While Cleveland led by 12 points (100-112) just over four minutes from the end, the Clippers were not given a lot of skin, dominated by Donovan Mitchell (30 points), Evan Mobley (26 points) and company.
Except that Los Angeles will succeed in reversing the situation, thanks to a 15-0 carried by Norman Powell!
“It’s our best victory, our most important victory”, reacted Paul George. “Overall, it was probably one of our best nights offensively, as well as defensively. They have elite scorers, elite shooters, and I think we’ve done a good job of matching that on both ends of the field. »
Last year, the Clippers had already overturned a lot of meetings and this group therefore knows this feeling. But for Ivica Zubac, this turnaround against a solid Cleveland team remains surprising.
“I was surprised today”admitted the Croatian pivot after the match. “But I guess that’s our trademark. It’s going to be a big boost for our confidence.”
Even if everything is far from perfect for the Clippers, this success can serve as a benchmark. In the last minutes, we really saw the defensive potential of this team, while Los Angeles has just had four successes in the last five games to get back into the positive (6 wins – 5 losses).
” I think so “reacted Tyronn Lue when asked if his team finally resembled the one that reached the conference finals in 2021. “But it’s going to be different again when Kawhi comes back. Solutions will have to be found again. But I like our current state. We fight every night. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Paul George | 9 | 35.3 | 47.3 | 35.6 | 88.4 | 0.6 | 5.7 | 6.2 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 24.9 |
| Marcus Morris | 8 | 30.9 | 50.0 | 35.7 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 14.8 |
| John Wall | 8 | 22.2 | 44.6 | 21.4 | 51.9 | 0.4 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 4.9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 12.8 |
| Kawhi Leonard | 2 | 21.0 | 44.4 | 16.7 | 88.9 | 2.0 | 4.5 | 6.5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 12.5 |
| Norman Powell | 10 | 25.1 | 40.4 | 25.6 | 66.7 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 10.4 |
| Ivica Zubac | 10 | 30.1 | 60.3 | 0.0 | 58.3 | 2.5 | 8.8 | 11.3 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 10.2 |
| Reggie Jackson | 10 | 28.9 | 36.1 | 27.5 | 92.3 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 9.3 |
| Luke Kennard | 9 | 22.9 | 50.0 | 46.7 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 8.0 |
| Terance Mann | 10 | 16.1 | 63.4 | 23.1 | 42.9 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 5.8 |
| Robert Covington | 6 | 15.5 | 42.1 | 30.8 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 4.3 |
| Nicholas Batum | 10 | 18.0 | 43.8 | 34.8 | 71.4 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 2.8 | 4.1 |
| Moses Brown | 5 | 4.8 | 72.7 | 0.0 | 40.0 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 3.6 |
| Amir Coffey | 9 | 9.4 | 33.3 | 25.0 | 81.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 2.7 |
| Bj Boston, Jr. | 5 | 3.3 | 50.0 | 66.7 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 2.6 |
| Moussa Diabate | 2 | 3.2 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Jason Preston | 1 | 2.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
