"For the championship!"
Before taking the court, the Trail Blazers' championship enthusiasm quickly infected the entire Rose Garden Arena.
Soon, the starting players of both sides took the field.
Trail Blazers: Lillard, Matthews, Batum, Aldridge, Wang Zelin.
Clippers: Rivers Jr., JJ Redick, Matt Barnes, Griffin, DeAndre Jordan.
As soon as the players from both sides met, one person's eyes were filled with despair and fear. This person was DeAndre Jordan.
Since the first time he met Wang Zelin in 2012, he has been beaten by the opponent. This has always been the case from the regular season to the playoffs.
Jordan is almost depressed when facing Wang Zelin. In this regard, he is not as good as Howard. The latter has always been getting more defeated and defeated more and more.
What's even more terrible is that Clippers captain Paul has not recovered to a satisfactory level due to his left hamstring injury in the last round tiebreaker. The Clippers officials have released news about Paul's first two games in the series.
However, Paul still wore a suit today, limped to the scene, and tried his best to cheer up his teammates.
However, if encouragement alone could work, I don’t know how many teams would have won the championship long ago.
Before playing, Wang Zelin took a look at the strength of the Clippers' lineup.
The player with the highest rating is Griffin of 89, who is only one step away from the realm of league superstars.
But because of damn injuries, he never took that step until the end of his career!
After Griffin finished the regular season this season, he averaged 21.9 points, 7.6 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, making him the Clippers' best performer. In fact, since last season, his scoring has surpassed Paul to become the Clippers' scoring leader, and his overall performance is also the first in the team!
It is not difficult to understand why Griffin received more votes than Paul in the MVP voting in the past two seasons.
If development continues normally, Griffin will become the next captain of the Clippers, and even the most powerful forward in active service, and he is also very caring.
Unfortunately, there is no if!
Because Clippers coach Rivers paid too much attention to Jordan, he had to give up the offline space to pass to the small forward in isolation. Although he has developed very good skills, the King still feels sorry for him.
Obviously he can use his strong body to play basketball, but today he accidentally learned a fancy change of direction from the outside, causing his knee to be injured again and again.
In fact, you can see this by comparing Rose and Westbrook, whose playing styles are very similar. In his peak period, he was also a violent rim-attacking point guard. As a result, Westbrook, who seemed to have a reckless style of play that only knew how to play straight up and down, rarely suffered injuries without manpower. On the contrary, Rose, who played in all kinds of exaggerated ways and played in different directions, had a career full of problems. Suffered from injuries.
On the one hand, it can be attributed to the different resistance attributes of the two people, but on the other hand, the choice of the two players' playing styles in details is also particularly important.
Omitting Griffin, the rest of the Clippers seem much more ordinary. Jordan with a rating of 82, Redick with a rating of 77, Barnes with a rating of 75, and...
Forget it, there’s no need to talk more about the Clippers Crown Prince. Who wants me to have a good father!
As the referee blew his whistle and threw the basketball high, the game officially began.
"Wang won the ball, but it felt like DeAndre was stunned. He didn't even jump."
"Maybe because there is no captain at the helm, he is worried that no one will feed him bread tonight."
On the Clippers side, no one expected that Jordan would fall ill at the beginning of the game.
"Retreat quickly!"
Paul was so anxious that he almost jumped.
But it was too late, the Blazers' offense was approaching like a tide, and the offense was left to Wang Zelin for control as usual.
After receiving the ball nearby, Wang Zelin singled out Griffin!
Although it was a little far away from the basket, the completed Clippers did not rush to double-team, because the Mavericks in the previous round had already set a wrong example for the other playoff teams.
"Wang, even if Chris can't play, the Clippers still have me! You just want to win!"
Griffin, who was under tremendous pressure today, lost his good temper as before and took the initiative to talk trash to Wang Zelin as soon as he came up.
After Wang Zelin glared at him fiercely, he dropped the ball, dribbled, and hit with his back. After a series of combos, Griffin's steps began to loosen and he retreated step by step.
"Peng!"
Near the basket, all the wild power exploded, and Griffin was knocked away.
"boom!"
A powerful slam!
2:0!
"In the opening stage, Wang still had no solution. It seems that the Clippers have not found a way to limit Wang!"
"King of Limits? Hey man, is this the biggest joke I've heard this year?"
Reggie Miller and Chris Webber, who was in charge of commentating this game, were suddenly excited by Wang Zelin.
Clippers offense.
Griffin's face-to-face singles, Aldridge in the low post, he dribbled the ball behind his back, quickly turned around and crossed the baseline, went to the basket and made a violent dunk.
Short hands come from short hands, Griffin's bounce is really good!
"I told you, you can't win tonight!"
After scoring the goal, Griffin did not forget to continue to spray at Wang Zelin.
However, he saw a trace of regret in the latter's eyes.
What kind of strange look is this?
Are you looking down on me?
Griffin was stunned for a moment, and then raging anger quickly filled his entire chest, and he decided to blow up the Blazers' inside line next.
Offense and defense transition, the Blazers attack.
Seeing Lillard advance, Rivers Jr. stayed outside the three-point line. Lillard's 40.2% this season is not even in the top ten, but if you consider three-point production, he is second only to the Splash Brothers.
Thinking of the team report in his memory, Rivers, who had always been active in defense, calmed down and did not try to steal the ball.
Seeing the unnamed guard in front of him looking serious on defense, Lillard suddenly became interested and beckoned for a pick-and-roll.
The familiar Wang Li pick-and-roll!
Frightened by Wang Zelin's follow-up cut, the Clippers players immediately hesitated to defend the target. In the end, Lillard went straight in, penetrated the opponent's heart, and succeeded with a one-handed dunk.
4:2!
Clippers offense.
Rivers' old problem of being too sticky to the ball happened again. Redick finally ran out of space, but failed to catch the ball, resulting in the loss of the opportunity.
However, due to the head coach's power, Redick did not dare to say anything and continued to move without the ball.
Seeing the time passing second by second, Little Rivers neither shot nor passed, determined to pass Lillard.
When the countdown entered 10 seconds, Griffin couldn't stand it anymore, came to the high position on the left, and roared:
"Give me the ball!"
Little Rivers was angry after being yelled at, but when he saw that the person with him was Griffin, he quickly handed over the ball without thinking.
"Snapped!"
After receiving the ball, Griffin singled out Aldridge in the high post, still making all kinds of fancy moves.
With 4 seconds left, he used a turn and finally passed the defender.
"Snapped!"
Obviously Griffin was happy too early. Wang Zelin, who had been waiting for a long time, jumped up high and greeted him with a hot pot shot.
The ball flew all the way out of the sideline, causing a burst of exclamations from the crowd.
"I don't understand, why do you like to be so fancy? It's really a waste of your talent!"
Looking at Griffin who stayed where he was, Wang Zelin complained indifferently.
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