Chapter 246: Youth Army

The day after the opener, 24 teams in the league battled it out.

At the end of the day, almost every team in the league will experience at least one game.

The Kings' first game was on the road.

The Kings have a very inhuman schedule, and the league's bottom-ranked team last season will start the season with a wave of road games.

The first game was to go to Oklahoma and challenge the youth army Thunder.

Speaking of the Thunder team, he was a little embarrassed before Wang tomorrow.

The Thunder team spent a lot of effort to dispatch a lineup of bosses + executives + core leaders, but they still failed to convince Wang Mingming.

As a replacement for Wang Mingming, the Thunder later officially hired Scott Brooks, one of the representatives of young coaching, to make him the team's head coach.

It is indeed difficult for a small ball market like the Thunder to hire the top coach in the league, and the fans are slightly disappointed, but they are not too sad.

It's just that the first game is the King's away game, which makes several parties slightly subtle in their hearts.

Especially Kevin Durant, before the game started, he didn't say a word, and his eyes were full of murder, which caused Westbrook to turn his head frequently, thinking that this usually amiable partner had taken the wrong medicine today.

The regular season and the preseason are different, and Wang made a lot of detailed arrangements before the game tomorrow.

The two small ball cities played each other, and there was not much attention in the United States.

It's just that the atmosphere at the Thunder's home stadium is very good, Wang Tomorrow estimated it, and the attendance rate may be more than ninety percent, except for the effect of the first game, it is also a very good data.

Many fans wear dark blue No. 35 jerseys, and at the moment, there is only one All-Star caliber player on the team, and that is Kevin Durant.

At the fiery opening ceremony, streamers flew in the stadium.

In the brilliant lights, the Thunder players appeared in turn.

Thunder starters: Russell Westbrook, Kevin Ollie, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Nenad Kostic.

Kings starters: Jason Kidd, DeMar DeRozan, Ron Artest, Chris Bosh, Tyson Chandler.

In the Thunder team, Kevin Ollie is also an acquaintance of Wang Mingming, when Wang Mingming just gained a foothold in the 76ers, he immediately cleaned up the veteran, but he didn't expect to switch to two years, and the veteran mixed into a starting position in the Thunder team.

Kevin Ollie's defense is excellent and he has a lot of experience on the court, but he doesn't quite shoot his threes.

Thunder head coach Scott Brooks, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, smiled at Wang, and the two shook hands amicably before the game.

"Coach Wang, give me a lot of advice."

"Don't dare, don't dare, learn from each other."

Brooks's tactical system last season, Wang Mingming also studied, basically ended in two ways, one is the single at the top of the arc after the player pulls away, and the other is the wing blocking attack.

This kind of offensive method is very simple and effective, and Wang Mingming thinks that as long as he can give full play to the ability of the star, it is a good tactic.

In comparison, the Kings certainly can't use this tactic, they don't have this kind of talent.

"Don't wrap the clip, change the guard infinitely!" Wang tomorrow still reminds the players not to easily wrap up the Thunder players, that is, to give the Thunder players a one-on-one chance, Wang tomorrow believes that the Kings players after the change of defense misplaced defensive ability, as long as it is not Tyson Chandler, can be inside and out.

The game started quickly.

Wang Mingming watched the disciples who had been trained for a month play the game, just like sending them to the exam, what exactly they can do now, and how strong their combat power can be, he himself has no bottom in his heart.

Dwayne Casey pulled Wang Tomorrow to sit down and made a suggestion.

"We can let go of Kevin Ollie, Kevin Ollie's individual offense is not strong, why not focus on Kevin Durant? After all, Durant is the league's top scorer. ”

"Although Kevin Ollie doesn't have three points, he can impact it, let it go, and it will inevitably lose the formation," Wang Tomorrow also has his own considerations, now that the game has just begun, there is no need to come up and wrap up, after all, wrapping is the most suicidal tactic in the defensive strategy.

"Kevin Durant doesn't have a strong ability to crack the bag, so he can keep it as a killer feature." Wang Mingming is well versed in the team's scheduling tactics, and it has no effect to use the bag in advance, and it is the most lethal to give him a moment at the critical moment, and he can catch the opponent off guard.

On the court, the Kings, who won the jump ball, began their first offense.

The 36-year-old Kidd has the ball up front.

The 21-year-old Russell Westbrook looked very active, and when he saw Kidd's slow possession, he couldn't help but step forward to test the step to see if he could force Kidd to make a mistake on the ball.

As a result, Kidd completed a turn in an instant, with his age-inappropriate flexibility, brushed past Westbrook, and slammed in.

The Thunder's one-on-one defensive formation was instantly chaotic.

The empty cut of Bosh attracted a lot of attention, and Kidd made a wide range of weak-side transfers to the open DeMar DeRozan.

DeRozan looked confused, but he also knew that the opportunity could not be lost.

He took a deep breath, and from beyond the three-point line, he made a shot!

"How so?"

Brooks was dumbfounded, DeRozan pointed out in the previous scouting report that he didn't have any three-point shooting ability, and he basically didn't shoot much three-pointers, but he shot so confidently in the first shot of the season?

DeRozan's hand shape is very good, and it is a standard shooting position.

The feet are spread apart, and there is a slight hint of scissor feet.

The torso exerts force, the whole body is teleported to the tips of the fingers, and then the ball is plucked out.

"Huh!"

Basketball turned out to be hollow into the net!

"Beautiful!" Wang's eyes lit up tomorrow, DeRozan really listened to him and went to practice three points, although the three points are still not accurate, but in daily training, there are also three or four percent of the shooting rate.

"But no matter how low the hit rate is, you have to dare to shoot!"

DeRozan clenched his fist and cheered himself up, what the coach said was really good, it's still three points to score quickly.

Kevin Durant looked sideways slightly, this year's No. 9 show seems to be very confident, an average player, in the first game, under the effect of psychological pressure and nervousness, it is good to be able to play six achievements with one strength, and it is not easy to hit the first ball.

The Kings retreated quickly, and the Thunder dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and found that the Kings had all fallen.

Ron Artest posted it excitedly, still with broken thoughts and all kinds of trash talk in his mouth.

Durant frowned, one step inside the three-point line to get into the main position, his long arms outstretched, and asked for the ball.

Westbrook scored the ball to the right and then took Kidd away and pulled it to the weak side 45 degrees.

Durant held the ball in both hands, turned around, and attacked with three threats.

At this point, Jeff Green has come over to block the pick-and-roll.

As soon as the two blocked, Bosh and Artest both opened their arms to put pressure on Durant, who was holding the ball, Durant did not dare to divide the ball, Bosh was extremely fast, and his lateral movement kept up with Jeff Green.

Duranta ball, turned into a heads-up attack.

After shaking twice, Artest was unmoved, shook again, and directly pulled out the jumper.

Artest pounced on him, covering Durant's eyes with his big hands.

"Bang Dang~"

The basketball smashes the front and misses.