Double stars shine in Los Angeles

Chapter 87
The Clippers' All-Star power forward Blake Griffin suffered a knee injury in the previous game, but in today's game, he still played with the injury.The Clippers' starting lineup tonight is center DeAndre Jordan, power forward Blake Griffin, small forward Caron Butler, shooting guard Chauncey Billups, point guard Chris Paul.

With the referee blowing the final whistle for tonight's game and Lakers center Andrew Bynum winning the jump ball with DeAndre Jordan, the basketball soon came to Tracy Mack Grady's hand.The city derby series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Clippers kicked off.

The Clippers' defensive strategy is very clear. At the beginning of the game, they adopted the method of shrinking the defense, so as to limit the raging of the Lakers' twin towers in their own interior, and at the same time, it can also reduce the number of Blake Gerrard, who is fighting with injuries, to a certain extent. Riffin's pressure on the defensive end.

The moment Tracy McGrady received the basketball, his usually sleepy eyes burst into a different kind of brilliance.Tracy McGrady felt a lot of emotion in his heart. He didn't expect that the first time he really stood in the second round of the playoffs would be like this.I think when the Houston Rockets and Yao Ming formed the "Yao-Mike Combination", they were in the limelight for a while. They were regarded as a replica of the combination of Sharks and Peter Pan. In the first round, it seems that this is a curse lingering on the Houston Rockets, and the combination of him and Yao Ming has alternate injuries in the middle and late stages.When the Rockets finally broke through the curse of the first round, he could only sit on the sidelines and watch. No one could understand his complicated heart at this time.

However, Tracy McGrady quickly stabilized his mind and focused on the game in front of him.Tracy McGrady immediately brought the ball upfield.

Since the Clippers have adopted a defensive approach, it is obviously inappropriate for the Lakers to start cooking from the inside according to the usual offense.However, with the current lineup of the Lakers on the court, the offensive firepower of the outside line is not inferior to that of the inside line. The Lakers now have two scoring champions on the court.The Clippers' tight defense allowed the Lakers to reduce a lot of offensive pressure on the perimeter.

Tracy McGrady passed the ball straight into Kobe Bryant's hands.Kobe Bryant feinted with the ball, and after attracting the attention of the defender, he passed the ball to World Peace outside the corner three-point line.World Peace received the ball with a slight jump and shot directly without the slightest hesitation.The basketball passed through the basket in a full arc, and the three-pointer was hit hollow.

"Worldpeace! Threeball!" The dj of the stadium shouted the name of world peace.The Lakers scored their first score in the series with a long three-pointer.

During the check-out process, Tracy McGrady remembered what Lin Fengzhe said to him before the game, "I guess the Clippers have a high probability of adopting a shrinking defense in the game to limit us. Play inside. But in this way, the pressure on our outside will be reduced a lot. In terms of the scoring ability of you and Kobe, as long as you can maintain your shooting percentage, you can completely force the Clippers to give up their original goal. Defensive strategy. As for the coach’s pre-match arrangements? As a point guard on the court, you always have to adapt to the situation, and what we want is victory. As long as we can win, other things are easy to talk about.”

"Lin, I didn't expect to be guessed by him. If the Clippers still adopt a tight defense, should I strengthen my scoring?" After a little hesitation, he made up his mind. He's not an obedient baby, otherwise he wouldn't have had a conflict with the head coach when he finally found a job with the Detroit Pistons last season, leading to being hidden.

The Clippers' first offense.Chris Paul knew the basketball was about to roll past half court before he picked it up and brought it to the frontcourt.

As the new "ship king", Chris Paul carefully dribbled the ball to the left of the top arc of the three-point line, observing the position of his teammates.Seeing Blake Griffin on the weak side ask for the ball, Chris Paul immediately made the pass.

As soon as Blake Griffin caught the ball, Pau Gasol immediately followed up to defend.Blake Griffin's mid-range shooting percentage has improved a lot this season. If he is allowed to shoot open mid-range shots, it will be no different from giving away points to the opponent, let alone before the game. I reminded Paul Gasol to pay attention to Blake Griffin's mid-range jumper, and he must stick it to defend, and don't let Blake Griffin shoot comfortably.

Blake Griffin saw that the opportunity was not very good, so he passed the basketball back to Chris Paul again.

Chris Paul's continuous fake action after receiving the return pass finally made a flaw in the defensive center of Tracy McGrady who defended him.Taking advantage of this short moment, Chris Paul immediately started to break through to the left.Tracy McGrady is worthy of being an old fritter who has been in the league for many years. He quickly adjusted his center of gravity and quickly caught up with Chris Paul, causing the opponent's breakthrough to end in failure.

But Chris Paul pulled the basketball back, then flicked his wrist, and passed the basketball to his own.Then I saw Caron Butler come out and catch the basketball.Chris Paul is worthy of being one of the top point guards in the league, and the pass came right in Caron Butler's path.

As for World Peace, who was in charge of defending Caron Butler, Caron Butler and Blake Griffin made an off-the-ball running cooperation, which was blocked by Blake Griffin and failed to reach the goal in time. The catching up, coupled with Caron Butler's already faster-than-world-peace speed, allowed him to run out of the open, and Chris Paul's pass was delivered just in time.

Caron Butler, who received a pass from Chris Paul, did not make any adjustments. He jumped up and made a mid-range shot. He made a mid-range shot and scored two points.

Tracy McGrady received Andrew Bynum's baseline serve, and slowly took it up and ran forward.

"Hey! Do you think Tracy will shoot directly by himself?" Li Yifeng asked Lin Fengzhe, who was sitting beside him, with his elbow on the Lakers' bench line, "I just saw you Bewitched Tracy for a long time over there."

"Nonsense! You don't need to ask! After all, Tracy used to be one of the top three scorers in the league. In terms of scoring ability, he is almost on par with Kobe. Now Tracy finally ushered in It’s the second spring of your career that you don’t want to be coquettish.” Lin Fengzhe curled his lips, and then said to Li Yifeng, “Can you not ask such idiot questions in the future, it will make you look low-level and make people suspicious Your IQ. Isn't this a shame!"

Li Yifeng heard Lin Fengzhe's previous words and felt that Lin Fengzhe's mouth would change the taste of any words, but when he heard Lin Fengzhe's latter words, he wished he could grab Lin Fengzhe's neck directly on the sidelines and beat him up. Beat him up, this guy's mouth is really cheap!
Turn your gaze back to the court.

Tracy McGrady carefully dribbled the ball at the top of the three-point arc, and at the same time made tactical gestures to his teammates, directing his teammates' running positions.If Tracy McGrady is not careful, Chris Paul won the title of steals king many times for no reason.

The way Tracy McGrady organized the team's offense carefully made Chris Paul relax his vigilance a little.At this moment, Tracy McGrady took off and shot directly, and directly pulled out from outside the three-point line.Although Chris Paul reacted in time to block Tracy McGrady's defense (no way, the height gap is too big), but it was futile, because Tracy McGrady made a three-pointer this time He even added a backlash.

Tracy McGrady's shot was too sudden this time, without any warning in advance.One moment, he was seriously directing his teammates to make tactical moves, but the next moment he directly pulled out a jumper.

After landing, Chris Paul could only watch the basketball draw a flat arc, and smashed into the basket with a bang.After Tracy McGrady took the shot, he kept his right hand raised high until the shot was hit, and then he clenched his right hand and swung it down fiercely.

"T-Mac! Threeball!" The DJ at the stadium shouted in a drawn out voice.

"Three-pointer! See Tracy's three-pointer again!" Jeff Van Gundy, who was on the sidelines as a TV commentator, said loudly, "Tracy's three-pointer is still so elegant, so Fascinating! And this time the pull-up also added a large amount of back, which greatly increased the difficulty of this team!"

"Indeed, this shot is very beautiful." Mark Jackson responded, "And this shot was shot suddenly, without any warning. But I am still curious about how Tracy did it. To get my game back to this level in just over a vacation. Tracy is said to be almost healed from her grief, which is amazing!"

Then the Clippers' second offense, Chris Paul, broke through directly with the ball, and then passed the ball to Caron Butler on the right.Facing World Peace's oppressive defense, Caron Butler had no choice but to pass the basketball to Chauncey Billups high up.

Chauncey Billups took two dribbles and threw the basketball toward the hoop.It was Bregg Griffin who slid the baseline to get past Pau Gasol for an alley-oop dunk with Chauncey Billups.

Blake Griffin stopped the basketball in the air with one hand and pressed it towards the basket. "Touch!" The basketball bounced off the rim, and Blake Griffin's alley-oop actually sent the ball flying!
ps: There has been a power outage since yesterday afternoon, and the update is late, please forgive me.

(End of this chapter)