Bird had never seen such a thick skin.

Bird had a chance to get a quadruple-double back then, and he didn't bother to go up again after he got off the court because he didn't care about the stats.

As a result, times have changed!

Li Liang made a strange thing to go up with a medal in garbage time back then, and now he has 49 points, you let him sit on the sidelines and watch the game?

How is it possible, if the regular season is not used to score points, then what's the point?

The fans are here to see you scoring goals on the pitch, not to watch you sit on the pitch and pretend to be forced.

There is a clear divergence between the perceptions of the two generations of players.

Bird watched Li Liang on the court and brushed his score to 58 points.

The Trail Blazers players have no heart to stop them, and they are disabled.

Besides, 58 points is not too much, Li Liang did not rush to 60 points.

He felt that the number 58 was quite auspicious, and it reminded him of a lot of good memories.

After two consecutive defeats, Li Liang used a 58-point scoring performance to help the Pacers beat the Trail Blazers.

Bird didn't expect that the sentence "I want to be the scoring champion" that Li Liang said before getting on the plane turned out to be true.

It seems that Bird doesn't know Li Liang's nickname, and he will practice Gan Li Liang when he says it!

And after being suppressed for a period of time, public opinion ushered in an outbreak after Li Liang's 58 points.

"Bruce Lee has broken his seal."

"The Pacers need Bruce to step up and score."

"The King of the Thirds is back."

It should be said that after coming to the Pacers, it still has a lot of impact on Li Liang's topic traffic.

In China, he is still loved by thousands of people, Chinese fans are like migratory birds, wherever Li Liang goes, their attention is there.

But in the United States, Indiana is a big rural country after all, and it cannot be compared with Los Angeles in terms of news and public opinion.

Moreover, Li Liang's royal reporter Wei Dazhi stayed in Los Angeles, and there was a lot less news about Li Liang all of a sudden.

Of course, Li Liang himself doesn't care, if he cares, it is Under Armour's more concerned.

However, under armour's momentum has been ferocious this year, as they signed another promising stock last summer, Stephen Curry, has exploded.

His performance in the Golden State Warriors was shocking, no less than Li Liang's outstanding performance.

The ball won by the Warriors was a big win every game, and it was played smoothly, the passing and cutting coordination was very beautiful, and the three points were explosive, which was very ornamental, and for a time it caused a golden whirlwind in the league.

It's the same gold, the Warriors are gold, the Lakers are purple and gold, and the Pacers can only be corn......

The corn finally gave off a brilliant brilliance, which was a dazzling handful.

After winning against the Trail Blazers, the Pacers rushed to Sacramento to take on the Kings back-to-back on the road.

In this game, Li Liang failed to continue the miracle because he couldn't hold on.

He played the equivalent of three games in two days.

One of them was the Finals battle against the Detroit Pistons.

The outburst with the Trail Blazers consumed a lot of his energy, and as a result, on December 5, the Pacers played very hard against the not very strong Kings.

The two sides fought all the way to overtime, and Li Liang played a rare iron in the regular season, only 8 of 21 shots, and suddenly became popular.

In overtime, Li Liang scored back-to-back goals, but King Cousins dominated the overtime, scoring back-to-back singles McGee on the inside.

I don't have the brains to meet upset, and I hit one by one.

In the end, the Kings were at home, 103-102, a one-point advantage over the Pacers.

Li Liang made 25 shots and scored 27 points, and the shock of 58 points had just passed, and it was an iron game.

The pressure of being the boss is indeed not ordinary.

The season has just begun, and the Pacers have lost seven of the 20 games played.

Created the worst start of the season in Li Liang's career.

After a painful four-game streak with a 1-3 record, the Pacers can finally go back to their hometown to recuperate.

Li Liang also needs to take a rest, and his physical strength and spirit need to be replenished.

At the same time, the mentality and state of the whole Pacers team need to be adjusted.

The run-in continues, and the schedule waits for no one, it's not an offseason, and the teams don't give you time to have chemistry.

In this case, you can only train by competition to find and solve problems in actual combat.

Head coach Bird is still in a good state of mind, not at all in a hurry like Vogel and Brown.

In fact, when Li Liang said "I want to win the scoring title", Bird felt with the intuition of a former superstar that Li Liang must have his own strong thoughts.

The idea is to distinguish the gap between an ordinary superstar and a real historical superstar.

Therefore, Bird decided not to interfere with Li Liang and let him decide the style of play on his own to lead the Pacers out of their current predicament.

And Li Liang's solution to the dilemma is very simple.

He no longer thinks about teaching the three fools, which is an impossible task.

God didn't educate them well, so how could Li Liang teach them well?

And they are all good players, and accepting their shortcomings and building on their strengths is the right way.

The only thing Li Liang can do is to make himself stronger!

After returning to Indiana, Li Liang went into retreat after a two-day break.

He hid in his house and did not attend the training session organized by the team the next day.

He got into the system, ready to concentrate on solving the Detroit Pistons in '04 and wiping Corvo's ass.

……

Kicked Arena in June 2004, it has been the center of American basketball since the beginning of the 21st century.

The Los Angeles Lakers' shocking dynastic performance has given the Lakers a large number of fans in the new century.

After losing the semi-finals in '03, they made a comeback in F4 in '04.

All the way to the finals, facing the old rival Detroit Pistons.

It was the fourth time in Pistons history that they have reached the Finals, and three of those times have come against the Los Angeles Lakers.

Therefore, the Lakers and Pistons can be regarded as a pair of old enemies.

Both teams also represent the style of their respective divisions.

An extremely gorgeous, talented, powerful firepower, star-studded.

A strong and simple, civilian division, team basketball, a symbol of blue collars.

Just like the 1988 and 1989 matchups between the two teams, more than ten years have passed, the people have changed, and the temperament of the team has not changed.

Li Liang was already standing on the court wearing Kobe's No. 8 jersey.

I played twice in the system before, winning one and losing one, but the goal of six three-pointers was not achieved.

In the mission, first of all, the rune system cannot be used, so the feel is not as stable as usual.

Secondly, skills and props cannot be used, and without [zero-second shot], Li Liang's three-point shooting speed will drop by a notch, which is a huge challenge to his anti-interference ability.

In the end, it's the Pistons' defense, which is really airtight.

Especially when there is no Ma Long in the back, there is a very important tactical point missing, and the whole team's offense is very depressed.

In the game he won, Li Liang relied on feeding O'Neal more, and then helping the Lakers win the opponent with stronger interior defense.

But you can't just win, you have to score six threes.

It's damning.

After thinking about it, Li Liang felt that he still had to think carefully.

The Lakers wore a rare white home jersey tonight with the O'Brien Cup logo embroidered on the neckline.

The Lakers' starting lineup is O'Neal, Malone, Payton, Kobe Broslean, and Devin George.

The starting lineup of the Pistons is their classic five tigers, the interior double Wallace, small forward Tyshawn Prince, and the backcourt Billups plus Hamilton.

The referee of this game was none other than the bald Crawford, whom Li Liang hated the most.

As soon as the jump ball began, Crawford blew O'Neal for a violation, and the first offense in the Finals went to the Pistons.

Li Liang knew that in the next first offense, the Pistons would use Hamilton's off-ball cover to circle and Rasheed Wallace to pull out and shoot three-pointers after covering.

So he immediately interfered with Billups' pass to Wallace, blocking the Pistons' offense, and when the final 24 seconds were approaching, Billups had to force his own shot and missed.

"Kobe Bryant seems to have seen through the Pistons' offensive tactics, and his defensive positioning is very predictable."

It was none other than Li Liang's former coach Rivers who was commentating on the sidelines tonight.

At the beginning of the 03-04 season, Rivers left the Magic and briefly ended his coaching career to switch to the commentary industry.

However, his gong-like voice is obviously not suitable for long-term development in the commentary world.

So, he'll soon get back to coaching.

In fact, this is not Kobe, Kobe Bryant is not so predictable except for desperately defending like a mad dog and occasionally playing freestyle.

This is Li Liang's defensive awareness!

Well, this is the opening routine that he knows after playing twice.

Then it was the Lakers' turn to attack.

Under the coaching of Phil Jackson, the Lakers still uphold the triangle offense.

It's just that Gary Payton, a guard who lacks a pitcher and whose offensive means are mainly back, has never been able to exert his power in the triangle offense.

Triangle offense, with Li Liang's basketball IQ, is not a problem at all.

Let's put it this way, when he was at the University of Kentucky, Li Liang was proficient in all other tactics and running positions except for playing on the court.

Noble water cooler pedigree, the annual VIP seat next to the coach is fake?

For the triangle offense, after playing two games, Li Liang understood what was going on.

He holds the ball on the right side and looks for Karl Malone at the corner point.

However, Li Liang was not prepared to actually pass, he knew that the Pistons would shrink in the opening court.

His primary goal now is nothing else, but to score three points as soon as possible!

When the Pistons, the terrifying defensive machine, are not fully operational, give it a try!

So, Hamilton, who was opposite Li Liang, glanced back a little, and in a moment of distraction, Li Liang directly pulled out a three-point shot!

He took advantage of his height and shot directly at Hamilton's head.

Without the [Zero Second Shot] skill, you must be more cautious in your choice of shots.

Without the rune bonus, you should be more attentive to the debugging and maintenance of the feel.

"Huh!"

The ball went in and hit a three-pointer in the opening game!

The scene was full of cheers, and the fans didn't care whether the game was reasonable or not.

Besides, this is Kobe Bryant, what is reasonable?

And Li Liang clenched his fists, thinking, it feels good tonight.