Chapter 159: Old Oak

There is not much room left for Li Liang to play in garbage time.

In the last five minutes, Li Liang came on the court, threw two mid-range shots and delivered two assists.

He wiped his scoring to 18 points, six assists, five rebounds, and four turnovers.

Mistakes set a new career record, which is something that can't be helped, and the more the ball is crossed, the more mistakes will definitely increase.

Li Liang went up to fight in garbage time, not only to brush up on data, but also to accumulate experience.

He played too few official games in his four years of college, and although he played a lot of games in his mission, it was a previous NBA game after all.

The current NBA scale and rules are different from the past, and if you don't play a dozen more, then the two sides will be confused, and it will be troublesome.

For example, defending three seconds was not available in games before the 01-02 season.

Later, he has to complete some interior defense tasks, and he must be careful not to develop the habit of standing in the three-second zone.

In one of all, the game ended successfully, Kobe Bryant scored 30,000 career points, and the Lakers took away a victory from New Orleans.

The game was still quite tough, although the third quarter was a wave that took the Hornets away, but back-to-back, the players played tired.

After returning to the hotel, the team decided to trim up for the day and leave for Oklahoma tomorrow.

New Orleans is a famous tourist city in the United States, with food, music, beautiful women, and a mysterious and charming southern atmosphere.

Although Anthony Davis said to lose, he still has to do his landlord's friendship.

Together with teammate Darius Miller, he invited Li Liang to have a fun time in New Orleans.

When he returned to the hotel, it was already late at night, and Li Liang drank some cocktails.

New Orleans is the birthplace of cocktails, and it's refreshing to drink a juniper-based pym.

Play and play, Li Liang did not leave the training behind.

It's a bit bad to play away games, it's tiring and there's no place to train.

Therefore, the form of the players is prone to ups and downs, especially the kind of super long road trips.

To be able to win back-to-back games, the team must have excellent strength and very thick bench depth.

Of course, Li Liang is different, the system is not dry.

With so much rage points collected by Lao Tzu, I don't want you to work too much.

In the evening he got into the system, ready to finish John Wooden's training session.

There are 10 hours of content, and there is only one lesson left.

When I came to the mission, it was still UCLA University in 1966.

In the training hall, Wooden, Abdul-Jabbar, and other UCLA players were waiting for Li Liang.

Before appearing on the stage, Li Liang carefully checked his shoes, pants, and clothes.

Make sure the laces are tightened, the socks are neatly dressed, and the top is tucked into the sweatpants.

Otherwise, Coach Woodon will keep nagging you in your ear and telling you to get these details right.

After a few classes, Li Liang was used to it.

Before the start of the tactics class, Wooden will give a half-hour tactical explanation.

At that time, video equipment was still a rarity, and many games were not even televised, let alone used video for tactical learning.

Wooden uses a paintbrush to make a detailed tactical analysis.

This is difficult for Li Liang, who has been listening to Calipari draw tactical boards for three years in Kentucky, and he can still understand it.

Professor Wooden's blocking and dismantling tactics are some relatively basic, but very practical tactics.

For example, the most basic cross screen, wide pindown, middle pindown, etc.

Then add some routines to these most basic techniques, such as double cover, cross transposition, zipper and so on.

The focus of these trainings is to develop Li Liang's selection ability after the cover is completed.

In the NBA, the game is constantly changing, and the same tactics often play out different effects.

The opponent's defensive strategy, defensive options will change.

The ball carrier and the screener, as the offensive initiative, also have to be improvised.

If you wait for the rabbit and carve the boat for the sword, the result will be a fight, and it will be ineffective if it is explored later.

After Li Liang studied systematically with Coach Wooden, the score of blocking and dismantling screens increased steadily.

He felt that even if he didn't add ability points to himself after completing the task, what he learned would improve his ability to block and dismantle and cover a lot.

Compared with the first class, the young Abdul-Jabbar in the system was much friendlier to Li Liang.

The two were training and chatting at the same time.

Li Liangdong asked, and Xi asked, but he got a lot of words from the young Jabbar.

The training lasted two hours, and the intensity was not great, and Wooden presided over a half-hour offensive and defensive confrontation.

Li Liang and Abdul-Jabbar were opposite each other, good guys, turning around and hooking hands, Li Liang felt that he couldn't even jump on the stool.

Li Liang will definitely not be able to beat Abdul-Jabbar one-on-one, but he will shoot from afar.

Li Liang also played UCLA-style tactical cooperation with his teammates.

It's wonderful to keep covering with teammates, cutting in the air, hand-to-hand, and going straight to the basket to go straight to the basket.

It's just that Li Liang's layup level needs to be improved again, and now it's 60 points, and the empty basket is definitely no problem.

But when disturbed from behind by a tall center like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, there are occasional missed layups.

After this class, Li Liang's task was completed.

Coach Wooden stepped forward and said, "Congratulations, you've completed the class, but you still have a long way to go and a lot to learn." Basketball is just a part of the road of life, even if you leave basketball, life has to go on, and you have to follow your path. ”

Before parting, Coach Wooden did not forget to pour some chicken soup for Li Liang, and Li Liang accepted it.

"Eh, coach, I want to ask, do you think there is any weakness in playing as a player like Bill Wharton?" Li Liang asked before he left the task.

"Bill Wharton? How I haven't heard of this player. ”

"He's your disciple."

"My disciple? Not really. ”

Li Liang wanted to ask about Wooden, his proud disciple at UCLA, the legendary superstar Bill Wharton.

Because Wharton has a lot to do with the second mission of the City of Angels book.

Seeing Wooden say no, Li Liang's mind turned around, this is 1966!

Wharton joined UCLA in 1970 and did not come to inherit the mantle until Abdul-Jabbar graduated.

It was a real show, Li Liang said goodbye to Wooden, Abdul-Jabbar and the rest of the UCLA players and left the mission.

[Congratulations on completing the quest "Coach John Wooden's Training Session" and receiving rewards: Pick-and-Roll Awareness and Ability +20 (65,), Special Item: Shoelaces from Coach John Wooden, please check them in your luggage.] 】

Li Liang took a look, huh? The system also sends shoelaces?

Check it out, [Shoelaces from Coach John Wooden: Tie it to your shoes to reduce the chances of leg injuries. 】

Oops, it's another artifact that can protect the body.

I don't know when I can send some wolfberry bubble tea or something, drinking it can prolong my life and fight on the court for another 30 years.

Coming out of the system, Li Liang took the shoelaces out of his duffel bag.

Then he took out his sneakers - a new pair of Durant 5th generation sneakers, which Li Liang just bought recently.

He took off the top shoelaces and replaced them with "protective shoelaces" given to him by Coach Wooden.

Because the last game of the three-game game was to play the Oklahoma City Thunder, they brought these shoes.

He's going to show Durant that your signature sneakers are still handsome on my feet.

After stringing his shoelaces, Li Liang fell asleep again and entered the system again.

He opened the City of Angels book and saw that the second mission, the broom star of the Portland Big Red Jellyfish, was shining.

But Li Liang didn't dare to enter now, he checked, and the big red jellyfish in Portland was Bill Wharton.

The so-called broom star refers to the fact that he led the Trail Blazers to a playoff sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1977.

This mission must be related to that series, so Li Liangcai asked Wooden Wharton about it.

How do you know that it's too early to ask, it seems that you still have to check the information yourself and figure out what the situation was back then.

In this game, nine times out of ten, he is asked to play the inside line, which is a problem.

Li Liang opened the six-dimensional ability and checked his [Physical Fitness] column.

[Upper limb overall strength] 42 points, each sub-item also reached more than 40 points, [core overall strength] 60 points, [core stability] 65 points, [lower limb overall strength] 60 points.

These are the more important physical indicators in interior defense.

After completing the two tasks of [Wrestling with Iron Man] and [Wrestling with Ron Artest], it will be followed by [Wrestling with Old Oak].

Some time ago, this task was opened, and Li Liang was busy with competitions and training sessions, and he didn't finish it.

I wondered if I should finish the task before the game against the Thunder.

The Thunder has an Ibaka and a Perkins on the inside, and they don't have the strength to do it, so I'm afraid they won't be killed.

Just after Wooden's class, Li Liang felt quite tired, but thinking that he could take a day off tomorrow, he decided to overload it.

After completing the task of the old oak tree, not only can you cope with the game the day after tomorrow, but it is time to start preparing the tasks in the city of angels book, killing two birds with one stone.

So, when he was very tired after class, Li Liang clicked on the task again: [wrestling with the old oak tree]

Who is Old Oak? Knicks hard power forward, Charles Oakley!

This night, Li Liang was busy.