Stevens is in a complicated mood now, and in the face of Li Liang's sudden "brute force explosion" in the middle and late first quarter, he only has one sentence in his heart to say to him: "You can always give me something new." ”

Coach Stevens is the current representative of the league's academy coaches.

Although he has just coached Celtic, his ability to adjust the team's tactics and player combinations was quickly revealed.

He has a deep foundation of tactical knowledge, very good on-the-spot scheduling ability, and is very good at designing clever tactics to make up for the lack of player ability.

The Celtics have improved a lot overall after his tutelage last season.

With the overall lack of talent among the players, the Celtics were integrated into a disciplined and tactically disciplined team.

And this is a way for a team to grow into a strong team.

Before the game, Stevens conducted a detailed study of Li Liang, Li Liang's ball path and characteristics, and now all teams are making great efforts to find out, which is the treatment that the league's top superstars should be.

But Li Liang still can't restrain it, why?

The progress is too fast, and he often does not play cards according to the routine, and there are often things that have never been seen before in the arsenal, which makes the research of Li Liang particularly difficult.

For example, in a game like the one he once used to take the Yin and Yang Harmony Great Tonic Pill, he often played a few blind handfuls, hooked hands, and threw ultra-long-distance throws, but he was able to enter!

What do you ask the videographers and assistant coaches to do?

Stevens and his team easily summed up the characteristics of Li Liang's current style of play, the targeted training in training, and the targeted arrangement before the game, and the result worked for half a quarter?

During the timeout, Stevens pulled out the tactical board and didn't say anything for a while.

What are you talking about? What do you say?

Li Liang suddenly turned into a brute bull, and he dropped ten times with one force, is this to use the routine of anti-James to defend him?

But James' three-point shot is not so accurate.

Stevens is still Stevens, and he still came up with a strategy after calming down.

That is, don't let Li Liang catch the ball.

He asked Bradley to play a close defense of Li Liang around the front, prevent Li Liang from receiving the ball easily, and let the rest of the Pacers attack, trying to isolate Li Liang from the Pacers' offense.

This trick did have some effect.

In the last few attacks of the first quarter, Li Liang was surrounded before he got the ball, and the others had the opportunity to attack on their own, and they scored goals that were acceptable to the Celtics.

At the end of the first quarter, the Pacers overtook the score and led the Celtics 25-23.

Li Liang was at rest, and Bird asked, "Bruce, how did your strength become so strong?" ”

Li Liang wiped his sweat and said, "What do you think?" Am I wearing Iron Man's suit? ”

Bird said: "How do you practice, teach me?" ”

Li Liang said: "You are useless and can't play, teach you what to do." ”

"Can you teach your teammates then?"

"My teammates have me, what do you have to practice?"

“……”

Bird suddenly had a feeling that he didn't want to speak.

As a famous trash talk king in NBA history, he doesn't know what to say in the face of Li Liangbird.

After all, it's not an opponent, it's the top name in the team, and you still have to coax.

At this point, the second quarter of the game began quickly, and the bench lineups of both sides continued to compete on the court.

Due to the lack of major generals, the Pacers' disadvantage in combat power was once again highlighted, and the score quickly fell behind.

The Celtics have been playing back-to-back games on the offensive end, and the Pacers have had problems with defensive intensity.

It's still a problem with the guard line, without George Hill, without Paul George, plus Li Liang resting off the court, the Pacers' defense has no intensity at all, and the Celtics have scored easily in a row.

The score reached 27:31, and when the Celtics were leading by four points, the Pacers took a timeout, and Li Liang was ready to come on the court to fill the hole.

It's time to play center again.

Li Liang didn't sigh this time, thinking that the center is the center, and Lao Tzu has no strength now.

And the Celtics also got a small lineup to deal with it.

Stevens knows that the Pacers now have a small lineup of Li Liang playing center, which has a certain amount of power.

He watched the footage of the two games and thought that the essence of the Pacers' small lineup was "space".

Five players stretched the space to the extreme, giving the players the ability to look for opportunities, and the two most efficient means of scoring were the open cuts to the basket and the open three-pointers.

The small lineup is to bring these two efficient offensive means into play to improve the scoring efficiency in an all-round way.

If it weren't for the small number of shooters and poor quality on the Pacers' side, the previous games would not have been so hard.

Stevens is confident that the Celtics' small heel-defence tactics can work.

As a result, Stevens was wrong.

Li Liang didn't want to play Brown at all to get that small lineup tactic, because outsiders couldn't shoot!

It's easy to run out of a big empty space, and in the end you can't shoot, what's the use of you?

It's better to use the NBA's oldest and most effective tactic - the center hard chisel.

Li Liang had learned to card for a while in the summer, and then lightly lit a [Heinsohn's cigarette] for himself, and easily stuck in the position under the basket.

After receiving the ball, a turnaround pull-up jumper was like Bob McAdoo reincarnated.

This kind of low-post card and close-to-distance pull-up jump shot technique is no longer used in the league.

Because there are many technical action links, it is more complicated, which is the so-called "inefficiency".

You have to get in the spot, then you catch the ball, then you turn around and squeeze out of position, and then you have to make a jumper.

Today's players would rather take the ball and shoot it directly, or simply break through to the basket, which is simple and fast.

As a result, Li Lianglai played three shots in a row in the low post, two low-post catches and strong hits, and one shot after grabbing the rebound in the front court.

Scoring six straight points helped the Pacers regain the lead.

Stevens stood on the sidelines, looking straight on his forehead, what kind of trick is this?

This Larry Bird really lives up to his reputation, can he train Bruce Lee to this level?

In fact, Bird looked strange off the court, why did Bruce Lee do this?

This trick was used by many players in the 80s, especially some small forwards who were good at low singles, such as Adrian Dantley and James Worthy, which are now obsolete skills.

In the first two seasons, Bird knew that Li Liang, this kid, often tossed out some retro techniques, but he didn't expect to use them in combination now.

Thinking of this, Bird turned his head to look at Mike Brown, who was sitting next to him.

Brown noticed Bird's gaze and pushed his glasses as he felt like to say something.

"Shut up Mike." Bird Road.

"......" Brown didn't say anything.

……

The situation on the court was out of control for the Celtics again, and Stevens' calculations fell through again.

What's going on? What the hell is going on?

What is the origin of Li Liang?

Stevens stood on the sidelines and began to live in doubt.

Is the earth flat? Is there an end to the universe? Where do people come from and where are they going?

What the hell am I doing standing here? It's just five people chasing a brown ball around the court, just to get it into that little basket?

The brain is messing up, Li Liang broke the ball directly from Rondo on the defensive end!

Then, like a locomotive, he ran straight to the basket, and a heavy buckle of both hands was successful!

The basket at TD North Shore Gardens is shaking.

After scoring the goal, Li Liang sent a sharp glare to the crowd, like James's death glare in 2012.

Was there anger coming from the scene?

NO, no, not at all.

On the contrary, after this heavy buckle, the scene was cheering, and many young fans stood up and shouted.

Li Liang's dunk is still rare.

The sharp eyes only lasted less than a second, and Li Liang put it away.

Damn, it doesn't play a role in pulling hatred.

After the ball was scored, Stevens called a timeout and had to change his strategy again.

As a coach-led team, one thing is not good, the coach has a strong desire to control, has a lot of ideas in his head, and wants to adjust the lineup and change tactics when something goes wrong.

Such coaches will be handy for obedient players and teams, which is especially common in the NCAA.

But in the NBA, a lot of the time players dominate the game, and for some stars, they prefer to rely on their ability to solve problems on the court, rather than being fiddled around by the coach like a pawn.

Rondo was a little annoyed by the situation, arguing with Stevens during the timeout.

Rondo has always had his own ideas, he feels that the team does not have to be led by Li Liang's nose, and the Celtics can win the game with an advantage according to their own tactics and play efficient offense.

Stevens didn't argue with Rondo, he made a simple substitution, replacing Olynyk with Sallinger, and letting Sallinger go against Li Liang.

Like Li Liang, he was a rookie in 2012 and is also 206 tall and weighs 260 pounds, making him a heavy No. 4 position.

Since Li Liang wants to chisel in the inner line, then send him a meat shield to resist him.

Sallinger did have weight and strength, but Stevens still underestimated the energy that Li Liang burst out of his body after putting on the [Iron Body].

He has practiced all kinds of strengths very well, especially the core strength, which is very beneficial to the confrontation.

After the game resumed after the timeout, Sallinger took advantage of Rondo's small range of ground-and-shot passes to attack the basket and score two points.

But then Sallinger was knocked away by Li Liang on the defensive end.

Real collision, after Li Liang received the ball in the middle, a shooting feint followed by a frontal ball to break through.

Sallinger stepped forward to block Li Liang, but Li Liang was pushed from the side, fell directly backwards, and fell to the ground.

Sallinger didn't expect Li Liang's impact to be so strong, and at the same time, he also wanted to make offensive fouls.

As a result, the foul was not caused, and he was hit on a big horse, and he also fouled, and sent Li Liang to the free throw line.

This is the third time Li Liang has scored three points tonight, and the first half of the game is not over yet.

Li Liang stood on the free throw line, but missed a very, very rare free throw.

Maybe it's because the power overflow is a little uncontrollable.

Missed the free throw for the first time this season, a little earlier than in previous years.