Chapter 203: A Last Stand
In the fourth game, the Lakers had no way out, and if they lost again, they would be out, so Kobe Bryant had already said in advance, if this one lost again, then the team could be disbanded next season. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The lineup is not too bad, but it has lost all four games, so it is better to disband the team!
The Lakers fought with their backs, and everyone was killed. It's so hard to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win, they just want to lose decently.
Bynum was scrappy and managed to beat Kaman with a jump ball, and then Fisher handed it to Kobe Bryant and let him hit the first ball. Kobe Bryant faced Artest and tried to break through without passing.
At this time, Gasol came to block people, let Kobe rush into the inside, and in the face of Milicic, Kobe played a 2+1.
Milicic is also a little depressed, and he fouls when he comes up, and I don't know if it will affect the coach's evaluation of him. Milicic is not very important in the Clippers, because the Clippers have too many insiders, and there will always be someone on the six interior who can't play.
The good news is that Brera Xia has been marginalized, and Webber is often put on the injury list during the regular season, otherwise he may not get a chance to play.
Liu Su could see that the Lakers were angry in their hearts, and they didn't want to lose all four games. Thinking back to what the old Dunleavy said to Liu Su before the game, Liu Su has been hesitant.
Dunleavy Sr. said: The Lakers have no way back now, they can do anything to win. The Lakers' defense is not clean, Bynum and Vujacic are notoriously dirty defensively, and they will definitely use some means in this final game.
So, in order to avoid injury, don't push too hard in this game, neither let the score open too much, nor overtake the score, just hang like that.
We have the ability to beat the Lakers, but to get a player injured for four wins over the Lakers is not worth the cost. You know, we still have to play the Celtics in the Finals, don't cheap the Celtics for nothing.
Liu Su thought about it for a long time, and didn't know what to do, so he could only fight first. With the burden of thoughts, Liu Su always unconsciously slowed down half a beat, and as a result, the Lakers quickly took the lead.
The Lakers, who are leading the way, felt encouraged and ramped up their attacks again to take a little more lead. Liu Su frowned, it is not his character to admit defeat in this way, although he is not a competitive character, but he is not afraid of things.
Liu Su threw off the burden of reporting in his mind and concentrated. If the Lakers want to win, let me see what you can do! Let me see how strong you can be?
Liu Su got serious, kept breaking through Ariza, and then helped his teammates score. The Clippers quickly caught up with the score, and by the end of the first quarter, they even had a one-point lead.
In the second quarter, the elder Dunleavy did not let Liu Su play, he had already decided to give up the game, and he had to control the pace of the game and not let the team lose too ugly. It's just that he didn't expect Liu Su to suddenly explode halfway through the first quarter, which made him very embarrassed.
It's not that Dunleavy Sr. doesn't want to win, it's that he doesn't want any players to get hurt, that's all. You know, he also likes to win, but if he threatens to win the championship in order to lose one less game, Dunleavy Sr. doesn't think it's worth it.
Sometimes, life is like this, and you need to make a choice, and this is when people have to choose what they think is more appropriate. The elder Dunleavy chose a championship, while Liu Su chose the fighting spirit in his heart.
There is nothing wrong with either of them, and both of them are people who understand, because they know that the Clippers can get to where they are today is the result of the cooperation of the two people.
Liu Su was off the field, constantly talking to old Dunleavy about the layout on the field. Both of them have made compromises, and they have inadvertently reached a consensus, first of all, if the Lakers really have the idea of running for people, Liu Su will think of letting the Lakers lead. If the Lakers are still business as usual towards the end of the game, then work hard to take out the Lakers at the last minute.
However, before the two could finish discussing, something suddenly happened on the field. Bynum swung his elbow when he grabbed the rebound, and if Carman hadn't dodged quickly, he would have been hit in the face.
Liu Su's face became gloomy, he hated this way of playing the most. The referee gave Bynum a foul, but because it didn't hit Carman, it didn't constitute a malicious foul, and Carman hit both free throws.
Old Dunleavy glanced at Liu Su, meaning to say: See, right? They were really in a hurry.
Liu Su was silent, and then the elder Dunleavy replaced Carman with Noah. Noah's lack of defensive experience is a good fit for the Lakers.
Sure enough, after replacing Noah, Bynum singled twice in a row to pull the score apart, and the Lakers players' movements were a little smaller.
Liu Su was very restrained and didn't get mad, and he didn't think about revenge after he came on the field. He couldn't swallow it, but he couldn't gamble with his teammates' health and championships.
In this way, the Clippers ended up losing the game by 7 points. The Lakers finally won one game, and public opinion finally stopped crusading against them all the time.
The Lakers players breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, at least they didn't have to look at Kobe's ugly face. But they didn't know that Liu Su's face was also very bad, he had already been angry with the lake.
After the start of the fifth game, Liu Su began to go crazy, and the anger that he had endured for two days finally broke out. As if he had been doped, Liu Su's movements were a little faster.
Originally, it was difficult for Ariza to defend him, but now he can't defend at all, and Liu Su passed him in less than three seconds.
And Liu Su's hand today is also bursting, and he has shot a lot of three-pointers in front of everyone, and his desire to score is very strong.
In the face of the rampaging Liu Su, the Lakers players are out of line. Their morale today was not high, but now that they saw Liu Su running wild, their morale was even lower.
These players have relied on Kobe Bryant for too long, and they don't have much blood. In the face of an invincible enemy, they are almost invisible.
Kobe Bryant will become a lone ranger next time, and he will constantly single out Liu Su. But the elder Dunleavy just didn't give him a chance, Artest and Rose took turns defending him, just didn't let him score well.
In the end, Kobe Bryant ran out of energy and was replaced.
The Clippers won the game, and Liu Su scored his playoff high score of 69 points.
The Clippers defeated the Lakers 4-1 and will have to wait for the results of the Eastern Conference Finals. However, from the current point of view, the Celtics are basically winning, and the Clippers are ready to play against the Celtics.
Sure enough, two days later, the Celtics defeated the Pistons to advance to the Finals. Three days later, the two strongest teams in the East and West will face off for the final battle.
The Celtics also have a good record this year, only less than ten wins less than the Clippers, second in the league, and nearly ten more wins than the Lakers!