Chapter 143: Another Battle Spur

After winning against the SuperSonics, the No. 4 Clippers played at home against the Pacers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOriginally, this was another close battle, but with O'Neal Jr.'s injury, it didn't make much sense.

Originally, the Pacers still had some good players, but in January they made an eight-man trade with the Warriors, trading Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington and Mike Dunleavy to the Warriors, and the value of the players returned was far from comparable to these three.

Jackson averaged 14.1 points per game, Al Harrington averaged 15.9 points per game, and Dunleavy Jr. averaged 14 points per game, and was the team's second, third, and fourth leading scorer.

Without these three people, the Pacers' record plummeted, and after O'Neal Jr. was injured, he basically relied on Danny Granger and Murphy to support the court.

After sending off the Pacers, the Clippers faced the Spurs at home on the 6th. The Spurs have a neat lineup, Duncan has been out of action for two games and has been injury-free, Parker has been out for five games with a muscle strain and has not had much of a problem, Ginobili has only been out for six games, and Bowen has not rested for one game. The other role players have not had much of an injury, and the recuperation for half a month will not have an impact on the strength of the Spurs.

Before the game, Liu Su received a good news, that is, Kaman can play today. Originally, Kaman's injury could have been healed last month, but during the treatment process, the equipment was faulty, causing Kaman's secondary trauma and had to be treated for an additional month.

Carman is back, the Clippers are finally fully staffed on the inside, David Lee can go back to play the No. 4 position, and Ryan Gomez can go back to the No. 3 position to bully those who are not strong.

Today's starting lineup of the Clippers is Carman, David Lee, Ryan Gomez, Liu Su, and Cassel. The starting lineup for the Spurs is Oberto, Duncan, Bowen, Brent Barry, Parker.

The Spurs' starting lineup is fixed except for Duncan, Bowen and Parker, and the other two positions are not fixed. In the center, Oberto and Elson rotated in the center, and Horry played the remaining games. The No. 2 position is split between Ginobili, Barry and Finley, and is adjusted according to the different teams encountered.

Since Carman had just recovered and had not played for two months, he was not in very good shape, so most of the offensive tasks were handed over to David Lee to complete. In the face of Duncan's defense, David Lee did not show weakness, he has a good hand in the last few games, entered an explosive period, and scored more than 20 points per game. Today was no exception, opening with a mid-range shot from Duncan's head.

David Li and Liu Su slapped him in the back defense, he has been confident recently, and he still wants to pursue an All-Star next season, and whispered to Liu Su to give him more passes.

Seeing such a confident David Lee, Liu Su also had some surprises, he knew that David Lee was very powerful in the early stage of his career, otherwise he would not have let old Dunleavy trade him, but David Lee seemed to become famous earlier than the original.

Duncan received the ball on the inside, David Lee carried it twice, and found that he couldn't bear it, so he wanted to steal the ball, but Duncan turned around and threw it away, and threw the ball into the frame at 45°.

Duncan's skills are obviously not what the current David Lee can handle, but David Lee's defense is already the same, and he may not be able to deal with him when he encounters an interior line that is slightly worse in shooting.

Cassel dribbled past half court and Parker came up to harass. Liu Su came from the side, the two passed the ball hand to hand, and by the way, Cassel helped Liu Su block Bowen, and then Liu Su got a short vacancy, immediately jumped, and hit a three-point shot.

Parker also wanted to go over to defend and jumped up, but there was a height gap of nearly ten centimeters between him and Liu Su, plus there was still some distance, so he couldn't block it at all, and he couldn't even seal his eyes.

Parker watched Liu Su return to defense unwillingly, and after receiving the serve, he rushed straight to the inside. Cassel couldn't keep up with Parker's speed, and was thrown away by Parker, and David Lee came over to make up for the defense, and he still prefers to defend the outside line compared to the defensive inside.

When training, he often goes head-to-head with Liu Su, and he has some experience in defending the outside line, and the other outside lines are not as strong as Liu Su, David Li can find a sense of accomplishment from these people, as if he defeated Liu Su.

However, today David Lee obviously expected Parker's speed wrongly, and he didn't pay attention when he shifted, and was hit by Parker's arm, and the referee's whistle blew. Fortunately, Parker's shot didn't go in, otherwise it would have been 2+1.

Parker hit both free throws, and David Lee, who was fouled, was also angry in his heart, and he was quicker when he ran the position. Liu Su broke through Bowen and entered the inside line, after attracting Duncan, David Lee ran to cut the basket, there was no one around two meters, Liu Su immediately passed the ball and threw the ball over, David Lee jumped up to catch the ball and smashed it into the basket to complete the empty catch.

What do audiences like best? Dunk and Biao points must be in the top two, but the favorite must be the empty catch, and there is still a game, playing three or four empty catches, then the tickets will sell very well, and it will also get a nickname, called Sky City, which attracts the attention of fans.

The teams in the league that have dunks have a large number of fans, and Carter, Kobe, Maddy, Howard, Wade, James, Anthony, and Xiaosi all have a large number of regular fans. These fans are attracted by their dunks, and they are not fixed places, and there are also people who like their dunks in other cities.

And when the league selects the top five and top ten, the probability of being selected for a dunk is very high, much higher than that of a breakthrough and shooting. Sometimes the best five or ten balls are special for dunks.

The Clippers also had a lot of dunks at Staples Arena, but there weren't really a few open catches. Liu Su is more stable when he controls the ball, he rarely passes the air, because the error rate is too large, if it weren't for David Li's chance today, he wouldn't have passed the air.

However, when Liu Su heard the cheers of the audience, he had to think about whether to send more empty connections in the future, just to listen to the cheers of the audience.

After this idea came up, Liu Su couldn't help but want to put it into practice, but he still suppressed his impulse and waited for the opportunity.

The Spurs served, and Parker once again singled out Cassel, but was blocked by Cassel and failed to break inside. Duncan asked for the ball inside, Parker hoisted the ball in, and Duncan once again singled David Lee, turned around and scored the ball with a small hook.

The Clippers served, and Cassel and David Lee made a pick-and-roll and hit a two-point shot before Duncan could make a stoppage.

At the beginning, the two teams played very well, both of them took advantage of each other's weaknesses to attack, so the success rate was still very high. However, in the fifth minute, the two teams began to make substitutions, Rajon Rondo replaced Cassel, and Ginobili also replaced Barry, and both teams strengthened their lineups.

Cassel couldn't keep up with Parker's speed, so he pulled up Jon Rondo and now Parker. Barry also couldn't guard against Ryan Gomez's size, so Upper Ginoby used his height to now Ryan Gomez.