Pause back.

Neither side made any personnel changes, only strategic changes.

Paul had just broken the rhythm of successive attacks, so he gave the ball to Aldridge.

In the face of Batum's single defense, Aldridge used his low post footwork to force the basket to the basket.

However, as a former teammate, Batum still knows Aldridge well, and this ball was cut by Batum when Aldridge made a layup.

Honk!

The cut failed, and the referee blew the whistle.

However, Batum cut the ball with great force, hitting Aldridge's hand, and directly letting the ball in Aldridge's hand get out of his hand, naturally there is no chance to play 2+1.

Aldridge walks to the free-throw line.

Maybe it was because Batum's thug was too strong just now, which affected Aldridge's hand, and he hit one of two free throws.

Clippers 56:63 Trail Blazers.

Clippers ball possession.

Jokic saw no chance of a fast break and didn't go to Clarkson for the ball.

This time, Jokic didn't have the ball across the halfcourt.

Clarkson easily got through the half with the ball, as the Trail Blazers' strategy now is to target Jokic, and the others don't have a lot of pressing defense.

Jokic walked to the three-point line at this time and reached out to Clarkson for the ball.

As soon as Clarkson gave the ball to Jokic, the Trail Blazers' defensive formation immediately changed.

Lopez Jr. pressed directly on Jokic's body, and if he used this defensive method to defend alone, Jokic could pass it with a direct back turn.

But at this time, Paul also stepped forward to put pressure, as long as Jokic dared to dribble and turn his back, then Paul's cutting kung fu could immediately break the ball.

Jokic wasn't panicking at all.

On the one hand, he is very good at organizing, and on the other hand, Su Chen just gave him an analysis of the defensive style that the Trail Blazers would probably adopt during the timeout.

Su Chen didn't guess, he used [Hawkeye] to look at Terry Stottes' tactical board.

When he scored on the field, Su Chen had already marked Terry Stottes' tactical board early, and Su Chen immediately activated his skills when he was suspended.

The main thing is that Su Chen still has to give Jokic confidence, and at the same time, let Jokic determine his position as the tactical core of the team.

Just like Lillard, it is clear that the tactical strategy is arranged normally with Jokic as the core, but Lillard directly disobeys the command as soon as he comes up.

It's not that Lillard has to challenge Su Chen's authority, Lillard's career is not a prickly player, and even if he later fell out with management, it was because he wanted to compete for the championship.

It's just that Lillard feels that Jokic, a rookie who hasn't proven himself in the NBA, doesn't deserve his trust.

Lillard took this battle with Paul very seriously, and he didn't want to hand over the victory or defeat of this game to a rookie who played in the NBA for the first time, so Lillard and Paul had a big fight.

Jokic originally had a high ball quotient, and Su Chen also told him the tactics arranged by Terry Stoutes in advance, and Jokic at this time instantly sorted out his passing route.

The Trail Blazers' rotational defense has already begun.

Clarkson made an inside cut that looked like it was going to be unblocked, and in fact Afflaro was already moving in that direction.

As soon as he passes to Clarkson, Afflaro will immediately burst out and cut the pass.

Matthews, on the other hand, is in the position between Paul and Morris, ready to rotate the defense at any time.

At this time, Jokic looked at Clarkson's defense and made a passing move.

"A rookie is a rookie."

Terry Stottes smirked on the sidelines.

His defensive arrangement, let alone Jokic is a rookie, even the point guards on the first and second lines can't judge where the real openings are at the first time.

As for non-point guards, there is no way to break down this defense by passing the ball.

And Jokic is also surrounded by Paul, the former steal king, Jokic can only hold the ball high and dare not let it go.

Jokic did exactly that, and while Paul couldn't reach it, he held it up high so that his passing intentions were visible to everyone in the Trail Blazers.

Jokic flicked in Clarkson's direction.

And at this time, Afflaro suddenly rushed from the middle.

But there was a very strange scene at this time, Afflaro should have broken or even stolen the pass, but he now had no ball in his hands.

The same can be said of Clarkson, who is still making an inside run and has no ball in his hands.

What about balls?

Even the camera was deceived at this time.

The camera shot showed air for two seconds before finding out where the ball was, and it turned out that it was in Paul George's hand.

It turned out that Jokic looked at Clarkson just now and also made a move to cut the ball to Clarkson, but it actually passed to George on the wing.

It's quite a difficult pass.

A pass that doesn't look at people, plus a pass with a shake of the wrist.

Both of these are casually difficult.

It was also George who listened to the tactics during the timeout and told him to be ready to receive the ball at all times.

Otherwise, George's ball may be a little unresponsive.

This kind of passing is quite a bit white chocolate when you get the ball, one person gets the ball, and nine people panic.

George did not relent at this time, he was prepared, and directly completed the coherent action of catching and shooting in an open position.

Brush!

Clippers 59:63 Trail Blazers.

After George scored the goal, instead of celebrating, he laughed.

It's completely different from when he played with the Pacers.

Can the ball still be played like this?

George himself was amused by himself.

Oh.

It wasn't just George himself who played the music, but the Staples fans didn't cheer, but there was an uproar.

What just happened?

Is this a professional game at the highest level, or a freestyle catch game?

"When I saw the bag clip, I thought, this rookie is probably going to have to go ahead of the rookie wall, and the bag and bag tactics laid out as an NBA-level coach are very complicated."

"Not to mention rookies, even some All-Star level players can't handle the bag rotation."

Barkley said, hugging his bald head.

"It's a perfect score for a broken bag, no, it's a work of art."

O'Neill also said in surprise.

O'Neal himself is very technological, and he doesn't look down on some rough guys, just like Gobert last season's good statistical performance, O'Neal still dismisses him.

But Jokic is different, just this one pass made O'Neal's favorability of Jokic rise a lot.

The ball rolled on the ground, but Paul didn't pick it up at his feet.

Paul looked at Jokic with some incredulity, he was a little puzzled, the operation just now was done by a rookie?

And it's not a point guard, it's a tall man of more than two meters, and he's chubby.

Paul himself doesn't look at passing, or some advanced passing skills, and he understands how difficult those passing skills are.

A tall man of more than two meters has such a one-handed passing technique, and it is not only the technique, but also the passing IQ.

Is this reasonable?

Paul also thought back to the scene he had just had.

Tactically, Matthews was going to make up for Morris, and then he had to rotate to George.

He had just rushed towards George, but the reaction level was not very fast, after all, Paul judged that Afflaro could steal or break that pass.

But even if he was a little faster just now, it seemed that he couldn't prevent George's ball.

The pass was just too fast.

For a moment, Paul was in a mixed mood.

The Clippers picked such a talented insider, but he was traded out by Su Chen.

Doesn't Su Chen know that if he is partnered with this Jokic, he will make Jokic improve rapidly, and their combination can also do a great job in the playoffs.

It has to be Lillard.

In the first half, he had already rubbed Lillard hard, and Su Chen wanted Lillard not to want him.

This made Paul start to get a little angry.

However, with the referee's signal, Paul still came to his senses and walked to the sideline to receive the ball.

"How could that rookie have such ability?"

Terry Stotts on the sidelines also looked confused.

At this time, he didn't even have the leisure to cheer up the team, he was still thinking about the scene just now.

"No, no matter how fast he reacts, he shouldn't be so fast, it looks like he knew it in advance."

Terry Stoutes thought for a moment and shook his head in the negative.

Unlike Paul on the court, even if Paul's ball intelligence is high, adrenaline will still affect the ability to think calmly.

Terry Stottes, on the sidelines, was much calmer, and he immediately saw that even if Jokic had that ability, he shouldn't be that fast.

"Is it him again?"

Terry Stottes looked at Su Chen in the Clippers camp.

From the time he played Su Chen in the playoffs last season, Terry Stotters had a feeling, and Su Chen occasionally completely saw through his tactics.

Although there are not many rounds, once it is seen through, a timeout is wasted.

And there aren't many ways to solve it now.

Paul seemed to be still thinking about the ball just now, which was actually wrong when he chose to split the ball.

The Clippers are unrelenting.

Jokic picked up the ball with his back near the free-throw line this time, and the Trail Blazers did the same.

There was an open opportunity on the outside, and everyone thought Jokic would pass to the outside three-pointer, and the Trail Blazers' defense immediately rushed to the outside.

But Jokic is another person who doesn't look at people's backs and passes.

Batum, who was ambushed in the middle distance, cut directly to the basket and easily completed the layup.

Clippers 61:63 Trail Blazers.

Just like that, a few rounds were played.

The Clippers not only overtook the score, but also led by three points.

Clippers 71:68 Trail Blazers.

Terry Stouts finally came to terms with one fact.

The bag of Jokic is purely for the Clippers.

Jokic is playing with the full map open, and where there is an open space, he can capture it immediately.

Even some of the ambushes set up by the Trailblazers did not succeed in ambushing Jokic, and they were directly seen through.

Honk!

Terry Stouts called a timeout.

Although the pause was called, he was a little unsure of how to arrange it now.

You can only revoke the package clamp strategy first, carry out ordinary human marking, and then add some true and false defense.

It can only be arranged like this first.

The interior line that doesn't contain the Trail Blazers can't prevent Jokic, and the inclusion of Jokic makes the Clippers fully fire.

It's a bit of a scoundrel for this player.

However, after returning from the timeout, Su Chen did not let Jokic keep digging the inside line of the Trail Blazers.

No matter how good Jokic is, he still needs teammates, not one person who can play the opposite five.

After all, in Jokic's MVP season for two consecutive years, the Nuggets have not achieved too good results in the playoffs because of the frequent absences of Porter Jr. and Murray.

The roles of Murray and Porter Jr. are actually replaced by Lillard and George, which is a bit of a high-end version.

As for characters like Aaron Gordon, the Clippers also have the likes of Batum and Morris as replacements.

However, now Lillard is a little disobedient, and Lillard still let him rest him first.

This finally made Clarkson work.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Trail Blazers' defensive focus is on Jokic, Clarkson's pick-and-roll with Jokic is holding the ball, or hand-to-hand with Jokic to get some mid-range shots.

That is, Clarkson is still a first-year rookie, and he still lacks offensive stability.

However, Jokic gave him a really good opportunity, and even Clarkson, a first-year rookie, was able to shoot some small or open balls at this time.

At the same time, George played very well.

Clarkson and Jokic let the opposing defense pour their attention on them, and George was sometimes not even the best defender of Oflalo, but Matthews was defending him.

Although George's three-point shooting doesn't seem to be as tall and urgent as Porter Jr., George still has the ability to hold the ball and shoot three-pointers from the top and even break through the mid-range and even break through singles.

That's why George's three-pointers sometimes seem a little iron-clad.

But he usually faces the opponent's most defensive resources, and is the best defender at the three-point line.

But now with Jokic and Clarkson, George finds that he plays too well, even if he breaks in, it is Matthews who is defending him alone.

Lillard is still calming down.

Otherwise, the combination of Lillard and Jokic will be much more powerful than Clarkson's firepower.

But the Trail Blazers don't know how to defend anymore, and the entire defensive deployment has been disrupted.

The first half was Paul's suppression of Lillard, but the second half was the play of the Nuggets trident.

Even if Clarkson's halberd level is not enough, with Jokic, and his hand feeling tonight is barely enough.

Such a scene made Su Chen sigh a little.

Even a pure sixth man like Clarkson can be promoted by Jokic by a small level if he wants, but Barton has not improved much after playing next to Jokic for so long.

The Trail Blazers also wanted to trade Barton in the Paul trade, and if they did, it would be torture for Jokic for several seasons.

With the points difference getting bigger and bigger, there is nothing more to play in this game.

Paul's stats for this game are very good, in fact, if it were the situation in the first half, Paul would have won both the stats.

Paul himself and this pioneer team have not yet been run-in, and their combat effectiveness is not so strong.

With three minutes left in the game, the likes of Paul and Aldridge were replaced, and the Trail Blazers suffered their first defeat of the season on the road.

(End of chapter)