Time has come to July, and the Lakers head coach is still undecided. More than two months have passed since D'Antoni resigned.
So when Li Hao came to Toyota Sports Center again, he faced the same group of people, led by assistant coach Mark Madsen.
The coaching staff has not changed, but the players are completely different. For the upcoming summer league, Kupchak has signed more than a dozen players in a row.
So when Li Hao reported to the team, there were already nearly twenty players in the training hall. The moment Li Hao appeared, some hostility immediately came from not far away.
Among these dozen players, there are as many as 4 undrafted players this year alone, and two of them play the same position as Li Hao.
Keith Appling averaged 11.2 points and 4.6 assists in the NCAA in the 13-14 season.
DeAndre Kane, a combo guard, averaged an exaggerated 17 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game in the season just now.
Where is Li Hao? NACC played two games, adding up to 18 minutes, and scored a total of 18 points.
Li Hao's statistics are not as good as the two, but he has a huge advantage in terms of age. Li Hao was more than a month away from turning 19 on August 8, 1995, while Aplin was born in 1992 and Kane was born in 1989. , is an overage rookie.
NCAA data is only a reference for participating in the draft, because there are too many players with star-level statistics in the NCAA, and many of these college star players are not even qualified to guard the water cooler in the NBA.
But the person involved definitely didn't think so. Just like Aplin and Kane at this moment, their eyes were full of hostility and dissatisfaction when they saw Li Hao appear in the training hall.
Yes, they are not convinced. As college star players, they can't compare to a guy who only played for eighteen minutes. How can they be convinced?
Besides, if you want to impress the Lakers and win a contract, what better way than defeating the players selected by the Lakers themselves?
Li Hao didn't care about this. After one season in the NCAA and two months of drafting, Li Hao was already very aware of the cruelty of the NBA.
Therefore, Li Hao sympathizes with these players who can only look for opportunities in the summer league, but if someone wants to step on him to get the upper hand, then Li Hao doesn't mind letting them face the cruel reality.
In the NBA, superstars are never generous creatures, and are even a little too fussy, but it is precisely because of this that they can truly climb to the top.
Li Hao is not a superstar now, and he still thinks that he is a good person, not the kind of good person, but that has a major premise, which is not to mess with him.
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"Coach, can we have a match?" Li Hao came to Madsen and asked.
"Of course." Kupchak had already gotten angry with Madsen. One of the most important tasks of the Las Vegas Summer League was to see Li Hao's quality, so Madsen also designed several small tactics for Li Hao.
Although he can use the authority of the coach to ask the players to execute, this is not the best way. In the final analysis, the strong is king in sports competitions.
Furthermore, Madsen also wanted to see Li Hao's progress this month, but he knew that Li Hao had been training with Kobe in the past month.
Soon a 5V5 match was staged at the Toyota Sports Center. In addition to Li Hao, the red team also had center Kerry Cote, who was selected by the Lakers with the 58th overall pick in 2010, and power forward Drew Gordon, who is the fourth pick this year. Aaron Gordon's brother was undrafted in 2012. The small forward is Roscoe Smith, who was undrafted this year, and the scorer is Jabari Brown, who was also undrafted this year.
On the other side, the white team has Kane at No. 1, Stroberg at No. 2, Garon Green, younger brother of 2007 All-Star Dunk Champion Gerald Green, at No. 3, and Tompkin, the No. 37 overall pick in 2011, at No. 4. Si, center Simmons.
It is said that the players signed by the Lakers this time do not have an orthodox center. Simmons and Kerry Cotter are actually more suitable to play the 4th position than the 5th position. Both of them are only 206 in height.
Simmons fights for the ball, and the basketball comes to Kane. Kane is 1.93cm tall with bare feet, 1.96cm with shoes, and weighs 91 kilograms. He was a very good combo guard in college.
Naturally, there was no one else guarding Kane at this time. As one of the players most hostile to him and his most direct competitor, Li Hao proposed to have a confrontation with these two people.
Facing Li Hao's defense, Kane was very confident, so he didn't make any fake moves and directly held the ball and made a strong breakthrough. Unfortunately, his strong breakthrough was not successful.
Kane wanted to use his body to bully Li Hao, but he never dreamed that Li Hao was far stronger than him, let alone Li Hao's current 79 external defense attribute and Hall of Fame-level death coil.
In the past month, Li Hao had to face off against Kobe Bryant 1-on-1 every day. Although he was still on the beaten side, he has made great progress in this month, and his defensive ability has exceeded the average NBA level.
Unable to break through Li Hao's defense, Kane could only pass the ball to his teammates. Finally, the nine-finger dunk king's brother ended the attack with a dunk.
During the transition between offense and defense, Li Hao crossed the half court with the ball. Kane, who had just lost face, wanted to recover from the defense and immediately rushed in front of Li Hao.
Li Hao remained unmoved and changed the direction of his crotch movements.
Bang - It's still a bit reluctant to do this with more than 70 ball handlers.
Kyle fell backwards as soon as he made contact, but Li Hao had no impact. After Kyle fell to the ground, Li Hao immediately took off and shot.
Brush - three-point hit.
The gap was a very obvious gap. Aplin, who had just envied Kane on the sidelines, could only feel happy at this moment, while Madsen also looked surprised, but after the surprise, he was excited.
Madsen knew that Li Hao was physically strong, but he didn't expect that he could knock an opponent of the same size away in one fell swoop without affecting him at all, which speaks volumes.
The physical fitness of the two is not at the same level at all. However, the gap between the two is not only in physical fitness. In the next few waves of attacks, Kane can be said to have done nothing in Li Hao's defense.
On the contrary, Li Hao not only completely locked up Kane on defense, but also directly started the attack mode on offense. In the second wave of the red team's offensive, Li Hao directly passed Kane in one step, rushed inside to attract Simmons to defend and pass the ball to Kane. Ricketts, who dunked with both hands.
The third wave of offense was still a breakout. This time Li Hao sent a pass to Brown in the corner. The undrafted player made a three-pointer.
Damn it, it feels so good to beat someone up.
After being beaten for a month, Li Hao finally realized the happiness of Kobe. He also finally understood why Kobe and the old gangster trained so hard, because this kind of happiness will become addictive as long as it is experienced once, and he wants to experience it all the time. This kind of happiness must make yourself strong enough.
(It’s not too much to ask for a few votes for the third update)
