The Clippers are once again on the radar.
They lost 51 points in the first half and only scored 31 points in the second half. When the offense was unfavorable, they relied on defense to kill their opponents... Originally, many fans thought that the Clippers played the Trail Blazers. The game was an accident, and now, fans have confirmed that the defense will become even scarier.
The next morning, Li Ao checked the forum after his morning practice and saw many fans lamenting that the game was going to become ugly. He chose to ignore it... There is a high probability that there will be teams with uglier games in the future. Without the Spurs, there will be. Magic, Pistons, Heat...
It doesn't matter what the style of play is. Anyway, the style of play that he thinks can win is a good style of play. The current rules are conducive to defense, so then play defense, as long as it is not a dirty trick.
The team gathered for training at two o'clock in the afternoon. Li Ao did not leave the trainer idle. At 9 o'clock in the morning, he sent the trainer to Kobe's home for additional training, so that the trainer could earn more overtime pay.
Hearing that Li Ao wanted to train extra, Skywalker and James Worthy took the initiative to work overtime. From the beginning of the training camp, their work has become less, and this is all money.
Level 1 training methods include basic movements such as dribbling behind the back, turning and shooting, and training on power generation, etc., but they may not be suitable for him.
He tried it during morning practice before breakfast. Pence's original behind-the-back dribbling and turning movement required relatively high ball control. He was unable to improve the ball control to that level for a while and needed to make adjustments.
These two people took the initiative, and Li Ao was very happy. It would be much easier with their help in adjusting the training methods.
What is a signature scoring method? Pence dribbles behind his back and turns and shoots!
After watching Li Ao demonstrate the training moves twice, James Worthy asked: "Leo, did you learn this technical move from Pence last night? He seemed to have used this technique two or three times last night, and you learned it?" "
Li Ao blinked and wanted to say no, but found it troublesome and could only nodded.
James Worthy has long been used to it, but Skywalker didn't work together for a particularly long time, so he couldn't help but use swear words.
Skywalker considers himself very talented. He is the kind of player who does not work hard but still earns a high salary. He is the second player in the NBA with an annual salary of more than one million US dollars. The first one is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but when he sees Spider Xia's talent, if he had practiced basketball since he was a child... no, even if he started practicing in high school, or if he finished college and learned all the skills he needed to learn before entering the NBA, he would probably be even more terrifying than when Duncan first entered the NBA!
After being numb for a while, the two actively devoted themselves to teaching.
A young player with incredible talent, studiousness and hard work. As exclusive trainers, with high salaries from the Clippers, there is really no reason to slack off.
The whole morning's training was basically spent on adjusting the details of technical movements.
Adjustment advice from two legendary superstars—quick!
Give up the rhythm changes in Pence's behind-the-back dribbling and turning movements, take advantage of better height and wingspan conditions, and adopt a strong shooting route.
Li Ao accepted this suggestion, which was indeed more in line with his specific situation.
After lunch, Li Ao came to the Memorial Stadium to participate in team training.
The training content is not to prepare for tomorrow's game against the Bulls, but to continue tactical adjustment training.
During today's team training, Jordan had a bad expression and was unhappy with anyone he talked to.
Because Gentry told him before training that he wanted to strictly control his playing time within 30 minutes, he was very dissatisfied with this.
But he thought about his competitive state last night when his playing time was reduced to 26 minutes...
What he couldn't accept was that Gentry was so direct and not tactful at all. He was either resisting or dissatisfied with this attitude, so he vented his anger on his opponents Li Ao and Da Q during training.
Seeing Jordan's reaction, Gentry breathed a sigh of relief and once again lamented that the boss made a good decision in signing Doug Collins!
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On November 14th, the Clippers faced the challenge of the Bulls at home.
This was another game where Odom was distracted. He played 29 minutes and scored 8 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 turnovers on 3-of-8 shooting.
However, there is no suspense in the game. The Bulls are chasing the No. 1 pick this year. They have lost 8 games in a row in the beginning. Even the Grizzlies and Warriors ended their losing streak in the beginning. They are the only team that has not won yet. As a team, as the saying goes, people will have great responsibilities when they are about to be handed down from heaven. They must first suffer from their own mental and physical hunger. The Clippers helped the Bulls continue their setbacks.
Tonight, the Bulls' No. 2 overall pick still performed poorly, taking turns being beaten by O'Neal.
It's not that Chandler and Curry are in vain. They haven't played much time since the beginning. The former averaged 13 minutes per game and scored 4 points and 4 rebounds. The latter averaged 16 minutes per game and scored 6 points and 3 rebounds. They are talented. You can see them all, but they only have talent. In order to free up playing time for the two of them, the Bulls moved Brad Miller to play power forward, and their playing time was also greatly reduced.
Artest's heart is no longer with the Bulls. He applied for a trade before the start of the season. After Brand left, he was deeply disappointed with this team. Now he only sees the basket when holding the ball, but his offensive skills are still very rough. , being guarded by Jordan, he couldn't take care of himself. He scored 14 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals on 5 of 15 shots tonight.
Jamal Crawford is still training, and the performance of Ron Mercer, one of the three young players of the Green Army at that time, is getting worse...
Jordan played 23 minutes against his old club and made 7 of 13 shots, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 5 of 7 free throws. He scored 20 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals.
Li Ao played for 31 minutes. Unlike last season when he played almost the entire game in isolation, the protagonist of their team's game against the Bulls tonight was Jordan. He chose to play without the ball, but his performance was better than last season's game against the Bulls. Much more.
He made 9 of 16 shots, including 2 of 2 three-pointers, plus 3 of 4 free throws. He scored 23 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks.
In addition to O'Neal Jr.'s 20 points and 15 rebounds, Bibby's 15 points and 9 assists, and Big Q's 17 points...
The Clippers defeated the Bulls 112-86, starting their 8th consecutive victory!
Jordan used training yesterday to express his dissatisfaction with the reduction in playing time, but he played very happily today.
In the limited playing time, he can enjoy the output on the offensive end, and even improved his performance on the defensive end. Although it is not much, as one of the weakest defensive players in the team, he has improved a little and can play a role in the overall defense. to help.
The next day, Li Ao continued to practice extra in the morning and had 4 consecutive home games, which gave him time to initially develop new frame-facing techniques.
After lunch, he came to Memorial Stadium early and made an appointment to practice cutting and attacking with Gerald Wallace.
To his surprise, he saw that Odom had arrived early, and...he was smiling like a fool again just like before!
(End of chapter)
