Chapter 411: Be able to serve
?? After eating, Li Liang returned home.
In the past two days, Zhu Shu was not there, and Bai Xiaoting was still participating in fashion events in Europe.
Since the relationship between the two was established, Bai Xiaoting's time away from Los Angeles has increased significantly.
Recently, some low-level leagues have started, and Zhu Shu needs to watch the game and inspect the situation of the players under him.
As for Wei Dazhi, after being whipped by Li Liang, he began to indulge in work.
He started an English-language column on the Internet, doing ball commentary and basketball news commentary.
In addition to following the game, watching the game, tweeting, and ins every day, I have to catch up with the manuscript when I come back at night.
Each of the four is busy working on their own careers.
Of course, Li Liang would not be idle when he went home, fell asleep at night, entered the system again, and flipped out the [City of Angels Book].
In the summer, Li Liang has not done the tasks in the book, he knows that the rewards of the tasks in the book are the icing on the cake, and the tasks in the six dimensions are the foundation.
It's just that today I heard Brown mention the problem of inside technology, and he thought of the task in the next volume, and checked it at the time, and it seemed to have something to do with inside technology.
He opened the next volume, and a blue light flashed!
is different from the golden light in the last volume, and this system still has a hand in the special effects of bells and whistles.
Li Liang was sucked in by the book at once.
[Mission, Game of the Brave, Time, April 9, 1974, Location: Boston Garden Arena, USA, Match: Buffalo Braves vs Boston Celtics, Mission Requirements: Replace Bob McAdoo, lead the Braves to defeat the Celtics, Mission Reward: Skill "Russell's Three-Second Zone Fear", Difficulty: Normal]
Hey, Nyima is going to fight the Celtics, and Nyima is in the Garden Arena.
Li Liang can't remember how many mission matches he has played in this broken field.
The garbage field is small, noisy, hot and broken, and the fans at the scene will swear and spray dirty.
Although this can increase Li Liang's anger value, it is really uncomfortable to play here.
Especially this is still a playoff game, there is no three-point line in the game in the 60s and 70s, and the players' physical confrontation ability is not as good as now, but the scale of the game is large and the movements are rough.
Sometimes Li Liang has played too many tasks like this, and he needs to adapt and adjust when he goes back to play normal games.
Li Liang had made a little preparation for this task before, because the task only had one chance to be completed, so he had to know himself and his opponent.
This is the 1974 Buffalo Braves, the predecessor of the Clippers.
The team was formed in the 1970-1971 season, their fourth season, and the team made the playoffs.
In the last season, in the 1972-1973 season, the Braves acquired North Carolina forward Bob McAdoo in the draft.
McAdoo is a player who is quite tall and has won the regular season MVP.
But of all the regular season MVP players, he was the least famous, so much so that he was not selected in the 1996 50th Anniversary 50 Superstar Selection.
And like Maravich and Archibald, because they played for the Celtics, they are not as good as McAdoo in terms of statistics, strength and honors.
Of course, as long as it is a selection, it is inevitable that there is a subjective element.
The selection of the top 50 superstars is inherently biased towards the personal preferences of NBA veterans.
McAdoo was unexpectedly traded to the Knicks and then to the Celtics after a couple of years with the Braves.
During his short years with the Celtics, he had a very unsatisfactory life, had a bad relationship with Auerbach and Cowens, and was sent off as a substitute.
After leaving the Celtics, he began to wander, going to the Pistons and the Nets.
He found a home with the Lakers, helping them win a championship in 1985 by beating the Celtics.
McAdoo is still active in the NBA coaching community, and last season when the Lakers played the Heat in the Finals, McAdoo was still sitting on the bench of the Heat, and he was one of the assistant coaches of the Heat.
And in this mission, McAdoo is still in the earliest and sweetest period of his career.
The Buffalo Braves are a young team that gives McAdoo plenty of room to play.
He is 6-foot-9 tall, about the same as Li Liang, and at the beginning, the coach asked him to play as a striker, but his performance was average.
Later, he was moved to the center position, and he started to flourish and won the Rookie of the Year award.
In his second season, McAdoo averaged 30.6 points per game, becoming the new scoring champion in the regular season and the youngest scoring champion in league history (22 years old).
In the selection of the regular season MVP, he finished second only to Abdul-Jabbar, and it can be said that he is young and has a bright future.
The Braves made it to the playoffs, where they met the Boston Celtics in the first round.
The newborn calf's brave man played very well against the old and spicy Celtic, winning two of their first four games.
In the fifth and sixth games, the brave ones unfortunately lost.
The scores in both games were very close, with the Braves losing by three points in the fifth and only two points in the sixth.
And that season, the Celtics finally won the 1974 championship.
There is no shame in the brave man losing to the final championship in such a posture.
The Braves were the league's top scorers that season, averaging 111 points per game under Jack Ramsay.
It can be said that the Clippers' fast offensive genes were engraved in their bones in 1974.
In the next two years, the brave continued to improve, but unfortunately the playoffs always fell to the hands of strong teams, one bullet, and another Celtic others.
After that, they fell into civil strife and collapsed......
For the Braves or the Clippers, 1974 should have been the beginning of their rise to glory.
Young and promising McAdoo, DiGrio, Randy Smith, and coach Jack Ramsay (who later went to the Trail Blazers in 1977 to lead the team to a championship).
After their loss to the Celtics in 1974, Cowens should have said "the future is yours" to McAdoo.
It's a pity that many young people who "have a future" end up having no future.
In the NBA, success is never too early, and the real king is always born on the throne.
Li Liang knew that this would certainly be a series that would change the history of the Buffalo Braves and the Clippers.
If they can win this series, in the 1974 NBA, the ABA has not yet merged, and a lot of talent is playing in another league.
If they can get past the Celtics, the Eastern Conference Finals will face the New York Knicks, who are on the verge of disbanding, and the Finals will be the dying Robertson and the single-tree Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Anything is possible, and misfortune can turn into luck.
Li Liang understands that this book is to change the fate of the team at various points in time.
So this time, he wants to help the brave take out the Celtics in the center position!
He needs not only to attack, but also to defend.
What the Buffalo Braves and McAdoo lack is defense.
Li Liang saw the reward of this mission, [Russell's three-second zone fear], it must have something to do with defense.
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Li Liang put on sexy little shorts again, and the color of the Brave jersey was a light sky blue, which has been used to the current Clippers.
This color is particularly unusual in the miserable green garden arena.
Li Liangyi stood on the floor of the garden arena and covered his ears first.
It's too noisy here, so I slowly got used to it and put my hand down.
Li Liang stood in the middle circle and prepared to jump the ball.
Opposite Li Liang is none other than Dave Cowens, a well-known hardline small center in NBA history.
1974 was the year he was at his peak, playing with extreme fearlessness and hard work, and was Auerbach's handpicked replacement for Russell.
It wasn't easy for any center in the 70s to get a bargain on him, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
If it were replaced by Li Liang from last season, he would choose to hone himself in the inner mission and then do the task in this book.
Now he is not afraid at all, with ball control skills, even if there is no three-point line, Li Liang is not afraid of the game in the 70s.
The referee threw the ball into the air, but Bob Liang had no idea of fighting for the ball at all, and he chose to cross his waist the moment the ball was thrown.
A good way to scramble for the ball, not to fight is to fight.
Cowens still jumped with all his might, but he didn't jump when he glanced at the other side? Still crossed the waist?
Well? What's going on? Did you violate the rules? Or what's the situation?
The playoffs were a high-tension game, and Cowens was a little nervous and thought something was wrong.
As a result, Cowens directly hugged the ball, and it turned out to be a violation......
The referee blows the whistle and signals for Cowens to jump the ball for a foul, the ball of the Braves.
I'm Nima......
Cowens was speechless.
And in this way the brave got the right to attack for the first time.
"Hey, I'm really a center material." Li Liang thought so and ran to the sideline to serve.
Li Liang not only can jump the ball, but he is also a good hand on the serve, and rarely makes mistakes.
You can't serve well, what kind of basketball do you play, it is recommended to practice the shot put instead, just throw it far.