Norman Powell had just converted a “floater” to bring the Clippers back to two possessions, on the floor of the Suns, when the origin of the incident occurred, at the end of the third quarter. Back in defense Bones Hyland was caught in a screen by Ish Wainright, while mason plumlee asked him to open up on Terrence Ross, alone in the corner.
Luckily for the Clippers, the Suns guard missed the mark and Plumlee was able to grab the rebound and go on the counterattack himself. And this… without serving his offending teammate, who nevertheless insistently demanded the leather. The interior preferred to serve Russell Westbrook who intelligently handed the ball to him for a basket at the buzzer without opposition.
We could have stopped there but Hyland and Plumlee explained themselves frontally when returning to their bench. The two men had to be separated by their teammates before being relaunched on the floor to start the fourth quarter. ” They found a way out. It’s good. Everything’s good », plays down Tyronn Lue after the gamewith a smile.
“Maybe we should do this more often”
He obviously did well to leave them together in play because the two men contributed to the Clippers’ return to the score. The former Nuggets player (11 points and 5 rebounds) notably distributing a good ball for a basket from inside, author of 6 of his 9 points in the last quarter. And the Clippers won that important game to secure their 5th place finish.
“ It’s a big game so if things don’t work out, we have to fix it. After this little scuffle, we took off and we played much better. Maybe we should do this more often », Allows himself to be ironized Lue.
For his part, Mason Plumlee says he was frustrated by several defensive errors late in the third quarter, which preceded his trade to Bones. According to him, they have moved on. He believes in being able to talk with a teammate, even during emotional moments.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Kawhi Leonard | 51 | 33.6 | 51.2 | 42.1 | 87.6 | 1.1 | 5.2 | 6.3 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 23.8 |
| Paul George | 56 | 34.6 | 45.7 | 37.1 | 87.1 | 0.8 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 23.8 |
| Norman Powell | 59 | 26.0 | 47.7 | 40.1 | 81.5 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 16.8 |
| Russell Westbrook | 20 | 29.7 | 49.4 | 34.8 | 65.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 15.4 |
| John Wall | 34 | 22.2 | 40.8 | 30.3 | 68.1 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 5.2 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 11.4 |
| Marcus Morris | 65 | 28.1 | 42.6 | 36.4 | 78.2 | 0.4 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 11.2 |
| Eric Gordon | 21 | 25.0 | 47.0 | 43.3 | 84.2 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 11.2 |
| Reggie Jackson | 52 | 25.7 | 41.8 | 35.0 | 92.4 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 10.9 |
| Ivica Zubac | 75 | 28.6 | 63.3 | 0.0 | 69.7 | 3.1 | 6.9 | 10.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 10.8 |
| Bones Hyland | 13 | 19.0 | 39.7 | 35.7 | 75.0 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 10.8 |
| Terance Mann | 80 | 23.2 | 52.0 | 38.9 | 78.0 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 8.9 |
| Luke Kennard | 35 | 20.7 | 46.4 | 44.7 | 95.0 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 7.8 |
| mason plumlee | 22 | 19.8 | 73.2 | 0.0 | 78.2 | 1.8 | 5.3 | 7.0 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 7.4 |
| Bj Boston, Jr. | 22 | 11.3 | 41.8 | 41.4 | 76.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 6.5 |
| Nicholas Batum | 77 | 21.9 | 42.2 | 39.4 | 70.8 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 6.2 |
| Robert Covington | 47 | 16.5 | 44.5 | 39.7 | 75.0 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 6.1 |
| Moses Brown | 34 | 8.5 | 63.5 | 0.0 | 45.8 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 4.6 |
| Amir Coffey | 50 | 12.5 | 38.6 | 27.5 | 77.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 3.4 |
| Jason Preston | 14 | 8.8 | 43.9 | 27.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 2.9 |
| Moussa Diabate | 22 | 8.9 | 51.1 | 50.0 | 62.5 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.7 |
| Xavier Moon | 4 | 4.9 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
