Chapter 183: Victory over the Lakers!
Bryant's shot bypassed Wang's defense and flew towards the basket.
Unfortunately, though, Bryant's shot didn't hit.
This kind of signature trick may be very powerful, but correspondingly, the hit rate will not be particularly high, and the reason why players do not often use it on the field is to praise their character and use it at critical moments to play a key role.
Bryant's shot missed, and the Clippers' counterattack followed.
Although the team does not stop playing fast break, but when some opportunities are good, the fast break of the Clippers will still be used in an instant.
Because the Clippers have Paul, Wang Cannon, and Griffin, three masters who play fast offensive battles.
After Jordan Jr. grabbed the rebound, he immediately handed the ball to Paul, Paul took a cursory glance, and immediately found that the Lakers' defense had a big flaw, so he yelled for a fast break, and then rushed towards the Lakers' half.
The Lakers and Clippers are similar in nature, and they are also a team that focuses on positional battles, and the players on the team are not good at that kind of fast athletic warfare, and the speed of defending fast break is certainly not particularly fast.
Not to mention anything else, Artest, who plays the small forward position, is not even as fast as Griffin when he runs at full strength, let alone Paul and Wang Cannon, who are faster?
In an instant, Paul had dribbled to the Lakers' three-point line, followed by Griffin and Wang Cannon.
On the Lakers' side, the only ones who had time to defend were Artest, who had just played soy sauce on the outside, and point guard Blake.
In the frontcourt, the Clippers occupy the absolute initiative.
Wang stopped at the three-point line, and Griffin continued to follow Paul to the inside.
Artest hesitated for a moment and said to the Blake ward, "You go and guard against the outside shot of the king cannon, I'll come to see Griffin and Paul!" β
Blake also knows that his defensive ability is not comparable to Artest. So he ran to the outside line and stared at Wang Cannon.
In this way, it becomes Artest to defend Griffin and Paul.
Rao is Artest's defensive ability is extremely strong, and in the face of the combination of these two people, it is quite difficult to defend it.
The same is true, and when Paul rushed to the inside for a layup, Artest immediately posted it. But when he pressed close to Paul, he found that Paul no longer had a basketball in his hand.
Looking back, Griffin had already taken to the sky like a big bird.
Can't go up! This was the first thought in Artest's mind, Griffin's strength was no less than his own, and after he was ready to jump, if he forcibly went up to block it without knowing his face, he would definitely ask for trouble.
So Artest leaned to the side and gave Griffin a dunk lane.
Griffin was not polite, and directly grabbed the basketball with both hands and smashed the basketball into the basket.
"Boom!" The loud sound was accompanied by the figure of Griffin falling to the ground.
"Beautiful dunk! Griffin's ball body stretched to the limit. It's really beautiful to take the aesthetics of the human body to the extreme. Even O'Neal, who is biased towards supporting the Lakers, couldn't help but praise after seeing this dunk.
He didn't know that after Griffin landed, he pouted a little dissatisfied.
"Holy! It's all so hard, why is the sound so much quieter than when Wang Cannon dunked? Rubbing his wrist, Griffin felt his wrist hurt from the hoop. I really don't know how Wang Dacang's pervert did it.
The Lakers can rely on Kobe Bryant the most in the game, but many times. The reason why the Lakers were at a disadvantage or lost in the game was also because of Kobe.
Just like now, I know that fighting with Wang Cannon is good for the team, but in order to get out of my heart, Kobe still has to compete with Wang Cannon head-on.
A full-value defense is really not easy to deal with, even a player like Kobe. Under Wang Cannon's defense, the crosshairs will still be greatly damaged, even if there is a chance to score, but the probability is too low.
As if continuing the previous collapse, the Lakers continued to trail the score because of Kobe's arbitrariness.
At halftime, Bryant scored 24 points in the half. It looked like a bull, but his shooting percentage was only a measly 27 percent, and the Lakers trailed the Clippers by a full 21 points at 45:66.
That's a bigger margin than at the end of the first quarter, and it's doubled.
In comparison, Wang Cannon's number is much taller, with 15 points, 8 rebounds, 1 steal and 2 blocks, and a three-point shooting rate of 47 percent. Although the score is not as good as Kobe, no matter who can see who has the upper hand in this competition.
Lakers fans don't know what to say.
The players of both sides entered the locker room to rest, and everyone knew that it would not be easy for the Lakers to desperately catch up with this point difference in the next half of the game.
After the two sides came back in the third quarter, Kobe Bryant had significantly fewer heads-up times, and he also realized that if he continued to play like this, it would be impossible for the Lakers to win this game.
However, he reacted a little late, or rather, he didn't react late, but Wang Cannon and Paul didn't give him a chance to help the team catch up with the score.
As soon as the third quarter came up, Wang Cannon burst a little, first hit two three-pointers in a row from the outside, and then cut inside to receive Paul's pass and dunk, although the basketball dunked away, but it caused Bydam's defensive foul, hitting one of the two free throws.
In less than a minute, Wang Dacang scored 7 points in a row, raising his personal total to 22 points while further pushing the Lakers towards the abyss.
The Lakers, who were almost behind more than 30 points, were scared into a cold sweat, if they were really directly behind more than 30 points in the third quarter, this game basically didn't have to be played much, the Lakers didn't necessarily get 30 points in a single quarter, not to mention the score to catch up with the Clippers?
Slowly and steadily, the Lakers gradually chased the score back a little bit, and when Kobe Bryant followed his teammate's block and shot his own 30th point on the outside, the Lakers finally chased the difference back to 15 points.
This situation made Mike Brown burst into tears, the overall strength of the Lakers is still slightly stronger than the Clippers after all, especially the triangle offense left by Phil Jackson, although there is no Odom and others, but Yu Wei is still there, compared to the various blocking tactics arranged by the Clippers Negro, the offensive firepower is still a lot stronger.
Just thinking like this, McBrown will soon be in tears again, even if he is superior in tactics, but many NBA games depend on the performance of superstars.
Towards the end of the third quarter, Paul also had a burst from the cannon.
Paul first scored an ultra-long-distance three-pointer on the outside, and then forced a layup inside, causing the Lakers to foul the interior defense, and at the same time hit a three-point success, and a 6:0 scoring climax directly widened the score gap between the two teams to more than 20 points.
Mike Brown was completely speechless, the play of superstars is sometimes indeed a bug, the Lakers also have a superstar like Kobe, but Kobe Bryant was limited by Wang Cannon today, although the shooting rate slowly rebounded after playing according to the tactical system in the third quarter, but it was still below 30%.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Lakers gave up the game after just a little resistance, after all, the 20-point difference, it is completely impossible to chase it back with the time of one quarter, unless the opponent enters a goal drought.
It's just that as soon as the game came on the court in the fourth quarter, Wang Cannon once again used a three-pointer to sΓΉ the Lakers team, and a goal drought is impossible.
Four minutes into the game, the Lakers replaced all the main players and replaced the soy sauce substitutes who usually couldn't play.
The Clippers got cheap and bought a good one, and then replaced all the benches.
It's just that what I didn't expect was that the Lakers' benches knew that the team had no hope of turning around, and they were all listless and had no desire to play well, while the Clippers' benches were playing hard, wanting to win the attention of the head coach with some excellent plays, so as to get more playing time.
In this way, on the bench side, the Clippers also pressed the Lakers to play again, and by the time the game was over, the Lakers had trailed the Clippers by a full 35 points at home.
McBrown's face darkened with anger, although 35 points is not the biggest point difference for the Lakers to lose, but it is a very rare defeat in recent years, and what is even worse is that this point difference appeared in the Lakers team after he coached, which is undoubtedly a very heavy blow to his status in the Lakers.
At 120:85, the Lakers lost the game against the Clippers on their home court.
In this game, the highest score in the game belonged to Kobe, who scored 35 points today, and it was under the defense of Wang Cannon, if only the score was seen, this result was enough for Kobe Bryant fans to brag, after all, Wang Cannon was the best defensive player last season.
But Bryant's shooting percentage of only 30 percent and a whopping 6 turnovers told many people that Kobe Bryant lost the game.
In contrast, Wang Cannon's number is much more luxurious, 30 points, 17 rebounds, 4 blocks and 5 steals, Wang Cannon continued to continue his high score, but also limited Kobe's play on the defensive end, and after a game, many Lakers fans were speechless about Wang Dacang.
In addition to Wang, Paul also scored 20 points and dished out 14 assists in this game, and his performance was equally impressive, while the Clippers' other superstar, Griffin, looked a little sluggish against the Lakers' formidable interior configuration. However, 17 points and 8 rebounds are actually a very good result.
In this way, to the surprise of many people, the Lakers lost to their younger brother Clippers on their home court, and it was a very painful 35-point defeat.
Such a result also made many people sigh that Los Angeles is really not only the world of the Lakers. (To be continued......)