Chapter 52: Preseason
In the apartment, Li Hao looked paralyzed with a loveless Ge You.
Today is October 7th, two days after the NBA preseason began, and today is the Lakers' first preseason game, when they travel to the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego, California, to face the Denver Nuggets.
For the Lakers' preseason, Li Hao is very much looking forward to it, but sometimes the more he looks forward to it, the easier it is to have an accident, and when he got up this morning, Li Hao suddenly felt that his head was a little heavy, and his breathing became not very smooth.
This feeling is not unfamiliar to Li Hao, because he used to have it once a year before, and he caught a cold.
After the soul pierced, Li Hao felt that he would not catch a cold again, after all, his body was now systematically generated, and Li Hao also doubted whether he was a normal person after all.
Now, Li Hao can say with certainty that he is still a normal person, otherwise he would not have caught a cold.
In fact, a cold is a cold, but this timing is a little difficult for Li Hao to accept.
However, at the same time, Li Hao was also a little lucky, glad that he still belonged to the range of normal humans, if he really wouldn't get injured or get sick, then he wouldn't be a normal human.
In the past, Li Hao basically couldn't get better after a cold every week, but now it's different, with his current body immunity, it is estimated that he can recover in a day or two.
Well, Li Hao thought too simply, the next day, Li Hao continued to lie in the apartment, and the third day was no exception, and it didn't get better until the fourth day.
By the time Li Hao really recovered and returned healthy, five days had passed, but fortunately, there was only one preseason game in two to three days, and Li Hao missed the first two.
Just when Li Hao was about to return to the team, the Lakers attrition again, and Nash's back injury recurred.
A long time ago, Nash announced that 14-15 was his last season, but 14-15 has not really started, and Nash seems to be over.
After the team assembled, Li Hao also asked Nash a lot of things, Nash is indeed old, but he used to be the league's No. 1 point guard, two-time regular season MVP, and he exists as a mortal as a god.
Nash also did not hide his selfishness, and gave Li Hao a lot of advice in terms of ball control and passing, although Li Hao's attributes did not change because of this, but he still felt that he had improved.
In addition to Nash, before the start of the preseason, Yang Shaoxia was also injured, and Nick Young suffered a torn ligament in his right thumb and needed to rest for at least two months.
Throughout Yang Shaoxia's career, in addition to the high attendance rate in the previous seasons, the attendance rate in the back is average, which is one of the reasons why Yang Shaoxia has never been able to go further.
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On the second day of Li Hao's return, the Lakers ushered in the second game against the Golden State Warriors, and this game was scheduled at the Citizens Commercial Bank Arena.
After the injuries to Nash and Nick Young, the Lakers' starters naturally changed, with Jeremy Lin becoming the team's starting point guard and small forward Wesley Johnson in the role.
Looking at Curry and Thompson on the court, Li Hao was a little impatient, but it was useless for Li Hao to be eager, he could only be on the sidelines before Scott replaced him.
The game on the court had already begun, and the Warriors center took the basketball away, and the Golden State dribbled past half court and passed the basketball to Barnes, who burst to the three-second zone and made a layup for the Warriors to score two points.
Jeremy Lin wants to return one, Jeremy Lin and Nash are two types of guards, Nash is the first priority to help teammates, and Lin is offensive.
In this ball, Jeremy Lin came directly to himself, forced Curry, but did not succeed, was entangled by Curry, and finally shot off under Curry's defense.
Jeremy Lin was teammates with Curry, who entered the draft in 2010 but was ultimately undrafted, and then performed well in the summer league and eventually signed a two-year contract with the Warriors.
However, Jeremy Lin did not play two full seasons with the Warriors, and in December '11, Jeremy Lin was cut, and then Jeremy Lin signed with the Rockets, but was cut again a few days later.
After being cut by the Rockets, Jeremy Lin signed with the New York Knicks, and soon after that, the era of Lin Madness began, and when the Rockets wanted to sign Jeremy Lin back, the price was more than 20 million US dollars.
After one offense and one defense had no effect, Curry turned on the day-to-day mode and made three 3-pointers in a row, and the Warriors beat the Lakers 11-0 less than two minutes into the game.
Usually stubborn old-school coaches don't make changes easily, especially since it's only a preseason game, even if the Lakers lost their first two games.
At 9:20, the Lakers scored the first ball of the game, and it was Jeremy Lin's strong burst, only this time he chose to pass the ball to Jordan Hill, who shot a jumper in front of David Lee.
However, those two points were the only points the Lakers scored in the first four minutes, after which Kobe Bryant's jumper was blocked by Thompson, Boozer missed the shot, and Jordan Hill's layup was also deflected wide by Bogut's interference.
It wasn't until the fifth minute that the Lakers hit another 2-pointer, and Boozer received a pass from Kobe Bryant and hit a hook shot, and the Lakers rewrote the score to 4:16.
In this game, the Lakers' scoring was like constipation, and after scoring these two points, the Lakers entered a scoring drought again, and the Warriors extended their lead again.
Thompson, Barnes, and Boggart scored successively, and the Warriors suddenly stretched the difference to 20 minutes, but even if the difference reached 20 points, Scott still had no intention of making substitutions.
That didn't happen until three minutes into the first quarter when Scott made his first substitution of the game, with Randle coming on for Boozer and Thackeray for Jordan Hill.
Then there was nothing to do with Li Hao, no matter how much Li Hao's eyes looked forward to it, Scott just didn't see it, and the entire first quarter had nothing to do with Li Hao, and the Lakers were 26 points behind at 13:39.
"Lee, the second section you change Jeremy" translated into Chinese is Jeremy, which is Jeremy's English name.
"Good coach" was still depressed, and Li Hao jumped up all of a sudden.
Soon the second quarter restarted, and the Lakers were led by Li Hao, with Ellington at No. 2, Smith at No. 3, Randle at No. 4, and Thackeray at No. 5.
The Warriors have replaced Curry and Thompson, with Brazil's old Lightning Barbossa leading the way, followed by Iguodala, Rush, Green and Kuzmic.
Seeing the Warriors' lineup Li Hao was a little disappointed, as a soul wearer, who doesn't want to play Curry and Thompson, although he may not be able to play now.
"Since that's the case, then I'll force you out" said Li Hao dribbled and sniped directly after half the court.
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A super long-distance three-pointer, and after the goal, Li Hao turned his head to look at Curry again, and Li Hao did this in the game with the Warriors in the summer league.
Curry is a person with a good personality, and in the face of Li Hao's provocation, Curry did not respond, and even showed a smile like a schoolboy.