Time passed day by day, and it was the middle of September.

USC's intramural basketball tournament for the fall semester has begun.

The men and women of the basketball club, whether they are ordinary club members, or main or main alternates, are all arranged to represent their respective departments in intramural competitions.

In addition to Li Ao, when he asked Henry Bibby why he didn't arrange for him to participate in the competition, the latter replied: "You can't even beat the art department." ”

It was the first time he was eager to play.

But the reality is that he can't, and if he has the strength of Brandon Granville in the art department, even if he brings the computer science department, the varsity team will arrange for him to participate in the competition.

The beginning of his basketball career was completely different from what he imagined at the beginning.

Every time I go to the stadium, I train and train again, and it is the most boring and torturous basic skill.

The physiotherapist that Vivian found brought him a lot of help, professionals + professional equipment, which greatly shortened the time required for his body to recover, and brought more intensive special training arranged by the coaching staff to supplement his basic basketball skills.

But in every training, he gritted his teeth and persevered, and almost every training exceeded the arrangement of the coaching staff.

The reason for persevering is that in addition to fighting for a breath, he can see the improvement of his basic skills in both mid-range shooting and defense as the number of training sessions increases.

As he gets used to the intensity of his training, he sometimes even takes the initiative to run to the stadium to practice shooting outside of the training arranged by the coaching staff.

His hard-working attitude has led to a change in the attitude of many of his teammates, like Trey Pagnier.

The impact of the same thing varies greatly from one environment to another.

In the basketball team, at first, his teammates were worried about his 'violent behavior', but after knowing each other for a long time, everyone didn't care so much, compared to classmates in the same classroom, people here didn't really care so much about this matter, and they were also potential violent people in the eyes of others.

Gradually, he became acquainted with the team's leading point guard Brandon Glanvill and the team's center forward Costa Charles.

After joining the basketball team, he learned that the 175 point guard in the art department who beat him and Liam was the leading point guard of the varsity team, averaging 10.7 points, 2.3 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in the NCAA stage last season.

It was the white mamba, although he was the first person to take the initiative to talk to him, but the relationship was ...... Good fences make good neighbors.

The captain of the team has a good relationship with everyone, his leadership skills are very good, his strength is also strong, and he is a standard team leader, but his leadership style is not to play with everyone, but to be a 'big parent', always like to 'educate' others, so he is not particularly close to each teammate.

Of course, some people are even more unhappy with him because of this.

The happiest person about him running to the Memorial Stadium to train whenever he has free time is Dean Teng.

He used to run out with Liam when he was free, and often met the ones who didn't have long eyes, and then they got into fights.

For some gangsters, Chinese and Chinese students, it's all a meal ticket.

Now he doesn't have so much time to spare, and greatly avoids the possibility of fighting.

Li Ao attends classes and trains day after day, and occasionally goes to watch a basketball game with Vivian or Liam to cheer on his teammates.

Another two weeks passed, and on September 28, the School of Social Work, led by Bruine Scalabrien, defeated the School of Architecture led by Trey Paganier, winning the intramural basketball championship for the second year in a row.

In addition to the White Mamba, the School of Social Work also has Sam Clancy, the 49th high school student in the United States that year.

With the end of the intramural basketball game, the official roster selection for the Trojans is about to begin.

…

"Beautiful, Leo, you've done a great job, you've been able to hit 6 goals at every point!"

Li Ao finished his shooting training with 33 of 50 goals, and Xavier Johnson did not shy away from his praise.

Li Ao was very happy, on the one hand, because he was recognized, and on the other hand, he finally received a prompt to pass the training!

"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: Pass.

Congratulations to the host for receiving the training reward: 100 achievement points.

The host can consume 100 achievement points and use the body's healing functions. ”

Today is September 29th, and it's been more than a month since he joined the Trojans.

Finally, after a month of hard training, the mid-range shooting has made great progress, from the previous can only be blindly thrown, to now the real grasp of shooting, although not high, but this is a qualitative change, before it was really thrown out to see the sky.

However, this is limited to spot-and-shoot shots.

And he has seen Bai Mamba's mid-range shooting training, and he can maintain a shooting rate of more than 80% in the mobile position.

You still have to practice!

He didn't know what the effect of 'body therapy' was, the options button was lit, and he didn't say to let him use it immediately, he was going to try it again when there was no one, and he didn't know what kind of effect it would be, in case it was as tossed as a real physiotherapy massage......

The consumption of 100 achievement points, if you can complete the training at a qualified level, you just get 100 achievement points, and it is not so distressing to use.

Xavier Johnson helped Li Ao squeeze his shoulders and relax as usual, saying: "The selection of the team will start on Saturday, and the 12-man main list may be a bit difficult, but you can try to get into the 18-man squad!" ”

12 main players + 6 alternates, this is the standard configuration of NCAA basketball teams, in mid-October, each school team can submit a list of up to 18 players to the NCAA, only players who pass the application, can participate in the new season.

After more than a month, Li Ao's mentality has gradually changed.

Now he is much calmer about this aspect of things, from the beginning of all kinds of unwillingness, to now although he is still eager to prove himself, he can face the blow more calmly.

He knew that Xavier Johnson was just the way Americans were used to encouraging him, trying to give him motivation, not really thinking he would make the 18-man squad.

However, he still responded: "I'm a genius, I will definitely be on the list!" ”

Xavier-Johnson smiled: "Of course, I have faith in you. ”

After the massage soothed a bit, Xavier Johnson left first.

Today is Wednesday, and it was already 4 o'clock when Li Ao came to train in the afternoon, and now it is more than 7 o'clock, and it is already dark.

At this time, another system prompt is coming!

"Congratulations to the host for completing the accumulation of training methods for mid-distance fixed-point catch-and-shoot training, judging level: level 1, bonus effect: 20% of the training results of mid-range catch-and-shoot training.

The mid-range fixed-point catch and shoot training task has been opened. ”

The screen switched, and I came to the training mode interface, where the previously empty training tasks finally had options!

Next to the option, there is a stickman who keeps making movements, which is his training action.

"Mid-range fixed-point catch-and-shoot (level 1): Consumes 100 achievement points to open, and if you complete the training task at one time, you will return 50 achievement points.

After completing the training task, you can get an additional 20% of the training results by catching and shooting the ball at a mid-distance fixed point on the same day. ”

DeRozan's 20% bonus to the Shooting Action Pack, the 20% bonus to the training method, and if you add the 20% bonus to the training task, you will accumulate a 60% bonus effect!

Li Ao's body was shocked when he boarded!

But seeing the training mission, he calmed down.

“…… 50 catches in 120 seconds; 5 standard angles from the free throw line, 10 shots from each position, and a total shooting percentage of 70%; Take turns shooting at 5 standard angles and accumulate 10 shots to achieve a total shooting percentage of 50%.

There is no deadline for the task to be completed, and if all 3 mission objectives are not completed on the same day, the task progress will be reset, and the mission objectives must be completed consecutively, and the task progress will be reset if any goal fails. ”

The first goal was already difficult for him, the second goal was directly beyond his current ability, and the third goal was ...... He didn't even start practicing in this area.

In the past month or so, his mid-range shooting training content is mainly familiar with shooting angles, force adjustment, and catch-and-jump connections......

"I don't want to return half of the achievement points, I don't want to do it first, the task can be taken first, anyway, if I can't complete it, it's just a reset, and if I have time, I try it, and it's just training."

After more than a month of psychological tempering, he is very open in this regard.

He went to the bathroom and took a simple shower, ready to wash up when he got home.

When he got dressed and was about to go home, he remembered that he had the 'body therapy' function today, and it was useless.

For the past month or so, he has maintained 5 practice per week, and in the past two weeks, Saturday has been full in the morning and afternoon, and now he has 2250 achievement points, and immediately decided to 'splurge'.

When the mind moves, 100 achievement points will be deducted.

"The host consumes 100 achievement points, uses the body's physiotherapy function, and recovers the ......"

With the arrival of the system prompt, Li Ao's fatigue after high-intensity exercise began to subside, and the muscle and soreness and discomfort during breathing were quickly relieved, although it was not completely eliminated, but the feeling was very obvious!

Just as he was excited about it, a strong feeling of hunger hit him......

Hungry!

Very hungry!

He hurried to the business district, and it was already dark.

Fortunately, there were a large number of shops around the stadium, and he left the stadium to find a fast-food restaurant, and ate three burgers in a row to relieve his hunger.

After eating another hamburger, he was about eight minutes full before he stopped.

You still can't eat too much dinner, which affects sleep.

He thought that the next time he wanted to use the body's physiotherapy function, he would have to prepare some food.

It was half past eight when he got home by bus, but not long after he got home, he was called by Vivian, and the physiotherapist Jack came to them immediately after to provide door-to-door service.

It's another sour treatment.

After finishing his work, Li Ao, who was paralyzed on the massage table, asked Jack, who was packing up the equipment: "You still work overtime at night, don't you accept overtime?" ”

Jack replied, "In principle, so. ”

Li Ao understood that such a thing as a principle, like the bottom line, can float.

It's just that he doesn't know how many meals he owes to the assistant aunt, and the training ends early from Friday to Sunday afternoon, and it's no problem to make dinner, but from Monday to Thursday, he can only owe.

…

Usually Li Ao doesn't train on Thursdays, because he usually practices from Monday to Wednesday, and he also has to practice on Fridays and Saturdays.

But this time, he reached out to Henry Bibby to get more practice.

Yesterday I used the body physiotherapy function and received professional physiotherapy, the two effects were superimposed, and this morning he got up without the discomfort of the second day of the previous month's training, and he even had a long-lost morning exercise after getting up!

He arrived at Memorial Stadium after school in the afternoon, and before Xavier Johnson arrived, he tried the mission at 100 achievement points, and only made 50 mid-range shots in 120 seconds before Xavier Johnson arrived.

When it came to the second target, it failed again, and I had to start with 50 hits in 120 seconds.

It's harder than he thought! He doesn't currently have the ability to consistently complete a set of 50 balls on 70 percent shooting, unless he's lucky.

By this time, Xavier Johnson had arrived, and he put this training task on hold for the time being and began his regular shooting drills.

But it just so happened that now his training had come to the training of catching and shooting the ball after moving, and he threw himself into training with more enthusiasm.

Xavier Johnson, who was called in temporarily, saw that he was so motivated, and he was also motivated to devote himself to coaching.

Li Ao was training when Brown and Henry Bibby came to watch.

Brown looked at Li Ao, who was practicing hotly, and said to Henry Bibby next to him: "I didn't expect Leo to be really talented, Xavier said that his progress is much faster than expected, you have picked up a treasure this time." ”

Henry Bibby snorted and replied, "But his exposure to basketball is too short, and even if he has improved a lot, he is still weak." ”