Happy times always pass quickly, and two days pass like that.

On December 26, the last day of the Clippers' third rest day, before 8 o'clock in the morning, Li Ao came to Memorial Stadium early.

Today there is preparation training, and the next wave is a wave of 4 days and 3 battles.

Li Ao came to the training ground with a large suitcase, ready to surprise his teammates by secretly placing Christmas gifts in various corners of their Clippers area before they arrived.

As a result, as soon as I entered the training ground, I saw the big Q who had changed into training clothes......

Li Ao: ()

Big Q ran up to help Li Ao carry the cardboard box together, and asked, "Boss, what is this?" ”

Li Ao was speechless for two seconds, and responded: "Christmas gifts." ”

Big Q's eyes lit up and asked, "Is there any mine?" ”

"Yes, the top one."

Da Q hurriedly supported the bottom of the cardboard box with one hand, opened the hidden box with one hand, and saw his gift...... A postcard?

He picked it up and looked at it, and exclaimed, "Even if you buy it, this is Brandi's phone number?" ”

"yes, didn't you say your dream was to date Brandi Norwood, I asked Vanessa for it."

"Vanessa? Bryant's girlfriend? Oh yes, Bryant seemed to be with Brandi a few years ago...... Wait, boss, you're asking Bryant's girlfriend for his ex-girlfriend's phone? "Big Q has touched the blind spot of knowledge.

"If you ask Kobe Bryant for it, he will definitely not give it to me, Vanessa happened to be sitting near me last night, I asked her for it, and she said she didn't know either."

"How did you get Brandi's phone?"

"I just got home last night and Vanessa called me on Kobe's phone and told me Brandi's number."

"......" Big Q would definitely give a thumbs up if he didn't have a third hand.

What a miserable Bryant...... But Big Q's sympathy didn't last long, thanks to Bryant!

Li Ao was in a more complicated mood at the moment, and he asked, "Quentin, why are you here so early?" ”

"I came early to practice the three-point shooting, I practiced the catch-and-shoot well, and I finally got the starting position, and it was bad to be snatched back by Eric, he came to practice at 8:30 every rest day, and I had to be earlier than him! I started training at 8 o'clock! ”

If you can put aside the facts, Li Ao really wants to say: Why are you working so hard? Isn't it happy to lie flat?

Well, it's happier to train hard, improve your strength, and win the cheers of the fans and make the opponent angry and unwilling to perform on the field than to lie down.

Big Q suddenly thought of something and asked, "Boss, why did you come so early?" Shouldn't you just take a break and go to work? Did you want to give us a gift, and you wanted to see how happy we were when we received the gift early, so you came early? ”

"I came an hour early to hide the gift before you arrived, waiting for you to find out."

“……”

Big Q looked at the postcard with 'To Quentin' written in his hand and was silent.

Seeing Da Q's expression of self-blame, Li Ao was in a much happier mood.

Suddenly, Big Q puts the postcard with Brandi's phone number written on it back in the box.

"Boss, let's go hide the gifts together! You have to hide my one, I need to find my gift with my own hands! Gotta hurry, Eric may be here soon. ”

After saying that, Big Q took the box and walked to the locker room.

This time it was Li Ao's turn to be stunned for a moment.

He smiled instantly.

The joy of hiding gifts and decorating surprises is lost, so two people enjoy the joy of decorating surprises for teammates together!

…

The Clippers have a 'team activity' today, looking for gifts hidden by the boss in various locations on the training ground!

Not only the players, but also the coaches, trainers, team doctors, and even the cleaning of their house.

Some people will tell this teammate when they find someone else's, and some people will immediately hide it in another place when they find a gift that is not their own, and it will be more difficult to find it.

Today's training was affected, and the 'initiator' went to the blacksmith's room with James Worthy, but Gentry was happy that in the middle of the season, the amount of training was already small, and the players played together, strengthened the team cohesion, and created a relaxed and happy atmosphere, which may have more effect than training brought to the game.

Little O'Neal who found his gift early regretted it!

Why didn't he think of buying gifts?

The progress of the battle for the position of boss is one step slower than that of Spider-Man!

However, he looked at the game disc box in his hand, all of which were games that had just been released, some of which he had and most of which he didn't, but each one was a game of his liking.

Although he thinks that he and Li Ao are in a state of competition, the relationship is not bad, but he is still the first teammate to get acquainted with Li Ao, and he will sit together and chat when he has nothing to do.

He likes to play games, and his teammates know about it, but he doesn't know when he told Li Ao what type of games he likes to play.

Not only him, but he was pleasantly surprised when he saw his teammates get the gifts, saying that this is what they wanted.

Even the cleaning aunt received the brand of perfume she wanted but was reluctant to buy.

He used to think that Li Ao talked too much, and he could talk to anyone, and he didn't have the temperament that a star player should have.

Now, when he sees his teammates happy, he feels completely different......

But if he wants to break his mouth like Li Ao, he thinks about it.

He is a man who wants to become a superstar, and he wants to conquer his teammates with his strength!

…

At noon, Da Q, who finally found the postcard that was stuffed into the gap between the ceiling of the bathroom by the boss, cried with joy.

He said that he would hide it better, but he didn't expect the boss to hide so much.

If he hadn't just entered that cubicle, sitting on the toilet with his hair back and thinking about where the boss would be hiding, he wouldn't have imagined that the postcard would be there.

I knew I had secretly written down my phone number at that time!

But the postcard sent by the boss is still a collection!

Da Q, who found Brandi's number, immediately ran to the place where Li Ao usually eats, just in time, Li Ao's personal nutritionist + physiotherapist was preparing lunch.

Li Ao complained: "Why are you here to eat again?" ”

Jack smiled when he heard this: "Leo, don't be so stingy, eat more people and be lively, aren't you?" This meal I please! ”

Da Q didn't care about being disliked at all, hehe laughed twice and sat down, and asked Li Ao: "Boss, can you become an All-Star starter in your rookie year like Hill?" ”

Today, there are 3 hot topics about the NBA.

The Clippers temporarily canceled training this morning, and some players sat together and chatted after finding gifts early, and the content of the conversation was inevitably related to the NBA, and the conversation was naturally a hot topic at the moment.

One is about yesterday's Christmas fight.

In a total of two games, the Lakers, the top contender for the Western championship, lost to the Trail Blazers 104-109, and the Magic, the favorite for the top championship in the East, also lost, Iverson soared 36 points and 12 assists, overturned Duncan, who had 25 points and 14 boards, and Maddy, who had 17 points and 10 assists, and led the 76ers to avenge the Magic 100-96.

As of now, the Lakers are 19-8 and first in the West, the Trail Blazers are 17-10 and third in the West, the Magic are 18-9 and first in the East, and the 76ers are 16-10 and second in the East.

In the East, the Pacers did not leave Mark Jackson and Rick Schmitz to retire, and they would have collapsed long ago; The Knicks were defeated by Li Ao; Although the Heat have a good record, Mourning suddenly fell ill, and no one is optimistic about how far they can go in the playoffs......

The Magic and the 76ers are the only two top teams in the East this season to compete for the championship.

In the West, the Lakers and the Trail Blazers were originally facing each other in the Western Conference last season, and the two teams played each other, and there is a saying that the Western Conference will continue to play.

The Lakers and Magic were both knocked down last night, and the topic of championship competition has become hot.

The second topic, this morning the league announced that voting for the All-Star starters began.

The third topic is related to the second topic - Li Ao won the best of the week.

This is the fifth consecutive season that a rookie has won the Player of the Week award.

Iverson in '96-97, Duncan in '97-98, Carter in '98-99 and Francis in '99-00.

At present, these people are the most representative players in their draft.

Li Ao won the best of the week, and naturally he was tied with these people.

This doesn't need to be considered whether the rookie is strong or weak, the Player of the Week is won by competing with all the players in the league.

Like the class of '95 where rookie talent is all over but none of them won the Weekly Championship in their rookie season, no one has been tied with those guys in this regard.

Li Ao actually won the Player of the Week award yesterday, but yesterday fans focused on the two popular Christmas games in the evening, and today it was hyped again, and the NBA official website put him in the headline position for the best of the week and All-Star starter votes...... He smelled the smell of busyness.

Big Q mentioned that the first rookie after Hill was selected as an All-Star starter, and Li Ao rubbed his chin...... Dick, when will the stubble get hard.

Forget it, Li Ao moved his neck and responded: "All-star starter, I will definitely be able to enter." ”

Da Q gave a thumbs up in admiration: "It is worthy of being my boss, that is, I have confidence!" ”

Li Ao shrugged his shoulders and said: "You don't know how many people there are in our country, even if one in a thousand people votes for me, I will start, but I estimate that there are not so many people in our country who can vote, but my popularity in Los Angeles is still okay, I heard that it is higher than Kobe, if it weren't for Garnett and Webb in the West, I might be able to compete for the vote king, it's a pity......"

Big Q was stunned, he thought that the rookie was already an unattainable goal to compete for an All-Star starter.

In the 24 years since the merger of the NBA and the ABA, the number of players who were selected as All-Star starters in their rookie season has not been able to make up the number of hands, these are Magic, Jordan, O'Neal, Hill, and they are gone.

Even supernovas like Big Bird, Admiral, and Duncan, who were on the All-Star team in their rookie season, failed to make the All-Star starters.

When I arrived at Li Ao, the all-star starters didn't pay attention to it, and they stared at the ticket king!

is worthy of being the boss of his big Q!

By the way, how many people are there in the flower planter?

Big Q is curious.

After lunch, he went to the coaches' offices to borrow a computer to check the ......

Vaco! The boss is cheating!

…

With the Christmas game over, the All-Star starting voting began, and the NBA kicked off the mid-season.

After Li Ao got up on the morning of the 27th, he bathed and changed his clothes, put incense on Guan Erye, and started the lottery!

There are 2 level 3 skill upgrade card fragments there, and I want to draw a wave to get together 3, and choose 1 level 2 skill upgrade.

Finally got together 30,000 achievement points, the break is over, and let's get started!

Drew the 17th time, and finally drew the level 3 skill upgrade card fragment.

Luckily, the first 16 draws also happened to draw 3 level 2 skill upgrade card fragments...... and 1 base stat point!

Thank you Guan Er Ye for your blessing!

He immediately converted the original 1 basic attribute point and the one he just drew into speed basic attribute points, made up 3 speed basic attribute points, increased the speed to 92, and even increased the explosive acceleration to the top level of 90!

At this time, the system prompt is coming!

"Congratulations to the host for improving their overall rating from 78 to 79, and the host is only one step away from the best stars, and needs to develop a main offensive ability with the ball, or go further to the top level of defense, to be among the best stars."

It's the same as Li Ao thought!

His systematic evaluation method is different from others, who will get first-class star evaluation as long as they play first-class performances, but he is more demanding here.

It has been a few months since the start of the training camp, and he has actually improved a lot, and the basic skills and techniques of each club have improved to some extent, but the speed of improvement in the comprehensive evaluation is much slower than the improvement of basic skills and skills in the previous year or so.

He guessed whether the system's evaluation of him was more comprehensive and comprehensive.

Like before, when he developed hook shots, pull-up jump shots, and turn-around jump shots, the improvement speed was much faster than the single practice mid-shot.

Now his conjecture has been confirmed.

Coincidentally, he's developing his ball-handling ability right now, starting before he reaches the overall rating of 79.

If you don't develop an offense with the ball, you can still take the defensive line, but that's too difficult, and it's just defense, the ceiling is not high, and the top defense can reach the excellent level of 80, that is, the top defensive player, in the eyes of others, is at most an excellent player, and the input-output ratio is too low.

It's not that he doesn't pay attention to defense anymore, but his defense has reached a relatively high level, and it is not just hard work that can be done, he needs to play more games, play against more different types of opponents, and learn some adaptation skills from those defensive masters in the game......

He has already started the development of back play in advance, so there is no need to worry about this aspect.

He opened the skill section, and there was 1 skill upgrade card for level 2 and 1 for level 3 skill upgrade card.

Level 3 skill upgrade card, he did not hesitate to choose to upgrade the 'shark'.

The details of the upgraded skill appear on the system screen.

"Shark Level 3: When the host receives the ball under the basket, the speed of the rebound is +3, the layup is +3, if the opponent has only one defender under the basket, the host chooses to dunk, the speed of the rebound is +5, the explosiveness is +5, if the defender's strength rating is below 92, it will ignore the opponent's regular confrontation."

At first glance, Li Ao thought that there was no upgrade.

The bounce speed and layup bonus values remain unchanged in 1-to-many.

The trigger limit of 'Unstoppable One-on-One Block' has not changed, only the one-on-one speed and explosive power bonuses have been increased by 1 point to +5.

But if you look closely, the one-to-many trigger limit is gone!

You no longer need to shake off your opponent and get bonuses to your speed and layup.

If this is developed to score under the basket, it will be amazing!

After calming his excitement, he looked at the remaining three Level 1 skills.

'Pride of the champion', ignore.

There are also 'cheer ups' and 'perfect warm-ups' left.

At the start of the season, the 'Cheer Worker' was very good.

But now, it's hard for him to score back-to-back points, and opponents are paying more attention to him and learning more about his style of play.

This was followed by 17 games in a single month.

Thinking of the next 4 days and 3 games, he didn't wait until January to taste the bitterness of the fish belly team.

Let's upgrade to the 'Perfect Warm-Up' first!

This is the earliest skill he obtained, and he relied on this skill for the first shot he scored in the NCAA, and he has not been upgraded yet, and Li Ao feels embarrassed.

Li Ao issued a command, and soon, the details of the upgraded skills appeared on the system screen.

"Perfect Warm-up (Level 2): During the warm-up phase before the start of the competition, the system will provide the most suitable warm-up guidance for the host, and the host will warm up strictly according to the requirements to get the fullest warm-up effect.

After the system determines that the warm-up training is qualified, 1. the host will shoot hot for the first time in this game, and 2. start the game in the best physical condition.

Note: If the host has too much physical exertion before the game, you need to be prepared for a full meal. ”

Li Ao blinked......

It seems that this new addition has a strong effect, but his original organic physiotherapy function, plus professional physiotherapy, back-to-back does not affect his physical strength.

Does this added effect mean that he can make a shot before the warm-up? He felt that he would be broken by the assistant aunt......

Ahem, no, Li Ao felt that this was an increase in the time he could train.

On the previous competition days, he could only do light training to avoid affecting the physical condition during the competition, but now it doesn't matter if he trains wildly before the competition!

However, if you have to play at night, practice for a day during the day, and play at night, your enthusiasm will be affected to some extent.

Do you want to play iron when you're in the mood and have energy on game day?

I haven't done strength training for a few months, but now I'm in the middle of the season, so if you want to gain muscle and weight, you can adapt to it the fastest!

It was such a happy decision.

Li Ao looked at the other things he had drawn, and he also drew two new recipes, he was very satisfied, and he could make new dishes for the assistant aunt again.

Thinking of the picture of Aunt Yuan Zhu smelling the fragrance and sticking out her head to peek at the door frame, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

…

After drawing the prize and upgrading his skills, Li Ao made a hearty breakfast and enjoyed it with the assistant aunt.

Vivian is currently on vacation, but she still went out early to help Li Ao choose a location and look at the house.

There are a lot of requirements, to have a good environment, to be quiet enough, to be close to the Memorial Stadium and the Staples Center, to have good road traffic, preferably a school district room, and a good infant education environment.

Vivien rolled her eyes when she heard this, but there was nothing difficult in the world, only that she would not have money.

Now that the house has a price, it is like the stock market and falling endlessly, and some homeowners sell their houses to pay off their debts, so they just choose slowly.

Li Ao arrived at the Staples Center to prepare for tonight's game.

He hated 'the dogs don't practice on match days', but after the meeting in the morning and the team's 20-minute running practice, he immediately went to the blacksmith's room to shake James Worthy over, wanting to develop the level 1 training method of 'high post back singles' as soon as possible.

James Worthy's teaching habits are similar to Xavier Johnson's, step-by-step, little by little, which is in line with Li Ao's study habits.

If you develop your training methods, you'll get additional bonuses to your training results!

James Worthy originally refused to work overtime, but Li Ao called, AJ told him that there was overtime pay, and he came in a hurry.

As long as you are given enough overtime pay, it doesn't matter if you work overtime every day!

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