Chapter 240: Approaching the Gate

"The game is over! 109-107, the away Thunder team finally confirmed the victory of the game!" When the game ended, it was already half past one noon Beijing time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Yu Jia came to the studio early to prepare for the live broadcast, and from the morning to now, there has been no water. But now, he didn't feel relieved, but unsatisfied.

The Thunder still won, and the result was exactly the same as predicted before the game. However, this process is full of variables. Many fans will not be surprised to see the news of the Timberwolves' defeat to the Thunder, but after looking at the score and process, most fans can't believe it.

"Whew, it's finally over!" Van Gundy sighed, now admiring old men like Popovich and Jerry Sloane. At such an age, he can withstand the heart test of the NBA game, and Van Gundy is afraid that one day he will suddenly have a sudden spike in blood pressure and faint to the ground.

In the race just now, his heart was like riding a roller coaster, with ups and downs. But fortunately, the Thunder team finally had a thrilling "smooth landing".

Kevin Lefu was unwilling to stare at the big screen, and the group of people who looked down on them still succeeded. Even though they put up a desperate resistance, the Thunder still took the victory away from the target center. He felt a little numb inside, and losing had almost become the main theme of his life in the past two years.

"Hey, don't be discouraged, you almost did it. Westbrook hasn't forgotten his former team-mate, and before Anjie, it was Love who was looking after him.

Lefu smiled bitterly and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it. He just gave Westbrook a high-five, and hurried towards the players' tunnel.

On the way, no reporters intercepted him. Love had 25 points and 11 rebounds today, but no one will remember his name, and only the victors are entitled to praise.

Looking at Lefu's declining back, An Jie even felt a little sorry for him. He was twice grabbed offensive rebounds by Love on the inside today, while also allowing Love to shoot a lot from the outside. I have to admit that Lefou's performance today is no worse than his own. If Anjie is qualified for honor, then Lefu also has this ability.

It's just that behind the winner, there must be an equally good guy who will accept the punishment of defeat. And Lefu has become the shadow after the glory of the three young thunders.

"Bang!" there was a muffled noise in the home team's dressing room at the target centre, and now only Kevin Love was still in the locker room.

Lefu was propping up one fist on the cabinet in the dressing room at the moment, and the cabinet was dented a few centimeters.

Lefu focused the unwillingness in his heart on this punch. The poor cabinet has unfortunately become Lefou's punching bag.

With 20 points and 14 rebounds, Anjie's statistics can only be said to be on par with Lefou. But as the winner, and the one who scored the crucial goal, Anjie received more attention than Lefu could match.

It may be a little cruel, but this is the NBA, and this is a league where the law of the jungle is the strong, and the winner is king. Only victory is the hard indicator of everything.

Don't look at the Thunder's scenery today, it only takes one game of loss, and most of the people who still praise them now will immediately turn their guns and attack the Thunder.

Just two days later, this was fulfilled.

On February 23, the Thunder once again met with their old enemy, the Sun. However, this time, Nash, the real core of the Suns, missed the game due to injury, which is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the Thunder to achieve another 10-game winning streak.

However, with Durant's shot missed in the final five seconds and Anjie's rebound missed, the Suns, who lacked a core, won the Chesapeake Energy Arena instead.

Stoudemire's unbridled celebration at the Chesapeake Energy Arena was the most exhilarating moment for him, with the victory over Anjie and the Thunder.

He had already "booked" the position of the starting center in the West with a good performance this season, but An Jie, an old acquaintance who was only a sophomore, forced him to the bench. At that time, Stoudemire swore in his heart that he must save face on An Jie's head.

30 points and 9 rebounds, 12-of-20 shooting. In the current league, there are few insiders who can get this kind of data on An Jie's head. However, Stoudemire, who was affected by emotions and exploded, did just that.

The aging Grant Hill also taught the young scoring champion Durant a good lesson, as the former Jordan successor, although Hill lost most of his athleticism due to serious injuries, but the foundation is still there. Not only did he score 21 points, but he also shot 72 percent from the field. Durant's contempt for veterans made him make a big mistake.

If these two are the only ones to make a difference, the Suns without Nash won't necessarily be able to get out of the Chesapeake Energy Arena. It's a pity that Jason Richardson and last year's little-known second-round pick Glenn Dragic also scored 20 and 16 points respectively, completely crushing the Thunder, who had won nine in a row to death.

After 48 minutes of desperate struggle, the game still ended with the defeat of Durant and Anjie. At 104-102, the Thunder lost to their arch-rivals at home, and completely halted their hard-earned nine-game winning streak.

"The starting center of the Western Conference All-Stars should be Stoudemire!" the sports page of the Phoenix Post was printed with such a big headline. As everyone knows, the day before yesterday, the newspaper also praised Anjie's performance very well.

However, Anjie's 16 points and 10 rebounds are indeed not comparable to Stoudemire, and the Thunder team has not scored more than double digits except for three less, which is also the biggest reason for the Thunder's loss.

Even Anjie can't make waves on the Suns' interior line, so Morris and Ibaka don't have a chance.

Losing to the Suns, at least tomorrow there is a game against the Spurs to look forward to. However, back-to-back games against the Spurs after 48 minutes of staggering with the Suns were also a challenge for the Thunder.

This time, the Spurs and Thunder finally stopped following the "tradition". The game was not dragged on to the last second, and the score was no longer scorching. 87 to 95, it's a pity that the Thunder, who played back-to-back away games, was the score in front.

In this game, the "demon knife" Ginobili was finally drawn, and once the demon knife was wielded, the opponent as a spur was generally more than lucky.

The tired Thunder team is completely incomparable to the Spurs, except for Angel, Sephorosa and Morris, the rest of the Thunder team has a shooting rate of less than 50%, and Durant and Westbrook, the two biggest offensive arrows, are the two with the lowest shooting percentage on the team.

From a nine-game winning streak to a two-game losing streak, the Thunder are once again on a rollercoaster ride. From being the darling of the media to being the target of criticism, almost everyone except a few loyal media outlets have changed their reputation for the Thunder.

Wu Hua and the Sports Herald are naturally few loyal fans of the Thunder and An Jie.

"The outburst of the opposing star and the fatigue of back-to-back games, two factors that are very detrimental to winning, were met by the Thunder team in succession. The Thunder are still too young, and their system isn't even particularly mature. Invincible is not something that the young Thunder can do. But these two consecutive defeats are what the Thunder must pay for in the long regular season. No team is going to win without a hitch, and the Thunder have no problem, and they can turn the tide with one more game at most. This is a paragraph in the latest issue of "Sports Herald" An Jie's column, and this is also Wu Hua's view of the current Thunder team.

In his eyes, it's normal for a team to lose in the regular season, and there's nothing to make a fuss about. The only reason for this situation is that the Thunder's light was too dazzling before. Now it's suddenly a little darker, and people will feel unaccustomed to it, and they will think that the end of the world is coming. As everyone knows, this is just a necessary process for the sun to rise again.

As Wu Hua expected, before the "at most one more" game appeared, the Thunder broke the deadlock and once again added one win for themselves.

After losing to old rivals Suns and Spurs in a row, the aggrieved Thunder poured their anger on their next opponent. Unfortunately, within a week, the Timberwolves met the Thunder twice. And this time they met the Thunder, but the Timberwolves failed to stage an impressive rebellion again.

Durant 25 points, Angel 24 points, Westbrook 18 points, Morris 13 points, Kostic 10 points, Seforrosa 10 points, Ibaka 14 points, Collison 10 points. The Thunder had 10 players on the court, and eight of them scored in double figures. They used the gap in overall hard power to tear the Timberwolves' defense to shreds.

Lefu resisted desperately as always, but now he still can't save the team on his own. With 19 points and 9 rebounds, Love scored a team-high score and a team-high rebound at the same time. However, the gap in the overall strength of the team still made him a funeral object for the Thunder Sanshao.

The morale-boosting Thunder went on to take down their last opponent in February, the Toronto Raptors, who finished eighth in the East.

Bosh was wounded, but the leaderless Raptors couldn't get up at all. Andrea Valari's 14 points from Italian spatial interior are already the Raptors' highest score.

Under Vallari's weak defense, Anjie scored a game-high 29 points and added 10 rebounds to not only turn his consecutive double-double record into 15 games, but also helped the Thunder defeat the North intruder 119-99, drawing a successful end to February.

On February 28, the last day of February, the Chinese New Year basically came to an end. The Thunder, on the other hand, used a victory to bring the regular season of the 09-10 season to an end.

In the last month and a half, the Thunder had one foot in the playoffs. As long as the other foot is not disabled, it will not be too much of a problem to step in.

Van Gundy began praying to God, even though he hadn't been to church for a long time. Hopefully those dramatic things will stay away from the Thunder, the last month and a half, and may all go well.

In the regular season, the Thunder team has passed the test. (To be continued.) )