Li Dai was embarrassed to end the meeting.

If he is a highly tactical professional basketball coach, perhaps you can also talk to your own coaching staff, and then show a professional knowledge, persuade your team, by the way, brainwash the team members, let everyone think, our head coach is great!

However, his understanding of basketball tactics is far less than his assistant coach, so he can only be cheeky and stupid and sell.

Anyway, he is the head coach, others are following him to eat, Li Dai iron and beg for white lilies of the bruises, others also he can't do.

However, Li Dai found Raymond after the meeting.The two-time scoring champion has not yet returned to the peak level, with a score of 12 points per game, barely a qualified starter, and there is still a big gap from the superstars of the year.

Li Dai expects Raymond to recover as soon as possible, the Clippers are playing the star ball, since the three giants are not enough, then put together a four!

...

“How have you been feeling lately?The back injury doesn’t come back, does it?”Li Dai smiled and came to Raymond near.

“No, the back feels great, it hasn’t hurt since I came to L.A.!”Raymond answered.

“What about the waist?Does it hurt?”Lee continued to ask.

Raymond shook his head: "There's no problem with my waist, I didn't feel any pain in my waist when I played four games last week."

“Where is the knee?”Lee then asked.

Raymond patted his knees: "The knee is also very good, I only feel this knee in the new season!"

“The wrist?The feet?The ligament?No problem, right?”Lee asked again.

"It's all great."Teacher Raymond's response.

"That's okay."Li Dai nodded, it seems that the effect of the athlete patch is very good, Raymond's body all kinds of old wounds, all have been patched by the athlete patch.

However, Raymond on the other side suddenly asked, "Coach Li, did I disappoint you?"

“Why do you say that?”Li Dai showed a surprised expression.

Wood was so wounded that Hall removed his knees and meniscus, but they were all back to their previous peaks, and I couldn’t.My body feels great, but I can’t play like I did when I was younger.I guess you'll be disappointed."Raymond said in a low voice.

"How can it be!You can go back to the game, that's a good thing."Li Dai had a consoling smile on his face.

However, Li Dai's heart did have some small disappointments for Raymond.Among the stars recruited by the Clippers this season, Raymond is the most famous, the strongest, and the oldest superstar, but so far he has not played to make Li Dai satisfied.

Raymond also knew that Li Dai was comforting himself, and he sighed: "It seems that I am still old!"If I'm a few years younger, I'm in such a great state of mind, and I'll be able to take five or six in a game."

Raymond's words reminded Li Dai, and Li Dai suddenly found that he had ignored Raymond's age problem before.

Raymond is also a "thirty man", and in the second half of his career, has been plagued by injuries, in the state of playing and stopping, often can not play, it is difficult to ensure their competitive level.

If it is the kind of player who struggles in the front line, even if it is not a starter, as long as he enters the rotation, there is a certain amount of playing time to ensure that his body is always in a state of preparation, even if he is a 35-year-old player, he can still have excellent performance.

Some players are very good at taking care of their bodies, spending a lot of money on the body every year, coupled with a strict self-disciplined life, and occasionally playing a few health basketball games, playing until the age of forty is not a problem.

“I should have used another age-relief card for Raymond.There are still five months left in the regular season, plus two months of playoffs, and there are seven months left in the season, and with a reduced age card, Raymond can reduce the age of six and turn 28 years.”Lee thought to himself.

For a basketball player, the 28-year-old body is not as strong as the twenty-four-year-old, but it is definitely the peak age, although this age will not fly like the 20-year-old young man from time to time, but the physical confrontation is excellent, and does not affect the player to make some difficult technical moves.

...

The five-game losing Clippers flew to Houston to challenge the Rockets.

The Rockets are currently ranked first in the West, and this ranking is enough to prove the Rockets' extraordinary strength.And the Rockets have won eight straight at home.

In the face of the Rockets, it is normal for any team to lose, and with the current strength of the Clippers, it is also necessary to lose to the Rockets.

The Clippers play star ball, this type of team is not afraid of and opponents, afraid to meet the kind of systematic team, especially the system of superstars.A superstar, singles is an undefensable existence, if it is integrated into a complete tactical system, it is even more like a tiger.

Li Dai also felt that the current Clippers are difficult to beat the Rockets, unless their own feel is very high, and the opponent's feel is very poor, the Clippers can beat the Rockets, but this kind of thing depends on luck.

Li Dai also used the request box before the game, but only asked for a win-win, in the case of the strength gap between the two sides, a winning arrangement is obviously not to win the rocket.

So Li Dai in the game before the use of "comparable" title, his idea is very simple, anyway, this ball is difficult to win, but rather rely on the effect of equal, if you can play with the rocket a few overtime, the speedboat may have the opportunity to fish.

Defensively, both teams are unlimited defense strategy, the center of the rocket is very fast, and the center of the Cliff Gray, the speed is faster than the center of the rocket, these two people do not lose when changing the guard.But the NBA has developed to today, the defensive play has been eliminated by the times, now not ten years ago, now there is no team can rely on defense to win, the key is to see the team's attack.

The attack of the Clippers depends mainly on the personal ability of the star, and the star player has enough offensive means to always have a way to put the ball into the basket.

The Rockets' attack was concentrated in the penalty area and outside the three-point line, and they had little to throw, either throwing outside the three-point line or running to the inside line to score.

"This kind of play of the Rockets is also a trend in the development of basketball!"Li Dai sighed, then said: "The inner line of the rocket is not strong, the rocket's central individual singles ability is very weak, there is no low offensive technology, he is not the kind of devil meat, you can take the rebound and reuse the second attack score, his score is mainly after the empty cut after others feeding the ball, but the Rocket's penalty area score is not a lot."

Li Dai said, pointing to the three-point line, continued: "Three-point ball so that the attacker in the penalty area has more space, the essence of basketball is actually a kind of offensive and defensive two ends to exchange time difference and space difference of the sport, if there is no three-point ball that can deter the opponent, the opponent's defense will shrink, the space in the penalty area will become smaller, and the three-point shot is good enough, the opponent will inevitably expand the scope of defense, the space in the penalty area will become larger, so that no matter the outside players, or the outside players.

"What you say makes sense."Assistant coach Kassel looked at Li Dai somewhat surprised, and Li Dai, the progress of this layman, gave Kassel a sense of eye-catching.

"Don't look at me with that kind of look, I didn't bring this view, I learned from others."My country has a 70-year-old grandfather, he was a basketball player when he was young, and later as a basketball coach, now mainly basketball commentary, he always said that playing to play is reasonable, this three-point game is a very reasonable way in his mouth."Li Dai then explained.

Kassel nodded, then pointed to the scoreboard on the scene: "I am more impressed than this, in this case, you can even talk about these things."

The game has entered the fourth quarter, but the score between the two sides is very tight, and the score gap has always hovered within three or five points.

In this case, the process is naturally very intense, and the atmosphere of the scene is also quite passionate.The auditorium is like a barrel of dynamite, and as long as the home team has a beautiful goal, it will be lit, and then emit an explosive shout.

On the bench of the Rockets, the coaching staff and the substitutes can't sit still, they have stood up, and the coach even began to personally command the game.On the Clippers side, the players seem very excited, and Li Dai, the head coach, is a kind of sitting on the fishing table.

In any case, the term "evenly equal" is used, and the result is to obey!

...

The 48-minute regular game time is over, and the two sides are 105 to 105, tied by their opponents at their own home, which is not the result the Rockets want to see.

But this is the result that Li Dai hopes to see, after the five consecutive defeat of the Cliff need a good news to re-energize, and the first time in the west to the overtime, but also reluctantly a dose to stop the decline of the strong agent.

Extra time is the star player, in just five minutes, if there is a star can stand up and take on the heavy responsibility of scoring, then overtime will be good to play a lot, in overtime, the role of the star is much larger, so to extra time, basically can be said to be the stage of the star.

The Rockets do not lack of stars, their beard is currently the NBA's "first quarterback", is the regular season MVP, if the NBA active players pick the five strongest people, there is absolutely his position.

Although there are stars in the Clippers, it is somewhat weaker than the bearded MVP.

However, Li Dai had another idea, and his eyes were on Raymond.

"This may be an opportunity for Raymond."Li Dai called Raymond to the near.

"In overtime, you're going to attack."Lee said he ordered.

Raymond was slightly surprised, he did not expect that Li Dai would have this choice.

In the Clippers, Wood and Hall have the ability to end the game, Wood was a regular season MVP, he did not contribute to the kill; Hall is also famous for stability, he has a big heart, even in the playoffs, there have been 0.8 seconds of killing.It stands to reason that they should be at the heart of overtime.And Raymond, so far, has not yet regained the state of the peak of his youth.

“Why me?”Raymond asked unconsciously.

"Because there's a league 'first pointer' on the other side."Li Dai patted Raymond on the shoulder and continued: "I think only the first division back can deal with the first division!"

Raymond's expression was slightly stunned, and the name "first division" was familiar to him, but somewhat unfamiliar.

Raymond at the top is the first pointer in the NBA!

At the same time, Li Dai used a age-relief card for Raymond, making Raymond's body six years younger in an instant.

“Go ahead, you don’t want to lose your children.”Li Dai pushed Raymond onto the court and then glanced at the beard of the Rockets.

"Ten years ago the first division and now the first division back, who is stronger?That makes me really look forward to it!”

...

When Raymond stood on the court, his mind was still blank.

Opposite the Rockets, he is no stranger, Raymond has played for many seasons in the Rockets, after retiring will also be home in Houston, weekdays often go to the Toyota Center to see the Rockets' home game, when itchy will even go to the Rockets training base, and the players with the training of the morning.

As a Rockets player, Raymond has such a privilege.As a result, Raymond is familiar with the Rockets coaching staff and players.

Raymond knew that the beard opposite was a powerful presence, saying he was an active first-department, and Raymond was also recognized.Raymond's heart is a judgment, the beard's scoring ability is not weaker than when the peak of the year, perhaps in the touch of porcelain more than there.

The next second, the ball came out and then passed to Raymond’s hand.The Clippers players firmly executed Li Dai's plan and gave the right to Raimond.

The beard immediately came over, and he was close to Raymond, apparently not intending to put Raymond on a three-point shot.

"Let's try to break through."Raymond instinctively made a judgment, and then began to start, holding the ball to break.

At this moment, Raymond suddenly felt that his body had become much easier, and even his footsteps had become sensitive.

Raymond was slightly surprised, but his long legs were opened, and in a blink of an eye, he reached the penalty area.

Bearded defense outside the penalty area is still not trustworthy, and even once known as the eye defense.

However, when the two sides had physical contact, the defense of the bearded was significantly raised to a level, and his strong body and excellent lower limb strength allowed him to overcome his opponent in physical confrontation.

At the same time, the Rockets' defenses also came.

Rocket center and forward, although the man is not high, but the pace is very fast, they can change the guard, the rocket can also use unlimited defense tactics.So their repair speed is also excellent in the NBA.

There were chasers after the interception, although Raymond broke through to the penalty area, but the Rocket's defensive pockets have also begun to shrink.

At this moment, Raymond chose to take off and attack the basket directly.

In the face of the Rockets to come to the defense of the players, Raymond flying in the air at the same time, directly a pull rod action to hide in the past, while his body by the inertia of the pick-up and jump to the other side of the basket, followed by a turn in the air, back to the basket arm gently lifted, a counter-basket, directly to the basket.

“Oh, oh!”The audience made a surprised voice, which is a very beautiful layup, and the whole set of actions is enough to enter today's top five balls.

“Raymond can still do that!”The narrator at the scene couldn’t help but scream.

If the strong young man in his twenties, it is not surprising that such a performance is not surprising, but Raymond's current age, there is still such a bouncing, such air-making, and such control and reaction ability, it is indeed surprising.

Even Raymond himself did not expect to be able to make such a technical action.

This ultra-difficult layup of pure technical flow is an important scoring method for Raymond when he was young.He is not the kind of player who likes to rush to the basket and then touch the porcelain, on the contrary, he prefers to use technology to hit the ball in the opponent's layer defense and high-intensity physical confrontation.

Maybe that’s why he was hurt.After all, fighting with the inner players is a very physical behavior.

"It's like that ball, it's like it was a few years ago."Raymond thought to himself.

After the Clippers scored, the Rockets were not willing to show weakness, and the bearded MVP was thrown into a three-pointer in two steps outside the three-point line.Then, it was the Clippers’ turn to attack, and the ball reached Raymond’s hands again.

This time, the opponent feared that Raymond would break through again, so the defensive position was relatively backward, apparently blocking the route of Raymond's breakthrough.

“The body is so relaxed, it feels like a few years younger!”Raymond shipped a few balls and found that there was no way to break through easily, but he had found a familiar shooting rhythm, so he made a sharp stop and pulled the jump shot on the three-point line.

Raymond's dry jumper can be said to be his must kill the stunt, his dry-pull jump in the elegant and beautiful with a hint of calm, giving people a part will not, but leisurely feeling, anyone who looks at his dry jumper, will feel that it is a kind of enjoyment, deep inside will definitely produce the most sincere appreciation of the jumping technology.

His dry pull jumper, not simply based on technology, but also need good body support, this dry jumper requires the foot of the shooter to step on the ground, knee force, and arm movements are fully combined, but also need to shoot this jumper has a high hand point, a long time to make empty, and sometimes need to greatly back up and body high degree of durability.

If it is the previous he, although still able to pull, but the kind of dry jumper is not perfect, because his body has not been able to do that degree, but now, after the transformation of the age-reduced card, his body was six years younger, and the dry jumper that looked at the house was also perfect again.

“Hm on!”

Basketball in the morning, draw a flat arc, and then enter the basket.

“What a beautiful jumper!”

“Awesome action!”

“Raymond’s signature is art!”

This time, even Li Dai couldn’t help but stand up and applaud Raymond.

Raymond subconsciously looked at his hands, he recalled the dry jumper, his heart full of surprise: "My body is getting better!"

...

“That old man, why is it so good!”The bearded MVP stared at Raymond across the face, his eyes flashing with confusion.

Raymond hit four consecutive balls, all in a row.Just look at this data is not how exaggerated, after all, in this era dominated by three-pointers, high hit rate pitchers emerge endlessly, and consecutive three-pointers have become taken for granted.

However, Raymond's dry jumper is rarely encountered by the bearded MVP, and almost no players in the NBA have scored in this way.

This kind of dry pull jumper is very sudden, coupled with the empty time and the body's high drift, it is almost impossible to be covered up, and even interference with his shot is difficult.

And this kind of dry jumper is always at the high point, if the defender is too far ahead, it is easy to cause a three-point foul or be hit by a three plus one.

It is no exaggeration to say that this dry three-point shot is the most difficult existence for defenders.If the defense action is small, it cannot interfere with the other side's shot; if the defense action is large, it is easy to foul.

Compared with that, the kind of three-point line outside a few meters outside the ultra-long distance three-point ball, although very imposing, but at most let the opponent get a three-point, anyway, there is no four-point line in the NBA, even if the backcourt is only three points.But Raymond's this dry three points, not good to lose a foul, the worst case is to lose a foul and let the opponent score four points, which is more serious than two mistakes.

More importantly, this kind of jump is too cute!When the bearded MVP is on the defensive, he can't help but want to stop God, appreciate Raymond's dry jumper, and then make a surprised sound.

Some of the audience did that too.When Raymond jumped, there was a strange exhalation in the audience, as if riding a roller coaster to the top and just beginning to slide, and when the ball scored, it was another kind of relief, and even someone cheered for the goal.

This is the Toyota center, is the home of the rocket, there are people cheering for the away team's goal, which is really too contrary!

But because this is the Toyota Center, fans will cheer for Raymond.Raymond was once the Rockets' number one star, and if he doesn't come back, he's likely to retire his jersey with the Rockets, who still has a fan base here.When that kind of signature dry jumper reappears, it is not a difficult thing to get the cheers and support of old fans.

...

On the Clippers bench, Li Dai looked at the stadium and then looked at the reaction of the audience, and there was a satisfied smile on his face.

"Coach, Raymond suddenly changed a person in overtime, this jumper is perfect!"Assistant coach Kassel also praised.

“Do you remember what I said at the meeting?”We don't have enough stars."Li Dai pointed to Raymond on the field of play, and then said: "But we now have the fourth largest!"