Li Liang's series of operations made the Raptors at a loss.

Everyone's second lineup, substitute players, overdo it, come up and eat.

It's good for Thunder to hide the strongest person on the bench and come up and beat the children, is it appropriate for you?

Kessie had no choice, two minutes early, replaced the main lineup, Valanciunas, Scola and others all played early, and DeRozan, who originally led the second lineup, continued to rest off the court.

On the Thunder's side, Donovan still followed the normal rotation rhythm, and Durant and Adams continued to drink water off the court.

This is just the right time to help Donovan realize one of his strategies this season: that is, to reduce the use of Durant and Westbrook in the regular season to prepare for the playoffs.

The 28-year-old is in his ninth season in the league and has been plagued by injuries of all sizes in recent seasons.

The same is true for Westbrook, who also suffered a knee injury last season and has fortunately struggled to recover this season.

Prior to that, Westbrook had been known as an iron man and had never missed a game.

Basically, 7 years is a hurdle, and many injuries start to break out after playing for about 7 years.

No matter how lively you were before, the fatigue accumulates to a certain level, and the injury will start to appear irreversibly, affecting the player's performance on the field and even his career.

Durant has reached this tipping point, and it is time to pay attention.

And Li Liang is only in his fourth year, not to mention major injuries after entering the league, there have basically been no minor injuries.

The most serious injury he suffered was when he was poked in the finger and ate dried radish, which was fine in two days, and it did not affect his playing at all.

Of course, he wears more protective gear than anyone else in every game, giving people the appearance of old cold legs plus tennis elbow and various injuries.

Actually, he didn't have any, and the protective gear was all about prevention.

After coming to the Thunder, there is another benefit, that is, his blue knee pads, elbow pads or something, finally look like he doesn't contradict it.

Li Liang played almost the entire second quarter until the last minute of the first half when he was replaced by Donovan.

At this point, the score was already a terrible 59-29, and the Thunder extended their lead to 30 points.

Li Liang scored 17 points, grabbed 7 rebounds, and handed out 4 assists, single-handedly crushing the Raptors in halftime.

When Li Liang was at rest, the fans at the scene gave him warm applause.

Li Liang felt very good, he felt very good to play with a substitute.

On the contrary, after Durant and Westbrook came on the court, he didn't play so happily.

The two still have to share a little of the ball from him, and they no longer need him to take care of everything, Li Liang still feels strange and unaccustomed.

The trio of the Thunder does have some overflow in combat power, and the Raptors are already quite strong, but they are still not enough in front of the lineup and rotation of the Thunder.

The second half of the game turned into a one-sided exercise.

The huge gap of 30 points made the Raptors lose the courage to chase points.

Li Liang scored 17 points in the first half, and when the score difference was further stretched to 35 points in the second half, approaching 40 points, Donovan felt that he could not play without Li Liang.

Li Liang hurriedly shook his head and refused, "Let me go, don't let you don't go in the future." ”

Donovan nodded hurriedly, let's let him play, his first job as an NBA coach is not easy, don't just lose it.

Li Liang still has to play, he has to keep the data.

Not only does he have to keep his stats, but he also has to get the job done, coming off the bench in 10 games and scoring the team's highest score.

This is still relatively simple for Li Liang, and the biggest opponent is of course teammate Kevin Durant.

Li Liang's advantage is that he plays with the second lineup, has absolute possession of the ball, and the opponent's defense is not strong.

And Durant appeared as a starter, and there was a defensive Westbrook staring at him every game, and it was not so easy to score more than Li Liang.

After Li Liang appeared in the second half, he seized the time to score points.

By the end of the third quarter, the Thunder had a lead of almost 40 points, and Li Liang rushed his score to 28 points in one go.

In this way, it surpassed Durant's 25 points and successfully reached the highest in the game.

The fourth quarter was completely reduced to garbage time, the Raptors replaced all the main forces, and the Thunder successfully clocked in the third quarter.

They defeated the Toronto Raptors at home by a huge margin of 113:78, 35 points.

Li Liang's strategy of changing to a substitute was a complete success.

After the end of this game, garbage titles such as "Dono's clever calculation", "Thunder changed and became the strongest in the league", "Li Liang still has a hidden skill that has never been shown", "Durant and Li Liang's feud is self-defeating" and other garbage titles began to fill the page.

If you change to a traditional star team, you may have to run in about 10 to 15 games to reach the best state.

And Li Liang changed to a substitute, which really solved the run-in problem perfectly.

The starters played as usual, and the second team gave the ball to Li Liang and let him bring it to the end.

After playing this game, the Thunder's next schedule can be said to be smooth.

Some of the opponents in front of the Thunder were not strong, and after playing the Raptors, they faced the Bulls, Suns, 76ers, Wizards, Celtics, Grizzlies, Pelicans and other teams one after another.

That is, the Bulls sweated a little, but the Thunder still defeated them at the Chicago Union Center with a 121-110, 11-point advantage.

Then, the Thunder began to sweep all the way, from east to west, and began a crazy three-quarter check-in road.

On November 8, at 135:104, the home team swept the Suns, and Li Liang scored a game-high 33 points.

On November 10, at 134:100, Li Liang scored a game-high 31 points by sweeping the Wizards away.

On November 13th, 125:75, a huge advantage of 50 points, pressed the 76ers to the ground and ravaged them, Li Liang shamelessly brushed the score in the fourth quarter, and forced himself to 35 points, just to surpass Durant by 33 points.

The two teamed up to score 60 points, and most of the playing time was staggered, and the 76ers were full of bags and basically gave up the game.

On November 16, he traveled to Memphis to play against the Grizzlies, who have been a bitter opponent for the Thunder.

But this time, Li Liang told Durant that there was no need to be afraid of any black and white bears.

As long as your shotgun is accurate enough, any bear will be blind when it comes.

The two sides scored overtime, the Thunder 129-122, overtime defeated the Grizzlies, and Li Liang scored another 40 points this time.

He is making great strides towards his record of 10 game-high points from the bench.

At the same time, the Warriors were also sweeping thousands of troops, and like the Thunder, they held their breath and played a devastating team attack.

The entire league is completely overshadowed by these two superteams.

The two teams were completely invincible throughout November, with the Thunder losing one game and the Warriors on a winning streak.

The Warriors are on a terrifying 19-game winning streak, while the Thunder are 17-1, and the two teams are simply on top of each other.

On November 30, the Thunder played the last game of November, and they narrowly beat the Hawks by 111:109, with a two-point advantage.

In this game, he scored a game-high 28 points, relying on the final stunner, surpassing Westbrook's 26 points, reaching 10 games off the bench and scoring the highest score of the game.

He could have achieved this achievement a little earlier.

But in many games in late November, Durant surpassed him in scoring.

In terms of scoring ability, without the use of props, Durant is no worse than Li Liang.

And after clocking in for three consecutive quarters, the teams are slowly looking for strategies to deal with Li Liang's substitute appearance, and some games are not so easy.

At the moment of killing the Eagles, Li Liang saw the away fans holding their heads in frustration, and a system prompt appeared in front of him.

[Congratulations, you have obtained the achievement "Substitute Scorer", reward: Qualified to proceed to the next stage, please enter 'Stern's Sim World - Past Room' to claim the mission.] 】

To be honest, after Li Liang came to the Thunder, it was indeed much easier to win the game, and the regular season became a little boring for him.

At this time, the system gave him a difficult task just right, and it began to become Li Liang's most difficult job this season, which he himself never expected.