The loss was a blow to the Clippers, but their performance was much better than last season.
In the end, the loss was due to the fact that the tactics and strength were inferior to the opponents, and the players were too tired, rather than because everyone did not play well.
In the team locker room after the game, Mike Dunleavy carefully summarized the game process and gave everyone their opinions before disbanding.
This was not the case last season, because we lost too many games last season, and we lost so easily that it is useless to summarize.
After every loss, everyone goes home, and the team has no morale or winning atmosphere at all.
Zach Randolph was sitting under his locker. When Dunleavy was talking, he had big headphones on his head. He seemed to be listening to music and not listening to Dunleavy's nagging. Dunleavy didn't bother to care about him.
In fact, there was no music playing in Randolph's headphones, and he listened to everything Dunleavy said.
"The defense inside should be more active. Defense can be without talent, but it cannot be without attitude."
These words seemed to be addressed specifically to Randolph.
After taking a shower, in the player tunnel, reporters focused more on Davis, Curry and Kaman.
Davis is a veteran in Los Angeles, Curry is the No. 1 pick, and his performance in these games is quite amazing. Kaman is a member of the Clippers in 2003 and has been with the Clippers for 7 years.
And Randolph? A cancer player who was traded in the middle of last season, a country bumpkin from Indiana who has always ignored the media and received all kinds of bad news off the court. This summer, he hit someone in a nightclub. No reporter wanted to talk to him.
Randolph was relieved and left Staples in his Chevrolet Impala to go home and rest.
He has a fanatical obsession with the Chevrolet Impala. He bought five cars at one time and kept them at home. They were all models from the 1970s, and he modified them into different colors.
This square box car is extremely cool and eye-catching when driving on the road, completely different from Randolph's dark and round appearance.
What kind of car a man likes can often reveal his true inner self, which is often different from what people see.
The baby-faced Curry loves wild SUVs, which shows that he is not as weak as he looks, but a firm and hard-core person.
Randolph is by no means as dull as he appears. His love for the Chevrolet Impala began at a very young age, when his dream was to own such a car.
Now he has realized it and bought more than one. This cool car shows that he has a fiery heart.
When he got home, his mother had returned to Indiana, and his live-in girlfriend Frances Drake was waiting for him at home. The two hugged and kissed as usual.
They knew each other when they were very young and grew up in the same parish. They fell in love after Randolph became successful, and she followed Randolph from Portland to New York and from New York to Los Angeles.
Drake had never been very strict with her basketball star boyfriend. She knew she couldn't control him, as long as he remembered to go home every day.
As long as he doesn't get into trouble, Drake will be thankful. This guy has been in trouble ever since he was a kid.
After the last nightclub beating incident, Randolph restrained himself a lot, especially after the start of the season. Apart from games and training every day, the rest of the time was spent going home to accompany her, or to complete community service.
"Zach, do you still have to do community service tomorrow?"
"Yeah, get me a burger to eat, I'm a little hungry."
"Okay, please wait a moment my big star... By the way, a man named Jordan Peele called home today. He said he wanted to see you to shoot a documentary tomorrow morning."
Randolph was about to sit on the sofa and play video games for a while. When his girlfriend said this, he remembered that they were the two black actors invited by Mr. Smart.
Their film crew was recently filming a documentary with the team. When they were in Salt Lake City yesterday, they recorded the entire process of the Clippers' reversal of victory.
Tomorrow they will film a theme for Randolph, documenting his daily life.
"I know, then I should go to bed early. Forget it, I won't eat burgers. Let's go to bed early together, my dear."
"You really don't need to eat? Do you want to have a drink together?"
"No, no, I won't drink. I'm going to quit drinking."
"Quit drinking? Really?"
Drake looked at her boyfriend with surprised eyes, the words "quit drinking" coming out of his mouth shocked her, just like hearing Barkley talk about losing weight.
For people born into poverty in the United States, alcohol has always been very important. It is a narcotic that temporarily escapes their miserable situation.
Randolph is no longer poor, but he was once very poor. He drank secretly when he was still an adult. Alcohol can shed his dull shell and release his colorful nature.
The first time Randolph confessed his love to Drake was in a drunken state after drinking.
"Zach, do you remember the first time you kissed me? At that time, your mouth smelled like alcohol, which made me feel uncomfortable. Haha, now you tell you that you are going to quit drinking, is it true? I can't I don’t quite believe you.”
"Really, what I said is true. When I decide to do something, I will definitely do it, you know me. I am already 28 years old, and I want to take advantage of it before I am completely destroyed by alcohol. , start again and play hard."
There are many players in the NBA who have been ruined by alcohol, one of the more famous is Ruvin Baker, an All-Star power forward who is very similar to Randolph.
Once talented, alcoholism ruined his body and motor nerves, and he declined off a cliff, and he spent the later years of his career with the Knicks and Clippers.
The turning point of his career was in the season when he was 28 years old, during the NBA lockout period in 1999. He dropped from a power forward averaging 20 points per game to just over 10 points per game, and he never turned around again.
Randolph didn't want to repeat the mistakes of his predecessors. His mother gave him a slap that day. He felt that the slap was light, much lighter than the beatings he received when he was a child.
Because he has grown up and his mother has grown old.
The expression on Zach Randolph's face was very serious. Looking at this guy who had always been in trouble, Drake suddenly felt that he had grown up overnight and was about to become a real man.
Drake stepped forward and hugged Randolph, saying: "Zach, you know, at this moment I feel... I want to marry you, really, Zach."
Randolph hugged his wife gently and said: "That day will come soon. I will definitely perform well enough on the court."
Randolph's round and innocent face showed a determined look. He could feel that the Clippers were on the right path of health, and so was he.
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