The current Pelicans team, the core is the 12-year champion Anthony Davis, Davis led the team to the playoffs last season, and often cut the big double-double data, praised by the league as the next image person, but unfortunately this season's performance is not satisfactory, the Pelicans' current record is 6-18, and the record is only better than the Lakers.

In fact, but on paper, this Pelicans team has hardly changed from last season's energetic team, although there were rotation players like Tyrek Evans and Norris Kerr absent at the beginning of the season, but more than the absence of players, it is more about the fighting spirit of the players, the opening wave of 6 consecutive defeats, and then 1-11 record, so that the team is panicked, and even head coach Alvin Gentry is almost not guaranteed.

It took Evans and Kerr to get the team back a little bit after that, but this season has basically said goodbye to the playoffs.

Against the Pelicans, it is also a must-win game for the current Clippers.

Kassel made a change to the starting line-up for this game, replacing Brewer with Pierce, and the rest of the position remained the same as before.

The Pelicans' lineup hasn't changed much from before, with Omick Asik on the inside, Davis and Alonzo Gee on the front, and Evans and Gordon on the guard.

Despite back-to-back matches against underdogs, attendance at the Staples Center remains high, as the team is now on a three-game winning streak, and it looks like it will continue for two more games.

After a brief opening ceremony and warm-up, the starters from both sides came on and the game officially began.

Anthony Davis was able to be praised by the league after three years in the league. His strength is still very strong, he is tall and has long arms. and Jordan Jr.'s jump ball won the Pelicans the first opportunity to attack.

After Evans returned, the Pelicans' offense was still clear-eyed. In this first round, he and Davis tacitly coordinated with the pick-and-roll, and Davis scored two points for the Pelicans with a beautiful air-cut layup.

However, the Clippers have a higher advantage in terms of strength after all, especially Kassel's substitution adjustment has played a key role.

Gentry is an offensive team, and Nash's second career at the Suns is a reflection of his coaching style, and when he arrived with the Pelicans, he also successfully implanted his philosophy into this team. It's just that the current Pelicans team has a fatal weakness, that is, the small forward position is too weak, and the starting small forward Alonzo Key can't play when other teams are on the ball.

What an old and spicy player Paul is, he can naturally see it at a glance, and opposite him is Evans, who lacks projection ability, locking Evans and letting Pierce take the lead, such a simple strategy, the Pelicans have fallen into an extremely passive situation.

Davis is excellent though. But he's not the kind of traditional power forward, he doesn't have much ability to play in the low post, and relies more on the coordination and open cutting between the guards, and Evans is limited. His offensive deterrence also dropped a notch.

At 19:9, the two sides played less than half a quarter, and the Clippers had firmly occupied the situation on the court.

Tang Shuai sat on the bench and observed at this time. Because the Pelicans are indeed inferior to the Clippers, his focus shifted from the Pelicans as a whole to Davis.

Davis is tall and has long arms. Two meters and eight meters tall, two meters three three arm span. And he has almost the same level of ball control ability as a league guard, so a talented player who is a pervert is indeed an alternative.

Thick eyebrow cap pack, thick eyebrow empty cut bag, there are only two exclusive skill packs, but the purple dribble bag, the purple steal bag, these skill packs that only top guards have appeared on him, maybe this is the perversion.

Looking at Davis, Tang Shuai unconsciously thought of China's hopeful star Zhou Qi, who is also slender and long, and is also good at air cutting and coordination, and even when the two of them first came into contact with basketball, they both played guards, which made them both have good ball control ability that other big men do not have.

This makes people unconsciously compare them, although there is a gap between the two people in terms of pure strength, but Davis's success will deepen the league's attention to Zhou Qi to a certain extent, plus Porzingis, who has a similar style this year, shines, which makes him have to look forward to Zhou Qi.

From a certain point of view, he is still somewhat similar to Yao Ming at the beginning, in a strange league, only one person is very lonely, just like Yao Ming waited for Yi Jianlian to enter the league, he was also waiting for Zhou Qi to come to the NBA at this time.

"Don, Corey, Josh, get ready to play."

Just as he was thinking about it, Cassel's voice came to his ears, and he suddenly came back to his senses, and then he noticed that he was about to play, he shook his head, shook off those thoughts, stripped off his training clothes, and prepared to play.

At 22:14, the Clippers still had the advantage on the court at this time, perhaps knowing that the opponent's strength was a little weak, Kassel deliberately advanced the rotation time of the bench.

The Pelicans also made personnel changes at this time, with Ismael Smith, Dante Cunningham and Ryan Anderson all coming on as substitutes.

After Tang Shuai came on the court, it was Smith who played against.

Smith is a true tramp, the Pelicans are already his tenth team in just five years, and the words "ten-day short contract" and "non-guaranteed contract" have been with him almost all year round, but this season because of Norris Kerr's injury, he successfully seized the opportunity and played a brilliant performance.

Tang Shuai scanned it with the packing system between the courts, the purple dribble bag, the purple passing bag, his strength is okay, and I don't know why there were so many teams wandering before.

As soon as the Pelicans attacked first, Smith controlled the ball to the frontcourt, Tang Shuai knew that he was a player who was good at breaking through, so he deliberately shrank back, he was watching, but at this moment, Smith suddenly made a cold pass, and the basketball flew past him ghostly, and when he turned around, he saw Gordon scoring a layup.

Smith waved his fist excitedly after passing the ball, and then gave Gordon an excited high-five, looking at his expression, it seemed that he was even more excited than Gordon.

"It's kind of interesting." Tang Shuai watched Smith call his teammates to run when he retreated, and paid more attention to this wandering point guard. (To be continued.) )