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After arriving in Phoenix on the 25th, the new Kings received a lot of media attention.

In the afternoon, the team conducted a public training, allowing reporters to conduct interviews and filming.

For Cousins ​​and other former king generals, this month they deeply felt what is called the gap in attention.

Before this season, reports and analysis of the Kings were more like routine.

The attention of the major media is more focused on Cousins' technical foul and fiery temper on the court.

As for the rest of the team, fans aren't particularly concerned.

Come this season, you can open NBA-related websites, magazines and newspapers to see predictions, pre-game analysis, and player inventory related to the Kings, almost everywhere.

This is still in the United States, if it is in China, the base camp of Li Liang fans, it will be even more terrible.

Because Li Liang was determined to stay with the king for a long time, the domestic influence of some king players soared.

For example, Cousins ​​has already started to receive invitations from domestic companies to endorse advertisements. It is said that it is a refreshing product of a health care product company.

For example, Gordon began to have domestic sneaker companies ask him to endorse sneaker products, including Gay.

Just like how Yao Ming got acquainted with a group of people who were not well-known in the NBA when he led the Rockets back then, Li Liang's championship halo has more than one or two people.

Slowly, the Kings players also began to get used to this kind of basketball routine where more eyes are watched.

After the public training ended on the 25th, on the 26th, the Kings finally ushered in the opening game of the new season.

The game was eligible to be televised across the United States.

The Suns continue to be underestimated this season, and the goal has been set before the start of the season to be bad.

With such an opponent as the favorite to start the season, it should be said that it couldn't be better.

Before the start of the game, ESPN conducted an exclusive interview with Li Liang - as a coach.

In the interview, Li Liang talked about some feelings and changes in thinking after becoming a coach.

"I think the best thing about being a coach is that I can finally control my playing time."

Li Liang joked that now he really wants to go up and down, and rest when he wants to play, arrange a point guard for himself if he wants to play a point guard, and let Cousins ​​sit down on the court if he wants to play a center.

As a ball bully, being able to completely remove the position of the coach should be the pinnacle of the ball bully.

If you want to go further, you have to buy the team and decide the introduction and layoffs of players like Cuban.

That would be the ultimate form of a ball bully.

"If there is anything wrong, I feel that my training time has become shorter, and I have to spend a lot of time dealing with team affairs. Therefore, my personal ability has been limited this summer. In fact, I still have a lot of potential. Digging, let’s talk about it later.”

When talking about the bad side, Li Liang said that he still has room for improvement.

Indeed, apart from dribbling tasks this summer, Li Liang has no time to do other tasks.

Gan Guoyang is stuck in the first battle of his high school career and has no time to advance.

Li Liang didn't have time to continue polishing some technical details.

But he keeps that in mind, and once the Kings are on track, he can spend more time on himself.

Now the first game of the new season is the first test of his coaching career for Li Liang.

The previous preseason games were nothing more than a small test, and they didn't count. The regular season is the formal examination room.

It was the Suns coach, Earl Watson, who gave him the test questions.

Watson became the interim head coach of the Suns in February 2016 in the middle of last season.

Watson is only 36 years old this year. Before Li Liang became the head coach, he was the youngest head coach in the NBA.

Of course, Li Liang lowered the youngest record by 10 years old. It is expected that no one will break this record in the future.

As an interim head coach, Watson faced the mess of the Suns.

After Nash left, the Suns fell into a vicious circle of being bad, winning top picks, and then being bad.

The last one wandering in the strange circle was none other than the king.

Fortunately, the king was favored, and the reconstruction was completed after getting a superstar.

And the sun doesn't know when it will rise.

Facing the Kings team whose overall strength is stronger than his own, Watson really has no good way.

In a young team, it is not a good thing for the head coach to be too young.

This will make young players lack awe of the coach's authority-of course, except for a ball bully like Li Liang.

Watson was a conscientious point guard during his player period. He has a 13-year career, which shows that he has a good working ability.

But he has never played for a strong team, never won a championship, and never fought a tough battle in the playoffs.

Generally speaking, he is stronger than most ordinary NBA players, but there is a gap between them and the real strength.

And in terms of appearance, Watson is really a bit of a mischievous, lacking the aura that a good coach should have.

Like Phil Jackson didn't play very well as a player, but he was tall and good looking.

There are also Riley, Carlisle and others, all of whom were not very good players, but they have a good face.

Although the NBA doesn't rely on appearances for food, for coaches, having a majestic appearance will make your job a lot easier.

Think about it, if someone like Cassell was the head coach, when he was telling you tactics, would you stare at his face and feel like laughing or vomiting?

Then how to command?

Appearance was a disadvantage for Watson.

As for how to deal with the Kings in this game, to be honest, Watson really has no good way.

Change to a more comfortable position and lie flat, so that the dead will look better.

Of course, you can also hope that the Kings have just formed and cannot play.

In that way, the Suns have a chance to win by virtue of their strength at home.

At 7:30 in the evening, at the Talking Stick Resort Hotel Arena in Phoenix, the regular season opener between the two sides began.

Prior to this, the arena had been called the American Airlines Center.

There are three arenas named after American Airlines in the league, Phoenix, Dallas and Miami.

All three are famous tourist cities.

This year, Phoenix's arena name change has become a resort hotel.

This name is really not good enough, because the Suns are too weak, and other teams come to play like they are on vacation.

Before the start of the game, the TV cameras showed the coaches of both sides.

On the sun's coaching bench, Watson stood on the sidelines, looking quite nervous.

On the King's coaching bench, Brown, Tyronn Lue and D'Antoni crowded together and sat there, and then there was a vacant seat next to Mike Brown, which was for Li Liang.

At this time, their head coach is on the field, ready to start the game.

Li Liang was a little nervous, which was rare, and the identity of the head coach put him under a lot of pressure.

But when the game actually started, that kind of pressure disappeared without a trace.

Because the strength of the opponent Sun is indeed too bad.

Also, the Kings' "swarm defense" works surprisingly well.

After half a quarter, the Suns' ball handler found that there were almost always two people in front of him.

This made young Suns players hesitant to handle the ball.

Once hesitated, mistakes began to increase.

In the first quarter, the Suns made as many as 9 turnovers.

The Kings continued to use the Suns' mistakes to fight back.

In the first quarter, the Kings established a 35:20, 15-point lead.

The Suns were a little confused.

The excellent performance in the first quarter undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Kings team.

On the offensive end, the Kings played concisely and quickly, constantly using the Suns' mistakes and backcourt rebounds to counterattack, and at the same time, using 1-4 positions for pass penetration in positional battles.

The king's positional offense was not smooth and tacit enough.

However, Rondo and Li Liang's supporting passes largely made up for these problems.

In the first half, Cousins ​​was fed by Li Liang and Rondo. He made 7 of 9 shots from the basket and scored 25 points in the half!

Cousins' low-post strong play is quite rare, almost all of which are all kinds of cakes, and directly attack the basket after the pick-and-roll.

It's called a comfortable one.

If it weren't for the King's poor outside three-pointer in the first half, the lead would be even greater.

At halftime, the Kings 67:50, leading the Suns by 17 points.

The Suns made 15 turnovers in the half, and the king's bees really sting.

Li Liang was very happy with such a performance.

It's a different feeling to be a player than to be a coach.

Being a coach is like being an old father. When you see your teammates perform well, you will be sincerely happy.

Especially Li Liang was very happy to see a mentally handicapped child like Cousins ​​playing so well.

After all, the Suns center Tyson Chandler is not a complete rookie, so easy to bully.

In the second half, the completely relaxed Kings faced the Suns who had no fighting spirit, and the game lost its suspense.

With a huge advantage of 120:91 and 29 points in the away game, the Kings easily defeated the Suns and got a good start to the season.

At the moment when the game ended, subtitles appeared in front of Li Liang's eyes:

[Congratulations on completing your first victory in your coaching career, and you have obtained a "Feeling Rune". Please enter the system to check. 】

It is not surprising that there is a reward for Li Liang. From the moment he signed the head coach contract, a "coach achievement system" was added to the system. I don't know how it is different from the previous achievement system.

However, why is the reward the same as before, or "feeling runes"?

Is there still room for improvement in your own hand feeling?