I'm not really a role player

Chapter 104 Combining Tasks

On the opening day of the preseason, Li Ke woke up very early.

The room was still dim, but one could vaguely see the hands on the wall clock pointing to four o'clock.

In the past, Li Ke would wake up at 04:30, brush his teeth, wash his hands, and have breakfast before appearing in the training hall.

It was half an hour earlier today. If he got up at this time, he would be able to see Charlotte at four o'clock in the morning.

But he didn't want to get up, so he decided to stay for a while.

So he closed his eyes again, but couldn't fall asleep anyway.

There's no way, it's time for a competition, he's a little nervous, just a little...

Since he couldn't fall asleep and didn't want to get up, he simply entered the system and turned around.

There is nothing to study on the personal data interface, and today is the game, and there is no way to change it before the game.

On the contrary, the interface of the address book is changing almost every day——

"Sun Yue: 70 friendliness."

"Yao Ming: friendliness is 40."

"Brandon Wright: Hostile value 40."

"Daniel Gibson: Friendliness 37."

"Michael Jordan: Friendly 35."

"Kobe Bryant: Friendly/hostile value 20."

"Jared Dudley: Friendliness 30."

"Julian Wright: Hostile value 20."

"Raymond Felton: Friendship 10."

"Gerald Wallace: Friendship 5."

"..."

The friendliness of the great sage is about to break through 80, and a talent skill can no longer run away.

Dayao's friendliness has soared to 40 since Li Ke left the men's basketball training camp. The reason is simply that Li Ke's performance in the men's basketball team gave Dayao the hope of making a breakthrough in next year's Olympic Games.

Qiao God's friendliness has skyrocketed recently, and the reason is nothing more than Li Ke's recent training performance, which makes Qiao God satisfied.

After all, not everyone can persevere in the breakfast club training, think about Lao Du and Fei Dun...

Speaking of Lao Du and Fatton, Li Ke cheated on these two guys in the matter of the breakfast club, and the friendship between these two guys has been raised, which is strange. Could it be that they are also masochists like Jiba?
Withdrew from the system, Li Ke got up, put on his jersey, brushed his teeth, took a shower, and enjoyed a simple breakfast...

Soon, he appeared in the training hall, where Tim Graver was already waiting.

"The Breakfast Club is on hold..."

On the match day, the breakfast club was suspended. There was such a clause in the training plan. Li Ke was not surprised. He nodded, and Tim Graver continued:
"The training this morning will be carried out according to the competition day subjects in the training plan."

Game day training is mainly about shooting, but Tim Graver's shooting is different from many trainers.

He would put a hoop full of basketballs beside him, then quickly pick up the first basketball and pass it to Li Ke.

The moment the pass was passed, he would immediately pick up the second basketball and pass it to Li Ke again without pause.

The interval between two balls will not exceed two seconds.

In other words, Li Ke has to throw a ball in more than one second.

After deducting the time of catching the ball and the time of adjustment, the shooting time will be compressed to about 0.5 seconds.

"Curry shot drill?"

Li Ke immediately thought of Stephen Curry. The quick three-pointer is one of the signs of Curry's three-pointer.

It seems that Tim Graver's theory is the same as that of the Curry family, and the speed of shooting is very important.

Two hours later, Tim Graver called off shootaround.

"Go to the weight room, train your muscles for the last time, and warm up..."

An hour of muscle training is considered a warm-up, which is Tim Graver...

However, after such a practice, Li Ke's tension caused by the afternoon game has been dispelled a lot.

Especially after the warm-up of the muscles, he felt hot all over.

Before leaving for the team's training hall, Tim Graver patted Li Ke on the back:

"If you don't perform well, you're going to smash my brand, so play hard..."

"Relax, Tim."

During these days of training camp, Li Ke bought himself a fork six with half a month's salary, and he no longer needed to go to the training hall.

Amidst the roar of the engine, it took him only 7 minutes to reach his destination.

Going to the training hall is not for training. No team will arrange training on game day.

Just on the day of the match, the training hall will bring together media reporters from all over the world.

As this year's No. 8 rookie, the Bobcats' newcomer, and one of the four Chinese basketball players working hard in the NBA, Li Ke is naturally the focus of the media's pursuit.

As soon as his butt touched the bench in the locker room, seven or eight reporters immediately surrounded him.

Rick Bonnell from the Charlotte Observer, Chris Mannix from Sports Illustrated, Shen Liren from an old acquaintance, Jia Lei from Sina who only appears on game days, Liu Jia from Central Five...

It is worth mentioning that Central Five will broadcast the preseason game in the afternoon, and Liu Jia appeared here not only for the interview in the morning.

After the game, regardless of whether he wins or loses, he will interview Li Ke, and the content of the interview will be sent back to China in real time.

Unlike the United sister next door who represented the Bucks in the preseason and performed fairly well, this preseason is Li Ke's NBA debut. There are many people looking forward to it at home and abroad.

"Are you confident in the afternoon game?"

"It's just a preseason game."

"Do you know that you are the starter?"

"It should be. The head coach didn't say it clearly, but during the team training, I have always been the main force."

"Knicks, do you still understand, have you guessed who you will be playing against?"

"I really don't know about this..."

Li Ke knows the Knicks well, not that he is a 30-year-old Knicks fan.

But since the NCAA, Li Ke has developed the habit of getting a comprehensive understanding of his opponents before the game.

It is said that the Knicks are bad, it definitely does not mean that their lineup is bad, but that they play badly.

In fact, the Knicks' paper lineup is still very strong.

Look at the names of the Knicks' main lineup last season, Jamal Crawford, Stephon Marbury, Eddy Curry, Quentin Richardson, David Lee, Nate Robinson, Channing Frye, Steve Francis...

Among them, Marbury, Falcon, Shark Curry, and Big Q all had a glorious past, and Keliu, David Lee, Little Tudou, and Channing Frye all had bright futures, and no one was really from the beginning to the end.

But with this lineup, the Knicks won only 33 games last season, the same as the Bobcats last season.

In the new season, they still adhere to the same signing strategy, sending Channing Frye and Fry boss away, in exchange for big brush Zach Randolph and former slam dunk king Fred Jones.

Then Wilson Chandler was drafted.

This lineup is not bad.

But everyone knows that this Knicks team will still suck.

Li Ke doesn't know who he will play against. In the preseason, many star players will use excuses to truce.

If Ke Liu plays, his opponent will be Ke Liu, and if there is a truce, his opponent will be replaced by Fred Jones.

With an A-level single defense in hand, Li Ke can at least guarantee that his defense will not make mistakes.

Thinking about it this way, the tension was dispelled a lot.

The domestic media interviews seem to be chatting, but once they are replaced by foreigners, the situation will be different immediately.

"The game is about to start, has Boss Joe talked to you about anything?"

Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix's eyes were full of gossip, but Li Ke shook his head: "No."

"Do you know that Boss Joe has high expectations of you, what kind of performance do you think you can show in this game to repay his expectations?"

Li Ke frowned at Rick Bonnell's question:
"I don't know what the boss expects of me. I'm just a rookie, and all I have to do is play the game in front of me."

He sighed secretly, and said nothing about Boss Joe. In the final analysis, it was Jordan's hand-picked fault.

Of course, there is also a part of the reason: the biggest star of this Bobcats team is neither the player nor the coach, but the owner.

Last year, Jordan acquired some shares of the Bobcats. He was not a major shareholder but was able to obtain the right to operate basketball affairs, relying on his status as GOAT.

The Bobcats, with a dismal record and no stars, need boss Joe to sell tickets.

Looking at Adam Morrison on the other side, the situation is not much different from that of Li Ke. Why did the poor performance last season, will this season get better? If it continues to deteriorate, will Boss Joe be disappointed?

Adam Morrison's face was ugly. Unlike Li Ke, he didn't have much confidence in the new season.

Throughout the summer, he barely made any progress, and he gained two laps of weight. It seemed inevitable that he would decline further and become a parallel importer.

Time quickly reached the afternoon. Seeing that the game was about to start, Li Ke also left the training hall and set off for the Time Warner Center.

The NBA is a show, not just its main stage.

Li Ke parked Chaliu in the parking lot of the Time Warner Center, and when he walked quickly through the player tunnel, he felt the true meaning of this sentence.

Both sides of the parking lot were surrounded by reporters, holding cameras and shooting at Li Ke, and the spotlights flickered.

This surprised Li Ke, he was not ready for this——

The upper body is wearing a suit that was worn in the interview just now, and the lower body is long sports pants, plus a pair of casual cloth shoes, which is a very strange match.

Li Ke, who was walking quickly, had already seen the smiles on the faces of some reporters, as if to say: Look, another rookie who is not in the situation is going to make a fool of himself.

When Li Ke entered the locker room, David Falk's call came late.

"Are you all here? Hey, what time is it... Forget it, remember next time, wear clothes that you think are cool to participate in the competition. As for those photos, I will say hello and tell them not to send them out."

"Okay, thanks, David..."

Li Ke breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that the manager is a boss.

……

While many teams have a practice of truncating their star players in the preseason, such a practice doesn't exist for a bad team like the Bobcats because they don't have a star player.

In the locker room, Sam Vincent quickly announced the starting lineup for this preseason game:
"Raymond, Sheldon, Adam, Gerald and Emeka..."

It's the same as it was during the training camp, nothing changed.

"Don't forget our tactics. I don't want to see some of you messing around. Although it's a preseason game, our goal is to win. If someone plays too badly and we lose, then his playing time will be greatly reduced in the next game. I'm not joking."

Before the game, Sam Vincent warned everyone like the evil little mage Vegar.

The most common problem with being a bad team is what Sam Vincent highlighted as someone messing around.

If you can't win the ball anyway, then take the ball without thinking. The right to the ball is mine, the right to shoot is also mine, and the one with all the statistics is mine.

As a result, the team's culture was ruined by the chaos of these players. The Knicks on the opposite side are the best example.

Unlike the Bobcats, the Knicks have a main truce.

Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford and Eddy Curry didn't even come to Charlotte.

The Knicks' main lineup is led by the newcomer Zach Randolph.

In fact, Fatty Lan didn't want to play such a boring preseason game. The reason was that the preseason data would not be included in the regular season...

But helpless, when he just arrived, Isiah Thomas warned him that if he didn't play, it would be difficult to guarantee his playing time.

After all, the Knicks' backup power forward is the promising David Lee.

Although Fatty Lan is a jerk, he regards statistics and playing time as his life. He knows the reason why he can get a big contract in the NBA.

As long as his statistics are good, there will always be teams willing to pay for him.

Ke Liu didn't come, Li Ke's opponent was Fred Jones.

As the slam dunk king in 04, Fred Jones' physical fitness is very strong.

But he is a pure dunker, no matter how powerful his physical fitness is, he can't withstand years of flying into the sky and escaping from the ground.

Fred Jones has been in this league for five years, and he is already a little bit powerless.

Speaking of which, Fred Jones was only a rookie in the second grade at the time of the Palace of Auburn Hills fight.

He was also involved, but he was not the one who beat someone, but the one who was beaten.

At that time, he rushed into the stands after Artest, and before he could make a move, he was surrounded by Pistons fans and beat him up.

Later, according to himself, he wanted to fight.

But whether this is actually the case, who knows?

Fred Jones played for Isiah Thomas when he was in the Pacers, and now he has switched to the Knicks, and the head coach is Isiah Thomas again.

As the Knicks' only shooting guard, Fred Jones is very clear that his playing time will never be less.

Therefore, in the preseason, he is not prepared to work too hard.

Fred Jones didn't care much about his opponent.

It's just a young man who hasn't heard much about it. Give him a chance, it's a charity.

When the referee held the basketball and walked to the center of the court, the starters of the Bobcats and Knicks had already appeared.

Attendance at the Time Warner Center was terrible, with the stands on both sides half filled.

When Okafor won the jump ball, there was only applause in the stadium, and there was a cheer from the seats in the back row, which was not much momentum from far to near...

In this slightly indifferent atmosphere, Li Ke rushed to the front court.

The running in the frontcourt, the turn-back run easily threw off the opponent, and then, Raymond Felton's pass arrived...

Catch the ball, raise your hand, swish!
Just like that, Li Ke made his first goal in the NBA, a two-pointer within one step of the three-point line!
There was no cheering at the Time Warner Center, but the loudest one was Isiah Thomas's angry reprimand to Fred Jones, which made Li Ke very uncomfortable.

However, Director Zhang and Yu Jia were very excited in the simultaneous broadcast of the Central Five live broadcast room.

"The ball was scored. The game has just started, and Li Ke scored. This is his first goal in the NBA!"

"Although it's just a preseason, it's a good start!"

On the court, Li Ke, who had a good start, found Fei Dun and gave him a high-five.

Felton's pass made him very comfortable, and it felt better than Xiaodu's pass. In comparison, it may be slightly worse than Paul's pass during the draft trial.

Worthy of being the top three point guards in 05!
There are three people sitting in the private room of the stand, Michael Jordan, David Falk, and Tim Graver...

"This ball is a typical Sheldon-style goal, cut and run, catch and shoot, all in one go, very good, it looks smoother than in the NCAA..."

Qiao Shen didn't brag about it, but what he said was that he had been watching Li Ke for a long time. Li Ke's goals in the NCAA in the NBA seemed to have improved a bit, and he was already very satisfied.

"Tim does a lot of credit."

What David Falk wants to say is that Tim Graver's special training has helped Li Ke a lot.

But Tim Graver shook his head: "No, that's his own credit. To be honest, Michael, you called me before, and I wanted to refuse. You don't know, I have already cooperated with Kobe Bryant in Los Angeles. The contract has just expired and is about to renew..."

Qiao Shen smiled: "What about now?"

"He and Kobe, and you, are the same kind of people, so now, I am very satisfied."

Tim Graver paused: "I don't think you are more worried about his performance. Those who can persist in the breakfast club training are unlikely to be parallel imports."

On the court, the game is still going on.

Li Ke, who could never be a parallel importer, fell into a struggle, not his own struggle, but the struggle of his teammates.

In the defensive round, Fred Jones was still indifferent, he didn't take Isiah Thomas' reprimand at all.

On the contrary, Wilson Chandler, the Knicks starting rookie in this game, was very active from the very beginning of the game.

He quickly received the pass from Xiaotuo. The original tactical arrangement was that he needed to deliver the ball to the inside and hand it to Randolph.

But after he received the ball, he just tried it, and easily broke through Adam Morrison's defense, which was unbelievable.

Wilson Chandler kept on doing nothing, rushed to the basket and made a dunk.

Then he turned his head and started provoking: "Adam Morrison, I heard you are the second generation of Bird? The second generation of Bichi is almost..."

Gan!
Adam Morrison was very angry, turned his head and opened his hand to pass the ball.

singles……

"Rookie, I'll let you know why I was the No. 06 candidate in [-]!"

boom!
Adam Morrison's shot was ugly.

Li Ke covered his face, why are you the Tanhua in 06?

Because Boss Qiao has bad eyesight!
In the next round, Wilson Chandler held the ball and galloped past Adam Morrison again. Li Ke had no choice but to make up for it.

The job of wiping buttocks has been unavoidable since the preseason.

Turning to the offensive end, Li Ke ran around again, and Fei Dun stopped passing the ball.

It's not that they are fighting randomly, but that Li Ke's tactical status is really unimaginable.

Adam Morrison and Felton are the two ball-holding points on the outside, and Hua Boss and Okafor on the inside still have singles tactics. The rest of the shots are for Li Ke, who cuts and runs and opens the gap. How much is left?

So, while running, Li Ke, who had become a switchback runner, heard a voice in his mind.

"Combined tasks: maintain two months of high-efficiency performance, conquer the team management, gain the trust of the coaching staff, and win more possessions..."

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