Chapter 396: No One Can Stop Him
?? Just like the Clippers' first game against the Lakers at the beginning of the season, although the attention attracted was very high, the strength of the two sides was not actually on the same level.
At least in the first place, the Clippers have an absolute advantage over the Rockets.
In the first quarter, the Clippers played a very beautiful fast offense, and Li Liang opened with a good hand.
He hit two three-pointers and a mid-range jumper in a row, both with assists from Paul.
The opening game was a 9-2, and the Rockets' response strategy was that Jefferson was hard chiseled on the inside.
Rockets head coach Kevin McHale is one of the best players in NBA history for low-post offense, and after becoming a coach, it is natural that he has a soft spot for low-post offense.
In fact, under the current rhythm of the league, especially in the regular season, the efficiency of low-post offense is gradually declining, giving way to more flexible and fast pick-and-roll offense.
The Clippers just realized this, and the first few games were all crazy pushing tempo and quick shots.
After Li Liang arrived, the Clippers' offensive space was specially opened, and Paul's play space was even greater.
Although Jefferson scored two low-post attacks in a row, Li Liang hit another three-point shot in the counterattack.
Then he also steals Harden, quickly counterattacks and lays up to make fouls and hit three-pointers.
Li Liang scored 12 points in the first quarter with free throws, and Paul comfortably delivered a whopping 9 assists!
The Clippers hit two attack waves, and the Rockets were stunned in one quarter.
At 44:25, the Clippers scored an astonishing 44 points in the first quarter, leading the Rockets by as many as 19 points.
Ballmer saw the Clippers playing like a whirlwind on the sidelines, and his face was red with excitement, and every time the Clippers quickly counterattacked, Ballmer had to stand up and applaud.
Especially after Li Liang scored three points quickly, Ballmer was even more happy to dance.
This is the owner who really loves basketball, like little Bus, who wears a baseball cap all day long.
Win Sima face, lose Sima face, what do you want?
Owners like Ballmer are different, and his passionate support makes players feel a little more motivated to play.
The Clippers played extremely well in the first quarter, and at the beginning of the second quarter, if the Clippers were still on the bench as in the previous games, nine times out of ten they would be chased for points.
But this time Rivers learned smartly, and at the end of the first quarter, he didn't replace Li Liang off the court, but let him stay on the court with a bench lineup.
Playing the first quarter and then continuing in the second quarter is not a problem for Li Liang at all.
You say that if a man doesn't want to spend all his days drinking and running to the system to recite scriptures, will his physical fitness be bad?
Even if he slept with Zhu Shu last night, for Li Liang, his energy was still strong.
So after the start of the second quarter, Li Liang took Crawford, Hollins, Barnes and others to play too much on the court.
Li Liang plays power forward when defending, and controls the ball himself when attacking.
The combat effectiveness of this second lineup immediately went up, not because Li Liang was so strong that he was against the sky, he was very strong, not so strong.
It's because Li Liang can scold people!
Crawford, who doesn't defend all year round, was nagged in Li Liang's ear anymore, and finally said directly: "OK, OK, I will defend, I will defend well!" ”
One of the reasons why Crawford doesn't defend well is that he is congenitally insufficient, his body is not strong enough to hang the meat, and he doesn't want to hang the meat.
There is no confrontation, and in the NBA it is an empty word to say defense.
The second reason, of course, is attitude, Crawford has been dangling in the league for more than 10 years, and he is already an old qualification.
In the NBA, many veterans play average on the court, but they have a lot of say in the locker room.
There are very few "rookies and old immortals" like Li Liang.
And Crawford has a lot of say in the Clippers locker room, and the overall management of the Clippers team is relatively loose, and the players have quite a lot of freedom.
Now there is a change of coach, whether it is Rivers or assistant coach Tyronn Lue, who is not very strict with the players.
Negro was very strict before, but his desire to control was manifested in the offense and rotation, not a defensive pervert.
So, Crawford has been playing loose ball with the Clippers.
I can throw it at will when I attack, and I can make a show of defending it, anyway, I tried my best, and it's not my fault that I can't prevent it.
Now the man who cured him has appeared.
Li Liang's hair dryer is needless to say, blowing the world and the ground, blowing the air in the middle, blowing you in pain, scalp numbness, blessing to the heart to come to the eight directions to congratulate.
There is also a player in the Clippers locker room who is older than Crawford, and that is Jamison.
Crawford entered the NBA in 00, and Jamison entered in 98, two years before Crawford.
And Jamison is an All-Star, with a bigger card than Crawford.
When he was with the Lakers, Jamison didn't defend either, and as a result, he was blown by Li Liang every day.
After blowing it, I found that what Li Liang said was very reasonable, and he should defend it well.
After following in the footsteps of Li Liang to the Clippers, Jamison became the talker in the locker room.
He will support Li Liang.
So, from the last game against the king, Li Liang began to bring substitutes, and kept shouting when defending.
Not only did he shout, but he often came to help Crawford help defend and wipe his ass with leaks.
Although it has been difficult to change the playing habits of more than ten years for a while, Li Liang is confident!
So after the start of the second quarter, the Clippers' second lineup withstood the pressure under the leadership of Li Liang.
On the Rockets' side, Garcia, Cosby, and Jeremy Lin are outside players, firing one after another from beyond the three-point line.
But Crawford first used Li Liang's cover to get to the basket in the attack, hit the board with a high throw, and made a 2+1 foul.
Then he made a one-on-one steal on defense!
passed the ball to Li Liang, who was fast, and scored two points, suppressing the offensive momentum of the Rockets.
And the Rockets, after abandoning the inefficient low-post offense, came back very ferociously.
Veteran Garcia hit a three-pointer from the outside and then assisted Josh Smith for an aerial relay.
The Rockets beat the Clippers 8:0, and at this time Li Liang stood up to stabilize the situation.
He first broke through with the ball, and then faced Josh Smith's defense and hit a close-range pull-up jump shot.
then steals Garcia's pass and assists Crawford for a layup, which is considered a reciprocated shot.
The Clippers held their ground and let the Rockets' bench counterattack go to no avail.
Li Liang went down to rest in the middle of the second quarter, and Paul came back to play, relying on a gorgeous dribble to shake Jeremy Lin down and show off the whole court.
In comparison, Harden's form tonight is really worrying.
I don't know if it was because I felt too much on my ass last night, and I didn't score a single three-point shot in the first half.
By the second half, the Rockets trailed by 18 points, but it wasn't without chances.
Both sides are fast teams, with a score difference of more than a dozen points, and a few back and forth may be close to within 10 points.
Brooks scored three points from the outside, and Harden made a 2+1 counterattack and finally made a successful foul.
The Rockets were 7:0, and the margin was close to 10 points.
At this time, Paul and Li Liang stood up, and Li Liang did not use three points, but used a pass to tear open the Rockets' already loose defense and assist Barnes to make a layup.
Then Harden's three-pointer didn't score, Li Liang counterattacked with the ball, and the feint outside the three-point line attracted the Rockets to defend the two.
Then pass the ball to the inside, Griffin catches the ball and takes a stride to catch the dunk!
Both sides played very fast in the offensive rhythm of the whole game, and a wave of undrawn waves rose again and again, one wave for you, one wave for me.
But the advantage the Clippers built in the first quarter was just too great, and Harden ...... Harden still didn't score a three-point shot in the second half!
His three-point range was solid tonight.
And Li Liang scored another 30-point game tonight, after 12 points in the first quarter, he scored a three-pointer in each quarter, and then brushed a fast break, and made two free throws, you see, isn't this just 30 points?
Last season, Li Liang averaged 17.5 points per game for the Lakers, which should be said to be a good score.
But that has something to do with the Lakers' style of play and Li Liang's ball possession.
When it came to the Clippers, in these games, the Clippers scored more than 110 points per game, which can be said to be an explosion of data.
And Li Liang is a thief, and when the opening defense is weak, I will brush up the score.
Fast attack, I'll brush the score, when the position is empty, I'll throw three points, who told me to be accurate?
What if you happen to have a garbage hour?
I'm sorry, but the garbage king is here!
Unless he is tired, Li Liang will not miss the opportunity to brush data.
When the final minutes went into garbage time and Li Liang insisted on playing, Rivers was shocked.
But he couldn't resist Li Liang, so he still let Li Liang appear, Li Liang became the king, contributing 4 points, 4 assists and 3 rebounds, and carried the last five minutes.
In the end, he brushed his stats to a triple-double of 30 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds!
It's a pity that the system that discriminates against triple-doubles doesn't give Li Liang any reward.
And the Clippers' score in this game is a staggering 141 points!
At 141:120, the Clippers beat the Rockets at home and won four in a row.
Currently, the Clippers' offensive efficiency is the highest in the league!
No one can stop you!