Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

"ball."

Clarkson ran back to get the ball, then raised it, made a fake shot, and then accelerated to break through. The defender hurriedly retreated, but Clarkson immediately pulled the ball back and made a fadeaway jump shot.

Swish!

There was a soft sound and the ball was scored.

There were only more than two minutes left in the first quarter. Both sides used rotation lineups. The Lakers had Rose, Clarkson, Cunningham, Nance Jr., and Zubac. The overall lineup was obviously stronger than that of the Clippers, so they quickly gained the upper hand and had widened the gap to 5 points.

The Clippers fought back.

After Stephenson arrived at the frontcourt, he called a pick-and-roll tactic, but it didn't work, and in the end the ball was given to Lou Williams.

Among the Clippers' bench lineup, Lou Williams has the strongest scoring ability and is the core of the Clippers' bench lineup.

The Clippers don't have a Big Three, so there is no way to guarantee that there will be an All-Star level player on the court at all times, so they can only rely on Lou Williams.

After Lou Williams got the ball, he changed directions continuously, then suddenly accelerated and broke through, going into the inside and making a high rebound shot.

The basketball bounced twice on the rim but still fell in.

However, on the Lakers side, Rose and Zubac played a pick-and-roll, passing the ball to Zubac who scored and caused a foul by the defensive player.

Zubac stepped up to the free throw line and made the extra free throw.

This 2+1 goal widened the score difference by another point.

In the next minute, Lou Williams threw a three-pointer but missed. On the Lakers side, Rose broke through and made a layup, and the score difference came to 8 points.

When the first quarter ended, the Lakers led by 33 points, 25:8.

This made Coach Rivers frown, but he also knew that his bench lineup was indeed not as good as the Lakers and the bench depth was much worse.

what can we do about it?

"It seems that we can only let LeBron and AD play more time." Coach Rivers didn't have any better solution.

The lineup is there.

The Lakers' starting lineup has a "core of three", and the bench lineup also includes Rose and Clarkson. In addition, Kuzma, Nance Jr. and Zubac are not bad either.

Especially Kuzma and Zubac.

Nance can only grab rebounds. His defensive ability is limited by his height and he doesn't have much of an advantage. His scoring ability is also relatively weak. But Kuzma is on the outside and Zubac is on the inside. Both of them have good scoring abilities, and at least they can make good use of opportunities.

This is pretty good for a substitute.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of the team's bench lineup, the Clippers can only let James and Davis play more time.

......

Soon, the second quarter begins.

The Lakers still used a rotation lineup, but Coach Scott sent out Holiday to play with Rose, Clarkson, Nance Jr. and Zubac.

The Clippers sent Davis to play with several substitute players.

The Lakers really couldn't defend Davis at this point. Davis scored successively in the low post. First, he made a small hook shot in a back-to-back single play, and then he made a layup after receiving a pass from his teammate in an open cut, and also grabbed a frontcourt rebound and scored on the second attack under the basket.

After a while, Davis scored 6 points.

Seeing the score gap narrowing, Holiday stood up, first hitting a three-pointer from the outside, and then breaking through the basket and making a layup against the defense.

Soon after, Rose and Clarkson also scored.

For a moment, the Lakers turned the situation around under the leadership of these three players, regained the advantage, and the score gap widened again.

Coach Rivers shook his head, feeling a little helpless.

He called a timeout.

After several players came off the court, Coach Rivers made a substitution and replaced James.

On this side, the Lakers also made substitutions. Zhuang Yu and Anderson returned to the court, only Lopez was still sitting on the sidelines.

As soon as he came back, James attacked the basket, crushing everything like a tank, breaking into the paint and making a layup to score two points.

But when he turned around, Zhuang Yu retaliated.

This time he made a tactical cooperation with his teammates, went inside for a circle, returned to the three-point line and played an off-ball tactic. He took a three-point shot as soon as he received the ball and it also hit the target.

In the next few rounds, James attacked very actively, but every time he scored, Zhuang Yu was able to fight back.

Moreover, at this time, Zhuang Yu was looking for high-efficiency scoring. In a few rounds, he took three three-pointers and hit two.

One is to continuously attack the basket, and the other is to shoot three-pointers. Even with the same hit rate, Zhuang Yu's scoring efficiency is higher.

So after all these exchanges, the gap between the two sides not only did not narrow, but instead widened further.

When Lopez and Kuzma were also substituted in, the Lakers' offense became more sharp and the score difference was quickly widened to double digits.

"Requesting a timeout."

The Clippers called another timeout.

After several players came off the court, Coach Rivers spread out the tactical board and made some arrangements, but he didn't have a good solution.

The previous eight consecutive victories were based on offense, not defense.

Facing some weak teams is fine, but facing the Lakers, a top offensive team, their defensive disadvantage is exposed. Although their offense is OK under the leadership of James and Davis, it is obviously not as good as the Lakers.

The Lakers were in full bloom with several players scoring, while the Clippers' scoring was mainly concentrated on James and Davis.

"We were already 13 points behind."

Coach Rivers' tone was a little heavy.

Several players looked unhappy as they were already 13 points behind.

Not just a little bit, but thirteen points!

"We need to play more aggressively and tougher." Coach Rivers took a deep breath, "This game is a test and a challenge for us. We can't just treat it as an ordinary regular season game."

"Ah."

"Yes."

The players nodded.

Their goal this season is to win the championship. As a Western Conference team, the Lakers will definitely be a hurdle that they must overcome at that time.

So they need to win this game, strengthen their confidence, and let everyone on the team know that they can beat the Lakers.

How does a championship heart come from?

The answer is to beat another champion!

"I need you to treat this game as a playoff, as a crucial game, and give it your all." Coach Rivers said, and made some tactical arrangements.

In fact, he knows very well that the focus is not on tactics, but on the performance of the players.

So he told the players that they needed to treat this game as a playoff game, and to give their all, go all out, and do their best.

......

The pause ends.

When they returned to the court, the Lakers players immediately felt a different atmosphere coming towards them.

At this moment, the expressions on the Clippers players' faces have changed.

The expression on everyone's face was very serious, and there seemed to be flames burning in their eyes, with a solemn and murderous feeling.

After coming to the frontcourt, James and Davis played a pick-and-roll. James passed the ball to Davis. Davis slapped the ball forward with both hands, dribbled one step, turned around with the ball, passed Anderson, and didn't care about Lopez standing in front of him, and just jumped up and dunked with both hands.

Lopez had already jumped up, but his explosiveness and bounce were not as good as Davis, and it was too late for him to block the shot.

With a "clang" sound, Davis hung his hands on the basket, pulling it downward to bend. He let go of his hands and fell to the ground, and the basket bounced back with a bang.

Davis roared.

“That’s an awesome dunk.”

"It was so explosive, dunking over Lopez, haha..."

In the audience, Clippers fans cheered loudly, applauding Davis' dunk.

Lopez looked a little ugly, he was indeed dunked over by Davis.

Zhuang Yu came to Lopez and said to him, "It's okay. Go back later and dunk on him. I'll pass the ball to you."

"Okay." Lopez nodded heavily.

After arriving at the front court, Zhuang Yu ran back and asked Holiday for the ball. When the ball came, he stood outside the three-point line and gestured to Lopez. Lopez came up to screen and Zhuang Yu moved to the left, pretending to shoot a three-pointer. Gortat, who was delayed after switching defense, rushed forward.

However, Zhuang Yu did not shoot, but just made a gesture of praying to Buddha, and then accelerated to pass Gortat.

"Take up defense."

"Hurry up and get up."

The fans in the stands shouted loudly, and Davis subconsciously rushed forward to help defend.

Zhuang Yu stopped, held the basketball in his right hand and threw it towards the basket with one hand.

"Another throw."

Davis was a little annoyed, but he still jumped up and stretched out his arms to try to swat the ball away, but he still couldn't touch it.

He subconsciously turned his head to see if the ball would go in, but he found that it was not a lob, but a pass. The basketball flew to the left side of the basket, and Lopez bent his knees and jumped up, grabbed the basketball in the air, and dunked it towards the basket.

Bang!

There was an explosion.

This time it was the Lakers fans' turn to cheer.

"Haha, Davis just dunked the ball, what's so great about that? Didn't Lopez also dunk one?"

"This dunk was great, and Zhuang Yu's pass was even better. I thought it was another floater, but it turned out to be a pass. It fooled everyone."

Lopez let go of his hand, a bright smile on his face, and ran towards Zhuang Yu to high-five him in celebration.

Face restored!

Although the face was restored, an accident happened.

......

When Davis turned around, he also wanted to fight back.

First, he set a pick-and-roll with James, then received the pass from James and made a fake shot. Then he slammed the ball forward, accelerated past Anderson, broke into the inside and jumped up, ready for another dunk.

Big Lopez roared and also jumped up.

The next moment, the two collided with each other, and there was a snap, and Lopez's hand pressed on the basketball...

"Wow..."

The audience was in an uproar.

Davis' dunk was blocked.

However, this made both of them lose their balance...