Today, the Clippers challenged the Pistons away, George returned, and the Clippers started: Harden, Mann, George, Leonard, Plumlee; Pistons starters: Cunningham, Ivey, Knox, Bogdanovic, Duren!
At the beginning of the first quarter, after the two sides tied 6-7, the Clippers fell into a scoring drought, and the Pistons brought a wave of 8-0 small climax, and after Ivey hit a three-point shot, 15-6 entered a timeout. However, this timeout did not have any effect, and the Clippers still did not score in the game, and the scoring drought lasted for 4 minutes at one point, and at the most, they fell behind by 14 points at 6-20. After Coach Lu replaced Harden with Wei Shao, the young master broke through the layup to break the deadlock. After that, Xiaoka finally began to take over the offense, mid-range shooting, 2+1, and three-point shooting, and Wei Shao hit a three-point shot to chase the 17-26 Pistons to a timeout. After a timeout, Bogda scored to stop the bleeding, but the Clippers felt hot on the small card, Gallinari made two fouls in the first quarter, and the Pistons led by six points at 33-27 to end the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the two sides rotated the lineup, Harden and George returned to lead the team with Westbrook, but the Pistons hit two three-pointers in a row to extend the margin to double digits. George hit a jumper to chase six points, Powell made a three-pointer, and the Pistons called a timeout after 36-42, and then Cunningham and Ivey came back. Harden's outside three-point line was still stopped, the young master steal and George connected the dunk, but Susser's three points immediately responded with 2 and pulled it to 9 points, Wei Shao jumped to stop the bleeding, Coffey also came with three points in the bottom corner, and then made two fouls and two free throws, and Harden also made foul free throws to tie the score. But Mann broke through and made Thompson foul and made a free throw to complete the overtake, and the small card came back. Harden's mid-range shot hit, and the small card came up and hit 3 three-pointers in a row! Bogda also answered with a three-pointer and Plumlee hit two free throws to give the Clippers a six-point lead at halftime at 65-59.
In the second half, the Pistons came up in the third quarter to play a wave of offensive climaxes to chase the difference to 2 points, but the three-point feeling of the small card continued, and it was two consecutive hits to stop the bleeding, and then the wonderful pass to Plumlee 2+1 was completed, and the Clippers extended their lead. Bogda immediately bit on a three-pointer, and George's steal assisted Plumlee again to stop the Pistons at 81-72. Back in the game, George and Xiaoka continued to score together, but the Pistons also played a counter-attacking mini-climax to narrow the gap to 1 point. Wei Shao came back with a three-pointer to stop the bleeding, and then quickly attacked back to defend the big hat Duren, and the game went into a timeout. At the end of the third quarter, the young master and Powell stepped up and scored seven points in a row to help the Clippers lead by 11 points at 101-90 into the fourth quarter.
At the beginning of the last quarter, Harden came back, and the state of Wei Shao and Powell was completely up, and after Theis hit one of the two free throws, the Clippers led 8-2 to 17 points in one wave, setting the tone for the game in one fell swoop. The young master was very excited after the dunk, and he also ate a technical foul, and the Pistons seized the opportunity to chase 10 points with a 2+1, and Coach Lu called a timeout. Wei Shao and Powell continued to play for a while, and Xiaoka came back. Harden assisted George on a three-point shot, and then George made a steal and assisted on a small card dunk, and a wave of 9-0 mini-climaxes led to 16 points, and the Pistons called a timeout. Then Harden assisted George to score a basket, and Wei Shao passed to George to hit an outside three-point shot, leading to 20 points to take away the victory.
In the end, the Clippers defeated the Pistons 136-125 and continued their winning streak. Let's take a look at the players' performances!
It's a crime! Harden is sleepwalking!
Harden's state today is nothing short of sleepwalking, which is a crime.
He was 0-of-3 in the first quarter, 1-of-4 in the second, and only 1-of-7 shooting in the first half, 0-of-4 from three-point range and 2-of-2 from the free throw line to finish with four points, two rebounds and one assist.
In the second half, Deng Ge still didn't wake up, as if he had no desire to attack. In the whole game, the bearded man played 34 minutes, shooting 1-of-10 from the field, 0-of-5 from three-point range, and 2-of-2 from the free throw line, scoring only 4 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists.
The small card bombarded the piston with 33+4+3.
Harden pulled his hips, but the small card turned on the God of War mode, he quickly adjusted after the opening 2 of 0, and the last 4 shots were all hit. In the first quarter, he was 4-of-6 (1-of-1 from three-point range) and 3-of-3 from the free-throw line, and he had 12 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist without turnovers.
After he came back in the second quarter, he hit three consecutive three-point shots, and scored 21 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the half.
In the second half, Brother Kazi's firepower did not fall, and in the third quarter, he scored 2 three-pointers, and then the signature mid-distance was also in hand, and he scored another 11 points in a single quarter.
The small card in the last quarter came up and played for a while, and there was no need to exert force at all. In the whole game, he played 32 minutes, shooting 12-of-17, 6-of-8 three-pointers, 3-of-3 free throws, 33 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block, plus/minus +18.
Wei Shao scored a milestone.
Aside from the small card, Willis was the best player for the Clippers today. He came off the bench for 12 minutes in the first half, and he shot 4-of-5, 1-of-2 three-pointers, 1-of-2 free throws, scored 10 points, 1 rebound, 5 assists and 2 steals.
At the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter, he and Powell led the team to an excellent offensive effect, and he also clocked out early in the fourth quarter.
In the whole game, the young master played 25 minutes, shooting 10 of 13, 2 of 3 three-pointers, 1 of 2 free throws, and efficiently scored 23 points, 3 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals.
With these 23 points, Wei Shao's career total score exceeded 25,000 points!