Double stars shine in Los Angeles

Chapter 197

DeAndre Jordan and Li Yifeng stand in the middle circle, ready to jump the ball.Although DeAndre Jordan is a well-known jumping man in the league, Li Yifeng's jumping ability is not weaker than him. In addition, Li Yifeng has a great advantage in terms of height, so he easily won the jump ball , gave the basketball to Steve Nash.

Steve Nash's push was as quick as ever.Outside the three-point line, Steve Nash passed the basketball to Lin Fengzhe.The person in charge of defending Lin Fengzhe knew Lamar Odom.Lamar Odom's defense is very active, and Lamar Odom still has a certain advantage in facing Lin Fengzhe in terms of height.

Lin Fengzhe didn't intend to attack by force. He looked at Kobe Bryant, and he didn't have a good chance to catch the ball.Caron Butler's defense is very conscientious, almost sticking to Kobe Bryant's body.Lin Fengzhe found a gap and passed the basketball to Pau Gasol, while he moved away from Lamar Odom.

Pau Gasol faced Blake Griffin's defense head-on with the ball, and after a fake move to open the gap, he made an inside pass and played the basketball to Li Yifeng inside.

In a league where excellent inside players are scarce, players like DeAndre Jordan can get an annual salary of tens of millions.However, Li Yifeng didn't have the slightest burden on DeAndre Jordan.Li Yifeng made a shooting motion with the ball in both hands, and DeAndre Jordan just raised his arms and didn't take off.

DeAndre Jordan has restrained a lot this season, instead of jumping up as soon as the opponent raises his hand like in previous seasons, especially in the second half of the season, it is often Lamar Odom and Blake Griffin partnered on the court at the juncture of the game, which made him feel a little crisis.Because the coach's employment at critical moments shows his trust in a player, obviously he still cannot fully gain the trust of the coach now.

Seeing that DeAndre Jordan stopped dancing, Li Yifeng thought to himself, "Damn, you kid stopped dancing?" Li Yifeng wanted to think about it, but his movements were not slow.After receiving the ball left, turn around and go to the right side of the basket, pass the ball to the left hand, and shoot with a hook.This time DeAndre Jordan followed suit and jumped.Li Yifeng received the ball again, stepped short to the left side of the basket, and then made a small hook with his right hand, and the basketball went into the net hollow.

It takes a long time to talk, but in practice, it takes less than two seconds.

"The Lakers' offense is very patient, and the offensive point at the beginning of the game is very clear, which is to play the most obvious shortcoming of the Clippers at the fifth position." Jeff Van Gundy said, "Li Yifeng's goal just now The footwork is beautiful, and DeAndre Jordan has never been very good at defending this type of skillful offensive player, and he is still too easy to be deceived by opponents."

"Li Yifeng's inside footsteps are indeed very beautiful." Mike Brin said, "I wonder if the footsteps of Chinese inside players are so gorgeous, Yao Ming, Li Yifeng, and earlier Wang Zhizhi, even if they have no footsteps this season. Yi Jianlian, who people care about, their inside footsteps are very gorgeous."

Chris Paul dribbles upfield, high pick-and-roll with Blake Griffin, drives to the paint, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash switch, Chris Paul goes big, pull-up jumper Shot, hit a mid-range jumper.Chris Paul's first score.

Lin Fengzhe received a pass from Steve Nash and broke through to the inside against Lamar Odom, and then passed the ball to Li Yifeng at the basket.In view of the offense in the previous round, the Clippers' defense shrunk, and Blake Griffin came back to help DeAndre Jordan defend Li Yifeng.

Li Yifeng threw the basketball out immediately after receiving the ball.Pau Gasol, who was above the free throw line, received a pass from Li Yifeng, took a step back, and went directly beyond the three-point line.Pau Gasol, who was unguarded in front of him, still had time to take a look at the basket and hit an open three-pointer from the front.After the hit, Pau Gasol gave Li Yifeng a high-five to celebrate while retreating.

The Clippers' offense is very simple, it is still the pick-and-roll of Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, this time Chris Paul did not choose to attack himself, but passed the ball back to Blake Griffin.Lin Fengzhe helps Steve Nash to defend Blake Griffin.

Blake Griffin raised the basketball with both hands, and passed the basketball to Lamar Odom with a flick of his wrist. Lin Fengzhe's defense was a step slower, and Lamar Odom made a fleshy hit.

The first quarter lasted more than five minutes. Lin Fengzhe and Kobe Bryant, as the important scoring points of the Lakers outside, did not score a single point, let alone a single shot.The offense of the Lakers is mostly completed by Li Yifeng and Pau Gasol. The two of them go up and down, interspersed with other players, and cooperate with each other very efficiently. They have swept most of the team's points so far. Only Steve Nash hit a three-pointer from the outside.

Unlike the Lakers, the Clippers have scored for everyone except DeAndre Jordan.DeAndre Jordan does not have the ability to create scoring opportunities by himself, which is also one of his personal shortcomings. Most of his points come from second offenses, putbacks or alley-oops after grabbing rebounds.Under the premise that both sides maintain a high shooting rate and are not as strong as Li Yifeng, his role on the offensive end is completely locked.Even on the defensive end, his role has been greatly compressed.Li Yifeng seldom jumps, just keeps DeAndre Jordan out, and then relies on his height advantage to get rebounds or create opportunities for his teammates to get rebounds.

Li Yifeng made a strong attack at the basket, causing DeAndre Jordan's defensive foul again, forcing Clippers head coach Vinny Negro to make a substitution, replacing DeAndre Jordan with Matt Barnes, Lamar Odom was pushed to power forward.

Li Yifeng also made an extra penalty and succeeded in hitting a three-pointer. The Lakers temporarily led the Clippers by five points at home.

Chris Paul makes a [-]-pointer off a pass from Lamar Odom.Immediately afterwards, Caron Butler intercepted Pau Gasol's pass to Kobe Bryant, ran to the Lakers basket on his own fast break, but hit the ball to the horse outside the three-point line on the wing. Te Barnes made an open three-pointer and overtook the Lakers by one point.

Mike Brown called a short timeout, replaced Pau Gasol with Josh McRoberts, and replaced Li Yifeng with Yao Ming, with two and a half minutes remaining before the end of the first quarter.

After Yao Ming came on the court, he first hit a fadeaway jumper from mid-range.Yao Ming's backward jump shot can be regarded as an unsolvable offensive method, far exceeding the height of ordinary people, coupled with the backward jump, although the take-off height is not high, it is difficult to defend, even if it is Blake Gerard An insider with strong jumping and explosive power like Riffin can't interfere with Yao Ming's shooting.

In the remaining two and a half minutes, the scores of the two teams rose alternately. When the whistle sounded, the Clippers took the lead with Chauncey Billups' final two free throws and temporarily led by one point. The score was 27. than 26.

"In the first quarter, the score between the two sides was very tight, and the Clippers temporarily took the lead by one point. However, in the comparison of the second team in the second quarter, the Clippers did not have the advantage." Mark Jackson said , "The key to the game is in the second quarter. If the Clippers are opened by the Lakers, the following games will be difficult to play."

"Indeed. The lineup of the Lakers is too luxurious. Yao Ming, Josh McRoberts, World Peace, Tracy McGrady, Steve Blake and five people can start. There are the Big Three of the Rockets in it." Jeff Van Gundy said.

Jeff Van Gundy still has a lot of resentment in his heart. When he was in the Rockets, if he had such a big three, he could definitely hit the Western Conference championship or even the championship. Unfortunately, Adelman is not good at defense at all, which is pitiful for the original lineup. .

After the start of the second quarter, as Mark Jackson had feared before, the Clippers were hit by a [-]-[-] offensive by the Lakers, directly extending the score to eight points.Vinny Negro immediately called a long timeout, then put Chris Paul and Blake Griffin on the court again after a short break.After the substitution, the Clippers played a double point guard lineup of Chauncey Billups and Chris Paul.

After the timeout, the Clippers' efficiency on both ends of the offense and defense has improved, and they quickly chased the score to within five points.However, the Lakers have always maintained the lead in the score, controlling the point difference to about five points.

With 5 minutes left before the end of halftime, the Lakers began to rotate personnel. Li Yifeng and other starters played again, while the Clippers' starters had already played 1 minute earlier.

Kobe Bryant missed a long-range 58-pointer before the final whistle, and the score was 52-[-] at halftime, giving the Lakers a six-point home lead over the Clippers.Counting the one point behind in the first quarter, the Lakers beat the Clippers by seven points in a single quarter.

"In half the game, Lin Fengzhe and Kobe Bryant, the main outside scorers of the Lakers, only scored nine points in total. They didn't attack much. The Lakers still have room. In the second half of the game, if the perimeter offense also releases firepower, the Clippers will be difficult to play." Jeff Van Gundy said.

"The Clippers need to strengthen their defense, especially the interior defense. The Lakers' interior players scored [-] points in the first half, accounting for more than half of the team's points. The score is only a pitiful seventeen points." Mike Breen said.

"I'm not optimistic about the Clippers so far in the game. With no way to limit the Lakers' inside scoring, they can only adopt a shrinking defense. This will inevitably create opportunities for the Lakers' outside scoring in the second half." Mark · Jackson said.

(End of this chapter)