Chapter 100: The World Is Unpredictable
Howard's first game back on the court, the first time the five-star Lakers combined, was unveiled at the Stamp Center.
Since the completion of the trade in August, many fans are looking forward to this Lakers team shaking up the league.
Even if it's just a pre-season, I want to see what kind of power is going to be on the pitch, what kind of chemistry is going to happen.
In a normal preseason, attendance is generally less than 50 percent.
The stands are mostly empty, and some of the unattractive games are not even 30 percent.
However, this time, the attendance rate of the Staples Center reached 80 percent!
The stands were almost full, and the enthusiasm of the fans was evident.
In the first half, the Lakers did play well, changing the previous few games.
Kobe Bryant and Nash kept feeding Howard the ball.
Although Bryant was not very interested in Howard off the court, Bryant would never bring that emotion to the court.
No matter how much trouble he and O'Neill had back then, the game should join forces to kill all sides, and they will never be soft.
Compared to his peak season, Howard lost some weight due to injuries.
It looks like the inside dunk is not as powerful and unstoppable as it used to be.
After several failed matches, Howard finally received Kobe's breakthrough point and vigorously abused the basket!
Howard smiled brightly after the goal.
The opposite king was not intimidated by the strong lineup of the opponent.
Cousins's newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, no matter what Warcraft you are or not, Lao Tzu is a Warcraft!
Cousins has a delicate shooting touch that Howard doesn't have, sometimes shooting from the outside, sometimes dribbling strongly, and hitting back-to-back shots.
Howard also paid for a foul.
Li Liang looked at Howard's performance on the court, and said in his heart that injuries do have an impact on Warcraft, and the hardness and speed of the defense have declined compared to the past.
In the past, an insider wanted to eat Howard hard, and first weighed whether his weight and strength could squeeze Howard away.
Howard weighed 280 pounds at his peak, and the muscles in his upper body were like those of a bodybuilder.
But in the summer, Howard lowered his weight in order to reduce the burden on his back.
At the same time, the back injury affected the power of his muscles, and the defensive hardness was not as good as in the past.
In the first quarter, the two sides were 29:28, and the Lakers led the Kings by one point.
Howard scored eight points on 4-of-6 shooting and had a lot of fun on the offensive end.
This time, Brown has to let the starting lineup play an extra dozen.
Therefore, Li Liang did not get a chance to play until the middle of the second quarter.
At this time, the Lakers were 40:30 and had a 10-point lead over the Kings.
The system did not assign any tasks to Li Liang, and Li Liang played much more reasonably.
Defense, blocking, playmaking, open threes.
Brown watched from the sidelines, and his evaluation of Li Liang in his heart was getting higher and higher.
A good team player with a clear mind, a good defense, a three-point point and no ruins to the team.
Except for the occasional three-pointer and a constant chatter, he is really a good rookie.
Brown scratched his head, thinking to himself, how could such a player fall to the 55th pick and be picked up by the Lakers?
Moreover, it feels like he hasn't seen him for about two months, and his level has improved again?
Brown thought so, thinking that this time the Lakers could easily win it.
At halftime, Brown repeated his Princeton tactics.
He hopes that the players will play more with air cutting and reverse running, and play more beautifully.
As a result, it was over, and after the start of the second half, the Lakers fell into a scoring drought again.
Howard was confused about this Princeton tactic.
I'm a low-level monster, why do I have to go to a high-level strategy?
Gasol was even more uncomfortable.
Originally, Howard was not here, and he could still go to the low post and play one.
Howard played at the same time as him, and Gasol had to be in the high post.
Gasol's low-post offensive skills are useless.
High-post jump shots and three-pointers, people just know how to do it, not the guys who eat.
Li Liang sat on the bench and saw this, he couldn't help it, took out a hair dryer, and said to Brown beside him: "Coach, if you play Princeton again, you won't be able to sit still!" Kobe Bryant and Howard are both high school students and don't have a high level of education, so it's not difficult for you to let them play Princeton! ”
On the Lakers' bench, everyone else watched and pretended not to hear.
Li Liang dares to say this, I don't know why he, a rookie, often "criticizes" the team boss in the team.
Sometimes they say that Kobe Bryant came too early, sometimes they say that Nash you don't defend well, and sometimes they say that the coach is blind to command.
Not to mention scolding Fack Squid at the executive vice president, the boss's son.
But people just said it, and everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with it.
Of course, if Kobe and Howard heard it, they were afraid that they would not have smashed Li Liang's head with the ball.
"You take care of yourself, don't just point fingers, you play well on the court and care about me." Brown gave Li Liang a roll of his eyes and said.
Li Liang looked at Brown, and today he changed another pair of glasses, from rimless to black.
This guy is all focused on the frame of his glasses?
Later, Li Liang didn't get too many opportunities to play.
And the Lakers, who insisted on Princeton, 95:99, lost another game!
The much-anticipated debut of Warcraft ended with such a result.
Howard's stats were okay, with 18 points, 10 rebounds and 4 blocks.
His weight has dropped, but his defensive ability and bounce are still there, and he is still an insurmountable barrier on the inside.
It's a pity that on the offensive end, he really doesn't match the so-called Princeton at all.
Facing a large number of reporters in the locker room after the game, Howard, who has always loved to laugh, smiled a lot less.
thought that he could kill all sides and help the Lakers get back on track, but the performance was only unsatisfactory.
In the last two games, Li Liang didn't get much of a chance to play.
Brown stuck to the Princeton tactic.
The result was that in the last two games against the Clippers and the Kings, the Lakers lost all of them!
By October 25, the Lakers were 1-7 in eight preseason games.
Not only that, but the few games lost were ugly, the offense was constipated, and the defense couldn't keep up.
Many professional commentators and veterans have expressed concerns about the Lakers' performance in the new season.
Of course, there are also those who insist that the preseason is played casually, and the regular season is the real game.
In fact, what both sides said makes sense, the Lakers do have a strong book, but the Lakers do have problems.
Any team has strengths and weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses.
The key is to build on your strengths and avoid your weaknesses as a team.
However, the Lakers' coaching staff seems to have been playing on their weaknesses and avoiding their strengths.
Faced with a poor performance of Princeton's tactics, Brown was unmoved.
On the 27th, after playing the preseason, the Lakers took a three-day vacation.
The regular season will officially start on October 30, and Li Liang's NBA career is about to begin.
Li Liang didn't give himself a holiday, he went to the training gym in the morning to practice physical fitness for two hours.
After going home in the afternoon, I slept and went to the system for John Johnson to take classes.
After learning John Johnson's Ground Passing lesson, Li Liang brushed his [Basic Pass] to 38 and [Ground Pass] to 35.
When I woke up from the mission, it was already dinner time.
Zhu Shu and Bai Xiaoting came back from outside together.
Recently, Zhu Shu began to expand her business, saying that several players contacted her and wanted her to be an agent.
And Bai Xiaoting runs her clothing studio while auditing at the California Institute of the Arts, and she is busy like a spinning top every day.
Not to mention Wei Dazhi, a Los Angeles media expert, who is responsible for spreading the news of the Lakers to China.
Yahoo, Espn and the local Los Angeles Times are said to have been interested in taking him in.
However, Wei Dazhi listened to Li Liang's advice and did not agree for the time being, and continued to develop obscenely and increase his influence.
In short, all four are moving in a good direction.
In the evening, Zhu Shu made a sumptuous dinner to celebrate Li Liang's upcoming NBA journey.
Because the space is a bit small, the living room has been converted into a catwalk and a clothing studio.
So the four of them could only squeeze into the small square table in the kitchen to eat, and they couldn't put down the dishes.
Zhu Shu's cooking skills are really good, but Li Liang eats too much, and if he eats at home, Zhu Shu will have to be a breeder.
At the dinner table, everyone chatted about their career situation.
In more than half a year, everyone has grown a lot.
They were lucky enough to find their direction in life and work hard to move forward.
All this is more or less thanks to Li Liang.
Chatting and chatting, Li Liang talked about the recent situation of the Lakers.
He said he didn't quite understand why Mike Brown insisted on this tactic even though he knew Princeton was not suitable for the Lakers.
Wei Dazhi said that Brown has a hole in his brain, he has no tactics in the Cavaliers, and the Cavaliers coach is James.
Zhu Shu said that she didn't know much about basketball tactics, but she said that from the contact with the team, the general coaches are quite smart, but the management is not necessarily, and there is a possibility of brain-dead.
Li Liang felt that Brown should have been forced by Jim Buss, and there was no way but to listen to the boss.
Bai Xiaoting believes that Brown must be an anti-bone cub, deliberately embarrassing Jim Buss, carrying a red flag against the red flag.
The four of you said a word, and in the end, it became a quarrel between Li Liang and Bai Xiaoting.
They're like that, like Comi and Kohei.
No matter what the topic of discussion is, it can turn into a battlefield of black honey in the end.
"Stop arguing!" Wei Dazhi, who glanced at his mobile phone, suddenly shouted.
The three of them were startled and looked at Wei Dazhi.
Wei Dazhi held his mobile phone and said word by word: "Li Liang, that, Thunder, trade Harden, go to the Rockets." ”
Li Liang was stunned for three seconds and asked, "What did you say?" Did the Thunder trade Harden? ”
Wei Dazhi nodded: "Yes, the Thunder sent Harden away in exchange for Martin and Lamb." ”
Zhu Shu and Bai Xiaoting looked at the two of them and felt that their expressions were very wrong.
Zhu Shu said: "Harden, is it that black fat beard?" ”
Li Liang said: "That's right, black fat beard. Hehe, Thunder is really stupid. ”
Wei Dazhi said: "I can't see it, the detonator must have their considerations, I think Martin is also a good instant combat power, and the salary level of the Thunder is there, even if it only depends on Durant and Wei Shao......"
Wei Dazhi was still there to explain to the Thunder management, but Li Liang knew that the Thunder had made a big mistake nine times out of ten.
After the 2012 playoffs, I thought a new era was about to begin.
The talent on display in the Oklahoma City Thunder trio is astonishing.
This is perhaps an even more terrifying trio than the Spurs' GDP.
I didn't expect that because of a transaction, this era would change direction.
"The world is unpredictable, the world is unpredictable."