Chapter 43: Happy New Year!
The tentative date of Gilatine's departure was set for around January 4th, and the little girl told her parents to make an excuse and moved directly to Griffin's house, since you don't have time to go out with me, then I can play with you directly at home. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Griffin wants to be satisfied with this, so that Griffin can train with confidence during the day and enjoy himself at night, without racking his brain for where to play or the excuse that he can't go.
Two days after Christmas, on December 27, the Clippers hosted their opponent, the mighty Celtics, but I don't know whether to be happy or regretful, the Celtics' starting power forward Kevin Garnett was unable to play due to injury and did not even come to Los Angeles.
This is naturally a good thing for the Clippers, but Griffin still has a little regret, Kevin Garnett can be regarded as Griffin's favorite star in the same position, and he was determined to pay attention to Garnett for an autograph, but now it is also in vain.
However, the game proved that Garnett's absence is still beneficial, at least now the Clippers and Celtics are still inseparable, and the biggest opponent of the Celtics' Big Three, who is about to enter 10 years, has slowly become his own physical condition, so in this regular season, some games are strategic to preserve physical strength.
So under the premise that Paul Pierce and Ray Allen didn't play much, the Clippers and the Celtics played on par, and Coach Rivers of the Celtics didn't seem to be very successful in his defensive strategy against Griffin.
Griffin is now quite free to get rid of the demons, regardless of your defensive strategy and level, even if I make mistakes and I miss, but I still follow my style of play, this Dunleavy asked Griffin to focus on the interior.
So the Staples audience saw a rare Griffin, with a lot less familiar frame attacks, and more of a direct inside kill after the ball was about to go deep inside, and Griffin's explosiveness and speed made Perkins and the slightly aging Rasheed Wallace suffer enough.
Although his height and arm span suffered, Griffin couldn't hold it down at the moment when he jumped up, and Rivers had no choice but to shrink the defense line to contain Griffin, and Gordon, Butler and others on the outside broke out at the right time.
The long-lost three-point rain fell on Staples, and even if Rondo and Relaren combined for 15 points in the final quarter, they couldn't prevent the Clippers from winning the victory, which was not a big upset.
Griffin 23 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks and 2 steals, the data is very advanced, the most important thing is to rely on his own ability to affect the Celtics' defensive layout to a certain extent, so that Gordon and others play very comfortably, which is also a relatively big improvement.
After the game, Rivers praised Griffin at the press conference that he was "already a star level", but Griffin also knew that this style of play would not last long after all, and it was not his regular style of play.
After beating the Celtics, the Clippers rushed to Portland, the city of tears, and the fresh air and pleasant environment gave Griffin the urge to buy a house and settle here, and it is no wonder that Portland is not only one of the cities with the highest per capita income in the United States, but also one of the most livable cities.
However, injuries have been a haze for this team, and the '07 Auden the Great has played 21 games this year and then lost the season due to injury again, but fortunately, Brandon Roy and Aldridge's performances have become more and more consistent, so that the Trail Blazers still have a place in the West.
The Trail Blazers' bench has always been thick, but with injuries coming recently, only Bayles, Blake, Cunningham and Pendragev are available on the Trail Blazers' bench.
Even so, the Trail Blazers played enough for the Clippers, and Roy unleashed his own small universe in the first half, with 17 points and 5 assists at halftime to give the Trail Blazers a 12-point lead into the second half.
In the third quarter, Dunleavy put on a quirky lineup of Griffin Camby and Butler, Gordon and Novak, Griffin and Camby were used as blue-collar workers, and the outside three were responsible for scoring in a chaotic battle.
When Roy was not on the court, the rhythm of the Trail Blazers was completely carried by the Clippers, but the Clippers' second rebound exploded the Trail Blazers, Aldridge scored 4 points and almost disappeared, and with Butler hitting another three-pointer, the 12-point advantage was only 3 points in the blink of an eye.
Roy immediately put on the battle, leading Miller Sr. and Batum to brush a few three-pointers to widen the difference again, even if Griffin played hard and seriously, he could not escape the fate of failure, 99:102, away to the Trail Blazers.
Roy had a game-high 23 points and nine assists, the Trail Blazers had seven players in double figures, the Clippers Griffin had 14 points and 12 rebounds, and Butler scored 20 points on 5-of-8 three-point shooting.
After playing the Trail Blazers, he returned to Los Angeles to accept the 76ers' challenge back-to-back. It was a dull game, and there was nothing to see in the whole court, but Griffin gave six dunks in the game, scoring a game-high 26 points and 15 rebounds, and almost turned the game into a dunk contest.
So far, the Clippers' 09 games have all been played, and everyone who returned to the locker room couldn't hide their excitement and danced together in the locker room, on the one hand, to celebrate tonight's victory, and on the other hand, to celebrate the New Year with their teammates for the first time.
Not only were the players happy, but the spectators who came to see the game were given wristbands with Happy New Year patterns from their teammates, and after the game, Staples fell into a burst of cheers, and the Clippers' home commentators, reporters, and even referees joined in the energetic music of the live DJ.
"Happy New Year Mom and Dad, long time no see, yes yes, we are fine, you also have to take care of your health, come to Los Angeles to see me after a while, you can't be too partial to my brother, I know, don't worry, rest early, say Happy New Year for me like brother, good night."
Griffin and Julian were partying at Byron Davis' mansion at this time, and the Clippers had organized a grand New Year's party tonight, with almost all the players in attendance, and there was a rare crowd of people walking around the streets outside.
Juliatin was more familiar with this kind of party occasion than Griffin, and at first glance he knew that he was an old driver, and after a while, Griffin was drunk by Davis Gordon and others.
"Hey, stop everyone, we still have to train!"
"you, Blake, Dunleavy has announced that we're off tomorrow! Fuck me! ”
In this way, poor Griffin tried to maintain the last trace of clarity until the arrival of 2010, and Juliatine still held Telfer to fill him indiscriminately, by the way, after everyone was a little drunk, Telfel also had a rare heart-to-heart exchange with Griffin.
It seems that Griffin and Telfair have finally reconciled, but in fact, there is nothing to hold grudges against, Brother Hei is quite refreshing, and the two are now in different team positions, and they both rely on strength to speak.
The competition for team positions in the NBA is largely determined by the team's management, and it should be unlikely that the two will gang up and scheming like the two in the novel in order to grab the starters.
In the end, everyone almost got drunk at Davis's house, but Sam came to pick up Griffin and Jollate, because Griffin had already made an appointment with Olabotto to shoot the next day.
Griffin was lying in the back seat of the car, muttering drunken eyes, and Sam, who was sitting in the front seat, vaguely heard some languages that did not seem to be English, which was very familiar, and seemed to be somewhat similar to the pronunciation learned in the Chinese class he took in college.
And Griffin saw his former self in a daze, at this time, at home and his parents were arguing with his parents whether the New Year's Eve party of Hunan Satellite TV was good-looking, or the scene of CCTV's New Year's Eve party being good-looking.
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