Chapter 20: Mr. Tony
The game starts at eight o'clock in the evening.
FedEx Arena is already full of spectators, and even if there isn't much to watch, the Grizzlies' home court will still be full.
As a young team that only entered the NBA in the 90s, the Grizzlies who were in Vancouver earlier have been playing the role of fish belly, and the fish belly has reached the point where the selected rookies are reluctant to report over.
After coming to Memphis, the Grizzlies worked hard and finally improved in the past two years.
Last year's Black Eight and the seven battles in the semifinals allowed the Grizzlies to establish their own style and status as a strong team, and it is inevitable that their popularity will increase.
Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph were both unexpected surprises.
One is a head licker from a robbery deal, and the other is a prodigal fat man who has been criticized.
As a result, one played a performance that was not inferior to that of his brother Pau Gasol, and the other was reborn.
The black and white bear is becoming the team's signature.
Sure enough, as soon as the game began, the black and white bears began to ravage the inside line of the opponent Hornets.
Randolph started with a strong inside line, and Gasol did the axis in a high position, playing a board and a look.
Comparatively, the Hornets don't have a lot of rules, they are rotten anyway, and the players are playing as much as they can.
The Hornets opened with a large and four small lineup, although the inside line could not be prevented, but the outside firepower was good.
The Grizzlies scored two, and the Hornets threw a three-pointer from the outside.
The Grizzlies play at a slow pace, while the Hornets ride fast horses.
Their head coach, Mundy Williams, is a redeployer, and with 10 men in rotation anyway, anyone can go up and pick two shots.
In this way, the Hornets had a difficult fight with the Grizzlies in the first half.
But the scene is really not pretty, there are no star players, the pace is slow, and there are no exciting dunks, blocks or confrontations.
A lot of spectators are chatting, eating, playing with their phones, taking photos, and they don't really care about the situation on the field.
Li Liang and the others sat in a relatively backward position, Zhu Shu and Bai Xiaoting felt bored when they saw it, and soon one began to play with their mobile phones and the other began to take selfies.
Even Wei Dazhi felt that this competition was very boring, so he took out his mobile phone and began to take pictures, preparing to use the forum at night.
Only Li Liang watched very seriously with full attention, did not miss every offensive and defensive round, and occasionally took out his mobile phone to take pictures of his performance, taking pictures of what he thought was a good performance.
Zhu Shu saw that Li Liang was so serious, so she came up and asked, "You look so serious, is there anything so good-looking?" ”
Since Li Liang used the "self-cooked fragrance" on Zhu Shu, the relationship between the two is really the same as that of friends.
Zhu Shu, who originally had a shy personality, often talked to Li Liang.
Li Liangdao: "Of course it's good-looking, the layman looks lively, the insider looks at the doorway, I'm the one who wants to enter the NBA." ”
Zhu Shu nodded and said, "Well, then I believe you will be able to." ”
Li Liang turned his head to look at Zhu Shu, the thick pieces of eyes covered the brilliance in her eyes, and the braces in her mouth made her mouth a little protruding, but the small bridge of her nose could see a trace of redness.
Zhu Shu noticed Li Liang's eyes, and hurriedly turned his head back, Li Liang said: "Thank you, it's the first time that someone believes that I can enter the NBA." ”
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
In the second half, the situation on the court began to change, it is estimated that the coach trained the Grizzlies players in the locker room at halftime, and the Grizzlies strengthened their defense at the beginning of the third quarter.
Li Liang cheered up and began to carefully observe the Grizzlies' number one defensive gate on the outside - Tony Allen.
Although Tony Allen is only 193 tall, he is a relatively short defender, and his body is not particularly strong, but his defensive ability is recognized by everyone and is indeed strong.
A person with average physical fitness, who can be recognized as good on the defensive end, in addition to strong mental perseverance, the more important thing must be to have good defensive skills.
Watching a game live is different from watching a video, you can see more details.
Li Liang carefully observed the details of Tony Allen's defense, and substituted himself into the same scene as Tony Allen, imagining in his mind whether he could do the same as Allen.
"Keep the right distance with your footwork, you can't stop the interference in your hands, judge the opponent's tactical intentions, pay attention to the opponent from the moment you receive the ball, don't jump easily, and it's more important to break the rhythm than to block."
After watching a section, Li Liang summarized Allen's performance on the defensive end in his mind.
This is his own opinion, which is undoubtedly more impressive than listening to others, because every detail is supported by live pictures.
The Grizzlies really flipped the score in the third quarter, allowing the Hornets to score a total of 12 points in the whole quarter, playing an exaggerated score difference of 37:12, directly killing the game, and making the outcome no longer suspenseful.
In the end, the fourth quarter was reduced to garbage time, and the Grizzlies exchanged a typical Grizzly-style victory for the applause of the fans.
Tony Allen only had 4 points, 2 rebounds, and 1 assist, and his role on the offensive end was almost negligible, but the effect on the defensive end was quite good.
Especially in the third quarter, he curbed the Hornets' offense with the whole team and was a key figure in the team's victory.
Li Liang has gained something in this game, and he feels that his defensive awareness has improved a little bit.
However, real progress still depends on actual combat drills, and he can't wait to face off against rookie James in the evening.
After the game, the four of them returned to the hotel by car, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and Li Liang said that he was going back to take a shower and sleep.
Wei Dazhi said: "No, brother, what have you been doing lately, you go to sleep at every turn, what time did you wake up in the morning?" Sleeping again now? ”
Bai Xiaoting also said: "I watched the game with you at night, and now that I'm back, you have to accompany us, right?" ”
Li Liangdao: "How to accompany?" Going to the shower together? ”
Bai Xiaoting glared at Li Liang and said, "Accompany Zhu Shu to play games, she hasn't played games for two days, she must have itchy hands." ”
Zhu Shu hurriedly shook her hand when she heard this, and said, "No, no need, I'll just play by myself." If you're tired, go to sleep, that's okay. ”
When Li Liang heard it, he was energetic, Zhu Shu actually knew how to play games? Asked, "What game will you play?" ”
Zhu Shu said: "What... Any game will do. I'm usually more homely, and I don't like to make friends, so in addition to studying, I just play games. ”
"Dota, League of Legends, CS? Will it all? ”
"Well, these are all popular games, and they will be, and the unpopular ones will too... I'm going to fight StarCraft. ”
StarCraft is certainly not a cold game, but it was hot more than a decade ago.
Nowadays, there are basically no newcomers playing such a complicated game, let alone a girl.
Hearing Zhu Shu say this, Wei Dazhi also came to the heart, so the four of them decided to find an Internet café to play games together.
There aren't many internet cafes in the United States, but there are a lot of facilities near this hotel, and there is one not too far away.
So, the four of them went to the Internet café, and in 12 years, League of Legends was the most popular game in the Internet café, not only in China, but also in the United States.
Li Liang started playing games when he was in high school, and Warcraft 3, dota, and CS are all good players.
When I went to the United States to study, I slowly quit playing games because I was concentrating on basketball.
But Li Liang is really first-class in all aspects except for playing basketball.
He had never played the game League of Legends before, but today he came to play with Zhu Shu and others, and he understood after playing a computer AI: "This is similar to Dota, there is no denit, but the map is smaller, just fight more." ”
Li Liang got started very quickly, and soon he and Zhu Shu became a team Carry, beating people from all walks of life in the United States, and the opponent threw 20 shots.
Especially Li Liang and Zhu Shu walked down the road, one ADC and one auxiliary, and they developed after a while, killing all the way from the bottom road to the middle lane, and then killing from the middle lane to the upper road, killing the upper road and entering the wild area to kill, and the wild area grabbed a few waves and returned to the lower road to continue to develop, and the opponent was killed in 20 minutes.
I played for more than three hours until the early hours of the morning, played seven or eight games, and didn't lose a single one.
Although there is a factor of opponent comparison in it, it is enough to see that these two guys are indeed very powerful.
Zhu Shu stretched her waist, her face looked very satisfied, and said, "I've had enough fun today, let's go back, you two will drive tomorrow." ”
Li Liang said: "Wait a minute, it's so boring to just play this, don't you know how to fight Warcraft, let's have a game?" ”
Wei Dazhi said: "Isn't it, you, the competitiveness is up again?" And the girl is more serious. ”
"What's more serious, it's just to learn what's wrong? Girls who can play Warcraft are too rare, okay. ”
Wei Dazhi knows Li Liang, this person is very competitive in his bones.
The reason why he has been on basketball for so long, in addition to his love, is that he is not convinced.
If you are not convinced, you will not be able to fight well.
Zhu Shu saw that Li Liang was very persistent, so she agreed.
Li Liang used to be in China, when Warcraft was just emerging, he fought all over the school invincible.
He won the championship in a competition organized by an Internet café in the city, and was even invited to participate in the competition in the provincial capital.
He is indeed very talented, he can get started very quickly, and he can play two or three games with ordinary veterans, and he will be able to abuse him back later, and he will never lose again.
Later, because I was obsessed with basketball, I didn't continue on the road of e-sports, otherwise I might have played e-sports in a club in China today.
Warcraft is a game that is a duel between knights, and you can't rely on your teammates if you lose.
That's why it gradually declined, giving way to MOBA games.
After all, just like basketball, you can blame your teammates for losing a game for five people.
The team lost, but they didn't lose, it's all because their teammates are too rubbish.
Li Liang chose the Orc Clan.
As a fierce and obscene race among the four races, Li Liang has always been rigid and obscene, fierce and harassy.
And Zhu Shu chose the flexible Night Elf.
The battle map is EI, and Li Liang, who started with the Sword Master, chose to steal the blue fat man in the store at the beginning, and then robbed the treasure all the way, and harassed Zhu Shu from time to time to level up.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Shu's dark night was very stable, she started as a regular demon hunter, and quickly practiced the mercenary camp, and it was a single AC quick practice, and she quickly rose to the wind.
Li Liang's several harassments did not play a role, and they failed to stop Zhu Shu's pace of forming a blowing force.
EI This map has few leveling points, Li Liang is a bull head leveling, because he didn't play for a long time and made a mistake, and he practiced a big G, and the situation began to be a little unfavorable.
Then, Zhu Shu's three books gradually took shape, first came to dismantle Bo Li Liang's cave to let him get stuck in the population, and then took this opportunity to train the beastmaster to the third level.
Then firmly control the store, invincible, group complement all inclusive, and finally send a TK three times, and directly find Li Liang for a decisive battle.
In the case of many disadvantages, Li Liang wants to rely on operation and bull head shock wave to eat.
But Zhu Shu's operation is not bad at all, the sword saint has basically never come down from the sky, and the bird virtue is scattered very well and does not give the opportunity to rush to the waves.
In the end, when the bull head died at the hands of DH, Li Liang reluctantly played GG.
"I'm Gan Liliang, but I lost?"
Li Liang couldn't believe that Zhu Shu's level of demonic beasts was so high, it was simply a textbook blow, and Li Liang lost his temper.
Wei Dazhi laughed at Li Liang and said, "Hey, if you lose, you will lose, I won't play today, go back to sleep." If you want to win, you will have a chance in the future. ”
Li Liang saw that the time was not early, so he didn't drag Zhu Shu to continue, but he said: "I have written it down this time, I will definitely find it back later, you are not allowed to run." ”
Zhu Shu's face bloomed with a rare brilliance, and said, "Well, I won't run." ”