The Nuggets, who had just started the game, did not realize the seriousness of the problem, but as the game continued, the Nuggets began to realize that whether it was a fast break or a positional battle, the Clippers made more exaggerated shots outside the three-point line, almost the same as the number of shots inside the three-point line.

What's worse is that in the case of a large number of three-point shots, the Clippers' three-point shooting rate is still terrible, and they can shoot three-pointers at five positions on the court and the shooting rate is not low.

Throughout the first quarter of the game, the Clippers made 14 three-pointers and hit 6 of them, with a shooting rate of 42.8%, and the three-pointers alone scored as many as 18 points!

Coupled with other non-three-point shots, the Clippers scored 32 points in a single quarter, but on the Nuggets' side, the offense was not as smooth as imagined.

Under the magic ball tactics, the Clippers' defense is not weak, with Lopez protecting the basket on the inside, Wang Chao and Brogdon on the outside to ensure the basic defensive handicap, even if the Clippers are not as good as the Nuggets in defensive ability, they are not much worse.

The result was the first quarter of the game, with the score of the two teams at 32:24, and the Clippers led by eight points at home.

And the Nuggets, who were expecting the Clippers to feel better from the outside in the second quarter of the game, suffered a more severe beating in the second quarter. Williams and Harrell are on the scene.

Two bench gangsters came on the bench for Brogdon and López.

As a result, the Clippers' lineup has become a center-less Warriors-like Death Five.

However, unlike the Warriors, the tallest player in the five small is Green at 2.01 meters.

The top of the center position of the Clippers is Wang Chao, who is 2.06 meters, and there is also a Gallinari who is two centimeters taller than Wang Chao at the power forward position.

As for the small forward and scoring guard positions, Harris and Harrell are both 2.03 meters tall and have certain rebounding ability.

The entire small-ball lineup of the Clippers team, only Luis . Williams is less than 2 meters tall, only 1.85 meters, and the average height of the five reaches 2.01 meters, which is not strictly a small ball lineup.

Wang Chao swayed from point guard to center position, and he couldn't straighten it out for the Nuggets.

Although he knew Wang Chao's ability to play from the No. 1 position to the No. 5 position, Wang Chao during the Nuggets period still focused on the forward position most of the time, leaving the center position to Gobert.

When he really matched Wang Chao on the inside, Gobert found that Wang Chao's inside line was so strong, obviously only 2.06 meters tall, much shorter than 2.16 meters, but Wang Chao's judgment of the rebounding point, the timing and angle of the card position, and even the explosiveness of directly fighting for rebounds are almost perfect.

Gobert, who had just played against Lopez and managed to gain the upper hand in rebounding, couldn't help but feel a strong sense of contrast.

In terms of rebounding ability, Gobert feels that he is completely at a disadvantage against Wang Chao just like Lopez faced him before.

The best proof is that within two minutes of the game, Wang Chao grabbed an offensive rebound in the Nuggets' backcourt, and caused Gobert to foul two free throws in the second offense.

When they saw the Clippers fielding such a lineup, the Nuggets naturally wanted to try to take advantage of the height advantage of the interior to attack.

But the reason why Wang Chao dared to send such a lineup was definitely not afraid of being targeted on the inside.

In addition to eating cake under the basket after blocking and scoring on the second offense, what other offensive ability does Gobert have? Who do the Nuggets count on to shore up the interior offense?

Mitchell made two attempts to hoist the ball to Gobert on the inside, but both failed, adding to the Nuggets' already poor offensive efficiency.

On the other hand, on the Clippers' side, after the debut, Louis. Williams' desire to break through with the ball is extremely strong, especially when Wang Chao pulls out from the inside to block him.

Wang Chao's outside offensive firepower made Gobert have to follow out, but with his footsteps, he wanted to make up for Louis after Wang Chao blocked and separated Mitchell. Williams is simply impossible.

In the future, even if Gobert, who has been elected the best defensive player three times, is known to be the weakest is the ability to defend the small, after all, his pace is too slow, and he can't keep up with the small guard who moves flexibly, if he is better under the basket, if he starts defending from the outside, the opponent may be able to easily pass him in one step.

That's what Goebel is facing.

Lowe is definitely at the top of the pack for small guards, and Gobert can't keep up with him at all.

Throughout the second quarter of the game, the Nuggets were completely caught in a vicious circle of being unable to defend and attack.

At halftime, the difference between the two teams widened to nearly 20 points.

The Clippers scored 40 points in the second quarter, but the Nuggets scored just 29 points.

The Freshman Clippers' gorgeous offense has excited the home fans, and the Nuggets were one of the strongest defensive teams in the league last season.

But such a team, when facing the Clippers, the defense was torn apart, and the Clippers scored 72 points in the first half alone, and the offense was jaw-dropping.

Is this the magic of Wang Chao?

Although it was only halftime, the game was lost in suspense to the Clippers' home fans.

And that's exactly what happened.

In the absence of Wang Chao, the Nuggets relied entirely on Mitchell and Murray to score explosively, and although they also had a good scoring ability on the bench, it was still difficult to chase a score difference of nearly 20 points in a short period of time.

In the third quarter of the game, the offense and defense of the two teams tended to be stable, with 27 points in the account, but the point difference did not shorten in the slightest.

At the end of the game, the Clippers scored 130 points in a single game, beating the Nuggets by 22 points at 130:108 and winning the first win in the opening game of the regular season.

Although the opponent was the Clippers, who had strong defensive capabilities, the Clippers still played the magic ball offensive routine that Wang Chao wanted, shooting 21 of 48 three-pointers in the whole game, with a shooting rate of an astonishing 43.7%!

The Clippers have seven players scoring double-doubles, the highest score is Wang Chao, who has a standard triple-double of 27 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists, and the rest such as Harris, Gallinari, Lopez, Lowe, Harrell, and even Brogdon also scored double-doubles, and the offensive end can be described as more blossoming.

And although the Clippers' shots outside the three-point line are frighteningly high, the offense inside the three-point line is also not bad, Wang Chao's interior offense and fast-break counterattack, Lu Wei's ball-handling breakthrough and Harrell's air-cut attack frame are the main sources of scoring.

Just this game can be seen that the Clippers' offense in the new season is definitely quite gorgeous.

And this hearty victory also calmed down the originally slightly apprehensive mood of Clippers fans.

Although they got Wang Chao, the strongest player in the league and even in the entire basketball history, with only Wang Chao as an All-Star player, no one can guarantee the true combat effectiveness of the Clippers.

Yes, players like Harris, Gallinari and Lowe did average 20+ points per game last season, but that was the level they played despite the team's poor overall record.

When facing one of the best teams in the league, these players who have not proven their true strength against strong teams will definitely still be questioned about their personal ability.

In fact like Tobias. Harris, despite a consistent 20+ scoring performance in the regular season, didn't really prove himself until his contract with the 76ers became recognized as garbage, didn't make an All-Star or All-Star team once, and had a mediocre playoff performance.

Harris is still the same, not to mention Gallinari and Lowe, both players who have no stats but haven't really proven themselves in the game.

But this season, the opportunity is finally coming!

As long as he can play a representative season with Wang Chao, or even win the championship in the playoffs, the evaluation of all players of the Clippers in the league will rise to a higher level.

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"A hearty victory, the gorgeous style of play of the Clippers in the new season is amazing."

"Sure enough, without Wang Chao's Nuggets, the strength has declined visibly, and it may be difficult for the Nuggets to rank in the top eight in the West and enter the playoffs this season, but the Nuggets' salary space is abundant, and if they can win a top star in the league in the next year or two, there is still a chance to rise again."

After the game, the media reported on this game, mostly praising the performance of the Clippers and lamenting the decline in the strength of the defending champion Nuggets.

The Clippers' first game was undoubtedly very beautiful, and it was definitely off to a good start!

The second game of the Clippers' regular season is still played at home, against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The most important thing the Thunder did this summer was to re-sign Paul with a maximum salary. George, the Thunder's Big Three model has officially failed last season, but even if the Big Three has not succeeded, it is still necessary to keep Paul, the youngest of the Big Three, as much as possible. George.

While successfully keeping George, they sent away Cameron, the most hip-pulling and oldest of the Big Three. Anthony, in exchange for Dennis. Young players such as Schroeder.

But in any case, the Thunder in dual-core mode is even worse than last season.

This was evident in the Thunder's opener.

The opponent of the Thunder's opening game is the Brooklyn Nets, which is also arranged by the league, Westbrook and the former big brother Durant.

This seemingly tense matchup ended in the Thunder's defeat to the Nets.

The gap between the two lineups was too big, and Westbrook didn't have any advantage against Paul, scoring only 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in the game, and he also brushed two rebounds in order to achieve a triple-double.

George's performance was extremely good, with 31 points and 5 assists on 11-of-20 shooting, which was no less than that of Durant, who had 32 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.

But the only thing the Thunder can do at the moment is George.

In fact, the 18-19 season of George is widely regarded as the peak of his career.

Throughout the season, George could contribute 28 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2.2 steals in the regular season, and was selected as the best team and one defense at the same time, and his combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

To be honest, the Thunder's 18-19 season was able to enter the playoffs with the sixth record in the West, George contributed a lot, don't look at Westbrook's third consecutive season this season, 22.9 points, 11.1 rebounds and 10.7 assists per game The data does not look bad, but his actual efficiency is a world away from the previous two seasons.

When Wei Shao averaged a triple-double in his first season, no one ever said that he brushed the data, and in the Thunder, which he led with a single core, Westbrook's high-level statistics were among the top in the league, and he was the biggest contributor to the Thunder's victory.

After Durant's departure, he led such a Thunder team to the playoffs with a 47-win record and ranked sixth in the West, which is extremely rare in NBA history.

But the triple-double average in the 18-19 season was completely different.

With four fewer shots per game than in the '16-17 season, nearly 10 fewer points, just 65 percent free throw shooting, and three points as bad as ever, Westbrook's efficiency in attacking the basket has plummeted.

To put it bluntly, in the 18-19 season, Westbrook can be regarded as a laggard for George, otherwise the Thunder would not have been swept out of the game by the 4:1 gentleman in the first round of the playoffs.

In the face of such a Thunder team, Wang Chao and the Clippers will naturally not have much pressure.

Wang Chao completely crushed Westbrook to death in the point guard position, and even Westbrook couldn't even achieve the most longed-for triple-double data.

Adams had a slight upper hand in the opposite position with Lopez, scoring 16 points and 15 rebounds, including 4 offensive rebounds, but Lopez is not good at rebounding itself, in the face of Adams' aggression on the inside, Lopez chose to use outside projection to fight back, and made 3 three-pointers in the whole game, cutting 18 points and 6 rebounds.

The only dominant position in the Thunder's five positions is Paul. George did not choose to keep an eye on George in person, but handed over the job to Harris.

Although Wang Chao knows very well that the Clippers' outside defense must be responsible for him, this does not mean that Harris, Gallinari and others can do nothing.

In many cases, for NBA players, defensive ability is more reflected in attitude, as long as the defensive attitude is good enough, these players with excellent physical fitness are rarely unable to defend.

Wang Chao hopes that even if the Clippers focus on magic ball tactics, the point-to-point defense cannot be left behind, and every player must go all out as long as he is on the court, whether it is offensive or defensive.

Of course, there are some things that can't be done with hard work, like Harris defending George.

The draft years of the two are close, George is a 10-year rookie, and Harris is 11 years, but compared to George, who has already become famous early, the league mentions Harris, more about his potential and development prospects than about immediate combat power.

Just like last season, the difference between the two statistics is actually not big, George has 22 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Harris has 19 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, and even Harris is slightly better in terms of shooting percentage.

But judging by any fan, George is undoubtedly a far greater choice than Harris.

This was well demonstrated in the competition.

In the direct confrontation, George is very handy with Harris alone, on the other hand, the latter wants to attack under George's defense, but it is difficult to reach the sky, and it is also thanks to the Clippers' core player this season is not Harris but Wang Chao, otherwise this hearty victory is likely to turn into a fiasco.

118:99。

The Clippers beat the Thunder by 19 points at home, ushering in a two-game winning streak at the beginning of the regular season. (End of chapter)