The San Antonio Spurs have served as a benchmark in the league since the end of the 20th century, and beyond this benchmark, it means that the team has the strength to challenge for the championship.

The reason why Erniu was able to lead the team all the way to the finals and win the O'Brien Cup in the rookie season was a great reason for them to boost their morale in the regular season and win the Spurs after a series of defeats.

It can be said that defeating a strong team like the Spurs has an immeasurable effect on a team that aims to win the championship, and on the contrary, being killed by the Spurs in the strong dialogue proves from another perspective that the current Clippers are still a certain distance from the championship.

"At no time should we underestimate the team with Kraft Nguyen and CP3, their run-in is not yet complete, and I believe that it will be in the middle of the season when we meet again that we will see the strength of the two teams. The old fox was humble in his post-match press conference.

However, in Erniu's view, this is clearly cheap and good.

'We lost, we do have a gap with Spurs at the moment, and that has to be admitted. Coach Ruan frankly admitted.

An ESPN reporter asked maliciously: "Do you think today's loss is because Paul's play dragged the team back?"

Ruan Erniu glared at the reporter and said, "No one will question the league's No. 1 point guard, are you just entering the industry today, or do you want to express some unconventional views?"

In tonight's game, the Spurs did their homework on the Clippers, Duncan sacrificed data, contained Ruan Erniu throughout the court, and used the famous Jordan's rule 2, and Tony Parker and George Hill took turns to consume CP3 and successfully suppressed Paul.

It is obviously inappropriate to attribute the team's defeat to Paul alone.

Jordan Jr., Kawaii, Frye, and Mo Williams all played poorly in this game, that is, Chauncy Billups and Sean Battier played more efficiently in rotation time on the bench.

But even so, coupled with Erniu's 50+ performance in a single game, the Clippers still lost by 8 points on the road.

It's not scary to lose, and life has to go on.

The Clippers are back in Los Angeles after their game against the Spurs, where they will make it four consecutive home games.

However, before that, they still had to perform the ritual that Erniu had already arranged in their home stadium, and the whole ritual was officially over when the huge Tai Chi Bagua diagram was installed on the front wall of the Playa Vista training hall. (The Stamps Center is the venue for the game, and the Lakers usually practice at the Toyota Training Gym, while the Clippers practice at the Playa Vista Training Gym.) ）

Chris Paul watched the Taoist priests with peachwood swords and bells exit the training hall, and asked in a suspicious voice, "So this can break the curse?"

Sancang is a person who understands, and Erniu said with a pout: "You can break the curse in the hearts of some people to a certain extent, but a master like us definitely doesn't count, will you blame God for poor performance on the field?"

Paul nodded and said, "You're right, the strong will always help themselves!"

On December 30, 2011, the Los Angeles Clippers welcomed their first opponent of the 11-12 season, the Chicago Bulls, at the Stamps Center.

The starting lineup for tonight is:

c Joakim Noah

PF Carlos Boozer

SF Ruel Deng

SG Richard Hamilton

PG Derek Rose

Among them, Hamilton just joined the Bulls on a two-year, $10 million contract this season, and the Clippers once hoped to bring in this excellent No. 2 position, but in the end they missed him because of salary space issues.

Erniu is very fond of projection-type swing people, compared with players like Xiao Mo and Foye, who need a certain amount of ball possession to cash in on their strength, Hamilton, who almost does not possess the ball, is obviously more in line with Erniu's team-building ideas.

Before the start of the game, Erniu briefly talked about the past with Larry Drew, who just won the best coach last season.

Woodson and Drew are actually similar, and they may not be the top head coaches in the league, but they happen to meet a lineup that matches their coaching style, and they can still tap into the team's talent.

Players and managers are always mutually perfect, and to talk about personal achievement without either side is to be a hooligan.

Even if Larry Brown, who claims to win the championship with civilians, really analyzes it carefully, changes to any coach who insists on defense, and gives him the peak lineup of the Pistons Five Tigers, I am afraid that he will have a chance to defeat the Lakers F4 with serious internal contradictions, not to mention that Larry Brown also directly abolished Darko Milicic.

The Clippers switched two starting positions in their opening game in January:

c DeAndre Jordan

Pf Nguyen Er Niu

SF Sean Battier

SG Maurice Williams

PG Chris Paul

Replacing Leonard with Battier was already in Erniu and Paul's plans, and it was part of their mutual compromise, and kawaii does need to be exercised, but from a positive winning perspective, Batman is clearly more experienced than a facial paralyzed cutie.

As for replacing Randy Foye and replacing Xiao Mo, it is the Clippers who are deliberately giving Mo Williams the opportunity to brush the data, yes, Ruan Erniu has discussed with O'Hill, Paul and others, and is ready to trade with Xiao Mo, on the one hand, reasonable salary space, on the other hand, they are also trying to find a No. 2 position that can provide the Clippers with instant combat power in the trading market.

After the game started, Xiao Mo really found a touch on the offensive end, although he couldn't stop Hamilton, but the mask man also had no way to block Xiao Mo on the defensive end.

When Erniu and Paul both fed the ball for Xiao Mo in the first quarter, the latter hit three 3-pointers in a row, which disrupted the Bulls' defensive deployment and allowed the Clippers to end the first quarter with a score of 29:33.

Xiao Mo scored 12 points in a single quarter, the most scoring player on the court, and on the Bulls' side, Derrick Rose, the new MVP, showed an unstoppable assault ability, under the joint defense of Paul and Erniu, he hit the basket again and again, shooting 4 of 6 in a single quarter, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, 2 of 3 free throws, 11 points, 6 assists, and 2 rebounds.

In the second quarter of the game, Erniu and Paul teamed up to make a difference and quickly pulled the score to double digits, but the Bulls' bench was also hidden.

The likes of Ty Gibson, Omir Asik, Keller Korver and CJ Watson caused a lot of problems for the Clippers during the rotation, especially Korver and Gibson, the former hit consecutive three-pointers to close the score, and the latter showed his brutal physicality and completed a shocking one-arm dunk on the head of Reggie Evans.

The score was tied at 54-57, and the Clippers led by just two points heading into the second half.

The third quarter of the game was Erniu's performance time, and he once again burst out with a strong ability to score, shooting 7 of 7 in a single quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, 20 points in a single quarter, and a double-double of 11 boards, helping the team to a score of 68:79 to the final quarter of the game.

In the final quarter, the Bulls launched a crazy comeback under the leadership of Rose, and the Windy City Rose lived up to his MVP last season, with his body remaining healthy, he shot 2 of 3 in a single quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers, 6 of 6 free throws, and scored 12 points, 5 boards, and 4 assists in a single quarter.

The Bulls once chased the score to within 3 points, and at the critical moment, it was Ruan Erniu who stepped up, and he succeeded in eating Boozer in the low post in a row, and in the most fatal rounds, he bit the score and maintained the lead until the last second.

At 110:115, the Clippers won their first home court of the 11-12 season by five points.

Fresh from the Bulls, the Clippers continued to play back-to-back at home the next day, this time against the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers' starting lineup for the night were:

c Marcus Camby

PF LaMarcus Aldridge

SF Gerard Wallace

SG Wesley Matthews

PG Raymond Felton

The Charlotte Bobcats traded for the Portland Trail Blazers before the trade deadline last season, with the Bobcats trading Gerard Wallace for Trail Blazers center Joel Pulzbilla, forward Dante Cunningham and two first-round picks.

So Gaul Batum had to sit on the bench, and at the same time sat on the bench with Erniu's former teammate Jamal Crawford in the Hawks, the Hawks did not retain the super sixth man after all, and Tony Ressler has actually started the rebuilding process after firing Billy Knight.

For the Trail Blazers this season, after losing Mamba Huang and Audenthe Great, they can only rebuild the team around Lokomotiv Aldridge.

However, Ade met his bitter master Kraft Nguyen in the game that night.

Erniu bullying Ade seems to have become a habit, obviously the former entered the NBA one season earlier than Erniu, but in the actual confrontation, Erniu always gets Ade in various ways.

It should be said that Aldridge, with the advantages of height, weight, arm span, etc., can steadily solve the battle with mid-range shots when facing most of the league's interior lines, but when he encounters Erniu, who obviously has no advantage in height, everything becomes difficult.

Erniu always has a way to resist Ade on the turf and make him uncomfortable when shooting.

At the same time, he is a projection interior lineman, and Ade's stability is far weaker than Nowitzki's in the face of intense physical confrontations, which is also the biggest stumbling block preventing him from becoming a top superstar.

The seemingly inexplicable mid-range shot, when facing top defenders, will have all kinds of restrictions, and the gap between superstars and superstars is also in this place.

At 88:103, the Clippers easily and happily harvested the game, even though the Clippers were still in the sixth man position, scoring a team-high 23 points, but the Trail Blazers still couldn't get out of Los Angeles.

Three days after taking the Trail Blazers, the Clippers welcomed their next opponent on their home court, the Houston Rockets without Yao's name.

That's right, after signing a short-term contract of 8 million meters for one year, in a team training session, he suffered another fractured bone injury in his left foot, and had to end his 11-12 season early.

In the phone call to Erniu, Da Yao also directly talked about his idea of preparing to retire.

A few years later, some netizens of the Celestial Empire invented such a joke.

It is said that it was raining heavily in Houston that day, and Da Yao got the news of his season reimbursement from the doctor. He was depressed at first, but on the way home, he burst out laughing and getting a lot of beer and fried chicken from the takeaway, and he was finally able to let go of his diet and enjoy life because he knew that his retirement was not far off.

The advertorial is well written, but the time of this advertorial is not far from the broadcast time of a certain Nanbang idol drama, so things such as rainy days, beer, fried chicken, etc., appear very frequently.

By the way, Erniu also learned about this idol drama from a friend, he didn't have much interest in the plot, but he had a great influence on the name of the TV series.

Well, I don't know if I bought beer and fried chicken on a rainy day, Yao Ming, the first draft champion of the Celestial Empire.

In the middle of that month, he returned to the Magic City and held a press conference in the Magic City Hall on the third floor of the Pudong Kerry Hotel to officially announce his retirement.

Yao Ming's parents, Mr. Yao and Ms. Fang, his wife Ye Li and daughter Emma all attended the press conference.

Also present were NBA China CEO Shu Dewei, Houston Rockets General Manager Darrell Morey, and Deputy Director of the Basketball Center Hu Fufu.

Yao Ming said at the press conference: "As a basketball player, I am about to end my sports career and officially retire. Today I am retired, and one of my doors is closed, but the other is slowly opening. I left the court, but not basketball. ”

Ruan Erniu, as the most influential NBA superstar in the Celestial Empire, also sent a video blessing afterwards, wishing Da Yao to become a winner in his future life and successfully run his business and career.

What Erniu didn't expect was that Da Yao's journey was far more than that.

At the end of the press conference, Yao Ming took a group photo with his parents, wife and daughter, which turned out to be the first time that Yao Ming's family appeared in front of the public.

Ruan Erniu, as the most influential NBA superstar in the Celestial Empire, also sent a video blessing afterwards, wishing Da Yao to become a winner in his future life and successfully run his business and career.

What Erniu didn't expect was that Da Yao's journey was far more than that.

At the end of the press conference, Yao Ming took a group photo with his parents, wife and daughter, which turned out to be the first time that Yao Ming's family appeared in front of the public.

Ruan Erniu, as the most influential NBA superstar in the Celestial Empire, also sent a video blessing afterwards, wishing Da Yao to become a winner in his future life and successfully run his business and career.

What Erniu didn't expect was that Da Yao's journey was far more than that.

At the end of the press conference, Yao Ming took a group photo with his parents, wife and daughter, which turned out to be the first time that Yao Ming's family appeared in front of the public.