I stole James

Chapter 181 Los Angeles Training Camp

During the summer league, the Cavaliers played a few games with rookies such as Paul, Tony Allen, Ariza and Varejao as the main players. James did not play. So many games, only one win.

Such a result naturally made many critics and commentators not optimistic about the Cavaliers' prospects for the new season.

Young, young always needs to pay some price to mature.

Being young means that there is still a long way to go to win the championship, and the shuttle bus for the playoffs does not know whether it will be able to catch up.

But James doesn't think it's a big deal about this. It always takes some time to run in the lineup, and it always needs to go through some labor pains.

Rome cannot be built in a day, and he has confidence in this lineup.

And in the summer league, their team has long said that the goal is not to win or lose. The main purpose is to let the rookies find the feeling of the NBA game and find the feeling of cooperation between teammates.

After all, the usual training and competition are still different.

The lineup of Paul, Tony Allen, Trevor Ariza and Varejao, to be honest, is not known for its strong offensive ability, but its strong defense.

They also showed this in the summer league, suppressing the opponent's scoring very low.

When Paul, Tony Allen and Ariza are on the court at the same time, it is extremely difficult for the opponent to break through their perimeter defense and score.

There are two main reasons why they lost. One is the lack of offensive points mentioned earlier, and the other is that they will not play the whole game, and they will be replaced after a period of time. Playing on the court, it is really not necessarily a loss in the venue. After all, they defended and suppressed their opponents on the court. On offense, Paul fired, Tony Allen and Ariza shot three-pointers from the outside, and Varejao responded inside. They can still play of.

After the summer league, continue to enter the long grass period.

People's attention fell to the Athens Olympics.

The American men's basketball team, which is so strong that people call it the dream team, lost. It's okay to say that they lost to the European basketball powerhouse Lithuania, but they even lost to the little-known Puerto Rico team.

Before the match between the U.S. team and the Puerto Rico team, people agreed that the U.S. team could easily win the game with a big score, but it was unexpected that the U.S. team was under the pressure of the Puerto Rico team throughout the game, and the audience had no power to fight back. It turned out to be the US team, the US team lost 73 to 92 to Puerto Rico by 19 points in the whole game.

This game was like a basin of cold water pouring over the incredible self-confidence of the American fans.

What's the matter, the American basketball team, which is so strong that it thinks it is invincible, will lose to other national teams.

This fact made it impossible for them to accept it.

But what was even more unacceptable was that they came to the knockout stage and met the Argentine team led by Manu Ginobili. They were beaten by the Argentine team and eliminated. They only won a bronze medal in the end.

Without the gold medal, the players who were selected for the US men's basketball team returned to the United States, feeling a little bleak.

Countless American fans clamored for revenge, and they wanted to send their strongest lineup to get back the lost gold medal in the next Olympic Games.

Many players who refused to participate in this Olympic Games, such as Kobe and other superstars also stood up and said they would participate in the next Olympic Games. These made American fans see hope again, and put their hopes on the 2008 BJ Olympic Games.

But these have nothing to do with James, he still didn't say that he would play for the US team, he was just burying himself in training.

Under the guidance of the system, the training is far more scientific than that of NBA trainers.

After Wade and Anthony returned to China, he made an appointment with several brothers including Paul, Wade and Anthony to Los Angeles for training.

This is another training camp after the team training camp he initiated, but this training camp is more open. In addition to their brothers, there are some Cavaliers players Tony Allen, Randolph, Ali Zha, etc., also include some of their group like Wharton, Hinrich, David West, Bosh and others.

Hinrich and the others joked that this was the first offline activity for group members initiated by group leader James.

The effect of this group training is still very good. At least James' learning value has increased by 38 points at once. In addition to the 11 learning points he obtained in the Cavaliers training camp before, his current learning value has reached 49 points. up.

However, he is not in a hurry to use it for improvement. He wants to wait until the start of the new season to improve. Now he just needs to train to maintain his state and improve some basketball skills.

For James, there are actually two reasons for putting the training camp in Los Angeles this time.

One is that Candice is in Los Angeles now, he can train here much closer to Candice, and the two can live together at night.

Another reason is that he wants to be more familiar with the city of Los Angeles. After all, he came back from time travel in 2019. In his previous life, James had already announced his decision to bring his talents to Los Angeles.

If the wheel of history keeps moving along this track, his future may also settle in Los Angeles, so he has come to Los Angeles to experience life in advance.

After experiencing it, it is actually really good, at least, it is much better than that remote place in Cleveland.

Compared with Los Angeles, Cleveland is a small town. You may be able to drive around the town, and you may meet someone you know. But in Los Angeles, you may not be able to drive far. Meet someone you know.

Of course, for James now, wherever he goes, many people will know him, the popularity is too high, there is no way.

In the training camp, both Wade and Anthony were in a low mood at the beginning, because they lost in the Olympics and were scolded by American fans, and they were upset.

Wade also asked James if he didn't participate because he foresaw that the US team would lose this time.

Regarding this question, James certainly shook his head and denied it. Although he knew that the US team would lose, he smiled and told Wade that it was not. Prove it to him.

James also told Wade and Anthony that if they are still unhappy, they can let Wharton, a local snake, take them to see the lights of Los Angeles and relax.

When Wharton next to him heard this, he was eager to give it a try, saying that he would definitely be able to handle this task beautifully.

(End of this chapter)