Chapter 242: Victory in the First Battle
At halftime, Sloan wanted to tell his players to move a little more defensively in the second half, because they were too polite to the enemy in the first half, and the guys from Los Angeles were too relaxed.
The Jazz's defense has always been synonymous with dirty savagery, and they don't think there's anything wrong with that, after all, it's a way to win, but that way was limited by the referees today.
"Damn the referee! Damn the schedule! Sloan couldn't help but curse in his heart.
In the first half, as long as their defensive action is big, the damn referee will immediately blow them for defensive fouls, although the scale on both sides is the same, but this kind of defense is obviously more beneficial to the Clippers, they are like the Spurs, they don't need to use fouls to improve the defensive intensity when defending, the Clippers may be the team that will control the most fouls in the league except for the Spurs, and they are very comfortable with such a defensive scale.
The Jazz don't like this kind of penalty scale, they are used to iron-blooded defense, they are always whistled for fouls in the first half, and they are disrupted by the whistle. To add insult to injury, the twins' double-winding front defense, Sloane didn't come up with a crack until halftime, and could only let DeLong. Williams stepped up his breakthrough and hoped to save the team with the individual ability of the little fat man.
"Carlos, charge your foul." It occurred to Sloane that the twin brothers combined for only three fouls in the first half, but their Boozer and Ronnie were not the only ones combined. Brewer has already committed three fouls each, and these are two of their main players, especially. The role on the defensive end cannot be replaced, and once the foul crisis is reached, the team's defensive ability will inevitably be greatly reduced.
In the Clippers' away locker room, Dunleavy Sr. feared that a big lead in the first half would make his players complacent. The mentality of carelessness and underestimation of the enemy. But when he finished the interview. After returning to the locker room a little later. It was found that the players did not celebrate in advance in the locker room, the massage that these guys should massage, the treatment of the treatment, and some people actually took the opportunity to take a shower?
Old Dunleavy saw that Ji Guozhi had just come out of the bathroom, and this little bastard actually took a bath in the middle of the shower, so he was not afraid of accelerating fatigue after taking a bath!
Ji Guozhi took a shower and actually took out tools to tidy up his hairstyle.
"This Mohican fox lady ran away!" Many Clippers players have a lot of slander in their hearts.
Fifteen minutes passed at halftime, and the Clippers didn't need anything special. Their pre-game plan was largely completed for the first half, and today was much better than the series against the Spurs.
At the start of the second half, there were no changes to the starting line-ups of both teams, as at the beginning of the game.
Ji Guoyi will not become tired because of a bath, as soon as the second half starts, he used guò to run back in a row to get a mid-range shot in the left rib, and easily scored two points with a picturesque shot.
Boozer was on the defensive end in the second half, and he didn't dare to use too much action to prevent Ji Guosha, he has already committed three fouls, and only needs one more foul. When the time comes, you can only sit on the sidelines and watch your teammates work the field.
The Clippers saw Boozer shrink on the defensive end, and Ji Guoqiu and Billups handed over the basketball to Ji Guosha. Let him do the single Khalos. Boozer.
Boozer's booper has affected the quality of his defense, and he didn't have a good way to deal with Ji Guosha in the first half, and now he is even more timid to make Ji Guoyi want it on the offensive end.
At the end of the third quarter, the score was 86:68, and the difference between the two teams widened to 18 points.
Ji scored 14 points in the third quarter, increasing his score to 30 points and seven rebounds; And Boozer, the unlucky guy, the more he is afraid of something, the more he comes, but this guy is cautious but he was still beaten by Ji Guosha before the third quarter was halfway through. The fox brother only used a feint to shoot, and tricked the anti-bone boy into the air, and played a 2 plus 1 to send the opponent's interior core to the court.
Energy Center Stadium, Jazz fans at this time finally did not have the first half of the full spirit, after the team trailed by more than 15 points, they gradually stopped shouting, many fans found that their voices were dumb unconsciously, but they didn't even get half a pack of throat lozenges.
Looking at it this way, Sterling is still quite good, at least thoughtful.
"Cheer up, I know you have a complaint about the referee's decision, but we have to fight tenaciously and that's all we can do. We're not referees, it's not up to us to decide the whistle, but we can try to show ourselves and overcome the difficulties. ”
Sloan unleashed his mouth cannon skill on his players, but the specific arrangement did not say anything, and such a mouth cannon would not have much effect.
The old Dunleavy gave the twins enough rest time in the fourth quarter, and now the situation on the court is good, there is no need for the two of them to work hard, they can rest a little more off the court, and if the bench fights, the difference will expand to more than 20 points, then there is no need for the main force of the Clippers to return to the court.
In the fourth quarter, both teams had a bad hand, and the Jazz and Clippers didn't score in the first three minutes, but then Oku and Korver each hit a three-pointer, and the Jazz suddenly scored six straight points to close the gap.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the elder Dunleavy immediately called a timeout and took the opportunity to send all the team's starters back to the court to prevent the point difference from being further narrowed by the Jazz.
The score was 7 minutes and 30 seconds in the fourth quarter, and the score was 90:77.
The elder Dunleavy was very dissatisfied with the team's bench performance during this period, their main force did not take the opponent lightly on the field, but these substitutes were a little carried away.
After the game restarted, the Clippers began to implement the three-point strategy of the wing at the No. 4 position.
Artest has a lot better mentality after the team enters the second round, a bit like the mentality of the old captain when he just came back before the All-Star break, there is a little bit of no desire and no desire, which is also the fact that he can't always get basketball, and he will slowly adapt to it after a long time.
Ji Guoyi returned to the court and continued to run without the ball in a wide range, Artest's defensive pressure on the weak side was very small, Billups made a feint to pass the ball to Ji, but the basketball went to the unmarked Artest.
Artest received the basketball and immediately rushed to the Jazz players to make up the defense, hitting a left-wing jumper to score his seventh point of the game.
Next round. Or Artest. This time, he received the ball after Billups' breakaway and took the ball on the right side. Hit again!
After the Clippers' beast scored four straight points to score 94-79, the Clippers once again stretched the gap to 15 points.
Coach Sloan could only call another timeout, telling his players not to relax too much with Artest, who had several great games in the series against the Spurs, and not to let his guard down on him.
After the restart of the game, Delong. Williams forced a break to score two points.
The Clippers attacked, and Billups dribbled forward. He also forced a break from beyond the three-point line, causing Delon to break through. Williams defensive foul.
This time the foul did not serve, the number of fouls has not yet arrived, the Clippers sent the frontcourt ball, Billups received the ball and reorganized the offense, this time Ji Guoyi hit the right wing with his back and shot wide.
Ji Guoqiu competed with Oku for rebounds under the basket and used his ape arm to dial the blue ball to the outside.
Billups received the basketball, and the Clippers grabbed another frontcourt rebound.
The atmosphere at some of the home stadiums that had just been restored at the Energy Center Arena was down again, and today they were always ready to fight back. Being robbed of a frontcourt rebound by the Clippers was too demoralizing. And the Jazz can't keep their backcourt rebounds, but they have nothing to do with the referee, and they can't complain about the referee if they want to.
This time it was Ji Guoqiu's turn to play in the low position, perhaps in the last quarter of the game, the two brothers' hands began to decline, and Ji Guoqiu stepped on the small hook of the penalty area line this time, and he also missed it.
Boozer finally secured the backcourt rebound, and Delon Brown. Williams dribbled forward and scored inside with Oku after blocking and dismantling at the top of the arc, but unfortunately missed the shot between the two brothers.
Delong. Williams also began to be anxious, and when he was in a hurry, his shooting hand was easy to deform, and the ball that could have been thrown was also easy to hit the iron.
Artest and Boozer grabbed the rebound after a fireball under the basket, and the Clippers quickly counterattacked.
Billups received the basketball and rushed to the Jazz basket first. Williams used a foul move to knock Mr. Key off the field at this point.
"Toot!" The referee immediately blew the whistle and awarded a defensive foul.
Billups embodies the value of his Finals MVP at the moment, and if you want to compete physically, Billups is not inferior to Delon. Williams, Mr. Key, threw the basketball in his hand before falling off the court, and the basketball fell to the basket and bounced back and forth twice, and finally fell into the Nets.
With 20,000 Jazz fans and players on the court holding their heads in their hands, Billups' shot had a life-threatening effect and completely crushed their fighting spirit.
In this game, it seems that no matter how hard they try, the Clippers will always have someone to step up, and the excellent twins of the first three quarters of the table Xiàn fell in the fourth quarter, but Artest and Billups took over the task of the Clippers' firepower, and instead stretched their already gradually close score, and in the blink of an eye, it made people feel hopeless.
The Clippers players celebrated unscrupulously on the court, and at first glance they were deliberately angry with the Jazz players, especially this fox made Jazz fans and players have a toothache the most, and this guy actually performed two backflips on the court!
It's really alive, he didn't score this goal just now, why is he more excited than the person concerned?
After Ji Guoyi completed the task of attracting the hatred of the Jazz team, the next time on the offensive end, he easily deceived Kirilenko with a shooting feint.
The veteran Russian tough guy would not have eaten such an obvious feint, but the mentality of the Jazz players has been unbalanced, and this time he was deceived by Ji Guoyi and asked the fox brother to complete the task of making three free throws.
There is only half a quarter left in the game, and seeing that the Clippers are about to get three points again, many Jazz fans who feel that there is no hope have begun to leave, this game has made the fanatical Salt Lake City fans a little unbearable, the Clippers twins these two points, they have not been defended from the beginning, and they are still the same, how can they turn defeat into victory?
Jeff. Van Gundy sighed: "It's not the last minute of the game, and we usually say 'it's not over, anything can happen,' but I don't really think the Jazz have any hope of coming back from defeat right now. ”
Mark. "In the first round between the Clippers and the Spurs, we saw San Antonio go through a lot of effort and only have three games for the twins to play meso," Jackson said. At first, we thought it was a Spurs degradation, but now that the Clippers are in the second round against the Jazz, we finally know that it is not necessarily the Spurs that are declining, but that the Clippers' twin interior lines do have All-Star strength, and they are not easy to deal with. ”
Ji Guoyi hit all three free throws, the score was 100:81, and the Jazz were only one step away from trailing by 20 points.
The Jazz players gave up the game, and they didn't make a comeback after that, and the margin soon surpassed the 20-point mark.
Dunleavy Sr. replaced all the main players at 4:05 and announced that the game had entered garbage time.
Soon after, Sloan also replaced the Jazz players who had lost their desire to win, replaced them with all the substitutes, and gave up resistance.
The final score was 110-93, and the Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Utah Jazz away.
Ji Guoqiu got 20 points, 17 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks, Ji Guoyi 35 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks, Billups 14 points and 8 assists, Mobley 13 points, Artest 10 points, James. Posey 9 points, Tim. Thomas 6 points. (To be continued......) R1292