In the last four minutes of the first quarter, the Thunder trailed by more than ten points, and the starting offense did not open up at all.

Such a situation is rare in the Thunder's games this season.

Li Liang looked up at the time, and estimated in his heart that four minutes should be able to smooth out the difference.

If Scott knew Li Liang's thoughts, he wouldn't have dared to replace several main forces.

He felt that Leonard was on the court with him, and he should be able to overdo that time.

Scott underestimated Li Liang's form when he gave it his all, after all, most of the season, Li Liang didn't give his best at all.

He was very serious when he was rubbing time.

After the first shot after the pause, Li Liang completed the blocking and dismantling cooperation with Augustin in the high post, received Augustin's pass after cutting outside, faced Leonard's close defense, ignored the interference and made a mid-range jumper, and scored two points.

It feels good.

Li Liang's shooting is a combination of talent and hard work.

A mid-range jumper like this, the pinnacle of hard work is Carl Malone, and it's hard to go any further.

After scoring the goal, Li Liang pointed at Leonard and said, "You almost stopped me, come on." ”

Leonard's eyes were blank, and he didn't even blink his eyes.

And there is no anger value at all, Li Liang thought to himself, this thing is really a robot, and there is no immediate reaction when talking trash talk.

The offensive core of the Lakers' second team is, of course, Leonard.

The ball was given to Leonard after three passes and two leads, and he held the ball on the outside.

The Lakers have been slow to slow down their offensive tempo, and Scott wants to use a time-saving approach to maintain the advantage in the first place.

Because Scott also knows that no matter what, the Thunder's second team has Li Liang, and he is an absolute advantage.

To offset this advantage, it is necessary to shorten the time for Li Liang to play and reduce the number of rounds.

It's okay to have low offensive efficiency on your own, and you can't have high offensive efficiency on the Thunder.

Don't let the Thunder's bench play a mercury-soaked offensive shockwave.

A lot of teams are like that, crushed by the Thunder's bench storm.

From this point of view, Scott still has a lot of ideas.

After all, he came from the era when the Eastern Defense War was rampant, and it was his most glorious era as a coach.

Leonard kept possession of the ball until the final moment of 24 seconds before holding the ball himself.

In the face of Li Liang's defense, he didn't break through, and finally forced a backward jump shot and missed.

With this kind of strong shooting, Leonard is much worse than talented shooters like Li Liang and Durant.

Kante took the rebound from the backcourt and gave it to Li Liang.

Li Liang dribbled past half the court, and Leonard did not leave an inch.

Kante came over to do a block and dismantle, after Li Liang blocked and dismantled, 45 degrees on the right side, a small gap, and a direct three-point shot!

Li Liang's shot was very fast, and he only flicked his wrist, without much preparation, and the ball flew out with a swish.

Because it was fast, Leonard didn't have time to interfere, just watched the ball fly into the basket and hit a three-point shot!

Simply pleasant goal.

Scott really couldn't sit still.

One two points and one three points, Li Liang is really relaxed and happy to score.

It can only be said that times have really changed, and as the three-point shot has been developed more and more, scoring has become a much simpler thing.

In the days when hand-checks were not banned, in high-intensity games, every score felt like you had to give it your all.

All five people participated, and they worked hard to open up a little space.

Nowadays, there is often the kind of situation where you throw three points directly after halftime.

You don't need any tactics, and you're done.

And the efficiency is not low, all of this is a good head for Bruce Lee.

At 25:17, the Thunder chased the score quickly, and the Lakers couldn't just rely on dragging, they still had to score.

The Lakers also came off the bench with Brandon Buss, who scored two points after receiving a pass and hitting a jumper near the free throw line.

But the Thunder switched offense very quickly, Augustin forced a basket, Li Liang followed behind one person to attract the defense of three people, and Augustin made an easy layup.

The Lakers' defenders focused on Li Liang, and Li Liang didn't do anything to help his teammates open up space.

In Li Liang's own words, "This should be counted as an assist for me." ”

From this point on, Scott's so-called tempo-slowing, time-consuming strategy has failed.

Players are like this on the field, and in the first three or four rounds, they can still play according to the coach's instructions and run tactics.

After three or four rounds, you will slowly adapt to the situation on the court, or be led astray by the opponent.

In the last two minutes, the pace of the game was clearly raised.

Leonard drove to the basket with the ball, causing a foul on Kante and making one of two free throws.

At 28:19, there is still a 9-point advantage.

But Li Liang also went down after the block, opened his elbow and rampage, hit a layup, and caused Thackeray's foul.

Added free throws, 28:22, only a 6-point gap.

At this time, Li Liang began to exert his strength on the defensive end.

First of all, a [Death Entanglement], with the other way to return the favor, from Leonard's hand to break the ball to win!

A long pass to Singler!

Singler's legs and feet are slow, and the defense is not in place.

But his brain is not slow, and he ran forward as soon as he saw Li Liang break the ball.

As a result, he received a pass from Li Liang and easily dunked on the fast break.

With two points and a successful check-in, Singler has completed his mission tonight.

At 28:24, the difference was only four points.

Scott had to call a short timeout.

Leonard is indeed still a lot worse in organizing the offense.

and Li Liang are not of the same grade.

Li Liang now has his own style and characteristics in organizing the offensive.

It is a wind of opening and closing that has gradually formed since the Clippers period.

This is the same as Li Liang's offensive style, which pays attention to speed and suddenness, has explosiveness, sacrifices stability to a certain extent, makes more mistakes, and is not as delicate as those traditional point guards in terms of positional offense.

But Li Liang's style of play is obviously very suitable for the current trend.

The simplification of the offensive system, the enhancement of individual players, the involvement of space, the increase in speed, and the reduction of low posts are all current trends in the NBA.

Li Liang can be said to have conformed to this trend and has also driven this trend to a certain extent.

His three-point cannon made the teams tremble, and the whole league set off a three-point frenzy.

At the same time, the efficiency and simplicity of the offensive end let people see the shadow of the future of basketball.

As for Li Liang, in fact, he didn't think about it that much, the reason why he developed into what he is today is only because he doesn't want to practice too complicated techniques, because it takes too much time!

At the end of the timeout, the Lakers made adjustments, in fact, the short timeout was to let the players take a breath and reorganize their state.

After returning to the court, Leonard held the ball in the low post and hit Li Liang with his back, and then found that he couldn't play......

Li Liang's current size and strength are stronger than most big forwards in the league.

Leonard's step-back jumper, the amplitude was too great, the difficulty was too high, and the shot missed.

Li Liang turned around and grabbed the backcourt rebound and dribbled across the half court himself.

The Lakers began to pack him early, and Li Liang chose to pass the ball to Kanter in the low post.

Kante received the ball and hit Thackeray with his back, and Thackeray tried to create N'Golo Kante's offensive foul, but it didn't work.

The man fell, and the referee's whistle did not sound.

N'Golo Kante hits with an easy little hook.

At 28:26, the difference has narrowed to only 2 points.

With 30 seconds left in the final quarter of the first quarter, the Lakers still had a chance to score a goal to give themselves the lead in the first place.

Everyone pulled away, and Leonard held the ball one-on-one to single Li Liang.

Since Li Liang came on the court, Leonard only relied on free throws to score 1 point!

Is it really a nemesis?

Leonard is also energetic, and he must score a goal!

Rush!

As soon as he rushed, Li Liang, who was in front of him, fell......

When Leonard broke through, he had a move of raising his hand to push away, but he didn't use any force.

But Li Liang took advantage of the situation, and the referee gave Leonard an offensive foul.

There was a lot of boos at the scene, but is this still not the home court of the Lakers?

Thackeray didn't succeed in making an offensive foul, and now Li Liang has succeeded?

Sure enough, as many fans have said, many referees in the league are now Bruce Lee's lackeys - for unknown reasons.

And Li Liang's response to this was, "Because I am a reasonable person." ”

The pressure came to the Lakers' side, and the Thunder had a chance to equalize the game, so that Kobe's previous efforts were in vain.

As a result, the Lakers players cared too much about Li Liang, Li Liang held the ball, three people came over, and Li Liang gave the ball to Vitesse.

Vitesse drove to the basket and scored an easy layup, and at the end of the first quarter, the two sides were tied at 28-28.

Li Liang easily filled the 12-point hole in four minutes.

Kobe Bryant sat on the sidelines and looked at Li Liang, knowing in his heart that this guy had caught up with himself at the peak in terms of control of the game.

And Li Liang came off the break and sneezed.