Congratulations to the Clippers, on December 9, 2023, the Clippers challenged the Utah Jazz away, and the whole Clippers team also played a good performance in this game. But there are also fly in the ointment.
Today, the Clippers defeated the Jazz 117-103, and also avenged the previous loss to the Jazz, and slowly got better and better. I heard that the day before this game, the Clippers did not have a training team, or this is also a strategic intention, knowing that the Clippers bench lineup Theis did not play today due to illness, which gave the Clippers a certain degree of difficulty, originally the Clippers are not enough in the current rotation lineup, center Zubac did not have a substitute, he played more than 42 minutes, maybe this is the most playing time in his career.
Leonard hit a season-high 41 points today, which has not been scored since the 2021 playoffs against the Mavericks, and he shot 14 of 23 today, and 6 of 8 three-point shots, delivering a perfect performance. George also scored 20 points today, 8-of-13 from the field, 2-of-5 from three-point range, and his efficiency was also very high.
In fact, today's Jazz is also missing the situation of the star Markkanen, their whole team played very focused, very good performance, and the defensive intensity of the Clippers felt a little like a playoff game, and finally lost to the Clippers, but also showed a lot of fighting momentum.
However, the Clippers also have a bad thing about today, that is, Tyronn Lue is still on the floor at the last moment, and Harden and Westbrook are on the court at the same time. Later, I felt that I was beaten for a few minutes and saw that the effect was not good, so I hurriedly got off Wei Shao and got on Kobe Brown, this is really Tyronn Lue's employment, can you not be so hard. Besides, Wei Shao sometimes handles the ball really inflexible, and if he always breaks through, he must pass the ball to Zubac on the inside?Can't you pass the ball to the outside?Breaking through is to attract the bag to pass out of the outside. After all, Zubac is a butter hand and can't catch him this kind of fast in, fast ball, and sometimes the inside line is surrounded by a few people, Zubac is slow to move, and people are a little stupid, which is a waste of a good ball, which gives Leonard a lot of physical strength, and finally grabbed the rebound, and he has to return it to others before he can get his hand, which is consuming physical energy, and he can't win the game. The above two numbers, Tyronn Lue's employment is too stubborn, and Wei divides less balls and more outside lines, which the Clippers must change.
It is worth celebrating that in the game where the team has won a wave of three consecutive wins, Xiaoka's state is really getting better and better, and there is hope that he can play an efficient game for the Clippers, after all, only Xiaoka can have one-on-one stability at critical moments, and his state determines the depth of the Clippers. Thankfully, the integration of the four stars is also getting better and better, and it is a wise choice to separate Harden and Wei Shao on the court, because Wei Shao can't face one-on-one with Zubac in Harden, so it is right that he cannot be on the court at the same time.