Chapter 455: Eat Me with a Punch (3rd Update)

For an NBA team, every night with a different game, a different opponent, will face a different situation.

A team that is good at shooting three-point shots may have a collective failure of three-point shooting on one night, and no matter how much they shoot, they can't shoot.

A team with a strong interior breakthrough may face a team with strong interior defense and can't play well under the basket.

A team that is good at blocking and dismantling may be very good at blocking and dismantling tonight, and the routine that he is good at can't play at all.

These situations happen every game, and they are simply unpredictable before the game, especially the feel.

When it breaks out, how to vote, when you can't shoot accurately, it's really like a plague, even if you don't score, your teammates won't follow.

Therefore, why strong teams are often good defensively, because defense is more stable than offense, and it is not easy to have ups and downs, so that victory is guaranteed.

But even if the defense is strong, there will be nights when you can't defend the opponent, and your own basket becomes a sea, and the opponent throws it no matter what.

In short, players, like fans, face the unknown, the unknown surprise, or the unknown bad luck in every game.

How to deal with these situations, turn surprises into victories, and minimize bad luck is a lifelong problem for every player.

Even if a team has played for 10 or 20 years and has a lot of experience, there will still be a new situation to deal with in the next game.

That's where the challenge of basketball comes in.

For a strong and young team like the Clippers, there are many things they haven't seen before.

Tonight's start was a disaster for the Clippers, who were just down 7-0 at the beginning.

But when Harden misses a breakthrough throw, Randolph misses a low-post shot, and Gasol Jr. misses a high-post jumper, the problem is not so small.

Small problems start to become big problems, and then big problems become a disaster.

Six minutes into the first quarter, the Clippers didn't score, and everyone couldn't shoot no matter how they shot, they just couldn't shoot.

Even if Curry hit the three-second zone after blocking and dismantling, he threw his shot in the face of the basket close at hand, and he won nine out of ten in the past, but the ball still spun around the basket and fell out.

And the Nuggets will not let go of such a good opportunity, using quick counterattacks to storm the Clippers basket, making fouls, breaking, dunking, and three-point counterattacks.

The Nuggets actually hit the Clippers with a 17-1 offensive shockwave in the first quarter, which stunned the Clippers all of a sudden.

The only score for the Clippers came when the referee blew a defensive second for the Nuggets and gave the Clippers a free throw.

Curry hit a free throw, which helped the Clippers break the scoring drought.

This start was really beyond everyone's expectations, and it stands to reason that the Clippers should be in good shape after two days of rest.

How do you know that when you came to the Denver Plateau, you dug a sinkhole for yourself at the beginning and jumped in.

Tyronn Lue called two timeouts, but neither could get the Clippers player's touch back.

Hell, it's just that every team gets this kind of hell once or twice a season.

He can't score no matter how you throw the ball, it's like a ghost hitting the wall, this is called a ghost cover, and the basket is covered, but it won't be put in for you.

It wasn't until the eighth minute of the first quarter that the Clippers scored their first athletic goal.

It's still an interior player like Zach Randolph who grabs a frontcourt rebound and lays a layup when Ricky Davis misses mid-range.

Finally scored, the score came to 18:3, and the Clippers trailed the Nuggets by a full 15 points.

It's only the first quarter, and the Nuggets have built a huge security advantage, and teams like the Nuggets have always had an advantage in playing tailwind.

Chris Paul definitely has something to say about this, how did 58 come about that year?

Isn't it just that the Nuggets were downwind, and they were flattened all the way and scored 58 points.

The Clippers regained a little bit of form at the end of the first quarter.

Randolph and Gasol Jr. scored in succession on the inside.

At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers trailed the Nuggets by 16 points, 12-28.

The 12-point score also set the Clippers' record for the lowest first-quarter score in recent seasons.

Curry scored 1 point in a single quarter, and Harden scored 0 points in a single quarter, this performance, I don't know, I thought the two played football.

Tyronn Lue got angry for the first time during the break and spat at the players.

It's really a tiger who doesn't wield it, but I'm a Hello Kai kicker.

No matter how weak Tyronn Lue is, that's also in the NBA championship team.

And this guy is good not at tactics, but at inspiration and morale.

The Clippers are clearly not having a tactical problem, but the players are out of shape tonight.

It may be related to the plateau away, or it may be simply the average state of everyone.

Anyway, this is only the first quarter, and it's like this, what do you think of General Manager Smart who is watching the game from the sidelines?

What can Min Congda think? Of course, I watched it with a smile!

No, he can't laugh too obviously, but he has to cover his mouth and smile.

Tonight's game, at least in the first quarter, is the coolest game Min Congda watched this season.

In the second quarter, Tyronn Lue Thunder directly put Harden and Curry, who played poorly, on the bench.

If you're not in good shape, just rest, even if you're the star of the team?

Steve Kerr believes that the team should start with the offense, play more passes, and play the form.

But Tyronn Lue believes that the team's defense is wrong, the players are bored to attack, and the defense is messy if they are not in good shape.

You have to defend and sit if you can't attack.

Tyronn Lue still can't break the habits he brought from the Celtics anytime soon.

But his judgment tonight was not wrong, the offense is not good and too far behind, and if you want to chase points, you must strengthen the defense and improve morale. m.

As a result, Tyronn Lue fielded the bench lineup of Milicic, Okafor, Leonard, Butler plus Drakic.

Use the five of them to play the transition at the beginning of the second quarter, and let the starters and main rotations who played poorly all sit on the bench.

Milicic is now completely a blue-collar defensive player and has a ferocious approach that can be described as domineering on the inside.

In terms of physical talent alone, he is no worse than Gasol Jr., and he has also lost weight this season to allow himself to move faster.

What's more, he was tougher than Gasol Jr., who was somewhat pressed down at the beginning of the first quarter by Nene's back-to-back goals.

Milicic doesn't care, Nene you want to score on my head? Eat me a punch!

Milicic's defense is half skill, half savagery, and you are welcome to get started.

As soon as the second quarter came up, a block, a basket protector, and a ferocious foul immediately made the Nuggets attack the basket less than half.

At the same time, the Clippers' long-handed and long-legged lineup on the outside, and the style changed suddenly, which made the Nuggets very uncomfortable.

Okafor is still strong, and his interior defense and basket protection ability are much better than Randolph's.

The Nuggets went from a quick attack in the first quarter to a quagmire with the Clippers in the second quarter.

The smell of gunpowder between the two sides on the court suddenly increased, and the point difference was slowly narrowing, because the Clippers' lineup offense was really too average.

In the second quarter, the Clippers slowly narrowed the difference and reached halfway, and the score came to 22:31.

The margin has narrowed to 9 points, and the Nuggets only scored 3 points in the second quarter!

Although the Clippers only scored 10 points, the game was turning in the Clippers' favor.

Min Congda was only happy for a while, and this group of people came up to block him.

", what the hell is this? So ugly? Just take three points... Throw a three-pointer, a friend of the Nuggets! ”

was annoyed in his heart, Min Congda's mobile phone shook and received a text message.

"Mr. Smart, I'm Paul Foster, when will we talk about the stadium acquisition?"

Seeing this information, Min Congda's mood suddenly improved again.

Some people died, but not completely......