Li Ao's side, after returning to Los Angeles, continued to practice in the afternoon.

Odom's injury, he didn't pay attention to it when he learned that it was no big problem, and he was not a doctor and would not treat the disease.

Against Nowitzki, he defended well.

But the team lost, and it was useless for him to restrain the opponent.

The biggest takeaway from this game was that he learned a little bit about running, catching and shooting from Nowitzki.

Nowitzki doesn't have a lot of range and isn't fast, but he always gets catch-and-shoot opportunities.

When he played before, he thought Nowitzki's movement was very distinctive, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

The running position of an inside pitcher on the outside is completely different from that of an outside pitcher.

The goal of the interior player is not to get rid of the opponent, but to find misalignments and gaps, and reduce the confrontation when making shooting moves.

This time he was facing Nowitzki, and he was interested.

If the goal is a catch-and-shoot that is two points long and three points, he feels that his physical advantage is no less than Nowitzki's!

Although he is an outside pitcher, there is no rule that he cannot move like an interior pitcher.

At present, his three-point ratio has reached 73, and he has improved by two points to reach a good mid-stream level, and he can rely on the 'catch-and-shoot expert' to rise to an excellent level of 80 by relying on the 'catch-and-shoot expert'.

He's not a pure shooter, and running around long distances has an impact on how he splits the ball, and there's a difference between a three-point shot and a mid-range shot for outside players.

He thought about it, maybe the three-point run, he learned from Nowitzki's style of interior play, which was more suitable for his style of play.

He decided to try, how would he know if the idea was right without trying?

He didn't think about it on his own, firstly because he had no experience in this area, and secondly, in order to save time, he shook Xavier Johnson in the same stadium over.

Xavier Johnson was already willing to help Li Ao, and Li Ao also had to give a private tutor fee, he was even happier, who wouldn't want to take a private job.

It's not that he thinks that Li Ao has made so much money, which is not bad, but that work is work, and friendship is friendship, so that they can get along for a longer time.

Professional is professional, Li Ao just told Xavier Johnson the details of his footsteps when Novitzki was running, and the latter quickly analyzed the details of Nowitzki's running and receiving the ball, short-distance traverse force, turning footsteps and so on.

Li Ao didn't have to follow Nowitzki's running habits, he followed Xavier Johnson's advice, and the latter first observed his current running habits in the game for a while, and tailored his interior long-range running methods for him.

In addition, Xavier Johnson also promised Li Ao that he would communicate with Henry Bibi and Gentry and let the boys of the Trojans help Li Ao train.

Regarding this, he smiled: "Henry has complained several times, saying that if you don't find the school team to be your sparring partner, his promise will not count, and he will be crazy." ”

Li Ao complained when he heard this: "Henry, you take the coach to the hospital for a check-up, I suspect that he is suffering from Chi Feichi's disease." ”

"What's that?"

"Time Perception Disorder."

"Hahahaha...... I will definitely take him to the doctor. ”

It's been a long time since I've seen Li Ao and Henry Bibby look at each other unpleasantly, and Xavier Johnson is starting to miss that wonderful year again.

Li Ao complained and complained, he was really happy.

He felt the benefits of having connections at the university.

…

It's a new year again, and on January 1, 2001, the first game day of the new year for the Clippers, the Clippers welcomed the challenge of the Lakers at home.

At 6:40 p.m., at the Staples Center, players from the Lakers and Clippers entered the court.

The last time he played the Lakers at home, Li Ao didn't come to the scene.

This time, he felt firsthand a huge change in their team.

Once, the Clippers hosted the Lakers, and there was no home atmosphere at all, and the vast majority of the fans who came to the scene were Lakers fans.

Because whenever Sterling plays the Lakers at home, he sets the ticket price very high, and the Clippers fans, who are mainly working-class fans, are reluctant to buy it, and even the die-hard fans of the Clippers feel that they are not worthy of such a price.

It's not that all Lakers fans are rich, but Hawks-chan also has countless people who 'watch expensive games and have face', and the more expensive the ticket price of the game related to the Lakers, the happier they will buy.

And Clippers fans don't buy tickets, Lakers fans can buy tickets more easily, and tickets for the Clippers to play the Lakers at home can still be bought before the game starts.

Now it's different, Ballmer, who rarely interferes in team affairs, ordered that other games can be raised at a price, after all, their Spider-Man appeal is strong, but the game against the Lakers is not allowed to increase the price, and it has to be lower than the ticket price of games against popular teams such as the Magic, Raptors, and 76ers.

So, the last time the Clippers hosted the Lakers, there were almost no Lakers fans in attendance.

Lakers fans, who are accustomed to being able to buy tickets at any time, only went to buy tickets on the same day, and they were already bought out by Clippers fans.

This time too, although the Lakers fans were prepared, they couldn't grab the enthusiastic Clippers fans.

How much money Ballmer made less money from this operation, Li Ao didn't care at all, it wasn't his money, he liked this operation, and the loyalty of the fans increased greatly!

Looking at the red, white and blue Clippers jersey or team T-shirt on the scene, this is the feeling of playing at home!

After entering the court, Li Ao looked at Kobe Bryant, who was wearing a suit on the sidelines, Kobe Bryant saw Li Ao looking at him, snorted with a foul expression, and turned his head.

The blast head was injured again.

Yesterday, Li Ao made more than a dozen calls to Kobe Bryant, and was rejected more than a dozen times, and finally, after Kobe vented his resentment about Li Ao asking Vanessa for Brandy's call, he took the initiative to return Li Ao's call, saying that he was injured and couldn't train.

At first, Li Ao was quite puzzled, what about the good iron man? Why is it so crispy!

Unlike his impression that Kobe Bryant is iron-clad, Kobe has missed 10 games this season.

He remembers that Bryant also missed more than a dozen games last season.

Confused, he easily checked Kobe's game records in the past few years.

originally wanted to see Kobe's attendance in the first few years of his career, but another data made him analyze the reason for Kobe's many injuries in the past two years - weight gain.

Kobe Bryant was in excellent health for the first two years of his career, when he played as a substitute, was too young as a rookie, played unstable playing time, and sometimes he didn't necessarily play, played 71 games, played 79 games in his sophomore year, was banned for one absence because of a conflict with an opponent, one was sick, and only one was because he twisted his ankle, but he only came back after only one rest.

The watershed was in the 98-99 season, and during the two years he played as a substitute, Kobe Bryant's registered weight was 190 pounds, which is less than 87 kilograms.

Indeed, in those two years, Kobe Bryant was like a thin strip.

But in the '98-99 season, the registered weight was 194 pounds and 88 kilograms, but in the playoffs, Kobe Bryant's weight rose to 203 pounds, or 92 kilograms.

By last season, the registered weight for training camp had come to 95 kilograms and 210 pounds.

Li Ao saw this change and remembered that when he chatted with Margeti at the beginning of last month, Margeti complained that he hated Kobe Bryant the most, every time he broke through Kobe, he felt like facing a wall, he couldn't hit it, and when he was defending, Kobe turned around and gave him an elbow, as if he was given an elbow by Malone, it hurt so much that the referee couldn't see it.

He also remembered that when he was training against Kobe, he couldn't get cheap in close confrontation.

Little Marlon 1.0?

In fact, there is no problem with weight gain, reasonable weight gain, and Kobe's strength has also been improved.

But he saw Bryant's minutes soar from 26 minutes per game to 38 minutes per game, and more than 40 minutes this season.

The current Kobe Bryant is only 22 years old, gaining weight, practicing defense, practicing offensive skills, and has two teams and one defense last season...... It's a miracle that you don't hurt if you do it like this.

Li Ao is sad when he thinks about it, Jordan, Kobe, both experienced babies are injured, and it is really difficult to become stronger, so he can only develop his back well.

…

At 7 p.m., the Clippers' home game against the Lakers kicked off.

O'Neill is looking forward to tonight's game, and he can see the little spider's chic and reasonable style of play again.

And then...... He saw Spider-Man play 31 minutes and throw 25 times.

10 of 25 shots, including 2 of 8 three-pointers, plus 2 of 3 free throws, Li Ao scored 24 points, 7 boards, 3 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks.

After the third quarter, Li Ao was forced to clock out of work.

Although it was another game against the Lakers led by O'Neal alone, this time the situation was completely different, the Clippers fell behind by 16 points 15-31 in the first quarter, and they didn't need to be specially arranged by Gentry, Li Ao himself took the initiative to increase the catch-and-shoot of the acceleration position.

The scores were 26-28 and 21-27 in the next two quarters, and the Clippers trailed the Lakers by 24 points 62-86 after the third quarter.

Li Ao's overall shooting performance is actually reasonable, 5 of 12 shots, 2 of 3 counterattacks, all of which are quite good, 1 of 2 in the offensive frame in the positional battle, and O'Neal under the basket, which is also acceptable.

But his 2-of-8 three-pointers were not effective in space, and his 2-of-3 free throws were not lethal, and his shortcomings in this game were exposed.

However, Gentry doesn't care whether Li Ao plays well or not, he only cares about whether Li Ao plays right.

Seeing that Li Ao was not a brainless shot, he was trying his best to find a good opportunity every time he shot, and tried to adjust the shooting force and angle, Gentry was very satisfied, and took the initiative to increase his chances.

In addition to Li Ao, the Clippers have another one who shoots a lot tonight.

McGinnis made 11 shots in the first three quarters, but to Gentry's surprise, McGinnis, who started the game, faced the aging Ron Harper and the emaciated Tyronn Lue, shooting 5 of 11 in the third quarter, including 1 of 3 three-pointers, plus 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 13 points plus 2 boards, 4 assists and 1 steal quite efficiently.

This performance, in the final garbage time, Gentry let McGinnis continue to play.

After focusing on McGinnis, Gentry understood the reason, first of all, in the Lakers' game, the defensive focus was on Li Ao's infinite change of defense, and there was almost no help against McGinnis.

There is more importantly, Ron Harper will be 37 years old soon, and by the middle of the season, his physical strength has declined significantly. Although Tyronn Lue is in the 98th class and has good physical condition, he has only played 26 games in the regular season + playoffs in the past two seasons combined.

McGinnis had the opportunity to play very hard, the kind that plays every ball.

Gentry thought that it was the middle of the season, and the veterans were in a fatigue phase, while McGinnis was 26 years old and at the peak of his physical strength...... Maybe things will go more smoothly than he thought!

You need to plan your appearances......

For McGinnis to play 27 minutes in the first three quarters tonight, the second-highest playing time on the team in the first three quarters, the rest of the Clippers didn't feel anything wrong.

Without Odom, the starting lineup lacks the ability to attack with the ball, and Margeti has a single style of play, although he can see the talent, but the current strength is like that.

McGinnis, who is good at attacking with the ball, has increased his playing time and deserves it.

Mainly Li Ao, O'Neal Jr., Big Q, Piakowski and others are players with a strong sense of teamwork, the head coach arranged for McGinnis to attack, and they all actively cooperated, while McGinnis said that his ability was not good and his playing style was problematic, but he had a positive attitude towards the game.

Although the team's attack was not good, it seemed that the manager had no way to do it, and it did not affect the atmosphere of the whole team to actively seek to win.

In garbage time, McGinnis dared to fight, soaring 14 points and 6 assists, facing the Lakers' pure bench lineup, leading the team to a 32-20 final quarter score...... In the end, the Clippers lost to the Lakers 94-106.

…

The Clippers lost three in a row, but McGinnis was on fire.

With 27 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists in a single game, some columnists commented that the Clippers delayed McGinnis.

This point of view has won the favor of Li Ao's black fans.

McGinnis scored 27 points on 11-of-21 shooting, and Li Ao scored 24 points on 25-of-25 shooting.

The next morning, seeing this topic, Li Ao felt that there was nothing to say, this teammate really played well in this game, and he seized the opportunity that should be seized.

But there is so much media hype on this topic, he feels weird, but he doesn't have the time to think about it.

Continue to develop back hits!

But when he went to the blacksmith's room in the morning to meet with James Worthy, he didn't arrange to continue to develop his back play today, but arranged for him to be an intensive training on his finishing ability under the basket.

James Worthy explained: "Leo, high back play, not just mid-range shots, if you only have the option of mid-range shots, you need to enhance the offensive threat under the basket, you have such good physical condition, not so strong inside you can dunk directly, but you have no other ability to break through the offensive frame except for dunking, which is an obstacle for you to become a master of back playing." ”

"I understand, it's just been a few days of learning to memorize the basics, and I'm jumping here, well, I'm not prepared." Li Aoqi replied in a sloppy manner.

"yes, I've only been studying for a few days......

James Worthy is also very messy, not to mention Li Ao, he is not mentally prepared.

Originally, he planned to practice every other day, or every two days, but now when the season is underway, theoretically there is not so much training time.

2-3 weeks to let the body remember the basic movements, about 1 month, carefully polish the details of the movements, before the All-Star Weekend, the most basic skills are taught, continue to polish the details of the movements......

It's not that James Worthy is over-taught, he has first-hand experience, and the most basic things determine the ceiling of the final technique.

The better Li Ao's talent, the more he attaches importance to this aspect.

But things turned out more than he expected!

Now it's only been less than two weeks, and Li Ao has learned what he originally had to learn in two months!

The 100% training result bonus of Li Ao's 'Experience Bracelet' is not only useful when training, but also when learning.

Yesterday afternoon, he had already completed the development of the 'High Back Playing Basic Level 1 Training Method' and started the task, which can give him up to 40% of the additional training results.

It doesn't matter if you learn, these most basic things are not difficult, but the difficult thing is the details of the movements, Li Ao has practiced so many times, and he can reproduce it almost exactly in training, James Worthy feels that his salary for this job will shrink a lot, and he will not charge by the day if he knows it.

I think so, but he didn't deliberately delay the progress of teaching, otherwise, with his understanding of Li Ao's learning attitude, as long as he teaches well, this talented rookie will definitely train hard one by one.

Such a genius's time can't be wasted!

He thought of his old club's super genius who went from a high school rookie to a second-team defense in just 4 seasons, and the one in front of him could be faster!

After a pause, James Worthy continued: "Your learning ability is far beyond my imagination, you can't follow the progress of ordinary people, and when you really practice the foundation of back playing, the ability to attack the frame will drag you back, but it will affect the further development of back play......"

Li Ao nodded when he heard this, and he agreed with this.

His three points are that he polished the foundation early and developed the level 3 training method, but the supporting technology and running ability were insufficient, which really affected his progress in further enhancing his ability in this area.

“…… I adjusted the development plan, and then I hit the frame, the back turn, and the back to the pull-up jumper...... I will teach you a number of techniques one by one, after learning these, every subsequent training is a full set of training for high-level back play, you have to be mentally prepared, which is much more difficult than the foundation of back play. ”

James Worthy is also ruthless, aren't you a genius? See how talented you really can be!

Although he didn't have the intention of deliberately embarrassing Li Ao, he always had the intention of competing.

However, he regretted it a little after saying this.

He saw that Li Ao's eyes lit up, as if to say-teach me! Hurry up and teach me them all!

…

Li Ao's daily training schedule has become more busy, and the competition has become more busy.

After playing the Lakers, he practiced for 1 day, and then ushered in back-to-backs, playing the Hornets and Raptors at home.

Against the Hornets, the Clippers lost 93-106.

The defense was a bit terrible, but Kentry and his men worked hard.

But with the current rotation of the roster, even if the Clippers players work hard, they can't play good defense.

Li Ao felt that he had suffered a 'differential treatment' tonight, and when the opponent's main lineup, he was the main attacker.

When it came to the rotation lineup, the opposing players became weaker, he was replaced to rest, and McGinnis, who was replaced after 3 minutes of starting lineups, dared to fight in the rotation lineup stage.

Gentry explained to him: "Leo, the strongest player on the other side, only you can defend, the best player on the other side, only you can score more consistently, we need you to stand up at this time, and this is also honing your personal ability, your back hit just now is very beautiful, although you burst into the cap, but the turn is great......"

If he didn't say this, Li Ao wouldn't think too much, the other party explained it like this, and he always felt that the head coach with less and less hair was planning something.

However, from the perspective of this arrangement, there is no disadvantage to him, and he doesn't care.

He shot okay tonight, shooting 10-of-22, including 1-of-3 three-pointers, plus 5-of-6 free throws, to finish with 26 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks.

The next day, Jan. 5, the Clippers faced the Raptors back-to-back.

In this game, Li Ao's mentality is very Buddha.

Looking at his college rival across the street, Maurice Peterson, he just wants to kill this guy tonight.

As for Mark Jackson, Carter, Charles Oakley, Antonio Davis, Kevin Willis, Zeon Clark, Dale Curry, Collise Williams, Jerome Williams...... Love whoever you want.

But sometimes you can't stop it if you're lucky!

The Raptors had a very poor shooting touch from the beginning, and Carter took the lead and began to play iron, which was so iron, Li Ao suddenly thought that Carter's jersey number was -1.

Carter played 29 minutes and scored 19 points on 8-of-24 shooting, plus 3-of-6 free throws.

The worst was Maurice Peterson, who was targeted to death by Li Ao, with 4 points, 2 rebounds and 1 block on 1-of-9 shooting.

The best performance of the Raptors team was Kevin Willis, who came off the bench and went unattended, scoring 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting, plus 4-of-4 free throws.

On the Clippers' side, the counterattack is flying!

Li Ao counterattacked and scored 6 goals, plus an opponent's foul and two free throws, both free throws were scored, and the positional battle offense was also his close-range catch to meet Carter's defensive hook and score, if this time two free throws and one throw are considered counterattacks, he scored 16 points just by counterattacking.

Not only is the offense sluggish, but the Raptors are not doing a good job defensively.

Li Ao made 14 of 25 shots, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws to get 35 points, 7 boards, 5 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks!

Margeti scored 17 points and Big Q scored 16.

McGinnis had the opportunity to continue to dare to fight, facing Mark Jackson's defense, shooting 6-of-11 from the field and finishing with 15 points and 11 assists.

The Clippers worked together to defeat the Raptors 107-88, ending a four-game losing streak and bringing the record to 17-16 and stabilizing the 50% win rate!

got 760 achievement points, Li Ao finally had a good time.

Losing 4 games in a row, I finally vented tonight.

It's just that I didn't have a chance to defend Carter, and I regretted it.

If Carter soars, it will definitely be his turn to defend, but the arrangement of the coaching staff is to let Margeti try first, Margeti can't, so let the substitute Da Q try, but he can't prevent it, so let him go, let him leave his physical strength on offense and defense, but tonight Carter went to the back vacant position to shoot iron, naturally it was not his turn.

However, he was very surprised by Carter, he didn't defend Carter tonight, but Carter defended him for a few rounds, and he was able to defend ...... It's very poor, it's not positive, and it's a huge difference from what he remembered as Carter during his time with the Mavericks and Grizzlies!

(End of chapter)