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Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of the ball hitting the floor echoes in the center of the Smoothie King.

The first quarter was almost over, and the scores of the two sides were still within 30 points. The current score between the two teams is 26:24, and if there are no accidents, the final score of this game will not exceed 100.

That's the difference between the playoffs and the regular season. The regular season focuses on offense, data, and offense; The playoffs focus on defense, and everything is focused on defense.

Phil Jackson said: Defense wins championships. It's true that throughout the league's playoff history, teams with superior defensive capabilities are bound to be the ultimate winners in the playoffs.

It's not the time for the Warriors to die, and Jackson's quote is still a playoff quote. Although the pace of the league is getting faster and faster, and there are fewer and fewer positional battles and tug-of-wars, for two teams of equal strength, if they can suppress each other defensively, their winning chances will be greatly improved.

That's what the Clippers are doing right now. Everyone knows that Yang Yi is the soul of the pelican, and if he can be blocked, the pelican will at least lose a leg and an arm and become a strong man who cannot function normally.

Although no team has really blocked Yang Yi so far, as long as there is the slightest opportunity, they will not let it go.

Compared with other players of the Pelicans, the Clippers are more willing to focus on Yang Yi defensively. This season, they have been deeply poisoned by Yang Yi, and the other four starters of the Pelicans combined did not make them feel jealous, only Yang Yi is in serious trouble.

At the end of the first quarter, the main players of both sides came off the court one after another, handed over their positions to the substitutes, and let them fight on the court. They are more concerned about the next three verses than a little time at the end of the stanza. Only with a good rest can you stay in shape in the playoffs, which are more intense and intense.

Yang Yi is no exception, he, like other players, obediently went to rest. Now he is no longer a superman with unlimited physical strength, but a normal player, who is tired like everyone else, and his movements are deformed when he is tired.

Therefore, if you can play well in the rest of the game, rest is crucial.

Of course, he can buy drugs from the system to restore his physical strength, but it costs points. If you can defeat your opponent without wasting points, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?

The bench on the court played impressively, and although the Pelicans players were a little dish, they were young and powerful on the move; The Clippers players are experienced, but they are all old guys who are too old, such as Grant Hill. This guy was hailed as Jordan's successor at the beginning, but unfortunately the injury ruined everything, and now he wants to mix a championship ring while coming to Los Angeles to retire.

"Haha, Kenny, this guy Hill is really old and strong, and he is playing well with a group of Clippers benches." Seeing Hill assist Chauncey Billups on a shot, Barkley couldn't help but laugh.

Hill and Billups were both figures in the league at one time, but as the years went by, they gradually faded out of the fans' sights, becoming the water cooler players for each team to guide rookies, and if they were lucky, they could even mix a championship ring.

"Yes, old people should be strong, but now it's the world of young people, and Grant and they have become a thing of the past. The alliance is now the post-80s and post-90s generation in charge. Smith picked up Barkley's words, his tone full of melancholy.

The NBA is a commercial league, it can make you infinite when you are beautiful, but you can't see the shadow of the league when you are down (not everyone can retire from the league like Kobe, this year's Rose is even more melancholy, and the glory of No. 1 only exists in people's memories and video videos).

Not to mention the comments of the two in the live broadcast room, the confrontation on the field is in full swing.

The main players played evenly together, and so did the substitutes. They are in different states, but their desire for victory is the same. Therefore, even if they can't stay on the pitch most of the time like the main players, they still give 200 percent of their strength and play hard.

However, the reason why the substitutes are substitutes is because they don't have the power of the main players. At the end of the first quarter to the beginning of the second quarter, they scored 13 or 4 points in about five minutes. By the time the main players of both sides came on the court, the score of the two teams was 36:35, and the Clippers had a one-point lead.

Of course, there is an element of strength due to the low scoring efficiency, and the defensive strength of the playoffs cannot be ignored. The strength of the bench is poor, and the high-intensity defense in the playoffs is even more important to them, and they can still score in high-intensity confrontations, which is already very good!

"Chris, how does it feel to revisit the old place, the former queen bee vs. the old master, it's exciting to think about! Why, judging by your momentum, are you trying to take victory away from New Orleans? Or do you want to make it to the Western Conference Finals? Standing in front of Paul, who was attacking with the ball, the fat man suddenly said trash talk to Paul, so as to disturb Paul's mind.

Yang Yi's strategy has achieved some results, Paul is a good boy in the league, and he is rarely heard talking trash talk. Although he often uses his body to bully players who are not as good as his physique, it is by virtue of his personal ability, not to mentally attack others like the fat man is now.

Paul frowned, and Yang Yi's words pointed to his pain point. Although Gui is one of the four point guards in the league, he performed worse than Yang Yi in New Orleans, and he has yet to touch the floor of the Western Conference. Even though he knew that Yang Yi was scolding him with words, there was still a trace of anger lingering in his heart.

Damn, little fat man, it's too much of a deception!

But he just thought about it in his heart, he was not used to spewing trash talk on the field like Yang Yi, but little Jordan glared at the fat man after listening to the fat man's words.

The fact that Paul did not answer Yang Yi's words does not mean that he does not have anger in his heart. It's just that he turned his anger into a forward force, and he was focused on controlling the ball and adding strength to the team's victory.

Griffin stepped forward to block and block the fat man who was chattering at Paul, giving Paul a chance to get inside with the ball.

Griffin blocks, Paul rushes with the ball, Griffin runs back, and Paul shares the ball to Griffin against the defender has formed a routine in the fat man's heart. Therefore, after realizing that he was blocked by Griffin, Yang Yi did not rush to chase Paul, but took advantage of the referee's inattention to secretly tug Griffin's corner of his clothes and successfully avoided the camera.

Don't say that there are many small movements of fat people, such small actions are not uncommon on the field, and basically every player uses them, the only difference is that they are caught and those who are not caught. As long as you successfully avoid the cameras and the referee on duty, you will be considered successful in any way.