On the day of the opening of the preseason, Li Ke woke up very early.
The room was still very dark, but you could vaguely see the pointer on the wall clock pointing to four o'clock.
In the past, Li Ke would get up at half past four, brush his teeth and wash, and after breakfast, he would appear in the training hall.
It was half an hour early today. If he got up at this time, he would be able to see Charlotte at four in the morning.
But he didn't want to get up and decided to stay there for a while.
So he closed his eyes again, but he couldn't sleep any longer.
There is no way, the game is coming. He is a little nervous, just a little...
Since I couldn't sleep and didn't want to get up, I simply entered the system and walked around.
There is nothing to study about the personal information interface. Today I will be a competition, and there will be no change before the competition.
However, the address book interface changes almost every day—
"Sun Yue: Friendship level 70."
“Yao Ming: Friendship level 40.”
"Brendan Wright: Hostile Value 40."
“Daniel Gibson: Friendship 37.”
“Michael Jordan: Friendly level 35.”
“Kobe Bryant: Friendship/Hostile Value 20.”
“Jared Dudley: Friendly level 30.”
“Julian Wright: Hostile Value 20.”
“Raymond Felton: Friendly level 10.”
“Gerard Wallace: Friendship 5.”
“…”
The friendship level of the Great Sage is almost 80, and a talented skill can no longer be eliminated.
Yao Yao's friendship soared to 40 when Li Ke left the men's basketball training camp. The simple reason is that Li Ke's performance in the men's basketball team has given Yao Yao the hope of a breakthrough in the Olympics next year.
Qiao Shen's friendship has increased rapidly recently, because Li Ke's recent training performance has satisfied Qiao Shen.
After all, not everyone can persist in the training of the breakfast club. Think about Lao Du and Fei Du...
Speaking of Lao Du and Fei Dun, Li Ke cheated these two people about the breakfast club, and the friendship between the two people was raised up, which was also strange. Could it be that they were masochists like Jiba?
Retreat from the system, Li Ke got up, put on his jersey, brushed his teeth and washed up, and enjoyed a simple breakfast...
Soon, he appeared in the training hall, where Tim Graver was already waiting.
“Breakfast club suspended…”
On the game day, the breakfast club was suspended, and there was such a training plan. Li Ke was not surprised, nodded, and Tim Graver continued:
"The training this morning will be carried out according to the competition day subjects on the training plan."
The main training of the subject on the game day is shooting, but Tim Graver's shooting is different from that of many trainers.
He would put a basketball basket next to him, then quickly picked up the first basketball and passed it to Li Ke.
The moment he passed it out, he would immediately pick up the second basketball and pass it to Li Ke again without pause.
The interval between two balls will not exceed two seconds.
In other words, Li Ke has to shoot a ball in more than a second.
Then deduct the time to catch the ball and adjust the time, and the time to take action will be compressed to about 0.5 seconds.
"Curry-style shooting training?"
Li Ke immediately remembered Stephen Curry, and his quick three-pointer shot was one of the symbols of Curry's three-pointer.
It seems that Tim Graver's theory is the same as the Curry family, and the speed of shooting is very important.
Two hours later, Tim Graver stopped shooting training.
"Go to the strength room, practice your muscles for a while and warm up..."
One hour of muscle exercise is considered a warm-up, and this is Tim Graver...
However, after such practice, the tension that Li Ke had caused due to the afternoon game had been dispelled a lot.
Especially after the warm-up of his muscles, he felt hot all over.
Before leaving for the team's training hall, Tim Graver patted Li Ke on the back:
"If you perform poorly, you'll smash my sign, so play hard..."
"Don't worry, Tim."
During the training camp, Li Ke bought himself a six-for-six for half a month's salary, and he no longer needed to go to the training hall.
With the roar of the engine, it took him only seven minutes to arrive at his destination.
When you arrive at the training hall, it is not for training. No team will arrange training on the game day.
It is only on the game day, the training hall will bring together media reporters from all over the world.
As this year's No. 8 rookie, Bobcats' newcomer and one of the four players Chinese basketball has worked hard in the NBA, Li Ke is naturally the focus of the media's pursuit.
As soon as his butt was touched by the bench in the locker room, seven or eight reporters immediately surrounded him.
Rick Bonaire of the Charlotte Observer, Chris Mannicks of Sports Illustrated, old acquaintance Shen Liren, and Sina reporter Jia Lei who only appears on the game day, and Liu Jia of Yangwu...
It is worth mentioning that Yangwu will broadcast the afternoon preseason, and Liu Jia appears here not only for the morning interview.
After the game, he will interview Li Ke regardless of winning or losing, and the content of the interview will be transmitted back to China in real time.
Unlike the United Girl who represented the Bucks next door in the preseason and performed pretty well, this preseason was Li Ke's NBA debut. There are many people looking forward to it at home and abroad.
“Are you confident in the afternoon’s game?”
"It's just a preseason game."
"Do you know you're the starter?"
"Of course, the head coach didn't say it clearly, but I was always the main force when I was training in the team."
"You still know about Knicks. Have you guessed who you will play against?"
"I really don't know this..."
Li Ke knows the Knicks, not that he is a 30-year-old fan of the Knicks.
But starting from the NCAA, Li Ke has developed the habit of understanding his opponents in all aspects before the game.
It is said that the Knicks are bad, but that definitely does not mean that their lineup is bad, but that they are playing badly.
In fact, the Knicks' paper lineup is still very strong.
Look at the names of the Knicks' main lineup last season, Jamal Crawford, Stephen Marbury, Eddie Curry, Quentin Richardson, David Lee, Nate Robinson, Channing Fry, Steve Francis...
In this, Marbury, Fur, the little shark Curry and the big Q all have glorious pasts, K-Liu, David Lee, Little Potato and Channing Furry have a bright future, and no one is truly from beginning to end.
But with this lineup, the Knicks won only 33 games last season, just like the Bobcats last season.
In the new season, they still adhere to the same signing strategy, sending Channing Fry and Boss Fry away in exchange for big shots Zach Randolph and former dunk king Fred Jones.
Then Wilson Chandler was selected through the draft.
This lineup is still not bad.
But everyone knows that this Knicks will still be terrible.
Li Ke didn't know who he would play against. In the preseason, many star players would make excuses to quit.
If K-Liu appears, his opponent will be K-Liu. If the fight is on hold, his opponent will be replaced by Fred Jones.
With A-level single defense in hand, Li Ke can at least ensure that his defense will not go wrong.
Thinking of this, the tension was dispelled a lot.
The interviews in domestic media are like chatting, but once they are foreigners, the situation will be different immediately.
"The competition is about to begin. Have Boss Qiao talked to you about anything?"
Sports Illustrated Chris Mannicks' eyes were filled with gossip, but Li Ke shook his head: "No."
"Do you know that Boss Qiao has high expectations for you? What kind of performance do you think you can give in this game to repay his expectations?"
Rick Bonaire's question, Li Ke frowned:
"I don't know what the boss expects me. I'm just a rookie. All I have to do is play the game in front of me."
He sighed inwardly, saying that he would never leave Boss Qiao, and in the final analysis, it was Jordan's choice to cause trouble.
Of course, part of the reason is that the biggest star of this Bobcats is not the player or the coach, but the boss.
Last year, Jordan acquired some of the shares of Bobcats, but was not a major shareholder but was able to obtain the operation rights of basketball affairs, relying on the identity of GOAT.
This team has a poor record and no stars, so Boss Qiao needs to sell tickets.
Let’s look at Adam Morrison on the other side. His condition is not much different from Li Ke. What’s the bad performance last season, will it improve this season? If it continues to rot, will Boss Qiao be disappointed?
Adam Morrison's face looked ugly. He was different from Li Ke and he didn't have much confidence in the new season.
Throughout the summer, he had almost no progress, and he gained twice, and the confrontation further declined and became a parallel-made company, which seemed inevitable.
Time soon came to the afternoon. Seeing that the competition was about to begin, Li Ke also left the training hall and set off for Time Warner Center.
The NBA is a show, and it's not just its main stage.
Li Ke parked Fork Six to the parking lot of Time Warner Center. When he walked quickly through the player's passage, he felt the true meaning of this sentence.
Both sides of the parking lot were surrounded by reporters, holding the camera and shooting at Li Ke, the spotlight flashed.
This surprised Li Ke, and he was not prepared for this-
The upper body was wearing a suit I wore when I was just interviewed, but the lower body was covered with long sweatpants and a pair of casual cloth shoes, which was a very strange combination.
Li Ke, who was moving forward quickly, had already seen the smiles on some reporters' faces, as if saying: Look, another rookie who is not in a state of affairs is about to make a fool of himself.
After Li Ke entered the locker room, David Falke's phone call came late.
"You've arrived? Hey, what time is it... Forget it, remember next time, wear clothes you think are handsome to participate in the competition. As for those photos, I will say hello and tell them not to send them out."
"Okay, thank you, David..."
Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief, it would be better if the agent is a big shot.
...
Although many teams have the practice of getting star players back in preseason games, such practices do not exist for bad teams like the Bobcats because they do not have star players.
In the locker room, Sam Vincent quickly announced the starting lineup for this preseason:
"Raymond, Sheldon, Adam, Gerald and Emecca..."
Just like Yi Chi during the training camp, there is no change.
"Don't forget our tactical style. I don't want to see someone among you messing around. Although it's a preseason, our goal is to win. If someone performs too badly and causes us to lose, then his playing time will be greatly reduced in the next game. I'm not joking."
Before the game, Sam Vincent warned everyone like the evil little wizard Vega.
As a bad team, the most common problem is that Sam Vincent emphasized that people are messing around.
Anyway, if you can't win the ball, you can't get the ball, you have no brainstorm. The ball rights are mine, the shooting rights are mine, and the data is mine, and you'll just brush it!
Therefore, the team's culture was ruined by the chaos of these players, and the Knicks on the opposite side were the best example.
Unlike the Bobcats, the Knicks have a main truce.
Stephen Marbury, Jamal Crawford and Eddie Curry didn't even come to Charlotte.
The Knicks' main lineup is the new Zach Randolph.
In fact, Fatty Lan doesn't want to play boring games like the preseason. The reason is that the preseason data will not be included in the regular season...
But helplessly, as soon as he came, Isaiah Thomas warned him that if he didn't play, his playing time would be difficult to guarantee.
After all, the Knicks' substitute power forward is David Lee with great potential.
Although Fatty Lan is a bastard, he regards data and playing time as his life. He knows very well why he can get into a big contract in the NBA.
As long as his data is beautiful, there will always be teams willing to buy it for him.
Ke Liu didn't come, and Li Ke's opponent was Fred Jones.
As the dunk king of 2004, Fred Jones has a very exciting physical fitness.
But he is a pure general, and no matter how powerful his physical fitness is, he cannot withstand years of flying and escaping.
Fred Jones has been in this league for five years and is already a little overwhelmed.
Speaking of which, at the Auburn Hills Palace Fight, Fred Jones was just a second-grade rookie.
He is also a party involved, but he did not hit someone, but was beaten.
At that time, he rushed into the stands after Atei. Before he could make any move, he was surrounded by the Pistons fans and beaten up in groups.
Later, according to him, he wanted to go up and pull up the fight.
But who knows whether this is the case?
Fred Jones played for Isaiah Thomas while on the Pacers, and now he switched to the Knicks, and the head coach is Isaiah Thomas again.
As the only two shooting guard in the Knicks, Fred Jones knows that he will never have less playing time.
Therefore, in the preseason, he is not prepared to work too hard.
Fred Jones doesn't care much about his opponent.
Just a young man who has never heard of it, just give him some chance and treat it as a gift.
When the referee held the basketball and walked to the center of the court, the Bobcats and the Knicks had already made their starts.
The attendance rate of Time Warner Center was terrible, with only half of the people sitting on the stands on both sides.
When Okafor won the jump ball, there was only a burst of applause in the stadium, and the seats in the back row, and there was a cheer that was not very loud from far to near...
In this slightly cold atmosphere, Li Ke rushed to the frontcourt.
The frontcourt run easily knocked away the opponent, and then Raymond Felton's pass arrived...
Receive the ball, raise your hand, and swish!
In this way, Li Ke scored his first goal in the NBA, making a two-pointer that took about one step inside the three-point line!
Time Warner Center did not cheer, but the loudest voice was the anger of Isaiah Thomas on the opposite side at Fred Jones, which made Li Ke very uncomfortable.
But in the live broadcast room of the Central Five, which was simultaneously broadcast, Director Zhang and Yu Jia were very excited.
"The ball has been scored, and the game has just begun, and Li Ke scored. This is his first goal in the NBA!"
"Although it's just a preseason, it's also a good start!"
On the court, Li Ke, who had a good start, found Fei Dun and slapped her.
Fei Dun's pass made him feel very comfortable, and he felt that it was a little better than Xiao Du's pass. In comparison, it might be a little worse than Paul's pass during the draft trial.
He is worthy of being the three point guards in 2005!
There were three people sitting in the private room in the stands, Michael Jordan, David Falke, and Tim Graver...
"This ball is a typical Sheldon-style goal, cut and run, and hit the ball when you catch it, and it was done in one go. It's very good, and it looks smoother than when it was in NCAA..."
Qiao Shen did not hype it up, but the meaning of this is that he has been observing Li Ke for a long time. Li Ke's goal in the NBA seemed to have improved a little, and he was already very satisfied.
"Tim has made a lot of credit."
What David Falke wants to say is that Tim Graver's special training has helped Li Ke very much.
Tim Graver shook his head: "No, that's his own credit. To be honest, Michael, you called me before, I wanted to refuse. You don't know, I have started a cooperation with Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles. The contract has just expired and I am preparing to renew it..."
God Qiao smiled: "What about now?"
"He and Kobe and you are both the same type of people, so now, I'm very satisfied."
Tim Graver paused: "I don't think you are more worried about his performance. Those who can persist in the training of the breakfast club can be no longer a parallel."
On the court, the game is still going on.
It is impossible that Li Ke, who is parallel, is struggling, not his own struggle, but his teammates' struggle.
In the defensive round, Fred Jones was still careless, and he didn't take Isaiah Thomas' reprimand at all.
However, the Knicks' starting rookie Wilson Chandler has been very active since the beginning of the game.
He soon received a pass from Little Potato. The original tactical arrangement was that he needed to transport the ball to the inside and hand it over to Randolph.
But after he received the ball, he just tried it and easily broke through Adam Morrison's defense, which was a bit unbelievable.
Wilson Chandler rushed to the basket and dunked.
Then he turned his head and started provoking: "Adam Morrison, I heard you are Bird's second generation? Bichi's second generation is almost the same..."
Damn!
Adam Morrison was very angry, turned his head and opened his hand to pass the ball.
singles……
"Rookie, I will let you know why I was the Tanhua in 2006!"
Bang!
Adam Morrison's shot was ugly and he hit the iron.
Li Ke covered his face, why are you the Tanhua in 2006?
Because Boss Qiao has a bad look!
In the next round, Wilson Chandler held the ball and rushed past Adam Morrison again. Li Ke had no choice but to make up for it.
The butt-wiping job is inevitable since the preseason.
Turning to the offensive end, Li Ke ran away again, and Fei Dun stopped passing the ball.
It’s not that they are fighting around, but that Li Ke’s tactical status is not as high as expected.
Adam Morrison and Feidun are two ball-holding points on the outside, and Boss Hua and Okafor in the inside have singles tactics. The remaining shot is the empty cut running position. Li Ke who has opened the space, so how much can he have left?
So, as he ran, Li Ke, who became a return runner, had a voice in his mind.
Chapter completed!