George blasted 39 points to kill the Cavaliers! Harden shot 22 points on 11 shots but was abandoned, and Wei Shao led the team to a 26-point reversal
On April 8th, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and today the Clippers sat at home to welcome the challenge of the Cavaliers, before this game, the Clippers won 5 of the last 6 games, they were in very good shape, and the Cavaliers were back-to-back, they just lost to the Lakers yesterday, although the Clippers lacked a small card, but the Cavaliers are also missing Mitchell, and then let's talk about the game process, and then talk about the players' play.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Mobley scored 4 points for the Cavaliers to take the lead, George and Zubac responded with 4 points, LeVert scored 4 points with free throws, and under his leadership, the Cavaliers played a wave of 8-0 climax, Mann scored 4 points in a row to stop the bleeding, George and Harden combined to cut 4 points to catch up with the difference, Garland responded with three points, and the two sides played a good confrontation in the first quarter, and at the end of the quarter, Strus scored 6 points in a row to help the Cavaliers lead by 7 points and end the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Plumlee and Harden went on a 6-0 run to help the team catch up with the difference, after which the Clippers' offense suddenly lost power. Garland and Okoro scored 6 points in a row, Harden stopped the bleeding with three points, Garland and Allen combined for 5 points, Okoro and Mobley scored 5 points in a row, and the difference also came to more than 15 points, after which the Clippers also failed to play a decent counterattack, Strus hit a three-pointer at the end of the quarter, and the Cavaliers led by 21 points to end the first half.
Yibian fought again, with the help of Mobley, the Cavaliers once expanded the difference to 26 points, seeing that the game was powerless, George and Harden combined to score 5 points and sounded the horn of counterattack, Allen responded with an inside kill, Zubac scored 4 points in a row, Wei Shao and Zubac combined to cut 6 points, and the difference was back within 15 points, at the end of the quarter, Powell hit another three-pointer Clippers to chase down to 11 points, Mobley relied on free throws to help the Cavaliers lead by 12 points, ending the third quarter.
In the final quarter, George scored consecutive points to help the team chase down to only 3 points, and then the two sides fell into a stalemate, the last two minutes Cavaliers led by 5 points, George responded with two free throws, Mann and Coffey hit three points to help the Clippers overtake, Allen scored 2+1 to tie the score, George in the last 7 seconds of regular time in the distance quasi-kill, and then Wei Shao and George successively contributed key defense, and finally the Clippers defeated the Cavaliers 120-118.
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After the lack of Mitchell, the Cavaliers feel more fluent, although Mitchell came back before, but he has not recovered from injury, and his condition is not good, he is absent in this game, but the Cavaliers are led by Garland to play a good offense, and the twin towers are also doing their jobs. Garland shot 10-of-22 from the field, 4-of-8 from three-point range, and got 28 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists and 5 steals, turning Harden into a cash machine.
Allen also did whatever he wanted on the inside, scoring 17 points, 10 rebounds and 1 assist on 6-of-12 shooting, Mobley shot 8-of-17 from the field, 0-of-2 from three-point range and got 20 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Mobley increased his three-point shot after his comeback, and the overall efficiency in the past few games was not bad, LeVert got 18 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, Strus scored 20 points and 9 assists, and it was too profitable to trade Strus.
In this game, the Cavaliers played a very good tactical targeting, the positional battle is to focus on Harden's slow movement, let Garland target him, and then seize the Clippers' mistakes to play defense, they used their speed advantage to target the Clippers' aging, and the whole team used the Clippers' mistakes to score 23 points, although the Cavaliers' tactics are very targeted, but the Clippers team has too many top stars, and their error tolerance rate is too high.
Harden was deprecated
George proved his strength in this game, George, who played a nervous knife in the past few years, ushered in a healthier season this season, George also played a more stable output, he dreamed back to the performance of the 18 years of playing for the Thunder, the offensive stability is too strong, and the offense and defense are integrated, no wonder so many teams want him, this campaign 24 shots 10, 3 of 9 three-pointers got 39 points, 11 rebounds, 7 assists and 1 steal, and one person scored 23 points and 5 rebounds in the final quarter.
Harden shot 22 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on 11 shots in this game, if you look at the data alone, Harden's performance is indeed very good, but friends who have watched the game know how much damage he has to the team, as long as he gets off the court, the team will be crazy to chase points, Tyronn Lue can't see it, and directly abandoned Harden in the fourth quarter, and the team broke out.
In the final quarter, Wei Shao became the key to winning, his excellent defense limited Garland's play, this game 9 shooting 3, 3 of 2 three-pointers got 8 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, Powell scored 14 points and 3 rebounds, Zubac got 14 points and 11 rebounds, in addition to today's game, Xiaoka also broke the news that he will return as soon as possible, but will not play back-to-back with the team, the Clippers want to maintain a healthy lineup to play the playoffs.
Speaking of which, what do you have to say about the current Clippers and Cavaliers?