On April 29, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued. After 48 minutes of fierce battle, the two sides finally relied on George + Harden's double-core explosion of 66 points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists to lead the Clippers to 116-111 narrowly defeat the Mavericks, and the series score was difficult to pull back a city, with a total score of 2-2 The two sides drew 2-2, and the next battle of Tianwang Mountain will be played at home in Los Angeles on May 2, Beijing time.
In addition to Todoncic's 1-of-9 three-point shooting, the main reason for this is the strong outburst of their own dual cores, they launched a wave of 39-16 offensive in the first quarter, and a 23-point lead in a single quarter is bound to leave the victory in Dallas. Although Irving led the team to a counterattack in the third quarter, 29-16 in the single quarter, the difference was close to single digits, but the first half was too big, and the Clippers worked together in the final quarter without giving the Mavericks a chance, and finally accepted this precious victory without danger.
After the game, Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue gave a showdown to the league in an interview with the media, and he admitted that winning more or less in the playoffs is a win, and as long as you can win, no one cares if you win by 1 point or 40 points. Indeed, as Tyronn Lue said, competitive sports are brutal, it's all about winning or losing, and if you win, you can cover up most of the problems, but once you lose a game, no one cares why you lost.
Just like the previous G2 and G3, the Clippers did not score more than 100 points in two consecutive games, and the coaching staff believed too much in Plumlee's role on the court, and knew that Wei Shao was not good at three-point opportunities, but still insisted on arranging opportunities for Wei Shao to score three points in the bottom corner, so that Wei Shao got a lot of three-point opportunities in the bottom corner in G3. But can you say that this is Tyronn Lue's tactical arrangement has worked? It's just that Wei Shao didn't grasp the opportunity? In fact, Tyronn Lue and the Clippers fell into the trap of the Mavericks from the beginning, and they deliberately left Wei Shao a chance to score three points in the bottom corner, so that the Mavericks on the frontal battlefield are a five-to-four situation, and it is easy to understand that the Clippers lost.
It is worth mentioning that under Tyronn Lue's outrageous arrangement, Leonard has played a total of 2 games so far in this round of the series, but surprisingly, in the games where Leonard played, the Clippers had a 0-2 record, but in the games that Leonard was absent, the Clippers defeated the Mavericks 2-0. Seeing this, can we say that Leonard made a miserable mistake for the Clippers to cause the two sides to play Tianwang Mountain? Obviously not, it was Tyronn Lue who was obsessed with letting Leonard and George take turns to play Doncic, so that it destroyed the team's original tactical system and eventually led to a collapse.
But fortunately, although Tyronn Lue's tactical arrangement is a little confused, G4's battle against George and Harden is really tough. The duo teamed up to become the first pair of players on the same team in NBA history to score 30+5+5 in a single game and a true shooting rate of 75%, and George is also the first player in playoff history to score 33 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals and 7 three-pointers in a single game. Finally, an easter egg was inserted, G4 Leonard was absent from the Clippers and narrowly defeated the Mavericks away, G5 sources revealed that Leonard is very likely to continue to be absent, and will not even appear in the first-round series with the Mavericks, so we follow the concept of the 2-0 victory over the Mavericks by the Clippers without Leonard, and the next two Clippers defeat the Mavericks to advance to the semifinals.