Chapter 591: Thick thighs
The first quarter was tied at 27:26, with the two brothers combining to score 20 points and capture most of the team's scores.
In NBA games, it is rare that you can't even prevent the bag, but if the animal brothers feel good, it will become one of the very few exceptions that can't even prevent the bag.
Kobe Bryant can play three, and the two brothers are not so hung for the time being, but one hit and two is still not a problem, and the Lakers can't really use four players to deal with the two brothers, so they will die faster.
Second quarter bench period, Billups vs. Byron. Davis.
Last season, the bearded man was able to average 18+8 per game, which is an All-Star. This season, Byron. Davis is significantly fatter than last season, and his points have slipped from 18 to 14 points per game, but his assists have reached a career-high nine per game, the first time the bearded has surpassed nine assists in his career.
14+9, this number jรน does not mean that Davis fell out of the All-Star ranks, and Clippers' Billups only handed over an average of 15+6 per game this season, which is not as good as Byron. Davis's number jรน is good-looking.
Dunleavy Sr. will replace Billups midway through the first quarter this season, and Mr. Key can appear on the bench with Crawford in the second quarter, and then wait until the two brothers come on the court before Billups goes down for a few minutes to rest.
This is the rotation strategy of the Big Three, Billups can ensure the Clippers' offensive ability in the bench, while also allowing Dragic to increase his playing time, and the elder Dunleavy has begun to consciously develop the team's young point guard.
Dragic has increased his playing time to 18 minutes this season, averaging eight points and three assists per game. Very effective when playing pick-and-roll with the animal brothers. He also shot 40 percent from three-point range. Basically, he can shoot well, and his defense is not a shortcoming like Nash, and overall, Dragic is a young player with a lot of potential.
The point is that he is cheap, and the Clippers have been in value since the second championship, and the value of all the players on the team has decreased except for the animal brothers. The reason is that in the first two seasons, after the departure of Artest and others. Although they are not plummeting, it is difficult to see them in the news.
The numbers of these players have declined across the board since leaving the Clippers, with the likes of Posey, Thomas and others even becoming water cooler players this season. So there is a consensus among the media and experts that these players are not how good they are, but that they are in the championship team and hug the thigh of the animal brothers.
Billups outperformed Byron in the bench period. Davis's offensive ability, Mr. Key is also a point guard who weighs more than 200 pounds, but his body is not blessed, and his strong body and top-notch speed can still make him the Finals MVP when he wants to score points.
Byron. Davis can't transform into that crazy beard this season, and he has long since lost the idea of competing with Kobe. The five-year contract he signed last season also gave him enough to retire, and now he hasn't completely sunk like in another plane. It's entirely because he is in the Lakers that he feels that there is still a possibility of winning the championship, so he took his last breath.
This breath is too important, at this age, once you have no desires like Uncle Huo and Lewis, the Lakers will be completely tragic, how can anyone want such a big bad contract?
Lakers bench lineup: Byron. Davis, Shannon. Brown, Odom, Powell, Collins.
Of these five players, except for Odom, who is fully middle-class, the other four are either rookie contracts or veteran base salaries. However, the Lakers are still lucky, although the contracts of Kobe, Gasol, Chandler, and Davis have exceeded the salary cap, but Chandler's contract will not expire until 11 years, so they still have room to operate next summer.
Charles. Barkley looked at the Lakers' 40 million annual salary players and said with a smile: "The Lakers' F4 salary adds up to nearly 60 million, which exceeds this year's salary cap, but fortunately it does not exceed the hard salary cap." The Lakers now have only a base salary to use except for the annual mid-range that can be used to sign players. However, this does not mean that the Lakers are not qualified to compete for the big fish next summer, and the Lakers will have the same opportunity next year, and they want to get a player like James next year. It's easy to understand that teams that are destined to lose their core are better than getting nothing at all."
Kenny. Smith added: "These 10-year free agents will definitely be more inclined to sign and trade, because under the current collective bargaining agreement, a sign-and-trade would get the maximum salary increase comparable to staying with the team. For example, with the same contract, such as James, if he signs first and then changes, then his next contract can get a maximum salary of 125 million, but if he jumps out of the contract directly and joins a certain team, James can get a contract of 96 million for 5 years at most, and the difference between the two is 30 million, which is not a small amount. And the high salary increase can also reduce the starting salary in the first year, so that the new team has more room to sign someone else. โ
Charles. Barkley added: "Yes, for those top stars, a higher salary increase is a big benefit, not just for the next contract, but it can also make the final year of the contract bigger, and the amount of the final year is crucial to the size of the next contract. Of course, if you want to reduce the starting salary, you also need the assistance of the parent team. And the conditions for the parent team to assist you naturally need to give certain benefits, which is the trade of draft picks and players. โ
Back to this game, there is still a big gap between the two teams on the bench, and the Clippers' second-tier lineup: Billups, Crawford, Barnes, Joel. Anthony, Jordan Jr.
The Clippers' second team has both offense and defense, on the other hand, the Lakers' two bench interior players have the same offensive ability as the Clippers, but they are far inferior in athleticism and defensive ability.
Byron. Davis couldn't score inside in this lineup, and he felt average on the outside today, conceding only one goal in three minutes.
The second quarter was 8 minutes and 50 seconds, and the score was 35:30.
The elder Dunleavy took advantage of the dead ball to quickly replace the two brothers, and the Clippers lineup became: Dragic, Crawford, Barnes, Ji Guoyi, Ji Guoqiu.
The Zen master also replaced Kobe Bryant and Chandler in advance. Replaced Byron. Davis.
After the restart of the game. One Chandler obviously couldn't stop the joint impact of the two. Ji Guoqiu first made up the deduction to score, and then received Ji Guoqiu's breakthrough goal and staged a violent deduction. However, it was not Chandler or Gasol who was unlucky, but Odom, who was temporarily in the fourth position.
The Lakers were hit hard by these two dunks, and when the team was about to collapse, Kobe Bryant used his back-to-back shots twice in a row to stop the bleeding for the team.
Crawford was not tall enough to face Kobe's strong attack, and Peter Pan scored four points in a row on the former. The total has increased to 18 points, the highest scorer of the day.
At 6 minutes and 55 seconds in the second quarter, Kobe Bryant took the ball on the bottom line, completed a beautiful turn and shot backwards, and also caused Crawford to foul, and the basketball was hollowed into the net, 2+1.
Dunleavy Sr. replaces the beaten Crawford and replaces Barnes for a misplaced defense; Garcia was used as a small forward at the No. 3 position, and the lineup became: Dragic, Barnes, Garcia, Ji Guoyi, and Ji Guoqiu.
Kobe Bryant hit a free throw to make it 39:40. The Lakers overtook the score under the leadership of Kobe Bryant and their morale was greatly boosted.
The Clippers were caught up on the offensive end by the Lakers' sudden jump. Dragic couldn't find a passing route, Ji Guoqiu was intercepted by a Lakers player in front of him, and the Slovenian was in a hurry, and suddenly saw Ji Guoqiu running back to get rid of Gasol, rushing into the interior and jumping.
Dragic hurriedly passed the basketball to the basket, but he didn't know if the fox brother could catch it.
Ji Guoyi jumped the ball first, used his perverted ability to stay in the air and waited for the basketball, and when he fell, he used his finger to move it in the direction of the basket.
The panda was very cunning and immediately pestered Chandler to prevent the boxing king from going up to grab the rebound.
The fox brother was even more cunning, and after landing on the ground, he leaned back to block Gasol behind him. His previous aerial relay was very reluctant, and the basketball did not go up in a hurry, knocking out of the frame, Ji Guosha hit Gasol after landing, and immediately jumped up and reached out again, this time easily making up for the basketball.
"Interfere with the ball!"
The Lakers players shouted at the referee, who was unmoved and ruled that the goal was valid.
The big screen at the scene played a slow-motion replay of Ji Guoyi's basket, and the replay showed that he did not touch the basketball until the basketball fell outside the frame, and there was no problem with this ball.
"Rebounding, if we want to win, we have to protect it."
The Zen master hasn't spoken on the sidelines, Kobe Bryant can't bear it anymore, and the two brothers have already made up the basket three times in the second quarter.
A few minutes ago, the Lakers had already changed to the strongest lineup: Davis, Kobe, Odom, Gasol, Chandler.
The Zen master still used Odom to defend Ji Guosha, but even if Gasol did not defend Ji Guosha, he faced Grant. Hill wasn't very comfortable either. Although the latter's athleticism has slipped to the average level of the No. 3 position, Hill still has a lot of options for the No. 4 position, and Gasol is still a little scrambling.
"04-06 is your peak, but don't think I'm going to praise you, in fact, I want to say, it's a pity I didn't see it, I only see that you are old now." The dead fox smiled, lowered his voice, and continued, "I heard that you are only 30 years old, why do you age so quickly? โ
Ji Guo's mouth was beaten again, Gasol had anger in his eyes, but he didn't fight back, generally good people meet bad people, that's how they can only suffer dumb losses.
Gasol wants to return the original with interest on the offensive end, although he doesn't say it, it doesn't mean that Gasol will be bullied, and he won't be angry. As Ji Guozhi said, in 04-06, who dared to underestimate him in the international arena at that time?
Ji Guoyi's strength this season has been able to resist an inside line like Gasol, and now there are not many players in the No. 4 position who can use their strength to eat him, although Boozer and others have enough strength, but the height and foot disadvantage is obvious, and they still can't beat him; Although Duncan and Garnett have this ability, they are all old, so it is still difficult to force Ji Guosha, including the current Gasol.
"Softie, hit me!"
Ji Guoyan kept spewing trash talk on his mouth, and secretly pushed Gasol on his hand, so that the latter felt the feeling when he played against Garnett, and the wolf king was like this in the first two years, entertaining him in a two-pronged manner.
Gasol couldn't hit it in the low post, and the panda brother suddenly came from the side to wrap the clip, and it was definitely a mistake to change someone in such a situation, but Gasol still passed the basketball to his partner before the two brothers came together.
The two brothers threw Gasol aside at the same time, turned and rushed to Chandler, who received the basketball and was about to jump and dunk.
At this time, if Chandler handed the basketball back again, Gasol would immediately be an unguarded slam dunk. The Spaniard had already rushed to the basket, and as long as he received the basketball, no one could stop him. But Chandler doesn't have that kind of vision and awareness, and when he receives a basketball in the restricted area, he usually has only two options, the first is to dunk himself, and the second is to give it to the outside core, which used to be to Paul, and now to Kobe.
This time, Chandler chose to slam dunk by himself, but when he jumped up and found two identical Asian faces in front of him, Chandler immediately knew that he had made the wrong choice, but at this time, even if he knew that he was wrong, he could only insist on being wrong.
"Bang"!
Chandler is not O'Neal, speaking of which he is only 245 pounds, the size of the panda brother, by no means a power-type inside, in the face of the twin brother who has a heart, the basketball is halfway down by the two of them.
The Clippers counterattacked, Ji Guoyi picked up the basketball and immediately passed it to Billups, Hill was already fast, Mr. Key threw the basketball to the front court, Hill received the basketball and singled out Odom, dribbled to the restricted area for a simple deceleration and change of direction, and took advantage of the time difference to easily hit the board to score the ball.
Ji Guoyi and Hill high-fived hard, and the Clippers' most efficient breakthrough player this season was not him, nor Billups, but the former superstar swingman nicknamed "Glass Man".
No one could have imagined that this would be the case, and Hill's mastery of breakthrough timing is extremely delicate, and his point-guard-level ball handling ability allows him to often choose to dribble to the restricted area to complete a layup when he is let go.
In this season's Clippers game, you can always see that the opponent has just wrapped up the animal brothers, and as soon as you turn around, you find Hill killed, but Hill's last finishing ability, even among the active superstars, can be ranked first, which really makes the Clippers' opponents feel disgusting.
This can't be said that the Clippers have brought in another superstar, although Hill's appearance in the Suns is not bad, but in the Suns, Hill's goals are more concentrated in the mid-range, and there are very few breakthroughs like this, and he can't get so many empty opportunities in the Suns.
A minute later, Hill received Ji Guoqiu's ball in the middle distance, and the unguarded mid-range hit, the Lakers didn't dare to let go of this old guy at all.
The two brothers were not trapped, and at the end of the second quarter, they once again played an excellent state in the first quarter, even if Kobe Bryant on the other side was also in good shape in the second quarter, and the Lakers could no longer rely on Kobe's play to lead the Clippers.
At halftime, the score became 60-53, and the Clippers led by seven points into the second half. (To be continued......)