I'm not really a role player

Chapter 98 Returning to Austin (5.2K [-]st update)
After leaving Beilun, Li Ke went back to his hometown and had a reunion dinner with his parents and relatives, which was not the reunion season.

Then he set off for the United States, even if he couldn't fly directly to Austin, there was a direct flight to Los Angeles.

Just in time, I happened to pass by Kobe's house again.

Unfortunately, this time, the "brave" trait is still not triggered.

The battle Kobe longed for was once again postponed.

Li Ke is also very helpless, he doesn't want to dove again and again, he also wants to fight Kobe.

But obviously, the son of the system didn't give him this chance.

Although it is also possible to fight naked, but if he really fights, he will definitely be completely abused by Kobe.

If it's just being abused, Li Ke can accept it, and maybe he can gain something from this one-on-one, knowing how to defend a superstar like Kobe.

But the problem is, if he wants to maintain the relationship with Kobe like it is now, he has to win the second matchup between the two.

Or even if you lose, you can't lose too badly. Losing one or two goals is the limit.

Only in this way can the third battle between him and Kobe be staged smoothly.

Even if it's the third time, Li Ke still can't lose too badly. Even if he loses the second time, he has to win the third time.

What he wants to use is Kobe's competitive spirit.

For Kobe, if he lost to Li Ke once, he had to win back, but a narrow victory was not enough, and it could only be regarded as a tie.

So there will be a third time, a fourth time, countless times...

It can be seen that playing with Kobe's talent and skills is a technical job, and one cannot be impatient at all. Patience is the most important thing!
Since the system's son didn't respond, Li Ke didn't stay in Los Angeles any longer, and turned around and went to Las Vegas.

……

This year's summer league was held in Las Vegas. Li Ke returned to China to participate in the training camp. He played this low-intensity game with integrity.

However, he still decided to turn around and take a look. On the one hand, he had a look at the new teammates of the new team, and on the other hand, Xiao Du was also killing all directions here...

In the hotel in Las Vegas, the first thing Li Ke saw was Lao Du.

Dudley is the leader of the Bobcats Summer League this time. When this guy saw Li Ke, his whole face became bitter:
"Sheldon, you guy, you're finally here..."

Hearing this, Li Ke quickly waved his hands: "No, no, Jared, I'm not here to return to the team, I just came to see it."

Old Du turned pale with shock: "No way..."

"You have to accept reality Jared, Charlotte Bobcats Las Vegas, you're still the boss."

In fact, the Bobcats Summer United team is not weak in Las Vegas. Old Du leads the team, and he also has a second-year center like Ryan Hollins who can play as a backup in the NBA, and an Argentine veteran like Walter Herman who was selected to the All-Rookie Team last year.

Li Ke soon saw Ryan Hollins and Walter Herman. Compared with Lao Du, these two were considered normal people. When they saw Li Ke, they just greeted Li Ke casually, turned around and disappeared.

However, Lao Du has been following Li Ke closely, passing through the hotel lobby in Las Vegas, and getting on the elevator, and along the way, it seems like everyone knows him very well:
"Hey, Thaddeus, the day after tomorrow is the game against you guys, remember to be gentle."

"Fiona, haha, we meet again. Why are you here this morning? Did work start so early?"

"Hey, Dwyane, where are you going? The 22nd floor? Who lives there? LeBron James, the little emperor is here!"

"..."

The Dwyane who was greeting Lao Du was not Wade, but the Cavaliers' bench center Dwyane Jones.

However, the more important message in this exchange is that LeBron James is here, which Li Ke did not expect. It is just the summer league. What is he doing here?
Oh, yes, this is Las Vegas!

On the seventeenth floor, Li Ke got out of the elevator, followed by Lao Du.

Then, he met Xiao Du.

"Kevin!"

"Sheldon..."

After a month, Li Ke and Xiao Du hugged each other. Before they could go any further, Lao Du behind him inserted forcefully:
"Haha, I knew it, Sheldon, you must be looking for KD!"

One sentence attracted Xiao Du's attention. Old Du pulled Li Ke away, and stretched out his right hand to Xiao Du: "KD, you were too ruthless in the game the day before yesterday. You deserve to be the second child in this draft!"

These words seemed to be complimenting Xiao Du, but Xiao Du's expression twitched, and Li Ke couldn't help it, and burst out laughing.

"Kevin, everyone knows you're the second child..."

Old Du was stunned and scratched his head.

Li Ke stayed in Las Vegas for a day, and he went to watch Xiao Du's game live.

And Lao Du, who didn't have a game that day, still followed Li Ke closely like a follower.

But as long as he meets someone no matter whether he is familiar or not, Lao Du will rush to the front, and the follower will suddenly become Li Ke.

For example, at the scene of this game, Lao Du waved and shouted: "The King!"

LeBron James in the distance turned his head abruptly, first saw the enthusiastic Lao Du, and then glanced at Li Ke from the corner of his eye, then smiled all over his face, and walked over with a strong aura:
"Hi Jared, hi Sheldon..."

The first time I met LeBron, I felt completely different from Kobe.

Le Bang was very enthusiastic and treated Lao Du and Li Ke equally. He didn't drag them into a one-on-one fight, and he didn't say that he wouldn't keep his hand in the next game.

After chatting on the sidelines, they left a phone call: "Call my number next time you come to Cleveland."

Then he patted Li Ke and Lao Du, turned around and left.

Walking to the side of the court, Lebron grabbed Xiao Du again, hugged, patted his shoulders, and whispered something...

……

After leaving Las Vegas, Li Ke returned to Austin.

It was already the end of July, and the recruitment of Longhorns had already ended.

Compared with last year's feat of taking down Kevin Durant, this year's Longhorns ended dismal.

In addition to snatching Jimmy Butler from the Marquette Golden Eagles, Russell Spurman also brought in Gary Johnson, No. 29 nationally, and Clint Chapman, No. 82 nationally.

But unfortunately, Li Ke has never heard of the latter two.

This means that this year's Longhorns, the only one that can be called a reinforcement is Jimmy Butler.

Considering that they left Xiao Du and Li Ke, there is no doubt that the strength of the Longhorn has been greatly weakened.

Looking at the opponents in the Big [-] League, Kansas only left Julian Wright, but introduced Cole Aldridge;
Michael Beasley really went to Kansas State University, and OJ Mayo's high school teammate Bill Walker went with him;
Blake Griffin to Oklahoma; DeAndre Jordan to Texas A&M; James Anderson to Oklahoma State;
There is also DeMarre Carroll, who transferred to the University of Missouri last year. After a year of ball supervision, he can play in the new season.

The Big [-] League in the new season will be a Big [-] League where the heroes compete.

"Fortunately, I ran fast..."

On the other hand, the farce between Lianmei and the Bucks is finally the finale.

The alliance's intervention made Dan Feigen annoyed, and directly pushed Lianmei to the front of the stage.

Facing the media, Lianmei said that if the Bucks insist on not letting him leave, he will return to China to play.

Hongyuan is also very cooperative, saying that Lianmei still has a contract with them, and they have the right not to let her go.

In the end, the Bucks issued an ultimatum: Yi Jianlian, if you don't come, you will never even think about playing in the NBA for the rest of your life!
So, after this farce went on for more than a month, Lianmei finally appeared in Milwaukee...

In the Frank Owen Center, Li Ke, after reading the media reports, shook his head: I really can't die if I don't work!

Lianmei's career in the Bucks was a failure. He couldn't compete with the eyebrowless heroes of the same team who had almost the same style. After a failed season, the Bucks gave up very impatiently.

The root cause of this is the series of coquettish operations before and after the draft by Lianmei.

Knowing that Lianmei is unwilling to go, why does the Bucks choose him at the risk of the world?
It's not that Dan Fagan blindly put a smoke bomb on Jill, making the Bucks mistakenly think that Lianmei is very strong and can become the next driver.

And the back and forth quarrels about not wanting to go, made the Bucks have a grudge against the Lianmei, and it is impossible to get 100% trust from the Bucks and vigorously cultivate them.

With a sigh of emotion, Li Ke stood up and shouted to Jimmy Butler in the distance: "Jimmy, hurry up, people are still walking around!"

"I'm coming!"

Jimmy Butler ran over in a hurry, and looked at Li Ke seriously: "You attack me?"

"Of course I attack!"

Li Ke did his part to pass the ball and started to attack. Although he had poor ball control, he had great strength and excellent shots.

Facing Jimmy Butler, who is still young at the moment, Li Ke easily pushes away Jiba and makes an emergency stop to score a jumper.

After the hit, Li Ke waved his hand in dissatisfaction: "Jimmy, is this your defense? It's too weak, can you put some pressure on it!"

Jimmy Butler glanced at Li Ke silently, and went to pick up the ball in silence.

On the next ball, it's Jiba's turn.

He made a direct breakthrough, but was easily blocked by Li Ke.

Facing Jiba like this, Li Ke shouted again:

"Be tough, Jimmy, and don't be a jerk!"

"Gah, you should have shot directly, you are too hesitant, Master De shouldn't be so hesitant!"

"I think you'd better go back to your Taylor Junior College!"

"..."

After dozens of rounds of battle, Li Ke lay exhausted on the floor, but Jiba was still able to stand.

"Jimmy, am I talking too much?"

Lying down, Li Ke began to review the one-on-one just now, and suddenly found that he seemed to have sprayed a lot of trash talk.

Seeing Jiba's heavy nod, Li Ke finally confirmed: It's over, did I learn from Kobe badly?
Absolutely!
So, he silently made up his mind to keep his mouth shut!
However, when the one-on-one resumed, the first sound from the Frank Owen Center was...Jimmy Butler's immature voice——

"Is this your dribble, Sheldon? You're so picky..."

Li Ke:? ? ?
"Knock me over, Sheldon, you can knock me over!"

Li Ke:? ? ?
Then in the next round, Li Ke, who couldn't take it anymore, shouted:

"Count, Jimmy! You are a coward now!"

"You only have one mouth left!"

"Just like you, you still want to make a name for yourself in the Longhorn? Go back and raise pigs as soon as possible!"

"..."

After dozens of rounds, both of them were lying on the floor.

"Jimmy, why don't you...?"

Jiba blushed a bit: "It's nothing."

"No, you have to give me an explanation."

"Then you have to explain yourself first."

"Me? During the draft trial, I played a game with Kobe..."

Before Li Ke could continue talking, Jiba sat up and interrupted Li Ke: "You fought with Kobe? What happened?"

"I won."

"Fuck, you actually won!"

Jiba was surprised and excited.

"Listen to me, that one-on-one, Kobe didn't stop talking from the beginning to the end..."

What Li Ke wants to express is that he learned badly from Kobe.

But Jiba put the emphasis on: "Kobe lost to you, and I also lost to you. Isn't that..."

"Ha ha!"

"It's your turn, Jimmy, tell me how you...become...like this?"

"Me, I just think it's cool and exciting to talk trash to each other one-on-one!"

At night, on the way back to the apartment, Li Ke's voice became hoarse, and Jiba was almost the same. They were very silent along the way.

However, when Li Ke lay down on the bed, he found——

Jimmy Butler's friendliness has exceeded 80!
"This guy is actually a masochist?"

He sprayed Jiba for about a whole day, and Jiba's friendliness towards him also increased. Isn't this masochism?
Originally, Jiba's friendship with Li Ke was as high as 72 points, but after this day, the friendship broke through 80.

It rose by a full 8 points a day. This rocket-like increase is still quite terrifying. This means that Jiba is very fond of this...

"I didn't expect Jiba to be such a person..."

No matter who Jiba is, Li Ke is not a human anyway, and he happily entered the system immediately.

"Jimmy Butler: Friendly 80."

"Sun Yue: 65 friendliness."

"Yao Ming: friendliness is 40."

"Brandon Wright: Hostile value 40."

"Daniel Gibson: Friendliness 37."

"Kobe Bryant: Friendly/hostile value 20."

"Jared Dudley: Friendliness 20."

"Julian Wright: Hostile value 20."

Strange people and strange annotations appeared on the interface of the address book——

The appearance of Dasheng and Brother Yao is not surprising, but the strange ones are Brandon Wright and Kobe.

Brandon Wright appeared after the draft, with a hostility value as high as 40 points. It is not difficult to imagine that the appearance of Li Ke affected this guy's original pick.

It's just that this maliciousness is a bit inexplicably high!
Kobe's one is even weirder, what the hell is friendship and hostility appearing together?Split personality?
After scratching his head for a long time, Li Ke couldn't figure out why the system displayed it like this.

Of course, for Li Ke, what is more important right now is Jiba's innate skills.

"Jimmy Butler: Friendly 80."

"Reproducible Jimmy Butler's talent:
A-level speed, A-level explosiveness, A-level flexibility, A-level jumping, S-level endurance, and A-level strength. "

"Repeatable Jimmy Butler skills:
B-level three-pointers, A-level mid-range shots, A-level layups, A-level post-ups, A-level breakthroughs, B-level ball control, C-level passing, S-level single defense, A-level help defense..."

So, now, it's time to make a decision.

It's a choice, but Li Ke has already thought about it a long time ago.

"Single defense!"

That's right, it's single defense.

He lost his single-defense selling point in Indianapolis, and now he wants to get it back!

The above is the reason why he chooses single defense, simple and rude.

But if he has to give a convincing reason, he can also conduct a detailed analysis. In the end, he will still choose single defense——

Obviously, Li Ke's talent is not much different from Jiba except that he is not as flexible and explosive as Jiba.

In terms of wingspan and height, he is very close to Jiba.

Li Ke may even have hidden talents, such as iron will and a big heart.

This also means that when there is no gap in talent, the only difference between him and the peak Jiba is proficiency.

Therefore, Li Ke had already thought about it, and he wanted to choose skills.

As long as the gap in proficiency is made up, he will have the first skill to break through B-level, A-level or even S-level.

Therefore, among Jiba's A-level and S-level skills, Li Ke chose the highest-level S-level single defense...

Of course, he also hesitated whether to choose a skill related to ball handling to make up for the biggest shortcoming in front of him.

The problem is that Jiba's ball control is only B, his passing is only C, and his breakthrough is as high as A.

But skills are closely related. Ball control is the foundation of breakthroughs. Without breakthroughs in ball control, it is equivalent to lack of a key talent. It may be difficult for A-level breakthroughs to be promoted to A-level regardless of the gap in ball control.

Li Ke can only choose one to copy. It is impossible for him to copy the B-level ball control first, the level is too low.

Since there is no difference in talent between him and Jiba, he has to choose a skill with the highest level, so it can only be single defense...

"The copy was successful. Congratulations to the host. I got Jimmy Butler's single defense. Due to the gap in proficiency, Jimmy Butler's single defense was weakened to A-level..."

When the single defense is promoted to S level, can you go to Los Angeles and have a naked fight with Kobe?

Li Ke rubbed his chin, thinking...

However, after that day, Li Ke still did not leave Austin.

He continued on to the Frank Irving Center and found Longhorns trainer Todd Wright.

"So, your original speed was very fast, but after gaining weight, your speed slowed down?"

"That's right, the outbreak was not as good as before, but thanks to the long-distance running, I got back a little..."

"Understood, long-distance running can't actually help you get back to burst. The best way to train to get back to burst is to run back and forth. The reason why your burst is back is only because you have gradually adapted to your current weight...

"According to common sense, when you get used to your current weight, your speed will come back a bit..."

Todd Wright analyzed at length, Li Ke actually wanted to say that his speed has indeed come back, but that is not enough, not enough for him to regain the S-level speed.

But Todd Wright didn't mean to stop talking, and continued: "If it's just to improve your speed, I can formulate a comprehensive special training plan for you..."

Soon, Li Ke got this special training plan from Todd Wright.

"First of all, you have to exercise your lower body strength. The strength of your lower body determines the distance and speed you can advance with every step you take..."

"Then there's the frequency of your strides, and you need to find a frequency that works for you."

"Finally, basic training, switchback running, it can most effectively improve your sprint speed, and can improve your explosiveness and flexibility at the same time."

Austin, this summer, Li Ke's real special training has begun...

(End of this chapter)