Chapter 789: Same City Playoff Derby

After the All-Star weekend, the regular season schedule was nearly two-thirds, and the Clippers continued to maintain the eighth position in the West.
Judging from the current situation, it is still difficult for the Jazz to catch up with the Clippers. After all, the two sides are now three wins away. It is not so easy to catch up.
The Thunder ranked seventh in the West, with two wins over the Clippers. It is not impossible for the Clippers to catch up with the Thunder in the future.
In the blink of an eye, the time entered April. It was as expected by Richard. The Clippers finally caught up and finally caught up with the Thunder before the end of the regular season.
In fact, it doesn't matter whether it's the seventh or the eighth. For the Clippers and Thunder, there is no difference, because it is almost the end of the first round of games.
The first in the east is the Spurs, the second is the Lakers...
In the playoffs last season, these two teams were very miserable, one was black, and the other was swept in the second round. Obviously, this season they cannot make the same mistake again.
And this season, both teams have improved to varying degrees, and they have gotten quite outstanding newcomers in the draft.
In particular, Jimmy Butler, who got the Spurs this year, under Popovich’s one-year training, has now perfectly replaced Bowen’s role in the Spurs, even better than Bowen. After all, Bowen has no offensive ability, but Butler is still quite good in this regard.
Even Butler's offensive ability is even better now than Leonard.
On the defensive end, under Popovich's training, Black Butler's current defensive strength should not be underestimated, and will definitely be of great use in this year's playoffs.
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All in all, whether it's the Thunder or the Clippers, when they meet these two teams, there is very little hope of promotion. Even Richard himself didn't think much about promotion.
It is true that if Richard is willing to make a capital contribution, it does not mean that there is no chance of promotion.
But what's the point? Richard deserves no such gains and losses.
I don't have no championship at hand, one more but one less, I can't spend the blood to fight for the championship.
Moreover, many of Richard's things are for his son...
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On April 15, the regular season schedule was finally settled.
The Los Angeles Clippers ranked seventh in the West with a record of 45 wins and 37 losses.
If you look at the record of the Clippers during the opening period, I am afraid that no one can think of the Clippers entering the playoffs this year. In the view of most fans, this year's Clippers are estimated to be the Lotto team...
Even if the Clippers are still in the bottom three in the West this year, fans will not say anything.
After all, the team lineup is there, and there is no star who can be on the table in the league.
With such a lineup, who can count on how good they are...
But now the Clippers have reached the playoffs, which really made the fans a little overjoyed.
What made them even more overjoyed was that the Clippers played against the Lakers in the playoffs.
The same city playoff Derby, this game is the first in NBA history, has never happened before.
Although everyone knows that the Clippers are not opponents of the Lakers, but this round of the series they saw from the beginning to the end, or the Los Angeles fans are very excited.
Before the playoffs began, Kobe called Richard and asked Richard to eat...
As a result, Richard didn't go, and he was about to play the playoffs. Who had the mind to eat with Kobe.
Although there is no hope of advancement in this series, Richard certainly cannot give up resistance like this. His goal is to win the Lakers at least once.
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During the regular season, the Clippers and the Lakers played four times, only to win the next time, and the one won was Kobe Bryant's win.
"Beep beep!" The referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the game.
"Cute cutie, remember it after coming on stage, and keep me staring at Kobe. I don’t care about this game tonight. Even if I lose, I won’t let Kobe score more than 20 points!" Before going on stage, Richard directed Leonard again and told him again.
He has spoken to Leonard many times in recent days.
Hearing Richard call Leonard cute, several players on the team grinned...
They also don't know why Richard gave Leonard such a wonderful nickname. After all, seeing the robot face of Leonard has nothing to do with cuteness.
To ask Richard why he called this nickname, Richard was silent again...
Leonard didn't seem to hear Richard's nickname for himself, nodded at Richard without a slight expression, and then appeared dull.
In the jump ball, Monroe jumped to win Gasol and won the first offensive round for the Clippers.
Thomas held the ball to advance. Although he was short, he did quite a lot to do the job of holding the ball. With the speed and power, there were not many people in the league who could stop him from advancing, at least old fish. Fisher does not work.
If you change to an ordinary person with a height of 175, it is no exaggeration to say that if you meet the opponents in the NBA game, you can control the ball to the frontcourt.
When the ball reached the frontcourt, Thomas Jr. paused for a moment, then suddenly speeded up, passed the old fish directly, and rushed towards the basket.
Laoyu's defensive experience is also quite rich. After seeing that he was out of position, he did not hurry to get started, but followed closely behind Little Thomas and waited for interference when Little Thomas shot.
Little Thomas has suffered a lot of this loss this season. Seeing that Big Ben has been blocked on his breakthrough route, there is an old fish chaser behind, and he immediately scored the ball to Horford.
Then Horford watched that Gasol was tightly defended, and he had no good time to pass the ball directly to Thompson.
With the help of Leonard's pick-and-roll, Thompson gained a comfortable shot space and scored a long two-pointer.
I have to say that in the first offensive round after the Clippers opened, the flow of ball rights was quite smooth, and it was completely impossible to see that this was a new melon lineup.
This is the result of hard work during the week.
Richard dare to guarantee that no team in the league will spend more time on training than their Clippers!
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The ball is on the Lakers' side, and it's natural that Kobe Bryant fought their first round of work.
Little Thomas didn't have much pressure to defend the old fish Fisher. The old fish is not the kind of flying point guard, but the ground cannon. The speed is not as good as that of the little Thomas, and there is no advantage in strength. Thomas this point will certainly not be exploded.
Since Thomas Thomas will not be exploded, Leonard can naturally devote more energy to take care of Kobe.
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Looking at Leonard's defense, it is definitely a textbook-level ~EbookFREE.me~ There are no bells and whistles and extra defensive moves, the whole person follows the procedure strictly like a robot.
"DUANG..." Under the entanglement of Leonard's death, Bryant's first offensive round ended directly with an iron strike.
Then the Clippers' offensive round, Thomas Jr. threw a shot and was picked up by Monroe. However, under Big Ben's defense, Monroe's second attack failed.
It's the Lakers' offensive round again, as if it was a remake of the previous offensive round. This time Kobe was hit by Leonard's defense.
Playing iron for two consecutive rounds reminded Kobe of the painful experience of being swept by the Mavericks in the playoffs last season.
Speaking of last season, why the Lakers were swept away, even Kobe himself must admit that this matter has nothing to do with him.
In this series of games, Kobe Bryant is eager to win, consumes too much of the ball rights, all kinds of singles holding the ball, the shooting rate is very bad.
After losing one game, Bryant increasingly wanted to prove that he was able to save the situation, but because of his paranoia, the Lakers lost three games in a row.
If Kobe was young when he was young, I’m afraid he wouldn’t care about this kind of thing at all, and now he is not too young and has matured a lot. Thinking of the painful experience of the last postseason, he felt he had to make it. Some changes.
Of course, what really motivates Kobe to make a change is that Kobe does not want to lose to Richard in this series.
Since he left the Trail Blazers, every time he encountered Richard in the playoffs, he lost the game...
This time it was difficult to catch the weak timing of Richard's team, how could he miss it.
If you miss this time, Kobe has a hunch that she may not be able to beat Richard in the playoffs.
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