Since Li Forest gave up the idea of being a two-way defender and gave up possession, he has played more freely.

Durant is at home at the small forward position, and Lee Forest is also going further and further down the path of the swingman at the guard.

WITH A HEIGHT OF 197CM, A WEIGHT OF 97 KG, AND A POINT-GUARD-LEVEL DRIBBLING SKILL AND A TOUCH THAT WAS ONCE THE NUMBER ONE THREE-POINT SHOOTING PERCENTAGE IN THE SEASON, LI FORESTRY HAS ALSO BECOME THE FOCUS OF THE THUNDER'S OPPONENTS.

More and more often, Li Forest will replace Durant as the focus of the opponent and enjoy the top confrontation of the whole court.

As the game continues.

Although the Suns played very smoothly and kept hitting long-range shots, the Thunder Sanshao began to show superhuman adaptability and adjustment ability, constantly hitting talented balls, Durant's hand was not good, but he repeatedly rushed into the interior and caused fouls, and Xiao Si committed two fouls.

After adapting to the rhythm of the playoffs, Sanshao kept biting the score and failed to let the Suns get up in the opening stage at home.

Soon, the score between the two sides came to 23-23.

Suns head coach Gentry frowned on the sidelines, and the Thunder were more difficult than he could have imagined.

Gentry is not a coach who has to play a run-and-bomb, it can only be said that the Suns have always had a run-and-shoot plot, and fans and management have always wanted to restore the team's style when Nash was the MVP for two years.

The teams that Gentry has coached cannot be said to be first-class defensively, but they are also quite important.

In his defensive tactics, the defense and dismantling mainly rely on rotation, and the most common cooperation in the current Thunder single stroke tactics is to block and dismantle, but this game is obvious, the Thunder three young are all masters of eating misplace, and his rotation defense has also proved to be cracked.

The run-and-gun command on the court is very dependent on Nash, because Gentry's offensive tactics are not run-and-gun, and he is now basically relying on D'Antoni's remaining run-and-shoot and pick-and-roll concepts plus Nash's super on-court coaching attributes to support the Suns' offense.

The game had 3 minutes left in the first quarter.

Gentry voluntarily called for a halt to the game.

In this pause, Gentry laid out the tactics for the next rotation lineup.

When it comes to the playoffs, it's basically an eight-man rotation.

Gentry emphasized the limitations of the second team on Li Forest, everyone knows that the second team of the Thunder led by Li Forest basically determines the difficulty of the next game of the Thunder, and the second team led by Li Forest can give the opponent a heavy blow most of the time.

These are all lessons learned from studying the Thunder's regular-season games.

Every minute of the playoffs counts, and if the Suns are still crushed by Lee's second team, the Suns' series will be even more difficult.

Home advantage in the playoffs is very important for a team to qualify, and almost every team that wins the championship will have a higher home win rate than on the road.

At this time, Gentry's tactical board was full of tactics against Li Forest, how to prevent Li Forest's breakthrough, how to prevent Li Forest's back singles, and how to prevent Li Forest's "jump pass" have all become compulsory courses for Dragic and Hill.

That's right, Lee Forest's habit of shooting slightly higher teammates after jumping and passing the ball was also discovered by the NBA's sharp-eyed scouts and written into the scouting report.

The suspension ends.

The Suns changed to the bench, and the lineup on the court became, Brazilian lightning Barbossa, Dragic, Dudley, Fry, Lopez

The Suns' bench depth is also an important support for their third-place finish in the West this season, unlike the Thunder's second lineup that Lee Forest broke out on a single point.

The Suns' second lineup has not dropped much under the tandem of Dragic, and with the return of Frye and the fast-break master Barbossa, the scoring points are just scattered.

The Thunder's second team is Lee Forest, Harden, Sefrosha, Kostic, and Ibaka.

In addition to the competition of players on the field, the wits and courage of the off-field coaching staff are also very important, when to play what lineup, the head coach must know in his heart, and the second lineup is the key to the head coach's deployment.

One wrong step can lead to an entire season of hard work going down the drain.

Li Forest looked at Dragic, and remembered the series of Suns vs. Spurs this year in his previous life.

In the series between the Suns and the Spurs in the previous life, no one thought that the Spurs, who had always defeated the Suns, would actually stumble.

The Spurs were swept out of the game by the Suns 4-0 that year.

The key man in the Suns' sweep of the Spurs is Dragic.

In addition to the Spurs' own lineup problems, Dragic's unannounced outburst caught the Spurs off guard.

Although the current Dragic is a substitute and has not yet shown the demeanor of a first-class point guard, Li Forest does not dare to be careless.

WITH A HEIGHT OF 191CM, DRAGIC IS GOOD AT PLAYING FAST BREAKS, IS VERY GOOD AT BLOCKING AND PICK-AND-ROLL, AND HAS A TOUGH STYLE OF PLAY THAT IS NOT AFRAID OF CONFRONTATION, WHICH MAKES HIM HAVE AN EXCELLENT FREE THROW RATE AND EXCELLENT ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS, AND IS A TOP SUPERSTAR IN EUROPE.

"O, the second lineup of the Thunder is here again, haha, the existence of Li Forest makes everyone know the strength of the Thunder rotation, but in fact, the substitutes of the relatively starry Suns are not as unbearable as the fans imagined, I can say that compared to Li Forest's attack power, the boys of the Sun are not inferior at all."

Barkley on the commentary podium said with a big mouth.

Pause back.

With the help of the pick-and-roll, Dragic broke through Harden, attracted Sefrosha's reinforcement defense, and distributed the ball to Barbossa.

Barbossa burst again, and Lee Forest followed.

Barbosa splits the ball into the bottom corner of Frye.

After Frye flew Kostic from beyond the three-point line, he dribbled forward and hit a two-point shot from long range.

23 to 25.

Li Forest didn't have any expression on his face, the Thunder defense line caused by Dragic was loose, resulting in an empty space was a very normal thing, and it was not unexpected by him.

Thunder offense.

Harden is in control of the ball.

Lee shook off Barbossa with a beautiful counterrun.

Diagonally 45 degrees to Harden's ball.

Bend the bow and arrow.

Tilt back three points.

Soaring.

26 to 25.

The Thunder overtook the score for the first time.

Barbosa is a speedy defender who is good at passing on the fast break in offense, shooting well, sticking to the ball, and poor organization, but his defense is terrible, thin and infocused.

It was just a misalignment that he was defending against Li Forest, everyone knew that if he was guarding against Li Forest, he would definitely be blown up, and it was obvious that Li Forest caught the sun's omission.

Suns attack.

It was Dragic, who received Barbosa's ball at the top of the arc, and Harden put a step to prevent him from breaking through.

But Dragic suddenly pulled up, pulled dry, and pushed the ball out with his left hand.

Harden stepped forward to block, but he couldn't touch the ball anymore.

"Huh!"

26 to 28.

Harden clapped his hands in annoyance and signaled to his teammates that the ball was his.

Li Forest did not blame Harden, Harden is this virtue, in his previous life, he dared to go out to the nightclub to wave in the finals, and this guy is estimated to play in the first playoffs as the regular season.

It's like this, and if you bite him, he won't change anything.

Lee Forest dribbled past and took advantage of Kostic's pick-and-roll.

It feels good.

Adjust the tempo during the dribble.

Before the defenders come up.

Two steps beyond the three-point line.

Didn't aim at the defender.

Hips exert force and jump to the rhythm.

Li Forest pushed a three-point shot from a long distance.

If it is at home, fans will definitely be familiar with it, Li Forest's rookie season, threw a lot of these anti-sky three-pointers.

The ball caused a burst of exclamations from the fans of the Meixi Arena.

They had obviously never seen such a wayward three-point throw.

Thunder head coach Brooks obviously doesn't have any opinion on this, whether Li Forest can enter or not has little to do with the distance, it's purely about the rhythm and feel.

"Huh!"

The Nets flipped up and hit the hollow.

29 to 28.

Lee's three-pointer against Dragic was also in color.

This ultra-long three-point shot, the Thunder bench did not have too many surprises, just high-fived each other.

They're used to it.

"Wow, OMG!"

A female fan at home couldn't help but shout out, Li Linlin's move was so handsome, she was itching to see it.

The Thunder's second team didn't pull away as they did in the regular season.

Neither side can prevent the other.

The tenacious sun rose up to resist, and Li Linlin's hand fell, and he began to strike iron.

Dragic and Barbosa caused a lot of trouble for the Thunder with their shots and breakaways.

Especially at the point where Dragic, the individual offense is very good in tandem with the team, and the defense of the master is frequently broken by the opponent.

Harden's mustache was about to be glared at by the other party.

The second lineup's exciting and fierce attack made the fans in the Meixi Stadium fall into a frenzied shouting and cheering.

Soon the first quarter ended with the score tied at 33-33.

In the playoffs, the Suns vs. Thunder series played high in the first quarter.

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