To be honest, the Trail Blazers' strategy of using Lillard to defeat Li Liang was quite successful because they really destroyed Li Liang.

In the first half, Li Liang scored a total of 8 points, and failed to score one of the three-pointers, and then shot one of them. After not making it, he stopped shooting.

Of the 8 points I scored, four of them came from free throws, and there was only one empty cut layup and an unexpected jump shot from the high position.

As a result, at the end of the half, the Clippers led the Trail Blazers by 25 points...

It's another 25 points. Now the Trail Blazers fans and players will have physiological reactions when they see the number 25, just like many people see 58.

After the second half began, the Trail Blazers still struggled a little.

Lillard hit a three-pointer as soon as he came up, and then the Clippers missed the attack. Lillard pushed back and made a quick push to pass the ball to Matthews who was following.

Matthews finally made a three-pointer!

Two consecutive three-pointers, the score became a score difference and suddenly became 19 points!

19 points, it’s not easy, it’s less than 20 points.

It feels like it's not far from victory.

When the Clippers missed two consecutive attacks, Paul pulled Robin Lopez out for military training through repeated pick-and-roll covers.

After setting a distance, Paul used his strength to hit Lopez, and then made a light layup with his right hand.

Paul's rhythm control while leading the score is really great.

The Trail Blazers fought fast and used the fast counterattack to form a misalignment. Lopez forced Li Liang to hit him with a hook shot.

Then Paul turned around and made another mid-range jump shot after a pick-and-roll...

In the last game, Paul threw himself into the cemetery, and this time he was going to send the pioneers to the cemetery.

The Trail Blazers did not give up. With the experience of falling behind by more than 20 points in the first two games in the first two games, the Trail Blazers players became much calmer and more rational in this game.

It should be said that the game was very tough and very good. I began to find some ways to deal with the Clippers.

Sometimes, the coach alone says that things on the court are useless. The players must experience them on the court, think and think about them by themselves.

There are five people and five brains on the court, but to become a team, the five people need to share common thinking and tacit understanding.

The reason why the Trail Blazers are always behind by more than 20 points in the first half is that every time the Clippers are in a state of chaos in their offense and defense when they are in the second quarter.

You want to be fast, he wants to be slow, you think you should play like this, I think it is better to play like this.

Although everyone will communicate repeatedly on the court and coaches will give advice on the off court, the situation will change rapidly.

Once everyone is not in a tacit understanding enough, the offense and defense will definitely collapse.

The Clippers don’t have this problem, they just rush!

It was only in the third quarter of the third game that the Trail Blazers finally found some tricks.

In fact, if you want to blame the Trail Blazers for the first round, they were the Rockets.

What team is the Rockets? A master-level team that has been playing a few tricks.

If the Rockets are blindly fighting, you will also follow them. As you fight, you will win now, and it will be easy to win.

So in the second round, I still had the same set and suffered a big loss.

This loss was a loss of three games, and it was almost impossible to make up for it.

At this time, the referee suddenly began to compete.

First, the inside blew up Jordan Jr. a defensive foul, and Lopez made both free throws.

Then the Clippers blew Barnes to cover a foul on the offensive end.

Well, no matter what, this is the home court of the Trail Blazers. Portlanders don’t want to be faced?

If you continue to play like this, what should you do if the ratings are there?

So as the messenger of justice, of course, the referee couldn't stand it and wanted to come out to maintain fairness and justice.

The Trail Blazers also seized this opportunity.

Batum made a three-pointer from the front arc through repeated running positions!

The difference between the two sides narrowed to below 15 points.

Now Rivers is going to call a timeout, and the Clippers need to re-stabilize their advantages.

This is Moda Center, not Stamps, who leads more than ten points away, and it is not long before the third quarter started.

The Moda Center finally burst into a long-lost cheer. It has been pressed under the water for too long, so it feels so uncomfortable to hold it in.

After the timeout, the Clippers' offense did not improve immediately.

Li Liang and Paul tried high pick-and-rolls, and Li Liang repeatedly cut in the empty space to make a layup, but failed to hit both attacks.

Instead, it gave the Trail Blazers a chance to make a long pass counterattack, allowing Matthews to catch Ade's pass and make a layup.

The difference has narrowed to only 10 points.

The Trail Blazers finally found a little bit of the game feeling!

The Clippers began to enter the scoring drought.

Several offensive opportunities came out, including Paul killing the basket, Li Liang's 45-degree three-pointer from the right, and Griffin's tip-off after grabbing the frontcourt rebound, but none of them hit.

This gave the Trail Blazers hope to turn things around.

The Trail Blazers players began to relax and the game entered their feelings.

They seized the opportunity of the Clippers not scoring for more than two minutes and used counterattacks twice to make a free throw - including a foul.

The score difference was chased to only 6 points!

From 25 to 6 minutes, the Trail Blazers only took half a quarter.

The Clippers finally encountered some crisis and trouble here.

During this half of the quarter, Paul held the ball for too long.

The Clippers' fast attack, which was a big break, became a trick of Paul taking the ball and running around, blocking it, either attacking by himself or passing the ball.

This kind of offensive Trail Blazers have found some tricks to defend, and the key is that they have become confident.

At this time, Rivers substituted and replaced Crawford. As soon as Crawford got up, he scored two points with an unreasonable mid-range jump shot.

Finally eased the scoring drought, Crawford's goal was really critical.

Then, Trail Blazers Lopez was blew up with a cover foul.

I guess the referee also felt that the Clippers had been blowing too much for a while ago, so he wanted to make up for it.

Now, the momentum of the Trail Blazers to chase points has been cut off.

5 points is a hurdle. Once you catch up with 5 points, the situation in the game will be completely different.

Crawford pulled the gap back to 8 points with a middle distance.

Immediately afterwards, Li Liang finally stood up, he held the ball at the top of the arc, Jordan and Odom came with a double cover, Li Liang found an opportunity on the right, made a three-pointer and hit!

This three-pointer is extremely fatal, and the difference in points has just returned to more than 10 points.

And the morale that had just gathered was dissipated.

In the positional attack, Adr rushed to the inside with the ball after pick-and-roll, but was once again ruthlessly blocked by Jordan Jr.

This is Jordan Jr.'s fourth block in this game.

The Blazers made mistakes again on the defensive end.

Li Liang was pick-and-roll at the top of the arc, Crawford and Paul had the ball and the other had no ball. They ran in with the help of Li Liang's cover, but as they ran, they left the defense in front of Li Liang empty...

Paul returned the ball to Li Liang, and Li Liang made an open three-pointer from the top of the arc and hit.

Can Li Liang waste this opportunity to be delivered to his mouth?

After scoring the goal, Li Liang shook his head and gave you a chance and you won’t be useful!

In the first section, Lillard used to exchange Li Liang, which was good, but now it seems useless, so I left it alone.

The score was much behind, so I seized the opportunity to chase back, and then Li Liang scored two three-pointers and stepped back from the edge of the cliff.

Stotts must be wondering at this time, if Lillard insists on harassing Li Liang until the third quarter, will the effect be revealed?

Don't know, Stotts doesn't know, and the Trail Blazers players can't imagine that so many games are going on.

Of course, the players would not give up so easily. Batum, who was a little bit miserable in the first two games, finally improved in the third quarter.

He scored aner-ba11 and immediately responded to Li Liang.

But the momentum of the Trail Blazers' continuous chasing points is gone, and both sides are trapped in a tug-of-war with you, I will score a goal, I will score a goal.

Moreover, the Trail Blazers made a low-level mistake on the defensive end, allowing Li Liang to sneak into the basket, pick up a frontcourt rebound, and then easily make a layup.

Stotts was so angry that he was spinning around the sidelines. How could he let Li Liang steal the score like this?

The Clippers, who had recovered, restructured their defense. Lillard tried to challenge Jordan Jr.'s defense, but he threw the ball at the basket and was slapped out by Jordan Jr. with a big volleyball hat.

The fifth block of the game!
To be continued...