Goal 1 only requires winning 11 of the last 20 games.
But goal 2... Li Ao estimates that he must win at least 13 games, which is a winning rate of 55 wins.
And maybe even 13 games won’t work...
Turning off the system screen, he didn't want to go that far first. First, he had to take down the collapsed opponent in front of him!
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Clippers' home game against the Nuggets started.
The Clippers quickly gained the upper hand. On the offensive end, Odom launched the offense, Li Ao assisted + mid-range shot, O'Neal moved at close range and under the basket, Greg Anthony responded, and Matt Halprin screened and cut. Individuals are determined to do what they are good at.
On the defensive end, Li Ao led the defense from the top of the arc, O'Neal Jr. guarded the inside, and Matt Halprin blocked and cut in from the flank. The three defenses were all excellent. Odom actively switched defenses to make up for the defense without holding back. Four drags and one led Greg - Anthony, and Greg Anthony has rich game experience and does a good job of assisting defense.
After entering the rotation lineup, Gentry made a lot of adjustments, and tonight he needed to use defense to suppress his opponents. The players he rotated on in the first quarter were Big Q and Chris Mihm to ensure continuity on the defensive end.
The Clippers scored a steady 26 points in the first quarter and defended the Nuggets to only 17 points!
The Nuggets started off very well, and their record was once on the same level as the Suns, Mavericks, and Jazz.
The starting combination of Van Exel, Voshan Leonard, James Posey, Antonio McDyess, and Reeve LaFrentz needs to be offensive and defensive, and LaFrentz is still As a three-point center, Van Exel and Antonio McDyess must be as comfortable as possible on the offensive end.
There are also evergreen Kevin Willis on the bench, George McLeod who once averaged 3.3 three-pointers per game, Robert Pike, Mark Strickland, Geon Clark...etc. Quality role player.
The Nuggets once averaged 99 points per game and conceded 95 points per game.
At the end of December, the Clippers were beaten once by the Nuggets.
But by the middle of the season, as soon as the intensity of the Nuggets schedule increased, the Nuggets' performance began to decline. Before January was over, they fell to tenth in the Western Conference, and were later surpassed by the Clippers and fell to eleventh.
In mid-January, when Odom was still absent, the Clippers were able to rely on Li Ao's 33 points, 8 assists and 4 blocks to narrowly defeat the Nuggets.
In the second half of the more intense season, the Nuggets have completely turned into soft-footed shrimps. Now the average points conceded per game has exceeded the average points scored per game, averaging 96.7 points per game and losing 97 points per game.
The Clippers played against the Denver Nuggets again. It was hard to tell where the other team failed. Their style of play was still the same as in the early part of the season.
That should be because the style of play is not strong enough, and other strong teams are getting better as the season progresses, while the Nuggets are still as strong as they were at the beginning of the season.
In the second quarter, the Clippers scored 25-17, extending their lead to 16 points. The gap between the Western Conference playoff teams and non-playoff teams was revealed.
After halftime, the Clippers let Odom and O'Neal rest. Chris Mihm and Brian Skinner partnered inside. Their defensive performance declined and the Nuggets scored 27 points. However, the Clippers were led by Bo Eakins and Brevin Knight took turns leading the team, scoring 32 points in a single quarter!
The Nuggets' defense was completely exhausted again. Boykins broke through and scored, and Brevin Knight broke through and scored. It was like visiting the back garden.
At the end of the quarter, Gentry replaced the combination of Greg Anthony, Big Q, Li Ao, Maggette, and Chris Mihm. Li Ao launched an attack with a high post, and his teammates cooperated with the movement.
Yes, Li Ao mentioned this matter to Gentry. Gentry planned to take some time to practice on the following training days. Unexpectedly, the training opportunity came before the training day.
He specially arranged for Li Ao three young runners, Da Q, Maggette, and Chris Mihm, plus Greg Anthony, an experienced veteran point guard, to direct on the court.
Under the leadership of Li Ao, the Clippers' offense collapsed and they only scored 16 points.
This is what Gentry expected. Li Ao can hit James Posey without the ball, but when facing this defensive genius with the ball, let alone him, Kobe, Carter, Ray Allen, etc. People's performance will decline in front of James Posey.
Li Ao made only two of 7 shots in the final quarter, scoring 4 points and 2 assists... plus 7 rebounds in a single quarter!
Compared with Van Exel's 1-for-5 in garbage time, Li Ao's shooting percentage is actually good.
Gentry thought that the point difference would be narrowed in the final quarter, but in the end the point difference widened by 4 points. The Nuggets only scored 12 points in the final quarter.
The Nuggets' mentality really exploded. In the last quarter, the Nuggets made a few random shots and scored 4 goals in 22 shots.
Originally, Clippers fans felt that this game was not worth watching. The strength shown by the opponent was not even worthy of the current record of 30 wins and 33 losses. The 0 wins and 6 losses in the past 6 games better represented the strength of the Nuggets.
As a result, the opponent gave up a rebound in the final quarter...
Li Ao had 4 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists and 1 block in the first quarter, 5 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block in the second quarter, and 11 points, 1 rebound and 4 assists in the third quarter.
At the end of the quarter, Li Ao scored 4 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block!
With 24 points, 11 rebounds, 11 assists, 1 steal and 3 blocks, Li Ao scored double figures in assists for the first time in his career. Relying on the opponent's late assists, he scored a triple-double for the first time in his career!
99 to 73, the Clippers defeated the Nuggets by 26 points and won their 36th victory of the season!
The fans at the scene got excited in the last few minutes. When Li Ao got the 10th rebound, everyone was excited.
He also got 10 rebounds and Big Q excitedly told him that he just knew he had a triple-double. He felt that there were a lot of rebounds in the final quarter...
Not only did their side have more defensive rebounds, but so did their opponent. Kevin Willis completed 10 rebounds in a single quarter for the third time in his career.
This triple-double came suddenly, just like in the crazy three finals. He was not interested in the sewer, but he didn't expect to get it!
That's right, 7 of the 11 rebounds were scored in garbage time... The fans didn't care if it was garbage time, so he didn't care either and enjoyed the cheers!
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Li Ao scored a triple-double. In this stage where there are endless exciting NBA games and the NCAA crazy three games are about to begin, even if it is a sloppy game with nothing to watch, he still grabbed a headline!
The first rookie triple-double this season!
The number of players who get a triple-double in their rookie season is a lot less, but not a lot more.
Counting Li Ao, only 4 people have won the draft in the past five years.
The other three are Anthony Walker, Francis, and Odom.
Francis once, Anthony Walker twice, and Odom the most, three times.
At the age of 19, Li Ao broke Odom's record of being the youngest player in history with a triple-double at 20 years and 45 days.
The youngest Mr. Triple Double is born!
After a wave of 2 wins and 5 losses, the Clippers' popularity cooled down, but with back-to-back wins + Li Ao's youngest triple-double in history, the fans' attention returned to the Clippers.
The next morning, Li Ao got up and finished his morning exercises, then read the news for a while.
Whenever he plays well, it's a tough day for Lakers fans.
The Lakers were laughed at again.
As the defending champions of the Lakers, the OK combination is unique in the league and is at its peak.
Fans of other teams should not laugh hard when they seize the opportunity.
The more this happens, the more regretful and unwilling the Lakers fans become. This emotion becomes deeper as time goes by and with Li Ao's increasingly outstanding performance on the court.
Of course, there will be Lakers fans who will stand up and fight back - Spider-Man's triple-double was done in garbage time.
There was a counterattack, and the fans of other teams became even more excited.
"Does any of your Lakers players have a triple-double this season?"
"No one can get a triple-double in your garbage time."
"Has anyone on your team ever had a triple-double?"
Fans of other teams violently attacked, leaving Lakers fans speechless.
Not to mention, the Lakers players have never had a triple-double this season.
Not just this season, among the 15 players on the Lakers this season, only one has scored a triple-double in their career. This person is O'Neal. He scored 24 points and 28 points in the second-year regular season against the Nets. Plate 15 blocks.
He was very happy to watch it, but Li Ao turned off the computer before he was about to drift off again.
He opened the system screen and looked at the two reminders of the 5,000 achievement points awarded for winning a triple-double in his rookie season, and the 10,000 achievement points awarded for breaking the record for the youngest triple-double in history. He felt that this was more realistic.
Now he has accumulated 77,595 achievement points, and he still needs to work hard!
After 10 consecutive victories, the accumulation speed of achievement points dropped sharply. These achievement points were not enough, and Xia Tian needed more.
He calculated that the training time this summer may be shorter than last year, but the daily consumption will become greater because he has more training content and the level of training tasks has increased.
His body stopped sweating. Li Ao turned off the system screen and took a shower. After packing his luggage, he came to the living room. His mother had already prepared the meal.
Zhou Limei rushed over as soon as the visa issue was settled. Due to the nature of her son's work, she planned to stay here until Vivian finished confinement. After Vivian heard about confinement, she was very excited. interested.
Li Weidong had to arrange the work in the factory before coming back, and he had to run in both directions.
He is quite happy to come to Taka-chan's house to practice speaking.
In Li Ao's eyes, his father's speaking broken English and chatting and laughing with others was really awesome, but in his father's heart, it felt quite embarrassing. He wanted to practice a California accent like his son, and no one could lose to him. son.
Kobe has already arranged the ward in the Beverly Hills Nursing Home. There are queues for a year and so on. That is the selling point. Kobe's stay in Los Angeles has not been in vain all these years. This small thing can be easily handled.
Li Ao planned to treat Afro to dinner after the next three games in Texas to express his gratitude.
Familiarity comes with familiarity, trouble comes with trouble, and there should be no lack of human contact.
After breakfast, before Li Ao left for the airport, his mother came to him and said a few words. Although Vivian was beautiful and sexy, she had to exercise restraint before the child was born.
The mother knows best what kind of character her cub is.
With his small face and sweet mouth, he became the class beauty in junior high school. In high school, he coaxed his neighbor's pretty girl who was studying in college into saying that she wanted to wait until he grew up... but was kicked by her grandfather to come to the United States.
Li Ao felt that his mother was worrying too much. In order to prevent accidents, the hospital assistant aunt was always ready to shake Jessica or Lizzy Caplan over...
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On March 12, the Clippers came to Houston's Toyota Center to challenge the Rockets away from home.
The Rockets can't play this game.
Mobley, the top scorer, is good at mid-range and long-range shots and post-up play, and has comprehensive scoring methods, but he is not top-notch in all aspects. Every time he encounters a tough defensive opponent, his scoring and shooting percentage drop significantly. He is suitable for being the third leader and secondary scorer. He is unable to attack tough situations and organize offense, and his performance is lower than the average level of players with the same ball possession rate.
It was already difficult for Francis to beat Maggette, but now he also has Matt Halprin, who is on the street...
The most critical thing is that in recent games, Olajuwon took the initiative to "injury" due to conflicts with the management.
The Rockets gave Olajuwon a three-year pension contract worth $13 million. He was not satisfied with the price. During the All-Star weekend, the 37-year-old boasted that he was greater than Malone and Stockton combined. He doesn't ask for a contract as big as the two-year, $29 million that Malone got in 1999, but it has to be higher than Stockton's two-year, $22 million.
I don’t know if the Jazz did it on purpose. Two days after Olajuwon said this, the Jazz officially announced that he had completed a two-year contract extension with Stockton for US$14.5 million in two years and US$37.6 million in two years. Knife and Malone completed contract extension.
Now Olajuwon can no longer take his words back, and his relationship with the Rockets has become even more tense.
Olajuwon was "injured", and his two guns in the backcourt were restrained. Maurice Taylor was the only one left inside, but Maurice Taylor didn't understand why Odom and O'Neal Jr. were so active in guarding him.
In fact, this is the grievance of the Clippers Twin Towers...
Maurice Taylor averaged 17 points, 6 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game for the Clippers last season. If he can stay with the team, the offensive and defensive pressure on Odom and O'Neal will be greatly reduced. Moreover, his salary is not high, this season is US$2.25 million. .
And he performed so well this season that even Alexander, who was so stingy, gave him a five-year, $40 million contract extension.
The Clippers defended hard and were active throughout the game. The Rockets scored 21 points, 24 points, 21 points, and 21 points respectively in the four quarters.
On the offensive side, Li Ao's back attack showed its prowess tonight!
9 post-ups, 5 of 8 shots, and a three-pointer from the back with a big Q in the corner!
Of course, the main reason is that no one on the Rockets can prevent him from playing in the back.
Mobley was too short and Shanton Anderson couldn't withstand it. Tomjanovich even used Maurice Taylor to defend him, but Li Ao turned around and rushed forward to attract a baseline attack and provide an assist.
Li Ao made 12 of 22 shots from the field, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, plus 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 32 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, and 4 blocks. He led the Clippers to a 99-87 victory over the Rockets and won three consecutive games. Win!
On March 14, the Clippers came to San Antonio, Texas' second stop, and defeated the Spurs 104-89 away from home.
Li Ao worked hard tonight, he worked hard, he worked hard, he was tenacious... He shot 3 of 13 from the field.
He ran outside the three-point line. When he received the ball, there were two people in front of him, one was shooting and the other was blocking the breakthrough.
How honored is he to be worthy of such a defense?
Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of chapter)
