Chapter 486: Gaining Inches (1/3)
If you want to say whether the Thunder have been affected by the Warriors' two consecutive fast breaks, it is obviously for sure. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Warriors played flashy offense in a row, which obviously frustrated the Thunder a little. This gorgeous offensive coordination, coupled with the final finishing dunk, is very uplifting, and this is still in the Oracle Arena, which is the league's famous devil's home field.
Under the double blow, it is very normal for the morale of the thunder to drop instantly.
Brooks didn't call a timeout, he didn't want to show weakness at a time like this. This is a habit he has developed in the past two years. Teams that are suspended in a game will always look a little embarrassed, and teams like the Thunder, who play on momentum, often take longer to get out of the slump of being stopped.
Brooks prefers to call a timeout after the team has stabilized a little bit, and obviously the players adjust their mentality, and he immediately corrects the tactics of the players on the court, which can find the direction of the momentum more quickly and gives him more time to refine his thinking.
But the Warriors are also a team that doesn't forgive them, and their ability to capitalize on their weaknesses is probably the strongest in the league. Brooks' choice not to call a timeout immediately was absolutely wrong.
Westbrook gave the ball to Durant, who was most sure, and Durant singled Kirilenko on the wing. Against Durant, the Warriors have never been in a brainless situation, mainly because they are confident in the strength of their one-on-one defense on the wing.
Another advantage of the Warriors over the Thunder is that their front line is their strongest defensive point, once Utah's wings were the key to supporting the entire Warriors' defensive system, Durant could not use his individual ability to cut through the Warriors' defense, although Kirilenko is older and slower, he is also more experienced.
However, Durant still shook half of his body space in this ball, but his shot was a bit hasty.
No player has Chen Mo's stable psychology at the last shot, and sometimes it seems that there is only a little room for shots, but Chen Mo can very accurately judge whether the opponent can block his shot, but other players do not have Chen Mo's strong analytical ability.
Durant is still afraid of eating hats, and he is a little impatient with his shots. His luck was a little worse today, the ball bounced off the front of the basket, and the arc of the ball was a little worse.
Kirilenko turned around and took the rebound, but he couldn't fully control the ball under Durant's threat and instead hit the ball beyond the three-point line.
Chen Mo's quicker reaction than Westbrook, which was his judgment of the landing point in advance, as well as his knowledge of Kirilenko, allowed him to get stuck in the position first.
Chen Mo copied the ball with his right hand, and turned to shake off Westbrook after taking advantage of the situation. Westbrook was still in the rhythm of competing for the ball, and he once again learned Chen Mo's powerful ability to grab the rhythm.
As long as Chen Mo is given a slight advantage in rhythm, he will expand the advantage to the limit in a very short time.
Chen Mo didn't drag the slightest from receiving the ball to turning around, he turned around extremely quickly, and ran to the basket opposite. So much so that when Westbrook turned around to chase Chen Mo, he was already a half-body behind.
Chen Mo strode forward and sprinted forward quickly, and the overall time for the Warriors to rush up was a little faster than that of the Thunder. The Thunder's players were still a little hesitant, after all, in their opinion just now, Wei Shao and Chen Mo were competing for the opportunity to open five or five, but the Warriors' players immediately turned to the rhythm of offense after seeing that situation, and they believed that Chen Mo would definitely control the ball. Even Kirilenko, who has always been entangled with Durant, is already half a step ahead of Durant at this time.
Like a tidal wave, the shouts of the Oracle Arena are like the sound of a huge splash of water when a monstrous wave is raised.
Chen Mo suddenly stopped in front of the three-point line, Westbrook was in a hurry, at this time there was almost no gap between him and Chen Mo, he also stopped in a hurry, and he jumped immediately after Chen Mo made a shooting action.
Westbrook jumped very high, but Chen Mo didn't mean to shoot at all. When Wei Shao consumed all his strength in the air and couldn't exert his strength again, Chen Mo jumped and shot again.
Not only did the ball go to the basket, Westbrook also paid for a foul. Chen Mo's right elbow deliberately went to find Westbrook, but Wei Shao's hand couldn't dodge. He only lightly touched Chen Mo's elbow, but the referee would not hesitate to blow the whistle at any elbow action when the opponent was shooting.
“3+1!” Kevin Harlan growled. Just now he complained that the Warriors didn't play aggressively tonight, but the Warriors immediately launched a series of quick attacks, and even Kevin Harlan's roar was a little faster than usual. It's not that he's in a better mood than usual, it's that he doesn't have enough time to breathe that he has to increase his speed again.
"Crazy, the Golden State Warriors are crazy when they say crazy, not only did they play crazy offense and send explosive dunks in the previous row, this time Jack Chan directly completed a three-point jumper with a stop, and also caused Russell's foul, which is amazing."
The three-point stop in the fast break is very rare, except for the Warriors' games, Chen Mo, Curry, Thompson and the like will often see more stop-and-go three-point points in the fast break counterattack, no one else will do this kind of thing!
Coach Brooks didn't dare to let the players adjust their mentality anymore, and the players also turned their eyes to the coach's bench at this time, which made the meaning obvious, "Isn't it called a timeout?" They were asking Brooks with their eyes.
Brooks was holding the tactical board in his left hand, and his right hand was constantly rubbing on the tactical board, and his mood was also a little impatient. He was a little hesitant to change to a small lineup to fight hard with the Warriors, and used logging tactics to give Chen Mo some restrictions. But at this point he had to call a timeout, otherwise his team would likely be completely crushed by the Warriors in terms of momentum.
"There's no other way but to go toe-to-toe with them." Westbrook didn't even have time to take a sip of water after sitting down, and said eagerly.
"I think we need to be a little bit more steady." Durant said.
Westbrook had an argument with Durant, which was a bit of a disagreement on the direction of the work, but the media didn't care, they took the footage and there was the news they needed after the game.
"We've got to hit their baskets and we can't lose morale no matter what the result is." Westbrook said, "I'll leave this to you, you just have to find yourself in a good position to get ready to catch and shoot." ”
"What do you mean......" Brooks looked at Wei Shao, frowned and said, "You're going to use a suicidal breakthrough to impact?" ”