The elder Dunleavy feels that Ji Guoyi's big mouth sometimes plays a role in the team's favor at the press conference, and the biggest positive effect is to relieve pressure on the team. was so troubled by him before the game, the Lakers players on the opposite side must not be much better, but the Clippers players invisibly reduced the pressure in their hearts, and the little fox's move was to harm others and benefit themselves, and they did a good job.

In this game, even a player like Billups, who has seen a big scene, was a little nervous before the game, and this game is likely to set a record for league playoff ratings in recent years.

As early as the first round of the playoffs, when the Clippers and Spurs battled, the ratings of the two teams frequently broke records, especially in the fifth game between the two teams, the ratings set a record since 2000, the ratings of this game reached an astonishing 10.4, while last season's Spurs and Cavaliers Finals ratings were only 6.2, and last year's MLB finals only averaged 10.1 ratings.

The ratings of a mere first-round playoff game actually exceeded the ratings of the Major League Baseball finals, which made the entire United States surprised afterwards, and 15.5 million households tuned in to watch a first-round playoff game, which was considered a ratings miracle by Wall Street.

The ratings in the Los Angeles area reached 20.5, and the ratings in the Los Angeles area reached an astonishing 21.8 in Game 4 of the second round of the Clippers, which has surpassed the ratings of the second round game of the Lakers, which shows that although the Lakers are more popular with Los Angeles residents, Los Angeles residents are also watching the Clippers.

With the Western Conference Finals approaching, the NBA playoffs continued to show good ratings, with ABC predicting that the Western Conference Finals ratings would reach around 11. You know, the ratings of last year's finals were only 6.2. It is said that at that time David . Stern's hair turned gray and he vowed never to let the Spurs reach the Finals again.

This year, both Los Angeles teams, as well as the Celtics and Cavaliers, were taken care of by the referees in the game, and this is the knock-on effect of the Spurs' lowest ratings in history last season, and the league is trying to increase the ratings. I have to try my best to get these favorite teams to enter the division finals and even the finals, after all, no one wants to watch the Spurs and Pistons play a boring game in the finals with only seven or eighty points. Stern says he can't stand the stimulus anymore.

This year's ratings in the East and West are all red, especially the Los Angeles derby, which may create super high ratings that cannot be achieved by the Zào Finals. Stern also suddenly seemed to be several years younger. Maybe I can work for a few more years when I'm happy, although this is not good news for Xiao Hua.

This year's divisional finals will enforce the 232 rules, which are not as beneficial to the home team as they think, once the first two home teams lose one. The opponent's three consecutive home games are likely to take away the team with home field advantage in waves. Any team that can reach the division finals will definitely be much different from each other, especially in the west this year.

But...... When the Clippers players entered the stadium and saw that the familiar court had turned purple and gold, they immediately knew that the home and away games were simply floating clouds for them, and they couldn't play seven away games!

"The Clippers are in a big...... Clippers Big Bad ......"

The Lakers fans shouted the slogans in unison, but no matter what, it was much better than the racist abuse of the Salt Lake City fans. Although the two teams are mortal enemies, after all, they are in the same city, and everyone looks down and doesn't look up. The atmosphere is still relatively civilized.

Lakers fans have a naked "contempt" for the Clippers, and the aristocratic lords look down on the Clippers and are even more lazy to scold the Clippers!

The only good news for the two brothers today is playing in Los Angeles, even away. Swift and Kristen plus Emma. Roberts were all available to watch the game, but their No.6 and No.9 jerseys were a bit of an eyesore in the purple and gold of the stadium. But it doesn't matter. They weren't the only eyesore, the Beckhams were also wearing Clippers jerseys. It made Lakers fans very unhappy; and that little Hermione, who also wore Ji Guosha's No. 9 jersey. Jean Taylor. Swift was furious, and his eyes flashed with lightning as he looked at the dead fox.

Yao Ming and Nash came to the scene to watch the game, and Kim, who has the title of "Hollywood Comedy King". Kerry also wears the Fox Brother jersey; Photographing James of the Titanic. Cameron wears the jersey of his brother panda; And Celine. Dion, Avril. Lavini is also a Clippers supporter, and these people are all Canadian stars without exception, and they came to the scene to naturally support the Clippers and the twins.

Phil. Jackson glanced at Billups in the Clippers lineup, and didn't react much, the Zen master had already guessed that Billups's injury should not be a big problem, the Clippers had been resting for a week and a half, and Billups's injury should have already recovered.

The Clippers' starting lineup today: Chauncey. Billups, James. Posey, Ron. Artest, Ji Guoyi, Ji Guoqiu.

Lakers starting lineup: Derek. Fisher, Kobe. Bryant, Lamar. Odom, Paul. Gasol, Andrew. Bynum.

Before the game started, Kobe Bryant and Ji Guoyi hugged each other, and the former teased: "Mr. Best Rookie, see if you can prevent me." ”

Ji Guoyi immediately laughed and said, "Do you dare to shoot more than 25 times?" Everyone knows that the more shots you make, the better the chance of the team losing, in other words, you are a cancer, Mr. MVP, do you dare to shoot 47 times tonight? Do you dare? Do you dare?. ”

Phil. Jackson doesn't know how dangerous Ji Guoyi's words are, what the Zen master is most afraid of is that Kobe Bryant will play too much, as long as Kobe Bryant has too many personal offenses, the rest of the Lakers players don't know how to play, and this is basically the case in the games they lose. Kobe's real role should be to activate his teammates, Peter Pan's attack is not terrible, his assist is the most terrifying, Kobe's attack power should be exerted in the stalemate phase and the last quarter, this is the time for him to use his personal ability to break the deadlock.

Kobe was choked by the little fox's continuous provocations, and Peter Pan himself was not good at attacking opponents with his tongue, so he was speechless.

"James, Ron, that guy isn't good at trash talk. We'll interfere with him when we have the opportunity and force him into singles mode. "Ji Guoyi got together with Percy and Artest before the game and secretly muttered, the Clippers deal with Kobe, how can they care so much, they must do everything. Trash-talk, of course, is essential.

The two nodded, especially Artest, and the elder Dunleavy also hinted before the game that the Beast used trash talk on the defensive end, and depending on the situation, he could make some provocative fouls on Kobe, such as elbows or something, to try to provoke Peter Pan's anger. Their ultimate goal, of course, is to induce Bryant to go it alone.

Before the start of the game, Magic Johnson, who was a guest commentator on ESPN, smiled: "Phil. Jackson's move to the starting XI was a smart one, as we all know Artest's movement is very slow in the No. 3 position. Odom isn't fast either, but he's still a little faster than Artest, and he has a height advantage. ”

Bill. Wharton didn't give the Magic face, saying: "In this case, Brother Fox can adjust to the No. 3 position, and his pace is also faster than Odom, and he is taller."

Jeff. Van Gundy quickly diverted the subject: "The Zen master is always improving, and he told them that they are not only triangular offenses in the process of guiding the Lakers' transformation. He's like all great coaches, open-minded and open to all sorts of autumn winds. Needless to say, the triangle offense is the Lakers' trademark. It's the foundation of them, but this Lakers team has shown a constant change in style of play this season, and I think that's a sign of maturity for some of the players. ”

Magic Johnson heard Van Gundy say this, and he was even more energetic: "The maturity of the players is shown by the on-court appearance of the bench players, and I think the Lakers have enough strength to take on the responsibility and win this season." And that's not going to change in the future, which is why the Lakers can continue to be competitive and compete for championships in the Western Conference. ”

Opening jump ball. Ji Guoqiu vs Bynum.

The little shark's injuries are eighty percent recovered, but don't say eighty percent. Even if he has 12 successful performances, he is not the opponent of Brother Panda in terms of jumping.

Ji Guoqiu jumped seven times in the playoffs, and his record was all victories and no defeats. Ji Guoyi snatched two jump opportunities, and the little fox also never lost.

When Clippers fans think about it, the number of times they've lost to their opponents on the jump ball this season seems to be counted on their fingers.

Billups received a pass and advanced to the frontcourt, and Mr. Key's injury also recovered eighty percent, in fact, the injury problem, the playoffs reached the division finals, and there were not many main players who did not have any injuries at all. Even the twin brothers had some minor injuries, such as some contusions on the left index finger of the panda brother, which was injured while scrambling for rebounds, but it did not affect his game.

It seems that among the ten players on the field now, only Ji Guozhi is the one who is not injured at all, which can only be understood by the fact that villains are generally not easy to get injured.

The Lakers have strengthened their interior defense on the defensive end, which has been improved from Phil. Jackson can also see in the use of personnel, he sent the two-way forward Odom to the starter, not only to defend Artest, but also to support him to support the interior defense, the Lakers can barely be used as a three-tower lineup, with three interior lines to limit the play of the twins.

However, Ji Guoyi didn't care how many people came to defend him, and the first time he attacked, he ran around both ends of the bottom line, left and right, and took Gasol to run blindly on the field.

This style of play is to disrupt the Lakers' defensive system, and by the way, Gasol's body is consumed, and his sister-in-law's staying power is not as strong as his, as long as he runs for three quarters like this, he can basically exhaust Gasol and anger the Lakers. After all, he is running around the court like this, it is impossible for Lakers players not to pay attention to him, otherwise once he gets an open shooting opportunity, this guy will actually have a higher shooting percentage in the playoffs than in the regular season, and more than 50% of the shots will hit the Lakers, and fools can think of it.

Old Dunleavy watched Ji Guoyi run crazy on the court, and smiled proudly, they rested for ten days, but the Lakers only rested for three days, and the Clippers undoubtedly had a huge advantage in the body, and their advantages must be brought into play at this time to increase the odds of winning.

"Bang!"

This loud sound of striking iron made old Dunleavy's face stiffen, and his smug smile suddenly disappeared.

It is true that the Clippers have been resting for a long time and have a better body, but their state has also been cleared accordingly, and Billups has a pull-up jump shot after blocking and dismantling, and hits a shot angrily!

"Paul, I have a question, who is the boss between you and Kobe?" Of course, this kind of under-beating question was asked by Ji Guoyan.

Gasol's face turned cold, the Spaniards simply ignored the little fox, Boozer has been harassing him with trash talk in the game of criticizing Ji Guosha after he was eliminated, and bluntly said that Ji Guosha is the player he hates the most, and there is no one.

Phil. Jackson emphasized this before the game, and if the fox on the opposite side makes a defiant remark during the game, ignore him.

The Lakers attacked, and Fisher honestly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, and then handed it to Kobe.

James. Posey is on the verge of a big enemy, Kobe Bryant averages nearly 30 points per game in the playoffs, and the NBA's most attacking superstar is no joke, and no one can defend him one-on-one. The Clippers played against Kobe Bryant with a hybrid defense. Posey is responsible for the close marking, guarding his shots, giving Bryant some space to break through, and the other four players form a square. From Kobe's point of view, it used to be a 122 defensive formation, and there were two more people past Posey, and there were two more people behind these two.

The Clippers' defense, built on a high degree of collectivity, a high degree of execution, and a high degree of flexibility on the basis of not all teams want to defend this formation, this kind of hybrid defense has very high requirements for the interior, your two interior lines must have extremely high flexibility, simply put, it can be highlighted, and it can be quickly retracted, only the interior line with perverted movement speed like twins has the ability to use.

With such a defensive formation, if Kobe Bryant breaks through, the Clippers' interior line is equivalent to four people forming a small opening, unless you Peter Pan can really fly, otherwise you will honestly shoot on the outside, and if you want to get into the fifteen-foot range, the Clippers' answer is: No way.

However, the Clippers' arrangement was in vain, and Kobe Bryant didn't plan to break through or shoot at all, so he took the ball and gestured at random, and passed the basketball to Gasol, who was in place inside.

Gasol used the cover of his teammates to get in the low post on the right side, and the other Lakers players immediately pulled away, not letting the Clippers players wrap up, Gasol held the ball with his back, relied on his inside footsteps to shake off Ji Guosha, and turned to score the ball. (To be continued) R580