The Clippers were defended by the Pelicans for a 24-second violation.

The emotions of the fans at the scene had completely exploded.

Tang Tian assisted Evans in the frontcourt, who scored 2 points under the basket.

The Pelicans had a roaring start, and even Evans' usually low offensive desire was ignited.

Then, Paul's mid-range shot was disturbed by Holiday.

The Pelicans launched a fast break, and Tang Tian faced Barnes' chase with a contested three-pointer, which went in!

7 to 0!

Less than three minutes into the game, Rivers directly called a timeout.

The Pelicans were playing at 120% tonight!

When the Pelicans players went off the court, Davis and Holiday excitedly slapped hands with their teammates.

This is the characteristic of a young team: big ups and downs, with a fine line between good and bad.

In this home game, Tang Tian and Davis had excellent performances on both offense and defense from the start, which immediately energized the whole team.

During the timeout, Rivers gave the Clippers players another dose of chicken soup.

His chicken soup was mild and nourishing, and it really had a miraculous effect.

After the timeout, the Clippers were more patient on offense. Led by Paul, they stabilized the situation on the court and didn't let the Pelicans widen the gap to double digits.

With two minutes left in the quarter, both sides began to rotate their substitutes.

Crawford came up and made a beautiful change of direction to get past Holiday for a layup, but his shot was directly blocked by Whiteside and flew out of bounds!

Whiteside is not good enough to be a starter yet, but he is clearly good enough to be a substitute.

Blocks, especially highlight reel blocks, are very morale-boosting.

Starting with this block, Gordon and Anderson frequently fired on the offensive end, widening the gap further.

By the time the starters were switched back in in the second quarter, the Pelicans' lead had reached double digits.

When the main players returned, Davis received a pass from Tang Tian and hit a mid-range shot.

Defense drives offense. Davis played tough on the defensive end in this game, building confidence, and his touch naturally improved as well.

At the end of the first half, the Pelicans led the Clippers by a full 15 points with a score of 50 to 35.

This point difference was also the largest point difference between the two teams in the series so far.

After exploding in the last game, Griffin had a very sluggish first half, scoring only 6 points and 3 rebounds, and was blocked twice by Davis in the half.

During the half-time break, Rivers continued his chicken soup speech.

Griffin was in a completely blank state at this time.

Too much chicken soup can also make you feel numb.

Back in the second half, the Clippers attacked first.

Griffin and Paul ran a pick-and-roll, and Griffin received a pass from Paul and flew to the basket.

Davis became more and more confident, and at this time, he tried his best to chase and defend, and made another block.

"Bang!"

Griffin tried to shoot quickly, but the difference in his arm span with Davis was too great, and he still couldn't avoid it.

Davis sent another highlight reel block.

The third time in this game!

Griffin was obviously unhappy after being blocked and turned around to push Davis.

Tang Tian stepped forward quickly at this time.

Seeing Tang Tian go up, Evans flew up to confront Griffin first.

Paul and Barnes from the Clippers also joined in.

A conflict was about to break out on the court.

Fortunately, the referee reacted in time and separated the people on both sides to avoid the escalation of the situation.

There was a chorus of boos from the crowd.

Since Rivers took over, this Clippers team has been in constant conflict with its opponents, and now they are behind and doing this again!

After a technical timeout, the referee gave Griffin a technical foul to temporarily quell the conflict.

But this technical foul didn't do much, and the players on the court made more and more moves.

Paul has been with the Clippers for 3 years, and the whole team has a lot of small moves. The Pelicans are also young and energetic.

The whistle blew frequently in the game, and there were several entanglements on the edge of conflict on the court.

And the referee's judgment was obviously biased.

Davis was called for an offensive foul for supporting his elbow during a layup, while Griffin was called for a foul on the defensive player for pushing someone with his left hand during a layup.

This is a rare away game whistle.

The boos at the scene never stopped.

It was obvious that the whistle was abnormal, but it was also reasonable.

During Stern's time, there would also be a bias in the whistles for the sake of ratings.

For example, the finals would definitely be better for teams like the Celtics and Lakers in 2010 than the Magic and Suns.

But those were mostly home whistles, and away whistles like this were really rare.

But it was obvious that his successor, Xiao Hua, didn't think so much. He paid more attention to business, especially American local business.

The Clippers are a Los Angeles team, and the commercial value they can create by appearing in the second round is definitely greater than that of a small market team like the Pelicans.

As for the overseas market brought by Tang Tian? How much is that worth!

Take the TV broadcast contract that is most closely related to the NBA, for example. His expectation for the new contract next year is 2.5+ billion US dollars a year.

China? 100 million US dollars a year is the best.

So the overseas market that Stern valued most was just icing on the cake in his opinion.

Stern didn't know what was important, but he knew it clearly.

So this whistle was completely reasonable.

Williams protested several times to the side without success. He was afraid that the players would get injured, so he turned around and directly called Metta World Peace to get up.

Metta World Peace came on to replace Morrow.

Paul hit a mid-range shot with Griffin's moving screen, and the Clippers narrowed the score to 10 points.

On the Pelicans' offense, Tang Tian also returned the favor with a contested shot after the screen, but the referee's late whistle called Evans for a moving screen.

There was a lot of physical contact on the court, and Evans was indeed suspected of making a moving screen.

But this whistle came too late, and similar moves by Griffin before were not called!

The emotions of the fans at the scene had reached a climax, and they were about to drown the referee with saliva.

Griffin posted up Davis in the low post, and there was a lot of physical contact between the two.

Griffin was in poor condition and was extremely irritable. He knew that Davis was not as strong as him, so he directly bent down and knocked Davis over.

After the referee blew the whistle to signal that he had committed an offensive foul, he didn't stop and directly dunked over Davis.

Tang Tian was furious when he saw this and was about to go up.

A figure was faster than him.

Metta World Peace raised his fist and rushed towards Griffin.

When Griffin saw Metta World Peace's fierce face, he suddenly recalled the scene when Barnes was pinned to the ground and beaten violently when the two teams played against each other in the regular season.

His first reaction was to turn around and run.

Barnes didn't dare to go up to help Metta World Peace, and Paul was far away.

So, in everyone's incredible eyes, Metta World Peace chased Griffin on the court!

Griffin's arms are short, but his legs are not short. He ran around the court all the way, but Metta World Peace was old and slow, and he couldn't catch up!

The fans in the audience laughed at this.

Griffin has always been known for his explosive dunks and has the nickname "Griffin".

But this time, he didn't even have the idea of confronting Metta World Peace, or even fighting and retreating. He was chased all over the court, which was really shocking!

ps: Special thanks to Menglong Shen 1 for the generous reward!