Chapter 956: No If
Li Liang collapsed from Green as if he had stepped over a stinking ditch.
Green was not happy, he was still lying on the ground and playing tricks, sat up as soon as he got a bullet, and rushed towards Li Liang.
Li Liang didn't dodge, nor did he make any defensive moves, he just turned his head and glared at Green, and Green's momentum went down all of a sudden.
In the end, he just blew twice in a bluff and walked away under the tug of his teammates.
Players and players are different, and there is no fair existence in the NBA.
A newcomer will easily be fouled by the referee and balanced by the referee.
And a superstar will be more or less taken care of by the referee, and even in awe.
This is not only related to the player's skills and fame, but also related to personality and temperament.
Like Iverson back then, he was not the No. 1 in the league in terms of strength, he was not tall, and he was very thin.
But once he stared at the referee who wanted to blow his foul, and he was so frightened that he put down the whistle.
Not to mention Michael Jordan's kind, the referee himself didn't see if there was a foul, but Jordan said he did, so the referee blew it.
When it was over, he said to Jordan, "I didn't see it, but I believe you Michael." ”
Li Liang's treatment is similar to Jordan's, and the relationship with the referee is not too good.
At the same time, Green dared to argue with any star in the league, but he just didn't dare to argue with Li Liang.
Even if he was humiliated by his crotch, he only dared to beep two words.
After all, there are too many people who have been beaten by Li Liang, and in the two playoff games, Green is simply Li Liang's scoring machine.
As long as Green plays against Li Liang, the Warriors will be unlucky.
So later, Kerr simply didn't let Green defend against Li Liang, and tried not to let the two match each other as much as possible.
Because once Green plays against Li Liang, not to mention that the defense can't be defended, it will be discounted in the offense.
Releasing Green from Li Liang's shadow will allow him to play a better role.
The side effect was that Thompson had to defend Li Liang, which caused Thompson's offensive efficiency to be reduced a lot.
This little episode makes the confrontation between the warrior and the king even more gunpowdery.
The fourth quarter became more and more mired in a quagmire battle.
Cole became restless.
This is the first game, and if the first game gets stuck in such a quagmire battle, then the whole series will not be good for the Warriors.
Subsequently, the development of the plot really followed Li Liang's expectations.
The Warriors' offense was still strong, and they didn't listen to the closing score, and even took a two-point lead with three minutes left in the fourth quarter.
But Li Liang immediately regained it with two mid-range jumpers.
Thompson and James missed their three-point attempts from the outside.
After three quarters of the game, except for the beginning of the first quarter, the Warriors never played a smooth offense.
Three-point shooting percentage is the lowest in the playoffs — and of course, the Kings aren't much better.
In the final two minutes, the two sides entered the decisive moment, at which point, Kerr faced a problem - he was about to run out of timeouts.
Because the timeout was used so diligently, in the final two minutes, Kerr only had one long timeout left in his hand.
The short pause for the rescue was gone.
At this point, the score was 92-90, and the Kings led the Warriors by 2 points.
The main players on both sides have been squeezed to the limit, and the shooting percentage has dropped significantly.
Some young fans can only get a sense of how basketball was played in the 90s.
Why Michael Jordan can become the all-time No. 1 is because at that intensity, he can shoot 50% from the field and score half of the team, what kind of concept is it?
Of course, Li Liang had already scored 44 points at this time, scoring nearly half of the team.
And he doesn't score many three-point shots, mainly relying on accurate mid-range jumpers.
A two-point lead is clearly not secure.
Li Liang also held three pauses in his hand, two short and one long.
He used a short timeout and set up a sideline serve.
He put Cousins, who had been on the bench for almost the entire second half, back on the court.
Then on the sideline, Cousins cut to the basket from the high post, received a pass from wing Barnes, scored an easy layup, and caused a foul on Looney.
Cousins hit a free throw, and the score became 95-90, bringing the margin to five points.
At this time, Cole could not call a timeout, and if he called a timeout, there would be no timeout in his hands.
You can only fight hard.
As a result, Li Liang made a death-winding shot in the middle and successfully broke the ball.
Li Liang rushed to the basket with the ball, and seeing that there was no chance, he passed the ball out and reorganized the offense.
This attack time consumes another 20 seconds.
In the end, Li Liang gave the ball to Cousins and once again let Cousins eat in the low post.
The Warriors were a little uncomfortable with the King's sudden low post attack.
Looney drew another defensive foul and sent Cousins to the free throw line.
The two attacks were extremely deadly, and Cole yelled at the referee on the sidelines, but to no avail.
Looking at the replay of the two balls, Rooney did foul him.
And Cousins only scored 7 points after hitting both free throws, looking at the technical statistics.
In other words, if you remove these 5 points, he gets 2 points.
However, these 5 points are indeed valuable, and it can also be said that Li Liang's substitution was really timely, and he caught the Warriors off guard.
The difference was suddenly stretched to 7 points.
At this point, Kerr had to use up the last long timeout.
After the long timeout was used, unless Li Liang helped, there was no timeout in Cole's hands.
In fact, the king has been a bit strong so far.
In Li Liang's props library, except for [Lucky Hand], all kinds of skills and props that can be used are basically used.
The two [Death Entanglements] were used, and as for the [Heavenly King] medal, it never lit up, probably because of the fragmented rhythm of the game, which itself also affected Li Liang's state.
After the Warriors' timeout, James held the ball in the low post and rolled over to make a strong basket.
Cousins had already been substituted, and West came over to make up for it, but in the last shot, he still dodged and didn't get a shot.
In the end, James hit a two-pointer.
If West gets started, James is likely to be a 2+1.
Now that the Kings are leading by seven points, they must not give the Warriors a chance to score a 3-pointer.
Then, after Li Liang blocked and dismantled, he burst into the basket and missed the jump shot.
He was surrounded by three men, and almost the most brutal defensive way greeted him.
The referee did not blow the whistle and let the players decide the game.
At this point, there was less than 1 minute left before the end of the game.
The Warriors counterattacked, and after Iguodala rushed to the basket, he received a through pass from Curry on the outside and made a layup!
97:94, only 3 points short!
Then, on the king's side, Li Liang was surrounded by three people.
can only pass the ball and give it to Rondo, who throws it after bursting into the basket and doesn't score!
The Warriors have a chance to equalize!
However, Kerr did not have a timeout at this time, and he could not arrange tactics.
Curry held the ball across half court, Thompson came over to block it, and Thompson tried to open up the right space for Curry.
But Curry made a fatal mistake when, after the pick-and-roll, tried to pass the ball to Thompson and used a hidden back pass.
As a result, this back pass was so hidden that even Thompson didn't notice!
With 30 seconds left in the game, Thompson thought Curry was going to go to the basket and score two points.
Curry, on the other hand, hopes to open up space for Thompson to shoot three-pointers.
The two people had different meanings and directions, and as a result, they caused misunderstandings, and finally made mistakes.
The ball flew off the sideline, the king had the ball!
Now that the calf is over, the king is now going to make free throws.
Li Liang decisively opened the penalty shootout mode.
He called a short timeout, set up a serve, and the ball landed firmly in his hands.
James could only foul, and Li Liang went to the free throw line and hit both free throws.
A difference of 5 points.
The Warriors still didn't have a timeout, so they could only send the ball in the backcourt, and then took advantage of the King's timeout just now to lay out a tactic.
As a result, before the tactics could be used, the Kings fouled James who was holding the ball.
James's free throws were really competitive, and he missed the first free throw at the critical moment.
The second penalty went in, and Li Liang called another timeout to arrange the serving tactics.
This time, the ball still passed to Li Liang's hand, and this TM pause is good.
Li Liang hit both free throws again, 101:95, 6 points, and there were more than ten seconds left before the end of the game.
The Warriors are running out of time.
Although Curry barely made a three-pointer in the end, it was too late.
In the end, the Kings defeated the Warriors by 3 points in the first game, 101-98, and won the first game of the Western Conference finals.
Li Liang scored 48 points in this game, almost half of the team's scores.
The strong will to revenge of the whole Warriors team was completely dissipated in the face of Li Liang's amazing personal performance and perfect strategy.
If Kerr has a timeout at the end of the game when Curry misses, it is very likely that the game will be reversed with the Warriors' key ball ability.
But there are no ifs.