Chapter 319: The ball style is not right

?? The Clippers beat the Thunder by a big margin at home.

This game showed a lot of people that when the potential of the Clippers roster is tapped, their energy is terrifying.

The change that Mike Brown brings is certainly not just what Li Liang said, "let him shoot".

His targeted changes in rotation and defensive tactics have made the Clippers' defense more solid.

In this game of Thunder, the Thunder hardly made any waves from beginning to end.

Of course, there are reasons for Westbrook's poor form, but you must know that this is the Thunder, the most passionate and energetic team in the league.

Just like the name of their team, once they open the hit, the offense is really thunderous, and a wave can take the opponent away.

As a result, this time it was thunder but not rain, and the offensive end did not play too smooth coordination from beginning to end, and the usual combination punches in the past were gone.

The score seems to be a lot, 100 points, which is based on the relatively fast pace of the game.

They have been behind since the first quarter and have not had a chance to overtake.

After all, the Thunder were the team to enter the Western Conference finals last season, and the two core players in the team are full of talent.

The whole team is united, the defense is strong, and it is an out-and-out powerhouse.

As a result, the Clippers were so pressed that they couldn't turn over, how could people not marvel at the strength of the current Clippers?

Many people even said ridiculous words such as "Mike Brown is the best recruit this season" and "Lakers delivered the best assist".

Ridicule aside, the change in the Clippers was really immediate.

Two days later, the Clippers continued to play at home as they welcomed Eastern Conference opponents the Brooklyn Nets.

The Nets moved to Brooklyn last season, gave a makeover, and made it to the playoffs, where they were eliminated in the first round.

This year, the Nets have ushered in a seismic change again, and after changing their new Russian owner, they completed a shocking trade in the summer against the Celtics.

The Celtics sent Pierce, Garnett, Terry and D.J. White to the Nets, and they got five players, Gerald Wallace, Humphries, Marshon Brooks, Joseph and Bogans.

But what the Celtics really have their eye on is the Nets' three first-round picks in 2014, 2016 and 2018, in addition to the swap of first-round picks in 2017.

This deal can be said to be a five-year future bet on the Nets for one or two seasons.

Celtics general manager Danny Ainge is a well-known shrewd man in the NBA.

Garnett and Ray Allen, who traded for the top tail in 2007, won a championship for the Green Army and remained competitive for five years.

Five years have passed, seeing that the veterans are no longer good, and as a result, they found the Nets to be the leader of the wrongs, take over the handicap, and exchange for five years of draft picks, which is really eye-catching.

Of course, the so-called impermanence of the world, five years may be an era for the NBA, and no one knows what will happen in the future.

The Nets suddenly have the so-called "Big Five", and of course they need a head coach worthy of this lineup.

After thinking about it, Nets general manager Billy King brought in Kidd, a former Nets hero who just retired this year.

Jason Kidd, who also played for the Knicks last season, is rehired in Brooklyn.

Kidd has always been one of the leading figures in the league for "golf quotient" players.

He does have a very strong impact on the court, and last season with the Knicks, he was in the final year of his career and basically had no ability to score.

But in the regular season, he can still influence the team with his passing, helping Carmelo Anthony to his second-best season since 2009 and finishing third in the regular season MVP selection.

It's just that in the playoffs, Kidd is really old, in the Eastern Conference playoffs, he started in the third game, that is, from Boston's North Shore Garden, to the last game in Indiana, and he didn't score a point in 10 playoff games.

I didn't get 1 point!

I'll do it for me!

10 zero eggs, which fully shows that Kidd is really old, and it is not okay to be old.

After retiring, the former club, the Nets, extended an olive branch to Kidd and hired him as the team's head coach.

However, in the history of the NBA, there are not many successful cases of a well-known point guard as a head coach.

In people's perception, the point guard is the brain on the court, and the coach is the brain off the court.

Now the brain on the field has changed into the brain under the field, which should be no different.

But in fact, it is very different.

For example, Magic Johnson, a magician on the court, an undertaker off the court - collect the body of the team.

There is also Isaiah Thomas, a smiling assassin on the field, a Sima assassin off the court, and the team's record makes him unable to laugh at all.

Others, like Rivers, were also point guards when he was a player, but he was a second-round pick and a good player, but compared to Magic, Thomas, and Kidd, the status difference is too great.

Among the star-level point guards, the one who has been more successful as a coach is Lenny Wilkens.

Wilkens is also one of the less visible star players.

Therefore, there are still many questions about whether Kidd can successfully lead the Nets and help the Nets regain the glory of the beginning of the century.

At least after the start of the new season, the Nets did not play very well, with a record of 3 wins and 5 losses, and the winning rate was not more than half.

Among them is the reason why the team's core defender Deron Williams is out due to injury.

Of course, having just taken over as a coach, Kidd has a lot of work to do.

The Nets themselves have an average lineup, and they also injured Williams and Lopez.

No matter how awesome Kidd is, he can't take off his suit and play instead of Williams, right?

Besides, his current scoring ability is also in vain.

In this game against the Clippers, the Nets are more than lucky.

On the Clippers' side, during the two days of rest, the whole team was not idle.

Mike Brown continues to work on his new rotation and defensive lineup to inject defensive blood into the team.

Brown does have a lot of ideas.

Last season on the bench, Brown often had some tactical discussions and conversations with Li Liang.

Generally, Li Liang asks questions and Brown answers, and the process of answering is also the process of Brown's thinking.

Just as Socrates communicated with his disciple Plato and sparked a spark of wisdom, Brown felt that he had a new perspective on defense in the process.

It's a pity that he doesn't have room to play in the Lakers, it's all rotten like that, so what to guard against.

With the Clippers, Brown is experimenting with his new ideas on the defensive end.

He wanted to improve the "predator" defense of the past, which emphasized too much confrontation and pressure on the tempo, and replaced it with a defensive strategy that was more tailored to the tactical characteristics of each team today.

Of course, this process will be relatively long, and you may not see any effect in a short time.

On the night of the 16th, the Clippers faced the Nets at home.

Everyone thought it was a game without much suspense.

Because the Nets' players are so incomplete, only one of the top five stars will play tonight.

Williams and Lopez were not included in the squad due to injury, while Garnett and Pierce were rested.

It is estimated that the Nets also feel that they can't beat the Clippers at all, and they just beat the Suns by two points in their last game away from home.

So the second game of the back-to-back chose to rotate the veteran.

As a result, after the game began, the Nets took the initiative from the first quarter, and the score was always tied with the Clippers.

There is only one reason why the Nets play well, and that is that the players are working hard.

A game like this is inevitably an opportunity for the substitutes to give their full play.

If you perform well, you can earn a rotation position, increase playing time, and accumulate data.

Maybe one day he will get more opportunities to change his destiny.

Therefore, as long as there is no problem with the brain, people who play in the NBA will cherish every minute of the opportunity to play, and they are always ready to burst out their brilliance and energy.

There are many inspirational stories of playing well and finally establishing yourself in the NBA through this opportunity.

Jeremy Lin is one of the most exciting.

The Nets will have the same mentality tonight, anyway, there is no baggage, just desperate.

Desperately grabbing frontcourt rebounds, desperately defending, desperately seizing every offensive opportunity.

And the Clippers, who had rested for two days, were obviously a little careless, especially Li Liang's two three-pointers at the beginning, which made people feel that the Clippers were going to break through the Nets in the back wave.

Who knows that the Nets are very tenacious, in the middle they withstood the pressure of consecutive misses, and worked the defensive end to not let the Clippers pull away the score.

In the last 3 minutes of the first quarter, the Nets even launched a wave of 10:3 attacks to tie the score in one fell swoop.

During this time, Li Liang rested off the court, but even if he played, the Nets suddenly felt on the outside, and they couldn't stop it.

In the second quarter, the Nets' offense was more ferocious, with Plumlee and Bradge scoring in succession on the inside.

After Li Liang came on the court, he couldn't contain this situation, and he was not the kind of inside line who went up to "click" two blocks so that none of you dared to enter.

The Nets' momentum is clearly picking up, and all the Clippers can do is continue scoring on the offensive end.

At this time, Paul stepped up, first hit a three-pointer, and then assisted Li Liang to make a layup.

In the final 1 minute, Paul assisted Griffin again, and after a layup, he also caused Plumlee to foul and add free throws.

In this way, the two sides entered the second half into a draw.

In the second half, Clippers fans thought that the Clippers were going to kill the Nets in a wave, but they didn't know that the Nets were the first to attack.

Relying on Alan Anderson's two consecutive three-pointers, the Nets hit a 10-0 small climax for the Clippers and took the lead all of a sudden!

Such a defense made Li Liang angrily scold everyone during the pause!

In the last game of the Thunder, it was clear that all aspects were in place, but this one was relaxed, and as soon as it relaxed, it sent people to attack the wave.

"Defend all the time, stay focused all the time! 24/7! ”

The Clippers are indeed young and talented, but the team's style of play is really a little frivolous, easy to get up, and easy to get discouraged.

The team temperament really exists, and after Li Liang has been in the two teams in Los Angeles, he feels particularly obvious.

Although the Lakers are poor, the boss is working, and the training hall is broken, but wearing the Lakers uniform, people are easy to be motivated and focused.

And the Clippers ...... Playing here always seems to be a little third who is raised, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, it's just beautiful.

Li Liang couldn't stand this state, so his hair dryer was turned on almost anytime and anywhere.

It is definitely not enough to just scold people, and Li Liang stood up after the pause.

When the team fell into a scoring drought, he first held the ball one-on-one and burst into the basket and hit a pull-up jump shot.

Then he steals Anderson on the defensive end, and hits a three-pointer on the counterattack after receiving a pass from Paul.

Then he sat under the basket and interfered with Bradge's layup and gave the rebound to his teammates.

On the counter-attack, he slipped into the corner, received a pass from Crawford, and hit another three-pointer.

Kidd called a timeout, but it didn't work.

After coming back, Li Liang assisted Crawford for a layup.

At the same time, the Clippers' defense finally coalesced, forcing the Nets to make a hasty shot from the outside.

In the counterattack, Paul used the double cover of Jordan Jr. and Li Liang to score an inside layup.

Immediately afterwards, Li Liang and Barnes launched a full-court press low, causing the Nets to make a service error.

Li Liang threw high and assisted Little Jordan to dunk violently!

This wave of offense caught the Nets out of hand, and their mentality changed suddenly.

After the momentum of the substitutes was removed, the attack on the field was chaotic.

Alan Anderson missed another three-point shot, a long rebound, and Li Liang held the ball to launch a fast break after winning it.

He dribbled to the basket himself, and after getting to the basket, he made a quick stop, plus a retreat, and a close-range jumper!

16:0!

Under the leadership of Li Liang, the Clippers beat the Nets 16:0 in more than 3 minutes!

Overtake the score in one fell swoop!

The Nets can only call a second timeout in a row, which Nima can't beat.

At this moment, Li Liang was comfortable and happy on the bench.

"Stand on the pitch, give it your all at all moments, and if you want to rest, sit off the pitch and rest, the pitch is not a place for you to rest!"

Coach Lee did not forget to continue to educate the Clippers' players.

He doesn't believe that he can blow the Clippers' ball right after a season.