Chapter 769: Stealing each other

Li Liang sitting on the bench not only surprised the live commentators and fans, but his opponent Raptors was also a bit caught off guard.
The Raptors coaching team has already done a lot of arrangements for Li Liang, Durant and Westbrook before the game.
As a result, Li Liang sat back on the bench, which made the Raptors players feel a little ignorant.
This time, the Raptors' pressure on the bench was a bit heavy.
The Raptors are Kyle Lowry, Valanciunas, DeRozan, Carol and Luis Scola, who just signed in the summer.
The ball jumped and the game started. Valanciunas took the lead to get the ball and the Raptors started their first attack.
Li Liang is not present, the psychological pressure of the Raptors is much less.
But in the first attack, Lowry may be too relaxed, dribbling the bottom line, and slipping out directly...
Out of bounds, mistakes, ball rights conversion.
On the Thunder side, because Li Liang was not there, he returned to the past in his style of play. Durant directly took the ball from the left low back.
But Carroll defended well, stabbing the ball from behind, or the Thunder.
Out of bounds, the ball made two laps, and finally there was no time, Westbrook forced a three-point shot from the outside forcibly!
Did not enter...
On the Raptors side, Scola caught a mid-range jumper on the right corner, but was not hit by Collison's interference.
Durant got a backcourt rebound and pushed back, using Adams's screen in the right to get in.
The Raptors' defense contracted quickly, and Valanciunas and Carol blocked the breakthrough in the middle to reveal.
Durant didn't make a forcible shot, and gave Robertson the corner of the left corner. Robertson had a chance to vote, but hesitated, if he didn't want to vote, if he couldn't pass, the defender had already rushed.
Li Liang happened to be sitting behind Robertson. When he saw that Robertson was afraid to vote, he shouted, "You TM voted!"
Robertson was shocked when he heard Li Liang's words, excited, and voted... Of course, he didn't enter, and he voted three times.
But it was picked up by Adams under the basket. Adams hooked gently and hit two points.
The hook of Adams is really very similar, and the young man usually does more training.
Upon seeing this, Li Liang applauded: "Good! Good pass!"
Robertson was speechless. You let me vote, shit. Now I say that I have a good pass. I am not embarrassing?
The Thunder took the lead to score points, then Durant covered DeRozan's layup in defense, Adams got the rebound, Westbrook counterattacked.
He advanced to the free-throw line and stopped the zombie jumper directly, hitting two points.
Westbrook's emergency stop zombie jumper is very similar to Li Liang's emergency stop jumper.
The shooting speed is fast, the choice is sudden, it is difficult to interfere, but the hit rate is not as good as Li Liang's.
Li Liang watched the Thunder play simple and efficient, and thought that it was reasonable for him to sit on the bench.
With Durant and Westbrook's personal ability, let them play complex tactics is actually a waste of them.
Like the OK combination of the Lakers, O'Neill and Kobe, what complicated tactics do you let them run? unnecessary.
The triangle offense gave them enough space to allow them to play singles.
Simple on the basketball court does not correspond to low efficiency and low energy, and complex does not mean you are strong.
Tactics still depend on the player's ability and team configuration.
In the past three years, Durant and Westbrook, Harden bench, has proved to be a good rotation configuration.
It's just that they are too young, so they lost the finals.
Now Harden changes for Li Liang...
Donovan, who was on the sidelines at this time, was thinking that Li Liang's decision and choice could indeed maximize the potential for the Thunder team, which has been proven by history.
Although Harden’s position was different from that of Li Liang, in terms of function, Harden can do what Li Liang can do, and he can do better.
What Li Liang can do is hard for Harden.
In addition to the beard has an advantage, Harden is a bit behind Li Liang in all aspects.
Coupled with Durant and Westbrook being more mature and powerful than in the past, this is really an enhanced version of the 2012 Thunder Thunder.
Donovan was a little excited to think about it. When should Li Liang be replaced?
At this point, the Raptors still failed to score.
Facing the tight man-to-man defense of the Thunder, the Raptors couldn't find a breakthrough.
DeRozan continued to break through without results, and finally gave Scola to let Scola rush into the ball and missed the shot.
The Thunder counterattacked again. This time Westbrook advanced to the same position but made a different choice.
He passed the ball very concealed to the ground and gave Adams who was plugged in the middle. Adams caught the ball and dunked with one hand!
The energy center came to a small climax after the opening, and the Thunder hit the Raptors a 6:0.
Feeling good, Li Liang thought, am I not going to go?
Last season, the Pacers took a group of fools to win the championship. This year Li Liang thought, maybe you can experience the feeling of lying down and winning more?
Facts have proved that Li Liang thought too much.
The Thunder immediately fell into a scoring shortage.
The Raptors haven't found their scoring sensation, but their defensive strength has come up.
Both sides began to hit iron continuously.
Any weak team, bad team that has ever evolved into a strong team, a regular playoff player, they must first improve their defense.
The Raptors are no exception. In the case of unfavorable offense, they have increased their strength and have done a very good job of defensive contraction.
Robertson was let go of this point and Durant missed a three-pointer from the perimeter.
Offensively, Valanciunas used the low post to score the Raptors' first goal.
The score of 6:2 lasted for a long time. The Thunder's fierce counterattack was gradually solved by the Raptors' intensive defense in the middle and began to enter the iron fight.
At this time, Donovan looked at the Kanban bench and felt that Li Liang should be on stage.
He wants to replace Li Liang in the first official timeout later.
In this way, Collison is equivalent to doing a fake, just make a substitution in four or five minutes.
The Thunder's offense still didn't improve much. Westbrook passed the ball and Scola hit the ball with a mid-range jumper.
Li Liang also felt a little anxious when he saw it, thinking whether he wanted to go.
But he thought about it, if he appeared, Collison would make a fake, then after the appearance, he continued to play with Westbrook and Durant, what is the difference?
Later, Westbrook's beautiful pass assist Collison layup, the Raptors also rely on Lowry to score two points.
At this time, Durant finally shot, a three-pointer from outside to catch the ball!
The Raptors' contraction defense has to pay.
At 11:4, the Thunder achieved a seven-man lead and the Raptors called a timeout.
At this time, Donovan pointed to Li Liang on the bench and said: "Bruce, you will replace Collison later."
Unexpectedly, Li Liang refused, "No coach, I think I want to sit for a while."
In the face of Donovan's face, I have been a coach for so many years and have never seen such a player?
"OK, then you can sit for a while." Norduo dare not defy. He wants to sit as much as he wants. It doesn't matter if you sit until the end of the game.
Mike Brown saw this and offered to give Li Liang water. If there was a newspaper by his side, he would probably get a copy of the newspaper for Li Liang to see.
But Li Liang does not want to drink water now, but listens to Donovan to arrange tactics.
When Li Liang was not present, Donovan only aimed at Durant and Westbrook, and the layout was still handy.
He didn't have too many complicated arrangements, more encouraged the players.
His on-the-spot command and adjustment is very strong. After all, he always takes the NCAA team to play a elimination system, and the adjustment ability is not strong.
In the first few games, he is still adapting to the rhythm of the NBA. He understands that the NBA season is long and needs a lot of attention.
Therefore, Li Liang is listening to Donovan's layout, and Donovan is also thinking about it, wanting to see how Li Liang will play with the bench later.
After all, Mike Brown often brags off the court, "Hand it to Bruce, he will do everything."
The two can be regarded as stealing each other and making progress together.
After the game restarted, Durant's appearance on the court became even more remarkable.
Donovan reminded Durant to let go when he was suspended~EbookFREE.me~ Rest assured to attack and defend.
Because there is a super bench on the bench, there is no need to worry about physical distribution.
As soon as Durant came up, he gave Carol a big cap on defense.
Then he counterattacked and received a pass from Westbrook. After dodge in the air, he made a layup on his left hand!
The Thunder played quite smoothly, which made Li Liang worry about whether he really didn't need to.
The Raptors' offense has never been able to feel, and the outside line has never made three points.
Three minutes before the end of the first quarter, the two sides began to enter the lineup rotation.
At this time, Li Liang was finally going to play, the Raptors replaced Lori, replaced by Corey Joseph.
The Thunder replaced Collison and replaced Li Liang...
Raptors coach Casey looked at the rotation and suddenly felt a little hopeful.