"Defend, Middleton follows!" Suns head coach Dow Hornacek roared anxiously on the sidelines,

At this time, the Suns were not in good shape, and the second quarter was about to end, and the Thunder led by 4 points at 57-53, which made Hornacek on the sidelines very dissatisfied. Because Durant's current singles efficiency is much higher than that of Li Mojie, and Westbrook has cleared up after returning to the court and started his performance.

"Bang" No, Westbrook glanced at Ramon Sessions, who was defending him, and without even hesitating, he raised his speed, changed his steps to pass, and brought the offensive elements of the crotch dribble to the extreme, and the basic skills of the solid crotch dribble and strong physical fitness were fully revealed.

Westbrook changed from the No. 2 position to the No. 1 position, judging by the dimensions of the classic No. 1 position such as Steve Nash, Magic, Chauncey Billups, etc., his shortcomings and deficiencies are exposed at a glance, the standard of the classic No. 1 position can be defined by organization, control, and strategy, the upper limit is "overall coordination", and the lower limit is "team awareness" or to play with the whole team, Nash and Billups such classic point guards show that is, "You focus on defense, I will run and pass to connect the whole team; If you are in the area of joint defense, I will respond to fixed-point or long-distance investment; If you keep the whole game on the floor, I'll break ......", which simply means that I have countless ways to beat your defense, and you never know what I'm going to do next.

At a time when the '96 golden generation and the '97 sub-golden generation were fading, there were two point guards in the league who stood out: Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook. They are almost the exact opposite of classic point guards in terms of playing style and game thinking, they are modern point guards with the strong attack power of SG and SF and the ability to score points that twist the force field, and directly destroy the defense from a part or even a little bit to change the situation of the game. To put it simply, I only have one way, you know what I'm going to do next, but there's nothing you can do. Rose also has the organizational sense of a classic point guard, and when he fights, he knows that he has to take care of the whole team.

But Westbrook is extremely pure at this point, he is an excellent attacker, he does not need to be an excellent playmaker, times have changed, based on excellent physical fitness and explosiveness, single block + burst + air cut + push" is Westbrook's only weapon, but it is enough for him to affect the direction of the game, missing a little, his shooting and shooting options are gradually increasing, in previous seasons the Thunder tended to make Westbrook transform into a classic point guard-style commander, not only lackluster results, From the beginning of the 11-12 season, the Thunder changed Westbrook from the role of commander to the role of charge, with 193 cm, 44 inches of bounce, fierce defense, instant acceleration and Rose tied for first place in the league, and first in the league in fast propulsion ability of game rhythm.

The result of playing a good game is not limited to a specific process requirement, it can be said that no one has ever divided the point guard into offensive and traditional, there was still a point guard like Oscar Robertson in ancient times, there is no such thing as saying that the traditional point guard is better than the offensive point guard, the times are advancing, basketball tactics are also innovating, at present, offensive point guard, organizational forward is the trend of the times!

Li Mojie smiled bitterly at this time, it was already difficult to play just in the face of a Durant on his side, but he didn't expect that the turtle would start to exert his strength after coming on the court in the second quarter.

The second quarter ended with halftime, 53:59, with the Suns home team in front.

In the Suns locker room, Hornacek is anxiously holding the tactical board and is at a loss, how to play? On the other hand, he was also the first in the West last year, and a strong contender for this year's championship, but he is the owner of this year's champion show.

At this time, Jason, assistant coach of the Suns, calmly gave Hornacek a statistic, the Thunder fought the Jazz in the first game, Durant played 39 minutes and scored 42 points to defeat the Jazz by 3 points, and in the second game, Durant froze in the icy Minnesota, so the Thunder surrendered in less than three rhythms and lost to the opposite side by 19 points.

"This team will definitely not win the championship this year, he is Durant's team alone!" Jason hit the nail on the head when he pointed out the current problems with the Thunder. Yes, the Thunder in the 13-14 season was Durant's team alone, and he did not miss a single game in 81 regular season games, averaging 38.5 minutes per game and averaging 32 points per game.

"Oh? In that case, it's not like there's no chance. Hornacek looked at the data and had an idea.

"Major, you take a break at the beginning of the third quarter, Green you go up, Marcus you go play power forward, Markiff you go up center, wait for you to run with Ramon and Chris, you know? Try to bring them up, Marcus, Green, if Durant is on the court, you would rather miss others than let him go, the bag is close, you know? ”

At the beginning of the third quarter, Sessions took the lead in an empty dunk, and Marcus scored four points in a row to help the Suns tie the score at 59:59. Westbrook then made a pull-up jumper to take a two-point lead.

But this still did not stop the momentum of the Suns' offense, and Adams performed well in the second quarter against Gobert, who is also a 13-level rookie, but he was still too immature in the face of Markieff, who had been in the league for 2 seasons, and was completely taken away by Markieff.

Middleton and Green each hit three-pointers, Sessions hit a layup, Markieff scored on the basket, and Thunder head coach Brooks roared loudly off the court.

"Kevin, you're on! On the opposite side is a small lineup, you go up and play the power forward, and the opposite is 2.06 meters Marcus. And Collison, you go for Adams. Seeing that the situation did not mean to improve, Brooks sighed and replaced him with Durant.

Durant didn't say anything, put down the towel, unbuttoned his coat and entered the court.

Durant came back and hit a three-point shot, Westbrook broke through to make it 2+1, Reggie Jackson assisted Collison to catch a dunk in the air and then free two points to help the Thunder lead by 2 points again.

But then Durant felt struggling, "Bang! Green saw that he couldn't prevent it, so he directly chose to foul and slapped Durant on the arm.

"This damn bastard!" Durant was very angry when he saw that Green had a straight face when he hit someone, but when he picked up the ball and made a free throw, "Bang! "Nine out of ten made the first free throw wide, but the second went in.

And the level of the Suns players on the other side who can't even name many of them is okay? Durant called hell.

I saw Durant and the Suns playing back and forth.

"Maybe the rest of the Thunder should step up and help Kevin."

"Yes, especially Wei Shao, he should stand up now." The host of Oklahoma Sports Station also began to speak.

By the time Li Mojie came on the court in the fourth quarter, the Thunder only led by 4 points at 77:73.

"Kevin, let me ask you a question" Li Mojie took advantage of the opportunity to ask Durant for a position, and chatted with him.

"What's the matter" Durant glanced at Li Mojie with a tired expression.

"You see LeBron is playing brother basketball, you might as well come to the Suns when your contract expires, and our brothers will join forces." Lee Mojie leaned back against him to take the ball from Bledsoe and bounced away, and a back-to-back jumper hit a two-point shot. This ball is very difficult, although it is to take advantage of Durant's distraction, but Li Mojie obviously feels that Durant's reaction has slowed down.

"Hmph, cunning rookie!" Durant didn't respond, but snorted coldly.

Westbrook dribbled, but this game was not high for Wei Shao except for a few minutes, and Bledsoe followed closely and he didn't have a chance.

Durant had to take the ball, and a cross retreat did not shake Li Mojie away, Li Mojie took a break at this time + a quarter of the game, and he was very energetic.

Helplessly, Durant simply shot directly outside the three-point line, missed the shot, and the rebound was picked up by Fry.

Offense and defense switched, Li Mojie accelerated the dribble, Durant clinged closely, and suddenly Li Mojie retreated, Durant finally pasted it again, this time it was not thrown away, but just when Durant was relieved, Li Mojie turned around and passed the ball, straight to Marcus under the basket, Marcus was excited to dunk with both hands!

“WOW！ A fantastic pass from a new magician appeared that completely fooled Durant. Teacher Su Qun exclaimed.

"Yes, this is Li Mojie's talent, he can play singles, he can pass the ball, and Durant is very tired now, you see that his movements are a little unable to keep up with the agile Li Mojie." Director Zhang explained.

In the end, the Suns won 109-103 at home against the Thunder. Durant scored 42 points on 11-of-20 shooting, 6-of-12 three-pointers, and 2-of-4 free throws, but another giant, Wei Shao, hit 5 of 16 shots, 0-of-2 from three-point range, and scored 21 points on a breakaway free throw.

Li Mojie was 7-of-16 shooting, 3-of-8 three-pointers, and 3-of-4 free throws, scoring 29 points, along with six assists and five rebounds.

However, the Suns' second brother, third brother Bledsoe and Frye scored 24 and 19 points respectively, and even Middleton scored 14 points.

"Kevin, you can really think about it." Li Mojie whispered to Durant as he shook hands after the game.

"Humph!" Durant didn't respond, snorted coldly, and left.