On May 4th, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and today the Mavericks and Clippers ushered in the sixth game of the series, after the Mavericks had already won the match point, and this game was still played on the home court of the Mavericks, so the Mavericks are also optimistic about winning the victory, but the Clippers will not give up easily, and a vicious battle is inevitable.
Contest Recap:
At the beginning of the first quarter of the game, Doncic scored two points to take the lead for the Mavericks, Harden responded with two free throws, Gafford scored four points in a row, Tucker responded with three points, and then the game entered the rhythm of the Mavericks, Doncic scored four points in a row, Zubac responded with two free throws, Washington scored five points in a row, and the Mavericks directly established a 10-point lead, although the Clippers then caught up with the point difference, but at the end of the quarter, Doncic and Kleber combined to score 7 points to help the team lead by 8 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Kleber and Gafford made 4 free throws to help the team regain the lead to double digits, Zubac killed inside, Washington responded with three points, George and Powell combined for 4 points, Doncic and Irving combined for 4 points in response, and then Doncic and Irving became less calm on the offensive end, and the two continued to kill and hit iron, which also allowed the Clippers to seize the opportunity, Harden made consecutive steals and counterattacked, helping the team to chase down to 52 to end the first half.
Yibian re-fought Irving and Doncic played a wave of 8-0 climax to regain the lead, George and Harden combined to cut 4 points in response, Doncic and Irving combined to cut 5 points, the Mavericks once established a 14-point lead, Tucker killed Mann inside and hit a three-point shot, Powell and Wei Shao scored 6 points in a row to respond, Washington and Irving hit three three-pointers in succession, and then the Clippers did not play a decent counterattack, and the Mavericks led by 15 points after the third quarter.
In the final quarter, Irving hit a three-pointer to help the team extend the lead, Zubac killed inside, and Lively and Joan Shan combined for four points to help the team extend the lead to more than 20 points, and the game was also out of suspense, and finally the Mavericks defeated the Clippers 114-101, and they advanced to the second round with a big score of 4-2.
Doncic is on fire, and Irving evolves into a supergiant
After chatting about the game process, let's talk about the players' play, Doncic shot 9 of 26 in this game, 1 of 10 three-pointers, got 28 points, 8 rebounds, 13 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.
In the first half, he frequently led the team to play counterattacks and push fast attacks to feed his teammates, which also disrupted the Clippers' defensive formation, and Irving also took the initiative to defend George on the defensive end, and in the second half, he stood up to attack and harvest the game, Irving shot 11 of 19 in the game, 5 of 9 three-pointers got 30 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and his leadership temperament is getting better and better, and he also taught Gafford how to defend in the game.
In this game, Gafford also found confidence, he played against Zubac in the game, Zubac has been suppressing him in the previous games, this game Gafford scored 13 points and 6 rebounds on 5-of-8 shooting, including 3 frontcourt rebounds. Washington played a 3-and-D role, finishing with 14 points and five rebounds on 4-of-9 shooting from the field and 4-of-8 from three-point range, but Kleber suffered an injury at the start of the second quarter and suffered a sprained right shoulder and hopes to return soon.
Harden is not at his peak, and Willis is abandoned
Harden, who played well in the first four games of the series, in the last two games because of Doncic's strict defense, he also showed the problem of not being at the peak, singles are obviously not good, he played well in the previous games Doncic is not defensive, if the defensive intensity is really up, Harden is indeed unbearable, this game Harden shot 5 of 16 in the game, 0 of 6 three-pointers got 16 points, 7 rebounds, 13 assists and 2 steals, but his awareness is really good, and he predicted the opponent's pass many times to complete the steal.
George played his best in this game, 7 of 18 shots, 2 of 10 three-pointers got 18 points, 10 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal, the actual effect of the Clippers change formation in this game is not bad, Tucker entered the starting lineup after he used his enthusiasm to help the team get many opportunities for secondary offense, and he also resisted Doncic's killing well, but after all, age is not good in this physical fitness, Tucker got 8 points and 2 rebounds in 3 of 5 shots in this game.
Wei Shao was abandoned most of the time in this game, the reason is that he has no role on the offensive end, he plays 4 to 5 on the offensive end, and the opponent can't put him into the shot, this game Wei Shao got 6 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist in 2 of 7 shots, and only played 9 minutes in the whole game. This season's loss to the Clippers can be attributed to injuries, but next season Harden and Westbrook are a year older, and their form will be even worse, will the Clippers still build around their quadruple?
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