Superstar Athletes’ Black Tech Systems

The result of the absence of Durant and Westbrook is that the Thunder's offense lacks continuity.

The Lakers have become more comfortable in the rotation, Scott can deploy troops as much as possible, and the team's defensive layout has become much simpler, focusing on targeting and taking care of Li Liang.

This is the problem that single-core teams always face.

Of course, Li Liang is a player who has proved himself that a single core can win the championship.

It's just that it is impossible for the Thunder's bench configuration to be comparable to that of the Pacers back then.

At the beginning, the Pacers deployed personnel and tactics purely around Li Liang's characteristics.

After the Thunder lost their double juniors, one of the most critical problems is that they have no shooters.

Li Liang is a master of space, and his ability to pull space is among the best.

However, the three-pointers of Robertson, Waiters, Augustine, Morrow and others were not stable enough.

In the first half, Li Liang created a lot of opportunities for his teammates, but he didn't grasp many of them.

Especially Thunder's missed three-pointer, which wasted a lot of opportunities and made Li Liang very angry.

At the end of the second quarter, the Thunder 55:61, 6 points behind the Lakers, ended the first half.

Li Liang scored 18 points in the half, which is quite a lot, but for the Thunder who want to win the game, it is a bit small.

Opposite Kobe Bryant scored 11 points and sent 7 assists.

Kobe has become more and more comfortable in the position of the No. 1 point guard.

And the better he played, the more reluctant his fans would be for him to retire.

Obviously he can fight for many more years, his body and skills are not aging yet, but his heart is already aging.

After announcing his retirement, many fans launched a petition, hoping that Kobe would not retire and continue to play for two years.

But Kobe is determined to leave, and because of this, he is enjoying and relaxing on the court now.

Compared with the past, he played in a more elegant and free style, no longer like a vicious black mamba.

During the intermission, the Thunder held a memorial ceremony for Kobe Bryant at home.

Players from both sides did not return to the locker room, but stayed on the court, and together with the audience, said a collective farewell to Kobe, and gave him a precious commemorative gift-a photo album full of various photos.

These photos were all contributed by Thunder players, photos and posters related to Kobe, among which Li Liang contributed the most.

He printed out some precious photos of himself and Wei Dazhi when he was in the Lakers, and pasted them into this photo album.

Every player in the Thunder left a word for Kobe on the photo album.

The Oklahoma City Hall also presented Kobe with a commemorative medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the NBA over the past 20 years.

Kobe's face is filled with a smile, which is the result of his 20 years of hard work in the land of basketball.

Whether you love him, hate him or ignore him, when he leaves, it always feels like something is missing from the land.

For many young fans, when they started to pay attention to the NBA, there was this maverick and amazing Mamba wearing a Lakers jersey in the league.

He has been with many people for 5, 10, 15 years. He is not the best in history, but he has inspired many people.

Because he always wants to be the best.

At the end of the commemorative ceremony, Kobe returned the gifts and blessings he had received to the locker room and his heart.

The second half of the game has begun.

In the third season, the Thunder began to change their style of play.

Li Liang began to increase the proportion of independent attacks.

He started directly in the second half and appeared in the team's third position.

Donovan knew that Li Liang's firepower would be the strongest only if he was in the third position.

Li Liang rarely turned on the singles mode.

In fact, one-on-one singles has never been Li Liang's strong point.

In terms of singles skills alone, Li Liang is still inferior to Durant.

But Li Liang has an advantage, that is, his three-pointers are really accurate.

Facing Leonard from the outside, Li Liang made a strong 3-point shot at 45 degrees from the right side after continuously dribbling to get rid of the rhythm.

The first shot of Thunder's counterattack was fired.

Then, after using the cover continuously, Clarkson missed a mid-range shot with a little recede in mid-air drift.

Adams grabbed the backcourt rebound and passed the ball to Augustin.

Augustine gave Adams a high-level support after halftime.

Li Liang was squatting in the bottom corner on the right, but he moved up to 45 degrees on the right again, received a pass from Adams, pulled up and shot a three-pointer!

The ball was shot very suddenly, and the Lakers' defensive attention was obviously not concentrated enough.

Li Liang hit another three-pointer!

The Lakers are a little loose on offense and defense.

Then a pass in the offense was almost intercepted by Robertson.

If the ball goes out of bounds, the Lakers still own the ball.

Scott was a little anxious on the sidelines, loudly reminding the players to pay attention.

But concentration is not that simple, mainly because of the lack of motivation of the Lakers players in this game.

Because no matter whether they win or lose, the Lakers are determined to be ranked fourth in the West, unable to catch up with the Spurs in front, and will not be caught up by the Rockets behind.

Although all players don't want the Thunder to create the best record in history on their own heads, but even if they are created, it doesn't matter.

Everyone's mind is still on the playoffs.

Throwing a sideline kick, under the tight defense of the Thunder, the Lakers made a mistake.

Kobe runs to the corner but misses the pass from his teammate.

The ball returned to the Thunder side.

At this time, the two sides have already tied, and the Thunder even have a chance to overtake.

After 10 seconds, Li Liang gave Thunder the lead.

With the help of a cover from Adams at the top of the arc, he shot another three-pointer from a long distance and hit it again!

Three consecutive three-pointers!

The Thunder overtook the Lakers by three points at 64:61.

Scott called a timeout.

This consecutive three-pointer was really caught off guard.

Leonard was criticized by Scott after returning to the bench.

Leonard didn't say a word. He actually tried his best to defend, but it really didn't work.

Li Liang's shooting speed is extremely fast, and he is almost uninterrupted. Once he is in a state, unless he interferes before he makes a shooting action, it will be difficult to lower his shooting rate.

Leonard, his personal coach, and the entire team have also carefully studied how to defend Li Liang.

Leonard believes that it does not make much sense to consume Li Liang without the ball.

Li Liang is different from Curry. His physical condition is not comparable to Curry. Li Liang will never run around the world in order to find a shooting opportunity.

You stick it and squeeze it, but it doesn't work, you can't even squeeze him.

He will suddenly fire in places you don't expect.

And when Li Liang shot in a more comfortable position, it was difficult to interfere with him.

Don't even think about blocking the shot, he has a very fast shot speed and very few preparatory actions.

The opportunity to defend is in the preparation stage of the shot. In the early years, Li Liang could be close to him, but now it is not very effective to be close to him. He will break through.

Li Liang is the kind of player who doesn't care how you defend when shooting.

Some players, such as Kobe, will set their next step according to the actions of the defensive players, how to shoot, lean back, float, pull up, or break through after fake moves.

Li Liang has his own set of procedures. When he feels the distance and rhythm are right, he will fire the cannon.

Once fired, the hit rate is terribly high.

Leonard believes that the key point of defense is to find Bruce Lee's rhythm.

The problem is that you can't find it at all, and there is a limit to the speed of human nerve response.

He shot too fast, and unless he made an accurate prediction, he could preemptively prevent Li Liang.

This is quite difficult, perhaps the highest level of defense, and Leonard's ultimate pursuit.

Bruce Lee formed a mountain in front of Leonard, a mountain worth climbing.

At this time, Li Liang was sitting on the bench, drinking water, thinking to himself: "I don't know if my built-in three-point shooting percentage increase post has been triggered? Is it so accurate because it was triggered?" ? The third ball was thrown blindly. It was thrown a little too fast, but it still went in. It must have been triggered. Hurry up and throw a few more later.”