The first defeat was a clean one, which made Min Congda very happy.
The unhappy part is that there is no salary for losing in the playoffs.
In the eyes of the system, leading your team to the playoffs is already a failure.
You deserve to lose, but you will be fined money if you win!
According to Min Congda's plan, the Clippers should win two games in this series.
In the end, they lost to the Thunder with a big score of 2:4. The Thunder entered the Western Conference Finals and the Clippers went home.
In this way, after this year's playoffs, Min Congda was deducted US$18,000.
I earned 20,000 from the fine and $2,000 after offsetting it.
"Oh my god, it's so hard work. Just earning two thousand is not as satisfying as losing a game in the regular season."
"Forget it, everything is under my control anyway! I just said it, the Clippers are not the Thunder's opponent!"
In this game, Kevin Durant scored 29 points, Westbrook scored 25 points, and Gordon scored 20 points.
The three young people worked together to score 74 points, and the young Big Three have begun to take shape.
For the Clippers, only Zach Randolph scored a steady 22 points and 11 rebounds.
Anyway, Fatty Lan only outputs this amount in every game. It is very difficult for you to expect him to break out and score 40 points in a game to save the team.
Randolph is the Clippers' bottom line player, and the Clippers' true limit depends on Curry, Harden and others.
Young people are not used to the Thunder's speed and intensity, and they are obviously not prepared.
The dull atmosphere in the locker room after the game made Min Congda feel very comfortable.
He lingered in the cramped away locker room for several moments, enjoying the frustration of the loss.
"I'm afraid I'm a pervert, right? Why do I enjoy this kind of negative energy and low mood?"
"I understand, this is the harbinger of bankruptcy and ruin, the smell of decline, the smell of corruption."
In just a few days, the players went from celebrating loudly in the locker room to saying nothing. Competitive sports are so magical and cruel.
Min Congda's elation seemed to the players to be a pretense of ease.
Anyway, every time he loses, Min Congda will spend more time with the players.
Curry thought to himself: "Whenever we lose, Mr. Smart will stay to comfort us, but when we win, he leaves."
George stopped dancing: "My performance tonight was too bad and I made no achievements. I don't know if Mr. Smart will be disappointed with me."
The person in the worst mood is James Harden.
He still has some feelings for Oklahoma City. After all, it is his first team.
Last year he was cheered by fans in this venue, but tonight he was mostly booed.
The faces of the fans changed faster than those of scumbag women and scumbag men.
Everyone looked stinky tonight, except Min Congda who was very normal and slightly relaxed.
Steve Kerr couldn't help but ask Min Congda: "Smart, how did you lose the game without looking sad?"
Min Congda said: "What is there to be sad about? The game is over. Can sadness change the result? There is no turning back in competitive sports. You can only keep running forward. This is not a trial. The case was lost today. Go back and collect evidence again. , a retrial can overturn the verdict. There is no overturn in a basketball game, there is no rematch, there is only the next game, do you understand?"
Cole said: "Of course I understand, but... no one can do it like you..."
"I'm not a human being? I just can, because my vision is very long-term, very long-term~"
Min Congda pointed to his own eyes with two fingers, and then pointed to Cole's eyes.
"Guys! Get ready for the next game! Don't worry, the series is far from over, it has just begun!"
After saying this, Min Congda happily left the locker room and went back to the hotel to play games.
The Clippers players quickly got out of their depression. Losing is normal anyway.
Those who will not accept failure will not be able to gain a foothold in the league.
But it’s hard to accept when failures follow one after another.
Two days later, on May 3, there was a second battle between the Clippers and the Thunder.
The importance of this game to the Clippers is self-evident.
They must win this game, otherwise it would be too passive to return to Los Angeles with a score of 0:2.
Therefore, from the first quarter of the game, the Clippers changed the decline of the first game and strengthened their offense.
Since the Thunder are faster than the Spurs, then I have to be faster than the Thunder.
The entire Clippers team operates at high speed, using a large number of runs, passes and cuts to attack the Thunder's defense.
The Thunder's defensive system is far less detail-oriented than the Spurs.
In many cases, it relies on the players' talents and personal abilities to suppress them.
At high speed and high intensity, the lack of defensive details gave the Clippers opportunities.
Baron Davis used his veteran organizational skills to continuously pass the ball, cut through the air, score on throws, and provide assists.
He seems to have returned to his peak in 2007, when he single-handedly directed Chef Ding Jie Niu.
The relatively inexperienced Curry moved to the supporting position and used non-stop running to mobilize the opponent's defense.
The Clippers' offense was extremely flexible, making the Thunder a little confused and unable to defend themselves.
At halftime, the Clippers led the Thunder by 4 points, 57:53.
The Clippers played very well in the first half, but Min Congda shook his head when he saw it.
He thought to himself: "The Clippers played too hard in the first half of the year and used too much force. They used their moves too early and got out of shape too early, and they were easily counterattacked in the second half."
Min Congda, who lost the first game, calmed down a lot and saw the Clippers' problems at a glance.
Dunleavy and Kerr didn't really solve the Clippers' problems.
In the first round against the Spurs, young people used their imaginations in the first half. In the second half, Baron Davis and Randolph ended the game with a clean sheet.
This kind of game rhythm is very comfortable and can give full play to the players' strengths and characteristics.
Therefore, the Spurs were stabbed to the core.
Now, you have Randolph and Baron Davis going all out in the first half and everyone else revolves around them.
Can you play like this for the whole game?
Except during the regular season, the idea of building the team is to revolve around Randolph Baron and then pair it with a group of high-quality role players.
But Curry, Harden and others are not role players. They are full of imagination. This is not their rhythm of the game.
And they are young, inexperienced, and have yet to learn to adjust themselves in the face of playoff adversity.
The good news is that the Thunder are young, too.
The bad news is that the Thunder are at home and they are in hot shape in the third quarter.
Especially Kevin Durant.
Durant, who deliberately stayed focused in the first half, suddenly showed strength in the third quarter.
He hit two consecutive three-pointers to take the lead.
This is purely an individual player's ability.
In tonight's game, Durant shot these two three-pointers.
And it was these two go-ahead three-pointers that completely reversed the game.
The Clippers once again followed the Thunder and chased points breathlessly.
Harden and Curry can both score goals, but their efficiency has obviously dropped a lot.
The whole team fell into the same cycle as the previous game.
If you fall behind, you will mistreat the main force, and the substitutes will have no chance. There are few players, and the main force has no feeling. If you fall behind further, you will mistreat the main force even more...
Mike Dunleavy seems to have forgotten the "everyone has a ball" strategy he has pursued all season.
He went back to the 2006, six-man rotation in the playoffs.
The game was tense, with Curry, Harden, and Randolph all scoring consecutive goals.
But Durant, Westbrook, and Gordon can also respond.
The scores of both sides increased alternately, and the Clippers could never find a comeback point.
As Ibaka gave the Clippers two consecutive big blocks at the critical moment of the fourth quarter.
During the counterattack, Gordon received a pass from Westbrook and succeeded in a layup.
Thunder 109:103, a 6-point advantage once again sealed the victory!
Oklahoma City, the Thunder won two games in a row, leading 2:0!
Min Congda's mouth was almost crooked with laughter.
(End of chapter)
