Chapter 377: Learning from Paul

?? During his five days of tactical training with the Clippers, Li Liang gained a general understanding of his teammates' playing styles.

By comparison, he played with the Cavaliers in 1990 faster than with his Clippers teammates.

But 20 assists, it's really difficult.

You need to have at least five effective assists per quarter, pass the ball just right, and your teammates be able to throw the ball in.

The Cavaliers and the Nuggets are different, although the Cavaliers are perennially in the East, but the 1990 Cavaliers are a very effective team.

They lost Doherty and Nance to injuries early in the season, and in that case, they still made the playoffs.

And their head coach is none other than Lenny Wilkens, who is known for his style of play and rigid style of play.

As one of the league's leading thousand-win coaches, Lenny Wilkens' reputation is not too prominent.

In terms of achievements, although he has 1,000 regular season wins, in terms of the number of championships, he is only the one in the supersonics in 1979.

Compared with coaches with full rings such as Phil Jackson and Pat Riley, one is really a little less.

And the superSonics in 1979 were supposed to be one of the most obscure of the NBA championships.

When Li Liang was learning to pass in the system before, he trained with this supersonic.

There are also some players in the Thousand Wins who have not won a championship for life, such as George Karl, Adelman, Jerry Sloan, Don Nelson.

Although they don't have a champion, they are more famous than Wilkens, because each of them has very distinct characteristics.

Adelman's Princeton, Sloan's UCLA system in Jazz, Nielsen Mad Scientist, George Karl's supersonic amoeba and many more have all impressed fans.

And Wilkens, it's only when you look up which team he used to coach that you think, "Oh, that's the coach at the time." ”

For example, in the semifinals with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2001, Carter failed in the end and lost to Iverson's Raptors.

For example, in the mid-90s, the Atlanta Hawks who did Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls background many times.

There is also the Cavaliers, who have also done Jordan's background, in 1989 Jordan the-shot the Cavaliers, and the head coach of the Cavaliers is Wilkens.

Because, the biggest characteristic of Wilkens is that it feels like it has no characteristics.

The personality is unassuming, the defense is not the ultimate meat grinder like Larry Brown, and the offense is not the smooth style of Adelman.

Even his appearance is flat, and it is difficult to make a deep impression.

With such a coach, it is really not easy for Li Liang to understand and implement his tactical intentions.

The key is that he can't play according to his own ideas, because his teammates are playing according to Wilkens' ideas, you have to assist, if you don't follow his routine, how do you pass the ball?

When learning to pass the ball on the ground at supersonics, I think it's pretty good to practice with Lenny Wilkens.

By the time the Cavaliers arrived in 1990, 10 years had passed since 1979, and the tactics had changed a lot.

And there are many differences between the tactics in 1990 and 2013, which makes Li Liang very uncomfortable.

However, after the Clippers' five-day training camp, Li Liang found some feeling.

How to find the feeling, learn Paul!

Although Li Liang is at odds with Paul, he hopes that the team will be tactically biased towards him.

But while he was fighting, he also learned from Paul how the traditional point guard commanded and dispatched on the court.

Li Liang's brain is still very smart, and Paul plays on the court and likes to be a "good teacher" for various conductors.

Paul beeped while beeping, and Li Liang beeped back while stealing school.

This guy is also very bad, working against Paul on the field, but he is actually secretly learning.

Paul's approach to offensive playmaking is not quite the same as Nash's.

Nash is a typical freehand school, you just run all kinds of things, run out of the opportunity to pass the ball and I lose.

After all, he is a point guard who grew up under Nelson and shines under D'Antoni.

Paul is relatively more conventional, directing his teammates to run to what he thinks is the right position, and the ball will naturally arrive.

This kind of organization is very much in line with Lenny Wilkens' heart.

Li Liang studied for five days, disguised himself as a half-baked Paul, and came to the Cavaliers' home court.

[Mission, Price's Peak, Date: April 4, 1990, Location: Ridgefield Coliseum, Cleveland, USA, vs: Atlanta Hawks vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, Mission Requirements: Replace Mark Price, play as the point guard of the Cavaliers, help the Cavaliers win the game, and have at least 20 assists. Rewards: Basic Passing Ability +15, Short Passing Ability +5, Hanging Passing Ability +5, Difficulty: Star]

The opponent of the Cavaliers in this game is the Eagles.

The Hawks were a strong team in the East in the mid-'80s with the "human cinematic essence" Dominic Wilkins.

However, the Hawks have only been able to play until the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs and have not been able to climb the mountain of the Celtics.

By 1990, the East was about to be under the control of Michael Jordan.

The Hawks are on a downward trajectory, and Wilkins' style of play can't take the team any further.

Inside, they have a former MVP, Moses Malone.

But Malone in 1990 was already a functional center on the move.

After winning the championship in 1983, Malone seems to have lost the motivation to fight in the NBA, and the main reason for staying is just to make money to support his family.

He jumped directly into the NBA from high school in order to make money early, so it seems that Moses has not forgotten his original intention.

Li Liang has played this game many times, and the situation at the beginning and the trend behind him are basically familiar with it.

All he had to do was organize the whole team's offense, and keep feeding Doherty and Larry Nance with shells.

Moreover, it was none other than Li Liang in this game, it was the current head coach of the team, Doug Rivers!

Li Liang also asked Rivers two days ago how the game was played in 1990.

Here is where Firth remembers clearly, he only remembers that in that game, Price had a divine help, and every pass could be converted into a score.

The Hawks, on the other hand, did not collapse until the final quarter, as the offense was locked in by the Cavaliers' defense.

Before the start of the game, Li Liang kept communicating with his teammates, learning from Paul's instructions to this and that.

After the start of the game, Li Liang no longer thought about "brushing" assists, but began to organize seriously.

Command teammates to run, pass the ball in time, respond to teammates, and send key passes.

The game was quite intense, and the popularity of Ridgefield Stadium was still very high.

Because it was April, both the Cavaliers and the Hawks were on the verge of the playoffs and were sprinting for the playoffs.

The two teams are in the same east and are direct rivals, so naturally they will play hard.

Until the final quarter, as Rivers said, the Hawks' offense was dumb.

And Li Liang didn't count his assists at all.

At the critical moment, Li Liang hit a key three-pointer from the outside, killing the game!

At 104:95, the Cavaliers won at home.

At the end of the game, Li Liang found that he had completed the task, and he got 20 assists!

"Haha! Passed! Passed! It's really good to learn Paul, it's really good! ”