I just play ball

Chapter 184 The Trouble Has Just Begun

Back in Los Angeles, Li Yue immediately started preparing.

The first is the selection of training venues. The Lakers' base at the Toyota Center is naturally the first choice, but it is more troublesome to use there during the off-season, so they can only retreat and find a private venue.

However, the multiple targets provided by Taylor after screening were either located a little bit off, or easily attracted onlookers, or the equipment could not meet all the requirements, which made him fully understand why Jordan and others would equip their mansions with fitness defenses. , Stadium, swimming pool and other facilities are nothing more than convenience, otherwise it is meaningless to spend so much money.

When talking about this with Chen Xi, Chen Xi suggested buying a luxury house, even if you don’t like living in it, you can use it as an investment to preserve value, after all, inflation will only gradually reduce the real purchasing power of the $2.4 million.

Li Yue was very moved by this, and almost wanted to call the real estate agent who had left his business card before, but after a fierce ideological struggle, he finally decided to save a sum of money for business investment, and he and Iguodala Get rich together.

In the end, the training venue was set in a private arena half a kilometer away from the Ramona community. The landlord only provided the court and floor, and guaranteed 24-hour air conditioning and electricity. Li Yue was in charge of all other training equipment.

I thought it would be troublesome to have a large variety, but Taylor took the initiative to contact many sports equipment manufacturers. Those sales managers begged his father to tell his grandmother that they must give Li Yue for free. By the way, if you can show the logo in the video, you will be completely satisfied.

After the venue and equipment were settled, Li Yue started to contact a personal trainer. Considering that he didn't know much about it, he simply called Kobe, Nash and others directly to clarify the specific requirements and hope to get a recommendation.

Kobe and others responded quickly. Li Yue sorted it out carefully, and finally left eight people. He planned to follow each of them for a week, exactly two months.

As a result, they made a call to inquire, and four of them had already arranged their itinerary. As long as they could negotiate with the remaining four, each person would stay for two weeks. Although the price was much more expensive than a week, the effect would be better.

After finishing all matters related to training, Li Yue began to look for a nutritionist. After all, there is a saying called "three points for training and seven points for eating". Surprisingly, it was completely done with just one phone call. Team nutritionist Sandra Patty Leah had nothing to do during the off season, so she readily agreed to help formulate training diets.

After all the preparations were completed, Li Yue took a day off to go to Malibu Beach to practice with LeBron and Durant as agreed at the draft in New York, and then cut off all social media.

On July 7, Li Yue began to implement the off-season training plan. In the morning, he trained basic skills such as dribbling and shooting, and in the afternoon he trained in strength, agility and other items.

When the training is over, I go back to the apartment to chat with relatives, girlfriends, classmates, etc., and the day passes.

The trainer for the first two weeks was Phil Handy, who had coached big-name players such as Kobe, LeBron, Irving, and Rose, and also served as an assistant coach in the Development League. .

On August 8, Chenxi flew to the United States to visit, Li Yue did not adjust the plan because of this, took Chenxi to the gymnasium for training during the day, returned to the apartment to cook for a rest at night, and occasionally went out to participate in activities together, but never drank and stayed up late .

The trainer for three or four weeks is Chris Brickley, who was just JR Smith’s trainer at the beginning, but he has trained Anthony, Leonard and other stars. Li Yue then corrected some small mistakes in dribbling and shooting for a long time .

I thought the offseason would be repeated monotonously, but Michael Beasley was arrested by the police for hiding marijuana, and the Suns announced that he would lay off him. Not hired by any team.

Li Yue kept his promise and recommended to Kupchak on the phone. Fortunately, Beasley passed the trial training and got a non-guaranteed basic salary contract worth 102.7 million US dollars. At the same time, he was told that as long as there is any move that hurts the team, he will be laid off. .

The trainer for five or six weeks was Bruce Frazier, who was born as a Sun scout and later became Nash's personal trainer, making important contributions to Nash's two consecutive MVPs. Li Yue then further improved his shooting touch.

After one and a half months of training, Li Yue called Durant and Iguodala and other friends to organize a private 5V5 mild confrontation match. Everyone said that he was more difficult to defend, insisting that it was not an illusion.

The trainer for seven or eight weeks was Tim Graver. He once volunteered to be Jordan's trainer, known as the first personal trainer in the NBA. Li Yue followed him to learn how to increase muscle strength, and even felt that it was too late to meet him.

After all the training was over, Li Yue called Durant and other friends again, and specially invited LeBron to participate.

In the game, he took the initiative to defend LeBron's back-up. Although he still felt that the bulldozer was running over him, compared to the previous defense that could only take tricks or hurt himself a thousand times, he could already do it a little harder.

In this way, two months passed quickly, and all NBA teams started training camps one after another.

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At 9:28 am on September 7th, Los Angeles Toyota Sports Center, the training base of the Lakers.

Li Yue walked into the arena, took off his coat and put it on the sidelines, and stood still to warm up his joints.

After completing a set of procedures, call the staff for help, set up the automatic ball machine, and start shooting.From the three-point line position, from the left bottom corner to the right bottom corner, each position is shot in two stages, and it is not completed until 10 shots are made.

Swish!Hollow hit on the first shot.

Swish!The second shot is still a hollow hit.

Then the third time, the fourth time, and the fifth time were also hollow hits, and there was no iron until the tenth time.

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Boom!With the last shot from the right corner, Li Yue completed his shooting training.

A total of 55 of 50 shots were made, and the hit rate was as high as 90%. Even if it was just training without confrontation, such results were quite terrifying.

Clap clap!Applause came from outside the court, Li Yue looked back and found that Kobe was smiling at him, his eyes were full of relief, as if the big brother of the gang saw his younger brother doing something worthy of praise, and there were successors in the gang.

"I think you didn't show up much this summer, and you used it all for training?" Kobe walked into the court and reached out to touch Li Yue's biceps. .”

"Naturally, how is your injury?" Li Yue asked.

"Everything is going well, and it is expected to come back at the end of December," Kobe said excitedly, "I can't wait to go on stage with him and beat my opponent."

Li Yue nodded, and Kobe said again: "But the trouble has just begun. We only have less than a month to adjust the new tactical system."

(End of this chapter)