AT No Point, Clippers Guard Norman Powell MainTained, Did He Wave in HILIEF in HimSelf. At No Point Was He Going to Shy Away from Taking Shots with the Game Hanging in the Balance, Despite Missing Many of his SHOTS.
Powell Said He Has Worked Too Hard All Season to Lose His Confident now, Even if the status has goutten Bigger Because the Clippers are in the Playoffs Against the Denver Nuggets.
He Missed His First Five Shots in Game 2 on Monday Night, But Powell Kept Shooting.
Then He Made Three of His Last Four Shots in the Fourth Quarter, Durling Key Moments, Big-Time Shots That Helped the Clippers Pull Out The Tenese Game to Tie the Best-FF-Seven Series 1-1.
Powell Shot Five for 14 From the Field and Finished with 13 Points. But it was his seven people on Three-For-For Shooting in the Final 12 Minutes that showed How He
“Obviously for me, shots or buckkets aren’t coming as they have been been all year,” Power Said after Practice Wednesday. “But it’s just about staying confing, riding the waves of the ups and download of it. Have Been Shots I’ve Made All Year. [and] The Coaching Staff Does.
Through Shots … when we needed them, and that’s what matters is just control to Believe in myself and finds Ways to be eFFECTIVE.
Powell’s Floater with 6:30 Left Gave The Clippers a 91-90 Lead. His Floater with 5:16 Left Gave them a 96-92 lead.
It was his three-pointer with 1:35 left, off a pass from Kawhi Leonard, for a 103-100 lead that proved to be Biggest of All in the Clippers’ 105-102 Win. Getting the Ball in that Big Spot Showed Powell How Much Faith His Teammates have in his.
“IT Just shows that they trust the work and they trusted my abilaies as a player, as a teammate. Powell Said, Referring to Leonard and James Harden. “You need the Confense in the Supporting Cast and the Role Players to Go out there and Execute and Win.
“It’s a team game. Those guys are Going to do what they have to do it us in posting, but it’s everyBody steps up and make the threeight the card of the series, thriveout The Course of a 48-Minute Game that’s Going to Dig Out Wins. It’s a good game, Bad Game, I’m here the Next Day Putting in the Work, Getting Better, Watching Film and Seeing How I Can.
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Coach Tyronn LUE DoesnT Care that Power is Shooting Only 38.5% from the Field in the Series, Averanging Just 12.5 Points after averanging A Career-Best 21.8 During the Regular Season and Shooting 48.4% from the Field, Including 41.8% from Three-Point Range.
LUE Had a Conversation with Power to Offer Encouragement.
“He’s Got to Trust in his work,” Lue Said. “He Works Too Hard. Sometimes I Think Too Much. Glad he was on Make Those Three Shots in the Fourt Quarter and Hopefully that Gets His Going Through the Course of this Series. ”
Clippers Applying Full-Court Pressure
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“It helps a lot,” lue said. “I think it allows them to get into them triggers later in the share, which takes ahead together. Download when they are playing so many minutes, so many heavy minutes. Him Download.
“Then DJ Picked Up Jamal and THEN Nico [Batum] WAS Up Picking up the Floor Against them. I think as the series Goes Along and the More Minutes They are playing, the more we can be physical, picking up full Court and trying to wear their download, it will be good for us.
