Li Ao followed Brown to the innermost part of the training ground, pushed open the door, and there was another thing - it was a gym.

Continue inside through the gym and there are three doors around the corner.

The first was the storage warehouse, and Brown stopped Li Ao's footsteps and walked in alone.

Li Ao saw the notice posted on the door that the players were not allowed to enter without permission.

He glanced at the door, it was clean and tidy, the items were marked, and Brown, as the club manager, quickly came out with a training suit.

Li Ao unfolded it and looked at it, the standard four-piece suit, long-sleeved trousers and short-sleeved shorts of the jersey, but at a glance, he knew that it was not customized, it was quite loose, and it should be the standard model for his height.

"Put your used training clothes in the dirty basket in the locker room after training, there's a registration form, write your name on it, someone will come and wash it, and I'll put the new training clothes in your closet the next morning," Brown said. ”

With that, Brown pushed open the door next to him and continued, "This is the locker room, let's choose a wardrobe." ”

Li Ao held his breath and walked in, smelling tentatively, it was not as bad as he imagined.

The locker room was relatively large and there were many cabinets, so he found one at random in the wardrobe without a name card: "Just here." ”

Brown said as he put the prepared name card inside, "Wait a minute, you're going to train, right?" Then change into my training clothes first, and I'll go out first. ”

It was very hot in Los Angeles at the end of August, Li Ao dressed coolly, changed into short-sleeved shorts in three or two, simply folded the changed clothes and put them in the closet, left the locker room, and returned to the gym.

Brown saw Li Ao come out and was about to take Li Ao back to the training ground, Li Ao pointed to the room he hadn't seen yet and said, "Steve, what is this room for?" ”

"Well," Brown said, turning back to the door of the room, his expression suddenly mysterious, "this is ......"

"What is this?" Li Ao was already curious, and now he is even more curious.

Brown pushed the door open and said, "This is another training ground!" ”

“……”

Li Ao has a black line.

Inside is indeed another training ground, similar to the training ground outside, it is a high-window room with no lights on, but it is smaller, square, and consists of two full-court training fields crisscrossed, and the four corners are areas for basketballs and stools and other items.

From this point, he can see how chaotic the division of the area of this arena is, no wonder the owner of the Clippers who is so picky has run away decisively.

Brown laughs: "Some teammates sometimes want to train alone, and sometimes the coach will do special training for a player alone, so you need a separate training ground like this...... What do you think it is? ”

"I thought it was a small black room or something, a place to be used for confinement, or a place to fight when there is a conflict within the team, it's really a vain expectation."

"......" This time it was Brown's turn to be speechless.

Is this look of disappointment serious?

What a tiger and wolf words!

Brown suddenly believed what Henry Bibby said.

This newcomer doesn't seem to be as sunny and innocent as it seems......

The two returned to the training ground, and it was almost two o'clock, and the coaching staff was already at work.

Henry Bibi, who was chatting happily with the white mamba, saw Li Ao, his face immediately fell, and he said, "It's already here? Xavier, you take him to warm up and start special training. ”

Li Ao immediately ran over and asked, "Coach, what special training am I going to do?" ”

Henry Beebe asked, "What do you think you should practice?" ”

Li Ao thought for a while, and replied uncertainly: "Fixed-point shooting? ”

Henry Bibby nodded: "Okay, just practice fixed-point shooting." ”

Is it so sloppy?

Li Ao saw that the head coach didn't want to continue to deal with him, so he didn't ask too much, and followed Xavier Johnson to a half.

Xavier Johnson pulled a rack into the field, picked up a ball and threw it to Li Ao, who was standing on the right side of the three-second zone, and said: "I'm Xavier Johnson, you can also call me Xavier, you try to shoot a group first, and I'll take a look at your shot." ”

Li Ao nodded, concentrated, and was about to shoot, when the system's prompt came!

"The host has started mid-range shooting training and has worn a shooting bag: DeMar DeRozan mid-range shooting bag, bonus effect: 20% of the results of mid-range shooting training."

The mid-pitch training buff effect turned out to be this!

The excited Li Ao pulled up and threw it, and the assistant coach was quite surprised to see his jumping posture, his body movements when he lifted the ball, and his power when he threw the ball!

The teammates were also very curious about Li Ao, a newcomer, and their eyes were focused on him, and they were also surprised to see his shooting action.

Three words to describe Li Ao's investment - beautiful and picturesque!

Then ...... "bang" ...... The ball hit the neck of the basket stiffly.

The teammates took their eyes back, looked at the posture, and thought it was a mid-range shooting master, that's it?

Xavier Johnson was also speechless, picked up another ball, threw it to Li Ao, and motioned for Li Ao to continue throwing.

Li Ao was also panicked, he heard the sound of his teammates talking after he hit the iron.

Now his shooting posture is very professional, but his shooting ability is not worthy of such professional movements.

Fortunately, he has a good mentality, the road to basketball has just begun, and the skin is the least important thing, and he continues to shoot.

Three of his 10 shots were made, and he smirked at the assistant coach.

This is not as accurate as when he didn't wear a shooting bag before, and his strength suddenly became larger, and he couldn't adapt to the shooting force.

It feels like the same as at the end of last year and the beginning of this year.

Xavier Johnson coughed dryly and said: "Your shooting action is still quite good, at least you know which parts to use to exert force, you don't need to start practicing from the shooting action, OK, you start practicing the angle of shooting now, find the direction of the basket." ”

Li Ao put away the useless sense of shame, and under the guidance of the assistant coach, he began to practice fixed-point shooting in groups one after another.

The process was very boring, but his expression and movements did not reveal impatience, much to the surprise of Henry Beebe and Brown, who were watching from the sidelines.

Brown whispered to Henry Bibby: "It seems that Leo wants to take advantage of the opportunity to make the varsity team, maybe he can do better than Shelby." ”

Henry Bibby snorted coldly and replied: "He's just putting on a show, and looking at his shooting movements, you know that he likes to play handsome and funny girls on the court." ”

Brown said speechlessly: "You're prejudiced, you haven't seen him play." ”

"You've seen it?"

“……”

Brown was speechless, and he felt that Henry Bibby had reached menopause, or he was arguing with his son again.

Henry Bibby continues to watch Li Ao train.

It can be seen that Li Ao's shooting is basically zero-based, an amateur among amateurs, which makes Henry Bibby very disgusted.

But because it is a zero foundation, there are many problems that can be found, Xavier Johnson is very professional, Li Ao After each set of 50 shots, Xavier Johnson can accurately find the problem and guide it.

What makes Henry Bibby happy is that Li Ao seems to be quite talented in shooting, and after every adjustment, he can see a little improvement.

After a large set of complete trainings, Li Ao also showed an unfinished expression, and took the initiative to communicate the details of the training with Xavier Johnson, which made the latter more motivated.

And Li Ao's physical strength was better than Henry Bibby expected!

Originally, he and the assistant coach planned to let Li Ao, a layman, practice a large group to adapt this afternoon, but he didn't expect the amount of training to be light.

While Li Ao was resting, Xavier Johnson asked Henry Bibby if he wanted to continue, and Henry Bibby whispered: "Keep practicing until he can't hold it anymore." ”

Yes, I had to work overtime again, and Xavier Johnson didn't complain and actively put himself into his work.

Having a player with good talent and a positive learning attitude is a very happy thing for a trainer, and he is happy to work overtime.

When the time came to 5 o'clock in the evening, the teammates had already finished training and left the Memorial Stadium one after another, and even the Bai Mamba, who trained the hardest, also left at 4:30.

Finally, another set of 5 fixed points with 10 shots each came to an end, and Henry Bibby signaled that Xavier Johnson could stop.

In this group, Li Ao's shooting stability can finally not be guaranteed.

Xavier Johnson said: "O, Leo, today's training is over, go back tonight to take a shower and get some rest." ”

When Li Ao heard this, the energy he was holding back dissipated, and he sat on the floor: "It's finally over, the amount of special training is really large!" ”

He thought that this was a super big bowl special training specially arranged for him by Henry Bibi, so he kept gritting his teeth and insisting, not wanting Henry Bibi, who was not used to him, to look down on him.

The thanks thing is that he has always insisted on fitness, and he has the first-class physical strength of an NCAA basketball player, otherwise he really can't persevere.

But even if he has good physical strength, he is really tired this time.

The shooting training is very different from his usual fitness, using more muscle groups that he usually uses less for exercise, and he is extremely tired.

Xavier Johnson could see that Li Ao had misunderstood this, but looking at the head coach's gloating look, he didn't break it, and silently helped Li Ao massage the muscles of his arms, shoulders and neck.

Henry Bibby stepped forward and asked, "That's how much our Trojans train, how's that, want to escape?" ”

This yin and yang weird tone, if it weren't for the lack of strength, plus this guy is the head coach of the team, Li Ao really wants to jump up and hit someone!

At the beginning, it was obviously this middle-aged who forced him to join, but now it looks like he is licking his face and wants to come.

Li Ao replied disdainfully: "That's it? If Xavier hadn't been tired, I would have been able to do it all over again. ”

"Very good, I also arranged a lot of training for you, if this little training scares you away, it will be boring, gather at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and be expelled if you are late."

Henry Bibby turned around and walked away.

Xavier-Johnson helped Li Ao massage to relieve the soreness of his muscles, got up and stretched his body to move, and said, "Leo, take a look at your training record, I'll go first." ”

He was too tired to do it.

Li Ao thanked him, stood up and slowed down, and walked to the small blackboard on the side of the court.

He remembered that the middle-aged was standing here when he was watching, and it seemed that it was recorded by the middle-aged.

There were 23 groups of 50 balls each, and a total of 1,150 balls were thrown, and he didn't expect to shoot so many times!

It's just that out of 1,150 shots, 529 were scored, and the shooting rate was only 46%.

If this is a mid-range shot in the game, it is naturally stronger than the sky, and there are few people in the NBA who have such a shooting percentage.

But this is training......

Playing ball and playing, and quasi-professional basketball, the gap is really big!

He remembered a sentence - don't challenge other people's ability to eat with your hobbies.

Just as he sighed, the system's prompt came!

"Training mode: The team schedules training.

Training content: basic skills of mid-distance shooting.

Completion: Exceeding the training schedule of the coaching staff.

Training Score: Poor.

Congratulations to the host for receiving the training reward: 50 achievement points.

Because the host's training performance is not up to a satisfactory level, the body physiotherapy function cannot be used. ”

Seeing that the achievement points became 1050, Li Ao was very surprised!

At the beginning of the training, there was no training task triggered, and he struggled for a while.

However, this training score is too real.

He estimated that if he hadn't overcompleted his training, he wouldn't have even achieved 50 achievement points

Also, what is the body's physiotherapy function?

He just asked a question in his heart, and the system gave an answer.

"After completing the training arranged by the coaching staff, completing the training tasks released by the system, and the score is qualified, you can consume achievement points for body physiotherapy, relieve physical fatigue caused by training and repair body injuries, and if the score reaches perfection, you will be free of charge for body physiotherapy."

This feature is good!

But Li Ao was happy for a while, and his egg hurt again.

Perfect rating, when can you see it!

46% of the shots were made in practice......

Go for it!

He felt that he had gained a lot from today's training, at least, he learned how many dishes he had.

But it also means that he has a lot of room for improvement!

…

On August 28, 1999, the first gathering day of the new USC Trojans men's basketball season.

At half past eight in the morning, Li Ao took a bus to the Memorial Stadium half an hour early.

When he came to the training ground, all his teammates hadn't arrived, but the manager and the coaching staff had already arrived, and there were a few more people who didn't see yesterday, probably trainers and doctors or something.

Brown saw Li Ao, who had completely lost yesterday's spirit, and said with a smile: "Leo, I've arrived so early!" I made more than 1,000 baskets on the first day of training, and yours was there. ”

Li Ao drooped a face: "Don't mention it, I want to escape." ”

Before going to bed last night, he was still full of energy.

As a result, when he woke up this morning, he felt that his arm was going to be useless, and his breakfast with the assistant aunt had been canceled, because he had to make it, and he went out to buy two hot dogs and milk to eat.

Brown laughed and said, "Come, sit here, I'll pinch it for you." ”

Li Ao did not refuse, if it wasn't for the training, today he wanted to find Liam to go to the big sword.

After Brown got started, he pinched Li Ao straight and pumped.

But he felt very sour again, felt that the pinch was in place, and said, "Steve, I feel that you are more professional than Xavier." ”

"That's right, I stayed on the team with this massage." Brown's tone was a little smug, but then he smiled bitterly: "I was also looking forward to being a part of the school team when I was a freshman, but I didn't make the squad in my freshman and sophomore years, but I still didn't want to leave the team, so I took over the club manager, which others find troublesome, Leo, you work so hard, I hope you can be on the squad!" ”

Why do you suddenly feel like you're carrying someone else's dream?

Although this expectation does not seem to be much, Li Ao feels a trace of pressure, and at the same time, a trace of motivation.

However, he calmly responded: "Don't expect too much from me, I just think it's fun to play basketball...... But I'll try. ”

"Hmph, there's so much nonsense, have you rested? When you are rested, go and prepare, and train your legs today. ”

An unfriendly voice suddenly appeared next to him, startling Li Ao.

But Henry Bibby turned around and went to talk to the teaching assistants, and Li Ao didn't even have a chance to talk back.

After enjoying the time, Li Ao got up and did a warm-up activity with Brown's help.

It's really like what Brown himself said, Li Ao thinks that this club manager can really do anything except play!

The time was close to 9 o'clock, and the men of the basketball club arrived one after another.

Li Ao probably counted, there were more than 50 people!

Henry Bibby briefly introduced the 11 people who joined this year, and when they introduced each of them, there was a sparse welcome sound, and Li Ao was no different.

It's just one person different – Nate Hale.

The newcomer was greeted with enthusiastic cheers from his teammates.

Brown said to Li Ao: "In addition to the three people who passed the tryout with you that day, we also have seven people on the team in the summer, some are freshmen, some are outstanding in the intramural competition, and among these 11 people, only Nate is confirmed to be in the squad, but you have no competition with him......"

Li Ao nodded when he heard this.

This teammate he knew, he didn't know, but this time Vivien and Liam often gave him science team things.

Nate Hale, the 89th high school student in the nation this year, one of the top 100 high school seniors in the nation that the Trojans managed to grab, led Mishin Viejo High School to the quarterfinals of the California High School League last season, losing to Inglewood High School in the quarterfinals.

After Henri Bibby introduced the newcomers, he began to arrange the first team training of the new season.

It is clear that Li Ao has those teammates whose names he remembers, and he has been assigned by Henry Bibby to an assistant coach or trainer to take the training.

The other 30 or so were trained by Henri Bibby for the junior veteran players who were not on the official list.

Li Ao inevitably felt frustrated when he heard that the name of the assistant coach with training did not call him, but the list of seniors with training did not ...... Henry Beebe called him aside alone.

He originally felt that he was already useless, and he instantly stood up and asked excitedly: "Coach, don't I train with them?" ”

Henry Bibby asked rhetorically, "What do you want to practice with them?" ”

"Uh......" Li Ao was stuck this time.

Henry Bibby sneered and said, "Can't guess this time? Practice your basic skills! Sam, come and teach him defensive footsteps, he is very confident in his physical strength, you give him training for me! ”