If Li Liang wants to say that he is self-taught, Mike Brown will be the first to stand up and express his disagreement.

If I hadn't let you learn, would you have mastered so many skills?

Fortunately, Mike Brown didn't hear it. He was sitting off the court and discussing the team's defensive strategy with Vogel.

As a cold and carefree head coach, Bird's main tasks in the team's tactical aspects were handed over to two assistant coaches.

In terms of strength, Brown and Vogel are both at the head coach level and have proved themselves as head coaches.

Moreover, both of them are known for their good defense, but their defense philosophy is different.

Not only are they different, but they can be said to be very different.

Mike Brown is particularly fascinated by double-teaming, assisting defense, and space compression, which is a typical Spurs defense.

Vogel was born in Kentucky. Who is the old ancestor of Kentucky? The godfather of brown clothes, Adolf Rupp.

What is Rupp's most famous thing? It's not that his man-to-man defense, carrying forward this simplest and most primitive defensive strategy.

Li Liang had trained with Coach Rupp in the system and had a deep understanding of the essence of human-to-man defense, which was also very helpful for improving his defensive awareness.

Vogel inherited Rupp's defensive thinking and built the Pacers into a strong team for man-to-man defense in the past few seasons.

Now, the Pacers' lineup is different from the past, and there are differences between Coach Brown and Vogel on how to formulate a defensive strategy.

This disagreement was not resolved during the offseason.

At that time, because the team changed its style and took the offensive route, there was no in-depth discussion.

As the Pacers recently began to regain defense, the two coaches began to worry about defensive strategies again.

Brown believes that he should take the collective defense route, play Li Liang's core role in defense, and use sweeping defense to lower the opponent's offensive fluency and hit rate.

Vogel believes that Li Liang has been under a lot of pressure on the offensive end and should relieve him of pressure on the defensive end.

The pressure on a single defensive player is the most even, and the defense stability is very good.

The two were arguing, and Bird did not participate in the dispute between them. Now they are looking at the effect.

After Li Liang appeared in the second quarter, he first used worship to play Kobe.

Then, Kobe began to be surrounded by Pacers' defense on the offensive end.

At this time, Kobe gave Clarkson a chance by transferring the ball in time, allowing Clarkson to find an opportunity in the right corner and hit a three-pointer.

Seeing Clarkson make a three-pointer, Vogel turned to look at Brown, and gave him a look, as if saying, "Look, your defensive strategy is not good."

Brown pushed his glasses and didn't say anything. The two coaches were just like children and were still angry about this.

Bird saw the "conflict" between the two generals under him and still said nothing.

He knew when he should take action to solve the problem, but it was not now anyway.

Kobe continued his good form in the first quarter.

Li Liang was in an excellent state. He let go of his firepower and took action without hesitation in the face of Kobe's defense.

"Bang!" I made a fuss and didn't enter.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t enter, Li Liang also said to Kobe, “Salute to you.”

The Lakers have a good opportunity to fight back, but this time Li Liang came to defend Kobe himself.

Li Liang never stings with his skills in this period of game situation change, whether it is the beginning or the final stage of the game.

By grasping these nodes, I can control the trend of the game.

So, Li Liang immediately released [Death Entanglement]!

A powerful aura surrounded Kobe. Kobe felt his body stiffen, but he still protected the ball.

But Li Liang still touched the ball and poked the ball out of Kobe's hand.

After all, Kobe is experienced, so he immediately blocked Li Liang with his body and prevented him from catching the ball.

Both of them fell to the ground. At this time, Danny Granger, who was standing beside him, rushed over and picked up the ball and rushed towards the frontcourt.

Clarkson chased and defended, but Clarkson could not block Granger. Granger jumped in three seconds and made a dunk directly!

The Consecco Arena is full of joy, and Danny Granger is really back!

He is not just a person back, his performance, his condition, his heart and his heart are back together!

This goal was definitely a morale-boosting goal, Granger was the dunk, and Li Liang was the stealer.

After Granger scored the goal, he stepped forward and slapped Li Liang for high fives.

He felt that since he met Li Liang, his basketball life had a turnaround.

The Lakers' counterattack momentum was interrupted, and Kobe's good form was also cut off by Li Liang's steal.

Kobe immediately played two irons in a row, including three-pointers and three-pointers, proving that he is really Kobe.

Li Liang seemed to be infected by Kobe, and he didn't hit him even if he took action.

However, the Pacers maintained their advantage in the first half and ended the half with a 59:50 and 9 points.

Kobe scored 20 points in the first half, as if he was back to his peak period.

Of course, he played three irons in the second half of the second quarter, which made people feel like they were dreaming of returning to the peak.

Li Liang was influenced by Kobe. He made only 6 of 15 shots in the first half, scoring 15 points, and had 5 assists and 2 steals at the same time.

The Pacers performed the best, Granger, who made 4 of 5 shots in the half and scored 10 points, making him the team's most efficient substitute.

Seeing Granger's performance like this, Bird was already considering whether to send him to the starting lineup.

It's really amazing. After Granger returned to the Pacers, he recovered so quickly and well. It was a miracle of life.

Bird, how could you know that this is not a miracle of life, it is a miracle of science, science!

During the halftime break, Mike Brown and Vogel were still arguing whether to use space pressure rotation defense or to focus on people-to-people defense.

The two of them talked endlessly, and they often argued during training.

One of them is black, one white, one fat, one thin, one wearing glasses, one not wearing glasses, one is a man who loves to laugh, and the other is a serious coach. It feels like a pair of contradictions.

Li Liang was a little annoyed when he heard this, and he was still playing this game!

"Ok, OK, why are you fighting? Isn't it enough to just hang up and beat people and track them?"

Brown and Vogel both looked at each other with question marks. People are targeting people, and round-the-rotation defense is round-the-rotation defense. How do two completely contrary defensive strategies get mixed together?

Li Liang said: "Listen to my command. I say that when people are staring at people, they are staring at people, and when they are rotated, or if others are staring at people, I am responsible for rotating and assisting in defense, isn't that all?"

What Li Liang said was easy. In fact, it is basically impossible to switch defensive tactics freely in the game.

This is a bit too high for players' tactical literacy and is unrealistic.

However, Li Liang's subsequent words reminded Brown that it is okay for others to not rotate, but Li Liang can just rotate alone, right?

Brown fell into thinking, and Vogel thought.

Bird ignored the two of them, briefly arranged the key points of the second half, and decided on the rotation plan in his mind.

Granger's playing time is going to be longer. He gave him 10 minutes in the first half, and his efficiency is very high.

Bird felt that it could be appropriately increased to 15 minutes and 30 minutes of a game.

If the performance continues to recover and rise, you can consider letting him enter the starting lineup.

Of course, Bird was not considering letting Granger replace Smith, and Smith's performance was still very good.

Bird was wondering whether to let Li Liang play the fourth position, Granger play the third position, and a starter who plays one and four small players.

Li Liang must know that Bird's idea must be cursing again. Is it so difficult to let me play a small forward?

I am in the third position, which blocks the coaches' Feng Shui and wealth vision, right?

I just want to be squatted at the bottom corner with peace of mind!

Bird seemed to know what Li Liang might have to do, so he didn't say anything.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Lakers handed the ball to Howard to eat McGee alone at the low post.

Howard's low post strength is still there, so he hit a small hook and scored two points after pushing McGee.

On the Pacers, Sloan held the ball and quickly counterattacked the inside line through the half, attracting the defense to transfer the ball to the top of the arc.

Li Liang received the ball and made a hand-passing pass and cover cooperation for Smith who came from the wing.

A loophole was torn aside from the Lakers' left defense line.

Smith made a three-pointer with an open space!

Shooting hits!

On the Lakers' side, Kobe continued to feed Howard.

As a result, the ball just came to Howard's hand, and Li Liang came from the back to double-team and broke the ball from Howard's hand!

As an old teammate, Li Liang is still very familiar with Howard's habit of holding the ball, and his third steal in this game.

Kobe shook his head straight. One of the big problems facing the Lakers now is that the details of the game are getting worse and worse.
To be continued...