Reborn My Name Is Kobe

Seeing that Jessica seemed to be about to fall asleep, I put her on my back and let her have a good rest first, while I kept watching the game video until one o'clock in the morning. Originally, at this time, I still I don't feel very sleepy, but I know that I can't stay up late any longer, as this will be very harmful to my body.

After nearly two hours of video viewing and analysis, I feel that I have gained a lot. This gain may not be reflected in one or two games, but I believe that in the long run, it will definitely make me better. The strength has been greatly improved.

What I need now is to have a good sleep so that all the learning and thinking about basketball tonight can be naturally integrated into my brain. In addition, I also want a night without dreams, even if I have to dream. , if it’s the kind of dream where it’s just me and Jessica.

Before I went to bed, I took a cold shower. Watching the video of the game before made me even a little excited. I really had the urge to get the basketball immediately and rush out to play the game.

As the cold water droplets slid down the top of my head, the huge cold stimulation kept my mind highly alert. In this case, one second seemed to be as long as a minute. In just a short time Within a few minutes, I completely replayed the video of the game I watched tonight in my mind. Those key technical moves were like martial arts moves in martial arts novels, appearing in my mind scene by scene. , and then it is deeply imprinted into the subconscious mind.

I had no sleep all night. Although I fell asleep holding Jessica in my arms, I didn’t seem to have any dreams about being with Jessica, or even other dreams. I liked this feeling of sleeping until dawn very much. Yes, because this means that my body has received the most adequate rest and recovery, so I will definitely perform very well in today's training and competition.

Thinking about the experience in the last game at North Shore Garden, the home of the Boston Celtics, I couldn't help but feel a little guilty. I didn't know if my three-point shooting percentage could be restored today.

Of course, I have a whole day to arrange training, and I am indeed prepared to do so, but for such a long time, I definitely need to cut the time period well.

Dividing the whole day into sections, it seems that the day is actually not that long. Considering that there are so many training items that need to be carried out, I even feel that the training time of this whole day is not enough.

I don't have to think about whether my physical fitness is sufficient. In fact, Kobe's body has been undergoing high-intensity training for a long time. In addition, he is still very young. I also pay great attention to nutrition, rest, and physical stretching and relaxation. Even if the training lasts for more than ten hours, I am confident that I can endure it.

Of course, I won’t be really crazy enough to train for more than ten hours in a row. Even if I really can do it, I won’t do it. In fact, my training is often based on hours, and I do it for about an hour every time. During training, I will let myself rest for five to ten minutes. During this period, I will also take time to watch past game videos. These videos are both of the Lakers and other teams, both team and individual. There are also documentaries about past NBA stars.

For example, earlier personal documentaries on legendary players such as Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Dr. J. Irving, and Michael Jordan. In short, anything related to basketball can attract my attention.

On the other hand, I also specifically asked the nutritionist and physical coach of the Lakers to find me some professional and amateur books on nutrition and fitness. Once you develop the habit of reading and studying, it will be difficult to quit, like

Once you develop the habit of regular training, it is quite difficult to quit. If you don't train for a day, you will feel uncomfortable all over your body, just like those who are addicted to cigarettes and will feel uncomfortable all over their body if they don't smoke for a day.

When your desire to win the game slowly evolves into cherishing every second of training time, you will find that you will really become more and more powerful and perfect under your own ultra-high requirements.

When I left Jessica's house, she had not yet woken up. In fact, I woke up at seven o'clock in the morning, but five and a half hours of high-quality sleep was enough to restore my energy. Too much sleep would only

It would have a negative impact on my body, which I realized early on.

I am quite sensitive to the state of my body, and I know what state it is in. This may be some kind of talent, but it can be improved to a certain extent through acquired practice.

Just like our brains or muscles become more developed the more we use them, this feeling and control of our body can also be strengthened through continuous use.

When I entered the home arena of the Pistons, which was almost deserted, the stadium was still dark. The staff turned on the lights in the stadium just for me. I was very grateful to the staff and hoped that he would not think that I was wasting my time.

Use electricity.

The initial training starts with body stretching. Because my body flexibility is already relatively good, so when I do body stretching, I will gradually increase the difficulty of the stretching movements, except before maintaining the body.

In addition to flexibility, I also try to improve the reaction speed of some muscles and nerves through stretching exercises.

Of course, it remains to be verified whether this approach is effective, but after all, this is something that is difficult to truly test through quantification, so even if it has no effect, I will regard it as a psychological comfort effect.

There are many ways to train body flexibility, among which practicing yoga is definitely a great choice. In this era of NBA, many people are already practicing yoga to improve body flexibility. Of course, it is not completely

Becoming mainstream, after all, it is difficult to achieve the flexibility to easily complete yoga movements, so it is often those players who are more flexible who will consider further improving their flexibility through practicing yoga.

The flexibility of the body is very important. In addition to allowing you to make some incredible moves in the air, it can also greatly reduce the possibility of injury during the game. Of course, if you are very flexible and still get injured,

Then I often suffer relatively serious injuries, so sometimes during competitions I will be careful not to let myself try too many movements that are close to the limit of my body. In this way, even if you have very good flexibility, you will still be injured.

That may cause very serious bodily harm.

It's like you have a very flexible rubber band. If you pull it hard, it can indeed be stretched much longer than an ordinary rubber band, but once it exceeds its load-bearing limit, the rubber band will still stretch.

It breaks, and the force generated when it breaks will be even greater.

The same goes for athletes' bodies. Although athletes' physical fitness is better than that of ordinary people, there is a limit. Once the intensity of exercise exceeds the body's endurance limit, the difficulty of recovery after injury is actually greater than that of ordinary people.

, so many very good athletes

They will suffer from injuries, because the physical pressure experienced by professional athletes is too great, and the long-term accumulation of fatigue makes their bodies extremely fragile. Sometimes there are really minor situations.

It may lead to serious injuries, which is the so-called straw that breaks the camel's back.

Of course, daily training can indeed effectively reduce the probability of injuries, but it is impossible to completely eliminate the occurrence of injuries, especially in sports with extremely intense physical confrontation like basketball and football. There are always too many injuries during the game.

An unexpected situation occurs.

After the stretching exercise, I started jogging for several dozen minutes. This is actually a very important link. First of all, jogging can exercise cardiopulmonary function. During the competition, your endurance determines how long you can continue.

A long period of high-intensity exercise, and this endurance is not improved by anaerobic exercise, but more often by aerobic exercise.

On the other hand, running can exercise most of the muscles in the whole body, allowing your body's muscles to get balanced exercise. If you only train a certain part of the muscles in your body, there may also be an imbalance in the strength of the local muscles.

, which leads to some imbalances in the body's force during exercise. This not only easily leads to the deformation of your technical movements, but also creates hidden dangers of injuries due to the uneven force of the body's muscles.

Therefore, when I train the body's muscle strength, I will try my best to involve most of the muscles in the whole body and develop them in a balanced way.

Basketball is a sport that requires comprehensive physical fitness. You don’t need to run the fastest, jump the highest, have the best physical strength, or have the best flexibility. You only need to maintain a relative balance among these body functions.

It's enough to reach a high point. If you lack any physical quality, you may be restricted and targeted by your opponents during the game.

Of course, players in some positions will pay special attention to strengthening certain physical qualities. For example, outside players will need more speed and acceleration capabilities, as well as body reaction speed, while inside players will need better strength and weight, as well as some explosive power.

The physical fitness required by forward players is relatively balanced. Of course, everyone's specific physical talents are different. Sometimes it is also possible to maximize one's own advantageous items on the basis of balanced development.

Very important.

I jog around the basketball court, with five laps as one round. After running five laps, I will rest for about one minute, and then do the second round of jogging. Then after running for about five rounds, I will rest for ten minutes and continue.

One training, sprint running.

My sprint is to sprint directly from one end of the basketball court to the other as fast as possible, and then run back as fast as possible. This is considered one round. I will run for five consecutive rounds, then rest for five minutes, and then run continuously.

Five rounds, cycle about three times until the energy in the body is completely used up.

At this time, I will perform some physical stretching exercises again, and try to maintain my own breathing rhythm, so that the strength in my whole body will gradually calm down.

After the sprint training, I will rest for about an hour. During this time, I will enter the Lakers' tactical analysis room and watch some game tapes there. Of course, I will usually select some more important games, but not necessarily

These are the recent games played by our Lakers team, and there may also be some historical game videos.

In my opinion, in fact, N in this era and some ancient times in the past

BA is not as good as the later NBA in terms of tactical arrangements and game rhythm. But to be honest, these earlier games are a bit special, although their tactics and game arrangements cannot be directly used for reference to a certain extent.

Yes, because actually the tactics they used at that time were relatively simple. With the invention of the three-point line, NBA game tactics became more and more diverse.

Of course, I don’t necessarily watch these games to learn anything from them. In fact, it’s good to just watch them as interesting videos. Many games in that era were still very fierce. Those passionate confrontations in the 1990s

You can still see the NBA, but as time goes by, the NBA has become more and more peaceful, and you can rarely see those very passionate scenes anymore.

I actually can’t tell whether this is good or bad for the NBA. After all, as time goes by, the rules of the game must be becoming more and more perfect, the team’s tactics must be more and more complex, and the players’ tactical execution ability must be

and understanding will definitely gradually improve, but when some things become too regular, the NBA becomes more and more lacking in a kind of wildness that only existed in ancient times, which is closer to pure basketball or

Pure sporty stuff.

What is the fundamental spirit of competitive sports? Of course it is competition and hard work, and of course fairness. The reason why competitive sports has endless charm is that it can release the primitive wildness of our humans and allow our hormones to pass through a controllable process.

It is released in a way that allows us to re-experience the process of running, jumping, and fighting against other people in our evolutionary history. This memory is engraved in the genes of all humans, so the charm of competitive sports is so

Durable and powerful, it is difficult for anyone to resist the temptation it brings.

In my previous life, I once thought about what the true sportsmanship is, whether it is the result of winning and defeating the opponent, or the process of constantly surpassing oneself in order to defeat the opponent, or whether both are equally important.

I think in fact, the true meaning of sportsmanship is ultimately based on the process of constantly improving oneself in order to defeat the opponent, because the most difficult opponent in the world to defeat is not others, but ourselves. Sportsmanship is a kind of constant challenge to one's own limits.

In the process, the reason why we build some powerful opponents for ourselves is just to better stimulate our own potential. In the final analysis, this is an attempt for us humans to transcend the limitations of our own abilities, and even transcend the limitations of destiny.

So why we humans like to watch sports is that we put ourselves into the athletes competing on the field. By watching them defeat themselves and their opponents, we feel as if we have defeated ourselves and our opponents.

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That's why so many fans are willing to support their favorite players and teams crazily, and are even happier than these players after the players they support and the team win the game.

I don’t stay in the tactical analysis room for long, because I come here again every time I train. Each time I stay for a while, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter, like after a relatively high-intensity sprint just now.

, I will choose to rest for a while, and after those trainings with lower intensity, I may only stay for more than ten or twenty minutes before leaving.

After my body gradually recovered, it was time to train my basketball skills.

The so-called basketball skills training actually includes the training of basic movements such as dribbling, turning, attacking, and defending. This part is a very important basic skill training in basketball, but the training process can also be relatively boring because you need to practice for a long time.

Repeating the same actions over time, but it is also very important to be able to endure loneliness. You must cultivate your patience and concentration and not be affected by the surrounding environment. All attention must be focused on the training itself.

Only in this way can the training effect be maximized.

Of course, I will also use some training equipment, such as some obstacles, to create different scenarios for myself, and then it will still be a lot of repeated training one after another.

In fact, sometimes you will suddenly feel very tired during training, and suddenly you will have forgotten your physical condition and basketball skills. Maybe you will feel that you suddenly can't dribble, or when you turn around

It is not as smooth as before. The occurrence of these situations is actually very normal. This may mean that your training intensity is a bit too high and you need some rest. Do not train again until your body is tired or you are mentally tired.

It will cause your competitive status to decline.

However, when I face these situations, I usually further increase the training intensity, because in fact, I either have to rest or increase the training intensity. However, the training intensity often needs to be increased a lot, enough to make you ignore this psychological problem.

To relieve the feeling of fatigue, provide yourself with a more difficult goal and regenerate the passion to challenge the goal.

As long as the fire in your heart is rekindled, the previous feeling of weakness will disappear without a trace in an instant.

Time passes relatively quickly during training. Unexpectedly, the time has reached 12 o'clock at noon. I went to take a hot and cold bath first, because I have developed this habit now.

After a relatively high-intensity training, I will take this kind of alternating hot and cold bath. The purpose is to allow the body to recover faster.

After taking a shower, I will go out to eat some foods with relatively high protein content, such as chicken breast and steak, as well as some vegetables and fruits, and try to be more nutritious while ensuring sufficient protein intake.

After eating, I will meditate for about an hour. During this time, I may sit on the side of the basketball court or in the audience.

Occasionally I will go to different auditoriums to see what the competition venue will look like from the seats in different positions. Now it seems that it is difficult for me to have the opportunity to sit in the auditorium near the back and watch a game.

NBA games, but I do feel that sitting in these positions and sitting on the bench watching the game are completely different feelings.

If you watch the game from the sidelines, you will pay more attention to what is happening on the field. If you just sit far away from the playing field to watch the game, you may only be able to watch the game through the huge screen above your head.

You can watch the game captured by the camera on the screen, or you can integrate into the game by feeling the atmosphere and emotions of other spectators around you.

From this perspective, how important the atmosphere of the home fans is, because the emotional level of the home fans will determine many things. After all, people's emotions are mutually influenced and contagious. If

If you have a home stadium with a very warm atmosphere, the fans here will become even more enthusiastic in this atmosphere.

And once the atmosphere of your home court becomes like that of the Houston Rockets, those unenthusiastic fans will also make those originally enthusiastic fans less enthusiastic, thus making a stadium that can accommodate tens of thousands of people even more boring.

Not much atmosphere.

In fact, it is difficult to see the bottom of the playing field directly from many locations. The most important thing about spending money to watch NBA games is actually to feel the warm home atmosphere. This experience is quite special, just like at home.

The concert you see on TV and the concert you see live are completely different experiences.

Thinking that many fans may only have one chance to come to the NBA to watch a game live in their lifetime, I suddenly felt that I had a responsibility and obligation to dedicate the most frequent games to the fans. When I felt this way,

Immediately, the fatigue that had occurred due to training completely disappeared, and was replaced by a strong motivation, a strong motivation to achieve a stronger competitive state.

The training in the afternoon is mainly about shooting. I still practice shooting from the place closest to the basket. In fact, in-situ shooting training under the basket is also a very important training item. Sometimes it seems easier the easier it is.

The easier it is to become something we ignore.

Although in theory, the closer to the basket, the easier it is to score, in fact this is not necessarily the case, especially the area directly below the basket and one meter from the side of the penalty area, because players usually

Shooting training is rarely held here, so in actual games the shooting percentages in these places are not very high.

When you get very good offensive opportunities in these areas during the game, but in the end you miss the key ball because you neglected these areas in your usual training, then you will definitely be very sad for this.

Of course, in fact, these areas themselves are not as easy to shoot as imagined, because we have already developed the habit of shooting. The position below the basket and about one meter outside the penalty area on the side are not the shots we are more accustomed to.

Positions, so general shooting methods and habits make it easy to miss. You need to conduct some special training in these areas to get a better shooting feeling in these positions.

I spent a period of time training these relatively special offensive areas. The training effect was quite good at the beginning, but then it will enter a bottleneck period. If you want to further improve in this area

If you want to achieve a higher shooting percentage, you will need to put in a lot of effort, and I think there is no need to spend so much energy training these unpopular areas for the time being. After all, the benefits are really small.

Next, I will gradually expand the shooting training area from the inside to the outside. Each area will be tested for shooting within a certain time limit. When I first warmed up, I did not set a target for how many shots I would make, but as time went on,

As the number of balls thrown at that point increases, I will eventually set myself a shooting percentage goal in training. Of course, these goals are dynamic and constantly reset.

For example, I will divide the free throw training into five groups, each group will shoot about ten free throws, and then calculate the shooting percentage of these five groups of free throw training.

For example, in-situ mid-range jumpers, pull-up mid-range jumpers, turn-over mid-range jumpers, small hooks, in-situ floaters, small throws while traveling, pull-up fadeaway jumpers after dribbling, and some special attacks

I will test the movements in groups. I will not proceed to the next step of training until each offensive skill reaches my expected hit rate.

This process took a lot of time, especially after I trained with high intensity for a period of time, my body would enter a period of fatigue.

At that time, it will be difficult to guarantee my shooting percentage.

Once I feel that the level of physical fatigue is already very high, I will choose to take a rest first, or simply go to the team's tactical analysis room to watch the game video, which can also achieve the purpose of combining work and rest.

Of course, when I watch videos at this time, I will watch more videos that record players' personal offensive skills. I have watched and analyzed a lot of Jordan's technical moves before, but today I am mainly studying.

Magic Johnson's game video, why should I watch his video? In fact, I don't want to learn his passing skills, but more I want to learn how he dribbles with a height of more than two meters.

Magic Johnson's dribbling skills are very special. When I analyzed his dribbling movements through video tapes, I found that every dribble he made was actually quite powerful. Perhaps it was because of his height and center of gravity.

Because it is too high, in order to make up for this

This brings about the drawback of slow dribbling speed. When Magic Johnson dribbles the ball, he will hit the basketball with great strength, allowing the basketball to go back and forth between the ground and his palm at a faster speed. This can effectively

Reduce the chance of being taken out by your opponent.

Of course, there is another characteristic of Magic's dribbling, that is, his palms are very accurate in judging the movement trajectory of the basketball during the dribbling process. Many times, his dribbling and passing are combined.

You don't know at which dribbling end or beginning he will directly convert it into a pass, and because Magic Johnson dribbles very fast, there will be a natural basketball movement when passing the ball.

Strength can be used to help him pass the ball faster and more steadily.

Of course, this force-generating technique should be quite difficult. It cannot be learned by watching videos. Especially at the connection point between dribbling and passing, it requires a lot of training and talent, because the fingers control the basketball.

It must be very precise. I asked myself that there is no way to achieve this now. The magician is indeed well-deserved.

Of course, I can still appropriately improve my dribbling strength and speed, which I can learn from, and a faster dribbling speed can also allow me to break through the opponent's defense at a faster pace. Of course, these skills

You still have to study it slowly in actual combat, and it is not always possible to use these techniques.

In addition to Magic Johnson's technical moves, I also took a look at the team's tactical moves and wonderful assists during the Lakers SHOWTIME period. Of course, the vast majority of offensive goals were initiated through Magic Johnson as the core, but I

Note that James Worthy also played a very important role in the Lakers at that time.

He is a very important finishing point, because his physical fitness is very good, so his finishing ability at the basket is very strong. In most fast break counterattacks led by Magic Johnson, he acts as a partner with Magic.

Although opponents often know that there will be a connection between Magic Johnson and James Worthy, they just have no way to stop them, whether it is Magic Johnson's elusive passing route or

James Worthy's courageous drive to the basket.

Many times the connection between them is incredible, because even from the perspective of others, it is difficult to imagine those incredible passing timings and passing angles. The most important thing is that these passes are obviously even if they are thought of.

It is done by instinctive reaction without even going through the brain. Whether it is the passer or the receiver, there is a high probability of making a mistake.

How did they establish such an incredible tacit understanding? This is actually what I want to know the most.

Our Lakers team actually lacks a player who can control the ball and pass it well like Magic Johnson. I can play the role of James Worthy, and Shaq can play the role of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but who will play this role?

Magic Johnson?

I even imagined that if LeBron James could join forces with me and Shaq, an enhanced version of the Lakers SHOWTIME era would kick off. Of course, this is an illusion after all. The reality is that no one on our Lakers team can do what Magic Johnson once did.

We have done things before, so we must open up a path that belongs to us.

After watching the video, it was already around three in the afternoon, and I went back to the basketball court to practice shooting and other basic technical movements.

But after about half an hour or so, another group of people came to the court. I saw that these were the substitute players from our Lakers team. I still remember that last time I divided them into two groups.

It's a three-on-three game.

Eddie Jones smiled slightly when he saw me, and then walked up to chat with me.

"Damn it, do you always come so early?"

"I've actually been practicing here for five or six hours."

"What the hell! You really have a little too much energy. Let's play dozens of singles matches together later. I think you are about to become the player with the strongest individual singles ability in our team. I also have to

Let me learn from you."

"You don't have to be so modest. Your personal singles ability is not weak either. I still have many things I need to ask you for advice."

Sure enough, it was the bench players who played with me in the last three-on-three game again. To be honest, their training enthusiasm was much better than that of other Lakers players. For the eight o'clock game in the evening, other players would probably be there at five o'clock.

You can only enter the stadium if you have left or right.

I thought there would be an internal training match for our Lakers team this afternoon, but later I called the head coach Silver Fox Harris and found out that there was no internal training match for the team this afternoon.

The reason he gave was to allow the players to recover faster from previous back-to-back games. In addition, today's game is also an away game, so there will be no additional team training arrangements. Of course, the players themselves are willing to go

It would be nice to have extra training, but he would not make mandatory arrangements.

I think this is enough for Silver Fox Harris. I am almost certain that he did this just to take care of a few guys headed by Shaq. However, considering Shaq’s status and influence in the team at this time, the main reason is that

Coach Silver Fox Harris really has to take good care of him.

I just sighed softly and didn't think about anything else. Then I pulled Eddie Jones and started training with two people.

Since Eddie Jones wants to play one-on-one with me, I am naturally very happy, but I have been practicing here for such a long time, and it seems a bit unfair to fight him now, so the two of us

We decided to conduct a pair of training sessions first, with each other serving as each other's sparring partners to conduct simulated confrontational training.

To be honest, Eddie Jones's height, weight, athletic ability, and playing style are somewhat similar to mine, so it's a perfect fit for us to be each other's sparring partners. In fact, Eddie Jones is also a bit nervous.

Due to the characteristics of the knife, if he is in particularly good condition one day, then even if I put in 100% effort to defend him, it will be very difficult.

After Eddie Jones completed the most basic warm-up, we began to practice shooting with each other under interference. Of course, for the other team, it was defensive shooting training.

One of us has to defend the opponent's jump shot with all his strength, while the other one has to shoot against the opponent's full defense. We make ten shots in each round, and then switch offensive and defensive roles.

Eddie Jones's shooting felt very good today, especially since he entered the state for a short time. He was already feeling hot after just warming up. However, maybe because I trained for a long time, I seemed a little tired.

The continuity does not seem to be particularly good, and the stability of the shot has also declined to a certain extent compared to usual.

Of course, my personality will not be defeated by this little difficulty. The worse I feel, the harder I have to train so that I can have the opportunity to break through this bottleneck and further improve my competitive status.

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Of course, this process will undoubtedly be very difficult, and it is a test of my willpower.

In the first few sets of anti-interference shooting training, Eddie Jones's shooting percentage was 10% to 20% higher than mine, which means that for every 10 balls, he would make one to two more shots than me.

I shook my head slightly, and all my attention was focused on the basket. When my attention was completely focused on the small dot above the basket, I entered a completely different world.

state.

Sure enough, when I raised my concentration to a higher level, in the next training round with Eddie Jones, the shooting rates of both sides were basically the same. Considering that this kind of anti-interference strong shot is relatively difficult, I and Eddie Jones

Eddie Jones is still in very good shape today.

We then conducted passing and fast break training, which helped us improve our passing accuracy and positioning on the field, and also improved our mutual understanding.

In fact, in recent games, since Eddie Jones came on the bench and I entered the starting lineup, the team will still arrange a period of time for Eddie Jones and I to be on the court at the same time, and this period of time is often the most critical period of the game.

Four quarters, so the cultivation of tacit understanding between Eddie Jones and I is also extremely important. Often in games, one or two goals will determine the outcome, so the higher the tacit understanding between our players, the better the tacit understanding between our players.

The less likely it is that mistakes will be made at critical moments, the greater the chance of victory.

Then we conducted three-point shooting training, and three-point shooting training with the ball. Fortunately, my three-point shooting feel recovered during training today. If I had been unable to shoot like in the last game,

Scoring a three-pointer is really troublesome.

Although my strengths are breakthroughs and mid-range jump shots, if I can't shoot the three-pointer at all, it will put a lot of defensive pressure on myself, because the opponent will directly let go of my three-pointer.

Choose to shrink the defense, after all, my breakthrough power is still quite strong.

What's more, in these recent games, I have become more and more the focus of the opponent's research and defense. As I enter the starting lineup, other teams will also analyze my previous games before the game and issue goals.

Scouting reports to let their players know my offensive habits and make very targeted defensive plans accordingly.