NBA opening draw to twilight Shaquille O'Neal

Chapter 364

After fighting each other for a few rounds at the beginning, the Blazers clearly had the upper hand.

When Wang Zelin grabbed this precious offensive rebound and indirectly assisted Matthews to hit a 3-pointer from the bottom corner, it seemed like a switch was turned on.

When passing by the sideline of the backcourt, more than 2000 Chinese fans in the audience chanted Wang Zelin's name in unison, injecting a new force into Staples.

Wang Zelin smiled and waved to all the fans in the stands, thanking them for their support and love.

Every time he stands on the field, as long as he can hear the cheers and support from the sidelines, he knows that he is not fighting alone!
"Beep~ Sir, serve quickly."

It wasn't until the referee blew the whistle that Griffin and the others realized that they were playing a basketball game... and they were still behind!
Clippers attack.

After Paul controlled the ball for halftime, he began to direct his teammates to move, and then made tactical gestures. After Griffin picked and rolled, he went down frantically, and Aldridge turned around reflexively to keep up.

But Paul didn't play the ball, but made a change of direction behind his back. Anyway, the moment Lillard shifted his center of gravity horizontally, he turned around with Lillard as the axis, and he broke through so easily.

As the No.1 active point guard, it is not only because of Paul's unique offensive tandem ability in the league, but his personal offensive ability is also the top level among players at the same position in the league, and he also takes defense into account.

The reason why he is called the "God of Point Guard" is based on multiple considerations.

For now, Lillard is still a long way from Paul's level.

Paul rushed inside quickly, but the Blazers' response was not slow.Since Jordan basically has no basket, leaving the three-second zone is a tiger without teeth, Wang Zelin boldly let him go, and rushed towards the penalty area.

Faced with the blockage of a big guy who was more than one head taller than himself, Paul told Paul rationally that it was time for him to stop.

Sure enough, Paul made an emergency stop, picked a rather tricky angle, lobbed high to avoid Wang Zelin's right hand, hit the board and rebounded into the net.

The role of the captain is not only reflected in controlling the general direction. When necessary, when he needs to attack, his ammunition is definitely the most sufficient in the Clippers, and the threat to the opponent is also the most deadly.

There is one thing to say, when all the Clippers players are put together, when comparing the offensive ability at critical moments, the only one who can count on is Paul.

Among the starting five generals, Jordan has no independent offensive ability at all. Griffin can achieve an average of 20+ per game this season.

The most important thing is to rely on extremely abnormal physical fitness, eat most opponents with strength, work in the penalty area, and have a very high shooting percentage within three feet.

But three feet away...

You know, Griffin averaged 22 points per game in his rookie season, but his scoring declined year by year in the next two years. The reason why he was able to hit a new high of 24 points per game this season is largely because he averaged more than 8 free throws per game and has a stable shooting percentage year after year.

As for the two positions of shooting guard and small forward, JJ Redick is just a catch-and-shoot player. Darren Collison also has limited autonomous offensive ability and is good at fixed-point shooting.

Therefore, why the Clippers are as fierce as tigers in the regular season every year, and when they encounter hard stubble in the playoffs, they are the ones who are the first to be soft... The lack of strong enough attack points at critical moments is their biggest shortcoming.

Even Paul, in the playoffs, his technical style and height, doomed him not to be an unsolvable existence.

Within the height range of 183, when it comes to offense, there is only one answer after all!
Therefore, although Paul continued to score goals in the latter part of the first quarter, Coach Terry never took it to heart.

After all, a player whose career-high score in a single game is "only" 43 points is destined to be unable to solve a game by himself.

To some extent, Paul's attributes are a bit like Durant's. Both of them are too stable to "lose" the outbreak.

At the end of the half, Paul had 14 points, 5 assists, 2 rebounds and 1 steal. His personal statistics were extremely luxurious, and he only made 1 turnover. The ratio of assists to turnovers was so high that he had no friends.

But when the Clippers fans looked carefully, they were not the ones leading.The scoreboard clearly showed 56:48, and the Blazers had already led them by 8 points.

Look again, Jordan, who only scored 2 points in the halftime...

In the last game against the Timberwolves, Gelifen, who scored 32 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals in the matchup with Love, performed quite poorly tonight. Only 6 points were scored at halftime, and 4 of them were scored through free throws.

By the way, Kevin Love scored 45 points, 19 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal in that game, and once again served as the leader of the empty scoring group.

And if this trend continues, Kevin Love will soon become the alliance's new leader of the air-slashing group, and it's still the kind that others can't hold a candle to.

After all, in the field of brushing data, I am afraid that few people can surpass Kevin Love in the Timberwolves period.

Just last season, Kevin Love set a career-high single-game score-51 points in the game against the Thunder!
And it was a large double-double with 14 rebounds.

But what's the use of that?
In the end, the Timberwolves lost to the Thunder's Wang Zha combination 140:149.

To be honest, in Wang Zelin's impression, there may be only one person who can surpass the current Kevin Love, and that is the next wolf king in the future-Karl-Anthony Towns.

Well, it can also be seen from this that the Timberwolves are always "experts in bad performance"!

Back to the game.

The second half began soon, and the two sides changed sides to fight again.

Little Jordan, who has no independent ability, approached Wang Zelin, and he encountered a natural enemy.In the past, the second offense after grabbing the rebound that was able to get a good shot is gone. Except for the occasional cut-in to catch the ball and a few dunks, the offensive effect is about zero.

Griffin is better, against Aldridge, strength is considered an advantage.

After the third quarter, Griffin made a big splash, scoring 8 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, sharing some responsibilities for Paul.

However, Griffin can score 8 points, and Aldridge's performance is also not bad, because Griffin could not have defended him just now.

With 7 points, 2 rebounds and a block for Clippers backup small forward Matt Barnes in a single quarter, the performance of the two can be said to be evenly matched.

But the problem is that Aldris's shots and shooting percentage are much higher than Griffin's.After three quarters, 13 points were scored, and only 9 shots were taken but 5 goals were hit.

Griffin, who was vigorously cultivated by the Clippers, was unceremonious when he shot. He scored 14 points in three quarters, but he used 13 shots and only hit 4 goals.

Yes, in fact, Griffin is the player with the most shots in the Clippers. On the contrary, Chris Paul has 3 fewer shots than him.

This situation has been maintained since Paul joined the Clippers a year ago.

That's right, for the Clippers management, how could outsiders compare to their own.

Therefore, the Clippers played three quarters, not only did not narrow the score, but instead allowed the Blazers to widen the gap.

At the beginning of the last quarter, Coach Terry came directly to the ruthless. Originally, he thought that in a Clippers game, the two sides would go back and forth and attack each other. The fans on the scene were also happy to see it.

Unexpectedly, he underestimated the strength of his own team, and a little overestimated the Clippers.

Unknowingly, this Trail Blazers has become one of the few top teams in the league. The only ones who can compete with them are the Heat and Pacers in the East, and the Spurs and Thunder in the West.

The Clippers are still the same, strong is strong, but the biggest impression to the outside world is that they are always a little soft at critical moments.

Therefore, when the Blazers suddenly increased their defensive intensity and directly raised it to the playoff level, it instantly made the Clippers collectively feel uncomfortable.

Except for Paul's ability to quickly adjust, both Griffin and Jordan have fallen into a long period of blacksmithing.

How iron is it?

At the end of the three quarters, the Clippers were 76 to 98, 12 points behind.

At the end of the fourth quarter, only 13 points were recorded in the scoring statistics of the Clippers, and Paul contributed 6 points.

The Blazers' score in the last quarter was not as high as the first three quarters, only 5 points more than the Clippers, but it was enough to kill the opponent.

At 89:116 in the game, the Blazers beat their opponents by 27 points in an away game.

When two teams that rely heavily on the inside meet, the weaker team is doomed to be dominated by the stronger team.

This is what happened to the Clippers tonight!
(End of this chapter)