Chapter 126: The league is the first, and the regular season is over
-- Lin Fei and Andre Miller formed a fast-break impact, while the Kings switched from offense to defense with only Youdri and Salmons returning in time.
2vs2, the Kings fans at Arco Arena cheered for Youdri and Salmons with their own voices, and it was always the attackers who had the advantage in the basketball game, and the constantly retreating Youdri and Salmons could only stick to their respective defenders as much as possible to interfere.
Just when Salmons was about to stick to Lin Fei, a shaking in Lin Fei's running changed direction and accelerated, and directly staged an overtaking scene, and when Salmons was shocked, Andre Miller threw the ball directly into the air without hesitation.
Syllable!
There was a loud bang in the basket, and Lin Fei grabbed the basket with both hands and swung the swing.
"Nice air relay! Lin's speed made Salmons' defense instantly a hole. ”
As the Clippers further narrowed the gap with this aerial relay, the morale-boosting Clippers tested the Kings' weak defense with wave after wave of offense, and the Kings, who relied on their hands to maintain offensive firepower, dropped significantly under the Clippers' defense.
When the game came to five minutes in the fourth quarter, Lin Fei hit a basket on Brad Miller and caused Miller to foul, and the Clippers, who trailed by as many as 28 points with the free throw.
Although there were seven minutes to go, most of the more than 10,000 fans at the Arco Arena knew in their hearts that the victory that should have been in their pockets was completely away from them.
"The unimaginable Los Angeles Clippers, the whole team burst out in the second half with great fighting power, and the Clippers in the first half are completely two teams, the game ended in such a situation I don't think the king in the first half could not have imagined, but the truth is so cruel. After this game, the Los Angeles Clippers will scare every team in the league. In the midst of the commentator's voice, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game.
98:110, the Kings, who scored 62 points in the first half, only scored 36 points in the second half, and Lin Fei, who scored 35 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists in the game, became the most valuable player in the game.
Then the Los Angeles Clippers relied on the huge combat power that broke out in the game with the Kings, sitting at home Staples to welcome the New Orleans Hornets, more than two hours later, more than 20,000 Staples fans showed a satisfied smile on their faces 110:95, the Clippers won a 15-point victory, Lin Fei got the fifth triple-double of his career, 26 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, and in addition to Lin Fei, the most outstanding performance is undoubtedly Wilson Chandler who returned to the bench from the starter.
When McRoberts adapted to the Clippers and became the starter, Wilson Chandler became a jack-of-all-trades on the bench, averaging a lot of playing time per game, and this game was super efficient 6 of 6 shots, 6 of 6 free throws, and the Clippers' second-highest score of 22 points, as well as 8 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 blocks and 4 steals, almost completing the legendary 5*5 data.
Wilson Chandler in such excellent form is undoubtedly a great positive for the Clippers, after all, in addition to the competition between the starting lineups, the bench lineup is undoubtedly important.
The next Clippers who continue to sit at home meet the challenge of the Memphis Grizzlies, the Grizzlies' interior Zach Randolph and Mark Gasol once again dominated the interior, Randolph played a big double-double of 30 points and 17 rebounds, and Mark Gasol sent 17 points, 14 rebounds and 6 blocks, because Mark Gasol's performance became better and better, which directly led many people to think that the Grizzlies sent Paul Gasol's transaction in the direction of not being brainless, despite the interior performance against the sky, but the Grizzlies still failed to take away the victory, Relying on Lin Fei's six three-pointers and three shots from the bench, J.R. Smith, Stephan, Nova, Wilson, and Chandler's excellent play, the Clippers narrowly defeated the Grizzlies by 1 point, and the Clippers' victory guarantee came from the fatal block sent by Tyson Chandler at the last critical moment of the whole game, which officially killed the Grizzlies' hope of victory, and he helped the team win in his own way.
With that win, the Los Angeles Clippers claimed their 60th win of the season, four games ahead of the league's second-place Cleveland Cavaliers, who had 11 games left and the Cavaliers 10 games remaining.
On March 25, the Los Angeles Clippers, the first in the West, challenged the San Antonio Spurs, the third in the West, away to the San Antonio Spurs, and this game was broadcast live to the whole United States by TNT. In the first quarter, the Clippers took a 7-point lead under the leadership of Lin Fei, but in the second quarter, the Spurs overtook the score in the unsolvable offense of the Super Sixth Man, Ginobili, and then Tim Duncan once again showed his super strength of Shi Fo, and finally lost with Lin Fei's three-point whistle miss the Clippers 3-point, but the Cavaliers who faced the Boston Celtics in the East also did not win, and Ray Allen's fatal three-point let the Celtics take away the victory from the quick loan center.
After the loss, the Los Angeles Clippers set sail again from the Mavericks, beating the Dallas Mavericks by 18 points, the Houston Rockets by 17 points, the Golden State Warriors by 18 points, Lin Fei beat the Washington Wizards with three points, and the Clippers, who won four in a row, extended their lead over the Lakers to 7 games, and completely locked the first place in the West with the Lakers with 6 games left, and then the Clippers continued to attack the first in the league, and Tyson Chandler used 20 rebounds and 7 blocks to create a Clippers no-fly zone when he visited Charlotte back-to-back, In the end, the Clippers defeated the Bobcats by 8 points, and improved their record to 65 games with a wave of five consecutive wins.
The Cavaliers lost another game on the way to the Clippers' five-game winning streak, four wins behind the Clippers, and on April 3, the last leg of the three-game Magic trip to Orlando, the Monster Dwight Howard defended his internal dominance, but the poor play of Mr. Billion and guard Nelson made Howard useless, and at the same time in Toronto, the weak team Raptors and the first Cavaliers in the East, the Dragon King Bosh single-handedly pulled the Eastern Cavaliers off the horse, It also sent the Los Angeles Clippers to the first place in the league.
"LAC Sails to the Playoffs" was a front-page headline in the Los Angeles Times, and various media sites praised the Clippers for winning the league's first place, but most of the media were not optimistic that the Clippers could win the championship in the highly competitive playoffs.
In order to maintain his condition in the next playoffs, Lin Fei played about 20 minutes in the remaining four games, and the Clippers achieved a 2-2 record in the last four games, locking the final record of the regular season at 68 games, and this record is the best since the 1996-1997 Chicago Bulls achieved 69-13 losses. The Cleveland Cavaliers, who are second in the league, are 66-16, the Los Angeles Clippers' fellow city team Lakers are 65-17, and the Boston Celtics are 62-20, and the four teams have 60 wins in the regular season for the first time since 1997-1998, and the Orlando Magic, the fifth year in the league, has also achieved a 59-23 record.
Finally, the 2008-2009 NBA regular season ended on April 18.
The eight teams in the East to make the playoffs are: Cleveland Cavaliers (66-16), Boston Celtics (62-20), Orlando Magic (59-23), Atlanta Hawks (47-35), Miami Heat (43-39), Philadelphia 76ers (41-41), Chicago Bulls (41-41), Detroit Pistons (39-43), and the eight teams in the West that have made the playoffs are the Los Angeles Clippers (68-14), San Antonio Spurs (54-28), Portland Trail Blazers (54-28), Los Angeles Lakers (65-17) [Lakers can only be ranked fourth at most because the division winner is sure of the top-three principle], New Orleans Hornets (54-28), Houston Rockets (53-29), Dallas Mavericks (50-32), Denver Nuggets (50-32). [Thank you for pointing out the original mistake here, Ai Shen apologizes to everyone.] 】
"Welcome to this episode of Sports Report, just tonight the 2008-2009 NBA regular season is officially over! In the end, the Phoenix Suns, who were ninth in the West, lost at home to the Denver Nuggets, who were eighth in the West, and completely lost hope of advancing to the playoffs, while the victorious Denver Nuggets will challenge the regular season champion Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs. Erin Andrews, who still has the same surname, still does not show the slightest old age, still glamorous, beautiful and charming, and as the words fell, the final East and West playoff rankings appeared on the screen.
The final ranking is also officially confirmed by the first round of the playoffs, and the most anticipated in the East is the Detroit Pistons, the long-time sufferer of the Cavaliers, to challenge the Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James as eighth; And the Big Three Green Shirts are facing the young Chicago Bulls, whether the young Bulls under the leadership of the champion Derrick Rose can form an effective impact on the Green Shirts, it is worth looking forward to? As soon as he spoke, a matchup of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs appeared on the screen.
"The Los Angeles Clippers, the first in the regular season, faced the Nuggets in the Denver Plateau, while the old coach George Karl was battling with illness, the Nuggets finally caught the last train of the playoffs with the madness at the end of the regular season under the leadership of Billups and Anthony, the Nuggets' strong interior Kenyon Martin, Nene and Camby will have a strong impact on the Clippers' relatively weak interior line, and what can the poor interior performance in the regular season do when it encounters the Nuggets? Can the Nuggets take advantage of this to stage the Black Eight Miracle? The Hornets with the Super Queen Bee are undoubtedly the most feared by the Lakers, can the weak defense stop Paul's bombing? Can the Dallasians' frustration ease against the Spurs this season? In the past ten years, the cow and horse war has represented a classic, can this cow and horse war still make people look forward to it? With a healthy combination of Yao Mai, the Houston Rockets finally lost the final game and sent the New Orleans to fifth place, can such an option allow the Houstonians to have a good effect against the Trail Blazers of the Young Guards? All the best playoff games. ”
The curtain of the regular season has completely fallen, the playoffs filled with gunpowder are approaching, the pace of the Clippers' training has not stopped for a moment, and the faces of Tyson Chandler, Roy Hibbert, and McRoberts have been carrying heavy expressions.
(To be continued)