NCCnovel Chapter 190. 190. Fighting the Clippers
Chapter 190. 190. Fighting the Clippers
Chapter 190. 190. Fighting the Clippers
On March 2015, 3, the Lakers challenged the Clippers in the "away game" at the Staples Center.
It is said that it is an away game, but in fact, the two sides have changed the locker room. Only the home and away team locker room at the Staples Center is exactly the same, whether it is the same decoration or equipment.
Some teams' visiting teams are so bad, like the Celtics and Jazz's visiting team's locker room doors can't be closed, and the Bulls' visiting team's locker room doesn't even have a stool.
Of course, there is also a luxurious visiting team locker room like the Mavericks, which is better than the home team. There are even free ice cream, barbecue, and cold drinks to eat. Its "sinister" purpose is self-evident.
After entering the stadium, most of them are Lakers fans, just like the previous Lakers games against the Clippers, but today there are more Clippers fans than when the two teams played against each other. The recent high popularity and attention of the Clippers has made the Clippers fans Reluctantly spent several times the usual price to buy tickets to watch the game on the spot.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling is a complete money fanatic. Every time they play against the Lakers at home, he will set the ticket price to the highest for the entire season, which is more than three times the usual price. In addition, the US Emperor also has scalpers, which leads to Most of the Clippers fans, who are mainly working-class, are unwilling to pay that wronged money, allowing Lakers fans who are more willing to spend money to occupy most of their home courts.
Sterling doesn't care about the loss of fans. He wants to make money. Anyway, there is no problem in the football market in Los Angeles, and the tickets will always be sold out.
Rivers' ban on Clippers players has become stricter. Not only did he use his own players' jerseys to cover the Lakers' championship flag, but he also forbade players from talking to Lakers players during the game. It feels like going against the Lakers.
"Players' posters are posted on the roof of the arena. It seems that you don't have to live so long to see a lot of things." Liu Ren saw the Clippers' home court for the first time and felt very fresh.
"Using these little tricks that can't be put on the table, the Celtics come out with this kind of virtue." Kobe snorted coldly. He is a standard Lakers supporter, with hatred for the Celtics, and now it extends to the Clippers on the team.
As for Rivers' use of posters to block the Lakers' championship banner and restrict his own players from talking to the Lakers, even if Liu Ren knew about it in advance, he would still find it annoying and petty.
Maybe Rivers has the idea of building his own team culture. After all, the Clippers have lived in the shadow of the Lakers for many years, and some extreme methods must be used to complete it.
But Liu Ren still felt that the Clippers' behavior was disgusting.
The Lakers played a difficult game today. Nash, Whiteside, and Green continued to truce due to injuries. Fortunately, Kobe was able to make up for some loss of strength.
Lakers starting: McCollum, Kobe, Liu Ren, Gasol, Kaman.
The Lakers put Thackeray on the bench to enhance the strength of the bench at the center position. Kaman, who has not played for a long time, got a chance to play.
Clippers starters: Paul, Redick, Barnes, Griffin, Jordan.
Kaman and Jordan jump ball in the middle circle!
There is no suspense, Jordan won the jump ball with a huge advantage, Griffin quickly put the ball in his arms when Jordan passed the ball, and did not give Liu Ren a chance to steal.
Liu Ren turned around and returned to the defense resentfully. His stealing behavior after losing the jump ball has been alerted by all teams.
The Clippers go first.
After Paul went to the frontcourt, he picked and rolled with Griffin. The moment he cut in, he handed it to Griffin, and Paul cut to the basket.
Gasol could only chase inside. Liu Ren, who was defending Paul, did not dare to let go of Griffin, who was one step inside the three-point line. Griffin's COSCO shot has improved a lot in the past two years.
Gasol chased Paul to the inside, was blocked by Jordan, Paul entered the three-second zone, Griffin passed the ball, and Kaman and Liu Ren immediately double-teamed Paul. At this time, Paul seemed to have the ball Randomly thrown into the basket...
"boom"
Jordan succeeded in an empty dunk and scored two points for the Clippers.
Jordan was too sensitive to lobs. After blocking Gasol, he rushed to the basket. Before Paul passed the ball, he accelerated and took off. Obviously, he was very confident in his lobs!
The biggest difference between the Clippers now and before is in terms of confidence. Even Jordan is very confident in what he is good at. This is the confidence that can only be developed in winning games.
When Jordan and Paul connected in the air, the other three members of the Clippers had returned to defense. After so many games of the Lakers' lightning fast break, the top teams have been very strict with this move, even if it is They also recognize that they can't grab offensive rebounds. The first priority of the defensive end of all strong teams when dealing with the Lakers is to guard against D'Antoni's almost extreme counterattack mentality.
The Lakers attacked, and McCollum advanced to the frontcourt and handed it to Kobe. Kobe saw that Paul was defending him, and immediately chose to give the ball to Liu Ren, who was defended by Barnes.
D'Antoni's tactic is to attack and then attack. As for how to attack, his tactic has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of all Lakers players.
D'Antoni's coaching has a relatively large degree of freedom for the players, as long as they can put the ball in.
That's why Kobe and others have so much freedom to discuss their own style of play.
After yesterday's discussion, the trio of think tanks came to a conclusion, aiming at the only weakness of the Clippers lineup - small forward!
Today the Lakers focus on outside singles!The first strike target is the Clippers small forward, and the second strike target is the Clippers shooting guard.
The weakest part of the Clippers is the small forward. The only good small forward they have is Barnes. If Barnes is removed first, the Clippers can only deploy a smaller lineup.
Take a closer look at Liu Ren's current singles style. Fans who are familiar with the Rockets can see that his singles style is very similar to Harden!
Liu Ren cut to the three-point line, and then continued to make tentative steps to provoke Barnes.
Barnes is an impulsive and short-tempered master, and he can't wait to defend the opponent in twos and threes. Liu Ren's continuous tentative steps made him very irritable and unhappy.
Liu Ren took a tentative step for five or six seconds. When he heard that Barnes was breathing more and more rapidly, he suddenly took a step back and was about to shoot a three-pointer after picking up the ball!
As Liu Ren expected, Barnes rushed up regardless, wanting to slap Liu Ren's step back for three points.
but!
Liu Ren just feinted and jumped after Barnes rushed over!
Liu Ren's Harden style touching porcelain!He held the ball with both hands and hit Barnes directly, and threw the ball to the basket.
He decisively missed the shot, but the referee whistled and Barnes made a defensive foul!
"NO! This guy hit me on purpose!" Barnes yelled.
(End of this chapter)