overlooking the pitch

Chapter 361 Dominating the Preseason

Soon, the NBA's preseason game will begin. For the Clippers, a team that has made a lot of moves in the summer, the preseason game is a good opportunity to witness the strength of the team's new players.

What's interesting is that in the first game, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional by the league. The first opponent of the preseason game was the Hornets. Among the Clippers, Chris Paul was the former queen bee, and Blake Griffin is a player that the Clippers originally regarded as a cornerstone, but now they are in other teams. This is very interesting, and the two teams have frequently exchanged personnel in these two summers, and this time The preseason in Los Angeles is very exciting.

The Hornets played directly with all the main players, Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin, all of which are very familiar faces to Clippers fans, but now they have completely different treatment in Los Angeles.

When Eric Gordon played, all the Clippers fans gave him very warm applause. This applause was given to him for the three years he gave to the Clippers first. During those three years, It may be the Clippers' first rebuilding stage after entering the playoffs. He is the first core of the Clippers team. After the second season, he became a scorer averaging 20+ per game.

It’s just that for the team, he became the biggest bargaining chip to trade Chris Paul, so the Clippers fans still have high respect for them. They know Eric Gordon, and he also faces the Clippers. Ships have deep feelings.

However, the appearance of Blake Griffin is completely different. For the culprit who lost the championship to the Clippers last time, all he was given was endless boos. However, Blake Griffin did not say a word, he calmly sullen, for this game, he is bound to win.

But for the Clippers, the preseason is just a small game for them. For this same game, they test their new players more.

Chris Kaman, Anthony Davis, Matt Barnes, Xavier Henry, Ray Allen, these five new aids directly formed the Clippers' starting lineup, so their Playing the game also made the Clippers fans applaud.

However, at the beginning of the game, the Hornets, which were mainly anti-customers, came very quickly. The tacit cooperation between Blake Griffin and Eric Gordon has been cultivated from the beginning. After a few days of training when they were in the Hornets, they already had a very good tacit understanding, and they also played with a time difference.

Eric Gordon's pass, Blake Griffin's lob, this is a very familiar combination in the Clippers before, but this time in the Staples Center When it appeared, it was a heavy blow to the Clippers.

Blake Griffin, who successfully dunked, yelled. He wanted to prove that the Clippers gave up on him. Proving himself in a preseason game, the consecutive alley-oops and shots at the beginning scored an 8:2, which directly silenced the Staples Center.

"Hey, boss, I need a good start today." An Sheng said with a smile to Brad Stevens, "Do I need to play?"

"You've just played in the Olympics, just sit on the bench and take a good rest." Brad Stevens said to Chris Paul: "Chris, you go up."

An Sheng originally thought it was Brad Stevens' consideration for him, but when he bought it, he heard that the person who played was actually Chris Paul, and he immediately paid his grievances: "Boss, this It's not fair, he's also one of the Olympic competitors and the primary point guard for the United States."

"But his average playing time is only 15 minutes per game." This sentence immediately made An Sheng fall into silence, completely speechless.Whoever makes himself in the Olympics can really make himself tired.

The presence of Chris Paul quickly brought out the state of their training camp, very good state, compared to the pick and roll that Blake Griffin gave him, the pick and roll of Anthony Davis looked thicker .After going straight up, the pass was given to Anthony Davis. It was a very comfortable pass. The height of Anthony Davis's jump was exactly the same as Blake Griffin's take-off height.The Clippers called back, and naturally, the voices at Staples Center returned immediately.

Chris Paul's play not only activated Anthony Davis, but also activated Ray Allen. The 34-year-old Ray Allen no longer has the strong breakthrough ability he had before, and he is not The player with super personal ability in the Bucks and SuperSonics when he was young.

However, his three-point ability still hasn't fallen. He received Chris Paul's breakthrough for the first time at a 45-degree angle, and he easily hit the first three-pointer of the game.

After hitting two consecutive three-pointers, the Hornets just focused on Ray Allen, Xavier Henry was also given a very beautiful pass, and his air cut directly received the pass After that, he completed a dunk, which was to complete this attack on Blake Griffin's head.

They were completely activated by Chris Paul. Chris Paul is such a player. He may have a gap with many superstars in his ability to score points, but his ability to activate players is already handy for him. .

After a 102:87 victory over the Hornets who came with resentment at home, their subsequent games became smooth sailing. Under the leadership of Chris Paul, there were few teams that could deal with the Clippers. Like Brad Stevens said, didn't play Anson, but they pretty much dominated the preseason.

It's just that after the preseason, as the team's head coach, Brad Stevens was not too satisfied. At the beginning, he wanted to reduce the possession of the ball from Chris Paul and Anson, but this time Ke Reece Paul's usage rate of the ball in the preseason was as high as 25%, which was not as easy as he thought at the beginning. It seems that the transformation of the entire team is not so easy to solve. It seems that the next There is still a long way to go in the road of transformation in the regular season!
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