Chapter 288 Goodbye Youth

In the third game, the Lakers beat the Rockets and led 3:0, which completely eliminated the suspense in the series.

In this way, the fourth game is a battle of honor for the Rockets.

Win, at least get a victory at home, and then go to Los Angeles to die peacefully and decently.

If you lose, you will be swept away in front of the home fans, which is a bit embarrassing.

The Lakers certainly hope to end the series earlier.

Because on another field, the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Clippers are currently fighting 2:1, and the Nuggets pulled back a victory at home on the plateau.

Judging from the strength comparison between the two sides, it is very difficult for the Clippers to eliminate the Nuggets in five games.

Once the two sides play six or seven games, the Lakers can win more rest time and allow the veterans to adjust.

In the third game, Kobe and Nash broke out. Kobe scored 35 points in three quarters, and Nash scored 22 points and 8 assists.

The two elders, Xuanming and Ming, finally played something that people expected.

And Li Liang kept wiping Xuanming's ass on the defensive end, and then scored some points with the garbage time.

In the fourth game, Li Liang felt that he could no longer play like this, and I wanted to score!

In any case, the Rockets are also his youth in high school.

At that time, more than half of the student basketball fans watched the Rockets game for lunch.

Once because of Yao Ming and because the Rockets were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in a row, they couldn't eat.

If Rockets are to be eliminated, they must be eliminated beautifully, cleanly and without pain.

In the previous three games, Li Liang was defending and assisting.

Before the fourth game, Li Liang took the initiative to find Kobe and Nash and said that I wanted to shoot a three-pointer and pass the ball to me.

Li Liang is very straightforward and thick-skinned, and he is never ashamed of taking things for granted.

He thinks that in basketball games, what you look at is the data. As long as you can win the game, there is nothing embarrassing about having more data.

Relatively speaking, Kobe and Nash are relatively old-school players. For them, it is a shame to brush statistics.

But after playing with Li Liang for a season, he knows that this person is shameless.

And he said that he wants to shoot three-pointers, which shows that he has the confidence to throw three-pointers.

Shooting three-pointers is not the same as eating cakes at the basket.

Like David Robinson, in order to win the scoring champion, the whole team played for him, let him hit the basket crazily, and scored 70 points.

This kind of scoring at the basket is really a bit of a hooligan.

And if you want to shoot three-pointers, at least you have to be able to make them.

Otherwise, it will be useless to give you a chance. If you fail to make a shot and let your opponent fight back, it will be shameful.

In any case, everyone wants to win this game and not lose. This is the playoffs.

Li Liang must show a good touch at the beginning, otherwise Kobe will not pass the ball to you.

Thinking of this, Li Liang felt very unfair.

Old Ke, you guy, sometimes you often turn into Tieguanyin, and I will still pass the ball to you.

And if I don't vote in, you won't pass it on to me, and you don't show loyalty.

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After a day off in Houston, Game 4 of the first round kicked off at the Toyota Center.

This time, Yao Ming also came to watch the game. Before the game started, Li Liang and Yao Ming shook hands and greeted each other.

Yao Ming joked, "Be merciful, otherwise I won't be able to invite you to dinner when I return home."

Li Liangdao: "It doesn't matter, I just treat you to dinner!"

Will Li Liang bow down for a meal, and will he be merciful?

Absolutely not, I want to score.

In fact, there is another reason why Li Liang wants to score this time, that is, he feels that the Rockets' defense against him should be slightly lax in this game.

The Rockets were beaten like that by Kobe and Nash in the last game, and they will definitely strengthen their defense against the two.

Therefore, there must be some loopholes in Li Liang's defense. He must seize the opportunity and put the Rockets to death.

This is a common situation in the playoffs. For teams with more points, the east is not bright and the west is bright, so they hold the gourd and pick up the scoop.

A team with fewer points is limited to death with one point.

Ever since Li Liang started defending Harden, Harden has wanted to die.

This person is really annoying, tall, fast in defense, and clean hands and feet.

The interference is in place in time, and there is a set of trash talk, which can be lingering, and positions and tactics can also be used.

In order to entangle with Li Liang, Harden was devastated. He scored 19 points in the last game and didn't have many free throws.

After the start of the game, the Rockets still made adjustments, no longer starting Beverly, but Delfino.

Although Beverley is useful defensively, he still does not support the team offensively.

And he was too short, and he was blown out by Kobe in the last game.

After replacing Delfino, the height of the Rockets' outside line has further increased, and there is one more reliable ball-holding point to share Harden's pressure.

Of course, this also led to further emptiness of the Rockets' bench.

McHale really couldn't help it. Sima, as a living horse doctor, always had to change.

This change had some effect after the opening.

In the previous three games, the Rockets were not allowed to start with three-pointers and had to rely on breakthroughs to score.

At the beginning of this game, Delfino hit a three-pointer and gave the Rockets a headshot.

Harden is temporarily invisible, mainly supporting his teammates and attracting defense, avoiding Li Liang's edge.

On the Lakers side, the first attacker Nash and Li Liang did a pick-and-roll screen, returned the ball to Li Liang, and Li Liang made a three-pointer after receiving the ball.

Also hit!

After a season of training, Li Liang's three-pointers have reached the point where it is unreasonable.

Especially Nash's return, the height, speed, and angle are just right.

After getting the ball, throw it directly regardless of whether there is anyone defending in front of you.

Li Liang also likes to stand one step outside the three-point line, and his opponents are not easy to defend against.

Parsons has tried his best to make up, but still can only watch the three-pointer.

The generals of the Rockets, as well as the Rockets fans, have a bad feeling.

Li Liang's three-pointer is still terrible.

In the first quarter, the Rockets and the Lakers started a three-point confrontation mode.

Delfino, Parsons, and Jeremy Lin hit three-pointers one after another.

And Li Liang pushed back all their three points by himself, 3 out of 5!

Li Liang entered the mode of throwing three-pointers with eyes closed, and the Rockets also gave up three-point defense from the outside, because their arrangement before the game was to stare at Nash and Kobe.

As a result, Kobe gave Li Liang the ball as soon as he encountered a double-team, and gave Li Liang the ball as soon as he broke through.

Three three-pointers in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Li Liang made 2 of 4 three-pointers, all of which were hit at key points when the Rockets were about to start.

This kind of three-pointer is the most terrible. Seeing that a wave of climax is about to be hit, a three-pointer will be pressed for you.

Amidst the cheers and cheers of the fans, the momentum that the Rockets had managed to accumulate was wiped out by this kind of ball.

At the end of the halftime game, Li Liang made 5 of 9 three-pointers. This percentage is even faster than Kobe's percentage of two-pointers.

The Lakers 61:56, leading the Rockets by 5 points.

In fact, the Rockets' offense played well.

Harden avoided Li Liang's edge tonight, played point guard, kept passing the ball to his teammates, and organized the team's offense.

In fact, Harden's effect as a point guard is quite good. Letting him command the ball at the top of the arc and in a high position is much better than letting him play singles with the ball on the wing.

His first pass was accurate and experienced, and he was very thoughtful, which gave the Rockets some more changes in the positional battle.

However, the Lakers are simple and rude. The result of the Rockets choosing to double-team is to allow Li Liang to make a good shot from the outside.

Li Liang scored 15 points in the half, all of which came from three-pointers.

He used Houston's hoop as a training ground.

In the second half, Haier finally realized that Li Liang couldn't be allowed to shoot like this.

If his three-pointers are contained, the Rockets still have a chance.

Then McHale, you are so naive!

The two elders of the Lakers have found their status. If you go against Li Liang, won't the two elders beat you up?

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Rockets were really serious. Parsons focused on Li Liang and did not double-team Kobe and Nash.

Then Kobe made a set of combined punches, consecutive backward jump shots and a single shot inside, stopping the Rockets.

After three games of contest, the Lakers have seized the Rockets' goal.

The offense is easy to play, the defense knows how to target, and Mike Brown can just watch the ball on the sidelines without directing.

After returning from the timeout, the Rockets, who had lost sight of one another, returned to the old way of double-teaming Kobe.

Then Li Liang made two three-pointers from left to right, and McHale limped even more when he shot.

Originally, he was still pacing on the sidelines, but this time he simply sat on the sidelines and did not move.

What the fuck, how do you beat this?

At the end of the three quarters, with seven three-pointers, Li Liang scored 21 points.

At this time, the subtitles flashed in front of his eyes, showing that he scored 20 points in the playoffs for the first time and won a lucky draw chance.

Li Liang didn't care anymore, he only made 7 three-pointers, and I had to make another one.

7 three-pointers is already a very high record in the NBA. After all, the record for the most three-pointers in a single game in the playoffs is 9.

Carter, Ray Allen, and Terry have done it respectively.

In the case of 8, Kobe has never succeeded. His record of 12 three-pointers was in the regular season.

The Rockets players also felt that Li Liang could no longer shoot three-pointers, so Parsons didn't care about it later, just to prevent you from letting you shoot.

Taking this opportunity, Li Liang sent out assists one after another, making the difference between the two sides even bigger.

The Rockets' defense collapsed in the fourth quarter. The huge gap in strength and the big score of 0:3 behind made them defeated.

Harden played very well tonight. He sent 10 assists and scored 20 points himself.

He has been insisting, and said not to change his end.

In the final period, Harden also led the Rockets to play a wave of counterattacks, narrowing the point difference to 10 points.

However, when Li Liang had 3 minutes left in the fourth quarter, received Shi's pass in the halftime, and made a three-pointer three steps away from the three-point line, Harden put down his raised hands.

McHale called the final timeout, and Harden returned to the bench in frustration.

The Lakers players stepped forward to hug Li Liang, congratulating him on his eighth three-pointer.

Li Liang breathed a sigh of relief, looked up and looked at the score, 113:100, the big chrysanthemum is dead!

"Goodbye Rocket, goodbye my youth."

Li Liang said goodbye to Rocket in his heart.

In the past two days of training in Changsha, the update has been affected, sorry.