Chapter Forty-Nine: The Son Beats Lao Tzu
With a win over the Seattle SuperSonics, the Clippers have won two in a row. After the Captain was reimbursed and the team was able to get this start after repeated trades, Clippers fans have been very satisfied.
Next up is a back-to-back game for the Clippers, on the road against the Chicago Bulls on Nov. 7 and then on the road against the Indiana Pacers on Nov. 8.
Both the Bulls and the Pacers are weak teams in the league, and it is difficult for them to enter the playoffs in the East, and their strength can be imagined.
Although these two games are the most difficult to play on the road, back-to-back, the opponents are weak, and the Clippers have a decent schedule.
The Bulls' staffing this year looks pretty good at first glance, and they just made an appointment with Nocioni, a defensive sharpener who is good at open shoulders and dark elbows, and then ...... The guy withered. Obviously, last season's excellent performance was purely to cheat the last big contract, but whenever a team encounters this kind of bird thing, the impact on the whole team is far greater than fans estimate, and the Bulls now want to vomit and learn.
Put yourself in your shoes, your teammate is paid a lot more than you and doesn't contribute much on the field, but because of his high salary, this guy can easily steal more minutes from you. So the question is, how would you feel if you were the unlucky guy who was robbed of your time?
The Bulls' bad luck is not limited to this, the worst thing is Ben Wallace, who has a 15 million contract but degenerates into an ordinary blue-collar worker, which is the most important thing for the Bulls to vomit blood!
Big Ben accepted a four-year, $60 million contract from the Bulls last season, but as soon as he arrived in Chicago, the four-time Defensive Player of the Year has not been shaken off injury troubles, the defense that he once prided himself on is gone, and the offense that he didn't have is completely missing.
Truth be told, Big Ben helped the Bulls improve their defense in their first season, allowing them to make the playoffs.
But is Ben Wallace really worth fifteen million now?
Especially this season, Ben Wallace's condition is even worse, the decline in competitive form is extremely strict, and the role of the team has been limited, but the Bulls have to reuse him, can they buy a substitute for fifteen million?
The two brothers faced the inside line formed by Big Ben and Joe Smith today, and the "United Center Arena" with the No. 23 divine coat hanging above this arena broke the inside line that the Bulls spent a lot of money to introduce!
Big Ben is only 201cm tall, and in the face of Ji Guoqiu, who is 10cm taller than himself, he obviously has nothing to do when he fights with an injury. Ben Wallace's vaunted athleticism has been lost, and he has no body to compensate for his height deficit, which has led him to completely degenerate into a blue-collar player like Hayes, and the decline is alarming.
Of course, it is still inappropriate to say that he is similar to Hayes, at this time, Ben Wallace is much stronger than Haiye, no matter how degraded he is, but without the Pistons' system and strong physical elements, he faced a faster, more flexible and higher Ji Guoqiu, and the whole game fell behind.
Ji Guoqiu always responded in a high position today, pulling Big Ben out of the paint area and emptying the Bulls' basket, so that his teammates could break through to the inside without any scruples.
Ji Guoyi's opponent player, Joe Smith was originally a promising All-Star seedling, and he became famous before Garnett, and he was more optimistic. It's a pity that his good future was ruined by his agent, but this is all an old thing, and now Joe Smith is no longer as brave as he used to be, and he is a little powerless in the face of rookie Ji Guosha and his partner.
The two brothers contributed on the offensive end, but where they played better was on the defensive end, where the duo brought the Bulls' under-the-basket scoring to a very low level. Today, the Bulls scored less than 20% of their total points under the basket, and unless they burst out on the outside, it would be a fool's dream to win.
NBA teams should normally score less than 5 feet under the basket for 30% or more of their total points, because the shooting percentage here is usually 60 to 70 percent, which is the highest and most efficient area. The further out the shooting area goes, the lower the shooting percentage.
The Bulls relied on the excellent play of Ruel Deng and Ben Gordon on the outside to maneuver the Clippers for three quarters.
In the fourth quarter, the two sides began to decline, and the Bulls' outside crosshairs quickly slipped, and when they found that they couldn't score points on the outside shooting, and began to increase their breakthroughs, they immediately took a blow to the twin brothers who were guarding the basket, and the two of them used consecutive big hats to sue the Bulls players, since you can't get in the first three quarters, you don't have the strength at the moment and still want to turn the sky over?
In the final quarter, the twin brothers combined to send five big hats, leaving the Bulls embarrassed to fall into a scoring drought at a critical moment and lose the game.
The final score was 92-84, and the Clippers won by 8 points, and when the Bulls were not on the outside, they actually lost the game.
Ji Guoqiu got 6 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks in this game, Ben Wallace's level is certainly declining, but his own offensive ability is not much higher, back and forth only mid-range shots and ineffective small hooks in the restricted area. In terms of rebounding, Ben Wallace can also have an impact on him by relying on experience and strength, and Ji Guoqiu's number of games in this game has dropped significantly compared to the previous game.
Ji Guozhi is relatively better, Joe Smith is also a veteran with declining ability, and it is difficult to face Ji Guoyi, who is far more flexible and fast than him, on the defensive end, allowing Ji Guoyi to get 16 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks.
With a win over the Chicago Bulls, the Clippers started with a three-game winning streak and temporarily ranked first in the West, which really surprised all the media. However, after careful analysis, in addition to the Clippers' victory over the Warriors, it is normal for the Clippers to defeat the SuperSonics and the Bulls in the other two games. One of these two teams is a fish belly, and it has always been a weak team in the East, and its own strength may not be stronger than the Clippers, and it is normal for both sides to win or lose.
The Los Angeles Clippers had a good schedule at the beginning of the season, and their three-game winning streak was due to the luck component and the weakness of the opponent, and the media believed that the Clippers would soon face a defeat, such as tomorrow's back-to-back away games, when the son will play Lao Tzu's bloody drama.
Dunleavy Sr. vs. Dunleavy Jr., this is a pro-Lao Tzu vs. pro-son, and it is not a big news in the United States.
Indiana Pacers Mike Dunleavy Jr. is the son of Clippers head coach Dunleavy Sr., who had the peak of his career with the Pacers this season — and then faced his own.
This kind of game is full of highlights, and the inside combination of Troy Murphy and O'Neal Jr. vs the Chinese twin brothers, this is the strongest inside combination that the twins have encountered this season.
The first three games of the season between the two brothers were very eye-catching, and they were so good that they didn't look like rookies!
The American media believes that this is because the team that the Clippers encountered in the first three games is too weak, and it happens to be the kind of team that is outstanding on the outside and weak on the inside, which makes the twins play so well.
However, many reporters are still lacking in confidence, because O'Neal Jr. has declined no less than Ben Wallace this season. It stands to reason that an inside line like O'Neal Jr., who is tall and has long arms, should have a longer shelf life. But O'Neal Jr. obviously doesn't think like this, he has dropped from an All-Star to the level of an ordinary player in just one year, and the key is that he is not yet thirty years old, so it is obviously too early to start declining.
Now that O'Neill Jr. has slipped to the level of an ordinary player, the question is, can an ordinary player ever play twin brothers?
This question is really difficult to answer, after all, many American media are still unwilling to admit that the two brothers are all-star seedlings, and they deceive themselves into believing that these two are just a flash in the pan, and they will soon hit the rookie wall, and then be beaten back to their original shape!
"Chinese players are not basketball material at all." This is what most American media and fans think, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is to discriminate against Chinese.
In the off-court atmosphere of the two brothers, except for Clippers fans, the whole country is singing about the two brothers, but the game is beyond everyone's expectations, and they think that O'Neal Jr. should teach the two brothers a painful lesson, or at least make the two brothers look like rookies. However, the result was the opposite, Ji Guoyi directly elbowed O'Neal Jr. back to the locker room, and simply knocked out the opponent neatly.
Ji Guoyi's elbow style is so similar to the boss, with strong lethality and high concealment, even fans of the sworn enemy Lakers can't help but praise this elbow!
The referee on duty did not punish Ji Guosha for a malicious foul, not even a technical foul, but Ji Guosha's shot was too hidden, and it didn't look like it was intentional, if it weren't for the fact that this was the home court of the Pacers, I'm afraid there wouldn't even be a foul.
Ji Guoqiu's elbow went down, and he was immediately relaxed, but his brother Ji Guoqiu was not very happy, his opposing player Troy Murphy was a good white man, and there were no injuries, this game targeted Ji Guoqiu's mid-range shooting, and tried to use his strength to force him out of the paint area.
In this way, Ji Guoqiu's power on the offensive end is minimal, and he can only concentrate on his teammates.
On the offensive end, Murphy used his excellent projection ability to frequently lure Ji Guoqiu out of the basket and create breakthrough opportunities for his teammates, making the Clippers' basket defense less airtight than the previous game.
The Pacers obviously worked the two brothers, and made targeted arrangements for the different technical characteristics of the two, but unfortunately Xiao Ao died before he could get out of the division, and before he could show a few photos, he was killed by the "Elbow of Los Angeles" with one blow!
In this matter, Ji Guoyi quickly regretted it, he regretted that he shouldn't have gotten Little O'Neal off the court, because the newcomer Jeff Foster is obviously much more difficult than Little O'Neal, this guy's vigorous rebounding ability, as well as the body element that can be regarded as a BT level among whites, has outstanding card position and prediction ability, and is simply a white-skinned blue-collar warrior.
The two brothers actually let Jeff Foster grab a full 4 frontcourt rebounds under the basket today, which shows the courage of this person!
Today, both of them did not play on the offensive end, Ji Guoqiu is average offensive ability, Ji Guoqi is limited by Forts, fortunately, they are still excellent on the defensive end, and the Pacers did not score much on the inside today, and the scores of the two teams have been stalemate.
It was Dunleavy Jr. who really killed the Clippers, this guy didn't give his dad face at all, and he actually got the highest score of his career in this game, and the last quarter was 12 points in a single quarter, which made the Clippers' old Dunleavy look very unkind!
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