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Chapter 4 4. The Weird Atmosphere

Liu Ren came to the team's training ground and found that the atmosphere of the team was a bit weird.

He felt two extreme opposite momentums, the two extreme emotions of collapse and suffocation permeated the team strangely.

Generally speaking, the Lakers players are now divided into two types. One is the type that wants to fight for a breath. Led by Howard, the Lakers, who were the top three in the Western Conference last season, performed so poorly this season, largely because of his arrival. No matter how he thinks about it, the outside world's argument is like this. He is not at all the glory of the Magic period before, and now he is holding his breath and wants to make the playoffs.

Clark, who has played this year, is also a member of the spirit. He finally got a stable playing time. This year is his contract year, and he is working hard for the next contract.

Blake is also suffocating, and he is likely to be the Lakers starter next season.

There is also the depressed faction, which accounts for the majority within the Lakers. What is entangled is that Howard is very frustrated in addition to wanting to win.

Howard, who is not yet 28 years old, naturally does not feel that there is a problem with his strength. He complains more about his possession of the ball.

The most important thing is that if such a lineup does not even make the playoffs, Howard, who is not good at dealing with public opinion, will be drowned by the media's saliva.

This collection of contradictions.

Speaking of the most frustrating one, Jamieson came to hug his thigh, but he became his own thigh. Howard's uncoordinated offense, Gasol's constant injuries, playing on and off, he actually became the team's most stable insider score points.

Originally, Gasol still had the idea of ​​not fighting for his breath, but Kobe was injured, and he collapsed completely. He lost the championship hope. Hardened.

Gasol is different from Howard and Jamison. He does not lack the honor of the playoffs. He does not have Howard's idea of ​​wanting to lose face, nor does Jamison's collapse of being away from the championship. In the past few seasons, he and Kobe have brought The Lakers have achieved good results and won two consecutive championships. What makes him sad is that he endured D'Antoni for a season, and even accommodated Howard's need for interior space to play as a substitute. The end result is like this, and he doesn't want to struggle at all. .

Jordan Hill suffered a back injury again, and the house leak happened to be raining all night. Only Clark, Howard, Jamison, and the always energetic Thackeray were left inside the Lakers.

By the way, there is also a guy who is full of fighting spirit and keeps cheering up his teammates. He is a charity for world peace. He used to use the name Ron Artest. He is about to become a spiritual mentor now. After winning a championship, he has sublimated himself , wanting nothing...

Kobe's first substitute, Meeks, was also unlucky. He was injured half an hour earlier than Kobe, otherwise it would not have been Liu Ren's turn to play at the last moment.

As for other fringe players, Ebanks, Chris Duhon, and rookie Godlock don't care much. They don't seem to have their turn to play anyway.

If it was Liu Ren before, he definitely belonged to the mentality of a marginal player, but now he only wants to restore his strength in a short time.

Liu Ren before was very cowardly and rarely communicated with his teammates. If Jamieson didn’t take care of him specially, he probably didn’t have any sense of presence. Thackeray had the best relationship with him, but most of them were Thackeray who took the initiative to talk to him. Chatting, he has always been an introverted look.

But feeling the strange atmosphere of the team, Liu Ren decisively shut up and practiced shooting.

Liu Ren's shots are now very biased, and he can only rely on training to re-experience the application of strength.

Regardless of whether it was in the previous life or the previous owner of this body, they were all hard-working masters. The ball sense was trained very well, and there was no problem with dribbling breakthroughs or the like.

The most inconsistent place is shooting.

A good shooter will have muscle memory. Whether it is Liu Ren's body in his previous life or his current body, he has worked hard to reach that level.

So here comes the problem, the shooting movements of his two bodies are very different, and the strength and height are even more different.

Although the former owner of this body is cowardly, it is at least an NBA-level body, not comparable to the body in his previous life.

And his consciousness kept the feeling of shooting in his previous life, and his body got used to the muscle memory of the former owner of this body.

This led to a result. Liu Ren's shooting movements imitated Kobe Jordan's shooting movements because of his brain memory, and his muscle force was used to the force of his former owner, which was very embarrassing.

The only solution to this situation is hard work.

This season is coming to an end, and Liu Ren, who knows the result, has a lot of time to train in the summer. For the remaining few games, he feels that what he needs to do is not to play a good game, but to overthrow the previous people's perception of him. As a young player who is not yet 20 years old, the most frightening thing is not people's doubts about his strength, but doubts about whether he has the heart to become a star, and whether he dares to compete with the best players in the world. Confidence doubts.

Don't look at Liu Ren's peculiar thinking, his somewhat rigid thinking really easily simplifies troublesome things.

Liu Ren tried shooting a few times, and he got a feel for it. If the strength is strong, he should be smaller, and if he is small, he should be bigger, and adjust slowly. The accuracy is good, but the control of strength needs to be practiced slowly, which is a pleasant surprise. on the one hand.

Liu Ren was training alone in the corner, and Thackeray walked beside him.

"Liu, Mike asked you to go to his office."

Nodding, Liu Ren followed Thackeray to the head coach's office.

"Brother, I heard that Mike was very satisfied with your tough performance at the last moment yesterday. Now the team has no defenders. You have to seize the opportunity in the remaining two games!" Thackeray said, hooking Liu Ren's shoulder.

"Robert, it looks like you'll be able to stay next season?" In memory, Thackeray was the one with whom he had the best relationship with the Lakers, and he was not at all polite.

Looking at Thackeray's happy face, Liu Ren guessed that his team option for next season might be implemented. The average career of second-round picks is less than three years, and it is not easy to get a contract extension.

In Liu Ren's memory, Thackeray was still playing for the team when Kobe retired. His devotion and love for basketball made him an indispensable mascot for a team.

"Haha, that's right, the great Thackeray will continue to play with the Lakers next season!" Thackeray looked excited, "You have to stay, Liu, or I'll be the only one sitting on the bench too. Alone, those guys don't understand my art at all."

The art of waving the towel?The corner of Liu Ren's mouth twitched, should it be said that this big man didn't pursue well, or that he was too self-aware...

"Congratulations, but I'm not trying to stay, I will definitely stay!" Liu Ren said lightly.

"En?" Thackeray was a little surprised by Liu Ren's answer, usually this guy is so gentle that he would not speak, what seems different today?
Thackeray looked at Liu Ren and felt that something had changed, but he couldn't tell.

(End of this chapter)