After an unexpected upset loss to the 76ers, the Pacers were followed by another upset on January 13.

They lost 109-113 at home to the Minnesota Timberwolves?

The Timberwolves have an outrageously poor record this season, with a 5-31 record before playing the Pacers.

If it can be reversed, it will be the first in the league, and now it can only be the first in the league.

Just such a team actually overturned the Pacers at Conseco Arena.

Because the Timberwolves' point guard Mo Williams ushered in a super explosion.

He felt like he was bursting tonight, scoring 52 points!

Because George Hill was out tonight due to injury, there was no one to care about Williams.

Williams' outburst led to an excellent performance for the entire Timberwolves team.

The Pacers couldn't hold the Timberwolves and lost at home.

really won the first place in the league and lost the bottom one, and the Pacers are really unstable.

Li Liang's performance in this game is still stable, but he doesn't seem to be in very good shape, and he doesn't play with any passion.

After the game, Bird saw that Li Liang was not in good spirits and asked him if he hadn't slept well since he went home.

Li Liang replied: "It's because I slept well, so I'm not in a good state." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Liang yawned again......

After Li Liang returned from Philadelphia, he began to do tasks in the system.

He first did the task of [Basic Defensive Ability on the Inside], increasing his ability from 50 to 60.

As a result, in the mission, he participated in Abdul-Jabbar's NBA debut in 1969 and prevented Abdul-Jabbar from scoring more than 20 points.

Li Liang came to the Detroit Pistons in the 1969 season, replacing Walter Bellamy, and on the first day of the mission, his scalp was numb by Abdul-Jabbar's hook, and he couldn't wait to rush up and give him an elbow.

The next day, it still couldn't stop Abdul-Jabbar from scoring more than 20, and in that game in history, Abdul-Jabbar easily cut down 29 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists.

Li Liang gritted his teeth, and on the day of the game, when he took a nap at noon, he took the risk of using the "self-explosion" method, and quietly dug a hole for the Detroit Pistons in the game, so that the Bucks led by more than 20 points early in the first half, and in the fourth quarter, Abdul-Jabbar just scored 20 points, and he stopped playing garbage time!

Relying on this "dirty" method, Li Liang successfully improved his [basic defensive ability on the inside] to 60 points.

It's hard, it's so hard.

For Li Liang, he has a congenital disadvantage to complete the task of the inside line.

After all, he didn't come from a center, and then he had to go to a historical game to fight against those excellent super insiders, and how could he not play some tricks?

In this way, although Li Liang was taking a nap, he actually consumed a lot of energy, and participated in the night game against the Timberwolves with dark circles under his eyes, but the opponent broke out and lost another game.

However, losing to weakness, Li Liang felt that it didn't matter.

I think that in the 72-win season of the Chicago Bulls, the 10 games they lost were lost to that kind of weak team.

It should be regarded as sending warmth, accumulating character and gathering the hearts of the people.

After the loss to the Timberwolves, the Pacers got two more days off.

Li Liang continued to upgrade his interior defensive ability.

First of all, what he needs to improve the most is [weak side defense], and now that McGee is not there, the Pacers' interior defense is in great demand.

Li Liang's current weak-side defense ability is only 20 points, and the defense he usually reflects in the game is all outside-line.

It's fast, and the enveloping ability is strong, but there is no basket protection, cap or something, and it doesn't have much skill.

The inside defense needs to be well predicted, intercepted in the air, and can be able to help defend at the same time, without leaving too much room for the opponent to pass and transfer.

Over the course of two days, Li Liang represented the 1962 Celtics and the 1966 Celtics respectively, replacing Bill Russell in the NBA regular season at the time, requiring him to block more than 5 blocks in two games and suppress opponents' three-second zone scores.

Although Russell is the greatest defensive center in history, the game in the 1960s was fairly straightforward for Li Liang.

The key is to represent the Celts again, damn it, if you fight a few more times, you have to mix the NPCs in the mission into good friends.

In this way, he played all the way to the game, and with the use of value-added agents, he raised his [Weak Side Defense] ability value to 40 points in two days.

On January 16, he played the Detroit Pistons, and this time Li Liang rested enough and made a big show at home.

He shot 7-of-11 from three-point range and scored 45 points in a single game, while contributing two blocks and 17 rebounds on the defensive end.

In the third quarter, Li Liang single-handedly blew up the Pistons, even if Jennings scored 37 points in the game, he couldn't prevent the Pacers from beating the Pistons 112-97 at home.

Of course, George Hill is still out with injury in this game, which leads to problems with the Pacers' No. 1 defense.

Li Liang's interior defense has improved, which is not very obvious in the two games.

Originally, defense is not like offense, there is the most important and conspicuous data display of scoring.

Sometimes just because a player has more blocks and more rebounds doesn't mean he's good defensively.

Fewer blocks and fewer rebounds doesn't mean he's worse defensively.

After winning the Pistons, the Pacers will embark on another road trip.

From January 17 to January 25, there will be five away games.

The opponents are the Hornets, Rockets, Hawks, Heat, and Magic.

The schedule is not too difficult, and these cities are all located in the southern part of the United States, which is equivalent to a week trip to the south.

Li Liang made a plan for himself, in a week's time, the game had to be played, and the task had to be done.

He wants to build himself into a good socialist center who can both attack and defend, and can be both inside and out......

No, Li Liang thought, I'm not a center, I'm not a center, I'm just here to help McGee top a cylinder.

After playing the game against the Pistons on the 16th, the Pacers flew to Charlotte overnight.

Because on the 17th they were going to play the Hornets back-to-back.

At this point in the season, it will be a huge test of the players' physical strength, energy and morale.

Many strong teams have been able to rely on inertia to get through this difficult period, and the players can still win back-to-back victories even if they are not in good form.

And the Pacers are clearly not strong enough because they are a single-core team.

A single-core team has only one core, just like an airplane with only one engine, and the failure rate will always be a little higher than that of a twin-engine aircraft.

Fly to Charlotte in the early morning, the players don't get up until noon, and in the evening they have to play games.

Facing Boss Joe's team, the whole Pacers team is not very in shape - except for Li Liang.

This product is really energetic, worthy of a man who is full of physical strength, energy and runes, and occasionally gets a bottle of Gatorade.

When the team's offense was sluggish to the extreme, except for Li Liang, the others only scored 1 out of 11 three-point shots.

Li Liang still scored 30 points, grabbed nine rebounds, and dished out four assists — fewer assists because his teammates really couldn't shoot.

Both sides contributed to a rather ugly game.

The Pacers scored 80 points in the game, while the Hornets were even lower, scoring 73 points.

At 80:73, the Pacers took a hard-fought win on the road.

The 80-point mark was also the lowest for the Pacers in a single game this season.

JR-Smith and Stephenson, the outside line is all kinds of iron, and Li Liang of iron feels that his ears are going to be deaf under the basket.

Hopefully they'll be able to finish the regular season and not in the playoffs.

After playing the Hornets, the Pacers moved to Space City to face the Rockets on the road.

The Rockets' performance this season is still very eye-catching, and in the West, except for the Warriors, it can be said that they are competing for dominance.

Teams such as the Rockets, Clippers, Trail Blazers, Grizzlies, and Lakers all performed well.

Among them, the Thunder fell behind because of Durant's injury and basically withdrew from the championship ranks.

The Clippers retain the championship heritage of last season, even without Li Liang, they still have strong strength.

After the ups and downs of the Lakers at the end of 14 years, from 15 years ago, with the recovery of Kobe's form and the gradual stabilization of Howard, the Lakers' record began to rise all the way, and slowly climbed to the sixth place.

The Trail Blazers and Grizzlies occupy the top spot in the Northwest and Southwest respectively.

After the failure of last season, the Rockets have regrouped, Harden is more mature, and his explosive power is stronger, as if he is a strong team in the West.

Every time Li Liang faces off against Harden, he will definitely be splashed, it depends on their acting skills.