A long time ago, about three months ago, NBA officials asked general managers to predict the ownership of the championship in the new season. The Bucks ranked first with 43% of the votes, and the defending champion Warriors ranked second with 25%, the No. 3 Clippers got 21% of the votes. Before 2020-21, 81 percent of the votes of managers were dedicated to the Lakers who just won the championship. The Clippers ranked second. In the 2019-20 season, the Clippers were the most popular champion in the general manager’s mind.
In other words, since ke huai-leonard organized this game in los angeles in 2019, clippers have always been the top three champions of the league, except for the 2021-22 season. After all, leonard confirmed the season reimbursement at that time.
Theoretically, NBA managers should be the most knowledgeable group of people on the planet. They are interested in Clippers. Apart from the healthy Leonard in 2019 and the winner of the MVP strong competitor award in the 2018-19 season, pickled peppers gave them confidence, with the addition of the champion coach Taren Lu, the past of the 2020-21 season, the residual squad entered the West. So many fronts in the lineup configuration made people full of fantasy.
However, at the moment when the Clippers were more than half deep in this season, the Clippers had a record of 22 wins, 21 losses and the sixth in the West, which shocked many experts by glasses, and a wave of six consecutive losses in the new year even set off a shocking wave, the tip of the iceberg is just around the corner. It’s hard to imagine how big the size is. Sailors and tourists are rushing around and shouting loudly, “Jack meat, don’t fucking window cleaning, come out of the carriage quickly!”
Pickled Peppers and Leonard climbed out of the carriage, passed the studio and boiler room, and came to the deck to have a look. The praise of the past was cracking, and curses and taunts had emerged from the gap, young Pioneer team history the best coach Tyronn Lue became a speculative man without tactical literacy in just half a year, and the so-called “He is no different from me” in the 5 small defender lineup made the river document become a fact; the reputation of his trump card Team also dropped sharply. 43 goals came down, 13 games were missed pickled peppers, and Leonard only played 17 games.
As for the two contributions to the team, there is a good analogy Now. The Clippers traded Pickled Peppers of the human chips in that year. Alexander has scored 1140 points this season, pickled Peppers and Leonard combined 1057 points. This analogy is naive but useful, because when we talk about Clippers, we have to talk about scoring. After all, the defensive efficiency of Clippers this season is the 7th of the league, and the attack is only the 4th from the bottom. The problem is self-evident.
Now the League attack first is lvkai. We often boast that their role players have more and more points and are accurate. But in fact, their basic disk is that the front line dual core comes out to play for 36 minutes every night, and then they add up to 58 points. On the other hand, the main players of the Clippers can only play 31 minutes, which adds up to 42 points. One game is at the level of 110 points, you have to rely on Reggie Jackson and Marcus Morris to hold up the remaining 68 points. Obviously, it is a bit crazy. Five years ago, the two team’s starters were teammates in the piston for several years, I am familiar with rare attacks.
The two sides saw more than that on the Clippers deck. They also saw a salary slip ranked second in the league. The Warriors kept the core lineup to win the championship, the sales of these people who were able to exchange home tickets with big contracts were full. No matter what they are doing now, at least chase center still has memories; the only reason why the clippers can approach warriors infinitely is that they have the richest boss in the league, but this kind of thing cannot be maintained for a long time. Rich bosses are willing to throw money, but they feel unwilling to be regarded as fools, there is only one trip to the West in 3 years, and no one will like this result.
Now 12 of the 16 Clippers contracts are counted as two-year contracts this season. After six consecutive defeats, the team seems to have reached the edge of dissolution, eliminating two 40 million top salaries, they have 2 16 million-level contracts and 5 million-level contracts. In addition to Reggie, Kenard and zubatz, who are still in the period of injury, most of these contracts are on the flanking front line.
However, the rules of the basketball match are very clear. No matter how much resources you have saved, you can only choose 5 people to play, which means that the team’s attack group is in a very cruel Involution. Looking at the league, no one has more abundant front line resources than the Clippers, but the result of too abundant resources is that the whole alliance is waiting to kill them, and no one can really sell the expected price, besides, no one dares to sell their capsicum so that they can work hard-you have to leave two life buoy for Jack and meat.
As a matter of fact, it is extremely difficult for any team whose bills are booming to further improve the lineup through trading, and the free player market has nothing to do with them, when the personnel structure and the contracts on them are piled up to the point of the Clippers, the record is in a situation that cannot be achieved. The only hope left for them to change is to change the point and the people who have nothing to do with the team, just like basketable nets did.
However, changing the Tyronn Lue does not seem to be the basketable nets answer, because it is not a crime of war for Lu’s foreign team to lead now, and the atmosphere in the dressing room does not seem to be too problematic. Before the exit last year, the two injured players called him almost after every goal, and they all said that the team was so good that it was hard to imagine what height we could reach next year after we put our whole body into it, “You are really bad mother.”
I don’t know what bad mother means. Anyway, it doesn’t sound derogatory, and this kind of mentality of “as long as Ka Jiao returns to the team, it will become better” is more than the two masters themselves, ballmer, the boss of the team, also held this heart. Before the start of the season, he personally revealed that Leonard’s gym performed a rowing boat, which made him very excited and looked like gaygay.
Then if you don’t move outside Lu’s staff, the resignation of the management has no practical significance. Everyone knows very well that the Clippers have developed to this point. The most important thing is two words: confidence. No matter the men’s and women’s dressing rooms, they all need more confidence to keep the whole team going.
The foundation of this kind of confidence is health. It is the return of capsicum to the stadium and the training ground. It is the ability for them to stand on the court with their teammates and continue to stand on the court after 34 points in half, experience that humiliation together instead of sitting on the field to watch teammates. For the struggling Clippers, whether the attitude in the dressing room is “half a season to go” or “half a season to go”, the difference is one word, two totally different mentality.
It is worth noting that Leonard returned to play 2 games at the beginning of the season, and then found that there was still a reaction in the legs. He came out to play 3 games in the middle of November and took another half a month off. He only played 22 minutes in the five games, with an average of 10 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, with a hit rate of 42.2% and a hit rate of only 13.3% in downtown. However, after the second long break, leonard came back again, playing 14 games, resting 3 games back-to-back and 1 game of illness. He averaged 48.8 minutes in the 14 games, with a% hit rate of 21.1 points, 7 boards and 4 help.
In the last five games, Leonard took out the data: 33 minutes, 23.6 points, 6.4 rebounds, 4 assists, 1.8 steals, the hit rate is 52%, and the hit rate is 41%.
Then he said in an interview, “it is frustrating to have time limits.”
Yes, this is the source of confidence for the Clippers “there is still half a season to go”. Leonard seems to be gradually recovering and the state curve is also rising, which is all good-but in other words, this also shows that there are not many cards that the Clippers can play. At this time, Leonard’s health may become the last straw to crush the Clippers.
For the capsicum standing on the deck of the Clippers, what they saw was not all devastated, because they recently saw a familiar figure, which was that Dong Qiqi was waving to them. Three and a half years later, people began to wake up gradually. Maybe looking back many years later, the Western decision in 2021 was not the greatest achievement of the Clippers, dong Qiqi was the one who was destined to be the cover of NBA, and he once return crestfallen under them twice. Great achievements.
This is the competition of the Clippers ending 6 consecutive losses, and this is the prose poem left by Dong Qiqi. Yes, once again, the Clippers did not defend against Dong Qiqi. Young Slovenians efficiently scored 43 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, but who can defend Dong Qiqi? No one will struggle with why the Clippers will be killed by Dong Qiqi in the playoffs. This is what Dong Qiqi should do. For the Clippers, the important thing is to win, which is to win around Leonard who can play for 36 minutes. The latter hit 9 shots 12 times and exchange 33 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals 1 Cap, all 12 free throws were scored, including those decisive at the last moment.
The most important thing is not even winning, but Leonard like this. This is the only change that the Clippers can count on at present.
Of course, Clippers need such competitions. Starting from such competitions and Leonard, they may return some things, including fame, praise and the three-year-old fans who quietly took off the Spurs jersey and changed into Clippers jersey. It’s like what the Lakers got after 5 consecutive wins, or it’s like what basketable Nets got after rushing to the second place in the league.
Maybe they will face the most difficult second half of the league, but if ka jiao can return healthily, who says that where they go will not be the more difficult part of the schedule of other teams?
The Devil’s schedule before Valentine’s Day on the Clippers, in addition to the rocket Lakers Jazz Spurs, looks better to deal with, the others are all playoff teams, and another wave of 11 games and 10 guest away trips
Maybe you can suspect that the so-called full-front figure is just a gimmick. The magician is 2 meters 06, Durant and the letter brother are even higher, and the Clippers seem to have many fronts, but they actually don’t have people between 203 and 210 in height. Their main line-up is still a short line-up, two superstars known as large forwards, in essence, their “big” is still compared with those players whose defenders swing to the front line-when encountering internal attacks in the front court, whether they change to Leonard, pickled peppers or any other person under 203, they will still suffer from general losses in the frame protection. And if they can no longer respond on the offensive side, the result will not be very good.
But you also don’t know how many times “unable to respond” will happen to Lennard and pickled peppers. They add up to 86 million and next year is 90 million. You can only count on them.
The Clippers of capsicum are about to drive, where to drive……
Maybe you can doubt more things, including the time when they were reversed from 1 to 3 in 202020. as long as you have a series like that in your career, your mental attributes have to bear similar doubts. After all, Leonard made it clear after defeating the Lone Ranger that the way to break these doubts was:
“I have been playing in the league for some time. I know that as long as you keep knocking, you can definitely break something.”
This passage is so familiar that I can’t remember where I heard it before.