Chapter 944: Li Liang facing the big exam

After the All-Star Game, the 2017 NBA regular season will enter the final stage.
Competition in the West is as fierce as ever.
In previous years, when the competition was fierce, the West had 50 wins before entering the playoffs.
It was in the 0708 season. The Denver Nuggets won 50 wins and the eighth in the Western Conference barely made the playoffs.
Later, in the 1314 season, the eighth Lone Ranger in the West, 49 wins.
What is this concept?
In the history of the NBA, since the 82 regular season games were implemented, the team with the lowest number of championship regular season wins, except for the shrinking season, was the Washington Bullet in 1978, with a regular season record of 44 wins and 38 losses.
This result, put in the current Western Conference, can not make the playoffs all year round.
There are also Rockets like the sixth-placed Rockets that won the championship in 1995, with 47 wins, and they couldn't make the playoffs in some seasons.
The cruelty and fierce competition in the west is evident.
It is impossible for the Kings to catch up with the No. 1 Warriors.
After the All-Star Game, the Warriors were already on top of everything and quickly opened the distance with the team behind.
The king's main competitors are the Spurs and Thunder.
I have to say that it was the Spurs' loss to send Leonard away, but it was Sewen who lost his horse to get Booker and Wiggins all at once.
Wiggins didn't realize his potential in the Lakers. After the Spurs, he worked hard to achieve his full potential.
But in comparison, he is already an All-Star striker, and under Popovich's tune, the defense is much stronger.
The Spurs' team basketball is still quite strong in the regular season, following the Kings and ranking third in the West.
Ranked fourth in the Western Conference and only one win gap with the Spurs is the Thunder.
As the defending champion, the Thunder's momentum at the beginning of the season was very fierce, once on par with the Warriors.
But without Li Liang, the team was greatly compromised in the depth, continuity, and endurance of the lineup, and went back to the routine of Wang Zhan.
Moreover, the injuries hit the Thunder in the middle of the season. There were no major injuries, but minor injuries continued.
This undoubtedly affected the stability of the Thunder in the regular season, and the ranking has fallen to the fourth place, which is a win gap with the Spurs.
The fifth to eighth place is the battlefield for the Lakers, Clippers, Jazz, Grizzlies and Trail Blazers.
There was originally a Rocket, after sending James Harden away, the Rockets withdrew from the playoffs.
Fifth to eighth, whichever is placed in the East, is the team that can compete for the top spot in the East.
It's a pity that they are in the West, even if they make the playoffs, their chances of getting a pass are quite low.
Faced with such fierce competition in the West, the Kings team where Li Liang belongs to recuperate, instead of fighting hard with other teams.
Although Li Liang gave Rondo, Gordon and others a bruise injury pill at the beginning of the season, the bruise injury pill only makes the players less likely to be injured and recovers quickly after the injury. It does not guarantee that they will not be injured at all. , There is no guarantee that the players are in good condition.
Therefore, Li Liang started to expand the team's rotation very early to control the players' playing time.
Li Liang doesn't like taking turns. He strives to keep the main players' playing time under 35 minutes.
The whole team played the last dozens of games in the regular season in a stable standby state.
Because of Li Liang's relaxation in strategy, the King's performance in the second half seemed to return to the unstable state at the beginning of the season.
Win four or five games, lose one game, win three or four games, and lose another game.
But looking at the specific performance on the field, it is not that simple.
The Kings lose, mostly to some underdogs who can't make the playoffs.
In this kind of game, Li Liang will practice his hands and let the substitute players and the players at the end of the bench play more.
It's good to win, but to learn from the lesson and rehearse the lineup.
For Li Liang, whether the regular season can be the first is not particularly significant.
After all, the benefits of high rankings in the playoffs are really small.
82 games, desperate for a season, to the playoffs, the income is an extra home.
Judging from Li Liang's own historical playoff record, he has won more away games than at home.
He is a typical away dragon, some classic games, scoring frenzy, all played away.
Therefore, Li Liang doesn't care whether the series has a home court advantage.
In addition to coaching the game, Li Liang's other great fun is tweeting.
Since opening Twitter this season, Li Liang has become a Twitter madman.
This tweet has three main contents: 1. Pre-match prediction, 2. Post-match comments, 3. Interaction with Tang Laozhuang.
As the head coach, Li Liang is a bit controversial, even making some pre-match predictions.
However, after half a season, everyone found that Li Liang's prediction accuracy of the victory and defeat was astonishingly high, reaching 70%, close to 80%.
This is a very high prediction accuracy rate, and he does not predict his own team's games, just predict other teams.
Li Liang can often predict right in some upset matches.
Even if the prediction was wrong, it was a godsend to see Li Liang in the game.
Sometimes he still predicts the score, and it is very accurate, which is a bit scary.
It's actually very simple, because Li Liang can simulate the result of the match in Stern's simulation world.
Because Li Liang's prediction was accurate, he was called "the beacon of Sacramento."
For a time, even gaming companies will refer to Li Liang’s Twitter forecast.
The comments after the second event even grabbed the jobs of many media experts.
Because the number of words published in each tweet is limited, Li Liang can't make a long discussion.
But he can always use the least number of words to make the sharpest and most precise comments.
The fans see the excitement, and after every game, they can see the NBA first person pointing to others.
Today James is defensively akimbo, tomorrow Curry has a problem with dunk selection, the day after tomorrow Harden has too many free throws.
Anyway, in terms of the ability to create topics, Li Liang is still the only one, with a gap behind.
The coaches of other teams and expert commentators realized one thing-this guy is really watching the game seriously.
After each match day, Li Liang will take time to watch other teams' match videos prepared by the video editor.
Especially the video of the Warriors, Thunder, Spurs and other Western competitors, he will carefully study.
Have a more objective and clear understanding of them in your mind.
In this way, the playoffs can be targeted.
Moreover, Li Liang's Twitter is true and false, false and true, you don't know if he is joking or telling the truth.
But some points of view are indeed unique, causing other coaches in the league to follow his Twitter and listen to his chanting.
Of course, these two contents are mainly in the basketball circle, and the influence is mainly in the basketball circle.
The third content is different, and the leader, Tang Laozhuang is now interacting on Twitter.
In fact, the NBA circle has always been at odds with Tang Laozhuang, like James on the other side of the platform, often satirizing Tang Laozhuang.
Li Liang is different. After the two "do not know each other" on Twitter last time, he often sings together on Twitter.
Especially when Tang Laozhuang talked about China, Li Liang played an explanatory role at this time.
In fact, Tang Laozhuang liked to use China to beep on Twitter before the election.
At present, it is mainly good words.
Of course, he didn't really want to praise China, but took the opportunity to satirize his predecessor.
At this time, Li Liang either sang the opposite or slammed the fire, and occasionally agreed with his argument ~EbookFREE.me~ Actually, Tang didn't take it seriously at first, because his tweets were carefully planned by the team. The effect presented.
But over time, Old Tang and his team found something was wrong.
People's attention to Bruce Lee seems to be on par with Tang Laozhuang.
Everyone's first reaction after seeing the general leader's postponement is often "I will go and see how Bruce Lee responded."
This is a bit scary.
This means that Tang Laozhuang's carefully planned Twitter to govern the country may be mixed in by a foreign athlete.
Affected by Li Liang, the number of Lao Tang's Twitter posts in March and April, especially those related to China, is decreasing.
Of course, as the playoffs approached, Li Liang's number of Twitter posts was also decreasing.
He is about to usher in the biggest and most severe playoff exam in his career.