Everyone knew that times were changing, but they didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

For nostalgic fans, their deep impression of basketball still lingers on the flashy dribble breakout and the difficult folding layup.

And now such actions are becoming less and less common in the league.

Although Kobe Bryant is still in the league, his style of play is also in pursuit of efficiency and simplicity.

The three-point shot is becoming the most important part of the game, so important that a team from the center to the point guard will be able to shoot a three-pointer.

This process was supposed to be gradual, with each team gradually adapting their tactical approach each summer and each new season.

It's just that Li Liang's performance outside the three-point line in the 2013 season, as well as that shocking 60 points in the finals, greatly accelerated this process.

Especially combined with the Lakers' record and performance this season, it makes people realize how important it is to have a good three-point shooter on the outside to the overall strategy.

The era of low-post offense is over, and the last year of this era was 2012.

At that year's Finals, LeBron James opened up the Thunder's defense with his lame low-post offense.

Prior to this, countless people advised James to "practice his back and strengthen his low-post offense", which is almost a necessary skill for a championship player and team, a "king skill".

In the past year, that voice has almost disappeared.

Attacking with your back, the low-post technique is still a very powerful technique and tactic.

But he is no longer a "king skill", there is the best, and if there is not, it is not necessarily impossible to win in the end.

Today's king skill is the three-point shot.

Li Liang grasped this skill, or rather, he used his performance to push the three-point shot to a peak.

After causing Bryant's foul, Li Liang got three free throws.

He stood at the free-throw line, and Kobe Bryant stood a little short of him with his waist crossed.

All three free throws were hit, and the ball didn't even touch the basket, it was all through the center.

If you want to see Li Liang miss a free throw, it is basically as rare as watching Kobe Bryant not hit the iron.

At 71:88, the Clippers' lead was already 17 points.

Of course, the Lakers did not give up, and Kobe Bryant is still leading the team to organize counterattacks.

At the end of the third quarter, the Lakers stubbornly chased the score to 85-95, trailing by 10 points.

The Clippers are still playing a little rough offense without Paul as a stabilizer.

As an organizer, Li Liang has the advantage of giving others more room to play, and the disadvantage is of course that there are more mistakes.

Because of his height and ability to control the ball, as well as his playing habits, when Li Liang controlled the ball, the explosiveness of his mistakes was still quite amazing.

Bryant stepped up his interference with Li Liang's ball control in the second half of the third quarter, and D'Antoni replaced Ci Shiping at the same time to strengthen the pressure on Li Liang's ball.

Caused Li Liang to make three mistakes in a row, allowing the Lakers to counterattack twice, and were able to narrow the gap to 10 points near the end of the third quarter.

Li Liang knew that his ball control and organization needed to be further enhanced.

Paul won't be back for a while after this game.

Other teams are now studying how to deal with Li Liang, and he will definitely be more pressed and defended.

If he can't control the mistakes, it will be a big blow to his organization and attack.

But as soon as Li Liang thought of entering the system to practice controlling the ball, he would be subjected to the system's electric shock and the "torture" of pinching his fingers, and he secretly complained in his heart.

This perverted system designer, why do these tasks have to punish Lao Tzu?

At the beginning of the fourth quarter of the game, Li Liang sat on the sidelines to rest, and the substitute lineups of the two sides played on the court.

Replacing Li Liang was Odom.

After a period of "refreshment", Odom's competitive level has improved to a great extent.

And because of Paul's injury, Odom has a very good ability to organize and control the ball, so his playing time is gradually increasing.

This guy, known as the "left-handed magician", has a high talent and imagination in passing.

He has an excellent sense of ball control, strong coordination of hands and feet, and even if he is 2.06 meters tall, he can play with the ball like a small point guard.

After the start of the fourth quarter, the bench lineups of the two sides pecked each other.

The rookie on the Clippers' side is a cut above the Lakers.

Odom and Griffin combined two beautiful inside passes to open up the gap with two goals.

And the Lakers' substitute is really Cai, Ci Shiping played with Nick Young, Blake, Meeks, Thackeray and others on the court.

It's a lineup that doesn't have any offensive ability on its own.

Ci Shiping is five years younger and could have become the offensive core on the court, but this year his weight has gone up again.

The movement has become slower, and the shooting feel has become worse.

However, the little steel cannon Meeks played well, hitting a three-pointer from the outside to quench the Lakers' thirst.

The two sides then played each other's irons, and Odom seized a counterattack opportunity, took the ball and dribbled from the backcourt to the basket.

First changed direction in advance and passed Meeks, then a back dribble past Ci Shiping, and then a left-handed gentle pick-up!

It was the best goal of the game so far.

Seeing this, Li Liang excitedly stood up and waved a towel to Odom.

To be honest, this kind of continuous excellence, Li Liang can't do it at present.

This kind of agility of the integration of man and ball cannot be practiced in the acquired training.

However, Li Liang's excitement has not passed a minute, and in the next round, Odom controls the ball and organizes the attack.

After blocking and dismantling with Griffin, he played a back-to-back pass, no?? look pass！

A very beautiful and accurate pass that put the ball into Li Liang's hands......

Li Liang stood on the sidelines, just finished waving a towel, and hadn't sat down yet.

A ball flew towards him, and he caught it.

Good ball, really good ball.

Li Liangdu doesn't need to move his position, he can shoot directly when he catches the ball.

And he's a big open space, and there's not a single defender in front of him.

The only pity is that others are standing on the sidelines and have not yet played.

"Good ball, good ball." Li Liang returned the ball to the referee, and then applauded Odom, saying that it was a good ball.

Otherwise, what else can I do, can I still hit him in the head with a ball?

Odom's idea of transferring the ball from the strong side to the weak side is still very correct, that is, the transfer is big, it crosses the boundary, and it is out of the circle.

Needless to say, this ball is definitely going to be Odom's five embarrassments.

Li Liang's helpless expression when he held the ball was almost exactly the same as the Lakers' Vujasic.

Even Kobe, who was originally a little depressed, couldn't help but laugh when he saw this ball.

Odom is still the same Odom of the past, and he is still so easily distracted.

Because of a mistake by Odom, the dead ball went into an official timeout.

The Clippers still led the Lakers by 12 points at 91-103.

In the absence of Paul, the Clippers' offensive firepower is still very strong.

With more than half of the fourth quarter remaining, the score has easily exceeded 100.

After the timeout, the main players of both sides returned to the court, and Bryant began the final counterattack.

The Lakers went on a 7-0 spurt after the official timeout, with Bryant scoring four straight points and assisting Gasol for a three-pointer — the first three-pointer Gasol made of the game.

The margin has been reduced to just 5 points.

Li Liang was unrelenting at this time, hitting two emergency stop jump shots to stabilize the situation.

To be honest, Kobe Bryant didn't expect that Li Liang's pull-up jump shot would be so accurate tonight.

In fact, Li Liang prepared before the game.

When he was head-to-head with Kobe Bryant in the system, Li Liang carefully studied the video of other players playing Kobe Bryant's one-on-one.

Among all the forward lines that year, the best person to play Kobe Bryant one-on-one was Maddie.

And Maddy's best offensive means against Kobe Bryant is a stop-and-go mid-range jumper after a sudden step.

Kobe himself has said that Maddie is the hardest player he has ever faced to defend against the position.

Li Liang also summed it up in the system, and he must not get into a fight with Kobe Bryant.

You must fight quickly, take advantage of your height and reach, and strike immediately after finding space to solve the battle.

Li Liang's jumper shot tonight was very good, and his pull-up jump shot and Alan Houston have improved again.

After throwing two mid-range shots to reassert their advantage, the Lakers fell into an offensive slump.

In fact, the reason why the Lakers fell into an offensive slump is generally relatively simple, that is, Kobe Bryant began to play iron.

Kobe Bryant can use his offense to drive the whole team, and he can also use his iron to drive the opponent.

Iron striking is inevitable for any player, but there are really not many who can play as artistically as Kobe, catch his teammates off guard, and hit the opponent right in the middle.

For example, Kobe Bryant doesn't pass the ball, and he forces a shot by himself, this kind of iron teammate does not run away at all, and the opponent's defensive formation is not involved, and the result is often that he can't grab the rebound in the front court, and at the same time, the opponent waits for work and directly launches a counterattack when he gets the ball.

This is still not the key, grabbing the frontcourt rebound is a small probability event, and it is normal for the iron to be beaten and counterattacked.

But after two or three misses, many players start to pass the ball more, to recuperate their touch, or to change their attacking methods.

Kobe Bryant: No, he's extremely confident in his hand, and he often has to shoot until he thinks he'll be able to score.

I don't care how much iron there is in front, I will definitely enter the next one.

It is in this spirit that Kobe Bryant once scored nine consecutive iron in a single quarter, and only scored one point by free throws in a single quarter, known as the steel nine consecutive irons.

He also once had 20 consecutive irons in two games, the previous game and the next.

This is the so-called cross-border iron king.

Kobe Bryant actually had a good hand tonight, scoring 22 points in the first half, and by the fourth quarter in the second half, he had already scored 37 points.

It is the highest score in a single game since his comeback this season, and if he continues to play, he can break 40 points.

As a result, Bryant missed all five consecutive shots in the next five offensive rounds!

Li Liang didn't defend one shot outside the three-point line, and his footsteps were late, but Kobe Bryant's three-point shot missed.

Bryant looked extremely frustrated as the Clippers then countered and Griffin received a pass from Crawford for a dunk.

The score became 103-120, and the Lakers trailed by 17 points.

With three minutes to go before the end of the game, the Lakers had already surrendered.

Li Liang originally wanted to have a wave of knight duels with Kobe Bryant at the last moment and defeat the opponent with his own strength.

Unexpectedly, Lao Ke directly blew himself up, and a wave of iron sent the Lakers to lose.

The explosiveness of this striking iron is indeed very amazing.

Bryant's score was fixed at 37 points, just one three-pointer away from 40 points.

The Lakers only made 3 three-pointers in this game, Gasol one, Nash one, and Nick Young the same.

On the contrary, the Clippers shot 8 of 21 three-pointers, and Li Liang hit 5 three-pointers alone, leading the Clippers to a 125-105, 20-point advantage over the Lakers at home.

In the Los Angeles derby, a 2-0 lead was achieved.

At the moment of the end of the game, Kobe Bryant shook hands and hugged Li Liang and patted Li Liang on the shoulder.

"Good luck, I'll win next time." Kobe Bryant said, he is still so stubborn, even if he is almost 35 years old.

His worst iron record was actually made after 2011.

"Good luck, I've already won." Li Liangdao belongs to him at the moment.

The NBA is coming to his time.