Chapter 524: Kassel's smile

The long regular season of the 2013-2014 season is finally over.
The Clippers used a 70-12 record to give everyone a big exclamation mark.
After the Clippers and Blazers game ended, the headlines of the major American media were all big numbers, 70.
Since 1996, another team has rushed the number of wins to seven, which has to be said to be a huge achievement.
The entire Los Angeles media is praising the Clippers. Even the loyal newspapers and media people of the Lakers in the past have to stand up and compliment the Clippers with a slightly sour taste.
Of course, this is only an achievement of the regular season. Before the Clippers get the championship, doubts will still exist.
For example, many people think that the Clippers are not as powerful as they seem.
The Clippers won many games, but their style of play is a "regular season" style of play. It still needs to be tested in the playoffs.
These questions are not unreasonable, because before a rising team wins the championship, you will always be very unhappy.
Either the lineup is not harmonious, the bench is flawed, or the team's tactical style is problematic, the offense is weak, the lack of tenacity, etc.
Of course, when the championship is won, all problems will not be a problem.
Therefore, the road to the championship is the way to solve the problem.
The Clippers understand this from top to bottom. No matter how they brag about and advertise the Clippers’ 70 wins, they simply celebrated in the locker room after winning the Blazers, and then opened a few bottles of wine in the hotel. After drinking a few glasses, Rivers told everyone: "70 wins is a great achievement, we are a great team, a great team, and I am proud to be able to coach you. But I want to remind you that the season is still There is no end, as Bruce said, it is just the beginning, and if we do not reach the final focus, everything we do will be meaningless."
Rivers's words are not alarmist. 70 wins is indeed a remarkable achievement, but in the NBA, the championship is everything.
This is where the NBA is more cruel than the football league.
You play football in Europe. There are championships in every country's league, the giants can compete for the Champions League, and the next strong team can compete for the UEFA Cup.
Then in some countries with a long history of football, such as England, small teams can still compete for the FA Cup.
In the World Series, the European Cup and the World Cup once every four years are sports events, which means the supreme national glory of the football team.
It can be said that a player, a team, there are many ways to prove themselves.
So teams like Arsenal can also have many diehard fans.
In the basketball field, in the NBA world, there is only one championship.
In comparison, the leagues in other regions pale in comparison, and the Olympic World Championships are more like a game of second place.
Because of this, the arrogant American talent calls the NBA champion the "world champion". As long as he wins the NBA championship, he is the king of the basketball world.
The players of the Clippers understand this truth.
This year is the first year of Li Liang's arrival. The team can be said to be strong and strong, and they have worked well in all aspects. This is their best chance to hit the championship.
In fact, Rivers didn't even think that when Li Liang came to the Clippers, the Clippers could become so strong.
70 wins, when the season started, I really dare not think about it.
Although Rivers has a luxurious assistant coaching team, the two strongest brains in the team, he often stands on the sidelines and watches the ball very much.
But Rivers as a mascot that unites the team and stabilizes people's hearts, the role is still very important.
Especially his chicken soup has little effect on Li Liang and is very useful to others.
For example, like Little Jordan, this season, Little Jordan was thoroughly trained and tuned by Rivers. He has made great progress on the defensive end, and has basically entered the ranks of the league's best defense.
Another example is Griffin, Griffin's light this season is actually covered up by Li Liang, but his progress is definitely great.
He has become a strong attacker on the offensive end, and has played well in the second team, giving the Clippers an offensive continuity.
This is why the Clippers can often beat their opponents by more than 120 points. The main and backup offensive firepower are particularly good.
Some teams are often able to compete with the Clippers' wrists, and the bench is defeated.
The Clippers' substitute is to take the offensive route, that is to be able to score, the defense is like that anyway.
After the regular season, the Clippers will have a three-day rest period. Three days later, the 2014 playoffs will officially start.
Li Liang followed the team back to Los Angeles, Rivers gave the team two days off, the day before the start of the game, the team organized training.
The players need to make physical and psychological adjustments to prepare for the upcoming playoffs.
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On the day of April 17, Li Liang got up early, went out and ran for a while, and then went home for breakfast.
The maid at home was prepared early, and Zhu Shu just got up to have breakfast with Li Liang.
A familiar figure sitting with Zhu Shu is Bai Xiaoting.
In the past two days, Bai Xiaoting ran to Li Liang's house to live, and had to sleep with Zhu Shu, let Li Liang sleep alone.
Li Liang is not happy, can't three people sleep together?
What Bai Xiaoting did in the Los Angeles fashion industry is the rise of the wind and water. In the era of network media, some online celebrity brands have emerged one after another.
Bai Xiaoting has a good figure, outstanding appearance, and a very good design foundation. While designing, he runs his own brand. It is very comfortable to live in Los Angeles and soon has his own social circle.
Li Liang and Bai Xiaoting greeted each other and said, "How about, do you have a boyfriend?"
Bai Xiaoting drank his coffee and glared at Li Liang. "Go away, why are you so slick?"
Li Lianggan coughed, not knowing why, in front of Bai Xiaoting, he just couldn't control his mouth.
Li Liang now has a different relationship with Zhu Shu, and can no longer quarrel with Bai Xiaoting as before.
But Bai Xiaoting didn't seem to intend to let go of Li Liang.
"Why, the playoffs are about to start, I heard that you are going to be hacked?"
Li Liangdao: "Who do you listen to? Black eight? Impossible, I can't be black eight, of course, Kobe is impossible, thinking he didn't make the playoffs."
Li Liang made up his mind. If you black me, I will black Kobe.
This time the Lakers failed to make the playoffs and became the third defending champion to fail to make the playoffs after the Celtics in 1969 and the Chicago Bulls in 1998.
In this way, the three giants with the most championships, the Celtics, Lakers and Bulls, all achieved this embarrassing achievement.
Faced with Li Liang's "insult", Bai Xiaoting was unimpressed and said: "Anyway, Kobe has already achieved fame. He doesn't need to prove anything anymore. It's you. Be careful. He knows."
Bai Xiaoting's words are somewhat reminder.
The trees of Li Liang and Clippers are indeed very large, and they are very popular.
Although most people marveled at the Clippers' 70 wins, as many people cheered, as many people silently cursed, expecting the Clippers to lose.
It's not the sinister heart of the people, but it's the case in the arena, either you die or I die.
If you want to reach the top, you must step on the bodies of other teams.
And the giant body of the Clippers is undoubtedly a lot of teams want to step on.
Especially the Clippers opponent Dallas Mavericks in the first round.
In the final round, the Lone Rangers chose to lose, so that they trailed the Grizzlies in record and fell to the eighth position.
In the first round, the Clippers took the initiative to take the opponent.
Because the Spurs rank second in the West, the Lone Ranger may think it better to play the Clippers than the Spurs.
The regular season record is countless in the playoffs, the Spurs should be more difficult to beat than the Clippers.
Anyway, Lone Ranger thinks so from management to coach to players to fans.
After all, the inherent impression is there. Since the Spurs had Duncan in 1998, they have never missed the playoffs, and were only eliminated in the first round in 2011. All other seasons have passed the first round. The power of vegetable abuse can be said to be amazingly stable. .
As for the Clippers, even if they get 70 wins, they still give people a silver-like pewter head, which looks like kidney deficiency.
In particular, the Lone Ranger defeated the Clippers in the recent regular season, which can be said to give the Dallas a lot of confidence.
For these, Li Liang has a little bit in mind.
He knows that the first round is still very important. It must be quick and quick to play a role in killing chickens and monkeys and building confidence.
Look down on the league first? Do you think the Clippers are the 2008 Celtics? At the beginning of the first round, it is necessary to tie seven.
Li Liang is a player who has seen the world, and the hand he kept in the regular season is for the Lone Ranger.
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At night, Bai Xiaoting relied on not going away, she had to sleep with Zhu Shu.
Li Liang couldn't help it, what should I do? As a revenge, could Wei Dazhi be called to sleep together?
Is this TM revenge? This is a scourge to myself.
As soon as Li Liang thought, it would be better to enter the second volume of the City of Angels and complete the fourth task.
Therefore, Li Liang, who had no woman to play at night, could only play the system.
The fourth task of the second volume of the Angel City book is [Swimming under the hot sun].
The mission is to go back to the 2006 Western Conference semifinals, enter the Los Angeles Clippers at that time, help the Clippers defeat the Phoenix Suns, and enter the Western Conference finals~EbookFREE.me~ That was the Clippers' closest time to the Western Conference Finals.
In the semi-finals and the Suns who lost Stoudemire in the seventh game of life and death, the result is very regrettable to lose the game, lost the opportunity to enter the Western Conference.
This is already a peak in the history of the Clippers, and that year the Suns eliminated two teams in Los Angeles, resulting in the first Los Angeles derby did not take shape.
If the Clippers could reach the Western Conference finals that year, the Clippers' history might be very different.
[Mission, swimming under the scorching sun, time: May 22, 2006, Location: Phoenix American Airlines Center: Los Angeles Clippers VS Phoenix Suns, Mission Requirements: Replace Elton Brand to play, help the Clippers The team won the victory of this game, task reward: skill'Kassel's smile'】
Li Liang looked at this task reward, what skill is this?
Kassel's smile?
Suddenly I felt a little unwilling to do it.