On May 3, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and there was only one suspense left in the first round of the West, and the Mavericks and Clippers would compete for the last semi-final spot. At present, the Clippers are 2-3 behind, and the Clippers lost by 30 points in the battle of Tianwang Mountain, which also put them in a passive situation. For the G6 game, it is a battle of life and death, and the Clippers need to win the game to ensure that they stay.
For the Clippers, they still have a good opportunity this season, but unfortunately they have suffered another injury problem, Leonard only played two games in the first round, G2 and G3, and the team lost both games. I thought that Leonard's comeback was to recover his health, but he didn't expect it to become more serious, he really shouldn't have risked returning, which directly put the team into a passive situation, and in the team's updated injury report, Leonard is still unable to play.
This also deprived the Clippers of the opportunity to change their moves, originally thinking that Leonard was the last weapon, but unexpectedly, his injuries were getting worse and worse. Now he can't even play in a life-and-death match, which means that Leonard's injury is still very serious, so it is really a very unwise choice for him to make a comeback in G2. Without Leonard, the Clippers can only rely on Harden and George, and once they play as dismal as G5, it will basically declare the end of the season's journey ahead of schedule.
Originally, in the first four games, the Clippers played well, but they didn't expect the most critical G5 to suddenly collapse, especially in the third quarter, when the power was cut off directly, and the continuous shots hit the iron, which made the boss Ballmer directly stunned, and the point difference was also opened, and the final quarter also entered garbage time early, and finally lost by 30 points. And Harden only scored 7 points in the whole game, and the 11th single-game shooting rate in the playoffs of his career was less than 20%, which is really the more critical the more crotch-pulling.
The Clippers are now down 3-2 and their next game is a win-or-go game, and Harden himself could face another first-round loss in eight years. Harden has not missed the playoffs since joining the NBA, and now he has reached the second round for seven consecutive seasons, and this time he may have to stop at the first round. At least for now, the chances of the Clippers winning are still very small, after all, the momentum of the Mavericks is like a rainbow, and G6 is being played at the home of the Mavericks, which is really very unfavorable.