The God of Basketball

Since Allen made a statement in the Colorado Plateau, the temperament of the Los Angeles Clippers has changed visibly.

Perhaps this has something to do with the successive returns of Ron Artest, O'Neal and others, but there is an even more astonishing fact: the Clippers' offensive and defensive rhythm\\b has become more aggressive.

Li Zhen's harvest on the data side this season has suppressed the data presentation of other players to a certain extent. However, the training for young players and the recovery of veterans have not stopped.

It's just that the fight is relatively loose, and it looks more fragmented.

For example, when Li Zhen desperately collected scoring data. Guys like Griffin, Hayward, Butler, and Jordan will take turns to practice defense. And when Li Zhen is collecting assists, veterans and rookies will switch to attack mode...and it is the core attack mode. When Li Zhen decided to go to the penalty area to grab a rebound. Their degree of freedom is higher.

There has been no chaos in the atmosphere of the team since day one.

It's also impossible for anyone to feel the slightest bit of displeasure because Li Zhen is fighting Kevin Durant on the scoring charts and working hard for a triple-double every night.

Tracy McGrady slammed the Clippers veterans for making the wrong choice because the Clippers' record has been declining: The competition in the Western Conference has become extremely fierce since the first two weeks of the All-Star Game.

The Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets, and Portland Trail Blazers, who were originally ranked behind the Clippers, all began to exert their strength and surpassed the Clippers one after another. Seeing that the Clippers are about to fall to eighth in the West, they may even fall to No. 1 in the West. Nine.

The competition in the West this year has been fierce.

Ranked first is the Los Angeles Lakers, who haven't lost a few games yet, and have been running rampant with a crushing attitude.

Ranked second is the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The third is the Houston Rockets, which have just surpassed the Spurs.

The fourth is the San Antonio Spurs.

The fifth is the Memphis Grizzlies.

Sixth is the Dallas Mavericks.

The Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Clippers are tied for seventh, and the Portland Trail Blazers are ninth.

Although the Trail Blazers stumbled in the 2007 draft, while Kevin Durant was becoming a superstar, Greg Oden had tragically retired.

But this season, their top star Brandon Roy, once the Bruce's lifelong enemy, gradually came out of injury. Since he accepted Li Zhen's suggestion, he did not force himself to play with injuries.

And insisted on surgery, after a long rehabilitation, gradually found vitality.

Partnering with childhood sweetheart Aldridge, he gradually returned to the sequence of the Western Conference.

It's just that the competition in the Western Conference today is too scary.

Not to mention the Big Three of the Lakers, even last season's defending champion fell to tied for seventh, one can imagine what kind of Shura field this is.

It is far more intense than the five or six strong teams in the upper half of the East.

In a blink of an eye.

The Los Angeles Clippers came to Portland's Rose Garden Arena, and the Trail Blazers can be regarded as an ill-fated team. If it weren't for the team owner being rich and daring to squander. If it was another team, they would have stopped playing for a long time.

Macmillan head coach is still sticking to their original style of play.

Before the start of the game, Brandon Roy had a cordial conversation with Li Zhen. Although the status of the two is very different now, looking back at the 2006 rookies, they are still the vanguard.

Roy was very puzzled: "Why are you guys obviously not making much changes, and your strength has improved, but... your record is declining?"

Li Zhen did not give an answer at the time.

But the game gave the Blazers a clear answer.

After the game started, the Clippers suddenly became linear and logical.

After Li Zhen started the game, he didn't swip the stats as usual, but coordinated with Stephen Nash, Gordon Hayward, Blake Griffin, and Jr. Jordan.

Attacking at a pace that has never been seen this season.

Very steady.

But the output keeps coming.

It's like a naturally aspirated engine with high power and large exhaust twelve cylinders.

The Blazers quickly became overwhelmed.

Roy and Aldridge are also All-Star players, but when they open their eyes, which of the five Los Angeles Clippers is not an All-Star?

Why did the Clippers only make one All-Star this year?

Roy was extremely puzzled.

He seemed to have realized something at this time, but he still missed the key point.

After the game entered the second quarter.

The Clippers immediately switched from a surging offensive mode to a positional offense, and began to grind defense with the Blazers.

Jason Kidd, Jimmy Butler, Eddie Griffin, O'Neal and Li Zhen played together.

This lineup is a tough one on the defensive end, and it is very willful. Li Zhen switched from the offensive mode to the position without any gaps. This group of people almost grabbed the throat of the Rose Garden Arena and hung them up to fight.

In the middle, Allen Iverson, Ron Artest, Vince Carter, and Milicic interspersed to play, and Li Zhen sat on the sidelines to rest at one point.

Still very high quality and positively stable output power.

The Blazers felt what it means to be crushed.

To be honest, before the game started, McMillan was still chanting slogans in the locker room, saying that he would beat the Clippers and reach the top eight. This season must take back all the lost honor.

But when the intermission arrived, the locker room of the home team was as quiet as a chicken.

Macmillan didn't even want to do tactical analysis: what else? The Los Angeles Clippers are almost all All-Stars, and the depth of the lineup is too frightening. Everyone can output a period of surging energy. Even the rookie who came out of nowhere was so hard that Aldridge was hit by him until he kept applying ice to his shoulder blades.

"Jimmy, in time, you will definitely become a superstar. Believe me, you just follow your current tough style of play and move forward. The future belongs to you."

O'Neal admired Butler's fierce small forward.

The main reason is that Aldridge shook him away in the second quarter, and just about to dunk, Jimmy Butler pounced on from the side like a tiger, covering Adelaide with his head covered.

"You must be more promising than Artest."

O'Neill gave a thumbs up.

Artest can also be regarded as a model of the macho class. He is one of the few guards who won the best defensive player. It stands to reason that his status in the world should be considered high.

But in the Clippers locker room, he is at a lower position on the food chain.

In terms of seniority, maybe only a few rookies are weaker than him.

Others, Iverson, O'Neal Jr., Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Stephen Nash... which one he can't call brother. Especially Jr. O'Neal, who was his direct leader.

Therefore, the charity world peace quickly slipped from Dawei Tianlong to the level of Xiao Artest.

In this regard, little Artest is also happy.

Now he has no idea of ​​being brave and ruthless, and he doesn't even talk about it. He just wants to enjoy the rare peaceful time in his career. And, wandering in Marbury's thoughts.

Little Artest is the person who admires Marbury the most in the locker room. He often learns from Marbury.

This made him deeply understand that his so-called ferocity in the past was just a paper tiger, and all his teeth and claws were just to cover up his weakness.

It's good now, and little Artest fits his temperament quite well.

Allen Iverson is sitting in another corner of the locker room. He and Vince Carter are also discussing how they played just now... The two men who once played the tie-breaker in the Eastern Conference Finals and used each other's basket as a sea are discussing how to use it quickly A new way of shooting.

The top scorers from the 90s generally follow the shooting concept of the basketball gods, that is, the two-stage shooting rhythm. Perhaps only Tracy McGrady is an exception, because he is tall and long, and has top-notch explosive jumping ability, so all his shots are 1.5, that is, the knees are not bent down to exert force, and the basketball is not lifted from the waist.

Iverson and Vince Carter did this kind of training before the offseason.

Because of the lockout, the previous offseason became very long, so they have been staying in the training camp of the Li Zhen brand to practice with the young players.

Stephen Curry is also a signatory of the Li Zhen brand.

He also stays here.

He has a deep connection with Vince Carter: When he was very young, Curry's father helped Carter in Toronto.

So the relationship between the two has always been good.

As a result, the two disrespectful seniors have been imitating Curry's shots.

Curry is a typical one-piece shot. His shot saves a process of kneeling and squatting, and he does not pursue the shot at the highest point of the jump. So the shooting speed is very fast, and it is extremely accurate.

It doesn't matter if the two old seniors don't practice, after a while, they found that it really suits them.

Especially Iverson.

Iverson is a small player. He is at the peak of his career. His shooting is not too standard, but he can usually go in.

Now he is studying one-step shooting from Curry, which has covered up his weakness of deteriorating physical fitness a lot.

He practiced more and more deeply.

The Clippers really gave him a chance, so his feat of scoring 31 points in the Colorado Plateau was born.

Iverson's strength is recovering rapidly.

Vince Carter is actually changing his style of play.

While the Clippers have kept him in character, Carter is a smart guy. Or he has always been a 'businessman'. When he became famous, he was not as stubborn as Kobe and Iverson. He never went all the way to the dark, and he always chose the path that suits him best under the current situation.

This led to him being extremely talented, but he never became a superstar.

But it is also doomed that he will have a long career.

After leaving the Toronto Raptors, he changed his style of play once in the Nets. Later, he stumbled, and now in the Clippers, he began to change his new strategy. He almost abandoned his previous style of play and planned to become an off-ball shooter from beyond the three-point line. Relying on experience and a certain degree of defense to gain a foothold in the NBA.

That's where he's smart.

As long as he keeps at it, he can play in the NBA for another decade.

Vince Carter and Gordon Hayward chatted for a while longer.

At present, the Clippers have actually formed various one-on-one assistance policies.

Ron Artest claimed Jimmy Butler, and Jr. O'Neal gave pointers.

Vince Carter claimed Gordon Hayward, and he also gave it all.

Jason Kidd caressed Jordan a lot, telling him what is the perfect time to take off, and at the same time told Jordan the secret of Kenyon Martin.

Stephen Nash interacts frequently with Blake Griffin. Griffin always makes Nash think of Stoudemire, and Nash can teach Griffin a lot of passing and ball-handling skills, and he gives a lot of pointers on the shooting end. .

Allen Iverson was born rebellious, and he was never a good teacher.

However, Milicic has been following him, and when he was in Los Angeles, he often drove Iverson.

Iverson had a great influence on him on the spiritual level, which made Milicic more and more confident and played more and more openly on the court.

I don't know if it's because of Larry Brown's relationship, the two players who have made news with Larry Brown have found some kind of common ground.

Interestingly, when Milicic was in physical therapy with Li Zhen, he suddenly said to Li Zhen with emotion: "Bruce, tell me, if I was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers, would I become a superstar. Allen was so nice to me."

Li Zhen was stunned for a while.

Then he said: "Whether you will become a superstar is hard to say, but...you are likely to learn from him. At that time, Allen did not have such a good professionalism. Moreover, he was full of energy at that time, he would not go Take you for a regular massage, but take you to..."

Li Zhen said this.

Milicic was also stunned for a while after hearing this, and then smiled.

Perhaps, this is the best arrangement of fate.

Milicic is not too bad now. Although O'Neal's playing time has been reduced this season due to the arrival of O'Neal, his statistics are not as good as in the second half of last season.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see his excellence.

If there are no accidents, his next contract will be at least tens of millions. If you encounter a team that urgently needs an insider, it is normal to offer a starting salary of 12 to 3 million US dollars.

Now, all the teams already know... a new salary cap will be implemented in 2016. At that time, it will inevitably be an era of salary flooding.

The second half of the game is coming soon.

The Portland Trail Blazers looked like a skilled actress, and they deliberately struggled and disarmed.

Anyway, it is definitely impossible to fight.

Why not save some energy?

How good it is to beat the Mavericks.

This is Brandon Roy's proposal. Since being persuaded by Li Zhen, Roy has become more and more stubborn.

After the game, he even asked Li Zhen mysteriously: "Bruce, you are not ambushing the Lakers, are you? You are beautiful. Let the Lakers rush to the first place in the Western Conference with a crushing attitude, and then in the postseason Sending them back to their hometowns in the first round of the game is wonderful!"

Forehead….

If Roy didn't say anything, Li Zhen really didn't expect to come here.

As soon as he said that, Li Zhen waved his hand immediately.

First of all, based on the relationship between Kobe, Yao Huang and himself, it really shouldn't be such an ambush for the Lakers.

Secondly, this year's Lakers are far from being comparable to last season's Lakers, and their strength is very strong. Last season's victory over the Lakers was more or less luck. This year, there must be no such luck.

In the end, Li Zhen really didn't want to eat sugar cane anymore. Although the Los Angeles Clippers won the championship last season, they hit the Lakers at the beginning and New York at the end, and the mode of galloping all the way in the middle made him want to die. Still step by step, it is better to fight monsters and upgrade. Most importantly, the Clippers' run-in has only just been completed.

The meal needs to be eaten one bite at a time, and the strides are too big, and it is easy to tear the eggs.

Therefore, Li Zhen patted Roy on the shoulder and told him: "Brandon, next, I will help you double-kill the Mavericks. As for whether you can take the opportunity to enter the playoffs, it depends on your own luck." gone."

When Roy heard this, he was very grateful.

What a great brother!

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