From sparring to superstar

Chapter 61 59. A dark horse for civilians, everyone is indispensable (200 monthly tickets plus updates last month)

The time came to February 2th, the seventh day of the 4-day holiday, and the last day of the team's week-long extra training. Tomorrow, we will start preparing for the game against the Golden State Bears.

However, today Li Ao did not go to the Memorial Stadium for additional practice, and he also asked for leave for the afternoon training.

New Year's Eve is here!

At around 6 o'clock in the morning, Li Ao had just woken up when his mother called and asked him to wake up to pay New Year's greetings and watch the Spring Festival Gala. After chatting for half an hour, my mother spoke for 25 minutes, and my father said half of the third sentence. It's Chinese New Year, and my mother who usually saves doesn't care about phone bills.

However, Li Ao still feels distressed. At this time, he feels that the slow-paced life is still flawed. There is no network, and the best communication method is the phone. Domestic operators charge too much at this time. , In the Internet age, video calls do not cost money.

After hanging up the phone, Li Ao went to the gym next door to step on the elliptical machine to activate his body.

The gymnasium of the hospital assistant aunt was remodeled very quickly.

The furniture is vacated, and the things that need to be dismantled are removed. The unsightly places are pasted with wallpaper or nailed with a good-looking template, and then the sports equipment can be moved in. In the kitchen and living room, there are treadmills, butterfly machines, elliptical machines, spinning bikes, and a row of dumbbells. ; A large mirror was installed in the bedroom, a floor spread was spread out, and several yoga balls, fascia guns, etc. were placed.

The bathroom was reinstalled, including a sensor toilet, a constant temperature bathroom, a new basin and an oversized sensor mirror cabinet.

On the 30th of last month, when Li Ao returned from training in the afternoon, it was already done.

Li Ao is very envious. When he has a big house in the future, he will also remodel a game hall every day.

At that age, it may not be played too much, but it has to be.

After stepping on it for a few minutes, after the joints moved, Li Ao adjusted the gear to the highest. After stepping on it, he was sweating all over his body, and after a slight panting, he stopped, rested for a while, took a shower, and came to the living room of the house assistant At exactly 7 o'clock, turn on the TV and switch to the international channel of Chaoting TV. The four hosts, Zhou Tao, Zhu Jun, Cao Ying, and Zhang Zheng, have already started reporting.

He went to the kitchen to take out the glutinous rice flour and warm water, kneaded the noodles while watching TV, and made glutinous rice balls this morning.

After a while, Vivienne got up, saw Li Ao was already making breakfast, her eyes lit up, and she stepped forward and asked, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Aunt Vivian, take out the stuffing from the refrigerator, the one on the tray."

"it is good……"

Vivienne ran to the kitchen and came back again, put the peanut, walnut and sesame stuffing aside, and asked, "What else?"

"Take out the chopping board and the kitchen knife. The panel is the wooden board. I washed it yesterday and hung it on the sink."

dong dong dong, dong dong dong.

"anything else."

"Waiting to eat."

"..." Vivienne was silent for a second, and said angrily, "Is this what I'm good for?"

if not?Before I came, the dust in your kitchen was three inches high.

Li Ao didn't dare to say this, the other party was holding a knife in his hand.

"Then wait, the face will be reconciled soon."

"Yeah, do more, and someone will come to have breakfast with you later."

"You didn't tell me earlier, how many people?"

"Three... No, it's probably four."

"That should be enough. I have prepared breakfast for both of us tomorrow. If you are not full later, I will make macaroni for you."

"Oh! Leo, have you learned new cooking?"

"Um……"

After a while, the noodles were reconciled. Li Ao kneaded the noodles into uniform sticks on the chopping board, and cut them into small equal cylinders with a knife.

After everything was cut, Li Ao picked up a small cylinder and said to Vivienne while operating: "That's it, make it into this shape, put this stuffing in it, and then knead it into a ball, pay attention to the skin to keep the stuffing completely Wrap up..."

It's simple, and Vivienne immediately started to learn how to make glutinous rice balls, and the sense of participation was full at once.

When it was close to 8 o'clock, there was a knock on the door, and Vivian opened the door. As Li Ao expected, Jessica, Joshua, and Anna came.

Joshua bluffed as soon as he entered the door: "Brother, are you making breakfast? Is there anything I can do for you?"

"You wash your hands first, then go to the kitchen to boil the water, both pots are on, take out the rice wine in the refrigerator and put it next to it, and prepare 6 sets of bowls and spoons..."

"it is good!"

Jessica and Anna felt ashamed and angry seeing their younger brother/boyfriend being so stupid, how could this guy be so diligent in normal times!

Li Ao cooked two pots of glutinous rice balls, one pot of glutinous glutinous rice balls with white flavor, one pot of glutinous glutinous rice balls, just after cooking, the fourth guest arrived, and Liam came to the apartment with the meal in hand.

After breakfast, Li Ao continued to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Others couldn’t understand Chinese. At the beginning, they thought it was very fresh. After watching it for a while, they lost interest. Liam went to the gym next door to Li Ao’s suite to work out. Vivian He went to the fireworks company and the police station with Jessica and Anna to buy fireworks and set off reports. Joshua was dragged by his sister and girlfriend to work as a coolie.

After watching the 24th program of the Spring Festival Gala, selling abductees, after laughing enough, Li Ao started to prepare for tonight’s New Year’s Eve dinner. For lunch, make a table of dishes that everyone will like to eat. After the training is over, the preparations begin.

Everyone was busy in the morning. After lunch, Li Ao continued to prepare dinner in the afternoon. Vivienne and Liam taught Jessica and Anna how to play mahjong. Joshua continued to work as a coolie and helped Li Ao.

At lunch, everyone ate very happily. At dinner, let alone other people, Li Ao was like chewing wax.

The sausages are alright, and the steamed vegetables are alright, but for others, Li Ao can’t eat the lo-mei from the deli in the afternoon, the bacon and cured rabbit and duck that he bought a while ago, but these are all the dishes during the Chinese New Year at home. He did it too.

Fortunately, when Vivienne and Jessica went to buy fireworks in the morning, they stopped by to buy a bunch of snacks and snacks, so they were not afraid of anyone being hungry.

At around 9 o'clock in the evening, a group of 6 people drove to a small square in a nearby park and lit fireworks.

Because Vivienne bought it temporarily after hearing Li Ao mentioning the New Year's fireworks during breakfast, it was not customized. Li Ao, who is used to seeing all kinds of beautiful fireworks in China, seems to be nothing special, but he is in a good mood Hello.

Originally alone in a foreign country, I felt somewhat depressed, but now, listening to the exclamation of the auntie who helped the hospital and the beautiful woman who picked it up, I heard Liam and Joshua chattering about colorful things. The topic, this lively atmosphere, dispelled his depression.

It's been a good year!
...

After the fireworks were set off, the group returned to the apartment for supper.

Those who celebrate the Chinese New Year must drink some wine after all.

The eagle sauce law prohibits people under the age of 21 from buying alcohol, and adult guardians will also be punished if providing alcoholic beverages to minors leads to accidents.

But it’s fine if they don’t go out after drinking.

After drinking and eating, it was late at night, and Vivienne went to borrow two vacant rooms in the apartment, where she had bedding, pillows and everything, one for Liam, one for Joshua and Anna, and one for Jessica In the guest room where she stayed for one night.

Li Ao drank a lot. Although there was no short video, he was so sleepy that he went back to his room, took a shower, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

At two o'clock in the morning, a handsome figure appeared in front of the door of Li Ao's apartment. He took out the key from the paper tape pasted on the back of the fire extinguisher, gently opened and closed the door, and tiptoed to the bedroom. The door was not closed, just right!

The soft moonlight shone on the bed in the small bedroom, and that handsome face looked so alluring.

Alcohol makes people impulsive, she tiptoed forward, gently lifted the quilt, this boy actually slept without clothes on!It's convenient...

She has no hope or expectation for being with Li Ao.

But... Jessica: This bastard who has an extra mouth, dares to look down on me and see if I can't sleep with you!

Unable to bear it any longer, Jessica began to do it.

Little Leo quickly raised his head, Li Ao woke up startled, stretched out his hand to grab the mischievous hand, saw that it was Jessica, he just wanted to scold, but the picture of the other party wearing light pajamas licking the corners of his mouth and eyes shining was too tempting ...

Jessica moved her face closer to Li Ao's and said, "You were attacked at night."

This is unbearable, Li Ao pulled Jessie down, suddenly thought of something, and was about to ask Liam for a small balloon, when suddenly there was something in his hand...

"Physical health is a prerequisite for fulfilling the basketball dream. The system provides absolutely safe protection measures, and 50 achievement points have been consumed to exchange for items: absolutely safe small balloons.

Absolutely safe small balloons: can be exchanged in unlimited quantities, 1. After wearing it, the body feels like not wearing it, 2. Absolutely guarantee the safety of the host.Note: This effect can only be used by the host and given to others, it only has the somatosensory effect of effect 1. "

Li Ao raised his hand and looked at the little balloon. This thing should be very easy to sell, right?Even if it only has effect 1, there are definitely a lot of people rushing to buy it, it is only 50 achievement points, and it cannot be mass-produced... Hey, why did my hand move by itself...

Jessica, who was caught, yelled out, seeing Li Ao suddenly took out a drool bag, she felt a little strange, didn't she come to attack at night, why did the other party seem to be ready.

No matter what, she couldn't help it anymore, she snatched the drool bag, tore it open, held it in her mouth, and turned around 180 degrees.

Li Ao: "I wipe!"

...[-] words are omitted here...

On February 2000, 2, the first day of the new year, Li Ao woke up early in the morning.

When I got up, I was a little tired. After tossing around for two hours in the middle of the night, I woke up naturally after 6 o'clock, still a little sleepy.

Looking at the packaging of the three small balloons on the floor, I thought of the madness of last night...Don't say it, that stingy girl is really good!
He learned a lot of poses.

It was this girl who smoked a cigarette and asked him to leave a phone number, put on her pants and left, leaving only a sentence for everyone to interact with each other and get what they need... Bah, scumbag.

With no psychological burden, he also took this matter to heart, and interacted and learned more postures when he had the opportunity.

Still a little sleepy, he got up and drank a cup of coffee, set the alarm clock to make up for 20 minutes of sleep, and then woke up feeling refreshed.

After taking a shower and changing into new clothes, Li Ao went to Dean Teng's house to pay New Year's greetings. After receiving a big red envelope, he cheerfully went to the Memorial Stadium for additional training.

With the red envelope from Dean Teng, this year is over.

Li Ao also put away his nostalgia for the New Year and devoted himself to his current career.

People, after all, they have to grow up. After being a child for a few years, it's time to work hard for their careers.

Now he has the drive to find a job in other provinces when he just graduated from university in his previous life.

Compared with his previous life, this time the road ahead of him is clearer, and he is more devoted and focused than before.

前天早上，他的防守撤步也达到80的优秀水平，加上来到80的优秀水平的横移、81的绕前、60的勾手基本功……他的综合评价终于突破到70了！
It is really difficult to improve the comprehensive strength of CIC and defense to a good level.

Physical condition combined with basic skills combined with golf quotient, the defense he showed in the game is at least excellent and has a higher probability.

The offense is seriously hindered!
Fortunately, now he can also try to try the hook in the game, and he can improve better with the game and practice.

It's just that he saw that his 65 hook technique, that is, application skills, was higher than his 60 hook basic skills, and it hurt.

It is true that the training method taught by Tiangou is better than the training method taught by the old man, but if the technique is to be useful, it must be supported by the corresponding basic skills.

Li Ao is dissatisfied with the fact that the defense has reached excellent or even higher, and the overall evaluation has just reached 70. Henry Bibby, who came to watch his special training this morning, is sour.

Yesterday, he chatted with Sam Hayes, who hadn't chatted privately for a long time, about Li Ao's defense. He learned that Li Ao's vacation is over, and the defensive end has improved compared to the end of the last vacation. ...

Is this genius?

It's scary, but it's sour, I like it so much!
By 10 a.m., the Trojans had their prep meeting.

In the next two sets of 20-minute tactical training, the players showed an excellent competitive state.

In the past week, everyone did not slack off. When Li Ao came to practice in the morning, he could often see three or five teammates.

In the afternoon training, Li Ao is often the first one to leave. The training intensity of his teammates is not as high as his, and the efficiency is hardly as high. During the independent training stage, several people often gather together to talk about the mountains, but they have attitudes. I don't leave until eight or nine o'clock, which is not efficient enough, so I have to make time.

The 15-game winning streak and No. [-] in the division are just around the corner, and no one wants to miss it.

Nate Haier, who originally started to slack off in training due to mental imbalance, has become the one who trains hardest this time, which well reflects the intermittent hard work characteristics of young people.

They know very well that most of them will not be able to enter the professional arena. This may be the most glorious moment of their basketball careers!
...

On February 2, the day before the holiday, the 6th game day of the season for the Trojans arrived.

The toy factory workers who haven't enjoyed the joy of overtime work for a long time worked hard, and the overtime pay was softened, and they also sent a bear head to every door in the streets of Los Angeles.

The bear heads all over the city have become the most obvious feature of Los Angeles.

Thousands of fans outside the Memorial Stadium were holding a bear head. In the afternoon, Liam came to the Memorial Stadium with the dean, the assistant, the beauty Mingming, the anxious younger brother he just met, and his sister-in-law. , Seeing the scene of fans roaring with bear heads up, my heart is bleeding.

It's a big loss this time!

At first, he thought that the two days of the 29th and 30th were the most popular time for the 'Bear Killing Fever'.

At that time, even his elementary school classmate thought so, so he accepted a large number of orders, and the price was not mentioned as particularly high.

But I didn't expect that it was just the beginning!
NCAA official entry!
It's been a long time since this kind of dark horse appeared, and this kind of team that fits the concept of the "American Dream" appeared. The NCAA naturally needs to invest resources to make them attract more attention, so that the NCAA can earn more.

The NCAA basketball game is the only league in North America that has higher broadcast fees and ticket revenue than the NFL. It is more popular than the ability to spend money. No league in North America can compete with the NCAA basketball game.

With the help of NCAA officials, the phrase 'the Trojans are about to be great' has become popular all over the United States in the past week!
The Trojans also became the hottest team in the United States in just a few days.

Bear toys and dolls continue to sell well, and the sales are even hotter.

The Internet bubble has inflated for these years, and people's suppressed desire for consumption has been completely ignited.

No matter how expensive a doll is, it only costs tens of hundreds of dollars. Compared with the original price of a few dollars, the price has risen absurdly, but it is not so expensive that you can't afford it.

This time the investment choice was wrong, and Liam was drawn by his father again.

It's not that he cares about the money, his father just wants to beat him... No, it's to teach him a lesson.

Unlike some teams that rely on the personal performance of a certain player to lead the team to become a dark horse, the Trojans are evaluated as a civilian dark horse.

Across the United States, when it comes to a certain player from the Trojans, not many people know about it.

But when it comes to this team that stepped on the Bruins, the only dynasty basketball team in the NCAA, and shouted "We are about to be great", all sports fans have basically heard of it after the arrival of this wave of "bear fever".

In terms of individual ability, none of the Trojans has the strength of Eddie House, Mike Miller, Sean Battier and others. This is really a pure team team. According to expert analysis, Troy The main lineup of the People's team, no matter who is missing, it will not work.

And this is why the Trojans players are so active and hardworking.

Each of them is a necessary condition for victory, and even Sam Clancy's inside impact when he comes off the bench is an integral part of the team.

If you rely on someone to win and keep winning, it can also boost the morale of the team, but it will definitely give the teammates a feeling of 'I am a supporting role'.

But everyone on the Trojans is a protagonist!
At 6:[-] p.m., at the main stadium of the Memorial Stadium, players from the two teams entered the stadium after warming up.

The players of the Golden State Bears looked at more than [-] people holding their bear heads and roaring... The key point is that the bear head, in the eyes of the opposing fans, is not their team, but another team...

This made the players of the Golden State Bears even more angry!
However, watching Granville, Shelby Jordan, and White Mamba lead their teammates out of the player tunnel, the Bruins players felt the terrifying aura of the opponent!

The Trojans have become famous, and letting future opponents notice them will inevitably make some potential crazy opponents vigilant, and they will be studied more thoroughly by their opponents.

But the benefit of having a good reputation--when encountering a less powerful opponent, their momentum will win half of the battle first!
(End of this chapter)