Chapter 354: Three Youths (Medium)
Kevin Durant, who has spent four seasons in the league, is currently in his fourth season.
Last year and this year, he was the league's leading scorer, and at just 23 years old, he has already won the championship twice, becoming the youngest player in the league's history to win the scoring title in a row.
This is something to be proud of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
What's even more difficult is that this young player, with little negative press, does the most as if he is training and playing.
Speaking to the media, Durant admitted that he aspires to become a well-rounded and better player.
So this season, the Thunder have seen the improvement of Durant, a 23-year-old player who averaged just 2.8 turnovers per game, a career-low.
Durant is also the Thunder's backcourt rebounding guardian, with 6.1 of his 6.8 rebounds this season being backcourt rebounds.
After Serge Ibaka and Perkins got stuck, he was the Thunder's No. 1 rebounding point.
Durant grabbed the rebound and passed it to the anticipatory Westbrook.
Russell Westbrook received the ball, landed and began to accelerate, heading straight and impacting the Kings' overall formation.
Although the Thunder is known as the "three less", Harden's statistics are still very average, and Westbrook is the real star statistic, he can average a career-high 21.9 points and 8.2 assists per game this season, in addition to 1.9 steals, and contribute a lot of energy on both offensive and defensive ends.
The only criticism Westbrook has been for his excessive turnovers, averaging 3.9 turnovers per game this season, which ranks first in the league.
So sometimes he will make some low-level mistakes on the court, which makes the coach crazy, and in such a situation, Brooks will let Westbrook go off the court for a break, and then replace James Harden, James Harden will replace Westbrook to play point guard, the effect is actually quite good, many games, Harden has played highlights.
At this time, it can be seen that Harden is actually better at having the ball in his hands, and when he doesn't have the ball, his performance is very unstable, sometimes good and sometimes bad, with the ball in hand, he can slowly find his state and slowly be able to play his strengths.
The Thunder's tactics are relatively simple, and in order to develop the player's talent as much as possible, Brooks gave several young players on the Thunder team a lot of opportunities to play singles on the court, giving them the right to act cheaply.
Therefore, Westbrook did not wait for the players to catch up and settle down to play the positional attack, and directly chose to switch offense and defense.
rushed to the frontcourt, squeezed by Kidd, and made a layup like a dynamite bag.
The basketball rolled out, and Durant then followed up with a layup to score two points for the Thunder.
"Good shot!"
Thunder fans jumped out, the Thunder team is a young team, so they should play such a fast break!
On the other hand, the morale of Kings fans has dropped slightly, and in basketball games, fast break is like a dunk or a steal or a block, which is more demoralizing.
The cheers from the Kings fans were a little quieter, and Kidd dribbled across the half court, following Wang's tactical instructions for tomorrow, and went around the elbow area to intersperse covers.
Kidd covered himself, Al Jefferson held the ball at the top of the arc, and then passed the ball with DeMar DeRozan who came out.
DeRozan finally shook off the sticky Saflosa, turned the ball to the right with his left hand, rushed to the Thunder's inside, attracted the Thunder to shrink the bag, and then passed to Batum, who was ambushed in the bottom corner.
Batum raised his hand for a high-arc three-pointer.
Still not, the basketball bounced, Ibaka intercepted in the air, and grabbed the backcourt rebound.
"The tactics came out, but there was no way to do it without throwing." During the broadcast, Zhang Weiping explained it like this, and invisibly excused Wang Mingming.
Of course, this is not about Wang Mingming, Wang Mingming already clearly knows Saflosa's defensive ability, so when taking tactics, it is very uneconomical for DeRozan to attack Saflosa's point at the first offensive point, so he arranged a bunch of covers in the elbow area, taking this opportunity to let DeRozan play other players in the wrong position, so as to improve DeRozan's offensive efficiency.
Batum didn't shoot in the half-empty position, his hands were still a little stiff, unlike the previous playoff games with the Trail Blazers, the playoff atmosphere of the Kings seemed to be stronger, and the Thunder team that swept last year was coming with a fierce attack, if the Kings couldn't beat the Thunder this year, it would be really embarrassing to change someone.
Batum is the one who got it, so when he thinks about it, he feels that he is under a lot of pressure and must defeat the Thunder and prove himself.
The Thunder offense was fanatical and highly motivated, and Westbrook took the ball and wanted to break fast, but was forced by Kidd and almost missed the ball.
When I went back and picked up the ball and attacked again, the time was gone.
He dribbled to the frontcourt, and Durant didn't mean to come out to catch the ball, so he took the initiative to wave, and Ibaka ran out of the interior to the top of the arc and Westbrook, who was holding the ball.
Ibaka first blocked the space on the right side of Westbrook, and then the right side was occupied by Kidd first, and Ibaka switched positions and blocked the left.
Westbrook has a feint to the right with a feint to break through, and the front of the body changes to the left.
Westbrook's dribbling is relatively high, and his back is very straight when he plays, and his ball sense is actually not bad, but the dribble line is too high, and the time is long, which is easy to be destroyed in the process, or make mistakes after being pressured.
But the shooting style is easy to change, but the dribbling habit is difficult to change, Kidd did not rush to reach out for a steal, and after the young man shook off a little space, he accelerated in a straight line and rushed in from the left like a lightning bolt.
It's fast, and Westbrook is so aggressive that it's like it's going to blow up a basket.
Tyson Chandler couldn't help but interfere forward.
Westbrook burst into the basket under the center Perkins, Perkins received the ball and stepped on the foot, and put the basket under the basket.
Westbrook's 8.2 assists this season, most of them come from this, he doesn't call the outside players much, and he has a natural sense of breaking through with the interior players, and most of the interior players are also comfortable receiving his ball, and can easily complete the offense.
4-0, the Thunder team came up against the main visitors and actually took the lead.
Wang Mingming stood up from the sidelines, thought for a moment, and then sat down again.
Michael Curry took out the tactical board on the side of Wang Tomorrow, Michael Curry said: "The Thunder's offensive tempo is faster than we saw in the regular season, they seem to be deliberately raising the tempo, and they opened the game, did not play Durant, mainly using Westbrook's impact to play." ”
"It's mainly aimed at Jason Kidd, although Kidd defends well, but with the rise of age, the lateral movement ability has declined a lot, Westbrook is young and fast, and Kidd is not very easy to defend with experience."
"Substitution?"
"Substitution."
The two glanced at each other, and Wang Tomorrow had already thought of it, "At this time, you can only let DeMar take responsibility, Demar's defense is not bad, and his lateral movement ability is okay, he should be able to complete the task of limiting Westbrook, and Kidd will defend Saflotsa, who does not have many offensive scenes, so that Kidd can also help Batum help defend Kevin Durant." ”
"It's a good approach."