With a loud bang, only 11 seconds before the start of the game, Griffin, the Clippers' number one "dunk" griffin, glided into the air with his head almost flat and smashed the ball into the basket with both hands to score the first point of the game.

A Clippers' "signature" offensive routine: Paul controls the ball near the free throw line, attracting the Nets' Brooks and the tall defense, Griffin on the wing cuts to the basket, Paul hits the ground and passes, and Griffin, who receives the ball, rushes straight to the basket like a flood of beasts, stepping and jumping.

At this time, the Nets' defensive gate Humphries faced the roaring Griffin, and also jumped with the momentum, but at this time, Griffin was already looking at the basket at eye level, his body stretched like a bent bow, and the ball was held high in his hand, like an arrow on the bow.

With Griffin's right hand drawing a semi-circular arc in the air, Humphries became another "background emperor" of Griffin's signature dunk.

As soon as the "Oh" game began, the "City of Empty Connections" gave the fans a surprise, with signature players, gorgeous attacks, and passionate passion...... The Los Angeles Clippers have a lot, ranking first in the league, and they are on the Lakers' turf - Los Angeles began to build their own "empire", and now the Clippers have the posture to compete with the Lakers.

After the goal, Clippers power forward Griffin looked calm, slowly running back to the half, without any celebrations, and seemed to have become accustomed to it.

In fact, Griffin's dunk is not a simple dunk in violent aesthetics, nor is it just a dunk that integrates speed, power, bounce, and explosiveness, but also a temperament, an appeal, and a symbol of control of the game in competitive games.

The beginning of the game. Griffin sent a message of takeover through the game with a dunk, and the Clippers home court was filled with an atmosphere of victory, which put a lot of pressure on the Nets players.

"Snap" Nets control the ball Brooks made a slight mistake in dribbling, and the league steal king and first point guard Chris Paul standing in front of him certainly would not let go of this opportunity and cut the ball away.

The Clippers are a very athletic team, and when Paul dribbles to the Nets, there are at least three Clippers players at the same time, especially Griffin, who keeps running and looking back.

With a "cluster", Paul passed. The ball went straight for Griffin.

"Not good," Griffin had already made his way into the paint zone. He was incredibly lethal in the area, with the tall man immediately approaching Griffin in hopes of making physical contact to stop him from jumping, while the Nets' starting small forward Wallace pounced from the side. Form a flanking attack on Griffin.

"What?" But just when the tall and strong was ready to stop Griffin even with fouls. only to find that the ball flew directly over Griffin's head. This was followed by a loud bang.

Gao Dazhuang looked back and found that the Clippers' positive Indian center - DeAndrew? Jordan was hanging his hands from the basket at this time, and it was clear that the dunk he had just made was his masterpiece.

Tall and strong couldn't help but show a wry smile. Do you know that the Clippers are called "empty cities" because they are not just Griffin "dunk", DeAndrew? Jordan, a seven-foot-tall player with extremely explosive power, is also one of the league's top "dunks".

A minute later, Clippers star Chris Paul hit a three-point shot from beyond the three-point line.

0:7, the Clippers playing at home played a very beautiful start.

At this time, Nets coach Johnson was reminding Brooks, who was in charge of the ball, that the athletic Clippers were masters of "disrupting the game", and the inexperienced Nets had to return to their own rhythm.

I don't know if it was affected by the last heavy defeat to the Spurs or some other reason, Gao Dazhuang did not have the same indomitable momentum as before, after receiving a pass from Brooks, Gao Dazhuang passed the ball to Wallace at a 45-degree angle on the flank.

Fortunately, Wallace withstood the tremendous pressure created by Clippers fans in Staples Arena and hit a three-pointer under the frontal defense of Caron Butler.

3：7

Wallace's offense eased the pressure on the Nets, and then Brooks and Wallace played a pick-and-roll matchup, and then Brooks cut inside to make a layup.

After that, the two teams fought fiercely, with Clippers power forward Griffin frequently scoring inside attacks, but the Nets, led by Wallace, responded quickly, with Wallace and Smith hitting back-to-back shots.

With Griffin's hook shot under the basket, the Clippers ended the first quarter with a five-point lead over the Nets at 22:17.

In the second half of the first quarter, Griffin, an All-Star of the Clippers, and Humphries, a staunch of the Nets, constantly staged all kinds of pushing, elbowing, and trash talk under the basket.

But compared to Humphries, who has a fiery personality, Griffin is more mature, although Griffin did not have a single dunk in the second half of the first quarter, but he took advantage of the basket, and his beautiful shaky again and again made the defender Humphries extremely uncomfortable.

Griffin scored a game-high 9 points in the first quarter, while Wallace scored 7 points on the Nets' side, but the Nets' core player and top scorer Gao Dazhuang shot 0-of-2 and didn't score a point.

The sluggish state of being tall and strong stunned all the players of the Nets, and it seems that this has never happened in their memory.

For this reason, during the break, Coach Johnson handed over the tactical assignment to assistant coach PJ Callesimo, while he himself sat next to the tall and strong and kept communicating with him.

"At 19 you've become the center of the league, and you've had a lot of results that rookies can't do, but that's how people want to knock you down every night," Johnson said in a whisper that only two people could hear, "As a player, it's a terrible thing to be in the spotlight early on, because you can't be great every night, you're going to have a lot of problems. But you have to know how to deal with them."

"It's going to be difficult for a young rookie to establish a place in the league, and I think you should learn from James of the Heat, you've all been under a lot of pressure, and because of James' high school history, everybody thought he deserved to be a superstar, and he was under more pressure than you were there, but he pulled through, so he's the number one star in the league," Coach Johnson continued.

"Huh" Tall and Strong sighed, "Got it, Coach." Lately the basket has been like a lid has been added. I don't know what the problem is."

"So you're retreating?" Coach Johnson rebuked: "You made two baskets in the first quarter, you knew you shot 42 times in the Christmas game, where did you go then?" ”

"Am I not afraid of affecting the team's offensive efficiency?" Gao Dazhuang touched his head and said.

"Fuck off. If you're afraid that you'll affect your offensive efficiency. I would have replaced you a long time ago. You have to know that you have unlimited firing rights on this team," Coach Johnson said solemnly.

"Okay, don't blame me if you can't shoot" The referee's whistle also sounded at this time, and the tall and strong stood up and said to Coach Johnson.

"I don't blame you. I'll go back and practice you again," Coach Johnson said viciously.

At the beginning of the second quarter, to everyone's surprise, the tall man who had just received the ball met the defense of Clippers point guard Willie Green and made a jump shot at the top of the three-point arc.

"Dang" but the tall shot was still a little "short", and the ball bounced out of the front of the basket.

In the chaos under the basket, Nets titan Humphries slapped the ball out with one hand under the sandwich of Griffin and Jordan Jr., and the ball landed right in Wallace's hands.

Wallace was in the defensive gap at the moment of "opportunity", but when several Clippers players pounced on him at the same time, he unexpectedly divided the ball, but instead of distributing the ball to the inside, he distributed the ball to the tall and strong hands outside the three-point line.

Gao Dazhuang did not hesitate after receiving the ball, and shot again in the same position, but this time there was no one in front of Gao Dazhuang, and with the sound of the "brush" basketball passing through the net, Gao Dazhuang hit a three-point shot and scored his first point of the game.

"Cast beautifully" Wallace ran over and slapped his hands with Tall Zhuang, "Thank you" Tall and Strong nodded at him, Wallace's help to him Gao Dazhuang has always remembered in his heart.

Tall Zhuang's three-point shot helped him break the scoring bottleneck, and then he seemed to find confidence, in the next offense, Tall and Strong only used a simple probe + shooting feint to make Willie Green jump, and then Tall and Strong easily cut inside to make a foul on Jordan Jr.

"When" Gao Dazhuang's first free throw was still bounced out of the basket, at this time, Gao Dazhuang subconsciously looked at Coach Johnson on the sidelines, and smiled embarrassedly.

"Brush" was very fast, and the adjusted tall and strong second free throw accurately hit the hoop.

Unguarded free throws were the best way to adjust their hands, and soon the tall man made another shot for the Nets with a stop-and-go jump shot after a feint.

The resurgence of the tall and strong state also relieved Coach Johnson on the sidelines, in his opinion, there is no problem with the technical movements of the tall and strong, the only thing that needs to be improved is the psychological quality.

Seeing that the Nets were about to take off, but at this time, Chris Paul, the star of the Clippers, stepped up.

After "brushing" Paul after consecutive crotch dribbles, he suddenly hit a step-back jumper near the free throw line to stabilize the situation on the court.

Approaching the Clippers, the Clippers played another classic combination inside and outside, Griffin drew a number of Nets players to defend on the inside, and then distributed the ball to Paul, who was waiting to receive the ball on the outside.

With a "brush", Paul "raised his knife and fell" and hit a three-pointer cleanly.

Although Paul is a traditional ball-handler, his shooting skills are very good, whether it is a mid-range shot, a three-point shot, a pull-up jump shot or a breakaway throw, his shooting percentage is very good, and Paul's shooting basically has no blind spots, and his offensive range is quite wide.

Paul's performance was not over yet, the Nets' starting point guard Brooks was immature like a child in front of Paul, only to see Paul change direction and break through, leaving Brooks behind in an instant.

Facing the block of Nets center Smith, Paul made a dummy shot, playing a time difference, and in the process of Smith's fall, Paul easily threw and scored.

It is no exaggeration to describe Paul's superiority as "in the midst of thousands of flowers, not a single leaf in the body", and his ball handling skills have reached an extraordinary level.

Paul doesn't slow down when he bursts into the box, which makes opposing defenders unable to judge whether he is an assist or a layup, and Paul plays high forward under the basket is also a unique skill of him.

After Paul scored seven points in a row, he came close to assisting his teammates to score consecutive offenses, and the Clippers also took advantage of the momentum.

At 41:51, halftime, the Clippers ended the first half with a 10-point advantage.

"Within five years, he's going to be the No. 1 point guard in the league," Marbury, then a New York Knicks star who now plays for the CBA Beijing team, said after Paul's rookie season.

In fact, just as Marbury predicted, with Rose's injury and Delon regressing, Paul led the young Clippers to victory after victory with excellent skills and thorough tactical understanding.

At present, Paul's average of about 20+10+5+2 per game has also silenced many doubters, and so far this season, his PER efficiency value is as high as 29.23, ranking first in the league, which is simply incredible for a player whose athleticism and explosiveness are not as good as before.

There is no doubt that CP3 is the best "No. 1 point guard" in the league today. (To be continued......)

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