Chapter 254: Blending into the first echelon
The Lakers had a three-day break after the game against the Nets, and given the team's recent good record, Luke Walton was also humane to give the players a day off.
The NBA schedule is very busy, playing 82 games in May, and the average is 15 or 6 games a month, and 30 days a month, and then it is basically one game every two days.
If you meet a good head coach, you will pay attention to the combination of work and rest, but if you meet a training maniac, such as Laili, you will take a holiday? Don't dream, stay and practice.
And Li Hao is lucky, Scott didn't pursue results before, and almost took his salary for nothing to play soy sauce, while Luke Wharton was young and easier to talk.
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Li Hao can finally enjoy this day's vacation, no agent came to take him to work and do image management, and no retired guy came to his house for refuge.
Of course, his girlfriend was not around, and Li Hao was always alone.
Then Li Hao spent a very ordinary day, getting up in the morning to deliver a portion of the store, small white porridge and xiaolongbao, saying that since opening a Chinese restaurant, Li Hao has become less and less self-cooked.
Usually the training is done in the team, and the holidays go to the Chinese restaurant, just like today, Li Hao's three meals a day are done in the Chinese restaurant, and as the boss, Li Hao can eat whatever he wants to eat in the kitchen.
After eating breakfast, open the phone to log in to the game, this big is a morning, and at noon, the chef of the restaurant, Master Zhong's disciple Xiaohu, came to the house to help make it.
After lunch, Li Hao rested, took a nap by the way, and went to the gym in the afternoon, and Xiao Hu came to the house to cook dinner.
After dinner, Li Hao chatted with his girlfriend Jin Xuexuan for a while, and as time went by, Li Hao chatted with Jin Xuexuan for a shorter and shorter time, which is definitely not a good thing, but there is no way, who separated them from the two places, and they are separated by the Pacific Ocean.
Then it was time to sleep, and it was not that no one called Li Hao to go out to surf, but Li Hao refused, it was rare to take a day off, and it was more comfortable to stay at home for a day.
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After such an ordinary day, the team regrouped, playing only 12 games in the regular season, with 70 games still waiting for them.
This time Howard is regrouped to further unblock, and he can officially play training games with the team, and when Howard gradually adapts, he can officially return to the court.
"Dwight, take it easy, don't get too excited" Li Hao didn't forget to remind Howard during the training match.
"I'm already," Howard didn't listen to Li Hao at all.
Howard has been training and has been training with the team for a while, so after the practice began, Howard directly wreaked havoc under Yi Jianlian and Randle to form a basket.
Luke Wharton and the Lakers coaching staff are still very happy to see how Howard has just returned to the court, but they all know that the training game is different from the official game, and Howard can still fly away, but he is over 30 years old after all.
Howard is very important to the Lakers, and the first twelve games have proven a lot of things, and if it weren't for the excellent play of Li Hao and Wade, the Lakers would not have achieved the current record.
And after a period of getting along and communicating, the coaching staff already knew that Howard let go of his obsession with the core and was willing to cooperate with his teammates.
Howard's state really can't be compared to when he was with the Magic, but if Howard doesn't obsess over the tactical core alignment and no longer lets the team play around him, just guarding the basket and being willing to be a green leaf, it is enough to support a team's interior defense.
Seriously, Luke Wharton can wake up laughing in his dreams now, Li Hao, Wade plus a mature Howard, this is a proper strong team background.
If there is any disadvantage of the Lakers, it is that there are too many rookies, although these rookies have a certain amount of talent, but they all need to practice for a long time.
However, Wade and Howard couldn't wait, in fact, Luke Wharton had discussed with Li Hao, and I have to say that it is not a loss to be a teammate with Kobe, and his emotional intelligence is directly full.
Of course Li Hao is unwilling, firstly, it is impossible to maximize the benefits of sending it out now, and secondly, Li Hao just wants to try how far he can go with this group of rookies.
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Another day has passed, the new Spurs have come to Los Angeles, Duncan officially announced his retirement in July, and the Spurs have entered the Leonard era, but the GDP has not ended there, and Parker and Ginobili have not retired.
Although the Spurs have one less Duncan, this does not mean that the Spurs are weaker, on the contrary, the Spurs are stronger this season than the previous year, after all, Duncan was really a little unbeatable last year, and this summer they signed Pau Gasol, who still has the strength to fight.
Pau Gasol, a Lakers legend, averaged 16.5 points and 11 rebounds per game in 72 games with the Bulls playing in 72 games last season.
In addition to Gasol, Leonard has further evolved this season and officially entered the ultimate body, and in the next few days, Leonard can be called the first person to integrate offense and defense.
In the timeline without Li Hao, if it weren't for Leonard being tiptoed, the Spurs would have a good chance of knocking the Warriors off the horse and continuing the tradition of winning the championship in odd numbers.
In fact, the Spurs' record this season has said it all, with 9 wins and 3 losses, second only to the Lakers and Cavaliers, who are both 10-2.
At present, the four teams with the best record in the league, the Lakers, the Cavaliers, the Warriors and the Spurs, it is a bit unbelievable that the Lakers appear in the first echelon after a blow-up, after all, the Lakers have been the bottom team in the past few years.
"The Lakers are a team that has always been strong, and Lee's excellence no longer needs me to say anything" Popovich was full of praise for the Lakers and Li Hao in an interview with the media before the game.
"No, no, no~~~ I still have a long way to go" Li Hao said so, but he was still very useful in his heart, even though he knew that it was Popovich's sugar-coated cannonball.
Li Hao knows very well how bad this bad old man is, but on the court, Li Hao is really not afraid of this bad old man, he is a man with a "body of steel".
As a player, Li Hao doesn't want Leonard to get hurt, Li Hao and Leonard are not friends, but as opponents, the two still feel a little sympathetic to each other.
But as a person who knows Popovich, he feels that this is retribution, although Li Hao knows that he has changed a lot of things, but he also knows that as long as it is not related to himself, it should happen or happen.
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"I think Lee and Leonard are the most likely players to compete for this year's DPOY" This heavyweight battle is naturally indispensable to audiences across the United States, and TNT giants are indispensable.
"Indeed, Leonard has become a true offensive and defensive player this season" In the first twelve games, Leonard has scored more than 30 points in four games.