Chapter 210: Unfinished
Why is the role of a star so crucial in the NBA, because there are moments when a star can outperform an entire team. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the excellent performance of a star can determine the outcome of the game.
The Nets continued to perform well in the third quarter, and under the leadership of Yi Jianlian, each of them could score and everyone had a chance.
On the other hand, the Thunder's offense actually had a big problem in the second quarter. There is no fourth person who can score except for the Thunder Sanshao, and everyone else except for the Thunder Sanshao has zero scores, and the problem is obvious.
Van Gundy may be able to adjust the Thunder's defense very efficiently, but in the face of this offense that I don't know whether it is good or bad, Van Gundy can't bring much change to the team.
And even if the rest of the Thunder team doesn't score, aren't they still ahead? If they're ahead, what's there to adjust?
The performance of the Thunder Sanshao is really fantastic, especially Durant and Anjie, the two tall and thin men who are efficient almost account for most of the Thunder's scores.
So far in the third quarter, the Thunder's offense has not changed.
Seflorosa missed the basket with two three-point shots, Morris missed two consecutive layups by Lopez and Yi Jianlian, and Kyle Weaver also got two shots, but they also didn't score.
Even Westbrook has already made zero shots in the third quarter, so if you don't give the ball to Durant and Anjie at this time, who else can you play it for?
Durant added his breakthrough in this quarter, and Van Gundy wanted Durant to create a kill in order to compress Yi Jianlian's playing time.
However, Brook Lopez actively helped Yi Jianlian carry these fouls, despite this, Durant still got a lot of free throw opportunities, he stood on the free throw line four times, made eight free throws, and hit all of them!
Fortunately, Yi Jianlian was not affected, but Lopez had to go off the court for too many fouls.
Van de Veric looked at the bench and only Toni Barty, a veteran, could play in the number five position.
Tony Barty played against Anjie last year when he was still on the Magic team, and the results were naturally miserable. This season, in the face of Anjie, who has improved even more, Barty still has no chance of winning.
Originally, Lopez couldn't prevent Anjie, and now he still lets Barty come, which is simply giving up the three-second zone.
In desperation, Van Dewig also used Yi Jianlian to defend An Jie for a period of time, Yi Jianlian did effectively reduce An Jie's direct score, but he was still made two fouls by An Jie.
The entire third quarter of the Thunder's offense belonged to Durant and Anjie, who combined for 21 points, plus Westbrook's two free throws, to make up the Thunder's entire third quarter score.
Yi Jianlian still scored a team-high 8 points in this quarter, and his scoring ranked only behind Durant and Anjie. However, one punch is hard to beat four hands, and Yi Jianlian has scored 26 points in the third quarter, which is definitely an amazing statistic. However, he was out of breath and desperate to find that the score gap had been widened by the Thunder.
"The Thunder team is a knife to cut meat, only winning one or two points in each quarter, and the result is almost ten points now. "Yes, the game looked very anxious, but the Nets never had the advantage, and the Thunder never felt the pressure.
If it weren't for Durant to "stir things up", this game would have turned into a solo show by two Chinese players in the NBA. However, because of a Durant gap, the Nets were pressed and unable to turn over.
That's where stars come in, and that's why the Nets are at the bottom of the league. Yi Jianlian can't play like this every game, and Durant can continue to play like this.
Although only trailing by eight points, the Nets' morale has been polished by Anjie and Durant. Yi Jianlian and his teammates found that no matter how hard they tried, the point difference would not narrow.
Anjie and Durant's "anti-sky" performance in the third quarter has already given the Nets a death sentence.
At the beginning of the final quarter of the game, the Thunder Sanshao sat on the bench again and talked and laughed.
During the time that Anjie was off, Lopez finally waited for the opportunity to perform. But he only started to show at this time, is it a little too late?
The Nets, who almost lost their fighting spirit, collapsed, and Yi Jianlian, who had performed well before, was also affected, and his shooting percentage dropped sharply in this quarter, and he failed to grasp several opportunities to shoot in the open position.
The score was not gradually pulled apart until the fourth quarter, when the difference between the two teams had never exceeded double digits. But in reality, by the end of the third quarter, the Nets had already lost half of the game.
In the fourth quarter, the Thunder finally got more scorers. After all, the three young people are off the field, and the others have the opportunity to play freely.
The two rookies, Serge Ibaka and Morris, are the most excited, as they have been holding back off the court for a long time. It's just that Yi Jianlian is fine, and when An Jie rests peacefully, he still has to continue to face the impact of Ibaka and Morris.
"The UAE doesn't have that momentum anymore, obviously it was only eight points at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and now it's 12 points behind in the blink of an eye, it's a pity, it's a pity. Yu Jia also knows that the Nets have almost no ability to fight back now, and the originally exciting and fierce derby battle has become anticlimactic with the efforts of Anjie and Durant.
In the second half of the fourth quarter, Van Gundy still took the Thunder three less, even though the game is now almost out of suspense.
And after the Thunder three young people came on the court, they no longer played as seriously and cautiously as in the first three quarters. The three youngsters played on the Nets' home court, and even though they made frequent mistakes, the three were all smiles on their faces.
No one on the Nets has been able to step up, and even though Yi Jianlian has now scored 29 points, he still hasn't been able to lead his teammates.
When Van der Vercic replaced Yi Jianlian, the game was officially over. Yi Jianlian looked at An Jie running on the field with a little envy, and the No. 16 showed the attitude of a winner.
Of course, the UAE is aware of the team's poor results recently, but he has played well in three consecutive games, but still cannot help the team win even one game, this kind of frustration Anjie has never experienced.
Although he has more qualifications than Anjie, he has also played one more year than Anjie in the NBA. But even on the home court of the Nets, more reporters chose to be with Anjie and Durant after the game. Yi Jianlian, who also performed well, was rarely asked by reporters.
105 to 89, a humiliating point difference, made Yi Jianlian's excellent performance come to naught. The Thunder won their second game since returning Christmas, and they won it pretty easily.
Durant scored 40 points and 5 rebounds in this game, and shot 68% from the field, and after Durant surpassed Anthony, James' top scoring list was in jeopardy.
And the second most popular person on the Thunder team is An Jie.
"It's the first time I've competed with Yi Jianlian, is the special relationship between the two of you the reason why you performed well today?" Thanks to the wonderful performances of An Jie and Yi Jianlian, it is not only Chinese journalists who are now concerned about the Chinese derby, many American reporters are also crowding into the crowd to ask about the derby.
"Yi Jianlian's performance was very good, and we suffered a lot from him today. But I never regarded him as a special person, in my eyes he was just an ordinary enemy. Therefore, my performance today has nothing to do with Yi Jianlian's strength. An Jie laughed wildly at the camera, and won another victory after returning from injury, which of course made him very happy.
In addition to the Thunder's Durant and Anjie, the Nets players who were defeated at home walked into the player tunnel one by one.
They were suppressed by the hard-powered Thunder throughout the game, and although Yi Jianlian put in a good performance, the rest of the Nets were a little more than enough. Yi Jianlian really tried his best, but he blamed his teammates for not doing his best.
Everyone on the Nets team was snubbed by reporters and fans, except for Yi Jianlian, who was intercepted by reporters alone and was out of place with the happy Thunder players on the court.
"UAE, we all know that you played a great game, cutting down a quasi-double-double of 29 points and 7 rebounds, what do you think the Nets didn't do well and conceded the ball. It was the on-site reporter sent by CCTV who asked the question.
There are too many things that the Nets didn't do well in this game, and Yi Jianlian couldn't finish chatting with him all night. But the reporter was waiting there, and it was impossible for the UAE to turn around and leave without answering.
"I don't think we've done a very good job defending Durant, and I haven't been able to be wary of him, including me. Also, I wasn't very happy with my shooting percentage, I felt like I could have scored more points, but I was a little impatient with the shooting options that followed, which led to a lower shooting percentage. The first half of the sentence is quite pertinent, and the later paragraph about the bad hit rate is a sign that Yi Jianlian is too modest.
With 11 of 20 shots, this shooting percentage is definitely more than just passing. You must know that Yi Jianlian only got this data under the obstruction of Anjie and Morris.
This game, without exaggeration, can be selected as one of the best games of Yi Jianlian's NBA career. It's a pity that once Yi Jianlian plays well, the Nets will lose, which seems to be an unbreakable spell around Yi Jianlian's head.
"Hey, good fight. After being interviewed by reporters, Yi Jianlian and An Jie gathered in the stadium.
Yi Jianlian was very helpless, and An Jie's 31 points and 13 rebounds made his efforts go to waste.
"You also played a good game, but unfortunately you were a little bit unlucky. Anjie's tone was becoming more and more similar to Van Gundy's.
"Okay, in the future, make sure you don't get hurt on the pitch, and you have to keep putting on good performances. From this moment on, Yi Jianlian and An Jie changed from enemies to friends.
"You too, I'd like to play a few more international matches with you. An Jie also put away that fierceness and turned back into the boy who was good at interacting with people.
The fierce Chinese derby finally came to an end, and although the process was very exciting, the ending was obviously very sorry for the wonderful process.
An Jie and Yi Jianlian, two Chinese, almost dominate the stadium. This game also made the NBA completely reduced to a stage for Chinese.
It's a pity that only one of the two who played very well was able to become the winner. Perhaps, this is the brutal professional game. There are many good people, but there is only one winner.
With a big win in New Jersey, the high-morale Thunder continued to move forward. The wrath of blue and white lightning has only come to the fore. (To be continued.) )