After inviting Bryant to dinner, at 7 p.m. the next day, the Pacers faced the Los Angeles Lakers at the Consec Arena.

Li Liang is a trustworthy person, since he said that he wanted to kill the Lakers, he must go all out to kill the Lakers.

Of course, Li Liang will not take this game lightly, in terms of strength, this season's Lakers are much stronger than at the beginning of last season.

On paper alone, the Lakers' starters are Howard, Boozer, Wiggins, Kobe Bryant and Jeremy Lin.

This is a very famous and talented starter.

In the summer, the Lakers used the limited space to add Boozer and Jeremy Lin, two well-known and popular players, plus the champion Wiggins, which made Lakers fans have a lot of confidence in the Lakers in the new season.

After the start of the new season, the Lakers did play quite well, although they did not reach the state of the opening streak in 2013, but still maintained the record in the top half.

It's just that this lineup has a significant flaw, that is, the defensive problems are more prominent.

Neither Jeremy Lin nor Boozer are good defensive players.

The Lakers' defense is basically supported by Howard, and Kobe Bryant can occasionally show the demeanor of a defensive player, most of the time directing traffic.

Without Li Liang following behind and scolding, plus the head coach is De Anthony, the Lakers' defense is not good.

If you don't defend well, your record will be unstable.

At present, the Lakers' record has slipped to sixth place in the West.

During the opening ceremony, when the DJ called out Kobe's name, the audience erupted in enthusiastic cheers.

Kobe's popularity is still very, very high, with a large number of fans and fans in the United States, not to mention the world, the number of Kobe = the total global population + 200 million.

As for where the 200 million came from, no one knows.

The game started on time, with the Pacers starting McGee, David West, JR Smith, Leung and Gasloan.

After David West's return, Bird decided to push Stephenson to the bench to play the sixth man.

This is the right choice, Fensen sits on the bench, and Li Liang has much less pressure.

Going from being a three-fool to a two-fool, and with a good helper like David West, he can focus more on offense.

In the jump ball, McGee took the lead and dialed the ball to Li Liang.

It's really not easy, McGee sometimes jumps very high in the opening jump ball, and the ball is also dialed, that is, it is directly dialed to the opponent, or dialed out of bounds - sometimes it will hit Li Liang's head.

Li Liang wondered if McGee had a grudge against him, or if God saw that he was living too nourishingly and sent him down to punish him.

Let him taste the bitterness of life.

This time he got the ball steadily, Li Liang was still relieved and began to dribble over the half court to organize the attack.

The Lakers faced a question at the beginning, who will defend Li Liang?

Now for all teams in the league, defending Li Liang has become a big problem.

He has the height of the No. 4 position, the playing skills of the No. 3 position, the projection ability of the No. 2 position, the organizational ability of the No. 1 position, and occasionally goes to the No. 5 position, and is a free man on the court.

It's basically not easy for you to use a single defense.

The best single defense player at the small forward position in the league, Leonard, was beaten by Li Liang with a psychological shadow.

Needless to say, the others are not to mention.

All teams are studying carefully, and the starters are clear that Li Liang's one-on-one singles ability is not super strong.

This is also the difference between Li Liang and many scoring masters.

People like Maddie, Anthony, Kobe Bryant and others are all top players in a dozen.

When the tactics can't be played, they can play one by one, and directly score points with their individual ability on the opponent's head.

In fact, Li Liang rarely has a one-on-one with the ball and a certain team heads-up.

It's just that he shoots too accurately, his offensive options are also extremely fine, and he is good at stealing chickens and dogs, and often uses some inexplicable offensive methods that have long been lost, and he will score some magical goals, which makes him score a lot.

Therefore, the current unanimous opinion of all teams is that the best way to deal with Li Liang is to "find a single person to defend and others to assist in defense".

The person who proposed this strategy was Celtics coach Stevens, if it weren't for Li Liang's use of the [Man of Steel] suit against the Celtics, and the overturning of the river and the sea on the inside, the Green Army's defensive strategy against Li Liang would still be very successful.

The Lakers also want to steal from school, but they don't have this condition!

D'Antoni directly sent Wiggins to defend Li Liang one-on-one, anyway, you are also a small forward, you go to defend it.

In terms of stature, Wiggins is a whole lap smaller than Li Liang.

Li Liang has changed from a little thin when he first entered the alliance to a small muscle bully now.

Today, Li Liang also wore [Iron Body] at the beginning, and he was full of strength up and down.

After half the time to face Wiggins, don't say a word, rush one first!

Li Liang's breakthrough is not clever, he is not too skillful, and his dribbling level determines that breaking through without losing the ball is a victory.

Therefore, he relied on his own strength, and directly hit Wiggins from the right side to the basket.

Wiggins felt like he had been hit by a tractor, and then he was like a pole of corn in a cornfield, overturned by the tractor.

Howard came over to help defend inside, and Li Liang threw a high toss to McGee.

McGee jumped high, caught the ball with both hands in the air, and slammed the dunk!

The opening gift gave a big gift, so that the Lakers and their champion show could feel the energy of the Indians.

The opening slam dunk immediately ignited the atmosphere of the Consec Arena.

A good start, the Pacers are on high morale.

And the Lakers' first offense chose to let Carlos Boozer play a single in the low post.

Boozer played David West and didn't get much of a bargain after back-to-back dribbles, and Boozer opted for a turned-over machinegun-like jumper that missed.

Under the basket, McGee stuck in position, and Li Liang grabbed the rebound in the backcourt.

Li Liang gave the ball to JR Smith, Smith broke through the basket in the middle, but the ball was knocked out by Kobe Bryant from behind, and finally Smith touched the bottom line, and the Lakers had the ball.

If you want to play fast, it is inevitable that such mistakes will occur.

But soon, JR Smith made up for it, stealing Kobe's pass on the defensive end.

The Pacers counterattacked again, this time Li Liang did not pass the ball again, but after receiving the ball, he went straight to the basket from the middle, and rushed forward directly in the face of Howard, and when the two collided in the air, Li Liang still threw the ball out, a backward close-range jumper, hit, and caused Howard's foul at the same time!

Howard spread his hands at the referee after the foul, and he had an innocent expression on his face.

Li Liang stepped forward to comfort, "It's really a foul, don't complain, you're not me." ”

Howard grinned helplessly, "Boy, you're strong again." ”

Howard felt that he should be able to suppress Li Liang with this ball, but he didn't expect to foul and not suppress it, and let him play three points successfully.

How did he become so strong in just two years?

Nonsense, Li Liang practiced and took medicine in the system, and he also wore a prop suit, can he not resist you?

Added a free throw to open the game to 5-0 for the Pacers.

The Lakers still have to watch Kobe.

Positional offense, after continuous passes and low posts, the Lakers couldn't find a better opportunity and gave Kobe Bryant at the top of the arc only three seconds left.

Kobe Bryant did not hesitate, one step away from the three-point line, and shot directly from the three-point line.

Hit!

A long-range three-pointer broke the Lakers' offensive deadlock.

After scoring the goal, Kobe Bryant shouted at Li Liang, "It's not just that you can shoot far!" ”

Kobe Bryant wanted to stimulate Li Liang and let him also throw a super far, and be angry with himself.

But Li Liang will be stimulated by you like this?

He didn't throw it blindly, he knew it wasn't time yet.

Li Liang still chose to break through with the ball by himself, and this time it was David West who came over to do the blocking and dismantling cover.

As soon as West took cover, Boozer's defense was a big hole, and his lateral movement was really slow.

As a result, Li Liang once again hit the inside, this time Howard didn't dare to foul, so he could only watch Li Liang's easy pull-up jump shot and score two points, 7:3.

The Pacers' opening 7 points are all related to Li Liang, and it can be seen that the Lakers have no way to take Li Liang.

Sure enough, then the Lakers made another passing error on the offensive end, and Jeremy Lin attacked too quickly, and the ball was split to Howard and was tackled by McGee.

Li Liang stabilized, still played a position, and continued to cooperate with West in blocking and dismantling.

This time, Boozer and Li Liang went inside, and Li Liang hit the ground and passed the ball to West, who cut outside, and West received the ball and shot a mid-range jumper and hit!

The Lakers' defense was stabbed to pieces by Li Liang alone.

D'Antoni called a timeout, and although he knew that it was useless to call a timeout, he still had to call a meaning.

On the Lakers' bench, Kobe Bryant said directly: "Then I'll defend Bruce." ”