In this game, the Kings and Li Liang had already played quite well, but they still lost.

In an interview after the game, Li Liang said: "I said, it was a good game, and then, we have improved compared to before, we will do better. ”

Regarding losing, Li Liang has been able to treat it calmly, even if it is a loss to the Warriors.

He doesn't need to heal himself with [Tim Duncan's head touch] anymore, nor does he need to go to the bathroom to take a shower, but after returning to the locker room, he will discuss and summarize the process and results of this game with the players and coaches.

There was no doubt that the Kings lost defensively tonight.

The excellent Little Bee defense, in the face of sharp offense, passers, and three-pointers are all historic Warriors, loses its effect.

In fact, it is not much use to change to other defenses.

In the absence of James, high-intensity pressing, squeezing the passing line, especially the point of storming Curry - attacking both ends of the offense and defense together, consuming Curry, will have a good effect.

As a result, with James, these defensive strategies all failed.

And because of James, Li Liang can't abuse Green anymore.

Without this natural misplaced duel, Li Liang's advantage on the court would be one less cut.

Coupled with Kerr's resolute multiple defenses against Li Liang, Li Liang, who did not have a superstar teammate, could not withstand it.

It can be said that the Warriors used a fairly perfect play to defeat Li Liang and the Kings.

For this result, Li Liang is actually still acceptable, and it is impossible to win every game.

More importantly, through this game, Li Liang found a lot of problems in the team from the perspective of the head coach.

In addition to defensive issues, like Cousins' emotional problems.

In the fourth quarter, his fouls and technical fouls can be regarded as a turning point in the game.

Since then, the Kings have fallen behind in the score and have never been able to flip around.

After Li Liang replaced him, he never let him play again, and used West to play the whole game.

In the locker room, Cousins apologized to his senior, promising that he would keep his temper in check.

Li Liang did not scold and criticize anyone, but said: "We played well tonight, but the momentum is not on our side, I hope everyone can remember this defeat." It's still the same sentence, whoever laughs last will laugh the sweetest. ”

As a coach, you have to take a long-term view and look at the team's form throughout the season.

You can't just look at the momentary gains and losses.

If it is a strategic person, it will look further and see the foundation and construction of a whole team.

Of course, Li Liang doesn't need to, because he himself is the cornerstone.

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The loss to the Warriors didn't stop the Kings from moving on.

Although they lost the game, the Kings did not lose morale.

On the contrary, the course of the game proved that the Kings were no worse than the Warriors.

The two sides definitely have a battle in the playoffs.

After the winning streak ended, the Kings followed suit to meet the challenge of the Eastern Conference team.

On Feb. 6, the Kings defeated the visiting Chicago Bulls at home.

On Feb. 8, a battle of the spotlight, the Kings faced the Boston Celtics at home.

After the Celtics got James Harden, their strength has been qualitatively improved.

In the recent All-Star Game vote, Harden received a large number of votes, putting him in first place in the East.

The East finally has their new king, and James still has it in his name.

However, in order to get this James, the Celtics also made a comeback at a great price.

Aegie really wanted to keep Bradley to assist Harden and send Thomas Jr. to the Rockets.

It's a pity that the rocket management is not stupid, after all, he is also Anji's apprentice.

Thomas Jr. has a large overlap with Harden in terms of function, and the overall strength and height are a notch worse than Harden.

However, his scoring ability this year is really strong, and his personal form is excellent.

After Stevens put him on the bench, he still averaged nearly 20 points per game.

As for the starters, Stevens replicated the previous model, with four people defending, putting the burden of offense on Harden's shoulders and completely unleashing Harden's firepower.

After coming to the Celtics, Harden's scoring began to soar.

30 points, 35 points, 38 points, 48 points, he has full right to fire.

In the East, where the overall strength is a cut behind, Harden's ability has been fully unleashed.

However, when it comes to the full release of ability, no one understands it better than Li Liang.

Li Liang has won a single-core championship with the Pacers.

No one knows what a single core is better than I do.

How to deal with a single core?

Pinch the nucleus.

So, in this game on February 8, the bees buzzed, and the Kings' "swarm" defense frantically stabbed Harden.

This trick doesn't work much for the Warriors, but it relies heavily on Harden for offense, and the others don't have too strong attacking power for the Celtics, which is really useful.

Harden is already a big turnover, and when most of the offense starts from him, the Kings' hornet-like stinging defense is very annoying.

In the whole game, Harden had a whopping 13 turnovers!

Turnovers easily doubled, including five turnovers in the crucial fourth quarter.

The explosive power of this mistake is truly amazing.

The Kings also defeated the Celtics by 8 points 108-100 to win the battle of the spotlight.

After that, the Kings won four in a row against the Hawks and Pelicans, further cementing the second place in the West.

On February 14, he challenged the Lakers away, and the Kings were unexpectedly defeated.

The team was in pretty bad shape, and the Lakers were very good, and at Stamps, the Kings lost 91-115.

This is also the game in which Li Liang has lost the most points in the regular season in the past two years, exceeding 20 points.

However, on the 15th, people know why the king's state is so bad in this game, and why Li Liang's rotation is so bad.

They were preparing for back-to-back games against the Warriors on that day.

It doesn't matter if you lose to the Lakers, you can't lose to the Warriors again!

The game was played at Oracle Arena again, and the attention of the entire Kings team was very focused.

Sometimes away games, the players play more together.

The Kings' form has simply dropped from last season.

The Kings shot 10-of-15 from three-point range in the first half, with Gordon once again being the team's explosive point.

With Thompson focusing on Li Liang, Gordon held the ball a lot and shot 4-of-4 from three-point range on the counterattack, which deformed the Warriors' defense.

And Steve Cole is very stubborn, and he has really eaten too much Li Liang before, so he insists on continuing to put pressure on Li Liang.

Li Liang, as the head coach, expected this, and from the first quarter, he simply made the ball for his teammates and let his teammates shoot in a state.

10-of-15 in the first half and 7-of-12 in the second, the Kings hit 17 three-pointers in a single game!

Li Liang scored just 21 points in the game, but dished out 15 assists, four steals and two blocks.

Led the Kings to a complete victory over the Golden State Warriors at Oracle Organ, 121-113, and avenged the previous one-arrow revenge.

Prior to the All-Star break, the Kings had a 45-12 record, still trailing the Warriors and firmly occupying the second spot in the West.

Winning this game has greatly boosted the confidence of Li Hao and his Kings teammates.