At 7 p.m. on April 20, cheers were heard in the Staples Center, and the pre-match ceremony was being held.

The Lakers played against the Clippers for the first away game away game in the playoffs, and more than 19,000 viewers were present, but more than 80% of the audience were wearing Lakers jerseys. Most of the audiences who did not wear Lakers jerseys expressed their support for both the Lakers and the Clippers in interviews.

ESPN reporters were making trouble and asked who would choose if they could only support one team. Those audiences chose the Lakers without hesitation.

Accompanied by the cheers, Paul stood up and ran into the field with a serious face. The focus lights followed and moved to the Clippers assistant coach Winnie Denagro. The cheers suddenly stopped, and sporadic booed, which Denagro was obviously not very popular with the audience.

The long whistle sounded and the competition was about to begin.

On the Lakers bench, Su Yang clapped his hands and summoned the entire team to gather around him, and said with a smile: "I would like to emphasize the main strategy again. The offensive end is preferred to the inside offense, and try to give physical confrontation. It can be more fierce, especially when facing Griffin. On the defensive end, you can appropriately let go of Billups, double-team the Clippers' low-post offense, or assist in defense and limit Paul's breakthrough route..."

Between words, Su Yang repeated the content of the pre-match video conference.

The main attacker Griffin tried his best to confront the body, so he saw that the Clippers did not have Reggie Evans and Kenyon Martin this season. The bullying Griffin is still relatively soft at this moment. There is no one with the two veterans who are full of flesh to help share the damage from the Lakers' inside, nor is there any trash talk, ruthless iron elbows, or even malicious fouls, helping to inflict damage on the Lakers' inside, and Griffin couldn't withstand it.

Su Yang is not completely conceived out of thin air. He mainly refers to his previous life experience. Griffin, a third-year-old, is still the kind of regular season player.

As for the defensive end, there were many strategies originally prepared. Although the main Clippers' offensive routines were obvious, they had many choices and were efficient. They could score 110 points per 100 rounds in the regular season. They had to have a systematic defense, which was not as simple as letting go of a certain point.

Who would have thought that the Clippers head coach actually arranged to play only 22 games in the regular season. Billups, who had just returned, served as the starting shooting guard, squeezed out the Clippers' regular season main shooting guard Willie Green's position, and took the initiative to give up the threat of three-pointers and involve no-ball.

This is not the first time that Clippers coach De Nagro has done so. Billups only played 22 games in the whole regular season, but as long as Billups plays, he will inevitably replace Willie Green as the starting shooting guard and has played a few good goals, but more often it is a tricky one, winning and taking advantage of the situation, while losing and losing is a tricky one, which cannot provide stable positive feedback.

Perhaps out of respect for FMVP and his eye for Billups' playoff experience, Denagro did that.

But the biggest loss to the Clippers for Billups' replacement of Willy Green is that it drags down the offensive system. The defensive end has to face Kobe or chase Curry directly. Without waiting for the game to start, it can be judged in advance, which is almost a waste of action.

"Anyway, we try our best to force Chris Paul to attack in the first half, don't let him keep his energy until the fourth quarter!"

After Su Yang said that, he raised his right hand, and the Lakers all raised his right hand one after another, fists and shouted in unison 123. Come on, the Lakers.

The short whistle sounded, and the two teams started to enter the court. The referee also walked to the center circle with the basketball in his arms, and the game jumped.

The central large screen gives five positions at the same time, point guard Curry vs Paul, point guard Kobe vs. Billups, small forward Arte vs. Butler, power forward Green vs. Griffin, center Gasol vs. Jordan Jr., and some regular season data comparisons are also shown.

The big screen shot was turned again, and it was given to stars such as Beckham and Charlize Theron who were sitting on the sidelines.

It also gave the Clippers owner Sterling, who had obviously had annoyance. After two seasons of accumulation, the Clippers have become stronger, but this home game, most of the audience was still Lakers fans. If it weren't for considering that the tickets were selling well, they would have cursed on the spot.

"A moment!" Cheers were everywhere in the stadium, the Lakers won the jump ball, Curry picked up the ball in the backcourt and advanced, and the game officially started.

According to Su Yang's arrangement, the Lakers started with one inside and four outside formations and landed, and Gasol stood on the left waist, but it was just a bait.

In the blink of an eye, Green got the ball at the top of the arc, Curry turned to the right and tried to join forces with Arte, and wanted to provide Kobe with a wing ladder cover. Seeing this, Billups was worried that the pursuit would be blocked, so he hurriedly stepped forward. Caron Butler also took the initiative to help delay Kobe.

Arte made a quick change, and took advantage of the moment Butler moved his body to eliminate, and took the initiative to give up the cover, turned around and headed straight for the basket.

Green, who was dealing the card at the top of the arc, hurriedly passed the ball straight to the game area. Atai received the ball and ignored Jordan Jr.'s defense and took the three-step jump to the board.

The basketball bounced back into the net, and cheers rang out of Staples Center. In the ESPN commentary seat, host Brin sighed: "At the time of the 10-11 season, I thought Artest would retire soon. I didn't expect that he would still be so proactive in two years..."

Guest Van Gundy smiled and said, "That's because his coach becomes Su Yang, believe in him, encourage him, and give him the initiative..."

On the field, the Clippers attacked.

The eight characters in the high position are transmitted, the cross cover is provided by the low position, Billups takes the ball on the left wing and lifts up the pass to Griffin on the left waist.

Seeing that Griffin was preparing to play singles, Kobe decisively followed Su Yang's arrangement, retreated and shrank, and assisted Green in double-team defense.

Griffin didn't think much, and immediately raised his hand to pass the ball back. Billups took the ball and stood still, and also raised his hand to shoot a three-pointer.

The basketball rebounded with a bang, Kobe got the rebound casually, turned around and pushed forward quickly, raising his hand to signal the right waist position.

The Lakers will stop and follow up. Green set up a free throw line to set up a wall to provide positioning cover. Gasol took the opportunity to get rid of Jordan Jr. and ran to the right waist position. Kobe stopped by the right wing and passed the pass. Gasol took the ball and turned around, but Butler in the bottom corner on the left was in double-team.

In the midst of lightning, Gasol calmly glanced at the half court, held the basketball high with both hands, and made a long pass toward the bottom corner on the left.

Atai received the ball in a large open space, ignoring Butler, who was quickly returning to defend and swooping, raised his hand and scored a three-pointer, but he could not make a slam.

Jordan caught the rebound, landed and turned around and threw it to Paul, while Paul took the initiative to give up the opportunity to fast break and chose to control the field and play slowly.

The entire Clippers team formed an A-shaped formation, but there was no direct attack point. They covered up their position and Griffin got the ball at the top of the arc.

Seeing this, Su Yang raised his eyebrows and thought to himself: "A Pao, you are a member of the organization. You are wasting 12 seconds of attack time..."

The offensive time was only 12 seconds left. Before the Clippers could run out of an efficient offensive opportunity, Green simply turned left and handed the ball to Billups who was running towards him. He also used a cover to block Kobe who was chasing with all his strength. However, his toughness was like a sponge.

Kobe easily squeezed through the cover to catch up, Green moved sideways and helped defend, and Billups hurriedly threw the ball into the basket.

Jordan Jr. got strong when he received the ball, carried Gasol, who had a slow reaction, and raised his hands to try to make a basket, but Kobe flew into the big hat.

"Ye!" The cheers of Staples Center exploded, and the referee blew a whistle and punished the violation, giving the Clippers a second chance to attack the bottom line.

Paul was walking towards the bottom line while shouting for command. The four Clippers on the field set up their formation according to the orders. Barrette stood at the top of the arc, Jordan Jr., Billups and Griffin were concentrated in the paint area, which belonged to a typical Chest tactical formation.

Considering the explosive power of Jordan and Griffin, as well as Paul's exquisite pass, the Clippers' baseline ball this time was really difficult to defend, but Su Yang stood up and shouted and gestured, directing the three Lakers players in the paint area to boldly defend the three locally.

Beep! The referee whistle sounded.

Paul took the ball and held it high, Griffin went down from the free throw circle, obviously having to cover it, while Jordan Jr. walked from the left waist to the paint area, obviously having to cover it horizontally, and the two combined to form a T cover, allowing Kobe to bypass and catch up.

Kobe was not in a hurry at all. First, according to Su Yang's arrangement, slightly delayed the potential attack threat of Griffin and Jordan Jr., and then started to bypass the cover, pounced towards Billups who was stopping and turning around like a tiger. In order to seek speed, he did not control the center of gravity.

Billups received a pass from Paul, avoided Kobe's rushing sideways, stopped and jumped in the three-point line with a quick stop and chased for a mid-range shot.

When! The basketball hits the basket and hits the iron and rebounds.

Green jumped high and got the rebound. Curry received the ball from the three-point line and rushed to the top of the frontcourt arc with one dragon. With the help of Gasol's back cover, Paul, who was ready to defend himself in one step, easily slipped to the basket and dragged his hand to the board.

"Foofed, Chris Paul's foul on the corner of his clothes!" Assistant coach Mike Brown shouted at the baseline referee, and was ignored.

Seeing this, Su Yang comforted him: "Bilups is giving it for nothing. Everything is like our plan. Don't panic, we can win..."
Chapter completed!