Chapter 503: Wicked people need to grind

The 2014 All-Star Game will be held in New Orleans.
This is after 2008, New Orleans once again hosted the All-Star Game.
Although the New Orleans Pelicans are the weakest team in the league and were once poor enough to hand over the team to the league, the Southern region represented by New Orleans has always been the key development area of ​​the NBA.
Some cities in the North, such as Milwaukee, have never hosted an All-Star Game since 1977.
And in February, the North was too cold, and it was more comfortable for the players to hold the All-Star in a warmer place in the South.
Li Liang and New Orleans have always been very close to this place, and they like the city a lot.
Li Liang arrived in New Orleans a day early, preparing to start his second All-Star tour here.
With the first experience, Li Liang's interest in the All-Star is much smaller.
In fact, many stars have an "optional" attitude toward the All-Stars, especially superstars. They don't even need the All-Star stage to show themselves.
But some ordinary stars, or role players with great skills, very much need this stage for exposure.
Superstars participating in All-Stars are more like being forced to operate.
This time Li Liang was elected as the All-Star ticket winner. Many people hope that he will participate in the three-point contest to defend his title, or be bold and participate in the dunk contest!
As a result, Li Liang did not sign up for the three-point contest. For him, the trophy of the three-point contest is enough.
He wanted to get one trophy in the dunk contest, but it is not the right time.
His physical fitness can't meet the requirements at present, even if he wears Dr. J's explosive head, he can't get a high enough score.
You also need to wait patiently.
However, Li Liang still signed up for a single event, that is, the shooting star contest.
It is a team of active NBA players, WNBA players and retired players to compete in shooting skills.
Li Liang knew that he and Carl Malone had been grouped together this time to complete the shooting game together.
In addition, he has not participated in any other single competition.
So overall it is relatively easy.
Because it is the second time to enter the All-Star, Li Liang no longer needs to participate in any rookie financial training or psychological counseling.
Anyway, his mental state is very healthy.
Li Liang is not the strongest in the league, but it must be the healthiest—both mentally and physically.
On the first night in New Orleans, the players must of course come out to play.
Anthony Davis called Li Liang to do his best as a landlord and invited Li Liang to drink and play.
Li Liang did not disappoint. Together with Davis, Wall, McGeeji, Cousins ​​and other Kentucky students.
This year Kentucky has also contributed to the NBA's high-ranking player, that is, Li Liang was unable to find North Noel when he was training.
Unfortunately, after being selected by the 76ers, Noel was reimbursed for the season, not able to participate in the game, nor to the All-Star.
Li Liang is now the leader of the Kentucky Gang. The old classmates meet and there are many topics to talk about.
But at the end of the current play, when entering the race, Li Liang said that I should go.
"Oh, Bruce, must your agent come with you?"
Some drunk Cousins ​​hugged Li Liangdao.
Cousins's temperament is the most favorite guy among a group of people who drink and play tricks.
Li Liang nodded, this time to participate in the All-Star, Zhu Shu came along.
Most NBA stars will bring their families, and those who are not married will run out to play.
Like Cousins, although he is not married, he has a girlfriend and children.
But it does not prevent him from taking the opportunity of "business trip" to relax.
After saying goodbye to his alumni, Li Liang took a taxi and left back to the hotel.
Although he has established a firm foothold in the NBA, in terms of cultural thinking, Li Liang and the black-based NBA circle are still out of place.
Their attitudes to life, their methods and concepts of life are very different from the education Li Liang had received since childhood.
But seeking common ground while reserving differences, Li Liang respects their cultural customs, and likewise, NBA players should respect him.
At least the superficial effort should go.
After returning to the hotel, Li Liang did not want to accompany Zhu Shu. Zhu Shu had her own activities as an agent.
Not to mention Wei Dazhi, playing with the socialite like EJ Sauce and the media circles of NBA reporters.
Li Liang went back to the hotel room by himself, started to enter the system, and completed the third task of the book [City of Angels].
The name of the third mission is very strange. It is called "boating on the snowy mountains". Li Liang didn't understand the meaning of this broken mission at first. After entering the mission, I realized that this is the first time in the history of the Los Angeles Clippers. Playoff tour.
Their opponent is the Utah Jazz.
The name of the jazz team is very romantic, and its origin is in New Orleans, where the All-Star game is held. This is the hometown of black jazz.
The Jazz started here, and Maravich is the earliest star here.
But then the New Orleans Jazz left Louisiana and moved to Salt Lake City, where the birds don't shit.
The relationship between Salt Lake City and the name "Jazz" is inaccessible in Baganzi.
Later, New Orleans had a new team. When trying to change the team name, they tried to get their name back from the Jazz team, but they did not succeed.
Because the name Jazz has been deeply connected and imprinted with Salt Lake City, Utah, even if you think about it, there is no connection between the two.
For example, the jazz team’s most famous team logo was not a beautiful image of the musical note symbol, but a cold snowy mountain that had nothing to do with jazz.
It is the most famous landscape of Salt Lake City except Salt Lake. The endless silver-white snow mountains are magnificent and magnificent, just like the style of their team, strong and simple, and standing like mountains.
The Clippers and Jazz are different. As a California team, whether in Buffalo or Los Angeles, they are all offensive style.
If a team has no defense and only has offense, the result is that it cannot make the playoffs.
After the Clippers moved to Los Angeles in 1984, they didn't make the playoffs for the first time until the 1991-1992 season.
The reason they can make the playoffs is because they have a defense and they have Larry Brown who left the Spurs and switched to the Clippers.
That's right, Larry Brown used to be a coach for the Los Angeles Clippers for two years.
This famous coach, who has always been known for his strict defense, doesn't think it matches the Clippers' style.
But when Brown came to the Clippers, it did bring tremendous changes to the team.
The Clippers' talents are actually good. They have talented strikers like Danny Manning and Charles Smith.
It's just that the 1992 NBA is still dominated by inside players. You either have four centers, or you have a strong four-point forward group against centers, or you have a Jordan.
Offensive forwards like Manning and Smith couldn't win the championship with the team as their core in that era.
Larry Brown accepted the Clippers in the second half of the season, transforming the team's defense, allowing the team to achieve an excellent record of 23 wins and 12 losses in the second half of the season, into the playoffs in one fell swoop!
In 8 years, the Clippers finally reached the playoffs in Los Angeles in 8 years.
For the Los Angeles Clippers fans (if any), this is definitely a historic season!
Li Liang cried when he saw this historical significance.
The Clippers are so poor, so the first time they entered the playoffs was a big deal.
Look at the first half of the Angel City book, each of which is related to the championship.
It's really more dead than popular.
Li Liang lamented the poor acid of the Clippers, and then entered the mission:
[Mission, boating on the snowy mountains, time: April 24, 1992, Location: Delta Center, Salt Lake City, United States, against: Los Angeles Clippers VS Utah Jazz, Mission Requirements: Lead the Los Angeles Clippers to beat the Utah Jazz, get the season The first win in the playoffs, task reward: get one skill. Task difficulty: star. 】
Li Liang has now discovered that there are several tasks in the second volume of the City of Angels, and each task completed is a skill.
To be honest, such a task is quite cost-effective, at least more cost-effective than the Lakers' task.
Skills are good things, and if used properly, every game can work wonders.
Skills such as [Shooting into the Soul] and [Death Coil] have benefited Li Liang in the game.
While other star players are indulging in sensuality, Li Liang is still trying to improve himself.
Enter the mission:
In the Delta Center in 1992, a huge noise came into Li Liang's mind.
To say which of the 30 NBA teams, Li Liang, the home team, likes best, the Jazz must be one of the alternative answers.
Right is the favorite, not the least.
Although the facilities at the Salt Lake City venues are not particularly advanced, the fans, let alone, are very unfriendly.
The problem is that you can get anger value here!
The fans in Salt Lake City called a madman, and always made the stadium as loud as KTV.
You don’t want to think about it, your opponents are noisy, don’t your own players noisy?
The Delta Center in 1992 was more noisy than the current Energy Resolution Center.
The players on both sides are already on the field, but Li Liang is sitting off the field.
He did not replace anyone in this game, but took part in the game as a substitute for the team.
Sitting next to Li Liang is the famous coach Larry Brown.
Larry Brown’s real success will be in 2004, leading the Pistons to complete the civilian victory.
The defense he built made him famous among the fans and became a well-known academic.
However, fans always have the illusion that this kind of coach with a strong team and defensive defense must also be a rigorous and conservative old man on the court.
It would be wrong to think so.
In fact, Larry Brown’s personality is notoriously bad, he has a bad temper, and he is too harsh on players. He doesn’t like to communicate with players, he doesn’t respect young players. In his team, he always has the final say. His idea is to play, instead of tailoring the tactical system and development opportunities for the players according to their characteristics.
Therefore, Brown hasn't spent much time with each team. As a famous coach, he has led ten teams in his career.
Although he led seven of them into the playoffs, he won the NBA and NCAA double championships, achieved Allen Iverson's 2001, and won the reputation of "turning the stone into gold".
But behind this, more reasons are because of his bad temperament, bad relationship with players and management.
He often can only stay in a team for more than two years, a little longer, either conflict with the player or the management, and often intolerant.
Even once or twice, so many times, can only show that Brown's personality is like this, but because of his ability, so there will always be a team to ask him to coach.
Bring out the results in a short time, then pat the and leave.
The best result was to bring the Pistons a championship and two finals, but it also ruined the future of the Pistons Dakota Miricic, because Brown never thought about training him, but ruined he.
For Li Liang, the cooperation with Brown is just this game.
He needs to wait patiently, waiting for Brown to send him on the court.
Then he found that this seemed to be the most difficult place for this mission.
After the game started, until the end of the first quarter, Brown didn't even think of replacing Li Liang?
Li Liang is angry now, Nima system you let me do the task, but does not let me play a few meaning?
The Clippers faced the attack of the Utah Jazz in the first quarter and fell into the disadvantage from the beginning.
The Jazz have a double Malone lineup, inside Karl Malone, outside Jeff Malone, the point guard is Stockton, there is another Mark Eton inside, it can be said that the strength is very powerful.
The Clippers' main lineup is in the center of the noisy triangle, and it is completely abnormal to play in the playoffs for the first time.
The transfer of the ball is slow, the offense is simple, and the defense is full of loopholes.
It wasn't until the point guard Rivers came off the bench that the Clippers' situation eased.
Yes, Lao Li is also in this Clippers team, and Li Liang is a teammate.
Li Liang is still thinking about playing with Rivers to make a 3-pointer. Nimalari Brown, are you ready to keep me on the bench?
The second quarter started, and Larry Brown still didn't mean to replace Li Liang.
Li Liang was completely angry, he began to question Brown, "Coach, why not let me play? When can I play? You should let me play, I want to play, our internal disadvantage..."
Larry Brown looked at Li Liang with a very impatient look. "I am the head coach. When will I let you play before you can play."
Li Liang was speechless and thought to himself, no wonder the name of this mission was "Boating on Snowy Mountains."
You TM don’t let Lao Tzu come on the court. Am I just like rowing a boat on a snowy mountain?
Li Liang is anxious like an ant on a hot pot. Perhaps this is the difficulty of the task?
How can Brown get himself on the court?
At this point, the situation on the court was very detrimental to the Clippers, and they were a little bit blinded.
After all, it was the first time to play in the playoffs, and it was a terrible away game in Salt Lake City. The starting performance was completely abnormal.
The core player Charles Smith faced Karl Malone, unable to score offensively, could not defend defensively, and could only rely on some mid-range shots to score points.
In 1992, Malone was already strong like a bison, and frequently used air cuts and fast breaks to score.
His explosive dunk during the fast break made fans throughout the stadium scream for him.
If this point cannot be contained, the Clippers won't win this game.
When Malone grabbed a second rebound at the rim and scored a goal again, Larry Brown called for a timeout.
Li Liang stood up at this time and said, "Coach, you should change me into the game. I can get Malone!"
Brown still sneered, "I said, I'm a coach, and I have the right to decide when and when to appear!"
"But I can take the team to victory! If you don't let me play, the team can't win!"
Li Liang shouted at him with double the voice of Brown, which shocked the other Clippers players.
This guy dare to shout at coach Larry Brown, and because he wants to debut?
Li Liang is a substitute rookie in the Clippers.
A rookie, in Larry Brown's eyes, is a player who shouldn't be on the court.
Especially in the playoffs, rookies can only play in garbage time.
Because in Larry Brown's coaching concept, the concept of "cultivating young people" does not exist.
He has no interest in cultivating young people because he knows that he will not stay too long on a team.
Therefore, when he came to a team, he wanted to play, or squeeze out the full strength of a team, to promote them to the best, and immediately score.
As for the future, what will happen to him in the future? He will coach other teams in the future.
So in this crucial playoff, how does Larry Brown make a rookie debut?
But Li Liang wants to change Larry Brown's squeeze-out coaching model that doesn't value rookie training!
You don’t let me play, do you? I made trouble with you during the pause, confronted you, and scolded you.
If the Clippers lead at this time, Li Liang makes no sense.
But at this point, the Clippers were already 12 points behind in the second quarter, and Charles Smith had no way to beat Karl Malone defensively.
This strong and dirty man didn't greet Smith on his elbows.
Do you dare to stop when he is about to make a layup? With the elbows up, I dare to rush up and give you "accidentally".
Death is not dead, pain is inevitable, and there is a risk of injury.
If one elbow hits the head, I'm sorry, it may not be as simple as a needle, and I might collapse into the hospital.
Larry Brown was flushed on the bench. He didn't expect a rookie to dare to confront himself like this.
And it's in the game, does it have to be?
The problem is that other players seem to agree with Li Liang.
Including Charles Smith, he all wanted a break.
Brown wanted to hold Li Liang on the bench all the time, but looking at Li Liang's burning eyes and clenched fists, he was a little scared in his heart, afraid that Li Liang could not help but give himself a punch on the bench.
Li Liang really has such an idea. If he can't make his debut, it's a big deal to give Brown a punch. Anyway, this task can't be completed, so it's better to have a good time.
In the end, Brown compromised.
Throughout the suspension period, he did not arrange any tactics.
Finally, let Li Liang replace Charles-Smith, Li Liang finally debut.
At this point, the Jazz led the Clippers by 12 points, and their momentum was very strong.
In this scene, they are bound to get, how can the Clippers such a fish belly team be put in their eyes.
The Utah Jazz in 1992 were indeed very strong. This year they reached the Western Conference finals and lost to the Blazers in the final six games.
If we look at the paper lineup, they are actually stronger than the two years when they reached the finals in 1997 and 1998.
But at that time, the Western teams were very strong, and the stars were at their peak.
The Jazz with Malone as the core, because of Malone's reasons, always have a bad breath.
It's not that Malone is not strong, but his talent is really not enough.
And in terms of personality, don't look at his appearance as a "tough guy". He is muscular on the field, invincible with elbows, playing trucks and hunting off the field, and a proper set of tough guys.
In fact, he is not so hard, even a little bit bullied and afraid of hard, rookie season also called his mother to cry.
Over the next 20 years as a postman, there were countless black elbows, but only elbows with a small Thomas, David Robinson with a gentle personality, Duncan who kicked Buddha and so on.
Really grumpy, strong personality player, Malone dare to elbow?
Do you think he has elbowed Barkley?
He didn't dare Rodman to elbow, bullying honest people.
Li Liang is not an honest man, but Ma Long thought he was an honest man.
As soon as Li Liang came on stage and confronted Ma Long, Ma Long leaned over and leaned on Li Liang to put pressure on Li Liang.
At this time, it was the Clippers' outside service. Li Liang, regardless of three, seventy-one and twenty-one, directly raised his hand to pretend to be the ball, and his elbow hit the dragon's chin directly!
This seems to be unintentional, but Ma Long hit the eyes of Venus.
The referee did not notice this, because the two were hiding behind Mark Eaton and were blocked by the mammoth body of "Mammoth".
Ma Long covered his mouth with pain and saw that Li Liang did not express anything. Ma Long rushed up and wanted to push Li Liang.
As soon as Li Liang's muscles tightened, his arm was in front of his chest, he was pushed by Ma Long, and he was vigorous, but he resisted and did not retreat. Instead, he pushed Ma Long back!
What's wrong, I'm afraid you won't succeed? Will you elbow? Just your strength?
Those who play in the NBA have no energy to sleep.
Li Liang is not afraid of Ma Long at all, and he is not really playing in this time and space.
Even if you play in this time and space, he is not afraid, but I am a systematic father.
A conflict broke out between the two sides, and the players on both sides rushed up. In fact, Li Liang did not mean to fight with Malone.
And Ma Long shoved and found that it could not be pushed, it seemed to have counseled.
The referee separated the players on both sides with a whistle, and then each gave Ma Long and Li Liang a technical foul.
Li Liang doesn't matter. If Malone can be exchanged, the Clippers might win this time.
Malone won the team's highest score this time, and is also the core player.
If he is not there, there will be more than half a game, the Jazz win will definitely be much smaller.
If this limit is changed one by one, Li Liang can be considered to complete the task, and it is effortless.
After a chaos, the game continued.
This time Malone's attitude towards Li Liang was different from the beginning.
He and Li Liang kept a little distance away, and no longer felt that kind of oppression.
Li Liang thought, he really is a bully and fearful master, you have the ability to elbow me?
Subsequently, Li Liang began to lead the Clippers counterattack.
The counterattack method is still very simple-three-pointers.
This is a magic weapon for Li Liang to play basketball in the 1980s and 1990s.
He took the opportunity to catch the ball from the perimeter and got the ball to pretend to pass the ball.
Good fellow, even without the blessings of [Feel Rune] and [Zero Shot], the 90-point three-point ability is enough for the opponent to drink a pot.
For two consecutive three-pointers, Karl Malone was stunned and Larry Brown dropped his chin.
Is this kid so magical?
For Li Liang, this is just normal operation.
In the second quarter, Li Liang made 3 of 4 three-pointers, while defensively containing Malone's offense.
Li Liang did not rely on skill or brute force to contain Malone, but courage.
With an elbow and no fear of Malone, he knocked off the arrogance of Malone.
Then Malone's offensive feeling was not as smooth as it was at the beginning, and his heart was gone.
And a defensive end was shot by a rookie three consecutive points, making Malone very fanatic
vast.
The Clippers' morale was completely driven by Li Liang.
Then Rivers and Li Liang, who played on the field, made an outside shot and a ball breakthrough, completely disrupting the Jazz defense.
The Clippers, who were 12 points behind, were already 4 points ahead of the Jazz at halftime!
The situation was completely reversed.
At halftime, Larry Brown did not mention Li Liang on the bench.
His performance was indeed surprising.
Brown does have his stubborn and conservative place, but he is not a fool.
With 11 points in a single quarter, Malone didn't score anymore, and Brown couldn't put Li Liang on the bench anymore.
In the third quarter, Li Liang was not present, and the Clippers began to fall into the disadvantage.
Malone is alive again.
Seeing Jazz overtake the score again, Brown decisively replaced Li Liang.
When Ma Long saw Li Liang playing, the whole person looked a bit bad.
First of all, this kid is not stingy, very defensive, and not afraid to move forward.
Secondly, Malone doesn't know how to defend Li Liang.
Nonsense, it’s weird to know.
Li Liang is now a strong contender for the 2014 NBA League MVP.
Such a player came to 1992 and was regarded as a rookie. It has not been studied at all and will also surpass the projection ability of the times. How can you prevent Malone?
Li Liang's powerful three-pointer made the Jazz's defensive formation completely pulled away, making it difficult to defend.
From this time on, Brown no longer replaces Li Liang, you just stay on the field!
This is also Brown's style ~ EbookFREE.me ~ easy to use team he will die.
Li Liang is of course extremely happy.
He and the substitute Doug Rivers soon had a tacit understanding, and the two teamed up to support the team's offense.
With the help of Danny Manning, the Clippers stayed ahead until the game ended!
The Clippers defeated the Jazz 113:110 away. Li Liang used his extremely stable free throw in the last two minutes to help the Clippers lock the victory.
Malone scored 24 points in the game. He should have scored 32 points. He was deducted by Li Liang for 8 points.
Rivers scored 23 points on Stockton's head.
Stockton is a great point guard, but when he confronted some of his contemporary point guards, the defensive performance was unrealistic and he was often beaten.
[The task is completed, row the boat on the snowy mountain and get the reward: the skill ‘Karl Malone’s elbow opens the way. ’】