Chapter 870 [I Can only Look up and Feel Helpless]
Curry has won the Western Conference Player of the Week six times and the Western Conference Player of the Month in December.
His younger brother Seth Curry has also become popular. He has played a lot of opportunities with the Cavaliers, averaging 6.6 points per game and shooting 45% from three-point range. It turns out that everyone in the Curry family is good at shooting.
In the past few years, Curry's performance has been unstable. There are many Curry hackers on the Internet who say he is rubbish all day long. He is a system player who relies on screens to score and is not good at pure skills... In short, they are dissatisfied with Curry winning the regular season MVP.
This year, the Currys are silent. The Clippers have abused them thousands of times with their performance. Curry has been beaten on the other side after the regular season and the playoffs, day and night. Snap.
This is even more true this season. At present, it seems that Curry has nothing to lose, and the only thing that can prevent the Clippers from winning is injuries.
More and more people like and admire Curry because he is different from other superstars.
Most of the stars became famous at a young age and were pushed to the position of genius from an early age. Curry is different. He couldn't get into a prestigious university, and he didn't attract much attention when he first entered the league. These made him a counterattacker, making him not as high-ranking and unreachable as those predecessors, making him as grassroots as a mortal.
Facing a grassroots counterattack, what else do fans have to hate? What Curry brings to people is not jealousy of his talent, but the infinite possibilities after hard work.
Against the Bulls in January, the Clippers' outside three-point shooting finally failed. The Bulls' outside trident composed of Jabari Parker, Rose, and Wade performed very well.
The two sides played overtime, but the Clippers still had the last laugh. Without a shooter from outside, they still had Gasol and Antetokounmpo.
Gasol played 35 minutes, making 10 of 14 shots, 1 of 2 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, and scored 26 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 blocks.
Antetokounmpo played 36 minutes, making 8 of 15 shots, 2 of 5 free throws, and scored 18 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists.
Although Antetokounmpo didn't score much, he made a key shot in the last quarter and scored 6 points in overtime. At the critical moment, he was passed to him for a single, and he turned around and shot near the penalty area. It was a two-pointer. His style of play is unreasonable and overwhelms with pure talent.
Three-pointers are efficient in scoring, but as long as the shooting rate can be maintained high, two-pointers are also essential. The final quarter can often determine the outcome of the game.
It wasn't until January 16 that the Clippers ended their winning streak, losing to the Kings 106-110 in an away game.
Although sixth man Isiah Thomas joined the Suns in the summer, the Kings also introduced Darren Collison, Belinelli, Casspi and other new players in the summer. Coupled with the core Irving, Cousins, and Ilyasova, the strength is not weak.
The Kings hired veteran coach George Karl as a coach, who can launch fast breaks and positional battles.
Cousins performed well in this game. He made a key three-pointer from the corner in the last minute and scored 33 points and 14 rebounds.
The media are all surprised. Cousins seems to have just finished participating in "Metamorphosis" recently. He has a super good temper. He has not yelled at his teammates, coaches, or referees, nor has he come out as gay in the PK locker room. This is a good change.
Even if they lose, the Clippers, with 39 wins and 1 loss, still lead the league, and other teams can only look up.
Experts analyze that the Clippers are likely to break their record this season, and there are few teams in the league that can threaten them.
The Eastern Hawks left Carroll, and their wing defense became worse. Even if they brought in Nene, the strength was not as good as last season; the Cavaliers were left with James, a big-name star, who was unable to support themselves; Griffin suffered constant injuries and could not lead the team to win, and the Heat were only ranked first. Sixth, disappointing; Yao Ming of the Nets retired, and Deron and Joe Johnson declined, which is nothing to be afraid of.
The Western Thunder traded Kanter, but their offense mainly relied on their second young man; the Mavericks introduced Wesley Matthews, but left Monta Ellis, and Nowitzki's condition declined, even with Paul here. They cannot threaten the Clippers; the most disappointing thing is that the Rockets signed Josh Smith and Marcus Thornton at a low salary, but their strength is weak.
Because of the decline in the core status of Dwight Howard and Harden, the team only ranks fifth in the Western Conference.
After counting, it seems that the only ones in the league that can compete with the Clippers are the Wizards and Spurs.
In Yang Rui's previous life, it was this season that the Warriors broke the Bulls' regular season record. This was without Durant joining the team and Harrison Barnes was the starting small forward.
The Warriors later failed to break the record. Some people say it was because they lost center Andrew Bogut. It is really enough to make a center who averaged only 20.7 minutes, 5.4 points, 7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.6 blocks per game like the cornerstone of the team. Bizarre.
In fact, the Warriors' good performance at that time was directly related to the reduction in the number of strong teams this season. Apart from the Spurs, Thunder, and Cavaliers, they could not find any opponents.
The current Clippers are much stronger than that Warriors team. Looking at the lineup is really a hooligan. The only Warriors who are better than the Clippers is shooting guard Klay Thompson.
On February 10, Middleton was absent due to injury. The Clippers lost to the Cavaliers 134-139 in an away game. The two sides played two overtimes, and the Cavaliers had the last laugh.
The key figure for the Cavaliers' victory was not LeBron James, but the short point guard Isiah Thomas, who was traded from the Suns last week. He scored 36 points, 4 rebounds and 11 assists. His data was better than that of the average player. Curry, scored 7 points in overtime.
The Suns sent Thomas to the Cavaliers in exchange for guard Willie Green and the Cavaliers' 2016 first-round draft pick.
For starting point guard Rondo, James has felt helpless and asked the management to trade a point guard. The next step is to try to send Rondo away. Since his contract expires in the summer, he has some trading value.
You may not believe it, but after arriving in the Cavaliers, Rondo and James overlapped in position and often stole the ball from James. He is the kind of point guard who must hold the ball to perform. Without the ball, he is a center.
When Rondomi and Paul Mi were arguing about who was the number one point guard, the abilities of the three Celtics old men dropped directly from Mount Everest to the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. If discussed separately, Pierce will become a weakened version of Batum, Garnett will be a bankrupt version of Aldridge, and Ray Allen will be a weaker Hamilton.
If he is paired with Irving, James can consider giving up part of the ball. But giving the ball to Rondo? James would be crazy to do this.
In fact, Rondo is not incompatible with the Cavaliers. He is incompatible with any team, unless a team can tolerate a person who shoots 40% of his two-pointers and cannot shoot three-pointers. Most of the time, he has the ball in his hands and defends in the air. Pass the ball down to find a teammate.
Rondo's personal offense must be based on the premise that teammates can open up space for him, and open balls may be passed at any time, and the opponent dare not fully mark him. Otherwise, the opponent will always leave him two meters away, and it will be very difficult for him to force a breakthrough. All he did was wait for his teammates to make various interspersed runs without the ball and send the ball over.
Could it be that the Cavaliers came to Rondo just to hope that he would dribble to the frontcourt and pass the ball, and then watch the fun and defend the point guard?
Thomas is different. Although he is short, he can always help the team on the offensive end. And precisely because he is short and has many fans, he is a very inspirational player in the NBA.
After winning a game against the Clippers, James couldn't be happy and showed a black face throughout the press conference.
The Cavaliers' current record is only fourth in the Eastern Conference. Although James is the Eastern Conference vote leader in the All-Star voting, he only has more than 970,000 votes, which is far behind the more than 1.8 million votes. Kobe, who is on tour, and Curry, who has more than 1.6 million votes, have consecutive votes. Durant, who is third most popular in the Western Conference, also has 10,000 more votes than him.
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