The Clippers are really difficult to deal with, after letting go of the pressure of dominating Los Angeles in Rivers' mouth, they became very unrestrained against the Lakers, and they used to face the Lakers with the words that Rivers said in their heads, such as the Lakers have bullied us for so many years and want revenge; We're going to steal the title of the best team in Los Angeles...... And so on and so forth.

But now the owner Ballmer has said, let's move, don't fight with the Lakers, they came here in 1960, what are we fighting with them.

Now that there is no pressure and frustration that they have to win against the Lakers and can't win, they seem to have changed teams.

Although they collapsed the defensive structure of the former coach Negro due to the wrong decision of the small forward position of the president of operations, Doc Doctrinal Rivers, the offensive end was indeed stronger, and the Lakers began to fight hard.

At halftime, the two teams were still evenly matched, and the Lakers obviously didn't expect the Clippers to play better than before when the home court was "occupied" by the opponent's fans, and they trailed the Clippers by 4 points at halftime, temporarily trailing 61-65!

This is very unexpected, you must know that since the new lineup of the Lakers in the 13-14 season was roughly completed, the Clippers have won two games against the Lakers in two years combined, one in the regular season and one in the playoffs, and the rest of the time was abused by them.

Intermission, Staples Center Away Locker Room.

D'Antoni is anxious, he's done his job well, playing the attack very well.

Bickerstaff also frowned, it's not that his defensive system is not good, but Paul's presence is a bug, when the rest of the Clippers team has no pressure to devote themselves to cooperating with Paul, the Clippers' fast offense is simply terrible, and they can't defend at all.

The Clippers only scored 65 points at halftime, and Bickerstaff kept asking for a rhythm to do so, otherwise the Clippers would have scored more than 70 points.

However, lowering the tempo has limited the Lakers' offense, and it is clear that their offense should be better.

"I said blacksmith, I always felt weird in the first half." Liu Ren said suspiciously, he felt not so comfortable playing in the first half, although he still had 12 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists as always, and used his containment to create a lot of opportunities for his teammates, but he always felt that the game was not smooth.

Kobe Bryant was also puzzled, but he couldn't say anything wrong, so he could only shrug helplessly.

Volute, this cunning old and cunning guy with experience like an old fox, doesn't know why? Liu Ren could only think hard about himself......

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As the second half approached, D'Antoni continued to follow the tactics agreed with Bickerstaff: "We have to control the tempo, we can't let the Clippers run, we can't let them play the transition ......"

Liu Ren, who had been thinking hard for more than ten minutes, heard D'Antoni's words, and a lightning bolt slipped through his head......

Liu Ren finally reacted that something was wrong, there was no offensive and defensive switching!

D'Antoni and Bickerstaff's plan is to lower the tempo and contain the strongest point of the Clippers' offense, which is the transition between offense and defense, but at the same time, they also contain themselves, and then today's Clippers positional battle offense played smoothly, and the Lakers couldn't defend at all, which basically meant that they didn't do anything, but made the Lakers lose their fast play style, and the positional offense was not as good as today's Clippers.

In fact, the Lakers' side is not only Liu Ren who feels uncomfortable playing, but everyone else is the same, but they are not as sensitive as Liu Ren, and they have always scored, and the shooting rate is not bad, over five, most players mainly depend on whether they have a chance to shoot or not, and if they are both satisfied, they will never think that they are not comfortable playing on offense today.

But Liu Ren has always been a data maniac, especially when it comes to scoring, and if something is wrong, he can quickly feel uncomfortable.

At halftime, Liu Ren didn't have time to discuss with D'Antoni because he didn't know how to organize the language, the game had restarted, and he could only play.

The two sides returned to the court, and the Lakers attacked first.

In the third quarter, D'Antoni sent LaVine, Nick Young, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, and Monroe.

Rivers saw that the team's positional offense was playing very well, the tactics were played, and the team's hand was also very good, so he decisively replaced his son Austin Rivers.

When the team is in a good rhythm, don't give your own son a chance to perform, and wait for when!

The Clippers lineup on the court is Rivers Jr., Crawford, Jeff Green, Wesley Johnson, Kerr Aldridge.

Rivers sent this lineup to make it clear that he knew that he couldn't prevent it, so the defensive players were simply not on it, and the "junior brother" Lance Stephenson was directly pressed on the bench.

Back on the field, the first thing Liu Ren had to do was follow his thoughts.

As for D'Antoni's instructions...... Didn't we have a saying in ancient times that the Celestial Empire said well, if you don't have any military orders abroad, since you don't have enough tactical literacy and can't say why, then use practical actions to make up!

Liu Ren accelerated directly after coming on the court, asking LaVine for the ball while running, and then made a run-and-boom gesture.

LaVine was stunned, the coach said that it was a good position! Did your ear hear it wrong? That's not right! The running position drawn on that tactical board is all a landing position! Because if you hit the run-and-run, D'Antoni won't draw tactics, D'Antoni's run-and-bomb is the same as the Zen master's triangle attack, which can only be understood and unspeakable, otherwise in those years, so many teams wanted to play and run-and-bomb, but only one George Karl stood up, and the others were not even able to stand up before the old Nelson, who invented the bombardment.

So, after an instant brainstorming, that is, less than half a second after Liu Ren asked for the ball, LaVine directly passed the ball to Liu Ren, and then directly made a run-and-bomb gesture with the power of the point guard, that is, the commander on the court.

The Lakers immediately took action, and Liu Ren held the ball and rushed forward, directly hitting his former teammate Wesley Johnson and entering the Clippers inside.

At this time, the rest of the Lakers only went directly to the Clippers when they were big centers on the court, Monroe and Liu Ren in the halfcourt reached the frontcourt first, Nick Young and LaVine received the serve in the backcourt, and Antetokounmpo was the one who served.

So, the Clippers are messy, the five of them have already fallen into a defensive position, and Liu Ren actually wants to play 2 to 5?

The Clippers subconsciously contracted and sandwiched towards Liu Ren and Monroe.

At this time, Liu Ren threw the ball to the top arc, and D'Antoni was stunned on the sidelines, and directly flew three points!

"Huh"

Hit!

Nick Young is indescribably happy! It's all scores, but this goal feels more comfortable than the first three goals of the day!

Liu Ren also felt very happy, although he was not able to score this time, he still only got an assist, but this kind of assist that broke the unnatural feeling in his heart was more cool than scoring in the first half!