During the mission, he followed Thurmond to learn technology from scratch, and Li Liang found that it was a time-consuming job.

The system no longer rewards in the technical dimension, everything is like in the real world, little by little.

In the real world, he continues to fight with his Thunder teammates.

With two more days off at the end of the All-Star break, the Thunder welcomed the Indiana Pacers at home.

This is the first time Li Liang has met his old club this season.

Compared to last season, the Pacers have changed beyond recognition.

Li Liang, McGee, JR Smith, Kevin Garnett, David West and others all left, and the main force of the championship was swept away.

Bird is back in the general manager position, returning to Vogel, continuing to be the behind-the-scenes manipulator and orchestrating the next rise of the Pacers.

The core of the Pacers has changed from Li Liang to Stephenson all of a sudden, and the three fools have become big fools, and this lineup has no future.

Therefore, the Pacers failed to survive three rounds at the Thunder's home energy center, and the Thunder clocked in in the third quarter and took an early lead.

In the end, 113-101, a 12-point advantage defeated the Pacers at home.

After the game, Bird came down from the stands and shook hands with Li Liang and hugged him.

This time in Russia, Bird specially wore a championship ring on his hand, which was the same one that the Pacers won last year.

The championship ring never reached Li Liang's hand, because Li Liang never went to Indiana to play.

According to the league's schedule, the Thunder's away visit to the Pacers is scheduled for March.

Therefore, for Li Liang, this ring has taken a bit long to express.

"In March, we will be waiting for you in India." Bird and Li Liang said.

Li Liang nodded, to be honest, he really missed the Indiana countryside a little.

Although the city of Russia is also a large rural area, in comparison, it is more interesting to be in the city of India.

After all, it is a sports city, and it is quite interesting to go to see car racing and watch NFL games in your spare time.

And in Russia, go to the zoo?

However, it is precisely because there is nothing fun in the city that Li Liang can put all his energy into basketball.

In addition to continuing the task of mental ability in the system, Li Liang also continued to complete the task of [Bench Life].

He managed to coach twice, once with the 2005 Houston Rockets in Game 3 of the playoffs, defeating the Dallas Mavericks at home, turning the series to 3-0 and condemning the Mavericks to death.

The coaching of this game made Li Liang feel very happy.

When I first watched this game, Li Liang was still in junior high school in China.

Yao Ming led the team to a 2-0 lead on the road, and the series situation can be said to be very good.

As a result, he returned to his home court, lost two games in a row, and was equalized by the Mavericks, losing all his momentum.

In the final seventh game, Maddie was in tears on the sidelines, which was the first year that Maddie and Yao Ming were combined.

No one thought that this was already their peak, and they never broke the curse of the first round after that.

Later, it was rumored that there was a black hand manipulation behind this round of the series, especially the out-of-bounds save in the fifth battle of Tianwang Mountain, and the referee's mistake was too obvious to make people suspicious.

When Li Liang watched this round of the series at that time, he was angry that he didn't eat lunch for two days.

This time in the system, as the head coach, he finally gave out his bad breath back then.

For this reason, Li Liang also made a special call to consult his old fan brother Jeff Van Gundy and asked him, how did you lose back then.

It stands to reason that Van Gundy's set-up in the first two games was spectacular.

Using Leon Bowen, who is probably the worst player in the league, to start against Nowitzki, and using Maddie to defend Nowitzki in the second game, all worked wonders.

Why did you poop when you went back to Houston?

To tell the truth, the Mavericks' head coach Jr. Johnson is really not at a good level, and the highest moments of his coaching career are concentrated in the three years of 05, 06, and 07.

The Mavericks were overturned in the '06 Finals, then the Mavericks won the league 67 in '07, and then suffered a black eight in the playoffs, and since then Avery Johnson's fortunes in the NBA coach's bench have been exhausted.

Van Gundy didn't know what Li Liang meant by asking these things on the phone, but he still exchanged his experience with Li Liang back then, talking about some of the past, the situation in the team, and some small problems with the referee.

Li Liang took the small notebook and wrote them down one by one, and he quickly formulated measures and strategies to deal with them after two attempts, and finally led the Rockets to defeat the Mavericks Eight on the third time, and won the third game at the Toyota Center.

The series was 3:0, and if history was the case, Yao Ming's career would have changed.

Just after completing this task, Li Liang did not expect that the task of the 2006 Finals would be followed by the task of replacing Avery Johnson and leading the Mavericks to defeat the Heat.

It's almost the same script, and the Mavericks also led 2:0 in the finals that year, and the situation was very good, and the Heat had nothing to fight back in the first two games.

In the third game, the Mavericks were almost on the verge of leading 3-0.

They led the Heat by nine points before the start of the fourth quarter and outscored the Heat 34-16 in the third quarter.

As a result, in the final moments, Nowitzki, who shot 90% of the free throws, could have equalized the score of two free throws, but only hit one and missed a good opportunity.

This is likely to be the retribution of Nowitzki for taking out the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals by relying on free throws, which came very strangely, Ginobili inexplicably reached out when the team was leading by 3 points, allowing Nowitzki to play 2+1.

After losing Game 3, the Mavericks slumped, losing four games in a row and losing the championship.

After all, since 2003, teams that have eliminated the Spurs in the Western Conference playoffs have mostly ended up with nothing good — a curse from Tim Duncan.

Li Liang's mission is not the third game, but the crucial battle of Tianwang Mountain.

In that game, the Mavericks lost by 1 point, which was also an extremely embarrassing loss, and it was also a series full of controversy.

When Li Liang received this task, he felt in his heart that this might be a report and a report, and in another 5 years, the Lone Ranger will take revenge on the Heat in the finals.

It can only be said that in the NBA, it is always time to retribution.

When you come out to mix, you always have to pay it back, and there is only one way to think of it - to become a god.

Li Liang, who has played in the finals three times, knows that when the series reaches the fifth game, many times it is not a matter of tactics, but a matter of mentality.

As a head coach, how to adjust and motivate the mentality of the players is the top priority.

In this regard, Li Liang has a natural advantage.

In the entire NBA, no one knows how to be the boss better than him, and no one knows how to play exceptionally in the Finals better than him.

This mission, Li Liang passed at one time, which was to help Nowitzki build confidence, and at the same time especially target Wade on the defensive end.

The most controversial place in the '06 Finals was Wade, and from this series, the term "body hair whistle" appeared.

Wade's super-level mid-range jumpers and unstoppable free throws earned him the nickname "Jordan who is five centimeters shorter."

Li Liang believes that Avery Johnson is still too experienced in the face of such a situation, and he is simply incomparable with the god operator Pat Riley on the other side.

Riley is an NBA grandmaster when it comes to boosting the morale of the players and giving speeches.

The strategy given by Li Liang in the task is also very simple, since I will blow a foul when I touch you, it is better to give you a punch directly, it is a foul anyway.

Li Liang asked the Mavericks' players to use a rougher and more brutal way to deal with Wade to disrupt Wade's offensive rhythm.

You're Jordan five centimeters shorter, so it's better to deal with you the way you did with Jordan.

This method did work, and the strength of the Lone Ranger was already a little stronger.

Without destroying their confidence, they managed to keep the victory, 103:100, a three-point advantage to defeat the Heat and win the battle of Tianwang Mountain.

At the moment when the task was completed, Li Liang breathed a long sigh of relief, and a row of subtitles flashed in front of him:

[Mission complete, about to enter the final stage of the series of missions: please become a real head coach.] 】