On October 31, early the morning of the next morning after the game, Li Liang left home and rushed to the team's Los Angeles Airport.

After the opening game, the Lakers will play the second back-to-back game, and it will be a away game, challenging the Portland Trail Blazers.

At Los Angeles Airport, the waiting room is specially prepared for the Los Angeles Lakers.

Because I won last night, everyone was in a good mood.

If it were the usual, their boss Jerry Bass would go to the away game with the team.

But Old Bass' health is getting worse and he can no longer withstand the fatigue of driving.

Buss and Jenny Buss were both with the old man and did not go away to watch the game with the team.

With the wonderful performance in the first game, Li Liang's status in the team can be seen to be improved by the naked eye.

First of all, when entering the waiting room, the staff would take the initiative to say hello to him.

Before this, Li Liang was indifferent in training or playing preseason games with the team.

But this is also normal. The personnel of the NBA team have changed a lot. They have worked in a team for more than ten years and have received too many players. It is normal for them to be cold to a second-round pick.

As long as you perform well on the field and have a more stable position, people's faces will naturally improve.

Then, old players like Nash and Ci Shiping stopped him from carrying his bags.

When he went to Las Vegas in the preseason game, Li Liang had to carry his bags to Ci Shiping and others.

Now this glorious work is all done by Thackeray.

Of course, he still had to carry Li Liang's bag himself.

Finally, Li Liang could choose a seat he liked on the plane.

Although the Lakers are a well-known wealthy family in the league, the Bass family is really poor.

Not only is the training hall in the basement, but it is also a charter flight to the airport by plane.

The agreement they signed with the airline to rent United Airlines' planes for modification and fly to all parts of the United States to play away games.

For example, some teams whose bosses are rich, such as the Dallas Mavericks and the Portland Trail Blazers, all have their own team planes and don’t have to wait at the airport. They just board the plane and wait for take-off instructions. They can fly at any time as long as they need it.

On the charter flight, Li Liang chose a relatively forward position and sat next to Nash.

The position of the last row of the plane is always Kobe's. He likes to be alone in the back and pretend to be quiet.

Listen to the songs and read the newspapers, and you are like an old man.

I remember when Sun Yue was in the Lakers, she was sitting with Kobe on the plane.

Li Liangcai doesn't want to sit with Kobe.

It's fun to play with him, and it's really boring to chat with him.

I have little study and no education. I know how to play basketball and can’t talk together.

In comparison, he prefers to sit with players like Nash and Gasol who have a lower stool.

Recently, Li Liang has been doing organization and passing tasks, so he has many questions to ask Nash.

Unlike the defense that is clever and clever, the offensive organization requires more patience, wisdom, and abundant experience.

These are all things that Li Liang lacks.

Of course, he is not in a hurry, and does not expect that he can improve the pass and organization to a relatively high score in a short period of time.

The subsequent pass mission is too challenging for him at the moment.

The so-called pass and control are not separated. His ball control skills do not meet the requirements. It is too difficult to complete assists in a mission game.

A forward like John Johnson and Halfrichek who does not require possession of the ball is his learning target.

On the plane, Li Liang and Nash talked about topics about organizing offense.

Nash was also very interested in Li Liang's shooting and three-pointers, asking about his preferences in shooting.

"Well, my favorite position is the bottom corner on the left, and the front is also good. My shooting distance is relatively far, one step away from the three-point line, and two steps are not a problem. As long as there is no one in front of me, the receiving point is... I can be slightly lower on my chest. I don't aim very much, all depends on my feelings." Li Liang answered one by one.

This is Nash's habit as a point guard.

He needs to understand the offensive characteristics of each teammate, especially the shooting players who rely on rhythm.

A comfortable and appropriate pass can greatly improve the shooter's shooting percentage.

After Donyere Marshall arrived at the Utah Jazz, he shot a career-best 53% in both seasons because of Stockton feeding the ball.

In terms of passing and assists, Nash is no worse than Stockton.

Through his usual training, preseason, and first game, he has seen that Li Liang is a high-quality pitcher.

He has all kinds of qualities that a shooter possesses.

One of them is the most important and the most deadly.

It was his extremely calm and his hands were unexpectedly hard.

Not everyone can do that to hit a key three-pointer in the first game of his career.

If Li Liang knew that Nash thought so, he would definitely laugh and tell Nash that it was not the first time!

I am very experienced in the NBA arena.

Maybe you will meet the peak of you in system tasks in the future, and you will definitely say hello to you when the time comes.

The plane arrived in Portland three hours later, and the Lakers and their group took a bus to the hotel they were staying at.

The game will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Therefore, the Lakers had no chance to train at all. They would prepare for the evening game after arriving at the hotel.

The team played away games, players, coaches, staff, etc., with a total of more than 40 people.

Each person is divided into a room, and the players' rooms are specially modified.

Needless to say, the beds are all super big beds, the bathroom is larger and widened, the doors are raised, and there are fitness equipment on the floors.

The facilities at the Portland Hotel are still very good, and Li Liang slept for a while on the soft bed.

He entered the system and checked his runes.

In August and September, while improving his ability system, he also completed several small tasks released by the Achievement System.

At present, he has opened 5 rune slots and has 9 runes, even with quests and purchases.

Among them, blue lv2's attack - one feel rune, blue lv1's attack - four feel runes, red lv1's defense - one predictive rune, red lv1's defense - one focus rune, yellow lv1's energy physical energy - one rune, yellow lv1's energy - one energy rune.

In addition, there are two rune fragments. If one more is added, you can upgrade another rune.

Before the game started, Li Liang thought about it, five rune slots were equipped with three offensive-feel runes.

In this way, the feel can be improved by 2%, which doesn't look much, but it's better than nothing.

If this can increase the shooting percentage by 2%, maybe one more goal in one game.

Just invest more.

With two slots left, Li Liang equipped the yellow energy - physical energy and energy - energy runes.

To be honest, Li Liang didn't know the essential difference between physical fitness and energy.

The physical fitness rune is said to increase physical strength, and at the same time it helps improve the feel and defensive strength.

The energy runes affect defensive prediction and concentration. Anyway, they are positive, and there is no harm in pretending.

Li Liang felt that the boat was exhausted and back to back, so he had to refresh himself a little.

A few hours later, the Lakers team arrived at the away game, Portland's famous Rose Garden Stadium.

Along the way, Kobe's face was very serious.

He always had a cold face when entering the locker room through the player passage.

Because the Rose Garden is not Kobe's blessed place.

Since entering the league in 1996, he has played 28 games in the Rose Garden in more than a dozen years.

But he only won five of them, and lost in the other 23 games.

This red thorny rose land really disliked Kobe.

Of course, he didn't feel anything compared to Li Liang. Today he did not wear the coat designed for him by Bai Xiaoting, but only wearing ordinary Lakers sportswear.

Even so, the reporter still favored this young man who had a stunning debut.

A local photographer in Portland held a newspaper in his hand and said to Li Liang: "Bruce, Bruce-Lee, please wait a moment, please take a look, take a look."

Li Liang stopped and looked at the newspaper in his hand. It was the Los Angeles Times.

I found out that it was at Stamps Center yesterday, after the game, he asked Kevin Ding to take a photo for him.

He was wearing the clothes designed by Bai Xiaoting and looked quite cool.

Li Liang was quite satisfied with his image.

The reporter said: "Hello, I am Nike's photographer Ned. I want to ask, what brand of shoes are you wearing?"

It turns out that this is a photographer from Nike. Because many NBA players wear Nike shoes, Nike will have photographers who come to the stadium to take photos as promotional photos of sneakers.

Moreover, Portland is the headquarters of Nike, so it is normal for a photographer to have a photographer.

This problem stumped Li Liang. He grabbed his head and said, "Well... it is a shoe designed by a friend of mine, and it has no brand."

"Oh, really?" The photographer was a little surprised.

Li Liang said: "Of course it's true. My clothes were also designed by her. Her name is Skyra White. She works in Los Angeles for fashion design. Well, she is very awesome."

After saying that, Li Liang entered the locker room.

He thought to himself, is this pair of shoes that look like they have been worn by soaking shit really that beautiful?
Chapter completed!