The Clippers' bench defense is indeed problematic.

In the past two years, Negro has been vigorously building the Clippers' bench, and they have recruited many talented players.

But that talent tends to show up on offense rather than defense.

Accumulating offensive talents on the bench is actually a waste, because the second lineup of many strong teams is an all-round starter, and the other functional players can only eat cakes if their defense does not collapse.

The Clippers management has been trying to build a "multifunctional, talented, best in the league" bench gang.

As a result, the Clippers' substitutes can sometimes attack and disable opponents in a wave, and sometimes they are killed in a wave.

Rivers himself is not clear about this.

Think about the Celtics in 2008, they recruited from the bench for the championship, PJ-Brown, James Posey, Tony Allen, all defensive champions.

When it comes to the bayonet battle in the playoffs, it is a victory if the backup role players do not collapse in defense, and the offense can be left to the superstar to solve.

In the Negro era, the Clippers tried to rely on substitutes. The regular season was okay, and the playoffs hadn't been beaten so much that their mother didn't know it.

In the past two years since Paul came, the Clippers' bench has received the most praise from two people, one Kenyon Martin and one Reggie Evans.

They are all defensive players, but the Clippers didn't keep them.

Looking at their bench now, Crawford still occupies an important ball-handling position.

Hollins was too slow for even Gasol to catch up.

Darren Chris, who is replacing Paul, is the same height as Paul.

You are so short with one Paul, and you want another one?

As for Griffin... the first quarter was pretty good, and the second quarter started to be a bit ineffective.

Matt Barnes is the only one who is really usable and useful on the bench.

But Barnes alone can't patch so many holes.

During the timeout, Rivers swiped to remind the players to slow down and retreat quickly.

Rivers was about to let the players play again when Li Liang suddenly appeared and said, "Why don't you let me play?"

Rivers said: "Oh, it's not time yet, be patient."

Li Liang didn't say anything, and Rivers heaved a sigh of relief.

I thought, what's going on, I'm a coach, why should I explain to him and ask him to be patient?

Li Liang really can't see it, why don't you understand Rivers, why are you so rigid?

Do you have to wait for the time to change?

Isn't it a correct tactical method to replace your best player and keep playing?

Li Liang sat on the bench and shook his head, thinking that all the current NBA coaches are too rigid.

It's better to be Mike Brown. If it's Brown, without a word, "Bruce Lee!"

Isn't the problem solved?

It seems that the coach Rivers still needs to train him slowly.

This guy talked a lot of nonsense, before and after the game, there was a lot of nonsense, and what he said was impassioned, Li Liang felt that it was useless.

Perhaps a simple-minded person like Little Jordan would be excited to hear it, but Li Liang just found it boring.

The purpose of playing ball is to win. I will win whether I play chicken blood or drink chicken soup.

After the timeout ended, Rivers' adjustments were really useless.

Crawford took the ball from the outside and threw a three-pointer himself, but missed...

If Li Liang were the coach, he would just take off his shoes and smash them on Crawford's head to wake him up.

Is this how I arranged it for you?

On the defensive end, the Clippers' inside defense once again had problems.

In the same way, Ci Shiping broke through the basket from the left corner, and then passed the ball to Gasol with a ground hit. Gasol easily hit the hook!

31:24, only 7 points away!

The defending champion is still strong.

On the Lakers bench, Mike Brown breathed a sigh of relief that he wasn't dead.

It can be said that the construction of the Lakers' second team really depends on Li Liang's suggestion.

Now Li Liang is gone, but the style and rhythm of the Lakers' second team are still there.

Gasol is handy with the second team to chase points.

The Lakers chased points, which made Rivers a little restless.

Finally, after Crawford dribbled the ball continuously from the outside, he made a mid-range jumper and scored two points, easing the situation.

Crawford is like this. If you want to say that he is useless, many times he can really make one-on-one.

If you want to say that he is useful, after a game, he always feels that he has little to do with winning, but he is responsible for losing.

Then, the Lakers used the same routine for the third time in the offense.

Walk the baseline, then pass the ball to the cutting player.

But this time Barnes successfully blocked Blake's pass and the Clippers got the ball.

Darren Collison took the ball and rushed to the basket and caused a foul by Gasol.

Get to the free throw line.

The Clippers finally stabilized the situation a little bit.

But Li Liang watched it off the court as a headache, what a mess.

That is to say, the Lakers only have one point for Gasol, and they scored a lot of points in a row before the Clippers knew how to target them.

As long as the Lakers have another strong ball-holding point on the outside, the point difference will be smoothed out in a while.

And the Clippers didn't know how to make good use of Griffin in their offense.

Several times in a row, the offensive outside players played by themselves, without giving Griffin a hand, and organized the offense.

Li Liang was really anxious to see this tactical quality.

Collison made two free throws and the Clippers continued to maintain their advantage.

But for the Lakers, the offense has already opened up.

Steve Blake forced Collison on the left side, then passed Hollins' defense, and succeeded in picking the basket with his left hand!

Blake can fly up to pick the basket, and the Clippers don't know what to defend.

To make matters worse, Griffin managed to get the ball, but Ci Shiping grabbed it back and broke the ball!

Ci Shiping made a one-stop layup after stealing the ball!

35:28, still a 7-point difference.

Subsequently, Griffin was double-teamed in the low post during the offense.

Griffin passed the ball to Barnes at the top of the arc. Barnes rushed to the basket with the ball and missed!

In the end, Barnes wanted to tell the referee that it was a foul, but the referee didn't blow his whistle.

The Lakers counterattacked.

Blake gave the ball to Xavier Henry on the wing. Henry passed Crawford in front of him with a change of direction, and then made a low-handed layup!

35:30, only 5 minutes away!

Henry is another addition to the Lakers this season, with a non-guaranteed basic salary.

Judging from his current performance in the first game, this basic salary is still worth it.

The Lakers' series of offenses made the Clippers bruised and swollen, and the timeout called by Rivers didn't work at all.

Rivers still didn't call a timeout, and it would be too embarrassing to call a timeout again.

Fortunately, the Clippers' bench held up, Barnes.

In the case of missing a three-pointer at the top of the key, the ball bounced into Crawford's hands.

Barnes quickly cuts inside, and Crawford finally passes the ball to Barnes.

Barnes pushed Gasol very hard and forced a layup!

This ball is very critical, and Barnes is not afraid of Gasol's long arms.

Subsequently, Hollins was fouled while defending Gasol inside.

Rivers patted Li Liang and Paul on the bench, indicating that they can play.

Li Liang checked the time, there were 7 minutes left in the second quarter, and 5 minutes had been played!

The main force of the Clippers returned to the court, and seeing his teammates being replaced, Li Liang really wanted to scold, "You are the worst substitute I have ever brought in!"

The second worst is opposite the Lakers.

Li Liang is absolutely dissatisfied with the Clippers' style of play.

The main force takes the lead, and the substitute comes up to dig a hole, which is the most annoying.

However, Rivers is also in the tactical running-in period now, and after playing a few more games, he will understand a lot of truths.

Gasol made two free throws, the Lakers continued to bite the score.

At this time, Li Liang began to run without the ball in the offense.

After he handed the ball to Griffin on the left, he made a wide circle from the baseline to the right corner.

Jordan and Butler screened for him, Griffin returned the ball to Paul, and Paul immediately passed the ball to Li Liang in the right corner.

Nick Young, who was man-marking Li Liang, stared at him closely. Seeing that Li Liang was catching the ball and about to make a shot, he jumped up and stretched out his hand to interfere with the block.

As a result, the ball did not touch, but hit Li Liang's hands.

At the same time, Li Liang still threw the ball!

The ball knocked twice on the rim and finally fell into the net.

"Beep!" The referee whistled.

A goal is scored, a three-pointer is counted, and a penalty is added!

The entire Staples was silent.

Hurtful, so hurtful, Bruce Lee stabbed a Lakers fan as soon as he came up.

The camera was shown on the Lakers bench, Kobe's face was very bad, and he was a little helpless.

If Kobe can play, nine out of ten he will play one-on-one with Li Liang.

Standing on the free throw line, Li Liang made a free throw and scored four points.

As soon as Li Liang came on the court, the Clippers' defense immediately went up a notch.

For the Lakers, Howard also re-started, but he missed an outside shot. Howard wanted to grab an offensive rebound, but was firmly stuck by Li Liang, allowing Jordan to easily pick up a rebound.

In the past, Jordan used to help others get rebounds in the team, or he tried his best to grab rebounds. Few people blocked rebounds for himself.

The ball is given to Paul, and Paul then gives the ball to Li Liang.

Li Liang didn't want to organize, so he threw it back to Paul, "Vote yourself!"

Li Liang asked Paul to vote by himself.

So, Paul faced Nash one-on-one, and hit a two-pointer with a high position.

This ball Nash came back, and at the same time the Lakers' defensive formation was compressed a bit flat, with no one in the high post, whoever you don't vote for, and a woolen pass.

Chrysanthemum has stabilized again.

Li Liang still does his job well, supplementing the defense, assisting in the defense, getting in position and grabbing rebounds, and spotting three-pointers.

As for the work of attacking with the ball, except for the fast break in the first quarter, Li Liang has not yet shown his offensive skills with the ball.

After all, it's only the first half. Don't you want to save the good show for the second half?

At the end of the first half, the battle between the two sides became 56:47, and the Clippers led the Lakers by 9 points.

The Clippers didn't play very well in the second quarter, and the second team played quite chaotically when they were on the court.

The most important thing is to allow the Lakers to slow down in the early part of the second quarter, and the offense slowly opened up.

It is impossible for the Clippers to think about killing the Lakers again.

Returning to the locker room after halftime, Li Liang thought, with the Clippers' current lineup scheduling and tactical quality, the playoffs will survive the Western Conference Finals.

Unless Li Liang used props wildly and raised his strength to another level, he could change his life against the sky, otherwise he was still far away from being the champion.

What should I do? Guidance Li, who took 5 million yuan, of course wants to slowly pass on the championship experience to this team that has no background in history.

To teach them how to win the championship.

And Li Liang's first step is to prove that I am the best player in the team.

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