Chapter 251: A Taste of the Playoffs
Little Jordan found himself waiting in the air for a long time, but Yi Feng still didn't jump. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When he was about to land, he finally figured out that he had fallen for someone else's job.
Under the most intense baskets, opportunities are always fleeting.
From the moment Jordan Jr. jumped to the moment he landed, it was less than a second.
And in this less than a second, if Yi Feng can make a move, it will be the best situation.
But Yi Feng knew that things were not so simple, and there was Griffin behind him in hot pursuit, and Yi Feng couldn't act rashly until he was sure whether Griffin had also eaten his feints.
After pulling the ball back, Yi Feng turned directly with his left foot as the axis.
As he turned around, Yi Feng's gaze swept to Griffin, who was waiting for his time lying in ambush behind him.
He didn't eat feints!
Yi Feng knew that he turned around one point faster, and after turning around, he came to the edge of the bottom line.
It's not a dead end, but it's a dangerous place. As long as the opponent presses harder, the ball carrier will step on the line and go out of bounds if he is not careful.
And Yi Feng took the initiative to come to this place, and there was also a taste of being born after death.
After turning, he opened up the distance with Jordan Jr. and also got rid of Griffin's defensive range. Immediately, he did not hesitate to make a move.
A close-range throw finally added two points for the Lakers.
At 21:29, the difference was back within 10 points.
The Clippers attacked, and after Griffin hit the ball twice, he realized that there was always someone who would come to harass him.
It turned out that he was encountered.
But the Lakers are very flexible in his defense, and the outside player closest to him will harass him from time to time without the purpose of breaking the ball, so that he can't focus on individual offense.
And if he wants to pass the ball, there isn't much space.
However, the not-so-good thing is that for the player who harassed Griffin, he needed to take care of both ends, constantly running errands in the middle, and the physical exertion was too great.
In fact, this kind of defense is just a showcase, a paper tiger. If Griffin continues to force singles, this kind of defense won't really do much.
But don't look at Griffin's dunk when he doesn't want to die, he looks like he doesn't care about it, in fact, his style of play is not so bad. On the contrary, a lot of the time he handles the ball very carefully.
So at this time, he didn't choose to continue to attack, but returned the ball to Paul.
The Clippers' offense, Griffin's attempt to play alone, took more than ten seconds, and when the ball reached Paul's hands, the offense had less than ten seconds left.
He observed the situation and quickly decided that there was not enough time for another tactical attack, and then decided to play the ball himself.
Through the cross-step, Paul kept changing the rhythm, and Clarkson gradually became a little confused. Subsequently, Clarkson was broken by Paul.
After hitting the inside, Paul leaned on Hibbert for a high-board layup.
First, there is not much time, and he can only make undisguised layups; Second, height is an eternal pain, especially when he faces a tall center like Hibbert.
But unfortunately, Paul's attack was handled a little hastily this time, and the ball collapsed out of the basket.
The score is still 21-29, and the Lakers are expected to close the gap even further.
Nance Jr. took the backcourt rebound and gave it directly to Clarkson, who was about to run to the halfway, and Clarkson turned the ball again to Yi Feng, who had already crossed the halfway.
The Lakers, these young people, actually played defensive counterattack in front of the Clippers!
Although the Clippers have a strong point on the inside, Griffin, the rest of the main firepower is concentrated on the outside, so the Clippers are still an outside team in general.
They play fast, counter-attacking is what they do best, and when the opponent is brought into their rhythm, the result is likely to be a big win, but if they are dragged into a positional battle, ball by ball, their athleticism advantage will not be reflected.
In addition, the outside team is already very dependent on feel, and when the shooters are collectively dumb, the inside can unscrupulously wrap Griffin, and the Clippers will be very tired at this time.
Therefore, the strategy of the Clippers is often to try to speed up as soon as possible, fight against the opponent, and suppress the opponent with strong firepower.
In view of this, the Lakers slowed down the pace at the beginning of tonight's game and let Yi Feng grind a little. Although it is his personal singles, it can actually be regarded as the team's positional attack.
The pace of the game slowed down, so the Lakers' own scoring didn't go up. However, the Clippers did not score less because of this, on the contrary, they scored higher than usual.
It's not normal because they feel so good tonight.
Not counting the basket Paul lost just now, in this quarter of the game, the Clippers can count the number of balls they have conceded.
It's not that the Lakers' defense is not strong, it's that the Clippers' hand is too rebellious.
However, Scott firmly believes that the Clippers' hand will definitely decline, so he also emphasized many times during the timeout that he should continue to slow down the pace to play.
I didn't expect these young people to run so quickly......
Under-Training!
Scott's anger was written all over his face, and he took a few steps forward, ready to give them a roar of love when Yi Feng and their defensive counterattack failed.
Seeing Yi Feng one step away from the three-point line, pulling up and throwing three points directly, Scott didn't know whether to be angry or even more angry.
However, the next scene made him directly stunned.
Yi Feng took a quick stop and jumped outside the three-point line, his lower body was tight and straight, while his upper body leaned forward under the action of inertia, and the ball he threw out drew a high and long arc in the air, and fell directly into the net bag!
Chase down the three-point shot!
Several commentators on the sidelines also began to marvel and kept saying disbelief.
Scott was angry, but he couldn't scold at this time.
Although Yi Feng's behavior just now was very nonsense, he scored the ball!
If you want to blame, you can only blame Curry. It's all because he brought such a trend, and now the people in the league who can shoot three-pointers have begun to try to make the projection distance longer, and the three-point shots shot one or two steps outside the three-point line have become more and more unbearable to the name "ultra-long-distance three-pointers".
Although there are more and more players who like to shoot three-pointers from further afield, Curry is the only one who can really use the three-point surpass as a conventional weapon.
The rest, like Curry's teammate Thompson, like Lillard of the Trail Blazers, and others, including Yi Feng, can only be counted as half at most.
Occasionally, they were able to hit such a ball in a flash of inspiration, but the overall shooting percentage was not high. Because usually most of them can't be invested.
Yi Feng hit a rather unreasonable three-point chase and rewrote the score to 24:29, and the Lakers' backward point difference was suddenly narrowed to 5 points by him alone!
The Clippers thought it was just an accident, but they didn't expect that after they missed the shot, Yi Feng grabbed the backcourt rebound, and after directly advancing through the halfcourt, he still had a three-point shot that was farther away than the one just now!
What's even more terrifying is that he still enters!
With the crisp sound of the basketball rubbing against the net, it was transmitted through the loudspeaker throughout the Staples Center, and the fans present were boiling!
If you had asked a fan a year or two ago, what was the most exciting scene in the NBA?
He might answer you, dunk. All kinds of difficult dunks, all kinds of violent and unsolvable dunks, and so on.
Or he'll answer you, too, caps. All kinds of fancy caps, cover to the point where you doubt life.
He might also answer you, lore. A second or two before the end of the game, the last attack changed the fate of the team and changed the outcome of the game.
……
But this season, the fans have one more answer, three points.
All kinds of unreasonable perverted three-pointers!
After watching Curry's game, people realized that it turned out that shooting a three-point shot can make people so excited, and it turns out that shooting a three-pointer can also make people cheer.
So after Yi Feng's two unreasonable long-distance three-pointers in a row, the fans were boiling. If you don't shout loudly, there will be nowhere to vent the restlessness in your heart.
And even the Clippers fans who have the advantage of the home court can't help but cheer for Yi Feng's two perverted goals.
But they soon found that they were not in line with their position by doing so.
In the end, I could only sit back in embarrassment.
After the pause, in three rounds, Yi Feng relied on his personal attack power to play an 8-0 small **, directly rewriting the score to 27:29, and with his efforts, the Lakers fell behind by two points.
Yi Feng's scoring show brought the whole team high, even Kobe, an old bone, threw aside what the coach said to slow down the pace of play, and in the final period of the first quarter, he started a fast-to-fast offensive battle with the Clippers.
This finally gave the Clippers a chance to break their scoring drought. Under Paul's threading of the needle, Redick and Bamot both hit the ball outside, and Jordan Jr. also happily dunked once.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers trailed the Clippers by four points at 34:38 on the road.
The scores of the two teams combined in the first quarter were more than 70 points, and from this point of view, this quarter was indeed a head-to-head battle.
And that's what Scott doesn't want to see.
He has long been concerned with his disciples, to control the rhythm, to control the rhythm!
As a result, the rhythm collapsed at the end of the first quarter......
At this time, he remembered that when he was coaching the Hornets, his friend Paul was a master who controlled the pace of the game, he wanted to be as fast as he wanted, and as slow as he wanted!
And now that the stars have changed, a master of control like Paul has become his opponent!
It's unpredictable!
Scott sighed, then came back and began to reprimand the calves who did not listen to discipline.
But after seeing the disbelief on their faces, Scott began to think silently in his heart-
To be honest, the team was 10 points behind the opponent when they slowed down to play the position according to their own requirements; And when these boys ran up, they followed the Clippers to attack, and under the mutual victory and defeat, the score difference gradually narrowed.
Do you take the other party too seriously, but underestimate the players on your side too much?
With Yi Feng, the league's super scoring champion, the Lakers are not afraid of attacking to some extent; Not to mention the Super Sixth Man like Louis Williams who can score points in the rotation......
Scott found himself still a little too cautious, and although he was the head coach, he still didn't know enough about the huge changes in the Lakers this season. Or his impression of the Lakers is more stuck in last season.
Do you want to change it?
Scott decided to make a change, he didn't mention the control of the tempo, the offensive position and the like, but let the disciples go to play, how to play in the regular season, and continue to play like that now.
Although Yi Feng and others were a little surprised by the sudden change of the head coach, they were more happy to be able to play as they wanted, and no longer slow down the pace with an awkward look.
In the second quarter, Nick Young was like a wild horse off the leash, coquettish and dazzling.
First, it was Scott who let go of his authority; Second, it's the third playoff trip of his career, and he's so excited!
He began his NBA career in 2007 after being drafted by the Wizards with the 16th pick in the first round. And it was in his rookie season that he got his first taste of the playoffs.
Although the Wizards were only in one round at that time, they were eliminated by the Cavaliers, who had the second record in the East that season, 4:2, and Nick Young only played 4 games at that time, averaging only 4.3 minutes per game, and contributed 1.3 points, 0.3 assists and 0.6 rebounds, but this was the first time he saw what a playoff game was.
After his second trip to the playoffs, Nick Young participated as a Clippers player.
That was his only season with the Clippers, and in the middle of the 2011-12 season, he was traded to the Clippers by the Wizards.
At that time, the Clippers, with Paul, Griffin, who had just gone through his rookie season, and Jordan Jr., who was gradually being built, the future Clippers Big Three had been formed.
The Clippers that season, with some experience in the league, were known as "flight attendant support", and the team also entered the playoffs. In the first round of the playoffs, they eliminated the Grizzlies who staged the Black Eight Miracle in 2011 with a 4-3 loss, but they met the Spurs with four championships in the Western Conference semifinals, and were finally swept in four straight games.
Nick Young has played in all 11 playoff games, averaging 18.2 points per game, contributing 8.3 points, 0.3 assists and 1.1 rebounds.
This time, he tasted the playoffs again after 4 years, and also tasted the taste of knocking out his opponents in the playoffs!
The latter is more valuable than the former!
So for the Clippers, Nick Young is still quite grateful.
After that, Nick Young went to the 76ers for a year and then came to the Lakers.
From 2012 to now, another 4 years have passed before he can be on the stage of the playoffs again! It's impossible to be unhappy!
As soon as the second quarter came up, he first used a long-range two-point shot to step on the three-point line to announce the official start of his playoff journey;
Immediately afterwards, he stole D'Angelo Russell's pass, entangled with Russell from the back to the front, and finally played a 2+1 with his height advantage! In the end, the penalty was added, and it was hit! This is a little too cruel for Russell, who is getting a taste of the playoffs for the first time;
But that's not all!
At 2 minutes and 13 seconds into the second quarter, Nick Young used a coquettish crotch dribble + back change to pass Jamal Crawford, and then scored a defensive layup against Cole Aldridge!
One person plays a small ** of 7-0! (To be continued.) )