From sparring to superstar

Chapter 52 51. Sir, Times Have Changed

Check every piece of clothing is it good or bad?
Of course it was impossible. After Vivienne became angry and forced Li Ao to surrender, she called the factory and asked the factory to send the light board directly to the School of Computer Science, and didn't care about that bunch of things.

Find someone to send it to the school tomorrow morning, and just hand it over to the student union.

Li Ao made dinner, and after he was full, he continued to study the video, mainly the last three games, to analyze the performance of the players who might match up after returning from the holiday.

On the second day, after a day's class, Li Ao came to the Memorial Stadium at 3:[-] in the afternoon.

Two weeks ago, he already felt that the fan atmosphere was unprecedentedly hot as the game day approached.

Now, the popularity is unprecedented again!
Tomorrow's game is away, but today the fans gathered outside the Memorial Stadium. Li Ao saw a group of people wearing their special 'battle uniform'. Looking at the movement, it seemed that they were practicing shouting slogans. It should be a meeting Discuss tomorrow's line-up with Bruins fans outside Pauley Arena, the stadium dedicated to the UCLA basketball community.

There is a slogan - 12 consecutive victories.

Li Ao heard the call for a 12-game winning streak after defeating the Cardinals.

After defeating the Cardinals to win 9 consecutive victories, the next two opponents are fish belly. The fans have no doubts about their 11 consecutive victories.

Now that the 11-game winning streak has been achieved, what the fans are eager to see is that they will win 12 consecutive victories, tying the longest winning streak in the past 12 years!
The winning streak longer than 12 consecutive victories, the pac10 division, has to be traced back to the 1988-1989 season, when the Wildcats won a wave of 14 consecutive victories.

In the past 11 seasons, UCLA has won 1 consecutive victories once, and the Wildcats twice.

Equaling them and surpassing them is now the expectation of Trojans fans.

Before entering the Memorial Stadium, Li Ao turned his head and looked at the crowd of fans in the small square in front of the gate. Bearing their expectations, the pressure was really not small.

But it was he and his teammates who worked hard to win back the fans' expectations, and felt a sense of accomplishment.

...

"King of Los Angeles!"

"King of Los Angeles!"

"King of Los Angeles!"

On January 2000, 1, at 20:6 in the evening, after warming up, Li Ao and his teammates came to the entrance of the visiting team's player tunnel, and heard the uniform shouts of the fans.

People are very different, and teams are even more different.

They are still shouting '12 consecutive victories' and 'make the Trojans great', and the Bruins home fans directly shouted 'King of Los Angeles'.

In this atmosphere, Li Ao couldn't help making a "tsk tsk" sound. This arena is much smaller than the Memorial Stadium, and it is not even as big as a section of the Memorial Stadium. There are only a few small shops in the commercial area, and the training ground is just that big. A few, and there are only more than 3000 seats at the scene, which is still a tight arrangement. It is said that the original design was 8000 seats.

But the momentum of the fans at the scene is no worse than the more than 2 people in the Memorial Stadium!
Entering the stadium, before Li Ao had time to inspect the cheerleading team of the Bruins, he was found by reporters as a pre-match on-site visit.

It is said that the team is uneven, and it is reflected here.

Unlike the Trojans, the Bruins games, all games in each season, will be broadcast live throughout California. As early as the 70s, they signed a full live broadcast agreement with the local display station.

This is the only one in the entire NCAA, and the live broadcast rights of other schools are tightly controlled by the NCAA Association.

In the 60 years and 70 championships in the 12s and 10s, the Bruins had a higher influence in California than the Lakers at that time. Basketball fans can't wait to watch every game, and the Bruins got such a privilege.

It is rumored that the NCAA has always wanted to take back the live broadcast rights, but the Bruins will not give it no matter how much they ask.

The reason is that today's game has a nationwide live broadcast, but there is also a local live broadcast in California. In such a situation, the local live broadcast often has higher ratings than the national live broadcast. After all, at least [-]% of the people who follow the competition in the division are local fans.

This time the pre-match interview was done by a local TV station.

As soon as the interviewer spoke, he could hear his butt was crooked. The first question was: "Leo, what do you think of the atmosphere at the scene?"

Li Ao responded, "The King of Los Angeles? Have they asked the Trojans football team for their opinion?"

The reporter immediately denied: "NO, they are talking about the king of basketball."

Li Ao asked with a surprised expression: "The Lakers moved?"

The reporter had an expression of being overwhelmed by Xiang, this guy really deserves a beating like this!

After adjusting his mood, the reporter asked a more tricky question: "Have you seen the 11 championship banners above the stadium? Do you think we can still win in this place?"

Li Ao glanced at the 11 championship banners, and replied: "It's a great achievement, but now the Cold War is over, and this is the 21st century, sir, times have changed... It's not that we haven't won them, I personally won them." won."

When the reporter came, he was as proud as a Bruins player, but he left angrily.

He regretted it so much. If he had known about it, he would have interviewed Granville. That guy couldn't even get a few farts out of him.

The players of the Trojans watched from the sidelines and cheered when they saw the reporter being blown away.

Most of them were not thick-skinned before, and the team's record was far from that of the Bruins. Every time they came here, they were ridiculed by the reporters, and they resented it.

There is a thick-skinned, 'Little Lambert', but his temper is too violent, and he was suspended for two games last season for slapping a reporter. They originally hoped that the reporter would provoke Shelby Jordan again, but the reporter was persuaded.

Who would have thought that this reporter turned a corner but couldn't think about it, and actually went to provoke their super genius, it should be!
The Bruins fans in front of the TV were also choking with anger, but the Trojans fans were bursting with excitement.

Have they ever had such a fresh player?

Loved it!

Henry Bibby is also very satisfied with the fact that Li Ao pissed off the reporter. At the home court of the Bruins, he always has a feeling of being betrayed. In terms of ability, in recent years, the media has recognized that he is better than the opponent Steve LaVine. Stronger, but UCLA not only directly rejected him when recruiting the head coach, but also never gave him a good word later. His love for this school and this team turned into hostility.

The cheerleading show was over, and Henry Bibby called the players together to make the final arrangements before the game.

Li Ao glanced at the players on the opposite side. Unlike two months ago, the Bruins players at home, in such a frenzied atmosphere, everyone's expression was very serious, and there was no arrogance at all in the last match.

Tonight's game is a tough one!
"Try hard work, three thousand victories can swallow Wu. The Bruins have ruled Los Angeles for decades. The new century has arrived. Let's start a new era of basketball in Los Angeles...Mission: Times have changed trigger."

"Times have changed:
Goal: Beat the Bruins.

Reward: Stress Level 1. "

The task came so unexpectedly that Li Ao was not surprised, but the reward was not related to Kapono, but to Barnes.

Not bad!
...

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the game started.

The starting lineup of the Trojans is still the same, and the starting lineup of the Bruins has not changed. The five-man team of Earl Watson, Ray Young, Matt Barnes, Jason Kapono, and Dan Gadzulic.

After the game, Shelby Jordan and Matt Barnes, who had a festival, both cursed and were extremely rough on defense, which set the tone for the game.

It was Kapono's suffering, and it was Shelby Jordan who guarded him.

The White Mamba seemed to be able to handle Matt Barnes' tough and rough defense with ease.

Matt Barnes is also very good at defending off the ball, but what he is best at is defending against the opponent's striker and defense line alone, as well as supplementary defense in the zone defense. No better.

On the contrary, the white mamba has made great progress. Matt Barnes' deterrent actions have far less effect on him than in the opening game.

In addition to the White Mamba, Trepagnier played Ray Young and performed very well.

But apart from the two of them, the rest of the Trojans did not perform well on the offensive end, and the Bruins did a good job of defending others.

Granville's passing was restricted, and Shelby Jordan and Charles didn't have many opportunities to eat cakes.

Although the White Mamba shot accurately, Trey Pagnier mainly fed him the ball, and he couldn't make full use of the White Mamba's excellent shooting performance tonight.

In terms of offense for the Bruins, Kapono always kept Shelby Jordan in check, and Earl Watson took the opportunity to beat Granville and performed well at close range.

Gadzuric also did a good job of responding inside.

The Trojans took the initiative at the beginning, but the point difference did not widen.

After playing for a few minutes, the Bruins took the lead in making adjustments, replacing Ray Young, allowing Matt Barnes to guard Trey Pagnier, and replacing him with the best sixth man favorite, averaging 13 points per game Jerome Moiso with 7 boards.

Moiso made good use of Kapono and Gadzuric's containment to score consecutive points at close range, setting off a counterattack by the Bruins. They played a wave of 8-3 and overtook the Trojans 17-15.

Fortunately, Granville and Trey Pagnier responded in time. Trey Pagnier pulled outside when Granville broke through, bringing Matt Barnes to the top arc, and creating a dribble for Granville. Better breakthrough space.

Moiso, who guards the White Mamba on the flank, is far worse than Matt Barnes in his ability to grasp timing and cut off passes.

Granville finally broke through the opposing defense, connected with the White Mamba, and stabilized the situation.

However, Henry Bibby on the sidelines was full of worries. Generally speaking, the White Mamba was defended by the opponent's strongest striker. As a result, the opponent directly sent a third striker tonight!
The shooting guard was supposed to be an advantageous position, but it was locked.

Although Granville and Trey Pagnier made timely adjustments and broke through the opponent's point guard blockade, the Bruins still did a good job of defending the pass from inside and outside. At the beginning, Granville and the White Mamba were connected The line was crossed, but the opponent's defensive adjustments were getting better and better.

Obviously, the Bruins, who had already lost once, were better prepared this time.

The atmosphere at home also helped the Bruins, who played very hard.

Fortunately, the white mamba shot accurately tonight and had enough restraint, otherwise Granville would have no room to break through.

The situation was as Henry Bibby expected. After playing a few more rounds, it became a confrontation between Granville's breakthrough throw and Moiso's basket attack and Earl Watson's outside shot.

The Trojans suddenly fell into a disadvantageous situation.

Henry Bibby called a timeout in time and will replace Shelby Jordan with Li Ao.

As soon as Li Ao played, he made a contribution.

He used the white mamba screen on the wing to go around to the left of the free throw line, and Moiso switched to him.

Granville scored the ball in time. After receiving the ball, Li Ao kept passing the ball to close range. Kapono failed to catch up with the White Mamba immediately after defending the pick-and-roll. Gadzuric made up the left baseline to cut off White The Mamba's connection with his teammate, close range is Charles!
Charles took the ball and took a step and smashed the ball into the basket with one hand to complete the score.

After landing, Charles yelled at the fans who were cursing beyond the baseline, which attracted more violent curses and boos.

But this time, he sounds great!

Finally scored, Gadzuric said nothing else, the frame is really good.

In the first few minutes, his teammates played well, but he was locked in. The fans outside the baseline kept abusing and taunting him in order to anger him.

Among them was the sentence "Move, will you become soft?", which made him so angry that he didn't want it.

Now that Leo is on, he finally has a chance to score!

After eating this piece of cake, Charles played harder on the defensive end, creating more trouble for Moiso's close-range attack.

Seeing that the situation was under control, Henry Bibby waved his hands in an uppercut, shouted "Goode", and then quickly put away his movements, as if he hadn't done anything.

In fact, it is still a pity. If Li Ao and Shelby Jordan play together, they can block the opponent's entire striker.

But without the White Mamba, the offensive end is not contained enough, and there is no space, so it can only be purely defensive. The White Mamba defends the inside line well, and the flank screen and baseline cut before Barnes are also passable.

But now Barnes is playing the tactical role of Ray Young before, running in a wide range and counter-running air cuts. The shooting guard is okay, I can only consume Trey Pagnier's physical strength... It's all the boy's fault!

He said to Xavier Johnson on the side: "If Leo's CIC is as accurate as Bryan's three-pointer, now he will not only control the situation, but also play out the advantages."

Xavier Johnson: (￢_￢)
What do you mean being cheap and being good?
This is!
He replied: "The training time can't continue to increase, and his spare time is already very full."

Henry Bibby murmured after hearing the words: "Then the only way to start is to increase playing time and practice in actual combat."

Speaking of this, he laughed aloud, he really is a cruel and vicious coach!

Henry Bibby is getting more and more dissatisfied, and Steve LaVine on the other side is about to crack.

Has anyone really improved so fast?
Only two months have passed!

Even if it is Duncan and Olajuwon, the freshman is purely based on physical fitness and has no skills at all, right?
It's only been two months since the last fight, that Chinese kid, it's like he's been reborn!
(End of this chapter)