Chapter 751 [Battle of Los Angeles, Unusual Taste]
In the second half, the Clippers also kept pressing the Thunder.
Gay, Battier, and Danny Green defended Durant in a three-man wheel battle, allowing him to shoot every time with someone distracting. Even so, Durant still scored a lot of points and kept his shooting percentage at 50%.
For this kind of person with obvious body advantages, you can't accept it, Durant's height and arm span, as long as he feels good, he can almost form a dislocation by hitting anyone on the outside, and his jump shooting ability is historic.
Unfortunately, Durant alone couldn't lead the team to win, Westbrook maintained the usual consistency when playing Paul, playing crazy iron, he shot 6 of 21 in the game, shooting 28.6%, 0 of 3 three-pointers, 6 of 8 free throws, 18 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, and six turnovers.
Durant, who had a high shooting percentage, only made 18 shots, hitting 9 shots, 1-of-2 three-pointers, 4-of-5 free throws, and finished with 23 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals.
Except for the second less, the Thunder only scored 15 points off the bench Kevin Martin, and no one scored a double-double.
The Clippers scored in double figures, Griffin scored a game-high 28 points, 11 rebounds and 4 assists, Paul had 17 points and 11 assists, and Curry scored 26 points, leading the Clippers to a 116-84 victory.
In an interview, Yang Rui praised the core, saying that they are also the Big Three.
In the final quarter, the Clippers played all off the bench, otherwise they would win by more than 40 points. Thackeray had a good debut, playing eight minutes and chipped in six points and three rebounds, while Korver also hit two three-pointers in the final quarter.
Draymond Green, Middleton and Barbossa were not featured. Having potential doesn't mean being reused right away, there are too many good players in the team. Aside from Chandler, the Clippers only have Thackeray as a meat shield, so he was named to the roster earlier than Green.
After the game, the news media said: "The Clippers showed an invincible posture at the beginning, and they have every strength to successfully defend the title." ”
There is also news that has slammed Wei Shao. "If Westbrook doesn't leave, the Thunder will never win a championship, he doesn't care if he wins or loses, he just plays for himself."
On the Internet, even many Thunder fans feel that the Thunder management should send Wei Shao away and leave Harden, Wei Shao is a cancer who only knows how to beat blindly, and he has no tactics.
In stark contrast to the Clippers, the Lakers lost their first game on the road to the weakened Mavericks 93-99.
Pau Gasol finished with 23 points, 13 rebounds and six assists on 8-of-19 shooting, 1-of-1 three-pointers and 6-of-8 free throws.
Dwight Howard shot 8-of-12 from the field and 4-of-14 from the free-throw line for 20 points, 10 rebounds and two assists.
Bryant shot 11-of-14, missed three-pointers, made no free throws, and finished with 22 points, one rebound and no assists.
Since the 2008-09 season, many people have said that Kobe Bryant is too lonely, and this year many Los Angeles fans have begun to spray Kobe Bryant as a cancer.
So in this game, Kobe Bryant changed to play without the ball, ran to catch the ball and shoot, so that he didn't stick to the ball, and the shooting rate was very high. But apart from three stars, no one scored in double figures, and the Mavericks also used a "shark-cutting tactic" against Howard.
The next day, the Lakers challenged the Trail Blazers back-to-back away games, losing 106-116 again.
The Trail Blazers didn't draft Lillard, and the No. 1 picks Calderon and Jarred Jack blew up the Lakers, with Calderon shooting 6-of-9 three-pointers and Jack making 5-of-8 three-pointers.
With the addition of Matthews, the Trail Blazers team scored 20+ points with three players, six scored double-doubles, and the core Aldridge also scored 19 points and 3 rebounds.
The Lakers are the only "Big Three" who score double-doubles, and the role players collectively play soy sauce, and there is no one who has even made five shots.
Howard shot 9-of-15 from the field and 15-of-19 from the free-throw line to finish with 33 points, 14 rebounds and five assists.
Bryant shot 10-of-20, 4-of-9 from three-point range and 6-of-7 from the free-throw line to finish with 30 points, six rebounds and three assists.
Gasol finished with 16 points, nine rebounds and two assists on 7-of-14 shooting and 2-of-2 free throws.
The Lakers shot 50% from the field overall and 44.4% from the field 8-of-18 from three-point range, but they still lost, and the defensive end was a mess, and the outside line allowed people to break through casually.
The Lakers lost two games in a row, and the "basketball bricks" who were optimistic about their championship changed their tunes one after another, finding a bunch of Lakers problems, no tacit understanding, poor outside defense, no three points on offense, etc., that is, the reasons for the Lakers' loss were listed as an afterthought, and the advantages of the Lakers' Big Three who blew a summer vacation in the summer were overturned.
The Lakers did not have three points, and the strongest three-point point was small forward Artest, who shot 34.4% last season, and point guard Sessions, who shot high last season, basically did not shoot three-pointers.
Sessions is a guard who relies on breaking through the ball, overlapping with Kobe's position, and what's worse is that Howard has no range and likes to stay in the low post, and the opposing center can calmly help defend near the penalty area, which increases the difficulty of the defender to break through.
Bryant is barely a three-point point, averaging 6.5 three-point attempts per game at his peak, and 4.9 last season while shooting 30.3 percent. But when the team needs him to shoot three points, his adjustment method is to cut to the inside, even if he runs out, he will catch the ball and shoot it, and he will not shoot three points.
In this way, Kobe Bryant's shooting percentage is very high, and the new coach McBrown is going crazy, he says that he wants to play Princeton and ask the players to share the ball, but how can Princeton win without three points?
On November 2, the Lakers' third game against the Clippers was the Clippers, and although the Lakers were playing at home, everyone felt that the Lakers were going to suffer a three-game losing streak, which was a Los Angeles derby.
Funnily enough, the most angry person in the Lakers' loss was actually Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who called Yang Rui and Thomas Bentley and proposed that Facebook video monopolize the right to broadcast all games of the Clippers except for the number of games broadcast live nationwide.
Sterling cares most about making more money, and the Clippers' ratings and court attendance have completely overwhelmed the Lakers last season, but the contract in terms of broadcast rights is not as high as the Lakers.
It's a trivial matter if it's just a private phone call, but Sterling, who is intermittently neurotic, and it would be too stupid for him to take his 31-year-old girlfriend Steviano to the team's dressing room to talk to Yang Rui about it publicly.
What's even more stupid is that Sterling also likes to watch Steviano flirt with players, so he often ran into the dressing room last season.
Then, not surprisingly, on November 1, Sterling's desire for Facebook to monopolize the Clippers' broadcast rights was exposed by the media. With so many people in the locker room, it's all too easy to spread the word anonymously. It's also possible that Steviano passed it on, this girl is more nervous, that's why she and Sterling get along so well.
In Yang Rui's previous life, when Steviano, an 18th-tier star, was interviewed by the media in 15 years, he said: "Before I came to this team, no one knew about the existence of the Clippers at all. ”
In the NBA, it's not easy to find stupid statements like this, the news is hot, and some crazy statements can add fun to people's lives.
As soon as the Los Angeles fans heard that Sterling didn't want them to watch for free, they immediately denounced it online. Major websites have also published news exposing Sterling's black material, which has caused fans to want to curse even more.
The lawsuits between Donald Sterling and former manager Elgin Baylor and former head coach Mike Dunleavy have been brought up again. Others said that he had an inappropriate private life, that he was in and out of Fengyue venues all year round, that he was "more familiar with the entertainment scene in Los Angeles than with the Clippers", that Sterling himself was said to be exhibitionist, and that his neighbors said that he was "naked in everything".
There is even more news that Sterling does not deserve to own the Clippers, and the team would have risen long ago if there had been a change of owners.
Yang Rui smelled something unusual, and some people began to hope that Sterling had fallen.