Chapter 198: Devil's March

In the second much-anticipated Los Angeles derby, the final score was 109:114, and the Los Angeles Lakers avenged their revenge in half the road.

Ji Guoqiu scored 14 points, 16 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 blocks, Ji Guoqiu 20 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, Billups 26 points and 5 assists, Artest 19 points, and Mobley 12 points.

Bryant had 29 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals. Gasol had 25 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks, Odom 26 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists, and Ariza 10 points.

The Clippers lost to their arch-rivals Lakers on half of their home court, with a record of 34 wins and 19 losses, and after this game they are still in seventh place in the West, but the gap to the eighth-place Nuggets has become one, and they will continue to play at home against strong rivals, the Boston Celtics, the first in the league.

After the Clippers lost the Los Angeles derby, there began to be some negative voices in various media, this time it has nothing to do with the twins, these two guys play too steadily, or too good at brushing jΓΉ, and in most cases, even if they lose, these two guys don't have many black spots.

The media focus this time is on Billups, who believe the Clippers' signing was unsuccessful, just like their rivals in the same district, the Suns, who made big trades before the trade deadline, and neither of them did as well as they could have after the All-Star break, one losing the derby and the other losing three in a row.

Coincidentally, the Suns will play the Detroit Pistons on the road on the 25th, the day after the Clippers and Lakers game.

Unlike these two teams, the old captain has helped the Detroit Pistons to a two-game winning streak since joining Motor City. Brand has a good table, and it seems that these teams that have undergone big trades are the most nourishing for the Pistons.

The Los Angeles Times wrote an article criticizing Billups' poor defense, arguing that the addition of Mr. Key had brought the Clippers' previously intact defensive system to collapse, their joint defense was gone, and the game after the trade was all man-to-man, and the game against the Jazz was won strangely, and the game against the Lakers was immediately beaten back to its original shape.

Ji Guoyan scolded at home: "You dogs have just revealed their original form, and you are embarrassed to hack us even if you lose a game!" ”

Ji Guoqiu was discussing the game company with Xiao Radish next door at this time, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him, let alone the boring media.

During this time, they can all see Billups' efforts, as long as he has time, the 32-year-old veteran will be like a rookie, holding the Clippers' playbook there to study, and every day he will ask the coaching staff for a lot of videos, watching the Clippers' joint defensive play, hoping to integrate into the Clippers system as much as possible.

The two brothers knew that success was inevitable for someone like that, Billups had talent and hard work, and the Clippers players seemed to be a little more active in training under the influence of Mr. Key, so that Dunleavy Sr. was very happy with Billups and planned to hand over the captaincy to him next year.

On Feb. 26, the Clippers host the Celtics, who are riding the ground in the East.

The Green Shirts came prepared today, Rivers took advantage of Billups' weakness that he didn't fully integrate into the Clippers, and adopted a four-to-one strategy, putting Billups to score, defending the other four with all his might, and separating Billups from the other four in the game.

It worked so well that Billups, with the Celtics' targeted defence, struggled to string up the team today and had to score on his own. He doesn't have such a high understanding with the rest of the Clippers, and he doesn't feel that when facing an ordinary team, once he faces a strong team like the Celtics, which has the best defensive ability, he immediately shows his shortcomings.

The Clippers were often split into two parts by the Celtics today, forming a 4v5 situation, and slowly being pulled away by the Green Shirts.

After three quarters, the Clippers were already trailing the Celtics by 10 points.

One thing that Billups is very powerful is that his mental quality is extremely high, and he will not be stunned under normal circumstances, no matter what his shape is.

Mr. Key was clearly starting to find his groove in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics' defense today was the equivalent of honing Billups with the highest difficulty, allowing him to integrate into the Clippers' speed and have an accelerated effect.

However, the lead of ten points is enough for the Celtics to win this game without danger, and the Clippers chased the score to within five points several times in the fourth quarter, but unfortunately failed to successfully turn the tables in the end.

The Clippers faced the Celtics, who were the first in the league, and the chances of winning were not big, and the Celtics' division tactics in the final quarter had no great effect on them, which was what Dunleavy Sr. cared about the most.

The final score was 95-100, and the Clippers lost the game by only five points, which is not ugly.

Ji Guoqiu had 12 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks, Ji Guoyi 15 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, Billups 25 points and 4 assists, Artest 18 points, and Mobley 10 points.

Kevin. Garnett 25 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks. Pierce 23 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists. Allen 19 points, Rajan. Rondo 8 points, 7 assists, 6 rebounds and 3 steals. Thorton 10 points.

The Clippers have lost this game for two in a row, and the media began to hype up the Clippers suffering Waterloo, just like the unlucky Suns, Phoenix lost to the Pistons in Motor City yesterday, and suddenly relinquished the second place in the West and fell to the sixth place in the West.

The Lakers suddenly became the team with the first record in the Pacific region, and suddenly rose from sixth in the West to three poles in a row to third in the West.

The Western Conference standings are as follows: 1 Spurs (39-15), 2 Hornets (38-17), 3 Lakers (36-18), 4 Jazz (35-19), 5 Rockets (37-17), 6 Suns (36-18), 7 Clippers (34-20), 8 Nuggets (34-21), 9 Mavericks (34-21).

The Clippers are in danger of falling out of the top eight in the West after losing two games in a row, and their next game against the Portland Trail Blazers is a game they can't lose.

On Feb. 28, the Clippers continued their home journey against the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Arena, who finished 10th in the West with a 28-26 record.

Old Dunleavy still didn't dare to play joint defense in such an important game, although they had done a good job in training, but training was different from official games, and they were still a strong defensive team in the league, so they were not in a hurry to play joint defense.

The final score was 106-102, and Billups shot 5-of-8 from the outside three-pointers; Ji Guoqiu cut 20+20 on the inside, Ji Guoqiu and Aldridge exchanged the sons, and the outstanding performance of the three allowed them to defeat the Trail Blazers at home without danger and stopped the two consecutive defeats.

The two brothers played 39 minutes, Ji Guoqiu scored 22 points, 20 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks, Ji Guoyi 15 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, Billups 21 points and 6 assists, and Artest 15 points.

Brandon. Roy scored a game-high 30 points, along with six rebounds and six assists, Aldridge had 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Travis. Outlaw 20 points, Martel. Webster 15 points.

The Clippers defeated the Trail Blazers to end all of their February games with an overall record of 35-20 and still sit in seventh place in the West.

The following March is the Clippers' most intense month of the season, with 18 games to play in March, and most of them are on the road.

The media have predicted that for the Clippers, this devil March will determine whether they can finally enter the playoffs, the Nuggets and Mavericks are only one or two games apart from their records, these two teams are the opposite of the Clippers, they are relatively difficult in the first half of the season, the second half of the season has entered a relatively easy schedule, the winning rate will inevitably increase, and the Clippers are likely to be kicked out of the playoff queue by the two teams in March.

Whether the Los Angeles Clippers can withstand the devil's schedule in March will not be decided until the end of March.

First of all, after the game in February, the two brothers had a bumper All-Star game, and their individual numbers continued to rise.

Ji Guoqiu played in 54 games, averaging 15.1 points, 12.5 rebounds, 4.9 assists, 3.1 blocks and 2.8 turnovers per game, shooting 55.9 from the field and 90.2 from the free throw line.

Ji played in 51 games, averaging 19.6 points, 9.0 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 2.3 blocks and 2.7 turnovers per game, shooting 48.3 from the field, 41.5 from three-point range, and 90.5 from the free throw line.

It is no longer news that the two continued to tie for the Western Conference Rookie of the Month award at the end of the month.

The Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month award went to Al. Horford, the Hawks' rookie rookie inside this month, won the award for the second time this season.

The heaviest Player of the Month award this month was won by Kobe Bryant. Bryant and LeBron. James got it, and 24vs23 continued after the All-Star break.

It is worth mentioning that the two brothers have risen to 19th and 20th respectively in the ESPN power rankings, and both have entered the top 20.

If this trend continues, the two of them have a chance to hit the top 15. Of course, this hope is relatively slim, Yao Ming is only ranked 13th this season, there are many powerful stars in the NBA at this time, basically every team has a leading star, it is already difficult for them to enter the top 20, and it is undoubtedly more difficult to go further.

On February 29th, Ji Guoyi squeezed out a day to shoot their car commercial for Aston Martin, and then Dead Fox had to finish the first part of the commercial one after another in a week's time.

Aston Martin had to take care of Ji Guoyi's NBA game and keep up with the trend, the commercial was finally filmed in three parts, the heroine will not intersect with the male protagonist in the first part, and the second part will be completely filmed by Emma. Watson was filmed in the UK, and the two wouldn't be filming together until the third part.

Ji Guozhi only knew at this time that the Aston Martin commercial was divided into upper, middle and lower episodes, each episode was 30 seconds, and finally it would be broadcast in three separate segments, a bit like the commercial he watched very disgusting before he was reborn, what two pills at a time, learn to cook with me......

Of course, don't sue Taylor about this. Swift is better, anyway, the head of Aston Martin told him that this commercial will only be broadcast in Europe, and it is not certain whether it will enter Asia. Swift didn't know that the little singer didn't have a high IQ, so it was right to lie to him......

On March 1, the Clippers defeated the Denver Nuggets in two overtime games on the road, and the game was a direct battle for seventh place in the West, and the Clippers finally relied on their stronger overall strength to take out the direct rival.

In such a game, winning one game is better than two other games!

The Clippers temporarily solidified their top-eight position in this game, but the Nuggets fell out of the top eight and fell to ninth, and the Mavericks overtook the Nuggets to become eighth in the West.

The two brothers played two overtimes in this game, and both played 45 minutes, Ji Guoqiu scored 20 points, 18 rebounds, 6 assists and 5 blocks, Ji Guoyi 25 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks, Billups 20 points and 9 assists, Artest 23 points and 6 rebounds.

The Clippers' opening game of March kicked off to a good start to their March Devils' schedule, and they will play back-to-back games at home against the Detroit Pistons, who have just been traded, and the old captain will return to Staples Arena.

This game is not the right time for the Clippers, they just played two overtimes on the road, and now the whole team is almost tired of dogs, and tomorrow they will face the Pistons, which is really damning! R1152