Chapter 512: Play Me
When he woke up the next day, the first thought in Li Liang's mind was - Jordan is so strong!
Last night, Li Liang witnessed how the 1996 Chicago Bulls faced off against the 2009 Los Angeles Lakers.
Both teams are headed by Phil Jackson, who uses a triangle offense and has two of the best shooting guards in history at their core.
However, the Bulls, who claim to be the strongest team in history, are still a step ahead.
Jordan showed amazing skills and exuberant fighting spirit in this time-spanning matchup.
Although the Lakers have a slight advantage in three points, there are also many controversial whistles because of the different rules and penalty scales.
But the Bulls have already shown their superior all-time No. 1 level, pressing the Lakers from start to finish, and Jordan took over the game in the fourth quarter, scoring 38 points to suppress Kobe's 30 points and win the game.
Li Liang, as an audience, is very enjoyable to watch.
But after reading it, he still didn't understand what this thing did, did he really keep using it to play Guan Gong and Qin Qiong?
Without thinking too much, tonight the Clippers will travel to face a tough opponent, the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Once again, the team stayed in the haunted hotel in Ohio, where the players left early to go to the training gym for acclimatization.
On the way, Chris Paul was a little silent.
Losing two games in a row, Paul played poorly.
He returned from injury, with an All-Star Game in between, which slightly delayed his recovery.
The shooting felt pretty bad, and the shooting percentage plummeted.
In fact, this is all expected, no player has said that he has just returned from injury and can play at the same level and form as before.
With only two games, Paul still has plenty of time to adjust and recover.
Paul is confident in himself, knowing that this discomfort will soon pass and he will be able to return to his original level in no time.
A dislocated shoulder isn't a particularly serious injury, it's not a knee cartilage injury, all he has to do is adjust the feel of his shot.
But Paul felt that the coaching staff didn't seem to have much faith in him.
After the Grizzlies were played, some voices appeared in public opinion, believing that the Clippers should thoroughly establish Li Liang as the core and develop team tactics around Li Liang.
Instead of revolving around Paul, or taking turns to play with the two cores, Li Liang should be the absolute core.
Rivers would have had the opportunity to clarify in the interview, but Rivers said nothing, dodging the question.
Then upon arriving at the Hotel in the city, Paul heard that the coaches had held a closed-door meeting and seemed to have decided to completely shift the tactical core of the team to Bruce Lee.
This made Paul feel a little hurt.
Lao Tzu is still in his prime, I'm only 28 years old, the best years for a defender.
Just because of an arm injury for a month, I came back to find that I was going to be seized by a sophomore rookie?
Although Paul still admires Li Liang in his heart, after all, he has never seen such a game.
Not to mention the outstanding strength, on the court is really a momentum of "the king is not afraid", I have never seen a person with such momentum in playing.
There is also a posture of "I am your father" off the field, and everyone including the boss is obedient.
In the month of Paul's absence, although the Clippers lost a few more games, Li Liang's amazing performance also convinced Paul.
Li Liang relied on his explosive performance to win the Western Conference Monthly Championship in January.
It's just that Paul is a very competitive person after all, and if he wants to be "subservient" and completely "assist" a person, Paul must have a hurdle in his heart.
After arriving at the training gym, Paul didn't say a word and began to work on acclimatization with his teammates.
Li Liang also looked contemplative, and was a little absent-minded during training.
From the point of view of role models, Li Liang is definitely not a good leader.
This guy likes to train too late and leave early, and it's common for him to be in a daze or something.
Li Liang is now training while reminiscing about how Michael Jordan pressed Kobe Bryant in the game last night.
Kobe Bryant in 2009, 30 years old, at the peak of skill and experience, is still not Jordan's opponent.
Li Liang thought that in the first volume of the [City of Angels Book], it was really difficult for him to complete the task of defeating the 1991 Chicago Bulls.
You see, Li Liang is different from Paul and Brown, who are "ordinary people", and his eyes are focused on the major events of the NBA throughout the ages, the first person in history.
As for the regular season losing streak and the core replacement of the team, he didn't care about it at all.
After a simple adaptation training, Paul actually asked Li Liang to have a one-on-one with him.
Of course, Paul didn't say that he wanted to go head-to-head, he just said, "Bruce, practice with me, help me recover." ”
On the surface, Paul meant that he was not in good offensive condition, so he just asked Li Liang to accompany him to do a restorative confrontation practice.
Of course, Li Liang had no problem, so he stayed in the training gym and had a one-on-one session with Paul.
Li Liang originally thought that I was helping Paul recover, but he found out that Paul was a dead man, and some small actions in the attack came out.
It's a private one-on-one training, and you still use small movements?
Then don't blame me for making a big move.
Paul scored several goals in a row on Li Liang's head, made a quick stop in the middle distance, continuously changed backward assault layups, and tossed the basket after the feint, and played handily.
And after the goal, Paul also showed a slight smile on his face, which made Li Liang very unhappy.
Li Liang didn't say a word, and silently called up the fragments of the [Golden Shield] from the system.
This thing is rarely used by Li Liang in weekday games, and is only used in key games in the playoffs and finals.
After all, it costs rage to turn it on.
But Li Liang knew that with Paul's level and heart, since he wanted to compete with himself in this kind of matter, he must use his absolute strength to kill Paul at once.
Assemble, [Golden Shield]!
The shield in the system was taken out by Li Liang.
Of course, Paul couldn't see it, but he vaguely felt a layer of golden light shining around Li Liang's body.
Paul squeezed his eyes and saw nothing, as if hallucinating?
"Do you want to continue?" Paul asked.
"Of course, you won't score again." Li Liangdao.
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Three hours later, the Thunder's home energy arena, the Clippers and Thunder game is about to begin.
Players from both sides are warming up on the field.
After the players' entrance ceremony, the Clippers players formed a circle on the sidelines to shout pre-game team slogans.
When Paul was away, the slogans were all shouted by Griffin, and when Paul returned, it was Paul who shouted.
But this time, Paul didn't squeak, but gave Li Liang a look, "Bruce." ”
Li Liang understood, and shouted the slogan with his teammates, and the game was about to start.
The rest of the Clippers are still a little confused, why did they change Li Liang's slogan today?
Li Liang snickered in his heart, Paul is really this thing, is he convinced?
After Li Liang used the [Golden Shield] and went all out, Paul was defended by Li Liang and couldn't score a single goal.
is inferior in all aspects of height, and can rely on the cover and response of teammates in the game to play to avoid weaknesses.
When it comes to one-on-one heads-up, once you can't rely on speed and feints to get rid of the defense, you can only fight for the feeling.
As a result, Paul continued to rely on dry pulling, but none of them were pulled in, and he was too dead by Li Liang.
At this time, Paul realized that he might really not be able to overpower Li Liang, not in all aspects.
It's hard to imagine that he's only in the second grade, and he's progressing so fast, and he's not getting to the end at all.
At this point, the game between the two sides has begun.
The Thunder's starter, young player Adams, has replaced Perkins as the team's starting center.
There are no changes to the remaining lineups for Durant, Westbrook, Sefrosha and Ibaka.
As soon as the game started, I don't know why, the Clippers played very efficiently.
Barnes hit a three-pointer from a pass from Li Liang to open the game.
Then Griffin and Li Liang blocked and dismantled, and the ball went down to top Ibaka for a layup.
The Thunder didn't feel good, and Westbrook missed a three-point shot from the outside.
Li Liang took the backcourt rebound, instigated a counterattack, handed the ball to Griffin, Griffin cut in the middle and threw a pass to Jordan Jr., who caught up with him, and Jordan Jr. dunked in the air.
The opening is a 7:0.
This is not the end, Durant easily hit two points from mid-range, and Li Liang received a pass from Paul and hit a quick three-pointer.
At 10:2, the Clippers opened with a 100% success rate.
Then, Durant missed a mid-range jumper under Li Liang's defense.
The Clippers fought back as a team and played a classic fast break.
Jordan Jr. won the backcourt rebound, handed the ball to Li Liang, Li Liang passed the ball to Griffin, Griffin did not dribble after receiving the ball, and immediately passed back to Li Liang who rushed through the halfcourt, Li Liang also did not dribble, and immediately threw the ball to Barnes, who rushed to the three-second zone.
Barnes took a direct step after receiving the ball and dunked with his right hand!
The whole process was done in one go, and the last few passes did not touch the ground, as if playing volleyball, and finally hit Barnes to complete the smash!
Absolutely wonderful, absolutely beautiful.
The audience and the commentary were dumbfounded.
Even Rivers clasped his hands to his chest and thought, this is what I trained?
And the only Clippers player on the fast break who didn't touch the ball was Paul.
He had a thought in his heart: Damn, play me?