For an NBA team, different games and different opponents will face different situations every night.
A team that is good at shooting three-pointers may have a collective failure of three-pointers one night and cannot make any three-pointers.
A team with strong interior breakthroughs may not be able to play well at the basket against a certain team with strong interior defense.
A team that is good at pick-and-rolls may be very good at guarding pick-and-rolls tonight, and the routine they are good at cannot be used at all.
These situations happen in every game and are completely unpredictable before the game, especially things like feel.
When it breaks out, no matter how hard you shoot, it's really like a plague when you can't shoot accurately. If you don't score, your teammates won't score either.
Therefore, why strong teams often defend well, because defense is more stable than offense and is less prone to ups and downs, so victory is guaranteed.
But even if a team has a strong defense, there will be nights when it cannot guard its opponents. Their own basket becomes a sea, and the opponent can throw whatever they want.
In short, players and fans alike have to face the unknown, unknown surprises, or unknown bad luck in every game.
How to deal with these situations, turn surprises into victories, and minimize bad luck is a lifelong problem for every player.
Even if a team has been playing for 10 or 20 years and has extremely rich experience, there will still be new situations to deal with in the next game.
The challenge of the basketball game is reflected here.
For the Clippers, a strong and young team, there are still many situations they have never encountered.
Tonight's start was a disaster for the Clippers. At the beginning, they were just 0:7 behind. No problem, no problem.
But when Harden misses a breakthrough floater, Randolph misses a low-post power play, and Gasol misses a high-post jumper, the problem is not that small.
Small problems started to turn into big problems, and then big problems turned into disasters.
In the first 6 minutes of the first quarter, the Clippers didn't score. Everyone couldn't make any shots, just couldn't make them.
Even if Curry enters the three-second zone after a pick-and-roll, facing the very close basket, he makes a throw, which he used to be sure of, but the ball still spins around the basket and falls out.
The Nuggets will not miss such a good opportunity, using quick counterattacks to rush to the Clippers basket, drawing fouls, breakthroughs, dunks, and three-point counterattacks.
The Nuggets actually beat the Clippers with a 17:1 offensive shock wave in the first quarter, which stunned the Clippers.
The Clippers' only score came when the referee whistled for a three-second defensive call by the Nuggets and gave the Clippers a free throw opportunity.
Curry made a free throw, which helped the Clippers break their scoring drought.
This start was beyond everyone's expectations. It stands to reason that the Clippers should be in good shape after two days of rest.
Unexpectedly, when I came to the Denver Plateau, I dug a sinkhole for myself at the beginning and jumped into it.
Tyronn Lue called two timeouts, but failed to regain the touch of the Clippers players.
What a hell, I can only say that every team will encounter this kind of hell once or twice every season.
No matter how much you throw the ball, he can't score. It's like a ghost hitting a wall. This is called ghost blocking. The basket is covered, but it won't let you score.
It wasn't until the eighth minute of the first quarter that the Clippers scored their first sports goal.
It still needs an insider like Zach Randolph, who can grab the offensive rebound and make a layup when Ricky Davis misses the mid-range shot.
Finally scored, the score reached 18:3, and the Clippers trailed the Nuggets by a full 15 points.
This is only the first quarter, and the Nuggets have established a huge safety advantage. Teams like the Nuggets always have an advantage in downwind games.
Chris Paul definitely has something to say about this. How did he get 58 back then?
Wasn't it just because the Nuggets had a tailwind? They were flattened all the way and scored 58 points.
The Clippers regained a little form at the end of the first quarter.
Randolph and Gasol succeeded in consecutive attacks inside.
At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers trailed the Nuggets by 16 points at 12:28.
The 12-point score also set a record for the Clippers' lowest score in the first quarter in recent seasons.
Curry scored 1 point in a single quarter and Harden scored 0 points in a single quarter. With this performance, those who didn’t know better thought the two were playing football.
Tyronn Lue got angry for the first time during the break and spat at the players.
It’s true that a tiger doesn’t show off its power, but I’m hello kicking.
No matter how weak Tyronn Lue is, he still played on an NBA championship team.
And what this guy is good at is not tactics, but inspiring people and morale.
The Clippers obviously didn't have a tactical problem, but the players were out of shape tonight.
Maybe it has something to do with the plateau away game, or maybe it's just that everyone is in average condition.
No matter what, it's only the first quarter and the game is like this. What do you think of General Manager Smart who is watching from the sidelines?
What can Min Congda think? Of course I watched it with a smile!
No, he couldn't smile too obviously, but covered his mouth and smiled.
Tonight's game, at least the first quarter, was the most enjoyable game Min Congda has watched this season.
In the second quarter, Tyronn Lue used Thunder methods to directly bench Harden and Curry who had performed poorly.
Just rest if you are not in good condition. So what if you are the star of the team?
Steve Kerr believes that the team should start with offense, play more passing and cutting, and get out of shape.
But Tyronn Lue believes that the team has a defensive problem. The players are focused on offense and mess up the defense when they are not in good condition.
You have to focus on defense. If you can't attack, just sit back.
Tyronn Lue still can't change the habits he brought from the Celtics in a short time.
But his judgment tonight was correct. The offense was not good and he was too far behind. If he wanted to chase points, he must strengthen his defense and improve his morale. m.
Therefore, Tyronn Lue arranged a substitute lineup of Milicic, Okafor, Leonard, Butler and Dragic.
Use five of them to play the transition period at the beginning of the second quarter, and let the starters and main rotations who performed poorly sit on the bench.
Milicic has now completely become a defensive blue-collar player, and his methods are ferocious, and he can be described as domineering in the interior.
In terms of physical talent alone, he is no worse than Gasol. He has also lost weight this season to make himself move faster.
More importantly, he is tougher than Gasol. Gasol was beaten by Nene at the beginning of the first quarter and was somewhat suppressed.
Milicic doesn’t care, Nene, you want to score on me? Punch me!
Milicic's defense relies half on skill and half on brutality, and he is not polite when it comes to taking action.
As soon as the second quarter started, a block, a basket protection, and a fierce foul immediately made the Nuggets' forwards less focused on attacking the basket.
At the same time, the Clippers' long-handed lineup on the outside and sudden change in style made the Nuggets very uncomfortable.
Okafor's glory is still there, and his defensive and rim-protecting abilities inside are much better than Randolph's.
The Nuggets counterattacked with a fast break in the first quarter, and immediately fell into a positional quagmire with the Clippers in the second quarter.
The tension between the two sides on the court suddenly increased, and at the same time the point difference was slowly narrowing, because the Clippers' offense was really average.
Just like this, the Clippers slowly narrowed the point difference in the second quarter, and by the middle of the game, the score reached 22:31.
The point difference has been reduced to 9 points, and the Nuggets only scored 3 points in the second quarter!
Although the Clippers only scored 10 points, the game situation was turning towards the Clippers.
Min Congda had just enjoyed himself for a while when these people came up to trouble him.
"Damn, what the hell is this? So ugly? You just got three points...throwing three-pointers, are you a friend of the Nuggets!"
As he was feeling troubled, Min Congda's phone vibrated and he received a text message.
"Mr. Smart, this is Paul Foster. When will we talk about the arena acquisition?"
Seeing this message, Min Congda's mood suddenly improved again.
Some people died, but not completely...
