The Clippers ended a four-game winning streak!
On February 8, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Clippers returned to their home court against the Pelicans after playing seven consecutive road games. This time, the Clippers were in a very sluggish state, completely out of shape, and were suppressed by the opponent when they came up, and then fought back several times to catch up with the score, but unfortunately Zion and McCollum scored consecutive points in the final quarter to help the team establish the victory. In the end, the Clippers lost 106-117 to the Pelicans at home, and the four-game winning streak was ended.
The momentum of the Clippers on the road is still very good, but when they arrive at home, they are not in shape at all, and their mentality is a little relaxed, and they are suppressed by the Pelicans when they come up, and they are 17 points behind after the first quarter. But after that, the Clippers caught up, and the halftime successfully approached to single digits, thinking that they were going to witness a big reversal again, but they didn't expect the Clippers to continue the momentum in the second half, and several counterattacks were unsuccessful, and the final quarter was once close to 4 points, but Zion scored consecutive points to stabilize, and then McCollum hit consecutive outside shots to kill the game directly, and finally beat the Clippers by 11 points away.
After losing this game, the Clippers also lost the first place in the West, and even fell directly to fourth. In the last game, the Thunder and Timberwolves both lost in an upset, directly letting the Clippers lie in the first place in the West, but they didn't expect the Clippers to hold it themselves, losing to the Pelicans in an upset, and returning the first position to the Thunder. Now the competition for the top four in the West is still very fierce, with 16 losses, and the gap is only half a win, and the Clippers still have a chance.
The main reason for the Clippers' loss this time was that they were not in good shape, the team's two scoring masters fell into a slump at the same time, Leonard and George were in very poor condition, and the small card was very uncomfortable being limited by the opponent, only 15 points on 4 of 10, and there were 3 turnovers; George missed all of his first 11 shots, and finally made 3 of 15 shots, 0 of 8 three-pointers, only scored 7 points, and also had 3 turnovers. When the performance of Ka Jiao is indeed difficult to win, when one person is sluggish, other players can still make up for it, but both are sluggish, then there is really no chance.
Harden had a good hand this time, shooting 6 of 11, 5 of 6 three-pointers, and got 19 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, and was the only one on the team who played normally, but he faced the Pelicans' tall and long-arm defenders, and he couldn't find space, and he also had 4 assists. However, this time Harden also ushered in an assist milestone, surpassing Morris Cheeks and occupying the 15th all-time position.