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Chapter 228 What is Early Locking?

"76 wins!"

"Our goal is to hit 76 wins!"

Varejao shouted loudly, "We have created a more difficult record, and we guarantee that it will not be broken in the next 100 years!"

Everyone in the Clippers laughed.

Su Yang shook his head slightly, thinking that 76 wins would be a complete victory in the next 23 games. It is not impossible, but it will consume a lot. Considering that Hill has been injured for such a long time after surgery, there is no need to forcefully pursue it. whatever.

Payton said with a smile: "73 wins is fine. On the day I get 73 wins, I will call that bastard MJ and tell him that the 96 Bulls are no longer the strongest team in history, and I am a player of the Clippers, the strongest team in history. Young will completely surpass him..."

"Yes, yes, 73 wins!"

Varejao changed without a position, the Clippers laughed again, and the plane landed in Chicago instead.

Rest for one night and train early on the [-]th.

Ray Allen returned from injury and returned to the starting shooting guard. Obviously, the shooting touch still has an impact. Su Yang can see it very clearly, that is, the mouth has ulcers. Every time he chews, he must be careful to avoid touching that feeling. I'm a little scared.

During the training break, Ray Allen took the initiative to say: "Guys, I may need to adapt for a period of time, and during this period of time, there will be a lot of ironing..." Before the words fell, Iguodala and others said that there is no problem, and the recovery from the injury is all right. It takes time.

Su Yang is not worried at all anyway, as for Ray Allen's self-discipline to practice sitting up and catching the ball for three-pointers, even if he shoots three-pointers like Harden, he will quickly regain his touch, and even if he makes three-pointers 8 for 0, and no one dared to let him go.

Hill also expressed the same concern, and the Clippers team also had the same attitude: there are brothers who have the bottom line and play casually.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the game started.

The Clippers won the jump ball, Su Yang took the ball across the center line, and directly called the single-double position, allowing the team to run a floppy tactic around Ray Allen first, and Ray Allen started from the short corner on the left, speeding up and going to the right. Milicic and Iguodala's double screen came out, but they actually stopped and ran back at the basket. With the help of Varejao's single single screen, they went to the left wing.

Catch the ball, raise your hand, the whole set of movements is done in one go, but unfortunately the strength of the shot is obviously too small, and the three-pointer hits the basket and hits the iron to rebound.

Seeing this, Su Yang immediately returned to defense, and turned to face Du Hong who was holding the ball at the top of the arc. He failed to squeeze through the screen made by Tyson Chandler in time, but Milicic boldly went up and flanked according to the defensive strategy. Du Hong The small body can't hold it, so I can only pass the ball.

Back and forth, three passes and four leads, the Bulls never found a chance. In the end, Ben Gordon switched defenses against Iguodala and made a strong shot.

The basketball rebounded with a bang, Varejao grabbed the rebound, Su Yang stepped forward to catch the ball and pushed forward, continuing to play floppy tactics.

It's a pity that Ray Allen also continued to strike iron.

Su Yang was not bothered either. He defended hard and intercepted the long pass from Luol Deng. For the third time, he commanded the whole team to implement floppy tactics, but slightly modified the situation and used double flares to create opportunities. Unfortunately, Ray Allen still played iron .

Followed by thunder floppy, also strike iron.

Come to Pitch Thunder again, still strike iron.

Seeing that the Clippers were 0-8 behind, Su Yang had no worries, and turned to the Clippers to attack, playing floppy for the fifth time.

It is to convey attitude to Ray Allen, believe him!

Ray Allen finally hit a three-pointer.

The Bulls breathed a sigh of relief at the scene, but Su Yang and Ray Allen were not as crazy as "the Timberwolves made the playoffs", which is normal as a shooter.Sure enough, in the next round, Ray Allen hit the iron again, scoring 6 of 1 three-pointers in the opening game.

He cast like Westbrook.

After the first quarter, the Clippers trailed 21 to 22.Frank Stein, who has been a Chicago local TV commentator for 20 years, suddenly sighed: "The Clippers are using us as an experiment. They don't care about scoring in the first quarter at all. They have the confidence to win easily. The Bulls in the era of Michael Jordan led the victory. It's rude, but we really can't beat them..."

The second quarter started immediately.

Su Yang began to look for the state of Grant Hill, who had returned from injury. Considering that Hill had a larger proportion of the ball, and the hernia injury was different from the tendon sheath surgery, he did not let Hill hold the ball in singles. Play a little bit, try air cuts and fixed-point shots first, and then follow up with emergency stop jumpers with the ball and a strong attack with the ball in front of the basket. I found that Hill's state is also average, mainly because he hasn't played for too long.

But even though it was mainly for Hill to find his status, after half the game, the Clippers still overtook the Bulls 47 to 45.

It's not how fierce the Clippers are, but the Bulls' self-defeating skills. Coach Skiles insisted on egalitarianism. During the halftime, Rolle Deng took 8 shots, Ben Gordon took 7 shots, and Hinrich took 7 shots. Even substitute Darius Sangueira also shot 7 times.

That kind of shot distribution made the shooter Ben Gordon catch the ball piece by piece, making 7 of 2 shots in total, which is lower than that of Ray Allen, who just returned from injury. Players are talented, so they play egalitarianism.

After a short intermission, the third quarter began.

Su Yang continued to lead the team around Ray Allen and Hilldo, while the Bulls continued to engage in egalitarianism.The Clippers gradually expanded their lead, and finally easily defeated the Bulls 107 to 96. Eight members of the team scored in double figures, which was more even than the Bulls.

雷阿伦表现比较差，11投仅有4中，拿到12分，希尔则是9中3刚好10分。

On the same night, the Jazz, temporarily ranked ninth in the Western Conference, lost to the Magic, and their record became 31 wins and 29 losses. As a result, even if the Clippers lost all of the last 22 games of the season and the Jazz won all, it would still be due to the wins between the Clippers and the Jazz. More and ahead of the rankings.

The Clippers also locked in the playoffs 22 games ahead of schedule.

The whole team danced in the terminal hall to celebrate and posted on YouTube, then boarded the plane and flew to Milwaukee overnight.

After a morning rest, I hurried to the Bradley Center, home of the Bucks, for training in the afternoon.Su Yang took advantage of the training break to discuss with Spoelstra and decided to implement the echo management strategy, and arranged for Ray Allen, Hill and Payton to rest, confident that they could beat the game.

The game starts at 06:30.

The Bucks imitated the matchups between the Rockets and the Mavericks, and arranged for TJ Ford, Michael Reed, and Bobby Simmons to double-team Su Yang, but Wilkins, Barnes and others, after long-term combat and Huo Nacek's targeted training significantly improved the shooting rate of quick three-pointers, helping the Clippers score 30-20 in the first quarter and 40-25 in the second quarter.

The Bucks' double-teaming strategy completely collapsed.

Back in the second half, Su Yang found that the Bucks were no longer double-teaming, so he made a quick shot, and made 5 consecutive three-pointers and mid-range shots, helping the Clippers to defeat the Bucks 116-88, scoring 31 points and 19 assists. Garbage time is embarrassing Debut and get another assist.

With 61 wins in hand, the Clippers flew back to Los Angeles for a day off for Game [-] of the season against a rebuilt Timberwolves.

Compared with the previous matchup, this time the Timberwolves have laid off Chucky Atkins and sent Caron Butler to the Wizards in exchange for center Kwame Brown. They don't know what the team building idea is, and they don't seem to be worried. Affect Bynum's growth.

When the game started, Su Yang took a look at the progress of the 221 plan, and then caught Bynum blocking shots and steals during the game. He deliberately emptied the Timberwolves starting point guard Marcus Banks several times, and bullied Banks to catch the ball and rush for three shots. The ability to score is relatively poor.

After the whole game, the Clippers won by 18 points. Su Yang scored 30 points and got 6 steals, 3 blocks and 5 rebounds.

Going back to the locker room to check the statistics, I found that the offensive rebounds are still 200 short of 58. In the remaining 20 games, the average is almost 3 steals per game. The steals are already 204 and only 46 short. The pressure is relatively small, but the pressure of blocks It's quite big, there are only 102 at present, 150 away from the goal of 48, and there are 20 games left, with an average of 2.5 blocks per game.

Seeing this, Payton complained: "Let you brag all day long, blocking shots is much more difficult than scoring, because your defensive ability is too strong, others will basically not face you one-on-one, either find cover, or take you to the weak side, You need a lot of gamble blocks.

You can't win a lot in advance, then you will forcefully swipe the data, but it will lower your defensive impression score. "

When Varejao and others heard the news, they either comforted that there was a chance without 150 blocks, or emphasized that they would help find opportunities.

Su Yang thought for a moment, then slapped the statistics table on the table, "There are 48 blocks left, I'm sure!"

Milicic said with a smile: "Then you need to adjust your defensive strategy and put your opponents in the penalty area more for layups..."

"Let's talk about it! It's not worth the risk." Su Yang shook his head slightly.On the other hand, Spoelstra and the other players nodded in unison. They all made up their minds to help Su Yang hit 150 blocks. As long as the 221 plan is completed, the probability of the best defensive player will increase greatly.

After a day off, the Clippers flew to Arizona to challenge Stoudemire's absence from the Suns.When it came to the strategy before the game, Spoelstra emphasized that Nash and Diaw, who was the center, could not form an easy pick-and-roll, and temporarily stopped using the defense switch strategy.

Milicic and others understood, and Su Yang also heard the idea of ​​helping his companion to get the block, and expressed his thanks with fists.

The game then started. Facing the pick-and-rolls of Nash and Diaw, the Clippers adopted more Drop Coverage strategies, and did not give them the opportunity to easily lob the ball inside and distribute the ball to the corners on both sides. Nash was forced to take more mid-range shots. Yang Hou took 1 time.

In the second quarter, the Clippers faced the pick-and-roll of the Suns and adjusted their defensive strategy, changing it to a large number of partial three defenses and two defenses. Kaman and Barnes compressed the Suns Barbosa's dribbling route and induced other players to attack. Passing the ball, Su Yang chased Tim Thomas again.

The effect of chasing caps was very good. After half the game, Su Yang got 4 blocks in total, overfulfilling the task.

In addition to chasing caps, Su Yang also crazily grabbed offensive rebounds, bullied no one inside the Suns, and confronted Marion with high bullet speed.

The game strategy in the second half was the same. Nash passed the ball well, and Barbosa closed the ball if he made a bad pass. The Clippers eventually defeated the Suns 116-104.Su Young continued his undefeated streak against the Suns while racking up 8 blocks and 11 front boards.

Commenting on TNT after the game, Barkley said: "I personally envy the Clippers in this state. Su Yang gave up data to help Ray Allen and Hill find their state. Now Milicic and Barbosa help Su Yang complete his game better. The 221 plan..."

Kenny chuckled: "Yeah, the key is not to allow Su Yang to rebound, but to change the strategy so that Su Yang can rebound better."

Flying back to Los Angeles, the Clippers had a day off to face the visiting 76ers. Su Yang continued to focus on blocking shots.

Compared with many teams whose point guards are not the main point of attack, Iverson grabbed the ball and caught Su Yang in a single match at the beginning of the game, but Iverson is short, but he is not very good at blocking shots.Su Yang didn't want to eat Akira and worship Buddha, but still thought that winning was the priority, and he was more defensive about Iverson's breakthrough.

The main target of blocking shots is on Brand and Weber. Varejao and Milicic very cooperatively choose the strategy of blocking the line and laying down the bottom line, inducing Brand and Weber to turn back more and lose their vision, so that Su Yang can recover from the weak Side or arc top flushing.

The effect was also good. Su Yang blocked 5 shots and scored 32 points, leading the Clippers to a small victory by 10 points.

After three days of rest, the Clippers embarked on a three-way trip to the Southwest. They defeated the Rockets in the first stop, and defeated the Hornets back to back in New Orleans instead of Oklahoma. After the game, the Hornets fans stood up and shouted MVP to thank Su Yang. donate.

In the final match of the three-game streak, he flew to Memphis to bully Chucky Atkins, and Su Yanghao won with 6 steals.

Back in Los Angeles, the Clippers took the Wizards who formed the Three Musketeers lightly, and then flew to Portland to beat the Trail Blazers back to back, followed by defeating the Jazz and the Kings twice in succession. 66 games left.

On the same night that the Clippers defeated the Kings, the Pistons lost unexpectedly to the Nets, and the Spurs regretted losing to the Supersonics due to foul troubles. Unable to tie the Clippers.

ESPN published an article, praising the Clippers for securing the top spot in the league ahead of schedule for two consecutive seasons, and Su Yang being the absolute MVP.

There is only one suspense about the Clippers.

(End of this chapter)