Chapter 273: McGrady's weakness

On March 31, the Lakers returned to Los Angeles to start training in preparation for the playoffs.
Kobe returned to the team. After the team doctor's examination, his ankle recovered well.
He began to participate in the training of the whole team, and was absent for two weeks, making Kobe very hungry for the game and victory.
On this day, a real battle was played in the team. The two sides teamed up and played very fiercely.
Kobe took the initiative to ask Li Liang to play against him, the two on the field one to one.
On the road trip, Kobe was very unhappy with Li Liang's copy of his signature horns jumper.
This person is so careful, they are all well-known basketball superstars, and they compete with Li Liang for this kind of thing.
Li Liang is very angry. He has forgiven Kobe for copying.
But in the team's training match, the two played very fiercely.
From the beginning to the end, Li Liang defended Kobe one-on-one. As for the effect... Of course, it is unstoppable!
Kobe, who had been resting for two weeks, was energetic and aggressive.
He kept punishing Li Liang with a jumper in the middle distance, all kinds of fake moves, footsteps, dazzled.
Li Liang has done his best to defend. His footsteps, lateral movement, and physical confrontation are all good.
But one-on-one you want to prevent Kobe, that's really a joke.
Kobe hit Hi later and started to dribble in front of Li Liang.
Continuous crotch dribbling, turning around, stepping up and down, after swinging away from Li Liang, a forward shot and hit again.
"do not fight!"
Li Liang was furious and dropped the ball and stopped playing.
This Kobe bully, staring at him from start to finish.
And Howard, Meeks and others who were on the same team as Li Liang did not come to help.
Every time Kobe singles, they are hiding far away, at first glance it is deliberately pulled away.
Mike Brown doesn't care anymore. In actual combat, it eventually becomes a player heads-up. How can you be a coach?
Aiming is exactly aiming.
Seeing Li Liang's anguish and anger, he laughed at the fire.
Of course, Kobe would have to come back to do this. After training at the end of the night, Li Liang pulled Kobe and wanted to stay with him.
Bryant of course agreed, this kid has not been abused enough?
But playing, Li Liang asked Kobe, how should McGrady defend?
Kobe felt strange, how did McGrady guard me?
Since the injury, McGrady has faded out of the first-line star ranks and is now playing for the Spurs.
Li Liangdao: "I think McGrady should be better than you in terms of offensive ability. Because McGrady's talent is better than you, he doesn't need any difficult moves to get the ball into the basket. Unlike the boss you. , Wriggling, struggling to die."
Kobe doesn't like to listen to this, what is writhing? This is called technology?
However, listening to Li Liang said, Kobe also said: "Tracy is really difficult to defend. I have played for so many years, he should be the most difficult defense I have encountered."
Li Liang thought, as you now direct traffic defense, there is no outside line that is not difficult to prevent.
Then, for the technical problem raised by Li Liang, Bryant gave him some answers.
The two conducted some drills, but for a long time, Li Liang felt that Kobe was talking nonsense.
Instead of saying it, Kobe said: "It's better to imitate Tracy McGrady's style of playing than to practice. You try it."
In this way, Li Liang feels good.
McGrady has a very distinct personal style of playing. He has a wide open and wide talent, outstanding talent, first-class technology but not as complicated and detailed as Kobe.
The two fought for a while, Li Liang said: "You are not like McGrady, they are not chic, they are muddy and watery."
Kobe was all laughed at by Li Liang. Isn't Laozi playing smart? Dragging mud with water?
Forget it, whatever you say.
The two practiced one-on-one until very late. When Li Liang returned home, Zhu Shu fell asleep.
After eating Zhu Shu's supper on the table, I went upstairs and saw Bai Xiaoting's room light still on.
During this time Li Liang went out to play away and heard that Bai Xiaoting's personal fashion show was doing very well, causing a little sensation in Los Angeles.
When he reached the door of Bai Xiaoting's room, Bai Xiaoting just came out and collided with Li Liang.
"What are you doing? Peeping?" Bai Xiaoting said when he saw Li Liang "sneaky".
"I... do you have anything for me to peep?" Li Liang replied.
Bai Xiaoting glared at him and went to the toilet.
Bai Xiaoting came out and found that Li Liang was still standing in the corridor, "What are you doing, it's so late."
Li Liangdao: "I ask you a question. Do you like Kobe a little more, or do you like McGrady a little more?"
Bai Xiaoting said: "Of course it is Kobe. I said I was Komit, why?"
Li Liangdao: "Why do you like Kobe instead of McGrady? Don't talk about looks, you have to talk about looks, you might as well like me."
Bai Xiaoting snorted, full of disdain, and said: "Who wants to like you...I like Kobe, because he plays better, this is not a simple thing. Don't like you, because you are not good at playing."
Li Liangxin said that one day I will be better than Kobe.
"Then you don't think Tracy McGrady is better than Kobe."
Li Liang asked Bai Xiaoting because he felt that there were some problems for the layman to see, maybe he could see the essence better.
The so-called bystander is clear.
Bai Xiaoting does not know enough about basketball, but because it is not enough, he relies more on intuition.
The basketball thing, intuitively reflected, is often more accurate than rational analysis and data.
So why when the data and the intuitive impression conflict, generally check the reliability and validity of the data.
Bai Xiaoting thought about it and said, "I don't think McGrady's shooting is as accurate as Kobe's. I feel, anyway, it feels like this. I don't know the specifics."
"Not allowed to shoot?"
Li Liangke disagreed on this point. In the system task, he was almost shot to death by McGrady's dry pull shot.
To be sure, it was later affected by the injury and the waist became unable to exert force, and then became iron.
But Bai Xiaoting's statement still gave Li Liang some inspiration.
The next day, Li Liang asked Wei Dazhi to find the seven games of the Magic and Pistons in 2003 and studied them carefully.
In the first two games, McGrady did play very well, but in the latter few games, the Pistons teenager Prince's defense against McGrady was still very good.
Especially in the tie-breaking life-and-death match, he defended McGrady to 7 of 24 and only scored 21 points.
Of course, there is the credit for the Pistons' defense, and the impact of changes in McGrady's mentality.
But Prince's defense is absolutely indispensable.
Li Liang carefully observed Prince's defense and found two important points.
One is to make good use of "handcheck" rules.
In 2003, the handcheck has not been cancelled, so Li Liang was not used to the two tasks before.
He should make good use of it.
When defending McGrady, Prince always leaned one hand on McGrady's waist and felt McGrady's actions.
From the beginning to the end of the game, McGrady did not receive the ball comfortably~EbookFREE.me~ The second one is to let McGrady use a jumper to end the offense.
When defending McGrady's breakthrough, Prince's strategy was to always take one step further.
This has something to do with Prince's physical condition, and his height and arm span are particularly outstanding.
So even if he takes a step in, McGrady chooses a jumper, Prince can still chase it back, using his long arm to interfere with McGrady's shot.
This led to Tracy McGrady's continuous investment, coupled with the collapse of mentality, naturally played very poorly.
With Prince's excellent personal defense, coupled with Carlisle's targeted arrangement, McGrady naturally couldn't play as before.
I accumulated these experiences through the video, and then watched the first game several times, and took out every analysis of Tracy McGrady.
Li Liang thought that before the start of the playoffs, he must fight this task.