The Clippers have won two in a row, and Jokic has won for the core.

The biggest difference between a big ball market and a small ball market is that if a player plays well in a big ball city team, the influence is very fast.

For example, Lin Crazy played the best performance of his career in New York and went directly to Times Square, which was very influential.

But think about it, if Lin Crazy had played in a place like Charlotte at that time, everyone wouldn't even pay much attention to it.

The most I know is that Charlotte has a guy who has been playing well lately, and that's it.

Including Giannis Antetokounmpo, who played very well at the start of the season when he was with the Timberwolves, he still didn't attract much attention.

It's all because the Timberwolves hit the winning streak that they attracted attention.

This is the reason why it is difficult for small football markets to attract big-name stars, and the exposure of the same performance is not at the same level at all.

In a big ball city like Los Angeles, there is also Ballmer in charge of the momentum, and champion coach Su Chen joins.

The Clippers are now exposed to the standard big ball market, and even the league's national live broadcast is at the top of the list.

And that's because the Clippers didn't show their true strength, and the stars were only George and Lillard.

Jokic's rookie season, playing such a performance with the Clippers as a second-round pick, if he continues to perform, it will be another star-making game.

Of course, Jokic still needs more games and more tests to prove his quality.

For example, in the next game against the Kings, the Kings' star with a lot of momentum, DeMarcus Cousins.

Los Angeles.

Staples Arena.

Staples Arena was packed with Clippers fans tonight, and tonight's game was against a tough, though not too strong opponent.

The Kings finished third from bottom in the West last season, and judging by the record, the attention should not have been so high.

But Cousins, the king's star player, is a tough guy.

This is a good contrast for their newcomer Jokic, and the direct conversation between the two can also see what Jokic is really at.

Su Chen, who was on the sidelines, also saw Cousins who was practicing on the opposite side.

Cousins has been in the league for many years now, and this season is in his prime, and he will be an All-Star and All-NBA second team this season.

There are many things to say about Cousins.

For Su Chen, Cousins is an emotional center and an all-round offensive player.

There are two sides to Cousins' emotionality, sometimes his emotionality can help him become a true offensive and defensive super center, but sometimes it can turn him into a top man.

At the same time, being emotional will also have an impact on his multi-faceted attack.

Cousins' offensive approach is not so much multifaceted as it is somewhat mixed.

You can see a lot of the signature moves of the center in Cousins, what overlord step hook, turn over jumper, rabbit jumper, high and low post inside pass, change direction emergency stop jump shot and many other means.

When he gets emotional, he uses these moves.

Strike iron frequently and then shoot frequently.

Of course, when emotions are positive, these moves can be scored with a good touch, which makes Cousins look like a super center.

But his problem is that he is a skill field, and he is a vegetable when he takes it alone.

Regarding the Jokic VS Cousins expected by the outside world, Su Chen didn't have too much to worry about.

Cousins is not an efficient scorer, shooting less than 50 percent from the field as a center.

Although Embiid was despised by many people, mocking Embiid for being soft.

But compared with Cousins, Embiid is much higher than Cousins in terms of mid-to-long-range shooting percentage and basket efficiency.

Although it is a regular season statistic, Cousins doesn't even have the stats that he peaked in the playoffs.

The later playoffs are already as role players, although the Warriors entered the playoffs with 5 starts, but the average 16 minutes per game playing time is not as good as some role players.

Later, when the Nuggets entered the playoffs, he also played as a substitute for Jokic.

Although many people are now optimistic that Cousins will beat Jokic in this game, and even as a contemporary young center, Cousins may always be able to control Kic.

But in Su Chen's eyes, neither of them is of the same level.

Even if Cousins broke out in this game, Cousins was still just an inefficient scorer and never made the playoffs in his career.

Cousins has also had a lot of quality players in the Kings, such as Gay, Rondo, Collisson, Hield, Evans and others.

If the Kings' partner doesn't have any great star players, then the next partner with the Pelicans is at least a playoff configuration.

The thick eyebrows at the peak, Holiday who is in the prime of his career and selected for the defensive team, this is already a small triumvirate configuration.

Jordan Crawford, Stephenson, and Moore are also very good role players.

The fact that he can't even make the playoffs with this configuration is enough to prove that an inefficient scorer like Cousins doesn't help the team much.

As for making the playoffs for the Warriors, that's not his credit at all.

Curry Thompson Durant's lineup, does this playoffs have a lot to do with him?

I don't think much about Cousins anymore.

That's when the game began.

Clippers starting lineup: Nikola Jokic (C), Nicolas Batum (PF), Paul George (SF), Reggie Jackson (SG), Damian Lillard (PG)

Kings starting lineup: DeMarcus Cousins (C), Jason Thompson (PF), Rudy Gay (SF), Ben McClymer (SG), Darren Collison (PG)

The Clippers' starting lineup remains the same.

Although Su Chen had a plan to put Reggie on the bench to increase his firepower, Su Chen wanted to let the rookie on the bench brush it, so he didn't put Reggie, who needed the ball, on the bench.

Su Chen still wants to build a forward group, and now the team has a bit of small guards.

But this rookie doesn't have that many good forwards, small guards are cheap, and they only have to take more small guards.

However, Su Chen looked at the king's starting lineup and was a little greedy for Guy.

Gay isn't much of an expensive player anymore, and although Gay has averaged 20 points per game in both the Grizzlies and Kings, no team has treated him like a baby.

The Grizzlies also cultivated rookies, had illusions about Guy, and cultivated Guy for a few seasons and other teams used Guy as a mercenary.

Guy's positioning is actually somewhat similar to Cousins.

Both men are inefficient scorers.

There is a reason why two 20+ scorers on the same team can't get 30 wins in a season.

Guy's singles have an unpretentious beauty.

Low EQ is pure talent and skill.

But this also confirms how strong Guy's talent is, and he can play an average of 20+ per game all year round purely by talent.

With a height of 2.03 meters and an arm span of 2.21 meters, Guy is the perfect small forward on the template.

At the same time, Guy's running speed and bounce power are all at the level of a talent monster, a proper superstar embryo.

It's just that he debuted in the Grizzlies, and he didn't form good discipline and polish his skills.

What Su Chen impressed Guy more deeply was actually Guy's career at the Spurs.

At the Spurs, Gay dropped his scoring average by almost half, but it was the best season of his Spurs career, and his plus/minus increased.

In fact, it turned out that when Guy calmed down and focused on defense while polishing his jump shot.

He can also be a very good small forward.

It's just that Guy was already stereotyped at that time, and his talent has regressed with age.

If Gay makes his debut with the Spurs, the Spurs may be able to get a slightly weakened version of the card early.

Of course, none of this is important to Su Chen.

The important thing is that Guy can still change, relearn defense with Guy's talent, and can also reach a level of defense above the limit.

At this point, Guy's physical talent was still enough for him to complete some offenses.

If you can get Guy over, use it this season first, and then throw it into the [Summer Training Camp] in the offseason to strengthen it.

When George 2.0 comes to use, it's not impossible.

Thinking like this, the game has been going on for a while.

Guy and Cousins, two inefficient scorers on the same team, basically give the ball to whoever gets it.

At the same time, Collison is also a point guard who scores more points than the organization, and after the team's two big brothers picked up, he also followed.

The victory of their team is to rely on the explosion of the hand, and the explosion of the hand can even win some strong teams.

But Cousins' hand tonight can only be described as mediocre.

Against Jokic, Cousins didn't play very comfortably.

Among Cousins's many offensive methods, the most efficient ones are still launched from the back.

Although Cousins is also very strong, Jokic not only has power but also tonnage, and he simply can't take advantage of it.

Originally, in this small-ball era, centers and insiders have lost weight and increased speed, but Jokic simply didn't follow that trend.

is still taking the path of a heavy center, which is hard for Cousins.

It was already an inefficient single, but in the face of Jokic's defense, it was even more efficient.

Jokic, on the other hand, didn't have much pressure to hit him.

At the same time, the single-handed organization made the Clippers' offense smooth.

Lillard and George are two offensive points, and the Kings don't have the defensive resources to target Jokic.

Where is there enough defense to target the offensive resources of the Clippers?

Originally, fans thought that this was a wonderful battle for the first-line center in the future.

But looking at the whole court, Jokic is full of presence, and Cousins's singles frequently miss hurt the team.

It doesn't even look like a player at a level.

In fact, Jokic is only 80 percent of his peak right now, and Cousins is almost 90 percent of his peak, but that's the way he plays.

One is the level that can lead the team to win the championship and win the MPV by himself, and the other is only a data brush in the playoffs.

Naturally, the way the two look and feel the game is different.

The strength of the two teams is not a grade, and the king, who is a dog, does not have the feeling to explode, and it is normal for the two teams to not have to play.

Even the substitutes of the two teams are quite different.

The Kings are on the bench with Landry and Cosby, who have limited offensive ability.

On the other hand, the Clippers' bench, Su Chen took out the dual-guard firepower of Dinwiddie and Clarkson to attack, and there was also a Capela who was acting as a blocking tool for the two of them.

Defensively, Craig and Barnes are also above-caliber defenders, with more than enough firepower from the defensive bench.

Not to mention the king's understudy.

The game is over.

Clippers 103: 82 Kings.

Jokic had another triple-double this time, with 17 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.

George and Lillard deliver a steady 20+ output.

It seems like it's almost becoming the Clippers' winning formula.

George and Lillard were the two in charge of scoring points, and Jokic was the scoring organization.

Cousins, though inefficient, still scored 29 points, but his shot count came to 25.

Some of that was against pure rookie Capela.

This hit rate is actually not enough to see on the outside, let alone on the inside.

Besides, there is a big problem with the shooting rate on the inside, that is, such an inefficient offense on the outside, and the inside can also fight for rebounds and play a secondary offense.

And Cousins himself is an interior lineman, he sometimes shoots and shoots, but no one helps him grab offensive rebounds.

Seeing Cousins' performance, Su Chen didn't feel very strange.

Speaking of which, when the king invited him in the first place, he didn't want to say yes because of Cousins.

With Cousins and Guy as the core of the team to rebuild, how do they match to win the championship?

Pair them with Curry James's thick eyebrows, and if they pull the ball into the smoke, they may not be able to win the championship.

The Clippers started the season with three straight wins, all of which were won by Jokic as the core, which immediately caused a stir on social media.

[In the counterattack of the second-round show, Jokic proved himself in three games. 】

[The king of the draft! Su Chen's draft last season compared to this season's draft. 】

[17+11+10>29, the battle of the new generation of centers, there is no suspense! 】

The Clippers have harvested a superstar seed, much to the surprise of many.

For Clippers fans, it's naturally a joy of mind.

Jokic grows up, and with Lillard and George, the Clippers have a big three to compete for a championship.

For other teams, the pressure is higher.

Some players who get high scores will be said to eat dumplings, but through the performance of Jokic in these three games, Jokic's talent in organization cannot be explained by eating dumplings at all.

Whether it is a long pass covering the whole field, or a variety of difficult passes that do not look at people's backs, it has accurately found vacancy in a large range.

These are not dumplings that can be thrown away.

Even Paul, the top traditional point guard in the league today, is almost at this level of organizational ability.

A lot of people are thinking if they didn't trade Paul.

What should the combination of two top passers look like?

However, this also made other teams breathe a sigh of relief, if Paul teamed up with Jokic and added George, then the pressure on the Western team to compete would be too great.

The scene where Lillard was suppressed by Paul in the first game is still fresh in many people's memories.

(End of chapter)