The king's journey to the east was not so smooth.

After defeating the Wizards and scolding the old man, the King was besieged and suppressed in Li Liang's spiritual hometown of Boston.

TD North Shore Gardens, an atypical defensive battle between the Kings and the Celtics.

This is Stevens' fourth season in charge of the Green Shirts, and the young marshal's sapling planted in Boston is slowly growing.

The Celtics have inherited their consistent tradition, extreme teamwork, tenacious game spirit, and tough defense.

This was the mainstream of the league in the 80s and 90s, but today, it seems to be a bit of an outlier.

But whether it's an anomaly or not, the Celtics have been very strong this season.

The two sides fought fiercely for two overtimes, and Li Liang had a chance to kill at the last moment, but he was surrounded and suppressed by the Celtics' three-point defense, and the forced shot outside the three-point line was missed, and the Kings lost 104:106, with a 2-point disadvantage.

In the two overtime battles, the scores of both sides were only in the early 100s, which is enough to show the defensive intensity of the two teams.

At the same time, in the coach-versus-coach showdown, Li Liang was defeated.

After the game, Mike Brown made a rare criticism of Li Liang.

"You're a coach Bruce, sometimes you have to think about the whole game with the thinking of a coach, for the coach, from the first offense, the first defense, the battle between the two sides has actually begun, and the final result is the accumulation of every minute of the first 48 minutes, every substitution, every timeout, every tactical set-up, even every shouting is meaningful. You're a coach, Bruce. ”

Mike Brown concluded, emphasizing again.

And this time, Li Liang also rarely did not reply, nodding in agreement with Mike Brown's opinion.

He is right, a coach is a coach, and since Li Liang has decided to be a coach, he must adapt to the identity of a coach.

Even if a lot of specific work is done by the three assistant coaches of the coaching staff, many decisions have to be made by Li Liang.

After suffering a defeat in Boston, the Kings' record came to 13-6, which is still the best start for the Kings in the past decade, but it is also the worst start for Li Liang in five seasons.

He's going to learn to be a coach.

Li Liang began to put more energy into learning how to become a coach.

He has been exposed to too many great coaches, and in the system, those coaches who have made great contributions to the history of basketball are Li Liang's teachers.

But with so many teachers, who should he learn?

Li Liang tried to learn from Wooden, and in that first training session, he taught himself the coach of the department.

Wooden's meticulous care has made UCLA an undefeated division.

But the NCAA is the NCAA, the NBA is the NBA, and Li Liang still has to play.

After trying to ask everything, Li Liang felt that learning from Wooden was not a solution.

Li Liang also tried to learn from Bob Knight, the one who gave him a hair dryer.

Spit fragrant every day, scold a sentence in the east, a sentence in the west, a hot temper, and say one or the other.

Li Liang felt that he couldn't be more suitable with [Bob Knight's hair dryer].

But after many games, Li Liang felt very tired.

It's not that the mouth is tired, it's the heart that is tired.

When you curse with a purpose, scolding is not pleasant.

When Li Liang was a player, he drove a hair dryer to scold people, just to scold people.

He is venting his emotions, mostly for pleasure, so he scolds after scolding, what is scolding, right, he doesn't care, just be happy.

It would be great if you could make your teammates better and listen to them.

If you can't listen to it and don't correct it, there's no way, Li Liang just needs to play better.

But scolding as a coach is different, it is scolding with a purpose, hoping that the players can correct and change bad habits.

Once you do things with a purpose, even scolding people is not happy, but can still be painful.

Later, Li Liangyou was too lazy to scold, he felt that the coach's scolding should be done by middle school coaches, coaches like Bellman.

Correct the player in the process of forming various habits.

In a professional team, no coach is obligated to correct your bad habits.

If you don't play well, if you don't make a decision, just press it on the bench, or worse, you will lose your job.

He thought about it and figured it out, why don't I learn from Mike Brown?

As the saying goes, the crowd looked for him thousands of times, and suddenly looked back, but the person was in the dim light.

Mike Brown followed Li Liangnan to the north, four championships, each with Mike Brown's credit.

He won the Coach of the Year twice, is the youngest best coach in NBA history, and was once one of the youngest head coaches.

His accomplishments with the Cavaliers have been eye-popping quickly, and his accomplishments on the defensive end are evident.

Such an excellent coach and Li Liang's closest comrade-in-arms, why not learn from him?

It can only be said that people are sometimes blinded by familiar things, and many things are far away and close in front of them.

So, after accepting Mike Brown's criticism, on the way to his next stop, New York, Li Liang began to ask Brown for advice on how to become a good head coach.

Brown was first moved after hearing this question, and Bruce Lee finally remembered to ask me this question!

Immediately, Mike Brown didn't know how to answer the question.

How to answer?

"Just give the ball to Bruce Lee."

MD, now it's Bruce Lee as the coach and let him give the ball to himself?

But if you don't give the ball to Bruce, how do you coach you?

Brown fell into deep contemplation, he had not left Li Liang for a long time, and he was about to forget the old days.

It was as if before that coaching was a different job than it is now.

He's going to try to reminisce, to remember his work and life before 2012.

But he looked back for a while and felt that wasn't what the greatest coach should be.

He had too many problems and flaws, and in fact he realized them after leading the Cavaliers to the Finals in 2007.

"It's too fast, we're succeeding too fast, maybe we're going to have to be slower."

Mike Brown clearly remembers what he said to his assistants after the Finals.

He became the head coach in '05, the finals in '07, and he also led the Cavaliers.

This is a truly remarkable achievement.

It was only after meeting Bruce Lee that Brown's coaching career went in a different direction.

It was a different life.

Mike Brown sat in front of the porthole of the plane and remembered the afternoon he arrived in Las Vegas with Bruce Lee for Summer League.

"Do nothing." After thinking for a long time, Brown said to Li Liang.

"What?"

"It's a saying in your China, called rule by inaction. You don't have to do much, just do some basic work. Deal with the players and do nothing, and everything will be fine. That's what you have to do because you're different from other coaches. As he spoke, Mike Brown pushed his glasses like an outsider.

"What's the difference?" Li Liang asked.

"You can play on the pitch. The more you do off the field, the less you can do on the field, to do nothing, not to do nothing, but to stand on a higher ground to look at everything, to look at the team. ”

Li Liang was silent, thinking, Mike, you won't bluff me, right?