Chapter Ninety-Five: Lying Down

Since the establishment of the NBA, Li Liang was the first to dare to scold Fakesa to the small boss on the first day of training.

To say that he does not regret it later? There must be a little.

After all, he has always been a very elegant and easy-going person.

Although he will have a cheap mouth with acquaintances and friends, and will squirt with a hair dryer, he rarely swears.

This time he suddenly exploded rudely, ruining his elegant and easy-going image, can he not regret it?

As for Bass Jr. threatening him and saying that he would not be allowed to play, Li Liang didn't care at all.

The son of the Lao Tzu system, step by step, steady and steady, slowly progressing.

Strength is king on the basketball court, as long as you have strength and stay healthy, you can definitely play the ball.

Besides, the contracts are all signed, and there are guarantee clauses, which can guarantee 80% of the salary.

If you trade me, that's fine, I'll change teams and keep playing.

If you lay me off, there are a lot of teams staring at Li Liang, and Zhu Shu has a lot of scouts there.

If you don't let me play, then see when you Lakers win.

Li Liang felt that it would be difficult to win with Princeton's Lakers.

Therefore, Li Liang quickly corrected his mentality.

Anyway, I'm scolded, just play well.

In the next few days of the training camp, Li Liang was unexpectedly left out in the cold.

There are media opening hours every day, and except for Wei Dazhi, who closely surrounds Li Liang, other reporters ignore Li Liang.

Almost every player on the Lakers has been interviewed by reporters, even Morris and Nelson.

Li Liang was ignored.

While he has a lot to ask about him, Jim Buss has openly and secretly said hello to media friends and left this guy alone.

Li Liang was happy to be quiet, took the training seriously, and practiced more after the training camp every day.

The media ignores Li Liang, which does not mean that the Lakers' players and coaching staff ignore Li Liang.

After a few days of joint training, the Lakers coaching staff and trainers found that Li Liang has solid basic skills, trains hard and seriously, and is also very nice.

He has a cheerful personality and is not stingy at all, and spends his money generously.

He is very knowledgeable, speaks English secretly, and chatting with him feels like watching a talk show.

After all, he graduated from a prestigious school, and as long as he is willing, there is no problem at all in dealing with people.

Unlike some people, who graduated from high school, have a cold personality, and suffer the loss of being uneducated.

If he hadn't played basketball well, he would have been swept out of the house a long time ago.

Everyone didn't understand why Li Liang behaved so low in EQ on the first day of the signing conference and training camp.

Mike Brown forgave Li Liang for his rudeness, and the two later chatted privately.

Brown said playing Princeton was not his idea alone, but a decision made by the coaching staff.

It can be seen that Mike Brown also doesn't really want to play Princeton, which is not what he is good at.

Li Liang understood that there must be little Bass behind him, and he didn't say anything more.

It's meant to complete the mission.

As for the prize for the quest [Bill Simmons History Book Title Page], it is still unknown what it is for.

From October 1st to 7th, Li Liang participated in every tactical training of the team.

As Mike Brown said, the Lakers are really going to play Princeton tactics in the new season.

This tactic has long been famous in the league and is a favorite in the mouths of "old-school fans".

Some commentators also turn to Princeton when they see the reverse run and air cut.

Passing, sharing, cutting in the air, running back, has become Princeton's label.

Princeton has also become synonymous with teamwork and reasonableness.

But what is the NBA?

It is the place where heroism is rampant and miracles are born.

Sitting on five heroes, fighting civilian tactics, how to practice and how to feel awkward.

Li Liang followed Brown's advice and improved his passing ability, which he felt was good in training.

Other players, like Gasol, can also adapt because of their ability to play high positions.

But the top of the high arc isn't Gasol's favorite position.

The low and horn positions are where he belongs.

And in the lower post, they also have Howard.

No matter how you look at it, Warcraft doesn't look like Princeton's fodder.

Yao Ming is reluctant to play Princeton in the Rockets, how can Howard, who is more inward-looking, play?

On the defensive line, Princeton requires point guards to have good off-ball ability.

Can Nash play without the ball? Then you might as well let Nash play football.

As for Kobe, he was relatively silent throughout training camp.

Except for some routine interviews and official remarks, he did not make any special remarks.

He just buried his head in training, and Kobe Bryant didn't say anything about Mike Brown's tactical arrangements.

It can be seen that Kobe Bryant has great expectations for the new season.

Before Howard arrived in the summer, Bryant said he was in favor of Princeton's tactics.

He felt that he was old and needed a system to support him.

However, after two days of training, the situation does not seem to be as good as imagined.

Whether Princeton is suitable for the team or not, you will know only when you play the game.

In addition, the team's other players, such as newcomers Jamison, Meeks, Dujon and others, did not show any opposition to the coaching staff's tactical arrangements, but they also did not seem to be enthusiastic.

After all, this kind of team-oriented tactics doesn't make much sense to them as mercenaries and marginal people.

Because they don't know how long they can stay in this team and whether they can stay forever.

They want to get good stats on the pitch, play good offense and get capital for their next contract.

What team is not a team, take off this purple and gold coat, there is no team that is not a team.

In short, the six-day Lakers training camp was stumbling and undercurrent.

In the eyes of the media and fans outside, the Lakers are waiting for a storm and are preparing to sweep the league.

Princeton is even more blown in the sky and on the earth, what liberates Kobe, kneades the team, and brings out the best effect of Nash.

There is also the cliché topic of surpassing the 72 wins of the Bulls in '96, which has also been brought to the table.

Every time a super team is formed, or a team is in full swing at the beginning of the season, the topic is turned up.

But in the end, there wasn't even a team that was close to 70 wins, let alone over 72 wins.

In this noisy and chaotic public opinion environment, Li Liang stayed out of the matter and spent 6 days of training camp.

That Fark squid caused him trouble, but the Lakers didn't seem to mean to move him.

Listening to Brown, it seems that old Bass suppressed Jim Bass and did not allow him to move Li Liang.

This old man is still a businessman who understands, but unfortunately God has not much time left for him.

In addition to team training, Li Liang continued to learn the skills of hitting the ball with John Johnson during his mission.

Passing tasks take a lot longer to complete than the previous defense.

Defensive tasks, sometimes clever and can be passed in one or two times.

Passing tasks, without first playing twice to get acquainted with teammates, go out to read the data and watch videos, even at the rookie level, are difficult to complete.

Some of the game materials and videos are still difficult to find, so you can only explore them little by little.

The process was both hard and interesting, and Li Liang felt more and more the breadth and profundity of basketball.

So much so that he doesn't play games with Zhu Shu much recently, and he can't beat her anyway.

This caused Zhu Shu to be a little bored, and while being Bai Xiaoting's model, she began to think about looking for new players.

On October 7, the NBA preseason kicked off.

This is an opportunity for teams to run in their rosters before the start of the NBA regular season.

Like Summer League, the Lakers' first game against the Golden State Warriors was again.

The venue of the game is located in the middle of the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles, in the heart of the rescue city of California State University, Fresno, and the time is set for 6 p.m. on the 7th.

The Lakers were all out and arrived at the rescue center by car.

Of the 20 players in the squad, 19 are available.

Only Howard is still on the injury list, and he is wearing civilian clothes to watch the game today.

After arriving at the game, the Lakers received a lot of attention from reporters and fans.

Kobe, Nash, Howard, Gasol, Ci Shiping, everyone has a bunch of people in front of them.

This is the first time that the LA Galaxy battleship has appeared in an official competition after it was successfully formed.

Even though it's only a preseason, and even though there's no Warcraft, fans still want to see what the Lakers are capable of in the game.

Is it as the fans imagined, "I didn't use my strength before the opponent fell." ”

Their opponents, the Golden State Warriors, were a little cold and not much attention was paid to them.

When Li Liang was warming up, he felt that people on the warrior's side kept looking at him.

Like Harris Barnes? The two got together in the summer league.

The game is about to begin.

The Lakers, on their side, lined up the starting lineup of Tzu Shiping, Kobe, Nash, Gasol and Thackeray.

Because Warcraft can't play, the Lakers center position is left with Thackeray to use, and there is indeed a shortage of people on the inside.

On the Warriors' side, Aizeli, Jack, David Lee, Brandon Rush plus Klay Thompson.

Their point guard Curry was not on the roster due to injury.

Before the start of the game, the Lakers brought too many people, 20 people, 14 people on the bench, and they couldn't sit on the bench.

As a result, Li Liang was assigned by the coaching staff to sit on the floor next to the bench.

He was no longer qualified to sit on a stool and take care of the water dispenser.

Li Liang snorted coldly, and said in his heart, this little trick wants to suppress me?

It's okay to sit on the floor, Lao Tzu just lies on the ground and watches the game!

He took a long towel and spread it on the floor, lay on it, and held his head up to watch the game.

Once the game started, the Lakers dominated the court.

Kobe Bryant played fiercely, and he held his breath one summer.

In the first quarter, he kept leading the team's offense, shooting himself and helping his teammates make the ball.

However, he has an average feel, the hit rate is not high, and the iron is loud.

Needless to say, the Los Angeles Steel Plant is back in business from today.

In the first quarter, the Lakers led the Warriors by 9 points at 26-17.

Li Liang did not get a chance to play.

In the second quarter, the Warriors began to fight back, and the two sides played more and more smoothly.

Bryant has been rested off the court and has not played much.

Mike Brown is like a spectacle, letting the players appear one by one.

By half-time, almost everyone had their wheels in turn.

Except for Li Liang.

He had been lying on the floor, and Brown had no intention of waking him up.

In the second half, the Lakers began to play as a pure bench.

This is the Lakers in the summer league, or there is no Li Liang's, and they play badly.

He scored 10 points in the first quarter of the game and was beaten 37-10 by the Warriors.

A little lead in the first half was lost in the second half.

The fourth quarter was even worse, the score gap was so big that it was impossible for Brown to replace the main force to chase the score.

The Warriors were also off the bench, but the benches included Barnes and Carl Landry, who each scored 13 points.

What about the Lakers?

Jordan Hill scored 10 points, leaving one cadre and none of them scoring in double figures.

As for Li Liang, he was still lying on the floor, and he just lay down like this for a whole game!

At 83:110, the Lakers lost to the Golden State Warriors in this game.

For Li Liang, this may be "lying down".

After the game, he got up straight from the ground and left the pitch without looking back and went back to the locker room.

In contrast, the Lakers' bench was full of laughter.

Howard wears a small brown vest, ******, and sits on the bench.

During the game, the camera captured his big white teeth more than once, and even took the other players to laugh with him.

They cheered on a crotch pass from Nash and a standing dunk from Thackeray.

Although they lost by almost 30 points in the end, no one cared.

At the end of the game, everyone had a smile on their faces.

Preseason, play.

Howard, who did not appear on the stage, even made a cameo appearance as a guest commentator in the commentary seat.

A star who is good at entertainment, coming to the entertainment capital, no matter how you look at it, it is a match made in heaven.

In this game, Li Liang did not get a minute to play.

The other 18 people, even those on the fringes of short contracts, slipped around twice.

Li Liang had been mentally prepared for this, but after watching the team's performance, he shook his head: The Lakers' victory may really be later than expected.