After a game 4 lost on a dunk at the Aaron Gordon buzzer, the Clippers had to bounce back during this fifth round, but it was the opposite! Jamal Murray decided to sink the Angelinos with 3-point shots, but above all, Tyronn Lue's men once again missed their start to the match.
For the third time in this series, the Clippers were dominated in the first quarter, which allowed Russell Westbrook and Jamal Murray to rhythm.
“I would like to know …” sighs Kawhi Leonard When a journalist asks him for the cause of the complicated match beginnings of Los Angeles. “They had easy baskets and 3-point shots open. We just have to stay in the match, understand what they are doing, counter them and make sure to stay in the game. »»
As in Game 4, the Clippers also experienced an air hole at the end of the third quarter when they accumulated up to 22 points behind. However, unlike the fourth round, the Clippers did not have their audience to push them to go back to the score and give themselves a chance to win.
The “Wall” to save the clippers?
Precisely, this Thursday, the Californians will regain the intuit Dome and his ” Wall To try to stay alive in this series. Dominated, but not resigned, Tyronn Lue, however, is looking for solutions to allow his team to find a second breath, and thus to equalize in the series.
“We crushed them at Game 3, they responded to Game 4. Now, it's up to us to do the same. I don't know what changes you could bring. They just put their shots. We are going to get home, the intuit Dome will encourage us and we will get out of it ”, assures Tyronn Lue After the meeting.
The biggest problem of the clippers in this series was called until then Nikola Jokic. However, the Serbian was discreet during his game 5 despite his new triple-double (13 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists), and it was Jamal Murray, who had so far achieved a fairly average series, which has put 43 points to wear the nuggets.
Tyronn Lue and his staff now have two days to find solutions to save their season.
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | Lf | Off | Def | Early | PD | COP | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| James Harden | 79 | 35.3 | 41.0 | 35.2 | 87.4 | 0.7 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 8.7 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 22.8 |
| Norman Powell | 60 | 32.6 | 48.4 | 41.8 | 80.4 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 1.9 | 21.8 |
| Kawhi Leonard | 37 | 31.9 | 49.8 | 41.1 | 81.0 | 0.9 | 5.0 | 5.9 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 21.5 |
| Ivica Zubac | 80 | 32.8 | 62.8 | 0.0 | 66.1 | 3.8 | 8.9 | 12.6 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 16.8 |
| Bogdan Bogdanovic | 30 | 25.0 | 47.4 | 42.7 | 87.5 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.3 | 11.4 |
| DERRICK Jones | 77 | 24.3 | 52.6 | 35.6 | 70.3 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 10.1 |
| Amir Coffey | 72 | 24.3 | 47.1 | 40.9 | 89.1 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 9.7 |
| Kevin Porter, Jr. | 45 | 19.6 | 42.3 | 24.5 | 64.5 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 9.3 |
| Bones Hyland | 20 | 11.1 | 39.1 | 38.8 | 88.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 7.2 |
| Kris Dunn | 74 | 24.1 | 43.9 | 33.5 | 68.2 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 6.4 |
| Mann terance | 37 | 19.8 | 44.6 | 34.7 | 71.9 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 6.0 |
| Mohamed Bamba | 28 | 12.6 | 46.6 | 30.0 | 68.0 | 0.9 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 4.6 |
| Jordan Miller | 37 | 11.4 | 43.3 | 21.1 | 80.0 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 4.1 |
| Nicolas Batum | 78 | 17.5 | 43.7 | 43.3 | 81.0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 4.0 |
| Marjon Beauchamp | 3 | 5.7 | 57.1 | 66.7 | 50.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 4.0 |
| Patty Mills | 12 | 5.0 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 88.9 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.1 |
| Patrick Baldwin, Jr. | 2 | 3.1 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 |
| Ben Simmons | 18 | 16.4 | 43.4 | 0.0 | 85.7 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 2.9 |
| Drew Eubanks | 24 | 7.4 | 55.1 | 0.0 | 78.6 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 2.7 |
| Kai Jones | 28 | 7.4 | 72.2 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
| Kobe Brown | 40 | 6.8 | 45.8 | 23.1 | 71.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
| Trentyn Flowers | 6 | 4.4 | 36.4 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1.8 |
| Cameron Christie | 13 | 4.5 | 29.2 | 15.4 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.4 |
