On January 26, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Clippers defeated the Wizards 116-115 on the road, continuing to maintain the hope of impacting the playoff places. Throughout the game, the Clippers scored in double figures with two core George and Leonard continuing to be absent, including Kofi with 29 points and 5 rebounds, Mann and Haltenstein each scoring 16 points, and Kenard on the bench hitting 5 three-pointers, the biggest contributor to the team's win.
In this campaign, the Clippers trailed by 35 points at the most of the first half, but after the game entered the second half, the situation on the court took a sharp turn, the Clippers scored 40 points in the final two quarters, until the final 10 seconds of the game, the Wizards were still leading by 6 points, and then there was a magical scene on the court, Kennard first hit a long-range three-point shot to narrow the score to 3 points, then Kuzma served a 5-second violation, Kennard hit a desperate 3+ in the last 1.9 seconds 1, finally with a free throw to help the team reverse to win the game.
After the game, according to statistics, this is the second largest reversal point difference in the history of the NBA since the 1996-97 season, with official text records. More critically, this is the third time in the past two weeks that the Clippers have completed a game with at least 24 points, so the Clippers have become the first team in the NBA to achieve this achievement in a single season in the past 25 years.
In the new season, Leonard did not play a game, George only played 26 games and currently has no comeback schedule, in such an environment, the Clippers still got a 24-25 record, only 0.5 wins behind the Lakers, head coach Tyrren Lu is really indispensable. (The Lakers have James and Westbrook, while the Clippers only have Reggie Jackson + Zubac and Batum and others)
That year, Tyren lu led the Cavaliers to complete a 1-3 backward reversal in the Finals, many fans felt that he was a "puppet coach" and ignored his real strength, but since serving as the head coach of the Clippers, Tyrone Lu has truly proved his strength, and really deserves the title of "tactical ghost". (Led the team to complete the reversal in the first two rounds of the playoffs last year with a 0-2 deficit)
It's interesting to think about it now: Rivers is the former Clippers head coach, the "human reversed essence", and Tyrren Lu is the current Clippers head coach, is the "human reversal essence", which is a stark contrast, and the two coaching levels are high. It is worth mentioning that after this game, Tyronelu was rarely explosive in an interview, shouting at Clippers reporter Law Murray: "Now go back to writing your report!" (At the end of half, the reporter reported on the Clippers' trailing score.)