Chapter 801: The Overrated Lakers and the Clippers

Clippers three less? Many fans couldn't help but be happy when they heard Barkley's name for the three people in the Clippers' backcourt.

Barkley is not wrong when he says this, these three people are actually qualified to be called "less".

Needless to say, Sun Yue won the best sixth man last season, and when he played as a starter, his average data per game was also quite good, and he was even selected as an All-Star.

Leonard and Klay Thompson were both drafted to the rookie team in their rookie seasons, and they were also excellent in terms of personal data.

As soon as the game opened, the Clippers directly played a perfect defensive counterattack.

This is just the beginning, and then the Lakers' nightmare is completely here.

In line with the principle of who is weak on the offensive end, Nash has directly become the main breakthrough point on the Clippers' side.

Sun Yue singled Nash with the ball......

When Klay Thompson runs without the ball, he swings around Nash in various ways, and even sometimes uses Nash to help him block and dismantle.

Leonard was even more straightforward, holding the ball directly to find Nash.

After the Clippers opened the game, the defensive end was quite good, and the offensive end was quite effective because of various reasons for playing Nash.

On the other hand, the Lakers' side is a little miserable.

Artest doesn't have much offensive firepower, and his main contribution to the Lakers is on the defensive end.

Nash has a good head, but under the harassment of Sun Yue's follow-up defense and other Clippers players, he can't find a comfortable space to shoot.

As for Kobe, under Leonard's care, Kobe, who is 34 years old, is not so smooth on the offensive end, and it takes a lot of energy to spend a lot of energy on each offensive round.

Mike Brown's face on the sidelines suddenly became ugly, he never expected to encounter such a difficult situation at the beginning.

Originally, he thought that the Lakers could easily beat the Clippers and get a good start to the season.

As a result, the situation on the court was quite not optimistic, and after half-time, the Lakers were already nine points behind......

Nine points behind at half-time, which is already quite a huge point difference, is enough to see the difference in strength between the two sides.

Although Brother Bread is often hacked, if he can achieve the position of head coach of the league, he naturally cannot be a fool.

He also knows that the main problem on the court at the moment is Nash, and Nash's defensive black hole has become a point that the Clippers are desperately grasping for.

In desperation, Brother Bread could only call a timeout, and at the halfway point in the first quarter, he was ready to replace Nash.

If Nash is replaced, who will replace Nash?

Fisher is gone, and there are no decent No. 1 players on the team at the moment, and if he is replaced on the court, the effect may not be much better than Nash.

After thinking about it, Brother Bread could only be replaced by Famar.

Speaking of which, Famar's defense is actually quite scummy, but it is definitely better than the current Nash.

"Good job, keep fighting!"

"The opponent will definitely replace Jordan Famar next, our tactics and strategies don't need to change, let's continue to play their No. 1 position!" Richard said quite firmly.

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At the end of the timeout, the players on both sides returned to the court, and the arrangement of Brother Bread did not play a decent effect, and the defensive end was still at a great disadvantage, but the offensive end did improve a little, and the Lakers finally tightened the point difference with the Clippers when they mainly played inside.

With three minutes left in the first quarter, Richard replaced Horford, Thompson and Sun Yue with Big Ben, Thomas Jr. and Big Monkey.

In order to make up the Big Five lineup, the Lakers' bench lost a lot, and as a result, in the last three minutes of the first quarter, the Clippers played a three-point difference.

By the end of the first quarter, the difference between the two sides had reached an astonishing 12 points.

Although tonight's home court of the Clippers, there must be countless Lakers fans on the scene.

Seeing that the Lakers trailed by 12 points in the first quarter, everyone was dumbfounded.

Who would have thought that the Lakers, who had gathered the Big Five, would be so unbearable in front of the Clippers?!

The reversal that Lakers fans were expecting did not materialize, and the Clippers team was quite stable, not the kind of team that started the game as fiercely as a tiger and had a 0-5 record.

At full-time, the Clippers won the defending champions by 19 points at home.

With a score of 109:90, the Lakers lost quite miserably tonight.

Thompson scored 29 points tonight under Artest's defense, much to the surprise of Clippers fans at the scene.

It is not easy to get such a scoring statistic under the defense of DPOY Artest.

But in fact, Artest's defense at the moment is far from being as good as it was at his peak, and his ability to defend against breaking through is still very strong, but his ability to defend against the ball has declined a lot, which is why Thompson scored so high tonight.

Leonard didn't take many shots tonight because he focused more on defending Kobe, only 12 shots and scored 16 points.

As for Sun Yue, the last of the Clippers' three young people, tonight recorded 18 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists in the all-round data.

Together, the trio scored 63 points, more than half of the Clippers' total.

The rookie in the starting lineup, Egg Chaser, Green, didn't get many shots tonight, played 25 minutes, only made four shots, and scored 4 points, but with 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals and 1 block.

Apparently Richard made the right choice by putting Chase Green in the starting lineup.

The Clippers are not short of offensive firepower, such as Chasing Egg Green, if Richard really wants to improve the team's starting firepower, he can completely let the Malaysian Monkey replace Chasing Green, but is this really necessary?

The Clippers have done a good enough job on the offensive end, so it is better to let the No. 4 position take more responsibility for rebounding and defense.

Obviously, in terms of rebounding and defense, the big horse monkey can't catch up with Egg Green.

Horford didn't have a great performance tonight, after all, he faced Howard, who was blown out by the Monster on the rebounding end......

However, this did not affect the end of the final game, and the Clippers finally easily eliminated the Lakers and won the season start.

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After the game, fans and experts from all sides felt a little unrealistic, the Lakers' Big Five lineup actually lost? And the key is to lose so miserably......

Many hardcore Lakers fans began to make excuses for the Lakers, for example, the Lakers' lineup has just been formed, and it takes a period of run-in.

Of course, there are also many Clippers fans who rejoice that Richard has built a championship team before, and the longest time has been rising since the third season.

And now it is Richard's third season at the helm of the Clippers, could it be said that this year is the season for the Clippers to win the championship?!

Looking at the performance of this opening game, it seems that the Clippers really have the strength to win the championship.

The Lakers have a Big Five roster and are considered the most likely team to win the championship this year, but the result is completely vulnerable in front of the Clippers, in this case, the Clippers undoubtedly have a super high probability of winning the championship.

If you really want to talk about it, in fact, both of these fans are not right.

First of all, the Lakers team does not have any run-in problems, and their current strength is weak......

This season, they definitely don't want to enter the top half of the West, and they are expected to become a goalkeeper-level team in the Western Conference playoffs.

It's roughly the same level as the Clippers last season.

And is the Clippers really the team with the highest probability of winning the championship this season? Obviously not, at least in Richard's opinion, the strength of the Spurs in the West must definitely be stable against their Clippers.

Lakers fans are clearly overestimating the Lakers, and Clippers fans are also overestimating the Clippers......

This game doesn't really say much at all.

After the opening victory over the Lakers, the Clippers' next three games were all at home, and the schedule was relatively easy, and the opponents were all the bottom teams in the East.

I have to say that Xiao Hua is really enough to take care of Richard, and the schedule of the Clippers in the first half of the season is quite easy, giving Richard a lot of buffer time.

If you play all kinds of strong teams as soon as you come up, the winning rate will definitely not be high, and if the winning rate is low, it will affect the confidence of the players, especially the Clippers have many newcomers, and this impact may be even greater.

If the schedule is easy, it will make the newcomers more and more handy, and after playing with confidence, even in the face of the difficult schedule in the second half of the season, they can be easily treated.

Richard is a little glad now, he had a good relationship with Xiao Hua at the beginning, otherwise, Xiao Hua would give it casually on the schedule now. Richard set up some difficulties, but also enough for Richard to be uncomfortable.