Chapter 117: Donovan's Difficulties

Now, Thunder head coach Donovan has a very serious question in front of him, how can Roberson use it? This is a top wing defender who has nothing to say, but the problem now is that Hojberg has made it clear that if you send him on the court, you will cut him, and if you don't let him play, you will hit you on the wing, and the head will be very slippery.

Until the end of the first half, this problem was not solved, and the Bulls have chased the score to three points, and who will die in the second half is really not certain according to the current situation.

Donovan had a headache, but Hojberg was happy, in fact, each team has its own strengths and weaknesses, and no team said that its strength was completely superior to its opponent.

You must know that there is no weak team in the NBA, no matter how bad the team is, it also has the core of the team and players who are eager to show themselves.

You say that the Bulls have any weaknesses, then there must be, it's just that the Thunder didn't catch it.

The Thunder have weaknesses, and Hojberg has grasped two weaknesses in his roster, one is Robertson's free-throw weakness and the other is Westbrook's impulsiveness.

This is what made the Thunder, who were obviously stronger than the first order, only outscored the Bulls by three points at halftime.

Three points are just a one-goal difference.

Li Ming's half-time performance was excellent, fifteen points only three points behind Westbrook to rank second among the two teams, but his nine assists ranked first on both teams.

It's a bit of a solo battle against the Big Three.

In the rematch, the first attack was the Bulls, Li Ming held the ball, a hanging inside, and Karl Kong took over, refreshing his record for the fastest speed of two pairs.

Unfortunately, though, this is not the home of the Bulls, and he was greeted by boos from the crowd — the City fans who didn't give any face.

Westbrook has a habit of scoring mostly by himself in the first half, along with picking the board; The second half was mainly about helping his teammates score, and by the way, picking up the board.

Then make up the remaining data at the last minute.

Although he himself said that he didn't care about the honor of a triple-double or a triple-double, how many times, when he was only short of one assist, he would rather die than attack by himself still betrayed his true thoughts.

When you score, you will never assist, and no matter how good your teammates are, they will not assist. Never shoot when brushing assists, and don't shoot no matter how big the empty space is.

If you want Westbrook to play with peace of mind, you have to let him brush out the data first.

In the third quarter, according to his habit, it was his brush assist time, so he began to organize the offense one by one, a direct sprint, Li Ming was passed by him in one step, and there was a big empty space in front of him.

This vacancy should be the big vacancy he dreamed of in the first half, but he twisted his head and passed the ball in a dashing manner, and Adams, who was caught by the two, staggered to receive the ball, pulled it up directly, and finally let the ball go in.

It can be seen that Adams's love for Westbrook is far beyond that of an old father, not only to make a board, but also to waste every opportunity for Wei Shao's assist, desperately trying to score.

After playing four or five rounds, the Thunder has always been in such a rhythm, Westbrook, who controls the ball, bursts into an unguarded vacancy and then lets the ball pass dangerously to his teammates who are watched by the opponent to shoot, whether he can score or not depends on his fate!

To put it bluntly, how disgusting and disgusting this offensive rhythm is.

The only thing that might be happy is watching the number of assists on the scoreboard increase one after another.

Anthony is really condescending in this system, he needs to find his rhythm by dribbling himself, but in this way, people must have no assists, so he has been running with Wei Shao, it is difficult to get the ball, plus he was promoted to the No. 4 position, and he has to carry a rough man like Mirotic.

Miserable.

Paul George was also in a bad state today, of course, this is normal, no one can play well in an uncomfortable rhythm, and after receiving the ball and shooting continuously, there is no chance to shoot.

Major General Wei gave the opportunity to the others.

Thanks to the Thunder's strange style of play, the score was bitten to the death, constantly changing between one point and three points, and Li Ming went down to rest with four minutes left to prepare for the fourth quarter.

Westbrook continued to lead the rhythm on the court, to be honest, his overall view was really not as good as Harden, and many of the empty seats were waiting for others to run out, and he didn't use his containment at all.

And the Bulls took advantage of this opportunity and finally tied the score at the last minute.

By the end of the third quarter, the Thunder's scoring efficiency had dropped by a few percentage points under Westbrook's leadership, leaving them shooting just 39 percent from the field.

Donovan's eyes hurt a little when he saw this situation, he is also a well-known master tactician in the NCAA, and once led the University of Florida to win the NCAA championship for two consecutive years.

Don't look at it as only two years, but it's very difficult.

Because the NCAA knockout rounds are all one-round system, and one game is won or lost, why is the NCAA game called March Madness? It's because there are too many variables in winning or losing a game, and it often happens that the weak beat the strong.

If you want to go to the end, and for two years in a row, the head coach's deployment plays a bigger role than the NBA in a sense.

So there is no need to doubt Donovan's coaching skills.

In that case, why would he let Westbrook do this, especially when this year's squad has reached championship level on paper, which is really a bit unusual.

Before analyzing this reason, we still have to talk about another person - LeBron James.

Why does the turtle talk about him?

Just because Mike Brown back then was actually the same situation as Donovan now.

In the hearts of Cleveland people, the Cavaliers were able to stabilize the first place in the East that year, and it had nothing to do with the coach, only with LeBron James. You definitely don't hear anything from them about LeBron's bad game, and once the Cavaliers lose, it's that the head coach isn't good enough.

In Russia, in this small city, in the same way, Westbrook is the equivalent of LeBron in this city, he doesn't perform badly, his fault is the coach's fault, the coach didn't arrange it.

But! If the coach really arranged Westbrook to sit on the bench for half time to calm down, then I am afraid that the audience will curse in the next second.

"Why don't you let Westbrook play, you don't give him a chance, how can he behave!"

It's this seemingly contradictory but true situation that makes Donovan unable to say that Westbrook is nothing, after all, not every coach is Popovich.

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A very sad thing, no recommendation for the next week.

The second thing that is very sad is that I was the first at the starting point, but it turned out that the collection on the creation side was higher than the starting point.

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