super small forward

Chapter 195 195. Being Lead by the Nose

Griffin finally understood why Little Jordan's body, which was not much weaker than him, was hit by Liu Ren like a swaying kite. The strength of this little man was really terrifying.

Liu Ren was a little surprised, but he had expected that the collision with Griffin would not take advantage, and immediately accelerated again after bouncing away. Liu Ren's strength was not stronger than Griffin's, but Liu Ren's second explosive power after the speed and explosion Much better than Griffin.

Griffin was still breathing, and Liu Ren had already accelerated from his side to the inside.

Jamison on the Clippers side rushed out of the three-second zone and blocked Liu Ren on the right side of the free throw line. He didn't want to stay inside and become a background.

Liu Ren passed the ball directly from under Jamison's arm to Thackeray who was under the basket, and Thackeray bounced the matchbox with both hands and dunked the ball into the basket.

The fans at the scene immediately cheered loudly when they saw Thackeray's goal. It can be seen that Thackeray is really popular with fans now.

The Clippers played more simply and clearly. The three "outsiders" were all singles, and Turkoglu and Jamison both played the role of opening up space.

The Clippers' first scoring point was Griffin, who singled out Liu Ren.

When a power forward with Griffin's stature is playing in the high post, the league can defend him in less than one hand. If he is defended, he will pass you by accelerating, and if he is not defended, he can shoot.

Thanks to Liu Ren's strong body and faster speed than Griffin, he blocked Griffin's tank-like breakthrough.

But Griffin still made a long-range mid-range shot over Liu Ren's head.

Griffin's shooting movements are too weird. When others shoot, they shoot from the highest point of jumping up. Liu Ren also defends in this way.

But Griffin is different. He didn't lift the ball to his head when he jumped to the highest point, and he didn't throw the ball until he was halfway down.

Before, a shooting coach exposed that Griffin’s free throws could not be improved, because his free throw habits were very strange. He hardly knew how to throw the ball at the most appropriate time. The ball was shot, but he couldn't control the power at all. Every free throw was too powerful, which caused his free throw percentage to hover around [-]%, which was too low for a player with excellent mid-range shooting ability.

But what is surprising is that Griffin became hard to guard against because of this weird habit when shooting. When he fell, his waist and legs tightened while shooting, which offset his shortcoming of excessive strength and became very difficult. allow.

Moreover, Griffin's unexpected shooting moves are difficult for opponents to guard against, and they don't even know when he will make a shot.

Liu Ren is like this. When Griffin jumped up, he didn’t jump because he was afraid that the opponent would shoot too early. If he jumped, the opponent jumped up and didn’t shoot for a long time. Instead, he shot when he fell and stayed in the air. There was no way to defend against it.

After Liu Ren and Griffin fought each other for a few rounds, Liu Ren felt that this was not going to work, so he had to think of a way, so that the Clippers could maintain a two-to-four-point lead, which was not good for the Lakers.

The Lakers are mainly veterans. The physical strength of Gasol and Kaman is a big problem. In the fourth quarter, they have to fight. Whether they can support it is a big problem. Griffin and Jordan are both young and strong. For a young man in his 20s, it is not good for the Lakers to be anxious to the end of the game.

Not caring about face, Liu Ren chose the most rare defensive method of a star - going around the front!
Liu Ren, like James in the past two years, was also forced to rush. In the past two years, James was forced to the position of power forward. Every time he defended Griffin, Gasol and even Howard, he could only use the forward circle, otherwise he would not be at all. Can't prevent it.

Liu Ren was inspired by James' defense against Gasol when he played against the Heat last time, and defended Griffin around the front!

Liu Ren does not suffer from speed, agility or even strength, which hinders Griffin from receiving the ball very well.

but!

The Clippers have too many people with the ability to attack the ball!Three balls are not enough for them to play!

Griffin can't continue singles, and Crawford!

Facing Nick Young's aggressive but skillful defense, Crawford hit a three-pointer after various street-style dribbles.

Well, this kind of provocative attack is what Crawford is best at. Now Nick Young's fighting spirit is fully activated, and he returned a three-pointer in the same position with more flamboyant and coquettish moves.

Seeing that Nick Young returned one, Crawford thought that the best sixth man would not be able to cure you anymore, so he confronted him with a more coquettish posture.

Will Nick Young be afraid of Crawford?He dared to confront James, and immediately used more coquettish dribble catch shots to attack.

After the confrontation between Griffin and Liu Ren, it was Crawford's turn to confront Nick Young.

The Lakers were taken away by the Clippers in this section. The Clippers' offensive assistant Kim Terry's strategy worked this time. The top coach who once robbed D'Antoni of the Suns head coach's job once again taught D'Antoni to be a man. Facing the Lakers' strong substitutes, he used the method of forcibly changing the rhythm into a one-on-one one-on-one, destroying the Lakers' idea of ​​relying on overall strength to overtake the score.

Rivers' assistant team can only be described as luxurious. The five assistants are all at the head coach level, and they are all excellent head coaches, especially Kim Terry, whose annual salary is as high as 500 million a year, which is higher than his head coach Always be high.

The salaries of Rivers' five assistant coaches add up to more than 1000 million, and none of the four major leagues in the United States is more expensive than this coaching staff. Coupled with Rivers' 1000 million annual salary, the Clippers coaching staff's salary exceeds 2000 million dollars!

It is said that Sterling, the stingy owner of the Clippers, was so distressed, but after finally being proud, he said to Rivers that you can spend the money as you like, and he could only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach.

The Lakers' goal of relying on the bench to chase points and overtake is fading away. Before the official timeout 7 minutes before the third quarter, the two sides' play has become a back-and-forth confrontation.

After returning from the timeout, Liu Ren and Griffin were replaced, and the two sides began to replace other main players.

The game changed back to the style of play in the first quarter. The Clippers used Paul's organizational ability to play a team offense, and the Lakers would show off whoever met Redick.

Redick was numb from the explosion. He seemed to have seen the statistics of his opponent scoring [-] to [-] points in the post-match statistics.

At this time, D'Antoni's overall layout is excellent, but the shortcomings of on-the-spot command are exposed. The Clippers have Kim Terry, an assistant coach who is good at tricks, and the Clippers players are at their best. The Lakers are led by the Clippers this time. The nose is gone, Kobe and Gasol, two veterans, fought their lives in the last 4 minutes of the third quarter, and finally the Clippers opened the point difference to 6 points. The point difference in this game broke through 5 points for the first time!
(End of this chapter)