I just play ball

Chapter 38
Hearing the terrified shouts of the fans, Li Yue, who was sitting on the floor, subconsciously looked up to the frontcourt. Kobe raised his hands and beat his chest and roared. Ray Allen and Wade shook their heads unwillingly. The Heat benches got up one after another Go to the player tunnel.

Looking at the central big screen, the two teams scored 98 to 96, and the game time was all over.

The Lakers won!Or the unpredictable way of dunking the lore!

Li Yue reacted, endured the pain, and stood up with his hands on the floor. He blocked the dunk of LeBron who was sprinting with all his strength. It was a bit like a mantis arm blocking a car. will do that.

Gasol next to him saw this, and hurried up to help him, "Are you okay? Do you feel something is wrong?"

Li Yue waved his hand, indicating that he was completely OK, and then started running in small steps, rushing to the center line to meet Kobe.

"We did it! We did it! We did it!" Kobe said excitedly, as if he won the championship that year.

"We can do better!" Li Yue nodded, and waved to his teammates around him.

Seeing this, Howard and the others ran up quickly, and the whole team gathered together, clapping hands and shouting 'Keep working hard' in unison.

When the crowd dispersed, Li Yue went to the technical stage under the leadership of the staff, ready to answer the questions of the commentators on the spot. When he walked to the sidelines, he met LeBron who came to say hello. After thinking for a while, he stopped and waved to LeBron.

LeBron turned to look at him, the two met, smiled, and walked together to high-five.

"Good job! There are very few people who dare to block my dunk head-on. Keep working hard." LeBron patted Li Yue on the shoulder.

"You performed even better, and I learned a lot from it. Are you free tonight? I'll treat you to dinner." Li Yue said sincerely. After all, he might have been lying on a hospital bed for treatment if he were to block other people.

"I have other arrangements for the evening, you'd better treat me to dinner in June, understand what I mean?" LeBron said with a smile.

"Then it's settled." Li Yue agreed without hesitation. This is obviously a meeting in the finals.

"Wait for you!" LeBron turned and left.

Li Yue immediately walked to the technical stage, took the earphones from the staff, put them on, and nodded to the three TNT commentators.

"Congratulations to you for defeating the current No. [-] Heat in the league and achieving four consecutive victories. You played well every minute and every second throughout the game. What does this mean to you?" Marvin first asked.

"Confidence! This game proves that we have the strength to beat the defending champion and win the championship."

"How does it feel to play against LeBron? Especially the dunk in the first quarter and the block just now." Kerr asked.

"He is a monster, he cannot be blocked at all. It is good luck to block the dunk. He needed to defend against two at that time."

"You scored 26 points and 14 assists tonight, three consecutive 20+ double-doubles, how did you do it?" Miller asked.

"This needs to thank the trust of teammates and coaches. We have a lot of preparations before the game, and I am only responsible for execution."

"Okay, the previous questions are too formal, let's talk about other things." Marvin grabbed the manuscript and threw it aside, "The Lakers' next opponent is the Cleveland Cavaliers. Are you excited about it?"

Li Yue was silent when he heard the words. The previous few questions were indeed very official and procedural, and the nature of the task was to complete the task. Not to mention that he didn't care, even the fans didn't care, but when it came to the Cleveland Cavaliers, it was different in an instant.

"Of course, I am very much looking forward to facing Kyrie Irving again. It will be the second match between the two of us after 11 years of madness. This time I will still go all out. I even keep the news comments after that game." Li Yue Tell the truth.

"Do you hate Kyrie? He broke through you five times in a row, which indirectly caused your draft price to plummet." Marvin asked seriously.

"No! I don't hate Kyrie at all! I just want to prove to those who laughed at me that even though I have a lot of balls, I am thin and I am prone to injuries, but I do have the ability to lead the team to victory. As long as the tactics Arrangements are reasonable."

"OK, good luck to you, thank you for accepting our interview." Marvin took off his earphones, got up and walked to the technical table, and gave Li Yue a high-five to celebrate, while Cole and Miller packed up their materials and prepared to leave.

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Li Yue returned to the locker room, quickly showered and washed, sat on a chair and waited for his teammates.

When he was idle and bored, he responded to emails and text messages from his relatives, friends, classmates, etc., and then logged on to Twitter to check the news. At a glance, he saw the short analysis of the playoffs just released by the famous commentator Mark Stein.

The short article reads: After winning 4 consecutive victories, the Lakers have officially surpassed the Jazz and the Rockets and jumped to seventh in the Western Conference, and they are only 2 games behind the Warriors who are sixth in the Western Conference. As long as they work harder, they can catch up. The Grizzlies are 8 games away from the [-]th. With only [-] games left in the regular season, it is very difficult to tie.

But Li Yue turned out to make everything possible. As long as Kobe and other main players work hard, the Lakers have a great hope of winning at least [-] games, because in the remaining schedule of the Lakers, only the Spurs/Warriors/Grizzlies are left. playoff team.

If this can be done, the Lakers have a chance to rank fifth in the West.

The only price is the lack of rest time for Kobe and other veterans, which may lead to a lack of physical strength in the playoffs, but the Lakers have to do that. It will be very difficult to meet the top half of the team in the first round. In history, only the Rockets in the 94-95 season did it Win the championship in the second half.

After reading the analysis, Li Yue felt that it made sense, so he immediately liked it.

As the phone screen swiped, I saw many concerned commentators and media discussing his post-match interviews. Most of them were looking forward to another duel between him and Irving. They believed that the result would be very different this time, and a few felt that it was still not possible.

ESPN forwarded Jaylen Rose's comment: Li Yue spoke after the game like an unlearned upstart. His confidence comes from his excellent performance in the past four games, but he will never understand that he can get excellent data , The Lakers can beat the Heat, relying on the containment and cooperation of Kobe and other superstars, if he is in the underdog now, he can't even get 10+5.

Stephen A. Smith commented: I am a fan of Li Yue, but to be honest, he should not complain about the original tactical arrangement. He was the number one star at the University of Irvine and a swingman at the time. He should have taken on the task of defending Duke's outside offensive points .

Bill Simmons commented: "The young people of the Lakers are always full of confidence. I really hope that the young people of the Celtics can learn this. Even if they are just a rookie who has finished the fourth game of his career, he must believe I have a strong ability to lead the team. What I say is definitely not a criticism, but from the bottom of my heart, and Li Yue is relying on this confidence to get to the present."

After reading these comments, Li Yue was quite speechless, and knew that he hadn't made it clear.

He was indeed responsible for defending Irving at the time, but he shouldn't be forced to use the same defensive strategy by the coach. This is why he still couldn't help but speak out two years after the incident, otherwise the blame will always be borne to the end.

Thinking of this, Li Yue clicked the reply button, crackled and pressed a line to explain, but quickly deleted it, making up his mind not to dwell on this matter, and only use his strength to prove his statement to the outside world.

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In a blink of an eye, the whole team finished washing and left the arena together, got on the bus and returned to the hotel.

As soon as he got in the car, assistant coach Phil Weber sat next to Li Yue.

"The coaching staff intends to let Howard, Kobe, Nash, and Gasol take four rounds of rest in the next game. It should have been implemented in this back-to-back game. It was postponed because of the significance of defeating the Heat. Do you have the confidence to lead the team to win alone?"

(End of this chapter)