roccoschili Chapter 188 The Weakest West in History No. 1
Chapter 188 The Weakest West in History No. 1
Chapter 188
After a two-day break, the Clippers played at home against the Suns. The two teams had their own performances in the first half and entered the intermission with a tie.When the third quarter came back, Su Yang teamed up with Gordon to blow up the Suns' backcourt, and the Clippers won by 21 points in a single quarter.
After the start of the fourth quarter, the Suns directly arranged the strongest lineup to play, but the Clippers had Blake, Matthews, Tucker, Outlaw, and Gooden in the second lineup. The offensive and defensive ends did not suffer, and the game was very fast. Enter garbage time.
In the end, the Clippers beat the Suns.
That night, they flew to Oklahoma overnight, preparing to challenge the Thunder in back-to-back away games.
Perhaps because Su Yang highly praised Durant before, the game between the two teams attracted a certain amount of attention. ESPN temporarily decided to cut off the national live broadcast of the Wizards vs. Bobcats, and changed to a national live broadcast of the two teams' game. It has long been creating an atmosphere.
As ESPN's top commentator, Stephen A. Smith said that the two teams have completed the run-in, and the Clippers are basically locked in the first place in the Western Conference. The Thunder is very likely to rank eighth in the Western Conference. The game between the two teams can be regarded as a preview of the playoffs.
In an interview before the game, Durant said that he would not regard it as a special game, and he would play as he wanted.
In an interview, Su Yang said that he valued this game very much because he had lost to the Thunder before.
In this weird atmosphere, the two teams started the game, and Thunder fans uniformly wore blue jerseys to express their support.
Su Yang originally wanted to get into the rhythm slowly, but in the first round, Ibaka disassembled the outer bullet and caught the ball. The other four Thunder quickly shrank to the basket. Offensive rebounding, very positive attitude.
Su Yang hurriedly reminded the whole team to improve their defensive oppression.
But who ever thought that an offensive rebound was not over yet. After Westbrook made a shot and hit the iron, Ibaka grabbed the offensive rebound again, followed by Sefoloza with a long shot and Krstic grabbed the offensive rebound, and finally suffered an embarrassing small Jordan head-on big hat.
The Thunder grabbed three offensive rebounds in one round. Although they didn't score, they were full of momentum.
In such a situation, how could the Clippers dare to slack off, the defensive intensity suddenly increased, and the game directly became hand-to-hand combat.
Because Gordon was severely restricted by Sefolosha, the Clippers relied entirely on Su Yang, while the Thunder were forced to cut by the Clippers' partial three defenses and two defenses. The rhythm became Durant and Westbrook taking turns to take the ball and play singles. , which is also extremely inefficient.
The two teams fought hard for more than 5 minutes, and the battle was tied 8-8.
However, Su Yang and Gordon Bao seized the opportunity and caused Sefolosha and Durant to make mistakes in succession. They took the opportunity to expand the score to 12 to 8, and took advantage of Westbrook and Krstic's successive strikes to expand the score to 20. than 10.
The Thunder quickly suspended the adjustment and replaced Sefolosha with Harden, who has a stronger organizational ability.
And Durant, like a god possessed, suddenly turned on the berserk mode, made sudden shots and added assists, led the team to a wave of 11-4 offensive climax, helped the Thunder catch up to only 3 points, and was unwilling to take a rest temporarily.
Su Yang also played all 31 minutes of the first quarter, helping the Clippers lead 26-[-].
After the start of the second quarter, the main players of the two sides sat on the sidelines to rest in tacit understanding, but the Clippers' bench lineup scored well, but the defensive end could not solve the high-level cooperation between Harden and Green, and lost consecutive points visible to the naked eye.
Van Gundy had to arrange for Su Yang to play in advance, while Durant stayed off the court to continue resting.
The two teams played with 5 minutes left in the second quarter. Durant, who was full of energy, reappeared. He directly took the ball and found someone to play in the wrong position. A wave of 4 for 3.
The Thunder also double-teamed Su Yang, Gordon and others missed long-range shots, and the Clippers lost 10 points in a single quarter.
Returning to the locker room during the halftime break, the Clippers had a discussion. They believed that the more aggressive the Thunder, the more patient they had to be. By reducing the number of Thunder's quick counterattacks, the consumption of positional warfare could not stop Du rand.
The Clippers returned to the game with a unified idea, and Durant was almost perfectly restricted at the beginning of the third quarter.
But Westbrook, who had been sleeping for a long time, woke up and singled out Davis at the top of the arc many times. It was not easy for Van Gundy to make up his mind and arrange for Su Yang to defend. Harden started chasing Davis again without saying anything. rationality.
In this way, with Su Yang making 7 of 5 shots and 3 of 2 free throws, the Clippers only lost 5 points in a single quarter.
With a gap of 10 points, the two teams entered the fourth quarter. The defensive intensity was stronger than before. There were all kinds of fouls. The referee kept blowing the whistle, and neither side could play an offensive climax. Su Yang enjoyed the whole process. Double team treatment.
In the end, the Clippers regrettably lost 108 to 112.
Su Yang personally scored 35 points and 11 assists, while Durant scored 38 points and 7 rebounds.
The two exchanged jerseys after the game. Su Yang bluntly said Durant was a liar, and Durant said there was still a chance.
The media reported heavily on the game, thinking that the suspense of the Western Conference playoffs has greatly increased. After the Thunder called the Spurs, another team that can win two games against the Clippers in a single season, if they meet in the first round of the playoffs, the result is really unpredictable.
Many fans who watched the excitement believed that no matter which team they met in the Western Conference, the Thunder would be able to make a dash with their strong talents, and when they met the Clippers, who had the least experience in the playoffs, their hopes of advancing could be maximized.
Affected by this, the major gaming companies in Las Vegas have reduced the odds of the Thunder winning the championship.
The Clippers rested for three days and flew to Orlando to challenge the Magic away.
Before hesitating to lose the game, Su Yang grabbed Nelson at the beginning of the game and forced Stan Van Gundy to arrange other Magic players to double-team, but the peak Howard was too fierce, and he ravaged Jordan in various ways, making 8 of 6 shots in a single quarter.
In this way, the two teams launched an attack around their respective strengths with all their strength, and the point difference was never widened. At the last moment, Randolph made a free throw to tie the game. After entering overtime, Su Yang teamed up with Gordon to score 13 points and won with difficulty.
With the exhaustion of the war, the Clippers team rushed to Miami overnight to challenge the Heat in back-to-back away games.
Considering that Su Yang played up to 46 minutes against the Magic, Jeff Van Gundy made up an excuse for a truce with a tense hip, and at the same time only let Davis and Randolph play fake starts, and the Clippers also lost to the Heat.
The Clippers flew to Charlotte that night and played against the Bobcats after a day of rest.
There was no suspense in the game. Su Yang led the team to suppress the four quarters and easily won the victory.
But they flew long-distance overnight to San Antonio that night, preparing for back-to-back away games against the Spurs.
Like the Thunder, the Spurs, who are ranked seventh and are very close to victory, also played against the Clippers as their opponent in the playoffs. At the beginning of the game, Duncan succeeded in a low-post attack, and turned around to block Su Yang who wanted to break through.
Such a rhythm continued for four full quarters. Su Yang finally wanted to give it a go. Popovich directly resorted to the "shark-cutting tactic" against him, forcing him to use free throws to suppress his three-point long-range shots, and he insisted on dragging the Spurs' four-point lead. to the end.
The Clippers lost helplessly and hurried back to Los Angeles, ready to meet new opponents.
Just after they boarded, the famous 'Su Hei' Scape wrote a short article titled "The Weakest West in History", which was published on social media such as personal Twitter and Facebook, and soon there was a lot of discussion, Get a lot of approval.
After Su Yang got off the plane, he received a call from Schwartz to remind him, so he glanced at the general content at random.
The article is a headline party. It claims to be the weakest, but it is actually the worst. The core theory is that the Thunder is full of talent, and it is very likely to beat the Clippers, who also lack experience in the playoffs, through chaos. Field, extremely restrained.
Affected by this, the major gaming companies in Las Vegas actually increased the odds of the Clippers winning the championship.
There are even opinions that the Clippers should intentionally lose the next few games and take the initiative to fall to the third place in the West to play their most restrained Jazz.
And there are 15 games left in the season, and having room for maneuver is simply a perfect strategy.
(End of this chapter)