After the away game against the San Antonio Spurs failed, Gasol and the others were holding their breath. They all hated the failure.
In order to win, Li Tian and others started crazy training.
Maybe it’s because of the desire to win; maybe it’s because he doesn’t want to be called weak; more importantly, it’s because he wants to become a strong person.
"bump!"
"bump!"
"bump!"
The training hall was filled with the sound of basketball landing.
"Lee, you're so early." Lori looked at the floor, which was already covered with a layer of sweat.
Under the illumination of the light, the sweat refracted the light into Lori's eyes. Although it was not so dazzling, Lori still felt it was dazzling.
Li Tiantian really worked too hard, and there was no way he could compare with him. This is why Li Tiantian was able to become a starter even though he was a rookie, and his average playing time per game was longer than his own.
Looking at the back of Li Tian who was training hard, Lori was impressed by Li Tian.
"Lori, go to training quickly. I'll be waiting for you. Paul and Conley will be here in a moment. You came much earlier than them." Li Tian said to Lowry while training.
"Paul, Conley, go warm up quickly. We have finished warming up. We will play a two-on-two game later." Lowry urged Gasol and Gasol.
"Li, stop for a moment. Let's split up and play a two-on-two game."
Li Tian stopped his three-point training. His current three-point shooting rate when he is open has reached a terrifying 96%, and it is very stable.
"Paul, how do we divide it? The two of us are inside and the two of them are outside. We can be divided into two teams. Do you choose Lowry or Conley?" Several people have cooperated on the court, so the tacit understanding problem is not a big problem.
"I can't bully you. You and Conley are both rookies, so I choose Conley. Rookie, come on, let's win them together and let him know that we are the strongest." Gasol glanced at Conley.
"Come on, let's win this bullfight." Conley was also excited.
"Lori, don't be a coward and do it to them."
Lori chimed in, "Fuck 'em."
The team formation is completed and the two-on-two training officially begins.
With Conley holding the ball, Lowry directly moved his body and was very aggressive defensively.
Usually against some substitute players, Conley still has the advantage, but when faced with a powerful defender like Lowry, Conley is still at a disadvantage.
Several tentative breakthroughs were forced back by Lowry's oppressive defense and failed.
Conley is still too thin and too weak in terms of strength.
When Conley was forced by Lowry and was a little at a loss, Li Tian suddenly came over to double-team him.
Lowry took the ball away from Conley when Conley was distracted.
Li and Tian successfully defended, and Lowry stood at the top of the arc ready to break through.
Gasol and Li Tian struggled to get in position under the basket, just to get a good position.
Since he acquired the skill of judging the placement of rebounds, Li Tian has been rebounding more and more, averaging an increase of about 2 rebounds per game.
Gasol successfully went around to defend Li Tian, but Lowry caught him off guard and threw the ball high to Li Tian under the basket near the arc.
Li Tian pushed Gasol in front of him and turned around to receive the pass.
"Lee, it's up to you. Use your magical steps to get past Paul. Paul, I'm going to start praying for you." Lowry started talking trash.
Hearing Lowry's voice, Gasol glared angrily and stared hard at Lowry.
At the moment when Gasol was distracted, Li Tian used his original steps to pass Gasol who was defending under the basket and dunked the score.
"Li, your steps are great." Lori stepped forward and high-fived Li Tian to celebrate.
Conley, who refuses to admit defeat, is a player who can become an All-Star, and his golf IQ is not too low. He just overestimated his own strength, so he immediately changed his offensive strategy.
Using his speed to break through Lowry, Conley made a triple threat to prepare for a breakthrough.
Seeing that Conley changed his breakthrough strategy, Lowry also put some distance between himself and Conley to prevent Conley from accelerating his breakthrough.
After Conley dribbled the ball from his hip, he suddenly changed direction and used his speed to break through Lowry.
Seeing Conley break through, "Li, make up for the defense." He shouted, asking Li Tian to help him make up the defense.
Li Tian could only choose to distance himself from Gasol and defend Conley.
Conley saw Li Tian coming to cover up the defense, and passed the ball to Gasol, who was unguarded under the basket. Gasol, who received the pass from Conley, also dunked and scored.
"Conley, your pass is great." Gasol pointed to Conley's position.
"Man, hit them hard, we are the strongest." Conley also toughened up and looked at Li Tian provocatively.
After a few rounds, it was all a confrontation from the outside, and the inside was just a tool for eating cakes and grabbing rebounds.
Sometimes, the two of them started chatting under the basket, with no sense of participation at all.
"Conley, are you two interesting? Look at me and Paul starting chatting under the basket, and look at what you are doing." The two stood blankly under the basket, waiting hard for the pass from the outside. .
The two of them also laughed. This is two versus two, and this is one on one.
The bullfight between Conley and Lowry continued, completely ignoring the two men under the basket.
"Lee, let's go. The two of them have already occupied the ball." Gasol smiled helplessly.
What was promised was two against two, and it became two teams against one against one.
The two had another one-on-one match.
Li Tian holds the ball under the basket and posts up to Gasol in the low post.
"Li, use your steps. The two of us will use our steps to beat each other in singles." Gasol wanted to learn Li Tian's steps and also wanted to use Li Tian's defense to hone his own steps.
After staying with the Grizzlies for too long, Gasol began to get used to being comfortable, and his competitiveness was gradually buried deep in his heart. Li Tian's arrival aroused his competitiveness again.
"Okay, Paul, let's have a contest between men." Li Tian also has a competitive spirit.
Li Tian continued to change his steps, and the amplitude of his steps was also constantly changing, giving him a feeling of uncertainty.
Gasol was very troubled by Li Tian's change of pace. He didn't know that Li Tian would turn around and pass him at that moment.
Just when Gasol was thinking about when Li Tian would launch an attack, Li Tian suddenly turned around and passed Gasol who was fully guarding him.
The butter hand patronized Li Tian and he missed a layup.
"Haha, Li, I admit that your steps are very good, but your layup is really hard to watch." Li Tian passed him, and Gasol did not forget to laugh at Li Tian.
"Yes, my layup is terrible." Li Tian also admitted that his layup is very poor and needs constant practice.
"Lee, I suggest you practice your layups carefully. You have perfect footwork, but you have bad hands for layups. It's so embarrassing." Gasol covered his face.
"Paul, can you tell me how to get a better layup? I know your layup is very good, and I want to learn the layup technique." Li Tian was very sincere, knowing that he could not learn from Gasol. skills, but will not give up the opportunity to learn and improve themselves.
Li Tian believed that as long as he trained and studied hard, he might be able to create a new skill one day.
The two continued to practice attacking under the basket, and Li Tian's layups became more impressive.
"Li, I can finally see your layup. You're making rapid progress." Gasol also felt Li Tian's rapid progress.
"Conley, Lowry, take a break. Look at you two. You said directly that you were going to have a bad fight. You also deliberately bullied the two of us and made us stuck under the basket for so long."
"Sorry, sorry, it hit me on the head."
"Don't say anything anymore. Let's talk about how to compensate us." Gasol's face-changing skills were so good that he straightened his face. If he were to act in a movie, he would still have a chance to win the Oscar.
He killed the two of them ruthlessly before giving up.
The four of them trained for a day on the first day of the new year.