The NBA regular season continues, with the East and West facing a strong and weak conversation, and the Clippers heading to the road to challenge the Pistons.
Despite being plagued by injuries this season, the Clippers, under the guidance of Lu, are still firmly occupying the top eight positions in the West, but the team has been in poor shape recently, with only 1 win and 3 losses in the last 4 games, fortunately, Xiaoka and George have entered the training stage and are expected to return this season.
On the other hand, the Pistons, with the previous wave of three consecutive wins, the team surpassed the Magic and rose to the bottom of the East, but recently suffered two consecutive defeats, it seems that the state has declined, in fact, the team has only faced strong opponents in succession, and the game still shows a good competitiveness.
As soon as the game began, the Clippers dominated the game, with Zubac hitting two points on the inside to take the lead for the team.
But then the team quickly fell into a disadvantage, and the Pistons, who played at home, blossomed more, and under the leadership of Canningan, they achieved a double-digit lead in one go.
Fortunately, the Clippers recovered from then on, did not let the Pistons pull the score any further, and before the end of the first quarter, with Terranceman's free throws, the point difference was narrowed to 8 points.
The second quarter came, the Clippers were once again in a dud, and the Pistons blossomed inside and out, and the point difference was not only widened to double digits again, but also widened to as much as 18 points in the middle of the quarter.
The Clippers called a timeout in time, and after a brief adjustment, the Clippers changed their strategy on the defensive end, while Morris Jr. carried the team's offensive flag, and the point difference was gradually forced by the Clippers.
With 3 minutes left in the second quarter, the Clippers managed to narrow the gap to single digits, and unfortunately, the team fell into a brief mute at the end of the quarter, and the Pistons took advantage of the situation to pull the score again, ending the first half with a 14-point lead.
The Clippers quickly recovered and kept forcing the Pistons to make mistakes, taking just 4 minutes to narrow the points gap to single digits.
Since then, the two teams have been in a long tug-of-war, the point difference has been maintained at around 10 points, and the Clippers have repeatedly set off a wave of counterattacks, all of which have been defused by the Pistons.
Until the last two minutes of the third quarter, the Pistons' offensive status declined badly, and the Clippers narrowed the point gap to only 2 points in one go.
Entering the final quarter, the Pistons re-opened the score at the beginning of the quarter, but after that, the Clippers blossomed more, and with Kenard's three-pointer, the Clippers finally completed the first rebound with 7 minutes and 53 seconds left in the game.
The young Pistons didn't give up and have since been eating into the points gap, narrowing it to just one point left.
At the critical moment, Reggie and Morris Jr. stepped forward to solve the problem, coupled with Tyrenlu's excellent tactical operation at the key moment, the Clippers finally defeated the Pistons 106-102, staging a 18-point reversal.
Throughout the game, the young Pistons showed strong resilience and the characteristics of the team's many scoring points, and all five of the starting five scored in double figures.
Among them, Cunningham is gradually getting better, bombarding the quasi-triple-double data of 23 points, 9 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 blocks.
In addition, Sadiq Bay had 13 points, eight rebounds and two steals, Grant had 21 points and five rebounds, Bagley had 15 points, eight rebounds and three assists, and Joseph had 10 points, six rebounds and four assists.
Even so, the Pistons were ultimately unable to beat the Clippers, who were short of major generals, because the Clippers were not only all soldiers, but the coaching staff, Tyrenlu, was constantly making strange moves.
Throughout the game, Mo Jr. exploded with 31 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists, Zubac 14 points and 15 rebounds, Reggie 15 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals, Kennard 16 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and Haltenstein 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.
In addition to George and Leonard having resumed training, Clippers reporter Farbod Esnaashari revealed that Powell is also expected to return this season.
If George, Leonard and Powell all end up coming back in the playoffs, then the Warriors and Lakers will have to prepare in advance.
Because according to the current ranking, the Clippers are likely not to reach the top six, and they need to compete for the seventh or eighth position through the form of playoffs.
If the first round of playoffs lose, then it will meet with the Lakers in the second round of playoffs, if the first round of playoffs wins, it will enter the playoffs with the west seventh, although the Warriors are currently ranked third in the West, but the Warriors have recently picked up in form, the dark horse Grizzlies have declined, and the overtaking is a high probability of what will happen, and the current record of the two teams has been equal, so that the Warriors have a high probability of meeting the Clippers in the first round.