On January 3, the Mavericks host the Clippers.

The two sides jumped the ball, and Gobert lost to DeAndre Jordan.

The Clippers attacked, defending Paul was Qin Yang, Qin Yang had an obvious height advantage, regretted half a step away, stood still, Paul dribbled and made a jump shot, and hit a mid-distance in front of Qin Yang.

Qin Yang replied with an expressionless face.

This ball, Qin Yang has already interfered in place, Paul dares to shoot like this, I don't know how many times he will hit the iron in a game.

The Mavericks attack, defending Qin Yang's Dudley.

As a striker, Dudley is somewhat similar to Cory Brewer, underweight but solid defensively.

Qin Yang met Dudley and directly asked Cory Brewer to come to a cover, and after the cover, Qin Yang faced Chris Paul. Facing Paul, Qin Yang jumped directly outside the three-point line.

Fearless.

Paul reacted quickly and jumped up quickly, but after Qin Yang made a move, Paul jumped to the highest point, and it was still very high from Qin Yang's shot.

Absolute height difference, it can't be helped.

For the point guard, Qin Yang is so capricious.

In the first quarter, Qin Yang strengthened his outside offense, whether it was Dudley, Crawford or Paul, they were very depressed in the face of Qin Yang.

It was directly blown up.

The outside line opened and the Clippers called a timeout.

Bart Barnes came up, and the Clippers used a wrap-and-wrap tactic.

Qin Yang achieved his goal, and began to change his tactics, after attracting defense, Qin Yang passed the ball to his teammates, covered his teammates, and played tactical coordination.

Marion and Vince Carter played outstandingly.

The Mavericks played well on the offensive end, and the Clippers couldn't defend it.

DeAndrew's Jordan defense is very good, but in the face of tactical coordination, a person cannot be used as a superman, and Jordan Jr. can't take care of it at all.

Marion is on the inside, and has successfully done a lot of dirty work.

Stuck in Jordan Jr.'s position, it's easy for outside players to get inside.

In the first quarter, the Mavericks took the lead.

On the scene, the Clippers played very tragically.

Aside from the fact that Paul still hits difficult shots in the series, there are few scoring methods that the team can handle.

Well, Griffin's mid-range shooting is still one, and the shooting rate is more than forty percent.

Other than that, the Clippers can't help it.

In Tencent's live broadcast room, Mr. Wei Ping looked a little depressed:

"As you can see, the Clippers' offense obviously can't play, except for Paul, no one else can stand up, even Griffin has no advantage on the inside, and both singles Al Jefferson are out of the mine and can only shoot outside."

There's nothing wrong with shooting outside, but it's embarrassing to shoot outside for the sake of shooting outside.

In the second quarter, the Mavericks still played solidly.

Calderon's playing time has built a lot, not that Calderon is not strong, but he has no characteristics, as a point guard, Calderon defense is poor, even if it is, what he can do on the offensive end is limited.

On the contrary, it was Seth Curry who began to be taken seriously.

Seth is very good at shooting from a distance, and the breakthrough is relatively sharp, in this case it is a better choice to play tactical coordination, when the team's tactics are clear, each player becomes a screw, and together build an offensive and defensive system, at this time the player's individual ability will be suppressed.

On the contrary, shooting and breaking are more important.

That's why in many teams' drafts, players who shoot and break through get more opportunities.

The Clippers were tired.

Paul is really trying his best, trying to attack and defend, but the Clippers played very embarrassingly on the offensive end, Belinelli was defended by the Mavericks 1 of 8, Griffin efficiency was average, and Jordan Jr. was a tragedy in other aspects except for receiving a pass and dunking.

The Clippers said they were strong, but when it came to the game, it was a complete tragedy.

In the third quarter, Qin Yang led the team to open the score again, and Paul scored 8 points in the third quarter on the court, but the score difference was still expanding.

At the end of the game, Paul was very depressed.

In this game, Griffin made 8 of 19 shots, made 12 free throws, and scored 25 points and 15 rebounds, which seemed to be a very good performance, but the shooting percentage was average, and there were 6 turnovers.

The number of mistakes is speechless.

Jamal Crawford had a variety of waves, shooting 5-of-17 from the field.

If Crawford is in good shape, he is invincible, how to shoot, how to dribble coquettishly, but if he is not in good shape, he is undercover.

Paul had 28 points, 12 assists and 3 rebounds, and couldn't do anything.

There was no suspense in the Clippers' loss.

Qin Yang once again easily got 26 points and 11 assists.

The Mavericks played well as a team, and they defeated the Clippers so easily.

Al Jefferson played well in this game, defending Jordan Jr. and Griffin in the low post, resisting the two with strength, Jordan Jr. turned around many times and missed the basket, and Griffin also couldn't beat Al Jefferson in the low post.

It's nothing short of a tragedy for the Clippers.

The inside line is unfavorable, the outside line is blown up, and the Clippers don't complain about losing.

After this game, the odds for the Clippers to win the championship this season have been significantly reduced, as well as the Rockets, who are now in the midst of infighting.

The modern combination unsurprisingly broke up.

Howard disliked Uchiha Harden for not defending, while Harden thought that Howard's interior singles were too inefficient and didn't pass the ball. The two almost openly blamed each other.

It's a pity that the Rockets aren't ready to trade Howard yet.

Maybe the two can shake hands and make peace, the success of the OK combination has given hope to many teams, and Harden and Howard may not be much worse than OK.

In the post-match press conference, Paul was excited:

'Of course we had some problems, but that's not an excuse for us to lose, we need to be more focused and get the win. The Mavericks are the team we can't avoid in the playoffs. ”

Paul was tormented.

Leaving the Hornets is to win a championship.

I originally thought that after joining the Clippers, the Clippers could attract stars to join and form a Big Three, but in the past two years, the Clippers are still weak.

Griffin is not as strong as he thinks, and he can't be relied on at critical moments.

Jordan Jr. is a burden on the offensive end.

The Big Three of the Clippers, in fact, except for Paul, are all pseudo-giants, and such a lineup is not competitive in the West.

Of course, Paul was the only one who was distressed, because after returning to Los Angeles, Griffin accompanied his new girlfriend shopping, who was very beautiful and rich.

The Los Angeles media frantically reported on the relationship between the two, and Griffin didn't care about the game at all.

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Defeating the Clippers, the Mavericks won the challenge of the Knicks at home.

The New York team has done well this season and has no problem making the playoffs.

Well, yes, the Knicks' goal seems to be to make the playoffs, otherwise what else would such a roster do.

The New York squad looks good, and the lineup assembled by Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, Barryani, Kenyon Martin, Stoudemire, Shambaugh, J.R. Smith, Cole Aldridge and others is definitely not bad.

But it didn't work, because this is the Knicks.