Ten o'clock in the morning.
"Everyone, stop it!" Li Dai clapped his hands and signaled all players to suspend training.
"After practicing for two hours, I can finally take a break."
"I think the training intensity this morning was not as intense as I thought. It was similar to when I was in China."
"Maybe it's just the beginning. Coach Li didn't increase our training volume very much. Maybe in a few days, the training volume will pick up."
The players walked to the sidelines in twos and threes and stood in a row in front of Dai Li consciously.
"Okay, everyone is here, ready to eat." Dai Li said and waved, and a staff member came over pushing a dining cart.
The players suddenly looked at each other, as if to confirm whether they heard correctly.
"Eating? Coach Li just said eating? Did I hear you correctly?"
"I also heard that Coach Li did say the word 'eat'."
"It's only 10 o'clock now. Isn't it a little too early to eat?"
"Why are you pushing a food cart here? Doesn't the Clippers' training center have a special restaurant? Are we allowed to eat on the court?"
Everyone looked at a loss. At this time, the dining cart pushed by the staff also came closer. Everyone looked at the dining cart. The first dining cart was filled with boxed milk; the second cart was filled with sliced apples. Placed separately on small plates; on the third dining cart were bowls of batter-like stuff.
"One person has a box of skim milk, a plate of apples, and a plate of nutritious meals." Li Dai pointed to the dining car and motioned for everyone to come and receive their meals.
“It turns out it’s just an extra meal!”
"There is a snack in the middle of training. The NBA is really particular about it."
The men's basketball players gathered around to get their meals. They didn't seem to care much about the milk and apples. Instead, they were very interested in the plate of batter-like "nutritious meal."
"What is this plate of batter?"
"This should be a nutritious meal specially prepared by NBA physical trainers, right?"
"I know this stuff. It seems to be used to build muscle. Those thinner players whose bodies can't adapt to the competition in the NBA will let them eat this stuff when the physical trainers are helping them gain weight."
"There should be a lot of protein powder in here, right?"
"It's not just protein powder, there should be other trace elements. I don't know the difference between the nutritious meals prepared by physical trainers in the United States and those in China. I'll have a taste first."
"It seems to taste pretty good, it seems to be vanilla flavored."
The men's basketball players each held a plate of nutritious meals, tasting and discussing, and some even ate with gusto.
However, Wood looked at his nutritious meal with a bitter expression on his face. He gritted his teeth, as if he had made a lot of determination, then picked up the spoon and put the nutritious meal into his mouth.
"I haven't eaten this thing for several years, and it still tastes the same. It's really a torture to eat this kind of damn thing every day." Wood thought while looking at the men's basketball players. He found that the men's basketball players It turned out to be delicious.
"Haha, if you eat this kind of thing for a week, I don't believe you can still laugh!" Wood murmured to himself.
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During dinner time, the players all gathered in the restaurant, discussing in low voices while eating.
"I thought that when I came to the United States, everything was steak, but what I had tonight was quite vegetarian, including cucumbers, broccoli, lettuce, and strawberries."
"Isn't there chicken breast here? There is also orange juice. This orange juice should be freshly squeezed. There is no sugar in it and it tastes a little sour."
"What kind of steak are you looking for? Didn't we have roast beef for lunch?"
"I'm not used to that roast beef with a layer of cheese on top. It's better than the boiled beef made at home!"
"Okay, this is America, let's just do as the Romans do."
"Including this meal, we have eaten five meals today, right?"
"Really, there are snacks at 10 am and 3 pm. There is also a fixed one-liter glutamate drink. When training in China, the diet is not so detailed."
"Isn't that right? When we are in China, we can still order skewers or something in the evening. There is nothing here. I just found out that it takes 20 kilometers to go to the city, and there are no buses. If we don't have a car ourselves, , I can only stay in this training center, I can’t go anywhere.”
"America, it's so beautiful, so beautiful, so boring..."
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Wood once predicted that if they eat nutritious meals every day, these men's basketball players will never survive for a week. In fact, only three days have passed. When these players saw the nutritious meals again, they all showed a look of rejection. expression.
This kind of batter-like thing will definitely not taste great. If you eat it once or twice occasionally, you may accept it out of curiosity, but if you eat it every day, or even more than once a day, it is definitely not good for athletes. A kind of torture. Moreover, the men's basketball players are used to delicious Chinese food. After eating too much of this nutritious meal, it becomes even more difficult for them to swallow.
Moreover, the continuous increase in training intensity has also made many players feel the pressure. They finally realized that training at the NBA level is not that easy.
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In the early morning, the players of the men's national basketball team came to the restaurant early to have dinner.
"I can't stand it anymore. The training intensity every day is so intense, and we are forced to eat this kind of garbage!" One player pointed at the mushy nutritious meal on the plate and threw the spoon out angrily.
"That's right, training is the same everywhere, and you don't have to come to the United States! Even if you have to come to the United States, you don't have to come to the Clippers to find him. Dai Li is so tired from training every day, and he even has to take care of what he eats and drinks. !”
"Every day I just eat these boiled meats and vegetables, which have no taste at all, and this bullshit nutritious meal, it's like a puddle of food, how can I swallow it down."
"And there is nothing here except this training center, not even a supermarket. It's hard to come to the United States, but we can only stay here. We are not here to go to jail, why are we trapped here!"
"That Coach Li is not a professional basketball coach. He has never even played a day of professional basketball. Why should we listen to him?"
"Yes, he is a layman, why should he train us? Even if he is a very good coach, it is only in track and field. Our basketball is not track and field. What does he know!"
"No more practice, we don't have any more practice today, let's go find Coach Li and make it clear! We are not his slaves! We want to go out for a good meal!"
Several players were shouting, their anger growing stronger and stronger like a fire in a firewood pile.
The continuous increase in training intensity and the need to eat "nutritious meals" that are difficult to swallow every day have caused many players to develop a rebellious mentality, and they began to develop a resistance to Dai Li.
In fact, this is also a very normal phenomenon. Those players who can be selected for the national team are all the best in the CBA league. They are the absolute main force and core of their respective teams. Many players enjoy some privileges. Now that they have come to the Clippers, they have begun to suffer hardships and have various unsatisfactory life experiences. This will inevitably cause a psychological gap for them, and it is inevitable that they will be unbalanced.
If it were the head coach of their respective professional clubs or the national team head coach Sun Chenggong who came to give orders directly, these players would not dare to blatantly object even if they suffered. After all, his head coach has the power to punish him, so of course the athletes would not dare to make mistakes. If you are kicked out of the national team for going against the head coach, even if you make no mistakes, you will be labeled as "disobeying management" and "lack of collective honor", and your life in the country will not be easy in the future.
Dai Li is not their head coach, and he has no power to punish them. For these players, if they only stay for a month and a half and then leave, this place will be a sluggish camp at best, and Li Dai is just a slutty coach, so they have concerns in their hearts. A lot less, too. When they were dissatisfied, they did not dare to complain to Sun Chenggong, but they dared to vent their emotions to Li Dai.
Several bold players began to join forces and wanted to put pressure on Dai Li. At this time, three photos appeared on the TV screen in the restaurant.
"Is that person Coach Li?" someone asked, pointing to the TV.
Everyone looked up at the TV and found that among the three photos above, there was indeed a photo of Dai Li, and his photo was ranked third.
"I know the other two people. The first is the head coach of the Rockets, and the second is the head coach of the Raptors!" someone said.
"The Rockets are first in the Western Conference this season, and their record is also first in the league; the Raptors are first in the Eastern Conference. It's just that their head coaches appear at the same time, why is Coach Li also there? Xiao Ding, you Your English is good, please translate for us."
Xiao Ding nodded and replied: "The NBA has just announced the candidates for this season's best coach, which are the three above."
"What? Are you saying that Coach Li is a candidate for the NBA's best coach? Is it possible that he can win the NBA's best coach?"
The players in the restaurant were suddenly in an uproar.
Everyone here is a professional player, so they naturally know how valuable the best coach in the NBA is. Even if he is only included in the list of candidates, it means that this coach has great authority in basketball.
The few players who had just joined forces to express their dissatisfaction with Li Dai suddenly withered like pickled cucumbers. The player who said that Li Dai was an outsider lowered his head and did not dare to look directly at everyone.
Even if some people are still dissatisfied at this time, they can only bury this dissatisfaction in their hearts.
A candidate for the NBA's best coach means that the NBA has recognized Dai Li's professionalism and level in basketball, and Dai Li is no longer an outsider in basketball. If these CBA players questioned Dai Li face to face, they would be really out of their minds!