Chapter 543: Magic sound

In the first quarter, the two sides played 25:29, and the Blazers led by 4 points to enter the second quarter.
This is the first time since the series that the Blazers have maintained a lead after the first quarter.
It's really not easy.
After the start of the second quarter, the Blazers played very carefully.
Yes, their offense and defense can be described carefully.
In fact, in the playoffs, the game should be careful, no matter whether offensive or defensive, can not make mistakes.
Unfortunately, the Blazers were brought into the pit by the Rockets in the first round, anyway, the frizzy ones also won.
It turned out to be 0:3 by the Clippers, only to find some real playoff feeling.
The Blazers reduced excessive cover and unnecessary running positions in the offense, and tried to make the team's offense routine more concise.
In this way, the team can focus more on the defensive end, slow the pace of the entire game, and allow players to take more initiative on the field.
This is a bit like a playoff team, the Clippers players finally feel the resistance on the court.
Originally, the players had a general feel. Although the game was drawn closer in the second quarter, they were still unable to equalize or overtake.
The Blazers were penetrated by a wave in the second quarter of the first three games. They trailed by 20 points early and entered the second half extremely passively.
This time the Blazers have learned a lesson. The two sides have contacts, and the Blazers always maintain a lead of more than 3 points.
Li Liang did not take advantage of the Blazers in the second quarter.
His most intuitive feeling is that the Blazers team will finally play.
Focus on details in defense instead of confrontation.
All kinds of floorball scrambles, life-saving backboard protection, and finally vowed to defend the home court.
The offensive has reduced the complicated tactical cooperation, more use of the player's personal abilities.
In several offensive attacks, Ade went to the basket instead of always leaning back to jump shots, which was obviously tougher.
The overall rhythm of the team is relaxed, no longer being led by the Clippers like the first three games.
Especially Lillard, who has possession of the ball, has made a lot of progress in offensive options.
After all, he followed Paul for three matches and was abused for three games. After all, he can learn something.
Lillard as a point guard, the Blazers' offense is basically not sorted out well. When the pass is not passed, the pass is not accurate.
Lillard played a lot better this time. At the end of the first half, he scored 15 points and 6 assists to help the Blazers lead the Clippers by 52 points to enter the second half.
Although it only leads by 1 point, this 1 point is really a huge improvement.
It was 25 points behind half a half before, but this time it was able to lead, it is not easy.
Even leading by 1 point is also a great psychological comfort.
The Clippers played poorly in the first half, and the best player was Griffin.
Griffin took the bench and took advantage of the Trailblazers' second-team disadvantage to get some points back.
At the end of the second quarter, it was Griffin's buzzer mid-range that left the Clippers 1 point behind.
Both Li Liang and Paul played well. Li Liang found that his condition was not good, he shrank decisively, concentrated on defense, and saved his energy to prepare for the second half.
The two sides finally have to open their battles and play well in the third quarter and the second half.
During the Clippers' intermission, the locker room was finally no longer so relaxed, but a little nervous.
Rivers pointed out spitting questions about the team's offense and defense in the first half.
And repeatedly emphasized, "I don't want to bring the game back to Los Angeles, I hope we go home on vacation to prepare for the game, not prepare for the next game."
Rivers said so, but he was already planning for the next game.
He knew that it was not so easy to really want to sweep opponents.
The referee clearly favored the Blazers on the whistle in the first half. Basically, some of the fouls that were not blown were blown by the Clippers, but the Blazers did not.
As Rivers expected, the situation began to develop in a disadvantageous direction for the Clippers at the beginning of the third quarter.
As soon as the third quarter opened, Li Liang was now fouled with a foul.
So he fouled three times, and the entire third quarter defense needs to be more careful.
Regarding the deployment of Li Liang's offensive and defensive duties, Rivers is still very difficult to solve.
Mainly because Li Liang was too active, and what he provided on the defensive end was too important for the Clippers.
The awards for the NBA's best defensive player in the past two days have also been released, and it is Jokin Noah who won this award.
However, Rivers said in an interview that he was "outrageous", "The title of best defensive player should be given to Bruce Lee."
Rivers said that although there is a suspicion of flattery, on the other hand, it is also because Rivers knows the importance of Li Liang in the Clippers defense.
The basis for the Clippers' 70 wins is not Li Liang's three-pointer, but Li Liang came to the Clippers to fill the vacancy of the forward defense, so that the team's defense has always maintained a stable running state.
So before Carlisle thought of fouling Li Liang, he got into foul trouble and destroyed the Clippers' defensive foundation.
Stotts played a few games and finally figured this out, plus the referee gave face, Li Liang faced the foul problem as soon as he opened the second half.
Later, the Trail Blazers used Li Liang to be troubled by the foul problem, and began to use the outside pick-and-roll to hit Li Liang.
Batum kept coming out to do the wall to mobilize Li Liang, and after the pick-and-roll, let Li Liang change defense.
As soon as Li Liang changed his defense, Matthews or Lillard broke out.
Li Liang knew that he could not fight against the foul, and the defense was made twice, but he was still beaten by Lillard and Matthews several times in a row.
After playing for five minutes in the third quarter, the Blazers turned the score to 64:70, leading the Clippers by 6 points.
There was no tactical change in the Blazers' defense, only the attitude.
As for the defense, the attitude change is the most immediate.
Once the ball was thrown out, the Clippers made a mistake. Batum asked Li Liang to take the ball, but Li Liang refused to give it.
Batum directly came up to have physical contact with Li Liang and wanted to steal the ball from Li Liang.
Can Li Liang steal the ball from you?
Pushing Batum away with one elbow, then handed the ball to the referee.
Batum also spread his hands in a very innocent manner and said "technical foul" to the referee.
"Go to your mother's technical foul." Li Liang cursed at Batum unkindly.
The referee didn't pay attention because the out-of-bounds ball had to be handed over to the referee first.
There was clearly a smell of gunpowder on both sides.
Li Liang's condition tonight is indeed bad, but he is working hard to adjust.
He feels shooting now is average, defensively caught in fouls and dared not go all out.
The other Clippers players were obviously not very comfortable with the Blazers' changing defensive attitude and played very unruly.
The game is completely out of control of the Clippers.
Li Liang thought, he must get the initiative back.
How to find it, start with this Batum.
Li Liang took [Gary Payton's Gum] from the system's exchange center silently and chewed it in his mouth.
Don't you want to fight me? Didn’t the cover always mobilize me and let the back field come to train me?
Then we will have a full-scale duel to see who is more powerful.
In the first few games, Li Liang didn't even care about Batum.
It is true that Batum played better than one.
This game of Batum is very good, and the defense of Li Liang is getting more and more energetic. He is here to feel and dry up.
You're bored, I'll go fire for you.
The Blazers attacked from the field.
Batum and Li Liang match up and find out why Li Liang's mouth is moving?
Chewing gum? But he doesn't seem to have the habit of chewing gum.
Then, Batum heard a series of various curse words, flowing from Li Liang's mouth.
It really flows out, and it flows very naturally~EbookFREE.me~ If you don't care about the content and only listen to the tone, you will feel that he is chatting with you.
But when I heard the content... all kinds of black slang, slang, and swear words greeted Batum in a row.
The basketball court is actually very, very noisy.
The whistle, the noise of the audience, the loud exchange of shouts between players, the racket on the floor, and the sound of shoes rubbing against the floor.
To play a game, the eardrums of the players are to be tested, especially in the playoffs.
But when Batum stood beside Li Liang, he felt that Li Liang's words were just magic sounds. He could shield all other sounds, which made you listen to those words, and your mind was about to explode.
Batum just wanted to turn back and let Li Liang stop talking, but Matthews's ball passed.
Batum didn't pay attention to Li Liang's goal. Li Liang took the ball and rushed forward. Lillard had to stop Li Liang for a foul.
Li Liang rubbed his mouth and thought, the feeling of cursing was really refreshing.