In the first quarter, the two sides tied 25:29, and the Trail Blazers led by 4 points and entered the second quarter.

This is the first time since the series that the Trail Blazers have remained ahead after the first quarter.

It's really not easy.

After the second quarter started, the Trail Blazers played very carefully.

Yes, their offense and defense can be described as careful.

In fact, in the playoffs, you should be careful in the game, and you should not make mistakes whether you are offensive or defensive.

Unfortunately, the Trail Blazers were taken into the pit by the Rockets in the round, and they won the irritable fight anyway.

As a result, I was o:3 by the Clippers, and I found some real feeling of playing in the playoffs.

The Trail Blazers have reduced too much cover and unnecessary running positions in the offense, and tried to make the team's offensive routines simpler.

In this way, the team can focus more on the defensive end, slow down the pace of the entire game, and allow players to take more initiative on the court.

This is a bit like a strong team in the playoffs. The Clippers players finally felt the resistance on the court.

The players' touch was average, but although they narrowed the game in the second quarter, they were still unable to equalize or reverse.

The Trail Blazers were broken through in the first three games in the second quarter, and they were already 20 points behind early, and they entered the second half passively.

This time, the Trail Blazers learned a lesson. Both sides had come and go, and the Trail Blazers always maintained a leading advantage of more than 3 points.

Li Liang did not gain any advantage on the Trail Blazers in the second quarter.

His most intuitive feeling is that the Trail Blazers team can finally play.

Start paying attention to details in defense, rather than being able to confront each other.

Various floor ball fights and desperate backcourt rebound protection finally look like they are defending their home court to the death.

The offense reduces complex tactical cooperation and makes more use of the players' personal abilities.

Ade's several strong attacks were always going to the basket, instead of always leaning back and jumping, which was obviously much tougher.

The overall rhythm of the team is relaxed and is no longer led by the Clippers like in the first three games.

Especially Lillard, who controls the ball, has made a lot of progress in offensive choices.

After all, I followed Paul to play three games and was abused three times, so I can learn something.

As a point guard, Lillard's offense has basically not been sorted out. He did not pass the ball well when it was time to pass, and he did not shoot accurately when it was time to attack.

Lillard's move was much better in this game. At the end of the first half, he scored 15 points and 6 assists, helping the Trail Blazers lead the Clippers by 52:53 and enter the second half by 1 point.

Although he only leads by 1 point, this 1 point is really a huge improvement.

I was always behind 25 points in the first half, but this time I was able to lead. It was really not easy.

Even if you lead by 1 point, it is a great psychological comfort.

The Clippers' team did not play well in the first half, and the person who played the best was Griffin.

Griffin took the substitute and took advantage of the Trail Blazers' second team to score some points back.

In the last moment of the second quarter, Griffin's mid-range buzzer-beating allowed the Clippers to fall by 1 point behind.

Li Liang and Paul were both average in their strokes. Li Liang felt that he was in a bad state, so he decisively retreated, focused on defending, and accumulated energy to prepare for the second half.

The two sides finally set up a formation and play the third quarter and the second half.

During the Clippers' intermission, the locker room was finally no longer so relaxed, but became slightly nervous.

Rivers spitted and pointed out the problems that the team had on both offense and defense in the first half.

And repeatedly emphasized, "I don't want to bring the game back to Los Angeles. I hope we go home to take a vacation to prepare for the game, not to prepare for the next game."

Rivers said this, but he had already begun to make plans for the next game.

He knew that it might not be that easy to really sweep the opponent.

The referee clearly favored the Trail Blazers in the first half, and basically all the fouls that could be played or not were slapped, but the Trail Blazers did not.

As Rivers expected, at the beginning of the third quarter, the situation began to move in a direction that was unfavorable to the Clippers.

As soon as the third quarter started, Li Liang was now slapped for a foul on the defense.

In this way, he had three fouls and needed to be careful in the entire third quarter defense.

Rivers is still difficult to solve the problem of Li Liang's offensive and defensive responsibilities.

The main reason is that Li Liang is too active, and at the same time, what he provides on the defensive end is too important to the Clippers.

The award for the nBa Best Defensive Player has also been released in the past two days, and the winner is Jockin Noah.

However, Rivers said in an interview that "the title of Best Defensive Player should be given to Bruce Lee."

Although Rivers said this, there was suspicion of flattery (who knew why he, a champion coach, flattered the second-year rookie), on the other hand, it was also because Rivers knew Li Liang's importance in the Clippers' defense.

The basis for the Clippers to win 7O is not Li Liang's three-pointer, but Li Liang filled the gap in front defense after coming to the Clippers, allowing the team's defense to remain stable.

So Carlisle had thought of creating Li Liang's foul before, which would put him in foul trouble and destroy the Clippers' defensive foundation.

Stotts finally figured out this after playing a few games. With the referee giving him face, Li Liang faced the foul issue at the beginning of the second half.

Subsequently, the Trail Blazers took advantage of the problem of Li Liang being troubled by fouls and began to use the pick-and-roll from the outside to hit Li Liang.

Batum kept coming out to do a wall to mobilize Li Liang, and after pick-and-roll, Li Liang went to change defense.

Once Li Liang changed defense, Matthews or Lillard broke out.

Li Liang knew that he could not play the foul, so he defended twice, but he was still beaten several times by Lillard and Matthews.

After five minutes in the third quarter, the Trail Blazers turned the score into 64:7o, leading the Clippers by 6 points.

There is no tactical change in the Trail Blazers' defense, only attitude changes.

As for defense, the change of attitude is the most immediate effect.

Once the out-of-bounds ball, the Clippers made a mistake. Batum asked Li Liang to get the ball, but Li Liang just refused to give it to him.

Batum directly pushed up and physically contacted Li Liangsheng, and wanted to snatch the ball from Li Liang's hand.

Can Li Liang be snatched away by you?

He pushed Batum away with one elbow and handed the ball to the referee.

Batum also looked innocent and spread his hands out, saying to the referee "A technical foul."

"Damn your foul, your foul." Li Liang cursed at Batum without hesitation.

The referee ignored it because the ball outside the bounds had to hand the ball to the referee first.

There was obviously a smell of gunpowder on both sides.

Li Liang is indeed in a bad state tonight, but he is working hard to adjust.

His shooting feels average now, and he is trapped by fouls on the defensive end and dare not give his all.

Other Clippers players obviously did not adapt to the changing defensive attitude of the Trail Blazers and played very unruly.

The game is completely out of control of the Clippers.

Li Liang thought that he must get the initiative back.

How to find it, start with Batum.

Li Liang silently took out a piece of [Gary Payton's chewing gum] from the system's redemption center and put it in his mouth to chew it.

Don’t you want to fight with me? Haven’t you kept covering me and mobilizing me and letting me come to the backcourt for military training?

Then we will have a full-scale showdown to see who is better.

In the previous few games, Li Liang didn't take Batum to heart at all.

It is true that Batum played better than the other one.

Batum's move was very good in this game, and Li Liang was getting more and more excited in defense. He was here to feel it and became irritated.

You are dry, I'll take you out of fire.

Trail Blazers offensive offense.

Batum and Li Liang faced each other, why did Li Liang's mouth move?

Are you chewing gum? But he doesn't seem to have the habit of chewing gum.

Then, Batum heard a series of various swear words flowing out of Li Liang's mouth.

It really flows out, and it flows very naturally. If you don’t care about the content and only listen to the tone, you will feel that he is chatting with you.

But as soon as I heard the content... all kinds of black slang, swear words, and swear words were greeting Batum in a series.

The basketball court is actually very, very noisy.

Whistles, audience noises, loud communication and shouting between players, rackets on the floor, and sneakers rubbing the floor.

Playing a game, the player's eardrums will have to be tested a lot, especially in the playoffs.

But when Batum stood beside Li Liang, he felt that Li Liang's trash words were simply magical sounds, which could block all other sounds, so that you could listen to those trash words, and your mind was about to explode.

Batum was about to turn around and let Li Liang stop talking, but Matthews's ball came over.

Batum was intercepted by Li Liang if he didn't pay attention. Li Liang rushed forward with the ball. Lillard had no choice but to stop Li Liang and commit a foul.

Li Liang rubbed his mouth and thought to himself that the feeling of scolding people was so refreshed.

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