Superstar Athletes’ Black Tech Systems

After the All-Star Game, the 2017 NBA regular season will enter its final stage.

The competition in the West is as fierce as ever.

In the past few years, when the competition was the most intense, the West had 50 wins before entering the playoffs.

That was in the 2007-08 season, the Denver Nuggets won 50, and the eighth place in the Western Conference barely squeezed into the playoffs.

Then in the 13-14 season, the Lone Ranger ranked eighth in the Western Conference with 49 wins.

What is this concept?

In NBA history, since the implementation of the 82-game regular season, excluding the shrinking season, the team with the lowest number of championship regular-season wins is the Washington Bullets in 1978, with a regular season record of 44 wins and 38 losses.

With this result, the current West will not be able to make the playoffs all the year round.

There are also like the Rockets who won the sixth championship in 1995, with 47 wins, and in some seasons they could not make the playoffs.

The cruelty and fierce competition in the West can be seen.

It is impossible for the Kings to catch up with the No. 1 Warriors.

After the All-Star Game, the Warriors have already surpassed the dust and quickly opened up the distance from the teams behind them.

The King's main competitors are the Spurs and Thunder.

It has to be said that sending Leonard away is a loss for the Spurs, but getting Booker and Wiggins all at once is a loss for Sewin, who knows it is not a blessing.

Wiggins did not realize his potential in the Lakers, and worked hard after arriving in the Spurs, but he still did not realize his full potential.

But in comparison, he is already an All-Star striker, and under Popovich's training, his defense is much stronger.

The Spurs' team basketball is still quite powerful in the regular season, ranking third in the West after the Kings.

Ranked fourth in the Western Conference, only one game away from the Spurs is the Thunder.

As the defending champion, the Thunder's momentum at the beginning of the season was very fierce, and it was once on an equal footing with the Warriors.

But without Li Liang, the team's lineup depth, continuity, and endurance are greatly reduced, and they have returned to the old routine of Wang Zha.

Moreover, injuries hit the Thunder in the middle of the season. There were no major injuries, but minor injuries continued.

This undoubtedly affected the stability of the Thunder in the regular season, and the ranking also dropped to the fourth position, with a win gap with the Spurs.

The fifth to eighth places are the battlegrounds for the Lakers, Clippers, Jazz, Grizzlies and Trail Blazers.

Originally, there was still a Rocket. After sending away James Harden, the Rockets withdrew from the playoffs.

Fifth to eighth, whichever is placed in the East, are all teams that can compete for the top spot in the East.

It's a pity that they are in the West. Even if they make it to the playoffs, the chances of winning the next game are quite low.

Facing such a fiercely competitive Western Conference, Li Liang's Kings team was recuperating and did not go all out to compete with other teams.

Although Li Liang gave Rondo, Gordon and others bruise pills at the beginning of the season, the bruise pills only make the players less likely to get injured and recover quickly after the injury recovers, but it does not guarantee that they will not be injured at all. , and there is no guarantee that players will be in good condition.

Therefore, Li Liang began to expand the team's rotation very early and control the players' playing time.

Li Liang doesn't like taking rotations. He strives to keep the playing time of the main players below 35 minutes.

The whole team finished the last dozens of games of the regular season in a state of steady standby.

Because of Li Liang's strategic relaxation, the King's performance in the second half seemed to return to the unstable state at the beginning of the season.

Win four or five games, lose one game, win three or four games, and lose one game.

But looking at the specific performance on the field, you will know that it is not that simple.

The Kings lost, mostly to some underdogs that couldn't make the playoffs.

This kind of game, Li Liang will use it to practice, let the substitute players and the players at the end of the bench play more.

It's good to win, but I learned my lesson and rehearsed the lineup when I lost.

For Li Liang, whether he can be number one in the regular season is of little significance.

After all, in the playoffs, the benefits of high rankings are really small.

82 games, working hard for a season, the gain in the playoffs is an extra home court.

Judging from Li Liang's own historical playoff record, the number of away games is more than that at home.

He is a typical away game dragon. Some classic games and scoring frenzy are all played on the away game.

Therefore, Li Liang doesn't care whether the series has home court advantage or not.

In addition to coaching games, another great joy of Li Liang is tweeting.

Since he opened Twitter this season, Li Liang has become a Twitter fanatic.

There are three main content of this tweet: 1. Pre-match predictions, 2. Post-match comments, and 3. Interaction with Tang Laozhuang.

As the head coach, Li Liang is a bit controversial, even making pre-match predictions.

However, after half a season, everyone found that the accuracy of Li Liang's prediction of the outcome was astonishingly high, reaching 70%, close to 80%.

This is a very high prediction accuracy rate, and he does not predict his own team's games, but only other teams.

Li Liang can often predict some upset games.

Even if the prediction was wrong, after watching the game, it was almost as good as what Li Liang said, which is amazing.

Sometimes he even predicts the score, and it is very accurate, which is a bit scary.

It's actually very simple, because Li Liang can simulate the results of the game in [Stern's Simulation World].

Because Li Liang's prediction was accurate, he was called the bright light of Sacramento.

For a while, even gaming companies would refer to Li Liang's Twitter predictions.

And the second post-match commentary has robbed many media experts of their jobs.

Because the number of words for each tweet on Twitter is limited, Li Liang couldn't make a long speech.

But he can always make the most sharp and precise comments with the least number of words.

What the fans see is lively, and after every game, the first person in the NBA can be seen pointing at others.

Today James is defensively akimbo, tomorrow there is a problem with Curry's dunk selection, and the day after tomorrow Harden has too many free throws.

Anyway, in terms of the ability to create topics, Li Liang is still the only one, and the next one is empty.

But the coaches of other teams, as well as expert commentators, realized that this guy was really watching the game seriously.

After each game day, Li Liang would take time to watch the game videos of other teams made by the video editor.

Especially the videos of Western Conference competitors such as the Warriors, Thunder, and Spurs, he will study them carefully.

Have a more objective and clear understanding of them in your mind.

Only in this way can they be targeted in the playoffs.

What's more, Li Liang's Twitter is true or false, you don't know whether he is joking or telling the truth.

But some views are indeed unique, causing other coaches in the league to pay attention to his Twitter and listen to his chanting.

Of course, these two contents are mainly things in the basketball circle, and their influence is mainly in the basketball circle.

The third item is different, interacting with Grand Commander Tang Lao Zhuang on Twitter now.

In fact, the NBA circle has always been at odds with Tang Laozhuang, like James on the other side of the platform, often satirizing Tang Laozhuang.

Li Liang was different. Last time the two did not know each other on Twitter, he often sang along with Old Tang on Twitter.

Especially when Tang Laozhuang mentioned China, Li Liang played an explaining role at this time.

In fact, before the election, Mr. Tang liked to tweet about China, and there were good things to say.

So far, it's mostly good things.

Of course, he didn't really want to praise China, but took the opportunity to satirize his predecessor.

At this time, Li Liang was either singing the opposite tune, or supporting the fire, and occasionally agreed with his argument.

In fact, Old Tang didn't take it too seriously at first, because his tweets were all carefully planned by the team to show the effect.

But over time, Old Tang and his team realized that something was wrong.

People's attention to Bruce Lee seems to be on an equal footing with Tang Laozhuang.

Everyone's first reaction after seeing the commander-in-chief's tweet is often I'll see how Bruce Lee responds.

This is a bit scary.

This means that there is a possibility that a certain foreign athlete may be involved in Tang Laozhuang's carefully planned Twitter governance.

Influenced by Li Liang, the number of Twitter posts by Lao Tang in March and April, especially those related to China, decreased.

Of course, as the playoffs approached, the number of Li Liang's tweets also decreased.

He is about to usher in the biggest and toughest playoff exam of his career.