Chapter 941: Raising Eyebrows
As the so-called real man never looks back at the explosion.
As soon as Li Liang made a shot, Klay Thompson understood that the goal must have been scored.
It is often not relatives who know themselves best, but enemies.
As the league's top shooter, Thompson also shoots indiscriminately when he feels it.
But for Li Liang's feel and shooting level, Thompson admires it very much.
In the two series of confrontations, Thompson often played god-like shooting performances.
But looking back, Li Liang is superb.
It's always a feeling of being crushed, and Thompson knows it all too well.
However, he still ran to the front court with a blank face, and the Warriors continued to attack.
Kerr didn't call a timeout, but he was already up from the bench.
The Warriors' positional battle, continuous high cover and rotation on the outside, the ball was given to Thompson, and the middle broke through.
Thompson also wanted to hit a ground-and-ball pass to Pachulia, a trick that was tried and tested in the first three quarters.
By the fourth quarter, it was useless.
PJ Tucker reached out and cut the ball off.
The ball was given to Li Liang, and Li Liang did not speed up, but continued to slow down and slowly pass the half.
The Warriors players panicked a little when they saw Li Liang slowly passing the half.
It was like a poisonous snake that seemed to swim slowly, spitting out letters, and then suddenly attacking, lightning fast and defenseless.
Could this be the so-called Mamba spirit?
After halftime, Li Liang observed the Warriors' defense, suddenly accelerated outside the three-point line, and rushed to the basket!
Li Liang's speed was not too fast, the Warriors' defense was in place, and the three of them surrounded and forced Li Liang to near the bottom line.
Li Liang couldn't see the basket anymore, and when he was about to make a mistake, he suddenly activated the skill [Bill Wharton's back-of-head pass].
A beautiful back-of-head pass goes straight to the basket, Tucker catches the ball, licks the basket with his left hand!
Steve Cole made a gesture to the referee and called a timeout.
The Kings not only overtook the score in the fourth quarter, but also faintly came to open the score.
The Warriors seem to be in a similar predicament to the last two seasons – they still play team-oriented at every critical moment, and then they are by Bruce Lee, who is absolutely dominating the ball.
But this year is different, and the Warriors have ushered in LeBron James, who can compete with Li Liang in a one-on-one match.
After the timeout, Curry returned to the court, but the offensive focus was on James.
He received the ball in the low post, the space was completely opened, and he hit Tucker hard.
The king's side didn't dare to do anything at all.
James' ability to move the ball, combined with the range of a Warriors shooter, is deadly.
James turned his back, went to the middle, pushed Tucker, hit a throw, and scored two points.
Then, in defense, Cousins received another technical foul.
Cousins was angry, it didn't matter who came, Li Lianglai didn't work, and he was spitting at the referee.
As a result, he ate another technical foul and gave the Warriors a free throw.
Curry hit a free throw, the two sides were tied, and the Warriors still had the ball.
Li Liang replaced Cousins with David West, keeping Cousins calm and calm.
At that time, the Kings immediately faced a problem, when the Warriors had James, when James began to hold the ball in the low post, when there were shooters like Iguodala, Curry, and Thompson on the outside in ambush, the Kings' defense was difficult to deal with.
Needless to say, this trick doesn't work for the warriors at all.
If you dare to use this trick, the Warriors will teach you how to be a man with a three-point shot every minute.
James held the ball low again, and this time, Curry and the others gathered around the free-throw line.
In the end, Curry, covered by the two, slipped into the basket from the middle and caught the ball for a layup.
Although Li Liang then returned the color of the mid-range pull-up jump shot, James then burst into the basket in the middle, and the layup also caused Li Liang's foul.
James is putting a lot of pressure on Li Liang on both ends of the floor.
Cousins now has five fouls and one technical foul on his back, and is sitting on the sidelines to reflect.
Without him, the Kings' interior basket guard would have to go down a notch.
James, a heavy assaulter, Li Liang sometimes can't withstand it.
The Warriors began to steadily press the difference at about 5 points, and put all the defensive focus on Li Liang.
Three-man defense!
Thompson defended the main defense, and James and Pachulia defended.
Kerr is a reference to Stevens' defensive model against Li Liang, one main defense, one assistant defense, and one staring.
The NBA's top attackers have enjoyed similar treatment, with four people like O'Neal hanging on his body, Jordan breaking through to the inside, and five people in the circle.
Like Li Liang, because his three-point shot is too strong, it is impossible for four or five people to surround him.
This kind of three-person layered defense is already the highest treatment.
In the face of this kind of defense, the best way to crack it is, of course, to pass the ball to a teammate and let the teammate hit the shot.
Once you succeed three times, the opponent basically does not dare to defend like this.
Li Liang did the same, Gordon continued to receive Li Liang's passes to kill the inside, and made a layup.
Then, West also received the ball in the middle of a false swing into the basket, and the right hand layup was successful.
As a result, Kerr still clung to Li Liang, and the rest of the Kings scored, so they let them score.
Because Kerr knows that Li Liang is the only person in the history of the league who violates that law: you can't win by scoring alone, and you have to involve your teammates.
Li Liang is not, he can win by scoring by himself!
The key lies in "efficiency", especially the popularity of three-point shots, which has allowed Li Liang's efficiency value to reach a peak state.
Jordan's efficiency is high enough, and his individual attack power is strong enough, but he can only score 2 points at a time.
Li Liang can score three points, and when the amount is large enough, the impact on the outcome of the game is subversive.
Jordan went crazy and scored 50 points efficiently, only to lose, losing by 4 points, 5 points.
Li Liang shot normally, scored 50 points efficiently, and won the game, winning 2 points and 3 points.
Although there are many factors that affect the game, especially the decisive factors such as the strength of teammates.
But Cole has seen through this logic, and has accumulated enough experience through various competitions - don't worry about anything else, just pinch Li Liang with all his might.
And the biggest problem for the Kings is that they can't contain the Warriors' offense on the defensive end.
In the final moments, James dominated the Warriors' offense, scoring consecutive points and assists.
Curry also received James passes twice and hit three-point shots from the outside.
The king's offense is good, but if you can't stop me, you won't be able to catch up with the five-point gap.
At the last moment, Li Liang called a timeout in a row to arrange offense and defense.
At the critical moment, Li Liang launched the [Death Entanglement] break, but in the counterattack, James and Green chased the defense and intercepted Li Liang's attack under the basket.
After getting the ball, James made a long pass to the basket, and Iguodala received the ball and made an easy layup.
This shot allowed the Warriors to stretch the difference to 6 points, and Li Liang used up the last timeout.
Then, in the offense, Li Liang quickly received the ball, hit a long-distance three-point shot from the outside, and scored a three-point shot.
But on the Warriors' side, the free throws were very solid, Curry and Thompson hit all four free throws.
In the end, the Warriors defeated the Kings by 4 points, 124-120, on the road.
The Kings' winning streak came to an end, losing to the Warriors for the second time this season.
For the Warriors as a team, this win really means a lot.
It's really not easy to overturn Li Liang in two consecutive games.
Bruce Lee has always had a vengeance and has rarely been beaten back-to-back in the regular season.
In this game, Li Liang scored 46 points and still lost.
There is indeed a gap in the overall strength of the two sides.
Therefore, the Warriors are in the regular season, and they are proud of it.
Speaking after the game, Kerr said: "It was a good game and even better, we won. ”
The smile on Cole's face, the folds can kill a fly.
And James had a smile on his face, and the folds could be pinched by a cockroach.
There is no doubt that when they came to the Warriors, they saw the possibility and hope of defeating Li Liang hand in hand.
The overthrow of the Bruce-Lee dynasty feels like it's just around the corner.