Godfather of the NBA: Cutting Curry and creating a dynasty

The next day, the Clippers challenged the Suns away.

After two months of running-in, the Suns have now completely found the correct way of running and bombing tactics.

On the Clippers side, it seems that they are still immersed in the joy of two consecutive away games not long ago.

The entire game did not find an offensive rhythm at all.

On the Suns side, the classic combination of Nash + Stoudemire played well.

Nash frequently sent wonderful passes for his teammates, scoring 23 points and 15 assists in a large double-double.

Stoudemire was both offensive and defensive, scoring 28 points, angrily picking up 18 rebounds, and also sent 3 hot pots to the Clippers.

The Suns' several high-quality substitute players, Dudley, Dragic and Barbosa all performed well, scoring in double figures.

In this game, it can be said that all the members of the Suns are fighting, plus it is a home game, which directly beat the Clippers.

In the end, the Suns won the game 123-94.

This also sounded a wake-up call for Yang Li.

The NBA schedule is much tighter than college games.

There are more than 30 games in one season.

After the Clippers finished playing the Suns today, they have played 29 games this season.

Maybe it won't be long before these few recruits in my lineup will hit the rookie wall.

However, I have to say that the Clippers' schedule is still good.

In the next one and a half months, the Clippers played four games against the truly strong teams of the season.

Twice with the Celtics, twice with the Lakers.

In the first game against the Celtics, Paul Pierce was sidelined due to injury.

So the Clippers' two record against the Celtics is one win and one loss.

In the two games with the Lakers, they also had one win and one loss.

Gasol still failed to play the first game, and the second game was played after Gasol returned.

The Clippers have nothing to do with this well-packed Lakers team.

Another reason is the game at the beginning of the season.

Kobe saw the problems on the Lakers' back line, so he pulled Shannon Brown, Jordan Farmar and others every day to train them crazily.

In the past three months, the improvement of the Lakers' guard line is visible to the naked eye.

As expected of Kobe, he really has a set.

This reminded Yang Li also of a joke about Kobe.

The reporter asked Jordan, Kobe, James and Durant what they should do to defeat their opponents and win the championship after losing the finals.

Here's what they answered:

Jordan said: "I will train hard and make myself stronger."

Kobe said: "I will urge my teammates to train and make them stronger."

James said: "I will change teams and find stronger people as teammates."

"I'm going to join them," Durant said.

Having said that, in fact, during this period of time, the Clippers also met the Cavaliers twice.

But the Cavaliers are not really a strong team.

The Cavaliers 1.0 version of LeBron James is indeed strong, but look at the rest of their players.

The old Shaquille O'Neal averaged only 12 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, and he was at most a barely qualified starting center.

But because of his age and weight, his pace was too slow.

When encountering fast-playing teams like the Clippers, Suns, and Rockets, they directly become a burden to the entire team.

The Cavaliers even have two backup centers, Varejao and Big Z Ilgauskas.

The two of them have a problem with O'Neill, just let them run two steps and they will die.

The second head of the Cavaliers, Mo Williams, this guy was also selected as the Eastern Conference All-Star last season.

It's not that I hate him, it's purely because of being around James.

This guy was later nicknamed "Mobuchuan", which means that he only knows how to play singles with the ball.

But his efficiency in singles is really not that good.

To understand simply, you can think of him as a fully weakened version of Kyrie Irving.

As far as this lineup is concerned, it can't be regarded as a strong team in the true sense.

2010 2 Month 10 Day.

The Clippers defeated the Golden State Warriors 120-109 away.

Finished the last game before the All-Star break.

With 37 wins and 15 losses, the Clippers rank second in the Western Conference behind the Lakers with 41 wins and 13 losses.

Overwhelmed the Nuggets, Mavericks and Suns and other strong teams.

Yang Li himself also created a new record, the team coach who became the head coach of the All-Star Game in the shortest time.

Of course, the premise is that last year's Western All-Star coach Phil Jackson could not coach the All-Stars for two consecutive years.

What also makes Yang Li happy is that two people from the Clippers were selected to the All-Stars at the same time this year!

Paul Millsap, with an overall performance of 13.6 points, 9.7 rebounds and 8.3 assists per game, was selected as a substitute for the Western Conference All-Star.

The most surprising thing is that Curry was selected as the starter of the Western Conference All-Stars!

In the first half of the season, Curry averaged 25.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game.

In the first year of entering the NBA, he brought a team from the bottom of the league to the second place in the Western Conference.

Although the second place in the Western Conference is mainly due to Yang Li's coaching and the efforts of the Clippers.

However, Curry is the current face of the Clippers. What fans see is that Curry led the Clippers to become a strong team in the league.

场均25+4+6，这数据比之03-04赛季詹姆斯的20+5+5还要强！

And Curry's 25.7 points per game is directly ranked sixth in the league!

Of course, this is mainly due to the back-to-back 102 points.

This directly increased Curry's scoring average by one point.

Being selected as an All-Star starter, the outstanding data is only one of the reasons.

There are two more important reasons.

One is because Curry is in Los Angeles, and the fans here are extremely enthusiastic about voting.

The second is because of Kobe, he directly publicly shouted on social media that he wanted to partner with Curry in the backcourt in the All-Star Game!

I am afraid that this is the main reason.

As a result, Komi all over the United States helped Curry vote and directly put him in the Western Conference starting lineup.

Beat Hornets' Chris Paul and Suns' Steve Nash!

"Oh, the two of them, that makes sense." Yang Li looked at the Western All-Star list and nodded.

These two people are indeed inferior to Curry.

Nash is better, after all, there are two mvp in hand.

What cats are you Paul, hard honors one does not say.

It depends on your record in the playoffs, the Western Conference semi-finals many times, and the overall runner-up once.

At this level, don't touch Curry with the four porcelain crowns in hand.

Although these things haven't happened yet, as a person who has traveled back, can you make Yang Li stop thinking about things like this?

In addition to the All-Star Game, Curry also signed up for the Skills Challenge and the Three-Point Contest.

In fact, what Curry most wants to participate in is the slam dunk contest.

But the slam dunk contest is judged on the skill, difficulty and aesthetics of the dunk, not the antics.

At the same time, Curry will also represent the first-year team in this year's Rookie Challenge.

The Clippers joined him in the Rookie Challenge with Harden Ibaka and Gibson.

All four rookies of the Clippers this year were selected for the Rookie Challenge, which is enough to show how vicious Yang Li's draft vision is.

The 2010 NBA All-Star Game happened to be during the Lunar New Year, which made Yang Li very busy.