Chapter 266: Heavy Rain
Li Liang not only cares about winning or losing, but also because he can't let himself lose in this way.
It's normal to be in bad shape, and it's normal to not be able to shoot, but you can't stop shooting because you can't shoot, because you can't shoot, just sit on the field and don't play.
He could not accept such a failure.
Also, he has to break through a psychological barrier: can he play a wonderful performance without props?
Li Liang will use props reasonably, and at the same time keep a distance from props to prevent them from eroding himself.
His condition is very poor tonight, it may have something to do with [Cuttinger's box], it may not have anything to do with it, it is just a pure bad feeling.
Li Liang could improve with the Hit Rate Booster, but he wasn't prepared to do so.
If he does this, then he will become dependent in the future and use props to survive in the face of difficulties.
But what if one day the props don't work?
What should I do if the system disappears?
This string, Li Liang has to keep tight.
So, he's got to play, he's going to fix that and not let it affect him.
And?? He's got to make a three-pointer tonight!
This is Lao Tzu's stubbornness!
From this point of view, Li Liang is really Kobe's heir.
Back on the court, in addition to Li Liang, the Lakers also replaced Thackeray, Duhon, Ibanks, and Blake.
Anyway, a bunch of garbage players, the Suns were ready to switch to the lineup at the end of the bench.
At first, when I saw that Li Liang was still on the field, I didn't dare.
Because Li Liang is a person, he will always have a magical performance in garbage time.
Now the head coaches of each team are very fine, and they dare not give Li Liang a chance easily.
The difference of 16 points and the time of 6 minutes is not so stable.
Moreover, the head coach of the Suns knows that he can play like this tonight, not because of how well the Suns played, but because the Lakers played too badly.
So far in the fourth quarter, the Suns have scored 76 points, which is actually not much.
It's just that the Lakers' 60 points are terrible low, and there is no way.
So, the Suns continued to put their main players on the court.
After a pause came back for the first offense.
Blake and Thackeray played a pick-and-roll on the right flank, and Blake passed the ball to Thackeray.
Thackeray will attack on his own, dribble laterally, and immediately distribute the ball to Li Liang in the bottom corner.
Li Liang made 0 of 5 three-pointers before, and he didn't make any three-pointers in the last game against the Kings.
The Suns' defense was not good, and he didn't take the Lakers' three-point shot seriously for the whole game tonight, so he naturally let him shoot it.
Li Liang received the ball and adjusted his pace.
He forgot all the distractions, only remembering the time when Calipari coached him to the three-point shot in the Kentucky training gym.
"Footwork, you have to pay attention to your footsteps, your steps must be steady, starting with your feet, legs, body, hands, to maintain a stable paradigm, which is the key to maintaining a streak of goals. Stand in the position you are most comfortable in, then memorize the position, and always use this position to strike. ”
"Always shoot in this position!"
Always using this position, Li Liang adjusted his body to the most familiar shooting position.
Then a very light three-point shot from the left bottom corner.
The ball goes straight to the basket and goes through the heart!
Entered!
Finally scored, Li Liang shot the first three-pointer of the game.
He was calm, but he was greatly relieved.
It feels like it's back, it's all back.
63:76, there is still a 13-point gap.
Suns players and coaches have not yet realized the danger is coming, and feel that they are just making a three-pointer.
I haven't been in before, but I'll always get one.
They didn't know that Li Liang had reopened the door of self-confidence.
The Suns attacked, and Marshall handed the ball to Beasley again.
This time, Li Liang personally came to defend Beasley.
Beasley held the ball and chose to break through on the flank, wanting to use his speed to pass Li Liang.
Naïve, Lao Tzu is not Ci Shiping.
Beasley opted to force a layup, but Thackeray came over to help with the defense, and the two worked together to prevent Beasley from dropping the ball in the air.
Blake takes the ball down and counters with the ball.
Li Liang quickly followed, Blake gave the ball to Li Liang, Li Liang took a step outside the three-point line to catch the ball and shot directly!
The speed of the shot is lightning fast, and the ear thief bell rings!
The ball goes through the net, and the three-pointer is simply counterattacked!
The American Airlines Center was a low shout, the ball shot was decisive and resolute, and the score difference had been stretched to 10 points.
Two rounds, two threes, that's how powerful it is.
The Suns immediately called a timeout, and on the Lakers' side, Mike Brown felt like there was a play and wanted to put the main man back up.
However, Nash was already lying on the sidelines doing back relaxation, and Howard had ice packs wrapped around his waist.
Forget it, let's just fight.
Coming back from the timeout, Dragic and PJ Tucker restarted.
Serving the sideline, Dragic and Scola made a high pick-and-roll and then returned the ball to Scola.
Scola shot directly from mid-distance at the top of the arc and hit again!
Scola's touch has been raised tonight.
But it doesn't matter, Li Liang's feel is back.
Du Hong took the ball and Li Liang also replicated the cooperation of a high blocking.
Du Hong returned the ball to Li Liang, Li Liang took the ball and cut inside, stopped and jumped to shoot, and hit.
A long two points, such a ball is still very difficult to throw.
If he can throw in, it means that it feels like he's really back.
It's still a 10-point gap, and the Suns are starting to feel the pressure.
The coach was already shouting from the sidelines, asking PJ Tucker to defend Li Liang.
But Tucker's defensive strength lies in the winding, because he is tall, has an average reach, is very stable in the lower set, and is very desperate.
Li Liang played very skillfully, with little ball attack, and was not afraid of Tucker's defense.
Beasley's mid-range missed, Li Liang got the rebound, and the Lakers fought back.
He urged Blake to hurry, and he ran desperately to the basket himself.
As a result, he went to the basket and attracted the defensive attention of a bunch of Suns players, and as a result, Li Liang went around in a circle, with the help of Thackeray and Ibanks' cover, ran to the bottom right corner and made an open spot.
Blake immediately distributed the ball to Li Liang, who didn't wait for PJ-Tucker to pounce and shoot again with a three-point shot from the bottom corner.
Again!
The sound of the ball grazing the Nets is simply a knife piercing the ears of the Suns coach and fans, too harsh.
Li Liang scored 11 points in a row!
The difference was narrowed to 7 points.
The Lakers bench was all on their feet, except for Nash, who was still lying down.
There were still 3 minutes left before the end of the game, and the Lakers were going to give up, but the suspense arose.
Mike Brown walked around excitedly on the sidelines, this game is played, it's good to win.
Damn, I don't know who gave up first.
It is estimated that if this game wins, maybe there will be an evaluation like "Mike Brown is like a god, replicating the 92 Finals Phil Jackson's pure bench reversal, and the best coach has been won by him".
At this point, the sun panicked a little.
After they pushed quickly, they passed the ball to the bottom left corner in succession, and Wes Johnson received the ball and shot straight three-pointers.
missed, the ball was played in too much of a hurry.
You're still seven points ahead, so it's still an advantage to play slowly.
Li Liang grabbed the backcourt rebound again, and his protection of the backcourt rebound is very good.
Or handed the ball to Blake, this time PJ-Tucker was close to Li Liang and never left an inch.
Then, Li Liang will use tactics.
One of the advantages of Shangchun's substitution is that everyone else revolves around Li Liang's point.
Therefore, Ibanks, Thackeray, including Duhon, are all playing for Li Liang and doing tactics.
Whether you can enter or not depends on Li Liang's feel.
Thackeray and Ibanks made a no-ball double screen for Li Liang in the high post, and Li Liang squeezed Tucker away and ran a small open space at 45 degrees on the right side.
Blake gave the ball to Li Liang, and after Li Liang received the ball, he took a step away from the three-point line, and he didn't aim at it, so he shot again completely by feeling!
At this time, he was confident that he seemed to be Kobe Bryant, who had scored four goals in a row and three times in a row, and dared to continue to shoot.
The difference is that the goal went in.
It still passed through the heart, did not touch the basket at all, and only wiped the net.
Accurate, very accurate.
The empty three-point ability value of 87, plus the bonus of the hand rune, plus Li Liang's confidence to come back.
That's the result, "Rainstorm Pear Flower Needle"!
scored 14 points in a row, and the difference was narrowed to only 4 points.
The Suns called another timeout, and their current head coach is Lindsey Hunter.
Hunter actually has nothing to do, he can only hope that Li Liang will not be so accurate in the future.
Three-point shot, if you are a bag, it will leave too much space for the inside.
Mike Brown has nothing to arrange, give the ball to Li Liang!
Li Liang, who scored 14 points in a row, returned to the court, and the Suns chose to let Scola hold the ball and force the inside, causing a foul on Thackeray.
The ball was the right choice, but Scola hit one of two from the free-throw line to bring the deficit to five points.
74:79。
On defense, the Suns put all their attention on Li Liang.
In this situation, in the previous game, Li Liang would definitely choose to calmly respond to the pass and create opportunities for his teammates.
In the end, the opponent took care of one or the other, and the Lakers blossomed in full bloom.
This is also the ability of some star players to lead the team.
But Li Liang didn't want to fight like this tonight, he just wanted to be willful.
He made a high pick-and-roll with Dujon on the outside, which was high enough to take two steps beyond the three-point line.
Because the Suns defense is very tight, if you go further inside, I am afraid that the cover will not be effective.
But it was too far away, and the result was that Li Liang didn't seem to be a threat after cutting outside.
He cut to all this until he was almost two meters from the three-point line.
But Du Hong still returned the ball to Li Liang, Li Liang got the ball, and PJ-Tucker obviously hesitated.
This is too far from the three-point line, and Li Liang has a certain ability to hold the ball, Tucker is afraid that he will take a step inside.
So Tucker stood still.
Hehe, hesitation will lead to defeat.
Li Liang's knees were slightly bent, and he still used his most stable posture to shoot directly from a super long distance!
Tucker still didn't understand that for Li Liang, distance was not a problem, space was a problem.
The ball burrowed into the tiny basket like a cannonball, and the American Airlines Center was blown up in one fell swoop.
It's really blown up, this is an away game, but the fans can't help but burst into huge cheers!
scored 17 points in a row, and Li Liang's three-point shot forced the Suns into a desperate situation!
collapsed, the mentality completely collapsed, how could you suddenly score consecutive goals when you played well before?
Do you still use this kind of ultra-far three points, and say that it is not insulting?
With 1 minute left in the game, Suns head coach Lindsay Hunter used up the last timeout.
In 5 minutes, three timeouts, there is really no way.
After the timeout, the Suns still chose Scola, who believes they were the best player on the interior tonight.
Scola has 14 points to his name, and his performance in the second half was eye-catching.
Scola receives the ball in the low post and faces Li Liang's defense.
Li Liang didn't use any skills, he went all out to keep an eye on Scola and kept reaching out to interfere.
Scola wanted to confuse Li Liang with his footsteps, but Li Liang was unmoved, he successfully defended Scola down!
Scola turned around and missed the throw, and Li Liang grabbed the backcourt rebound.
This time, instead of passing, he dribbled across the half-court himself.
Li Liang's dribbling level has improved greatly compared to the past.
The Suns are completely out of lineup, and they have no defensive focus at all.
Li Liang dribbled to the top of the arc alone, and he was still one step away from the three-point line.
This is his safe distance and prevents interference from his opponents.
Directly stop the three-point shot!
It's not the way he's used to shooting threes, but now, he feels like he can shoot in any way!
Suns fans all held their heads and closed their eyes as if waiting for judgment.
A second later, the sound of "swish" pierced their eardrums, killing their hearts.
A lot of times basketball games are like this, feel, inaccuracy, reversal, lore.
Everything is bald, and people are not the slightest bit defenseless.
Arizona, under the scorching sun, was suddenly hit by torrential rain.