Chapter 41, Wei Shao is gone.
"Throughout the third quarter, the Thunder played with momentum, and did not collapse because of the departure of Durant and Green, and the departure of the two main forces stimulated the blood of these players."
"yes, but be warned, Westbrook has been fouled five times."
"Richardson, well done, keep playing like this, play 0 in the fourth quarter"
Although the score was overtaken, Larry Brown didn't seem particularly anxious, the championship coach looked very calm, he could see that the Thunder was already at the end of the crossbow, as long as the No. 0 was off the court, the Thunder would definitely collapse, and all the tactical initiations in the third quarter were the Thunder's No. 0.
Larry Brown looked at Brooks and became more and more envious of him, and it was hard to imagine that under his coaching, in addition to Kevin Durant, there was such a rookie.
"Russell, keep your foul under control, you'll have to leave the game if you do it again."
Unlike Larry Brown, Brooks doesn't have time to think about it that much, and now the team is ahead, but there are still a lot of problems, and the team has too few points of attack.
Looking at the big screen, the score is now 80-76.
Brooks was decisive in the fourth quarter to put Westbrook on the bench.
"Lee, the opening stage of the fourth quarter, I'll leave it to you first."
Brooks said solemnly to Li Linlin, he hopes that Li Linlin will return to the state of playing the Lakers in the fourth quarter.
Li Linlin wiped the sweat on his head, his heart was a little empty, paralyzed, all the big guys were not there, and there was a day when I was the boss in the Thunder team.
There are really no tigers in the mountains, and the monkeys are the kings.
There is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the pioneer.
Then Li Forest looked back at the group of eager friends, it seemed that they were all envious of themselves, Lefre, Johan Pedro were very excited.
"Levre, you go."
Brooks had no choice but to find another guard from the unconventional rotation.
Finally hearing the manager call his name, Le Fale stood up excitedly, took off his pants, and prepared to play, he also hoped to be on the same position as Li Forest.
Westbrook sat back on the bench and covered his face with a towel, he needed to rest, he consumed a lot in this game, KD was not there, all the defensive attention of the Bobcats was on his side, although the third quarter played well overall, but the fourth energy saving could not keep the advantage, it was all up to him.
Li Linlin has been on the pitch for almost 20 minutes.
"Beep."
"At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Westbrook was rested, and this time Lee Forest played with a bench lineup, and we will see what effect the Thunder's third lineup will have on the second lineup of the Upper Bobcats."
It's not wrong to say that it's the Thunder's third lineup, and the Thunder's current lineup on the court is
"Lee Forest, Collisson, Le Fringe, Joe Smith, Wilcox."
Wilcox was left in the starting lineup, and two of the remaining four were not regular rotations.
The Bobcats, on the other hand, are the second lineup of starters and substitutes on the field.
"Augustine, Sean May, Adam Morrison, Okafor, Jarred Dudley."
Felton, as the starting point guard, also entered the break, so it became Augustin who was opposite Lee Forest on the court.
Lee Dribbles through the half.
For the first time, there was no big guy on the field, and he didn't use a star card, Li Linlin was still a little nervous.
"Rookie, why didn't your No. 0 come on, and sent you weak chicken up."
Augustine watched Li Forest erupt.
"You have a bad mouth, you didn't brush your teeth in the morning."
Li Linlin is very disdainful of this product, his strength is not good, and he has a lot of, and he doesn't know where he learned it.
Li Forest looked up to observe his teammates' positions.
Now the Thunder's lineup scoring ability is very poor, and the old Smith still has a little effect, and the other players are all pulling away, ready to watch Li Forest practice alone.
Li Forest is really a headache, and it seems that Brooks really intends to let him hold the ball and attack.
Beckon, let Collison come out to cover.
Collison came up and helped Li Forest block it, Li Forest broke through further, there were people inside, and passed the ball to Collison who was still outside.
Collison looked at his teammates' running positions, but they were all stared at, so he had to throw them to Li Forest who ran over.
Li Forest waved his hand, asked Collison to walk away, looked up at the time, there were only 8 seconds left, and he was ready to directly ** Augustine, paralysis, and after the interference, there was also a hit rate of about 40%.
Holding the ball in both hands and pulling it down, Augustin didn't dare to slack off, seeing that Li Forest seemed to be about to pull up and shoot, he immediately stuck up, waved his hands constantly, and took the initiative to put his hands next to Li Linlin's arm to interfere.
Looking at the position of Augustine's hands, Li Linlin said in his heart, boy, let you see Brother Deng's touch porcelain.
The arm of the big loop took the initiative to find Augustine's hand, pulled it up, leaned back and fell to the ground...
"Beep"
The referee blew the whistle and made a gesture of stretching the palm of the left hand, the left elbow at 90 degrees, and hitting the left wrist with the half-grip of the right hand, and the thug fouled.
Then he raised three fingers to the technical table.
“NO! I'm just going to steal! ”
Augustine shouted with an incredulous expression.
What happened?
The crowd didn't see it clearly, and the referee blew for Augustin's thug foul.
Lee Forest didn't say anything, shrugged his shoulders at Augustin, ran to the free throw line, and prepared to make three free throws.
Augustine is still in a daze, didn't I interfere in the past, why did I foul three points.
At this time, the big screen at the scene also began to replay the beginning and end of the incident.
When Augustine interfered with Li Forest with his arm, he put his hand between his arms, and Li Forest took the initiative to find his arm and jumped up directly.
It's a bit suspicious of looking for a whistle, but Li Forest made very reasonable use of the rules, although the referee also knew that he did it deliberately, but he also had to blow this kind of whistle, and the foul of Augustin's thugs was still obvious.
Ignoring Larry Brown and Augustin's yelling at the referee, Lee ran to the free throw line and prepared to make a free throw.
Two of three free throws to make it 82-76.
Augustine saw that the referee no longer paid attention to him, and he didn't dare to go too far, so he had to suffer this secret loss, and he was in a very bad mood.
Dribble the ball and pass half-time.
Motioning to teammate Okafor to come up and block the dismantling, he was ready to return one.
"You're a fool of fouls." Augustine began to babble again.
"Your name is DJ Augustine, right? How many points did you score today? Not even a fraction of my head is enough. Li Linlin replied pretending to be forced.
Okafor quickly came up and blocked Lee Forest.
Augustin broke through and easily bypassed Collison's defense, scoring a layup.
82 to 78.
Now it is difficult for the Thunder team's lineup to defend well, so they have to attack against attack, and it has to be said that because the defense of the two point guards of the Bobcats is not strong, it gives Li Forest a lot of time to adapt.
In the next minute, Li Forest played a great role as a tandem teammate, Joe Smith and Collison scored points respectively, and the Thunder three and the Bobcat's second team played back and forth, although they couldn't prevent the Bobcats' offense, but the Bobcats couldn't prevent their offense, after all, both teams were bad teams, and there wasn't much of a defensive system, and most of the defense was meaningful.
As time went by, the score came to 92:88, and the difference remained at 4 points until the last 6 minutes, when Wei Shao returned to the court and replaced Li Linlin.
After Wei Shao appeared, he kept attacking, and always pressed the Bobcats to fight back again and again.
Until the final 24 seconds of the game, the Thunder still led by 3 points, and Wei Shao glanced at the scoreboard, 108:105.
At this time, Wei Shao still held the ball on the court, and there were still 6 seconds left in the offensive time.
Wei Shao found a gap, killed it, came to the forbidden area, still ignoring Okafor, took off, and took off. But this time Okafor fell in response.
The referee decisively blew the offensive foul, Wei Shao graduated with 6 fouls, and Li Linlin returned to the game.
"Lee, you have to win this game".
Westbrook was reluctant to leave the court, he had exhausted his best strength in this game, and he scored a quasi-triple-double of 40 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists in the game.
The crowd stood up to see off the No. 0 rookie, and regardless of the outcome today, he let the rest of the league know that the Thunder have a No. 0 in addition to a No. 35.
Lee Forest took the court with the expectations of Durant and Westbrook.
But it's a pity that the Bobcats' last attack, Richardson stood up to Li Forest, withstood the huge boos of the audience, and outside the three-point line, the three-point board hit a difficult shot.
108:108。
The two sides are tied in regular time. The game went into overtime, and although the Thunder dominated in the final quarter, they didn't win the game in regulation time.
With this three-point hit from the buzzer, the Ford Center, the home of the Thunder, fell silent.
In overtime, how can the Thunder have a chance to win without Durant, Westbrook, and Jeff Green? The three who don't play are the top three scoring stars of the Thunder.
For overtime, even Thunder fans have no confidence.
Today, the Bobcats played so well as a team, Durant, Westbrook couldn't finish the game with successive outbursts, and now there are still 5 minutes of overtime, what to do.
Wei Shao off the field is also blind, he has tried his best, and there is no way to help the team in overtime.
With this three-point shot, Durant and Jeff Green, who were watching TV in the locker room, also slapped the table hard, venting their dissatisfaction, they were unwilling to play this game.
At this time, the emotional state of the whole Thunder team is very bad, and all the players do not want to go into overtime.
On the other hand, the Bobcats had high morale, from leading to being overtaken, and then tied at the last moment.
Brooks also sighed in his heart, this game is difficult, and in overtime, he is not optimistic that such a lineup can win the game.