The Clippers ended their 2o13-year schedule with a record of 28 wins and 4 losses, and continued to rank first in the league.

As the season deepened, the Clippers' running-in reached a good level.

Rotation, tactical cooperation, tacit understanding of defense, and well-trained in all aspects.

As a chicken soup coach, Rivers is not a strong point in tactical training, but the team's management and atmosphere are doing a good job.

He has prestige, qualifications, and can talk to the players. Although he is quite strict off the court, it does not prevent him from being very popular among players and often having dinner with the players.

Li Liang gradually felt that Rivers was a good coach, very caring and obedient to the players.

When I first came to the Clippers, I was a little disobedient. I had a lot of ideas, this, that.

After a period of cooperation, I feel like I have already had a lot of tacit understanding.

In fact, Mike Brown is the same. He was so picky about Li Liang at the beginning, but he was still obedient in the end?

Mike Brown is also known for his strictness among players. Although he has a big mouth open on weekdays, Brown is quite serious in training and games.

But it is difficult to be serious about Li Liang, so it cannot be serious!

You have neither face nor dignity in front of him, so how serious are you?

It’s hard to say it, and I don’t listen to the tactics I arranged. The key is that I won the game and won the championship. What else do you have to say?

So, Mike Brown had already let go and accepted it.

Rivers is also in the process.

January 1, 2o14, the first day of the New Year, the team will not have a holiday.

For the service industry, when ordinary people are on holidays, you have to go to work.

On New Year's Day, the Clippers will face the Charlotte Bobcats at home.

As the Lakers' lifelong enemy, Li Liang's fight against the Bobcats was interesting last season.

The Clippers are different. As a standard "pseudo-strong team" that was once a standard, the one who was not afraid of was to play a weak team like the Bobcats.

The so-called pseudo-strong team is to cut melons and vegetables when fighting a weak team. It is awesome and booming, and it is invincible to abuse vegetables.

Once you play against a real strong team, you may start to lose weight in the playoffs and you can't beat it.

Due to the play style and player experience in the past two years, the Clippers can crush their opponents by relying on physical fitness and quick counterattacks.

When I play a strong team in the playoffs, I don’t have enough experience, hard strength, and core players have defects, so I get diarrhea.

Now that the Clippers have Li Liang, they are no longer a pseudo-strong team, but their pseudo-strong team's attributes are still there!

Just like the Spurs, although they are not pseudo-strong teams, they are a sure-fire player.

In the first battle of the New Year, the Clippers faced Boss Qiao's Boss Cats and gave him a gift first and then a soldier.

In the first half, both sides had a back-and-forth fight, and were lukewarm.

The Clippers follow the normal process, rotate and play Griffin at the beginning. After Griffin comes off, Li Liang and Paul transfer to create opportunities for their teammates, or directly hit three-pointers by themselves.

On the Bobcats, Kemba Walker is in good condition, and the others are evenly matched. The Clippers are not very defensive, so they can still hold on to the game.

In the third quarter of the second half, the chrysanthemum turned completely.

The Clippers' sudden increase in defensive intensity accelerated the pace of the game, and the Bobcats' offense collapsed.

If he couldn't keep up with the Clippers' rhythm and defense, he scored 10 points in the entire third quarter.

This ball made Jordan explode.

Get 10 points in the third quarter?

I will play in person, make two mid-range shots, make another three-pointer, and get two free throws. That's 9 points, and you'll get 10 points?

But the Bobcats just couldn't make two mid-range shots and another three-pointer, and didn't make a three-pointer in the third quarter.

As soon as the game was finished, the Clippers had already led the Bobcats by 20 points, and beat the Bobcats by 15 points in a single quarter.

And the leader of all this is not Li Liang, but Paul.

Paul's strengths are not attacks or scores, so he has flaws when fighting tough battles.

His strengths are distribution, controlling rhythm, and at the same time he has strong attack power and can destroy defense.

In games where the intensity of the regular season is not very high, Paul can make his teammates play better in a downwind state, which is an absolute adder.

Just like the sails on a clutch, once the sails are smooth and you pull them up, how can you not be as fast as possible?

Of course, it won’t work against the wind. It requires Li Liang’s motivation.

However, the Clippers' overall strength is not many at the headwind.

When it comes to the fourth quarter of garbage time, Li Liang doesn’t want to go on it anymore.

This guy has also become lazy. Recently, he has made a lot of data and props, so he wants to take a break.

When the fourth quarter was paused, the Clippers led by 25 points. Rivers pointed at Li Liang and signaled that he could play.

Li Liang said: "All 25 points ahead, why are you still letting me go? Can't you give me a rest?"

Rivers is so humble. Don’t you always have to play in garbage time, just called exercise?

"I'm an All-Star, and you still ask me to exercise. Can this kind of time period, this kind of confrontation, and this kind of opponent have exercise value?"

Li Liang's series of questions from the depths of his soul made Rivers feel ashamed.

A player who only gets five million in salary will work diligently every night to get the most points, face the most confrontations, and make contributions to the longest.

You still want him to play in garbage time. Is this what a coach should do?

Of course, this shame lasted only for a minute, and Rivers came back to the taste.

Damn, you always have to go on the field and then brush up the data every time. Why did you blame me?

There is no way, this is the power of Bob Knight's hair dryer, which makes you doubt yourself and life.

The world view collapses, the outlook on life is reshaped, and the values ​​are subverted.

And when you feel something is wrong, you forget it in a while.

Rivers also forgot that he had won anyway, so he didn't care.

Although the end of 2o13 was not very good, the start of 2o14 was a good one.

The Clippers beat the Bobcats with 12o:85 and 35 points at home, and won the New Year's victory.

In addition to not being able to make data when Li Liang didn't want to appear in garbage time, there is another reason why he felt that even with such a big advantage, he still couldn't do it 58.

He didn't want to apologize to Paul anymore, so he might as well stop.

After all, Li Liang and Paul's relationship was getting better and better.

The team has a good record, the team's locker room is stable, and the relationship between the players is of course good.

If the team's record is not good and they always lose, no matter how good the relationship is off the court, it is possible to fall apart.

This is the case on the basketball court, it is similar to the battlefield, and it is very cruel.

But for players, what is more cruel is not failure, but that you don’t even have the chance to fail - that is, you suffer injuries.

On January 3, the Clippers went to Dallas to play against the Dallas Mavericks in the second game of the New Year.

The Mavericks' strength has improved compared to last season, but it has not improved qualitatively.

Nowitzki was one year older and his dominance further declined.

The Mavericks played very well in the first quarter and almost scored 40 points in a single quarter.

In the second quarter, Li Liang still yelled at his teammates and asked everyone to cheer up on their defensive ends.

The Clippers began to make a comeback and the score was reversed at the end of the first half.

In the third quarter, the Clippers had already taken the initiative on the field and gradually widened the gap.

But at the end of the third quarter, Paul collided with Mavericks player Monta Ellis in a defense and then fell to the ground.

Paul covered his right shoulder with a look of pain and fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time.

Li Liang and his teammates hurried forward to check it out. Seeing Paul's expression, it didn't seem like he was pretending to go to the bathroom.

The team doctor then conducted a brief check and found that Paul's right shoulder was knocked and dislocated!

The game was really intense, and Paul's shoulders were knocked off.

As a small player, in order to survive in a giant arena like nBa, Paul doesn't know how much pain and price he will have to come back.

You know, as long as you stand on the court, you will see a group of people who are much taller than you.

He wants to lead the way among this group of people, score shots, break through, and need defense.

The difficulties can be imagined.

After entering the league in 2015, except for the rookie for three years, he suffered serious injuries every year.

Judging from this situation, if you are dislocated, you will probably have to rest for at least three weeks and miss more than a dozen games.

Paul was tied with a bandage on his right shoulder and returned to the locker room and never returned to the court.
To be continued...