When the game enters the final minute to decide the winner, the disadvantages of the young team's inexperience will become apparent, and in the last game against the Nuggets, Li Ze lost a backcourt rebound.

So in this game with the Mavericks, the same mistake, Li Ze will never make again, with both free throws scored, the Thunder, who led by 4 points, gained the initiative in the game.

Coach Carlisle used the last timeout, whether it was a 3-point or a quick 2-pointer, the next goal had to be scored, and the foul tactic was taken immediately after the goal.

But alas, the opportunity came out, Nowitzki threw the ball again, the fourth quarter was too fierce, and the final stage of physical fitness was affected, and Coach Carlisle could only sigh lightly in his heart.

With Durant hitting both free throws again, the Thunder stretched the margin to six points, and the Mavericks knew that the tide was turning, and Jason Terry threw a three-pointer after halftime and still hit the iron.

At the end of the game, the Thunder defeated the Dallas Mavericks 100-94 at home, and by virtue of the victory, they returned to the first place in the West.

After the game, the players on both sides hugged and greeted, and Nowitzki still looked kind after the loss, and after finding Li Ze, the two had a brief chat.

"Li, you have been playing better and better recently, keep up your condition, your current style of play is very good, a healthy body, can make you have a more exciting career!"

"I still need to learn from you, seriously, how did you do such an exaggerated back-up shot, I really want to learn your shooting skills!"

Li Ze really admired Nowitzki's shooting, with a large recline and a high arc of the shot, and only after the fight did he know how difficult it would be to defend.

"Haha, in fact, it's nothing, everyone has their own way of shooting, I suggest you keep your current body shape, start with strength training, and let your body exert more energy, come on, Lee!"

Nowitzki and Li Ze whispered a lot on the sidelines, which made the Celestial Empire media who wanted to interview anxious.

"I really want to know what they talked about, did you find that Li Ze has a good relationship with most of the players?"

The accompanying staff began to remind everyone around them that this would also be a small news hotspot, and everyone also started to discuss it when they heard this.

Su Qun sighed silently in his heart:

"If the UAE can have this kind of communication ability, it can score at least four or five more points in the Nets, after all, playing ball is also based on people's sophistication..."

After the game, the interview quota was obtained by Sina Sports, and seeing that Li Ze's side had ended the greetings, the reporters of Sina Sports hurried over.

"Li Ze, congratulations on your victory over the Dallas Mavericks, we see that the fans in the Russian City are very enthusiastic, can you briefly explain why the Thunder's results have suddenly improved this season?"

The domestic media know that Li Ze's Chinese is very good, and the communication is convenient, but it is not good to make up news after the game, but Sina Sports wants to report truthfully, and now Li Ze is a big hot spot in the domestic basketball circle.

"Actually, the Thunder have always been very strong, and there was a slump in Seattle in the past, but after moving to the city, after two years of training, my teammates have started to realize their talent."

"And in the locker room, we have experienced veterans leading the team, and Coach Brooks and his coaching staff have done a lot of work, so everyone is working together and the results are good."

Li Ze faced the interview, and he generally spoke in all aspects, and the media on Amika's side had already learned Li Ze's skills, except that they would interview Li Ze at the beginning, and then they simply started editing directly.

Anyway, as long as it's not too outrageous, Li Ze doesn't bother to care, and many small media will gradually let go, and the blowing will be over.

ESPN is shouting that Li Ze is Jordan's successor, and the small media are following the wind, it must be right...

As soon as the reporter of Sina Sports heard Li Ze's big words, he immediately felt that his bonus was about to be gone, and quickly asked a controversial question.

"In November, you won the Rookie of the Month award, and now that you're halfway through the December season, do you think you're going to win this award for the next consecutive year?"

"Of course, whether it's the team's record or personal data, I should be the best performer at the moment, whether it's the best of the week or the best of the month, these awards are basically not too suspenseful."

"If you talk about personal data, my good brothers James Harden and Stephen Curry are also playing well, but unfortunately, the Thunder are now No. 1 in the West, and I think I still have the Rookie of the Month award in December."

Li Ze is not too modest about awards, first in the West, 20+5+5, if the league is not blind, he will win all rookie awards.

The reporter of Sina Sports was stunned, good guy, it's still half a month, and this is going to win the award? But after thinking about it, this answer is good, and there will definitely be traffic when you send it back.

"Last question, you are very popular in China, and many fans like you very much, is there anything you want to say to the fans of the Celestial Empire?"

"Thank you for your support and attention, the All-Star is coming, I hope you will vote for me more, by the way, I also registered on Sina Weibo, you can also pay attention to it, and I will give away signed jerseys when I have the opportunity."

"Can Sina Sports help me certify? I feel that many of your functions are still in internal testing, can you add a forwarding lottery function? ”

Li Ze said the second half of the sentence to the Sina staff around him, Weibo has just appeared in 09, and if you settle in at this time, you will definitely be able to eat traffic dividends.

"Well, we'll give you feedback, and it's definitely no problem to simply authenticate! Come on! See you at the press conference in a moment! ”

Sina Sports' media reporters and accompanying staff were a little dazed at this time, didn't it mean that Li Ze rarely cared about the domestic situation? How can you even know something as trendy as Weibo?

After several people glanced at each other, a thought came to their minds.

"In the future, let's make up less about Li Ze's news..."

After the game, in the Thunder locker room, everyone was smiling, and it was indeed worth rejoicing that they returned to the first place in the West and beat the Lakers.

Coach Brooks also began to send out thick chicken soup:

"Guys, we don't look at the rankings, the news made up by the media, I just say my own feelings, the team is improving every minute, everyone is growing by leaps and bounds."

'In the last game, in the last minute, we lost, but back at home, we withstood the pressure and again in the last minute, we won in the end.

"The Dallas Mavericks are a playoff team, but we beat them, so what I want to say is, guys, don't be presumptuous, we're young, but we're strong."

"Keep it up, boys!"

"Yay!!"

Drinking a bowl of thick chicken soup, the Thunder everyone screamed in the locker room, Durant played well in this game, efficiently cut 31 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists, 9 of 9 free throws, the whistle, Durant has found his senses.

Feeling that his position as the boss was about to be gone, Durant began to speak out actively in the locker room:

"Guys, after training tomorrow, we will all come to my house for a party together, thank you for your support to me, I promise, all the famous hot girls in Russia will be there tomorrow night!"

"Wow! I can't wait, Kevin, you should have done this party sooner, the shit media is always slamming us, everyone just relax! ”

Jeff Green naturally has to help Durant stand up, and this is a good opportunity to win hearts and minds.

"That's right, the party before Christmas, Kayce originally wanted to hold it once, but with Nina here, everyone will definitely not be able to let go, thank you this time, Kevin!"

The turtle also has to speak up for his good brother, and the Thunder team is now even starting to roll up the party.

Li Ze, who followed Coach Brooks to the press conference, naturally didn't know about the episodes that happened in the locker room after he left, and the battle for the status of the boss has slowly become white-hot.

After attending the press conference, after the trainer Meg helped Li Ze finish physiotherapy, it was already very late, and noticing that Li Ze did not have too much tiredness, Meg couldn't help but laugh softly:

"Kayce, your fitness is getting better and better, especially your recovery, it just takes my breath away, it seems that Tony's point is right, you are playing more efficiently now!"

Li Ze replied teasingly while moving his body:

"But a lot of Russian fans left messages under my tweet, and they kind of missed the explosive crossover I had in the previous games, but luckily they didn't know Tony's tweet, otherwise you know!"

"Haha, it's really interesting, but the way you're playing is still very interesting and most importantly, you can avoid a lot of injuries, which is really important!"

"Take a long-term view, Kayce, we're all looking forward to you playing until you're 35, and the three of us will retire at ease."

As a trainer who has handled many players, Meg has seen too many talented players fall, and the body is the capital of the revolution.

"Don't worry, man, I promise you'll get a big pension, or that's the case, you're professional, I trust you, and I take all the useful advice!"

Although Li Ze is an open-minded guy, the plug-in can't make his body immune to injuries, so a proper health style of play is conducive to physical health, and Rose's style of play is not the way he wants to go.

After driving home, Li Ze simply washed up, and began to reply to various messages on his mobile phone, there were many brothers on the surface, and it was a little troublesome to maintain, and finally after seeing Annie's message, he couldn't help but turn dark.

"You two are going to heaven! If you don't go home for Christmas, you still want to come to my place together? ”

Although there is some resistance in my heart, I must agree to this matter, otherwise he will definitely not have good fruit to eat next year...

Li Ze exhaled helplessly, and immediately lay down on the soft big bed, "The boat is naturally straight to the bridge, it's useless to think too much!" With the thought of breaking the jar, I slowly fell asleep.

In the dream training space, Li Ze exhaled out of the control panel and noticed that there were two upgrade prompts on the achievement room, revealing an unsurprising expression.

"Sure enough, playing against a strong team and playing until the last minute to determine the winner or loser, this badge experience will be more."

After entering the achievement room and briefly checking the experience of the badges, I came to the two upgraded silver badges, and stepped forward to touch them lightly to check the attribute changes:

Achievement Badge [Master of Ball Protection]: 2/500

Reduces the chance of being tackled by defenders and reduces the physical exertion after defending the ball.

Achievement Badge [Sticky Hands]: 1/500

Strengthens the ability to receive difficult passes and quickly place the ball on the floor, and improves the shooting rate of direct shots when receiving difficult passes.

After Li Ze saw the attributes of the [Sticky Hands] badge, he couldn't help but scratch his head, this is to add an assist to the turtle turtle again!

In the game with the Mavericks, the turtle got 21 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, Li Ze contributed two of the assists, and the badge effect helped a lot.

"Is this the fate of the boss? I really want to experience the feeling of throwing the pot..."

……

The Thunder team once again relied on their winning advantage and returned to the first place in the West, for which the TNT program specially made a special program of the Thunder team, mainly to analyze the tactical play of the Thunder team.

"Charles, you still have one more chance to take back what you said before, and admit it, man, you've lost your eyes, you've underestimated these young people!"

"OK, I'll take back part of my opinion, Kayce has changed this team, he's really good, by the way, James Harden, you're not playing up to my expectations!"

Barkley is still hard-mouthed, but when it comes to Rookie of the Year, he admits he's gone for it.

"Okay, man, say something useful, why do you think the Thunder have been successful this season? Is it because of Kayce? ”

Kenny Smith hastened to get back to business.

"Of course, Kayce is definitely the core of this team, look at what he does on the court, playmaking, rebounding, scoring."

"In the game against the Dallas Mavericks, he had 24 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and only one turnover."

"Seeing such stats, can you believe he's still a rookie? This Thunder team he's leading! ”

Barkley has been subdued by Li Ze, and now he is almost incarnated as Li Ze.

"Wow, that's an interesting point? What about Kevin and Russell? You know, Kevin has always been the Thunder's leading scorer. ”

Kenny Smith started to get things done, knowing that fans love to see comparisons between stars.

"Russell is good, he's very good on the break and the transition, but we know how the Thunder played last season without Kayce, he's a sophomore and lacks some tactical understanding."

"Kevin is definitely a talented scorer, and as much as I don't really like his style of play, I must admit that his offensive talent is unmatched, but it's worth noting that he's been having problems defensively."

"If you want to be a great player, if you're going to be the core leader of a team;"

"You've got to make yourself both offensive and defensive, look at how Michael Jordan plays, look at how Kobe Bryant is playing right now."

"That's why I would say that Kayce is the heart of this team and his defense is definitely underrated."

"Look at the pressure he pressed against the opposition defenders, and then look at the previous defense against Anthony, and I think Kayce is a worthy leader."

Barkley blew at Li Ze, and those who didn't know thought he had collected the money...

During the break the next morning, Durant drank a large glass of juice angrily after seeing this episode.

"Shet! Shit remarks! In the past two years, I have been said to be iron, my shooting percentage is high, and I am not good at defense, I am the boss of the team! ”

"There's got to be a bit more defensive work, Fack! I'm going to have to sanction Barkley's Twitter, this damn big mouth! ”

On December 18, the Thunder will host the Detroit Pistons tonight, and after this game, they will immediately fly to Houston to take on the Rockets on the road.

Although it was another back-to-back game, everyone on the Thunder team was in a happy mood at this time, and I have to say that Durant bought people's hearts in order to run a good party, which was really bloody.

Whether it is a big ball or a small ball, a black ball or a white ball, everything is available, and everyone on the Thunder team said that this kind of ball control training will come several more times in the future.

Jeff Green is now playing with his gossip again.

"Guys, Prince shouldn't be playing tonight, maybe the game will be a little easier."

Li Ze controlled the big ball all night last night, and now he feels just right, throwing three points with a stump, after hearing the news, he couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Do you have someone in the Pistons locker room too? It must be their smoke bombs. ”

"I have a good relationship with Rodney Starkey, this guy has been very strong recently, he has won 25+ in several games in a row, and when we met in the morning, I chatted a few words, and the news can't be wrong."

Rodney Starkey was drafted by the Pistons with the 15th pick in the first round in '07, and he and Jeff Green are superficial brothers, but when he played away before, Li Ze didn't have too much impression of him.

"Chaggy Atkins has started the last few games with the Pistons and I think we're going to have an easy game tonight."

Turtle Turtle thinks that a 35-year-old veteran can still handle it easily.

"Alright, boys, in the last tactical training session, cheer up, don't underestimate any opponent!"

Coach Brooks interrupted the small talk of the players, he wanted to win the game early tonight, after all, there are back-to-back games to play tomorrow, and of course the physical strength needs to be saved.

The media reporters of the Celestial Empire filmed a lot of material in Russia all day yesterday, and with the full cooperation of the Thunder team, it was more than enough to go back and produce a special program.

"I really didn't expect Li Ze to be so popular in Russia, I watched it on the forum here on Amika's side, and it was all a topic of praise!"

The accompanying staff said to Su Qun.

"It's really powerful, TNT had a special episode of the Thunder last night, Barkley blew Li Ze into the sky, we really don't dare to say that, we still know too little about Li Ze in the past!"

Su Qun knows that the current domestic public opinion environment is not very good, and the UAE League is frequently questioned by fans, if they really sing praises to Li Ze, maybe there will be a negative effect.

"Hey, I finally came out with a star player, but we can't praise our own people, what is this called!"

The staff couldn't help but complain.

"It will get better slowly, whether it is the UAE or Li Ze, as long as they can maintain a high level of competition and play a wonderful game, I believe that most fans will definitely support it!"

Su Qun expects Li Ze's excellent performance to improve the domestic public opinion environment.

"I hope so!"

Li Ze goes to the stadium in advance to warm up every game, but he has also been a little distressed recently, he finds that he has more and more muscular fans, and he doesn't want to watch the comments under the YouTube video.

Seeing that there were three or five strong fans on the sidelines who had entered the stadium in advance and waved to him desperately, the corners of Li Ze's mouth twitched, adjusted his facial expressions, and then waved to the other party.

"Shet! If you build more muscles, you will attract people of the same sex..."

The Detroit Pistons currently sit in ninth place in the East with an 11-14 record, and Prince's injury has exacerbated their already modest roster.

Before the start of the game, head coach John Kuster looked at his starting lineup and was a little worried, struggling to defend on the outside and weak to protect the frame on the inside.

"Starkey, pay attention to Lee's defense, block and squeeze quickly, Ben, organize everyone's defensive rotation, if there is a chance, we can increase the rush of rebounding in the front court!"

Ben Wallace immediately nodded to show that he understood.

Ford Center Arena has added seats tonight, and Russian City fans have repeatedly complained that it still has an effect, although many people can't buy front row tickets, but as long as they can watch the game on the spot, and shout together, this ticket will not be lost!

When the live DJ introduced the home team's players, Li Ze felt that the volume in the stadium should have formed sound pollution, which was too frenzy!

Home commentator Tewyn began to introduce the Pistons' starting lineup:

"The Pistons have had an injury situation lately, with Chaggy Atkins and Rodney Starkey in the backcourt, Jason Maxil and Jonas Jerebko up front, and Ben Wallace in the center.

"Russell is going to love playing against Atkins and he's going to learn a lot from playing against a veteran point guard in two games in a row."

"At the start of the game, Kostic jumped to the ball for us to attack the first time!"

On the court, there is nothing to talk about respecting the old and loving the young, the turtle faces the defense of Atkins, does not block and dismantle, the body of the left hand changes backwards, the right hand holds the ball, accelerates in a straight line, and kills the basket.

It was easy to get rid of Atkins' defense, but Ben Wallace's defensive position was very good, and he stepped forward in time to interfere, and the turtle was not reluctant to attack, throwing the ball vigorously and giving Li Ze 45 degrees outside the three-point line.

The ball passed well, and after receiving the ball, he shook it and almost shook Rodney Starkey directly, dribbling back with his right hand and pulling it back, and then receiving the dribble behind his back with his left hand under his hip.

"Oh!!"

There was a burst of exclamation from the crowd at Ford Center, and it turned out to be Rodney Starkey who had been shaken down.

Li Ze didn't expect the opponent to fall directly, stepped back to close the ball, first glanced at the defender who fell to the ground, and then made a steady jump shot outside the three-point line.

"Huh..."The three-pointer hit steadily.

"Ahh Yes! Hah! ”

A huge cheer suddenly erupted in the arena, and Li Ze's wonderful Crossover was seen at the opening.

Li Ze didn't expect that this ball would trigger the bonus effect of the [Master of Ball Control] badge, he felt that he felt good, and secretly thought in his heart:

"Maybe this game can set a new scoring record!"