100-121, the Clippers swallowed a loss at home with a "downmatch" performance on the court.
First of all, congratulations to Pickled Pepper for becoming the first person on the team to hit three-point shots! However, today the Clippers actually lost by 21 points at home. Looking sideways, the last game was fought to the last moment on the road, and this game is basically no suspense after the third quarter, and it can't be said that the Clippers have improved when they look at it vertically, because they haven't found a good way to face the Timberwolves' super interior hardness and the oppressiveness of the whole team's defense, but the rhythm of the Timberwolves' offense and defense is very stable except for fluctuations at the end of the first quarter.
I don't see a lot of games for the Timberwolves, and I don't write much about this team. However, the Timberwolves' performance today deserved to be the No. 1 in the West, which made me, a blogger who shouted n Clippers championships, start to wonder if I was taking out too much loan when the game entered the fourth quarter.
Before the game, I was optimistic that the Clippers could win, because the Clippers are going to play with all their might, and if the game comes to the last minute, the Clippers will have a better chance of winning. However, the course of the game was like this: the Timberwolves took advantage of the Clippers' interior defense shortcomings on the offensive end to desperately attack the interior, and as long as Towns and Gobert were on the court at the same time, the Timberwolves would have the advantage of interior misalignment. On the Clippers' side, the Timberwolves' defense was stronger than any opponent in the previous 10 consecutive games, and the offensive end was not changed much, which also led to the Timberwolves being dominated by the Timberwolves in the second half, and it is not surprising that the final five minutes of the third quarter collapsed.
I've watched all the Clippers games recently, and I want to say that today's loss is not bad news for the Clippers, because it serves as a wake-up call to the whole Clippers team, and the Clippers have been in really bad form lately! In the previous game, it was obvious that the Clippers played loosely against weak teams, but against opponents with a high level of interior such as the Cavaliers, Pelicans, and Timberwolves, they all tasted the bitterness of losing——— Zubac's injury and poor condition after returning from injury is not a reason for the Clippers to lose to them, because a big problem in front of the Clippers is: how to solve the interior problem?
Zubac can hold up the interior defense if he returns to form, but Plumlee? Forget it, his defensive ability and ball quotient are embarrassing and useful in high-end games. If you put the Timberwolves against each other in the playoffs, wouldn't people be happy to see that you sent a Plumlee opponent on the other side? That's really it, it's like O'Neal had to laugh out loud when he saw the interior lineup of the Nets, the opponent of the Finals at that time.
However, the Clippers still have 30 regular season games to play, and this loss has also made it clear to the Clippers where they need to improve in their upcoming games. Some time ago, the state of "waves" can be put aside for a while, after all, it will be too late to expose today's problems in the playoffs!