Chapter Eighty-Eight: Bad News
Griffin has gained a lot from playing the first game, first of all, with playoff experience, and he is no longer blind to playoff-level confrontations. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The second is because of Griffin's outstanding performance, he has become a big hit, and it is the star who plays well in the regular season, but if you want to become a star recognized by stars and fans, the performance in the playoffs is absolutely indispensable, and there is no doubt that Griffin has taken a solid step.
Despite Griffin's impressive stats, it looks like it will be difficult for Griffin to lead the team to victory, at least for now.
And now the odds of the second game of the Lakers and Clippers offered by the spinach company are still changing, and Bynum's absence has increased the chances of the Clippers winning the next game.
However, it turns out that the gap between the Lakers and the Clippers is bigger than a Bynum and more than expected.
Originally, Vinnie also wanted to take advantage of Bynum's absence to win a victory, and even if he was eliminated, it would not be too ugly, but Kobe Bryant made the Clippers' wishful thinking in vain, and Kobe's play in the second playoff game made the Clippers, who had just moved to the home court, seem to have suffered a blow.
Bryant scored 38 points in the whole game, repeatedly scoring in the most critical fourth quarter, so that the Clippers who wanted to chase the points did not succeed, and at the same time, Gordon, who defended the Clippers, scored only 16 points on 5-of-19 shooting.
When the team's outside core is so iron, it's hard for you to win, and the Clippers don't have more than this trouble, Jordan Jr. got into foul trouble when Bynum didn't play, and the Lakers players hit the Clippers' interior again and again, Jordan Jr.'s blocks naturally increased, but soon he was excited and got into foul trouble.
The biggest change for the Clippers without Jordan Jr. is that Griffin has to grab defensive rebounds, which reduces Griffin's conversion points, one less point of threat, and Griffin has to put more effort on the defensive end.
It's really not a difficult question of who has the better defense between Griffin, who has an explosive physique, and Karman, who is not yet in full form.
In addition, Kobe Bryant also hit some unscientific typical Kobe balls in the fourth quarter, so the Clippers' 97:81 defeat is not unexpected, Griffin scored 22 points, 14 rebounds, 3 blocks and 3 assists, and his performance was quite decent, but it was inferior to the first game.
After the game, the Clippers held a meeting to discuss how to defend the Lakers and improve their offense, and now that they are 2-0 down, they must find a good way to try to win the next game.
"Gasol is the starting point of the triangle offense, and he can often move Breckel to the free throw line, create a good one-on-one environment for Kobe Bryant on the weak side, and intersperse it with runs, making it easy for our defense to miss the other."
"In the next game, Foye will defend Kobe, make him as uncomfortable as possible, reduce his shooting percentage, and we will not form a co-defense against Kobe, and the responsibility of defending him will fall on your shoulders."
How to defend Kobe Bryant is undoubtedly a proposition for the entire league, but the facts over the years have taught us that there is only time to take Kobe's threat away from him except to pray that Kobe himself feels average and falls into singles.
From the perspective of basketball theory, as long as you make a complete shot and have room to shoot, then you have a chance of hitting, but after all, this is theory, everyone knows the price to pay to develop theory into practice, and almost all the people who can do this are industry elites, such as Kobe.
However, basketball is not a martial arts fight, when a strong and experienced person does his best to defend you, it will definitely still have an impact, and Pooh is betting that Kobe, who is in his 30s, will not be able to hit those difficult shots again and again.
In the last game, Kobe Bryant not only scored 38 points, but also handed out 6 assists, Gordon's defense of Kobe can be said to be a complete failure, but you can't blame Gordon completely, after all, he still has to attack, so this time it was replaced by Foyelai.
Two days later, at Stepups Center, the Clippers hosted the Lakers for the third game of the series.
"I don't know if the Clippers have any special arrangements today, the rout in the last game made us clearly understand the current gap between the Clippers and the defending champions, and I hope the Clippers can improve and make the game more exciting."
"I think the Clippers have to start this game in two places, the first is defense, you can let Kobe Bryant score 40 points or more, which is not unusual anyway, but you can't let other outside players hit so many open 3-pointers, and secondly, Jordan Jr. has to control his foul count, in the intensity of the playoffs, if Griffin wants to play offense and defense, at least facing the Lakers is enough."
After the game started, Foye's defense against Kobe Bryant had an effect, Kobe missed all four shots, and the Clippers took the opportunity to beat the Lakers an 8:0, but it is worth being vigilant that 6 of these 8 points were scored inside, Griffin turned around and hit the board and broke through under the basket, and then Jordan Jr. dunked once.
The Clippers have never played above the level since the series, and Gordon also showed obvious frustration after the game, which made Griffin, who was also a little depressed, unable to say anything more.
"The Clippers played pretty well today, not overusing Griffin from the first quarter, but Kobe Bryant can't do this all the time, and the Clippers have to be mentally prepared." As soon as the commentator spoke, Kobe Bryant threw a 3-pointer to open today.
When Bryant only scored 3 points in the first quarter, the Clippers led by 4 points at 27:31 and entered the second quarter.
Although the first half of the second quarter was intense, there were few highlights, although the two sides played back and forth, but the shooting rate was not high, and after Odom came on the court, the Lakers quickly eroded the lead that the Clippers had, and Viney immediately changed to the starter as soon as he saw that the situation was wrong.
In the 4th minute of the second quarter, Griffin and Gordon played a block and then Gordon returned the ball to Griffin outside the free throw line on the left side.
Griffin jerked in, but the man floated backwards, and with the power of hitting Atay, he took advantage of a jumper with a slight back, and the ball went softly into the basket.
"Beautiful pull-up jumper! Griffin has shown his jump shot skills more than once this season, and it's like an outside player. ”
Back to the court, Kobe Bryant wanted to stay in the position to single Feye, and Feye's defense in this game was very good, so the Clippers opened up space to avoid Kobe Bryant's pass, Kobe Bryant hit back and then the center of gravity deviated to the left and immediately turned to the right and made a backward jumper, Foye was a little slower, but Kobe only needed such a trace, and the ball was hollow into the net.
Griffin quickly got to the offensive position, Foye transferred the ball in, Griffin himself felt the center of gravity of Gasol, and then a quick turn, with too much force to even make the turning Griffin a little staggering, the speed was too fast, Gasol could only watch Griffin smash the dunk with both hands.
There were enthusiastic cheers from the audience, and there was no doubt that it was a beautiful AnswerBall, and the excitement on the court was of course that the stars hurt each other.
The ball obviously aroused Bryant's desire, and just after halftime, he got the ball from Fisher's hand and made a single gesture outside the three-point line, and the crowd's cries rose to a new level again, and the atmosphere was extremely warm.
A simple shoulder shake made Feye a little unsure of the direction of Kobe's breakthrough, and pointed to the back to signal for a defense, at this moment Kobe suddenly moved, like the moment when the highly toxic black mamba was hunting, Foye hurriedly mobilized his already somewhat tired legs to keep up with Kobe, and Diogu behind him had begun to approach Kobe.
However, Kobe Bryant just stepped into the 3-point line and pulled up a jumper, this distance caught Ferye off guard, the shoes and the floor made a violent friction sound, and Diogu behind could only raise his long arms to try to interfere, but the crisp sound of entering the net announced the failure of the defense.
"Two points longer from Kobe! There is no doubt that the perfect embodiment of personal ability! ”
Griffin pursed his lips and didn't speak, the audience all stood up and shouted wildly, and the director of the scene also changed the camera to a box shot, but Pooh still didn't call a timeout, he saw a strong desire to attack from Griffin's eyes!
After Griffin landed in formation, he reached out directly to ask for the ball, then turned around to face the basket, his eyes became extremely focused and serious, and he slammed to the left, and then the ball hit the ground heavily, and after feeling the blockade of the defender, Griffin stopped the ball and turned to the right side with a big turn!
Gasol was turned around directly, but Griffin's task was not so simple, facing Smith and Kobe Bryant who came over to make up the defense, Griffin collided with Smith in the air, Smith fell Griffin was still in the air, and then picked off Kobe's block with his left hand, threw his right hand to the basket, and finally fell.
"Huh!" "Beep!"
"Beautiful 2+1! Griffin responds to the ball strongly! First, a beautiful turn into the inside line, facing the block of two people, he scored the ball hard! ”
After this goal, the atmosphere at the scene became even more hot, and it seemed that the top of Staples was going to be lifted!
The ornamentation of Griffin's ball just now is too high, the standard inside line turns aside, and the confrontation with Smith reflects Griffin's perfect core strength, and then the time in the air is still so long, and the final basket is also superb hand work, this kind of performance between movement and stillness makes the audience extremely excited!
Phil Jackson actually called a timeout at this point, Kobe frowned but walked to the bench anyway, and Griffin and his teammates celebrated happily.
"Okay guys, that's the end of the heads-up time, the bag of the bag, the tactics are playing, and the score will be overtaken before halftime."
Kobe Bryant didn't have a stubborn bullfight anymore, and obediently executed tactics, but the Clippers' morale was high, and even the outside shooting rate was much higher, and they still maintained a 3-point lead at halftime.
By the end of these two quarters, the Clippers had made huge progress, and for the first time they maintained their lead before halftime, Griffin swept 14 points and 7 rebounds in the half, and was arguably the MVP of the half.
Sam had just come out of the noise and answered the call.
"Hello, I'm Sam, what? When was the surgery done and why neither Griffin nor I knew. Well, I think Griffin will want to know about it, okay I'll not tell him yet, tell the little one, he's the bravest man I've ever met, and I'm sure Griffin thinks so too. ”
Sam hung up the phone and sighed, looking in the direction of the locker room but didn't walk in.
At this time, in a hospital in Los Angeles, in a neat and clean ward, a kid lying on the bed was wearing a ventilator and moving his body a little weakly, probably because he hadn't moved for a long time and was a little uncomfortable, but his eyes were still very bright, looking at the TV opposite.
"Little one, you've been watching long enough, and I think you should rest today."
The child couldn't speak, but he turned to look at the black man and his eyes seemed to say, "Let me watch this game!" ”