Chapter 153: Crisis on the inside line
Li Liang's gorgeous performance in the fourth quarter of garbage time did cause some controversy.
In the locker room interview after the game, the reporter asked Li Liang why he scored crazy shots in the fourth quarter.
Li Liang replied: "The fans came to watch the game, and the game must be finished, and someone must attack and defend." I think even if the outcome is decided, the players on the pitch should give it their all and not put on a show. It just so happened that I had a really good hand today, my team-mates gave me the ball again, and I was scoring all the time, so ...... I don't think it's anything, I'm just playing. ”
Li Liang's words were impeccable, and when he didn't take on the task of big mouth, his mind was still very clear.
Since the opening of the City of Angels book, the system has stopped giving him the task of talking brother, and it seems that this is the pre-task of the City of Angels book.
Therefore, Li Liang's various speech and behavior are now much more normal, and he can finally be a person.
As for why the system designed such a pre-task, the ghost knows.
Maybe the designer of the system is a pervert.
After playing the game against the Mavericks, the Lakers' record came to 13-1, still ranking first in the league.
Li Liang has always maintained a high level of form since the first game.
As the saying goes, the better you perform, the more fans you have.
The more fans, the more sunspots.
Fans and sunspots are like day and night, men and women, KFC and McDonald's, Intel and AMD, there are one and two, and there is him if you have him.
In the first dozen games, Li Liang hit all three-pointers in the game, and three three-pointers defeated the Jazz, and beat the Spurs after rebounding, which attracted him a lot of fans.
Needless to say in Los Angeles, Li Liang's No. 28 jersey sales have rushed to second place, second only to No. 24 Kobe's jersey.
Nationally, in states with a large number of Chinese, the number of fans supporting the Lakers is growing.
And on the other side of the Pacific, Chinese fans are getting more excited.
After Yao Ming retired, there was finally another excellent Chinese player fighting in the NBA.
Although I don't know where this guy came from, I don't care about him, his yellow skin and black hair are pleasing to the eye.
And the person is not American, serious Chinese.
The majority of fans have already started YY, and Li Liang has played in the Olympic Games and Asian Games for the Chinese team.
If there are many fans, there will definitely be more corresponding sunspots, and the beautiful name is "it is fans who recruit blacks".
It means that you like someone too much, and I can't stand it, so I'm going to balance the black and the black.
People, as long as you look for it, there will always be black spots.
No one is perfect, and Li Liang is no exception.
As soon as this game with the Mavericks was over, the Internet exploded.
What" knows that the data is brushed, and the opponents have given up resistance in garbage time, and they are still attacking like this, do you want to be ashamed? ”
"It's purely a data brush, the shooting percentage is so high, in fact, it is brushed out, and if the opportunity is not good, I will never shoot, and who is the same, I care too much about the shooting rate."
"Basically nothing else except three points, and it will definitely be useless in the playoffs, and will give you so many empty spots to shoot threes?"
"Agreed, 2.06 meters tall, floating outside to throw, I feel like it's just for the regular season. When it comes to the playoffs, the interior has to fight, and it will only be three points, which is definitely not possible. It doesn't feel like it's as good as Odom, but the data looks good. ”
"It's far from Odom, right? Odom is really well-rounded and can top the inside, Gan is like this, and it is useless to really meet a tough team. Just look at the grizzly bears, the inside line can't help......"
All sorts of rhetoric came out, it's normal, you can beat a guy from all sides, except his mouth.
I think there were a lot of fans of Black Yao Ming in China back then, not to mention that Li Liang's cards were not as good as Yao Ming, and he played less games.
This is the case in China, let alone in the United States, Li Liang's popularity has been completely hyped up after a series of incidents, such as pro-sheep butt, lore, and garbage time data.
ESPN, T-NT and other well-known sports TV stations and websites have commented one after another.
All kinds of famous people who have retired are also full of food and have nothing to do, and come out to guide the country.
Everyone is divided into two camps, one faction thinks it doesn't matter, brushing data is originally part of the game, is it possible that you won't play garbage time?
Back then, David Robinson and George Gervin were like that, and the whole team helped brush up the data, just to let them win the scoring title.
One faction thinks this is not good, you have to score points when you are really swords, and you can't brush desperately when the opponent has given up resistance.
Like Bird, as well as Kobe, they all choose to give up when they can go further, otherwise they can brush up on better data.
The two sides quarreled fiercely, of course, this is purely the effect of the show.
Sports is entertainment, culture and sports are not separated, culture and sports are blooming, and it is normal to be noisy.
Anyway, the topic of the first half of the NBA season is all about Li Liang, a second-round show.
Li Liang remained silent about this, not that he didn't want to explain, but that he couldn't.
In the post-game interview, he made it very clear that he can't shake out the system.
It doesn't matter, in the future, Lao Tzu will have a chance to shut you up.
After the game against the Mavericks, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles for repairs, and on the 27th, they were going to play the Pacers at home.
Zhu Shu traveled for more than two weeks, and finally rushed back from Texas to tell Li Liang that she had finally successfully signed two players.
Li Liang looked at his name, he was unknown, but it was normal, what good players could she sign as a rookie agent.
"Then can't you always cook for me at home in the future?" Li Liang saw Zhu Shu signing a newcomer, and thought about his meal.
"Hmm... I'm mostly in Los Angeles, but I probably have to run around a lot. Also, I signed with Wasserman Sports, and I'll have a regular job in the future! There was some excitement on Zhu Shu's face.
How difficult it is for a young girl to gain a foothold in this industry, only she knows.
The sports world has always been a man's world, and discrimination against women is everywhere.
White Americans have always been the world's leader in discrimination.
If you want to gain their approval, you have to have great ability.
Li Liang originally wanted to let Zhu Shu be his exclusive agent, so as to save a lot of trouble.
I didn't expect this girl to have a soft personality on the outside and strong on the inside, maybe she was annoyed by playing games, and she was unwilling to live like this.
took the initiative to boldly attack to break through, and really broke into a little famous.
Li Liang sighed, and said in his heart, maybe people are indeed like things gathering, and homogeneity attracts each other.
Himself, Zhu Shu, Bai Xiaoting, and many other Chinese who are struggling around the world have a tenacious temperament that does not admit defeat and is not convinced.
As for Wei Dazhi...... In the past few days, I just saw him quarreling with people on the Internet.
For the sake of Li Liang, in Wei Dazhi's words, you can question my sexual orientation, but you can't question Li Liang's ability!
Then he began to have a war of words with various people on forums, Twitter, and INS.
The keyboard waved and flew up, which may also be a manifestation of his refusal to admit defeat, with a hard mouth.
During the two-day break, in addition to participating in team training, Li Liang entered the task to continue his blocking and dismantling cover training.
Before Christmas, there will be no official activities for the Lakers for the time being, and the players will just concentrate on practice.
However, the health of the team is not particularly optimistic, and there are many veterans in the team.
After every training session and competition, Li Liang would see his teammates applying ice packs and doing physiotherapy, and the time spent was measured in hours.
It's a pity that after scoring 30 points, he didn't draw the [bruise damage medicine under the flyover] again, otherwise Li Liang would definitely be willing to use it for the veterans in the team.
He drew a [uglier knee pad] and a bottle of Gatorade.
The function of knee braces is to reduce the chance of knee injuries.
But the appearance is really ugly, there is no sense of design, and the color is still the most earthy blue, Li Liang is embarrassed to wear it.
During training, Gasol saw Li Liang's knee pads and asked him where he bought them.
"Taobao!" Li Liang replied, saying that he had purchased online in China.
"It's my lucky knee pad, so I've kept it."
Li Liang made up nonsense, but Gasol expressed his understanding, because many players have quirks in personal equipment.
For example, like Jason Terry, he must wear stockings, a headband, and underwear, otherwise he will be uncomfortable and will not be able to score a point in a game.
Gasol also wears two narrow knee pads around his knees, which he has been uncomfortable with lately.
On November 27, the Lakers hosted the Pacers, and it was another game that tested the Lakers' interior.
The Pacers' center is 2.18m Hibbert, and the power forward is a tough shooting power forward, David West.
After getting Grant Hill in a trade, the Pacers' starting lineup took shape.
It's a team that keeps falling and rising, and their management is extremely stable and underrated.
After the Auburn Hills incident ruined the hard work of Bird and Miller, the Pacers are on the right path.
In this game, the problems of the Lakers' interior line were greatly exposed.
Howard faced Hibbert, who was taller than him, and the offensive end could easily eat him, and the monster still had the advantage in skill and upper body strength.
But on the defensive end, Howard began to be unable to withstand Hibbert's strong offense and frontcourt rebounds.
In the first quarter, Hibbert grabbed three frontcourt rebounds, and then Brown asked to strengthen the backcourt rebounding scramble to curb Hibbert's random secondary offense on the inside.
But the bigger problem is Gasol's defense against David West.
West dished out eight assists, several of which were sent to Lance Stephenson for an unguarded layup.
With such a ball, the Lakers conceded at least 8 points.
One is that Gasol has no way to put pressure on West, because Gasol can't keep up, and as soon as he presses West, he will burst you.
The second is still Kobe's follow-up problem, now he relies too much on the defensive end, is inattentive, and can't keep up with the defense.
Stephenson repeatedly made empty cuts to the basket and made layups, and the angry Kobe Bryant smashed the ball.
Li Liang didn't bother to scold Kobe anymore, is it useful to scold you? Lao Tzu might as well scold Morris.
Li Liangyi was playing against Paul George the whole time, and the two were considered to have abolished each other's martial arts.
George didn't play very well, and Li Liang was stared at by George to death.
The Lakers trailed by 12 points in the first three quarters.
In the final quarter, Kobe Bryant took over the game alone, and the Lakers fought to catch up.
Kobe Bryant was caught by the Pacers' crazy shrinkage and wrapping all over the court, and many people were surrounded, covered and broken many times.
But Bryant still held on to the end, first receiving Gasol's covering pass and hitting a three-point shot in the bottom corner.
Then Ci Shiping missed a free throw to tie the score, and George Hill hit a basket to face Howard's toss to give a three-point lead.
Bryant immediately relied on Li Liang's cover and tied the score with a 45-degree three-pointer on the right side.
But alas, George Hill was like a god in the final moments, using West's cover to get to the basket.
He faced Howard's Five Fingers again, hit the board with a high throw, and the ball bounced off the basket a few times and fell into the net!
It was because of these bounces that the time ran out, and when the goal was scored, there were only 0.1 seconds left in the game.
Time is completely insufficient, and even if Li Liang has a [lucky hand] at this time, he can't score the ball.
His [Death Coil] didn't even work, it wasn't a skill that was guaranteed to be a steal.
But the blame is not on Li Liang, the Pacers only hit 20 percent of their outside three-point shots.
Their scoring came mainly from the inside and West from mid-range.
Nash showed his old age against George Hill, Gasol was beaten by West, and his movement speed was a big problem.
Howard did suppress Hibbert, but he didn't form a crushing momentum, and the defense was weak.
He did his best in the last two key defenses, but he couldn't do anything about it when he got past him from the outside.
At 81:79, the Lakers lost by 2 points.
Kobe Bryant scored 40 points in the air and unfortunately lost.
Li Liang threw the towel angrily after the game and returned to the locker room, but he didn't turn on the hair dryer to curse.
Because he felt that he didn't do his best in tonight's game, shooting only 1 of 3 three-pointers.
George's would rather not score himself than let Li Liang score, and the two blew themselves up directly.
On the defensive end, Li Liang is even more weak, and he really doesn't have a good way to play this kind of inside-line team.
The last time I played the Grizzlies, it was exactly the same, the inside line was penetrated, and the outside line didn't shoot three points, and you exchanged each other.
His defensive points are all on the perimeter, one-on-one on the perimeter, lateral movement on the perimeter, offensive fouls on the perimeter, positioning, and steals.
But as soon as the opponent hits the inside, plays a low-post offense, plays a high-post inside pass, rushes to grab frontcourt rebounds, and plays a 45-degree basket to rush, he has no way.
You asked him to defend West?
West is no Griffin, and his skillful low-post skills and accurate mid-to-long-range shooting can knock Li Liang out of the.
At the Hornets that year, he cooperated with Paul and shot Duncan when he felt good.
Can Li Liang's interior defensive ability be compared to Duncan?
For a while, there were more remarks on the Internet about Li Liang's "lack of internal ability, and the playoffs were embarrassing".
It is said that the playoffs still have to be inside, and the Lakers are very difficult to play teams with strong inside, Spurs, Jazz, Grizzlies, and Pacers, which shows that Li Liang has given too little help to the inside, and the playoffs will definitely not work.
You TM, Li Liang was originally a 3D small forward, the Lakers have a Gasol and a Howard on the inside, can you blame Li Liang for not being able to prevent the inside?
But it can't be helped, the fans are always demanding more and more.
The so-called greater expectations, higher demands, and greater disappointment.
The defeat and poor play against the Pacers gave a lot of people a mouthful.
So, Li Liang faced the Denver Nuggets in the next game, and he came off the bench to shoot 13 of 18 from the field, and 8 of 10 from three-point range, scoring 35 points!
Improved his season's highest score by another 1 point!
In this scene, he didn't use any props and skills, and purely relied on his own skills.
The reason why so many votes are so accurate is because Howard's point is open.
Howard relieved the depression of the previous few consecutive games in this game, and faced the Nuggets who were weak inside, and played a double-20 data, 28 points and 20 rebounds.
And he and Li Liang are very well matched, one feeds the ball to open up the space for singles, and the other attacks the inside to create opportunities for the outside.
Also, in addition to the three-point shot, Li Liang actually learned to cut in the air!
Gasol had 8 assists when his knee was uncomfortable and he didn't play well, 3 of which were for Li Liang's empty cut basket!
Mike Brown is dumbfounded, how can he even learn to cut air?
When did I devise a tactic for him, and how did I not know it?
It must have been me who taught him, because he was so busy, I forgot, this guy is a good learner and learned it himself.
Actually, bullshit! Li Liang learned from Coach John Wooden in the system.
In addition to teaching some skills in blocking and dismantling, Coach Wooden also taught some skills in air cutting.
The Nuggets' defense is already poor, and Li Haohao is also a graduate of a prestigious Kentucky school, and if he learns again in the system, what's wrong with two or three empty cuts.
This battle Li Liang was an instant hit, who else said that Lao Tzu would only waste time to score points? And who else says I can't help the insider?
Isn't it a help and support for Howard to feed Howard and help Gasol with assists?
For a while, the debate in this regard was silent.
But in the next game, the Lakers are in trouble.
Entering December, the first game of December, the Lakers played Howard's old home against the Orlando Magic.
In the first half, the Lakers kept the Magic under control, and Howard played his old main game with great energy.
But in the second half, Gasol felt knee discomfort and left the pitch early to return to the locker room.
Without Gasol, the Lakers didn't have much offensive system, and they collapsed a corner all of a sudden.
Although Gasol has been in poor form lately, slow defensively and soft on the offensive end, his tactical significance is unquestionable.
Without Gasol, Brown had to bring Jamison on the field and put him in the place of Gasol's power forward.
The Lakers' interior basket protection got worse, and they were attacked by the Magic's Afflaro and Vucevic in turn, one shooting 11 of 18 and the other of 8 of 15.
Kobe Bryant was not in good shape tonight, the first half was fine, and the second half was desperately ironed, causing the Lakers to play four and six, and the situation turned around all of a sudden.
Brown had no contingency plan for Gasol's absence, and the on-the-spot command was disorganized, and in the end he was rushed down by the Magic.
Li Liang sat on the bench and almost strangled Brown to death.
But it didn't help strangling Brown, the Magic actually trailed the Lakers by more than a dozen points in rebounding.
But tonight they shot very well, 50 percent from the field.
Why? The Lakers don't protect the interior well.
Now the teams have a little bit of a grasp of the Lakers' routine.
On the defensive end, you must pinch Li Liang, and if you don't pinch it, the result will be like Jazz and Nuggets, who will be killed by his three-point shots.
On the offensive end, you must attack the Lakers' interior line, and then stare at Nash and Kobe Bryant.
Kobe Nash can't keep up after blocking, Gasol is slow, and Howard's defensive deterrence is declining, which can definitely make the Lakers miserable.
Therefore, everyone learned from Mr. Popovich, and during the game, they sent a striker to make a counter with Li Liang.
When defending, keep an eye on it, and when attacking, all go to the weak side, whoever plays against Li Liang will go to the weak side, and aim the strong side at the defensive weaknesses of the Lakers' outside - Kobe and Nash.
Lao Ke, has changed from a regular defender in the past to a defensive hole now.
It can only be said that the years do not spare people, and the sky forgives anyone.
The "Li Liang's Law" that has been summed up so far has made the Lakers win one game and lose one game, win one game and lose one game, and they have lost the momentum of the previous winning streak.
What to do? Can Li Liang wait for Mike Brown to design his own tactics and figure out a way?
Dream and pin your hopes on him, I might as well go into the system and ask Mr. Wooden.
Towards the end of ten class hours at Wooden's place, Li Liang decided to start a new mission.
Isn't it just interior defense? I don't know how to defend inside?
I'll tell you right away, what is Dennis Rodman's possession, and what is the dual cultivation of inside and outside...... No, both inside and out.