Dunleavy didn't let Ricky Davis start the game, of course, but to make good on his promise.

Dunleavy and Ricky Davis have previously said they will increase his playing time, provided that Ricky Davis has to improve his defense.

For the next two weeks, every afternoon at the end of the team's practice, Ricky Davis would stay in the arena to practice the basics of defense.

Those defensive skills that have been trained since high school, side sliding steps, back sliding steps, cross steps, forward defense, basic stance stance, foot stance, leg stance, torso stance, hand stance, chest position, ......

The 31-year-old Ricky Davis actually practiced from scratch one by one, pulling the team's defensive coach to practice for more than an hour.

Dunleavy thought that this guy was on a whim, and he insisted on it for three or five days.

At this age, a guard who once averaged 20 points per game in the league has a salary of millions a year, where can he still have the heart to settle down and engage in defense.

Isn't it too late to start working as a blue-collar worker?

However, Ricky Davis persisted, and until this afternoon's warm-up session before the start of the game, he continued to focus on defensive pace and fixed-point threes.

In the past, he was good at breaking through with the ball, making a pull-up jump shot, and he didn't care about these things.

Concentrate on defense that he didn't want to do before, shoot three-pointers, and crouch in the corner.

His persistence was met with Dunleavy's approval, who placed him in the starting line-up before the game began.

Sure enough, as soon as the game began, Ricky Davis had an eye-catching performance.

One transfer ball, one steal, and the ball went to Barang Davis on the counter-attack.

Barang didn't pick up the pace, and he observed that the team didn't have a good chance to counterattack quickly.

Still in position, Randolph stuck Loaf in the low post to ask for the ball.

Baran passes the ball to Randolph, who is in a deep position.

After receiving the ball, he turned around and lightly picked up the basket, and the two points were in hand.

Lefu raised his hands high, and the ball didn't interfere at all.

Don't look at Lefu playing power forward, report a height of 207.

In fact, he is just over 2 meters tall, around 201 or 202.

Randolph is a man with a neck height of 206 and an arm span of 213.

One-on-one hard resistance, it is impossible for Lefu to defend against Randolph.

The Clippers started the game with a 4-0 lead, which didn't bode well.

Min Congda sat on a chair, eating popcorn, thinking don't worry, let's take a look.

The Timberwolves soon scored as well, and Love responded in the high post and stuffed the ball straight to the basket.

Corey Brewer received the ball to dodge Carman's defense and made a layup.

"It's good, it's very good, this getaway from Corey Brewer is beautiful. Thorton is still an old problem, he can't keep up, it's too slow. ”

Corey Brewer is lanky, fast, agile and good at cutting through positions.

Gradually, both sides opened up the situation.

The Clippers are the same, with Randolph and Carman opening the way in the low post.

Baron Davis organized the whole team to attack and had a chance to make a shot of his own.

There's no chance to start from a low position.

Unlike the Clippers' double low post, the Timberwolves played high and low, and Jefferson attacked in the low post.

Lefu mainly responds in a high position and waits for an opportunity to fire from the outside.

Brewer's baseline is repeatedly interspersed with running positions, forming the Timberwolves' regular offensive form.

In the first quarter, both sides played back and forth, and the Clippers' double interior felt good.

Randolph and Carman scored six and eight points, respectively.

Surprisingly Ricky Davis' performance.

He didn't even attack with the ball in the first quarter.

When the ball arrives in his hand, it comes out immediately and never sticks to the ball.

The main task on the offensive end is to crouch in the bottom corner to attract the defense.

On the defensive end, it's an unusually aggressive run and defense.

After the official timeout ended, Dunleavy also specifically instructed Ricky Davis to keep an eye on Corey Brewer.

Thorton's guy is too big to keep up, and it would be better to let Ricky keep an eye on it.

So, Ricky Davis began to mark Brewer with kraft candy.

It made Brewer very uncomfortable, and the air cut was not fruitful.

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers led the Timberwolves by three points at 31-28.

Min Congda felt that the rhythm of this game was not right, and thought: "It's okay, it's okay, the Clippers' starting strength is originally stronger than the Timberwolves." The bench is the key, and when Curry leads the team, the Clippers will collapse, as has been the case in previous games. ”

Curry hasn't been playing well lately, not because he's playing blindly, it's because he can't find the rhythm of the game.

Curry replaced Baron Davis at the end of the first quarter, and the beard didn't have a problem, and the two exchanged punches.

Then Curry played the last three minutes of the first quarter smoothly and didn't show anything.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Curry took the bench and the Timberwolves came off the bench.

The Timberwolves' point guard is Sessions, a very aggressive small guard.

As soon as he came up, he held the ball and forced Curry to hit the basket, but was blocked by Camby and dropped the layup.

The Clippers players were in good shape tonight, and it obviously had something to do with a good night's sleep.

Curry grabbed the ball and ate a quick push to counterattack, and he called for a pick-and-roll from Camby in the high post.

A Qin king circumvented Sessions' close guard around the post and went to the basket in the middle to face Timberwolves center Nathan Jewai.

Curry makes a high throw! And then knocked down by Jewai!

The referee blew the whistle and blew for a defensive foul on Jewai.

The ball is scored, and the penalty must be added!

"Damn. What is this big black guy doing, if you can't prevent it, don't hit someone. This stupid person, the other party throws high, even if you raise your hand and jump on the spot to interfere, why are you bumping into people? ”

Min Congda was unhappy for a while, and the bad feeling became more and more intense.

Looks like Curry should be in good shape tonight.

The Clippers hit a shot and added a free throw, and the Clippers opened up a little bit of a difference.

Then the Timberwolves hit a mid-range jumper, and the Clippers quickly counterattacked.

Curry received the ball and went straight to the Timberwolves' three-second zone, but he didn't have a chance to come out in a circle.

At the bottom corner of the zero degree angle suddenly shot from a medium distance, and hit again!

Curry scored 5 points in a row, this kid was not organized, and he started to attack directly in the second quarter!

It's because he's used to the rhythm of the game.

"Hey, Curry, the bunny cub, is attacking when he's best at playing the second team. This guy is really cunning, you don't attack when the main force of the people is there, pretend to be a grandson. The main force is down, there is no tiger in the mountains, you monkey is called the king, and begins to shoot all kinds of shots. I look down on you know, Stephen? ”

Regardless of what Min Congda thinks, Curry seized the opportunity of the second team's poor defense and scored consecutive points.

By the time the main players of both sides reappeared, the Clippers had a 7-point lead over the Timberwolves at 50:43.

Curry scored 10 points in five minutes.

"This chicken thief, go down! Well? Lao Deng still won't let you go down? ”

"Okay, it's up to you to continue to play on the court."

Dunleavy didn't replace Curry, but went up to Baron Davis and played a two-guard with Curry.

After the Timberwolves re-replaced the main force, Love held the ball and rushed to the basket, made a foul, and hit both free throws.

At 50:45, the Timberwolves pressed slightly closer to the score.

Then the Timberwolves players just returned to defense, and they haven't settled into a good position yet.

Baron Davis made a long pass to the frontcourt, and Curry received the ball in the middle.

Pause, turn, feint, lightly past Flynn!

Rushing to the basket, another high-arc throw!

The ball bounces off the rebound and into the basket and hits again!

Curry scored 12 points in the first quarter.

"It's not good, it's not good."

(End of chapter)