What Jordan thought was very different from the actual situation.
Li Ao had already made a lot of preparations before developing this move.
In the past ten days, I have been practicing straight-line acceleration breakthrough.
I started practicing the basic skills of emergency stop in college, and by the end of the regular season, I had reached an excellent level.
He developed this move after laying a solid foundation, so he would get twice the result with half the effort.
But he didn't know how to explain this. Seeing the surprised expression on the basketball god's face, he felt great!
However, in the past few days, Li Ao has also lamented that Jordan is worthy of being the god of basketball.
On the second day of training, Jordan began to adjust his playing rhythm.
Although after the adjustment, his playing became worse, as if he could no longer play.
But now, in just 6 days, Jordan has made clear the direction of adjustment. During sparring, his technical movements and playing rhythm have become stable.
Therefore, he no longer takes pleasure in "bullying his elders" in the past two days. When defending, he pays more attention to the details of Jordan's playing style, shooting habits, etc., to prepare for playing against Jordan in a real game in the future.
On the 7th, in the playoffs, the 76ers defeated the Magic 97-88 in the tiebreaker.
Iverson, who averaged 30.7 points and 6.7 assists per game, and Mutombo, who averaged 16.3 points and 13.7 rebounds per game, defeated Duncan, who averaged 23 points and 12.3 rebounds per game, and Tracy McGrady, who averaged 19 points, 6.3 rebounds and 7.3 assists per game.
Li Ao watched the live broadcast of the tiebreaker and felt that Iverson was so strong, Mutombo, who had not yet declined, was also very strong, and the best defensive player in the field was really unstoppable, and he could limit Duncan to this point.
Li Ao felt a little regretful that he could not see Comai play against each other in the finals, but if the Magic reaches the finals, it is estimated that the outcome will be similar to that of the Kings and Trail Blazers. It is more worth looking forward to the answer of a big explosion from time to time in this year's playoffs.
Looking forward to watching the excitement of the finals, Li Ao has not fallen behind in training. With the guidance of Shen, Cobra, and Skywalker, he does not want to waste this opportunity and trains hard every day.
On the 10th, Jordan stopped sparring. He had gradually become accustomed to the current physical condition, and it was clear how to adjust. He devoted himself to the recovery training of basic skills and technical adjustment training.
Li Ao also adjusted the training program. He will not practice other things for now. He will focus on basic skills, supplemented by passing and controlling. With the help of trainers and nutritionists, he will add weight gain and strength training.
The foundation for the direction to be strengthened this offseason has been laid. Now the weight gain plan and strength training must be completed first, and then intensive training can be carried out to give enough time to adapt.
There was one thing that really bothered him. After practicing for more than 20 days, his biggest improvement was actually his physical strength, which improved from 91 to 92...
Time came on June 17, and the finals were over. The Lakers easily defeated the 76ers 4-1 to win the championship.
The G1 that Li Ao was looking forward to still appeared. He and his father went to the scene to watch the game. He insisted that the 76ers could win, which was despised by his father. His father now knows the game quite well and knows about the playoffs this season. If the OK combination performs normally, no team has the ability to defeat them, not even in one game.
After the game, he proudly laughed at his father, who then pulled out his belt and chased him down the street.
After the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers rested for 11 days and won 11 consecutive games to reach the Finals. The Lakers' mentality was extremely arrogant. Seeing that it was not Duncan who entered the Finals but Iverson, they despised this opponent. As a result, at halftime 11 points behind.
Although O'Neal led the team to catch up with the score in the second half, and the score increased to 44 points in regular time, surpassing Iverson's 43 points, but in overtime, O'Neal C stopped and failed to score a point. The defensive defense of Aaron McGee, Raja Bell, and Eric Snow also failed. Iverson scored 7 points alone, which was higher than the 6 points of the Lakers team.
Iverson became the sixth player in NBA history to score 50 points in a single game in the Finals. He led his team to defeat the Lakers 110-104 in overtime, defeating the Lakers' goal of winning the championship.
Although Iverson lost by more than ten points in each of the next 4 games, ushering in the crazy revenge of the big-minded OK team, that game was enough to establish his reputation among fans in this era. status.
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After watching the live broadcast of Game 5 of the finals, Li Ao was even more eager to become stronger.
The next door neighbor has another championship banner.
He will definitely not be happy about the team from the same city winning the championship. The only thing he finds interesting is that the Shark is smiling happily while holding the FMVP trophy, while his afro holding the O'Brien Cup is expressionless.
As the finals come to an end, the NBA 2000-2001 season comes to an end.
On the second day, Li Ao trained the thief so hard that he scared the trainer and advised him to train moderately.
James Worthy and David Thompson are not surprised by this. They would have been in this state for a few days after seeing other teams win the championship.
After two days of crazy training, Li Ao's inexplicable restlessness that he couldn't explain finally faded away.
But just as he adjusted his mentality, a failed transaction quotation made him cry out again...
After the finals, the NBA draft trading window has opened, and teams can trade with the goal of obtaining this year's draft picks.
On the morning of June 20, Yahoo Sports broke the news that the Clippers made an offer to the Suns, using Odom, Maggette, Chris Mihm, Kenyon Dulin, and two first-round picks as bargaining chips. In exchange for Kidd, he was rejected by the Suns.
Odom, the core of the Clippers' offense, averages 14+8+8 per game.
Maggette, in the just-concluded playoffs, performed excellently, scoring in double figures in many games, and played an important role in the 3-1 victory over the Mavericks in the series.
Chris Mihm, the white man's human shield center, is the main substitute for the Clippers' center.
All three of them were young players who entered the NBA in 1999 and 2000. Even Kenyon Dooling was a 2000 lottery pick who could still try.
With the addition of two first-round picks, everyone who saw this offer felt that the Clippers were sincere.
Unless a team trades a superstar with the Suns for Kidd, fans can't think of any team that can offer a better offer than the Clippers.
But the Suns actually refused. Are the rumors false? Suns not selling Kidd? Not in contact with multiple teams?
But the matter soon settled down.
In the morning, Yahoo Sports just broke the news that the Clippers' offer was rejected, and in the evening the Nets officially announced the deal.
The Nets sent Stephon Marbury, Johnny Newman, and Somai Samak in exchange for Kidd and Chris Dudley from the Suns!
As soon as the news came out, fans thought the Suns management was crazy!
Without the Clippers' offer, fans wouldn't have reacted as much.
After all, the 24-year-old Marbury has just been selected to the All-Star for the first time in his career, and he is in the Eastern Conference where star guards are concentrated.
The Suns have suffered a bit of a loss, but there are rumors that Kidd is determined to leave the Suns. The Suns' two highest-paid players have suffered consecutive injuries and their salary space is bloated. He can't see the future.
Kidd's nine-year, $60 million rookie contract has now expired for seven years. The closer the contract is to expiration, and if Kidd is determined to leave, the transaction value will become lower and lower. If it is delayed until the end of next season , teams that may want to get Kidd will choose to wait for another year, and the offer will not be too high.
But with the Clippers' offer, the Suns' deal looks like the management has collectively lost their minds!
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"If you want to exchange me for Kidd, I'm still very strong in the eyes of the management!"
Li Ao looked at the silly Odom and was speechless.
When he saw the news yesterday that the transaction offer was rejected, he was about to burst into tears.
Let’s not talk about the fact that teammates who have been together for a year and have a good relationship are sold.
Fortunately, the transaction was completed. Li Ao felt that the offer was definitely not a loss. The change was exchanged for 80 yuan for 100 yuan.
But being rejected and exposed was a completely different situation.
It will inevitably affect the mentality of teammates who are treated as bargaining chips.
Especially Odom.
Yesterday, he had no intention of training at all and was waiting to see the team's follow-up operations.
What can I do if I get rejected? Add money!
In the end, Kidd was sent to the Nets, and their Clippers attempt to trade failed.
He had already thought about it yesterday. No matter whether the final deal was successful or not, he would come to appease Odom today.
He was worried that this guy would have an explosive mentality and go to a nightclub to find 7 women, shoot, smoke, and drink alcohol, and then end up in the ICU...
As a result, this guy was actually having fun because he could be used as a bargaining chip in Kidd's trade!
At this time, Li Ao remembered that Odom had never been traded in the original time and space, but it was only when he was traded by the Lakers that Odom gave up on himself.
The situation was different that time. He had just won two consecutive championships with the Lakers, and he had won the Sixth Man of the Year award as a substitute. The most important thing was that the Lakers used Odom in exchange for air and sent him to a hard-hitting team with space. The Mavericks who took Odom only got back a first-round pick and an $8 million trade exception, which can be considered a humiliation.
That kind of extreme blow caused Odom to completely collapse.
At this point in time, Odom's idiotic character is being used as a bargaining chip to exchange for Kidd, a big man in the double team. He may really think that he is so powerful and be happy about it!
Li Ao didn't know why, but he felt like he was feeding the dog with all his heart... But for the sake of the large table of food in front of him, he just forgot about it and just treated it as a meal.
Odom was shocked when he saw Li Ao coming to his house. He thought that Li Ao knew about him helping Olowokandi get water. He immediately called a restaurant and ordered a table of food, preparing to beg for mercy and hoping not to be beaten. Too miserable...
After lunch, Li Ao returned home. He was not in the mood for training today. He checked the news and saw two rumors related to their team.
Their offer was rejected, and it was the Suns who proactively disclosed the news to Yahoo Sports.
Another rumor - the Suns don't want to trade Kidd to a strong team, especially a team in the Western Conference playoffs, and they don't want to have another competitor. This is why they refused to trade with the Clippers.
Sending Kidd to the Nets, a team with the seventh-worst record last season, is most in line with the Suns' desire not to capitalize on their enemies.
Li Ao believed these two rumors to be true.
Colangelo Jr. is an ambitious general manager, which can be seen from the large-scale introduction of Anfernee Hardaway and Gugliotta.
He analyzed it with his aunt and father, the hospital assistant, and felt that if the Suns brought back Marbury, they definitely didn't think Marbury was better than Kidd.
But Marbury is young, only 24 years old!
The Suns can definitely wait until the contracts of Anfernee Hardaway and Gugliotta expire, or become valuable bargaining chips in the contract year. By then, Marbury will have just reached his peak and will still have extremely high trade value. .
Therefore, this transaction of the Suns is not to rebuild, but to retain Kidd's trading value to the maximum extent and plan for the future.
After figuring this out, Li Ao still felt regretful.
But their general manager is pretty good!
Using Brevin Knight as a cover, he went around to inquire about prices. When it was time to take action, he was very decisive, willing to give up the players in his hands, and made a bold offer...
When Wally Walker first arrived last year, Li Ao asked Gentry, an old assistant coach who had been in the basketball world for many years, to inquire about the capabilities of the new general manager, whether he was a talent like Elgin Baylor.
Gentry told him some of the successful trades of Wally Walker. The one that impressed him most was when Wally Walker was the general manager of the Trail Blazers in 1989, he exchanged several young potential stocks from the Nets. The addition of three-time All-Star big man Buck Williams supplemented the Trail Blazers' last shortcoming. The Trail Blazers became the strongest team in the Western Conference, reaching the Finals twice in three years.
It's a pity that I finally met the Bad Boys Legion and the God of Basketball.
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During this incident, Li Aoquan took two days off and returned to training on the 22nd.
Reinforcing the team is important, but improving one's own strength is even more important.
Odom would be foolishly happy to be used as a bargaining chip to trade for a superstar, and he is not that optimistic.
Ballmer said nicely and wanted to make him a team totem, but if the Magic sends Duncan and the Lakers send Kobe, what will the Microsoft tycoon choose?
If you don’t want to be treated as a commodity, if you want to have the initiative to decide whether to stay or go, you have to become stronger! At least at the same age, he wants to be the strongest!
The time has come to June 28, and the annual NBA draft has arrived.
After a day's training, Li Ao took his assistant's aunt and his parents to a restaurant for a meal. After that, Li Ao returned home and stayed in front of the TV, and the four of them watched the draft together.
Li Ao's junior is predicted to be picked at the end of the first round or the beginning of the second round, so they won't have much trouble winning.
What he wants to see now and is curious about is whether there will be the first high school student No. 1 pick in history this year?
The results of the draft lottery in the middle of last month were different from what he remembered. The Wizards, second to last in the Eastern Conference and third to last in the league, did not get the No. 1 pick. The Eagles, seventh to last in the league, got the No. 1 pick.
The Wizards only got the second pick, and the Spurs got the third pick. Only one of the top three picks was selected by the bottom three.
The Bulls’ 4th pick, the Warriors’ 5th pick, the Grizzlies’ 6th pick, the Nets’ 7th pick…
At 8 o'clock in the evening, just as the draft started, a transaction shocked the audience in front of the TV.
On the night of the draft, the No. 1 pick was traded!
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