In the first two games of the first round of the playoffs, the Lakers beat the Clippers 2:0. Especially in the second game, Wang Feng reversed the game at the last moment, which greatly hurt morale.
The G3 series will return to the home court of the Clippers... also at the Staples Center.
Well, the Lakers-Clippers derby is the first time in the league's history.
The league has been saying that if the Lakers play the Clippers in the playoffs, they will have seven home games.
This is not an exaggeration. The number of spectators of the Lakers is much larger than that of the Clippers. Even if they buy tickets online according to the probability, there are only a few Clippers fans who can grab home game tickets.
It's just that this scene has never happened before. The Clippers were too bad to make the playoffs before. Later, the Clippers ushered in Chris Paul and became a strong team in the league. The Lakers were also in trouble all year round because of Kobe Bryant's injury.
Bottom of the league.
No one expected that the first meeting between the two teams in the playoffs would be in 2019.
Although James of the Clippers has the largest fan base in the world, this only prevents the stadium from completely becoming the home court of the Lakers.
As long as you stand on the field, you can hear the fans cheering for the two teams, almost equally.
Therefore, the G3 series cannot be called a home game in a strict sense, but is regarded as half a home game for both sides.
I don’t know if it was the atmosphere at home that made the Clippers players feel angry and completely rebound, or it was the fact that they were already 0:2 behind and half-stepped on the edge of the cliff that made them explode. The Clippers players in the G3 game
, showing the same ultra-high competitive level as in the G2 game.
James had 29 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists, Lou Williams had 22 points, Harrell and Tobias Harris each scored 15 points.
The Clippers defeated the Lakers 129:110, with the total score reaching 2:1, and did not allow the Lakers to win three consecutive victories to win the match point.
In this game, Wang Feng scored 28 points and 11 rebounds. His condition declined slightly but he still maintained a stable and high scoring output. However, Jimmy Butler rarely stretched his hips.
He made 3 of 10 shots from the field and only scored 7 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists.
The two cores added up to a total of 35 points, which was not as high as Wang Feng's usual score alone. Of course, he couldn't win the game.
Fortunately, two days later, in the G4 game of the series, Butler regained his form and even bottomed out. He made 11 of 22 shots and 13 of 15 free throws, scoring 36 points and 9 rebounds, plus Wang Feng's 35 points and 14 rebounds.
The two combined for 71 points and 23 rebounds, directly breaking through the Clippers' forward defense.
Poor James worked hard in this game, scoring 42 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists, but he failed to lead the team to win and dragged the game into Tianwang Mountain.
3:1, the Lakers took the lead in winning the match point, and holding three match points, the probability of eliminating the Clippers and advancing is as high as 90%.
In the G5 series, the home game is back to the Lakers. In fact, there is not much difference between the two teams playing home and away games at the Staples Center.
James made 16 of 25 shots, scored 45 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, leading the Clippers to a narrow victory over the Lakers, pulling the score to 3:2.
Scored 40+ points and a near triple-double in two consecutive games, in front of a top defensive player like Wang Feng. Facts have proved that James' personal strength is still at its peak. As long as he wants to score, no one in the world can stop him.
Even Wang Feng can't do it.
But James' performance ended here.
In the series G6, the stage was handed to Wang Feng.
In the whole game, Wang Feng made 17 of 30 shots, including 10 of 18 three-pointers and 6 of 8 free throws. He scored 50 points in the game, killing the game directly.
118:115, the Lakers eliminated the Clippers 4:2 and successfully advanced to the conference semifinals.
After the game, James reluctantly hugged Wang Feng and congratulated Wang Feng.
"Congratulations, Wang, I hope you can go further in the playoffs and win the O'Brien Cup."
In the six-game series, the two were rivals.
Wang Feng scored 38 points, 44 points, 28 points, 35 points, 32 points and 50 points in six games, averaging 37.8 points per game and shooting 55.8% from the field. In addition, he averaged 12.8 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2.8 steals per game.
The data performance is extremely shocking.
James' performance was not inferior at all, scoring 33 points, 36 points, 29 points, 42 points, 45 points and 22 points respectively in six games, averaging 34.5 points per game and shooting 53.2% from the field.
Although he is inferior to Wang Feng in terms of scoring, James still averages 9 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game. Therefore, it is still difficult to judge who is stronger and weaker between the two, but the Lakers defeated the Clippers 4:2.
It is an indisputable fact that the team is different, so this time Wang Feng won.
Although the fans of the Clippers and James are still unconvinced and clamoring to wait for the Clippers to strengthen next season before fighting for 300 rounds, in any case, the Clippers' playoff journey is over.
This is the first round of the playoffs for James in his career.
Since leading his team to the playoffs for the first time in his career in the 2005-06 season, James has never stopped in the first round. His worst result was the conference semifinals. Before that, he reached the finals for eight consecutive years, with an extremely impressive record.
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James fans are quite disappointed with this, but Wang Feng thinks this result is good.
In another time and space, James led the Lakers but failed to even make the playoffs this season and took a vacation to fish as soon as the regular season ended.
As for the second year, the Lakers went all out, using Ingram, Ball and other rookies with multiple first-round draft picks Davis, and finally made great progress and won the NBA championship. That is another story.
Wang Feng wonders if the Clippers will imitate the Lakers of another time and space and bring in a strong supporter for James Stud. At least judging from the current lineup of the Clippers, it is basically impossible for Stud to get the thick-eyebrow brother. Is it possible?
The opportunity to sign Kawhi Leonard like another time and place is hard to say.
No matter how the Clippers operate, it has nothing to do with the current Wang Feng and the Lakers. The current Lakers lineup is complete. Considering that the Warriors will most likely disintegrate this year, there is no need to continue to strengthen in the short term.
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After eliminating the Los Angeles Clippers, the Lakers are sitting in the top half of the Western Conference, waiting for their next round opponent, the winner of the Houston Rockets and Portland Trail Blazers.
Both teams are very good, and their first-round meeting can be regarded as a collision of Mars and Earth.
Trail Blazers core point guard Damian Lillard shows strong offensive firepower, averaging 33 points and 6 assists per game.
In contrast, although Harden of the Rockets averaged 36.1 points per game in the regular season, he fell short in the first round of the playoffs, averaging only 27.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 8 assists per game, and his shooting percentage was only