Lakers players are more or less anxious throughout the season.

It is natural that they are not young challengers anymore, they are the old boys who gathered temporarily and fought hard for the championship.

They have been under a lot of pressure from the beginning of the season.

Because of such a lineup combination, if you don’t win the championship, you will fail.

Even if they lose a game in the regular season, they will be criticized and questioned.

So in the playoffs, they finally started to move towards their destination. The first two games of the first round actually played very smoothly, but they still felt that they were not playing well.

Just like for some fans, if their team doesn’t win, it’s like losing.

If you don’t play well in one quarter, the season will be over.

If one ball is not played well, one player will be finished.

Even players like Kobe who have experienced many battles and have experienced many twists and turns will inevitably be anxious.

Especially in the first two games, he performed averagely, and with his personality, he naturally nitpicked himself.

Their target is not the Rockets, the Spurs, the Thunder, and the Heat.

Not to mention Howard, the huge psychological gap has not been completely adjusted yet.

On the offensive end, he has become the fourth choice, ranking behind Kobe, Nash and Li Liang.

Even Gasol, who is a substitute, has more tactical singles than him.

In terms of personal honors, you can't think of such a hard honor as VP and the best defensive player. The only thing you can do is to continue to win the rebounding champion for the rest of the time.

His only thought now is to win the championship, the king of low positions, Los Angeles' top card, stop.

The sales of jerseys fell behind Li Liang.

Therefore, Howard is particularly eager for the championship.

He was happy to do whatever Mike Brown asked him to do, and he would bite his teeth and throw it.

As for Nash, the regular season wolfberry tastes delicious, the number of shots in the first two games directly broke the regular season record.

At the age of 38, he has been in the regular season and is waiting for the playoffs.

Therefore, the whole team is in a very demanding state.

Especially in the second game, the winning streak was quite tortuous. I feel that the strength can win against a strong team in the future?

The only person who does not have such a problem is Li Liang.

He has a big psychological problem.

As for telling Brown on the bench that the team's offense needs to think about ways and make progress, he said that.

With just his mouth, can you live freely on the bench?

Brown was really concerned about it and felt that he wanted to change it.

He forgot that in the series, the party with the advantage in strength will always remain unchanged and focus on me.

Never mind the advantage is obvious, and I think the advantage is not big enough, so I want to change it.

As a result, I changed myself and broke down.

Such acts of committing suicide are not without NBA history.

Li Liang does not want the Lakers to be such a team. Since the preseason team wants to play Princeton, Li Liang has known that the so-called team basketball is a mistake for the Lakers.

If you want a superstar, you will be a superstar to the end.

If you want to transfer to a team, it is impossible to succeed without two to three seasons of running-in and changing.

Even though Kobe started a triple-double mode in the second half of the season, he was still the same Iron Science in the playoffs.

Only when the stars' abilities are maximized can the Lakers have hope of winning the championship.

After leaving the conference room, Li Liang returned to his room and sighed softly, thinking that I was really worried about the team and paid too much.

The Lakers only gave themselves 500,000, which is really cheap for them.

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On the 25th, the Los Angeles Lakers changed into purple away jerseys and started the third game of the playoffs at the red Toyota Center.

Even in the playoffs, Rockets fans still don’t give the home team a lot of face and continue to be late.

However, the Rockets' home atmosphere tonight was quite good, and all the fans of the court changed into red T-shirts.

The entire court is a sea of ​​red.

In the red alarm, the grand opening ceremony puts away players in great pressure.

However, all the Lakers players have no expressions on their faces. What scenes have they never seen before?

Li Liang looked even more relaxed. The big scenes I have seen are beyond your imagination!

For the Rockets, this game has reached the edge of a cliff.

If you lose again in the third game, the series will really end, because no team in history can turn the tables when they are behind 0:3.

1:3, 0:2, they are all desperate situations but there is still a glimmer of hope. 0:3 is really not.

So, the Rockets players were also nervous in this game.

Therefore, the opening of the first quarter is very important.

A small episode appeared before the game started, and the Rockets fans on the scene carried out a large drawing board.

There was a picture of Kobe driving a tractor, which read "Past, sports cars, now, tractors."

The drawing board was cut to the large screen by the TV station's camera, and the audience burst into laughter.

There is no way. The tractor endorsed by Kobe are sold well in Texas, and the advertising shop is very open.

Now the people in Texas know that Kobe is endorsing tractors.

Even if I don’t buy it, I will discuss it, which led to Li Liang’s father doing a good job in the US tractor distribution business.

His father also called him in the middle of the season, asking him to come to San Antonio to sell tractors if the NBA can't continue.

After Li Liang was later selected as the All-Star and signed Under Armour's endorsement contract, his father would not mention this for the time being.

Kobe has long been accustomed to this kind of ridicule.

He just smiled, shook his head, and focused on the game again.

Houston fans soon regretted it a little, why use such a drawing board to provoke Kobe?

Don’t you know that Kobe is a man who holds grudges and fights himself when he gets crazy?

At the beginning of the first quarter, Kobe hit a jump shot.

This is not a good signal for the Rockets.

In the first two games, Kobe kept playing.

Then, as he closed it, it became iron and gave the Rockets a chance.

If Kobe is not strong, he will play from the beginning...

The Rockets quickly tasted the consequences.

Kobe and Nash joined forces to fire in the first quarter, and Li Liang kept making pick-and-rolls for the two legendary defenders.

The Rockets' outside pick-and-roll defense is really not good, they can't keep up with each other, and they can't make up for it. They were shot from Kobe and Nash in the middle distance.

Kobe made 5 of 7 shots in the first quarter and scored 12 points.

Nash made 5 of 6 shots in the first quarter and scored 11 points.

Nash also sent 4 assists to help the Lakers beat the Rockets 40:23 in the first quarter, and he was leading by as much as 17 points in one go!

The Rockets were confused, really confused.

I was 17 points behind in the first quarter. This pit is too big, how can I get out?

The Rockets wanted to use the home game to rush back to win a game.

But I know, Kobe and Nash are in great shape, and it has nothing to do with me what defensive arrangements you have for the Rockets.

I'm just a pick-and-roll and jump shot after a jump shot. I can just make it. What can you do to me?

Nash was injured at the beginning of the season. After taking the "blast damage medicine under the overpass" given by Li Liang, his physical condition recovered and maintained very well.

He did not miss any of the subsequent games.

Moreover, this guy was pretending to be dead throughout the regular season, and he only showed his true appearance in the playoffs.

When Nash doesn't need to carry too heavy organizational tasks, his offense is really terrible.

After all, he was a man who once scored 48 points in a single game in the playoffs.

Moreover, Nash scores by shooting, and his shooting method mainly relies on the force of the forearm, and the requirements for the legs are not high.

Even though he is old, his shooting condition is still outstanding.
To be continued...