On May 27, the fourth game between the Spurs and the Clippers.

Before the start of the game, Zhu Shu rushed from Los Angeles to San Antonio to watch Li Liang's game.

Zhu Shu knows that this game is crucial for Li Liang and the Clippers, and if they lose again, the Clippers will face a desperate situation of falling behind 1:3.

The pre-game public opinion situation was very unfavorable for the Clippers.

The Spurs' two consecutive big wins have made the wallgrass start to look at the Spurs.

Especially in the third game, the Spurs slaughtered the Clippers by 30 points at home, which made people see the extreme of team basketball offense.

Even Li Liang admitted in his heart after the game that if the Spurs could play the third game every game, the Clippers might not be able to defeat them.

But Li Liang knows that 70 percent shooting in the half of the game cannot be replicated, just as his 100 percent shooting rate in a single game cannot be replicated.

He needs to find a new way to win.

Before the start of the game, outside the stadium, Li Liang got off the bus and entered with his teammates.

Zhu Shu ran over and tied a red and blue braided string to Li Liang's wrist, which was very delicately woven and had a sense of design, not like a stall.

"What is this? I'm not a high school student anymore, why do I still wear this? ”

"This was designed by Xiaoting, and then I made it up and gave it to you...... Heck, I just want to bring you some luck. ”

The expression on Zhu Shu's face was a little embarrassed when she spoke, after all, this thing is really quite a student.

When I was in junior high school and elementary school, girls liked to engage in these moths the most.

Li Liang is the most valuable player in the NBA, and it is indeed a bit naïve to give him this.

However, Li Liang knew that this was Zhu Shu's sincere intention, and as an otaku, she couldn't think of any other way to encourage herself.

Li Liang knows that the current public opinion situation is indeed putting great pressure on people.

After falling behind 1:2, he made controversial remarks after the third game.

This wave of remarks successfully harvested a wave of anger for Li Liang, but what Li Liang needed most at this time was not anger, but victory.

In the past, "everyone loves Bruce", and now many people hope that Li Liang has failed.

This phenomenon is very normal, because the fans are all about the new and the old.

Last year, Li Liang was a rookie, full of freshness, and brought surprises to fans all the way to the championship.

In the second season, he switched to the Clippers, first with a batch of Lakers' sunspots, and then because of the Clippers' consecutive victories, with 70 wins, and another wave of sunspots - the strongest always has to bear the most criticism.

Coupled with the use of racial discrimination in the middle of the season, he showed off Xiao Hua and the entire NBA, which further polarized Li Liang's reputation in the United States.

If you can win all the time, no one will dare to beep more.

But once you lose, or show your decline, demons and monsters will pop up.

Even in China on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, there are a lot of black Li Liang, but Li Liang's fans will still occupy an overwhelming advantage.

But Chinese fans are also very worried about how the Clippers will come out of adversity in the Western Conference Finals.

Li Liang put the braided rope that Zhu Shu gave him on his wrist, and then entered the AT&T center with his teammates.

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The game started sharply at seven o'clock in the evening.

The air conditioning in the stadium was finally repaired, and the temperature in the stadium was maintained in a comfortable state, but the atmosphere of the fans was enthusiastic.

San Antonio fans are undoubtedly lucky to have been able to watch the playoffs on their doorstep for more than a decade.

The Spurs have become a symbol of the city, and from their current state, they could be powerful for years.

Such a deep foundation is enough to make any team feel intimidated.

In the history of the playoffs for more than ten years, there are indeed many amazing teams and players who have been stifled by the black and white Spurs to continue their dreams.

The Denver Golden Twins, the Seattle Twins, the Phoenix Suns, including the former Los Angeles Clippers.

This team is strong, stable and "ruthless" on the field, and their low profile makes it easy for people to underestimate their strength.

Standing on the court, the Clippers players looked a little lacking in confidence.

To be honest, the 30-point slaughter in the third game was indeed quite fatal to the players' confidence.

And after Li Liang said "I didn't lose when the team lost", although the big guy bowed his head to the ball bully and apologized to the ball bully, he was confident that he would not come back because of the apology.

What really brings confidence back is the performance on the pitch.

Rivers sat on the bench and drank water before the game began, and he was also nervous, and he didn't know the bottom of his heart.

He made a lot of targeted arrangements before the game, but he always found it difficult to implement them.

The Clippers are a team that plays "morale" ball, and once the morale is lost, it is really not easy to get hard again.

Mike Brown was even more drumming in his heart, and he always thought that Li Liang should not have said that sentence after the game.

"There are some things that you can only keep in your heart and let others say them for you, such as your fans, how can you say them yourself?"

Brown felt that Li Liang's remarks were too bizarre and harmful to the team and teammates.

Of course, now the only person they can trust is Li Liang.

Everyone, including Clippers fans and the Clippers' coaching staff, is looking forward to Li Liang's explosion on the offensive end and being able to save the day with a high score like last year's Finals.

Popovich and the Spurs are of course also on guard, Popovich has formulated several defensive plans before the game, ready to use the "eye-catching" method, must block Li Liang's most terrible gun.

However, the process of the game did not go according to people's expectations, but according to Li Liang's assumption.

In the first quarter of the game, the two sides played 18:22, and the Clippers led the Spurs by 4 points to end the first quarter.

The Spurs had an unexpected five turnovers in the first quarter, and the Clippers pressed the tempo very hard, and the two sides actually started a defensive battle.

The Clippers' offensive dominance returned to Paul, and Li Liang took over on the defensive end.

He, along with Barnes and Jordan Jr., formed a defensive barrier in the frontcourt, and suppressed Duncan, Leonard, and Tony Parker in the first quarter.

No one would have imagined that the Clippers would suddenly use high-intensity defense to strangle the Spurs.

Popovich didn't expect that after watching the first quarter of the game, his mind was a little messy, and the Clippers' defensive literacy felt a little high?

Not only was it intense, but it also created defensive traps several times, luring Leonard, Green and others deep into the basket, and then either offensive fouls, steals or hats.

Li Liang played the full first quarter and scored only 5 points, but contributed a wonderful defense.

He sat in the middle of the defensive end, commanded calmly, and the whole team's defense was methodical and leaky.

No matter how the Spurs pass the ball from the outside, the Clippers can fill in the gaps with a fast pace.

And the referee also took care of this game, Li Liang caused the opponent's offensive foul twice in the first quarter, which caused the fans to boo again and again.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Li Liang sat on the sidelines to rest, and Paul led the second lineup on the court.

This time, Rivers changed the player rotation and no longer let Griffin lead the second team alone, as before.

Rather, it is guaranteed that Li Liang and Paul have one person on the field at all times.

The Clippers' lineup is indeed deep, but in the face of the Spurs' more tacit bench group, they also have to reduce the rotation and let the main team play longer.

In fact, before the game, Rivers' arrangement was not to play a slow-paced defense, of course, he emphasized the need to strengthen the defense, but still hoped that the Clippers could play to their offensive advantages.

But the Clippers were really good defensively in the first quarter.

A few times the bag clamp and set traps are quite beautiful.

Rivers looked at Mike Brown next to him and thought to himself, Coach Brown really has a knack for tuning defense.

Brown lifted his glasses and thought, didn't you teach them such advanced defensive strategies?

The Clippers have always been relatively simple and straightforward in their defensive strategy, after all, they are an offensive team.

The defense does not collapse, and it is enough to have enough tenacity.

Tonight they defended rather targeted and aggressive.

Li Liang looked at Brown, who looked demented, and thought to himself, "Damn, it's not Lao Tzu's props!"

Before the start of the game, Li Liang equipped himself with runes that were different from the past, in addition to retaining the [Feeling Rune], he also used [Defensive Trap], [Defensive Strength], [Tactical Crack] and [Prediction Rune].

Among them, the [Defensive Trap] rune can provide teammates with defensive bonuses, which is simply an aura of intelligence improvement.

Therefore, a guy like Little Jordan, who is prone to heat up on the defensive end, performed very calmly today, and he was able to understand Li Liang's command and kept making tactical fouls.

Although the percentage increase of five runes is only 7.5%, in the extremely high-level NBA arena, any slight improvement can make a significant difference in the scene.

Although the Clippers did not comprehensively suppress the Spurs, they could bring back the team's morale and confidence through defense in the first quarter.

By the second quarter, with a solid lead, the Clippers players played smoothly under Paul's leadership.

Paul is actually very restrained by the Spurs in terms of style of play, with precise mid-range and tricky playmaking, and moving back and forth in the weak areas of the Spurs defense, which can always cause problems for the Spurs.

In the 2008 playoffs, the Spurs were too old-fashioned, otherwise the Hornets could have achieved more that year.

At the end of the first half, the Clippers were 49-44, leading the Spurs by five points.

The two sides did not score more than 100 points in the half, which is very rare.

At halftime, Rivers frantically poured chicken soup on the players in the locker room, asking the whole team to maintain the intensity of defense and defeat opponents with defense.

"There's nothing like beating them with the defense that our opponents do best, and there's no better way to show how strong we are!"

Rivers' remark actually comes from the San Antonio media.

In the third game, the Spurs bloodied the Clippers with crazy offense and three-point shots, and after the game, the local media "San Antonio News Speed Reading" in San Antonio used this sentence to comment on the game, proving that the Spurs beat the Clippers in the way of the Clippers.

And defense has been a long-standing tradition for the Spurs.

Wouldn't it be nice to give Spurs a taste of tradition?