Chapter 526 Xiao Hua's business experience
The Clippers were finally defended by the Pelicans for 24 seconds.
The fans at the scene were completely excited.
Tang Tian assisted Evans at the basket in the frontcourt and scored 2 points.
The Pelicans started with a strong momentum, and even Evans' negligible offensive desire to attack was mobilized.
And when he looked back, Paul's middle distance was also disturbed by Holiday.
The Pelicans played fast break, and Tang Tian also made a three-pointer in line with Barnes' pursuit!
7 to 0!
After playing for less than three minutes at the beginning, Rivers reached out and called for a timeout.
The Pelicans have 120% of their form tonight!
When the Pelicans players left the field, Davis and Holiday both excitedly slapped their teammates with high fives.
This is the characteristic of young teams, with great ups and downs, and a line between good and bad.
In this home game, Tang Tian and Davis performed well at the beginning of the offense and defense, and immediately mobilized the whole team's form.
When Rivers was suspended, he poured another chicken soup on the Clippers' members.
His chicken soup is warm and nourishing, and it is indeed miraculous.
After the Clippers came back from the timeout, the offense was more patient, and under Paul's leadership, they stabilized the situation on the field and did not allow the Pelicans to widen the gap to double digits.
With two minutes left in this quarter, both sides entered the bench rotation.
After Crawford came up, he changed direction and passed by Holiday made a layup, but his shot was directly slapped out of the field by Whiteside!
Whiteside is not good at starting now, but it is obviously enough to play as a substitute.
Blocking caps, especially this kind of blood, is very morale-enhancing.
Starting from this block, Gordon and Anderson frequently fired on the offensive end, continuing to widen the gap.
By the time the Pelicans changed back to the starting lineup in the second quarter, the Pelicans' lead had already reached double digits.
When the main force came back, Davis came up and took Tang Tian's pass and hit a mid-range shot.
Defence drives offense. Davis plays tough on the defensive end in this game, showing confidence, and feels natural.
At the end of the half, the Pelicans led the Clippers by as much as 15 points 50-35.
This score difference is also the biggest score difference between the two teams since the series.
After the last game, Griffin played very sluggish in this half, only scored 6 points and 3 rebounds, and was also defeated by the opponent Davis in the first half.
At halftime, Rivers continued his chicken soup speech.
Griffin was in a state of emptiedness at this time.
If you drink too much chicken soup, you won’t feel it.
When he came back in the second half, the Clippers attacked first.
After Griffin and Paul cooperated with the pick-and-roll, they received Paul's pass and flew into the box.
Davis became more and more confident as he fought. At this time, he struggled to catch up with defense, and another block was made.
"Bang!"
Griffin tried to make a quick move, but he and Davis were too far apart in their wingspans and still couldn't avoid it.
Davis sent another bloody blow.
The third time in this game!
Griffin was obviously unhappy after being cheated, so he turned around and pushed Davis.
Tang Tian quickly stepped forward at this time.
Seeing Tang Tian go up, Evans flew to confront Griffin first.
Paul and Barnes also joined the Clippers.
There was a conflict on the field.
Fortunately, the referee's reaction was quite timely, and the people on both sides were separated to avoid escalation of the situation.
There were boos at the scene.
After Rivers took over, this Clippers kept clashing with their opponents. Now they are behind and come back again!
The referee gave Griffin a technical foul after the technical suspension, temporarily calming the conflict.
However, this technical foul did not play much role, and the players on the field were more and more moves.
The Clippers have been in charge for three years since Paul took over, and the team has made many small moves, and the Pelicans are also young and energetic.
The whistle sounds of the game are dense, and there are several conflicts on the verge of conflict on the field.
Moreover, the referee's penalty is obviously biased.
Davis was fouled for an offensive foul when he made a layup, but Griffin pushed the guy with his left hand while making a layup, but fouled the defender.
This is a rare away whistle.
The booing sounds on the spot have not stopped.
It is obviously abnormal to have such a whistle, but it is reasonable.
During the Stern era, there was also a tendency to whistle for viewership.
For example, if teams like the Celtics and the Lakers play in the finals in 10 years, it will definitely be better than those of the Magic and the Suns.
But most of those are home whistles, and away whistles like this are really rare.
But it is obvious that his successor Xiao Hua didn't think so much, and he paid more attention to business, especially local American business.
The Clippers are Los Angeles teams, and the commercial value they can create when they appear in the second round is definitely more than a small-season market like the Pelicans.
As for the overseas market brought by Tang Tian? How much is it worth!
Take the TV broadcast contract that is most closely related to the NBA. His expectation for a new contract next year is US$2.5 billion a year.
China? That place is worth $100 million a year.
Therefore, the overseas market that Stern values most is just the icing on the cake.
Stern has no distinction between the primary and secondary, he can tell clearly.
So this whistle is completely reasonable.
Williams went to the sidelines to protest several times but failed. He was afraid that the players would be injured, so he turned around and called Ci Shiping up.
Ci Shiping took the field to replace Morrow.
Paul used Griffin's moving pick-and-roll to hit the mid-range, and the Clippers narrowed the score to 10 points.
In the Pelicans' offense, Tang Tian also retaliated with the color of pulling after pick-and-roll, but the referee's late whistle gave Evans a moving pick-and-roll.
There are many confrontations on the field, and Evans is indeed suspected of moving the pick-and-roll.
But the whistle came too late, and Griffin did not blow similar moves in front!
The emotions of the fans at the scene had reached a peak, and they almost drooled the referee.
Griffin played against Davis in a low position, and the two of them had a lot of physical confrontation.
Griffin was in poor condition and was extremely irritated. He knew that Davis was not as good as him in the fight, so he bent down and overturned Davis.
After the referee whistled and signaled that he would foul the offensive, he did not stop and directly stepped over Davis to dunk.
Tang Tian was furious when he saw this and was about to go up.
A figure was faster than him.
Ci Shiping swung his fist and rushed towards Griffin.
When Griffin saw Ci Shiping's fierce face, he suddenly recalled the scene in his mind when the two teams fought against each other in the regular season. Barnes was pressed to the ground and beaten up.
His first reaction was to turn around and run away.
When Barnes saw that Ci Shiping did not dare to go up to help, Paul was far away again.
So, in everyone's incredible eyes, Ci Shiping chased and beat Griffin in the field!
Griffin had short hands and legs, but he ran around the stadium. Ci Shiping was old and slow, but he couldn't catch up!
All the fans laughed at this moment.
Griffin has always been known for his explosive dunks and has the nickname "Good Lifen".
But at this moment, he didn't even have the idea of confronting Ci Shiping or even fighting and retreating. He was chased and ran away all over the field, which was really shocking!
Chapter completed!