: 229. Sweep the Clippers

The Lakers lost one game to the Clippers this season. There were many factors in that game.
The first is that the Clippers were in full swing at that time and all the players were in their best form. Then the Lakers had several injuries and couldn't play the ball. Green's absence made the Lakers' internal organization ability drop by more than half. It is not that Gasol's organizational ability is not good, but Green's organizational talent is really excellent.
These two points were the biggest factor that the Lakers lost that game.
Now everything is the other way around. The Clippers are in a sluggish state that they shouldn’t even make the playoffs. It’s just that the foundation laid by the first 17 consecutive victories is too deep, and they have been losing for the last month to ensure they stay steadily in the Wild West. The ranks of the playoffs.
Green is also back now. By watching his teammates games off the court, he has a better understanding of his teammates' running habits and best shooting positions, and has a deeper understanding of organizing offense.
On April 20, the Lakers and the Clippers first battle.
What D'Antoni said the day before had some effect. Everyone on the Lakers didn't want to overturn the boat in the gutter.
Jordan is this year's jump ball king. The Lakers won only a quarter of more than 80 regular season games to win jump balls, the league counts down.
Due to Redick's refusal to play, the Clippers' starting shooting guard was the Lakers' substitute Goldlock last year. Paul had to come by himself. Facing Liu Ren's defense, he chose to take a mid-range jumper and missed it. Green grabbed a defensive rebound.
As the Lakers attacked, Liu Ren continued to change directions, and suddenly accelerated to squeeze Paul, who was defending him, into the inside. After attracting the defending young Jordan and Griffin, the ball was passed to Kobe, who cut into the basket, and the latter had both hands. Score a dunk.
Liu Ren is the key to victory. Jordan has already cast a shadow on him. He scores in the interior as if no one is in the world, forcibly dunking, throwing the board and throwing his two tricks in the interior.
When Green, Gasol, Nash, and Kobe all opened up space for him to play the ball, they scored 40 points and set a new high in personal playoff scores.
In turn, Liu Ren started to pass the ball after being concentrated by the opponent's firepower, sending a lot of assists to his teammates.
On the defensive end, the Lakers players have honed their defensive tacit understanding for a season, which is above the league average. The current Clippers are basically Paul and Griffin duo. Except for the two who can score, no one else wants to play. , All want to end this season early.
Liu Ren watched Paul hold the ball to the basket with a grim look, but this 1.8-meter small man has to take on the scoring responsibility of all the outside lines of the team, which makes people unbearable.
Yes, Liu Ren couldn't bear it, so he used the strongest impact, the highest fighting spirit, and the most focused attitude to lead the three veterans and a talented bench to bombard the Clippers, and prepare to end early. Clippers season.
No accidents happened. Liu Ren scored a triple-double of 40 points, 15 assists and 11 rebounds. It was also his first triple-double in the playoffs, leading the Lakers to a 119-80 victory over the Clippers in their first game.
On April 23, the Lakers and Clippers have their second home game.
After a two-day break, the Lakers played even better. Three major players on the Clippers refused to play because Sterling died again. He actually didn’t know how to break through the security barrier and came to the scene before the game. Barnes, Redick, and Collison three players who hate racial discrimination left the field directly.
If there are players who refuse to play in normal times, the team and the league will refuse to pay the salary of this game, but this is the playoffs, there is no salary originally, it is a compulsory game, and even if the Clippers last more than ten playoff games this year Ensi and others refused to play, and the Alliance did not mention the issue of not being paid. No one dared to provoke public anger!
Liu Ren was suffocated without playing in the last few games of the regular season. In this game, he made 35 crazy shots. Although his shooting percentage was average and he only made 15 shots, he still scored 40 points and won the second consecutive game. To 40 points, led the Lakers to a 121-95 victory over the Clippers again.
There is no feeling of abuse and abuse. In the next two games, D'Antoni will directly train in the playoffs, focusing on role players, using Antetokounmpo and Green, Whiteside, Nick Young, and McCollum as the main players. Four of these five players are the possible core members of the Lakers in the future. They are full of talent. They have grown rapidly under D'Antoni's system and they put their absent-minded Clippers in the Staples Center.
The Clippers played worse in the next two games than the first two games!
The reason is simple. These two games are the Clippers' home games. Because Sterling has been banned from participating in NBA commercial activities, the ticket price is set by Shelly Sterling, which is more than the regular season and Lakers game ticket prices. To be relatively cheaper, most fans who buy tickets are Clippers fans.
But these fans in Clippers jerseys did not come to cheer for the Clippers. Instead, they all held up signs that read "Sirling out~EbookFREE.me~ and they vented their anger to the team. On his body, as long as the Clippers players get the ball, they booed, so that the Clippers players who had no desire to fight would surrender early.
4 to 0!
Sweep without suspense!
Only Paul and Griffin played well on the Clippers. Paul averaged 24 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists per game. Griffin averaged 27 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists per game. The scoring was very good, but from The two assists show that the rest of the Clippers have not shown their strength at all.
Paul and Griffin didn't say a word in four games, and even though their opponents were Lakers players who had a good relationship with them, they were reluctant to speak.
It only took a week for the Lakers to end the first round of the series, and it looked like they had to rest for a long time.
The Clippers are out, and the league is finally relieved. The playoffs are in full swing. No one will pay attention to a team that has been eliminated. They can finally make a plan to change the Clippers.
"Shellie, are you sure there is nothing wrong with this proof?" Adam Silva asked solemnly.
Adam Silva worries that Shelly Sterling has made a fake certificate in order to allocate half of his money as soon as possible, because Shelly is ready to divorce Sterling, and the Clippers will sell it. Half of the money goes to her.
Shelly is a middle-aged woman who seems to be very shrewd, with small eyes shining: "Adam, don't worry, this is a firm proof to go to Ronald Reagan Medical Center with someone from the court! From Donald’s previous cases and his recent behavior, Dr. Reagan is quite sure that his depression is already very serious and he has no independent ability to act. As his guardian, I have the power to take charge of all the property of the Sterling family!"
"Dr. Reagan's certificate? Ok, I understand, we will hold the auction as soon as possible"