The Los Angeles Clippers, who signed Harden this season and solved the team's lack of organizational core weakness, have become the favorite to win the championship in the eyes of many fans, despite the ups and downs in the regular season, they still locked the fourth place in the West, ensuring the home court advantage in the first round, and facing the Dallas Mavericks led by Doncic Irving in the playoffs, the Clippers took the lead with Harden's excellent performance in the first game when Leonard hung up the exemption card, but in the next two games, Leonard, who came back from the line of fire, became a burden to the team, and the poor performance at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends also allowed the Mavericks to win two games in a row and achieve a big score overtake, this game dayThe fourth big game between the two sides kicked off in Dallas, if the Mavericks are allowed to play another city at home, the Clippers will be forced into a desperate situation, and it is very likely to encounter a round of tours! Leonard, who dragged down the team in the first two games of this campaign, was sealed again, entered the injury squad and missed the game, led by Harden and Paul George, the Clippers once established a huge lead of 31 points, and withstood the Mavericks' counterattack, and tied the score 115-109!
Eastern Europe combined for 69 points, but unfortunately fell short
As the strongest backcourt double-gun combination in the active league, how the Eastern European combination performs, directly determines the Mavericks' winning prospects, this battle Drew Uncle Irving, the state of the brave early opened the European fairy mode, the second quarter is 16 points, sounded the horn of the team's counterattack, Irving hit 14 of 25 shots in the game, cut 40 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.
However, Doncic's shooting feel in this game is average, although he also handed over a triple-double of 29 + 10 + 10 gorgeous data, but he shot 24 times and only hit 10 shots, including only 1 of 9 three-point shots, which is also the main reason for the Mavericks' home defeat, the Mavericks once overtook the score in the fourth quarter, but unfortunately at the critical moment, the Eastern European combination was not able to continue to help the team, and the previous efforts were in vain.
Without a small card dragging, Harden led the team to victory
After Leonard was hidden again, Harden and Paul George became the duo of the Clippers, both of them played a good individual performance in this game, Harden attacked and organized in the game, especially 4 of 5 shots outside the three-point line, contributed 33 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists with high efficiency, and Harden scored 15 points in the final quarter to turn the tide and keep the fruits of victory for the Clippers.
And the big general Paul George also performed well, both offensive and defensive ends have become a sharp blade for the Clippers, one hit 7 three-pointers, not only cut a team-high 33 points, in addition to 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals of the data into the account, under the tandem organization of the two of them, the Clippers have a total of five players scoring double-doubles in this game, which also laid a solid foundation for the away victory.
After this game, the Clippers and the Mavericks series played a 2-2 draw, and the fifth game of the Battle of Kings Mountain will return to Los Angeles, judging from the performance of the Clippers, the probability that Leonard will continue to miss the game is very high, but for the Clippers who want to win the championship, without a small card, they have no hope of breaking through from the fiercely competitive Western Conference playoffs, so Leonard still needs to return to the best competitive condition as soon as possible, the best result is that Harden and George led the team through the first round, and Leonard returned in the second round！