The cheerleaders entered the stadium for a wave of performances, although they were still very plain and could not be compared with the huskies at all, but the clothes were very charming today, Christmas Qi X shorts + vests, and deer ears were embellished.

The teammates saw that the laughter was about to flow out, so Li Ao stuck to his heart and watched the performance with pure appreciation, which was innocent.

At the end of the cheerleading show, a school trustee, together with Henry Bibby, led a few political and business figures to the home team's bench and beckoned the players to come up.

In such a popular game, there are always people who want to show their faces in the heat.

Standing in the C position this time is Arnold Schwarzenegger, a hard-blooded tough guy in the film industry.

Schwarzenegger, who is in his 50s, has rarely participated in film and television filming since 94 years, and some have also made cameos or supporting roles, and he has not played the leading role for 5 years, because he joined the Republican Party and is currently competing for the seat of the California state legislature, a very high-profile kind, even Li Ao who doesn't care about those things has heard of it.

Schwarzenegger warmly shook hands with each of the team members, hugged and took a group photo, and said words of encouragement.

One of the slogans he used to run for parliament was to throttle money and rejuvenate the body.

To put it simply, it is to reduce redundant and redundant government spending and give money to high school and college sports clubs, which is very popular among students in California, where sports are hot.

For example, USC, the new president of the student government, campaigned on the slogan of helping the school teams get more budgets for the school and make the Trojans greater.

In California, Texas and other places with a hot sports atmosphere, take this as a slogan, and try it a hundred times.

However, USC currently has a total of 89 NCAA Division I titles, ranking third in the entire NCAA, and if you want to be even greater, you can only attack Stanford University, which has 95 Division I titles, and UCLA, which has 101 Division I titles.

UCLA, Stanford University, and USC are better than them in individual sports, but they are in the same class as they are in the overall strength of sports, and others are arbitrary.

That's why the Trojans are called the 'Shame of Troy', and they haven't won a single national championship.

Finally, the Terminators' political showmanship was over, and the Trojans players were content to leave with the videos and photos they had taken, and the Trojans players were finally able to get the trouble done.

When I met Schwarzenegger, there were definitely a lot of people who rushed up to ask for autographs and group photos.

But tonight, they are the protagonists, and Schwarzenegger, who is about to become a politician, runs to rub the camera, and he only feels annoyed when he sees Schwarzenegger.

The players of the two teams came on the court to greet each other, and Mike Bibby, the former boss of the Wildcats, is the son of the head coach of the Trojans.

After all, there was no conflict of interest between the two teams before, at least until the end of this game, there were no grievances.

But not everyone is so friendly......

Li Ao came to the court to shoot to find a feeling, and did his best to prepare for the upcoming game.

He made a few shots, and they all went in, and just when he was happy that it seemed to feel good to shoot today, he suddenly felt like a man on his back.

Turning his head to look......

What for?

This thing doesn't look at him as handsome, and wants to pull out a gun in front of more than 20,000 people, right?

Li Ao stared back decisively, his gaze met Arenas's gaze, and the other party arrogantly raised his neck and grabbed a handful of jersey numbers on his chest, turned his head and stopped looking at him.

"No, no, you shouldn't wear the same jersey number?"

Li Ao was speechless to the extreme.

Then he remembered a story about Arenas.

At the end of his freshman season, Arenas had a very bad attitude when he played ball, and the head coach of their school said that he had a zero chance of going to college, and that he did not have the strength to play college basketball, saying that he would not be able to do anything but make a pull-up jump shot.

In fact, it was his high school head coach who deliberately stimulated him, he was really excited, changed into the No. 0 jersey, and in the next three years he practiced the emergency stop jump shot like crazy, since he said that he would only stop the jump shot, then he focused on developing this technology, and the breakthrough or everything was developed around the emergency stop jump shot.

He has improved dramatically since his training attitude, and his team has won the Southern California minor league championship for three consecutive years, and he has also entered the top 100 in the country at the age of 17.

Wait, Li Ao remembered that the universities that Arenas wanted to go to the most were the two universities in Los Angeles, and their Trojans team didn't even give Arenas a chance to tryout.

In addition to the lack of optimism in terms of single technology, Arenas also has a lot of off-the-field negative events.

It's normal for people to want to get into the universities of Los Angeles, and now they hate their Trojans.

Li Ao regretted and was a little lucky, regretting that he missed such a powerful teammate, but he was more glad to ...... Don't worry about a man pulling a gun in the locker room......

…

At 7 p.m., to the furious cheers of the fans in attendance, the Trojans' home game against the Wildcats began.

Wildcats starters: Gardner, Arenas, Richard Jefferson, Michael Wright, Lauren Woods.

Trojans starters: Granville, Trepagnier, Shelby Jordan, White Mamba, Charles.

Woods beat Charles to win the jump ball, and the Wildcats took the lead.

Li Ao sat on the bench, waiting to be called.

Kevin Henderson sat next to Li Ao and asked, "Are you watching how Shelby defends?" ”

Li Ao responded: "Yes." ”

"That's good, but you're going to have to pay attention to the opponent first."

"Oh?"

"Yes, what we need you to do on the court, sometimes you may need to learn to defend like Shelby and be a substitute for him, but you are more comprehensive defensively than him, we need you to do more, as a defender, you have to understand the opponent's situation first, such as Arenas, you can see which area he shoots well, in different games, the same person shoots differently, you can use this as a reference when defending."

Li Ao nodded involuntarily: "Makes sense." ”

Kevin Henderson continued: "Of course it's important for you to observe your teammates' defense, but you can watch videos to learn how your teammates defend, and when it comes to the Christmas holidays, I will put together the videos of the first 8 games of the season for you, you should pay attention to what kind of defense your teammates are defending, what kind of defense is effective, what kind of defense is not good, if you can imitate your teammates' successful defense, and at the same time you need to think more about your defensive strengths, how to do better, how to avoid your own weaknesses......"

Li Ao nodded again and again, his neck was almost sore.

In fact, these are simple truths that you will find after listening to them, but he has been exploring them on his own before, and it is difficult to think about them from an outsider's perspective like Kevin Henderson.

He was grateful for Kevin Henderson's guidance, but ......

"Kevin, why didn't you teach me earlier? I was able to practice a few games that way, and maybe I'm pretty good at doing these observations and analyses by now. ”

This sounds very unreasonable, and it is strange that I learned things late.

But from Kevin Henderson's point of view, it's really his fault.

These are what should be taught.

However, he showed his true colors as a man and threw the pot back: "How do I know that you are improving so fast, helping you develop a passing training plan, adjusting the offensive and defensive system for you, and not time?" ”

Li Ao: (≖-≖)

After a moment of silence, he gave a thumbs up: "Makes sense!" ”

Seeing that Kevin Henderson had nothing else to coach, Li Ao put this aside and focused on the game.

The team's progress was shown at the start of this game.

The Wildcats' starting lineup is slightly stronger than the Bruins, and there is no such thing as a forward pitcher like Capono who is most suitable for the NCAA, but the Wildcats have no obvious shortcomings in this lineup, and they are strong at every position.

Gardner's burst + long shot, Arenas' singles, Richard Jefferson's cut-in, Michael Wright's all-round interior offensive skills, and Woods' absolute height advantage of 216 cm......

But they didn't start the game behind the Trojans!

Charles' tough top defense didn't allow Woods to eat easily on the inside, and Shelby Jordan did a good job of defending Michael Wright.

Although the Trojans' combined defense was unable to play because Woods and Michael Wright were too contained, giving Gardner and Arenas excellent single opportunities, Richard Jefferson also seized the opportunity to cut inside to score,

But Trey Pagnier also repeatedly scored on Arenas' head with skillful one-on-one singles, and the combination of Granville and White Mamba's burst points + running catch-and-shoot also made Gardner and Richard Jefferson unwanted.

Everyone on the Trojans played with confidence, with sharp breaks, decisive passes, and consistent shots...... Suppress the attacking Wildcats!

With 5 minutes and 22 seconds left, the White Mamba first borrowed Shelby Jordan to block Richard Jefferson, then used a beautiful turnaround run to shake off Michael Wright to the left side of the free throw line, received a pass from Trey Pagnier who burst into close range, and hit a shot.

The score came to 17-11, and the Trojans' lead came to 6 points!

Henry Bibby, who had been standing on the sidelines and had been nervous, put his hands in his pockets at this time, and his expression became calm and calm, as if everything was under his control.

He's the one who wants to win the most, the player, and he's going to be gone one day, and he's going to be here for many years and want to coach him like old coach Mike Shashewski for twenty years and make enough money to retire.

Record is very important to him, he has started the game with seven consecutive wins, and this streak has surpassed the influence of his previous lead to the Trojans to the crazy three, and he naturally wants to continue the winning streak and expand this influence.

But this pocket, you really can't mess around.

Coincidentally, Arenas happened to see this scene, and he didn't know what the opponent's posture was, which made Arenas extremely angry.

Add to that the fact that Henry Bibby refused to give Arenas a tryout and 'kicked' him out of Los Angeles, and the anger is super doubled!

Then, Arenas hit a pull-up two-point shot against Shelby Jordan's defense.

Immediately after, he made a steal and scored two points on a flying dunk.

When it came to the Trojans' offense, this time Charles's catch turned around and hooked his hand, Arenas flew into the interior to grab the defensive rebound, and after advancing to the front court, he played a beautiful cross-step change of direction, shaking Trepagnier to the reverse defense, Arenas showed amazing emergency stop braking ability this time, braked directly outside the three-point line, and then pulled up sharply, three-point shot......

Shelby Jordan did a great job of defending the ball, and the defensive coverage had expanded beyond the free-throw line, but when Arenas took two steps to stop his foot, he was in place.

But Arenas' exaggerated stop-and-brake ability allowed Shelby Jordan to watch as the opponent threw three-pointers as if they were empty......

Hit!

Arenas scored seven straight points as the Wildcats outscored the Trojans by one point at 18-17.

Henry Bibby was stunned, what kind of fairy play is this?

He quickly pulled his hand out of his pocket and called a timeout!

The alpaca was running back and forth in Henry Beeby's heart, and just 1 minute ago, he was still thinking, 'Don't call a timeout, see how long you can last', but he didn't expect the clown to be himself!

Fortunately, he was an old man, and his panic was only for a moment, and after calling a pause, he returned to his serious and calm appearance and thought quickly.

First of all, he affirmed himself and gave himself confidence that the opening style was fine.

But their weakness is that they don't have the players like Arenas who explode at the slightest disagreement to raise the team's ceiling.

So a steady score can't be lost.

Then Arenas, who stifled the outbreak, is the adjustment that should be made now.

At this point, the question arises, who should be sent to defend against Arenas?

Defense is their weakness, and the defense has improved a lot recently, but the main thing is the improvement of the team's defense, and after playing hard, others can help Shelby Jordan more, and this is the improvement.

Single defense, this is more of a test of personal ability, after playing tough, there is a certain degree of improvement, but if you want to get to the level of qualitative change, in a few months, some people may be able to, at least not now.

Then that's the only kid left......

Before his GPU could get the picture out, his eyes saw the kid coming right in front of him.

Li Ao moved his joints and said, "It's time for me to save the world again." ”

Henry Bibby really wants to fly and kick it, and he wants to say a word if he can't kick it.

But he is a cultural person, and he just enrolled in a refresher course at USC after renewing his contract, and it is impossible to beat people.

And...... Laugh to death, you can play if you want to?

Henry Bibi waved his hand: "Leo, you go up to defend against Arenas, if you can't prevent the holiday, don't rest, special training every day!" ”

It's he who wants this kid to play, and this kid can play!

Trepagnier, who suddenly broke out and was beaten by the opposing player, was unwilling at the moment, but he found that he was very glad that someone replaced him at this time to play against Arenas.

found that he was actually in such a state of mind, especially when he saw Li Ao's appearance that he was not afraid at all, but was still very excited.

'Is there such a big gap between me and him?' ’

He admires Li Ao's efforts, but he is also a competitive person, he knows that he is not as talented as Li Ao, but he doesn't want to admit defeat!

Li Ao didn't know his 'leadership ability' to stimulate his teammates' efforts, and this moment played a role again.

On his side, he heard Henry Bibby replace him on the field, and the task prompt came!