Chapter 203 Difficult Sutra

On January 13, 2013, the Los Angeles Lakers played against the Cleveland Cavaliers at home after a four-game losing streak.

After playing the Rockets, Spurs and Thunder one after another, against the Cavaliers, the Lakers can take a break.

They need a win to end a bad losing streak.

Before the start of the game, in the roster released by the Lakers, Howard, Hill and Gasol are still under "observation".

Among them, Jordan Hill's condition is not optimistic, and follow-up examinations found that he had a more serious ankle injury.

It is currently under discussion to decide whether to undergo surgery, and if the operation is performed, it means that Hill will be reimbursed for the season.

Gasol will continue to miss out with a concussion and a knee injury by the way.

As for Howard, after participating in yesterday's training, Mike Brown put him on the watch list.

In front of Bass, of course Brown would not say, "Li Liang doesn't want Howard to come back, he wants to play center."

How embarrassing is he, a second-round rookie, can he still influence the coach's employment decision?

Brown's statement is that, first of all, the team doctor believed that Howard's injury was indeed not healed, and his current record is still very good, so he was asked to support him more.

Secondly, Brown believes that the Lakers lineup still has potential to be tapped, and it does not necessarily have to let Howard play with injuries.

Brown's so-called exploitable, of course, is Li Liang's inside potential.

Anyway, that's all he said, and he didn't really think that way.

And Buss Jr. nodded in agreement, the main reason being Kupchak's persuasion.

Because Kupchak is already brewing a deal after learning that Jordan Hill is likely to be reimbursed.

Earl Clark's playing time has increased significantly recently, just to give him a chance to show off and brush up his statistics, so that people can see the goods.

The night the game was about to start, the Staples Center was packed as always.

The four-game losing streak can't stop the fans from watching the game. Even without Pau Gasol and Howard, the Lakers still have Kobe.

And of course, Bruce Lee.

At present, his jersey sales have surpassed Howard and Gasol, becoming the Lakers' second best number after Kobe.

At the same time, in the voting for the All-Star starters, in the frontcourt position, Li Liang's votes have been rising all the way.

In the announcement of the first voting results on December 14, Li Liang was still behind.

By December 27th, Li Liang's votes had come to the fourth place among frontcourt players.

Ahead of him are Durant, Howard and Griffin.

When it came to the results of the third poll on January 4, Li Liang's votes soared.

Li Liang happened to help the Lakers beat the Clippers with his wonderful performance at Staples in that game.

So his number of votes has successfully surpassed Griffin and is already approaching Howard.

No way, there are so many Chinese fans, and his performance is indeed very good.

Especially in the game against the Clippers, he won the game head-on with Griffin, which added too many points.

In this case, Chinese fans still vote for Li Liang? Even American fans voted for him.

After the three rounds of voting, by January 18, the NBA will officially announce the All-Star lineup.

If this momentum continues, needless to say, Li Liang will be an All-Star this year.

Li Liang doesn't particularly care about the All-Stars. What he cares about now is whether he can play a center.

The cowhide has been blown out. I have to try it on the field to see if it will work.

The game started on time at 7:30 p.m. Pacific time. Mike Brown still let Thackeray serve as the team's starting center, and Li Liang was still a power forward.

Mike Brown didn't take Li Liang's words seriously. He didn't believe that Li Liang could still play center forward.

Li Liang thought, if you don't believe it, you don't believe it, and you have to believe it if you don't believe it.

Today's opponent is the Cavaliers. In the previous game in Cleveland, the Lakers played very hard.

The reason is that the inside line couldn't prevent Varejao's pick-and-roll cut inside, which allowed him to score 20 points.

Now that the Lakers are without Howard and Gasol, can the Cavaliers play more unscrupulously inside?

However, the Cavaliers and the Lakers are also brothers and sisters. It's okay to have a poor record. The insider Varejao is still injured and cannot play in this game.

Their starters are Irving, Alonzo Key, Zeller, Thompson and CJ Myers.

The state of the Cavaliers should be said to be quite bad, with a record of 9 wins and 29 losses, which is similar to the Lakers in reverse.

Head coach Brian Scott doesn't have any good ideas for how to lead a team as hot as the Cavaliers.

Irving of the Cavaliers had a broken nose bone in the previous game, so he had to wear a mask on his face to compete.

After the start of the game, the Lakers played very aggressively and quickly took the lead.

Earl Clark's performance was very eye-catching. After coming off the bench, he made a three-pointer from the outside, and then made a layup with the ball.

5 points in a row.

Clark probably didn't know that he had already been put on the shelf.

The better he is on the floor, the more likely he is to be traded.

The state of the Cavaliers is very bad. They played indiscriminately at the beginning.

Want to go inside, but other players except Irving don't have the ability to completely tear through the Lakers' defense.

And Irving is facing Kobe. Today Kobe will mainly defend the Cavaliers' only arrow.

On the inside, Li Liang, as usual, defended normally, covered his position, and grabbed backboards.

From the sense of the scene, it is unremarkable.

Only very careful professional scouts, video analysts, and players on the field can feel that this kid defends decently in the paint and looks like a center forward.

Although his size is not enough, only 6 feet 9, but Ben Wallace is actually just over 2 meters.

Inside height is very important, but the significance of height is to allow you to better interfere with opponents.

It doesn't hurt to be short if you can interfere with your opponent.

Li Liang grabbed 5 backcourt rebounds inside in less than 5 minutes.

Tristan Thompson tried to rush the offensive rebounds, but missed none.

The Cavaliers only scored two points by relying on Irving's two free throws.

A 15:2 in the opening game stopped the Cavaliers.

After returning from the timeout, Irving made a three-pointer from the outside to help the Cavaliers recover some points.

But then Kobe began to show his power. After holding back for a few games, he made serious adjustments to his state yesterday.

At the beginning of today's game, he was full of firepower. Anyway, the Cavaliers' perimeter defense was like that, and there was no target at all.

Bryant made consecutive hits from the outside and scored 12 points in a single quarter.

A bad team like the Cavaliers will struggle a bit at home, but they won't be able to perform very well when they're away.

The Lakers beat them 39:18 in the first quarter, leading by 21 points.

Now Li Liang is excited, he scored 21 points in the first quarter!

It's time for garbage time, I have three quarters of garbage time to play.

As a result, the head coaches on both sides did not cooperate, and this was only the second quarter, what a waste of time!

And at the beginning of the second quarter, the Lakers fell into a scoring drought.

Kobe, Li Liang, and Nash are all off the court, and there is no Gasol on the court, so leaving Ci Shiping alone, can it be okay?

In fact, they beat the Lakers 12:4, narrowing the point difference to 13 points.

Then the main player came on the field, and Li Liang caught the ball from the outside and hit a three-pointer to stabilize the situation.

Then he assisted Clark and made an empty layup.

Nash also gave Li Liang an alley-oop, but Li Liang didn't catch it well. The ball hit the basket and almost broke his ass when he fell to the ground.

Needless to say, this ball is scheduled for the Big Five.

But on the defensive end, Li Liang played better and better inside.

When Thackeray was off and Clark was on, Li Liang became the Lakers center.

He played well at the 5 position, disrupting shots, protecting the backcourt rebounds, and switching on smaller guys after pick-and-rolls.

Anyway, the Cavaliers don't have low-post attackers, so Li Liang doesn't have to worry about post-ups.

The 45-point inside defense is basically enough to deal with the Cavaliers, a group of players who are not strong enough inside and have no tactics.

The Lakers have maintained a lead of about 15 points. After the start of the second half, Li Liang also received a pass, went inside and dunked with both hands!

The shame of Yixue being dunked by the basket in the first half.

The maximum point difference was stretched to 25 points.

The Cavaliers pretended not to give up resistance, and were still shooting, breaking through, and chasing points with three-pointers.

In the fourth quarter, the Cavaliers resisted symbolically for another five minutes, but the Lakers widened the point difference to almost 30 points.

Finally, Scott replaced the main lineup and let the game enter garbage time.

Li Liang can show his talents again!

But Li Liang's garbage time this time was not for collecting statistics. He had already scored 15 points, 12 rebounds and 3 assists.

The medal of the Garbage King has been proven to be effective, and he wants to try the newly obtained props in the mission to see if it is useful.

The Cavaliers replaced the backup center Leuer, a 6-foot-10 white center.

He saw that Li Liang was still on the court, and he felt a little nervous about facing him.

I heard that number 28 likes to abuse substitute players during garbage time the most, and he is alive and well when it comes to garbage time.

What can I do, are you being abused by him?

No, you can't be abused by him, just close your eyes.

Out of sight out of mind.

Then Leuer found that Li Liang was chattering, as if he was saying something to himself, but he couldn't understand a word.

"...Shariputra, to be empty is to be empty, to be empty is to be empty, to be empty is not to be empty, to be empty is not to be empty...it is the appearance of all dharmas, not cast or iron, not to pass on, not to see, not to take risks, not to fly, not to fight and not to retreat, That's why... that's why, that's not right, did you read it backwards at the beginning? Fuck, what kind of crap is this, I have to recite it when I go back..."

Li Liang was talking to himself while talking, but he accidentally made a mistake after taking the ball.

The Cavaliers hit one on the counterattack.

Li Liang glared at Loyle who snatched him away, and Loyle said, "Why can't I understand what you are talking about?"

Li Liangdao: "It's fine if you don't understand, don't ask, it's something very profound."

Leuer shut up.

Later, Li Liang continued to read it a few times, but Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out.

Anyway, the garbage time was only a few minutes, and it passed quickly. The Lakers beat the Cavaliers at home, ending their three-game losing streak.

Li Liang scored two points and grabbed a rebound without doing much stats during the garbage time, which is rare.

When he was leaving the stage, he sighed, thinking that this Prajna Paramita sutra is really difficult to use.