The Jazz fielded a combination of Jacqui Vaughn, DeSean Stevenson, Quincy Lewis, David Bentno, and Scott Padgett in the final quarter, and only Danny Manning and John Crotty were rotated on the court.

Of the seven, only Jacques Vaughn and Danny Manning are part of the Jazz's rotation.

In the final quarter, Knight scored 4 points and 7 assists, Li Ao scored 16 points, and O'Neal Jr. scored 7 points, and the three dared to fight and led the Clippers to a 33-20 score in the final quarter.

In the end, the Jazz defeated the Clippers 100-92, giving the Clippers their 31st loss of the season.

The record became 46 wins and 31 losses, and Li Ao took a look at the task of 'sprinting and surpassing', which was added after winning 46 wins the night before.

"Sprint, overtake:

……

Advanced goal: lead the team to win 50 wins for the first time in team history.

Reward: 1 advanced attribute point. ”

There are five games left, and we have to win four of them.

It's also too difficult.

Of course he wanted to win tonight, but they were stupid at the start......

They had nine assists in the first three quarters, and the Jazz's ability to deal with playmaking forwards was so strong that both he and Odom were affected.

He can only shrink his hat and a hat, and the veteran can vent.

He looked at another mission, 'Genius'.

Tonight, he scored 19 points in the first three quarters and 16 points in the fourth quarter, with 35 points in a single game, plus 7 boards, 3 assists and 4 blocks.

In the next five games, 135 more points will increase the average to 25 points per game.

You don't need to score 27 points in every game, you can score normally in regular time, and you have a chance to play again......

…

12 consecutive away and home games are not without benefits.

At the very least, they can be too busy to care about winning or losing yesterday's game.

At noon the next day, they returned to Los Angeles and had a meeting in the afternoon to discuss tomorrow's game.

Everyone on the Clippers felt that playing the Spurs was their easiest game of the season, although the Spurs had a 33-44 record, and they are still playoff contenders in the East, and they also have the ability to win in the West, but looking at the first three meetings, they feel so.

However, at this stage, the easier the game, the more careless the Clippers players will be, and they must win the game steadily.

If you want to win 50 wins, it's not just Li Ao, the whole team of the Clippers wants to!

The reason they didn't publicly yell for a 50-win win was because they covered the mouth of a certain No. 0 player after playing the Bucks.

Now they feel like they made the right decision, and after losing to the Jazz, they need to win four of their five games to get 50 wins.

The last 5 opponents, Spurs, Kings, Timberwolves, Warriors, Suns.

The Spurs, the Warriors, the game, must be won.

The Timberwolves, no matter what, have to win.

In that case, the Kings and Suns would be able to try to win one of them.

It's not just about 50 wins, it's about the playoffs.

This season, you may really have to win 50 to make the playoffs.

The Clippers players are even expecting the Spurs to continue targeting Lee, and so is Lee.

Then they can easily win the game.

Li Ao licked his face and spread his hands again against the Jazz, largely because he was worried that the Spurs would target him again because he was handsome, affecting him to average 25 points per game.

Towards the end of the meeting, Li Ao suddenly had a flash of inspiration and put forward another hypothesis.

"Is it possible for them to use our current ideas, predict our style of play, and take out us in an upset?

If we lose tomorrow's game, we have a good chance of losing our playoff tickets.

Wasting a season of hard work must have made me more uncomfortable than having a bad personal record. ”

Teammates and coaches were shocked!

Can people think of such a despicable and shameless conspiracy?

The Spurs don't have a good record now, it doesn't matter what they do, it's really possible to do it!

But...... Coaches and teammates all looked to Spider-Man...... Who can make this guess......

…

At 8 p.m. on April 9, the Clippers played at home against the Spurs.

Watching Li Ao fire in the middle range from the beginning of the race, Gentry secretly rejoiced.

Thankfully, I prepared for both!

The other side really wants to snipe them and hit the playoffs!

Tonight, Popovich sent a combination of Avery Johnson, Derrick Anderson, Malik Rose, Samaki Walker, and David Robinson to strengthen the confrontation at the beginning of the game, using rough defensive moves to consume the Clippers' long-range shots and actively shrink the rim under the basket.

Gentry didn't go out of his way to study the Spurs before, and he didn't care about it when he played for the first time, and he didn't have time for 17 games in a single month in the middle of the season, so he played casually later, and the opponent was only aimed at Spider-Man.

Yesterday, he deliberately studied the Spurs and found that the Spurs have played well defensively this season, averaging only 93 points per game.

Although the average score per game is only 91, the team's three-point shooting rate is as high as 41%, and the only team in the league to shoot more than 4% of three-point shots.

He averaged 6.2 three-pointers per game, third in the league, just below the Bucks and Celtics, and even higher than the Mavericks.

Gentry wanted to go over and ask the head coach across from him who had gone gray in just one year — didn't you say you hated threes the most?

The Spurs' style of play tonight is to stubbornly defend + shoot outside, and the shooting is quite accurate!

Derrick Anderson, Antonio Daniels, Sean Elliott, Steve Kerr, Terry Burt, Ira Newbell, Jaren Jackson, the Spurs have seven players who are shooting over 39% from three-point range this season.

Li Ao played 10 minutes in the first quarter, scoring 10 points and 3 assists on 4-of-7 shooting, and the Clippers trailed by one point 25-26.

In the second quarter, Li Ao played full and connected with Odom, Li Ao got 8 points and 2 assists, Odom scored 6 points and 4 assists, and the two worked together to lead the team to a single quarter score of 28-23, and overtook the Spurs by 4 points to enter the halftime break with 53-49.

Seeing that their offense became more and more fluid, and the ferocious firepower of the opposite side at the beginning gradually weakened, Gentry breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the 7 excellent three-pointers on the opposite side, he was ready to wait for the game to be played and let Wally Walker check to see if there was any contract expiring.

Dig people!

In the third quarter, the Spurs veterans played even harder, scoring 23 points while defending the Clippers with only 21 points.

At the end of the third quarter, the Spurs chased the score to 72-74!

Fortunately, Li Ao and Matt Halprin made solid shots in the final quarter, Li Ao made 3 of 6 shots, plus 2 of 2 free throws to score 8 points, and Halprin made 2 of 4 shots, plus 2 of 2 free throws to score 5 points.

Relying on the excellent performance of the two, the Clippers scored 24 points in the final quarter, and at the same time, Li Ao blocked 3 times in a single quarter in the final quarter, leading the team to reduce the Spurs' score to 19 points.

Li Ao made 13 of 22 shots, including 1 of 3 three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws, scored 33 points, 3 boards, 8 assists, 2 steals and 6 blocks, leading the Clippers to a narrow 98-91 victory over the Spurs!

Watching the opposite Spider-Man make 9 mid-range shots in a single game, Popovich's mentality exploded.

It's better to continue to deal with this hateful Spider-Man!

…

Narrowly defeated the Spurs, this victory, the whole Clippers team is happy.

There's a joy of 'defeating an evil plot'.

With the joy of victory, the Clippers arrived in Sacramento, the state capital, at noon the next day, and after a night's rest, the Clippers played an away game against the Kings at 7 p.m. on April 11.

The Clippers played exceptionally energetically tonight and were relaxed.

Li Ao felt quite strange.

Their record is 47-31 after beating the Spurs, and if they beat the Warriors and Timberwolves, they only need to beat one of the Kings and Suns to get 50 wins...... These are obviously ifs, but now the whole team seems to feel that they have 'beaten the Warriors and Timberwolves smoothly', and 'the Kings and Suns will definitely win'.

However, although Li Ao felt that this idea did not seem right, he also felt that the future was full of hope and was unwilling to deny such feelings.

Moreover, such a relaxed and confident state of mind worked tonight!

The most affected was Odom, who really played like a magician, with 8 points and 4 assists in the first quarter, leading the team to score 26 points in a single quarter against the defensive Kings!

The Kings actually played the offensive end in the first quarter, but the Clippers' top-10 defense in the league was not given for nothing, and it didn't make the Kings soar.

26-27, the Clippers trailed the Kings by one point in the first quarter.

Li Ao made 2 of 4 shots in the first quarter, plus 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 6 points, 1 board and 1 assist.

Seeing that the defense couldn't be suppressed, Adelman changed his way of thinking - to attack!

This change makes Odom on the opposite side take off!

In the second quarter, Odom scored 7 points and 8 assists and led the whole team!

Li Ao scored 8 points, Margetty 6 points, O'Neal Jr. 6 points, Big Q5 points, Matt Harprin and Chris Meem each scored 2 points, and the Clippers scored 36 points in the second quarter, beating the Kings who scored 33 points.

62-60, the Clippers outscored the Kings by two points at halftime.

Adelman readjusted his style of play at halftime and continued to defend in the second half.

On the Clippers' side...... Gentry did nothing and watched it.

In the first half, the Kings knocked on defense for a while and played offense for a while, who could have guessed how the devil sect leader on the opposite side would change, and tonight it was like a big aunt.

The mentality of the Clippers players is very calm, the opponent wants to play, they can play, their current thinking is very strange, they feel that the opponent is much stronger than them, and they think that they can definitely win one of the Kings and the Suns.

The Kings successfully suppressed the Clippers' score in the third quarter, and the Clippers' score plummeted by 14 points from the second quarter, scoring only 22 points, but as Divac cut into the frame and was fanned by Li Ao, the Kings scored only 23 points in the third quarter.

84-83, the Clippers continued to hold a one-point lead!

In the final quarter, Adelman also broke up and continued to knock on the defense.

This time, the Kings defended very successfully, in the first 11 minutes, the Clippers shot 6 of 21, missed a three-point shot, and added 6 of 8 free throws to score 18 points.

But in the last 1 minute, Margeti, who was in danger, continued to break into the inside line to cause kills, and hit all 4 free throws!

Margeti scored 4 points in a row to tie the score at 106-106!

The Kings didn't score well in the final quarter, and when Margeti tied the score, the Kings shot 8 of 22 in a single quarter, including 1 of 5 three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws, and only scored 23 points!

In the last 7 seconds, Peja missed a three-point shot after Li Ao and entered overtime!

With 14 points in the first half and 22 points in the whole game, Li Ao looked at his stats and was numb by the defensive continuity of the Kings' eight-man rotation.

After a short break, overtime began.

Li Ao, who had played 39 minutes in regular time, could only stand at a 45-degree angle on the right side in overtime and contain it, leaving his physical strength on the defensive end.

He believed in his team-mates as much as he believed in Marghetti in the last minute.

However, in the first attack in overtime, the opportunity appeared here for Li Ao.

Boykins broke through on the right side, and when Li Ao took a step back and pulled out of the three-point line, Doug Christie sandwiched Boykins and went, Li Ao was released and received the ball from Boykins!

Li Ao didn't hesitate, he couldn't hesitate at this time, he could strike iron, he had to vote!

Jumping, shooting, Klay Thompson's three-point action of catching the ball, coupled with Li Ao's slender figure and handsome face, when his shooting close-up appeared on the big screen, there were female fans cheering on the away side.

With the cheers of female fans, Li Ao's three-point response to the ball entered the frame!

109-106, the Clippers took the lead in overtime!

When retreating, Li Aobi pointed a gun, kissed, and 'shot' at the female fans cheering for him behind the technical table.

In this picture, other female fans are not calm, and some female fans shout 'Spider-Man' one after another.

Sacramento, the capital of California, is a city that also has a lot of fans from Li Ao's college days!

Male fans firmly support their own team, but female fans are still more face-saving!

Peja was somewhat affected by the defection of female fans.

The Kings used Webb's cut to attract Li Ao to shrink and create an open shooting opportunity for Peja, who received the ball and made a three-point shot!

Li Ao couldn't jam Webb in the card position, but he relied on his arm span advantage to slap the ball out of Webb's head.

Giving the opponent a chance to shoot again from the outside will not allow Webb to attack twice on the inside.

Luck is also part of strength, and it was Boykins who grabbed the ball!

Boykins grabbed the ball on the right side of the free throw line and countered directly, Bobby Jackson chased to the center circle and slowed down, he couldn't be slower than Boykins with the ball, but Boykins only played 11 minutes in regular time, he played 30 minutes!

Boykins rushed to the front court and hit a layup, 111-106, and the Clippers led by 5 points!

This 5-point advantage locks in the win!

In the next 4 minutes, the Clippers only relied on O'Neal Jr.'s 2+1 rebound, Margeti broke through the layup to score 5 points, and the other shots were all iron.

But that was enough, the Kings only relied on Bobby Jackson to hit a step-back three-pointer to score 3 points, and nothing else!

The Kings, who rotated 8 people, were physically exhausted in overtime! Webber stuck his position and failed to snatch the offensive rebound in Li Ao's hands, which has exposed this problem.

And the more this happens, the less Adelman will make substitutions.

At 9:33 p.m., the final whistle blew.

15 points, 3 boards, 12 assists and 1 steal in the first half, 6 points, 6 boards, 3 assists and 1 steal in the second half, plus 3 boards and 1 block in overtime, Odom turned into a magic tonight, scoring 21 points, 12 boards, 15 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, beating Webb, who scored 41 points.

116-109, the Clippers upset the Kings team with all the players, improving their record to 48-31!

(End of chapter)