Chapter 816: Kobe Achilles tendon tears, Clippers easily promote

For this part of the YY of the Lakers fans, Richard is a little speechless, and it can be seen that they still don't want to tear off the Lakers' weak shame...
Looking at the lineup, the Lakers' lineup really has nothing to say, if all positions are at their peak, then it is definitely a super galaxy battleship.
But the flowers will be defeated and old, the Lakers are now starting five-man lineup, no one is still at its peak, compared to the peak period have declined to varying degrees.
The Lakers fans are accustomed to the prosperity of the Lakers, so at this moment they still have the luck to think that the Lakers have a chance to rush out of the first round of the playoffs.
Richard was too lazy to manage this group of fans, and it would not take long before the facts would prove that the Lakers would definitely not be the Clippers' opponent.
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The real headache for Richard now is the Spurs.
At the end of the regular season, the Spurs suddenly and strangely slipped to fourth in the West. If there is no reason, Richard would not believe it.
The biggest possibility is that Popovich feels that the Clippers are more difficult to deal with than the Trail Blazers, so he actively gave up the third position in the West, so that they will not encounter the Clippers in the first round and the second round.
The only chance for the two teams to meet is in the Western Conference finals.
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This is naturally good news for Richard. At least he doesn't have to play against the old coach like Popovich in the Western Conference semifinals.
However, according to Richard's estimate, this year the Clippers want to achieve decent results, it must eventually play against the Spurs.
Don't look at the Blazers' regular season record better than the Spurs, but Richard feels that the Blazers may not be the Spurs' opponent.
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On April 17, the first round of the playoffs officially started.
The Clippers did not play on the first day. The first day in the West was the Spurs against the Warriors and the Blazers against the Rockets.
The difference between the Warriors' record and the Spurs is not particularly big, but as soon as the field starts, the gap between the two sides is immediately reflected.
Shortly after the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Warriors crashed across the board. Mark Jackson had a hand in training newcomers, but it was almost meaningless in coaching.
Faced with this crash situation, Mark Jackson is also helpless, and can only continue to die, the main line of life.
In the end, the Spurs beat the Warriors with a 113:92 score at home, gaining the first playoff win.
The performance of the three Spurs newcomers in this game is unsolvable. Jimmy Butler is not very outstanding on the offensive end, but the defensive end is definitely DPOY level.
Both Middleton and Kemba Walker played on the bench, but the playing time was more than 20 minutes, playing a very good offensive efficiency, even better than the performance of the old demon knife and old Parker.
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Another group of playoffs in the Western Conference, the results made the fans a little dumbfounded, the Rockets in the Western Eight unexpectedly beat the Blazers.
The Rockets' current head James Harden bought them from the Pirates.
Jordan was looking for a newcomer on the bench without a salary extension. He simply sold Harden to the Rockets.
Being sold by Jordan, Harden is naturally quite uncomfortable. When attending the Rocket launch conference, the dialect will become the cornerstone player of the Rockets and will lead the Rockets to rise...
This is directly regarded as a joke by many fans, even the Rockets fans feel a little funny.
A substitute player from another team, who just joined the Rockets, is thinking of becoming the cornerstone? This is a bit too big.
But Harden's performance this season was to make those joke people shut up. The average score of 25.3 points per game is already the level of the league's first-line scorer.
In this game against the Blazers, the reason why they finally won by virtue of Harden broke out.
In addition to the amazing performance of scoring 34 points in this game, Harden also created three fouls for the Trail Blazers inside the Dingzhen pin Oden, which directly led to Oden leaving six fouls just over half of the fourth quarter.
It is precisely because of Oden's position that the Rockets are given more opportunities to hit the basket.
The current Rockets head coach is McHale, not the later D'Antoni. The Rockets are not as crazy as they were afterwards to take three-pointers.
The Blazers lost the ball, let alone the fans, even Richard did not expect...
But this loss is actually a good thing for the Blazers, at least let them cheer up and value every opponent.
Judging from the overall strength of the two sides, the Rockets will definitely still be able to escape the situation of being eliminated. After all, this thing is not so easy to appear.
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On the second day of the playoffs, it was finally the Clippers' game against the Lakers, and countless Los Angeles fans were looking forward to it.
But the game had just been played for less than three minutes. Kobe turned directly to his ankle during a breakthrough and was then walked back to the locker room by his teammates.
No one expected this situation. This series of matches has just begun, and the Lakers Master has been injured? !
In fact, Kobe hasn't even played in these three minutes under normal circumstances. He tore his Achilles tendon in the penultimate game at the end of the season, so he didn't play this year's playoffs...
It was also because of Kobe's absence that the Lakers were swept out of the Spurs in the first round of the playoffs.
In this round of series, Howard faced the old Duncan, and really didn't get a little cheap, mainly because he was targeted by Popovich.
Howard got 9 free throws per game, but he only hit 4...
If it weren’t for Howard’s poor free throws and Kobe’s absence, the Spurs would not have swept the Lakers so easily.
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Now that Kobe is injured, Richard feels strange in his heart.
Although he was quite sure to kill the Lakers, but certainly not as sure as he is now.
Before Richard had 70% confidence in killing the Lakers, now with Kobe Bryant's absence, Richard already has 100% confidence.
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Many Lakers fans sighed on the sidelines. Although this is the home of the Clippers, there are also a lot of Lakers fans on the scene, not less than the Clippers fans.
Kobe was injured, and the game basically had no suspense.
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When Bryant was on the court, because of his huge restraint, he attracted a lot of defense on the side of the Clippers.
While Bryant was not present, Baker took the three-pointer Blake on the bench to replace Kobe. Blake naturally did not have the restraint as Kobe, Thompson could arrange it clearly.
When Bryant was off the court, the two sides played back and forth, and then, the winning balance was obviously tilted towards the Clippers.
This is not the deadliest. When the number of fouls on the Clippers is used up, Richard sacrifices a long-lost shark-cutting tactic directly at Howard.
Actually speaking, two years before O'Neal retired, with O'Neal's free throw percentage soaring, shark-cutting tactics are no longer used by anyone.
This year, Richard suddenly used it, and directly made Howard blame. He took six goals in the first quarter and only hit two.
Mike Brown's dark face turned out to be pale...
He knows that this series is over. In the face of the devil-like Richard, without Kobe, it is really difficult for them to have a chance to compete with the Clippers.
It's not just that this series of games is over, Baker feels his coaching career with the Lakers is over.
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"Beep beep!" The referee blew the whistle at the end of the game.
Howard made 15 free throws in this game, but only five of them were hit, making many Lakers fans on the scene have the urge to break the curse.
Can free throws be so bad? 33.3% free throw percentage? It's just awful.
The significance of shark-cutting tactics is not only to send players like Howard to the free throw line, but also to reduce Howard's chance to touch the ball.
Even Richard has to admit that Howard's destructive power at the rim is really amazing. Especially after grabbing a rebound and playing a second attack, it is quite threatening.
Now because of the tactics of hacking sharks, Howard is on the field, naturally unable to play the best state.
In the final score of 103:89, the Clippers won by 14 points.
Judging from the scores of both sides, the rhythm of this game is really a bit slow.
No way, the Lakers' twin tower system can't get up even if you want to.
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The day after the Clippers won the Lakers, the Spurs and Blazers defeated their opponents.
The Nuggets also defeated the Thunder in the first game, winning the flag.
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Kobe's injury was also reported. Many fans originally felt that it was just a sprain and there should be no major problems.
But the results of the inspection are shocking. Kobe's Achilles tendon is torn. Not only is it impossible to play in this series, but whether he can play next season is a matter of two things.
This may happen to some young players, there will be no major problems, but placed on the old man Kobe, there is a direct injury to the Achilles tendon that completely caused the player's career to fall.
What a torn Achilles tendon means, it goes without saying that fans are well aware that Kobe's career is about to enter the final stage.
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Richard led the Clippers without giving the Lakers any chance to counterattack. They simply swept the Lakers to the Western Conference semifinals with a 4:0 score at Staples Stadium.
The Nuggets are now a 3:1 score, close to the promotion.
The Thunder is still too tender, although the combination of Wei Shao and Love is not bad, but it is still not enough to watch in front of the veteran George Karl. The series has played four games, and Wei Shao has averaged an astonishing 5.5 turnovers per game... …
It’s amazing, but it’s not surprising at least. Richard is not surprised at all. After all, Wei Shao has a feat of averaging 6 turnovers in the playoffs in the future. ~EbookFREE.me~ Another three days passed. Finally, he won the Thunder at home, eliminated the Thunder with a big score of 4:1, and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals.
The Spurs have already swept the Warriors, and the Trail Blazers also killed the Rockets with a 4:1 score.
Since then, all four teams in the Western Conference semifinals have appeared.
The current situation is actually quite favorable for the Clippers.
The three teams of the Blazers, Spurs and Nuggets, the fool also knows that it must be the weakest chicken of the Nuggets. Now the Clippers can meet this weakest opponent, which is naturally a beautiful thing.
Speaking of it, Popovich will not know this, but they have a big gap between the regular season record and the Clippers and Trail Blazers because of the newcomer's reason. There is no hope to catch up with the two teams, so the wave Popovich took the second place and chose a Trail Blazer who seemed easier to deal with.
Richard has too many means, and Popovich certainly does not want to meet Richard prematurely...