Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters-Chapter 1049 - 597 Tonight the Clippers are a

Chapter 1049: Chapter 597: Tonight, the Clippers are a Complete Team_3 Chapter 1049: Chapter 597: Tonight, the Clippers are a Complete Team_3 Because these opportunities cannot be accomplished by Thompson alone.

“This is the most wonderful thing I’ve ever seen on a basketball court!” Jeff Van Gundy praised, “The Clippers have Frye, Yao Ming, and Giannis as future warriors, how about that? These extraordinarily talented guys are willing to do everything for Klay Thompson, just because Clay doesn’t want to mess up tonight’s game!”

The timeout ended, and Warriors Team’s adjustment was only one: no longer compete for offensive rebounds.

Once they took a shot, everyone quickly fell back in defense, focusing on marking Thompson to prevent him from getting another trailing three-pointer.

Frankly speaking, this adjustment worked, but not much.

Because although the trailing three-pointer was heartbreaking, the Clippers’ most terrifying tonight is still that dazzling passing and cutting cooperation.

Leonard struggled to back into single play defense by Yu Fei, turning around for a jump shot and scoring.

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Then, Thompson suddenly took the ball and broke through, pulling up for a mid-range shot.

This is a performance starting to do whatever he wants after an overwhelming confidence.

The ball, unsurprisingly, made it.

The timeout did not disrupt Thompson’s feeling for the game, but rather the opposite.

Warriors Team’s timeout made Thompson realize that his limits far exceeded what he usually saw. Look at Warriors Team’s fear of him now—they called a timeout specifically to stop him, but still couldn’t guard against him!

This was the moment Thompson awakened.

That feeling, just like Hisashi Mitsui with his personal BGM playing, filled with a divine sense of never missing.

25 points, 28 points, 30 points, 32 points, 35 points…

In the last round of the first half, Thompson enjoyed the Greatest of All Time treatment—he got the ball outside, and Warriors Team clamped down on him without reservation.

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Helpless, he had to force a shot.

This shot seemed impossible to land, but at the moment of Thompson’s shot, Yu Fei unconsciously spread his hands. He had shot countless times in his life and knew clearly what the arc aiming at the basket was like. He was sure it would go in, but still couldn’t help but wonder: how did he do it?

“Swish!”

“Why do I suddenly feel…” Yao Ming suddenly cracked a cold joke, “it’s easier to win the championship here than in Miami?”

At the end of the first half, Thompson scored 37 points in the second quarter alone, adding to the eight points from the first quarter, he had a whopping 41 points at halftime.

In modern NBA history, only two people had scored over 40 points in a half: one was Yu Fei, the other was Kobe.

Tonight, Thompson joined their ranks.

After sinking that seemingly impossible three-pointer, Thompson yelled at his former teammates on the Warriors Team: “That’s for you bunch of jerks!”

Antetokounmpo immediately rushed up to celebrate with him.

Warriors Team currently ranked third in the Western, ideally, tonight should have been a fierce battle. But Thompson’s explosion completely changed the direction of the game.

The Clippers had already achieved a 28-point lead in the first half.

During halftime, Thompson broke the internet with various highlight reels going viral.

Clippers head coach Rivers was tearfully excited in a mid-game interview: “Guys! I know you all saw Clay’s performance, but in my eyes, that’s an entire team! This is the essence of team basketball! Clay believes in his teammates, and his teammates fully support him. He scored most of the team’s points, so what? This is what basketball should look like! This is real basketball!”

Thompson added another 19 points in the third quarter, ending the game with 60 points over three quarters as the game entered garbage time.

Though this game was full of individualistic heroism, unlike Kobe’s 81 points against the Raptors or Yu Fei scoring 71 points over James, after the game, people remembered not just Thompson’s great performance but also the support of his team in the background.

“Clay tricked me.” Yu Fei commented on tonight’s Thompson, “He said before the game that he would shoot 40 times, but he didn’t.”

This was an explosive game that sent Thompson’s popularity soaring overnight.

Just a day before the All-Star voting window closed, Thompson used this game to increase his votes by 140,000, directly leaving Lillard behind by a 100,000 vote gap.

The 2014-15 All-Star lineup was announced, four from the Clippers were selected, undoubtedly the biggest winners of this season.

With outstanding records, Rivers became the coach of the Western All-Star team.

Reflecting back at the beginning of the season, countless people thought the Clippers were done, various disparaging voices filled the media, but now the situation reversed, enough for Clippers supporters to bring up old accounts.

Yu Fei teased on the tweet celebrating the team’s four All-Star selections: “What do those people who said we were finished say now?”

The “Curse Game” had just settled down when another online reckoning began.

Before the rise of social media, people often said the internet had no memory. However, with the prosperity of social media, tracing past mistakes and publicly adjudicating them online became a commonplace social media game.

For the Clippers, this was just a start, it wasn’t time to proudly show off yet.

They knew those who belittled them were still lurking, ready to strike back at any moment. Public opinion is a turn-based game; when the wind changes direction, public opinion will shift.

Thus, they had no way out, only to continue to win until victory completely suppressed those critics.