Why is the Thunder still in everyone's impression of a potential stock, not a real powerhouse? www.biquge.info Even though they've beaten the likes of the Lakers and Spurs, and even though they're now seventh in the West, no one treats the Thunder like a real powerhouse.

In addition to the lack of bench depth, the extremely inconsistent performances of Durant and Westbrook are the biggest reason for this view.

Durant is already third on the scoring list this season and has frequently scored more than 40 points in a game. But this kind of performance is difficult to continue, although he shines more often than not, but sometimes Durant can only barely score 20 points on free throws, which is extremely inefficient.

Westbrook, the Thunder's other young perimeter player, is even less consistent, he is often unstoppable, and his scoring can even overshadow Durant for a while. His impact is terrifying, and his outside shooting has improved a lot compared to when he was in college.

But sometimes the shooting percentage of this immature guard is outrageously low, and unlike Durant, Westbrook will still shoot tirelessly even if he has a very low shooting percentage. Maybe Anjie and Durant have been wiping his ass all along, so he didn't realize the importance of this matter.

However, today, when the Thunder played with momentum in the first quarter, Durant and Westbrook, two young people, made the same mistake of not playing consistently enough!

At the beginning of the second quarter, Westbrook first used a very ornamental acceleration breakthrough to penetrate the interior beautifully, but under Hayes's hard interference, Westbrook's forced layup failed to hit.

Just when Thunder fans were expecting team leader Durant to step up and lead by example at this moment, he wasted an open three-point opportunity.

Both of them just missed their first shot, and even Van Gundy didn't think it would make a difference.

But in the next few offenses, Westbrook and Durant still continued to hit iron. If it weren't for Angel and Seforosa hitting a few shots, the score might have been pulled away by the Rockets. You must know that Ariza is still in hot form in the second quarter, after scoring 10 points in the first quarter, he has now scored another 7 points! And the second quarter of the game is far from over!

"What's going on!? can't you be patient?" Van Gundy put a lot of tactics in place against Westbrook and Durant during the timeout, hoping that they would get an absolute chance to make another move. He suddenly remembered that the reason why he didn't like to use rookies was because of this?

Although Durant and Westbrook are much better than other newcomers, they are still newcomers, and they are not mature and stable enough.

Even An Jie, who has always been calm, didn't there fluctuations in the last game?

But even so, Van Gundy only has one choice, Anjie.

"I want you to do your best to create a gap for Kevin and Russell, but if they can't get a chance or get a chance but miss a shot, then give the ball to Ann Singles!" Van Gundy conveyed Angel's singles to his players as a backup plan at the last moment.

It's a fact that three-pointers, kills, and consecutive hits from outside players can help the team establish an advantage quickly. Compared to the two-point, time-consuming offense of the interior players, the outside players do score faster, which is also the result of the increasing pace of the league.

If it had been ten years ago, Van Gundy would have made Anjie the heart of the attack, grinding with the opponent ball by goal throughout the game until victory.

But now, even as a conservative, he's more reliant on outside players, which is why Van Gundy also wants Westbrook and Durant to give it a try, and interior singles are just a backup.

However, the timeout didn't seem to have much effect, and as Ariza went from strength to finish on the offensive end, Durant was more eager to respond.

This rush made his hit rate plummet. Ariza's defense wasn't tight, but Durant himself wasted too many opportunities.

Although Westbrook is uncomfortable defending Brooks, he is also difficult to achieve on the offensive end.

The game went through three minutes between the Thunder's two outside irons and Ariza's one-man goal, and Ariza was able to score, but the most terrifying thing was that he scored three points.

So far, Ariza has shot 2 of 3 three-pointers, and the Thunder are 10 points behind the Rockets!

From a strong lead in the first quarter to a sudden fall behind in the second quarter, the Thunder players and fans were on a rollercoaster ride, going from top to underrated in just a split second.

"What did I say about Kenny? Why can't the Thunder play the momentum of the first quarter in the second quarter? This is the Thunder, they have always been overrated!" Barkley originally thought that the Thunder would take advantage of the victory in the second quarter, but he did not expect that their two sharpest blades were both frustrated. The only thing to worry about now is Anjie, who didn't perform well in the last game.

Although Anjie played very aggressively in the first quarter, he still had to give way to Durant and Westbrook in the second quarter. And today, he has been following the tactics, and he did not ask for the ball to play alone as before.

It can be said that except for the dunk at the beginning, An Jie is almost no different from invisible on the offensive end.

And now, Van Gundy has to put his tactics on Anjie. Perhaps, he should have done so a long time ago.

10 points, pause, redeploy. On the Rockets' side, Adelman could already vaguely foresee the changes the Thunder would make later, but looking at the players around him, he didn't have much to do if the Thunder really did that.

At the end of the timeout, Kostic was replaced by Ibaka, which meant that the interior would be stretched out and Adelman was a little uneasy.

The Thunder attack, the person who handles the ball is still Westbrook, and Anjie is still standing in the high post, is Adelman miscalculated?

As soon as his foot stepped on the three-point line, Westbrook passed the ball without hesitation, and Anjie, who was standing in the mid-range position on the rebounding slope, got the ball.

At the same time, the other four members of the Thunder team began to run, and it all looked the same as before.

Durant opened his hand to ask for the ball, and Ariza tensed. Anjie lifted the ball above his head and seemed to pass a high ball.

Suddenly, An Jie's shoulders sank, hunched his right leg, and rushed forward! Hayes, who thought An Jie was going to pass the ball, relaxed his vigilance a little, and An Jie suddenly burst out and caught him off guard!

Sure enough, it's an inside single!

Hayes's speed was naturally much faster than that of the tall An Jie, and he hurriedly turned around and chased back to An Jie, hoping to interrupt An Jie's breakthrough.

An Jie stepped two steps into the free throw line, but suddenly stopped himself. He directly raised the ball with one hand and threw it gently, and Hayes, who was 1.98 meters, could only watch the basketball fly past his fingertips, followed by the sound of the net rolling.

Close throw between the march, hollow into the net. When the big man uses the toss, the action looks very twisted, which is very unprofessional. But you don't care if the action is good or not, the ball is the last word!

Adelman held his forehead, knowing that the Rockets' 10-point advantage would soon run out.

"Anjie's throwing! This shot was so sudden, Hayes probably wondered which hand Anjie would use to make a layup later, but Anjie easily scored two points with a cold shot. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time I've seen AnJie use a toss in an official match. It seems that after a summer of hard work, the Asian Championship MVP still has a lot of moves that have not been revealed. The CCTV commentators were very surprised, they didn't expect An Jie to score with a technical move that had never been used before.

"Finally, Coach Van Gundy is finally willing to let Ann single on the inside! He should have done it a long time ago! If I want to say that Coach Van Gundy's rigidity still needs to be fixed, and if he had made the change earlier, the Rockets would not have been able to lead them by 10 points!" and ESPN's Mike Brin was more concerned about Van Gundy's decision-making.

No one is perfect, and Van Gundy did lead the Thunder to a good score, but he also had a lot of shortcomings. Now it depends on Anjie's performance to make up for Van Gundy's shortcomings.

After Anjie's goal, Ariza also responded immediately on the offensive end. Durant was really out of shape today, and it was difficult to be satisfied on both offensive and defensive ends.

When the Thunder team attacked again, An Jie didn't put "smoke bombs" in the high position. He fell directly to the low post, leaned on Hayes and opened his big hand, telling you that I am going to play inside singles!

An Jie, who is 2.19 meters tall and has an arm span of 2.34 meters, has such a hand, and Hayes behind him is completely covered, and there is no chance of stealing at all.

And Ibaka, who had just come on the field, fished Scola out of the penalty area, and there were only Anjie and Hayes on the inside, which was a duel with a huge disparity in strength!

Anjie wanted to be deep because he didn't want to waste more energy and time. Now the team needs to score the most, then he will use the best efficiency to score for the team!

Westbrook hoisted a pass that the 1.83m Brooks couldn't stop at all.

After An Jie received the ball, he leaned hard and easily stepped into the penalty area.

There was no feint, and in the face of Hayes, who was much shorter than him, Anjie turned directly to hook his hand, and the basketball hit the rebound and refracted into the net.

An Jie scored two more points, without dragging his feet. Hayes reluctantly stretched out his hands to Adelman, he had done his best.

"Luiz, you and Chuck switch positions!" Adelman immediately made a makeshift on the sidelines, hoping that Scola would be able to fend off Angel's attack.

He also plays very smartly, and he also likes to play with his opponents with superb footwork, and in some ways Scola and Anjie's playing styles are really similar.

However, as a pure traditional centre-forward, Anjie is better than Scola.

An Jie first used a turn to frame himself, which also made Scola think that An Jie was going to shoot directly.

When An Jie lifted the basketball above his head, he suddenly turned around again, and at the same time sat down hard in the penalty area, forcibly squeezed Scola away, and jumped on the spot under the basket with his hands on the frame.

Both hard and soft were used, and the Argentine's defense finally failed.

Anjie's side is still scoring with high efficiency, while Ariza's shooting percentage has begun to decline gradually due to physical exertion.

Slowly, the Thunder narrowed the score. With 2 minutes left in the second quarter, the Thunder trailed the Rockets by just 3 points!

At this time, in order to conserve his strength, Van Gundy took down all the three young thunderers. He believed that the defense of Serge Ibaka and Morris in the final two minutes could ensure that the Thunder bit the score.

However, in the face of the Rockets' weak interior defense, Morris and Ibaka also exceeded the task.

Not only did they do a good job defensively, but they also caused a lot of problems for the Rockets on the offensive end. The chemistry between Morris and Ibaka is getting better and better, and the combination of the two of them often collapses the Rockets' interior defense.

When the half was over, the Thunder not only bit the score, but also overtook by 2 points!

Ibaka scored six points on 3-of-3 shooting in just two minutes, while Morris also hit two strong baskets to continue Anjie's good momentum inside.

50-48, the Rockets once played an offensive climax under the leadership of Ariza. However, An Jie single-handedly suppressed the momentum of the Rockets.

Anjie has completely opened up, sweeping away the poor form of the previous game.

With 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting, Anjie scored a lot of points in one half, and most of those points came from the second quarter of the singles. In this case, if Westbrook and Durant are resurrected, then Adelman will really have no tricks.

The Thunder, who have lost four in a row, seem to have to make a big fuss at the Toyota Center before they are willing to give up! )