The Lakers' second team didn't last long on the court because the offense was just too poor.

Soon, Phil Jackson took advantage of a dead-ball opportunity to replace Powell with Artest and Fisher for Famar.

Artest's arrival is definitely an extremely important addition to the Lakers, he not only fills the defensive void of the No. 3 position after Ariza's departure, but more importantly, his offensive ability is incomparable to Ariza's.

He has the ability and experience to lead the second team on his own.

After Artay came on the court, the Lakers' offense had the backbone, Artest received a pass from Shannon Brown, forced Davis in the low post, and forced a layup after turning over, avoiding Kanbu's block.

The score between the two sides came to 31:39, and the Lakers still led the Clippers by eight points.

The Clippers called a timeout, and Dunleavy replaced Ricky Davis with Gordon.

Ricky Davis didn't look very happy as he came off the bench and played more than three minutes and scored a three-pointer.

The rest of the time was either switchbacking or defending, with few touches and clearly he was marginalized by Dunleavy.

With his style of playing as a ball-holding star, when his personal ability is at its peak, he can be a third-rate star with an average of 20+ per game on a weak team, and a third-rate star or a sixth man on a strong team.

Once their individual abilities begin to decline, without strong offensive ability, they will be abandoned by the team and go to some low-intensity overseas leagues Carry, and there is no tiger monkey in the mountains to be the king.

Davis is in such a decline right now, in fact, he is only 31 years old this year, a year younger than Kobe.

Davis, who was back on the bench, dropped his towel and felt he could play longer, but Dunleavy wouldn't give him a chance.

Gordon came on the pitch and formed a younger backcourt combination with Curry, and the two partners had a more tacit understanding of the summer league run-in, and the Clippers had a more reliable ball-handling point on the outside.

As soon as Gordon came on the court, he received Curry's pass, dribbled under his crotch, rushed straight to the basket, screamed, and scored on the top of Mbenga and the basket!

Fisher was noticeably worse off in front of Gordon, and a single breakthrough was a clean one.

The referee still gave the Lakers face with this ball, and did not blow Mbenga's defensive foul.

Gordon has to complain about it, and Ricky Davis is having a hard time doing that right now.

On the sidelines, Min Congda's head began to hurt again.

"What the hell is this No. 2 bald head guarding against? Every stake on the field is stronger than him, right? Was Gordon so casually sudden? ”

"If I were the general manager of the Lakers, such a player would be cut directly! What's the use of keeping a piece of meat? ”

Subsequently, Artest forced the basket and hit it again, and on the Clippers side, Camby received Curry's pass and dunk under the basket and returned the color.

The two sides played all the way to 36:42, and the Lakers' lead narrowed.

Halfway through the second quarter, the main players of both sides reappeared.

Curry was replaced by Baron Davis, who played five or six minutes on the court with a remarkable performance, with 2 points, 2 assists and 1 turnover.

The stats weren't great, but when he was there, he controlled the team's attack.

And the defensive end did a good so-so, not becoming a super big hole.

It's a pity that after Curry was replaced, Kobe Bryant appeared, and the face-to-face battle between the two seemed to be postponed.

After the main team returned to the court, the Lakers did not immediately seize the initiative on the court as fans thought.

It's the Clippers who have the initiative, because the Lakers have no one on the interior who can handle Randolph.

Randolph is in good shape tonight, since the last time he beat someone and was imprisoned, which caused a storm, he came out of the police station and was silent a lot.

On the sidelines, Randolph's mother sat in the audience watching her son's game, and she came from Marion, Indiana, to visit him after his accident and slapped him directly on the night he came home from the police station.

"You've grown up, you can't mess around anymore, Zach."

His mother only said this one thing to him, and then ignored him, just stayed in Los Angeles with her son until the start of the regular season, during which time Randolph didn't go anywhere, just train, rest, train, rest, and get ready for the new season.

In the face of the Lakers' Odom's defense, Randolph was not afraid at all, and he scored 8 points in the first quarter with consecutive free throws.

Re-entering the second quarter, Randolph first received a pass from Davis on the outside and hit a mid-range jumper.

Then, he grabbed a frontcourt rebound on offense, scoring and causing a defensive foul on Odom.

It is really difficult for a swingman like Odom to defend a pure No. 4 like Randolph, and even a player whose tonnage exceeds that of many No. 5s.

With a free throw, Randolph was unmatched on the inside, and he was in great shape.

In fact, Randolph was able to average 20+ per game last season, and his competitive form is not a problem.

The Clippers wanted to trade him away just because they wanted to pick Griffin to make room for the top pick.

At the same time, they are not optimistic about Randolph's future development, this guy's tumor attribute is indeed a little heavier.

But people will always mature, the so-called thirty and stand, the 28-year-old Randolph wants to mature.

The difficult years as a child made him feel inferior, so after becoming famous and rich, he indulged himself wantonly, using alcohol and misdeeds to vent the bullying he received as a child.

At that time, his family was so poor that his mother was alone with four children, and while receiving relief money from the government, she had to work several jobs to support them.

In order to reduce his mother's burden, Randolph did not hesitate to steal things and sell them for money, but he was arrested and sent to a reformatory for more than a month.

It was an indelible stain on his life.

Luckily, basketball saved him and gave him money and status, but these things made him lost.

Portland, New York, the lights are bright, he has to eat everything he hasn't eaten in his childhood, buy everything he wants to buy that he can't buy, and all the women he can't hope for have to play once, he is happy, he is willing.

He knew that his teammates didn't like him, that he was a poor, hillbilly from rural Indiana, and that he couldn't fit in with the big cities, Portland, New York, and Los Angeles, where people were hypocritical, exaggerated, flashy, and money worshippers.

When he learned that he might be traded, he didn't hold back at all, he wanted to change places, to a small city, to the South, to a place with a lot of blacks, Memphis was a good place to go, and Chris Wallace had been in contact with him.

But because of that man's arrival, everything has changed, plans have changed, Smart Min, an interesting guy.

He's different from a lot of NBA general managers, he doesn't have any frame at all, he's always so happy and uninhibited.

There are too many bitter people in the NBA, those coaches, managers, and assistant coaches, frowning every day and analyzing this and that, exhausting themselves, making everyone very tired.

Smart is different, he is lively, arbitrary, never hesitant to speak, always confident, always unexpected, and he feels happy to hang out with him.

After the nightclub beating incident, Randolph did not expect Smart to be the first to come out to support them, and he had the impression that the management would always be non-stick, and he would issue a condemnation as soon as something happened, leaving him accountable.

On the player's side? Unless it's absolutely in their favor.

Although a few white people said racist things that day, their mouths were not clean.

The situation was reversed later, thanks to the timely arrival of Sloan and his agent, which was supposedly arranged by Smart.

Smart's strong support minimized the cost they took, and Randolph felt that he couldn't go on like this.

It's time to play well, realize your worth and get back to basketball.

"Zach Randolph, received a pass from Davis, pushed Odom away, hooked up! Randolph scored seven points in a row! This guy has a soft touch, which is unbelievable, and Odom can't guard him at all. ”

The commentators at the scene were all amazed by Randolph's delicate technique under his rough appearance, this guy is really Zhang Fei piercing the needle, thick and fine.

Min Congda looked at the scoreboard, the first half was almost over, the Lakers were 47:45, and they only led the Clippers by 2 points!

"What kind of defending champion is this, even our Clippers can't beat it, tease me!"