If Lillard can really redeem Li Liang, then the Trail Blazers have indeed earned it.

In the first two games, Lillard played a lot worse under Paul's defense than in the first round.

On the defensive end, Lillard was originally protected to play against Barnes, anyway, just follow Barnes, and he doesn't need to consume too much defensively.

As a result, there is no consumption on the defensive end, and the offensive end is mediocre, which is really what you want.

Of course, the Trail Blazers put the responsibility for victory on a sophomore rookie, and the burden is indeed a bit heavy.

After all, not everyone is Li Liang and Jabbar.

However, when Stotts told Lillard in pre-game preparation that he hoped he could defend Li Liang and make greater contributions to defense, Lillard agreed without hesitation.

Ability is not enough, but heart qi is definitely enough.

As a result, when it came to the game, Lillard really followed well in the first quarter.

The two close-range presses forced Li Liang to return the ball to Paul, wasting the Clippers' offensive time.

Lillard thinks he's doing a good job of defense, and it's up to him to attack!

After returning from a timeout, Lillard also began to make gains on offense.

Because the Clippers replaced Griffin and replaced Crawford, Li Liang came to the position of power forward.

So Lillard temporarily "let go" Li Liang, and he began to take charge of the offense with his free hand.

Crawford's layup on the right side didn't score...... Has this product been basketed?

The Trail Blazers got the backcourt rebound, Lillard pushed at full speed, and then made a layup that caused a defensive foul on Li Liang.

Lillard hit both free throws to chase down just one point.

Then, Jordan Jr. received Paul's pass and dunked in the air, but the ball flew away!

The stewardess didn't succeed and failed.

Lillard got the ball again, and this time the Clippers were quick to get back on guard.

Lillard collected the ball, then changed direction in the middle and burst forward, a stop-and-go jumper, and hit two more points!

The Trailblazers overtake.

Lillard played very beautifully, dribbling under his crotch outside the three-point line to shake Paul away, and then making a pull-up jump shot at the top of the arc, crisply.

The Trail Blazers are finally getting a bit of a playoff team look.

The previous two games were too weak, but tonight it felt like there was a play.

Crawford then picked up a cover pass from Li Liang in the high post and hit a mid-range.

Li Liang reminded Crawford, your uncle's class is holding back the layup, you might as well learn to jump shots, jump shots are not easy to get a hat than a layup.

After a few minutes of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers found that the offense didn't seem to be so easy.

In the period when Griffin was just off the court, Lillard took advantage of the chaos to score four points in a row.

But when the Clippers stabilized their position and began to fight with the Trail Blazers one by one, the Trail Blazers' offense was no longer good.

Li Liang began to defend against Ade.

You know, the Trail Blazers are targeting the Clippers, and the Clippers are targeting the Trail Blazers.

Long before the series began, Mike Brown began to study the targeted defense against the Trail Blazers, especially Li Liang's defense against Ade.

Mike Brown's strategy is that Jordan Jr. and Li Liang take turns defending Ade.

When Little Jordan defends, Li Liang will wait for the opportunity to come up to wrap up, steal, and interfere.

When Li Liang defends alone, it is a single defense, and then Jordan Jr. is ready to assist in defense on the other side.

This alternate defense disrupted Ade's offensive rhythm.

Mike Brown's move is brilliant because Ade's offense really relies on a consistent sense of rhythm.

Although they are all shooting inside, he is not as comprehensive as Dirk in terms of technical style, especially the back turn, almost half of which is turned to the middle.

And his basket is not strong enough, which is an important gap that distinguishes him from the super big front of Dirk and Duncan.

In the opening game, Jordan Jr. defended Ade, and the shooting feeling was very good, and he turned around a few times to shoot backwards and jumpers, and the little Jordan who shot had no temper.

But after Li Liang was on defense, Ade's shooting felt different, and Li Liang's defensive method was different from that of Jordan Jr.

Li Liang's low-post defense has more outside defense colors, and his top and blocking people are not very good, so he is more entangled.

In this case, if it is Dirk or Peak Duncan, most of them will choose to make a hard burst of the basket, make a foul or directly beat Li Liang through.

In the first round of playing the Mavericks, Nowitzki dealt with Li Liang like this, but Nowitzki was too old to continue to output.

And Ade's choice is still the same, continuing to turn his back to the back of the jumper or hook, but the feeling of the hand declined, and he missed continuously.

On the Clippers' side, Crawford seized the opportunity and used Li Liang's high cover to hit a mid-range jumper with Paul in succession.

The Clippers opened up the difference little by little, and in the last minute of the first quarter, the Clippers were 28:17 again, leading the Trail Blazers by 9 points.

At this time, Li Liang was off, and Odom and Griffin appeared.

Ade remained on the court and finally made a defensive foul on Odom and went to the free throw line.

As for making Li Liang defensive fouls? He didn't make you an offensive foul, so the referee had a good temper today.

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers led the Trail Blazers by nine points at 28:19.

The Trail Blazers scored just nine points in the first quarter.

To be honest, at this time, the Trail Blazers, from the players to the coaches to the fans, have a little clear in their hearts that they really can't beat.

Li Liang scored a total of two points in the first quarter, did not shoot a single three-pointer, and made a foul after two rebounds.

Just like that, the Trailblazers still can't beat, how can you still fight?

The Flow offense, which the Trail Blazers are proud of, simply can't be used in front of the Clippers.

You're fast, your opponent is faster, you want to attack, there's no door.

Mike Brown saw the two shots of the Trail Blazers' offense, Ade's low post and Lillard's pick-and-roll shot, and used Li Liang, Jordan Jr., and Paul, the three best defenders, to contain them in different ways.

As for what Matthews, Batum, Lopez and others, it's really not enough to see.

Without Lillard and Ade creating space for them, their shooting percentage slipped by nearly 10 percentage points.

Matthews and Batum, in particular, shined in the last round, and this round is bullshit.

Lopez has a lot of opportunities to come out, and at the end he always goes to the basket, either by the basket or by Jordan Jr.

There was no shortage of rebounds in the front court, but the last shot was always not good.

Of course, Jordan Jr.'s defense is indeed powerful, supporting a big net on the inside, blocking all kinds of breakthroughs and strong attacks under the basket of the Trail Blazers.

In terms of meritorious deeds in defense, Jordan Jr. is definitely the first.

In the second quarter, Jordan Jr.'s condition was getting better and better, and the Clippers' interior was almost a no-fly zone.

At the beginning of the second quarter, a breakaway layup by Matthews was fanned out by Jordan Jr.'s big hat.

Then the baseline ball was served, and the Trail Blazers repeatedly covered, passed, and found people on the outside, and as a result, the Clippers' rotation was very good.

In the end, Matthews forced a shot from outside the three-point line against the defense and made a three-point shot, which was not scored at all.

Rivers watched the scene and thought, "The rotation is so good, is this the team I coached?" ”

That's right, it wasn't you who taught it at all, it wasn't taught by Brown, it was scolded by Li Liang!

Mike Brown's defensive system, there is actually not much rotation, but he is afraid that he will make mistakes and leak people if he does not cooperate well.

But anti-blocking, sometimes you can't change people without wheels.

Li Liang will command everyone to change people, rotate, and then return to defense on the court, and over time, as long as it is not a continuous high-intensity continuous rotation, the Clippers can do very well.

Even if Li Liang is not present.

Who is the best defensive coach?

Off-court Trail Blazers fans feel bad, and the Clippers are getting better and better at this state.

It's a feeling of playing.

Odom, who came off the bench, received a pass from Livingston in the high post, and after a false swing, he burst into the basket in the middle, threw lightly with his left hand, and hit the board for two points!

The Trail Blazers are about to become Odom's practice tool, and I think no one on the Trail Blazers' side can match him.

The Trail Blazers' lineup is still too traditional.

After three minutes in the second quarter, the Trail Blazers only relied on Jordan Jr. to defend a three-second violation, get a free throw, and score one point.

What to do? It's called a pause.

Stotts now feels that the main effect of calling a timeout is to delay the time so that the team does not die so quickly that nothing can be done about the situation on the field.

I thought that using Lillard to defend Li Liang in the first quarter was a clever move that could have a good effect.

It turned out that Li Liang of the Clippers only defended, did not shoot, and rubbed you on the ground like the same.

You're a.

The gap between the lineup is indeed a bit big, or rather, the Clippers have played to the advantages of their lineup, and the disadvantages of the Trail Blazers are obvious.

A lot of the Clippers' players are very individual players, and if you give him more space to defend it, he can play out.

Odom, Crawford, Livingston are all like that.

The Trailblazer is not a meat grinder, only a meat grinder can strangle these overflowing talents, pull both sides to the same level, and then roll in the mud to beat the logarithm.

The Trail Blazers and Clippers fought to attack, but they couldn't fight.

After the timeout, the Trail Blazers' offense improved, and that's because the Clippers' defense was loose.

It's time again for the Clippers' favorite "let's do it together" part.

Li Liang and Paul reappeared and began to instigate the Clippers' rapid offense.

Stotts and the Trail Blazers players are out of line, what to do, they can only follow the rhythm of the Clippers.

There's no way, you can still look good in the offensive game, you stop and grind with the Clippers, and the result is that you grind yourself to death first.

In the second half of the second quarter, the Clippers scored all the way and had turned the score to 55:35, a difference of 20 points!

Jio hope, really jio hope.

Stotts took another timeout, then came back from a timeout and was stealed......

Paul intercepts the ball from Lillard's hand and goes straight to the basket.

Lillard was in a hurry now, chased desperately, followed behind Paul, and didn't let Paul go to the basket.

In the end, he grabbed Paul by the shoulder and got Paul down, and was whistled for a foul.

Of course, Paul was not idle, and secretly poked his right hand up and elbowed it towards Lillard's chest.

Don't be arrogant, boy, we'll look at each other.

Paul made a free throw, hit both free throws, and then the Trail Blazers missed again on the offensive end.

Lillard and Robin Lopez blocked the ball in the high post, and the pass was cut off by Li Liang......

Big brother, can you stop being like this, a game is 48 minutes, you can't let us play for 24 minutes every game?

Won't play in the second half?

Li Liang rushed all the way with the ball and gave the ball to Griffin, who was following him.

Griffin hit the basket, saw that the opportunity was not good, and went around, and then passed to Li Liang.

Li Liang received the ball at 45 degrees on the left side, shot falsely, shook Lillard, and shook Aldridge again.

Then Li Liang rushed to the basket with the ball, attracted the Trail Blazers defense, and distributed the ball to Barnes in the bottom corner.

Barnes catches the ball and makes a three-point shot!

Didn't make ......

Li Liang wanted to scold people angrily, such a good opportunity, vacant seats, you don't enter!

Be humane, and settle them in the first half.

But there was already a problem on the Trail Blazers' side, and they couldn't even catch the ball.

After two consecutive steals, the Trail Blazers were afraid to pass the ball from the outside, only to be nearly broken again.

In the end, Ade was also fouled by Li Liang during the offense.

After Ade was whistled for a foul, he just shook his head with a wry smile and a very helpless expression.

There was a boo at the Moda Center, but it didn't work, he really fouled the ball.

Li Liang got up from the ground and waved to the Portland audience, reaping a lot of anger points at once.

Portland fans are really hospitable, and Li Liang just likes this kind of place.

At this time, the foul was about to make free throws, and Li Liang stood on the free throw line and hit both free throws, stretching the difference to 22 points.

It's half time again, and it's another lead of more than 20 points.

I really don't know if the Trail Blazers are too weak or the Clippers are too strong.