On the evening of October 29, at Conseco Arena, the first game of the 2014-2015 season for the Pacers.

The first game of the NBA had started the day before, the Spurs defeated the Mavericks 101-100, the Pelicans defeated the Magic, and the Los Angeles Lakers, who had attracted much attention, lost to the Houston Rockets by 3 points at 102-105 after getting the champion Wiggins, and lost the first game.

Wiggins scored 17 points in a single game in his NBA debut, shooting more than 50 percent from the field, and overall it was still very good.

But Los Angeles fans are disappointed to find that compared with the No. 56 rookie back then, this talented champion show seems to be missing something.

Game 29 is Game 2, with the Pacers hosting the 76ers.

On the outer wall of the Conseco Arena, a huge poster of Li Liang hangs.

This is a huge poster sponsored by Under Armour, which is close to the James poster in Cleveland in size, which Nike made for James.

It can be seen from this that Li Liang and James cannot coexist.

Nike hung a poster of James, how could it be possible to let Under Armour hang Li Liang again?

And Li Liang saw that his subordinates could get a huge portrait of the defeated generals, why can't I?

The contradictions within this cannot be reconciled.

When it comes to the Pacers, everything is solved.

No matter how long Li Liang stays here, he is the king of the yellow robe in the Indiana cornfield this season!

The game kicked off at 7 p.m. ET, and after the opening ceremony, Li Liang and his new teammates took to the stage.

Wearing a Pacers jersey, he looks full of energy and strength from top to bottom.

Fans can see that Li Liang's figure is stronger, and he is already close to LeBron James.

In comparison, the 76ers' lineup is more pitiful, a proper and rotten lineup.

The starting center was Li Liang's younger brother Noel, who returned from injury this season after a season of reimbursement and started the first game of the season, and then met the Kentucky senior......

In addition to that, there is power forward Simms, and the other three are Chris Johnson, Hollis Thompson and Tony Roten.

And the Pacers' lineup is actually not much better, George Hill and David West are both out due to injury, so the starting power forward is Louis Scola and point guard Donald Sloan.

Stephenson was placed in the starting lineup by Bird, and this kid made a fuss for a summer, and Bird still had to give him some sweetness.

At the same time, Bird listened to Mike Brown's "slander", saying that letting Li Liang take Stephenson to fight would help improve Finson's IQ and cure his temper by the way.

In the team's practice yesterday, when Li Liang ran over Finson to score under the basket, Stephenson began to realize that this could be someone he couldn't challenge.

So after the game started, Stephenson took the cancer form of the preseason and began to take his support seriously and hand over the ball to Li Liang as he did in his rookie season.

Li Liang is no longer hiding, what is hiding?

I'm in a showdown!

Lao Tzu has practiced holding the ball this summer!

The first goal of the opening game, after the continuous transmission of the ball on the outside, Li Liang took the ball in a high position and shook it, and held the ball on the left side to break through!

He used his shoulders and arms to push past Johnson, go straight to the basket, and then make a close-range pull-up jump shot!

Hit the board and get two points!

Noel tried to come up to block, but he was not used to Li Liang's routine of stopping jump shots from close range after bursting in, so he didn't find the right direction to make up the defense at all, and saw the two-point score.

On the sidelines, Mike Brown stood up and applauded, shouting "Suddenly beautiful!" ”

He wanted to shout "I taught me"!

Mike Brown did help Li Liang with ball-holding training in the summer, but his ability to practice actually has something to do with your sister!

On the 76ers' side, Luo Teng galloped to the basket and broke through with a quick counterattack.

In the absence of George Hill, the Pacers have one less line of defense in the backcourt.

And Hibbert's footsteps obviously couldn't keep up, and he was thrown away by Luo Teng by half a body, and the result was a layup.

Both sides of the opening game scored one point each with a simple break.

The Pacers are a more tactical and disciplined team on the offensive end, though.

Subsequently, Li Liang once again held the ball in the high post, and the 76ers obviously strengthened their defensive attention to Li Liang, Li Liang passed the ball to Scola at 45 degrees in the ribs, and Scola received the ball and made a mid-range jumper.

Li Liang's role with the Pacers has changed from his time with the Clippers.

He's kind of back to what he was when he was with the Lakers.

It's just that he doesn't need to hold the ball in the Lakers, and when it comes to the Pacers, he continues to hold the ball and has to do the response point, and his task is even heavier.

It's a superstar journey.

If there is anything worth "criticizing" about Li Liang's experience in the first two years, it is that the so-called "leading the team alone" ability has not been well displayed.

The Lakers and Clippers have always been big men with the ball, and the lineup is very good, and Li Liang always gives people a feeling of icing on the cake.

Now that it's time for the Pacers, he's finally able to show what it means to lead a team.

The first rule of the ability to lead the team is that you have to be able to scold people.

After Scola shot the mid-range, Li Liang began to shout for the whole team to retreat.

Hibbert's pace seems to be slower this season than before, like a giraffe, and it's a struggle to run back.

The 76ers played a quick transition again, a Hibbert, a Scola, and they couldn't defend themselves at all.

It was Li Liang who took the lead in returning to the defense, blocking the 76ers' counterattack in the middle, allowing Luo Teng to come around and restart the positional battle.

"Run! Run, y'all of you! I can't run before the race starts! “

Li Liang yelled at the others as he returned to his defensive position.

The Pacers' defensive habits are still there, even without last season's three big men.

And they have Li Liang, the all-purpose glue.

The Pacers' defensive system isn't complicated, it's just resolute man-to-man.

It's just that Hill and West are not there, and Hibbert is slipping, causing them to collapse a little, and Li Liang must stand up and wipe his ass.

In the end, Luo Teng missed a mid-range pull-up jump shot, and Li Liang won the backcourt rebound.

In the Clippers, the ball should be rushed.

And the Pacers are a team that plays slow-paced, positional battles.

Controlling the tempo, keeping the score down, relying on defense and attacking in the low post is their style.

So, Li Liang rushed ......

Li Liangcai doesn't care about the slow pace and positional warfare, he has his own understanding of the battle situation.

Can you rush, why not?

The 76ers' defense is not very poor, at least not bad, and there is no targeting.

Noel ran quickly, but he didn't look at people and ran with his head bored.

Li Liang held the ball and rushed all the way from the backcourt, and then went straight to the basket for a layup.

Noel shook his head and tried to defend, but he didn't keep up at all......

Young man, you can't just run back, you have to keep an eye on people.

Li Liang's rugby running style of play made the fans of the Conseco Stadium enthusiastic!

This is Indiana, it's a city of sports, it's a city of racing.

They love speed, they love passion, and in India, the NFL Colts are much more popular than the Pacers, because football is more insanely passionate and impactful.

Although Li Liang's ball was not dunked in, he was afraid of dunking off, but he ran all the way from the back to the front, this kind of impact and sense of speed cannot be replaced by a slow positional attack.

The enthusiasm of the fans in the stadium was ignited at once.

The 76ers wanted to play against the Pacers, but Li Liang directly [Death Entanglement] broke the ball from Luo Teng's hand, and then smashed into the basket and dunked!

Li Liang's [Death Coil] has been upgraded to LV3, and he can still use it twice per game, but the success rate is higher than before.

The entire Conseco Arena cheered, and Indiana fans knew they were blessed this season.

And Larry Bird sat on the sidelines and watched quietly, thinking to himself, Bruce Lee is not playing according to the team's tactical routine.

But it doesn't matter, I don't have any routines anyway, so I'll just pretend to have a routine.

Bird thought so, and felt that his brain was light.