roccoschili Chapter 343 The Founding of the Dynasty
Chapter 343 The Founding of the Dynasty
Chapter 343 The Founding of the Dynasty
After the game, all kinds of discussions followed.
The major casinos in Las Vegas have updated their championship betting odds one after another. Gamblers are more optimistic about the probability of the Lakers hitting the championship. The reason is that the Lakers were easily defeated when they faced the Clippers. Final battle.
The odds of the Clippers continue to fall because they have played all the strong teams and there is no obvious loss.
ESPN updated a long commentary overnight, believing that the Clippers are the strongest among all civilian teams. The team building model is a bit similar to the Spurs, relying on a legendary star support system and relying on a large number of high-quality players to complete the championship.
But the Spurs have never achieved consecutive championships, and the Clippers are making an impact toward that goal.
In addition to ESPN, TNT and other media also used a lot of space to praise the Clippers for being able to withstand the impact of a strong team, while Su Yang was named the strongest rookie. Winners both seasons.
In the afternoon of the next day, Su Yang drove to the Staples Center to conduct pre-match warm-up training as usual.
Van Gundy and others arrived later, and the team held a brief meeting to discuss and discuss. Considering that the opponent was the weak Pacers at night, and it coincided with the crazy schedule of five games in seven days, and back-to-back consecutive battles, they decided to reduce the playing time of the main players.
Back in the locker room after the warm-up, Su Yang saw the video of Larry Bird being interviewed, and Bird faced the reporter's question, and praised Su Yang seriously and sincerely. He is definitely the best team building core in NBA history. If Su Yang Yang participated in the draft together with Olajuwon, O'Neal, Duncan and LeBron, and he would choose Su Yang without hesitation.
For such praise, Su Yang logged on to Twitter to post a message to express his gratitude, and also admitted that he was not as good as Bird in terms of pretending skills.
The fans joked that the two were bragging about each other's business, and all kinds of spoofs appeared in large numbers, but not many people paid attention to the game.
At seven o'clock in the evening, the game between the Clippers and the Pacers started.
Danny Granger, Roy Hibbert, and Tyler Hansbrough had high fighting spirit and played various mutual screens at the beginning. However, the Clippers lacked physical strength due to back-to-back battles and were unable to enter the rhythm of the game.
The Pacers seized the opportunity to play a 7-2 start, and Su Yang decisively directed the team to slow down the pace to pursue the success rate.
In this way, Randolph and Jordan cooperated one after another, and quickly chased the score to 10 to 14. Van Gundy took advantage of the dead ball to replace Su Yang for a rest, and instead focused on Randolph and Gordon. Wire.
Who would have thought that Randy Foye, who came off the bench, had a defensive deviation, which led to the Pacers' Darren Collison taking the opportunity to hit two three-pointers. After the first quarter, the Clippers fell behind 26 to 31. So how much.
Despite falling behind, the Clippers have no pressure
In the second quarter of the game, Su Yang rested for 7 minutes and made his debut. Fortunately, Gordon played superbly, with 7 of 7 and 1 free throw, scoring 15 points.However, Danny Gran of the Pacers played very well, and the Clippers only won by 2 points in a single quarter.
After returning from the halftime break, Gordon continued to play bravely. Su Yang passed the ball to Gordon for consecutive assists, while the Pacers team performed poorly, with only 36.8% shooting rate, allowing the Clippers to successfully overtake by 1 point and enter the final game.
Relying on the overtaking momentum, the Clippers launched an 8-0 attack wave after the fourth quarter.
I thought that the victory would be established like that, but Jordan and Gordon were troubled by fouls. They were caught by the referee for four fouls in a row.
With 7 minutes left in the game, Van Gundy requested a timeout and sent the Clippers' strongest lineup.
The hard power gap between the two teams suddenly appeared, and Su Yang teamed up with Gordon to play an 8-0 attack wave again.
The Pacers had no power to fight back and could only try to struggle through high-strength teams, but Gordon didn't want to give it a chance at all. He succeeded in several consecutive strong plays, and then helped the Clippers seal the victory in advance through a dunk with a strong frame.
In the end, the Clippers defeated the Pacers 114 to 107.
After Su Yang finished the post-match interview, he drove back to the villa, watched TV and played games casually before going to sleep.
He thought that before he lay down, he received a call from the team doctor, saying that Gordon had sprained his right wrist and might need to rest for 4 to 5 weeks, and the preliminary examination found some microfractures. If surgical treatment was performed, he would miss at least 20 games.
According to speculation, the cause of Gordon's injury should be the dunk by hanging on the frame vigorously, which can be described as quite unlucky.
Su Yang hung up the phone and immediately called Gordon to comfort Gordon to recover from his injuries and don't worry.
The news of Gordon's injury was quickly released to the Clippers group chat, and everyone expressed comfort, and then discussed the next adjustment plan. Because the previous schedule was too easy, after the Clippers played five games in seven days, there was still a wave of 11 visitors. .
Fortunately, in the middle of the 11-game away schedule, we will try our best for the All-Star Weekend, and the Clippers will have rest and adjustment time, but it is also because the All-Star Weekend will be rested, and the interval between several games is very short, which is also a high test for the team. .
In addition to Baron Davis, who was originally recovering from his injury, the Clippers lost their joint main force in the backcourt and their strength declined severely.
Early the next morning, the coaches headed by Van Gundy worked overtime to discuss how to adjust the rotation.
Su Yang took the whole team to participate in the discussion, McGrady took the initiative to ask Ying to play more, and Kaman also expressed that he was ready.
After the meeting, the news of Gordon's injury spread to the major media, and many commentators made comments.
The strange thing is that only a small number of people discuss Gordon's injury, and most of them discuss Gordon's injury, which will help Su Yang's defending MVP, because the Clippers' overall lineup is too strong, which weakens Su Yang's personal contribution.
With the rapid spread of similar comments, major gaming agencies lowered the MVP odds of Suyang Lianzhuang.
A reporter interviewed by telephone and asked Su Yang if he was going to take over the game like he had scored 40+ points in a row before.
Su Yang replied that everything is up to fate, and then took advantage of the rest time to design and practice the dunk contest moves.
On the night of NO.19, the Clippers sit at home and face the Timberwolves who came to challenge.
I thought that because of the rotation adjustment, there would be some troubles, but the Timberwolves, who have never been able to practice the triangle offense, not only could not cause trouble for the Clippers on the offensive end, but also exclaimed and gave nothing on the defensive end. lead.
Su Yang only played 3 minutes in the fourth quarter, and the Clippers led by 20 points, securing the victory early.
In the end, the Clippers defeated the Timberwolves 126 to 111, winning a winning streak.
That night, the Clippers set off overnight and took a special plane to Portland to challenge the Trail Blazers back to back.
Due to Portland's time zone, the game was played at [-]:[-] pm, which resulted in a rather rushed schedule.
Several members of the Clippers did not have a good rest, and Su Yang was not in the usual state of complete victory. After the game started, the audience in the Rose Garden continued to yell, which made many of them upset.
Randolph could hardly guard Aldridge. Fortunately, Aldridge's shooting rate was low. As a result, even though Wesley Matthews made 5 of 4 shots in the first quarter, he couldn't beat Su Yang and Russell Butler with a total of 11 shots. 7 for the shot.
The Blazers resolutely adjusted their strategy, actively seeking physical confrontation at the start of the second quarter, even fouling, which caused the Clippers to expand their lack of physical strength. Even Su Yang only made 5 of 1 shots and lost 9 points in a single quarter.
In the second half of the game, the Blazers continued to seek high-intensity confrontation, and the Clippers were unable to cope.
Su Yang wanted to take over the game, but was extremely uncomfortable being double-teamed by Matthews and Batum, and Butler did not have Gordon's strong breakthrough ability with the ball, so it was difficult to help him share the pressure. Score more and more after falling.
In the end, the Clippers lost to the Trail Blazers 93 to 108 and suffered their fourth loss of the season.
Su Yang scored 35 points and 11 assists, but also made 4 rare personal mistakes.
After the game, an article titled "Su Yang is far from Michael Jordan's level" spread quickly. The main point is that Su Yang, as a point guard, is better than Jordan in dealing with being double-teamed when his teammates are not strong enough. Much worse.
Such a view has received a lot of approval, and the number of forwarding and likes has soared in a short period of time.
Schwartz called Su Yang, thinking that the article was premeditated to belittle, and suggested a counterattack.
Su Yang didn't think it was necessary. After all, Jordan would also be questioned that he needed to rely on Pippen to win the championship. It's really nothing.
But perhaps because of this, in the newly released MVP rankings, although Su Yang continued to maintain the first place, he fell for the first time, while LeBron led the Heat to play better and better, and the number of votes was steadily increasing.
After two days of rest, on the evening of the 22nd, the Clippers played against their opponents in the same division, the Golden State Warriors.
Perhaps because the record is too poor and the handsome position is unstable, Warriors head coach Keith Smart incarnated Thibodeau and arranged for Curry, Ellis, David Lee, and Dorrell White to play for a long time. Just rest for a minute or so.
But even then, the Warriors' signature rotten defense still allows the Clippers to get whatever they want.Su Yang only played a lap in the fourth quarter to satisfy the audience's desire to see him. The Clippers finally defeated the Warriors 113-109.
整场比赛，苏阳16投11中，砍下32分18助攻8篮板准三双数据。
After playing the Warriors, the Clippers got three days off, and Van Gundy canceled all training.Su Yang did not train alone, but went to the new arena site to visit the construction work, and wore a helmet to inspect the future home court.
On the 25th, the Clippers flew to Dallas to challenge the Mavericks away.
Because of Caron Butler's injury, the Mavericks only experienced a six-game losing streak not long ago, but with Carlisle's strong adjustment ability, as well as Kidd and Nowitzki's ability to lead the team, they got out of the shadow of losing streak and found a new way of playing.
Before the start of the game, in the locker room, Van Gundy emphasized that it is necessary to pay attention to the Mavericks, because the resilience and explosiveness displayed by the Mavericks is a bit like the Rockets who won the championship as a junior horse back then.
The other is to learn from the Mavericks how to adjust in the absence of main players.
With two suggestions, the Clippers started the game with the Mavericks and fired directly.
The Mavericks were obviously overwhelmed, their rebounds and assists exploded, and their steals and turnovers far exceeded the average.
But the Mavericks can always steal points. After the first quarter, the Clippers lead by 8 points.
In the second quarter, Su Yang and Nowitzki played against Biao, the Clippers were troubled by fouls, and the two teams drew.
Returning to the locker room after the halftime break, Van Gundy made a summary and analysis. According to the Mavericks’ previous game videos, it is speculated that the Mavericks may resort to zone defense in the third quarter and asked to temporarily practice three-pointers to deal with it. Su Yang then led the team back to the court to do so. .
When the third quarter started, the Mavericks really put up a 32 zone defense, and the Clippers made various three-pointers.
Then I thought, except for Su Yang, the other players in the team felt wrong, and they were hitting iron in various ways.The low three-point shooting rate led to many long rebounds. The Mavericks took the opportunity to launch many fast-break counterattacks and won by 11 points in a single quarter.
Just like that, the Clippers entered the fourth quarter with a 3-point disadvantage, and Su Yang was heavily marked from the beginning to the end.
And Randolph and George got a lot of chances, and they scored 14 points in total, but Raschel Butler couldn't defend Terry at all, causing Terry to make 10 of 6 shots in a single quarter. Barea hits an open shot.
In the end, the Clippers lost to the Mavericks 105 to 112 and suffered their fifth loss of the season.
For such a result, many media bluntly said that the Clippers have entered a downturn and need two main players to come back to ease.
The Clippers did not take their strength to heart, because from statistical analysis, they all had the advantage in rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks. .
That night, the whole team flew to Houston overnight to challenge the rebuilding Rockets in back-to-back away games.
Two hours before the game, McGrady approached Su Yang with some hesitation, expressing the hope that he could get more balls when playing at the same time, because his friends in Houston would watch the game live, and wanted to make those friends happy and entertained.
Su Yang agreed without hesitation, thinking of McGrady's wish of scoring 40+ points in the season, he immediately found Russell Butler and Van Gundy, and suggested that McGrady should start the game to help McGrady fulfill his wish and slap the Rockets in the face.
After all, in order to send McGrady away, the Rockets suppressed McGrady's playing time in various ways, and only gave McGrady a few minutes to show his health and ability in each game. For such a player who did not hesitate to play closed games, it was simply too humiliating.
Butler and Van Gundy agreed, and McGrady was very excited when he got the news in the opening 5 minutes.
When the game started, Su Yang created five consecutive shots for McGrady, and McGrady hit four times efficiently.
The Rockets quickly adjusted their defensive strategy and focused on taking care of McGrady, but Su Yang and McGrady directly played pick-and-rolls at high positions, which made the Rockets defense unable to get together, and helped McGrady score consecutively, so that the Rockets did not know how to defend.
Afterwards, McGrady felt hot, without the need for cover, all kinds of dry and long-range shots at the peak of the show.
But as an injured veteran, McGrady soon suffered a shortage of physical strength and was forced to leave the field for a rest.
Su Yang took over the important task of scoring and led the team to a wave of offensive climax, creating a foundation for McGrady's wanton shooting in advance.
After McGrady returned to Tangshang, his style of play became a high-ball quotient type, and he continued to force his opponent Courtney Lee.
In the end, the Clippers beat the Rockets by 28 points, McGrady scored 46 points, and the Rockets fans left the game early.
After the game, fans of other teams expressed their envy that the Clippers have such a strong substitute as McGrady.
Many NBA players were also happy for McGrady's high score, Kobe and Durant tweeted their congratulations.
McGrady himself tweeted back, saying that it was not his strength, but the strength of Su Yang and the Clippers family. He suggested that if any player wants to be reborn in the NBA, he must seize the opportunity to join the Clippers in the free market.
At noon the next day, on the plane flying back to Los Angeles, the league's latest MVP rankings were updated.
Su Yang fell to second for the first time, Derrick Rose rose to first, and LeBron continued to increase the number of votes.
Such a change has caused some discussion.
In a telephone interview, the legendary godfather Jerry West said that the MVP ranking is no longer important to Su Yang, because Su Yang has successfully laid the foundation of the dynasty through his personal strength and care for substitute players.
(End of this chapter)