After staying in Los Angeles for a day, Li Liang flew back to Oxford.

On the 22nd, the Thunder will face the Houston Rockets at home.

And within the Thunder, the debate over whether to hit the best record in history is still in progress.

Overall, the Thunder's schedule is easy to start and then difficult, and their opponents are relatively weak in the first half of the season.

After the Star Game, the Thunder faced more and more powerful players, and there were more and more away games.

Fortunately, the team's health is still very good and there are no major injuries.

However, there are still minor problems. Westbrook's knee, Durant's right foot, and other players, more or less, even big or small, will suffer some injuries.

What I worry most about as a uniform group is that minor injuries accumulate and become major injuries, which will eventually affect the playoffs.

This is something no one wants to see, because the playoffs are the ultimate pursuit of a season.

Donovan, Mike Brown, and Presti also sat together for a meeting to discuss after returning to Oxford City.

Presti believes that the team should be on the verge of steady progress. There is still more than a month left in the regular season. If they want to compete for the best record in history, they can only lose two games.

I only lost two games in more than a month, and the pressure is really huge.

"I think it's better not to pursue it deliberately. Let it go naturally and look at the players' condition and just play normally."

Donovan's idea is a bit more conservative, and he thinks it's better to give players a rotation rest in the last few rounds.

Even from now on, we can consider further reducing the playing time of the main players.

"I lowered Durant and Westbrook's playing time at the beginning of the season. If necessary, it can be further reduced and controlled within 35 minutes, so that they will have more physical reserves in the playoffs."

Donovan is a university coach. The university team plays a championship-style single-Piao competition system, which requires very high standards for the players' on-the-spot status.

Therefore, Donovan attaches great importance to the overall state of the players in the playoffs, and he will definitely shorten the rotation and increase the appearance time of the main players.

Donovan is a little worried now that if the players continue to maintain high-intensity games, there will be any problems when the playoffs approach.

After all, the opportunity this year is indeed very good. The team's overall strength is too strong. Only the Warriors are considered opponents, and the Cavaliers can only say that they are half an opponent.

Mike Brown is still different, his ideas will always be different from normal head coaches - he is Li Liang's personal coach.

Of course, every time Brown gives his opinions, he feels that he is not protecting Li Liang, but insists on sending Li Liang to the fire to roast him before he is happy.

"Billy, I'll ask you a question, how is the team's health now?" Brown asked Donovan.

"There are no major injuries, but you know, small diseases are always indispensable. Kevin's right foot, Russell's knee, Adams' elbow, and everyone in the main players have some problems." As the head coach, you must know the health of the players under your hands.

"You missed someone, Bruce, how do you think Bruce's health is?" Mike Brown pushed his glasses and asked again.

Donovan pondered for a moment, looked at Presti, and Presti shrugged, meaning that you see what I do, I am the general manager, and I don’t know much about health.

"To be honest, I don't know much about Bruce's physical condition. Anyway... I think Bruce has never suffered any injuries?"

Indeed, since entering the league, Li Liang, this magical guy, has not been injured.

At most, you can eat a radish with your fingers or some skin trauma.

Li Liang has always been very healthy for important joints such as bones, soft tissues, especially knees, elbows, and ankles.

After four years in the league, he missed two games only because of a fight ban, and the rest were diligent.

This is very similar to Westbrook. He was also an iron man back then, but his health has begun to fail in the past two years.

Mike Brown said: "Yes, Bruce is very healthy, and I can guarantee that he has not tried his best in most games this season. He can pull out the gas tank and sell it. It is a waste not to let him play more games! And, you have to know, if he wins the championship this season, he will not know where he will go next season. Don't save money on him."

If Li Liang heard Mike Brown's words, he would probably beat him up on the head.

That's how you care about your proud disciples?

I took you with you in the battle of the north and north and the north and the three feelings, are you just "betraying" me like this?

Of course, Mike Brown did not betray Li Liang, but this season he felt that Li Liang's strength was limited in the Thunder.

His comprehensive ability has been improved, but there are not many opportunities to be used.

Mike Brown is anxious!

But Li Liang seemed to be in a hurry at all, and he was so Buddhist.

The key is that he is usually very active and punctual when he comes to training, and is not late and is absent.

This made Mike Brown even more anxious, it was abnormal!

When I was late and absent in the past, it was the time when Li Liang's strength improved the fastest.

Now he participates in training normally, and his strength is just to maintain it and not improve.

Can this Mike Brown not be in a hurry?

Donovan and Presti felt it made sense after hearing Brown's words.

Especially Presti, he knew that if he won the championship this season, he would definitely not be able to keep Li Liang next season.

Therefore, this season, we should squeeze out Li Liang's value, whether it is the regular season or the playoffs, and maximize his role.

In the regular season, Li Liang used his abilities to attack the best regular season record, and in the playoffs, he used him to attack the championship.

The three of them touched their eyes and thought this idea was really great.

But Li Liang didn't know that he had been "betrayed."

...

On March 22, at night, the regular season, the Houston Rockets challenged the Thunder away.

This is the third time the two sides have played against each other this season, with the first two Thunder Division winnings.

The Rockets are currently ranked fifth in the league, one win behind the Lakers, which is also the most familiar ranking of the Rockets.

Fourth, fifth, rankings are the most intense and difficult to play in the first round of the playoffs.

If you win, you will lose, you will deserve it.

In the summer, the Rockets introduced Dwight Howard and spent a considerable price to invite the team to the team for the decline in form.

And this league is no longer the era of centers, and Howard has not met Houston fans' expectations.

Although his performance is still at the star level, providing the Rockets with reliable basket protection and rebounding.

However, he was very lame in the offense and was inefficient in low posts. He even liked to have to play singles at low posts.

As long as Howard plays singles, the opponent's defense will be easy.

Just take a big center and watch it one-on-one. No one else has to do anything, just wait to grab the rebound.

If you attack? Go around in front of you? If you don’t exist, you can fight with you. If you beat us to death, you will win.

Howard did not rely on his own strength to kill his opponent with his offense at his peak, and now it is even more unsatisfactory.

The game will be held on time at 7 p.m.

Tonight, the Thunder wore a white short-sleeved jersey, which is the new short-sleeved jersey that the league is currently promoting.

However, the Thunder's jersey design has never been very good. This white short-sleeved jersey is too white and has no decorations.

Li Liang felt like he was wearing a thermal underwear and went to the game.

How could I wear this way?

Coupled with Li Liang's ugly blue knee pads, elbow pads and wrist pads, it's really ugly.

Fortunately, he didn't bring the hair-proof hair to him, otherwise this outfit would definitely be criticized.

The Thunder's starting lineup remains unchanged, and Collison appears as the starting power forward.

The Rockets' starters are center Howard, power forward Motieyunas, small forward Ariza, defenders James Harden and Beverly.

Li Liang sat on the bench as usual and started a game, and he was already quite used to it now.

The game was about to begin, and Mike Brown suddenly came over and said, "Bruce, do you want to get another one?"

Li Liang looked questioning, "Why did you ask that, Mike."

Li Liang felt that Mike Brown was getting weirder recently and always asked some strange questions.

Mike Brown said: "I think you have the chance to get another one and bench as a substitute. This is unprecedented."

After Mike Brown said this, Li Liang suddenly became so excited.

It seems that I have never considered this issue before.
Chapter completed!