George has been unable to return, Leonard is unable to play because of a knee injury, the Clippers in this series with the Suns, the outlook is already very gray, what is more uncomfortable is that Leonard does not have a comeback schedule, the team still knows little about his injury, and according to previous reports, Leonard's knee injury this time has nothing to do with his previous cruciate ligament injury in the knee.
The Clippers duo is absent, the Suns side is strong, in the ABCD and other four cores can play smoothly, Payne on the bench is also close to comeback, today came to the G4 of the two teams, the opening Clippers can still deal with the Suns, and played back and forth in the first half, the first quarter was drawn, and the second quarter entered the second half with a small explosion of Wei Shao and Powell at the end of the quarter with a one-point disadvantage.
After swapping venues, Booker and Durant began to exert their strength, and although Wilson has maintained a good offensive feeling, the Clippers seem to be a little overwhelmed by the end of the third quarter. In the final quarter, the Suns continued to produce more blossoms, and the Clippers could only rely on Wei Shao to support themselves, coupled with Paul's 5 consecutive points in the final stage, and finally the Clippers lost the game 100-112, trailing 1-3 and being forced into a desperate situation.
In this game, the Clippers' starters were collectively inaccurate except for Wei Shao, and Morris Jr., who was temporarily promoted to the starting lineup by Lu's guidance, was still so stable, continuing his slump this season, shooting only 3 of 13, shooting 1 of 8 from three-point range, scoring 9 points, and having a game-low plus-minus of -19. Powell, who cut 40+ in the last game, also did not work today, shooting only 4 of 15 and scoring 14 points.
Wei Shao became the only player the team can rely on on the offensive end today, shooting 17 of 29, 3 of 6 three-pointers, and scored a game-high 37 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, this game is Wei Shao's career regular season plus playoffs 256 30+, but it is the first 0 free throw 30+ in Wei Shao's career playoffs and regular season, 37 points and 0 free throws, and it is also the second highest score in NBA playoff history without free throws.
It can be seen from this that the current Wei Shao may have been excluded from the ranks of superstars by the alliance, but Wei Shao has proved with his energy, fighting spirit and technology that he still has the ability to be a superstar. Wei Shao seemed to be a little critical of his 0 free throws throughout the game, and although he did not directly attack the referee after the game, he said that he would continue to attack the basket at G5, hoping to get some reward for doing so.
Today's Wei Shao has completely become a lone hero when the whole team is inaccurate, of course, the label of lone hero has been attached to Durant since he broke up with him, but after going to the Lakers, he completely took off this label and was beaten worthless. As we said before, Wei Shao is more of a mismatch with James in the Lakers, as long as Wei Shao is given enough ball and freedom, he can still play perfect statistics and extraordinary performance.
This round of the series Wei Shao proves this, in the early absence of George in the first round, Leonard added a new injury can not play, Wei Shao once again became the team's qualified core player, this round of the series so far, Wei Shao's total of points, assists, steals, blocks and other data are the team's first, averaging 26 points, 7.5 rebounds, 7.3 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.8 blocks per game, three shooting percentages of 46%, 41%, 88%, it is worth mentioning that the current playoffs are 41% less Wei is more than Curry's 38 percent shooting percentage.
In addition to today's 37+6+4, G3 Weishao also cut 30+8+11 quasi-triple-double data, which is Wei Shao's second consecutive 30+ game after G5 and G6 cut 45 points and 46 points in the 2018 playoffs and Jazz series. From these 30+ data of Wei Shao, it can also be seen that Wei Shao is more mature than himself at his peak, and he is not so paranoid about his personal data.
For a superstar, especially for Wei Shao himself, such statistics may not be so explosive recently, but why is Wei Shao's performance in the last two games so moving? Of course, it is because of Wei Shao's experience in the past two years and his indomitability after experiencing so many setbacks and doubts. In the two seasons of the Lakers, Wei Shao was a failure, no data, no performance, and was even ridiculed by the outside world as a player who could not mix in the NBA.
But the 34-year-old Wei Shao proved himself in this year's playoffs, he is not incapable in the Lakers, but really unsuitable, Curry previously said that Wei Shao's fighting spirit is a lost art in the NBA; Barkley previously said that people who like basketball will definitely not be less black. Today Paul also said that only those who do not understand the ball will criticize Wei Shao.
Durant, who has been in love with Wei Shao for several seasons, the two have completely reconciled, and after today's game, Durant said when talking about Wei Shao: "After a person has achieved success, people will find ways to criticize him, Wei Shao has never been troubled by these things in his life, he has always remained focused, when he retires, people will say their true feelings, and now they will make fun of Wei Shao, but Wei Shao has been showing everyone what kind of player he is." ”
To put it bluntly, praise to praise, Wei Shao's performance is good enough, but the Clippers have now reached a desperate situation of 1-3 down, for the current team situation Wei Shao still looks so positive after the game, always full of fighting spirit and constantly competing, Wei Shao is still that attitude after the game, do your best, resign yourself to fate. 'We need to be confident, never bow our heads, we have to stick together and I'm still in the same mentality as before, we need to be more aggressive, keep ourselves on track, give everything on the pitch, like we do every game, and then accept the result.