Chapter 64: April Event
The Jazz are also very good, but they are not the favorites to win the championship. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć š„ Why? They've got Boozer, they've got Kirilenko, they've got Delon, and they've got a decent bunch of role players and blue-collar workers.
That's because he's in the Western Conference, and no matter how strong his roster is, he's weak against the other three favorites. Although Boozer is strong, he is a little worse than Duncan, Nowitzki, and Brand. Kirilenko is also good, but similar to Ginobili, Josh Howard, Mobley. DeLong is much worse than Parker, Terry, and Liu Su, and better than Harris.
Other players also have no advantage over the Spurs, Mavericks and Clippers, and in the regular season, the Jazz either had the upper hand against all three teams, or won when the roster was incomplete.
More importantly, the Jazz's current record is not good, and it is not known whether they can enter the playoffs, they are now ranked ninth, and if they can't surpass the previous Kings, they will definitely not be able to enter the playoffs.
So the Jazz didn't have the upper hand in this game, and although Margeti didn't return, the Clippers are still strong now.
The starting lineup was still too strong for the Jazz to deal with, and Dunleavy Sr. let Ryan Gomez play small forward and limit Kirilenko. It is not very easy for Kirilenko to break through Ryan Gomez, and he can only rely on speed to break through, but there is Carman next to him to make up for the defense at any time, and the Jazz's center is not much of a threat, and Brand changes the defense and he doesn't have time to pass the ball to Boozer.
The starters couldn't win, and the Jazz couldn't in the second quarter. After Liu Su came up, the Clippers were the most offensive team in the league. The last game scored 60 points in the second quarter, sending chills down the table for all teams in the league.
The Clippers in the third quarter were the strongest lineup of the Clippers, Liu Su played with the starters, and few teams could resist such an attack. Many teams surrendered in the third quarter, all because they fell behind too much in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, the Jazz survived until the seventh minute and finally replaced the main team and surrendered.
After the win over the Clippers, the Clippers challenged the Kings on the road.
The current Kings are teetering on the edge of the playoffs, trying not to be overtaken by the Jazz, otherwise they won't make the playoffs.
The Kings and Jazz are evenly matched, and they don't have any power to fight back against the Clippers.
In the first quarter, the Clippers' starting lineup did not feel very good, but they still relied on defense to limit the Kings' offense, leading by 2 points at 26:24.
Liu Su played in the second quarter, and Liu Su didn't have a very good hand today, but the shooting rate was still very high, and he played very smart. It's not that you don't shoot in an empty position, and the rest is basically a layup and a dunk.
Because his teammates didn't feel very good, Liu Su's assists couldn't go up. In the fifth minute, Liu Su changed his style of play, let everything pull away, and then cut in the air, this style of play has a high hit rate, and Liu Su's assists gradually came up.
In the third quarter, the Kings basically couldn't catch up with the score, and their scores were not as many as the Clippers', and the score was getting bigger and bigger.
Four minutes into the fourth quarter were played, and the Kings surrendered.
After the Kings game, the Clippers host the Nuggets.
The Nuggets have a good record this year, ranking first in the Northwest Division, but their record is not much different from that of the Kings, only one win away. But the Nuggets take advantage of the division and must make the playoffs, and as long as they are not overtaken by other teams in the Northwest Division, the Nuggets' playoff position is unshakable.
Take a look at the other teams in the Northwest Division, Portland Trail Blazers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma SuperSonics, Utah Jazz. Among the teams in it, the Trail Blazers and Timberwolves are now the bottom two teams in the West, and the SuperSonics are fifth from the bottom, but the Jazz are not bad, but there is still a four-win gap with the Nuggets.
There are about ten games left, and four wins are not easy to chase, and if one or two wins may be able to surpass them, but four wins are impossible to exceed.
The Nuggets relied on Anthony himself to get to where they are now, but relying on Anthony alone is a playoff round.
In the first quarter, the Clippers and Nuggets were evenly matched, and Anthony was inexplicable at the small forward position. To break through and have a breakthrough, to shoot and shoot, to be able to play both back and foul.
In the face of an inexplicable player like Anthony, the Clippers really have no way to deal with it, so they can only attack and attack. Anthony has a problem with his character, otherwise his achievements are definitely higher than James and Wade.
He has a small temper and often has trouble with management; He's a bit lazy and doesn't like to defend. These two shortcomings limited his achievements there, and he was not favored by the alliance, which was originally going to praise him, but because of this temper, he was not praised.
Relying on offense, the Clippers did not fall behind in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Dunleavy Sr. had Rose and David Lee limit Anthony at the same time, while the others rotated the defense.
Liu Su accelerated the speed of the attack, relying on the mistakes to disrupt the rhythm of the Nuggets, allowing the Nuggets to make 6 mistakes in the first quarter, expanding the score by 10 points.
In the third quarter, the elder Dunleavy let Brand follow Anthony, although Brand is a big forward, but he can shoot in the middle, and the defensive shooting is still a little technical, the height is about the same as Anthony, and the defense is just right, but not as fast as Anthony, but not much slower.
After Anthony was restrained by Brand, his role declined. The Clippers pulled the score bigger and bigger, and the Nuggets couldn't catch up and surrendered in the fourth quarter.
After winning against the Nuggets, the Clippers are on a fifteen-game winning streak.
After playing the Jazz, the Clippers played the Suns away.
The Suns played against the Clippers this season, and they were wronged, and Nash was suppressed by Liu Su this season. The regular season was suppressed, and the All-Star substituted Liu Su, in short, it was not good to see Liu Su.
In this game, the Suns still did not change their fate. Originally, the Suns were riveted up and down to clean up the Clippers, but after seeing the Clippers' lineup, they were dumbfounded, Margeti recovered from his injury and appeared in the starting lineup again.
Margeti has been injured for more than a month, and he has been helpless for a season, and he has nowhere to vent his energy. I can't play, I can't find a girlfriend to vent, and I beg to stay today.
As soon as he came on the pitch, Margeti exploded and others were willing to pass the ball to Margeti. Margeti desperately broke through in the face of the Suns' defense, made 13 free throws in the first quarter, scored 22 points, and half of the shooting rights were used by him.
After the Clippers lined up, the Suns were completely powerless and surrendered in the fifth minute of the fourth quarter. Nash sat on the bench and stared blankly at the court, he had never felt so powerless in all these years. After his biggest weapon fails, he can only act as a defensive black hole, and he has no idea what to do? Don't you play against the Clippers in the future?
After the game, Nash walked into the tunnel without any words, and now he is faced with a choice, choose to rise or fall, maybe the Suns need another tactic or an important backup.