The result of the lack of Durant and Westbrook is that the Thunder's offense lacks continuity.

The Lakers have become more at ease in rotation, Scott can dispatch troops and the team's defensive arrangement has become much simpler, just focus on and take care of Li Liang.

This is the problem that single-core teams always face.

Of course, Li Liang is a player who has proved himself that a single core can win the championship.

However, Thunder's substitute configuration is impossible to compare with the Pacers of that time.

The Pacers used to make personnel and tactical configurations based on Li Liang's characteristics.

After the Thunder has no double young man, one of the most critical problems is that there is no shooter.

Li Liang is a space master, and his ability to pull space is the largest number.

However, Robertson, Witts, Augustine, Morrow and others' three-pointers were not stable enough.

In the first half, Li Liang created many opportunities for his teammates, but he didn't seize many.

Especially the Thunder's three-pointer wasted, which made Li Liang very angry.

At the end of the second quarter, the Thunder 55:61, 6 points behind the Lakers and ended the first half.

Li Liang scored 18 points in the first half, a lot, but for the Thunder who wanted to win the game, it was a bit less.

Kobe on the opposite side scored 11 points and sent 7 assists.

Kobe is becoming more and more at ease in the position of No. 1 point guard.

And the better he plays, the more his fans are reluctant to leave him retirement.

He could fight for many years, but his body and skills had not yet grown old, but his heart was already old.

After announcing his retirement, many fans launched a petition, hoping that Kobe would not retire and would continue to play for two years.

But Kobe was determined to leave, and because of this, he is now enjoying and relaxing on the court.

Compared with the past, he has a bit more elegant and free style when playing basketball, and is no longer like a vicious black mamba.

During the halftime break, the Thunder held a memorial ceremony for Kobe at home.

The players from both sides did not return to the locker room, stayed on the court, and went to the audience to say goodbye to Kobe, and gave him a precious souvenir gift - an album full of photos.

These photos are contributed by Thunder players, including photos and posters related to Kobe, among which Li Liang contributed the most.

He printed out some of the precious photos he and Wei Dazhi took when he was in the Lakers and posted them in this album.

Every player of the Thunder left a sentence for Kobe in the album.

The Russian City Hall also awarded Kobe a commemorative medal for his outstanding contributions to the NBA league over the past 20 years.

Kobe's face was filled with a smile, which was the result of his 20 years of hard work on the land of basketball.

No matter if you love him or hate him or ignore him, when he is about to leave, you will always feel that something is missing on this land.

For many young fans, when they started to pay attention to the NBA, the league had the Mamba snake wearing the Lakers' robe, maverick and amazing combat power.

He has been with many people for 5, 10, and 15 years. He is not the best in history, but he has inspired many people.

Because he always wants to be the best one.

At the end of the commemoration ceremony, Kobe put the gifts and blessings he received back into the locker room and in his heart.

The second half of the game began.

In the third season, the Thunder began to change their playing style.

Li Liang began to increase the proportion of independent attacks.

He started directly in the second half and appeared on the team's third position.

Donovan knew that only by letting Li Liang appear in the third position could his firepower be the most powerful.

Li Liang rarely turns on singles mode.

In fact, one-on-one singles have never been Li Liang's strengths.

If you only talk about singles skills, Li Liang is still not as good as Durant.

But Li Liang has one advantage, that is, his three-pointers are indeed too accurate.

Facing Leonard from the outside, Li Liang got rid of the rhythm of dribbling and made a 45-degree strong shot from the right side and made a three-pointer.

The first shot of the Thunder counterattack was fired.

Then, after using continuous cover, Clarkson drifted a little backward and failed to hit the mid-range shot.

Adams grabbed the backcourt rebound and handed the ball to Augustine.

Augustine gave Adams a high support after halftime.

Li Liang was originally squatting in the right corner, but he raised it and came to the right 45 degrees again. He received Adams' pass, pulled up a three-pointer and then shot!

This shot was very sudden, and the Lakers' defense was obviously not focused enough.

Li Liang scored another three-pointer!

The Lakers are a little loose in offense and defense.

Then a pass in the offense was almost intercepted by Robertson.

The ball is out of bounds, but the Lakers' right to the ball.

Scott was a little anxious on the sidelines and loudly reminded the players to concentrate.

But focusing is not that simple, mainly because the Lakers players lack motivation in this game.

Because no matter win or lose, the Lakers have been confirmed to be fourth in the West. They cannot catch up with the Spurs in front and will not be caught up by the Rockets behind.

Although all the players don’t want the Thunder to create the best record in history on their own, even if they are created, it doesn’t matter.

Everyone's mind is still focused on the playoffs.

Serve the sideline ball, and under the Thunder's tight defense, the Lakers made a mistake.

Kobe ran to the bottom corner, but failed to catch his teammate's pass.

The ball rights are back on the Thunder.

At this time, the two sides had tied, and the Thunder even had a chance to overtake.

After 10 seconds, Li Liang let the Thunder lead.

He used Adams' cover to shoot from a long distance and shot again!

Three consecutive three-pointers!

The Thunder overtook the Lakers by three-pointer at 64:61.

Scott called for a pause.

This consecutive three-pointer was really caught off guard.

Leonard was criticized by Scott after returning to the bench.

Leonard said nothing. He had actually tried his best to defend, but it was really useless.

Li Liang's shooting speed is extremely fast and is almost undisturbed. Once his condition comes, it will be difficult to lower his shooting rate unless he interferes in advance before making a shooting move.

The entire team has also carefully studied how to defend Li Liang, Leonard and his personal coach.

Leonard believes that it doesn't make much sense to consume Li Liang without the ball.

Li Liang is different from Curry. His physical condition is not comparable to Curry. Li Liang never runs around the world to find a shooting opportunity.

If you stick or squeeze, it will have no effect, and you can't even squeeze him.

He will fire a gun suddenly in a place you unexpectedly expect.

And when Li Liang takes action in a more comfortable position, it is difficult to interfere with him.

Don't think about the cover. He takes action very fast and has very little preparation.

The opportunity for defense is in the preparation stage of taking action. In the early years, Li Liang could be close to him, but now he doesn't work very well, so he will break through.

Li Liang is the kind of player who doesn't care about how you defend when shooting.

Some players, such as Kobe, will set their next steps based on the actions of the defensive players, how to shoot, lean back, flow, pull, or break through after fake action.

Li Liang has his own set of procedures. When he feels the distance and the rhythm is right, he will fire his gun.

Once the cannon is fired, the hit rate is terrible.

Leonard believes that the key point of defense is to find the rhythm of Blues Lee.

The problem is that you can't find it at all, and the human nerve reaction speed is limited.

He took action too quickly, and he could only take the initiative and prevent Li Liang unless he made accurate predictions.

This is quite difficult, perhaps the highest level in defense and Leonard's ultimate pursuit.

Bruce Lee formed a mountain in front of Leonard, a mountain he was worth climbing.
Chapter completed!