Chapter 332: The gap between genius and mortal

Li Liang was very impressed with the Pacers team.
The pace of the Lakers' winning streak early last season was ended by the Pacers.
Their lineup is quite reasonable and balanced. The five starters are all strong and have strong defensive abilities.
The Pacers have always been similar in style to the Detroit Pistons.
The Pistons Five Tigers in the Mingzhen League, the strongest opponent in the East, had the Pacers with no less than the Pistons Five Tigers starting.
It's just an Auburn mountain that makes the Pacers give up.
Now that the Pistons have collapsed with the decline of the city of Detroit, the Pacers have been successfully rebuilt.
This season they will start to impact the championship.
This Pacers vs. Clippers is even called one of the Finals previews.
This too despised James.
But the media, always have to get some gimmicks out.
After the start ceremony, the game is about to begin.
Li Liang and his teammates stood on the court. Tonight the Clippers wore a new sky blue T-shirt jersey and the Pacers wore a traditional yellow jersey.
Jordan has rarely lost in the game because the opponent is Hibert, who is taller and stronger than him.
Like Hibbert, if you want to win the game, you can only win better by relying on Li Liang and using his "uncontested" method.
For the first offense, the Pacers chose to play inside to let Hibbert play one-on-one with Jordan.
The Clippers didn't take any countermeasures, so Jordan let him defend against Hibbert. This is a contest between giants.
Hibbert took advantage of his weight and wingspan to squeeze in two times, and then hit a hook on his right hand to score the opening first point.
Teams that start from the low post like this start now have fewer and fewer NBA.
Pushing forward for seven or eight years, while Yao Ming is still active in the league, a regular season will start, and the offensive side will most likely start from the inside, allowing the energetic power center to take the ball in the low position, and the old cattle plowing inward. To open the team's offense from the inside.
Only a few years after the retirement of Yao Ming and O'Neill, the league's offensive tactical style has changed greatly. There are fewer and fewer teams like Pacers and Grizzlies that also use low-level offense as an important tactical pivot.
At least the Clippers are not such a team, although Griffin is a good low attacker.
The Clippers opened the first attack with a pick-and-roll tactic. Li Liang stepped forward to cover Paul.
Li Liang's cover quality is generally quite high, not only because of his solid core and technical moves, but also because of his offensive threat, the opponent must change or pursue defense.
Otherwise, a pick-and-roll, Li Liang immediately took the opportunity, his three-pointer is too fatal.
However, the Pacers' pick-and-roll prevention is in place. Paul George mainly told him that instead of sticking to Li Liang, he was standing on Paul's passing route to interfere, so that Paul could not easily give the ball to Li Liang.
Seeing that there was no chance, Paul passed the ball to Barnes, who was leading to Griffin.
Jordan gave Griffin a blocking screen, blocking both David West and Hibbert.
But Griffin's 45-degree midrange jumper missed.
The first attack of the two sides was actually the tone of the two teams' offense.
Pacers will start from the inside and then gradually transfer to the outside.
This is a very traditional team play, similar to the Grizzlies.
The Clippers' play is more modern, and the pick-and-roll is their offensive engine.
The quick ball from the outside, the three-point corner, the middle, and the 45-degree middle distance are the weapons of the Clippers to kill people.
After Hitler scored the first goal, the two sides did not score for several consecutive rounds.
Hibbert quickly tried to catch the ball and rushed to the basket, but the pass was destroyed by Li Liang.
And the Clippers counterattacked, Griffin received a pass from Li Liang, a pad step to layup, but was blown away.
The Pacers attempted to reverse the post to Paul George in the attack, but Li Liang once again destroyed the pass of David West.
The Clippers' defensive preparation before the game is still quite sufficient, to prevent the Pacers from playing high and playing inside.
In both attacks, Li Liang had a good judgment of the Pacers' passing intentions and cut off their pass.
These two defenses caused the Pacers to dare not pass the penetration.
The Clippers' first goal came from Paul's middle distance.
He used the cover of Jordan to find the mobile phone at the top of the arc. He made a mid-range jumper shot within the three-point line, which was Paul's offensive point.
The Pacers attacked and chose Hibbert to hold the ball on the left side, the same as the first attack.
But the backhand is different. Stephenson who passed the ball chose to cut in. Hibbert passed the hand to the hand. After Stephenson received the ball, he directly cut the layup!
This is a very classic defender-central low-handed hand-passing pass screening cooperation, most teams with high centers will use it, but now the league's tactics are becoming less and less with the decline of power centers.
But Stephenson didn't make the goal, because Li Liang on the weak side came to assist and interfered with Stephenson's layup, and then Li Liang also scored a rebound in the backcourt.
Stephenson's face is unbelievable. Didn't make this goal?
He also tried in vain to Li Liang, of course, meaningless.
After three consecutive attacks, the Pacers' intention to play inside was destroyed by Li Liang.
This made the Pacers coach Frank Vogel a bit unexpected.
The Pacers coaching staff carefully studied the Clippers game video before the game, especially the Kings played the Clippers in two games. Thompson and Cousins ​​caused a lot of trouble for the Clippers.
The Pacers also believe that penetrating the seemingly thick inside of the Clippers is the best way to defeat them.
Who knows that Li Liang's opening defense is ubiquitous.
Then, in the counterattack, Li Liang used the cover of Little Jordan to find a free space outside the three-point line and directly hit a three-pointer!
The Clippers took the lead at 5:2.
But Li Liang was immediately blown a defensive foul on the defensive end.
Originally, Paul George received the ball and broke through. Li Liang blocked George. George elbowed Li Liang, and Li Liang fell over at once, causing George's offensive foul.
Who knew that the referee blew Li Liang's block.
Of course Li Liang was not happy anymore. I moved so fast and my acting was so realistic. Why did you blow me to stop the foul?
And Paul George has elbowed your sister to see?
The referee obviously wanted to control the field foul.
If the Pacers make another offensive foul, the game may not be played.
The referee comforted Li Liang, the Pacers served the sideline and attacked from the position. David West held the ball high and then gave it to Stephenson.
Stephenson catches the ball, Barnes clings to it, there is no chance for the first time.
But Stephenson dribbled out a little, and suddenly turned around and returned to the carbine to kill the basket. Barnes, who moved slowly, was thrown away, and Jordan had to come to defend.
Then Stephenson passed the ball to Hibbert, who was empty on the other side.
Hibbert finally dunked with one hand!
After three penetration attacks, the Pacers finally played once.
This time Li Liang was mobilized to the wing by Paul George, unable to reach the whip.
As for Griffin, I watched it completely in the middle, and I didn't know what to do to make up for rotation.
There is no way, it is not a question of attitude and enthusiasm, but there is no awareness at all.
Griffin started from high school to college, and played the core offensive in the team. Relying on the offensive talents can crush his peers, without having to think about how to supplement defense and assist defense.
It was only in the NBA that I discovered that many things I wanted to practice, especially those in consciousness, were difficult to practice.
Li Liang shook his head, knowing that this kind of ball scolding had no way, even if it was replaced by him, it would be a foul to rush up.
But just when Paul George made his foul, Li Liang wanted to report it.
He received Paul's pass, counterattacked the middle and suddenly accelerated to the left of Paul George, and then rubbed against George.
The referee immediately blew the whistle, blowing George a defensive foul.
George was helpless and knew this was the foul just now.
The referee is sometimes like this, blowing one, and then looking for one, both ends do not fall well, and do not know what the brain thinks.
But despite George's foul, the Clippers' offense missed.
In addition to the personal offenses of Li Liang and Paul, the Clippers' pick-and-roll and conduction ball modes did not tear apart their space under the Pacers' extreme one-on-one defense.
The Clippers need to speed up, they need to play unheard of, and they need to seize the loopholes under the tight defense of the Pacers.
But everything seems not so easy.
The Pacers are one of the strongest defensive teams in the NBA. They can be said to be the typical hard-line defensive representatives in the East and Heat.
But the Pacers' defensive strategy is very different from that of the Heat.
Because of the lack of excellent frame-type inside, the Heat have to rely on a lot of rotation and external defensive defense to contain the opponent's offense, resulting in opponent errors, and the team's super fast counterattack ability to attack the opponent.
The overall configuration of the Pacers is more balanced, and the players in each position have good personal defensive capabilities.
Centers include Hibbert, power forward West, small forward Paul George, shooting guard Stephenson, and point guard George Hill.
Therefore, the Pacers use the simplest, but also the oldest, one-to-one man-to-man defense with the fewest loopholes.
One-to-one tagging seems the simplest, but it has the most changes.
Adolf Rupp, the famous head coach in American basketball history, is the master of one-on-one marking-oh, Li Liang has taken his lessons in the system and has carefully studied the tips and techniques of one-on-one marking defense.
The first quarter of the game took 6 minutes, the score of the two sides was 10:9, the Clippers lead the Pacers by 1 point.
The offense success rate of both sides is not high, but the game process is quite smooth, there is no timeout on both sides, and the game has entered the official suspension.
The Clippers had a rotation of staff, Crawford replaced Griffin, and Li Liang mentioned the fourth position.
Rivers asked the team to speed up the offensive rhythm during the timeout, to fight back more quickly, and to strengthen the players' personal offense to crack the Pacers' one-to-one marking.
But Paul and Li Liang didn't listen at all, and they communicated with each other when they were suspended.
Li Liang believes that although the Pacers use one-to-one marking, they will not be completely unencumbered or rotated.
They will only have targeted packages and supplemental defenses and cooperative defenses, such as dealing with Paul.
Control Paul's pass line and hinder Paul's movement.
Paul strongly agrees that Li Liang can increase his pick-and-roll cooperation.
"It's necessary to cut inwards, kill the inside line, you can't cut out anymore, the cut line is too easy to judge." Paul told Li Liangdao.
"That's right, I can increase inward cuts. If they sandwich me, I will pass Jordan, or give the corner... Well, Barnes's three-pointer I'm not at ease, I'd rather come by myself..."
The two discussed with great pleasure, not even taking Rivers' words to heart.
No way, the two people still have a profound understanding of tactics.
Rivers said he wanted to play fast, but he felt that it was really difficult for the position to attack the Pacers' defense.
To be honest, the Clippers lineup is not weak, but they do not have a truly reliable singles master, high enough to be able to penetrate the defense at will.
Li Liang is half, he is weak in holding the ball.
Paul is half, he is weak in height.
Crawford... barely half, it's pretty weak everywhere.
Therefore, Rivers hopes that the team can play fast, fast to avoid the Pacers.
But Paul and Li Liang don't believe in evil, can't we play tactics and cooperate?
You have to run and bring the rhythm together. Can you play like this in the playoffs?
So after some discussion, Paul and Li Liang did not listen to Rivers.
The first attack after the suspension ended, Li Liang and Paul pick and roll.
After the pick-and-roll, Hill and West teamed up with Paul, Li Liang cut in, Paul passed the ball. After Li Liang received the ball, he hit a two-pointer with a close jumper from a close range.
Classic and smooth pick and roll.
Then, Paul George took a high-top arc around the pile and then hit the ball with a mid-range jumper.
In addition to the low position offensively, Hibbert is also a very useful big iron pillar to use as a cover.
Barnes couldn't get past it if he wanted to.
George's rise last season was sudden.
After Granger was injured, Paul George suddenly emerged and started his personal performance in November of 12 years.
George seized the opportunity and became a rising star in the Pacers.
This season Granger has been squeezed into the bench by George.
George's technical feature is that it is not outstanding in all aspects, but there is no obvious shortcoming.
His off-the-ball running and catching shots are very good. After Li Liang mentioned the fourth position, Barnes tried to defend him a little.
But the Pacers have to face a problem, David West also struggled to defend Li Liang.
Li Liang's attack range is too large, he and Paul are pick and roll, the Pacers can not insist on one-on-one single defense.
If you insist on single defense, and do not change defenses or do not trap after the pick-and-roll, Li Liang will immediately get an opportunity if he cuts in or out.
And Paul can also use the gap to tear the Pacers' defense.
Although the Pacers have Hibbert inside, Hibbert is characterized by anti-basket impact, rather than expanding to make up for leaks.
Li Liang did not rush to the basket at all, he was a tricky close-stop jumper.
He and Paul reapplyed the old tricks, cut in the middle, hit the ground pass, facing Hibbert who was hiding inside, Li Liang made a two-point jumper with a sharp stop in front.
His feel is really soft and his shooting style is quite stable.
On the Pacers side, Paul George felt it.
With the help of the screen again, he made a big circle from the bottom line. With the help of David West, he received a pass from George Hill on the flank at 45 degrees.
George and Li Liang are on the bar.
Li Liang thought, would I be afraid of you?
Isn't it just shooting, Li Liang has never been afraid of anyone in shooting.
Still with Paul's pick-and-roll, this time the Pacers are well-behaved, West is chasing Li Liang, and Hibbert comes in early to set up.
Paul didn't pass the ball this time. He took the ball and hit the inside line. He circled and jumped the ball in the crowd to Barnes.
Barnes didn't dare to take the ball, and turned to Li Liang at 45 degrees.
Li Liang took the ball from the three-point line, one step away from the three-point line.
This ball David West couldn't prevent it at all, he could only watch Li Liang make a three-pointer and hit!
The Clippers fans cheered for a while, this is the offense they like to see.
On the sidelines, Rivers had a "huh? what happened" expression. Is this the tactic that I arranged?
I let them play fast, what about the unstable?
Why is the pass so smooth, so fluent, so neat?
Is this the team I coach?
Rivers had a momentary suspicion of his coaching, but soon came out of this suspicion.
This mood, Mike Brown sitting on the bench is particularly understandable.
When you have tactical generals like Paul and Li Liang, as the head coach, just watch the ball.
Brown thought, Rivers must not be used to watching football career.
Li Liang made three consecutive goals, pushing the atmosphere of Staples to a climax.
Paul George also scored two goals in a row, and of course he also wanted to return Li Liang with an answerball.
This time he received the ball from a high position, David West picked it up, and the Clippers resolutely switched defenses.
Li Liang changed the defense directly to George~EbookFREE.me~George held the ball on the left and broke through, but he couldn't break in!
Is Li Liang's outside defensive ability a joke?
You Paul-George is not James, which may surprise you.
Unable to break through, Paul George chose to retreat with a back jumper.
As you can see, George really wanted to hit a hero ball to give Li Liang a counterattack.
Unfortunately, the ball was too difficult to shoot. The ball hit the neck of the basket and failed to enter. Jordan got the backboard.
Upon seeing this, Li Liang shook his head and said to George: "This is the gap, the gap between genius and mortal."
After that, Li Liang ran away with pride.
Laozi, the son of the natural selection, is it that you, a mortal, can compare casually and still want to play my answerball?