"Smack!"

At this moment, a black shadow came out of the diagonal side like lightning and slapped Paul's shot directly to the rebound.

Ibaka!

At the most critical moment, Ibaka sent the most crucial block!

The ball that was covered was right in Harden's hand!

There was a stirring at the scene.

There are only 30 seconds left in the race.

The Thunder had one last timeout, but Tang Tian didn't shout, shouting on the court for Harden to organize over halftime.

This is also his experience with Harden.

The victory or loss of the regular season is very important, but compared to the victory or loss of a regular season, the growth of the four young people is obviously more important, because it is related to whether they can win the final championship this season.

Harden dribbles to the frontcourt.

At this time, the Cavaliers obviously strengthened their defense against him, and the entire defensive center of gravity leaned towards him.

Durant wanted to pick up the pick-and-roll, and the Cavaliers went straight to the three-man defense.

Harden saw that Ibaka was empty, and directly threw his hand and hit the earth to the past.

But the ball was predicted by Artest, and the turning save touched the ball, and the floor ball was fought for, and the Ibaka hand got the ball and threw it to Westbrook on the outside.

At this time, the Thunder's offense had about 15 seconds left, and Harden was there beckoning for the ball.

Westbrook faced Carter at this time, did not pass, but dribbled a step and directly chose to dry three points.

There was a stirring at the scene.

If this goal is scored, the Thunder will directly overtake.

Carter was not completely shaken away, jumped up and interfered, and directly closed his face.

Westbrook's vision was disturbed.

"Bang!"

Three points missed, and Yao Ming collected the key rebound.

With less than 20 seconds left in the game, the Thunder had to foul early.

Yao Ming's free throw opportunity.

Both free throws brought the difference to 4 points.

Tang Tian called a last timeout.

"Russell, we still have 15 seconds to attack, that's not a reasonable choice, you know?" Tang Tian was a little angry, at that point in time, it was not time to gamble on his life for three points.

Westbrook was silent.

Tang Tian didn't have time to say much about him, so he picked up the tactical board and continued to arrange the tactics of the next attack.

After the timeout, Harden dribbled forward, and the Thunder's three-pointer in the frontcourt cooperated.

At this time, there is not much time to attack, and you can only play three points and shoot quickly.

Durant ran back to shake off Artest and borrowed Ibaka to block and pick up the ball, but before Harden could pass the ball, Carter hugged him and fouled him early.

Because the number of fouls has arrived, this is directly sending Harden to the free throw line.

Casey followed Tang Tian for three seasons, which was to learn the essence of tactics, and a foul directly destroyed the Thunder's offense.

Tang Tian shook his head helplessly, after Westbrook's strong three-point shot missed, the Thunder's chances were running out.

Harden made both free throws under pressure to bring the deficit back to two points.

The Cavaliers didn't call a timeout, and Paul still sent the ball to Yao Ming.

Yao Mingren is tall and big, and he reaches out to get the ball and hold it high.

The Thunder had no chance to steal at all, so they could only choose to send Yao Ming to the free throw line again.

This is also the most buggy part of the Cavaliers, Yao Ming has a low rate of passing errors as a center receiving the ball, and the key is so stable.

Yao Ming walked to the free throw line again, still two steady free throws.

The margin is back to 4 points again.

With only seven seconds left in the game, the Thunder did not take a timeout, and Harden dribbled to the front court to shoot a three-pointer.

"Bang!"

The three-pointer didn't score, Ibaka rushed to grab the offensive rebound, threw his hand to the outside Durant, and Durant's buzzer-beating three-point shot, but it was too late.

115-114, the Cavaliers narrowly defeated the Thunder by one point at home and won the home opener.

Yao Ming had 22 points and 12 rebounds, Paul had 29 points and 11 assists, Carter had 19 points, Isaiah Thomas had 10 points, and Artest had 9 points and 5 rebounds.

On the Thunder's side, Harden had 23 points, 6 assists and 3 turnovers, Durant had 24 points and 6 boards, Westbrook had 17 points, 5 assists and 5 turnovers, Kidd had 9 points and 3 assists, Ibaka had 8 points, 8 boards and 4 blocks, and Brown had 6 points and 10 boards.

When the final whistle blew, there was a cheer of excitement at the Quicken Loan Arena.

The Cavaliers players also looked excited on the court, and Yao Ming and his teammates high-fived them one by one.

This is their fifth straight win against the Thunder since last year's Finals.

The members of the Thunder team looked a little depressed, and Tang Tian shouted to gather all the team members together after seeing it.

"You've done a lot better than before, the defeat is part of the season, we're just getting started, win the next game, ok?" Tang Tian looked around at the team members and said.

For the Thunder, this game has seen a lot of improvement, and when the run-in is good, the game will not be in the current situation.

The players all nodded one after another, although they were a little unwilling, but compared to last year's finals, they have done much better.

“okc！” Tang Tian stretched out his hand at this time.

One after another, the team members reached out and folded their hands into his hands.

"Come on!"

At the press conference after the game, Tang Tian attended with Sanshao.

The reporters at the scene first asked some questions about Tang Tian's feelings after returning to Cleveland, and then began to ask questions related to the game.

"Russell's last-minute choices don't seem so reasonable, does it hurt the team?"

Tang Tian glanced at the reporter, it was fox, this media has never been waiting to see him, this is also seizing the opportunity to embarrass him.

"No, I believe my players, including Russell, he got his chance, he just didn't shoot the ball." While Westbrook's selection did have some problems, he chose to protect his team in front of the media.

The reporter nodded and sat down, his eyes unconsciously looking at Harden and Durant, he hoped to find a trace of dissatisfaction in the eyes of the two, after all, everyone could see that it was not a good choice.

But Harden and Durant haven't had much of a change in mood.

The reporter may not know that Tang Tian had already pointed out Westbrook's problem on the spot of the game.

The Thunder lost the opener, but as Tang Tian said, they didn't lose anything.

After returning to their home court, they knocked down the Suns, Rockets and Mavericks successively, ushering in a wave of three consecutive wins.

In fact, the improvement of Harden and Durant and Ibaka can be seen in the game.

After the first month of play, they have a 12-3 record, which is even better than last season.

Harden's organization is becoming more and more stable, Durant's scoring efficiency is getting higher and higher, and even Ibaka already has the capital to fight with the opposing center in the low post.

It's just Westbrook, I don't know if Tang Tian's maintenance in front of the media that day gave him the wrong signal, and his choice on the court is always more or less problematic.

It was also at this critical point that the well-known American sports media fox sports published an article with a very attractive title.

"James Harden is a better playmaker than Russell Westbrook?"