The world's best combo guard

Chapter 74 71 [Burst]

On the training field, everyone was divided into two teams. One team was the starters, consisting of Kobe, Payton, Derek Fisher, Devin George, and Medvedenko. The other team was the substitutes, consisting of Li Hao, Cary Mlash, Rick Fox, Brian Russell, Brian Cook.

The two teams are conducting a training match, just as everyone has reached an agreement before, starting today, the intensity of the team training match will increase to a high level.

On the court, Li Hao was facing Gary Payton. Gary Payton was not easy to defend. His passing was superb and imaginative. Many times Li Hao was tricked into making unnecessary moves.

"Li, you're fucking kidding me. Did you just tell me that your defensive skills were eaten by you with cheesecake? Don't shoot lightly when defending, play with your brain, ok?"

Defensive coach Larry Lewis yelled at Li Hao without giving any face. In fact, Li Hao has adapted to this situation. Not only him, but Kobe Bryant's big names are also often yelled at. It's nothing that can't be done, it's just part of the job .

"Li, as I told you two days ago, defensive players of different heights have their own defensive skills. For you, the defenders are taller, so you should use them most when defending others. The most important thing is your height, use your body to block the opponent's line of sight, interfere with his shooting or passing angle, and in addition, you must use your speed advantage, follow the opponent closely, and use your hands to destroy his waist strength , constantly consuming his energy, constantly interfering with opponents, and forcing his shooting movements to change.”

During the timeout, Li Hao's current teacher Gary Payton explained to Li Hao carefully.

Li Hao agrees with what Gary Payton said, because Gary Payton could even fight against Jordan with this trick.

In the 1996 playoffs, Payton and his younger brother Kemp defeated the Kings in the first round, and then faced the champion Rockets in the second round. They swept their opponents in 4 games. Finally had the opportunity to face the Bulls, the peak of basketball in the 90s, and this time Payton was going to face Jordan.Payton tried his best to defend Jordan with only 23 points, 26 points, and 22 points in the last three games, and Jordan's shooting percentage in those games was pitifully low, especially in the crucial sixth game. He only hit 19 goals in 5 shots in the game, and his shooting percentage was only 26.3%. If it weren't for the brave performance of Pippen and others, Jordan might usher in the first tiebreaker of the finals.

In addition, he has been selected to the best defensive team many times in his career, and he is the only player in NBA history to win the best defensive player award as a point guard.

Therefore, Li Hao cherishes this rare learning opportunity very much. To be honest, since he began to receive Gary Payton's words and deeds a week ago, Li Hao has obviously been enlightened on many issues on the defensive end.

As a generation of defensive masters, Gary Payton has too much right to speak on the defensive end. Even Kobe and the others in the team sometimes ask Gary Payton for some defensive skills.

Soon, the second half of the training match began. Li Hao chose to switch defenses with Karim Rush this time. Compared with Payton, Kobe's offensive ability is better. Li Hao wanted to polish his defensive skills by defending Kobe, a high scorer. .

Karimlash wished that Li Hao would switch defenses with him earlier. For him, defending Kobe was a kind of torture. After finishing himself, he can always put the ball into the basket lightly.

Defense is not his strong point, so Karim Rush has long wanted to jump out of this pit of fire.

"Come on, kid, don't give me the feeling of stepping on a cake"

Li Hao and Kobe had played against each other in the training match before, so he naturally knew that Kobe liked to talk trash, but it seemed that he was very excited today, and he started spraying at Li Hao as soon as he came up.

"Shut up, under my brother's defense, you are no longer Peter Pan, you are just a caterpillar." Li Hao patted the floor in front of him and demonstrated to Kobe.

The teammates were very winking, knowing that these two people were on the bar, so they didn't interfere in the past and let them two one-on-one.

Kobe's dribbling frequency is not very fast, but the range is very large. In addition, his body is very flexible, so he is very good at holding the ball. Li Hao has suffered from this before.

So, this time, he changed his defensive strategy, and then used the close defense that Gary Payton had just reminded him, and kept using his hands to destroy Kobe's waist strength, preventing him from rushing.

"Haha, boy, you're a fast learner, but I'm not Michael, and you're not Gary"

Gary Payton taught Li Hao defensive skills just now, and Kobe was standing beside him, so he knew what defensive skills Li Hao was using now, and then he laughed and said.

"Stop fucking nonsense, attack me if you have the guts!" Li Hao roared.

Kobe, holding the ball, took a tentative step forward with his right foot at the top of the arc, hoping to lure Li Hao to give up the focus of frontal defense, but Li Hao guessed his intention and was not fooled.

This move was useless, Kobe immediately changed his offensive strategy, he leaned sideways on Li Hao, hoping to push Li Hao forward with physical confrontation.

For this, Li Hao was prepared to a certain extent. He knew that in terms of physical confrontation alone, he could not compete with Kobe now, so he immediately changed from passive retreat to active retreat, and he was extremely focused on every small step, because he knew that Kobe was very serious. Likes the step-back and fadeaway jumper, he is afraid to give him such a shot

In the next second, Li Hao's pupils immediately flashed a bright light, because he predicted from the distance of Kobe's right foot and the frequency of dribbling that this guy would definitely take a step back.

Therefore, Li Hao quickly stepped up to Kobe, not giving Kobe the space to take a step back and jump shot.

"Damn it, I was fooled"

However, at the moment when Li Hao took the initiative to go up to Li Hao, Kobe suddenly accelerated, abruptly leaned over from the left side of Li Hao's body, and then quickly rushed to the basket, his whole body leaping high.

Li Hao closed his eyes very unwillingly, he knew that he failed to defend this shot.

"Hiss, ahhh, hiss"

However, at the next moment, a scream startled everyone, Li Hao hurriedly looked up, at the basket, Gary Payton and Karim Rush screamed and fell to the ground in the confrontation.

Kobe gave up shooting, and Li Hao also rushed over in a hurry, including the coaching staff on the sidelines, and everyone surrounded him.

Gary Payton curled up on the ground, sweating profusely as he hugged his left leg.

"Gary, what happened? Karim, explain it"

Offensive coach Judy Brucher asked loudly.

"No no no, I don't know, I really don't know what happened, damn it, I should have touched Gary's left knee" Karim Rush looked gray.

Ten minutes later, the team doctor Oak Lane told everyone with great regret that Gary Payton suffered a stress fracture in his left knee, and it is impossible to recover within a month!
(End of this chapter)