There is a problem with being a coach that Li Liang hates, that is, it is difficult for him to push the post-game interview.

However, there are always more ways than difficulties, and after the first game, Li Liang asked D'Antoni to accept the post-match reporter interview instead of him on the grounds that "there were more conductors in the game and his throat was hoarse".

Since then, in addition to the official press conference, the coach interview has always been replaced by the trio.

After returning to the hotel in the evening, Li Liang entered the system to check the newly launched "Coach Achievement System". ”

After entering the interface, Li Liang found that this coaching achievement system also has a rune slot.

This rune slot is a bit different from his personal rune slot, it only has five slots.

Each of these five slots is marked with five logos: PG, SG, PF, SF, and C, which obviously represent the five positions on the field.

The [Runes] that Li Liang got after his first victory were obviously placed in these slots.

Li Liang took a look at the instructions and found out what kind of runes you placed in which slot, which will bring a status bonus to the players in this position!

"Damn, there is still such a thing? If you knew earlier, you wouldn't be so struggling to engage in tactics, wouldn't it be okay to play unlimited singles? ”

Li Liang thought to himself, if each slot is placed with feel runes, and the feel value is accumulated to the highest, then not everyone is in excellent condition, what tactics do you need, just take the ball and play!

Moreover, Li Liang himself is also a player on the field, and he can also accept the secondary bonus of runes.

To be honest, since Li Liang's various skills continued to mature and improve, his runes rarely changed anymore.

Attack first, mainly with feel runes, supplemented by energy runes, and then with other types of runes.

But immediately, the small print part of the explanation shattered Li Liang's illusions.

The small print section states that a type of rune can only be placed in one place.

There are exactly five types of runes for all, offensive runes, defensive runes, energy runes, luck runes, and team runes.

There are many runes in the first two types, and there are many types of each, including feel, desire to attack, tactical coordination, tactical cracking, prediction, defensive focus, and so on.

There are only two types of energy runes: physical strength and energy.

As for the luck rune and the team morale rune, there is only one of them.

The latter two runes Li Liang had used them, but he felt that they had no effect.

Luck and morale are too illusory, how can there be offense and defense.

Now Li Liang thought to himself, these two types of runes are estimated to be left in the coach rune system to shine.

At present, Li Liang only has a feel rune, which can enhance the feel of a player in this position, 1.5%, LV1 level.

If you go up to LV3, it's a 4.5% increase, which is still very good.

Li Liang thought about it, if Rondo was equipped with a 4.5% feel rune, the effect should still be good.

In his opening game against the Suns, Rondo dished out 12 assists and scored just nine points.

The Suns basically completely abandoned their three-point defense against Rondo in defense.

And Rondo also lived up to expectations, shooting 1 of 5 three-pointers, almost D'Antoni to death.

D'Antoni is indeed a master of using point guards, but this is the first time he has trained a point guard with such a poor three-point shot.

In fact, when Rondo has a good hand, he still shoots good three-point shots. (Nonsense, who doesn't shoot well with a good hand.) ）

For a shooter, confidence is often more important than the technique itself.

However, compared to offensive runes, Li Liang wanted a defensive rune.

For example, defensive focus, defensive intensity, rationed to Cousins at the center position.

Cousins is a lazy donkey on the defensive end.

A few whips on him will be well defended, but after a long time, he will forget about it when he hits high on the offensive end.

All kinds of leaks, no tops, missed rebounds, inadequate defense, etc.

is still not good enough, if he can use runes to improve his attitude, Li Liang's defensive pressure in the fourth position will be much easier.

Overall, this rune system is quite good, and it can raise the state of the entire Kings team to a higher level.

However, how to get these runes seems to take a little effort.

……

In the first game, the Kings won unsurprisingly.

And the next thing the Kings will face next is the Spurs without Duncan.

The last time the Spurs didn't have Duncan was back in 1996.

At that time, the Spurs were in the mud for Duncan's sign, and finally drew a good one.

Now that there is no Duncan and no team spirit, the Spurs' combat effectiveness is still strong.

In the Spurs' opener, the opponent was the Golden State Warriors, who formed the super invincible gold team.

As a result, the Warriors with James were beaten up by the Spurs.

Obviously, "Little Green of the East" was coming to the west for the first time and felt a little uncomfortable.

Moreover, Popovich still has a lot of experience in how to deal with James.

The Warriors who played at home actually lost to the Spurs in the opener, which is really surprising.

At the same time, this is enough to show that the current Spurs are quite strong, at least in the regular season, relying on the growing Wiggins, Booker, and Aldridge on the inside, plus the increasingly old Popovich, they are still a force to be reckoned with in the West.

The game was also the new Kings' debut at Golden One and was their home opener.

The king took it very seriously from top to bottom.

After Li Liang got the team's feel rune, for the sake of safety, he decided to use it on Gordon, who started the game, to see the effect.

Because the 1.5% feel bonus is honestly not very obvious.

If the feel itself is relatively poor, the base is too low, and it will not be high after the bonus.

As it turned out, giving this feel rune to Gordon was not a good thing.

Gordon made his debut and played very well in the first half, shooting 3 of 4 from the outside three-point line, which can be said to be really a super level of play.

Li Liang felt very happy, this feel rune was really useful.

The Spurs have always been afraid of attacking point guards.

Gordon's brilliant play in the first half gave the Kings an eight-point lead in the first half.

As a result, in the second half, the situation changed drastically.

First, Gordon became ineffective.

This big-faced plate shot confidently in the first half, and his current three-point shot Li Liang is thrown in one step from the outside, and he is confident to death.

As a result, in the second half, after dribbling the ball under the crotch, he pulled out a three-point shot from the outside, threw two, and neither of them scored.

In the fast attack counterattack, he received a pass from Li Liang, and shot directly from the outside three-pointer, but did not score.

Three good chances were missed, and the third quarter came up and wasted a few Kings offenses.

On the Spurs' side, Booker and Wiggins set off a storm of youth.

Popovich, who was not good at training young people in the past, has now become good at using newcomers.

The Spurs seized on the Kings' back-to-back misses on the offensive end and launched a quick counterattack.

The Kings' imperfect "swarm defense" quickly fell apart with the Spurs' extremely tacit counterattack.

Swarm defense requires players to constantly move to assist nearby players and "sting" the opponent's ball carrier.

However, if you move too much in defense, you will have the problem of confusion.

The more you move and the longer it takes, the more likely there is confusion and breaches.

The defensive philosophy of "swarm defense" is to use the perseverance of the swarm to sting and slowly torture the elephant to death.

The premise of this defense is that your bees can't die before the elephant dies.

Obviously, the elephant spurs are a bit big, and the king's reserve of bee needles is not enough.

The elephant was not stung, and the bee couldn't stand it first.

A wave of 14:2 counterattack climax, the Spurs overtook the score, and Li Liang called a timeout.

In the face of adversity, Li Liang's basic qualities as a head coach emerged.

He was very calm, not flustered at all, and said to all his teammates, "Don't panic, then you give me the ball, and then in defense, we switch back to one-on-one defense." ”

Li Liang saw that in the third quarter, against the old Spurs, he couldn't use too experimental tactics.

And when a manager said give me the ball, the players thought it was strange enough.

Li Liang began to control the ball, he moved from the position of power forward to the backcourt, and began to carry out offensive command and scheduling.

The Kings' offense slowly returned to normal, Li Liang penetrated the pass to the inside twice, and Cousins scored consecutive points to stabilize the position.

But the Kings couldn't go any further, as they couldn't shoot from beyond the arc.

Gordon shot well in the first half and came back in the second half!

If you catch the ball in a row and shoot three-pointers, you just can't shoot.

Before the start of the game, Li Liang said to Gordon in order to give him confidence, "If you have the opportunity, you will shoot resolutely." ”

Now that Li Liang saw Gordon make a move, he wanted to rush over and coil his big round head, "You should get me one!" ”

was stunned and didn't score, which led Wiggins to seize the opportunity and fight back continuously.

Wiggins is a point that the Kings can't handle.

Li Liang can handle it, but now he is different from the past, he is a defensive engineer.

He has a heavy offensive task, and if he is allowed to chase Wiggins' counterattack, this head coach will not be able to be.

The Spurs gradually found the rhythm of the game in the fourth quarter.

Wiggins, Booker, and Ade, the three points, took turns using individual offense to hit the Kings' defense.

Without the "swarm system", the King's defense looks a little thin.

Even if Li Liang can attack the sky, this is not a way.

And on the Spurs' side, in the last 6 minutes of the fourth quarter, they decisively turned on the three-person package mode.

is to force Li Liang to pass the ball, betting that the rest of the king feels bad.

At this point, a flaw in the player-coach was exposed.

Li Liang, as a first-hand witness of the situation on the field, is still the core of tactics, and he can't be a bystander.

Moreover, the more intense the game, the more focused he became, and the less he could step off the pitch to think about the whole picture.

As a result, the Kings were always a breath away and were held down by the Spurs, losing to the Spurs by a four-point gap of 101:105 at home.

The first defeat of the 2016-2017 season came a little earlier than usual.