Chapter 202: Set Sail Again

Wang Dacang, who has been cultivated in the Celestial Empire for many years, has always had the wrong understanding that if he has any relationship with a woman, he must be responsible and so on.

It's completely different in the United States, after all, the United States is a free and open country, and both men and women are very open in this regard.

In fact, even in the current Celestial Empire, this concept has been very diluted, and it can only be said that Wang Cannon is too inexperienced and outdated.

Sha Xia didn't ask herself for an explanation, and she didn't even mention this matter much, so it passed hastily.

Wang Cannon, who breathed a sigh of relief, couldn't help but start to regret it again.

Because I don't know exactly what I did at night.

Griffin's gang didn't even have the slightest impression of this, but it was their first time, and they were so inexplicably gone!

"Uh" Wang Cannon thought about it carefully, and then said with some hesitation: "It should be the first time in the United States, maybe, maybe." ”

Let's put this matter aside for the time being, after the Clippers cut 60+20+5+5 like a perverted king cannon, it doesn't mean that they have cleared the customs and won the championship, the Clippers still have a long way to go before they have cleared the customs, and so far, they have only just completed the entire schedule in January.

February, March, and April are still full of fixtures, after all, it's a shortened season, and you can't force anything.

Even if Paul returns, the overall strength of the Clippers has increased by a notch again, and the situation in front of him may not be very clear.

At this time, the West is very, very nervous in terms of competition for playoff spots.

The Spurs are still far ahead, and no matter how many years they take, the Spurs are still the most consistent team in the league, which has a very important relationship with Duncan.

Under the spurs. The Thunder and Lakers are also constantly fighting for the second place, and in addition, the Nuggets, who have had a poor record recently and have fallen to fourth place, are not easy to mess with.

The Clippers, who are currently only in fifth place, have a lot to do.

On the second day of practice, Nigro had already set his goals for the Clippers in February.

"Catch up with the Nuggets! Move up to fourth, or even third! ”

When Negro said this. Appearing confident, the strong rise of Wang Cannon and the return of Paul will certainly make the Clippers stronger and stronger, and he is confident that he will lead the Clippers to a more satisfying position.

In the playoffs, there has always been a lot of emphasis on home second-game qualifying, and the team with the highest record has an absolute advantage in this regard, but Nigro values it very much.

With such outstanding players as Wang Cannon, Paul, and Jordan Jr., no matter how small Nigro's ambitions are. It's not just a regular season.

For the Clippers right now, the playoffs are where they can really play to their strength.

If you want to play well in the playoffs, then the final ranking of the regular season is quite important.

Negro also knows that the current Clippers have missed the best period of the regular season to compete for rankings at the beginning of the regular season because of the previous turmoil, and what the current Clippers can do is to play the next games well and slowly catch up with the top teams.

Paul's return did bring considerable firepower to the Clippers. Especially after Wang Cannon proved to the whole world how terrifying his firepower is, Paul's effectiveness in connecting the team even better. Because no team can ignore being able to score 50+ in two consecutive games. And in less than half a season, he got 3 50+ players.

Once Wang Cannon encounters the attention of the opponent's defense in the game, it must be a two-man bag.

In this way, players in other positions of the Clippers have good opportunities, and Griffin, Matthews and even Jordan Jr. are quite good offensively when they receive the right passes.

The Clippers' three games that began in February were on the 2nd against the Jazz. On the 3rd, he played at home against the Nuggets and on the 5th away against the Wizards.

In these three games, Wang Cannon's score was not as high as he imagined, and the average was only about 28 points per game, but in the case of Wang Cannon's being targeted and trapped. The rest of the Clippers' players have been given good opportunities to play.

In all three games, Paul averaged more than 14 assists per game, while Griffin averaged more than 25 points per game, and even Matthews and Jordan Jr., who didn't have many offensive shots, averaged more than 15 points per game.

The excellent performance of the whole team also allowed the Clippers to win these three games very smoothly.

Coupled with the previous two 50+20 super play victories won by Wang Cannon, the Clippers won 5 consecutive victories again.

At this time, the major media's comments on the Clippers have all become praised.

"The Clippers are tough to play against right now, really, really hard to deal with. Don't look at most of their tactics on the court are based on ordinary blocking tactics, but in certain situations, this ordinary tactics seem extremely troublesome! ”

"For no other reason! Only with the three iron triangles of King Cannon Paul Griffin! Now Wang Cannon, has successfully grown into the most offensive player in the entire league, he is on the court, it represents a kind of deterrence, other teams in order to limit Wang Cannon, must pay a considerable price, and this price may not be able to completely limit Wang Cannon, which can be seen from Wang Cannon's last three games can still average 28 points and 15 rebounds per game and the shooting rate is as high as 57%. ”

"In addition to the king cannon, Paul and Griffin's expressions are also remarkable. Let's talk about Paul first, the name of the league's No. 1 point guard is really not boasting about him, Paul does have the strength to play this title now, especially in the era of the lack of point guards in the real sense, Paul can insist on playing the role of offensive organizer, not offensive finisher, it is really commendable, and the Clippers will not have Paul's passing, the whole grade will drop a lot. ”

"Finally, compare Wang Cannon and Paul. Although Griffin's appearance is much darker, it is impossible for anyone to ignore the league's emerging super power forward, Griffin's interior offense is quite aggressive, and from this point of view, he is much better than Wang Cannon, who can only shoot inside and break through the offensive basket, if he can improve his free throw shooting percentage a little. Then his score will be a little higher. ”

"All in all, the current state of the Clippers once again confirms the importance of the Big Three model, with the Celtics in the past, the Heat in the front, and the Clippers in the back, all three teams have proven the benefits of having the Big Three as the team's theme and core to set up the strategy."

The praise of the media is not groundless, nor is it simply touting and creating momentum. Because the Clippers quickly continued to prove the truth of the Clippers with continuous victories.

On February 7, the Clippers played away against the Magic, the Magic is also a strong team in the East, Howard led a shooter to play a big and four small tactics, and when the shooters collectively went crazy to shoot three points, it was also quite terrifying.

But they were unlucky enough to meet the Clippers.

Let's not talk about letting Wang Cannon go out in person, just a little Jordan made Howard feel quite uncomfortable.

I have to say. Although Howard is a bull, the offensive means he has developed over the years are quite lacking. It's more about relying on the physical element zhì to force the dunk and grab the offensive rebound of the secondary offense.

Although Jordan Jr.'s offense is very poor and his free throws are bad, he can still get a little bit of a hand in defense, and although he is not Howard's opponent in terms of strength, he is capable of fighting a little.

Howard, who doesn't have much inside offense, basically wrestles with Jordan Jr. most of the time on the inside.

And his other stunt, grabbing offensive rebounds and playing a second offense. It also becomes dispensable under Wang Cannon's almost perverted rebounding protection ability.

Although Howard is under the basket a lot of the time, and Wang Cannon needs to pull to the outside line all the time in order to defend the shooter, but when the basketball is thrown out, Wang Cannon rushes back to the inside, Howard, who is entangled by Jordan Jr. all the time, can only helplessly watch Wang Cannon grab the rebound first.

Howard, who is constrained at every turn, can only put his hopes on his team's perimeter shooter group. It's a pity that these sub-shooters didn't fight today, so the magic only resisted a little bit and surrendered.

Winning against the Magic is not a big deal, but what makes Wang Dacang happy is that his score in this game finally broke through 30 again.

39 points, 1 point difference is 40 points! Since Wang Cannon broke out and cut 50+ in a row, although his hit rate has not decreased much, he has obviously decreased a lot in shooting, and his score has not exceeded 30 points in three consecutive games, which makes him somewhat depressed.

Although Kobe Bryant and Durant and others are still slightly inferior to themselves in terms of scoring, after all, the gap is not far away, what if their scores gradually drop and are surpassed by them?

Fortunately, in this game, Wang Cannon scored 39 points again, and while breathing a sigh of relief, Wang Cannon was also proud again, it seems that the league really has no one who can completely contain his offense now!

On February 9, the Clippers played away against the Cavaliers, facing the bottom team in the league, the Clippers did not have any mercy, and played a score of 125:100 like chopping melons and vegetables, and ended the game with a huge advantage of 25 points, and in this game, Wang Cannon scored 35 points again, and shot 6 of 6 three-pointers, with a total shooting rate of 73 percent, and the efficiency was terrifying.

After that, the 76ers on the 11th and the Bobcats on the 12th, the Clippers won the game very easily and without any suspense.

In this way, the Clippers ushered in a wave of ten consecutive wins.

Despite this, the Clippers still failed to achieve the goal of surpassing the Nuggets, although the Nuggets did not have a good time during this time, winning six of the same ten games, and the winning rate was just over half, but because of the previous advantage, it is still ranked fourth in the West.

However, because the Clippers' record is too inexplicable, the gap between the two teams is also narrowing dramatically, especially after the Clippers won ten consecutive wins and the Nuggets just suffered two consecutive losses, the gap between the two teams is dispensable.

One game is just a game gap, the Clippers have to win another game, and the Nuggets lose one game at the same time, the records of the two teams will be equal, and because of the win-loss relationship between the two teams, the Clippers will also complete the surpassing of the Nuggets and officially become the fourth in the West.

It's a great idea, but it's not so easy to get it done.

On Feb. 14, the Clippers were blocked by the Mavericks on the road, and Nowitzki made a big show in the matchup with Wang Cannon, scoring 34 points and leading the Mavericks to win the game in overtime.

Although Wang Cannon also scored 32 points, but in this game, under the Mavericks' quite targeted defense, the shooting rate was not as high as before, and the 42 percent shooting rate Although no one would say anything like Wang Cannon's power, but after all, this shooting rate could not help the Clippers win this game.

The Clippers' ten-game winning streak came to an abrupt end, but no one cared about the ten-game winning streak, they were more concerned about the score difference between the Clippers and Nuggets.

What is relieved is that although the Clippers lost, the corresponding Nuggets also lost, not only that, but the Nuggets who lost this game have been kneeling three times in a row, not only the overall momentum of the team is extremely poor, but the team's tactical play has gradually been labeled as suspicious.

In this case, it is simply impossible for the Clippers not to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

On the 16th, the Clippers hosted the Wizards, and although the king cannon did not explode in this game, Griffin broke out a little, and his score of 48 points set a new personal single-game scoring record in Griffin's career.

Griffin's outburst can be understood by many people, the All-Star voting has stopped, and to Griffin's fans' dismay, Griffin, who was likely to be elected as an All-Star starter this year, unfortunately lost.

What's even more depressing is that the reason why Griffin was not selected as an All-Star starter was mainly because he lost to his team's player Wang Dacang.

Wang Cannon, who was originally an Eastern player, squeezed Durant into the power forward position after running to the West, not only that, but Wang Cannon, who was not as good as Howard, the host this year, suddenly made a force later, surpassed Howard in one fell swoop, and began to shake the lead.

In the end, Wang was elected as an All-Star for 12 years, while Howard, the host, could only be relegated to second place.

Even Durant was squeezed into the power forward position by Wang Cannon, although Griffin was very unhappy, he could only reluctantly accept this arrangement, who made himself inferior to Durant, let alone Wang Cannon?

Fortunately, although he can't start as an All-Star, at least being selected as an All-Star is not a big problem, after all, Griffin's popularity at the power forward position is already the hottest in the league. Whether it is Garnett or Duncan, or Lefou, who has also been very popular in the past two years, cannot be compared to Griffin. (To be continued......)