naaapseattle Chapter 276 A Strong Opponent! (33)
Chapter 276 A Strong Opponent! (33)
Chapter 276 A Strong Opponent! (33)
Cole was a little disappointed with Li Feng's performance at the beginning.
So he was replaced during the timeout.
Recently, Li Feng's scoring ability has become less strong.
This made Kerr look forward to Thompson's return.
Livingston: "Coach, did you tell me to replace Curry?"
Cole: "No, Li Feng is replaced"
Livingston: "Huh?"
Cole: "What's wrong? Any comments?"
Livingston: "No no."
Unlike Coach Wharton, Cole will not take extra care of Li Feng on the court just because he has a good relationship with Li Feng.
At the beginning of this season, it was Li Feng himself who performed well in scoring ability, so Cole gave him more playing time.
Now that he has limited scoring, it is natural to control his playing time.
But he found that Livingston was not the only one on the bench showing a surprised expression.
It's as if Li Feng is the main force of the Warriors and shouldn't go to rest so early.
After returning from the game, Green felt a little more pressure.The difference between the Clippers and other opponents now is that the Warriors can't be too exhausted with them.
I met the Clippers again some time ago.At that time, the Warriors still maintained an invincible posture.
But it was quickly lost.
In the subsequent game against the Clippers, the Warriors restrained somewhat.
But obviously they found that their team could not compete with the Clippers in terms of combat power.
Sure enough, if you want to say which team in Los Angeles is the best, everyone immediately thinks of the Clippers instead of the Lakers.
The Warriors have been waiting for this game for a long time.
Curry received a pass from Livingston, rushed to the frontcourt quickly, and was double-teamed by his opponent.Green got his pass and stepped on the line with a jumper for 2 points.
35:19!At the end of the first quarter, the Clippers cooled the Warriors fans today
It's hard to imagine that it was the Warriors who scored only 19 points in a quarter.
For the sake of face, Cole has not asked for a timeout in the rest of the first quarter.
Cole: "Well. Li Feng went up to play in the second quarter. Livingston, I let you go up mainly to give you more time. Curry came down, and Clark took Curry's place."
First game back.Kerr didn't intend to have to win either.
Just get familiar with it.Now let's say that the two teams are not coordinated in the lineup.They have casualties, the opponents don't.
This is not a small gap.
In terms of personal ability, Thompson is much better than Li Feng in terms of defense, movement and shooting.
After seeing Curry go down, the Clippers basically relaxed a lot.
They knew that if the first half of the game could maintain the state of the first quarter, the Warriors would basically have the same result.
Redick received a pass from Paul and hit a three-pointer shortly after facing Clark!
This season, the Warriors really didn't think too much about who would win if the Clippers entered the playoffs and became opponents with their own team.
Because in the previous few seasons, either the main force of the Clippers was injured and could not enter the playoffs, or a player was injured in the playoffs and was eliminated in the first round.
The situation on their side is similar to that of the Warriors.The management has the intention of reorganizing the team.
Such a situation is bound to make the players of a team go crazy to play!Strive to achieve good results as soon as possible, and the Clippers' management is not demanding.
Get to the Western Conference Finals, and that's it.
Li Feng took the basketball, Paul followed directly in front of him, Green came to make a clearance, and finally Clark got a pass from Green and hit a three-pointer with a jumper!
Cole, who was on the sidelines, nodded slightly at this time.
Although Clark's impression of his teammates and coaches in the team is still that of the three-team substitute last season, his performance this season is very good in terms of statistics!
Clark's average data this season is currently ranked No.4 in the team!
But the average playing time is indeed the team's bottom five.
Paul's speed is very fast, and Jordan finally catches the ball and dunks to score!
Li Feng pretended to be entangled with Paul, but he knew that he would not be able to fight for long in front of Paul, and the opponent was very experienced.
In the end, the basketball came to Barnes, who jumped up and hit a three-pointer!
At this time, the Clippers immediately raised their vigilance.In this quarter, the efficiency of the Warriors began to pick up.
Paul passed the ball directly to Griffin after halftime, and the latter singled Green to succeed.
The Warriors' offensive and defensive transition speed is very fast!Before Kerr came back this season, Walton had already started practicing this.
The main thing is to improve the tacit understanding of offensive and defensive transitions!
Li Feng dribbled the ball across the half court by himself. At this time, Stephenson was the closest to him on the Clippers side, but before he came to defend Li Feng, the Asian player in front of him had already shot!
The basketball crossed a somewhat flat parabola in the air and scored a three-pointer!
Paul was communicating with the head coach on the sidelines at this time.
He was a little flustered that the Warriors were playing the game like this.
Doug looked back at his son at this point, then resumed watching the game.Having won the Warriors in the previous two games, he will also win this game!
The previous games also confirmed that they still have the ability to beat the Warriors!
But what you have to do is to play very cautiously!Because of the Clippers' bench lineup, they didn't play as well as the Warriors.
They can basically win the game only if they keep the main players on the field long enough.
Although the main players are a bit tired, it is still worth it.If they meet in the playoffs, it will be more intense.
But Doug doesn't care, as long as he wins!
While dribbling, Paul watched Li Feng come to the frontcourt.
This player is a player that the Clippers have never studied.
In fact, it's not just that they didn't study and understand.The entire league feels that Li Feng has no rules to follow on stage.
Take Griffin for example.What he is good at is all kinds of dunks, which can easily bring down the atmosphere of their home court.
Then the corresponding strategy for this other team has been figured out, and it is very effective.
But Li Feng is strange about this.
He can always do things you don't expect sometimes.
Stephenson finally got the ball, faced Barnes' defense and passed the opponent directly, allowing Green to receive a foul!Then 2 free throws were made!
Clark was beside Li Feng at this time, nodded his head a few times as if he had received an order, and then ran away.
Cole: "."
Cole, who came back from the hospital, felt that Li Feng seemed to be the boss of the team.Not Curry and Green
The whole team attaches great importance to Li Feng.Including those players off the bench.
Li Feng: "I was in the Bucks last season, and what I heard the most was what our coach said at the time to reduce mistakes.
Opponents do this now.We do the same.The strong team at this time may be the highest level!
But as long as we are better than the opponent in terms of efficiency, and the opponent makes a few mistakes, then our chance will come out!
Clark, and Green!We are now trying to make the Clippers unable to understand our tactical play, and at the same time, we must also have the efficiency I just mentioned, that’s enough.”
The volume is not loud, but the surrounding teammates can hear it.
Green now trusts Li Feng.He knows that this player's awareness and ideas in the game are very good.
The team needs such players to appear. It used to be Curry, and now the team is famous for such players.
Clark: "I'm mainly scoring. Because maybe if I use two things at once, the number of turnovers may increase"
Li Feng: "No problem. Now I, Green and Speights will organize the game. Any of the three of us can become the organizer immediately!"
The number of times the Clippers' defensive strength has also increased. Li Feng did not pass a few times and chose to pass the ball directly beside Redick.
Green got the basketball, and then let Griffin get the foul and made 2 free throws!
The Clippers are also very fast here!When the Warriors' players quickly returned to defense, Redick and Paul dribbled the ball to Stephenson in the frontcourt, and the latter directly hit a three-pointer!
Green went to the sidelines and did not pass the ball to the nearby Clark.Instead, he threw the basketball hard!
Li Feng almost went out of bounds with the basketball after receiving the ball.
In the end, under Griffin's defense, Li Feng was directly pushed out!
A zero-degree angle hit for basketball!Griffin got two fouls!Then Li Feng went to the free throw line and made a free throw!
In one round for the Warriors, Li Feng got 3+1 here!
Doug, on the sidelines, began to breathe deeply.This scene is very similar.
The point difference on the scene has begun to narrow.
Stephenson missed a shot here, and the Warriors here Clark directly chased him and scored a three-pointer! 47:37!
The Clippers called for a timeout.
The Warriors then replaced Green with Varejao.Crawford is here for the Clippers!
At the beginning of the game for the Clippers, Crawford came directly and made an unreasonable three-pointer!
What Doug has to do now is very simple, that is to keep his team and opponents ahead by more than 20 points!
After they lost a game with the Warriors this season, Doug's requirements for his players directly increased.
From the previous 10 points to more than 20 points now!
Only in this way, their team will be more confident when playing against the Warriors.
Wharton was not present in today's game, and the players were a little uncomfortable seeing Cole on the sidelines.
Compared with Wharton's relaxed, Cole is much more serious.
69:50 in the second quarter!The third quarter game is 93:86!In the third quarter, Curry led the team to chase points crazily!
This was what Doug expected.This happened once in the previous two games against the Warriors.
The opponent chased the point difference to within 10 points, especially the Warriors, the result is not sure.
In the fourth quarter, the Clippers Redick and Crawford came back.
The main players are also back on the field.Little Jordan felt a little tired at this time, but he still played without saying anything.
For the Warriors, Li Feng and Curry played at the same time, and the rest of the players Varejao still failed to come back.
Cole found that although Li Feng's shooting accuracy has declined in the game, his role on the field is still very important.
The first thing that impresses him deeply is that Li Feng has made obvious progress in confrontation now.
Paul: "Wait to win this game and see how I embarrass the Warriors players!"
Jordan: "Just like the last game~"
The Clippers players all laughed at this time.Although they didn't play so efficiently in today's game.
But so far in the game, the Clippers are playing against the Warriors.With their combat power, Li Feng had problems scoring again.
The Warriors players who are on the court now have also discovered that no matter what tactics they use, even if they switch tactics on the field, the Clippers have a way to deal with them.
It can be seen that the Clippers did a lot of research on their Warriors before the game!
As Li Feng said, the two teams are now evenly matched, and in the end it depends on which team makes fewer mistakes.
The Warriors made the most mistakes in the first quarter of today's game, but as the game progressed, their state became better and better.
On the contrary, the Clippers, who won the previous two games, became a little slack at this time.
As the head coach of the Clippers, Doug has nothing to do. If he talks about his players at this time, the command makes the players resist.
It doesn't work at all.
By the final quarter, he wanted the team to win.But because this game is not the playoffs either.There is no problem with their current record entering the playoffs.
Doug was ready to lose, but out of his obsession with winning the game, he never went back to rest, but insisted on standing on the sidelines to watch the game.
After Crawford got the ball, he hit the floor and passed it to Paul.
Griffin dunks the ball directly after receiving the ball
This slam dunk has a great range!It seems that Griffin wanted to show off, but failed.
Green got the basketball and passed it to Barnes. Li Feng received the basketball halfway through but didn't shoot.
After Curry came over, he got the basketball and directly hit a long-range three-pointer!
Although the Clippers players wanted to concentrate at this time, they found that their state in this game was not as concentrated as the previous two games.
Paul was the first to wake up a bit. He saw that his team's defense was loose at this time, and then he took the initiative to pass Curry for a layup to score points!
Li Feng was immediately double-teamed by three Clippers!
After passing the ball in front of him, Green dribbled the ball to the frontcourt alone.Did not choose to continue passing the ball, got up and scored a three-pointer by himself!
95:92!Doug signaled at this time that he asked for the last short timeout of the game.
Doug: "See? The Warriors are chasing points, they've always been like this. We didn't realize it. They've caught up. It's the opponent's advantage.
Now if the defense is serious, maybe we still have a chance."
Many Clippers players present at this time also woke up.Isn't this the attitude of Coach Doug when he played against the Warriors for the first time this season.
He was much more excited then than he is now.Said a lot of nasty things.But they still lost that game.
Paul: "Improve to the highest level defensively! I will figure out a way to attack!"
Paul said to his teammates after the game resumed.
Meanwhile, Curry was staring at the Clippers.The players over there felt chills down their backs when they saw Curry's eyes.
In the regular season, Curry did not perform much like this.When the team can win easily, Curry can just play and get some statistics on the court.
But when encountering a strong team and both sides want to win, Curry will become excited!And Li Feng didn't seem to have such a lack of scoring ability in this game.
(End of this chapter)