In the first round of the NBA playoffs in the Western Conference G5, the Clippers returned to their home court to face the Mavericks, and in the end, the Clippers suffered a 30-point defeat 93-123, and the series fell behind 2-3 and really hung in the air. In this game, the Clippers entered garbage time more than 7 minutes early, and the game was played early. Harden was 2-of-12 and George was 4-of-13.
In this game, Leonard continued to be absent, in fact, in the first four games, in the absence of Leonard, the team won the game, and Harden and others performed well. In the first four games, both teams won two games each, and both won at each other's home stadium, which is also more in line with the ranking of the two teams in the regular season.
Coming to G5, that is, the battle of Tianwang Mountain, it becomes more critical, who wins and who gets the match point, George and Harden lead the Clippers to start, Doncic and Irving lead the Mavericks to start, a key battle related to the match point, can the Clippers win the home game? Or the Mavericks get the match point away?
In the first quarter, the two teams played quite closely, and the difference did not widen, and the Mavericks led by one point at 25-24. In the second quarter, the Mavericks gradually widened the gap and gradually reached double digits, with the Mavericks winning by 9 points in a single quarter and leading the Clippers by 10 points at halftime.
In the third quarter, under the leadership of Doncic and Irving, the Mavericks quickly opened up the difference to more than 20 points, George hit three points in a row in the final stage, but Green stopped the decline with a 3+1, and after three quarters, the Mavericks led by as many as 20 points. The Mavericks had another 10-3 start in the fourth quarter, stopping the Clippers and firmly holding the press, and the Clippers had no hope of chasing points, and suffered a heavy defeat at home.