Three hundred and nineteen chapters of sweeping are just around the corner
With Gu Fei shooting a three-point whistle in the half, the Los Angeles Clippers at home took a 17-point lead, such a point difference added a lot of pressure to the Nuggets, the atmosphere in the visiting team's locker room at halftime was extremely depressing, and the home team's Clippers' locker room looked very relaxed, but their relaxation was not used to celebrate their big lead but to relax themselves, and strive to continue to face the game with 100% spirit in the second half.
After the start of the second half of the game, the Nuggets still found that there was still no way to curb the Clippers' offensive, and Gu Fei frequently used his breakthroughs and fake shots to send assists to his teammates after the start of the second half, when the Nuggets' defensive center of gravity began to bias to cut off the passing route between Gu Fei and his teammates, Gu Fei turned on his personal offensive mode again, and scored eight points in a row to expand the Clippers' lead from 15 points to 20 points. Even if Anthony started to recover in the second half, even if Billups had the same hot touch as he did in the first half, he couldn't recover from the fact that the team was behind by 20 points, and the Clippers had a 26-point lead over the Nuggets by the end of the third quarter.
"It's a naked massacre that will shatter the illusions of Denver people, Black Eight? The Denver people themselves slapped themselves in the face. Barkley said at the end of the third quarter.
"That's true, the Nuggets players obviously didn't think of the current situation, now what they have to do is to keep their mentality, don't be too anxious, work hard for a few more minutes in this game, if you still can't get the score close to 20 points, it is better to give up this game completely, and use the rest of the time to exercise and train the bench, the gap between the bench lineups between the two sides in this game is obvious." Jeff Van Gundy has a suggestion for the Nuggets.
George Carr's disappointed expression was palpable, but he decided to fight again for the full twelve minutes of the fourth quarter, and the five main players were all on the floor at the beginning of the fourth quarter, while the Clippers were all bench lineups, and when Anthony and Billups combined to chase six points, Gu Fei returned to the court.
As soon as he got on the court, Gu Fei directly threw an unreasonable three-point shot on the top of Deng Tai-Jones's head, and then switched offense and defense, Gu Fei once again successfully predicted and directly stole the Nuggets' horizontal pass to complete the fast-break dunk, stretching the difference to twenty-five points.
Then Anthony's shot brushed out of the frame, and the Clippers quickly turned defense into offense, Gu Fei, Andre Miller and Artest played a perfect match, and finally Artest, who had slipped the bottom line, made an easy layup, and the game completely entered garbage time.
The entire Staples Center was filled with happy smiles, and all the pre-game saliva vanished at this moment.
At 112:85, the Los Angeles Clippers shocked the league with a 27-point victory.
Gu Fei contributed 32 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds to the Clippers, and also added a little leverage to his own regular season MVP, although the media's support for Gu Fei to win the MVP is far behind LeBron James and Kobe Bryant.
The big win in Game 1 will undoubtedly be a big morale boost for the whole team, especially for this relatively young Clippers team.
'We just tried to do the best we could, we showed that we can do it, and it wasn't a win for me alone, it's everyone's hard work that got to where we are. This is what Gu Fei said in an interview after the game.
After the game between the Clippers and the Nuggets, another playoff game in the West was played between the Clippers' fellow brothers Los Angeles Lakers and the New Orleans Hornets, and after two and a half hours of play, the Lakers at home beat the Hornets 113-100 to get off to a good start to the playoffs, and Bryant scored a team-high 28 points and 8 assists.
At the same time, two games were played in the East, one against the defending champions Celtics, the second-place champion in the East, against the young Chicago Bulls, and one against the Orlando Magic against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Green Shirts without the "Wolf King" Kevin Garnett were attacked by the Bulls led by the champion Derrick Rose at the TD North Shore Garden in Boston, and the game was extremely intense, Pierce missed one of two free throws in the final minute to win in regulation time, and in the final minute of overtime, Ray Allen missed a three-point shot, and the Bulls won 113-110, while Derrick Rose's career playoff debut made history with 36 points and 11 assists.
The other game was also up and down, the Philadelphia 76ers, who were 18 points behind, staged a big comeback, and chased the points frantically in the fourth quarter, and the star Iguodala scored the winning goal when there were 2.8 left, and finally the 76ers won 100-98 away against Orlando.
Two days later, Staples Arena continued to welcome the challenge of the Denver Nuggets, and the Nuggets, who were striving for victory, started with high morale, and the Nuggets once had a solid upper hand with morale, and after Billups shook off Andre Miller's jumper, the first quarter ended with the Nuggets leading by six points.
The second team of the Clippers who was pressed and beaten in the first quarter also seemed to be out of shape, so that Mike Dunleavy replaced Gu Fei in advance, and his teammates had no form Gu Fei could only choose to come by himself, and when there were 8 points and 28 points in the second quarter, Gu Fei faced Anthony's defense and hit a direct stop-and-go jump shot, and then successfully broke through Duntai Jones's defensive layup, and then gave Anthony a hot block with a subsequent attack, Gu Fei, who grabbed the defensive rebound, used his speed to tear apart the Nuggets' hastily woven defense, and then flew to dunk successfully, scoring 6 points in a row to turn the situation of falling behind by ten points into four points.
Although the Nuggets strengthened their marking, and even adopted double or even multi-person packing, Gu Fei, who entered the state, had no one to block fouls, three-pointers, breakthroughs, and shots as if he was showing his personal offensive means, Gu Fei single-handedly helped the Clippers change the situation of falling behind in the score, when the Clippers who were fighting at home at the end of the first half, they led the Nuggets by 4 points, and Gu Fei scored a terrifying 24 points in the second quarter, only missing one shot.
Gu Fei's madness in the second quarter was like a wake-up technique, and the Clippers began to fully recover in the second half, although the Nuggets fought back and scored frequently under the leadership of Billups and Anthony, but the Clippers hit four consecutive three-pointers from the outside to control the momentum of the Nuggets' counterattack.
However, at the end of the third quarter, after Gu Fei went off the court, the situation on the court changed again, and Duntai Jones, who was responsible for defense, scored 3 empty three-pointers in a row to close the score of the Nuggets' backwardness, but the Nuggets' counterattack was not long, and Gu Fei, who returned to the court after Mike Dunleavy requested a timeout, turned on his personal offensive mode again, first ran to receive a pass from Chalmers and hit a three-point shot, and then cut the basket and scored a dunk in the air, and when the third quarter ended, the Nuggets trailed the Clippers by a full ten.
In the first three quarters, Gu Fei, who frequently turned on his personal offensive mode, encountered a physical crisis, and at this time, the functional recovery potion of physical fitness was fully reflected, just like in the regular season, when Gu Fei rested on the bench for five minutes, he was replaced by Mike Dunleavy on the court, Gu Fei, who had recovered his physical strength, once again became a BUG-like existence, and when there was one minute left in the game, Gu Fei retreated to the three-point line and jumped out of the three-point line, and Deng Tai Jones's defense failed again, With this goal, the Clippers stretched the margin to 10 points, and with one minute left in the game, the 10 points difference ensured the victory for the Clippers.
110:103, a four-point win allowed the Clippers to successfully defend two home courts, leading 2-0.
In the history of the NBA, in the best-of-seven series, the team that fell behind 0-2 won the series only 14 times, and the other 226 times ended in defeat, indicating that the probability of a reversal after falling behind 0-2 is only a pitiful 5.83, although the data is only a reference, it undoubtedly shows how difficult the Nuggets' road to the first round of the playoffs is.
"The Nuggets Holiday Is About to Begin" -- that's the headline of the Los Angeles Times' sports section.
"Game 3 is only a win" -- that's the headline of the Denver Post, and it's true that if the Nuggets can't win the Clippers at Pepsi Center at home Game 3, they will face a 0-3 situation, and then it would be a miracle to turn the tables around, so Game 3 became a top priority.
On April 24, 2009, the Nuggets welcomed the Los Angeles Clippers at the Pepsi Center at home, and with the help of more than 20,000 fans, the Nuggets burst out with great combat effectiveness, and Tyson Chandler was blown up by Tyson Chandler in just five minutes of the first quarter, and Chandler had to go off the court with two fouls in just five minutes of the first quarter, and Noah, who replaced Tyson Chandler, performed very badly today, when the Nuggets led by as many as 12 points at home at the end of the first quarter, Such a lead and the momentum shown by the whole team made the fans very satisfied.
However, there are always people who will not satisfy the people of Denver, Gu Fei, who played the first quarter, continued to play in the second quarter, and once again turned on the personal mode, three unreasonable three-pointers in a row narrowed the difference at once, and Gu Fei's three points were like opening a magic box for the Clippers, and the Clippers completely threw away the bad feeling in the first quarter.
Gu Fei willingly became the team's offensive transporter, and the Clippers took a two-point lead after the end of the first half, while Gu Fei handed out eight assists.
In the second half, the Clippers continued to move forward with interest, and the Nuggets, despite trying as hard as they could, dominated the interior, but still could not stop the Clippers' ferocious firepower, and when the third quarter ended, the Clippers extended their lead by ten points.
In the final moments of the fourth quarter, many fans at Pepsi Center had already left, and they couldn't believe their eyes, and the wonderful start of the 12-point game was not a victory but a glaring defeat.
"Gu, it's Gu again, breaking through with the ball, and Deng Tai-Jones's defense looks a little embarrassed in front of Gu's breakthrough." With the voice of the commentator, Gu Fei successfully broke into the inside, attracted the bag and sent a pass, helped Mike Roberts complete the dunk, and also got 14 personal assists to set a personal playoff record, and the Clippers also sealed the win.
3:0, the Nuggets are already out of most of their bodies, and the sweep is just around the corner. (To be continued.) )