June 2012, in the eyes of many people, was a year when the NBA changed its dynasty.

In the Western Conference Finals, the Thunder fell 0:2 and won four consecutive games, defeating the unbeaten San Antonio Spurs in the first two rounds.

Three young and promising players led the team to the finals.

On the other hand, the Miami Heat led by LeBron James was once again forced into a desperate situation by the Boston Celtics Big Three.

With a 2:0 lead, he was won three consecutive games, and the 6th game was played in Boston.

James defeated the old Celtics in Boston with a super-energy burst and brought the game back to Miami.

Then in the seventh game, he finally crossed the green mountain with 31 points and 12 rebounds and entered the finals again.

Thunder vs Heat.

In last year's playoffs, they both lost to the Dallas Mavericks, which was the last afterglow of the last era.

Mavericks, Lakers, Spurs, Celtics.

Nowitzki, Kobe, Duncan, Garnett.

The long era that began with the season when Jordan retired and suspended in 1999 seemed to be coming to an end, ending with another suspension season in 2012.

In 13 years, the third team in the West, except for the Lakers, Spurs and Mavericks, reached the finals for the first time.

Coincidentally, the Thunder defeated these three teams in the playoffs, as if it was a ceremony for the new king to slaughter the old king.

In 13 years, the Eastern Conference only won three championships, and they were studying with the prince at other times.

The formation of the Miami Heat seems to be announcing that the rise of a super team in the East will break the overall suppression of the West over the East and return history to its former glory.

Everything seems to be like this, and a new era is about to begin.

Under the curtain of the new era, Li Liang, an inconspicuous little person who is working hard to sign the second round and fighting wits and courage with the Lakers and other teams, is still hidden in the corner and not known to many people.

In addition to professional scouts, some senior fans.

After the Nets' trial, with the release of the Li Liang scout report, he received trial invitations from several teams with the last-place second round signings, including the Raptors, Timberwolves.

Li Liang participated in the trial training of these teams despite Ryan West's opposition.

His trial performance is exactly the same as in scout reports.

The two strengths of defense and three-pointers are very prominent, and will be a good supplement to the end of the bench.

Anyway, in the eyes of these teams, he is a supplement to the end of the bench.

After all, he is 22 years old and has not shown any potential on the offensive end. He can defend and make three points, which is already quite good.

Of course, Li Liang himself knew that his abilities were more than that.

So overall, he is more inclined to go to the Los Angeles Lakers for several teams.

In addition to Ryan West's mentorship, from many perspectives such as economy, reputation, and strength improvement, the Lakers are better choices than the Nets, Timberwolves and Raptors.

At the very least, Li Liang may be able to get more opportunities to play in the Lakers.

The Nets have five players on the front line, led by Gerald Wallace, all of which are in their prime.

Li Liang went there, and he didn't know when he would be waiting in line.

The Timberwolves have two small forwards, Mike Beasley and Webster, and there is also a 11-year role model show Derek Williams on the bench.

The Timberwolves don’t know how to use the two second-place small forwards. Can you get a chance if you go to the last-place show like Li Liang?

Li Liang didn't want to be the famous cemetery of the Timberwolves, the Minneapolis Savior.

Not to mention the Raptors, they are far away in Toronto, with 82 games a year and 41 games to go abroad.

Although there are many Chinese in Toronto, Li Liang doesn’t like playing basketball in cold places, because he is afraid of the cold.

So in general, the Lakers are the most suitable for him.

Now, he and the Lakers are in a slightly stalemate.

He did not go to the group trial camp held by the Lakers in mid-June.

Later, based on Zhu Shu's information, it was correct that he did not go.

Because those who were mainly trying out were inside players, Li Liang was inappropriate in the past, so it would be better not to go.

Ryan West also promised that he would take off Li Liang at the draft.

It is possible to trade a higher ranking of 60 or upward.

Anyway, Li Liang doesn’t have to worry about his talent show for the time being.

Not far from the NBA draft, Li Liang decided to end his trial tour after traveling to several cities.

He decided to return to Los Angeles and stay in Los Angeles for the last period before the draft began, relaxing a little.

The Lakers team has a long and brilliant history. He is a second-round pick and must not be looked down upon by people.

Because his name is Bruce Lee, the last Chinese named this name made all Hollywood people look at each other.

Before returning to Los Angeles, Li Liang entered the [Almighty King] system and was ready to continue completing the ongoing mission.

After basically meeting the three-point shooting and defensive ability, in addition to continuing to train physically and finding someone to be a sparring training in the personal training system, Li Liang was thinking about the next project that needed to be improved.

After circling around in his mind, Li Liang thought of a very important ability point - tactical running position.

While practicing with the Wildcats in Kentucky, Li Liang discovered a problem with himself.

Although based on the advantage of misalignment, he got some open three-pointers and had a good performance.

But when he comes to the NBA field, he cannot have a misalignment advantage.

If he cannot get a free slot, his three-point ability will be reduced.

In the Lakers, their core is Kobe, Kobe... If you have spaces, he may not necessarily pass it, let alone have no spaces.

Li Liang felt that it was necessary to improve his ability to find opportunities for space.

In the column [Dimension 5: Tactical Literacy], there are five improvement items: [Reverse Run], [Empty Cut], [Empty Space], [Pick-roll Screen], and [Quick Counterattack].

Of course, Li Liang chose the [Vacant Space] project, and his rating for this project is only 27.

Li Liang has always been unable to do the trick about how to run empty spaces, and he lacks offensive sensitivity.

He did not hesitate to enter the task of cultivating consciousness and ability of [Vacant Space], but found that he had fallen into a pit.

【Does the task continue?】

【yes.】

[Task: Coach Bob Knight's training course, task content: Complete 15 hours of empty tactical training course, task reward: 20 empty tactical awareness and ability, get one special item. Mission difficulty: Rookie]

Just now, I saw this task, which was the easiest thing that Li Liang has carried out so far.

As long as you attend class and learn 15 hours, you can complete the task.

Moreover, the ability value is very high, and you can add 20 points in one go!

Perhaps the system also thinks that Li Liang's score is too low, so he gives some tasks that can be passed by just consuming time.

But after actually coming in, Li Liang found that it was really not that easy to stick to 15 classes in this task.

Just because, the person who trained him was Bob Knight!

Who is Bob Knight?

The legendary coach in the history of American college basketball was a shiny moment with John Wooden.

The most famous person in basketball is his temper, besides his invention of the perfect "mobile offense" tactic.

He slapped the player in the face, threw chairs into the stadium, and fought with the principal. He was a irritable man.

Li Liang's training class task is carried out in the training hall as usual.

In addition to Bob Knight, he also trained him as the entire West Point Military Academy basketball team in 1969.

Li Liang followed the players of West Point Military Academy basketball team to receive Knight's devil tactical special training.

Each tactical training class consumes two hours, mainly training tactical running.

Basically, every time I finish one class, I will have a headache when I wake up the next day, so I don’t want to do other tasks.

Today is Li Liang's last training session. He put on a vest and shorts from the 1960s and 1970s to stand with his teammates.

First, you need to do queue exercises because they are West Point basketball teams.

In addition to Li Liang, there are 13 players in the team, and Li Liang knows one of them.

That is Duke's head coach, Mike Shashevsky, who is often called the old coach.

He is also one of Calipari's opponents in NCAA.

Li Liang didn't expect to be a teammate with him, and he was still the old k when he was young. At that time, his hairline was still very high.

"Okay, today is my last tactical training class. I want to organize a confrontation to test the training results."

Bob Knight is tall and strong, and his voice is like a bell, and he looks like a bad temper at first glance.

In the previous classes, they basically scolded the team members like their grandson, including Li Liang.
To be continued...