The world's best combo guard

Chapter 52 51 [NBA locker room]

Early the next morning, when Li Hao had been training for more than an hour in the training hall, the team's defensive coach Larry Lewis found Li Hao. Lewis directly expressed his intention to help Li Hao on the defensive end. And explain that this is what Phil Jackson meant.

"Li, to become an excellent defender, you need to have many qualities. Apart from the most basic physical confrontation, it also includes the following aspects: defensive posture, foot movement, defensive awareness, transposition defense, number of fouls, Don't eat fake moves"

"Lee, take the number of fouls as an example. Sometimes we have to successfully defend without being called a foul, and sometimes we have to judge the situation and take the necessary tactical fouls. These all need to grasp the timing."

Larry Lewis took out a tactical board and sketched it at the door. He first explained the basic defensive essentials to Li Hao, and then began to tell Li Hao about the current defensive system of the Lakers.

As the team's defensive coach, many of the defensive systems of the Lakers at this stage are formulated by Lewis, so he will tell Li Hao directly, which makes it easier for Li Hao to sound.

Of course, even so, Liu Hao was dizzy from hearing it. There were too many. Although it is not very complicated in general, there are really many types.

Li Hao thought about it for a while. In general, the Lakers' current letting go system is more reflected in individual defense rather than overall defense. On the one hand, this is related to the player's personal defensive ability. The need to attack.

"Triangle offense, or triangle offense?" Li Hao showed a bitter smile, he still couldn't escape the triangle offense after all.

Later, Lewis left some video tapes for Li Hao, which were highlights of the Lakers' most exciting defenses in the past two seasons. He hoped that Li Hao could get something from them.

After Lewis left, Li Hao sat down on the ground. It was really not easy for this rookie player to integrate into the NBA. In the past two days, he had received several waves of instructions from the coaching staff. Every instruction was exhausting.

"Li, you bitch, you're still training"

In the locker room, as soon as Li Hao walked in, Rick Fox, the big mouth of the team, yelled at Li Hao.

"Silly, you think I'm as lazy as you"

After getting along for a while, Li Hao has adapted to this weird but comfortable way of communicating with his teammates.

At first he was not used to it, but Fisher told him that this is the NBA locker room, this is American culture, and everyone communicates like this, and there is no malice.

"Li, your muscle mass looks more solid, to be honest, you are really a monster, I have never seen an Asian player with better physical fitness"

Karim Rush is an out-and-out sneaker lover, no, at this moment, while playing with his sneakers, he said to Li Hao with a big mouth.

"Come on, Karim, my physical fitness is nothing compared to you big guys."

Li Hao really wanted to say it in front of you niggers, but he didn't dare. He was afraid of being beaten by a group. You must know that these black players are most taboo to be called niggers.

"Lee, bring me that ice cube"

On the other side, the tall and thick Karl Malone yelled at Li Hao in a low voice, this guy still has some sore leg muscles, and the old injury from before has not completely healed, but there is no way, he insisted on returning to the team two days ago , because he is different from the ok combination. If he wants to win the championship at the end of his career, he must return to the team early and integrate into the team as soon as possible.

Without saying a word, Li Hao turned around and took the ice cube from the other side and handed it to Ma Long. He was used to it. These bastards have been using him a lot these days, but there is no way, who made him a rookie?
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In the afternoon, as usual, Li Hao locked himself in the video room and watched the video for more than 3 hours. Li Hao found the defensive video brought to him by Lewis very interesting. It mainly highlights the defense of Kobe and O'Neal.

And he paid more attention to Kobe's defense in the process of watching, because he was in the same position.

Li Hao found that Kobe's defense has two notable features. The first is the jelly candy. He doesn't take easy shots and steals, but he follows up quickly and hardly loses his position. The second is enthusiasm. Kobe's enthusiasm in the game is not only Only on the offensive end, even on the defensive end, he is very hardworking and will not miss any gaps.

Li Hao snapped his tongue, this is a superstar, really scary.

After watching some wonderful videos of the triangle offense before, and watching some wonderful moments on the defensive end today, plus training and playing with his teammates these days, Li Hao's mind gradually cleared up.

"Maybe if you defend that ball like that, you can succeed," he began to conceive in his mind.

The next night, also at Staples, the Lakers faced their second preseason opponent, the Dallas Mavericks.

In this game, Li Hao still came off the bench. He scored 20 points, 11 assists and 3 steals in the 3 minutes he played. From the data point of view, his performance in this game is similar to the previous game against the Suns. , but in fact, his performance in this game is better, because he only made one turnover in this game, which has been greatly reduced compared with the 4 turnovers in the previous game.

With the 10+3 data in two consecutive games, Li Hao's performance has been affirmed by many fans. Some fans even said that the Lakers made money by selecting Li Hao with the No. 13 pick in the first round.

All in all, there has been no shortage of topics surrounding Li Hao.

In the third preseason game, the Lakers played an away game against the Bulls in Chicago. Li Hao did not play in this game, because in the training game before the game, Li Hao felt a little sore in his calf muscles, so to be conservative, He chose not to play, which disappointed the Chinese fans who lived in Chicago and rushed to the Bulls' home court to watch Li Hao's game.

Li Hao can only feel sorry for this. He is now in a critical period of improving his physical fitness. In other words, his body is very sensitive at this time, and he must be cautious about any small movements on the court or any discomfort that usually appears. He didn't want to gamble with his body just because of a preseason game.

In the last preseason game, the Lakers still played on the road. Their opponent was the Orlando Magic. For Li Hao, the word Orlando Magic was no stranger to him. He even made plans to play here at one point.

As for the Orlando Magic's plan to select Li Hao with the 15th pick in the first round in the previous draft, it was also exposed later, and people were deeply surprised by this.

Therefore, in the preseason game between the Lakers and the Magic, Li Hao has virtually become one of the focuses again!

(End of this chapter)