In the first half, the Lakers were all grinding offenses, why did they suddenly start to soar in the second half?

For example, Paul on the sidelines showed a solemn expression, but Rivers Jr. on the court was very excited.

To be honest, landing is not Rivers Jr.'s style of play, his skills are average, his shooting is average, and even the dribbling is average, so his father will let him come up and pick up the bargain when the team's skills and tactics are all played well.

And Rivers Jr. himself likes to play fast break! Because his physical fitness is really good, he was once the No. 1 high school student in the United States, and his speed is very good.

Seeing that the Lakers were playing fast, Rivers Jr. immediately forgot his father's instructions, and immediately ran alone after receiving the serve, reaching the Lakers half court before the other four on his side, and directly killing the Lakers basket.

And sure enough, it was! Liu Ren returned to the defense as soon as he passed the ball to Nick Young, and he was on the route of Rivers Jr.'s counterattack.

Rivers Jr. went to the Lakers basket, and Liu Ren also retreated to the Lakers' basket.

Rivers Jr. has inexplicable self-confidence, a few years ago he was still "No. 1 in the United States", and his self-confidence will never disappear, and he forced a layup directly against Liu Ren's defense!

"This guy has been playing in the NBA for three or four years, and he still looks like a dumbfounded...... Liu Ren was speechless, and slapped Rivers Jr.'s ball with almost no feints or no ability to make feints at all......

Facing the big hat!

Liu Ren directly fanned Rivers Jr. for a counterattack layup!

Antetokounmpo picked up the ball, Liu Ren blocked it and rushed to the Clippers halfcourt, at this time the Clippers players had just come to the Lakers half, Rivers Jr. was capped, and the ball was grabbed by the Lakers, so he had no choice but to turn around and go back to defense.

Liu Ren rushed to the Clippers basket and received a long pass from Antetokounmpo and scored two points with a one-handed dunk.

Tie!

The Lakers came back and tied the score in less than a minute!

At this time, the Clippers player had just returned to his own half, and was brought in by the fast pace suddenly raised by the Lakers, and immediately served, Rivers Jr. just ran back, and immediately continued to play fast break after receiving the ball, he was very unhappy, and he had no regrets about being blocked just now, but wanted to "prove" himself and continue to play fast break.

The current rhythm makes the Lakers players play more freely and play better, Liu Ren and Antetokounmpo, two players who are good at offense and defense in the transition between offense and defense, fully showed their characteristics at this time, Antetokounmpo's return defense and long pass, Liu Ren's chasing defense and fast down, and LaVine, a physical fitness boy, learned to do a little bit of everything from the two seniors, Nick Young's chasing and receiving three points, Monroe ...... Started to think about life in the mid-range fast-break shooting......

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D'Antoni was so angry at first! What did he stress so much before he came on the pitch? Pressing the rhythm! Defend!

But the players came on the pitch and played in a completely different way than they did, and he wanted to call a timeout, but he held back.

But after playing, D'Antoni found that after the fast game, the Clippers were completely messed up, Rivers Jr. and Jamal Crawford, two prodigal goods, began to shoot crazy nonsensical counterattacks, not only that, the Lakers' offense was also much better than in the first half, the shooting rate may have decreased slightly because of the fast pace, but the offensive rebounding impact was very good, Liu Ren's own shots generally scored, because they were basically dunks, and Liu Ren was passed to Nick Young and Monroe when he was caught by the basket. The two are mid-to-long-range shots, and there must be times when they don't score, especially when Monroe is not so familiar with the mid-range shots in the fast break, and the shooting rate is not high, but LaVine and Liu Ren rush to grab the rebound, and they often see that Antetokounmpo is like a battery that transports ammunition, and it is almost stationed in the half court without moving, which can be seen how smoothly the Lakers are now playing offense and how powerful their defense is.

At this time, D'Antoni seemed to understand that he was too conservative!

Because the Clippers are leaving Los Angeles, they are relaxed, whether it is the position or the fast attack, they are very sporadic and sprayed, but the Lakers are really good at defending the fast attack.

And D'Antoni found that the first half was actually too much of a game, and there was no such thing as the original style of the team.

D'Antoni sighed silently that his tactical sensitivity is not as strong as Liu Ren's tactical idiot, he saw Liu Ren's defensive counterattack gesture at the beginning of the second half, at that time it was just because it was Liu Ren who called the tactics and did not get mad, if it was replaced by Green or Antetokounmpo who did not listen to the arrangement, he directly called a timeout.

Knowing that the mistake should be, D'Antoni immediately began to think about the current style of play, although he had a bit of a problem with the on-the-spot response, but when others pointed out to him how to play, he was still very good at perfecting the style of play, this is the meaning of Bickerstaff's existence, but this time it was Liu Ren who found out how to play.

D'Antoni found that the situation on the court has been gradually controlled by the Lakers, and the Clippers' fast attack is really good, but the Lakers' lineup is really good at defending Rivers Jr. and Crawford, but it is only not much for Jeff Green and Wesley Johnson, the two forwards, because Monroe is slow to defend.

And Monroe on the offensive end also wasted a lot of opportunities, if the Lakers have a center with strong cutting ability, when Liu Ren receives Antetokounmpo's pass and is caught by the Clippers players who return to defend Liu Renbao, he can help Liu Ren respond to the direct impact of the basket and dunk, and the Lakers can take off directly!

So D'Antoni took advantage of the dead ball to replace Biyombo and formed a physical maniac lineup.

At this moment, the second lineup of the Clippers has completely collapsed, and Biyombo's ability to defend the inside line and floor flow is average, but his physical fitness is too suitable for chasing between offense and defense and fast break as the first attack point of the basket!

The Lakers completely suppressed the second team of the Clippers, Liu Ren played a dominant role in the back and forth run, Antetokounmpo's long pass was simply Liu Ren's strongest buff, Antetokounmpo's various defenses in his own half also gave Liu Ren the biggest backing, and the two cooperated to lead the Lakers players to play a strong dominance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

Halfway through the third quarter, the Lakers played a 22-7 half-quarter score, directly overtaking the score and pulling away a more than a dozen points lead.

At this time, the Clippers should have replaced Paul to control the situation, but Rivers was so different that he left his son on the court......

Paul isn't as excited now as he was when Rivers Jr. first came to the Clippers, when River Doc put his son on the court for a long time, causing the Clippers to crash repeatedly, and Paul was still angry, but now...... How old is it to get used to it......

Rivers replaced Jordan Jr., and enhanced the defense and impact of the center position, this idea is very good, as long as the person who controls the ball pays a little attention to the speed of the counterattack, he can create a good counterattack dunk opportunity for Jordan Jr., the Lakers lineup has a way to counterattack Jordan Jr.'s dunk is only Liu Ren, and Liu Ren is definitely the ball carrier who wants to defend the counterattack, then Jordan Jr. will be like entering no man's land.

However, the ball carrier of the Clippers is Rivers Jr., the prince, who plays with his own heart, accelerates wildly with Crawford, and Jordan Jr. can run no matter how much he can run, he is just a center! As soon as he entered the three-point line on the Lakers' side, the prince was already iron......

Rivers was probably determined to give his son a chance, and later replaced Griffin, but it was still not good, and the prince sometimes even ignored Crawford, but Crawford still had a hit rate of more than forty percent......

Paul watched the team not get better after the inside twin towers played, the Lakers didn't even play Green and Whiteside, but changed the pitcher in the two positions of point guard and point guard, and the center position changed to the impact player Blake and Biyombo took turns, Liu Ren and Antetokounmpo as the core of the court, and the Lakers' style of play came alive.

Seeing that Rivers was bent on creating a performance opportunity for his son, Paul leaned on the bench, without any expression and without fighting.

There's a saying that grief is worse than death, and that's Paul's mindset after last season and halfway through this season.

It all started because of the arrival of Rivers Jr., and all the contradictions of the Clippers seemed to explode all at once.

In the past, the Clippers also had contradictions, but they didn't break out, so there was the almost invincible Clippers in the 13-14 season.

However, since Rivers Jr. came, River Document has been bent on giving his son a chance, and often puts Paul on the bench, which makes Paul dissatisfied, and River Document attaches great importance to Jordan Jr., so Jordan Jr. and Rivers Jr. have a good relationship, which slowly evolved into a conflict between Paul and Jordan Jr.

Jordan Jr. has an average ball quotient and often makes some mistakes that look like idiots, but Paul thought that he would be on the right before, and he didn't expect him to have Chandler's kind of defensive strength, and it was enough to grab so many rebounds.

But after the contradiction broke out, Paul felt that Little Jordan's behavior was the same as before, and he often yelled at Little Jordan, and Little Jordan thought that he was the team's first highest salary, and immediately returned the favor, and the contradiction became even bigger.

And the contradiction between Paul and Griffin mainly lies in the woman, that is, the woman of the team staff, in fact, it is just a flesh and bones, everyone is playing, but Griffin has a good relationship with Jordan Jr., so it has inexplicably developed into a way that Griffin can't get used to Paul's dominance of the ball on the court, because Griffin has now evolved into a big forward with the strongest offensive ability with the ball in the league......

Paul watched the score slowly widen, but Rivers didn't mean to replace him, but kept calling a timeout to point out his son.

By the end of the third quarter, the Clippers had scored just 79 points.

Just looking at 79 points, it seems not bad, but at halftime, the Clippers had already scored 65 points, that is, they only scored 14 points in the entire third quarter.

And the Lakers scored 42 points in a single quarter! Straight out for a 42-14!