From sparring to superstar

Chapter 194. 192. The arrogant king, the huge gap in strength

The No. 0 rookie listened arrogantly and successfully attracted the attention of the stars on the opposite side.

Divac clicked his tongue a few times and said, "It's nice to be young."

Weber laughed and said, "Yes, at our current age, if we do this, we will only be ridiculed for being old and immodest."

Doug Christie interjected dissatisfiedly: "Chris, if you are old, then what am I? I don't care, I want to steal the scene like Spiderman."

White Chocolate immediately came up with an idea...

Li Ao's flamboyant character, not only did not make these stars unhappy, but they admired it very much.

A rookie who played such a great rookie season, if he doesn't make such a show, they will think it's fake.

The current Five Tigers of the Kings, if anyone is really unhappy with Li Ao, only Peja.

Because Li Ao defended him 4 times.

At the entrance of the opposite player channel, the other four starters of the Clippers, under the leadership of Spiderman, entered the arena more actively than usual. Odom, who was the last to appear, also greeted the big Q with a rapper when they met, successfully Won a dozen seconds of spotlights and shots.

After the players of the visiting team have finished playing, the spotlight shifts to the entrance of the players of the home team.

After the substitutes lined up, Divac was the first to enter to the chants of the DJ.

Just when the DJ was ready to call the second person's name with a high pitched voice, he was choked and coughed several times covering his mouth.

Divac stood in the spotlight and did a disco dance, did a few glass-wiping moves, and finally clapped his hands in a Defensive Player of the Year move.

Not only the DJ was choked, but many fans at the scene were also choked, and the cheers suddenly stagnated, but when Divac clapped his hands for the ending pose, the cheers broke out again, even louder than before!
The second player, Doug Christie, ran out with open arms and circled the field for half a circle. The spotlight almost failed to keep up with him. Finally, he ran back to Divac, gave a gentleman's salute, and ended his appearance.

Immediately after White Chocolate came out, he got a ball out of nowhere, and after a flamboyant fancy dribble, he came to the back of the basket and hooked the ball into the basket.

Peja, who played fourth, also made an appearance and made a three-pointer after receiving a pass from White Chocolate.

Compared with the previous three teammates, Peja’s way of appearing was very restrained, but Webber, who was the last to appear on the stage, once again blew up the audience. He clenched his left hand as a microphone, raised his right hand and waved his fingers, like a rapper...

The atmosphere on the scene was extremely frenzied, and the Clippers players on the opposite side were dumbfounded.

They are going to fight tonight, is the Harlem basketball team?
The Clippers players thought it was enough to hear boos, howls, and rapper greetings when they entered the court.

As a result, the group of people on the opposite side was even more coquettish!
But the Kings in their impression is not like this!

Although the group of people on the opposite side are playing ball, they seem to be quite serious... Wait, it seems that few of the people on the opposite side are serious.

Divac was the drummer for a community rock band in Los Angeles, Webber had a rap album that sold as much as the Afro next door, White Chocolate had a music studio, Doug Christie wasn't famous...

Of the King's Five Tigers, only Peja is a real serious person, and he appears in the camera outside the court, at least in a casual suit.

But even if this group of people were not so serious, they weren't so flamboyant before, right?

Is this stimulated by them and opened the door to a new world?
The Clippers players felt like they were lost before the game even started.

After the lights came on, the teammates focused their attention on the boss.

Spider-Man said: "Let me think about it and see how I can be more handsome than them... Vaco! Hiet! If they do this first, even if we win, we will be regarded as imitating them!"

For some reason, Li Ao felt that they had suffered a great loss!

...

Tonight's Arco Arena, the atmosphere is particularly noisy, but also a little more joyful.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the series opener between the Clippers and the Kings began.

At the beginning of the game, the Kings firmly controlled the initiative in their hands, and they beat the Clippers on both offense and defense.

The 8 Kings players who just played a life-and-death battle with the Jazz the day before yesterday are in their best condition.

When the Kings played against the Clippers for the last time in the regular season, the performance that Adelman wanted to crush each other on both ends of the offense and defense, played this time!

韦伯首节7投4中，外加4中3的罚球，拿到11分2助攻。

迪瓦茨4分2助攻、佩贾8分、道格-克里斯蒂8分3助攻、替补上场的特科格鲁拿到2板2助攻、替补上场的琼-巴里进了一个接球三分。

The Kings scored 34 points in the first quarter!
快船队这边，奥多姆2分1助攻、小奥尼尔4分2板、李敖4分、马盖蒂5分、皮亚考斯基3分、马特-哈普林两罚中一拿到1分，首节只拿到19分。

The Clippers trailed the Kings by 15 points in a single quarter!
Gentry was beaten until his teeth bared.

Originally, he was expecting Spider-Man to enter the arena arrogantly, to stimulate the opponent's stars. If the opponent's stars did not play calmly, they would have a better chance of winning. However, the opponent's entrance ceremony was much more exciting than theirs, and the game hadn't started yet. His expectation It has been lost.

From the entrance ceremony, Gentry felt the strong confidence of the opposing players.

And that damned competitiveness!
The opponent didn't have the slightest contempt for them, the kind that even the entrance ceremony had to be won.

And the opponent used the most direct and hard-core game strategy-directly facing the front, going all out on both offensive and defensive ends.

I want to beat them straight at the beginning!

Gentry doesn't want to admit it, but he does have a fear that this is an opponent that neither they nor the Mavericks may win a game against.

But he is not willing to give up!
From the expressions and eyes of the team members, he also felt that although they were beaten dumbfounded, no one gave up!

How to counterattack?Think about this first, and defend first!
...

In the second quarter, the Clippers went all out to defend, with more confrontation than in the first quarter, and more rough actions.

The Kings fought too hard on offense and defense in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the offensive efficiency began to decline. The Clippers' defense increased the decline in the Kings' offense.

The most intuitive thing is that Webber went from 11 points in a single quarter to 4 of 0 shots and scored two points in a single quarter with free throws.

Under Li Ao's full hand-to-hand combat, Peja played for 10 minutes in a single quarter, but his score was halved and only scored 4 points.

Relying on Bobby Jackson who came off the bench for 9 points in a single quarter, the Kings only scored 22 points in the second quarter, a full 12 points less than the first quarter.

But the Kings' offense was pulled down, and their defensive performance was still very good!

Adelman expected this youth army is not so easy to defeat.

The best case Adelman thinks is to directly defeat the Clippers.

Just like the Lakers did last night, the Trail Blazers lost their fighting spirit by playing 35 to 17 in the first quarter.

But even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter, as long as you play the advantage at the beginning, and then slowly defend later.

快船队这边，李敖第二节7投2中加上3中3的罚球拿到7分、格雷格-安东尼进了个挡拆三分、奥多姆5分2板4助攻、小奥尼尔4分3板、马盖蒂4分，全队拿到23分，仅将分差缩小了1分！
42 to 56, the Clippers trailed by 14 points at halftime.

This gap in strength made the Clippers players miss the last two games against the Mavericks. Although it was not easy to play, at least they were evenly matched.

However, they did not give up!
Under the influence of Spider-Man, their attitude towards the game has become more and more generous.

Continue to die!

They rotate with 11 players. If they can't win, they have to peel off the skin of the opposing team with only 8 players in the half!

And, what if you win?
During the intermission, Gentry hadn't motivated the players yet, and when he came back from the bathroom, he saw that the players were already actively communicating and defending.

He joined in, using what he learned from Larry Brown to help the players.

By the third quarter, it was Adelman's turn to feel numb.

Opposite is simply a group of Xiaoqiang who can't be beaten to death!
Faced with such a big gap in strength, they are still fighting, and fighting even harder!
The Kings only scored 19 points in the third quarter!
Although the opposing Clippers only scored 19 points, the point difference did not narrow, but at the end of the quarter, Adelman gave up first.

He sent a combination of Bobby Jackson, Doug Christie, Peja, Turkoglu, and Webber to attack.

This combination is stronger than the firepower of their starting lineup.

However, under the desperate defense of the Clippers, they 'only' scored 27 points in the final quarter.

For the Clippers, Li Ao seized the opportunity to pick and roll consecutive shots and made 9 of 5 shots in a single quarter, including 2 of 1 three-pointers and scored 11 points.

中段上场的马盖蒂更是5投3中外加6中6的罚球拿到12分。

Weber went to the center, and Li Ao used the cover to cover the flanks, and Weber couldn't defend against Maggette's impact even if he played the center.

Relying on Odom's pass, Li Ao and Maggette led the team to score 36 points in a single quarter.

Chased 9 points in a single quarter!
Unfortunately, at the last moment, Weber singled Matt Harprin and made a turnaround jumper, locking the point difference at 5 points.

97 to 102, the Clippers failed to reverse and lost to the Kings by 5 points.

李敖23投9中，其中三分球4中1，加上7中6的罚球，拿到25分6板4助攻3抢断1盖帽。

He played for 42 minutes tonight, fighting to the end, but still only got the consolation prize of 100 achievement points.

He felt the substantial gap in strength between them and the championship team, and the complacency of defeating the Silver Horn King, who was only in the third grade, and the Son of the Wind, who had not ushered in the windy day, was crushed to pieces.

but!

Here comes his stubborn temper!
Didn't win this time, come again next time!
I still can't win next time, and there is another one!
In the second round of four games, if you can't win, you have to break the opponent's skin!

...

After the first game of each group series in the second round, all four series have surprised people.

Carter used strength to defeat people's doubts about his competitiveness.

ESPN's news is the most ruthless-Carter is the big shark on the back line, he is just playing in the regular season, and the playoffs are the stage in his mind.

This statement shocked Raptors fans.

The thing seemed to be like this. They also felt that Carter was a different person in the playoffs. His competitive energy seemed to be taken over by Kobe or Iverson.

But can you change the comparison object?
Don't know Duncan hates sharks the most?
In another series in the Eastern Conference, Ray Allen was no worse than Carter and Tracy McGrady. He scored 25 points on 10 of 28 shots and hit the buzzer when he was behind by two points in the last 3 seconds. The lore three-pointer took the home court advantage from Iverson.

Unlike the East, the teams in the upper zone in the West all won with a huge advantage in strength.

But in some series, the gap looks too big.

People think that the Lakers have an advantage, and the Trail Blazers probably won't be able to climb this mountain this year.

But the advantages played by the Lakers make people think they are still playing the Timberwolves!

Some people even think that after the Lakers adapted to the rhythm of the playoffs in the first round, it was easier to play against the Trail Blazers than against the Timberwolves, because the two teams played only 1 minutes in G37 Kobe and O'Neal only 35 minutes. And these two averaged 40+ minutes per game in the first round.

The Lakers, who had no sense of existence in the first round, played a shocking performance after meeting another team that was regarded as a championship contender.

Another team in Los Angeles is also very much in the spotlight.

The performance of the Clippers in the first game is very eye-catching, not because of their strength. Even if they narrowed the point difference to 5 points in the end, people can still see the strength gap between them and the Kings.

What attracted people's attention was their game attitude after falling behind by 15 points in the start.

The energy of a group of young people in their early 20s to play hard is too easy to impress the fans.

In this game, the young Clippers have a wave of fans, and they are the kind of fans who really like to watch the game.

But regarding the first game of the series between the Clippers and the Kings, the hottest topic...is that the Clippers lost to the Kings in the entry show!

Originally, the attention of this game was very high.

The Kings have a good record and a gorgeous style of play. Although they have not risen for a long time and their background is not enough, they have a lot of fans. The ratings of this season's games remain high.

The Clippers, a standard popular team, relying on Spider-Man, next to the Lakers, can grab the headlines.

The entrance show of the King's Five Tigers full of anger index, and Spider-Man's entrance show after breaking his head and losing, were widely spread by the media and fans.

TNT Sports' cutting-edge commentator Charles Barkley shouted to the Clippers: "Spider-Man, I'm your fan, you can't lose!"

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