Chapter 220: The Strength of the Defending Champion
After a day off, the Clippers hosted the Nuggets, who are now seeking a trade with them, and the backcourt duo has not had too good results for two seasons, much to the disappointment of management. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Although Anthony and Iverson still have strong offensive power, the Nuggets' lineup is really not too good, and only one J.R. Smith is a bit stronger. However, JR Smith is against Liu Su, who is destined to not be able to play much, the only thing to be thankful for is that he plays the sixth man, and most of the time he really plays in the second quarter.
Gary Payton was on the injury list in this game, and the Clippers' five interior players took turns to wreak havoc on the Nuggets interior. Carman's competitive form has declined a bit this year, but he is still better than Nene and Kenyon Martin, and with Artest limiting Anthony, the Nuggets have no chance of turning the tables around.
After easily defeating the Nuggets, the Clippers welcomed another strong team in the West, the Jazz. The Jazz's roster has been strong in recent years, and it can be tied with the Spurs, and if it weren't for the fact that the Clippers have been stronger in recent years, they might have been able to win the championship.
Back-to-back games against the Jazz, this is the time to test the strength of the defending champion Clippers. The Clippers have too many new players this season, and if they can withstand back-to-back shocks, it means that the Clippers still have the strength to win championships this year.
Indeed, the Clippers have a lot of new players, basically they can be called the youth army, and only the third position in the team is an old man who has been in the league for many years, except for Gary Payton, it seems that Carman is the oldest.
The youthful team makes the Clippers more dynamic. Kevin Love has a decent scoring ability, and having two players on the Clippers who can play with him makes it easier for him to score.
Rajon Rondo is stronger than last year, and it is not a big loss to play against Delon, and now only the Jazz at the No. 4 position is significantly stronger than the Clippers.
Boozer's defeat at the Olympics is a bit unacceptable to Liu Su now. Originally, this Olympics could have won the championship for a while, but it was because of Liu Su's outburst that the American team was buried, four doubles! Having four doubles at the Olympics, what kind of difficulty is that?
As soon as the game started, Boozer singled Kevin Love, and he wanted to win the Clippers to breathe a sigh of relief. How could Kevin Love defend Boozer? So Boozer succeeded again and again.
However, the Jazz did not pull the score away, Liu Su played against Kirilenko, because the Jazz could prevent Liu Su, so they could only let Kirilenko, who had already played the sixth man, put him in the start.
However, Kirilenko's form has declined a lot this year, and he is also old, and it is estimated that he will retire in a few more seasons. Liu Su faced Kirilenko's continuous breakthroughs and made a mess of the Jazz inside.
Boozer was very unwilling, and when he singled Kevin Love, he moved a little bigger, jumped too high at one time, and when his foot landed, he didn't stand firmly, and his foot fell suddenly.
Boozer was carried down by the team doctor, and the Clippers immediately took the opportunity to catch up with the score and complete the overtake.
Liu Su was speechless, he could have played, but as soon as Boozer was injured, the Jazz were immediately no match for the Clippers.
Millsap, who came up, is not as strong as Kevin Love's attacking ability. However, he also has the ability to shoot from the middle, and he played blocking and dismantling with Delon to barely keep up with the score, and did not let the Clippers pull away.
Liu Su didn't have much desire to attack, and went down to rest in eight minutes. Replaced by Capono, the Clippers' attack power is still very strong, and the Clippers lineup without Liu Su is also a strong team, but they don't have the strength to compete for the championship.
In the second half of the second quarter, Liu Su threw six three-pointers in a row, and directly played an 18:4 attack wave, which pushed the Jazz to the cliff at once, and it was basically impossible to turn the tables.
Comfortably defeated the Jazz and played another game against the Jazz in Utah two days later. Boozer has already undergone surgery and will not return in two or three months, and the Jazz have been killed by the Clippers again without suspense.
After winning four in a row in the opening game, the Clippers media also retracted their doubts about the Clippers, but then the Clippers lost to the Lakers and slapped the media in the face.
On November 6, Liu Su didn't know what was going on, he had a bad stomach, and La's body was weak, so he didn't play. Then Kobe Bryant and Gasol took the opportunity to break out, Gasol beat Kevin Love, showing super strength, Kevin Love only scored 7 points, but grabbed 9 rebounds.
Gasol had 31 points and 12 rebounds, and Kobe Bryant also had 36 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists. The two scored 67 points, and the Lakers won by 16 points over the Clippers.
In the next 8 days against the Rockets, Liu Su still did not play, and the Clippers and Rockets played to the last minute and lost the game by 2 points. In this game, Kevin Love played at some level and won a double-double.
Yao Ming is now in high spirits and has won the Olympic championship again, and he is smiling all day long. He still has interesting fantasies about the team now, and this year the Rockets have strengthened again, although there are no particularly strong players, but they are much better than last year.
He obviously forgot that now the three teams in the NBA are stronger than the Rockets, maybe he forgot selectively, right?
After Liu Su got better, he didn't say anything, he lost two games without playing, which is obviously problematic. Old Dunleavy also discovered this problem and began to consciously adjust it with Liu Su.
On the 10th, against the Mavericks, Liu Su was replaced by Dunleavy Sr. five minutes after playing, and then handed over the game to someone else to play.
After discussing with Liu Su, the old Dunleavy decided to let Liu Su play the fake starter and let others play more. In this way, you can cultivate the abilities of other people, and then with Liu Su watching from the side, the record will not be too bad.
Sure enough, when Liu Su was off the court, the Clippers exposed a lot of problems, first of all, Kevin Love, who had too little game experience and didn't know how to deal with many balls.
It's easy to do, play more games, let Webb teach more, and if Kevin Love has the potential to deal with this, he will definitely be able to improve. If he hasn't grown in a season, it means that Kevin Love's ability is not focused here, then he can only be used as a shooting machine on the offensive end and a blue-collar player on the defensive end, just like David Lee.
Kevin Love was much more cost-effective than David Lee in his rookie period. David Lee was able to score so many points in the Clippers because Liu Su was too strong in breaking through and Rajon Rondo's scoring ability was too weak.
After going to the Bulls, although David Lee can still score a lot of points, it is definitely not as magical as in the Clippers. Rose's breakthrough is very good, but his scoring ability is much stronger than that of Rajon Longdo, and David Lee is more often a coolie and blocks for Rose. However, he got a contract of at least 12 million per year as he wished, which is his pursuit, and it would be good if the Clippers could offer him a contract of 8 million, and his role was not so great.