<h4>Chapter 618: Fraudulent Tool</h4>
<b>Trantor:</b> Nyoi-Bo Studio <b>Editor:</b> Nyoi-Bo Studio
Dai Li had waited so long for this level-up. He had almost forgotten about it.
Dai Li’s physical fitness training center was still in operation and continuously provided him with an endless supply of experience. While he coached the Clippers, the daily training of the yers also gave him experience. A total of 82 games in the regr season also gave him experience.
Despite all that, Dai Li still had to wait a while for the level-up. It had taken him years.
The distance to the next level-up was still far away. Dai Li estimated that it would probably be difficult for him to umte enough experience for the next rank before he reached the age of 40.
Since it was already certain that it would be a long wait. Dai Li no longer paid any attention to it. Now, he was more expectant of the rewards he would receive for leveling up.
Two items appeared in front of him, as always. On the left was a shiny gold horseshoe, spinning slowly while floating in the air. On the right was a silver gray top, suspended in the air.
“What are these?” Dai Li asked.
“On the left is the Lucky Horseshoe. You should know the meaning behind a horseshoe. It represents luck. It can bless you and your athletes with good luck in a match,” the System answered.
“That sounds very general,” Dai Li said with a frown.
There was a saying: “Luck is also part of a person’s strength.” Although there was nock of real-life examples of people relying on luck, it was too much like gambling. When the “Lucky Horseshoe” appeared, Dai Li still could not wrap his head around the idea.
The System then began to exin. “What is luck? I don’t think I need to give you an exnation. You should already know. So, why don’t I talk about this Lucky Horseshoe? After you obtain this item, you and your athlete’s luck will slightly increase.”
“Increase by how much? Is there any hard standard? Or perhaps a quantifiable disy?” Dai Li asked directly.
“The increase is marginal. That is why I said slightly increased. Most of the time, it won’t be enough to change the oue of a match. You can disregard it,” the System answered.
“Which means that this Lucky Horseshoe isn’t really useful.” Dai Li looked disgusted.
“Also, the Lucky Horseshoe has a limited passive stat increase and is apanied by an active skill. After possessing the Lucky Horseshoe, you will obtain the skill called Good Luck Prayer. Using Good Luck Prayer will allow you and your athletes to obtain extremely good luck. The effect’s duration is three minutes,” the System said.
“What does it mean when you say ‘extremely good luck?’” Dai Li continued to ask.
“It is what it sounds like. For example, you leave your house and pick up a dor, you win the lottery, you get a good weapon in a video game. These are all luck,” the System answered.
“The examples you used have got nothing to do with sports,” Dai Li replied coldly.
“Of course it works in a match. For example, during a key y, if your luck is a little off, the ball won’t go in. If your luck is just slightly better, it will go in,” the System answered in an irritated manner. It then continued in the same tone. “Apart from that, let me repeat again. After using the Prayer skill, you and your athletes will obtain very good luck. The effect’s duration is three minutes.”
“Hold on a minute. You said ‘My athletes and Me?’ Does this mean that this skill can be used on me?” Dai Li suddenly asked.
“Yes. This Prayer skill can not only be used on the yers, but it can also be used on you,” the System answered firmly.
Dai Li’s heart leaped in joy. Ever since he obtained the System, he had gained several skills. Those skills, however, could only be used on the athletes. The only thing that could be used on himself was the Copy Card. Now, he finally gained another skill that could be used on himself. The only thing was that Dai Li still did not know how the effect of the skill was.
Giving myself a little luck, huh? Maybe I can really try buying a lottery ticket! Dai Li thought.
Suddenly, Dai Li’s thoughts took a turn. Perhaps this Lucky Horseshoe’s Prayer skill could be used with other items.
My Request Box. When ites to the results, it’spletely randomized. One can say that it all depends on luck. If I fail to get a good draw or a very good draw, it will be useless to me. If I use the Prayer skill first, then I will have good luck for the next three minutes. Then if I use the Request Box, will I be lucky and obtain an extremely good draw?
The thought shed through Dai Li’s mind. If the Request Box could bebined and used in conjunction with the Lucky Horseshoe, then every time he used the Request Box, he would make a good draw.
As he thought about that, Dai Li could not wait to y a game to test and see if his ideas could be put into practice.
On the other side, the System began introducing another item, the silver top.
“This is called the Dream Creator Top. The Dream Creator Top can help you construct a dream space. After your athlete enters a dreaming state, you can pull your athlete into the dream space,” the System said.
Dai Li thought about the movie, “Inception.” He then asked, “What’s the use of the dream space?”
“This depends on what you construct in the dream space. If you construct a training ground, the dream space can allow the athletes to train. If you construct a match, then your athletes will be able to y a game in the dream space. It is worth noting that the time ratio to the real world is ten to one. That is to say that if you spend ten hours in the dream space, only one hour will pass in the real world,” the System said slowly.
“Which means that you can even train when you are dreaming! Moreover, training for ten hours in the dream only equals one hour in real life! Oh my God, this thing is a little too fraudulent!”
As Dai Limented, he could not help but start counting in his mind. If a person slept for eight hours a day, that meant that the total training time in the dream space was 80 hours. One year has 365 days. That meant a total training duration of 29,200 hours. In reality, an athlete could only umte around 30,000 hours of training volume in ten years. This Dream Creator Top could create almost 30,000 hours of dream space in one single year. If it were used for training, it was the equivalent of ten years.
For athletes, the saying ‘One minute of performance on stage requires ten years of practice off the stage’ applies. A 100m sprint athlete trained monotonously every day for decades just for those ten seconds in the arena. From this point of view, the core of the career of an athlete was daily training. As for the result ofpetitions or matches, they are actually the effects of their daily training. That is why training is the most important thing for athletes.
Based on this calction, the Dream Creator Top might just be the most imbnced and fraudulent item I have. As the saying goes, ‘Diligence makes up for want of ability.’ Even for the yers with average talent, if they had ten times the amount of training time, they could still be exceptional athletes.
In the next second, Dai Li suddenly realized a problem. He quickly asked, “That’s not right, sports require activities that strengthen the body. Regardless of the sports in question, at the end of the day, the body is needed to support the activity. How can training in a dream improve the status of the body?”
“Have you heard that dreaming can strengthen the body?” The System asked.
“I know that sleeping more will help with muscle gain, but I never heard that sleeping more would strengthen the body,” Dai Li answered honestly.
“Then isn’t that your answer? Training in dreams can’t be applied to the body,” the System answered.
Dai Li’s expression turned gloomy instantly. “Sports activities always involves the body. If the dream space training isn’t effective on the athlete’s body, then athletes also won’t be able to be taller, faster, and stronger through training in their dreams. Then isn’t this dream trainingpletely useless! I initially thought that I’ve obtained a fraudulent God item. In the end, it’s just a piece of useless junk.”
“Dream space training certainly cannot directly affect the body, but it can be used to help athletes umte experience. If an athlete, for example,pleted 10,000 basketball shots, the technical experience and conclusion he obtained from these 10,000 shots belong to him and only him,” the System answered.
“So it’s like that.” Dai Li suddenly understood how to use the Dream Creator Top.
This item was fairly limited when it came to sports that relied more on the physical body like track and field, swimming, and weightlifting because dream space training could not increase the capability of the physical body.
For sports that required more technical skills or experience, the Dream Creator Top was very useful.
Skills and technique in sports are the umtion of training experience and sporting talent. Sporting talent is based on gics, no one can change that. Training experience, however, is gainedter in life. Through daily training, athletes slowly umte experience and the umted experience transforms into proficiency in a particr skill. As proficiency increases, the skill or technique also gets better.
Take for example shooting a basketball. A beginner does not even know why he was missing his shots when he starts practicing shooting. After more practice and as his experience umtes, he gradually learns the reason for each of his missed shots. It was either ack of control in terms of power or shooting at a wrong angle.
Continued practice leads to knowing how to adjust the power and angle so that the ball will go inside the basket. With enough practice, one will generally be able to tell if the ball is going in or not as soon as the ball leaves the hands. One can even adjust the power and angle of the shot at thest moment. These were all the umtion of experience.
After all, practice makes perfect!
This was the use of the Dream Creator Top. Although training within a dream cannot bring about any improvements to the body, it provided an umtion of experience. Experience would only increase and never decrease. These types of experience umtion would transform into skills and, as a result, increase the overall level of the athlete.
Then, the System continued. “I also mentioned just now that the dream space that you construct can be a training ground or a game.”
“I understand. You mean to say that if I were to construct a game and let yers participate, he would be able to gain practical game experience for an entire game.” Dai Li’s ability to deduce things was still pretty good.
To construct a game and allow athletes to gain practical match experience within a dream was meaningful, especially for the younger athletes.
There were 82 games in the regr season of the NBA. A rookie who was ranked highly might be able to y all 82 games, but rookies whose rankings were lower might find it tough to get off the bench. They would be satisfied if they could even get some time on the court. If they could not get on the court during when coaches pulled good yers from the game, then they had no hope of gaining any match experience. Simrly, the NBA also had yers whose talents weren’t that high but managed to earn their ce in the NBA through a wealth of match experience.
As long as it was a sport that involved intense physicalpetition, practical match experience was important. No matter how physically splendid a yer was or how exceptional his techniques were, if he did not have any match experience, he would still not be a very useful newbie. On the contrary, some older veteran athletes whose physical traits had deteriorated could no longer run fast or jump high but, due to their wealth of experience, they were still the ones the coaches relied on.
The Dream Creator Top could create a match. This could help athletes supplement their weakness ofcking practical match experience.
Dai Li calcted in his mind. Based on an eight-hour sleep schedule, the athlete would be in his dream for 800 hours. A basketball matchsted 48 minutes. 800 hours equaled 16.7 basketball games. A football match was 90 minutes, so 800 hours equaled 8.9 football matches.
Take the Spanish La Liga as an example. There are 38 matches in a season. Based on this, an eight-hour sleep would equal nine games. That would be enough for a yer to umte enough experience for one-quarter of an entire season.
Then, in the NBA, even if a yer was the absolute best on the team, he would y, at most, 40 minutes per game. 800 minutes meant 20 games, it was also around a quarter of the entire season.
Based on this calction, if a yer were to sleep eight hours a day. In just four days, the dream space would be able to create an entire Spanish La Liga season or a regr NBA season. The yers would be able to umte an entire season’s worth of match experience.
Based on this calction, I only need 40 days to turn a newbie into a veteran with a decade of match experience! No one’s mom had to worry about them not ying in a match anymore. Come to me for a year and I’ll make you y until you want to puke!
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The yoff season began. The first opponents of the Clippers were the Denver Nuggets.
At the beginning of the season, the Nuggets’ performance stole the spotlight. They were once ranked first. As the season progressed, however, the traditionally strong teams gradually regained their form and the results of the Nuggets gradually deteriorated. In the end, the Nuggets managed to make it into the yoffs in the highlypetitive Western Conference, merely relying on their win-loss advantage.
It was the first ce in the Western Conference versus the eighth ce of the Western Conference. There would be no suspense. After all, miracles did not happen for them every day.
Moreover, the Nuggets were a rtively young team. This was the first time in six years that they had made it into the yoffs. Their main objective was to allow their starters to umte yoff match experience. They did not dream about winning through some miracle
Faced with an opponent like this, the path for the Clippers became that much easier. They swept the floor with their opponents as they won four to nothing without any suspense. The yers also did not expend that much energy. They quickly made it through and waited for the next round of the yoffs at their home turf.
In the second round of the yoffs, the Clippers faced the New Orleans Pelicans.
In the past two years, the Pelicans had performed decently in the regr season. The team also constantly strengthened itself in the hope of achieving something. When it came to the yoff, the Pelicans still failed to obtain any exceptional results.
yers exhaust their patience easily when a team fails to achieve a breakthrough for a long time and the Pelicans faced this problem. At the beginning of the season, they lost two star yers. It was a good thing the head coach of the Pelicans was excellent and coached the team sessfully, leading the Pelicans team into the yoff season. They even made it to the second round.
This Pelican team did not have the strength to challenge the championship title. Their head coach and yers also knew this. With their lineup, making the second round of the yoffs was already considered an achievement. If they wanted to go further in the yoffs, the team needed to strengthen itself through reinforcements in the next season.
Because they had alreadypleted their task, the Pelicans team lost their ambition. They treated the matches less seriously and did not pay a lot of attention in winning or losing. Since they did not have “Fight till death” determination, they also did not have any intention of causing an upset.
Often, an objective determined the achievement.
Take a randompany for example. The annual sales revenue is 100 million dors. If thepany reached the target in the first ten months, then in the following two months, a worker would have less motivation. There would definitely be people who would approach things with a “Three days of fishing and two days of-drying,” mentality. They would take it easy until the end of the year.
In contrast, if, by thest month, the annual sales task were almostplete, everyone in thepany would put in the extra effort and think up various ways toplete the sales target.
The Pelicans were like this. During thest month of the regr season, they put in everything they had and made it to the yoffs. Now, since their season target had already been achieved, the yers let out a sigh of relief and were no longer persistent about victory.
The Pelicans lost their motivational target, which made things easier for the Clippers. Faced with an opponent that did not desire the championship, victory became easy. They repeated a sweep of four to zero and the Clippers made it into the Western Conference final.
The other team that made it into the Western Conference final was the Golden State Warriors. Their advancement, however, had been far tougher.
The Warriors had faced the Pistons in the first round.
The Pistons were a team that set their sights on winning the championship. To achieve their target, the management team of the Pistons did a lot of things: trades, scouting, and high-ie contract renewals. They would do something big during practically every off-season. Almost every season, the lineup of the Pistons would change.
In terms of strength, the Pistons were considered a strong team, but they were definitely not amongst the best. Still, everyone knew that the Pistons was a tough opponent. In a round of games against the Pistons, even if they won, they would exhaust a lot of strength.
The Pistons’ target was to be the grand champion!
A team that set their target on winning the championship like the Pistons would always be very persistent during the yoffs. Even though they were the seventh-ranked team in the Western Conference, they would go all out and create a difficult encounter for their opponents.
After the Warriors got past the Pistons, they met with the Rockets.
The Rockets were yet another team with their sights on winning the championship. The difference with the Pistons was that they really did have the pedigree to challenge for the championship.
The two teams shed and the Warriors narrowly broke through after seven hard-fought battles. The Warriors hadpletely exhausted themselves and had key yers injured.
The Rockets finally lost in terms of stamina. The Rockets were stubborn and maintained they’re eight-man rotation system, resulting in the Rockets copsing suddenly in the seventh match. It was simr to sudden death.
After all, it was the yoffs. The intensity of the games was that much greater. An eight-man rotation system was insufficient in dealing with a round that consisted of seven games.
The Western Conference final would be a sh between the Clippers and the Warriors. The first and second ce of the Western Conference. A sh between the old and the young superstars. It was a sh that fans loved.