What happened in China was far away, and Li Kaiming, who was on the other side of the ocean in America, naturally knew nothing about it.
After tonight's season debut against the Magic, the Wizards will continue to play on the road on October 30th, this time against the Atlanta Hawks.
Although the league's schedule is tight, it also takes into account the fatigue of the players on the road. Generally, short-term games are played in nearby cities.
For example, Atlanta, where we are going this time, is only more than 400 miles away from Orlando. It takes 6 hours to drive and less than 2 hours to fly. For America, which is vast and sparsely populated, these two cities are very close to their neighbors. Not too different.
After accepting the post-game interview as usual, the Wizards team went straight to the airport under the leadership of Sanders. As for the things in the hotel, someone would naturally take them to them. They had to seize every available time to rest.
Defeating the Magic is certainly something to be proud of, but the Wizards also paid a huge price. Li Kaiming only rested for 4 minutes. The same price was paid to starting shooting guard Nick Young.
The other starters also have a short amount of playing time. Only the center position has a stable rotation of McGee, and other positions are lacking players.
The Hawks are also a strong opponent this time. Although they are not a championship-level team like the Magic, they are still a team that can stably enter the playoffs. For the Wizards, who are not strong enough and are short of major generals, now Any team in the league can give them a drink.
So Sanders was very straightforward and left directly after the game. If he got to Atlanta early, he could rest early.
The team's chartered flight is much more convenient than flying alone. It took Li Kaiming and his party less than three hours to settle down in the hotel in Atlanta.
Atlanta is the capital and largest city of the state of Georgia, America. It is located at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains. The terrain of the entire city is mainly hilly and has a high green coverage rate.
Although the journey was not long, it was already past ten o'clock when the game ended, and since it was already midnight when he arrived in Atlanta, Li Kaiming's biological clock had already sounded, so he fell asleep as soon as he arrived at the hotel.
After a deep night's sleep, Li Kaiming's fatigue was completely gone!
Plenty of energy returned to him again.
The reward for completing the A-level mission last time had not been used yet, so Li Kaiming entered the system space skillfully.
He finished the 4 lucky spins with his eyes closed, and the result was 4 thank you for your patronage!
However, Li Kaiming had already expressed that he was not surprised by the system's behavior of cheating, and started to add more points.
He was used to eating big fish and meat before, but now when he saw these 17 attribute points, Li Kaiming didn't even think much and decided how to use them.
10 points are added to ball control and 7 points are added to mid-range shooting. His offense is almost polished to its peak.
In the afternoon, there are the usual team training and video sessions. Although the team is short of manpower, none of these necessary links can be missing.
In the evening, it was still the extra practice session between Li Kaiming and Sun Yierrao.
After his ball-handling attribute reached 80, Li Kaiming could clearly feel that his dribbling level had reached a higher level.
Before this, although he was quite skilled at dribbling, he could still clearly feel that the basketball was an object outside of his body.
But after adding points this time, he got twice the result with half the effort in training. The basketball seemed to have been integrated into his palms and became a part of his body. A thought in his mind could make the ball in his hands move according to his ideas!
Is this the combination of man and ball in passing...
Li Kaiming patted the ball, feeling the wonderful feeling, and then suddenly changed his movements and performed some fancy street ball moves!
This shocked Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian, who were resting on the side!
What surprised them was not that Li Kaiming could make these moves. The catching action of professional players was originally a dimensionality reduction attack. They were just lamenting that a month ago, Li Kaiming's dribbling was not so smooth and smooth, and a month ago After that, there will be visible progress!
What they fear most is not that their level is poor, but that although they have worked hard, they cannot see their progress. Sometimes they may be just a little bit behind, but they just give up because they can't see progress, and in the end there is no breakthrough.
Li Kaiming, on the other hand, accelerated the speed of becoming stronger a hundred times a thousand times. How could this not make Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian envious?
But what they didn't know was that Li Kaiming's improvement in ball control didn't happen within a month, but happened overnight!
If they knew that Li Kaiming's progress overnight might be faster than that of their whole lives, these two people would probably become autistic...
After practicing dribbling, Li Kaiming wiped the sweat from his head, then looked up with emotion, and saw Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue looking at him like they were looking at monsters.
Li Kaiming asked doubtfully, "Are there flowers on my face?"
Yi Jianlian came to his senses and said, "No, we were just wondering, Kaiming, why are you progressing so fast?"
Seeing Yi Jianlian asking the question he wanted to ask, Sun Yue next to him immediately turned his attention to Li Kaiming, with anticipation and hope in his eyes.
If Li Kaiming can tell them the secret to rapid progress, then they will have the confidence to make a name for themselves in the NBA!
Li Kaiming was stunned for a moment, and then said slowly, "I don't know. I feel like I am getting better with practice than before. Maybe this is talent..."
Yi Jianlian:…
Sun Yue:......
Listen, are these human words? Are you going to let others live?
Sun and Yi felt like they had several mouthfuls of ten thousand-year-old phlegm held in their chests, and they couldn't spit it out!
As the top talents in the Chinese men's basketball team, they naturally have their own advantages in being able to come to the NBA. However, they did not expect that the pride they had accumulated for half a lifetime would be shattered by Li Kaiming with just one sentence!
Comparisons between people can lead to death, but comparisons between goods have to be thrown away!
The two of them thought of this popular saying in China.
Being "motivated" by Li Kaiming, Sun and Yi had no intention of resting anymore. Instead, after looking at each other, they picked up the ball in their hands and started training!
Looking at the two people next to him who were suddenly immersed in training, Li Kaiming scratched his head in confusion and muttered, "What's the situation? I don't have anything, I'm just telling the truth..."
Li Kaiming's words were not loud, but there were only three of them in the empty training ground at this time. With the amplification of the space, his voice still fell into the ears of Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue.
Hearing Li Kaiming's whisper, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian's faces turned red, and then they couldn't help but break up and dribble even harder!
Bang bang bang!
The loud sound of hitting the ball echoed in the training hall...
After the extra practice, Li Kaiming and the other three returned to the hotel together, and then went to their rooms to rest. Ming's game was at 7 o'clock in the evening. They had a team practice and a video class in the morning. Time was tight, so they had to take a rest. That's the kingly way.
On October 30, the White Wizards held their last training before the game at the team's base. Sanders also introduced tonight's team tactics in the video session and practiced them in subsequent training to cope with the situation. Tonight's opponent.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Li Kaiming and his party took the team bus from the hotel to the Eagles' home court, Philips Arena.
Although the Philips Arena was built ten years ago, it has a high-end feel as a whole. Whether it is the glass curtain wall outside or the Atlanta letters on the steel structure, they all show the technological content of the arena.
The team bus drove into the underground parking lot of the arena. It was still Li Kaiming who accompanied Sanders to the pre-game press conference tonight.
