Chapter Twenty-Nine: Showing Off Your Muscles
When the time comes to July, the Lakers head coach is still undecided, and more than two months have passed since D'Antoni's departure.
So when Li Hao came to the Toyota Sports Center again, he was still facing that group of people, led by assistant coach Mark Madsen.
The coaching staff has not changed, but the players are completely different, and Kupchak has signed more than a dozen players in a row for the upcoming summer league.
So when Li Hao reported to the team, there were already nearly twenty balls in the training hall, and the moment Li Hao appeared, some hostility immediately came from not far away.
Among these dozen players, there are as many as 4 undrafted picks this year alone, and two of them play the same position as Li Hao.
Keith Applen averaged 11.2 points and 4.6 assists per game in the NCAA in the 13-14 season.
Deandre Kane, a two-way guard, averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game in his recent season.
What about Li Hao? The NACC played two games, combined for 18 minutes, and scored a total of 18 points.
Li Hao's data is not as good-looking as the two, but he has a very big advantage in terms of age, Li Hao on August 8, 1995 is more than a month old to turn 19 years old, while Apulin is 92 years old, Kane is 89 years old, and he is an overage rookie.
The NCAA stats are just a reference for participating in the draft, because there are so many players who have played star-level stats in the NCAA, and many of these college star players are so many that they are not even qualified to guard the water cooler in the NBA.
However, the parties definitely don't think so, just like Apulin and Kane at this moment, their eyes were full of hostility and disbelief when they saw Li Hao appear in the training hall.
Yes, no, as college star players, they can't compare to a guy who only played eighteen minutes, how can they be convinced.
Besides, if you want to impress the Lakers and win a contract, what better way to do that than to beat the Lakers' own players?
Li Hao doesn't care about this, after a season in the NCAA, after two months of drafting, Li Hao is already very aware of the cruelty of the NBA.
So for these players who can only look for opportunities in the summer league, Li Hao sympathizes, but if someone wants to step on their own position, then Li Hao doesn't mind letting them face the cruel reality.
In the NBA, superstars are never generous creatures, and even a little too calculating, but that's why they really climb to the top.
Li Hao is not a superstar now, and he still thinks he is a good person, not the kind of good guy card, but there is a big premise, that is, don't mess with him.
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"Coach, can you come to a match?" Li Hao came to Madsen and asked.
"Of course you can" Kupchak has long been angry with Madsen, one of the most important tasks of the Las Vegas Summer League is to see Li Hao's performance, so Madsen also designed several sets of small tactics for Li Hao.
While he can use the coach's authority to get players to execute, it's not the best way to do it, and in the end, the best in sports is king.
Moreover, Madsen also wanted to see Li Hao's progress this month, but he knew that Li Hao had been training with Kobe Bryant in the past month.
Soon a 5V5 confrontation was staged at the Toyota Sports Center, Li Hao's red team in addition to Li Hao also had the 58th pick in 2010 by the Lakers to select center Kerry Cotter, power forward Drew Gordon, this is the fourth position this year's Aaron Gordon's brother, lost the draft in 2012, small forward is this year's draft Rothko Smith, scoring is also this year's draft draft Jabari Brown.
On the other side, the No. 1 position of the white team is Kane, the No. 2 position is Stroberg, the No. 3 position is the 07 All-Star dunk king Gerard Green's younger brother Garon Green, the No. 4 position is the 2011 No. 37 show Tompkins, and the center Simmons.
In other words, the player signed by the Lakers this time does not have an orthodox center, Simmons and Kyricott are actually more suitable for playing the No. 4 position than the No. 5 position, and both are only 206 tall.
Simmons got the ball and basketball came to Kane, who was 193 barefoot, 196 in shoes, weighed 91 kilograms, and was a very good two-way guard in college.
At this time, there is naturally no one else in the defense of Kane, as one of the players who are most hostile to him, and the most direct competitor, Li Hao proposed to come to the confrontation game to meet these two people.
In the face of Li Hao's defense, Kane was very confident, so he didn't do any feints, and directly held the ball to make a strong breakthrough, but unfortunately, his strong breakthrough was not successful.
Kane wanted to use his body to bully Li Hao, but he never dreamed that Li Hao's body was far stronger than him, not to mention Li Hao's current 79-level external defense attribute and Hall of Fame-level death entanglement.
In the past month, Li Hao has had to go head-to-head with Kobe Bryant 1-on-1 every day, although he is still on the beaten side, but this month has improved very significantly, and his defensive ability has exceeded the average level of the NBA.
Kane, who couldn't break through Li Hao's defense, could only pass the ball to his teammates, and finally the younger brother of the nine-finger dunk king ended the attack with a violent dunk.
Switching between offense and defense, Li Hao crossed the half court with the ball, and Kane, who had just lost face, wanted to get back from the defense and immediately rushed to Li Hao.
Li Hao was unmoved, and his crotch movement changed direction.
Bang - it's still a bit reluctant to do this with the ball in his seventies.
As soon as he touched Kyle, he fell backwards, but Li Hao had no effect, and after Kyle fell to the ground, Li Hao immediately jumped and shot.
Brush - Three-point shot.
The gap, the gap is very obvious, and Applein, who had just envied Kane on the sidelines, was only happy at this time, and Madsen was also surprised, but after the surprise was excitement.
Li Hao was physically strong and Madsen knew it, but he didn't expect that he would be able to knock him away in the face of an opponent of the same size, and he had no effect at all, which is very revealing.
The physical fitness of the two is not at the same level at all, but the gap between the two is not only in physical fitness, in the next few waves of attacks, Kane can be said to have done nothing in Li Hao's defense.
On the contrary, Li Hao not only completely locked Kane in defense, but also directly turned on the attack mode, and the second wave of the red team's offensive Li Hao directly passed Kane in one step, rushed into the interior line to attract Simmons to defend and pass the ball to Carey Cotter, who dunked with both hands.
The third wave of offense was the breakaway, and this time Li Hao gave Brown a pass to the bottom corner, and the undrafted player hit a three-point shot.
Ma Dan, the feeling of beating others is so cool.
After being beaten by Fancy for a month, Li Hao finally experienced Kobe's happiness, and he finally understood why Kobe Bryant and the old rascal trained so hard, because this kind of happiness will be addictive as long as it is experienced once, and if you want to experience this happiness all the time, you must make yourself strong enough.
(It's not too much to ask for a few tickets for three more)