Chapter 31: The Second Battle of the Clippers

On December 29, 2011, the Spurs welcomed the challenge of the league's upstart Clippers at home, this season, under the intervention of the league, Chris Paul failed to join the Lakers, and finally had to switch to the Clippers, thus forming the Clippers' empty receiver combination, Paul plus Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, such a combination made the Clippers a strong team in the league, and the Clippers also played the banner of championship competition in the new season. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The Clippers have shown their ambition, and it also shows that the Spurs' opponents in the next game will not be so easy to play against.

In the first game of the season, the Spurs defeated the Grizzlies by a large score, and the Clippers also defeated the Warriors by a large score, Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and Chauncey Billups all scored 20+, which also proved the good form of the Clippers.

In the home team's locker room, the game is about to start, and Popovich has not yet announced the start of this game, so Anxi is still a little nervous, and he still doesn't know what Popovich thinks.

Wearing Ray Allen's Kangda jersey first, Anxi then put on the Spurs' No. 7 jersey and jacket outside, and then waited for Popovich to announce the starting lineup.

Without letting Anxi wait long, Popovich walked to the center of the locker room: "Today's game is our second game of the season, at the beginning of the season, many media are saying that the Spurs are coming to an end, and San Antonio is likely to die on the devil's schedule this season, but I believe everyone knows that our strength is not just a little bit as they say! The Spurs are almost finished? What are you kidding!"

While Popovich isn't the kind of chicken soup coach Doug Rivers is, Popovich's chicken soup is pretty good.

"In this game we will face our first strong opponent of the season, the Los Angeles Clippers, they are part of the championship team, and in this game, in order to prove ourselves!

After a burst of chicken soup, the Spurs roared with excitement, and Popovich finally began to announce the starting lineup.

"So in this game, let's adjust the team's starters for the Clippers, starting point guard Tony Parker, starting point guard Danny Green, starting small forward Kowhi Leonard, starting power forward Ann, starting center Tim Duncan!"

After the announcement of the starting lineup, almost everyone was a little surprised, because the gap between the starting lineup of the Spurs in this game and the previous game was too big, and the starters in three positions were directly changed!

The game is about to start, the starters are preparing on the sidelines, this is Anxi's first start, he is still a little nervous, this game Popovich did not mention Anxi's task at all, it seems that the interview the day before yesterday was a joke made by Popovich, but Anxi knew that it was not a joke at all, when he appeared in the position of the starting power forward, his task was only one - to prevent Blake Griffin!

For Blake Griffin, Anxi still knows something, the champion pick in the 2009 draft, the rookie season was reimbursed for a finger injury caused by a dunk, and he just came back last season, and the result gave a super luxury data of 22.5 points + 12.1 rebounds + 3.8 assists in a single season, becoming the second rookie season after Yao Ming to be selected as an All-Star.

The 2011-2012 season is only his second season, his mid-range shooting has not improved much, and the offensive end is more dependent on the dunk after rushing into the restricted area, which is powerful enough to eat most opponents, but when it comes to Anxi Griffin's strength, it is no longer an advantage, perhaps this is why Popovich will let Anxi defend Griffin.

As the referee began to walk towards the center of the field with the ball, Tony Parker clapped his hands and gathered all the players together.

'We started with a number three and let Thiem play first and try to break down the defense of the opposite centre-forward, so we could be very relaxed. ”

Tony Parker's arrangement is very reasonable, the Spurs' tactics, in the final analysis, are afraid that the opponent's penalty area has a defender like Deandre Jordan in the penalty area, so the opening first beat DeAndre Jordan, empty the penalty area, and then no matter what tactics are played, it will be very easy.

The players nodded vigorously, and Anxi also relaxed his nervousness a little, in this game, the team's offense actually has nothing to do with him, and Anxi only needs to do a good job of blocking and dismantling and covering on the offensive end, and his focus is still on defense.

Soon, the referee blew the whistle, the two sides were in position, and the game began to jump the ball.

It was DeAndre Jordan and Tim Duncan who jumped the ball, and Jordan Jr. was clearly better at bouncing, jumping high, clearly a head above Duncan, and easily flicked the ball back to the Clippers' backcourt.

The Clippers were on offense, and the Spurs quickly settled in their own backcourt, and the game began.

At this moment, far away on the other side of the ocean, the broadcast signal had just been transmitted to the live broadcast room of Tencent Sports, and when they saw that Anxi actually appeared in the starting lineup, everyone opened their mouths in surprise, because they knew that the so-called Anxi arrogance of Sina had been completely concluded at this moment!

Fake news! Sina's Anxi's arrogant news must be fake news! Anxi has appeared in the Spurs' starting list, how can he have lost the trust of the coaching staff!

On Sina's side, as soon as Anxi appeared in the Spurs' starting lineup, Sina's editor-in-chief Ke Yi announced that the news that Anxi had lost the trust of the Spurs coaching staff was concocted by Sina sports reporter Yang Fan, and had nothing to do with Sina official.

In this way, Yang Fan, who was far away in the United States, found that overnight, he had lost everything......

Originally, he was a veteran reporter of Sina Sports, and in the United States, he still had a group of young reporters who followed him and pursued him, but now, he was suddenly fired from Sina, and the group of young reporters who were only his followers before were already eager to hide as far as they could.

On the field, Anxi faced Blake Griffin for the first time, he took a good look at his opponent in this game, Griffin's registered height is 2.08 meters, but according to Anxi's visual inspection, at most it is 2.03 meters, about the same height as Anxi, and the arm span is very short.

The Clippers' first offense, Chris Paul controlled the ball, and the Clippers quickly started running.

Anxi, who already knows something about Blake Griffin, chose to pester Griffin, in his opinion, Griffin, who has no long-range shooting ability, will only pose a threat to the Spurs if he holds the ball, so as long as Anxi prevents Blake Griffin's catch first, everything will be easily solved.

At the moment when Chris Paul made a tactical gesture, Blake Griffin quickly ran towards the high position, and Anxi also followed, and by the way, he did not forget to block Griffin's receiving route with his long arms.

Anxi's defense is very entangled, and there are only two ways for ordinary players to receive the ball under Anxi's defense, one is to beat Anxi through speed, but there are very few players who can beat Anxi through speed in the entire NBA, and the other is to get space to receive the ball through blocking and dismantling.

So, Blake Griffin continued to go outside, made a cross cover with Chris Paul, who was holding the ball, and finally got the ball.