Game 1 of the 17-18 NBA Western Conference Finals.

The Houston Rockets take on the Golden State Warriors at the Toyota Center.

No. 17 Yang Yiming was assigned to defend Kevin Durant at No. 35. 106 to 119, Rocket and Yang Yiming individually, all suffered complete defeats.

Kevin Durant is really terrifying.

Yang Yiming, who was substituted at the end of the game and was breathing heavily on the sidelines of the players' bench, obviously has not yet figured out what happened in the past two hours or so. He was sweating and his body was prostrating, but the all-round fear was like a bigger hand, gripping the workings of his brain.

So what's going on?

For a few minutes, Yang Yiming could only ask himself the same question repeatedly.

What's going on?

All he knew was that he was completely defeated by Durant. In other words, he was blown up.

Coach Mike D'Antoni insisted on his pre-game setup in G1, using Yang Yiming to defend Durant almost whenever he could, and carried out this rather unexpected strategic change to the end. It was only at the beginning of the third quarter that D'Antoni arranged for him to take a short break when Yang Yiming quickly received his fifth foul, but he was redeployed at the end of the third quarter and did not completely end the game until the fourth quarter was about to end and the Warriors' two-way lead was unshakable.

But the whole "return" head coach has unlimited trust in Yang Yiming, who played 32 minutes, handed over the report card, which allowed Durant to score 37 points on himself, and the opponent's shooting rate and three-point shooting rate were more than 50%...

It can be said that Yang Yiming's defense is completely ineffective against Durant.

Game footage, pre-game arrangement, personal review - it wasn't until Yang Yiming and Durant had their first matchup at the 2-minute mark that he realized that all these preparations were useless. At that time, the Rockets took the lead and took a 9-2 lead, and the home fans were shouting "defense", and the Warriors simply hoisted the ball to Durant. With his back to the basket, he had already pulled out the shooting angle with a span, and then with his ape-like arms and the soft feel of a guard, even if Yang Yiming pounced hard enough and far enough, he was also wary of his shooting timing, and the former still sent the ball into the net steadily. With a bang, like a basin of cold water poured on the head, extinguished the enthusiasm of the home team's fans.

As for Yang Yiming on the field, the torment of this long night has just begun.

There's hardly any way to stop Durant from scoring, let alone distract from his shot. Durant can roll over and jump shots, turn and throw, pull threes, break dunks, ride and shoot arrows... All in all, in Durant's eyes, Yang Yiming is a cloud of air (including the other Rockets defenders who rotate over), and the basket is the ocean.

In Yang Yiming's perception of the basketball world, he has never seen such a terrifying guy - or such an ultimate horror version of Durant, because Durant he has seen before - at the Toyota Center on the night of May 14, Durant is the out-and-out Grim Reaper himself.

As long as the Rockets are on the rise, the ball will be passed to Durant, who will stop the team's decline; As long as the Warriors' offense stalls, the ball will pass to Durant, who will play one-on-one without brains but efficiently; As long as... As long as Durant wants to, he can do it.

Yang Yiming can't remember how many times he has successfully defended: there was probably only one time when the Rockets changed defenses and became Paul resisting Durant behind him, the latter was probably careless, and when Yang Yiming came to shoot the ball casually, Paul picked up the backcourt rebound and launched a fast break, and slammed Durant on the crotch with malicious intent. However, that didn't stop Durant from pulling a three-pointer in the next Warriors round, stretching the margin to double digits.

There were a few times when Durant probably hit the rise, and he could have changed to a drifting shot that could have been steadily pulled, and he could have changed his board throwing to a broken layup, and he barely missed a few shots.

In every remaining shot, Durant put all the balls he threw into the basket.

What a despair it was.

It wasn't until the final whistle that Yang Yiming realized that every muscle of his was still twitching and trembling uncontrollably. Later, every time he defended, although he was still struggling physically, he had already given up resistance mentally, and he was left to resign himself to fate, and the despair of turning around and watching the basketball go to the net.

He finally understood where the full worry from reporters, coaches to teammates before the start of the game, came from.

But this kind of physical realization is too cruel.

Yang Yiming has also played against the league's top scorers: Carmelo Anthony, Paul George, Damian Lillard, Jimmy Butler; There are also great players like Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum among the rising stars; He even blocked LeBron James's stunner, and he was lucky enough to escape in a one-on-one match with Harden... But the playoff version of Kevin Durant seems to be above all the superstars... The ultimate boss.

If you compare it to a popular Marvel blockbuster, Durant is the Thanos in "Avengers 3: Infinity War".

With a flick of his fingers, the lives were destroyed and ashes were destroyed.

The horror of a character like Thanos is not the total suppression of ordinary people, who can wipe out the population of several universes with a wave of his hand. It's his crushing of superheroes, even if you have God-given divine power, go to the sky and the earth, and fly at the speed of light, your stunts are just scum in front of Thanos.

Yang Yiming is like this today. He didn't come empty-handed, he also had a cheat for cheating: a player skill that the CAMS system had recently recommended to him. The night before the first game of the Western Conference Finals, he was lying in bed with his eyes closed, reviewing and summarizing the defensive training he had had in the past few days, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw VR glasses with CAMS systems prompting him to have new news. He put on his glasses to check, and found that he didn't know when, the cams system downloaded and updated a player's skill in the background:

"Support Skills: Increases the aggressiveness of one-on-one defense by 50%; Reference player template: Marcus Smart. ”

If it weren't for this push, he would have been going to use the playoff G3 support skill against the Jazz, which is to increase the defensive success rate by 20% when switching defenses, and the template is Derrick Favors. But now that he has a new skill, he thinks about it carefully, and the skills that are indeed recommended should be more applicable when dealing with Durant. After all, comparing the two skills, the premise of effectiveness is that one is to change defense, and the other is one-on-one, and if the Warriors want to activate Durant, they will not use up the complicated running position to change the defense, but really settle down, allowing him to open up the attack with his personal ability.

In this case, it seems that support skills, which are greatly more aggressive, will indeed be more effective.

Look.

It's a pity that all the skills, all the preparations, all the careful planning, are the imagination of ordinary people who are trapped in their own limited abilities. In the face of the real Grim Reaper, the end of defeat is written at the beginning.

This is the difference between God and man.

The auxiliary skills given to Yang Yiming by CAMS could only "help" him to tragically pay five fouls just after halftime, but he was still like a moth to a fire, and he couldn't stop Durant from scoring 37 points alone.

At this moment, Yang Yiming, who was completely blown out by this game, sat alone on the player's chair, but calmed down a lot. Sweat ran down his forehead and neck like beads of broken thread, running down his upper body and torso. He was still trying to calm down, adjusting to his excessively tight and disordered aura. He noticed that his right leg was still shaking unconsciously, and he moved the arm that was supported on it. Yang Yiming grabbed a bag of ice directly from the team doctor's medicine box and put it on his thigh, which stopped the tremor. At the other end of the court, Durant was surrounded by several press groups, his face was frosty, and he was not tired, as if he had just played a celebrity shooting mat game before the All-Star.

This is what the ultimate boss looks like. Yang Yiming dug his fingers deep into the ice cubes of the ice pack, and his nails were about to bleed. He's trying to freeze the image of Durant in his mind. The previous confrontation with Mitchell for the best rookie was simply ridiculous in the face of the challenge of defending Durant at this time.

Durant only fought for Yang Yiming, and he saw the real god.

From now on, he will look to God.

One day, he will take his place! Please pay attention to the latest chapters in the future