Chapter Seventy-Nine: Trouble
The day after the game with the Warriors, Li Hao and Kobe Bryant went to give back to the community, which is a characteristic of the United States, and it is also a way for NBA teams to manage their team image and gather fans.
Every year NBA teams do this kind of activity to give back to the community, and the players of each team also have assignments, and it has even become an obligation for the team and players.
Li Hao is a rookie who only entered the league this year, and it is the first time to participate in this kind of activity, so the Lakers arranged for Kobe Bryant to take Li Hao, and the Lakers obviously arranged it on purpose.
Kobe Bryant is very happy to bring newcomers, not to mention Li Hao, Kobe Bryant has not brought newcomers in the Lakers, and Li Hao is undoubtedly the most worry-free, hard-working and satisfying newcomer that Kobe has encountered.
Today's activities are two things, sending supplies to poor communities, and then going to a welfare home to play with children, and playing basketball.
In this kind of community activity, the team contributes a part, the sponsors also contribute a part, and the high-income players will also spend their own money to buy some supplies if they want to.
Kobe Bryant spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy a horse, and Li Hao also spent 20,000 dollars, although Li Hao's salary is not high, he has other incomes, and with his excellent performance on the court, Li Hao's endorsement fee is soaring wildly.
Li Hao bought shoes for all the 20,000 US dollars, compared with clothes, Los Angeles seems to need shoes more, because the lowest temperature in Los Angeles is only a dozen degrees a year, and the hottest is no more than 30.
Li Hao has never been a stingy person, and he himself grew up in a welfare home, and Li Hao directly donated a sum of money after making money in China before.
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The United States is not as good as some people say, free America, shootings every day are not just words, and the prosperity of Los Angeles is a siren every day.
And the more prosperous the place, the greater the gap between the rich and the poor, and this feeling is especially evident after a day of community service.
After another children's game with the children in the welfare home, Li Hao and Kobe ended the day's activities, and then Li Hao was forced to follow Kobe to a Mexican restaurant.
It's not the first time Li Hao has come to this restaurant, Kobe Bryant boasted about how delicious and delicious this restaurant is when they trained together in the offseason, but after Li Hao came over and tasted it together, Li Hao suspected that Kobe Bryant's taste was wrong, because the things in this restaurant didn't match the deliciousness at all.
If you stand in the perspective of an athlete, it is still good, after all, after being a real athlete for a year, Li Hao knows how unpalatable the nutritious meal is.
"I want to open my own Chinese restaurant in the future, a pure Chinese restaurant" Li Hao can also cook himself, as a self-reliant person since childhood, cooking is a basic skill
"Okay, but there are a lot of Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles" Kobe Bryant also went to eat.
"That's all improved to adapt to the taste of the locals, I want to open a pure Chinese restaurant, just for a real Chinese like me" Los Angeles, the city with the largest number of Chinese in the United States, coupled with Li Hao's fame, will definitely not lose.
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The next day, Li Hao's attention returned to training, although Li Hao is also a person who has a girlfriend now, but because Ao Mei has joined the group to shoot, there is no difference between this girlfriend and not.
No, there is still a difference, at least Li Hao has one more task at night, that is, to make a video call to his girlfriend.
Since Ao Mei left, the two have video calls every day, and each call starts from an hour, which is understandable for men and women in love.
In addition to calling, Ao Mei will also watch the Lakers' games, and in the last game against the Warriors, Ao Mei pulled the crew to watch it together, but unfortunately lost in the end.
However, the Lakers' losing journey has only just begun, and with the Lakers' roster this season, it will not be easy to win a few more games.
No, a day later, the home team welcomed the Phoenix Suns, and the Lakers lost again, and Li Hao originally wanted to avenge the previous arrow, but the revenge was not successful.
In this game, Kobe Bryant was more efficient than the previous game, although he still took up a lot of car shots, and Bryant scored 39 points in the whole game with 14 of 30 shots, 3 of 7 three-point shots, and 8 of 12 free throws.
Li Hao played 33 minutes in this game, shooting 7 of 14, 3 of 6 three-pointers, and 3 of 5 free throws, scoring 20 points, 12 assists, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 1 steal.
In addition to offense, Li Hao also made a great contribution to defense, and Li Hao played against Dragic throughout the game, limiting his score to 9 points, and giving both blocks to Dragic.
If the Lakers have a good chance of winning the game based on the performance of the starters, the two bench players of the Suns in this game have stepped up.
Gerard Green, the 9-finger dunk king, suddenly broke out, slashing the Suns' team-high 26 points, plus Thomas Jr.'s 22 points, the Suns' bench lineup blew up the Lakers' bench.
Although Jeremy Lin also had a good performance, scoring 18 points, Jeremy Lin is not Li Hao, he can score by himself when he is in good shape, but he can't make his teammates better.
And Jeremy Lin alone obviously can't resist Green and Thomas Jr., and it is precisely because the Lakers' bench lineup has been completely blown up that the main force has never been able to fill this big hole, and the Lakers ushered in the first consecutive defeat of the season.
With the strength of this game, there were some discordant voices outside the court, and some expert media said that it was Kobe Bryant who took up a lot of shooting power to cause the Lakers to lose the game.
In the two games the Lakers won, Bryant averaged just 16 shots per game, while in the three games the Lakers lost, Bryant averaged 27.6 shots per game and shot just over 40 percent from the field.
In contrast, Li Hao only averaged 17.8 shots per game, with a shooting rate of more than 50%, and Li Hao's total shooting rate exceeded 50%, and the three-point shooting rate was also more than 50%.
When he saw this news, Li Hao almost vomited blood, he didn't want to be estranged from Kobe Bryant because of this, and Li Hao knew very well that the main reason for these fifty percent of the hits was that the opponent's defensive focus was on Kobe, and Li Hao had a good hand since the beginning of the new season.
No team pays too much attention to a rookie, which is why many rookies start out to a very good start, but start to fall back as the season progresses.
Because as the regular season progresses, each team gradually understands the abilities of rookies in all aspects, so that they can make corresponding tactics to limit, which is one of the external factors that cause the rookie wall.
The rookie wall can be divided into extrinsic and intrinsic, with the extrinsic being the rookie becoming familiar with the rookie and the intrinsic being the rookie himself.
For example, physical fitness, the intensity of NBA games is very high, there are 82 games in the regular season alone, and an average of 2-3 days to play a game, which is a great test of the players' physical fitness.
And it is the first time for the rookie to experience such a dense competition, coupled with the high-intensity competition, the rookie's physical fitness is easy to have problems.