swept ahead and found that the opponent's players were not completely in position, and the players on his side did not have a good chance to attack, so Li Yang immediately decided to attack directly.

After finding that Leonard was really ready to move to the left as expected, Li Yang pushed the ball to the right with his left hand, and quickly pushed the ball to the right, and then accelerated to the right.

Leonard's reaction was not unpleasant, and after Li Yang made a move, he immediately adjusted his footsteps, and at the same time slightly turned sideways and retreated.

If it is an ordinary player, this series of actions can ensure that Leonard is directly attached when the opponent is close, however, Li Yang's explosiveness and speed are obviously not comparable to ordinary players, even compared to NBA players.

Leonard's adjustment time is extremely short, but for Li Yang, this time is enough!

The super explosive power was displayed again, and when Leonard was about to be pasted, Li Yang rushed past Leonard with the sound of the wind and killed towards the penalty area!

Eric Dawson, who was originally closer to the perimeter because of the blockade with Duntmon, has retreated to the basket and has come to the inside to block at this time.

However, Li Yang did not stop his steps because of this, and with a strong impact, Li Yang flew up against Eric Dawson!

Blocking Li Yang's dunk or becoming the background of Li Yang's dunk? After jumping up and thinking about it slightly, Eric Dawson immediately thought that his move was really stupid.

really didn't want to be the background of Li Yang's dunk, Dawson chose to dodge, and found that his body was not blocked in front of Li Yang, Dawson turned his body slightly to avoid colliding directly with Li Yang, and at the same time symbolically raised his hand and swept to the top of Li Yang's head, hoping to interfere with Li Yang.

Since Eric Dawson had a dodge move, Li Yang was naturally unceremonious, and he was also slightly sideways in the air, Li Yang flew directly in front of Eric Dawson, as for Eric Dawson's palm that swept over and couldn't affect it at all, Li Yang directly ignored it.

"Bang!" sounded, and the basketball was dunked into the basket again.

"Oh, it's a lucky thing not to have to be a rival to Yang. When Li Yang finished all this, Jermichael Green, who was watching from the sidelines, shouted again, which embarrassed Eric Dawson, and then he realized that the dodge just now didn't seem to be much more glorious than being blocked by Li Yang.

As for Kawhi Leonard? Well, there seems to be only one expression on his face throughout.