Chapter 332: Piercing the Clipper

With a "brush", the basketball passed through the net, and the tall pair standing at the top of the three-point arc still maintained the posture of the shot after the goal, and the confident smile returned to his face again, while the Nets bench players on the sidelines waved towels and cheered loudly.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Gao Dazhuang made a three-pointer to put the Nets in the lead.

74:72, which was also the first time the Clippers fell behind in this game.

The Clippers, accustomed to victory, immediately organized a counterattack, and under the tall and strong tight defense, Paul still made a pass that spanned the entire half court.

However, Barnes, who came off the bench for the Clippers, wasted Paul's brilliant pass, and he missed his mid-range shot unmarked.

The game entered the crucial fourth quarter, and the confrontation on the court became more and more intense.

Paul began to stick to the tall and strong from the backcourt, and the tall and strong did not choose to stick to the ball, but handed the ball to the veteran Stackhouse, who was responsible for controlling the ball and advancing.

However, Gao Dazhuang is still the Nets' first offensive option, and Gao Dazhuang, who was scurrying around in the Clippers penalty area, suddenly turned back and ran, and at the same time, Wallace of the Nets made an off-ball cover for Gao Dazhuang.

After getting rid of Paul's defense, Gao Dazhuang immediately ran outside the three-point line in the corner, and Starkerhouse's pass also arrived in time, and Gao Dazhuang turned around and wanted to shoot after receiving the ball.

"Drink" Paul shouted at this time and pounced hard, trying to interfere with the tall and strong shot.

But the tall and strong dribbled the ball very calmly, and it was a step towards the left side of the body. Its feet are delicate and fast, and it pulls out space in an instant.

And after copying Curry's projection skills, the tall and strong shot was just as fast, and the ball was already shot as soon as his toes left the ground.

With a "brush", the basketball once again went straight through the center of the net, and the tall and strong once again showed his projection ability.

77:72

The tall man hit two three-pointers in a row, making the Clippers fans anxious, and that's when Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro began to deploy his troops.

With a burst of cheers from the home fans, the Clippers' "Super Sixth Man" Jamal Crawford came off the bench again.

Crawford has scored 50 points on all three different teams. His scoring firepower is on display. His first move is extremely fast, and he is skilled in singles, and he is a convulsive shooter.

However, in the first half, Crawford only scored four points under the Nets' tight defense.

Crawford's re-entry once made Nets coach Johnson extremely nervous, but Crawford's contribution after coming on the court was one statistic: turnover!

Facing the Nets' 39-year-old veteran Stackhouse. Crawford tried to dodge Starkerhouse with a very "gorgeous" backdribble. However, the experienced Stackhouse is a close defender. With a slight "collision", the ball was snatched away from Crawford.

Crawford is truly the most perverted dribbler in the NBA today, and he has dribbling skills comparable to those on a street court. His back-dribbling plus jump-shot solo league.

However, Crawford didn't have a high success rate due to his poor physical confrontation, especially against experienced defenders.

In the next few offenses, Crawford didn't take advantage of Starkerhouse, and the Nets took the opportunity to pull the score away.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the entire Clippers team suddenly fell into a scoring drought, and the cold touch wasted a lot of Paul's delicate passes, so Paul turned the goal of the pass to the inside.

"Brush" Griffin received Paul's pass and singled Humphries with his back, a turn hook, and the ball finally hit.

However, just after the Clippers scored the first shot of the fourth quarter, Nets coach Johnson also made a substitution, replacing the 2.08-meter-tall center Smith with another 1.96-meter-tall veteran, Keith Bogans.

Coach Johnson suddenly changed his tactics in the final moments of the game, and he sacrificed the team's small lineup.

After the substitution, the Nets were more quick to run and pass the ball on offense, and as soon as Bogans got on the court, he received a tall and strong ball and hit a half-volley.

After sending out a small lineup, the Nets' Humphries played as a center, and Wallace was on top of the power forward position, so that the Nets' interior height suddenly decreased a lot.

"Smack" Paul certainly won't let go of such an opportunity, a through ball, pass the ball to the hands of Jordan Jr. on the inside, facing Humphries, Jordan Jr. has a huge height advantage.

However, as soon as he turned around and was about to make a shot, he was fouled by Humphries in advance.

Shark slashing tactics?

Just now, Humphries obviously deliberately fouled, and the Nets adopted a shark slashing tactic!

This tactic was invented by former Mavericks head coach Nelson Sr., that is, to use foul tactics to deal with O'Neal, nicknamed "Big Shark", to reduce the chance of "Shark" shooting.

Because the free throw is O'Neal's "dead hole", after "cutting the shark", although he got the opportunity to make free throws, the possibility of hitting it is very small.

Similarly, Jordan Jr.'s free throws were pretty bad.

Sure enough, "dang" and "dang" sounded twice, but Jordan Jr. did not keep an eye on the pressure and missed the two free throws.

Tall and strong pestered Paul, Stark House stuck Crawford, Wallace went around defending Griffin, and Humphries "slashed" Jordan Jr.

The offensive rhythm of the entire Clippers team was completely disrupted, and the Clippers, who had won 17 games in a row, suddenly disappeared, and they didn't even score a point for nearly four minutes in the middle of the fourth quarter.

Paul hit a step-back jumper, but the tall and strong immediately made a three-pointer, and the Nets took a double-digit lead.

Paul then launched a quick counter-attack with a ground-hitting pass that helped Griffin dunk it.

But as soon as the Clippers trended, they were immediately countered by the Nets, and Wallace returned the color with an aerial relay dunk before hitting another free throw.

The tall and strong shot scored 3 points with free throws, and then assisted Stackhouse, who hit a three-point shot, and the Nets quickly opened up the gap.

The Clippers' "winning streak fatigue" has finally hit, with a big score behind. In the last three minutes, despite the presence of the main players, they seemed to have given up resistance.

"Pap", "Pap", "Pap" balls went through the last second in Gao Dazhuang's hands, and with the referee's whistle, the score was finally fixed at 95:81.

In the entire fourth quarter, the Clippers scored only 9 points.

"Oh" Nets players cheered and poured onto the court, sweeping away the gloom of the last game defeat to the Spurs.

The Clippers fans died down, winning long enough, and finally it was time to lose, and coach Del Nigro and Paul were speechless.

The Clippers are on a 17-game winning streak after setting a string of records. No one thought of it. The Clippers lost on their home turf to the Nets, who were short of soldiers.

On the one hand, the Clippers were too tired, and on the other hand, the Nets showed excellent form on the road and made a very targeted tactical set-up.

The ability to stop the Clippers' 17-game winning streak is first and foremost due to the resurgence of the tall and strong body. He shot 13-of-22 from the field. Not only did he deliver 32 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. What's more important is to finish the defense against Paul brilliantly in the second half.

Paul, who scored 16 points, 4 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 steals in the first half, only scored 22 points, 5 rebounds, 14 assists and 4 steals.

Gao Dazhuang not only had an excellent personal impact in this game, but also led the team to play a tacit team cooperation.

Another contributor to the Nets' victory was Stark House. He relied on his experience and caused Crawford a lot of problems throughout the game.

In fact, the Clippers' super bench has always been considered the key to their strength this season, after "Basket World" expert Kennedy has said that "the Clippers' bench is the key to their success, Crawford has become the best sixth man and the biggest favorite, Barnes has shown the best form of his career, and Bledsoe has become the league's best backup point guard......"

However, in this game, the Nets limited the Clippers' bench very well, and they defended Crawford with all their might, allowing him to score only 4 points, 1 assist and 5 turnovers on 0-of-6 shooting in the half and 2-of-11 in the whole game, and the Clippers' first scoring point was completely controlled.

Immediately after the game, a number of media outlets reported on the game.

"The Nets ended the Clippers' 17-game winning streak with a double-double, tall and strong scored 32 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, Wallace scored 19 points and 14 rebounds, Stackhouse scored 16 points, Brooks scored 10 points, and the Nets finally beat the Clippers 95-81," The Associated Press commented on the game after the game.

ESPN commented: "The Clippers' 17-game winning streak is the longest since the Celtics' 19-game winning streak in 2008, and the Clippers' three-point shooting and free-throw shooting percentages were only 19.2% and 49.8% respectively, both of which were among the worst performances of the season, except for Paul, the Clippers' highest scoring was Griffin, who also had only 16 points, and their 81-point scoring was their second-lowest score of the season."

"We all played a little slower tonight," Griffin said in an interview with reporters after the game, "and we have to play better, and now we don't have time to rest or cry and we can't lose confidence because of that." One of the great things about the NBA is that we have the next game soon."

Paul said after the game that the loss was due to the team's poor hand, "Maybe two or three three-pointers, they put their hands on our faces, but more often than not, we created shots, but we just couldn't shoot" Paul secretly expressed his dissatisfaction with his teammates "There are so many open shots that can't be made, this kind of thing hasn't happened in a while."

"Our pace sank like lead today, we used to run very fast, and that's the last game we want to see, which is that the more we try to play, the more we play the mess," Clippers coach Negro said.

In addition, Clippers coach Nigro gave his opponents a very high evaluation of the opponent Tall and Strong, and the Nets team: "Tall and strong scored some difficult shots, that's what great players do, they got the win, they did a good job of passing, they shot well."

"I just told my teammates on the court that we had to do everything we could, that we stopped some counter-attacks and hit some shots, which wasn't an easy thing to do, and they were a really good team, we stopped them in the right time and hit some great shots," the Nets' core said at a press conference. Being able to beat the team with the best results at the moment is a big boost to the team's confidence and hopefully a longer winning streak like they do."

Nets coach Johnson's statement was exceptionally brief: "Tall and strong is a player with amazing offensive ability, his breakthrough is very good, and he has the ability to shoot the basketball, and we can win because of him." (To be continued......)