The next day, the new week arrived, and at 9 o'clock in the morning, Li Ao came to the restaurant for breakfast.

Gentry also just came, and when he saw Li Ao coming, he smiled and said: "You actually got up so late, haha, it's the first time to play the playoffs, and you're not used to the enthusiasm of the away fans, right?" And it's still the most fanatical state in Texas with the most sports atmosphere. ”

Li Ao responded: "Yes, I didn't fall asleep until 3 o'clock in the morning, I finally understand why you prepare earplugs, earmuffs, stereos, and walkmans...... That's amazing! ”

"ε=(ο'*)))) Alas, I called the police, but do you know how the police replied to me? He said that Texas is a multi-ethnic area where everyone has different customs, and asked me to respect everyone's customs. ”

"Complain about him!"

"Haha, forget it, that's how the playoffs are playing away, it's that my preparation is not enough, I'll think of a way, I'll stay here for at least two nights, and I'll come back again, I can't guarantee sleep."

"Ah...... No, you were very well prepared, put on your earbuds, put on earmuffs, and put on the white noise of the heavy rain, and the movement of those people was completely inaudible. ”

"Huh?" Gentry wondered, "Then why did you fall asleep at 3 a.m.?" ”

"I was curious how late those people could make trouble, and wanted to see what they were doing, so I borrowed Jermaine's telescope and asked the lady at the front desk to take me to the windows of each room to spy on them...... Otherwise, how would I have known what they were doing. ”

Gentry: (ˇˇ)

Gentry finished the contents of the plate in three or two and walked away.

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His muscles were already tense, and he was afraid that he couldn't help but look for a fight.

Li Ao muttered, "Eating too fast is not good for the stomach", and ate breakfast slowly.

Compared with the noise of away fans, he is actually more annoyed by the emerging Internet media in China.

Last night's locker room interview, his head was big.

Last night, Dazhi got a chance to play in the fourth quarter, played 5 minutes, scored a three-pointer, and got 3 points and 3 boards.

The shock department of various Internet media in China actually asked him a bunch of questions about this matter.

The question that impressed him the most - "Dazhi tonight has the highest shooting percentage on the team and the most rebounds on the bench, do you think he has won the trust of Nelson Sr.?" ”

If it weren't for Wang Zhizhi not even putting down his heels in the Mavericks, Li Ao would have taken the opportunity to provoke a wave.

After a morning break, Li Ao watched two clips of the Mavericks' regular season game clips.

When it was almost lunchtime, the Clippers arrived at the American Airlines arena, and the Mavericks prepared a hearty meal.

Unlike the Celtics' away locker room, some cabinets are not even different from the cabinet doors, and the Cuban gives the away team a particularly good welfare package, with star chefs on call around the clock, and the ingredients used are the best that can be bought in a short period of time.

The away team's lounge area is too big to want, luxuriously decorated, with a billiard room, a chess and card room, a cinema, and even a few small rooms with particularly soft beds but poor sound insulation, and even a takeaway phone from the local street where business is done legally.

On the contrary, the Mavericks' own treatment is very ordinary, even worse than that of some teams.

The Silver Horn King once asked his good friends why the away team was so luxurious, and Cuban replied that if they were addicted to pleasure and lose their fighting spirit, we would have a better chance of winning.

Although I don't know why Cuban thinks this can make the visiting players lose their fighting spirit, the Silver Horn King believes it and firmly supports his good friends.

This welfare package, the Clippers don't have to use it in vain, they don't use the Mavericks' chef, but let Jack prepare lunch, you can't hurt people, but you can't have the heart to prevent people.

While eating lunch, Li Ao received a surprise!

On April 22, 2001, the NBA officially announced the final Weekly and Monthly awards of the season.

In the extended week from April 10th to 18th, Li Ao won all 4 games, averaging 31.5 points, 8.25 boards, 4.5 assists, 2.5 steals and 4.25 blocks per game, winning his fourth weekly best this season!

He successfully set the record for the best number of times a week in his rookie season, which he and the Admiral held together.

The award of the month, the last month of the month was won by Clippers head coach Gentry, who finished 7-2 and rushed to seventh in the West.

Rookie of the Month, Li Ao won the award for 6 consecutive months without any suspense, becoming another player after David Robinson to win all Rookie of the Month awards.

Player of the Month...... It's still Li Ao!

The last award of the regular season was rounded by the Clippers!

In April, the Clippers went 7-2, and Li Ao averaged 36.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.7 assists, 1.7 steals and 3.9 blocks per game.

In the league's monthly best vote, the second place was the OK group, which played 8 games together in April, with one rotation off, with the Big Sharks averaging 33 points per game and the Black Mamba averaging 27 points per game.

In front of the Player of the Month award, 6 Rookie of the Month, 4 Weekly Awards, etc., it doesn't matter.

This time the award was announced, Li Ao caused a sensation again!

Since the Player of the Month award was introduced, only Larry Bird has won the Player of the Month award in his rookie season, and now, that's not the only one!

However, this sensation is not controversial.

At the end of the regular season, many media predicted that Li Ao would be the top favorite for the Player of the Month award.

50+ twice in a single month, one block and three doubles, and a good record, Li Ao's performance in the closing stage is crazy!

…

The sensation caused by Li Ao winning the best of the month even overshadowed Carter's 50+ popularity in a single game last night.

But on his side, he doesn't have the heart to go online to read the news.

He's excited, he's going to train!

Player of the Week and Rookie of the Month, each with 5,000 achievement points.

This season's Rookie of the Month is gone, and all the rewards are in hand.

The Player of the Week also won a total of 20,000 achievement points, cool!

Broke David Robinson's record for the best number of times in his rookie season and received an achievement reward of 1 advanced velocity stat point.

Last night, the 'strongest newcomer' got 1 attribute point, he used it on the bounce, increasing the bounce to 87, and then the bounce speed to 91, plus this achievement reward, the bounce speed increased to 92!

won the best of the month for the first time in his career, and Li Ao also knew the reward of the best of the month - 20,000 achievement points.

To reproduce Big Bird's achievement, the system gives the achievement reward - 1 advanced flexibility attribute point.

Flexibility is back at 93.

He felt like he could really get some weight gain this summer.

Gaining weight affects flexibility and indirectly speed, which is what he learned from training last summer.

He regarded the improvement of flexibility as a capital in terms of weight......

The teammates were very excited to learn that Li Ao won the Player of the Month award.

Not surprisingly, the media predicted that their Spider-Man would win the award a few days ago, and they had been waiting for a long time for the awards day at the end of the third week of the month.

After enjoying a sumptuous lunch, the Clippers practiced in the afternoon.

Last night's big win over the Mavericks, but Gentry didn't let up in the slightest and instead showed stricter in training.

Because the Mavericks played badly last night, he didn't even know how the Mavericks would play in the playoffs.

And there is no past data or video to study, the Mavericks have not made the playoffs for 10 years, and the main players basically have no playoff experience.

From the point of view of understanding the opponent, a fight is equivalent to a fight.

A little more cautious analysis, the ability shown by the Mavericks players last night was not counted, the mad scientist brain-pumped Juwan Howard to start and partner with Nowitzki, the two overlapped the long-range shooting area, maybe the mad scientist had a very good strategy, but the Mavericks players didn't play, and they also hindered each other because of lineup problems......

What makes Gentry very satisfied is that this group of young players, no one is careless because they have grabbed the home advantage, they are serious about preparing for the game, and they are eager to go directly to the match point 2-0.

…

On this night, Gentry stood guard in front of Li Ao's door.

Spider-Man will never be allowed to affect his sleep because of watching the excitement again!

As a result, by 1 a.m., Spider-Man didn't come out of the room......

At 8 o'clock the next morning, Gentry 'bumped into' Li Ao in the restaurant with dark circles under his eyes.

Seeing Spider-Man's energetic appearance, he asked unwillingly, "Leo, did you run out to watch the excitement again last night?" ”

"How is it possible, I went to bed at 10 o'clock, after dinner yesterday, I opened a trumpet and pretended to be a Mavericks fan to infiltrate their forum, the content of the event written in their recruitment post, I watched it last night, nothing new, the only thing to see is that there is a group of LSP female college students who cheat people to come out and dance striptease, I looked at the photos of the college students who signed up, not my dish."

“……”

Gentry was tired, and thought to himself, if you don't violently handsome guy, you might as well beat me up.

But think of Sugar Man, Big Mom, Dirty Kot...... Forget it, Spider-Man hurts too much.

At 8 p.m., the Clippers-Mavericks series kicked off again at the American Airlines Center.

Tonight, the Mavericks' starting lineup was normal.

The quintet of Nash, Finley, Edondo Nahoola, Nowitzki, Bradley played.

The Clippers are still Greg Anthony, Big Q, Li Ao, Odom, and O'Neal Jr.

Lee, Odom, and Matt Harprin have all guaranteed at least two of them to be on the field at the same time to maintain continuity in the defense against Nowitzki.

After the game began, the Mavericks showed a completely different competitive state than the night before.

The first is defense, don't look at Edondo Nahoola, a Mexican rookie, whose stats are inconspicuous, but his desperate defense is the key to the Mavericks' first-class defense in the regular season, connecting Finley and Bradley, and can help Nowitzki and Nash fill in the gaps.

On top of that, the starting lineup tightened up defensively, and the Mavericks finally had a clear tone for the game tonight!

The Mavericks led the Clippers 23-21 in the first quarter and kept the dignity of the home game.

Confirming that their side could play normally, the Mavericks' confidence began to rise, and they played a 28-26 score in the second quarter, extending the lead to 4 points and leading 51-47 at halftime!

In the third quarter, Li Ao started the game with a big hat + a three-point shot to catch the ball, sounding the horn of the Clippers' counterattack.

The Mavericks' starting lineup defense is quite good, but the overall defense is only top-notch, because they don't have many players to defend, and the continuity is not enough, and they can't hold down the Clippers to score in the second quarter.

Relying on the momentum brought up by Li Ao's chasing hat + three points, the Clippers scored 31 points in the third quarter!

But at this time, Juwan Howard, who played very little time in the first half, became a new force for the Mavericks!

With an angry Juwan Howard, he shot 5 of 8 in a single quarter, plus 3 of 3 free throws, scored 13 points, helped the Mavericks score 28 points in a single quarter, held a slight lead, and led the Clippers by 1 point 79-78 to end the third quarter!

In the final quarter, both teams that fought too hard in the previous quarter looked very weak.

At this time, the overall offensive advantage of the Mavericks' '100-level' team was shown.

As long as the old Nelson does not go crazy, he is still the super coach who was the best coach in 10 years and 3 times, with proper rotation adjustment and excellent tactical arrangement.

Although the Mavericks don't have the ability to score several times in a row like Li Ao, the convulsive players like Big Q, the assaulters like Margety, and the all-round ...... like Odom But they win in stability!

And several players of the Clippers who have the ability to turn the tide under certain conditions failed to explode in the final quarter.

The Mavericks led the Clippers 20-16 in the final quarter and held the victory to the end!

99-94, the Mavericks narrowly defeated the Clippers and held their second home court!

Finley was a regular main point of attack, scoring a team-high 21 points.

Nash had 16 points and eight assists on 6-of-12 shooting, while Juwan Howard, who came off the bench, had 17 points on 7-of-11 shooting.

Nowitzki's shot was still sluggish, shooting just 7-of-20, but he was praised by Nelson Sr.

His teammates didn't have a good chance to throw him to shoot, he shot firmly, and when he needed someone to step up and single, Finley ran to the side and Nowitzki stepped up to single.

Although much more iron, it ensures the smooth operation of tactics!

With 7-of-20 shooting, including 2-of-7 three-pointers and 4-of-4 free throws, Nowitzki scored a team-high 20 points.

On the Clippers' side, Li Ao shot 8 of 18 tonight, including 1 of 3 three-pointers, plus 8 of 8 free throws, scoring a game-high 25 points, plus 6 boards, 3 assists and 4 blocks.

Odom finished with 16 points, nine rebounds and nine assists on 6-of-15 shooting.

O'Neal Jr. is going to be pitted tonight, 19 points and 21 boards, bullying the Mavericks in rebounding is so fierce that he can't do it inside, but he shoots 6 of 18, 8 offensive rebounds in a single game, and the scoring basically relies on secondary offense, and the catch-and-shoot and singles performance are very bad.

Li Ao felt that his side was already playing very well, but he was so strong that he couldn't turn the situation around in the second half.

Related to the employment strategy of the old Nelson on the opposite side, Juwan Howard only played in the last 3 minutes of the first quarter and the first 4 minutes of the second quarter in the first half, and felt like he was suffocating when he came on the court in the third quarter.

Juwan Howard's contract is ridiculously big, let him serve as the core of a strong team with 16.88 million US dollars, he can wear all the bottoms, but!

But use Juwan Howard as a substitute for $6.88 million...... Ballmer! Hit the money! Our team was slapped in the face with money, you don't care?

However, what Li Ao cares about most is the Silver Horn King's playing style tonight, how does it feel inexplicably familiar, but he doesn't remember that he has played against players with similar playing styles......

…

The next afternoon, the Mavericks arrived in Los Angeles.

When the Silver Horn King was flying in the sky, he was watching the video of Spider-Man's game.

Arrived at the hotel and continued research.

His defensive ability and awareness, of course, are not studying how to defend against Spider-Man.

It's about learning Spider-Man's way of attacking!

This is a good way to play!

There are enough opportunities to shoot, not to mention, and if you can't throw, you won't be scolded!

And when he threw it, his teammates thought he was awesome!

The technique is not comprehensive enough, when playing with Juwan Howard, not to mention that teammates prefer to pass the ball to Juwan Howard for the main attack, the Silver Horn King himself feels that this teammate is more stable than him in singles.

Ability is one thing, the key is this series, there are players on the opposite side who restrain him......

Let's learn Spider-Man!

Just when the Silver Horn King was happy to find a play style that was more suitable for his current ability, a news came, and he couldn't help but scold the street as humble as him.

"Howard, this idiot, he's sick!"

Back to this morning, before the Mavericks assembled and left Dallas, Juvan Howard was interviewed by ESPN.

When asked about returning to the bench, he replied in a tone full of resentment: "I don't understand Nelson's arrangement, I am the best player on the team, but he asked me to play on the bench, and he is ready to let me play on the bench next, I can't accept it, can the Mavericks win last night's game without me?"

I was able to lead the team to victory, and I said I came here to be a leader, not to be looked down upon by Nelson and put on the bench. ”

The Mavericks and Clippers in this series, after the first game, people are curious, the Mavericks don't seem to be able to do anything, how did they get this record?

After the second game, people found out that the Mavericks were so slumped in the first game, and it was the mad scientists who went crazy again.

This conclusion is not surprising in the slightest.

Nelson Sr. has been coaching for more than 20 years and is arguably the most well-known, slotted and entertaining head coach in the league today.

As an NBA fan, you may not know who Auerbach is, but you must have heard the nickname of Nelson Sr.

After the old Nelson didn't go crazy, the Mavericks showed that the strength was basically the same as that of the Clippers.

The series continues to get traction, with the Mavericks playing well and the Clippers having Spider-Man's first playoff trip.

And it's also possible to expect that old Nelson will go crazy again......

Just when people thought that this series would become more and more interesting, there was really a 'big attraction'.

Juwan Howard, who was praised as the 'Super Sixth Man' after last night's game, publicly expressed his reluctance to play as a substitute!

…

The Clippers, for their part, also flew back to Los Angeles in the afternoon.

In the evening, Li Ao, Jessica, Jordan, and a Cuban girl appeared in a high-end restaurant.

Li Ao invited the other party to dinner in order to thank Jordan for helping them improve their morale on the 21st.

He felt the nervousness of his teammates that day, and it just so happened that Boss Joe went to Dallas to see him make his playoff debut, and he decisively shook Boss Joe into their locker room and took advantage of the wave.

Jordan didn't refuse, and he was able to help the second-most popular signing player of his own brand, just to say a few words, of course he would be happy.

During the meal, Li Ao and Jordan didn't eat much, and they spent more time chatting.

Jordan's comeback plan, Spider-Man 1 design progress, summer campaign...... Wait a minute.

chatted and chatted, and talked about the hottest news of the day - the Mavericks infighting.

Li Ao felt very strange about this matter.

"What the hell does Howard think, if he makes such a statement, doesn't he know that it will affect their team's performance in the future?

Even if he wants to express his reluctance to play on the bench, he should wait until the end of the season, if he can continue to play last night on the bench, he will definitely get more recognition and get rid of the title of 'bad team boss and data brush'. ”

"Leo, you're still too young, if he doesn't want to play as a substitute, he has to show his attitude now, and wait until the end of the season to make a statement, which is tantamount to telling Nelson or the future coach that although he doesn't want to, the team asks him to play as a substitute, and he can accept it, then he may have to play as a substitute in the future.

And he is only 27 years old now, with two years left on his contract, if he is considered to accept to play as a substitute, the salary will be limited, he must know that he is not worthy of 20 million, but he also does not want to play as a substitute and get 2 million. ”

"Uh...... The world of adults is really complicated. ”

"Now that the Mavericks are infighting, do you think this series can be relaxed?"

"No, I'm more stressed.

Nelson Sr. was a stubborn man, and if he was going to put Howard on the bench, Howard played harder to prove that he deserved to start, and then played last night's third quarter...... In my opinion, this is not good news for our team. ”

Jordan snorted and didn't speak again.

This overly cautious spider is really infuriating!

Today's plus more is suspended for a day, Xiaofeng has a good night's sleep, nourishes his spirits, and resumes tomorrow to add more~

Ask for a commuter pass!

(End of chapter)