Chapter 362: Li Yang's Paranoia
The Spurs training hall was undergoing an intra-team training at this time, and after getting the ball, Li Yang faced Leonard's defense and directly dribbled the ball to the inside. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Leonard was obviously very familiar with Li Yang's breakthrough, so he quickly stopped in front of Li Yang at this moment and blocked Li Yang's breakthrough route.
It's just that at this time, Li Yang did not stop breaking through because of Leonard's blocking, a sudden acceleration after a rhythm change, and then a dexterous turn, Li Yang flashed a trace of space from Leonard's side, leaning on Leonard to pick up a basket.
The basketball dodged Leonard's fingertips, hit the rebound, bounced, and landed in the basket.
This is the Spurs' in-team training before the second game of the finals, and the confrontation in this game is obviously not the same as the regular confrontation in the regular season, but the tactical preparation of the Spurs for the next second game.
So if those media reporters from the outside world see Li Yang's goal at this time, they must be a little surprised, Li Yang is attacking the inside? What kind of tactic is this?
After the first match, Li Yang saw those comments from the outside world, and Popovich also saw them.
Yes, Li Yang also knows that he doesn't do a very good job of shooting directly when holding the ball, after all, his shooting has only gotten better this year, and in training, he does pay more attention to catching the ball and shooting in the vacant position.
Li Yang's pull-up jump shot is not stable, especially the mid-to-long-distance pull-up jump shot is unstable, and the turn-around jumper is basically not used. However, all this is not because Li Yang doesn't want to train, or can't train, but it has something to do with the Spurs' style of play.
The Spurs like to use the pass ball to create open shooting opportunities, so when Li Yang is on the court, if he has a good shooting touch from the outside, the Spurs' tactics can help him create a lot of shooting opportunities.
And when the Spurs will choose to let Li Yang control the ball, they want to play more to his lethality on the inside.
This has led to the fact that although Li Yang's shooting rate is good this season, the ball has not been developed directly, after all, most of the players' daily training will be carried out in accordance with the team's tactics, and when the team's assistant coach trains the players, he will also train in the direction that the team needs.
Before, the Spurs didn't need Li Yang to play all kinds of difficult stop-and-go jump shots and turn back in the game, so Li Yang didn't focus on training these two skills, but Li Yang himself occasionally used the stop-and-go jump shot in the game, so the training was a little more, but it was not too stable.
These skills have not been trained before, and it is naturally impossible for Li Yang to master them overnight, and then use these skills to beat James, and the Spurs do not need Li Yang to do this.
For the current Spurs, they are not short of players who shoot outside, and it is impossible to continue a whole series of games in the first game of collective inaccuracy on the outside, so what the Spurs need is that Li Yang can continue to play his own advantages, continue to break through the basket to make kills, and what is needed is that he can continue to pass the ball out and hand it over to the outside players after impacting the inside.
This is why in the team's training, Li Yang will still hold the ball to attack Leonard, James's defense is good, but purely on defense, James is really not the opponent of Leonard and Li Yang, let Li Yang attack Leonard's defense in the team's training, Popovich is to Li Yang can take the lead in finding this offensive feeling, prepare for the next second game, and second, to consolidate Li Yang's confidence.
Popovich knew that Li Yang's psychological quality was good, but he didn't dare to guarantee that Li Yang would not be affected by those comments from the outside world, after all, he was playing in the finals now.
Of course, Popovich still underestimated Li Yang's ability to bear and psychological maturity in his heart.
Li Yang did read those reports from the outside world, but he would never choose not to break through because the outside world called James his nemesis or criticized his ability to hold the ball and shoot poorly, or he was stimulated to increase his mid-to-long-distance shooting with the ball.
James is the nemesis, and my breakthrough will be limited by him? Then let's see in the next game, Li Yang is paranoid at this moment.
Li Yang's paranoia is not the same as stubbornness and arrogance, he will cooperate with the team to make such a choice, first, breakthrough is his strength. The second is that Li Yang does not think that breaking through the Heat's defense line will really be much more difficult than breaking through the Thunder's defense, although James' first line of defense will indeed be more difficult to break through than the Thunder's first line of defense, but the Heat team does not have an interior defensive guard like Ibaka, and their second line of defense is no better than the Thunder's second line of defense.
As for the decline in scoring efficiency after the last game, this is extremely normal when the Heat's interior line is crowded with people, even if it is a god, it is impossible to continue to score in the three-second zone again and again, and the current Li Yang is not a god.
But is it possible for the Heat to maintain this kind of pinch intensity every game? Will the Spurs' tried and tested perimeter line still allow such a thing to happen? Li Yang has his own answer in mind.
If the Heat players or James, who is directly opposite Li Yang, knew that this report and comment from the outside world did not hit Li Yang, but aroused Li Yang's fighting spirit and made Li Yang firm in his determination to kill the inside, I don't know how they would feel.
Li Yang's breakthrough lethality, which has been recognized by the league, even the Heat are not sure that they can limit Li Yang's breakthrough, if the Heat know that Li Yang is ruthless at this time to rush the Heat's inside line, I'm afraid they will not be as happy as when they first saw these reports.
Of course, the Heat at this time didn't know this, they didn't know that Li Yang had been looking for a breakthrough in Leonard's defense, they didn't know that Li Yang practiced two more sets of free throws than usual, and they didn't know that Ginobili led a group of Spurs shooters to find a feeling in crazy shooting in the past two days, and even those who lost had to pay $10,000 for themselves.
Both Heat fans and players are immersed in the thrill of revenge on the Spurs in the first game, in the team training before the start of the second game, James said with a relaxed face in an interview with reporters: "We are full of expectations for the second game, we are ready to win another away game, we have done this before, now what we need is to do our best on the offensive and defensive ends, and do our best." ”
"The Spurs' perimeter is their most important weapon, and in the last game, we did a good job of defending the opposition's perimeter, and in the second game, we will continue to do that. Heat head coach Spoelstra said in an interview.
The second game came in the "anticipation" of the Heat coach and players, but I don't know if the result is what they expected.