After winning the Hornets, although the Pacers felt dangerous, they played ten games and had a good record.

They achieved a record of 9 wins and 3 losses, ranking second in the East, second only to the Atlanta Hawks, which has an explosive record.

But the Pacers were unable to continue their victory. After two more days of rest after the Hornets, the Pacers played against the visiting Phoenix Suns at home.

The Pacers, who shot the Hornets with a three-pointer in the last game, had some problems on the defensive end.

The Sun and the Pacers actually fought against each other, and the Sun was fighting against the Pacers from beginning to end.

Li Liang still gave a beautiful answer on both offense and defense, but what...

"If you can't make a shot, don't make a shot! Do you feel that you can make a shot without a score?"

"Why don't you invest? If you can, you have to invest. What does it mean to feel bad? You will feel it while you are investing!"

"Mckey, when you defend, you're going to defend me, or hit me in the head, I'll just twist your head off and dunk."

During the game, Li Liang had to defend against his opponents and teammates.

If you say that the three fools are not capable, you will definitely be wronged.

The three of them are actually very talented, and they are all very outstanding in terms of physical and technical skills.

But the basketball IQ... cannot be said to be low, but there will be inexplicable situations.

After Li Liang entered the league, he has been cooperating with his teammates with very high ball quotients. Nash, Kobe, Paul and others all practiced a little during training, and he could play very well with one look and a few movements during the game.

And like Stephenson, Li Liang kept reminding him not to burn CPU.

After all, Finson needs to share some ball rights, but when he burns his brain, this offensive choice is eye-catching.

Smith's question agrees to be a fan-like offensive choice, and he always doesn't play firmly enough.

Li Liang really hopes that the minds of the two people can overlap.

Forget it, overlapping it may be even more terrifying.

Li Liang was so tired after entering the league for the first time, and he had to lower his experience to the same level as them and devote himself to the game.

As a result, the Suns played beautiful offense and defense tonight, especially PJ-Tuck, who made Li Liang uninterrupted throughout the game, resulting in Li Liang's fatal mistakes at the critical moment in the fourth quarter.

Li Liang had to commit a foul and sent his opponent to the free throw line.

Even though Li Liang assisted Smith to hit a three-pointer in the end, the Pacers still lost 104:106 at home, with a two-point disadvantage.

Li Liang scored 31 points in the whole game, 10 assists and 11 rebounds, and scored a triple-double.

Both also made 7 mistakes and almost got 4 doubles.

The new lineup still has a long way to go in terms of team tactical operation and tacit cooperation.

...

After the game, when he returned to the locker room, Li Liang directly found Larry Bird and asked: "Larry, did you deliberately find some players who are difficult to deal with torment me?"

Bird spread his hands, "You know, this is a good deal."

"I didn't agree to your deal, I wanted Danny."

"Danny is back."

"But you don't let him play and come back as a mascot?"

"Bruce, Danny's strength is no longer the past, and whether the player can make a appearance depends on his performance."

Bird did not give Granger a chance to play in this game because he was not very satisfied with Granger's current performance.

Moreover, this guy has a little diarrhea recently. He said it was caused by drinking the water handed over by Li Liang.

Bird really doesn't know what Li Liang wants Granger to come back.

It is said to boost the team's locker room atmosphere. To be honest, since Li Liang came to the Pacers, he has become the well-deserved boss here, and Granger can't be the locker room leader when he comes back.

Moreover, it is difficult for a player who has never been able to contribute on the court to have prestige off the court.

Of course, Bird is not in a hurry now, because the Pacers' lineup is not complete.

When David West and George Hill return, the Pacers are the real Pacers. By then, if the team has problems again, it will not be too late to worry.

Li Liang was indeed a little impatient.

There is no way. In the past, the Clippers played too smoothly in the Lakers, so how could they encounter this situation?

I can only say that life is always full of challenges. When you feel there are no challenges, God will send you a few challenges.

After the audience left the game, Li Liang stayed to practice three-pointers.

He found that his three-point shooting percentage has declined recently because he is getting more and more leaning on the inside.

This shows that your feel fluctuates and you must rely on a lot of exercises to improve and maintain.

Granger was also training together.

Since drinking the water handed by Li Liang, his stomach has been uncomfortable, so he has not trained well or played well.

He finally recovered in the past two days, and he felt that his physical condition was much better.

Granger is actually not very old, he is only 31 years old this year, and he is still at the peak of a professional player.

It's just that injuries ruined his condition. After returning to the Pacers, Li Liang "encourage (stimulating) when he has time. He asked Granger to train well," and maybe he still has a chance to catch up with me.

Granger also wanted to go back to where the dream began and should try again, so he trained very hard after he was well.

The two practiced until the early morning before leaving the stadium together and agreed to continue practicing tomorrow.

Li Liang could feel that Granger's condition was slowly recovering.

The most important thing is that his self-confidence is gradually returning.

...

After losing the game against the Suns, the Pacers flew to Texas the next afternoon to challenge the two Texas Xuanming elders, the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs.

On the 22nd in Dallas, the Pacers played away against the Mavericks.

After entering the playoffs last season, the Mavericks are actually very strong, but unfortunately they were bald when they met the Clippers.

The Mavericks remained strong after the start of the game this season. They had an excellent start of 10 wins and 4 losses and won the upper half of the area in the West.

Nowitzki is one year older. In the summer, Cuban signed Tyson Chandler, the 11-year champion, to win the championship. Anyway, he was determined to continue to maintain a certain combat effectiveness while Nowitzki was still able to fight and wait for an opportunity to rebuild.

To be honest, Li Liang has always had experience in fighting the Mavericks. He knows where the strengths and weaknesses of this team are.

No matter how old Nowitzki is, the Mavericks' tactical dependence on him can never be escaped.

Nowitzki's weakness in defense is constantly amplified as he gets older, and it is not something that an old Tyson Chandler can make up for.

So in this game, the Pacers played very targetedly.

As long as Nowitzki is present, Stephenson, Sloan and Smith on the outside will seize every opportunity to attack Nowitzki in dislocation.

No matter how the Maverick hides or repairs it, the Mavericks' defense line is still frequent due to Nowitzki's slow pace.

Nowitzki's performance on the offensive end is actually excellent enough. Even if Li Liang comes to defend one-on-one, the veteran driver can still score points on Li Liang's head.

The elegant and smooth golden rooster independent made Li Liang wonder when he could get this skill in the system.

If he learns it one day, he will use this trick to throw him more than 10 or 20 into Novizky's head to relieve his hatred.

The Pacers have had an advantage since the first quarter, and Li Liang controlled the situation well.

In the past, he yelled on the defensive end and defended on the offensive end, but now he yelled on the offensive end.

As he roared, Stephenson and Smith slowly understood Li Liang's intention and rhythm in the offense.

If a team cannot understand the brain's intention signals with all limbs, the result will definitely be in a mess.

Once you have a tacit understanding, the team's offense will change constantly, leaving the opponent at a loss during the offense.

In the past, the Pacers were a team with a very dull offense, and the only person who was more creative was Stephenson.

But his creativity often overflows, overflowing to other places.

Li Liang is helping Stephenson learn to control the ball better through his earnest teaching.

"Damn, I'm only in the third grade, why do you feel like a forty-year-old veteran?"

At the end of the game, Li Liang suddenly felt very tired.

It turns out that playing basketball is such a hard thing. Where did the happiness of the past go?

The teammates were very happy because the Pacers won.

They beat the Mavericks by 115:101 away and 14 points.

Look at McGee, her eyes were no longer visible when she was smiling on the bench.

Looking at Smith again, he couldn't see him without laughing.

Stephenson was staring blankly with Bird. Bird always looked like "Ji-joo was holding", but Li Liang felt that he was just staring blankly, doing nothing, and leaving everything to Mike Brown and Vogel, including setting tactics during the timeout.

In the name of delegating power and leveraging everyone's wisdom, Li Liang thinks he is just lazy.

And Mike Brown... Forget it, Li Liang doesn't want to see him.
To be continued...