At the end of four days and three games, the Clippers got two days off.

The next morning, the Clippers returned to Los Angeles, and Li Ao went to school to have a boxed lunch with Aunt Wai.

Today, Saturday, the assistant aunt is working overtime, Li Ao understands the reason, and thinks that now he can buy two sets of school district houses, and if he wants to invest in shops, he can start preparing now.

After Thanksgiving to now, the dot-com bubble has been completely punctured.

Eagle sauce's second largest communications company, 'World Communications Group', came to a wave of lore when the building was about to collapse, and after rolling up tens of billions of US dollars to shareholders, it first rose to the peak of market value of nearly 100 billion US dollars in half a month, and then quickly collapsed and went directly to bankruptcy and liquidation.

In early November, the internet company, which claims to have 180 million users, announced that it would subsidize $1 billion in Thanksgiving promotions — that is, online shopping.

Tens of millions of people spoke on various online platforms 'Thanksgiving is going to the XX website to buy, buy, buy', on the day of Thanksgiving, the network in many places is almost paralyzed, and hundreds of millions of purchase screenshots have appeared on various forums and social networking sites.

So in the three days after Thanksgiving, the company's market value rose to nearly 100 billion US dollars, and countless netizens ushered in the last wave of carnivals, smashing pots and selling iron mortgages to buy the company's shares...... After the stock price reached its peak, all the shares of the capitalists were sold, and the shares of the shareholders could not be sold at a reduced price......

As the logistics industry, which has been pitted and freed up freight resources for nearly a month, issued a joint condemnation, the stock price of World Communication Group collapsed in response, and the stock became waste paper.

In addition, Gallic Chicken's side imposed antitrust penalties on Intel on behalf of the European Union and fined 1.04 billion US dollars.

The stock prices of Eagle Sauce computer-related companies, the Internet and hardware collapsed, and the most affected was Amazon, which also engaged in online shopping, which suffered an unprecedented crisis of confidence, and the capital withdrew one after another, and the stock price plummeted by 95% in a few days...... Their boss took the opportunity to buy back shares in a frenzy, stabilizing the stock price while taking back the absolute controlling stake.

The dot-com bubble was completely punctured, and the Eagle Sauce stock market also crashed quickly.

This has a great impact on the School of Computer Science of USC, mainly in terms of enrollment, employment, funding, and so on.

Dean Teng was already mentally prepared, but he was still overwhelmed by this matter.

It's a little too complete, and it's still a little rotten in the first few months.

However, the computer major is not directly related to the Internet bubble, and it can even be said that they are two completely different industries, so what USC has to do now is to do public relations and deal with public opinion issues.

Dean Teng is very busy now, and Vivian, as a college assistant, has also begun to work overtime, adjusting the budget report for the coming year, striving for the funds not to be cut too much, the regular routine, reducing individual expenses, increasing the 'necessary expenses' items, and asking the school board for money with reasonable evidence.

There is also a 'real' budget plan for the hospital, and it is necessary to plan for a 'tight' life in the next few years.

The School of Computer Science, which is accustomed to spending a lot of money, is not used to it this year, but it will always get used to it in the future.

Originally, I made an appointment to watch a movie in the afternoon, but Vivian was too busy, so after eating lunch, she coaxed Li Ao a few words and continued to work.

Li Ao had no choice but to come to the Memorial Stadium to continue training.

To his surprise, he saw several teammates also come to practice!

Playing the Suns the day after tomorrow, the odds are ...... Anyway, Gentry only arranged for tomorrow afternoon's preparation training, so that the players who had just played 4 days and 3 games had a good rest.

Li Ao found a few teammates and chatted casually, and inquired about the reasons for his teammates' extra practice.

Some want to seize the opportunity that appears - Big Q, in the practice of three points on the wings of the sideline.

Originally, Big Q also wanted to practice defensive footsteps, but the team did not have professionals in this area.

Some of them were robbed of their starting position - Piakowski, who wanted to try to win back the trust of the coach.

Some of them saw that Big Q's aggressive defensive attitude won the starting position, and they also wanted to work hard.

There is also the fear of being traded.

Approaching the middle of the season, the teams are almost complete, and knowing what they lack and what they have to excess, they may soon usher in a wave of mid-term trades.

Most players in the NBA will not have the idea of changing teams, which means that the future is unknown, and a lot of expenses, and people are low-probability events.

And, this is Los Angeles!

Stars yearning for the Lakers and role players yearning for the Clippers is something that has been common since the '80s.

Although the Clippers have never given a player an annual salary of more than 5 million US dollars before, O'Neal Jr. is the first, but the Clippers are one of the few teams that gave multiple million-level annual salary contracts in the 80s, at the end of the 80s, the Lakers only had 3 contracts with an annual salary of more than 1 million, Magic, Abdul-Jabbar, Worthy, the Knicks and the Bulls also only had two, but the Clippers had 4, although there was a big gap between the millions......

Currently, the Lakers only have seven players with an annual salary of more than $2 million, compared to eight for the Clippers.

Although O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's combined salaries are higher than the entire Clippers......

But role players don't look at how much the top players get, it's how much they can get.

And now that the owner has changed, the benefits have also followed, and the sports investment company under the name of Microsoft's CEO has allocated money with the goal of a better welfare package than the Lakers.

There is also a very important one, play with Spider-Man, have exposure!

In Li Ao's place, no matter what the reason is, anyway, the teammates have started to work hard, which is a good thing!

Hearing Big Q and defensive coach Norm Nickerson say that there are no good defensive trainers, he thought of a candidate.

The two of them just talked about it, and didn't particularly care, Norm Nixon is used to the lack of people here and there, and now the team is expanding the manpower little by little and making up for the benefits, he is already very happy and will not ask for it, and the big Q is a person who is too soft-spoken to say, General Manager Wally Walker has been in office for more than three months and has opened a lot of people.

But Li Ao has no scruples in this regard......

After practicing until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Ao came to the blacksmith's room.

Seeing that Kobe Bryant was already warming up, Li Ao teased: "Yo, I was reluctant at first, but now I haven't called you yet, so you took the initiative to come......"

Before he finished speaking, a ball flew towards Li Ao's head.

He caught it with one hand, ran to the free throw line and sent the ball to Kobe, Kobe didn't talk nonsense, start practice!

…

"I know that you are righteous and angry, and if you live a good life, you will not forget the brothers who won the championship together!"

"No, I just recommended you to them because of your professional ability, whether you can get this job depends on your academic performance in the next study and the effect of guiding the training of the team members."

"Hahahaha, I know, I won't let go of this opportunity, it's really hard to mix with society! I envy you, your family is so rich, you are very talented no matter what you do, studying, playing, acting, ......"

"Don't be envious, you can't envy such a thing as being handsome."

"Yes, yes, you're handsome, of course you have the final say......"

Seeing that Shelby Jordan was still that hanging, Li Ao was speechless, but very satisfied.

As a trainer, you have to have a lot of experience in getting your players to be obedient and train, such as the Lakers' group of trainers who have coached Magic and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

If it weren't for Sam Hayes's cold and impersonal approach, it would be very majestic to look at.

If you don't have both, then choose a trainer who is capable but has a mixed personality.

Shelby Jordan's excellent defensive fundamentals and mixed personality are just right.

Li Ao heard that Shelby Jordan has had a bad half a year, and he has lost the chic of his student days.

The European League is not mixed, others think he didn't shoot, A A introduces foreign aid to be an all-round scorer, and the salary in Australia is too low......

Shelby Jordan and his girlfriend Lisa, despite having a hard time, often living in abandoned houses in the suburbs and doing odd jobs to make ends meet, the two have never left each other.

Shelby Jordan would have been better off if he hadn't kept Lisa; And after Lisa gave up her previous look of killing Matt, Li Ao found out that this was a very beautiful girl, but she didn't kick Shelby Jordan to find a rich man or do those money-making gray industries......

Of course, Li Ao has the intention of pulling his old teammates in it, but the main thing is that Shelby Jordan is capable.

He just asked the general manager for an interview with an intern trainer after the training with Kobe Bryant the afternoon before yesterday.

It was Shelby Jordan who showed his basketball professionalism to Wally's satisfaction, and got the opportunity to intern and study at the USC School of Sports Management.

It's December 11th, the two-day rest day is over, and it's another game day.

Today's opponent is the Suns!

After training in the morning, making an appointment with Shelby Jordan at noon, and taking an hour's nap in the afternoon, he looked at the out-of-game things in the scouting report.

After seeing the Suns' salary situation, he felt that the Suns were purely dragged down by injuries, otherwise they might have shaken the OK combination earlier than the Kings.

Gugliotta, in the 97-98 season, at the age of 29, he averaged 20.1 points, 8.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.1 blocks per game, and the Suns took him under a six-year, $58 million contract after the shutdown.

Anfernee Hardaway, 98-99 season, 50 games full attendance, average 15.8 points, 5.7 boards, 5.3 assists and 2.2 steals per game, although the scoring ability collapsed, but the skills are comprehensive, the defense is online, he failed to get the maximum salary in the Magic, he signed first and then changed to 7 years and 86.68 million US dollars to join the Suns, which was the highest salary contract under the salary cap at that time.

But these two were good before they came to the Suns, and after they arrived with the Suns, they immediately suffered from injuries.

And these two are the highest-paid players on the Suns, with the Suns' salary of more than 53 million dollars this season, and these two brothers account for 20 million.

In this case, the Suns are still 13-7 and have a 65% win rate.

Li Ao saw a message in the scouting report that others may not pay attention to - in order to improve the injury situation, Brian Colangelo, the current general manager of the Suns, hired Thomas Carter, a sports medicine professional in the American Airlines Bureau, through his father's matchmaking, and Carter Medical Studio will officially take over the Suns' team medical department from the 1st of next month.

It turns out that the miracle doctor is the Suns who went at this time! Li Ao had some sympathy for the penny and the former wolf king.

If Colangelo had asked his dad for help earlier, Penny wouldn't have been hit with another serious knee injury last season, and Gugliotta's toe injury wouldn't have gotten worse to the point it is now.

Creation makes people!

…

At 7:40 p.m., at the Staples Center, after the warm-up, Li Ao and his teammates came to the entrance of the home team's players' tunnel and looked at Clifford Robinson, Sean Marion, Jack Chacaridis, Mario Elie, and Kidd who played in turn...... Before the game began, Li Ao felt the sense of defensive pressure coming to his face.

"Jack Chacaridis, 21 years old, 218 cm tall, 129 kg in weight, 69 ...... overall evaluation"

Li Ao looked left and right, looking up and down, this player at the end of the first round of the same session as him was not bad.

However, at present, the NBA has not implemented the three-second rule of defense, such a white meat shield center is under the basket, the rim protection effect is quite good, with Marion and Kidd on the outside, Chacharidis is quite beautiful defensive efficiency, and only allows the opposing player to score 95 points per 100 possessions.

There are very few centers with better rim protection efficiency than Chacharidis, with Duncan scoring 94 points per 100 possessions and Mourning 93...... And O'Neill is 98.

However, even if the defense is canceled for three seconds, Li Ao estimates that this giant center will not have to worry about work, and the shark effect is still on the rise.

Little O'Neill felt a look called sympathy, and suddenly the feeling of sympathy disappeared, and at the same time he saw Li Ao run out of the player's tunnel and knew who was sympathizing with him.

He is also very painful, how can any strong team in the west have a big-tonnage center?

Fortunately, Chacharidis, a giant center forward who seems to be composed of a lump of muscles, has poor physical strength, and can only play more than ten minutes in a game, which does not have such a big impact on him.

At the end of the entrance ceremony, Li Ao took the cameraman of the imperial court station to find a penny in a suit to take a group photo, and the penny gladly accepted.

Li Ao was in a good mood and his face was tight.

After he lifted the ban, the Imperial Court arranged for him to accompany the team photographer, who was a fan of Penny, and learned that Penny would come to Los Angeles with the team this time and begged him for help.

He thought it was the photographer who wanted to take a picture with Penny, but he just wanted him to take a picture with Penny.

Although there was only work overlap during the competition and preparation training, Li Ao and the cameraman were familiar with each other, and he agreed to the other party's request.

However, before taking a photo with pennies, he was still a little worried that his reputation as a 'stadium thug' had been too loud lately.

The cameraman was very excited, and took a photo of the two from multiple angles, and as he patted, an alien-like skull entered the camera, making him scream in fright.

Sean Marion saw the cameraman's reaction, and was quite shocked to move away, and was pulled back by Li Ao.

When the cameraman saw Li Ao's movements, he reacted that he had subconsciously screamed and hurt others just now, so he hurriedly continued to take a few shots, and pretended that nothing had happened, directing Marion to stand.

Kidd, on the sidelines, was very disgusted by the performance of his two teammates.

Forget about pennies, it's normal for talented rookies to take a group photo and enjoy the benefits of the glory of a former superstar.

Marion, you entered the NBA at the same time as this Spider-Man, or in the same position, and you actually rubbed the camera with a shy face?

Table face!

However, the exclusive cameraman with the team...... What jealousy!

The last rookie to have such a treatment was called Grant Hill.

Moreover, what does it mean to just look for pennies to take a photo?

Look down on him and don't attack?

…

At the end of the photo shoot of the whole group, the cameraman took the initiative to ask Marion for the address and contact information, and after the photos were washed, they were sent to Marion.

In doing so, he removed the remaining knots in Marion's heart.

But the videographer didn't ask for contact information from pennies.

After returning to his bench, Li Ao asked: "Brother Lang, why don't you ask Hardaway for contact information, this is a good opportunity, he will definitely give it, don't you admire him very much?" ”

The cameraman named Li Lang responded: "I just worship the penny in my mind, he himself may be different from what I imagined, just like you, when I received the task of following you, I was ready to send me to the hospital when you were angry, and my colleague seemed to be seeing me off when he sent me to the airport...... As a result, you were completely different from what I imagined, and you helped me arrange a closer place to live, and also helped me get rid of the robbers of the thugs......"

After explaining, the cameraman flashed directly, came to the bottom line, and continued to shoot work.

Li Ao thinks that this cameraman has a good attitude towards idols.

Also, he found that the real head players didn't seem to care so much about his 'one dozen seven' incident.

Payton, Ewing, Marbury, Bibby, Rahim...... This is the case, but some players who are not focused on the game itself are particularly concerned about his title of 'court thug'.

Originally, he was worried that his image in this area would affect his search for experience baby...... No, it's making friends, and now he's relieved.

At 8 p.m., the referee blew the whistle to start the game and threw the ball into the air, and the Clippers' home game against the Suns began.

O'Neal Jr. won the jump ball with Chacharidis on the side, and the Clippers took the lead.

Li Ao's fast attack failed, and Marion stuck to him as soon as possible.

He came up front and waited for Greg Anthony to push to the top arc and started running, but couldn't get away from Marion's aggressive pursuit.

He came to the flank around the post and went to the inside, Marion didn't care, he saw Chacharidis under the basket...... Rounded out, stopped by Mario Eli, Marion returned to his side.

Seeing that Li Ao couldn't run out of the opportunity, and failed to disrupt the opponent's defense, and the tactical coordination couldn't be played, Odom pulled to the middle distance and received the ball with his back against Clifford Robinson, turned around with his back, and suddenly hit a close-range throw!

Switching offense and defense, Kidd received the ball and advanced quickly, Marion and Clifford-Robinson went down quickly!

Clifford Robinson's speed doesn't look like a 34-year-old veteran at all, Marion's speed is comparable to that of a multi-CNC ball guard, and the Clippers players quickly stepped back.

Clifford Robinson passed the center circle, sneaked down and moved to the left touchline, and just after reaching the three-point line, Kidd's pass arrived.

But Li Ao also came to him almost at the same time and reached out to pick up the ball!

Thanks to Clifford Robinson's quick reaction, he immediately grabbed the ball and stretched it to his back, avoiding Li Ao's steal, but he was immediately clinged to by Li Ao again, unable to move, although he was 208 cm, but 102 kilograms of weight, he was crushed by Li Ao!

In addition to the physical confrontation, he also felt a strong sense of oppression.

It's as if all he has to do is move the dribble and he'll be pushed out of bounds!

Kidd rushed to pick it up, and Clifford-Robinson passed the ball out of that suffocating sense of oppression.

Kidd also breathed a sigh of relief, he almost made a mistake!

When is the small shipbreaker's defense so good, Odom retreats to the basket to protect the frame, the big Q interferes with Marion receiving the ball, and Li Ao blocks Clifford-Robinson on the outside......

Especially that big spider, it's outrageous, a 203 cm small forward actually surrounded a 208 cm tall big forward with a 221 cm arm span!

Chacharidis dragged a huge weight of 129 kilograms into the three-point line slowly, and when he reached the left side of the three-second zone, Kidd on the outside suddenly started to break through!

Big Q defended very steadily, kept up with Kidd's footsteps in time, Kidd took the initiative to resist Big Q, and still completed the crotch dribbling action freely in the confrontation, changed direction, squeezed Big Q into the three-point line, stuck the advantage of position, and rushed forward in the middle!

Chacharidis on the left side of the three-second zone pressed inside, and on the right baseline, Marion cut in to contain Odom, and Li Ao was pulled to a 45-degree angle on the right by Clifford Robinson.

O'Neal Jr. showed his top-notch defensive awareness, first going to Chacharidis and then immediately lunging down the middle, but Kidd threw the ball before O'Neal Jr.'s two-headed defense was in place...... Hit!

Li Ao's eyes widened when the onlookers saw it, and he was so sharp when he didn't break through!

Li Ao didn't know that the Kidd breakthrough in this period was quite powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.

Change of direction during confrontation and start after confrontation...... 193 cm tall, 95 kg weight, speed is also a top 90 evaluation, a bit fierce! The comprehensive evaluation of system 96 is really not a blind give!

But the main thing is the use of big centers.

Chacharidis is likely to be treated as a 'waste' when he changes teams, and will only be used to consume O'Neal's meat shield in the stage of physical strength in the game against the Lakers, but it is actually used as an offensive partner by Kidd, which is very useful!

Before the game, Li Ao wondered how Kidd could shoot a career-high 64% from close range this season, an increase of 14 percentage points from last season, and an average of 2.6 shots per game within close range, which was also double from last season.

He has seen some footage in the past two days, but the editor rarely cuts the footage of Kidd's score, mainly how he organizes the attack, and the only few scenes may be a problem with the angle, and it is difficult to see the fame.

Now that you're playing on the field, it's intuitive.

As Popovich called the 'god of active point guards', Kidd seems to have taken advantage of all the advantages on the offensive end.

When it was the Clippers' turn to attack, Li Ao used the fastest running speed that could ensure the stability of the receiving and shooting to deal with Marion's pursuit and defense...... Failed again.

For the first time since he entered the NBA, he met an opponent who could defend so well with a single defense!

"Sean Marion, 22 years old, height 201 cm, arm span 221 cm, weight 101 kg, comprehensive evaluation 85...... Speed 92, Power 89...... Averaged 16.3 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.4 blocks per game ......"

In addition to being a little shorter and shorter than him, Marion is in better physical condition than him in terms of weight, speed, strength, etc.!

Li Ao gave up the running position and came to the right side at a 45-degree angle and two minutes long, opening up the space.

Kidd, who defended Greg Anthony in the top arc, glanced at Li Ao in surprise, Tanhualang, a super rookie scorer who averaged 24 points per game, honestly pulled away?

He didn't believe it!

But later, Li Ao's obedient position opened up space, and after Greg Anthony and Odom blocked and broke through, Li Ao moved to the free throw line very cooperatively, bringing Marion to the position of 'retractable pinching'.

Kidd defended very fiercely, Clifford Robinson did a good job of switching guards for a short time, Chacharidis stood in the three-second zone and did a good job of protecting the frame, and finally O'Neal Jr. was forced to lean back and shoot from close range in the face of Clifford Robinson's interference...... It feels good, and the strong throw is in!

Kidd's eyes have been glancing at Li Ao from time to time this round, seeing Li Ao's position move, plus the rest of the Clippers really put Li Ao in the middle of the pinch, he is sure that Li Ao is really selfless and calm when he plays.

And smart!

Not only does it give your teammates enough freedom, but it also saves energy!

Such a rookie...... It makes him very unhappy!

In addition, Xiao Broken Boat was not nervous at all in the face of their 'championship team'!

This makes him even more unhappy, where is the deterrent power of his superstardom?

Can't even scare a small wrecked ship?

This Kidd just misunderstood the Clippers.

It is precisely because of his strong ability to lead the team that the Clippers have no psychological pressure.

The Clippers players want to win now, but the difference in strength is so big, they have to win hard against the Nets, they think it's useless to be nervous, it's better to take it easy, if they win, they won't be in a good mood for a few days.

Kidd advanced to the front with a no-name fire and saw Lee-Ao and Odom switch back, and Odom went to defend Clifford-Robinson.

He's keeping that in mind, and Clifford Robinson could have a chance there.

Odom often wanders from the crowd, and his rookie season is famous.

After paying attention for a while, Kidd continued to break through the big Q in singles!

Kidd wanted to score another one, but he didn't expect O'Neal Jr. to directly let go of Chacharidis to make up for the middle.

Kidd, who grabbed the ball on the free throw line, turned his stride and threw it into a hanging ball, the ball was fed very comfortably, and Chacharidis, who couldn't bend down to receive the ball on the ground, just got into the basket, and received the ball from Kidd, jumped, and dunked with both hands...... "pop" and "bang"......

Li Ao let go of Marion, who cut in the middle distance of the baseline, contracted quickly, and slapped Chacharidis's dunk on the basket with one palm!

'Siege Level 3' triggered, speed +3, starting to 92, speed increased to 93, he contracted and replenished the defense so fast that even the opposing Marion was shocked!

The ball bounced high on the basket, and Li Ao, who had completed the block, immediately turned around and pounced on Kidd, covering Kidd's head, and O'Neal Jr. stepped back to the inside, blocked Marion, and received the defensive rebound.

Kyd:????

I attack the frame, you don't come to make up for me, I'm standing here and you come to prevent me from grabbing the board?

A few meanings!

(End of chapter)