Chapter 741 Champion

Li Liang hasn't chanted sutras on the court for a long time.

Reciting scriptures on the court is harmful to one's IQ. Li Liang doesn't want to think of himself as a mentally handicapped person just to win a few games.

But today is different. At such a critical moment, it is worth Li Liang's small sacrifices in terms of IQ in exchange for major benefits.

As a player who is familiar with the "Dai Jing" and who has nothing to do, Li Liang is already quite familiar with the scriptures.

This is a broad and profound scripture that can teach you to deal with various situations on the basketball court, not just to confuse opponents.

No wonder the props obtained from Duncan, you see, are different from those obtained from Corvo.

Kobe is a Kodinger, before he shoots, you never know whether he is an angel or a devil today.

And Duncan has always been so stable, you don't need to worry too much.

It seems that the props also reflect the characteristics and essence of the players, which Li Liang gradually realized in the process of using them.

After getting Curry off the field, the Warriors fell into a passive state again in the second quarter.

Without Curry, the Warriors' offensive choices became similar to those of the Pacers. Whoever gets the ball will have a good chance in front of him, and he will attack with the ball. field rebounds.

This is an obvious desperate style of play. Basically, this will happen in the sixth and seventh games of the finals.

Crazy rebounding, crazy defense, crazy killing inside.

Of course, what's a little different now is that the Warriors will shoot 3-pointers like crazy.

In the absence of Curry, Thompson alone supported the Warriors' three-point firepower from the outside.

He scored three three-pointers in the first quarter, and he hit two three-pointers again in the second quarter to help the Warriors cling to the score.

As for the Pacers, Li Liang should be the most calm player. He didn't mess up at all, controlled the ball on the outside, stabilized the team's offense, and directed the defense with all his strength, making the Pacers' fence even stronger. .

The Pacers' lead has been maintained at more than 5 points, and it was close to 10 points at one point, but Thompson's three-pointer and Iguodala's fast break allowed the Warriors to maintain the gap and did not let the score be pulled away to more than 10 points.

Conseco's fans are going to be hoarse, it's only the first half, comrades.

This is the craziest home fans that Li Liang has experienced in the past three years. He was in Los Angeles before, and his opponents were Miami twice.

During the timeout, the Pacers' mascot, Buser, ran around the field holding the Pacers' huge team flag. The sound of the scene was deafening. Coupled with the shouts of the DJ, the coaches on both sides had to arrange tactics. Shout out to the players.

In the first half, Li Liang played completely like a team player, with a lot of passing, supporting, covering, and actively participating in the defense, and kept boosting the morale of the team. The morale value of the Pacers team It can be said to be explosive.

Because it was the first time for many people, the possibility of a championship was touched for the first time, and the feeling of overwhelming emotion was not comparable to other moments.

Kevin Garnett was not the first time, but he knew that this must be his last chance, so he kept applauding, yelling, and cheering everyone up.

The game has been intense since the second quarter, and Curry didn't reappear until the last five minutes of the second quarter.

At this time, the score between the two sides was 49:42, and the Pacers led the Warriors by 7 points.

Kerr knew that if Curry fouled again, he would almost never play tonight.

But Curry can't play, the Warriors' offense really can't hold on, Thompson has lost the accuracy of the three-pointer after being marked by the Pacers - JR-Smith sticks to Thompson like a mad dog, let Thompson break through Go inside and let Li Liang come to help defend.

Danny Granger took up the important task of grabbing rebounds. He has put together 6 backcourt rebounds tonight to relieve Li Liang's defensive pressure.

As soon as the Warriors came to Curry, Bird immediately replaced George Hill, who had just gone down to rest for a long time.

Hill's contribution to Curry's restrictions in this finals is indispensable. Not only on the defensive end, Hill can even kill Curry on the offensive end.

As the MVP, Curry failed to swallow his own defense in the finals, indicating that he still has a way to go.

In contrast, the Warriors don't have any player to defend against Li Liang, because no one can say that it can be done, and it must be a round-robin battle and multiple double-teams.

Multiplayer defense is often a helpless choice, because it will lead to instability of the team's defensive system, lack of toughness, and higher risk of penetration.

But there was no way, if he didn't defend like this, he would just be stabbed by Li Liang alone.

After Curry came on the field, he held his breath. Faced with Hill's entanglement, he caught the ball after consecutive screens, dribbled behind his back to avoid Hill's defense, and forced a super-long three-pointer from the outside.

After scoring the goal, Curry clenched his fist and roared to vent his anger.

And Li Liang's response came very quickly. The Pacers quickly served the ball from the backcourt. Li Liang quickly went to the frontcourt, received the ball at 45 degrees to the right and made a super long three-pointer.

He caught an oversight in Thompson's defense and hit a shaky footing.

Thompson is out of luck. He is too tired. He has to keep the team alive on the offensive end, and he has to spend a lot of energy on the defensive end to deal with Li Liang.

It was only the second quarter that I couldn't hold on.

The intensity of the last three games between the two sides has been very high, especially after the Warriors used five players.

Wu Xiao's power is indeed very strong, but it also consumes the players' physical energy. Several strikers have to allocate part of their physical energy to block inside, grab rebounds, and supplement defense.

Originally, Bogut could do these tasks very well, but his offense is too useless.

Then, in the first game, Cole still had a 10-man rotation, but now it has become an 8-man rotation, and the playing time of each player has greatly increased.

Not everyone is like Li Liang, who gets a bottle of Gatorade when he is tired, and is full of blood to revive the gods.

The physical fitness of the Warriors players is declining rapidly, but they can still hold on. In the last minute of the second quarter, Thompson hit a three-pointer again and caused a foul by JR-Smith!

Hit four points!

After Thompson made an additional free throw, the score between the two sides in the first half was 55:51. The original 8-point gap was directly caught up by Thompson's attack to only 4 points.

With strong fighting spirit and tenacious combat ability, the warrior is still struggling in the tsunami of Conseco Mountain, and is always ready to give a fatal blow to the unsteady opponent.

The Pacers managed to pull the point difference to 8 points. The loss of 4 points was very demoralizing.

During halftime, Li Liang cheered up the team and told everyone, "The last second half, this will be our last second half of the season, guys, kill 'em, kill 'em! Kill 'em and we'll have everything !Have a whole season and a whole summer! If we can't do it, you know what to lose, imagine, I've never lost a championship, I can't imagine, imagine yourselves. I will fight until the game The moment it's over, until then I'm not going to look at the score, I'm not going to care about anything else, I'm just going to play and kill my opponent!"

Li Liang usually seldom pushes the game, but now it is different, he needs the strength of the whole team.

When he was about to play, Larry Bird rarely surrounded all the players in a circle, and said in his calm and indifferent voice: "You are the most amazing team I have ever formed, and I am so proud of you."

Bird still didn't say anything exciting and passionate, it was so faint, but it filled everyone's heart.

"Best team!" Everyone shouted.

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Returning to the game in the third quarter, the Pacers led by 4 points and played a tight defense against the Warriors.

It was no longer JR Smith who defended Klay Thompson, but Li Liang—the one who opened the golden shield.

The inner basket protection was temporarily weakened, and JR-Smith and Granger headed to the inner position.

Li Liang completely extinguished Thompson's firepower, followed him like a shadow, and had an advantage in height and wingspan, which greatly interfered with Thompson's shooting.

The Warriors seized the opportunity to attack the paint, but Danny Granger and Smith resisted.

After Cole replaced Ezeli, Bird decisively let McGee play. McGee played for three minutes and gave the Warriors three caps.

On the other hand, Li Liang succeeded in making two consecutive breakthrough jump shots during the offense, helping the Pacers gain a double-digit lead.

The Warriors finally began to slowly crumble.

If Thompson can still hit a three-pointer, it can renew the Warriors' life.

But Li Liang was desperate to block the eye. At the same time, Curry, Iguodala, and Barnes failed to stand up in the offense and deal a fatal blow to the Pacers.

Curry's touch was not raised at all, he was annoyed by fouls and Hill's defense, and completely lost his rhythm.

The Pacers began to gradually widen the score.

When the point difference was stretched to 11 points, Cole called a timeout.

The current situation of the Warriors is a bit similar to the Thunder in 2012. They are very talented and have a stronger team, but facing the experienced James, they were suddenly beaten.

With the talent and strength of the Thunder, they will not be taken away by the Heat 1:4 in the finals, especially in Miami, which lost 3 consecutive away games.

The Warriors may not be as eye-catching as the Thunder in terms of talent, but the maturity of the team is better than the Thunder, which can be seen from the regular season record.

But they encountered a monster who was more experienced than James, but was actually only a third-year monster.

Li Liang played as a team in this game, but he was keenly aware that after this timeout, it would be a good opportunity to kill the Warriors.

Without the three-point shooting percentage improvement sticker, Li Liang can still feel the ups and downs of his touch. Now, it is definitely an opportunity.

After the timeout ended, Cole hoped that the team would improve a bit and close the point difference to within 5 points in the third quarter, so that they would still have a chance in the fourth quarter.

As long as this game is won and the seventh game returns to Oakland, the situation will be completely different.

But when Li Liang's timeout was over, he made a steal first and succeeded in an easy layup, Cole knew that things were not that simple.

Shit, things are never easy with Bruce Lee around!

Immediately afterwards, Curry finally passed the ball to Iguodala and hit a three-pointer.

Immediately afterwards, Li Liang immediately responded with a three-pointer.

Cole felt his heart beating a little faster, and wanted some quick-acting heart-rescuing pills. It seems like something is coming.

Yes, something is coming, Bruce Lee's sudden death is coming.

The Warriors missed another attack, and during the counterattack, Granger made a three-pointer after receiving a pass from Li Liang.

Green made a strong attack at the basket and was intercepted by Smith. Li Liang made a quick move and faced the Warriors with a double siege.

Familiar formula, familiar taste.

Cole felt a little short of breath. Damn, is a heart attack really coming?

Fans at the Conseco Arena saw the light of victory.

On the final attack of the third quarter, Li Liang held the ball from outside, and the Warriors came up ahead of time to double-team.

Li Liang didn't pass at all, he took two steps back, stood two meters away from the three-point line, and fired!

The Paris cannons in the NBA arena roared, and the board hit!

The ball pushed Conseco's vibe to a high point.

As Green barely missed the last three-pointer, at the end of the three quarters, the score between the two sides became 90:73, and the point difference became 17 points that were difficult to catch up.

For the Pacers, the championship is within reach.

When the fourth quarter started, no one was sitting and watching, no one was sitting.

Because you can't see it when you're sitting, most people are standing, and then everyone has to stand up.

The worst part was the spectators sitting behind the players' bench. They had the best position, but Garnett, McGee and others all stood and watched, and the people behind couldn't see it.

But it doesn't matter, time is missing a little bit, and the Pacers are getting closer and closer to the championship.

They once won three championships in the ABA. They are the state of basketball. The 1970s was the most glorious period of Indiana basketball. Professional basketball and college basketball blossomed. High school basketball is famous all over the United States.

40 years have passed, and the people here have waited too long and suppressed it for too long.

They deserve a championship, they are always only one superstar away.

The Warriors have collapsed across the board. This young player has all the conditions and qualities to become a champion, but they lacked a little luck in this year's finals.

MVP Curry did not give up, he can still hit three-pointers.

But the man wearing the No. 28 jersey is also making a three-pointer.

He scored another 40 points.

The Warriors players suddenly didn't want to resist, because the result of resisting again may be another 50 points for Li Liang.

After scoring 40 points, Li Liang's scoring average in this finals reached 40 points, including two unprecedented 50 points.

And also sent 7.2 assists, 8.3 rebounds, 3.5 steals, and 1.5 blocks per game.

This is an astonishing statistic. Of course, a comparison will find that it is still not as good as Michael Jordan, who won three consecutive championships in 1993...

The main reason is that in the two games lost to the Warriors, Li Liang's data was a bit mediocre, and Li Liang had many indescribable functions that cannot be shown by data.

And he has a higher shooting percentage and higher efficiency. It is extremely difficult to surpass Jordan in this regard.

Moreover, he is only in the third grade, in his own words, "I am still a child!"

With the last five minutes of the fourth quarter, the point difference dropped to 20 points, Cole replaced the main players, and the game entered garbage time.

Finally, Conseco Arena began to celebrate.

Li Liang hit two more free throws to push his score to 42 before Bird replaced him.

The audience ushered in the warmest applause and cheers, and many Indiana fans shouted, "Once again! (Play another season!)"

Zinima, you all know that Lao Tzu is leaving? I have won you a championship, can't I say something good?

Li Liang pretended not to hear, and hugged his teammates after the end.

For Li Liang, the championship this season is indeed a bit difficult.

Anyway, it is a little more difficult than the two championships in Los Angeles.

If I had to describe it, I was sweating a little.

Therefore, Li Liang was in a better mood and more excited when he won the championship than the previous two times.

In contrast, there is nothing worse than watching an opponent win the championship away from the crowd.

The Warriors' bench became the only sad place in Conseco.

When the game time finally ran out and the buzzer sounded, all the Pacers players rushed onto the field.

Reporters and staff members rushed forward. This is the end of the 2014-2015 season.

Li Liang raised his arms high, this natural winner, who has never let the champion fall behind since 2012, shouted the famous saying, "Champion! Champion!"

A new book has been released, under review, "The King of Poetry in America".