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Clarkson's choice of the ball was extremely unreasonable, but he scored!
Just go in!

This is the iconic characteristic of the Nerve Knife player. As long as the touch comes, let alone the defense in front of him is dead, even if the outside defensive gate player Gary Payton is in front, it is useless!
Obviously, the characteristics of Clarkson's nerve knife player tonight have been stimulated.

With such a crazy performance, the head coach of the Lakers didn't dare to neglect, he didn't dare to bet that Clarkson couldn't kill the Lakers tonight.

After all, the Lakers are only leading by more than ten points now, and there are still two and a half quarters left. It is not impossible for the Jazz to recover more than ten points!

Therefore, just to be on the safe side, Vogel called a timeout immediately to interrupt Clarkson's unnatural touch.

At the same time, the poor defensive Rivers was replaced by Bradley, a veteran defensive guard!

After the timeout, Brogdon still holds the ball for the Lakers.

After advancing to the frontcourt, Brogdon observed the situation on the entire court. When he saw that the defender in front of teammate Bradley was Clarkson, Brogdon turned around without hesitation and passed the basketball in his hand to teammate Bradley. Radley's hand.

Obviously, Brogdon meant to let Bradley go singles on the weaker defensive Clarkson.

Bradley also knew what his teammate Brogdon meant, and after getting the ball, he signaled his teammates to pull away, ready to single-handedly hit Clarkson.

In fact, Bradley's singles ability is not very strong, but facing Clarkson, the weak defensive ring, Bradley is still confident that he can beat him!

After the other Lakers teammates opened up the space, Bradley faced Clarkson's defense, kicked the ground directly to accelerate, and used his weight advantage to carry Clarkson to the inside.

Under the difference in physical fitness, Bradley easily pushed Clarkson into the inside line, and then quickly pushed Clarkson. After creating space, Bradley easily completed a layup.

The Lakers scored another 2 points, and the ball returned to the Jazz.

Clarkson is still holding the ball, and now the Jazz put their hopes on this man who made 3 of 3 shots in the opening game.

Clarkson slowly held the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. Facing Bradley in front of him, he had to stick to the defense. Clarkson chose to call a pick-and-roll and replaced Bradley in front of him with another defender.

Facing the pick-and-roll initiated by Clarkson, the strategy adopted by the Lakers is to switch defenses!

The defensive strength of this lineup of the Lakers is very balanced. Bradley, Brogdon, Covington, Boucher, and thick eyebrows are all players with strong mobility. It is not easy for Clarkson to play any player!

Subsequently, Clarkson got his wish and replaced the defender in front of him with Boucher.

Obviously, Clarkson wants to use his fast footwork to beat Boucher!

After a quick double change, Clarkson stepped on the ground to accelerate, broke through to the right, dribbled back and pulled back, and then chose to attack Boucher's front foot and successfully passed Boucher.

Boucher quickly turned around and chased after him. When Clarkson jumped up for a layup, Boucher saw the opportunity, jumped high, and opened his long arms to get a pegboard cap!
Clarkson also knew that Boucher was going to chase him, so he quickly retracted the basketball in the air, tightened his stomach, and pulled the bar to prepare for the anti-blue.

But Clarkson's take-off was too far from the basket. This time, the position of the lever was very bad, and there was no angle at all. Clarkson had no choice but to hook the basketball to the backboard, hoping to score by luck ball.

But this time the goddess of luck was not on Clarkson's side. In the end, the ball went out of the basket and the rebound was collected by Boucher of the Lakers.

After catching this rebound, Boucher did not hesitate, and immediately handed the ball to Brogdon. Brogdon held the ball and pushed for a fast break. After attracting the defense, Boucher threw the basketball high and passed it to the thick eyebrow who was about to fall. Brother hands, alley-oop!

Brother Nongmei leaped high, grabbed the basketball in the air, and dunked it hard into the basket!

This dunk was so explosive that the Lakers fans present cheered again!
The Lakers added two more points!
After this goal, the momentum of the Jazz fell again.

Even Clarkson can respond frequently, but on the defensive end, the Jazz can no longer withstand the Lakers' offense.

In the end, relying on Clarkson to last until the end of the second quarter, the Jazz still fell behind by 16 points!
16 points, according to usual, it is not difficult to catch up.

But today is different. The Jazz are completely relying on Clarkson's nerve knife attributes throughout the second quarter.

Let alone the offensive end, Clarkson has been crazily targeted by the Lakers on the defensive end.

Now Clarkson is 30 years old. Although his skills have become better, his physical strength is no longer that of the young man in his 20s. In the second quarter of crazy consumption, Clarkson's physical strength has long been exhausted!

It is very unrealistic to want Clarkson to last the third and fourth quarters now!
The head coach of the Jazz also understands this, but he has nothing to do. He can only hope that Mitchell and Clarkson can break out at the same time in the second half and recover the score.

At the same time, the head coach of the Jazz replaced Gobert back on the court again, wanting to take out the defensive system that the Jazz are proud of again.

As for the rest, the head coach of the Jazz has nothing to adjust.

In this way, the intermission ended, and the two teams returned to the field again.

The Jazz took out Gobert again, but the Lakers did not choose to send Howard on the field, but continued with the five minors.

Seeing the lineup of the Lakers, the head coach of the Jazz shook his head helplessly. When the Lakers continued to use five small lineups at this time, the head coach of the Jazz knew that he had lost.

Because in the defensive system established by Gobert, the five small lineups are the most feared!

The five small lineups can pull Gobert out. Once Gobert leaves the inside, the Jazz's proud defensive system will fall apart. There is no way, this is really because the Jazz's perimeter players are too defensive!
After Gobert leaves the interior, the Jazz's interior will become extremely empty. No matter how poor the defense of the outside players is, the Jazz's defense will become like paper.

But if Gobert doesn't leave the inside, he can only prevent the Lakers' five small lineup centers from shooting.

Being able to serve as a center in a five-small lineup means that he has a certain three-point ability. Putting such a center forward to shoot is actually similar to sending points!

In the previous life, when the Jazz played against the Mavericks in the playoffs, they were beaten to death by the Mavericks' five small lineups!

In that series, the Mavericks' five small centers Kleber made an incredible hit rate!
In the first two games of the series, Kleber shot 16 of 12 from beyond the arc and shot 75% from beyond the arc!

This is the fate of putting five small lineup centers.