The Lakers were given nearly five days off to watch their next semifinal opponents take place.

If the Clippers advance, the NBA will have a local derby in the playoffs for the first time in history.

In the fifth battle between the Nuggets and the Clippers, Li Liang personally went to Staples to "supervise the battle".

He wants the Clippers to win so they don't have to run around in the second round.

He didn't want to go to Denver Plateau to play on the road.

Li Liang sat in a very forward position and chatted with Chris Paul before the game began.

"Come on! We are already waiting for you in the semi-finals! Fight hard, fight for seven settlements, let's rest a little longer, and then you can rest early! ”

Chris Paul returned with a smirk and focused on the game against the Nuggets.

The Nuggets are really tough to play against, and the Clippers are a very athletic team, but the Nuggets are even more athletic than the Clippers.

The Clippers have a little Jordan with a bad brain on the inside, and McGee on the Nuggets has even worse brains.

The Clippers have a big ass Chris Paul on the outside, and Ty Lawson on the Nuggets outside... I don't know if this ass is bigger, it's not small anyway.

In short, the Nuggets and Clippers are evenly matched.

The fifth battle is related to the match point, so the fight is very intense.

The game was staggered from the start of the first quarter, with the Clippers taking a slight lead and the Nuggets holding on tight.

Whenever the Clippers want to pull the score, there are always players on the Nuggets side who can step up and shoot from the outside.

This makes Li Liang anxious, what kind of garbage flank defense?

The starting five, Paul is short, Griffin and Jordan Jr. are slow, and there is basically no way to effectively protect the wings.

Iguodala had multiple chances, either hitting a three-pointer or hitting a throw-up or jumper near the three-second zone.

Negro deployed troops on the wing, but how could he withstand the onslaught of the Nuggets' forward without the assistance of a single person and teammates.

Barnes has done his best, and the cost of his defense is that he can't shoot three-pointers on the offensive end.

It was a terrible hit, and the Nuggets overtook the score in the third quarter after several consecutive missed three-pointers from outside positions.

This made Li Liang anxious, this garbage clipper, garbage Negro, will it arrange tactics? Will you use a wing player?

Not even Mike Brown.

There's Butler, Barnes, Odom, Grant Hill, all of whom don't know how to use it.

All of them are used in 3D of the pile, and they have no characteristics of their own.

Li Liang played the No. 3 and No. 4 positions for a season, and he knew that the No. 3 position was the most flexible position on the field.

In addition to the system helping to improve his strength, another reason why he can play well is Mike Brown's flexible use of him (AFK hosting).

Li Liang gave full play to the all-round diversity of the players at the No. 3 position, made up for many loopholes of the Lakers, and glued together various positions, so that the Lakers played such a result when they were old, weak, sick and disabled.

And the Clippers front line looks luxurious, but it is either not strong enough, or it is too old a veteran.

Moreover, Negro does not use a forward line (does not hang up), and he has too much control over tactics.

The only players he can trust are Paul and Crawford.

Of course, Paul can be trusted, at least until the regular season and the Western Conference finals.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Clippers trailed the Nuggets.

That's when Paul stepped up, first hitting a three-point shot from the outside, then stealing Lawson and assisting Griffin for a dunk.

The Nuggets' lack of absolute strength was exposed in the final moments, and they lost their ability to score in the face of ultra-high-intensity defense and away games.

For three rounds in a row, the Nuggets missed offense.

And Paul seized the opportunity in the third round, broke through to the layup, and caused Koufus to foul and have to add a free throw!

The shot put the Clippers ahead and hit a free throw to give the Clippers a three-point lead.

Paul's one-shot operation allowed the Clippers to regain the lead, and Nuggets George Karl had to call a timeout.

The Nuggets played well in the regular season, and their plateau home court was simply terrifying.

And their strikers, their athleticism, give every team a headache.

Including the Lakers, several games against the Nuggets were very tough.

But when it comes to the playoffs, the stage of superstars, the Nuggets who take the egalitarian route are in trouble.

Lawson, Iguodala, Wilson Chandler, Andre Miller, all have the quality, but they don't have the ability to make a final decision.

George Karl, as a famous coach, has coached the NBA for so many years, and the teams he has led are all strong teams.

But it's always one step away from the championship level.

This Nugget has strong combat effectiveness, but it's a pity that the overall strength of the West is too strong this year.

They met the Clippers in the first round, and they originally stole a win in Los Angeles to get home-court advantage, and the situation is very good.

Because the Nuggets' home court had won 28 consecutive regular season games before the playoffs began.

If they can make it to two home games in a row, the series will be in their hands.

But it turns out that the regular season is the regular season and the playoffs are the playoffs.

In the third game, Paul broke out and scored 30 points, ending the Nuggets' 28-game winning streak at home.

Although the Nuggets pulled back a city in the fourth game, it was really not that easy for Tianwangshan to Los Angeles in the fifth game.

After the timeout, the Nuggets didn't solve their offensive problems.

Iguodala missed a mid-range jumper, the Clippers got the rebound, and Paul stabilized.

The key attack, Paul still came by himself, broke through with the ball, and hit a mid-range jumper near the free throw line!

Chris Paul's mid-range is a killer when it matters most.

The goal was quite deadly, and Paul scored 10 points in a row to completely turn the game around.

Li Liang saw this and knew that the Clippers had won this game nine times out of ten.

Because the Nuggets don't have a character who can turn things around.

If they have a Kobe...... Maybe they'll die sooner.

As Li Liang expected, the Clippers took control of the situation, and finally defeated the Nuggets at home with a 7-point advantage of 105:98.

The big score was 3:2 ahead of the Nuggets and got the match point of the series.

After watching this game, Li Liang thought that the next game would be on the Denver Plateau, and the Clippers should be able to take the Nuggets away.

It's not good to take a break for too long.

Recently, Li Liang didn't enter the system to do tasks, but just practiced the pull-up jump shot with Sam Cassel, striving to practice the ability value of the pull-up jump shot to 50 points.

After all, the intensity of the playoffs is indeed much greater than that of the regular season.

If the first round is relatively easy, the semi-finals are really a strong team battle, and the intensity will go to the next level.

So Li Liang is accumulating physical energy and preparing to play well in the semifinals!

Yes, he didn't play well in the first round, and the Rockets really didn't play.

In the second round, whether he played the Clippers or the Nuggets, Li Liang had to fight seriously.

As a result, the next day, Li Liang went home after training to watch the live broadcast of the game between the Clippers and the Nuggets, but the Clippers lost!

They were in Denver, losing to the Nuggets by a big score, and they collapsed inexplicably.

"Holy, Clippers, what kind of garbage are you? Why did it collapse? Also NM is going to fight and rob seven, damn it, I have to rest for a few days! ”

Li Liang was bored, and that night, he entered the system to find Kassel to do a task.

Kassel looks so ugly, every time he sees him in the system, Li Liang is startled first, and he wants to suppress and slow down.

Cassel has a lot of ties to the Clippers, having played for a few seasons with the Clippers and leading them to the semifinals.

It was '06, when the Los Angeles derby was most likely.

The Clippers entered the semifinals, and the Lakers and Suns were tied 3-1, and the Lakers were about to advance.

As a result, the Suns won three games in a row over the Lakers, putting the idea of a Los Angeles derby to a halt.

Then, the Suns defeated the Clippers 4-3 and entered the Western Conference finals.

At that time, the Suns and Nash were close to becoming public enemies of Los Angeles.

After that, Cassel went to the Celtics to win another championship, and after retiring he chose to work as an assistant coach with the Wizards.

Li Liang followed Kassel in 06 for a training session for stop-and-go jump shots.

Unlike Sam Jones, Sam Jones is primarily a 45-degree close-range jumper.

Cassel, on the other hand, excels at the top of the arc and makes pull-up jumpers near the free throw line.

He used to brag that the only mid-range jumper in the league was better than him, Michael Jordan.

This confidence also shows his strength, and the thin Cassel often chooses to stop the attack with a pull-up jumper in the fast break.

"There's no skill, it's just grinding, grinding, and then it's up to you to see your talent. Come on boy, don't be afraid of anyone, don't look at those stars who look like dogs, majestic, you never know which guy will hide in the bed and cry like a child after losing; Or if someone detains one, the thought of fear comes to my mind. A lot of people are scoundrels, idiots, fools, stupid, shoot in their heads......"

Kassel's mouth is really chattering, it is said that playing with Kassel can't be with him, and if you play with him, it's over.

Tonight is not only about playing, but also with escort service.

Li Liang didn't pay attention to the previous few tasks, but he felt that there was always a fly spinning in his ear.

So no matter what Kassel says today, Li Liang doesn't speak.

Hey, Bruce Lee, you have it today.

If Mike Brown saw this scene, he would probably push for Cassel to be poached to the Lakers as an assistant coach.

Li Liang practiced for an hour and completed a lesson task for the emergency stop jump shot.

Then the brain buzzes out of the system, hurry back to sleep.

……

Two more days later, in Los Angeles, the Clippers and Nuggets' tiebreaker was taking place.

At the same time, another tiebreaker in the west has ended.

No one expected that the Oklahoma City Thunder would play Game 7 with the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors showed extremely tenacious fighting power, and in the case of losing Tianwang Mountain, the sixth game was at home, relying on Klay Thompson's excellent play, and stubbornly dragged into a life-and-death battle.

However, in the seventh game, the Thunder, who returned to Russian City, did not give the Warriors another chance.

They beat the Warriors by 121-100, 21 points, and after a hard-fought battle, they entered the second round.

What they will face will be Spurs again.

In short, the two tigers are competing and the two teams meet in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons, which must be a big battle.

And the Clippers, who returned to Stamps, also burst out with tremendous energy.

Their three-pointers from the outside were completely open, and the bench exploded with three-pointers, stretching the margin to 15 points at halftime.

And the Nuggets didn't know what was wrong, as if they had lost their desire to win all of a sudden.

The whole team played loosely, and there was no feeling of life and death at all.

How could such a team be an opponent of the morale-boosting Clippers.

In the end, the Clippers defeated the Nuggets 103-88 and won the last semi-final spot in the West.

At Stamps, the Lakers have been waiting a long time.