Chapter 691: 54 Points

People always turn into what they once hated.

Li Liang used to hate high shots and high yields the most, and what he pursued most was efficiency.

For this matter, he had a lot of bad guys at the beginning, and he was always the king of efficiency during the Lakers period.

He also created an unimpeachable miracle in the whole game.

In just two years, Li Liang has already started to iron out.

No way, superstar, why don't you call it a superstar?

In the third quarter, Li Liang continued to take a lot of shots, including some strong shots, to keep the Pacers alive.

The game has already been played at this pace. At this time in the third quarter, it is basically impossible for you to create opportunities for your teammates and improve your touch. You still have to shoot a lot of shots yourself, unless you have a particularly good opportunity to pass to your teammates. , Whether you can get in or not depends on whether your teammates are tough.

Anyway, the hands of the rest of the Pacers are not hard enough tonight.

Under the referee's loose penalty, the Bulls' defensive actions are not small.

During the holiday break, Li Liang sat on the bench and drank water.

He rested long enough in the first half, so he played the full third quarter without resting for a minute.

Not to mention the fourth quarter, we will definitely continue to play.

For a pitcher, physical fitness is very, very critical.

The decline in hit rate caused by the decline in physical fitness is often very obvious.

However, Li Liang didn't have such a problem. He had very good physical fitness, and he was equipped with a physical rune, which could be said to be a monster of physical strength.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Li Liang stood on the court.

After three quarters, Li Liang has already scored 40 points.

In this highly defensive duel, scoring 40 points in three quarters is enough to show his scoring ability and determination.

At 75:70, the Pacers scored 70 points in three quarters, and Li Liang scored more than half of the team alone.

George Hill started the Pacers' first attack in the fourth quarter. He rushed to the basket and missed the rebound with his left hand.

Hill wanted to share the offensive pressure on Li Liang's shoulders, but he couldn't help it, and his strength was still a bit weak.

The Bulls counterattacked. After halftime, Rose found Dunleavy who was ambushing in the left corner. Dunleavy missed a three-pointer.

In such an open shot, Dunleavy's shot is very biased, which shows that the impact of physical fitness and strong confrontation is still very large.

Li Liang counterattacked with the ball, forced his way to the basket, stopped and hit a jumper, and hit it again!

77:70, the Bulls really have nothing to do with Li Liang.

The defensive end cannot relax at all. Li Liang will seize the opportunity to score points if he relaxes a little.

The opportunist's ability to speculate is as good as his ability to shoot the ball.

Butler and Noah defending him are also the same. You can't pay 100% attention to him without being distracted at all.

Dad is not so dedicated to his son.

The Bulls still have to find a way on the offensive end.

Still Rose, continuously accelerating, changing direction and then turning around, fighting in the air and making a folding movement, picking up the basket with his left hand...

The ball bounced twice on the basket, and finally fell down.

Gibson got the offensive rebound and went up again, but still missed.

Garnett protected the backcourt rebound and then gave the ball to Li Liang.

Li Liang was not in a hurry now, and slowly advanced to form a position.

Now everyone on the scene, except the Pacers, felt their scalps tingle when they saw Li Liang holding the ball.

Rose, Butler, and Noah all focused on Li Liang.

Li Liang watched all directions, and before the defenders surrounded him, he gave the ball to George Hill who ran to the bottom corner.

Hill catches the ball and makes a three-pointer from the corner—hit!

At 80:70, the point difference came to 10 points.

The Bull's anger suddenly went down, and Thibodeau immediately called a timeout.

And for the Pacers, this is an excellent signal-except for Li Liang, others can also score.

Li Liang was also passing the ball in the first three quarters. The Bulls double-teamed and triple-teamed him, giving him a lot of opportunities to pass the ball, and they were all good open spots.

As a result, his teammates basically couldn't make the shot, so Li Liang could only do it by himself.

In the fourth quarter, when Hill started hitting three-pointers, it was time to sound the alarm for the Bulls.

If they continue to double-team Li Liang unscrupulously, it may cause the Pacers to fully bloom in the last quarter.

But Thibodeau thought about it and felt that there was still no other way to think about it.

On the defensive end, we still have to pinch Li Liang. Otherwise, after he scored 40 points in the third quarter, let him continue to do it in the fourth quarter. He can score 50 or even 60 points.

Instead of this, it is better to continue gambling and go all the way to the dark.

This is the same as a goalkeeper betting on one side in a penalty shootout. I just play to the left and keep playing to the left.

The opponent has the ability to keep kicking to the right, and as long as you waver once and kick to the left, the goalkeeper is very sure of saving the penalty.

The same is true in defense, two glasses of poisoned wine to choose one, choose this one, bite the bullet and drink it.

As for how to win, more depends on the offense.

The Bulls have done well enough on the offensive rebounds, and the referees have given face, but you can't do anything if you can't score.

Thibodeau once relied on Rose. Rose tried his best tonight, but he is really not the same him.

Another reliance is Butler, but Butler has really paid too much in defense. If he hadn't defended Li Liang strictly, Li Liang's shots in three quarters plus his usual efficiency, it is estimated that he would have scored 50 points.

It is up to the players themselves to decide the outcome of the game.

Back to the field after the timeout, the Bulls' offense.

It was still Rose, still holding the ball and hitting it desperately, and then caused a foul by Li Liang.

This is what the Bulls are most happy to see. When defending, they should strangle Li Liang to death, and when attacking, they should focus on Li Liang's spot. It is best to cause damage.

It was Li Liang's third foul of the game, and his foul control was pretty good.

Rose went to the free throw line and made two free throws.

Later, Li Liang gave the ball to JR-Smith on the wing. Smith made a three-pointer but missed.

The Bulls seem to bet on the right, they took back rebounds and continued to fight back.

This time it was Butler's turn to play singles with the ball. He broke through JR's defense, and then split the ball to find Mirotic who was 45 degrees on the right.

Mirotic catches the ball and makes a three-pointer!

In!

The Bulls' long-awaited three-pointer is as precious as gold.

The point difference came to 5 points again, and these 5 points were like a bottomless abyss, blocking the Bulls in front of them.

They have to defend, they have to defend the ball, and then they have the opportunity to continue to close the score.

At this time, Li Liang stood up again.

He hovered over this abyss like a ghost.

Li Liang continued to use Garnett's pick-and-roll cover on the outside. In order to get rid of Butler, Garnett blocked three times in a row.

Li Liang finally seized the opportunity to go in from the middle and made a layup that caused fouls by Gibson and Butler.

This kind of thing would have been done by Kobe and Paul in the past. Li Liang's responsibility is to feint, and it is a powerful three-point feint. open space.

Now in the Pacers, Li Liang has to bear the responsibility of tackling tough problems all by himself.

Fortunately he did.

Fortunately, Garnett's single block screen is really good.

Standing on the free throw line, Li Liang made two free throws and scored another 7 points.

Time is getting shorter and shorter, and the pressure on the Bulls players is naturally increasing.

5 points, 7 points, 8 points, and then back to 6 points, 5 points.

The two sides are constantly seeing-saw.

Whenever the Bulls think they can cross that abyss, Li Liang will stand up, or make free throws, jump shots or assists, to push the Bulls to the other side of the abyss again.

Li Liang has already scored 48 points.

At this time, there are less than 2 minutes before the end of the game.

The score on the field was 87:82, still a desperate 5-point difference.

Li Liang didn't rest for a minute in the second half. Given the situation on the court, he estimated that the Pacers would be overwhelmed.

Others changed like a lantern, and the Bulls did the same. Butler, Rose, Noah, and Dunleavy took turns to fight against Li Liang. If there was a three-shot fight, wouldn't it be effective?

At this time, Bird called a timeout, not to arrange tactics, but to give Li Liang a break.

The timeout ended, and Bird immediately called another one.

"What are you doing, Larry?"

Li Liang was ready to go, but Bird made another timeout with his backhand, which scared Li Liang into a cold sweat.

Because he was ready to use the [Three-point Shooting Rate Improvement Stickers] just now.

If this is accidentally used, Bird backhands a timeout, and this post will be invalid!

"I want you to rest and rest," Bird replied.

"I don't need to rest! I want to play ball!"

What a tactical genius, call a timeout to give me a rest?

Finally, the time of two timeouts passed and he returned to the court.

In fact, for Li Liang, the Bulls have basically lost this game.

It took a whole game, and the last two three-pointers took them away.

It's just that for the audience and Bulls players, they still have a chance.

Defend the next one, advance one, defend the next one, advance one more, wouldn't the five-point gap be wiped out?

It's that simple, but the problem is that they failed to turn over the 5 points on the bull's head.

This may be the gap in strength.

The Bulls are tenacious enough, but just barely.

The game restarted, Li Liang received the ball from a high position in the middle, and it took more than ten seconds. Garnett came to the high position for a single block. point!

Li Liang used the three-point hit rate promotion post and removed the [Man of Steel] from his body.

The ball goes through the heart!

Before the ball was scored, everyone was so lucky that the ball should have been missed.

After all, it's so far away, after all, Li Liang made a lot of iron tonight.

After the goal, despair permeated the United Center.

In front of Li Liang's eyes, the anger value jumped up again.

This is not over yet, Thibodeau did not call a timeout because he only had the last timeout left in his hand.

There is still 1 minute to watch this attack.

It still depends on Rose, who uses Noah's pick-and-roll in the middle to go in and make an emergency stop jumper!

Caused Hill's foul, Hill "touched" Rose from behind.

The foul count is up, and Rose wants a free throw.

This is the referee giving the Bulls a chance.

90:82, with a gap of 8 points, made two free throws, and chased to 6 points.

In fact, the Bulls' chances are running out.

As a result, Rose didn't make the first free throw, and there was a lot of frustration at the scene.

The physical consumption is too great, and Rose kept breaking through tonight.

The second free throw was finally scored, 90:83, 7 points, the Bulls should have foul tactics.

There are 1 minute and 11 seconds left before the end of the game.

The ball was still in Li Liang's hands, and fouling Li Liang was no different from sending points.

but you don't foul...

The Bulls hesitated here, whether to foul or not.

After all, there is still more than 1 minute to defend, and 7 points can still be scored.

If you score 9 points on two free throws, you really can't play.

It was such a hesitation that Li Liang drilled through the half court with the ball and approached the three-point line.

At this time, the Bulls players panicked, but it was too late, and Li Liang shot directly three steps away from the three-point line!

This is an extremely risky choice, because as long as Li Liang delays for 24 seconds, it will be good for the Pacers.

The Bulls can't wait for Li Liang to cast indiscriminately. If they don't enter, they still have a chance.

But Li Liang's idea is different. If he doesn't vote, the time for the three-point shooting rate improvement post will come!

Rose's free throw just now took a lot of time!

Li Liang made a shot, but no Bulls player dared to stick it up for fear of fouling.

Many Bulls fans have already held their heads, and they are still very prescient.

"Shua!"

The ball passed through the net at an extremely fast speed, rubbed against the net and made a loud sound, passed through the recording equipment behind the basket, spread to every sound on the TV and computer screen, and also penetrated the hearts of many fans at the scene .

54 points, after making this three-pointer, Li Liang scored 54 points at the Chicago United Center.

He used this ultra-long-range three-pointer to announce the end of the game.

As far back as 1993, the No. 23 also scored 54 points at the Chicago United Center, proving with his strength who was the king of the Eastern Conference.

Another one did it today.

Unfortunately, tonight, he was wearing the opponent's jersey.

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After the matador finished the gorgeous bullfighting performance, the last procedure was to use a curved long sword to insert directly into the back of the bull to the heart, causing the bull to die on the spot.

Li Liang's last three-pointer was like the long sword, hitting the bull's heart accurately, when it died suddenly.

Thibodeau used up the last timeout.

He didn't call the timeout to arrange any tactics. At this time, any tactics are useless.

In less than 1 minute, with a gap of 10 points, it was exhausting.

Thibodeau hopes that the players can calm down after the game. The players played very, very hard in this game.

As a result, being killed by such a move by the opponent is self-evident to the mental blow of the players.

After all, the series is not over yet. After losing this game, the Bulls are only 1:2 behind.

The fourth game is more critical, as a coach, he has the responsibility to cheer up the players.

However, Thibodeau himself didn't know how to cheer up the players when he saw that the players looked a little distraught after they left the court.

If he can't cheer himself up, how can he cheer up others?

In this game, the right time, place and people are all on the Bulls' side.

After being beaten by 54 points in the last game, the Bulls players took a deep breath, and this time they will find it at home.

So the whole team played very, very hard. It can be seen from the number of rebounds that the Bulls grabbed 12 offensive rebounds tonight.

They have achieved the ultimate defense. Except for Li Liang, no Pacers player scored more than 15 points.

It's just that Li Liang's score is really a bit scary, another 54 points, and the Bulls were beaten up again.

It seems that the Bulls and the number 54 are going to form an indissoluble bond.

During the timeout, Thibodeau still said a few words, but it seemed that everyone couldn't listen.

On the other side of the field, the Pacers players greeted Li Liang like a hero.

Even Bird couldn't help stretching out his hand to Li Liang, the two didn't look at each other, they just touched their fists lightly up and down.

Li Liang is very calm, the basic operation is nothing to be surprised about.

Besides, the system didn't give any rewards after investing, so at least give it a chance to draw a lottery?

What makes Li Liang even more unhappy is that even the anger value is very low.

He thought that after making these two three-pointers, the anger value would rise gradually, but it didn't.

It seems that the fans at the scene are not angry anymore, why are they still angry?

Raging Bull?

They were all stabbed to death by a sword, what's the use of anger.

The fans at the scene left their seats in disappointment and left the field one after another.

In the last minute, the Bulls still did not give up and made a three-pointer from the outside.

No goal, Noah continued to grab offensive rebounds, passed out and then shot, still missed.

Garnett scored a rebound, the Bulls fouled, and Garnett went to the free throw line.

it's over.

In the end, the Pacers won Game 3 at the Chicago United Center 95:85.

Li Liang scored 54 points in a tribute to Michael Jordan.