Chapter 807: A Small Broken Ship
This speculation directly excited some old fans, in their opinion, the current basketball style has gradually tended to be outside, and the main point of attack of most teams is outside players......
The offense of the outside players is indeed gorgeous and highly ornamental, but in the eyes of these old fans, it always feels a little less interesting, and there is no hand-to-hand combat under the basket of super strong men, and it feels like basketball has become another game.
Now Xiao Hua's punishment has raised hope in their hearts, maybe in a few years, the league's style of play will become the style of the nineties of the last century?
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The brawl with the Knicks is considered to be settled, and as soon as the league punishment decision comes out, even if the Knicks have an opinion, they can't express it directly.
Because once it is revealed, what awaits them may also be fines......
In the NBA league, remove some special characters, such as Richard, and others must not talk nonsense, because once you talk nonsense and are caught by the league, it will be a huge fine, and Cuban and McClendon are quite experienced in this regard......
After playing the Knicks, the Clippers won the next two games.
At the beginning, he directly played a 9-1 bug-level record, which directly detonated the fan market in Los Angeles.
Such a record is definitely the best opening record in the history of the Clippers, and the Clippers have never played such a luxurious record in the opening game before......
The situation on the Lakers' side is quite unsatisfactory, everyone thought that the Lakers would be the biggest favorites to win the championship this season, but they only played a 5-5 record so far in the game......
In the same city, the Clippers have a 90% win rate, while the giants Lakers only have a 50% win rate, a gap that no one expected.
For a while, some fans who are not die-hard fans of the Lakers have replaced their home team with the Clippers.
Looking at the momentum of the Clippers, there is a chance to win the championship this season, and if they really win the championship, they will also have a lot of talk about the home team fans......
For example, "Look, I knew the Clippers were going to be a championship-caliber team, and I loved the Clippers for a long time." ”
"When Richard came to run the Clippers, I became a die-hard Clippers fan, and now my wait has paid off."
"I'm a long-time Clippers fan......"
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Prior to this, if the entire Los Angeles fan base was divided into 10 parts, more than eight of them would be Lakers fans, and the remaining less than 20% would be Clippers fans, and some of the less than 20% fans would not like the Clippers, just because they hated the Lakers......
And now, after more than two years of slow cultivation, through daily ticket sales and peripheral sales, Richard feels that the number of fans of their Clippers is about 30% of the fan base in Los Angeles.
This is quite a remarkable improvement, which is equivalent to saying that after Richard came to the Clippers, he directly doubled the number of Clippers fans.
Richard is confident that sooner or later, the Clippers will have more fans than the Lakers on the territory of Los Angeles......
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The impressive record of nine wins and one loss in the opening game actually did not overwhelm Richard's head.
On the contrary, Richard is now a little worried, the schedule has been extremely easy since the start of the season, they have won this invincible record, and what about the second half of the season?
At that time, the Clippers' record will begin to decline, will there be people who will say that the Clippers will start high and go low, like the Clippers under normal circumstances, they start as fierce as a tiger, they are a space battleship, and the further they go, the worse they get, and they become a small broken ship that may capsize at any time?
Under normal circumstances, the Clippers have players such as Paul, Griffin, Jordan Jr. and Redick, and they are quite strong.
But they are always anticlimactic, starting with the first record in the league for three consecutive seasons, and the result is over after fighting......
At the beginning of every year, countless people say that the Clippers have a championship appearance, but it doesn't take half a season, and these people all shut up and don't dare to mention it again.
Richard is now really worried that they will become that little wrecked ship, starting like a tiger, and then the results plummeted.
But at the moment, this kind of record is also a good thing for Richard.
If he can maintain the No. 1 position in the Western Conference standings, then Richard will be able to lead the team to All-Star this season, and it is very likely that he will get the ninth part of the supergiant suit.
At present, Richard is also quite looking forward to the attributes of the supergiant suit, although he generally knows that the supergiant suit is the function, but the more detailed attributes, Richard doesn't know.
Now, the only team in the West that has the strength to compete with Richard for the first place in the West is actually the Spurs and the Trail Blazers.
However, the Spurs have given the newcomers a lot of playing time this season, resulting in their current record is not very good, with only a 6-4 record in the opening season......
For this arrangement of ** Vicky, Richard must also know the other party's intentions.
Now that the GDP mix is old, it is natural for Vic to start planning for the future, and Jimmy Butler, Chris Middleton and Kemba Walker will be the future backcourt trident in Vic's hands.
As for the frontcourt, Duncan still has the strength to fight at the moment, so he is not in such a hurry to bring in the inside.
Teams like the Spurs are more inclined to develop new players in the regular season so that they can play in the playoffs than to play hard in the regular season, and for this reason, Vicky would rather lose some regular-season records.
As for the pioneers, they have risen steadily over the years, and their strength has reached a point that should not be underestimated!
The Clippers are currently No. 1 in the West, while the Trail Blazers are No. 2 with a 7-3 record.
Richard is not worried that the Trail Blazers will surpass the Clippers before the All-Star starts, and if they surpass, they will surpass, can't Richard still get an All-Star qualification from the Trail Blazers?
Not to mention the relationship between Richard and Paul Allen, that is, McMillan, the head coach of the Trail Blazers, is actually full of gratitude to Richard.
If it weren't for Richard, how could they have the current glory of their Trailblazers......
Therefore, judging from the current situation, it is almost a certainty that Richard will be qualified to lead the team as an All-Star this year.
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About a week has passed since the brawl between the Clippers and the Knicks, and another brawl has occurred in the league.
The Toronto Raptors and Memphis Grizzlies, the two difficult brothers, broke out directly on the court, and although it was not as bloody as Big Ben beating Xiaosi, it was also a situation of punches and kicks......
This pair of difficult brothers and sisters who entered the league at the same time have actually had a very hard time all these years.
The Raptors finally managed to get a bosh, but they ran away.
The grizzly bear finally made a big deal, but was sold cheaply by himself.
Counting this season, these two teams have also been in the league for 18 years, but in the past 18 years, the two teams have really not won the honor, let alone the championship, and they have not even tasted the division championship.
This situation continued until the 2019 playoffs, when the Raptors, one of the difficult brothers, broke the deadlock and entered the Finals for the first time in team history......
At the same time, the Grizzlies started a rebuild, and it is estimated that if they want to enter the finals, they will definitely be useless in ten years.
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In the previous brawl between the Clippers and the Knicks, the league's punishment was not large, just when fans thought that the league would definitely not have much punishment this time......
Lowry, the core of the Raptors' backcourt, was banned for ten games!
The Grizzlies' outside defensive man, Tony Allen, was suspended for 12 games......
Three other players have been suspended.
The result of this penalty directly shocked the league, don't look at the number of bans in this penalty, it is not as much as the Clippers'.
But these two brawls are not a severity level at all, according to normal circumstances, the clash between the Raptors and the Grizzlies this time will be suspended for three or four games......
And now the number of banned matches has directly increased to double digits!
For a while, countless fans said that they couldn't understand, what the hell is Xiao Hua? What is his attitude towards the clash on the pitch now?
No one can see it clearly, and I'm afraid that only by waiting for the next time there is a team conflict in the league and looking at the punishment plan given by Xiao Hua, can we know what kind of attitude Xiao Hua is.
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In the blink of an eye, it's the end of December.
The Christmas game is over, and the Clippers are not qualified to play the Christmas game, even though they are the top team in the Western Conference this season, playing a total of 20 games and getting an impressive 17-3 record.
The final game of December, and the final game of 2012, sees the Clippers host the Atlanta Hawks.
This game is still something that many fans are looking forward to, mainly because of Griffin.
When Griffin was sold by Richard, in fact, many Clippers fans had complaints in their hearts, that is, after seeing the gradual rise of the Clippers, these complaints disappeared.
And Griffin is also thriving under the Hawks, and currently ranks fifth in the East, second only to the Knicks.
If you really want to play a series with the Knicks, the Knicks really can't do this Hawks...... 2k reading web