Chapter 673 Wishful Thinking

The Pacers used defense to destroy the Celtics' will to resist in the third quarter.

The playoffs in the East have always been like this, full of confrontation, scrambling, and desperate defensive efforts.

Even if the general trend in the league is to focus on offense and light defense, that's just the regular season.

In the playoffs, the referee's whistle-blowing scale is different from that of the regular season, and it is obviously much looser.

Li Liang dedicated elite-level defense in the third quarter, and even Garnett was full of praise when he was resting off the court.

"You're almost on my level, you're almost on my level boy."

Li Liang thought, how can TM be as virtuous as Bird?

Do you American people boast like this?

Are you praising me, or are you praising yourself?

Li Liang accepted the praise from the elders.

After the start of the fourth quarter, Garnett appeared and led the team's second team to continue fighting on the court.

With Garnett in the second team, the overall offensive and defensive strength of the Pacers' bench has steadily increased.

Garnett is a curing agent, if you just look at the data, you won't be particularly outstanding-even in his peak period, Garnett is not a data madman.

What he is good at is doing some work that cannot be reflected in the data.

Blocking at the basket, filling in defense, covering and blocking in offense, commanding in defense, and bad mouth.

These have greatly enhanced the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the second team.

The advantage is that KG can suppress Stephenson, making Finsen less prone to mindless rampage, and strengthening the stability of the second team.

Bird no longer has to stand up from the bench to remind Finsen, just sit there and direct.

In the NBA, players like Nash, Garnett, Paul or Rondo can really save the coach a lot of effort when they are on the court.

Not to mention Li Liang, if you let him play for a few more years, he can be a player-coach.

Li Liang has already discovered that in [David Stern's Simulated World], the coach attribute can be activated in that room too! The current room is related to the attributes of the management.

But Li Liang is not interested in these two for the time being.

As for the door to the future, it hasn't been opened yet, maybe Li Liang can be the president.

But what's so great about the president? If you help me become a president, I can still think about it.

Garnett led the second team to further expand the point difference.

The Celtics' offense has completely collapsed, there is no way to reorganize and integrate, and it has become a mess.

Stevens has Zhuge Liang's tricks in his bag, and he is also a clever woman who can't cook without rice, and the players' spirits have been beaten.

Li Liang scored 25 points in the game. In the fourth quarter, as the point difference got bigger and bigger, Li Liang took a rest and didn't need to play.

The Pacers settled the Celtics in one quarter.

It proves that in the face of absolute lineup advantages, all tactics are false.

At 98:85, the Pacers beat the Celtics by 13 points at home and took a 1:0 lead in the series.

After the game, Li Liang was interviewed by reporters on the sidelines.

This guy's stomach full of bad water is brewing again.

As someone who has made a lot of shocking remarks, it doesn't matter to say two more.

As the best player of the game, the reporter asked how Li Liang saw the Celtics as an opponent.

In theory, facing this kind of problem, players will say "they are tough opponents, they caused us a lot of trouble, they played tough, they deserve respect..."

Anyway, it's just a bunch of empty talk, players just say it casually, and everyone just listens to it casually.

With the deepening of the NBA's transformation, the players are getting richer, and the education and training they have received since childhood are getting better and better. This kind of nonsense after the game is getting less and less.

Players are not like in the past. There are grievances and grievances on the court, which will be carried off the court by the way.

Some shrewd coaches will even use this kind of contradiction, grievance, and anger to create emotions to create advantages for their teams.

For example, Pat Riley is one of the masters.

Today's players may fight to the death on the court, but off the court they are brothers.

Anyway, it’s all about making money, hello, hello, hello everyone, why fight each other and affect your mood?

Occasionally there are a few who dare to speak out, often because of the needs of program effects, or some "personal design" needs.

It's still a good relationship in private.

Li Liang is different, he is a turbid current in the NBA, what he says depends on his mood and what tasks the system gives him.

This time, Li Liang is going to criticize the Celtics.

"Well... I think the Celtics have been a great team, and I know some of their history, but I don't think any team, collective, or individual can rest on the laurels of the past. It has passed, just think of me, I have won two championships, but I never mention it, I am still full of desire for the third championship. If I have to say, there is also my motherland, China, which has also had glory history, but the result of being obsessed with the past history is to fall behind and be beaten, so we have experienced the dark years and stood up again. I think the experience of the Celts is very similar. They also have such a process, but the time of their rise is a little bit Short, they're starting to rebuild again, I think... I'm not particularly optimistic about them, although they are doing well, but I have a hunch..."

Li Liang talked a lot, and finally said that I have a hunch that the Celtics will not get better.

Aren't you talking nonsense, what kind of premonition did you come from?

Li Liang was talking nonsense, and he just wanted to arouse the indignation of Boston fans.

It's best for the Celtics players and managers to come out and criticize, quarrel with each other, quarrel, and make matters worse.

In this case, after two days to go to Boston, the Celtics fans will be full of anger.

At that time, Li Liang will be able to meet the anger from the Boston fans, beat his opponents to pieces, and collect a lot of anger points at the same time, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone and kill two birds with one stone?

The reporter was stunned when he heard Li Liang's words. Such a controversial statement?

But she reacted quickly, and immediately continued to ask a few more questions, asking Li Liang to say more.

This product is a pioneer in traffic, needless to say, the TV station has another topic to discuss.

However, Li Liang felt that he had already said enough, so it would be up to the Celtics to accept the move.

...

After the game between the Celtics and the Pacers, there are still a few games in the playoffs with results.

Before the Pacers game on April 18, four matchups had ended.

In the West, the No. 1 Golden State Warriors defeated the Pelicans 106:99.

In the playoffs, the opponents are not so easy to deal with, and the Warriors have no way to check in three quarters, even if the opponent is the eighth Pelicans in the West.

The Clippers, the second in the Western Conference, defeated the Mavericks by 9 points at 109:100.

In the East, the Bulls defeated the Raptors and the Eagles defeated the Bucks.

All the top-ranked teams kept their home courts.

Until April 19, another three games will be played simultaneously with the Pacers.

The Cavaliers beat the Wizards by 115:95 by 20 points.

James is indeed different in the playoffs, after all, he is a man who has never lost in the first round.

In the West, the Grizzlies defeated the Trail Blazers at home. Although the Trail Blazers ranked fourth, their record was actually much worse than the Grizzlies.

The third-ranked Rockets were more unlucky and met the Spurs.

As a result, the Rockets lost the first game, 107:111, 4 points to the Spurs, becoming the first team to lose home court advantage in the first round...

awful!

Of course, the first game of the first round has just ended, and there are still many variables behind it.

The media has already focused on Li Liang's post-match speech.