Chapter 247: The Gap

Durant was murderous before the game, but when he arrived at the game, he suddenly found that the Kings' outside defense was ridiculously strong.

After playing three minutes, he shot inside and outside, but he didn't score, and under the interference of Artest's confrontational defense, he never found his shooting touch.

DeRozan, who witnessed Artest's super defense on the side, was so hot that he couldn't wait to bow down and call himself a master.

Artest glanced at the distracted DeRozan and scolded.

"Demar, stay focused!"

DeRozan's heart sank, and he regained his spirits and focused more on the object of his defense - Kevin Ollie.

Durant's offense was blocked, and the Thunder's offensive responsibility was on Westbrook and Jeff Green.

It's sudden, it's not fancy, it's as fast as lightning.

In terms of speed, Westbrook is not much worse than Rose, not as good as Rose's change of direction, Rose's change of direction is too large, every time he changes direction, he can't wait to shake off the defender's position, but Westbrook will not do this, Westbrook takes the ball to attack, full of violent aesthetics, and a tendon impact.

This breakthrough is mediocre, but it is better than the low wear and tear on the knees.

Kidd was experienced, one didn't shake up, and the other adjusted his pace in time to get stuck in front of Westbrook.

The two bumped into each other with a "bang".

Kidd flew three or four meters back.

It's not pretend, the young man does look like a locomotive.

Westbrook stumbled to the ground, baring his teeth.

"Toot ~" The referee's whistle blew, and the court was in an uproar, giving Westbrook an offensive foul.

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Westbrook popped up three black question marks, and explained to the referee as he walked with a puzzled face, "Referee, are you mistaken, his feet must have moved!" ”

Still in the middle of the dispute, on the other side, Kings Bosh took the referee's ball and quickly sent the sideline ball.

The Kings were on the spot, Bosh was fast on the serve, Kidd controlled the ball, looked left and right, and then made a wide long pass to find the rushing Bosh.

There's only one Jeff Green defending in front of Bosh.

Bosh took a moment of luck and flew straight up.

Jeff Green's physicality wasn't covered either, and there was a confrontation with Bosh in the air, with Bosh twisting his waist and throwing shots.

In order to help defend, Kevin Durant also jumped in the back, and the three of them flew out of the baseline together.

The basketball bounced back on the rebound, and Tyson Chandler jumped up and grabbed the rebounding basketball, "Bang! "Directly complete the follow-up after the deduction.

"Good shot!"

Bosh felt like his waist was about to break, but he smiled excitedly and high-fived Chandler in celebration.

The two retreated and found that Kidd had led others to deploy, and the 76ers were attacking fast like a tide, and retreating like a tide, and the speed of switching between attack and defense was not at all like the elderly team that the media had said before.

In fact, except for Kidd, the rest of the players are all strong and excellent young players, and Kidd is only responsible for threading the needle, and this gang can fly.

The guest commentator of this game suddenly found that the Kings seemed to be a little strong, the rhythm change was not chaotic at all, and it did not look like a patchwork team that had just been formed.

Brooks felt that the Kings seemed to be different from what he imagined, with the Thunder playing very hard every offense, while the opponent scored with ease and most of the shots were open.

Brooks couldn't figure out how the Thunder's offensive and defensive standards had dropped after coming one summer? He stood up dissatisfied, ready to call another timeout.

After the timeout, the Thunder offense was more determined.

At the same time, Durant ran out of position, with the help of Kostic's off-ball cover, got the opportunity to cut in the open space, Westbrook hit the ground and split the ball, Durant dribbled twice with the ball, and hit the basket.

Under the basket is Tyson Chandler, Durant doesn't care, he jumps up and holds the basketball with one hand, and he actually wants to dunk Tyson Chandler.

Chandler couldn't let him get his wish and jump up the block.

Unexpectedly, Durant's arm waving in the air suddenly increased by a point, just dodging Chandler's block, and completing the side dunk on the side of his body.

"Bang!"

Durant lost his balance, missed the basket, landed unsteadily, and staggered two steps into the pile of photographers.

The scene suddenly erupted in cheers, and the momentum of the entire Thunder team changed completely, this is Kevin Durant, this is the league's super scorer, the most promising young man on their team!

After Kidd dribbled over and blocked with Bosh, the Thunder had a gap in defense.

Kidd saw the stitches, Bosh held the ball and walked the baseline, and Jeff Green came over to fill in the position, which was already out of a favorable position.

Jeff Green is a strong, athletic man, 2.06m tall and looks like a beast on the court.

But the reality is that Jeff Green's defense is average.

He can't defend the low post against a really taller No. 4 player, and he has a lot of shooting skills on the wing, and he has a mediocre perimeter marking, looking like he can defend a lot of positions and deliver a few beautiful chase blocks, which is actually far inferior to Paul Millsap, who is the same age and type.

In the end, it's still not hard enough, not ruthless enough.

For example, this time Bosh's take-off, Jeff Green can actually make up for it, but in the end, he was still subject to the momentum of the Bosh Raptors, watching Bosh fly up and dunk with both hands.

If it was Millsap, I'm afraid it would have been a slap in the face a long time ago.

Wang found a few weaknesses in the Thunder team tomorrow, and when he took a timeout, he talked to Kidd, and Kidd immediately understood.

In terms of ball control, Kidd began to let Artest and Bosh play more ball-handling offense, with one of them having an absolute advantage in strength and a mid-range straight-arm jumper that was almost incomprehensible.

The Thunder soon discovered that the Kings had been scoring, but their side was trailing the Kings as if they were playing on the road, and the margin was constantly being widened.

At the end of the first quarter, the Thunder trailed the Kings by 13 points, 20-33, which was a big surprise.

Brooks has a great reliance on star players, which also leads to the current offensive responsibility of the Thunder team in the hands of these young people, Durant and Green in the third year, and Westbrook in the second year.

The two sides switched to the bench, and on the Kings' side, Cosby, Udri, Jason Thompson and other young people took the stage one after another.

The number of Wang tomorrow's lineup rotation reaches 9 points.

The Thunder brought on this year's scout James Harden to replace Westbrook.

Although James Harden is a scout, he is not as high as DeRozan, who is the ninth pick, in the team, at least King DeRozan will make it clear that he will be supported as a starter tomorrow, while James Harden's positioning is to start as a substitute player and have no ball.

The reason for not having the ball is not because the coach didn't arrange it, but because in a tactical system like the Thunder, the probability of getting the ball as a weak wing is very low.

Unlike the Kings, where Kidd distributes the ball and dodges the corner.

The art of command is not simply to break through the ball, but to reasonably manage the enthusiasm of each player on the court, and it is not sustainable to increase morale by dunking or blocking alone.

Wang Mingming felt that it was the right decision to bring in Kidd, and the team's offense was well organized.