Chapter 358: Stop the Decline

"Brothers work together to win the championship!" Durant shouted a new slogan.

In the second half, the momentum of the Thunder changed dramatically, and Hougist saw the burning fighting spirit in the eyes of the Thunder players, but he did not expect that the Thunder would choose to launch a counterattack from Ibaka.

The Thunder drove the ball, Westbrook received the ball on the wing and moved laterally, bypassing Adams' cover from the middle and bursting inside, while Ibaka was elbowing Durant in the bottom corner to do off-ball maintenance.

When Westbrook burst into the paint, Durant also just bypassed the cover and got a nice open space, so Westbrook passed the ball back to the wing, and Durant was switched by Kobe Bryant as soon as he received the ball.

At this point, Westbrook cut to the bottom corner without the ball, and Durant gave the ball to Westbrook again. At this time, the Lakers' defensive attention was on Durant and Westbrook, and Ibaka, who had previously covered without the ball in the elbow area, retreated to outside the wing three-point line, but was vacated by the Lakers.

As a result, Westbrook flicked the ball back to the flank and gave it to Ibaka. Ibaka received the ball and made a direct jumper with a three-pointer and hit it easily without defense.

Jeremy Lin dribbled to the frontcourt to give Hougist, and the Thunder still did not use Durant to defend Hoggist, but let Robertson deal with the core of the Lakers' attack. Turnat went up to beyond the three-point line to cover for Hoggist.

Hougist took a step inside the three-point line with a cover, suddenly stopped and took a false shot, and then gave the ball to the cover and went down to Turner, who happened to be passing by him. Turner also took a false shot with the ball, pointed at Adams, and then took a short dribble to take a step forward, and then returned the ball to Hoggist, who retreated beyond the three-point line.

Hougist Young's hand was about to shoot a three-pointer, Robertson came up to the defense, and several times he took the trouble to return the ball to Turner in the high post, and Turner wanted to pass the ball back to Hougist, but seeing that Adams did not pounce, Turner temporarily changed his mind and hit a mid-range shot.

On the way back, Turner complained to Hoggist: "Big brother, how can you shake the pot? ”

"Dump the pot, are you kidding me? Isn't it negotiated in the midfield, as long as you dare to throw, I will continue to pass the ball to you? Why did you get instigated at the beginning of the third quarter? Hoggist asked, feigned surprise.

"I thought you were joking with me? I didn't expect you to really pass the ball to me! This time it was Turner's turn to be surprised, but the look of surprise on Turner's face was 100% natural.

"We've been teammates for so many years, and it really breaks my heart that you actually look at me like this!" Hougist actually squeezed out two crocodile tears, and looked as if he was really sad.

"Gotta get it, big brother, I was wrong, I misunderstood a piece of your mind, don't worry, I will attack myself when I receive the ball!" Turner patted his chest and reassured.

Hogist looked helpless, "If the opportunity is not good, don't attack it!" Just fight how you want to fight! ”

Westbrook dribbled to the frontcourt, and Robertson came up and made a very insincere fake cover, flashing past Jeremy Lin's side. Durant went up to the elbow area to receive the ball, Westbrook passed the ball to Durant, and Jeremy Lin quickly turned around and formed a trap with Hoggist.

Durant ignored the defense, walked from the middle to the paint, burst to the basket, and the lever changed hands to pick up the basket to score. Hoggist picked up the ball and withdrew to the outside of the baseline to feed it to Jeremy Lin, while reminding his teammates: "Cheer up, concentrate and watch out for their counterattacks." ”

Jeremy Lin dribbled to the frontcourt, Turner came up to cover, and the two repeatedly transmitted the ball several times as the cooperation of Hougist and Turner just now, but both Turner and Jeremy Lin felt that their chances were not very good, so the two passed the ball repeatedly and patiently, and did not rush to shoot.

With no chance to come back after repeating, Jeremy Lin controlled the ball and retreated outside the three-point line, signaling Turner to sink to the low post and let Randle come up to cover. This time the blocking and dismantling cooperation was finally successful, Jeremy Lin hit the ball into the interior and gave it to Randle, but unfortunately Randle forced a layup and missed, Turner jumped first under the basket, and the one-handed basket still missed.

Robertson picked up the rebound and passed to Westbrook. Wei Shao dribbled and launched a fast break, went to the top of the arc and crossed to Durant, Durant burst to the free throw line and jumped back to Roberson at the top of the arc, and Robertson was giving Ibaka to the bottom corner.

Ibaka was an open spot, but the Lakers' defensive rotation wasn't slow, and when the ball reached Ibaka. The defender pounced on him as well. Ibaka gave the ball to Wei Shao, who was closer to the bottom corner, and Wei Shao received the ball to face Turner, who switched defenses, dribbled a step to the line, and then jumped to shoot a three-point shot.

How could Turner allow Westbrook to score easily in front of him, he also jumped up with a step, stretched out his arm to interfere with Wei Shao's shot, Wei Shao's peripheral projection ability was not very good, and under Turner's interference, the ball was even more crooked.

Hoggist easily closed up the rebound, his 10th rebound of the game. After only playing a little more than half a quarter, he easily cut down the economic triple-double of 20+10+10 again. Hougist dribbled to the front of the court himself, forced a break through Robertson's defense at the top of the arc, and squeezed Robertson away with an acceleration and rushed into the paint.

However, Robertson is not a vegetarian either, and in the process of Haugist's breakthrough, he cut the ball with his hands. Haugist dropped the ball under the basket and bent down to pick it up, and although he picked it up first, when he looked up again, he found himself in a state of siege.

Facing the Thunder's four-man combined defense under the basket, Hougist jumped up and carried Robertson away and forced a layup. Hoggist made a mistake and struggled to score a goal, but Ibaka gave the Lakers a big mouth with a backhand.

Westbrook dribbled to the top of the arc, no one came up to block the screen, and Adams instead played an off-ball screen for Durant in the elbow area. Durant ran around the screen from one elbow to the free throw line to the other, and Willis quickly distributed the ball to Durant.

Durant rushed into the paint area and was about to attack the basket, but he distributed the ball to Ibaka on the wing, and Ibaka forced a shot against Randle's defense and hit another three-pointer.

Hoggist dribbled to the frontcourt, Turner came up to cover for him, Turner's cover quality was relatively high, and he blocked Roberson solidly, so Hoggist took the opportunity to dribble to the inside, and after entering the paint area, Adams switched to Hoggist, and Roberson had bypassed Turner to chase behind him, and Ibaka had already stood up outside the reasonable collision area, waiting to make a Haugist offensive foul.

Seeing that he was about to fall into the enemy's encirclement again, he hesitated slightly, then jumped up and turned to return the ball to Turner in the high post, who received the ball and was unguarded by 7 feet in front of him, so he calmly jumped and threw the ball into steadily.

Westbrook dribbled at the top of the arc to adjust the rhythm, Durant moved from the low post to the top of the arc, pretending to block Westbrook, but Durant was just a fake cover, and when he didn't come to Westbrook's side, he suddenly started, killed the inside, took off under the basket, and forced a layup against Randle's defense.

Westbrook still attacked too hard, the ball hit the board and missed the basket, and Adams made a strong one-handed layup under the basket, but couldn't score the ball. Turner protected the rebound and gave it to Haugist, who was really fast, and Hoggist dribbled to the frontcourt, and was forced to slow down in the face of Robertson's defense.

Turner ran from the backcourt and covered directly for Hoggist outside the three-point line, and Hoggist burst into the high post from the wing and passed to Kobe Bryant on the other wing. Kobe Bryant stiffened after receiving the ball, as if time and space had frozen on him, and let Durant who pounced on him with teeth and claws to block, then calmly shot three points, and the first series of actions were very exciting, but unfortunately the ball was not thrown into the basket.

Adams received the rebound and passed to Durant, who dribbled to the frontcourt wing. Draw on Ibaka to cover past Haugist, make a sharp stop in the elbow area, and shake off Randle for a jumper. However, Randall reacted quickly and hurriedly turned around and pounced. Durant didn't think the shooting opportunity was very good, so he forcibly changed his hand shape in the air and threw the ball to the high post Ibaka.

Ibaka took a step forward and was almost cut off by Haugist, but hurriedly collected the ball to stabilize his body and returned the ball to Durant, who withdrew outside the three-point line on the wing. Durant left a breakaway this time, easily passed Randle and went inside, chased and blocked Turner and Randle under the basket, and Durant found another way to distribute the ball to Robertson, who was released in the bottom corner.

Robertson didn't dare to shoot when he received the ball, and the basketball was given to Westbrook on the same wing, and Westbrook received the ball and returned it to the high post Ibaka. Ibaka struggled to shoot against Randle's defence and returned the ball to Willis on the wing.

As soon as Westbrook received the ball, the referee blew the whistle. It turned out that Adams had been in the paint area for too long and was whistled by the referee for a three-second offense. However, even if the referee doesn't blow this three-second violation, the Thunder's offensive time will soon run out.

Jeremy Lin dribbled to the frontcourt, handed the ball to Randle in the high post, and cut to the basket, Kobe Bryant bypassed Randle along the three-point line from one side to the bottom corner of the other side to set up a no-ball cover for Hoggist, Hougist borrowed Kobe Bryant's cover to receive the ball on the wing, and stopped to shoot three points, but unfortunately the ball was shot short under Durant's interference.

Ibaka jumped up in front of Turner and gave the rebound to Adams, who was quick to get the ball to Willis, who had already passed through the midfield. Wei Shao received the ball and passed straight to Robertson in the bottom corner, but Robertson still didn't have the courage to shoot, and returned the ball to Wei Shao, who came to the wing.

Westbrook took advantage of Adams' cover to break through to the elbow area and again distributed the ball to Roberson in the bottom corner, this time Roberson could only bite the bullet and break down the baseline to the basket. Kobe really didn't expect Roberson to dare to attack with the ball by himself, and he was accidentally broken through, so he had to choose to pull Robertson's arm and foul to stop his breakthrough.

The Thunder re-served the sideline ball, and Westbrook received the ball and dribbled to the top of the arc and passed it to Durant on the wing. Adams came to the wing to cover for Durant, and Hougist made a mistake in his position and accidentally got stuck between the two, and Durant saw the opportunity to shoot a three-pointer directly, causing Hougist's violation cylinder foul.

Durant, as a god shooter, will never miss the opportunity to send points such as free throws, and he hit all three free throws to narrow the gap to 28 points again.

Kobe Bryant dribbled the ball over the half court and handed it to Randle at the top of the arc, and Randle handed the ball to Turner, who was raised, and went to the low post to fight hand-to-hand. Turner came to the top of the arc and distributed the ball to Kobe Bryant on the wing again, Kobe broke through to the low post, and Hoggist in the bottom corner of the weak side ran to the top of the arc to meet Kobe.

Kobe's ball to the top of the arc, Hougist singled Durant with the ball, Durant took out the maximum concentration to mark Haugist, Hougist also felt unprecedented defensive pressure, Hougist staggered into the paint area, had no strength to jump up for a layup, and had to share the ball to Turner in the bottom corner.

Due to the rush of the pass, Turner was unable to catch the ball, and finally stabilized the ball, but the offensive time was about to run out. Turner knew it was too late to pass the ball, so he had to force a three-pointer against Ibaka on the Thunder bench in the bottom corner, but he didn't expect the ball to rush into the basket with extraordinary precision.

The broadcast camera was given to the Thunder bench, Collison and Kante looked at each other with a confused expression, Turner's crosshairs are too perverted today, Ibaka's blockade of him has been done to the extreme, so he can be thrown, so how can he be restricted?

During the Lakers' retreat, Hougist was about to come up and tease Turner, but he didn't expect Westbrook to kill red-eyed, dribble wildly, and go straight through the whole court, flashing the blocks of Hougist and Randle in the air and putting the ball into the basket.

This was supposed to be a major liability accident for the Lakers' defensive end of the collective distraction, Shashefus basically wanted to apply for a timeout to criticize the players, but unexpectedly, Wei Shao kept nagging the referee after completing the layup, it seems that Wei Shao thought that Randle had fouled when he made a layup, so he was asking the referee for a whistle.

NBA referees are still more enthusiastic, generally you ask him for a whistle, a few more times he will definitely give it to you, this is not the referee after listening to Westbrook's arguments and then decisively picked up the whistle, without hesitation to stuff it in his mouth and blow it fiercely. It's just that judging from the referee's gestures, he blew Wei Shao's technical foul.

Hoggist stepped up to the free-throw line and laughed at the one-point gain. Shashewski said a few words to Jeremy Lin and sat back in his chair, after Wei Shao's 2 points of killing the enemy and losing 1 point, everyone should be able to raise their attention again!

The Lakers restarted, Jeremy Lin dribbled to the frontcourt, broke through to the elbow area, and hit the ground to Randle, who followed up in the middle, Randle took advantage of the situation, but was tragically hit by Ibaka's volleyball cap, Ibaka was also holding back anger in his heart at this time, I can't cover Turner, can't I cover you?

Adams received the ball in the paint and passed it forward to Robertson, who dribbled a step and passed it back to Westbrook behind him. As the so-called praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches behind, there is also a Lakers player in ambush behind Westbrook - Hougist.