Chapter Ninety-Five: Small Actions and Malicious Fouls
When Paul joined the Los Angeles Clippers, Griffin excitedly declared that the city would become an empty city! Looking at Griffin's roar after scoring at this moment, Tyrek deeply felt that this was true, and this game was not easy to deal with.
Although the Clippers have strength, the current Kings are not soft persimmons, and they have enough confidence after 5 consecutive wins.
Paul's defense is absolutely top among defenders, and now at the age of 26, he has won two All-Defensive Second Team and one All-Defensive First Team.
Tyrek quickly entered the state, in the face of Paul's defense, Tyrek fully showed his size advantage, strong and tall body plus super ball sense, no matter what kind of defender will feel a headache, plus Paul's height disadvantage, Tyrek with his height and arm span to force Paul, Paul did not have any particularly effective way. At the same time, although Terek is not a first-class court commander, his above-level passing vision, combined with his strong individual ability, can also pass high-quality passes for his teammates.
At the same time, in the face of the Clippers' interior Griffin and Jordan Jr., the two birds and beasts, West and Cousins are not afraid of them at all, although Griffin and Jordan Jr. are explosive in athleticism, can run and jump, are full of vitality, and have a strong deterrent to guard breakthroughs, but their defensive skills are rough. West and Cousins both have comprehensive offensive skills, and the two who are also extremely strong do not suffer in the confrontation, especially the experienced West, let you Griffin jump up and down, it is to use a hand-to-hand distance against you!
Defensively, Paul and Billups are in tandem with the whole team, and the Kings are all but Anthony. Outside of Morrow, the single defense ability of every position is not bad, but the two backcourt brains are running at the same time, and the Clippers' offense is also playing smoothly.
As the game progressed, in order to limit the play of Paul and Billups' dual point guard backcourt on the offensive end, Coach Westphall quickly replaced Anthony, who only had a three-point shot. Morrow, who he considers to be the team's most motivated outside defense at the moment, Jimmy. Butler comes on as a substitute.
After Jimmy came on the court, his vitality and aggressiveness soon had a certain impact on the field, although his physical condition is not the top, but they are also above average, although he is a rookie, his mental attributes are also quite tenacious. Bryant's explosion didn't affect him at all, and as soon as he got the chance to play, he bit his opponent like a bulldog.
He actively defends the outside of the Clippers, whether it is Paul, Billups or Thorton, who plays the No. 3 position in this game, as long as he is in the position, he will inevitably get into a struggle. Although Jimmy's defensive movements are not big, he is entangled in the ball as soon as he holds the ball, and Paul and others are also very uncomfortable.
In the face of Tyrek, Paul began to test the referee's blowing scale, constantly reaching out, using his body to squeeze and collide, facing defenders who are much taller than himself in the offense, Paul also began to add some tactics on the court, trying to make defensive fouls for Jimmy, Tyrek and others.
On the Kings side, Cousins was a grumpy, and Cuarón. Butler and West are not good at stubble, they are both brave and ruthless, as Paul's small actions at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends increase, they also see it, and the range of action in offense and defense is getting bigger and bigger, and the confrontation between the two teams has gradually become more intense.
In a Kings offense, Cousins covered Tyrek near the high post, and Paul wanted to squeeze Cousins out of the cover, but at this moment, Paul took the initiative to lean on Cousins' feet, and then fell to the ground realistically, with a painful expression on the ground!
Whistle blows! Tyrek, who was around the screen, stopped with the ball, and Cousins stood dumbfounded......
The referee blows for Cousins to cover the foul!
"What!?" Cousins looked at the referee with a distorted expression and immediately stepped forward to chatter in front of the referee.
Tyrek and West were afraid that Cousins would be impulsive and cause trouble, so they hurriedly stepped forward to stop Cousins and signaled him to stop pestering, in case Cousins couldn't help but insult the referee in various ways, and then it would be worth the loss to eat technical fouls......
was pulled Cousins turned around and saw Paul getting up from the ground, Cousins, who was still scolding and scolding, was full of resentment and anger in his head and directly detonated him, obviously Paul faked a fall, and he didn't do anything, but he actually sentenced himself to cover the foul, Cousins pushed away West, who was pulling his arm, picked up the basketball that rolled down next to him from the ground, spat dirty words in his mouth, and smashed the ball towards Paul!!
The ball smashed on Paul's back and bounced high, and the moment Paul was hit by the ball, he fell to the ground with a painful face on his back for a long time, the core of the team was maliciously injured, and the home fans in the stadium shouted angrily at Cousins!
But after all, it's just a basketball, and this action will not cause any physical harm to Paul, just Cousins' angry behavior, but as soon as this action is made, the Clippers will take Matt. A group of people led by Barnes immediately rushed up to teach Cousins a lesson.
"I'll !!" Tyrek and the rest of the Kings teammates hurriedly stepped forward to block Cousins, Tyrek and Cuaron. Butler reached out to block Barnes, West also pulled Cousins who tried to step forward, and the people on the bench on both sides also rushed onto the court, and the scene was a mess.
With the intervention of the referee and staff, the scene was gradually controlled, and the personnel of both sides gradually dispersed, and Tyrek and others also pulled Cousins to the bench.
And at this time, the referee also blew a second-degree malicious foul on Cousins! Directly expel Cousins from the game!
At this moment, Cousins is still cursing incessantly, although Paul faked a fall to trick the referee into making a misjudgment, but Cousins's behavior of smashing people with the ball is clearly seen by everyone......
No matter how angry Cousins is, the fact that he was sent off cannot be changed, and his impulsiveness and irrationality have cost him dearly, and the league will inevitably punish Cousins financially after the game.
Cousins threw the towel around his neck to the ground and walked through the tunnel to the boos of the home fans at the Staples Center, accompanied by staff......