Chapter 786

After the all star weekend, the regular season was nearly two-thirds over, and the Clippers continued to be eighth in the West.

Judging from the current situation, it's still a bit difficult for jazz to catch up with clippers. After all, the two sides are now three games away, so it's not so easy to catch up.

The seventh place in the west is thunder. At present, it's two games more than clippers. It's not impossible for the Clippers to catch up with thunder in the future.

In the blink of an eye, as Richard predicted, the clippers were catching up with each other at the last moment, finally catching up with thunder before the end of the regular season and taking the seventh place in the West.

In fact, no matter whether it is seventh or eighth, there is no difference between clippers and thunder, because almost all of them are doomed to the end of the first round.

The first in the East is the Spurs, the second is the Lakers

Last season in the playoffs, the two teams were miserable. One was beaten by a black eight and the other was swept by a man in the second round. Obviously this season, they can't make the same mistake again.

And this season these two teams have different degrees of improvement, in the draft conference got quite brilliant new people.

In particular, the Spurs got Jimmy Butler this year, under Popovich's one-year training, he has now perfectly replaced Bowen's role in the Spurs team, even better than Bowen. After all, Bowen has no offensive ability, and Butler is quite good in this respect.

Even at the moment Butler's offensive ability is better than Leonard's.

On the defensive side, under Popovich's training, black rough hard Butler's defense strength at present is not to be underestimated, and it can definitely play a big role in this year's playoffs.

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All in all, whether it's thunder or clippers, there's very little hope for promotion when we meet these two teams. Even Richard didn't think much about promotion himself.

It's true that if Richard is willing to take blood, he doesn't mean that he has no chance of promotion at all.

But what's the point? Richard would not do such a trade.

I don't have a championship on my hand. I don't need to spend money to win the championship.

Besides, Richard has a lot of things for his son

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On April 15, the regular season schedule was finally settled.

Los Angeles Clippers, 45-37, are seventh in the West.

If you look at the results of the Clippers in the opening season, I'm afraid no one can think that the Clippers will make the playoffs this year. In the eyes of most fans, this year's Clippers will probably be a team in the lottery area again

Even if the Clippers are still the last three in the west this year, the fans won't say anything.

After all, the team is there, there is no star who can be on the table in the league.

Such a team, who can expect them to play a good record

But now the Clippers even made it to the playoffs, which really made the fans a little overjoyed.

Even more to their surprise, the Clippers play against the Lakers in the playoffs.

The city's playoff Derby, the first in NBA history, has never happened before.

Although everyone knows that clippers are not the Lakers' opponents, they are still very exciting for Los Angeles fans from the beginning to the end of this series.

Before the playoffs, Bryant called Richard and asked him to have dinner

As a result, Richard didn't go. He was about to play in the playoffs. Who had the heart to eat with Kobe.

Although there is no hope of promotion in this series, Richard is certainly not able to give up the resistance. His goal is to win at least one game with the Lakers.

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During the regular season, the clippers and the Lakers won four games, only one, and the one won was Bryant's rotation win.

"Doodle doodle!" The referee whistled the start of the game.

"Little cute, I'll remember it after coming on the court. Give me a good look at Kobe. I can't let Kobe score more than 20 points in this game, even if I lose the game tonight!" Before he came on stage, Richard told Leonard again.

He has said this to Leonard many times in recent days.

Hearing Richard call Leonard cute, several players in the team grinned

They don't know why Richard gave Leonard such a wonderful nickname. After all, seeing Leonard's robot face has nothing to do with loveliness.

To ask Richard why he took the nickname, Richard kept silent again

Leonard didn't seem to hear Richard's nickname. He nodded to Richard without any expression, and then came on stage.

In the jump, Monroe won Gasol and won the first attack round for the Clippers.

Little Thomas holds the ball to push forward. Although he is short in stature, he does this kind of work very well. He has speed and strength. There are not many people in the league who can stop him from pushing forward. At least old fisher can't.It's no exaggeration to say that it's very difficult to control the ball to the front court in the NBA if you encounter a full court press.

When the ball came to the front court, little Thomas paused for a moment, then suddenly increased his speed, passed the old fish directly, and rushed to the basket.

The old fish's defensive experience is also quite rich. Seeing that he lost his position, he didn't rush to start, but closely followed little Thomas, waiting for little Thomas to intervene when he shot.

Little Thomas has suffered a lot of such losses this season. Seeing that Big Ben has been blocked in his own breakthrough route, and there is old fish in the back, he immediately points the ball to hofford.

Then hofford watched Gasol's defense was tight and he didn't have a good time to pass it to Thompson.

Thompson got comfortable with Leonard's pick and roll, scoring a long two-point goal.

It has to be said that in the first attack round after the clipper's opening, the ball's right flow is quite smooth, and it can't be seen that this is a new squad composed of melons and eggs.

This is the result of hard work.

Richard can guarantee that no team in the League spends more time on training than they do on clippers!

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When the ball came to the Lakers, it was Kobe Bryant who came to play their first round.

Little Thomas doesn't have too much pressure to defend old fisher. Old fish is not a kind of flying point guard play, but a sitting gun play. The speed is not as good as little Thomas, and there is no advantage in strength, so little Thomas will not be exploded tonight.

Since little Thomas won't be shot, Leonard will be able to devote more energy to Kobe.

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Look at Leonard's defense, it's absolutely textbook level. There's no fancy and redundant defense action. The whole person follows the procedure strictly like a robot.

“DUANG……” Under Leonard's death spiral, Bryant's first offensive round ended in a straight fight.

In the next attack round of the clippers, little Thomas cast iron and was picked up by Monroe. However, under the defense of Big Ben, Monroe's second attack failed.

It's the Lakers' offensive round again, like a remake of the previous one. This time, Kobe Bryant was defeated by Leonard's defense.

Two consecutive rounds of iron, let Kobe Bryant recall last season's playoffs by the Mavericks swept the painful experience.

Why did the Lakers get swept last season? Even Kobe Bryant himself has to admit that it has something to do with him.

This round of series, Kobe Bryant is eager to win, consumes too much ball power, all kinds of singles, the hit rate is very bad.

After losing one game, Kobe wanted to prove his ability to save the situation more and more. As a result, the Lakers lost three games in a row because of his paranoia.

When Kobe was young, I'm afraid he didn't care about this kind of thing at all. Now he's not young and mature. Thinking of the painful experience of the last playoffs, he thinks he needs to make some changes.

Of course, what makes Kobe want to change is that he doesn't want to lose to Richard in this series.

Since he left the Blazers, every time he met Richard in the playoffs, he lost

This time, it's hard to catch the weak opportunity of Richard's team. How could he miss it.

If missed this time, Bryant has a hunch that he may not be able to beat Richard in the playoffs in his life.