Chapter 130: A Kick in the Door

For Kings fans who are used to losing in recent seasons, the Kings' two-game winning streak is a good start, after all, it was a luxury for them to win streak for a long time last season.

So at this time, Li Tian's performance of one or two ups and downs did not attract the attention of the fans, and the fans were more pleased with the overall progress of the team.

However, the next game will be a big challenge for the Kings, who will need to play back-to-back games against the Warriors and Clippers, followed by back-to-back games against the Trail Blazers.

In addition to being back-to-back, the strength of the opponents should not be underestimated, the Warriors and Clippers were the playoff teams in the West last season, and both teams are on the rise, and the strength of this season is not worse than last season.

As for the Trail Blazers, although the team's record last season was not very good, as Lillard has grown, the Trail Blazers have shown signs of recovery, and the team has won one game and one loss in two games so far, and the team they won was last season's Western Conference champion Spurs.

Playing the Warriors away, because the two teams are in the same division, they have not met less in the past two seasons, and Li Tian also participated in the game with the Warriors last season. The first regular season game Li Tian played was against the Warriors, in that game, Li Tian did not perform at all, and was suspended after the game for a conflict with Thomas.

Last season's second matchup with the Warriors coincided with Li Tian's three-point and mid-range shooting upgrades to S, and he performed extremely well in that game, scoring a season-high 29 points.

Li Tian has made more and more people know that he has excellent shooting, and in the Warriors, there are Curry and Thompson who are also exceptionally good shots, so this game has also made fans look forward to it.

However, the course of the game was clearly not what the fans expected, and for Kings fans, the course of the game was extremely disappointing.

Throughout the game, the Kings were almost suppressed by the Warriors, and under the Warriors' increasingly mature defensive system, the Kings' unskilled offensive system was greatly limited, and many times in the game, the Kings' players were caught in the player's singles, and the offense was very unsatisfactory.

As for the outside confrontation between Li Tian and the Warriors duo that Kings fans are looking forward to, Li Tian's hand continued the slump of the previous game, scoring only 7 points in the whole game, and only 1 of 5 shots from outside the three-point line, completely lacking the hot hand of the first game.

At 87:98, the Kings lost to the Warriors and received their first loss of the season.

In this game, the performance of the Kings team was not very ideal, and Cousins, the highest scorer, only scored 15 points, and in addition to him, only Evans scored in double digits among the starters, scoring 13 points.

In the game, Ben McClymer and Chris Middleton, the two benches on the front line, played well, scoring 12 points each.

The team's loss, coupled with Li Tian's sluggish performance, naturally attracted questions and criticism from some media reporters.

However, in the team's training, Adelman continued to encourage Li Tian, allowing Li Tian to continue to play in his own way and find opportunities to shoot decisively.

Li Tian did this, but the time to find the feeling was still a little unexpected by Li Tian, in training and games, he continued to find and adjust his shooting rhythm, but he was always unable to find the feeling before.

So in the subsequent game against the Clippers, Li Tian still didn't have a very good performance, playing 23 minutes, scoring 8 points, and the shooting rate of the basket was 30 points.

The game was extremely intense, and although the Clippers had two strong players on the inside, DeAndre Jordan and Griffin, Cousins played extremely tough and excellent, and he had 28 points and 15 rebounds in this game.

On the outside, Evans and Thomas also had very good performances with substitutes, and the game was not decided until the final three minutes. With a better defense in key moments, the Clippers finally won the game.

101:106, 5 points difference, the king lost again.

After two consecutive wins, the outside world has blamed the Kings for not meeting a real strong team in the first two games, and the players in the King's team have also been analyzed by the outside world.

After scoring 36 points in the first game, Li Tian scored 12 points, 7 points, and 8 points in the next three games, respectively, and the sum of the scores in these three games was not as good as the score in the first game, and the most important thing was that Li Tian's shooting percentage was too low.

And in the game, Li Tian did not have a chance to score because of the opponent's strict defense, but he got a good offensive opportunity for a lot of time, but he was not able to throw the ball in.

With two consecutive defeats, an ultra-low shooting rate, and no choice for fewer shots because of such a hit rate, Li Tian seems to be getting closer and closer to the "king of waves" label posted by those reporters.

And Thomas has played well in these three games, so after that, there have been voices to ask Thomas to return to the starting lineup.

Adelman didn't listen to the outside world, and in the game against the Trail Blazers, Li Tian still started and then ...... Still doesn't feel good.

In the whole game, Li Tian made 3 of 12 shots, including a three-pointer and 1 of 2 free throws, scoring 8 points.

The only good news is that the Kings finally stopped their losing streak in this game, and they beat their opponents 97-91 at home, changing their record to 3-2.

Although Li Tian's performance is not too good, but after all, the team has won, as long as the team wins, the pressure on the players will naturally decrease, and the same is true for Li Tian.

I don't know if the reporter thinks it is pointless to discuss Li Tian, because Li Tian, who is no longer magical, is just a very ordinary player in the entire league after all, or because the team's win has made some media ignore Li Tian's performance, or both.

During this time, Li Tian has been groping for his shot, he feels that he has vaguely grasped something, that feeling is very close to him, he just needs to work hard to find this feeling a little bit more and can recover to a good state, but he just can't do it.

Although he knew that he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, Li Tian still had a strong desire in his heart, after all, he didn't have a feel for one game, but four games.

Li Tian knew that if he continued like this, even Adelman would gradually lose confidence over time, so in the past few days, Li Tian's training became more and more diligent, and in the game, Li Tian also tried his best to do better in other aspects other than scoring.

For example, defense, passing, rebounding, etc., on the court, Li Tian played very actively.

Li Tian's performance has been appreciated by some people, including Adelman, so Li Tian's starting position seems to be quite stable, at least for the time being.

One loss, one win, and in the next two games, the Kings lost back-to-back games on the road to the Trail Blazers, and then won the Detroit Pistons when they returned home.

Against the Trailblazers, Li Tian didn't improve much, and his scores were still in single digits. However, in the game against the Detroit Pistons, Li Tian's performance was reasonable, scoring 15 points in the whole game, and the shooting rate reached about 40 percent. Although it can't be compared with the first game, it is undoubtedly much better than the previous four games.

After the game against Huohan, the king ushered in a three-day break, and there was no game until the fourth night, and Li Tian spent the three days in the training hall every day, and there was only one thing to do, that is, shooting.

In the past two days, Li Tian vaguely realized that he was getting closer and closer to that feeling, and his hit rate in training had also begun to improve a little, and it seemed that he was just one step away, as long as he took this step, everything would fall into place, and his hand feeling would be completely restored.