Chapter 52: New Recruits Join
The medical team's recommendation for Griffin's playing time is about 20 minutes, and if he is completely fine, he can resume the starting lineup, so in this game against the Bulls, Griffin will play as a substitute for the first time this season. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Bulls' record this season is acceptable, the team's core and team building policy have also been preliminarily determined, the 08 champion show Derrick Rose is the hope of the future of the Windy City, plus the potential center Joakim Noah in 07, the 26th pick in the first round of this year big forward Gibson, with the still at the peak of Rohr Deng and the veteran Hinrich, it is foreseeable that the Bulls will become a strong team in the near future.
Gibson and Griffin are still old acquaintances, and they still have some connections with Griffin's girlfriend Griffin, Gibson is the captain of the USC basketball team, and Griffin also served as a cheerleader on the school basketball team, so he is naturally familiar with Gibson.
Griffin and Gibson also played in the NCAA, and in general they are very competent interior players, very capable of dirty work, and very good at using their physical advantages, but they are older, and they have dedicated their youth to USC for 4 years, so the draft market is not very good, and it fell to the end of the first round.
After the start of the game, the Clippers used Carman as the core to attack the interior, and played the power of the outside through Carman's containment, and the effect was not very satisfactory after playing for a while, although Noah was not the elite defender who entered the first defensive lineup at this time, but his passionate defensive style was still there, which caused a lot of interference to Carman.
And for Carman, this period is a good opportunity, because of Griffin's injury, the team will put the core of the interior offense on him, he must seize the opportunity to prove his ability, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the Clippers want to trade Kaman in the future, he will have a good price.
So the change in mentality caused Kaman to play a little urgently, and many times Gordon and Butler on the outside had opportunities, but Carman still insisted on attacking on his own, and Gibson was relieved to make up for Kaman because Camby's offensive range was not large.
Dunleavy looked a little anxious off the court, Carman can be regarded as a stable point, and he is also conscientious in playing, and now his state is not good news for the team, he turned his head to look at Griffin, "Blake, warm up, get ready to play!" ”
"Whew!" Griffin exhaled, got up to the side and started some simple warm-ups, although it was not a few days away from the court, but not to mention that I really missed the feeling of playing on the court, the audience saw Griffin get up and started to warm up, and they all knew that Griffin was going to play, and generously offered their cheers and applause.
At this time, it was 3 minutes of the first quarter, and the Clippers entered the rotation period in advance, and Davis was obviously a little tired, and the red No. 1 on the opposite side was really tired enough, and his young self might be able to fight, but now he is really powerless.
With the exception of Gordon, the Clippers have rotated other positions, one of the few opportunities Griffin has had this season to partner with Craig Smith, who is a functional interior player who grabs rebounds and then assists to score.
"Hey Blake, it looks like you're comfortable in the NBA, but I'm not going to be emotional, be careful!" Gibson whispered to Griffin while he was serving.
"Hehe, be careful, but you, I'm back full of blood."
Griffin didn't rush to the offense, but worked on the defensive end and rebounding, which was also a kind of warm-up, finding his form on the court, and helping the athletes quickly get back into the game.
In the last minute of the first quarter, Gordon broke through Hinrich's defense and went straight to the inside, Gibson made up for it in time, Gordon missed the layup, and Griffin, who had already judged the rebound point, jumped up and dunked the ball into the frame with one hand!
Then the defensive end Griffin jumped high and nailed Hinrich's layup directly to the rebound, Smith got the ball and threw it directly to the front court Telfair, and then Telfeld gave it to Griffin who rushed back, Griffin ignored the defender in front of him and directly slammed his hands in the air!
"Well, it looks like Griffin is in good shape, his physical function is also recovering well, and he should be able to return to the starting line-up after the game." Dunleavy turned to the coaching staff and said that Griffin's role on the court is not only to attack in the low post in positional battles, but also to be fast enough on the fast break and have a hand to pass the ball.
Griffin returned to the bench at the start of the second quarter, and this time it was mainly about observing his physical condition, Rasubatler was in good form during this time, hitting a three-pointer when he went up, and then Gordon broke through.
It looks like the Clippers are about to get up, and at this time Rose stood up, there is still a battle between the new and old champions, and Rose, who collected his strength in the first quarter, played in the second quarter, and Rose's jump shot was somewhat accurate, but the real killer was a breakthrough.
Rose's breakthrough is absolutely second to none in the NBA, and even in the entire history of the NBA, Rose feels that he is a breakthrough master, his explosiveness is absolutely beast-level, and his ability to not slow down on the way to change direction is a defender's nightmare, coupled with superior strength and confrontation, as well as the change of layups, making his breakthrough very difficult to defend.
For example, in the current situation, Rose usually kills the Clippers in one step or with the help of a pick-and-roll, not to mention Carman, even if Griffin is on it, he will definitely not be able to defend against Rose, and the slightly threatening defense is Camby.
Rose used his deterrent power to either make a pull-up jumper, or throw or split the ball, making the Clippers' defense a bit of a loss, and the current trend in the NBA is like this, under the existing rules, the individual ability of the outside players is maximized.
Later in the second quarter, Griffin came on the court, but he didn't explode, hitting Gibson 2 in the face frame, scoring 4 points on the second offense under the basket, and at halftime, Rose scored 16 points and 4 assists, and Griffin also scored 12 points.
In the second half, the Bulls increased their defensive efforts, and it seemed that the Bulls wanted to bring down the Clippers in waves, and it was unwise to waste too much physical strength on an opponent of the Clippers' level, but the Clippers are now disgusting to death even if they can't beat you, full of resilience, and the players led by Thorton are desperately counterattacking, just look at Rose's depressed face to know how annoying the Clippers are now.
The advantage of Griffin playing as a substitute is that he is full as soon as he plays, full of physical strength, explodes in a short period of time, and the power is still a little great, Gibson has already carried four fouls when the third quarter is about to end, and he has committed three times on Griffin in the third quarter.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Clippers fell into a scoring drought, and Griffin successfully singled Gibson in a row after coming on the court, but the Bulls' Rohr Deng broke out at the end of the quarter, and the first three quarters were in the last quarter of the Rohr Deng who played dead and turned on the three-point shooting mode, shooting 5 three-pointers in a single quarter, scoring 19 points in the whole game, and scoring 15 points in the fourth quarter.
The Clippers didn't win the game in the end, Rose scored a game-high 23 points and 8 rebounds and 7 assists, Noah had 14 points and 15 rebounds, Gibson was average, 4 points and 3 rebounds, and left the game with 5 fouls in the fourth quarter.
The Clippers Davis scored 21 points, Carman 20, Butler 13, Gordon did not play well and only scored 6 points, and Griffin played 20 minutes off the bench to score 17 points and 7 rebounds.
The next day, the Clippers rushed to Denver Plateau to challenge the Nuggets, and Griffin returned to the starting lineup in this game, but as soon as he came back, he met a strong opponent, or in the famous Denver Plateau, and the whole game Clippers were in a slump, losing the game 85-105.
Anthony scored a game-high 28 points and 10 rebounds, and the Clippers Griffin scored 19 points and grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds.
The Clippers, who returned to Los Angeles, got a very sudden news, the Clippers officially announced the signing of Ricky Davis, who was still working for the Heat last season, was cut in the offseason, and now joins the Los Angeles Clippers.
Ricky Davis is also not a person in the rivers and lakes, but there are a lot of rumors about him in the rivers and lakes, but these rumors are not very good, first of all, the famous forced triple-double incident, which made the Cavaliers and the NBA league a little angry, and then the more famous let the little emperor LeBron James lift the shoes for time, and after being traded by the Cavaliers, he also said, "I thought the team was letting him assist me." ”
In general, it is a little frivolous, but those who enter the NBA are geniuses, not to mention such a person who was once in the upper echelons of the NBA, naturally he is a little arrogant, but now the feng shui is in turn.
Griffin thought that Richey's first impression in his mind was actually Terfer who was sitting behind him now, and he felt the same unruly geek, and involuntarily turned his head to look at Telfel, which made Terfer inexplicable.
However, Rickey's arrival will still supplement the firepower of the Clippers' bench to a certain extent, and he can still contribute 13 points per game in the Heat last season, which is a big addition to the Clippers' weak bench.
In addition, Griffin also knew a sad news that shocked the world, on January 14, there was a major earthquake in Haiti, and countless people lost everything and even their lives, which has already been reported in the United States, but Griffin usually pays little attention to it, until he saw LeBron James announcing on Twitter that he would donate to the Haitian people.
Griffin still doesn't operate at the moment, and he doesn't have much money, and he seems to have no intention of donating less, but this idea is okay, and when he becomes a big name in the future, his income will rise, and he must also grow his foundation.
(Today's second update, I recently looked at the praise list of my book, and it actually fell to the ninth page == the embarrassment of capitalization, I was able to find it on the first three pages before, and not many people could see it, which was very embarrassing, or I hope that the results of this book can be better, and I like to read a big collection of recommendations~)