Chapter 819 The Real Head Coach

During the mission, he followed Thurmond to learn technology from scratch, and Li Liang found that this was a time-consuming task.

The system no longer rewards in the technical dimension, everything is just like in the real world, a little bit of improvement.

In the real world, he continued to fight with his Thunder teammates.

After the All-Star game ended and two days of rest, the Thunder ushered in the Indiana Pacers at home.

This is the first time Li Liang has met his old club this season.

Compared with last season, the Pacers have changed beyond recognition.

Li Liang, McGee, JR-Smith, Kevin Garnett, David West and others all left, and the main players who won the championship were swept away.

Bird returned to the position of general manager, returned to Vogel, and continued to be the manipulator behind the scenes, planning the next rise of the Pacers.

The core of the Pacers has suddenly changed from Li Liang to Stephenson, and the three idiots have become big idiots. This lineup has no future.

Therefore, the Pacers failed to survive three rounds at the Thunder's home energy center. The Thunder clocked in three quarters and took a big lead early.

In the end, 113:101, a 12-point advantage defeated the Pacers at home.

After the game, Bird came down from the stands, shook hands and hugged Li Liang.

This time he came to Oklahoma City to play, Bird specially wore a championship ring on his hand, which was the one that the Pacers won last year.

This championship ring has never been issued to Li Liang, because Li Liang has never played in Indiana.

According to the league's schedule, the Thunder's away game to the Pacers is scheduled for March.

Therefore, for Li Liang, the delivery time for this ring was a bit long.

"In March, we will be waiting for you in Yincheng." Bird and Li Liang said.

Li Liang nodded. To be honest, he really missed the Indiana countryside a little bit.

Although Ercheng is also a large rural area, in comparison, Yincheng is more interesting.

After all, it is a city of sports. It is quite interesting to watch racing games and NFL games in your spare time.

And in Oklahoma City, to the zoo?

But it is also because there is nothing fun in Oklahoma City that Li Liangneng puts all his energy on basketball.

In addition to continuing the task of mental ability in the system, Li Liang also continued to complete the task of "Bench Life".

He succeeded as a coach twice more, once leading the Houston Rockets in 2005 to defeat the Dallas Mavericks at home in the third game of the playoffs, successfully turning the big score of the series into 3:0 and sentencing the Mavericks death penalty.

The coaching of this game made Li Liang feel very happy.

When I first watched this game, Li Liang was still in junior high school in China.

Yao Ming led the team to a 2:0 lead in the away game, and the situation in the series can be said to be very good.

As a result, they returned to the home court, lost two games in a row, were equalized by the Lone Ranger, and lost all momentum.

In the final 40-point defeat in the seventh game, McGrady cried on the sidelines. This is the first year that McGrady and Yao Ming have combined.

No one thought that this was already their peak, and they would still be unable to break through the curse of the first round.

Later, it was rumored that there was a black hand behind this round of the series, especially the out-of-bounds save in the fifth Tianwangshan battle. The referee's error was too obvious and had to be doubted.

When Li Liang was watching this round of the series, he was so angry that he didn't eat lunch for two days.

This time in the system, as the head coach, he finally let out the bad breath he had back then.

For this reason, Li Liang also called his old fan, Jeff Van Gundy, and asked him how you lost back then.

It stands to reason that Van Gundy's arrangements in the first two games can be described as very exciting.

Using Leon Bowen, who may be the worst player in the league, started against Nowitzki, and McGrady was used to defend Nowitzki in the second game, all of which worked wonders.

Why did Houston poop like that once we got back to Houston?

To be honest, the head coach of the Lone Ranger, General Johnson, is really not good. The brightest moments of his coaching career were concentrated in the three years of 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The Mavericks suffered a comeback in the 2006 Finals. Then in 2007, the Mavericks won the first place in the league with 67 wins, and then suffered a black eight in the playoffs.

Van Gundy didn't know what Li Liang meant by calling him to ask about these things, but he still exchanged with Li Liang what he had learned back then, talking about some past events, the situation in the team, and some minor problems of the referee.

Li Liang took a small notebook and wrote down one by one. He already had some experience as a head coach and quickly formulated countermeasures and strategies. After two attempts, he finally led the Rockets to defeat the Lonely Walker for the third time. The eight-man team won Game 3 at the Toyota Center.

The big score in the series became 3:0. If this is true in history, then Yao Ming's career must have changed.

Just after completing this task, Li Liang did not expect that the task of the 2006 finals would follow. He would replace Avery Johnson and lead the Lone Ranger to defeat the Heat.

It was almost the same script. The Lone Ranger also led 2-0 in the finals that year. The situation was very good. The Heat had no power to fight back in the first two games.

In the third game, the Lone Ranger almost took a 3:0 lead.

They led the Heat by 9 points before the start of the fourth quarter, and beat the Heat 34:16 in the third quarter.

As a result, at the last moment, Nowitzki, who made 90% of his free throws, could have made two free throws to tie the game, but only hit one of them, missing a great opportunity.

This is very likely the retribution of Nowitzki's free throw to kill the Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals. The free throw came very strangely. Ginobili stretched out his hand inexplicably when the team led by 3 points, allowing Nowitzki to score. 2+1.

After losing the third game, the Lone Ranger fell into a slump, losing four games in a row and losing the championship.

After all, since 2003, most of the teams that eliminated the Spurs in the Western Conference playoffs ended up with no good ending-the curse from Tim Duncan.

Li Liang's task is not the third match, but the crucial battle of Tianwang Mountain.

In that game, the Lone Ranger narrowly lost by 1 point. It was also an extremely aggrieved loss, and it was also a series full of controversy.

When Li Liang received this task, the feeling in his heart was that this might be tit for tat, and the Lone Ranger would avenge the Heat in the finals in five years.

It can only be said that in the NBA, it has always been time for revenge.

If you come out to hang out, you always have to pay it back. If you think about it, there is only one way to pay it back—to become a god.

Li Liang, who has played in the finals three times, knows that in the fifth game of the series, most of the time it is not a question of tactics, but a question of mentality.

As the head coach, how to adjust and motivate the mentality of the players is the top priority.

In this regard, Li Liang has a natural advantage.

In the entire NBA, no one knows how to be the boss better than him, and no one knows how to perform exceptionally in the finals better than him.

Li Liang passed this task once, which was to help Nowitzki build up his confidence and at the same time target Wade on the defensive end.

The most controversial part of the 2006 Finals was Wade. From the beginning of this series, the term "body whistle" appeared.

Wade's super-level mid-range jumper and unstoppable free throws made him known as "Jordan five centimeters shorter".

Li Liang believes that Avery Johnson is still too experienced in such a situation, and he is simply incomparable with Pat Riley, the fortune teller on the opposite side.

Riley is at the level of an NBA master in boosting the morale of the players and delivering speeches.

The strategy given by Li Liang in the mission is also very simple. Since I call you a foul when I touch you, why not just punch you, which is still a foul anyway.

Li Liang asked the Lone Ranger players to deal with Wade in a more brutal and brutal way to disrupt Wade's offensive rhythm.

You are Jordan who is five centimeters shorter, so deal with you the same way you dealt with Jordan.

This method has indeed worked, and the strength of the Lone Ranger is already stronger.

Without their confidence being destroyed, they successfully kept the fruits of victory. They defeated the Heat by 103:100 with a 3-point advantage and won the battle of Tianwangshan.

The moment the task was completed, Li Liang breathed a sigh of relief, and a row of subtitles flashed in front of him:

[The mission is completed, and we are about to enter the final stage of the series of missions: Please become a real head coach. 】