Sun Ce grabbed the rebound and immediately counterattacked!

Westbrook and Sun Ce grabbed the rebound and didn't win, a little confused, but reacted quickly and immediately stuck to Sun Ce to delay Sun Ce's fast attack.

It's not just Sun Ce here, the opponent's big and four small lineup retreated very quickly, and the counterattack failed to succeed, Sun Ce didn't rush out of the ball, waiting for his teammates to fall into a good position, these teammates really have no ball points available except for Randolph.

After protecting the ball and waiting for his teammates to settle down, Sun Ce found that it was Durant who was defending himself.

Durant took a big step inside the three-point line and focused on defending Sun Ce.

If it were someone else, he would choose to rest on the defensive end and save his energy for the offensive end.

But Sun Ce ...... has a sense of déjà vu that wants to rob his third brother, as well as last year's All-Star canvassing incident...... This hatred lasts forever!

Sun Ce waited for Randolph to settle on the inside and hoisted the ball to Randolph on the left side of the top arc.

Sun Ce's offensive strategy began to be implemented.

When Randolph pressed Muhammad to the inside line, Durant did not let go of Sun Ce to pinch the attack, Sun Ce was moving from the top arc to the right baseline around the distance outside the free throw line, pulling the line away, Durant would rather his inner teammates be abused than let go of Sun Ce, today the middle distance overall shot very well, less than a quarter of time, the middle distance has scored two, and now it is 6 points.

Randolph, on his side, took a step back and carried Muhammad to the left to turn to the basket, at which point Westbrook, who had been staying in the middle range and did not defend it, went up to the pinch and tried to interfere with Randolph's shooting, as well as ...... Grab a rebound from Randolph's missed layup.

That's when Tony Allen rushed inside!

Westbrook was packed, Tony Allen had a direct chance to hit the basket, Randolph split the ball, and Tony Allen received the ball and hit a layup.

Tony Allen didn't expect to score two points so easily, when Durant defended him, he was still in the middle of him and the basket, and he would use various conditions to block the passing space between him and the ball carrier, but Westbrook didn't care about this at all!

18-15, the Grizzlies lead the Thunder by 3 points!

This is too freehand for Randolph, and he didn't expect that it would be to maintain Brooke, a small defender, to assist in defense, and Sun Ce really said it!

Sun Ce used the best way to deal with the Thunder that year when Westbrook and Paul George partnered in the future, and in the first round of the 18-19 playoffs in the original time and space, Westbrook defended whoever found an opportunity to cut in, and was stunned to let Aminu, Maurice Harkras, and C. McCollum score more than 10 points more than the regular season combined!

Aminu and Maurice Harkless's offensive level is similar to Tony Allen's, the trio have similar career regular season scores, and they actually average 10+ points per game in the playoffs with a team like the Thunder that is based on defense.

At Sun Ce's behest, the Grizzlies also began to take advantage of this on the offensive end.

Compared with the first half of the first quarter, which was basically Randolph chiseling and dividing the ball, Sun Ce used counterattacks to play one and did not play any counterattacks, and generally took a step to see the steps; In the second half of the first quarter, the Grizzlies played very targeted!

Because the overall offense is really not good, the Grizzlies have only one big frame on the offensive end most of the time, but at this stage, the strategic tendency is obvious, and how can offensive assistant coach David Fitzdale not see which point the players are taking advantage of when he sees this style of play? When it came to the timeout, he began to arrange the running position in more detail, and replaced Yi Jianlian to better open up the space, so that the players facing Westbrook had a clearer cut or shooting line.

To maintain Brooke's defense against Tony Allen, Tony Allen cuts in, Westbrook is strong, Tony Allen is stronger! Tony Allen's offensive ability is really not good, but the Thunder's interior is too weak, Westbrook's defense only cares about the basket, and Tony Allen is directly rushed into the interior line, how can he stop it?

When the Thunder switched defenders and used Harden, who is not good at defending now but is active and more aggressive, to defend Tony Allen, Paul George pulled out to shoot three-pointers from the outside...... Not exactly, but there are many opportunities!

Although the Thunder's offense is not easy to defend, from Westbrook to Jeff Green, there are four outside players who can play alone, and except for Westbrook, the other three can catch and shoot...... Westbrook will also shoot when he receives the ball, but he will be on the spot...... It's not about scoring!

At the end of the first quarter, the Thunder trailed the Grizzlies by 5 points 24-29!

Westbrook's breakthrough is important for the Thunder, but after getting 3 assists in a single quarter, Westbrook gave the ball to Harden, and Harden's current breakthrough is difficult to play a role in Westbrook.

Randolph had 4 assists in a single quarter!

Westbrook had 5 points, 1 board and 2 assists in the first quarter, but he still scored 5 points in the first quarter, and only had 2 boards and 3 assists!

Because of Westbrook's inexplicable obsession with rebounding, the Thunder only scored 11 points in the second half of the first quarter, while the Grizzlies scored 15 points!

6 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter, Sun Ce's score and assists did not go up, but the rebounds crushed Westbrook.

Westbrook's offensive rebounds and defensive rebounds can't grab Sun Ce, Sun Ce knows that the other party has to brush up on data, and when he grabs offensive rebounds, he would rather not grab it himself, or give Westbrook a grab.

Durant, for his part, is not very interested in defending Sun Ce to grab rebounds, mainly because he doesn't want Sun Ce to score and assist.

Thunder head coach Brooks didn't know exactly what happened to his team's defense in this quarter, because Westbrook looked positive, and it was hard to see how much he had changed if it wasn't for someone who took advantage of it.

Because after the start of this season, Westbrook was very active in all aspects, and seeing Westbrook play an average of at least 18 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists per game strengthened the idea that Westbrook, the management of the Thunder team, was the most talented player.

Obviously, Westbrook was very active in the pinch and Durant was very active in defending Sun Ce, but the Thunder limited Sun Ce and Randolph, two players who scored 10 points in the first half of the first quarter, to only 5 points in the second half of the second quarter, Sun Ce 2 points, and Randolph 3 points.

And they played okay on their own offense, Harden was surprised to get the ball, the ball was timely, the play was reasonable, the ability was not good but the team was friendly, and the overall rhythm looked good.

But why are you 5 points behind?

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In the second quarter, Conley came on the court with a lineup of Paul George, Morrow, Battier and Gasol Jr.

Sun Ce, Tony Allen and Randolph were substituted for rest.

On the Thunder's side, Durant was substituted and rested, Westbrook and Harden continued to play, Jeff Green returned to the small forward position, and the interior combination of Ibaka and Kostic re-emerged.

At the intermission, after half a quarter, David Fitzdale was more targeted at Sun Ce's offense against the Thunder's defensive problems.

An NBA coach, even the worst assistant coach on the weakest team, has a strong point in tactical knowledge or adaptability.

David Fitzdale couldn't see Westbrook's defensive and offensive positions like Sun Ce to know what Westbrook wanted to do, but after Sun Ce exposed this in front of his eyes, he quickly worked out a better strategy than Sun Ce, the adjustment during the pause in the second half of the first quarter was only a temporary adjustment, and the tactical preparation during the break was more thorough!

Coupled with Sun Ce's conscious telling his teammates to stop Westbrook from grabbing rebounds, Westbrook played harder!

Scoring and assists are rising, as a point guard with a high concentration of the ball, Westbrook has good physical fitness, overall skills are not bad, scoring is not very difficult, just shoot more, teammates shoot well, and getting assists is not a big problem, he averages at least 4 assists per game directly from Durant.

But rebounding!

Seeing Sun Ce, Westbrook really wanted to prove himself with a triple-double, he liked Sun Ce's style of play very much, and then liked Sun Ce very much as a player, but ...... He was a standard American, and when he saw the object of his "admiration", he desperately wanted to defeat Sun Ce in this regard.

But Sun Ce had 5 rebounds in a single quarter in the first quarter, Westbrook grabbed it for half a day, and when the half was over, it was only 3 rebounds!

And...... Because of his inexplicable positivity, the Thunder trailed the Grizzlies by 13 points at 44-57 at halftime!

Rout on all fronts!

Why did Westbrook feel that the night was so dark?