"Now it can probably be confirmed that Lee's performance in the first game was just a flash in the pan, and it was really a joy in vain."

"Although Lee has strengthened his breakthrough this season, however, he looks like he has lost his shot, I don't think it's a clear choice, Lee looks very thin physically, he is better suited to shooting from the outside, and from last season's performance, Lee has the potential to be a first-class shooter, but now, it's a shame."

A post on ESPN's website titled "Li Tian's sluggish performance after his first game, what do you think?" In the discussion post, Kings fans left messages one after another, and many fans were disappointed that Li Tian lost his outside shooting touch.

Of course, there are also some fans who voice their support.

"As a shooter, you shouldn't be too surprised by a few sluggish games, and once you get back to shooting, Lee will still be the most reliable shooting spot for the Kings from beyond the three-point line."

It's not that there are voices like this, but there are not a lot of them, because in the eyes of most fans, Li Tian is not a sluggish shooting hand in one game, since he had a good performance in the first game, Li Tian has not played very well in the next six games.

In this post, ESPN also conducted two surveys, one is "whether you are disappointed with Li Tian's performance in the new season", and the number of people who choose "yes" has reached 83.6%, and the other is "whether Li Tian can find the attack power from the outside", only 44.6% of people choose "can", and 55.4% believe that Li Tian's performance last season and the first game of the new season is just a flash in the pan.

After the investigation was completed, ESPN's prominent reporter Bill Simmons wrote a commentary on the investigation.

"It's clear that more and more Kings fans are disappointed with the sophomore's performance, and similarly, more than half of them think he won't be able to regain his attacking power from the outside, all of which shows how bad Li Tian's performance has been lately."

Rick Adelman added the biggest missing pearl of last year's draft to the starting lineup in the hope that he could provide consistent offensive firepower from the perimeter and then help DeMarcus Cousins and Tyrek Evans open up space on the inside. But it was clear that he wasn't able to take on such a task for the rest of the game except for the first game. ”

"On top of that, the Kings' sophomore chose a lot of outside shots when he knew he didn't shoot well, which put the Kings on the back foot in several games, which made him lose the trust of his teammates more and more, and in the last two games, it was clear that the rest of the Kings were passing less to him."

"Losing his shooting ability from the outside, it will be difficult for the weak Chinese player to get consistent playing time, and presumably Rick Adelman is losing patience with him, and if there are one or two more games like this, Rick Adelman may adjust the lineup and put him on the bench."

"In fact, if Rick Adelman wants Tyrek to be more of a No. 1 and Isiah Thomas to provide offensive firepower off the bench, he could try to get Marcus Thornton back into the starting line-up, or Chris Middleton and Ben McClymer, all three of whom have been better on the outside lately than Lee T.

These comments from the outside world have put a lot of pressure on Li Tian, and Li Tian has really felt some pressure, not only from the outside, but also from within the team.

The NBA is a place where the strong eat the strong, and when Li Tian showed a very good offensive form in training camp and in the first game, the Kings players were happy to pass the ball for him, and he was not blamed for taking too many shots.

However, as Li Tian's shooting percentage went down and he took more than a dozen shots in the court, this made the Kings' players start to feel dissatisfied. In particular, the team also lost a few games in between.

So, although the players didn't express it directly, Li Tian knew that some voices had begun to come out of the team, that is, to ask Adelman to reduce his shots, and even another voice like Bill Simmons said, to return himself to the bench.

And Li Tian's "soft rice door" incident was also discussed by the players of the team and the fans of the Kings, at this time, it seems that more and more people believe that this matter is not groundless, even if most people thought that someone was maliciously slandering.

From Adelman's constant encouragement in the first few games to Adelman's silence in these two games, Li Tian knows that Adelman is also under pressure, after all, he has only just returned to this team, and some players have been here for several years.

Under such pressure, Li Tian trained desperately, often practicing shooting until he couldn't lift his hands before leaving the arena, he believed that he was about to step over the door, and then find his form, but he hoped that such a scene would come earlier and earlier.

In the morning, Li Tian came to the training hall early, and during this time, Li Tian's training intensity has improved compared with the summer or during the training camp, and the time has been longer.

Warm up first, and then Li Tian began to shoot the basket, starting from the shooting point near the basket, and then moving on to the next shooting point after shooting ten balls at each point.

Standing outside the three-second zone to throw the first ball, watching the ball drill into the net, Li Tian's eyes immediately lit up and stopped. It's not too strange to shoot a shot from close range, and although the shooting rhythm hasn't been found much during this time, the shooting percentage from close range can still be maintained.

The point is, the shot feels very comfortable, it feels like a ......

"Feel back?" Li Tian suddenly whispered with a little excitement.

You must know that in the previous training, he always had to go through a lot of shooting training to slowly find this feeling, and today's first shot made him feel very comfortable.

With such a thought in his heart, Li Tian did not follow the usual shooting training from the inside out, but directly pulled to the high position around the free throw line and began to shoot.

Jump, shoot.

"Huh!" The ball goes in.

"That's how it feels!" After completing the shot, Li Tian immediately shouted excitedly, during this time, what he has been looking for is this feeling, although he can occasionally touch it, but he can't grasp the feeling.

Suppressing his excitement, Li Tian picked up the ball and ran to the high post again to shoot.

"Huh!" The ball goes in again.

Once, twice, three times...... Li Tian threw ten balls in the same position and hit nine of them!

Then, Li Tian excitedly dribbled the ball and began to shoot outside the three-point line.

"Huh!" "Huh!" "Huh!"

The basketball flew up from outside the three-point line again and again, and then drilled into the net, and the continuous crisp sound seemed to compose a pleasant music, which made Li Tian want to dance when he listened to it.

"Huh!"

"The feel is really back!" When a set of shots ended and the last ball was firmly in the basket, Li Tian couldn't help but shout with his fist.

He didn't know how to describe himself as different from his previous shooting, but the feeling to Li Tian was that as long as he wanted to shoot, he could shoot at his own pace, and what such a rhythm could bring was a goal!

"It's such a wonderful feeling!" Staring at the basket in the distance, Li Tian's heart felt extremely comfortable, and the pressure from the outside world and the team seemed to disappear in an instant.

Although the pressure is still there, and the players and fans may still be discussing, Li Tian knows that as long as he continues to play a few good games, all this will disappear quickly.

Thinking of this, Li Tian took action again and started the next group of shooting training.

In addition to the fixed-point shooting training, Li Tian then did the emergency stop jump shooting training, what Li Tian didn't expect was that it was extremely smooth.

It seems that Li Tian's feelings in the fixed-point shooting training can easily resonate in the pull-up jump shot, and he can clearly feel that the speed and height of his jump have improved, but these have not affected the shooting percentage too much.

I have to say that shooting feels really amazing, just the day before, Li Tian was still extremely distressed, trying his best to ponder this feeling, but now, Li Tian seems to not need to look for it at all, that feeling has been with him, just like after the carp jumped over the dragon gate, the sea and the sky suddenly widened!

"There's a game tomorrow night!" When Li Tian walked out of the training hall, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, for him who had been suppressed for a few games, he already felt a little impatient.