Chapter 477: Dedicated to Paul (Part 4)
Seeing this rune Li Liang is also a meng, team morale rune? And this thing?
Literally, it's definitely a morale booster for the team.
Is this the legendary "collective fighting of chicken blood"?
The specific effect Li Liang didn't know yet, the game was over, and Li Liang shook hands with Nowitzki and other Mavericks players and hugged him.
Nowitzki played well tonight, scoring 27 points and shooting well from the field.
Unfortunately, at the critical moment, his step-back jumper missed.
It is enough to see that the Heavenly King of Deno is old, and there is no way to kill the game like in the past.
An average NBA player's best basketball career may only last three years, a star can have five to seven years, and a superstar can have ten years.
And ten years are just a hurry, with a flick of a finger.
Nuo Tianwang can also be regarded as Li Liang's idol when he first watched the game, his style of play, his persistence, and his resilience all made Li Liang deeply impressed.
Therefore, Li Liang patted Nowitzki's shoulder and said, "Dirk, the future is yours." ”
…… Nowitzki is a little confused, Lao Tzu is more than 30, and he will go home to farm in a few years, and the future is mine?
Have you been tricked by that idiot into coming to me to cast some abominable magic on me?
Take your hand off my head... Hey, I feel like I'm a lot calmer after losing, and I'm not so uncomfortable.
Li Liang quietly and silently used a touch of the head to kill Nowitzki, which calmed Nowitzki's unhappy mood after losing.
Li Liang thought to himself, anyway, your old man has a lot of hair and is old, so there should be no problem in touching two hairs and losing two hairs.
Since Li Liang obtained the skill of [Tim Duncan's Touching the Head], he has tirelessly started his work of "opening mountains and destroying forests".
The Chinese planted trees on their own land, while Li Liang acted as a "bald maker" in the United States.
At present, the results are not obvious, but as long as he persists and touches his opponent's head after the game for ten years, one day he will turn the forest into a desert and let the shiny skinhead come back on the American professional basketball court.
After this game, the Clippers have ended a beautiful home game and are about to start a terrifying road trip.
Li Liang bluntly complained in the post-game interview, feeling that the league's schedule of the Clippers was too unfair.
Every team has back-to-back away games during the season due to venue issues, especially consecutive away trips across zones.
But like the Clippers, it is rare to have two consecutive seven visitors in a season.
And this time, all seven away games are in the East, and the first stop is New York, which is heavy snow.
The Knicks continue to have a hard time this season.
Stoudemire, a major player who finally returned from injury, was injured again.
Meanwhile, striker Kenyon Martin, who was Stoudemire's spare tyre, also missed two weeks with a sprained ankle.
Martin was the top pick in the 2000 NBA Draft, and he reached the Finals twice with the Nets, which is considered to be worth a lot.
Later, he joined the Nuggets at a high price, and his performance was good, but it never met people's expectations.
As you get older, your physical fitness declines, and your strength declines rapidly.
In 2011, he joined China's Xinjiang Guanghui and was the first champion to join the CBA team.
As a result, the performance on the court was a mess, averaging 13 points and 9 rebounds per game, which was no different from an ordinary blue-collar interior liner.
It fully shows that the United States can only survive under the NBA's special basketball environment system.
Once you leave this special basketball rule system, you will be unaccustomed to the more primitive and pure basketball environment, and your original form will be revealed.
With the development of the times, American basketball is no longer as proud of the world as it was in the 80s.
A casual player who goes to Europe to play overseas can get the status of a guest of honor, play how he likes, and play how he wants.
For example, a player like Ranbier, who couldn't get along in the NBA at first, went to Italy to play, and he averaged 20 points per game and brought back a championship.
Nowadays, the NBA is becoming more and more commercialized, and the rules are constantly adjusted to make the game more entertaining and beautiful.
Strict protection of the stars, double standards at the whistle, and the game is cut to pieces by advertisements and whistles.
Except for a small number of stars, other players are seriously functionalized, and their overall strength has deteriorated across the board.
And European basketball is improving, especially the interior players, who are almost dominating the NBA.
It's been a long time since the NBA had a good American center.
Now the training representative of the American center is Jordan Jr., who gives priority to defense and eating cakes, and can make the best mid- and long-range shooting, it doesn't matter.
As for what low-post, interior offense, why do you learn this thing?
Scoring is left to the scoring guards and forwards.
That's how all teams are building their teams right now.
And grassroots basketball in the United States also implements this training idea to cultivate big players.
It is foreseeable that in the future, there will be a serious disconnection in the internal line of the United States.
Of course, this is not a problem that Li Liang needs to worry about, what he needs to worry about is how to help the Clippers survive this terrible seven-game tour.
Win as many games as possible and lose as few games as possible.
In this game against the Knicks, Livingston joined the team.
Thought the deal was made before the game against the Mavericks, when Livingston was in Brooklyn.
It just so happened that the Clippers came to New York after the last game, so Livingston didn't report to Los Angeles and stayed in Brooklyn to wait for the Clippers to come.
After joining up with the team, Livingston passed the team's medical examination and took part in the team's training.
When Li Liang saw Livingston, he was full of emotion, and the Clippers finally had a tall guard in the backcourt.
Now there is a trend of taller guards across the league, and many point guards are comparable to scoring guards in terms of size and physical fitness.
Of course, whether Livingston can play a role depends on how well he recovers from injury.
Livingston averaged 26 minutes per game with the Nets, averaging eight points per game while shooting 48 percent from the field.
It feels pretty good, and the shooting percentage is higher than Kobe.
However, in the game between the Nets and the Clippers, Livingston's play was average.
If he could have grasped a few quick counterattack opportunities at that time, Li Liang might not have the conditions to kill.
The main reason is, of course, because of his leg injury, and the impact of that broken leg on him is still too great.
However, Rivers traded to Livingston not to make him a quick attack, but to hope that he can play a bigger role in positional warfare.
In training, Livingston will of course consult the team's head coach, Mike Brown and Gentry for tactical arrangements.
As a result, Livingston found that Mike Brown, the coach, had to run to consult Bruce Lee for advice every time he explained and communicated for a while.
For Li Liang, Livingston is of course deeply impressed, and the stunner in Brooklyn is enough for current Nets fans to remember for a decade.
Livingston had long heard that this player was very peculiar and that it was better to be famous than to meet.
During the training, it was found that sure enough, this second-year rookie looked like a big guy in the team training.
In the team, he pointed fingers and shouted.
One moment he said that the defense was not working hard, and the other time he said that the movement was not active.
If he wears a red armband, he will be an NBA sunrise crowd, and he will have to take care of everything.
The problem is that the Clippers are very obedient from the players to the coaches, and Li Liang is what he says.
Not to mention that Mike Brown communicates with Li Liang from time to time, even Rivers has to come over to have tactical exchanges with Li Liang.
Since Paul rested from injury, Li Liang has become the team's only core playmaker.
What tactics does the team want to play, how to play, how to deal with problems, but don't you communicate with their core?
And after Li Liang was the organizer of a few games, he felt more and more that it was really cool to be a coach on the field.
Besides, Li Liang doesn't seem to be difficult to be a coach.
You look at Mike Brown, Rivers and others, with big heads and thick necks, all of them are chefs, and they all sit on the sidelines as coaches in suits and leather shoes.
It fully shows that as long as you have the opportunity and have a talent as a cook, you can be a coach.
Anyway, that's what Li Liang thought.
……
On January 17, the Clippers and Knicks played a game at Madison Square Garden, the mecca of American basketball.
As the first super-large venue for professional basketball in the United States, Madison Garden Plaza is a place where any basketball player wants to show off their talents.
Michael Jordan scored 55 points here, Curry scored 54 points here last year, James scored 52 points in '09, and Kobe Bryant scored 61 points at Madison!
Scoring high scores on this field is something that any NBA star would aspire to.
Li Liang is no exception.
Before he wants to be a coach, he has to be a good enough player.
Organizing and directing is fun, but it's not as enjoyable as scoring.
Li Liang is ready to create a scoring feast of his own here.
To Paul, who was absent.
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