Throughout the first quarter, Durant was very uncomfortable by Tang Tianfang, he scored 5 points in 1 of 5 in a single quarter, and the Thunder also trailed the Pelicans by a score of 17-29.

And Tang Tianguang got 6 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in this quarter alone.

Donovan's defenseless strategy allowed Tang Tian to play with ease.

Moreover, the members of the Thunder team saw that Tang Tian was in good condition, and they were consciously or unconsciously giving him boards.

In the second quarter, Stevens adjusted his defensive strategy and switched to Bojan to defend.

Durant increased the frequency of offense, but his touch was lost by Tang Tian in the first quarter, and he could only rely more on breakthroughs to score.

And Davis's assistance defense has become a headache for him.

He scored 12 points on 4-of-10 shooting in the quarter, but the Thunder trailed by as many as 17 points at 41-58.

And Tang Tian's main offense in the second quarter, his personal data has risen to 18 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists.

At halftime, Durant sat in the locker room depressed.

There are many reasons why he is depressed.

In the past, when Brooks was coaching, although there were no tactics on offense, the defense was systematic, but now Donovan doesn't practice defense!

Obviously, everyone was improving, but Tang Tian was improving by leaps and bounds every time, and for the first time, he began to question his talent!

And these teammates of the Thunder team, except for Westbrook, no one else can help in this kind of tough battle!

"Kevin, you'll get your touch back in the second half."

Westbrook saw that Durant's mood was not quite right, and came over to pat him on the shoulder and comforted him.

Durant glanced at Westbrook with a complicated expression.

This is his best brother, but when he sees it now, he remembers the scene at the Jeonmyeongsai cake shop.

He nodded.

After a while, Donovan came to the locker room.

'We need to adjust our defensive strategy, with someone to defend and someone to help defend and otherwise we will lose this game.'

For the first time, Durant publicly made tactical demands on Donovan in the locker room.

Donovan frowned slightly, then nodded.

"I'll defend it."

Durant continued.

Donovan didn't say anything and agreed.

By the time he had finished adjusting his tactics for the second half, he called Westbrook out alone.

"Russell, Kevin hasn't been in great form lately, so you have to admit more responsibility and dominate the offense more."

Donovan said meaningfully to Westbrook.

He has been in the Thunder for more than half a year.

For half a year, he's been thinking about the tactical position of Durant and Westbrook.

He coached the NCAA for 19 years, and for 19 years he was a defender who led the offense, but the Thunder were not.

It's not the coaching style he's used to, and he knows that Durant is just a scorer and not as good a playmaker as James.

So he's been looking for opportunities, and now is the opportunity, and he's going to move the offensive dominance from Durant to Westbrook.

Westbrook didn't know what Donovan had in mind, but he accepted Donovan's offer.

In the past, it was Durant who carried the team on his shoulders, but now that Durant is not in good shape, it is time for him to step up.

Coming back at halftime, neither side adjusted the starting lineup, and the Pelicans came up to attack first.

It was still Tang Tian who held the ball, but the person who defended him changed from Robertson to Durant.

Tang Tian is not too surprised, Durant is the kind of person who cares super about the evaluation of the outside world.

He can't play on the offensive end and definitely wants to make a difference on the defensive end.

If both offensive and defensive ends are blown up, then there is really no place for his superstar face.

Tang Tian dribbled with his body low.

He knew that Durant was tall and had long arms, and shooting in front of him was not a good option.

After a series of dribbles, he suddenly accelerated to the right in one step.

Durant's people were too high, and his center of gravity didn't keep up, and he was directly squeezed by Tang Tian.

The Ibaka on the inside came out, and after Tang Tian was close, he hit the ball without looking at people, and passed the ball from Ibaka's right armpit to Davis on the bottom line.

Jokic jammed Adams, and Davis dribbled with the ball with a one-handed dunk.

Another Nash assist!

Durant clapped his hands angrily.

If he couldn't keep up with Tang Tian's first step, such a defensive strategy would still be useless.

The Thunder's offense, Westbrook did not play Durant as he did in the first half, but took the initiative to call Adams to the high post to block and dismantle.

After dismantling, he misplaced Jokic and accelerated to the basket with explosives.

Davis assisted in the defensive block, and Westbrook directly forced a layup, causing the latter to be fouled defensively.

Westbrook's Turtle Breakthrough is a savage rush.

With both free throws, Westbrook helped the Thunder tighten the score.

Looking back, Jokic held the ball at the free throw line, Tang Tian cut in and cut back, and Durant was struggling to chase the defense.

Tang Tian received the ball with a three-threat shooting feint, deceived Durant, and then turned to the basket to kill.

Adams and Ibaka were afraid of Tang Tian's pass and didn't dare to pounce too much, and Tang Tian directly accelerated his hands to score.

Durant looked back at Tang Tian's dunk, and a look of despair flashed in his eyes.

I can't attack, I can't defend it, I can't beat it!

It's worse than when he first entered the league against James.

Because at that time, even if he couldn't prevent James, he could explode with James.

But Tang Tian's pervert made him really desperate!

His mentality was somewhat broken.

Is this what it was like to be in opposition to Jordan at the beginning of the century?

Westbrook scored on a driving layup.

Looking back, Tang Tian saw that Durant was standing relatively backward, and a shooting feint tricked Durant to come up, and then turned around and hit a back.

With this ball in, Durant is already convinced that the person he is facing is Michael Jordan.

Durant wasn't in the right shape on the court, and his teammates on the Thunder began to help him defend more.

But this gave Tang Tian a lot of passing space.

In this quarter, Tang Tian scored 6 points in a row at the beginning, but then sent 4 assists in a row.

However, Westbrook performed well in this quarter, scoring 20 points in a single quarter to help the Thunder bite the score.

And in the third and fourth quarters of the bench, Kante stepped up on the inside and managed to narrow the gap to 12 points before the two sides went to the final tiebreaker.

games, and a dozen.

But Durant was really beaten by Tang Tian this time, and he didn't grasp the continuous opportunities on the offensive end in the decisive stage, and the defensive end was also hammered by Tang Tian.

In the end, despite Westbrook's season-high 40 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists, Kanter also had a brilliant performance of 17 points and 8 boards.

But Durant's performance on 8-of-28 shooting, 22 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 turnovers was really bad.

The Thunder also lost 105-118 in the end.

Tang Tian's performance in this game was quite eye-catching, with 32 points, 13 boards, 21 assists, 2 steals and 2 fouls.

Donovan said before the game that it was impossible for Tang Tian to get 20 assists, but Tang Tian was stunned to get ......

And after winning this triple-double, Tang Tian's triple-doubles in the season reached 7, surpassing Green and becoming the player with the most triple-doubles so far in the season.