The Clippers returned home to face the Kings, George was sidelined with injury, and Powell returned. Clippers starters: Mann, Leonard, Zubac, Powell, Harden! Kings starters: Barnes, Murray, Sabonis, Huerter, Fox!
At the beginning of the first quarter, Zubac played a small one, and Powell made a steal and assisted Mann for a layup. The Kings quickly responded to the offensive climax, hitting three points from the outside, and Sang's interior line also scored, and the lead reached 5 points after counterattacking with 3 hits and 1 rebound. Mann played with Sa under the basket, and Harden made Huerter a three-point foul and went into a timeout. After the timeout, Harden hit all three free throws, and the two sides fell into a hard-fought tug-of-war. Fox made a layup to take a four-point lead, and Lue called a timeout. Back in the game, the Clippers played a small 8-0 surge to complete the comeback, and the Kings trailed by three points at 25-28 at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the two sides rotated the lineup, and Harden came back to lead the team. The Kings blasted out a wave of 11-4 and overtook by 4 points in one fell swoop! Harden and Murray went on a three-pointer and then made two free throws for his own foul, but the Kings could continue to score, and Sa went into a timeout after a foul on Powell. Back to the game, Zubac scored again with an inside hook, Barnes and Powell exchanged three-pointers, Huerter made a layup and hit again, and after Xiaoka steals and counterattacks and dunks, Xiaosa makes a rebound. The scores of the two teams alternately rise, and the score difference hovers between 406 points. After the Clippers scored four points in a row, the Kings took a timeout, and the difference was stretched to six points after the timeout, and Mann held on to three points. Fox and Sa worked together exquisitely, and then the little fox made a foul and Lue guided the challenge to fail and gave two free throws. At halftime, the Clippers trailed by seven points, 51-58.
In the second half, Huerter hit a three-pointer, and the Kings launched a wave of 8-0 mini-climax to lead by 15 points, and Lue took a timeout. However, after returning from the timeout, Xiao Sa blocked Zubac again, and the Kings bench received a technical foul. Mann and Ka Jr. finally broke the scoring drought for the Clippers, Ka and Fox exchanged foul free throws, Harden hit a three-point shot to stop the bleeding, and Zubac dunked inside with an empty basket. Harden broke through to make a foul free throw into a timeout, and Huerter hit a three-point shot after the timeout, but the Clippers started chasing points under the leadership of Xiaoka and Powell, and after Powell scored two three-pointers in a row, the Clippers once chased only 7 points. The Kings made another foul and made another free throw, and the Clippers trailed by nine points at 80-89 at the end of the third quarter.
At the beginning of the final quarter, Harden and Wei Shao led the team, and the Clippers blew the horn of counterattack and played a wave of 6-2, but Murray immediately responded with three points. After Harden made a foul, Fox ate T, and Deng Ge made 3 free throws in a row. But Fox got emotional, and after hitting two in a row, he caused Harden to scramble for the ball. Monk hit two free throws after the Kings regained the lead to 11 points. The Kings pinched Harden on the defensive end, Fox made another foul and stood at the free throw line, and Sa Jr. returned. After Wei Shao made two free throws and Mann scored 2+1, the Clippers chased back with a 5-point card. Monk scored five straight points to stop the Clippers. However, after the timeout, the Kings opened up the gap with three consecutive three-pointers, Barnes beat Harden to lead to 16 points, Powell made three points and small Ka's free throws continued, but Xiao Sa's free throws and Fox's mid-range shot killed the game.
In the end, the Clippers lost to the Kings 107-123, let's take a look at the specific performance of the players!
Small card empty cut 20 8 3 4!
George didn't play, and the small card shot 6 of 12 in the first half, 0 of 2 three-pointers, and scored 12 points, 3 rebounds, 3 steals and 1 block.
In the third quarter, Xiaoka scored another 6 points, but after he came back in the last quarter, Ka Zige did not continue to fire. In the whole game, he played 36 minutes, shooting 7-of-18 from the field, 6-of-7 from the free-throw line, and scoring 20 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals and 1 block.
Unable to reverse, Harden pulled his hip again.
In the first half, Deng Ge also had an average hand, shooting 2 of 8, 1 of 6 three-pointers, 5 of 5 free throws, and got 10 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, he led the team to score seven points in a row, but at the last moment, he failed to score three consecutive points, and a fatal pass error buried the Clippers.
In the whole game, Harden played 35 minutes, shooting 4-of-13, 2-of-10 three-pointers, 10-of-10 free throws, contributing 20 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists.
Fox: Sa hits the Clippers!
The inside-outside combination of Xiao Sa and Fox can be said to have blown up the Clippers today.
In the first half, Xiao Sa was 5-of-13 and 1-of-2 from the free-throw line, and he had 11 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists; Fox was even more filigent, shooting 6-of-12 from the field and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line for 16 points, five rebounds and four assists.
Before the third quarter was over, Xiao Sa cut a triple-double; In the fourth quarter, Fox was furious after being whistled for a technical foul! Then one person scored 6 points in a row, and the final mid-range shot directly killed the game.
Xiao Sa shot 7-of-17 from the field and 3-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with 17 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists, his 20th triple-double of the season; 51st time in his career.
Fox shot 12-of-22 from the field and 9-of-10 from the free-throw line for 33 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals.