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Of course, Li Liang was a little disappointed and sad that the University of Kentucky failed to win this year's championship.

Players' emotions for college basketball teams cannot be compared with professional teams.

Professional teams are more about work, with naked interests in front of them, and they may leave at any time.

Except for a very small number of college transfers, for most players, regardless of their grades, it is an indelible memory in their basketball career.

Especially for some players who are not too talented, maybe the NCAA arena is the most glorious moment of their lives.

For example, Shabazz Napier, who got the MOP this time, a small point guard, gave a wonderful performance in the final.

But his prospects in the NBA draft are not optimistic, because he is really limited in talent, and his predicted ranking is only in the second round.

Even so, his basketball career will have no regrets.

Li Liang left Texas overnight and returned to Los Angeles to concentrate on preparing for the last few games of the regular season.

On April 9, the Clippers played against the Thunder at home.

The Thunder are playing back-to-back away games, and today is the second back-to-back game, which is not good for the Thunder in terms of physical strength.

But the Thunder dominated the game from the start.

As soon as Durant came up to face Li Liang, he scored 2+1, then Westbrook misplaced and attacked Li Liang, broke through and hit Li Liang, causing Li Liang to foul.

Thunder coach Brooks knows that if he wants to beat the Clippers, he must start with Li Liang.

After two fouls in the opening three minutes, Li Liang had to rest.

This disrupted the Clippers' rotation rhythm and offensive feel.

The Clippers suddenly returned to the past game routines, relying on the duo of Paul and Griffin to open the situation.

For Li Liang, being troubled by fouls is not only about losing playing time, the key is that the offense feels hard to find.

For a player who lives by shooting, the feeling and continuity of the offense throughout the game are very important.

Once it is interrupted at a certain point, it is very difficult for the back feel to warm up.

Brooks has been seriously studying how to deal with Li Liang since the Western Conference Finals last season.

This coach is very caring. He believes that in the next few years, Li Liang will be Kevin Durant's important opponent in the West.

So in terms of how to deal with Li Liang's strategy, the Thunder and the Spurs are the two teams that are at the forefront of the league.

The Spurs are still taking a more "positive" route, using the strategy they used to deal with Kobe, Durant, James and others to deal with Li Liang.

Thunder's strategy is relatively more "cunning", thinking of various small ways and tricks to deal with Li Liang.

The two fouls at the beginning of the game were undoubtedly successful, and the referee was very generous and told Li Liang to go down and rest.

Then Westbrook and Durant scored frequently. The Clippers suddenly misfired in the second half of the first quarter and couldn't make any shots.

After Li Liang went off the court to rest, the Thunder shrunk their defense very little, and the Clippers emptied the outside line to shoot, but the Clippers just couldn't make the shot.

The Thunder beat the Clippers 10:0 and led the Clippers by 12 points at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Rivers hesitated when to replace Li Liang.

According to the normal rotation, Li Liang will rest in the last two minutes of the first quarter, and then continue to rest three to five minutes before the second quarter, let Griffin play with a substitute, and then Li Liang will play again.

Now Li Liang is resting for most of the first quarter. If he continues to rest, the rest time will be too long and he will be cold.

At this time, Li Liang had already stood up from the bench, ready to go.

I haven't played for most of the quarter, and the feeling is about to cool down.

Rivers waved his hand towards Li Liang, motioning him to go back and rest.

"Old Li, I'll be cold if I don't go up again!" Li Liang muttered.

"Follow the process, I don't want any surprises," Rivers said.

This is a regular season. Rivers believes that players appearing at a time period they are not familiar with will not only affect their status, but may also be at risk of injury.

What kind of bullshit theory is this, Li Liang will get hurt?

But out of prudence, Rivers felt that if he could win the game, he would win it, and if he couldn't win it, he didn't want to take any risks.

If Li Liang rests, let him rest.

After all, Rivers is not Mike Brown, he is not so obedient, and has more thoughts of his own.

Li Liang had no choice but to sit back on the bench and put on his coat again, so as not to be cold.

As a result, after the start of the second quarter, the Thunder continued to suppress the Clippers.

But Durant didn't play well tonight, his shooting touch was not good, and he didn't grasp the good opportunities that were open on the outside several times.

I don't know if Durant didn't find it challenging to see Li Liang sitting off the court?

Li Liang still appeared on the court during the normal time period. After he came on the court, he missed two three-pointers and lost all his touch.

But the feeling of defense will not be lost. The Clippers immediately started chasing points after Li Liang played.

They were 14 points behind, but they rushed all the way, and narrowed the point difference to 3 points before the end of the halftime. 56:59, the first half ended.

The Thunder's offensive state tonight is average, with relatively large ups and downs.

They all charged fiercely at the beginning, punched several times in a row, and then became iron.

After all, the Thunder relies on the personal status of Durant and Westbrook on offense. Once a certain individual's status is average, the offense will slip down a notch.

For a team like this, the more stars hoarded, the better, the more the better.

But the detonator just sent Harden away... Hey, his brain was really hijacked by the Timberwolves management.

In the second half, Durant's state recovered, and he hit the mid-range in the opening game, and then a big loop caused Li Liang's foul.

Li Liang was speechless, what about the referee?

Li Liang felt that since the last time Xiao Hua held a press conference after he took office to disclose that the NBA discriminates against Chinese, the referee's whistle on Li Liang has become more and more strict.

I used to reason with him, and now I still reason with him, but whistleblowing is not very beneficial.

Being called a foul at the beginning like this is still very hurtful for a defense-based player like Li Liang.

In fact, Brooks caught a weakness in the Clippers' lineup, and with the help of referees, it naturally caused trouble for Li Liang and the Clippers.

Brooks found that Li Liang was not only the core of offense in the Clippers, but also took on the task of vanguard on the defensive end.

This kind of task distribution is actually very unreasonable - of course, this is to blame Mike Brown, he wants to highlight Li Liang's core position!

Generally speaking, the core of the team's offensive organization must bear less defensive pressure on the defensive end.

Even players with both offensive and defensive capabilities will assign defensive tasks to others in order to ensure that they have spare power on the offensive end and do not get into trouble with fouls.

For example, Duncan of the Spurs before 2008 had Robinson earlier, and the Spurs would definitely match Duncan with a coolie center as a meat shield later.

Another example is Kobe. When he was on the same team with O'Neal, he was the second in command on the offensive end, so he could do his best to be a mad dog on the defensive end. After 2008, the Lakers hoarded Vujacic, Shannon Brown, A biting small guard like Jordan Farmar will share the defensive responsibility of replacing Kobe.

After all, offense is still the most important thing. If too much energy is consumed on the defensive end, or if you get into trouble with fouls, it will have a very negative impact on the team as a whole.

Therefore, Mike Brown had this consideration in mentioning Barnes as the starter.

But the problem is that Barnes can indeed share part of it, but Li Liang's burden in defense is still too heavy.

Every time he played against a team with a strong forward, Li Liang rushed to the front and was tough.

He can defend small forwards, and he can defend power forwards.

Durant, Randolph, James, Kobe, Harden, the offensive arrows of other teams, Li Liang has to confront them one-on-one.

From the perspective of Li Liang's age and qualifications, there is no problem. The young people in the second grade are at the time of vitality. If you don't block the eye-catching, who will block it?

Like the Spurs Leonard and the Pacers George, they all came up in this way.

But the problem is that Li Liang has developed too fast. He has already succeeded in grabbing the shift and seizing power on offense.

Now it's all right, he will take on both ends of the burden. Even if you are capable, you will be directly exposed to the opponent's calculations, and it will be easy to go wrong.

Brooks has carefully studied the Clippers and Li Liang. He believes that if the Thunder wants to rush out of the West this year, they must pass the Clippers (the Spurs are not considered). The Clippers are out of balance in lineup structure and responsibility distribution. , is a weakness that can be exploited.

After Li Liang was called for a foul at the beginning of the third quarter, he really became much more honest in defense.

Not daring to attack lightly, not daring to make offensive fouls casually, the Thunder took the opportunity to attack wildly and hit a wave of offensive climax, widening the point difference between the two sides to 15 points.

The Clippers played very tenaciously, and Li Liang began to fire frequently from the outside. At the end of the third quarter, he finally found the three-pointer feeling and hit three three-pointers in a row!

Among them, the third ball is when the attack time is approaching, he directly takes off near the center line and hits the board!

This goal helped the Clippers narrow the point difference to only 2 points and enter the fourth quarter.

Entering the fourth quarter, Paul hit a mid-range jumper as soon as the game opened, bringing the two sides back to the same starting line.

The two sides started an offensive and defensive battle where you come and go.

Li Liang played very cautiously in the fourth quarter. He didn't use props, nor did he throw three-pointers from the outside because his ability to force three-pointers broke through to 60 points.

He didn't want to expose himself immediately after his promotion to ability.

Mike Brown is right. Now there are countless eyes staring at him all the time, trying to figure out his offensive skills and methods, and try to limit him in the game.

From on-court to off-court, from technology to psychology, the higher you go, the more difficulties and obstacles you face, so Li Liang must keep a hand.

Even if they don't get 70 wins, judging from the current public opinion, 67 wins are enough for Li Liang to win the regular season MVP.

At this time Paul stood up and hit two consecutive three-pointers from the outside.

Durant responded immediately and hit the first three-pointer of the game—if he played better, with Li Liang's fragmented playing time today, the Thunder would beat the Clippers by a big margin.

The scores of the two sides rose alternately. At the critical final moment, Westbrook showed his power.

First, the mid-range zombie made a successful jumper, and then made a dunk in the middle of the offense, helping the Thunder lead by 4 points.

After the Clippers timed out, they wanted Li Liang to shoot a three-pointer, but the Thunder chose to foul Paul and send Paul to the free throw line!

Brooks, you can. When you played against the Clippers before, you played against Jordan (I learned from Popovich and beat Perkins), and now I am learning Lao Li to play penalty kicks. If you don’t learn, this is a bad move. You are a fast learner.

As a result, Paul also made two free throws and Westbrook angrily grabbed a rebound from the basket.

With 40 seconds left in the clock, the Clippers had defended the Thunder one by one, and there is still a chance to play again next time.

As a result, Durant beat Li Liang one-on-one and missed a mid-range jumper, but Westbrook picked another rebound under the basket!

This little guard is really good at rebounding.

As soon as this key offensive rebound was won, the Clippers fell into complete passivity.

Had to foul and send Westbrook to the free throw line.

As a result, Westbrook made two free throws, and the point difference came to 5 points.

Now it was difficult, Rivers called a timeout, and arranged for Li Liang to catch the ball and make a three-pointer.

As soon as Li Liang received the ball, the Thunder fouled again and sent Li Liang to the free throw line.

Brooks was extremely careful not to give Li Liang a chance to change his fate.

Li Liang made two free throws steadily, but it was useless, the point difference was still three points, the ball was in the hands of the Thunder again, and time was running out.

Rivers fought geese all day long and was blinded by geese, and died in the "penalty shootout".

In the end, the Thunder's 109:106, 3-point advantage took away a victory in Staples, compressing the Clippers' hopes of 70 wins to the last three games.

On April 13, the Clippers played against the Kings at home.

Before the start of the game, Li Liang found his junior Cousins ​​and told him that he won the game, and he would never blackmail him again in the game.

Then the Clippers beat the Kings 120:101 at home. After the game, Cousins ​​asked Li Liang if he really didn't hate him.

Li Liangdao, "We should have won this game, it's not your credit. You scored too many points, so it doesn't count."

Cousins ​​scored 32 points and 12 rebounds in this game, and his performance was indeed very good.

Thinking about what Li Liang said made sense, he didn't pursue what he said.

With this win, the Clippers have won 68 games.

This is a very remarkable achievement. The Clippers created the best regular season team record in the 21st century, leaving the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers behind!

On the Los Angeles Clippers' team homepage, the number 68 is extremely dazzling.

But the Clippers are not going to stop at this result.

Inside the team, including owner Ballmer and others, they agreed that the team should hit 70 wins.

Although the playoffs are more important, for a team with a weak history like the Clippers, regular season honors are also very precious.

At the Staples Center, when the Lakers looked up at home, there were more than a dozen championship banners.

It's the Clippers' turn to play at home, and when they looked up, there was nothing!

In fact, many teams that have not won the championship can also hang flags over their home courts.

For example, if you win the division championship, you will have a flag.

This division champion is not the east and west playoff champion, or even the east and west champion of the regular season, but the regular season champion of the six major regions!

With this kind of flag, the Lakers don't know how many sides they have, and they don't hesitate to hang it up.

And the Clippers don't have to hang up if they want to, so any honor is very important to the Clippers.

The opponents in the last two games are the Nuggets and Trail Blazers in the Northwest Division.

The Nuggets are no longer a fear for the Clippers, and they have gone straight to the lottery this season.

On April 15, the Clippers played against the Nuggets at home.

The Clippers started with fierce firepower. Paul hit a three-pointer at the beginning, and then Barnes made a three-pointer after receiving a pass from Li Liang.

The Nuggets got off to a bad start, and the Clippers succeeded one after another, beating the Nuggets 15:0 in the opening game.

Then the game went smoothly. The Nuggets didn't have a strong will to resist. Besides, it's an away game. Who will resist?

After two hours to resolve the battle, the Clippers easily defeated the Nuggets 119:107 and won their 69th victory.

At the end of the game, the audience erupted into cheers.

Ballmer sat on the sidelines, hugging each other excitedly with his friends.

69 wins, tied with the Chicago Bulls in 1997 and the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972 for the second-best record in history.

But the Clippers have the second chance in history, and it depends on the last game against the Trail Blazers.

After the game, Rivers still tried to restrain his excitement in the interview, because he knew that they still had a chance to create better results, and some words had to be held until the last game.

The game against the Trail Blazers is back-to-back, and the Clippers are going to the Rose Garden.

For both sides, it is a game they want to win.

The Clippers want to create a historical record, and the Blazers want to get a better ranking in the playoffs-as long as they win this game, they will have the upper hand in the competition with the Rockets and successfully grab home court advantage .

Of course, even if they lose, as long as the Rockets don't win the last game, the Blazers will also get the fourth place based on the relationship between victory and defeat.

And just before the start of the game between the two sides, news came that the Rockets had already lost.

In this way, regardless of whether the Blazers win the last game or not, the Blazers will face the Rockets in the first round and have home court advantage.

But the Blazers felt that they still had to resist!

How can you just do the Clippers' wedding dress and let them get 70 wins?

No team is willing to be the background board for other teams to create records, but this is also a valuable place for any record on the court.

The game between the two sides was very intense.

Before the start of the fourth quarter, the Blazers still led by 1 point.

After the start of the fourth quarter, the Blazers, led by Lillard, hit a 9:2 climax, establishing an advantage in one fell swoop.

With the last 3 minutes left in the game, the Blazers led the Clippers by 10 points.

Just when everyone thought that the Clippers' regular season record would stay at 69 wins and the next 70 wins still hadn't come, Li Liang made a move.

The shot here is a real shot.

After a timeout, Li Liang received the ball at the top of the arc, faced Batum and hit a three-pointer directly.

Then, Lillard was intercepted by Paul, Li Liang received the pass from Paul, and made another 45-degree three-pointer from the right wing.

Two consecutive three-pointers made the Blazers call a timeout.

The Blazers learned from the Spurs and Mavericks, and began to double-team Li Liang.

As a result, after returning from the timeout, Lopez first took a big cap from Jordan at the basket, then Li Liang held the ball from the outside, and when surrounded by two people, he dribbled the ball horizontally, and then made an emergency stop outside the three-point line and made another three-pointer Shot, hit!

Only 1 point away!

With 1 minute left before the end of the game, Li Liang used his familiar three-pointer to chase the point difference to only 1 point.

Said familiar, but actually not familiar.

As long as careful fans will notice, Li Liang's choice of shots these few times is obviously more random than in the past.

In the past, he would shoot from longer distances and use more running and screens to get opportunities in order to get fleeting openings.

This time he didn't, he got the ball and thought he was about to shoot it.

Batum, who was defending him, and Matthews, who was double-teaming, were caught off guard.

Moreover, Li Liang's three shots were not as smooth as usual. Li Liang shot the ball with his entire torso after exerting strength from his legs. Instead, he relied on the strength of his arms and wrists to push the ball out after taking off.

This is the so-called "dry pull", which is actually a relatively unstandard and more difficult shooting method.

The advantage is that it has a strong ability to withstand interference, but the disadvantage is that even if there is no interference, you may not be able to make a shot.

This kind of shooting requires very high strength in the waist, abdomen and upper body.

The most proficient in using this kind of shooting is Ray Allen.

So some people say that Ray Allen's shooting is textbook-style, and he is proficient in farting.

Which shooting textbook teaches students to shoot like this, and none of them can learn it well.

After Li Liang improved his three-point strong shooting ability, he recently improved his waist strength, leg strength and wrist strength in the mission to adapt to this shooting method.

Li Liang showed his hand a little, but it didn't attract too many people's attention.

Afterwards, Li Liang made another steal and assisted Crawford for a layup, successfully leading the score.

In the end, the Clippers had a 3-point advantage in the away game and won the 70th regular season victory with difficulty!

With 70 wins and 12 losses, the Clippers created the second regular season 70 wins in NBA history!

At the moment the buzzer sounded, the Blazers fans at home applauded and cheered for the Clippers.

This is the win and the record they deserve.

In an interview with reporters after the game, Li Liang said: "This is not an end, but a beginning, waiting for me."