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After returning to Washington, Li Kaiming returned to the normal training rhythm. Of course, in addition to performing normally in the team's training and practicing tactics together, special training for the two players after the game is also a very important part.

Leonard won’t say much. This guy doesn’t seem to talk much, but he has great ambitions and trains very hard. During the training process with Li Kaiming, he was like a sponge, constantly absorbing knowledge and skills. , and he is also getting stronger at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As for Thompson, another old critic, he indulged in a summer vacation during the offseason. At the beginning, he couldn't stand the intensity of Li Kaiming's training. He often fell down during practice or vomited directly.

However, this guy actually persisted because of Leonard's encouragement. After the first week of special training, Thompson's physical condition basically recovered, and Li Kaiming took care of him the rest of the time. These two guys continue to improve!

I have to say that Thompson was able to be selected in the lottery. This guy's talent is indeed good. After his body recovered and coupled with high-intensity training, he quickly regained his three-point touch.

In addition, Li Kaiming also found that this guy's hands would explode if he moved his hands. Generally, his three-point shooting rate was around 38%. Occasionally, he would be very accurate for a period of time, and he could score all kinds of shots against people. It was useless for anyone to defend, but it became a spectacle during the Wizards' training process.

Maintaining this training rhythm, a month passed quickly, and the time came to October 10. The Wizards' previous preseason game had ended. They easily defeated the invading Kings at home, and then came the whole team. The team took a special flight to China to attend preseason games with the Clippers and Nets in Huadu and Shanghai.

It was the first time for Thompson and Leonard to go to China, so they were both very curious. Before setting off, they asked Li Kaiming and Sun Yue a lot about China. Afterwards, Li Kaiming was annoyed by the questions. Well, I simply assigned these two guys to the last row of the cabin, then closed my eyes and enjoyed the journey.

When the plane landed at Huadu International Airport, vehicles from the event organizer had already arrived to pick it up. However, Li Kaiming was already familiar with this place. Most of the Wizards players looked around with curious expressions on their faces. look.

Time flew by on October 10th at the Huadu MasterCard Stadium. Because of Li Kaiming’s strong appeal and influence in China, the tickets for this simple preseason game were almost snatched up in less than 11 hours after they were sold. Empty, online ticket sales were paralyzed by the huge influx of visitors immediately after they went on sale. Until an hour before the start of the game, people on the Internet were buying scalper tickets at high prices. Unfortunately, even the scalpers didn't have many. open.

For Sanders, this game is to test the team's status in the new season, so it is basically just a casual game. The starting players' playing time must be limited to less than half a game, and it is enough to practice tactics and coordination. .

As soon as the game started, Griffin, Li Kaiming's old rival of the Clippers, was extremely excited. After coming up, he ignited the audience with an alley-oop dunk. Chinese fans are used to watching CBA. When have they ever seen this kind of excitement live? The performance, and it was at the beginning of the game, so everyone cheered.

Of course, there are also good people who start to gather in the audience and shout, "Li Kaiming, respond!"

Faced with the request of the elders in his hometown, Li Kaiming will naturally not refuse. Furthermore, although this is not Washington, it is more like my home court than Washington. I, the master, have not yet shown my strength, you guy from the other side of the ocean. Just fuck it first?

I must teach you a lesson!

So in the next period of time, Li Kaiming first turned around and then received Hinrich's pass and dunked with both hands across the Clippers' center. Then he made a big change and passed Griffin and made an emergency stop in the mid-range. The fans at the scene screamed in surprise!

The second general Heng Ha also started to exert force at this time. Leonard faced the Clippers' outside line in the backcourt. Taking advantage of their hand-to-hand coordination outside the three-point line, he stretched out his robot hand and directly wrapped the ball with death. When it stopped, Li Kaiming took big steps and started to rush towards the frontcourt.

Because Li Kaiming suddenly started scoring strongly, even in the preseason, the Clippers didn't want the Wizards to be in garbage time before one quarter, so several players who were quick to return to defense blocked the inside, looking like they would not allow layups. Posture.

And in this case, Li Kaiming would not force a layup. After he compressed the Clippers' defensive formation to the extreme, he looked back and handed the ball to Thompson on the outside. The latter caught the ball and shot regardless of whether there was any defense in front of him. Man, with the crisp sound of brushing the net, Thompson hit a three-pointer!

The Clippers' offense was blocked again by the Wizards. Li Kaiming grabbed the rebound and dribbled it across the half court. Facing Griffin's defense, he pushed the ball to change direction, and then suddenly pulled it back, directly shaking Griffin. Opened two meters away.

After stabilizing the ball, Li Kaiming took the shot easily and scored another three-pointer!

After a simple tactic, Li Kaiming only made a slight move, but it reached the limit of what the Clippers could bear. What's more, the Clippers were unable to break through the Wizards' defense with Leonard Thompson on the outside and Li Kaiming on the inside. In the end, It can only be disarmed at halftime.

This preseason game in China allowed many Chinese fans to realize how entertaining the Wizards' smooth tactics are!

In fact, during this Olympics, the Chinese team's offensive tactics were basically designed after the Wizards, so the offense was much smoother than that of the previous national team. After all, the previous rhythm was that the defender dribbled the ball through half court. After the center is in position, pass the ball to the inside, and then be ready to catch the ball. If the inside can hit it, then pass it out.

If this style of playing was placed in the last century or around 2000, it can be said that it is very in line with the trend of the times.

But after the time came to the 2010s, whether it was the newly promoted Thunder's three young men, the Heat's Big Three, or the Wizards who had just won the championship, they had all got rid of this slow-moving style of play, speeding up the offensive and defensive rhythm, and becoming more Emphasizing shots from the outside, the role of space on the court becomes more and more prominent.

Even the Spurs, who built their team around Duncan, rarely specifically design tactics for Duncan to play in the low post. First, Duncan is getting older, and second, this tactic really slows down the team's offensive rhythm.

If you think about it for a moment, you will understand that after all the efforts were made to get the ball to the inside, there is not much offensive time at this time. If the inside singles cannot be completed and the ball is passed out, the outside players will have no time to organize another attack, so This attack could only be carried out hastily.

After experiencing the mercury-like offense brought by the Wizards, Chinese fans gradually became aware of an important issue.

The naturalization of Li Kaiming not only helped the Chinese men's basketball team achieve the best results in the Olympics, but more importantly, building the team around Li Kaiming can promote the Chinese men's basketball team to follow the trend of basketball development and transform from the original retro style. The method has transformed into a popular style of play in the new era.

The subsequent selection of men's basketball players will also pay more attention to the two attributes of defense and space, and the training goals of the men's basketball team will become clearer!

After this preseason game, Li Kaiming stayed to sign autographs for the young fans in the front row. Among them, he met a few guys who could be easily identified as scalpers and asked for autographs, but Li Kaiming refused.

I didn’t remember you after signing once or twice. You came here to sign four times. Do you think my memory is on the same level as that of a fish?

After this game, all members of the Wizards set off again to Huadu City, China. This time their opponent was the Brooklyn Nets. This offseason, the Nets made very bold moves and signed the free agent Eagle King Joe. Johnson, plus the original Deron Williams, could be a playoff seed this season.

But for this Wizards team, which is stronger than last season, they are not afraid of whoever comes.

Joe Johnson is very strong, but if I send Kawhi Leonard, the face-paralyzed robot, to defend you one-on-one, how should you respond?

As for Deron Williams, there are two people on the Wizards' back line, Hinrich and Thompson. Neither one is a soft persimmon, let alone the striker. From the perspective of the Wizards team, he can only rely on the center's cover to play. Wizards center Blatche.

But the problem is that the Wizards also have Li Kaiming inside, and his defense speed is one of the fastest in the entire NBA.

Deron Williams used the pick-and-roll to break through the basket. One was blocked by Li Kaiming, while the other urgently increased the arc, and was eventually blocked.

Joe Johnson also wanted to show his ability in singles to prove to the team management that his contract was very cost-effective. Unfortunately, he found the wrong person.

In his first singles match, he faced Leonard. He was absent-minded and wanted to play a triple threat first. Unexpectedly, Leonard went straight up and grabbed the ball, then threw it into the backcourt. Li Kaiming took the ball and singled it out. With his hands on fire, he dunked and set the Mercedes-Benz Center on fire!

After this defense, Joe Johnson also found that this facial paralysis was not easy to mess with, so he started to take it seriously. He caught the ball and protected the ball with his back, and then used his back to prepare to push inside. What he didn't expect was that the first shot didn't work. Push?

Immediately, Joe Johnson used more force and finally forced Leonard to take a step back. This made Li Kaiming, who was standing next to him watching the show, feel a little pity for Joe in singles.

Tell me, what is it that you can't think of to hit this guy from behind? It's hard even for me to back him up, let alone you.

Joe Johnson took two hard shots, and finally turned over and shot a jumper. Unfortunately, under Leonard's defense, he almost failed. Li Kaiming grabbed the rebound and passed a long pass to Thompson who was about to go down. The latter did not Choose a layup, but pull it up and throw it as soon as it stops at the three-point line!

The Nets players were speechless. How could the guys on the opposite side be so different today? Not to mention Joe Johnson was intercepted by a facial paralysis. How could he still shoot a three-pointer without a layup on the fast break? Can you play?

But soon, Thompson used his fiery touch to make the Nets players obediently defend his incredible three-pointer...

At the end of the game, it was another mediocre victory for Sanders and the Wizards. The starting players only played the first half, and the rest of the time was spent rotating and playing at the water cooler. But even so, The Nets couldn't withstand the Wizards' firepower and eventually lost.

And just when Li Kaiming and the Wizards were packing their bags and preparing to return to America, a piece of news that was considered explosive in the NBA came.

One of the Heat's Big Three, All-Star guard Dwyane Wade's sneaker contract expired and he did not choose to renew it. Instead, he signed a contract with Li Ning, a Chinese sports brand. This news is of great significance to China's sports goods manufacturing industry. This is definitely earth-shattering news, because it indicates that after being passively beaten for a season, Chinese sports brands will finally start to fight back!