The first round of G1 was played so easily, which made the Clippers very optimistic about the prospects of qualifying. It may be a bit early to say a sweep, but it is basically a problem to solve the opponent in 5-6 games.

The Rockets finally managed to make it back to the playoffs, and the last few games of the regular season were played so hard, not for a playoff vacation.

After some deliberation, head coach Kevin McHale made a surprising decision to play the three-guard and fight the Clippers on offense!

So, three days later, still at the Staples Center, the starting lineup of the Rockets became like this:

C Omir Asik

P.F. Chandler Parsons

S.F. James Harden

S.G. Jeremy Lin

P.G. Patrick Beverly

As the former Big Three of the Green Army, regardless of whether McHale's own command ability is top-notch, he is better than countless mediocre people in terms of this desperate mentality.

Come to think of it, playing next to a bastard like the King of Forcing Kings, a guy who is about to be sprayed in the face if he has nothing to do, if he has no bones in his heart, he probably won't be able to survive.

The Clippers were somewhat surprised by the Rockets' extreme style of play, and as a result, they beat their opponents 19:42 in the first quarter of the game, leading the Rockets by as many as 23 points.

Hehe, to take a risk is to be prepared to pay a price!

Ruan Erniu shot 8 of 9 in a single quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and 3 of 3 free throws, scoring 21 points and 10 boards with a double-double.

Whether it is a long-distance throw or a low-level strong eat, in the face of the rich and handsome, Erniu played the data of the real * local tyrant.

However, the game was not limited to one quarter, and in the second quarter, the Rockets gradually found the rhythm of playing with three guards on the court at the same time.

In particular, Beverley's bite on CP3 still played a considerable role.

Anyone who has played can find someone like Beverley on the court.

If this kind of guy is on the same team as himself, he will become a very popular existence, but if he becomes an opponent, then he will be annoying, and if he doesn't get it right, he will hurt people.

I like Heibei to call him Wolverine, and if I don't like this thing, I naturally want to say that he is a mad dog, and he is the one who is not chained.

At the end of the regular season, Wei Shao suffered a slight meniscus tear under the impact of Heibei, which was roughly similar to Erniu's original injury, and it is very likely to recover with conservative treatment, but the playoffs will definitely not catch up.

It is said that Wei Shao defended Durant, but if Westbrook did not contain the defensive pressure for Durant, only God knows how far the Thunder can go in the playoffs.

At 30:27, the Clippers' bench performance tonight was average, and the Rockets recovered 3 points in the first quarter, but still trailed the defending champion by 20 points at halftime.

If the game continues at this pace, I'm afraid the Rockets still don't have any possibility of turning the tables, but the opportunity will come.

In the third quarter of the game, the Clippers suddenly fell into a scoring drought, all Clippers players, including Erniu, repeatedly missed shots, and the worst luck was JJ Redick, who finally got rid of the defender, but even a simple air-cut layup could be blocked by his own basket.

At 27:14, the Rockets recovered 13 points in a single quarter, and after three quarters, the score gap between the two teams returned to single digits from 20+ to single digits.

In the crucial fourth quarter, Yi Jianlian in the Rockets and Carlos Delfino in Argentina attacked at the same time, and the two teamed up to score 16 points in rotation time, once reversing the score.

The pickle girl group was ordered to return to the court, and the Los Angeles people, who had stabilized their position, did not give their opponents more chances.

Erniu and Sanbang played a classic and efficient blocking and dismantling combination, and with Erniu's unreasonable high shooting and Paul's multiple impacts to the basket, the Clippers once again overtook the score.

In the crucial last 2 minutes, Ray Allen stepped up, and with two cold-blooded three-pointers from Junzi Lei, 102:107, the Los Angeles Clippers won by 5 points at home and won the G2 game without danger.

After the game, Thibodeau thought the Clippers had played an ugly third quarter and that the Rockets didn't win because they lacked a bit of luck.

Thibodeau wasn't objective enough, not because they lacked luck, but because Beverley and Jeremy Lin were too iron, one shot 3-of-10 and the other shot 1-of-6, or the Clippers actually did a good job on the defensive end.

Although the Rockets lost two games in a row in Los Angeles, their morale did not dissipate, especially after G2, and the Houstonians found that they could beat the Clippers if they were willing to fight.

Sure enough, when the two teams arrived in Houston, the situation changed.

Jeremy Lin had to miss the G3 game due to a wrist injury in G2.

Yi Jianlian returned to the starting lineup, while Beverley served as the team's starting point guard and continued to bite CP3.

Beverley, who averaged only about 41% per game this season and averaged 5.6 points per game, began to show his value in the playoffs, because his shooting percentage was fixed, and Paul's decline in efficiency did come from the defense of the black back.

Compared with the twists and turns of G2, both sides of G3 have made great efforts to fight each other in the offensive and defensive sections, so that the score has risen alternately, and no one has an absolute advantage in a relatively long period of time and opened the score.

The Rockets do not lose the name of Texas Xiaoqiang, even if there are frequent personnel turnovers, their momentum still gives opponents a headache.

The Rockets, playing at home, tied the Clippers in the final minute and a half of the final quarter.

103:103, and at this time, the most controversial penalty of the game appeared, Parsons made a shooting feint in the high post, and Kawaii stretched his long arm and cut the basketball without shaking.

Just as Kawaii was about to attack the Rockets half with the ball, the referee's whistle came belatedly.

The thug fouls and makes three free throws!

Kawaii, a boy with facial paralysis, showed a frustrated expression and hugged the basketball to explain to the referee, but to no avail.

Parsons hit two of three free throws, and in the next minute, both sides made multiple shots, but all of them hit the iron.

At 103:105, the Houstonians pulled one back at home, instantly breaking free from the panic that was about to be swept away.

When it comes to the first contributor to the win of this game, there is undoubtedly Parsons, who scored 27 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists in the Rockets.

Gao Fushuai in the second year does look promising, and it is no wonder that he can win a big contract in the future, as for his performance after getting a big contract, it is another matter.

Another hero of the Rockets is undoubtedly Asik, who scored 17 points and 14 boards, and Jordan Jr. also scored 10 points tonight, with nearly two doubles of 9 boards, but compared with Asik, it is still slightly insufficient.

You must know that Asik's annual salary at this time is 8.37 million yuan, and Jordan Jr. is a star of tens of millions.

Losing G3 is both a reminder and a spur for the league's longest winning streak.

There are no weak teams in the NBA, especially in a stage like the playoffs, and any team that is not focused enough will pay the price.

The score of 2:1 makes the Clippers and the Rockets both ambitious for G4, the Clippers will get the match point if they win, and the Rockets will tie the score if they win.

On April 29, U.S. time, it was still the Toyota Center.

The Rockets continued the G3 start, while the Clippers made a change:

C DeAndre Jordan

PF Chris Anderson

SF Nguyen Er Niu

SG Kawhi Leonard

PG Chris Paul

Erniu appeared in the No. 3 position for the first time in the NBA, and the intention was obvious, which was to deal with the rich and handsome who performed gorgeously in the last game.

At the beginning of the first quarter, Erniu faced Parsons on the defensive end.

Parsons' feints are extremely amplitude, but he is still a little immature against the last three consecutive D-POY.

Gao Fushuai had no choice but to forcibly hold the ball to break through, and had to choose to pass the ball under the interference of Erniu, but Kawaii, who was ambushed on the side, successfully judged the ball path and cut the ball with one palm.

Between offense and defense, Kawaii threw the ball high, jumped from the back of Jordan Jr., and completed a violent dunk on Yi Jianlian's head.

The Rockets were stunned at the start, and then the tempo was completely controlled by the Clippers.

Ruan Erniu's strength teaches how to be a man, and in the arena of self-improvement in the strong, Manniu is a well-deserved final boss.

The unwilling Rockets tried to launch a counterattack again in the third quarter, and Harden, who scored 12 points in a single quarter, once narrowed the gap between the two teams to within 15 points, but as Ruan Erniu broke out strongly again, the game entered garbage time.

Maybe it was because he was reluctant to lose in the last game, and in the last quarter, Thibodeau did not mean to replace the main force in advance, and it was not until the last 2 minutes that the pickle girl combination was pulled back to the bench, and the score gap at this time had exceeded 30 points.

At 129:97, the Clippers won G4 and won the match point.

At the press conference, when asked why he would play the No. 3 position, Ruan Erniu, who scored 35 points, 17 rebounds and 15 assists in this game, said: "I just want to practice tactics through different starting lineups. ”

Well, you win anyway.

Even in a pesticide professional league, a professional player who did not start with LinkedIn and passively took the big sword can claim that it was to surprise after winning.

From this point of view, Erniu is quite low-key, at least he didn't shout: "I play the third position (Arthur) thief!"

Objective analysis, this game is not only Erniu locked Gao Fushuai on the defensive end, but in the second position, Kawaii, who won 24+5+5 in the last game but failed to win, also put most of his experience on the defensive end.

Kawaii, who scored only 14 points in this game, allowed Harden to score no more than 14 points tonight.

It's just that kawaii scored 14 points and took 8 shots, while Harden scored 14 points and took 19 shots.

That's where the strength of the Clippers lies, and Kawaii is gradually developing All-Star scoring ability, but as long as the tactics require it, he can become a top blue-collar at any time, and get the opponent's offensive arrows on the defensive end without the problem of insufficient output.

The Clippers, who returned to Los Angeles with match point, decided to make a high-profile declaration, so they changed their starters again.

Erniu returned to the No. 4 position, Kawaii returned to the No. 3 position, and JJ Redick returned to the starting lineup, changing three sets of starters in five games, and I don't know if this is an emphasis on the Rockets or a contempt.

In other words, the defending champion, who has won 37 consecutive wins, has plenty of confidence to rotate multiple times.

The biggest change for the Clippers this season is that they have changed from a 6-8 rotation last season to a 9-11 rotation.

It's not that Thibodeau's own coaching skills have improved, it's that the Clippers have actually increased the number of people who can play.

Erniu's stats are declining because his own shooting power is allocated to other teammates, but the overall strength of the Clippers continues to grow.

The Rockets, who lost to G4, failed to pull off a miracle in Los Angeles as they were swept away by the Clippers in the third quarter after stubbornly resisting halftime.

The Clippers hit 26 three-pointers in this game, which just rewrote the record of 25 three-pointers set by the Hawks in a single game in the 09-10 season.

Atlanta fans are undoubtedly disappointed, as they have a record of excellence that is being surpassed by their former leader leading another team.

Tony Ressler has once again been criticized by Atlanta fans, and the Hawks owner estimates that he won't want to go to the home stadium for the next two years, because every time he appears, the fans will boo him to the end.

4:1, the defending champion successfully advanced to the second round, while several other teams in the first round of the West also decided the winner.

First of all, let's look at the Oklahoma City Thunder, who advanced faster than the Clippers, in the bottom half of the West, they easily swept the Lakers with a total score of 4:0, both sides lost big generals, the Lakers did not have Kobe, but the Thunder did not have a threat.

Judging from the team's chemistry, the Thunder are still superior, Howard is very unhappy with the Lakers, he does want to win the championship, but he wants to lead the team to the championship, and he doesn't want someone to always say in his ear: "Let me teach you how to win the championship!"

The Spurs had a hard time beating the Warriors, and they beat their opponents with an aggregate score of 4-1 to advance to the second round.

But those who have watched the game know very well that Curry and Thompson have grown up, and if it weren't for David Lee's recent return from injury, it would not be surprising that the two teams would have reached a tie-break.

The two teams to advance in the bottom half of the West are the Thunder and Spurs, while in the first half of the West, the Memphis Grizzlies will compete with the Clippers for the Western Conference finals.

The Grizzlies defeated the Nuggets with a total score of 4-2 and are the only team in the West to "go down and up".

The two teams actually play very similarly, with the same emphasis on overall and defense, but the offensive talent on the Grizzlies' side is still better than the Nuggets who lack offensive points.

The raging black and white bears have made the Nuggets interior line composed of Landry, Farid, and McGee miserable, and the strength of the Grizzlies only proves one thing, that is, when the two strong meet, the winning team is often the team with a more balanced offense and defense.

The first round in the West has been decided, while the East has been slow to progress, with the second round of the playoffs in the West and the first round in the East not all over.

Except for the Heat, who eliminated the Bucks 4-0 and coached Brandon Jennings, a 55-point player who averaged 29.8 percent shooting per game in the series, the other three first-round teams were in a tough battle.

In the bottom half of the Eastern Conference, the Pacers and Knicks both eliminated their opponents with a total score of 4-2 to complete the promotion.

In the battle for the last promotion spot in the first half of the East, the Bulls also did the trick, and they stubbornly defeated the Nets with a total score of 4-3 to get the last Eastern Conference promotion spot.

The process of the first round of the East and West is different, but the result is that the road is the same.

With the exception of the fifth-place win over the fourth, the other highly-ranked teams all advanced to the next round.

The Los Angeles Clippers continue to sit at the Staples Center, and their Western Conference semifinal opponent will be the Memphis Grizzlies.