Chapter 933: Coach Yourself Well

When Li Liang entered the system task again, he was already on the bus to McCloud High School.

The team has 16 coaches, plus a school doctor and a teacher, a total of 18 people.

The gymnasium at McCloud High School looks like a library, and inside, it's already a sea of ​​orange.

In the arena, there are still two championship banners, 1980 and 1976, they were last year's state champions.

This is a strong team.

Therefore, before the game, Bellman urged the players to play hard and go all out, on the one hand, to let everyone not have psychological pressure, and it doesn't matter if they lose.

Li Liang closed his ears and automatically blocked Bellman's nagging.

This coach is too talkative, and he doesn't care about the game.

Li Liang still didn't care about the basketball level of high school students in the 1980s.

And he found that Gan Guoyang's talent was really good.

With a little practice, coupled with your own experience, at least you will be invincible on the defensive end.

Anyway, during the usual training, Li Liang used a little bit of care, which basically made the opponent lose points.

Bellman was also very surprised. This yellow-skinned kid was really full of magical energy.

He wants to see tonight what kind of changes this guy can bring to the team.

Before Gan came, Palo Alto High School was a third-rate basketball school.

The opponent is the state champion, and the strength is very strong.

But with Gan, Behrman felt that they might be able to do a big job this year.

In the first half of the game, Li Liang sat on the bench to watch and observe.

The strength of Palo Alto is indeed inferior to the opponent, but at the end of the first half, Palo Alto was only 7 points behind at 29:36.

The key reason is that Bellman let the team's point guard firmly control the rhythm of the field.

Although trailing, Palo Alto slowed the game down to the point where McCloud High School's famously fast offense couldn't be played.

In this way, it gave Li Liang room to play in the second half.

If they were 15 or 20 points behind at halftime, to be honest, Li Liang didn't have the confidence to make it back.

The strength is not enough.

And with 7 points, in the second half, Li Liang was perfectly fine.

As a result, after the start of the second half of the game, Li Liang appeared as the starting center.

As soon as he played, the student fans of McCloud High School were a little surprised.

I thought it was a cold bench, but who knew he could start in the second half.

Li Liang has seen this situation a lot.

When Li Liang was in Kentucky, many people doubted whether he would be able to play.

Li Liang used his own strength to prove—no.

Therefore, the ridicule and sarcasm he endured was really quite a bit.

How majestic Li Liang is now, he is as humble as he was in Kentucky for four years.

Not to mention the United States in the 1980s, Chinese people should still have braids in the hearts of most Europeans and Americans.

But after Li Liang appeared on the field as a center forward, the situation on the field immediately changed.

With his strength, defensive awareness and experience at center, McCloud High School was starting to struggle to score.

It was 1980, the NBA had just introduced the three-point line, and there was no three-point line in high school and college basketball.

Two-pointers at the basket and close range are the most important means of scoring.

There was no defense for three seconds in the game. An excellent defensive center has a huge impact on the situation.

McCloud High School began to fall into a scoring drought, and their offensive efficiency was greatly reduced.

In the offense, Li Liang's skills are still not many, and he can eat cakes under the basket, but this is enough.

Five minutes into the second half, the Palo Alto Vikings tied the game.

The McCloud Warriors called for a timeout, but that didn't help.

At the level of the Warriors high school students, with Li Liang's rich defensive experience, it is really crushing to break through their offense.

Moreover, Li Liang's ball transfer in offense is also top-notch, with excellent distribution of the ball, wide-eyed first pass, good psychological quality, excellent trash talk, and a real dimensionality reduction blow.

At 72:60, the Vikings finally completed a beautiful overtake in the second half and completely destroyed the offensive confidence of McCloud High School.

For winning this game, the Vikings players are very excited.

Li Liang looks very ordinary, just a high school game.

But after the game, the plot didn't end there.

Everyone was about to leave the stage, but the announcer's voice came to mind on the loudspeaker.

"Guests, players. Tonight, we have a special guest who arrived here to watch the game. Now he has a few words for everyone here and the players out there."

"Next, we will invite our special guest, the legend in the history of McCloud High School, the legend in the history of the NBA, Bill Russell!!!"

With the announcer's voice, the entire arena erupted.

Bill Russell was the greatest player in nba at that time. He had 11 championship rings and was a legend in the history of nba and even the history of American professional sports.

And he graduated from McCloud High School.

The players on both sides were also a little excited. Before Michael Jordan, Russell was the god of basketball.

Then a tall, middle-aged man walked down from the stands, followed by an old white man, Russell's high school coach George Powles.

After Russell came down, he shook hands with the players.

Of course Li Liang knows Russell, see you every June.

"Hello, what's your name? Your performance today was really good, and it made my alma mater lose face." Russell asked while shaking hands with Li Liang.

Li Liang looked at Russell, thinking that this black man really doesn't look old.

Russell, who is in his 70s, looks similar to him in middle age now, except that his hair is a little more gray.

"My name is Gan, and I'm from China." Li Liang was calm and relaxed, without any sense of nervousness from his teammates.

"Gan, interesting name, your performance is very good." Russell praised again.

Because Li Liang's performance today made Russell think of himself.

When he was with the Celtics, Auerbach often banned Russell from confrontation practice during practice.

Because once he joins the confrontation, the training cannot be carried out, and the opponent cannot score at all.

After Li Liang appeared in the second half, the effect he showed was the same.

Therefore, Russell was particularly impressed with him.

"Mr. Russell, don't leave yet, can I ask you a question?" Li Liang held Russell's hand, suddenly thought of something, he had a question to ask.

"Okay, go ahead." Russell nodded in agreement.

"I want to ask, how do you manage to be a good coach while playing basketball?"

Russell originally thought that Li Liang would ask some defensive questions, but he didn't know that he asked such a strange question.

"Oh, well... I can't make it clear in one or two sentences, but I can tell you one thing. If you are a player part-time coach, then as a coach, you have to coach yourself first."

When Li Liang heard it, he felt that it was as if he hadn't said it.

But if you take a closer look, it seems to have a little taste.

It's a skill to be a coach.