16. NCAA debut(1/2)
By the end of the pre-game preparation time, Li Ao had already understood the preparation process of the NCAA basketball team in a few days.
Since there are usually only two games a week, one on weekdays and one on weekends, there is plenty of time to prepare.
With such a complete player training system, Li Ao feels that it is indeed the country with the strongest basketball strength.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Li Ao and his teammates ate high-calorie and easy-to-digest food prepared by a nutritionist. Sam Clancy, who had been accustomed to eating low-quality high-protein cans distributed by the church since he was a child, could not tell the difference at all.
Discomfort, people who have eaten it before are used to it.
Li Ao was very curious about how nutritionists could make high-calorie foods so unpalatable.
This refreshed his understanding. He had always thought that low-calorie, low-sugar diet meals were the most unpalatable.
Rob Erez, who was also new and entered the main roster as a freshman, complained directly: "God, this is a waste of ingredients."
Li Ao responded: "Maybe he didn't do it on purpose. He was probably the nutritionist who brought the eagle."
The teammates laughed loudly when they heard this, and when they were talking about which place had the worst food, they mentioned "Tai Ying" and killed them all instantly.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, it was time to warm up before the game. Although he felt that he might not have a chance to play, Li Ao was still looking forward to learning how to warm up before the game.
I heard Kevin Henderson say before that there is a big difference between the warm-up before training and the warm-up before the game. The warm-up before the game not only needs to be sufficient, but also needs to be comprehensive.
Develop good habits. If nothing else, warming up enough can reduce the probability of injury. If you get injured because you didn't warm up well, it would be a big loss.
Li Ao came to the training ground with his teammates and waited for the trainer to arrive.
He found a place to sit down and turned on the system screen. He had been waiting for an 'auspicious day', but he didn't bring his almanac to the United States. He didn't know which day was the auspicious day. Today was the first game day of the new season, so he just thought it was the auspicious day.
'Auspicious day of the zodiac' is used.
He opened the lottery interface, and the screen showed that he still had 5350 achievement points.
Since the training tasks of catching, mid-range and single defense started, he will do these two training tasks whenever it comes to his personal training days.
After completing the single defense training mission for the first time, almost all subsequent missions can be completed in one go after activating the mission, and 50 achievement points can be returned.
But so far, he has not been able to complete the task of catching a mid-range shot in one go. He only invested 100 achievement points every time.
He doesn't feel bad about this, but the achievement points have begun to increase negatively, and there are less one-on-one sparring training, so he plans to only draw 3 times, leaving more than 2,000 achievement points as backup.
He gave instructions in his mind, the lottery started, 3,000 achievement points were deducted, and three white lights flashed one after another...
The system screen content changes to three lottery reward prompts.
Li Ao looked expectantly...
"Macho Man Pressure Clothing: It is recommended to wear when the host is building muscle. It can help the host have perfect muscle lines."
What a piece of crap, it’s as useless as the ‘Inspirational Psychology of Dream Chasing’! You can spend money to customize this thing!
Li Ao almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.
Forget it, if you need to gain weight in the future, you can still use it. The ones produced by the system should be easier to use than the customized ones, and he doesn't have any money now.
Second second!
"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the skill: Perfect Warm-up (Level 1)."
"Perfect warm-up (Level 1): The host needs to warm up in strict accordance with the requirements during the pre-match warm-up session. After the system determines that the warm-up is qualified, the host feels hot when shooting the first shot."
He regretted why he wanted to upgrade his passing skills. This seemed to be better!
He silently prayed in his heart, ‘upgrade card, upgrade card’…
"Congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 level 2 skill upgrade card fragment."
It came, but it's a pity it's in pieces.
However, he felt that today was an auspicious day. Two of the three draws were related to skills, and he was extremely lucky.
Soon, chief assistant Kevin Henderson brought the trainers to help everyone warm up.
For others, one trainer is responsible for several people, but for the newcomers Li Ao, Rob Erez, and Nate Haier, each one has his own trainer.
The trainer began to instruct the three people to warm up, and the performance of the three people was very different.
Rob Erez was too enthusiastic, and the trainer quickly shouted: "Don't be anxious, move slower, this is a warm-up, not a fitness session! Don't waste your energy in this session!"
Nate Haier gave the trainer a headache because his movements were not standardized enough.
As for Li Ao, after the trainer arranged to demonstrate an event, he performed each action very patiently, fully activating the muscle groups that needed to be activated by the action.
And his warm-up training movements can be seen improving!
This made Kevin Henderson, who was supervising, very satisfied.
Generally speaking, the reaction of newcomers will be like that of Rob Erez, who wants to show his enthusiasm. Sam Clancy, who is already in his second season, is still like this. The trainer does not want to care about it and reminds him.
It's no use either.
There are also situations like Nate Hale who feel that he is right. Often for a player like him who is conceited, it is hard to say whether warm-up can effectively avoid injuries. Instead, he is prone to injuries due to training.
But Li Ao was particularly attentive and patient in this kind of matter.
But being able to do so well depends on the system’s ‘action specifications’!
After the trainer demonstrates an action, the system screen pops up. At the end of each action, he can see instructions on where his performance is not up to standard, telling him how to adjust.
The trainer also provides guidance, but it is very general, and it is impossible to tell which parts should be exerted like the system.
After dozens of minutes of warm-up time, Li Ao was the last to complete the warm-up training, but he successfully moved his body fully!
"The perfect warm-up (level 1) has been successfully triggered. The host will definitely feel hot when he takes the first shot after playing tonight's game."
After trying it once, Li Ao understood that the triggering conditions for this skill were not difficult. In fact, he had already learned the warm-up steps in the previous training. This time, there were just more items, so many that he needed the guidance of a trainer. Otherwise, how many
There will be omissions.
Also, the usual warm-up is not that strict, just about right, because there is less confrontation, and the trainer will only pay attention to the details of the movements during the competition.
After the warm-up session ended, Li Ao and his teammates went to the locker room to change their jerseys.
Another door to the dressing room that had been locked was finally opened today.
This door is connected to the player tunnel!
The reason why the layout of the Trojans' training ground is so weird is because the main training ground is a bit far from the main arena. Li Ao once took a look at the floor plan of the Memorial Stadium when he was free. He saw that the Trojans' gym was in a straight line toward
In the direction of the main stadium, the connected small training ground and locker rooms have reached the surroundings of the main stadium.
Putting on his No. 0 jersey and training clothes, Li Ao couldn't wait to enter the players' tunnel, looked for the light and came to the corner, where he could already hear the noisy sounds on the other side of the stadium.
He used to think that playing in NCAA games was not just about playing ball, but also about having a higher competitive level.
But at this moment, he felt something he had never felt before.
After turning the corner, he could already see the bright lights outside the long tunnel. As he approached the entrance of the tunnel, this feeling became stronger.
Until he came to the players' tunnel and saw more than 20,000 fans wearing yellow and white team T-shirts around the stadium, cheering and shouting enthusiastically, he felt his blood boiling!
It’s not that he has never watched the game live. At the end of last year, Dean Teng, who had received an increase in tickets, gave him a ticket. He and Liam, who bought the ticket himself, watched a game with more than 70,000 seats and all seats were arranged.
A packed football game.
The skylights were opened that day, and the atmosphere of the open-air game should have been more noisy and lively than tonight's indoor game with the skylights closed and "only" more than 20,000 fans.
But what he feels now is far beyond what he felt when he was sitting in the audience that day.
Being one of tens of thousands of people watching dozens of people play a game is a completely different experience than being one of 24 people in the game and being surrounded by more than 20,000 fans!
Suddenly someone tapped Li Ao on the shoulder, which startled him.
He turned around and saw Shelby Jordan laughing loudly: "Haha, Leo, stop standing there stupidly, come in and enjoy the cheers of the fans!"
After saying that, Shelby Jordan ran into the stadium, and the already frantic fans at the scene burst into violent cheers when they saw him entering.
Among them, there is a group of fans who are particularly conspicuous. They have a lot of earrings and lip studs, and their hairstyles are very different. Everyone has tattoos, and the most important thing is that each of them has a circle of tattoos around their necks!
Shelby Jordan also blew kisses to the group of fans. As a teammate, Li Ao found this sultry scene too eye-catching.
Not to mention the opponent.
He maliciously speculated that this 'little Lambir' would be even more aggressive when he was away from home, although he had never seen it.
Seeing his teammates rushing into the court excitedly one by one, Li Ao quickly followed suit.
But he regretted it as soon as he entered the venue. He would have known he was with the big team.
This fell behind. When he came out, there were boos on both sides of the tunnel.
He expected this to happen and was mentally prepared, but when he heard the boos and curses, his heart was still filled with ups and downs.
Inexplicably, he felt deep in his heart a desire to become stronger, and he wanted to make the home fans cheer for him.
…
Li Ao was booed, which was just a minor incident and had no impact on the game.
The Bruins players entered the stadium, and the fans at the scene booed. No one cared about him anymore. He came to the sidelines and chatted a few words with Vivian, Liam, and Dean Teng who came to watch the game.
, the three of them cheered him up, and his negative emotions caused by being booed were relieved a lot.
The Bruins are indeed a team in Los Angeles, and they are also known as the Lakers in college basketball.
But the Bruins are actually not like the Lakers. They are more like the Celtics in terms of achievements. Ten of their 11 national championships were won in the 1960s and 1970s, including an unprecedented 7 consecutive championships.
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But when it comes to upsetting their opponents and their fans, the Bruins and Lakers are the same.
To be continued...