?? The Clippers' preseason game was uneventful.

After the first game win over the Trail Blazers, the Clippers traveled to Salt Lake City, Sacramento and Phoenix.

is also a team in Los Angeles, and the Clippers are not as good as the Lakers.

When they played the preseason last season, the Lakers basically never went out of California.

I've been racing in towns and cities around Los Angeles.

When you get to the clipper, it's like being sent to the army, from northwest to southwest, from southwest to plateau, from plateau to desert.

The treatment of this own son and the wild child is different.

However, in these games, the Clippers have won all of them.

In order to test the lineup and tactics, Rivers asked Paul and Li Liang to take turns leading the team.

Needless to say, Paul has a first-class ability to lead the team, cooperates with his teammates, and organizes the offense with the intensity of the preseason.

As for Li Liang, he is still a hand-to-hand student, and if he is allowed to dominate the ball, the offense is prone to stagnation.

But this person likes to work hard to make miracles, and once it doesn't work, he will do it.

He doesn't do it himself, but directs his teammates and looks for one-on-one singles opportunities.

Then Li Liang ambushed himself, looking for an opportunity to grab a rebound in the frontcourt, or shoot an open three-pointer.

The Clippers offense led by Li Liang was obviously messier, the game was relatively fragmented, and there was no smooth cooperation.

But the effect is not bad, anyway, the opponent can be suppressed on the field, and if the key Li Liang is there, the Clippers' defense will be very good.

And Rivers found that as the game deepened, Li Liang's improvement in organization was visible to the naked eye.

From the first game against the Trail Blazers, the cooperation with teammates was still a little jerky.

By the second game of playing the Jazz, it was already decent, and when the third game was playing the Kings, Cousins played the group again.

Poor Cousins, who had a bad relationship with Paul, was not in good shape.

Unexpectedly, his senior went to the Clippers, teamed up with Paul, and Cousins off and led the preseason foul.

Li Liang reminded Cousins not to be so irritable, play hard, and there are many hardships and hardships in life to face calmly.

After all, Cousins was young and didn't understand the meaning of his senior's words, and left the court in a huff after the game.

This kid is passionate on the court, but he doesn't control his temper very well.

Especially when it comes to Paul.

In Game 4 against the Suns, Rivers found that Li Liang had been organized in some cases.

And his passing is noticeably better than last season.

In Rivers' impression last season, Li Liang used the most to hit the ground and pass inside.

This type of passing is more gambling, and it is usually the last wear.

His other passing skills, which are average, meet the basic qualification standards of NBA players.

In the new season, Li Liang's passing is a lot more spiritual, and some assists are quite beautiful.

Although the no-look pass is still not good, and it is not enough to play with Paul, but the game is enough to support the team's attack.

After four games, Li Liang averaged 4.7 assists per game, and he averaged 2.8 assists per game in the regular season last season.

Of course, the preseason data has moisture, but Li Liang's playing time is also very short, more than 20 minutes per game.

As the game slowly deepened, in training, Li Liang and Paul had fewer and fewer disputes.

Paul realizes that Li Liang is really a genius.

In just one summer, he's evolved again, and he's made huge strides in the most difficult playmaking and ball handling.

Just look at Kevin Durant.

After losing in the 2012 Finals, Durant tried to take on more playmaking responsibilities on offense in the 2013 season.

He averaged a career-high 4.6 assists per game.

But in the actual game, when Durant incarnates as a playmaker, the team's offensive effect is not as good as his focus on offense and waiting for opportunities to assist teammates.

People are not the same.

Just like James can't shoot like Durant, Durant can't organize like James either.

But Bruce Lee, a kid who seems to be able to shoot like Durant again, is still developing in the direction of James' organization.

Every day of training, Li Liang is the last to leave.

Paul used to hear that Li Liang didn't like training at the Lakers, and often arrived late and left early.

It seems that seeing is believing many things, and you can't just listen to rumors.

In fact, Paul heard it right, Li Liang is late and early in the Lakers.

Because at that time, he often had to go into the system for training and sleep at home, so he didn't like to go to the team to practice.

It's different now, if you want to practice organizational tactics, you have to work with your teammates.

He has to get familiar with his teammates' style of play, habits, sweet spots, and it takes time.

After the joint training, he will stay to hone his skills and strengthen his physical fitness and muscle endurance.

After all, when training in the system, muscle endurance will not increase.

[Basic Ball Control] and [Basic Passing] have been temporarily practiced to 70 and 75 points, and Li Liang has been satisfied.

He has to lay a solid foundation in technical details and physical fitness, adjust his fitness to the best and prepare for the new season.

Paul sees these things in his eyes, and is blown in his ears every day, so he thinks this player is still very good.

I even had the idea in my mind, "It's better to let him be the boss, wouldn't it be beautiful for Lao Tzu to hug his thighs and win a championship".

On the other hand, since Li Liang "learned from Paul" and opened up Mark Price's mission, his attitude towards Paul has also been much better.

The traditional point guard's way of playing does have a unique beauty of collective basketball.

The process of connecting teammates through precise calculations and positioning, linking teammates through passing, mobilizing opponents, and then shooting the fatal blow is indeed a great sense of accomplishment when it is completed.

Even if you don't score, you don't get an assist, you don't have any statistics, the psychological satisfaction is still full.

He directed everything and controlled everyone, including his opponents.

It's no wonder that Paul, a small man, likes to take control of the ball so much.

Because at that moment, he was the most visionary giant on the field.

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On October 18, the Los Angeles Clippers finally had their first home game in Los Angeles, and it was at Stamps.

This is the first appearance of the Clippers in the new season, and it is still a familiar venue for Li Liang, but the locker room has been changed from the Lakers to the Clippers.

There are a total of 4 locker rooms in the Staples Center, one each for the Lakers and Clippers, one for the Los Angeles Kings, and the last one for the visiting team.

The locker rooms of the Lakers and Clippers are no different except for the different logos.

Li Liang has his own locker here, and the one in the Lakers locker room must have had his nameplate torn off.

After changing into jerseys and coming to the court to warm up, there were a large number of Clippers fans at the scene.

To Li Liang's surprise, in addition to Clippers fans, there were many Lakers fans in the audience.

Many of them wore Li Liang's No. 28 Lakers jersey and cheered loudly when Li Liang entered.

Li Liangxin sighed, why are the damn Lakers fans so kind?

Why don't you scold me, why don't you burn my jersey?

Li Liang thought of the Los Angeles derby to be held in the new season, and he was afraid that he would not be able to get any anger at that time.

If LeBron James had his own system, the anger value of Lao Zhan would have exploded long ago.

Why is the difference in treatment between people so big?

It's so unfair.

In this matchup against the Trail Blazers and Lillard again, neither the Clippers nor Li Liang used all their strength.

Li Liang played the first and second quarters and did not play again in the second half.

The Clippers lost to the Trail Blazers by 87:90, a 3-point deficit, and lost this preseason game.

But fans didn't care, Li Liang played well in the first two quarters, shooting 2-of-3 from three-point range, scoring 12 points, dished out 5 assists and 5 rebounds.

The point is that fans finally see that when Chris Paul is not on the court, Li Liang can support the team's offense alone.

This was not seen in the Clippers in the first two seasons.

Although Griffin is not low in points per game, he has no way to support a lineup's offensive system.

It is often Griffin who scores all kinds of points, but in terms of the scene and score, he is suppressed by the opponent in various ways.

The arrival of Li Liang made Griffin the third choice, so it is very awesome to look at Griffin.

The few Clippers fans in Los Angeles are looking forward to the new season.