On the afternoon of the 22nd, Li Ao came to Houston with the team, and after a night's rest, on the 23rd, Li Ao played 31 minutes and got 21 points, 3 boards, 3 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks, Jordan played 28 minutes, got 20 points, 3 boards and 3 assists, Odom 9 points, 6 boards and 5 assists, O'Neal Jr. 11 points and 11 boards, and the Clippers beat the Rockets 98-81.

On the morning of 23, the Clippers returned to Los Angeles, rested at noon, and began preparations for the final game of the preseason in the afternoon.

The day after tomorrow, on the 25th, they will face the final game of the preseason at home, against the Mavericks.

In this game, the Clippers were preparing for the regular season.

It's time to put the results of training camp and preseason to the test.

The training is loaded, but the Clippers players have gone from complaining about how little time they have.

After a week of intense training, they clearly feel that they are one step ahead of the rest of the team!

If they have another 10 days and a half months of training, they will further improve their defensive system and better coordinate their offense......

After the training on the morning of the 24th, Gentry did not arrange training in the afternoon and gave the players an afternoon off, but he did not stop the players from training spontaneously.

Jordan crossed his waist and commanded 10 teammates to practice offensive and defensive sparring, Mike Bibby, Piakowski, Matt Haplin, Lafonso Ellis, and Jeron Collins on the first team, and Greg Anthony, Big Q, Gerard Wallace, Odom, and Sean Lukes on the first team.

Seeing this scene, Gentry felt the benefits of having a player like Jordan.

It's hard to get the approval of the basketball god, the revolution hasn't succeeded yet, and he still needs to work hard.

The other 4 team members are also busy.

Steve Kerr is coaching Boykins to practice open three-point shooting and O'Neal Jr. to practice free throws.

Although it is only the third option on the point guard, there are still times when Boykins needs to be pinned down on the wing.

The player, who is less than 1.7 meters tall, has a very good shooting talent, with 39.4% of his mid-range shots last season, averaging 1.9 shots per game, hitting 0.8 shots, and three-point shots are okay, but he doesn't shoot much, averaging 0.8 shots per game and hitting 0.3 shots.

O'Neal Jr., free throws need to be strengthened urgently, and his 63% free throw shooting rate last season is almost the same as O'Neal and Duncan.

Last season they weren't so much taken seriously by their opponents and no opponents took advantage of that, but it's hard to say about the new season.

With Jordan, the strength of their forward line has been greatly improved, but it has also received more attention and been feared by more opponents.

Instead of training at the team's training ground, Li Ao went to the blacksmith's room to practice the basics of three-point skills with the help of Xavier Johnson.

In the past month, his three-point range has improved from 78 to 79!

Seize the time to practice more and strive to improve to 80 as soon as possible.

At half past three in the afternoon, Li Ao's two-hour three-point basic skills training was over, and the next-door neighbor who hadn't seen him for a long time came.

"Yo, Snake, it's been a long time since I've seen you, and I can't get a chance to share with you the joy of being teammates with Michael Jordan."

Kobe Bryant didn't even look at Li Ao, and after nodding and greeting Xavier Johnson and the two trainers who picked up the ball, he warmed up by himself.

In Xavier Johnson's speechless expression, Li Ao motioned to the other party to practice shooting for a while.

After Bryant's physical activity started, he reached for the trainer and asked for a ball, and came to the right side of the free throw line.

Li Ao received the prompt that the 'excellent sparring partner' was turned on, and immediately stopped the mid-range shooting training, told Xavier Johnson that he could get off work, and ran over to catch the ball and lean on Kobe.

"It's been a long time since I've trained with you, I can only train with Jordan, it's so pathetic......"

After Li Ao finished saying this, he felt that the power coming from behind him suddenly increased.

Li Ao turned around, Kobe Bryant relied on his strong physical fitness, controlled his body, and did not pounce out because of the action of pressing up, he had excellent prediction and solid basic skills, took half a step back, moved sideways in time, and blocked in front of Li Ao who turned around.

But Li Ao has already had the opportunity to lift the ball up, face Kobe's interference, and hit a mid-range shot one step from the free throw line!

Top offensive awareness, skillful turning, excellent back-to-back technical articulation...... Kobe Bryant painfully confirmed that the big spider, who has not yet started the sophomore season, can already use high-post backplay as a regular singles method in the new season.

What was he doing in Black Mamba when he was in second grade? At the age of 19, he was still playing off the bench, averaging 8 points per game in the playoffs, and was bullied by the Jazz's group of old villains.

Kobe Bryant took a deep breath, eliminated distractions, threw himself into defense, and used Li Ao to practice defensive back.

This year, there is an opponent who is the strongest opponent in NBA history from the outside...... Maybe it's not just the outside line that's the strongest in history.

In the past month, Peyton, Brian Russell, Dan Marley, John Starks and others have almost been annoyed to death, if it weren't for Kobe Bryant's politeness, they would all want to scold the street, and they and their wives are not so frequent on the phone every day.

There are only a few days left before he fights that one again, and he needs to get ready!

…

An hour and a half later, Li Ao collapsed on the floor and watched Kobe put on his coat and leave...... Phew, scumbag, don't pull him up for a moment, and leave when you're done!

After Li Ao relieved himself, he pulled the trainer to stand up, wiped his sweat, nibbled on a hamburger, and used the 'body physiotherapy function', and the fatigue quickly decreased.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, one day, it was my turn to attack the whole process in the sparring, and the little blacksmith defended me for more than an hour as a sparring partner!

When the scum snake left, he left a sentence to continue practicing after the preseason, and then he will practice like today?

His defense is really good, the strength of the hand-to-hand combat is simply amazing, I threw okay at the beginning, and then I started to hit the iron...... I look, 50 goals, 20 ...... Di, after practicing for an hour and a half, it is only 300 achievement points, it is better to practice with the god of basketball. ”

After muttering a few sentences, Li Ao put the matter aside first.

Tomorrow against the Mavericks, he wants to win.

First 3 consecutive defeats, then 3 consecutive wins, the current wins and losses are mixed, there is 1 game left, he wants to correct the record, although it is only a preseason, but he can't stand the damn competitiveness.

And tomorrow's game is played as the regular season, so they have to give it their all to verify their strengths, find their weaknesses, and prepare for the four days of preparation after the pre-season.

However, the preparation has been the best possible, in the past half a month, he not only provided the coaching staff with defensive ideas, but also sorted out the offensive ideas, wrote them in the newly bought small book, and gave them to Gentry.

The advantage of the 'prophet' can be grasped first, this advantage will be 'expired', and he will not think of 'leaving it for himself to be a coach in the future'.

Not to mention whether he wants to engage in the basketball industry after retiring, just seeing Jordan chatting more when he is used to seeing Gentry, and not getting used to seeing the picture of completely ignoring him, he feels that being a coach is not suitable for him.

He regretted that he didn't think of this in the summer, but he didn't personally feel the impact of the rule change, and he really couldn't think of it so much, he was busy improving himself in the summer, how could he think about anything else.

However, it is not too late to make amends, and they have not yet reached the stage of losing sheep, and now they have taken the lead.

Thank you Jim Carrey!

When he thinks about those things, first of all, he must have substituted him into them.

On the offensive end, he has a tall pitcher who plays mainly on the outside line, and on the defensive end, he has a well-rounded defensive front, and the first thing that comes to his mind is the Mavericks who have Nowitzki and Marion in 2011.

It doesn't matter if that Mavericks' style of play suits them, he just wants to tell the coaching staff about Jim Carrey's mature and ultimately successful tactical thinking.

He doesn't exactly remember what the Mavericks' tactical system was like, but based on the style of play he remembered that team, combined with the professional knowledge in his head, he wrote some offensive and defensive coordination ideas, some tactical coordination methods, and how to operate it depends on Gentry and his coaching staff.

…

On October 25, 2001, the Clippers arrived on the last day of the preseason of the new season.

At half past seven in the evening, Li Ao and his teammates entered the stadium, and the daily 'fan meeting' came again.

Li Ao endured it, and when it came to the regular season, the game was played too much, and he would not see this scene again.

When I returned to play the Warriors and Kings at home, the enthusiasm of the opponents before the game had decreased a lot.

I hadn't seen Wang Zhizhi for a long time, so he went to say hello out of politeness, but he didn't talk too much.

The main reason is that Wang Zhizhi's personality is too boring, so boring that Li Ao feels familiar, no, all the players of the Mavericks team went to Jordan to take a photo, but Wang Zhizhi didn't go.

Although Wang Zhizhi didn't get many opportunities to play last season, he played a total of 8 times, 5 games in the regular season and 3 games in the playoffs, but the old Nelson, who was quite optimistic about him, still gave him a base salary contract.

Li Ao was very happy to see this scene, he heard that Battle has also received a contract with the Nuggets, but he will have to wait until the end of his contract with the Aoshen team in February next year to join the NBA.

The boy chasing the wind and the moving Great Wall are already in place, and they are just a big bamboo pole.

didn't go to join the excitement of the 'God of Basketball Fan Meeting', Li Ao and Wang Zhizhi said hello and were about to practice shooting directly in the opponent's half court next to him, and Nowitzki, who was looking for Jordan to take a photo, took the initiative to find him.

"Hello, Spider-Man, finally fighting you again." Nowitzki looked excited.

Li Ao quipped: "You are actually looking forward to fighting us?" Matt and I have improved defensively. ”

Silver Horn King: (#'n)

Can you talk well, and scare people when you open your mouth!

Nowitzki replied, "Don't underestimate me, you're not the only one improving!" Me and Steve...... Eh, what about Steve? ”

Nowitsky turned his head and looked, knock!

said that he would go and take a photo together to come over to provoke Spider-Man's Wind Child, and now he is still rubbing the camera next to Jordan.

I suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and I forgot it...... "Eh, Spider-Man, why are you leaving!" ”

Nowitzki looked at his opponent who was shooting on his own, and then at his partner who was still silly happy, and I don't know why I felt a strange feeling of being isolated......

At the end of the pre-match preparation time, both teams started the game.

Mavericks starters: Nash, Finley, Edondo Nahoola, Nowitzki, Lafrentz.

Clippers starters: Mike Bibby, Ao Lee, Jordan, Odom, O'Neal Jr.

Li Ao glanced at Van Exel, who traded Juwan Howard for Van Exeld and Lafrenz, using all the space that could be raised during the trade.

That's not all, Cuban also split the middle class, signing Tim Hardaway, who averaged 14.9 points and 6.3 assists per game with the Heat last season, and Evan Eschmeyer, a big center who averaged 3.4 points and 4.9 boards per game with the Nets last season.

Using a two-year exception, the two-year, $3 million dollar poached Danny Manning, an interior player who averaged 7.4 points per game last season, from the Jazz.

Small forward John Newman, who averaged 10.9 points and 2.1 rebounds per game with the Nets last season, was cut by the Suns after being traded to the Suns along with Kidd, and Cuban won the base salary of a veteran with 1 year and 1 million US dollars.

Regardless of whether the players are suitable or not, Cuban will first put together a bunch of manpower and let the old Nelson use it as he pleases.

At 8 p.m., the game began.

Lafrentz relied on the top bounce speed to beat O'Neal Jr. to win the jump ball, and the Mavericks attacked first!

Seeing Li Ao take a step forward and forcibly brake and turn to retreat, O'Neill Jr. was angry, and after Lafrentz entered the inner line, he immediately pressed on it and fought roughly.

Lafrence has never been tough, and quickly pulled out of the outside line, Odom changed his guard and followed, relaying little O'Neill for hand-to-hand combat, he fled, he chased, he couldn't fly......

The Clippers came up and fought hand-to-hand, and LaFrentz wanted to scold the street, he was a soft pitcher, as for that?

The Mavericks' other interior is now dumbfounded.

He thought that it was either Li Ao who defended him, or Odom, Li Ao went to defend Finley, Odom chased Lafrenz in hand-to-hand combat, and it was Jordan who stood up to him!

The point is, he feels that Jordan's confrontation is even more fierce than Li Ao, Matt Halprin, and Odom!

After Nash advanced to the top arc, he observed for a few seconds, and he didn't understand much about the defense on the opposite side, but it didn't matter, attack first!

He didn't signal Finley to catch the ball and single, he came himself.

In the face of Mike Bibby's close defense, Nash stepped back and beckoned to block the pick-and-roll.

Lafrentz rushed up to help Nash stop Mike Bibby as if he had seen a savior.

Nash broke through with cover, Odom switched defenses, pressed up to defend three points, Nash deftly changed direction to dodge the defense, quickly rushed inside, and when he was about to get rid of Odom's shooting interference, Li Ao waved his arms to make up for it.

Nash wanted to pass to Finley, but Li Ao waved his arm and cut off the space for him to pass to the right, and passed to Edondo Nahura who cut in to the left, and Odom strode into the free throw line when Li Ao made up for it, cutting off the middle.

Fortunately, Finley had a good sense of off-ball and moved to the bottom line, and Nash made the ball in time after being stuck by Li Ao and sent it to Finley on the right side of the three-second zone.

But this little pass delay has given O'Neal Jr. the opportunity to move from outside the left sideline of the three-second zone to the right side of the basket, and Finley received the cover as soon as he entered the three-second zone, he jumped up to split the ball, and Edondo Nahura cut in to catch the ball for a layup ...... "snapped...... Letting go of Nowitzki's Jordan who was retracted from the left baseline, jumped high and gave Edondo Nahura a big hat behind his back!

(End of chapter)