Chapter Eighty-Three: A Collapse of the Lake

As soon as the game began, the Li Liang Bob Knight hair dryer started working.

"Hey, Mike, it's time for me to play!"

Both sides just jumped the ball.

"Mike, when are you going to replace me?"

The game had just been played for a minute.

"Coach, I want to play basketball."

This sentence follows on from the previous one, and the Lakers have yet to hit a single shot.

By this time, the Warriors had hit three shots, including a three-pointer from Klay Thompson.

The Lakers' outside players are simply not enough to see, like this Eric Griffin, the jersey doesn't fit, and he takes it temporarily.

Like Li Liang, he graduated from his senior year and participated in this year's draft, but he was not selected.

He graduated from college and averaged 15.7 points and 8.6 rebounds in his freshman year and 15.7 points and 8.7 rebounds in his senior year.

Steady is a steady one, and the only improvement in four years has been the addition of 0.1 rebounds.

The debut of a player like Brown's is purely disgusting.

As Li Liang expected, the management of the Lakers really saw that Li Liang was not very happy, and asked Brown to suppress this inexplicably arrogant newcomer.

Brown was hired by Jim Buss, of course, he had to obey the command of the leader, and abused his coaching authority a little to prevent Li Liang from starting.

Actually, Mike Brown really wants Li Liang to appear on the stage, he wants to see how good this guy is.

Why would an NCAA water cooler make West, Kobe and Bass all look favorably on him?

However, this guy is really annoying, and he keeps buzzing in his ears.

Brown has led several summer league games and has never seen a player like him who can't get on the court and blow the hair dryer on the coach.

But for some reason, Brown just endured, he couldn't get angry in his heart, he just felt irritable.

"OK, OK, don't worry, I'll let you play, can you let your teammates play for a while?" Brown Road.

He himself felt strange when he said this, he had compromised so much?

What is the majesty of the manager? What is the face of the manager?

This is a second-round show, 55 picks, still a Chinese, not Kobe Bryant and not Yao Ming.

But Brown said it anyway, and Li Liang finally stopped for a while.

He focused on the court, where the Lakers were playing really badly.

No way, the gap in squad strength is too big.

On the Golden State Warriors' side, in addition to the starting Klay Thompson and Harris Barnes, there is also the No. 35 pick in the second round of this year, Draymond Green, sitting on the bench.

The core of the Lakers' side is Thackeray and Darius Morris.

What a level of Morris, a marginal man.

And Thompson and Barnes are not at all on the same level.

Moreover, it doesn't matter if there is a gap in strength, the key Lakers have no tactics at all.

Mike Brown didn't set up the players at all, he played casually on the court, and just watched the play.

And the coach led by the Warriors is their chief assistant coach Mike Malone.

Before the start of the game, Ma Long followed the players to warm up and carefully arranged and guided the tactics.

Yesterday, when Li Liang went to the COX gymnasium to practice alone, he saw that the players of the Warriors had just finished joint practice and left.

At that time, the Lakers' coaches and players were having fun in the casino hotel in Vegas.

The talent of the squad is not comparable, and no one has worked hard yet, how can you play this?

This Laker Laker is really a group of people who are a mess.

Li Liang shook his head from the court, halfway through the first quarter, the Lakers had not broken 10 points!

Harris Barnes and Klay Thompson played with ease.

One of the two broke through the basket and the other made a three-pointer from the outside, and the difference was stretched to more than 10 points in a while.

Mike Brown looked like he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai and didn't mean to call a timeout at all.

yes, what's the use of calling a pause?

This time he led the team to play in the summer league, and the management did not assign any tasks to Brown.

Unlike the Warriors, Thompson, Green, and Barnes are all rookies carefully selected by the team.

Summer League needs to train well for Thompson to continue to improve, while inspecting Barnes and Green.

Green's contract hasn't been signed yet, so let's point to the summer league to see how he's doing.

Just six minutes into the first quarter, the Warriors led the Lakers by 11 points 18-7.

According to the rules of the Summer League, if there is no time-out in a quarter, the first dead ball after 6 minutes will be officially timed out.

The Lakers made a pass error on offense, the ball went out of bounds, and the referee called a timeout.

The Lakers' players finally got a little respite, and they walked off the court to the bench with their heads huffed.

For more than 6 minutes, they were beaten by the warriors, and they basically had no power to fight back.

The only guy who has some fighting power is Darius Morris, who has been in the NBA for a year and has the ability to handle the ball.

But his ball is really not enough, and the Lakers' offense is simply constipated.

There are no tactics, no strong points, and you can't play an efficient attack, so you can only rely on luck to fight piecemeal, push and push counterattacks, fast attacks or something.

Not to mention the defense, Thackeray is quite reliable on the inside, after all, he is the WCC Defensive Player of the Year.

His blocks, rebounds, and steal statistics are all ordinary, but being the best defensive player shows that his complements and defensive skills are in place.

But Thackeray is an inside line, and the Warriors' firepower is concentrated on the outside.

Thompson and Barnes are ready to attack from the outside, taking advantage of a pick-and-roll and a run.

Mike Brown is also a defensive coach, but it's a pity he doesn't care, this paper-mâché defense is really heartbreaking.

During the pause, Brown took out his tactical board and said a few casual words.

It's about asking the players to step up defensively, be positive, don't lose position.

It's all nonsense, if the players can defend against it, can the game be played like this?

It's not a good idea to rely on one person for defense, you have to work as a team.

If you want to win, the whole team has to work together.

And the Lakers have zero communication when they are defending.

The defense relies on the legs, the second on the hands, the third on the referee, and the fourth on the roar.

Your Lakers players are not fast in their legs, their hands are not effective, the referees don't help, and they don't roar in the end, do you keep a yarn?

Li Liang saw that Brown didn't expect the team to play well and win, just went through the motions.

Otherwise, how can you not let yourself be a super second-round show, the light of the 55th pick?

Brown babbled a bunch of useless nonsense, and finally looked at Li Liang beside him.

Li Liangzheng stared at Brown with burning eyes, and a laser light was about to shoot out of his eyes.

Brown knew that if he didn't send Li Liang to appear, this kid would start beeping again.

"Okay, Bruce Lee, get ready to play."

Li Liang hurriedly took off his sports jacket and stretched his muscles to prepare for the debut.

Brown thought to himself that with this lineup, whoever the Lakers replaced would be the same, and they couldn't beat the Warriors at all.

Brown had previously seen Li Liang's scouting report, which was characterized by defense and open three-pointers, and no ability to carry the ball.

You don't have the ball and want to win with your team in Summer League?

In a lower-level game, the ability to attack with the ball is everything.

What defense, open shots, rebounds, blocks, are all secondary.

You can play with the ball and help the team score.

How did the Bobcats win the last game?

It's the outside Walker who can rush with the ball and scatter the King.

Thomas Robinson is great at defense and rebounding, but what's the use of him not holding the ball?

8 turnovers, as soon as he got the ball, he was about to lose, and this was the fifth pick, and Brown thought he wanted water.

Therefore, Bruce Lee Xing rushed to make the debut, but in the end, it was just a humiliation.

"Hey, dear Bruce, I'm not letting you appear to protect you." Brown thought with some self-deprecation.

In more than a year with the Lakers, Brown has been tortured enough, and his whole spirit is not quite right now.

As you can see from leading the team to play in the summer league, he doesn't have the passion and energy that a coach should have.

The Lakers, a complex giant, want to mix well, it's not that simple.

Mike Brown watched Li Liang tighten his belt and take it onto the court, and the number 28 on his back was unusually eye-catching.

Number 28, what garbage number?