The cheerleading team came in and performed a series of performances. Although they were still very plain and couldn't compare with the Huskies team, their clothes were very charming today, including Christmas-style shorts and vests, and deer ears.

His teammates were almost laughing out loud, but Li Ao stuck to his heart and watched the performance with pure appreciation, so innocent and innocent.

When the cheerleading team's performance time was over, a school director, Henry Bibby, a cameraman, and several political and business people came to the home team's bench and called the players to come up.

In such a popular competition, there are always people who want to take advantage of the heat and show off their faces.

Standing in position C this time is Arnold Schwarzenegger, a tough guy in the film industry.

Schwarzenegger, who is in his 50s, has rarely participated in film and television shootings since 1994. He has also played guest roles or supporting roles. He has not played a leading role in five years because he joined the Republican Party and is currently competing for a seat in the California state assembly.

, a very high-profile one, even Li Ao, who doesn't care about those things, has heard about it.

Schwarzenegger enthusiastically shook hands, hugged and took photos with each team member and said words of encouragement.

One of his slogans when running for parliament was to reduce expenditure and promote sports.

To put it simply, it is to reduce the government's redundant and redundant expenditures and provide money to high school and college sports clubs. This has won the hearts of students in California, which has a popular sports atmosphere.

For example, at the University of Southern California, the new student body president's campaign slogan was to help each school team get more budget from the school and make the Trojans even greater.

In places like California and Texas where the sports atmosphere is hot, use this as a slogan and it will work.

However, USC has currently won a total of 89 NCAA Division I championships, ranking third in the entire NCAA. If it wants to be greater, it can only challenge Stanford University, which has won 95 Division I championships, and 101.

Division I league champion.

, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California, there are schools that are better than them in individual events, but in terms of overall sports strength, they are in the same league as the other three, and others are arbitrary.

That's why the Trojans are called the "Shame of Troy" because they have never won a national championship.

Finally, the Terminator's political show time was over, and he left with the captured videos and photos satisfied. The Trojans players finally got rid of this troublesome matter.

Normally, when they meet Schwarzenegger, there will definitely be a lot of people rushing up to him asking for autographs and photos.

But tonight, they are the protagonists. Schwarzenegger, a guy who is about to become a politician, comes to the camera. When he sees Schwarzenegger, he just feels annoyed.

Players from the two teams came on the court and exchanged pleasantries. Mike Bibby, the former boss of the Wildcats, is the son of the Trojans head coach. Although the relationship between the two fathers and sons is bad, the relationship between the two teams has been good in the past two years.

After all, there was no conflict of interest between the two teams before, at least until the end of this game, there was no grudge.

But not everyone in the two teams is so friendly...

Li Ao came to the court to shoot and get a feel for the game, and fully prepared for the upcoming game.

He took a few shots and all of them went in. Just when he was happy that he seemed to be shooting well today, he suddenly felt like a ray on his back.

Turn around and look...

What to do?

This guy doesn't think he's too handsome and wants to draw a gun in front of more than 20,000 people, right?

Li Ao stared back decisively, and his eyes intersected with Arenas's. The opponent raised his neck proudly and grabbed the jersey number on his chest, then turned his head and stopped looking at him.

"No, it shouldn't be. You're not allowed to wear the same jersey number?"

Li Ao was extremely speechless.

At this time, he remembered another story about Arenas.

At the end of Arenas' freshman season in high school, due to his extremely improper playing attitude, the head coach of his school said that his probability of entering college was 0 and that he did not have the ability to play college basketball. He said that he could not do anything except pull-up jump shots.

In fact, it was his high school head coach who deliberately stimulated him. He was really stimulated and changed into the No. 0 jersey. In the next three years, he practiced pull-up jumpers like crazy. Since he said he only knew pull-up jumpers, then he would

Focusing on the development of this technology, breakthroughs and other breakthroughs are also developed around the emergency stop jump shot.

After he corrected his training attitude, he made great progress. The team he led also won the Southern California Secondary League championship for three consecutive years. He also entered the top 100 in the United States at the age of 17.

Wait, Li Ao remembered. The universities Arenas most wanted to attend were the two universities in Los Angeles. The Trojans didn't even give Arenas a tryout opportunity.

In addition to being unfavorable due to his single skill, Arenas also had many negative incidents off the court.

It is normal for people who really want to go to college in Los Angeles to hate the Trojans now.

Li Ao was both regretful and a little lucky. It was a pity that he missed such a powerful teammate, but he was even more grateful... He didn't have to worry about a man with a gun appearing in the locker room...

…

At 7 o'clock in the evening, amid the wild cheers of the fans at the scene, the Trojans' home game against the Wildcats started.

Wildcats starting lineup: Gardner, Arenas, Richard Jefferson, Michael Wright, Lauren Woods.

Trojans starting lineup: Granville, Trey Paganier, Shelby Jordan, White Mamba, Charles.

Woods beat Charles to win the jump ball and the Wildcats scored first.

Li Ao sat on the bench, waiting for the call.

Kevin Henderson sat next to Li Ao and asked: "Are you observing how Shelby defends?"

Li Ao responded: "Yes."

"That's fine, but your first priority is your opponent."

"oh?"

"Yes, what we need you to do on the field, sometimes you may need to learn how Shelby defends and be his substitute, but your defense is more comprehensive than him, and we need you to do more things as a defense

Or, you must first understand the opponent's situation. For example, Arenas, you can see which area he shoots well. In different games, the same person's shooting feeling will definitely be different. You can use this as a reference when defending.

"

Li Ao nodded involuntarily: "That makes sense."

Kevin Henderson continued: "Of course it is also important for you to observe the defense of your teammates, but to analyze how your teammates defend, you can watch the videos to learn. During the Christmas vacation, I will compile the videos of the first 8 games of the season and give them to you.

, you should pay attention to what kind of defense your teammates use during the game, which is effective, and what kind of defense is not effective. If you can imitate the successful defense of your teammates, you need to consider more about your defensive advantages and how to do better.

, how to avoid your own disadvantages..."

Li Ao nodded repeatedly, his neck almost sore.

In fact, these are very simple truths that you will find after hearing them, but before, he had explored them on his own, and it was difficult for him to think about them from an outsider's perspective like Kevin Henderson.

He's grateful for Kevin Henderson's guidance, but...

"Kevin, why didn't you teach me earlier? That way I could have practiced in several games, and now I might be able to make these observations and analyzes very skillfully."

This sounds unreasonable, and it is because you learned something late.

But from Kevin Henderson's perspective, it is indeed his fault.

These are what should be taught.

However, he showed his true nature as a man and threw the blame back: "How do I know that you are progressing so fast? I can help you develop a passing training plan and adjust the offensive and defensive system for you without taking any time?"

Li Ao:(?-?)

After a moment of silence, he gave a thumbs up: "That makes sense!"

Seeing that Kevin Henderson had nothing else to coach, Li Ao put this aside and focused on the game.

The team's progress was shown at the beginning of this game.

The Wildcats' starting lineup is slightly better than the Bruins. It is true that they don't have Kapono's forward pitching, which is most suitable for the NCAA, but the Wildcats' lineup has no obvious shortcomings and is very strong at every position.

Gardner's sudden long shot, Arenas' singles, Richard Jefferson's cutting, Michael Wright's comprehensive inside offensive skills, Woods' absolute height advantage of 216 centimeters...

But they Trojans didn’t trail off to the start!

Charles' tough defense prevented Woods from easily taking advantage of the situation in the paint. Shelby Jordan did a good job defending Michael Wright.

Although Woods and Michael Wright were too strong to contain the Trojans' zone defense, Gardner and Arenas had excellent singles opportunities, and Richard Jefferson also seized the opportunity.

Cutting inside to complete the score,

But Trey Paganier also used skillful one-on-one singles to repeatedly score on Arenas. The combination of Granville and White Mamba's sudden running, catching and shooting also beat Gardner and Reason.

Chad Jefferson doesn't want it.

Everyone on the Trojans played very confidently, with sharp breakthroughs, decisive passes, and stable shots... They forced the oncoming Wildcats!

At 5 minutes and 22 seconds, White Mamba first used Shelby Jordan to block Richard Jefferson, and then used a beautiful turnaround to get rid of Michael Wright and reach the left side of the free throw line.

Trey Paganier passed the ball from a distance and made a mid-range shot.

The score came to 17 to 11, and the Trojans' lead came to 6 points!

Henry Bibby, who had been nervous standing on the sidelines, put his hands in his pockets at this time, and his expression became calm and calm, as if he had everything under his control.

He is the one who wants to win the most. The players will leave one day, and he will work here for many years, and he wants to coach him for 20 years like the old coach Mike Krzyzewski and make enough money.

retire.

The record is very important to him. He has already won 7 games in a row. This winning streak has surpassed his influence when he led the Trojans to three games. Naturally, he wants to continue the winning streak and expand this influence.

force.

But this pocket really can't be inserted randomly.

By coincidence, Arenas happened to see this scene. He didn't know what his opponent was doing, which made Arenas extremely angry.

In addition, Henry Bibby refused to give Arenas a chance to try out and kicked him out of Los Angeles. The anger was doubled!
To be continued...