Li Liang still remembers the days when he was with the Lakers, after every day of training, he and Kobe Bryant trained alone.

At that time, he was still very diligent in training, did not arrive late or leave early, and was quite serious.

Now he has become a strange man in the eyes of coaches and teammates, who often does not train, but can continue to improve.

Of course, only Li Liang himself knows how hard he trains behind the scenes.

It's like those good students who don't study all day in school, and in addition to listening carefully in class, they giggle and fight after class.

You think that he usually doesn't study or read, but in fact, he secretly picks up the lights and reads at night after he goes home at night.

As a result, you play with him, and when it comes to the exam, you fail, and you are the first.

Be dumbfounded.

Li Liang is such a "good student", and his training is all carried out in private.

And even after leaving the Lakers, Li Liang basically took out more than an hour every week to spend anger points in the [Personal Training Center] to conduct heads-up training with Kobe.

For one, Kobe Bryant is relatively cheap, and Jordan is too expensive.

Second, after all, Kobe Bryant is still playing in the league, and he has the opportunity to use it in actual games after practice.

Third, in terms of purely technical movements, Kobe's is more complicated, and there are more valuable places for Li Liang to learn.

Follow Kobe Bryant, and Kobe will instruct you to do this first, then that, and finally that.

Follow Jordan, and the content of Jordan's instructions in the system will be "You just need to do this, what you can't do, then don't learn." “

So Li Liang would rather find Kobe Bryant to be a teacher.

Of course, Kobe, as a teacher, didn't know in reality that Li Liang was almost about to study himself thoroughly.

And Kobe Bryant was still at his peak, he was in the years of 06-09.

Now Kobe Bryant has returned from an Achilles tendon rupture, although he has the help of bruising pills, but after all, it is not as good as before.

After gradually recovering form, the Lakers' record has improved.

The backcourt of Kobe Bryant and Nash is still very powerful.

After all, both of them had taken Li Liang's pills, and there were faint signs of rejuvenation in the recent game.

It's just that the new coach D'Antoni's use of interior players is too rough.

Both Gasol and Dwight-Howard are marginalized in the system.

Gasol, in particular, is currently more than a third of the season, and Gasol, who almost won the best sixth man last season, has been at odds with Lakers management this season.

He was quite unhappy with D'Antoni's quick offense, allowing him to pull to the outside and shoot threes.

"I'm not Bruce!" Once, during training, Gasol even complained like this.

That's right, he's not Li Liang, he has his own style of playing and way of playing.

But D'Antoni carved a boat and begged for a sword, and used him as a space-opening shooter, which was really tyrannical.

At the moment, the Lakers are still struggling on the brink of the playoffs, and they are in 10th place in the West.

The Lakers' current strategy is to try to make the playoffs before the All-Star break.

After all, it would be a shame if the defending champions couldn't make the playoffs.

If the All-Star Game is still not very good, the Lakers may choose to play for a high draft pick next year.

Of course, this strategy is currently very controversial.

Sitting on Kobe Bryant and Howard, even if you can't make the playoffs, it's really shameless.

And let Kobe be rotten, this is really unheard of, in a recent interview Kobe made it clear that the Lakers will never be rotten!

Li Liang's thought when he saw this news was, yes, don't put it bad, it's really bad.

But on the evening of January 10, the Lakers had a full lineup, and in a pre-game interview, Bryant said that this game must be won.

Prior to that, the Lakers had won three in a row, with Bryant scoring more than 30 points in three straight games.

Their record has also risen from 13th in the West to 10th in the West, four wins away from the Dallas Mavericks in 8th place in the West, and only half a win away from the Timberwolves in 9th.

If the Lakers can win this game, they can rush to 9th place in the West and start attacking for the playoffs.

Although the Lakers are away and the Clippers are at home, an estimated half of the people who are present tonight are Lakers fans.

The Clippers are growing in Los Angeles, especially among young children.

But among adult fans, the Lakers' position is still unassailable.

For the Clippers, it was another home-and-away game.

The game is about to start, and the air defense sirens sounded over the arena, and it was another eye-catching battle.

Of course, the grievances and hatred between Li Liang and the Lakers cannot be ignored.

And what is more important is the head-to-head matchup between him and Kobe.

The two sides met for the first time at the beginning of the season, and Bryant did not play due to injury.

Kobe Bryant stands on the floor of Steps tonight, and Li Liang will fight Kobe as an enemy.

Before the game started, Li Liang walked up to Kobe Bryant and said to him, "Ko, don't pass the ball to me when you play." ”

Kobe Bryant smiled, "There are so many players who have been teammates and opponents with me, you are nothing special." ”

After Kobe Bryant finished speaking, he looked at Li Liang with contempt.

Li Liang shrugged his shoulders, "It's nothing special, I robbed you of an FMVP and let you lie down and win a championship." ”

Bryant didn't say anything more, and the smoke between the two was already rising.

The Lakers' starting lineup tonight is Kobe Bryant, Howard, Gasol, Nash and Wesley Johnson.

Nick Young has been completely abandoned after playing as a starter for a while, and his defense is really not enough to support the duties of the starter, so it is better to be a substitute to steal points.

And Ci Shiping was not quite in line with D'Antoni's requirements for the use of the striker, so D'Antoni was put on the bench as the sixth man.

Judging from the lineup, except for the lack of one Li Liang, the Lakers are still quite strong.

So many fans can't figure out why the Lakers have suddenly plummeted, from a 60-win championship team to a midstream team struggling on the brink of the playoffs.

Could it be that Li Liang's role is really so important?

That's right, it's that important.

In addition, psychology, injuries, tactics, and the non-negligible age problem have all caused the Lakers to fall off a cliff.

But in this game alone, the Lakers are definitely not easy to deal with.

Their desire to win is strong, and Kobe Bryant is scrappy.

The Clippers started the same game as they did in the previous game, with Collison starting in place of Paul.

Bledsoe has recently been embroiled in trade rumors, and the Clippers are likely to trade him for a more defensive, taller point guard to bolster the Clippers' backcourt.

There are too many short people in the Clippers' backcourt, like Paul, Collisson, and Crawford, who can't protect backcourt rebounds on the court.

Modern basketball is no longer the center's all-encompassing rebounding package.

When it comes to key games, every player has to participate in the protection and scramble of the rebounding ball.

Even if you are a point guard, as long as you work hard and get the most and most handsome rebounds on the team, it is entirely possible.

Jordan Jr. and Howard jumped the ball, and the game began.

Howard took the lead in getting the ball, Nash got it, and the Lakers launched their first offense.

After D'Antoni came to the Lakers, the biggest change to the Lakers' tactics, in addition to being fast, was simplification.

D'Antoni's pursuit of "simple basketball", fast, efficient and concise, is the basketball philosophy he inherited from Europe.

As a result, the Lakers have completely lost their versatility and grace on the offensive end last season.

It's not because of how subtle Mike Brown's tactics are, but last season's Lakers, with the help of Li Liang's catalyst, several offensive masters have blended the offensive essence of their careers.

Their play-up efficiency is terrifying, which is why they can go so far in the playoffs.

A year has passed, and the vicissitudes of life.

The Lakers opened the first game, and Gasol received the ball on the wing and faced Li Liang in the basket.

Gasol then returned the ball to Nash, who took the ball and made a three-point shot from the outside.

Last season's Lakers starting style was bound to be a pick-and-roll, and then a change, not this simple catch-and-shoot three-point shot.

But Nash had a good opening shot and hit a three-point shot!

The Lakers scored the first shot of the opening game.

Next, the Clippers hit Griffin at this point.

As a result, Griffin was surrounded by Gasol and Howard, and was lost in the black-and-white forest of the long arm.

The ball came out, to Li Liang, and Li Liang gave it to Collison again, and Collison missed the jump shot after breaking through.

The Lakers counterattacked, and Bryant accepted a pass to make a layup.

Then the Clippers offense still missed, and Kobe Bryant continued to counterattack with the ball and assisted Howard to dunk under the basket!

The Lakers started the game pretty well and had a lot of focus.

On the contrary, the Clippers looked a little absent-minded.

When Li Liang received a pass from Griffin and missed a three-point shot, the Lakers counterattacked again, and Kobe Bryant quickly changed hands to make a layup to help the Lakers play a 9-0 start, and the Clippers called a timeout.

The audience was still cheering?

Come on, tonight is the home of the Clippers!

But sorry, this is Los Angeles.

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