Nuggets 127-115 Clippers!
In a recent interview, Director Lu talked about the unsuccessful interview with the Lakers in 19 years, and he said this: "When interviewing the Lakers, they seem to think that I am just here to coach James. No, I'm here to win. I don't think it's fair. And I don't accept random offers to get a job, I just feel like I'm better than that. ”
"I'm working at the Clippers right now, just like Spoo in Miami. It makes me want to be better because without James, now I have to show people what I know, like I can really coach. I still need to get better, but I just want to prove to people that I can coach. ”
Even if the Clippers lose four straight, they are still eighth in the West, leading the Lakers by four wins. I think Director Lou has shed James's shadow and proven his ability.
First, the Defeated Clippers
The Clippers have been inexhaustible this season, and they have been advancing without either Leonard or George most of the time, but what can they still rely on to sit in eighth place in the West?
Unity and tenacity!
Like Director Lou said, he's doing the same thing as the Heat's Spoo coach. The Heat did not have a top star, but they rushed to the top of the East with team and tenacity. The Clippers are even worse, they have no stars this season.
Therefore, Lu coaching can only use the main players as stars, the role players as the main force, and the marginal players as role players, as far as possible to fight every game.
But athletes are also human beings, spurred on to move forward all the time, and eventually physically and mentally exhausted.
The Clippers are now in a period of exhaustion as a whole, and the main players are particularly obvious. After winning the Pistons, they can fight the Cavaliers and Raptors to the end, and when they play the Jazz, they feel that the main players can't move.
So in the second half of the Jazz, Director Lu almost didn't start. One is because the point difference is too large, the second is to make the main force a little ashamed, and the third is to let them rest and rest.
After three days off to play the Nuggets, the Clippers' fatigue still lingered, so the Clippers' final decisive lineup was Reggie + Mann + Kennard + Covington + Harten, 1 starting 4 benches.
If it weren't for the fact that Boston Jr. was too young, I even suspected that Coach Lu would have let him hold the ball in place of Reggie and let five substitutes end the game.
You look at this lineup, you want Reggie's ball holding and Kennard's three-point ability, and the remaining three people are all characters who can run, jump and fight.
In fact, this also proves one thing, the Clippers now do not have much difference between the starting and the bench, who can fight who is the main force, who can not fight down to sit on the bench.
For such a civilian team, being able to play is much more important than personal ability.
In the end, they really let them spell out a chance, but the Nuggets' role players can shoot the open three-point shot, and the Clippers' own offense can't continue, they really have no problem.
This Clipper deserves to lose the four words, they lost not because of their own waves, nor because they did not go all out, simply because of insufficient ability. They are more content than the teams that have the ability and talent but splurge on it.
Coach Lu should be proud of the Clippers, and the Clippers should be proud to have a coach like Coach Lu who can pinch them together.
Second, the nuggets that the whole staff plays
Mr. Yoo shot 9-of-15 today, 30 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists, efficiency and stats have nothing to say, but Mr. Yo's scoring has never been the key to winning the Clippers.
The Nuggets and Clippers play each other four times a season:
The first was on Dec. 27 last year, when the Nuggets led by as many as 17 points, but ultimately narrowly beat the Clippers by only three points at 103-100. About teacher 26 points, 22 rebounds and 8 assists;
The second time was jan. 12, when the Nuggets led by as many as 25 points but suffered a reversal, eventually losing two points to the Clippers 85-87. About teacher 21 points, 13 rebounds and 8 assists;
The third time was on January 20, when Mr. Jo played a performance of the lower level of the gods, with 49 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. Even so, the two sides fought overtime, and finally relied on a half-court hanging pass of the teacher, assisted by the free Gordon, and the Nuggets narrowly defeated the Clippers by 2 points at 130-128.
It seems that no matter how much the Nuggets lead, the Clippers always seem to have a way to turn over. No matter how Mr. Yo plays, the Clippers always seem to be able to play with them until the last moment, and the final point difference between the two sides in the three games is only 8 points, why is this so?
Because after the Clippers' points difference is pulled apart, they will definitely besiege Joe Teacher. Yes, it's a siege.
Spring has arrived, and it's mating season again. In addition to this familiar line in "Animal World", it often appears that the cheetah besieges the wildebeest.
Wildebeests are huge, and no single cheetah is an opponent, but cheetahs will always follow the wildebeest herd, and when they see the right time, several cheetahs will rush up and besiege a wildebeest.
Wildebeest can play anymore, nor is ip man who has studied Wing Chun. Relatively speaking, cheetahs do not talk about martial virtue, two can not be three, three can not be four, highlighting a mixed river and lake still have to rely on brothers, as long as the wildebeest is exhausted, it will become the delicacy in the mouth of the cheetah.
In the game, The Teacher is the Wildebeest, and the Clippers player is the Cheetah. If the wildebeest wants to survive, in addition to struggling with itself, two brothers must come out to help.
So the Nuggets want to win the Clippers, about the teacher's play do not have to worry, mainly whether the teammates can attract him to the empty three-point shot after the pinch.
If they can shoot, the Nuggets will win; if they can't shoot, it will be difficult for the Nuggets to avoid the fate of being overturned.
Today's Nuggets shot 16 of 32, shooting 50% of the time, if you are a Nuggets fan, you should be very surprised that the Nuggets can shoot this kind of shooting rate.
What's more, when Covington scored four-and-a-half points in the fourth quarter to tie the score to 109-111, the Nuggets scored four consecutive three-pointers — one for Morris, two for Jeff Green, and one for Button.
It was those four three-pointers that shattered the Clippers' last hope of a comeback.
The Nuggets are 43-30 and sixth in the West; the Clippers are 36-38 and eighth in the West.
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