inspire-indiana Chapter 158 The end of the regular season
Chapter 158 The end of the regular season
Chapter 158 The end of the regular season
In the final matchup before the playoffs, neither the Clippers nor the Lakers had any plans to train again.
As soon as the game started, the competition between the two teams entered a fierce battle.
Bynum defeated Jordan in the jump ball stage, and the Lakers quickly dribbled the ball across half court and passed the ball to the inside as soon as they got the ball.
Gasol skillfully attacked Boozer with his back. Boozer's defense was not serious, but he just couldn't defend it.
In the Clippers' offensive round, Iverson also handed the ball to the inside, allowing Boozer to try to make a match with Gasol.
Boozer tried hard and failed to hit. Fortunately, he grabbed the rebound and didn't rush to hit it. Instead, he chose to pass the ball.
Perhaps it was also because of the chaotic rebounding, Kobe was a little slack in chasing Lu Yi who had no ball.
Ariza saw Luigi's position and took a risk to pass the ball.
Lu Yi didn't hesitate after receiving the ball, and directly shot a three-pointer.
The ball is in!
3 is better than 2!
There is no doubt that Lu Yi is the pinnacle of the Clippers.
As long as Lu Yi can score, the Clippers don't have any problems.
The Lakers returned to serve from the bottom line, but this time Fisher made a dribble error.
Just after halftime, the ball was dribbled to the instep, and then the ball rolled back to the backcourt.
Fisher hurried to chase, but the ball had already returned.
"Return violation" is an unbearable low-level mistake for NBA players.
The problem is, the Clippers played such a high-level match with the Lakers. Not long after the game started, such a problem really occurred.
The ball was exchanged, and the Clippers got a chance to lead the score.
At this time, Lu Yi and others will naturally not miss it.
With the help of running across the top of the arc with Lu Yi, Iverson threw off Fisher all of a sudden, and took the ball to the inside to kill.
Jordan split from the paint, played a pick-and-roll with Iverson, and finally caught the ball in the air and dunked the ball into the basket.
From being behind 0 to 2 to leading 5 to 2, it took just half a minute.
As the Lakers resumed their offense, the Clippers fans on the scene became nervous, shouting "defense, defense, defense."
It is not easy to always lead in a game of strong dialogue.
But if you can always lead, the opponent will feel a lot of pressure, and the chance of losing the chain at the critical moment will be very high.
The Clippers want to win this game and put pressure on the Lakers, that is a must.
The Lakers continued to pass the ball inside, and this time Boozer settled ahead of time, trying to use small moves to keep Gasol outside.
Gasol tried it, but instead of playing by himself, he chose to pass the ball.
You can fight, but not indiscriminately. This is the difference between a strong team and a weak team.
Anyone in the weak team can score points, while the strong team plays with weak defenses in a disciplined manner.
In this wave of offense, the Lakers finally handed over to Kobe.
The defensive strategy adopted by the Clippers is to double-team Kobe and let Artest go.
Kobe didn't choose to pass the ball in the last few seconds, but threw the ball against Lu Yi's defense and Ariza's double-team.
Difficult shots basically represent a low shooting percentage, and this time is no exception.
Kobe missed a shot, Jordan grabbed a rebound, and the Clippers took the opportunity to play a fast break.
Iverson scored two points with a fast break.
The point difference was 7 to 2, and the Zen master had to call a timeout to adjust the Lakers.
After the timeout ended, the Lakers' offensive and defensive changes were extremely limited, and the Clippers continued to grasp the rhythm of the game.
After the offense and defense in the first quarter, the difference between the two teams was 31 points and 24 points. The Clippers consolidated the point difference at more than 5 points, which is obviously very informative for the final victory of this game.
Time soon came to the second quarter. Although Gasol broke out in a small wave and scored in double figures in a single quarter, the Lakers' decline in the game did not fundamentally change.
Relying on team basketball, the Clippers scored 28 points in a single quarter.
Although it was a little worse than the first quarter, it was just a fluctuation in the feel.
The Lakers, who are one year older, can devote a lot less energy on the defensive end than last year.
As for the offensive end, the impact on the Clippers' defense is also relatively limited.
Not only the fans of the Lakers and Clippers, but also many spectators who watched the game were a little unbelievable.
In the regular season game between the Lakers and the Clippers, it was not that the Lakers had problems with their offensive and defensive strategies, but that the overall strength of the Lakers was not as good as the Clippers.
It is precisely because of this that every time the two teams play against each other, the Lakers lose and the Clippers win.
As for, isn't it true that Lu Yi already has the personal ability to surpass Kobe and the ability to lead the team?
It's hard to say.
But if Lu Yi wins the MVP of this season's regular season, and can fight against super gods and achieve extremely dazzling results in the playoffs, then it is not impossible for Lu Yi to surpass Kobe in the eyes of some fans.
112 to 104, under the incredible exclamation of the fans, the Clippers successfully defeated the Lakers and won another regular season victory.
On March 3, the Clippers continued back-to-back, this time against the Raptors at home.
Because they just defeated the Lakers and are approaching the playoffs, the Clippers finally started to rest their main players this time.
Lu Yi, Iverson, and Boozer took turns at the same time.
However, after the Raptors left Bosh, they did not have the competitiveness of the playoffs. Now that it has come to the end of the season, the Raptors started to perform badly early.
Therefore, under the leadership of young players such as Gordon, the Clippers have also achieved good results.
90 to 98, the Clippers won this back-to-back home victory by 8 points.
On March 3, the situation returned, and the Clippers played against the Mavericks at home.
The second in the West played against the fourth in the West. Although this game was played at the Clippers' home court, it was extremely thrilling.
The Mavericks felt very good as soon as they came up, beating the Clippers 13 to 4.
Dunleavy hurriedly made adjustments, but the effect was mediocre.
The team fell behind by a large score, and only Lu Yi could stand up at this time.
The Mavericks have also been prepared to defend the Clippers, and the double-teaming of Lu Yi is not merciful at all.
Facing an opponent who might be in the Western Conference Finals, Lu Yi was not reconciled to the team's defeat.
Try to lead the Clippers to win with Kobe's defense.
In order to cooperate with Lu Yi and let Lu Yi lead the team better, Dunleavy once removed Iverson and Ariza together, and replaced Gordon and Korver at the same time, adding pitchers on both sides of Lu Yi.
However, it was the first time he played in this way, and Lu Yi himself was a little uncomfortable.
The team not only needs his offense to stabilize the situation, but also needs his teammates to be able to receive open opportunities from him to hit some simple balls.
It has to be said that a hasty response can only lead to hasty results.
The Clippers once saw the hope of winning, but in the end they missed a move.
104 to 100, the Clippers lost the game by 4 points.
However, looking at this game from another perspective, it also gave the Clippers some different game experience.
Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs.
The Clippers are not a game they can't lose in the regular season.
Just try to win every game in the playoffs as much as possible.
Besides, the strength and lineup of the Mavericks are already above the Clippers.
The Clippers were able to play evenly with the Mavericks in the regular season, and it was more restraint in the lineup.
In addition, the outside shooting percentage of the Luyi League is the only one.
In fact, if the Clippers focus on playing inside and then slow down the pace of the game, they may still have a chance to win the game.
It's a pity that the Clippers lost too many points at the beginning and had to compete with the Mavericks to attack, but eventually fell into the Mavericks' offensive rhythm.
After losing to the Mavericks, the Clippers quickly swept away the haze.
On April 4, the Clippers headed to Phoenix to play against the Suns.
Before the start of the All-Star weekend, the Suns were still a playoff-level team in the Western Conference, but in the second half of the regular season, they played worse and worse.
The key is the uncertainty of Carter's position, and the fact that Nash is getting older and his state has fluctuated.
Some time ago, when Nash was injured, the team was completely finished.
Today, the Clippers played the Suns, which is the Suns without Nash.
111 to 95, the Suns can only fight offense, basically no defense, the Clippers are still very easy to score.
Without Nash sorting out the offense, the Suns' own offense could not be played, but the Clippers suddenly opened up the point difference.
After playing the Suns, the Clippers returned to Los Angeles overnight.
On April 4, wait for Thunder to come to challenge.
The back-to-back schedule is not good for the Clippers, and the young Thunder can occasionally erupt into incredible youth storms.
Durant and Westbrook each played their own wonderful performances today.
Durant faced double-teaming in the first three quarters, but still played a dislocation effect that ignored the defense.
No matter how you shoot from the outside, you can still hit a three-pointer every now and then.
Westbrook used Durant to attract the defense, broke in with the ball, and occasionally made a zombie jumper.
Dunleavy realized that the situation was wrong and adjusted his defensive strategy in time.
The Clippers tried to double-team Westbrook and limit the Thunder's point of possession.
Unexpectedly, it is still a reasonable turtle today.
When Westbrook scored 21 points in three quarters, he didn't get ahead. Instead, he chose to hand the ball to his teammates in the fourth quarter.
At the critical moment, Ibaka and Durant successively carried the banner of the team's offense.
Westbrook suddenly made a wave of dunks with the ball while the Clippers lightened their defense against him, demonstrating his seemingly endless physical fitness on the court.
Facing the continuous impact of the Thunder, the Clippers really couldn't stand it.
96 to 92, in the end the Clippers lost to the Thunder by 4 points, and it was extremely regrettable to swallow a defeat.
Fortunately, the Lakers' schedule has not been easy recently. The Clippers and the Lakers won the same game, relying on matchups to win, and still maintain the second position in the West.
The time came to April 4, when the Clippers were a guest in Memphis.
Today's battle was not easy. The Grizzlies, who are getting more and more experienced in defense, started a slow pace with the Clippers.
It was difficult for the Clippers to adapt at first.
However, with the support of Lu Yi's sudden burst of touch, a 9-0 spurt was played in the middle, and he quickly took the initiative of the rhythm of the game firmly in his own hands.
89 to 81, the Clippers from afar won the final victory.
The Clippers, who regained victory, naturally played better and better.
On April 4, the Clippers played back-to-back away games against the Thunder.
The Thunder's youth storm did not affect the Clippers this time, and Durant's touch today is not as explosive as before.
Reasonable double-teaming also limited Durant's offensive firepower to a certain extent.
Westbrook lacks Durant's outside firepower support, blindly holding the ball to kill inside, and the scoring efficiency is relatively low.
In the case of not getting excellent data in the first three quarters, Westbrook was more or less lost, and did some things that loved ones and enemies were happy.
112 to 101, the Clippers finally got their revenge and won the Thunder by a big score at home.
However, as a guest in Dallas on April 4, the goddess of luck once again favored the Mavericks, and did not treat the Clippers differently.
Mavericks bench, Peja, Barea, Terry killed crazy.
The three substitutes scored 48 points together, playing the Clippers' main force one head and two big.
即便卢易全场29投13中，三分11投5，罚球6投6中，砍下37分8篮板5助攻2抢断2盖帽的全能数据，却依旧不敌打团队篮球的小牛。
98 to 106, the Clippers lost to the Mavericks again by 8 points.
This also casts a cloud over the Clippers' possibility of facing the Mavericks in the playoffs.
Fortunately, the regular season is not over, and the Clippers have time to adjust their mentality.
On April 4th, although they played back-to-back away games, the opponent was Mosaic.
This made the Clippers breathe a sigh of relief.
Lu Yi only played the first half and clocked out of get off work early.
The main players such as Iverson and Boozer are not too big, and more game time is given to rotation players.
The playoffs are about to begin, and the Clippers' playoff roster has been determined.
Before the playoffs, some unnecessary consumption should be avoided.
Time soon came to April 4, the Clippers' last regular season game of the season.
Fortunately, this time it is playing at the Staples Center at home.
The eighth Grizzlies in the West came to challenge the third Clippers in the West.
Of course, if the Clippers lose tonight's game and the Mavericks win tonight's game, the Mavericks will overtake the Clippers and become the third team in the West.
The No. 60 team in the Western Conference this season is the Spurs, which has won [-] wins.
A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. The Spurs can rush back to No. 60 in the Western Conference and have won [-] wins in the regular season. This is an opponent that no one wants to face in advance.
The Clippers are not afraid to fight the Spurs, but they are unwilling to take the initiative to come across the Spurs.
Therefore, the Clippers decided to win the next opponent.
And took the initiative to choose the sixth Nuggets in the Western Conference as their opponents in the playoffs.
Unfortunately, sometimes things backfire.
Even though the Grizzlies lineup is still a little behind the Clippers.
But in recent seasons, the Grizzlies, who have worked hard for a long time, finally saw the hope of reaching the playoffs. Today's regular season is also regarded as a playoff.
The Clippers didn't take the Grizzlies too seriously, but the Grizzlies took the Clippers as a research opponent for the playoffs early on.
For this game, the Grizzlies scored 120 points.
The Clippers wanted to win, but finally chose to give up.
The Thunder, fifth in the West, was originally one of the Clippers' playoff opponents.
The Clippers are prepared with both hands, but it depends on the final situation.
Today's Grizzlies played particularly physical confrontation, and the Clippers were worried about players being injured, so they called for money in advance.
The Grizzlies deserve this win, so why don't the Clippers do it for them?
The Clippers finally decided to give up the game, which was actually Lu Yi's proposal.
In Lu Yi's memory, it was the Grizzlies in front of him that upset this year's Spurs.
The Grizzlies originally didn't have the strength of the Black Eight, but who told the Spurs to hurt two of their core GDP?
For the Clippers, the easier way to reach the Western Conference Finals is actually what it is now, with the fourth overall pick in the playoffs, making it to the playoffs.
The regular season has officially come to an end. The first round of the Western Conference this year is the Spurs against the Grizzlies, the Lakers against the Hornets, the Mavericks against the Nuggets, and the Clippers against the Thunder.
(End of this chapter)