New Century Basketball Frenzy

Chapter 313 The Sad Clippers

After two days of rest, Zhang Yi was even more tired than the match day.He has long been used to the simple training life, and now Zhang Yi still lacks training to deal with various occasions.

But his current fame is the best tuition, even if there are some social mistakes, everyone will only think that this is a child.

After all, youth cannot learn the experience of youth, and Zhang Yi is old enough, but this does not mean that he can do well in all aspects of society.

Lucy tried her best to reduce unnecessary entertainment for Zhang Yi. Although this would reduce his commercial value, the most important factor now was his performance on the basketball court.

In today's NBA, Zhang Yi is definitely a highly regarded rookie, and he is a talent who came out in a group of draft years, just like in 86, Jordan defeated the "big dream" Olajuwon and other strong players to reach the top of the league. It was Kobe's turn in 96, James in 03 and Curry in 09...

Zhang Yi showed a dominant level of strength from the very beginning, but none of these people reached the peak in the first year. The so-called strong are all made by hard work.

The problem that many critics are most worried about Zhang Yi is that he has no problems now. This is not a normal state for a rookie.Just like "Magic" Johnson and "Penny" Hardaway, players who were at their peak when they debuted, they always encountered problems of one kind or another in the end.

Now everyone hopes to see Zhang Yi display some insufficiencies while showing crazy performances. Only in this way can he continue to advance on the road of basketball and finally become a myth in the league.

Before the peak matchup with the Golden State Warriors, the Lakers will have to fight the Clippers in the same city. Of course, this game is also regarded as a padding game because the strength of the two teams is too far apart.

Although the Los Angeles Clippers have been attacking the playoffs, this does not mean that they have played well over the years.On the contrary, the Lakers, who had been bad for many years, turned around and directly started the season with 13 consecutive victories from the league vice-president to create history.

Zhang Yi's performance is not comparable to the core of the Clippers. Their first game has proved that there is now a huge gap between the two teams in Los Angeles.

It is already a luxury for a city to have two teams at the same time. Just like the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets, it is also impossible for these two teams to perform well at the same time.

With the rise of the Lakers this year, the Clippers' few nutrients were immediately eaten away. This kind of problem will occur in the same city derby. This is a historical necessity and no one can change it.

Although aware of the gap in strength, the only chance for the current Clippers is to seize all possible blows to the Lakers, including interrupting the opponent's 13-game winning streak at home.

In this game, because Wack announced a day ago that he would take turns to rest the two generals, Wally and Robert, the Clippers can be regarded as seeing a little hope.

Zhang Yi is of course the biggest problem for them to win, but just like the Pacers did before, driving him out of the defensive system at the beginning is half the battle.

Of course, a learning-and-selling adjustment like the Clippers will cause big problems. After all, not all players can be as average and plug-and-play as all the Pacers' rotation players.

When the game starts, although the Lakers can only play Zhang Yi's single-core in this game, it also means that Wacker can try his ability to lead the rotation.

The previous Lakers were still in the groping period. As for why they were able to perform so strongly, in fact, Wacker himself was a little confused. After all, the level of the NBA is more than that.Although in these 13 games, their strongest opponent was the Pacers who stopped in the Eastern Conference Finals last year.

In the end, the facts also proved that this Pacers team has the possibility of winning, because both Wacker and Zhang Yi felt that Duncan seemed to have let go of water in the final period.

And even so, the lore tactic arranged by the Pacers was considered a success, but the opponent was the excited Zhang Yi. His ultra-long three-pointer really exceeded everyone's expectations.

So if Zhang Yi was going to hit the penalty area or get close to the three-point line to shake the opponent away, God knows how Duncan will defend. He has commanded the team a lot in this game to make Zhang Yi weak on the offensive end.

Although the Clippers regard Zhang Yi as the only focus of marking, they ignore that the Lakers still have a group of crazy mercenaries.Although their data has shrunk a lot due to the compression of the Brown Bears, what Jaina found is a super rotation that can quickly play out the effect when they come off the bench.

So as soon as the game started, I thought that apart from Zhang Yi, the Lakers had nothing to fear, but they were quickly overwhelmed by other rotation players.

Because the Clippers players care so much about Zhang Yi that he is like a moving target, attracting two or three defenders all the time, so other teammates can basically run out of opportunities...

The opportunity for these guys finally came. Of course, no one was soft on their hands. They made three-pointers one after another, and they made the Clippers foolish in the first quarter.Everyone originally thought that Zhang Yi or Robert were the three-point champions of the Lakers, but now they know that all players, including the substitute insiders, have three-pointers!
But it was too late to know this, because the Lakers made a historic 8-of-8 three-pointer in the opening game, and the defense of the rotation lineup was also very strong, which directly caused various mistakes in the Clippers' offense.

It can be said that the preparations of the two teams before the game are not at the same level.The Clippers owner sitting on the sidelines has strengthened his determination to let the team fail.

After the entire first quarter, even though Zhang Yi sat on the bench to rest for the next few minutes, the Lakers still led by 16 points. The three-point shooting percentage dropped slightly after that, but it was still a terrifying 15-for-10!

The head coach of the Clippers was dumbfounded, because before this game, the Lakers had never played such a sharp outside tactic in the first quarter. Only then did he realize that it was a big mistake to blindly learn Pacers tactics.

No matter how strong Zhang Yi is, this cannot conceal the overall strength of the Lakers.Those media who keep saying that Zhang Yi is a single-core leader definitely have ulterior motives. Obviously, the Clippers are such victims.

As soon as the second quarter came up, Zhang Yi played for a while with a substitute, and quickly expanded the lead by more than 20 points.And the Clippers players are really in a hurry. If they guard against Zhang Yi, others will easily shoot and score. Don't they guard against Zhang Yi?Even not double-teaming defense seems to be giving him points for nothing!

The biggest problem on the basketball court is to choke one, four emerge, let one go, and one blows you up!

The Lakers' offense and defense have played the smoothest performance since the start of the season, which of course is due to the Clippers' loose offense and defense.

If before the opening, the Clippers head coach still fantasized about ending the Lakers' 13-game winning streak, then at the end of halftime, seeing the 30-point difference, he only asked God to bless them, as long as they didn't lose too badly...

(End of this chapter)