Chapter 357: Ironbrook
This three-point foul was unavoidable, and Singel could only pull Haugist's right arm with all his might, disrupt his shooting action, and the province was beaten to 3+1. In the end, Haugist's ball was not thrown in his hands, and the referee also gave a three-point foul. Hoggist hit an easy three-game from the free-throw line to score three points.
Wei Shao dribbled to the front court to start "directing traffic", using Adams to cover and move to the right wing, while Durant moved from the right wing along the three-point line to the left low post, Wei Shao dribbled to the elbow area and suddenly threw the ball to the basket to pass the air relay, Durant quickly inserted the ball from the weak side of the low post and forced a layup across Haugist, but he went on a bridge.
Jeremy Lin received the ball on the other side of the rebound and quickly dribbled and counterattacked, and went to the front court directly to Turner in the low post, Turner singled Adams with his back, and felt that it was very laborious to stand up to it twice, so he used a feint of shaking his shoulders to turn around twice a left and a right, and Adams was still indifferent.
Turner suddenly felt bored, so he returned the ball to the empty cut to the elbow area on the same side, Houghist dribbled through to the low position to attract the bag and quickly distributed the ball to Turner who was lifted to the elbow area, Turner wanted to return the ball to Jeremy Lin at the top of the arc, but Westbrook saw through his thoughts, predicted the passing route in advance, and reached out to intercept it directly. This time, Westbrook finally rushed to the front and easily completed a slamming dunk with one ride.
The trembling of the hoops and the cheers of the spectators played a beautiful music in the arena, and Westbrook deliberately chose to walk past Hoggist as he ran back from the front court, glaring at Hogist as if to show off. Horgist ignored Westbrook directly, received the ball and continued to organize the attack in the front court.
Coming to the frontcourt, Hougist made a surprise attack in the face of Xin Nanshen, and directly forced a step to stop the jump shot, but failed to throw. Ibaka received the rebound and gave it to Durant, who dribbled to the front court and borrowed Ibaka at the top of the arc to cover and then returned the ball to Ibaka. Ibaka lifted the ball and shook it twice, and passed the ball to Durant on the wing again, Durant forced to the low post to stop the ball, Horgist stuck tightly and did not give him space to shoot, Durant cleverly distributed the ball to Adams in the paint area, Adams received the ball and threw it directly, Turner didn't even have time to react.
At 65:38, the difference returned to within 30 points, Shashewski saw that the Lakers' offensive end was blocked continuously, and applied for a timeout again, anyway, the Lakers had many timeouts, and they didn't care about wasting one or two Shashewski. The Thunder seemed to see the hope of chasing points, and replaced Xin Nanshen and replaced Waiters' father. The Lakers removed Randle and replaced him with Nance Jr.
After the pause, Haugist continued to hand the ball to Turner to misplaced single Ibaka, Turner advanced from the low post to the paint area with his back, turned over and threw the ball into the basket with his left hand from the side of the baseline, and at the same time lost his balance and fell out, but the referee did not say anything, Turner could only get up and run back while complaining.
Wei Shao had already dribbled to the frontcourt, and before Turner came back, he directly forced the inside from the flank, and threw a pass to Adams, who followed up in the middle, on the edge of the paint area, and Adams wanted to continue to throw, but the ball was cut by the defender Nance Jr. Adams hurriedly bent down to grab the ball on the floor, but there were too many people, Adams felt that it was difficult for him to hold the ball, and the best result was probably to fight for the ball, so he directly dialed the ball to the outside.
Ibaka picked up the ball in the bottom corner and shot three points directly without defense, but his three points have not been on target, this time it still bounced out of the basket, and Haugist directly dialed the rebound to Kobe Bryant in the paint area, and Kobe dribbled to the front court. Wei Shao retreated very quickly, Kobe Bryant did not find a chance to shoot, held the ball on the wing and waited for a while, Turner fell into position again, and Kobe Bryant gave the ball to the inside again.
This time it was Ibaka who misplaced Turner to defend Turner, Turner dribbled with his back and slammed it into the paint area, and then forced a turn to the side of the baseline and smeared it into the paint area, and made an easy layup with a low hand to score two points again. Hoggist came up again, "What kind of elixir did you steal today, it's so powerful!" Don't stop this medicine! Spirit! ”
"I may have stolen your hand cream......" Turner gave Haugist a blank look.
Westbrook dribbled to the top of the arc, Adams made an off-ball screen for Durant in the elbow area, Durant moved from the elbow area to the top of the arc and made a screen for Westbrook, Westbrook dribbled to the elbow area, Adams moved from the elbow area to the basket, Westbrook hit the ball to the ground and passed into the paint area, Adams suddenly went wild. Jumping off the ground, he slammed Turner, who wanted to block him.
There was a burst of cheers on the court, and Adams' dunk would definitely be a huge blow to the arrogance of the Lakers' best performers today. Hoggist also smiled and pulled Turner up, "What's the matter, can't you jump up after eating too much hand cream?" ”
"What is there to brag about with such a simple and crude offensive method? I don't care about walking the body flow, and if I bully people with my body, I will fall behind, and I want to use the technical flow to subdue the opponent! Turner said disdainfully, "Give me the next ball and I can still shoot!" ”
Hougist dribbled to the front court, and wanted to give Turner a low single, but Turner shook his head and said don't give it to him first, and it took less than a few seconds to finish the operation of the non-admitting show. Hougist didn't pass the ball out, and this stunned move was like a feint, bluffing the Thunder's insiders.
Just as the Thunder players were stunned together, Turner quickly turned and slipped to the bottom line behind Nance Jr. in the low post on the other side. Haugist probably guessed Turner's intentions and passed the ball over, and Turner received the ball and hit it again with a jumper. As he ran back, Turner gave Hougist a smug look.
The Thunder made a comeback, Durant competed for position with Hoggist in the low post, Hoggist was accidentally cut to the side of the basket by Durant, and Hougist wanted to go back again, but Durant ran directly to the opposite side of the low post. When Durant passed by the basket, Wei Shao saw that the Lakers' interior line was empty, so he shoved the basket from the top of the arc. Durant reached out under the basket to catch the ball, but Ibaka, who was defending Nance Jr., was moving to the line in order to make way for Durant, and Nance Jr., who followed the defense, walked to the line along the sideline of the paint area and took the ball in his arms.
Nance Jr. handed the ball to Jeremy Lin to advance, Jeremy Lin advanced from the middle, Westbrook quickly retreated, walked to the top of the arc but suddenly ran diagonally to the bottom corner of the right side, anyone with a discerning eye knows that Jeremy Lin's move is to open up the space under the basket, but it can't be followed out, Jeremy Lin is also threatening on the outside. But with the inside line to hope for the protection of teammates, this retreat process several main forces of the Thunder team failed to catch up with Nance Jr.'s follow-up, so they could only watch Jeremy Lin send an air catch, Nance Jr. easily jumped up to complete the air relay.
Westbrook was overheaded by Jeremy Lin's pass, and he was depressed, wanting to return a wonderful goal to breathe, so Westbrook didn't know which part of the arc to come up with the plan, and actually pulled out a jump shot and shot a three-pointer against Jeremy Lin.
Wei Shao does like this unreasonable style of play, but it doesn't matter if the style of play is unreasonable, Wei Shao's shooting rate is at least very reasonable, the more unreasonable the shooting, the more messy the shooting rate is, the three-point shot smashed on the basket neck and bounced high over the rebound to fly outside the bottom line, or Hougist's eyes were quick, and he leaned out in the low post to catch the rebound.
Seeing an opportunity, Durant hurriedly clung to defend Hougist, trying to squeeze Hoggist out of the baseline with normal defensive moves. Hougist also saw Durant's bad intentions, so he hit the ground and distributed the ball to Jeremy Lin, who gave the ball to Kobe Bryant, who received the ball and made a quick stop jumper, which had a good chance but failed to hit.
Bryant was a little anxious to shoot the ball, with 23 seconds left in the first half. The Thunder had plenty of time to make one final offense. Durant controlled the ball in front of the halfway line, and with 10 seconds left, Adams went to the three-point line to cover Durant, Durant cut through the cover and burst to the free throw line, but was caught by a double of Hoggist and Turner, and Durant hurriedly distributed the ball to the bottom corner of Ibaka.
Ibaka dribbled through, walked up the line under Randle's pressure to break through to the elbow area, and fell into the Lakers' encirclement, missed the shot under Turner's help defense, and directly threw a three-no-dip. Westbrook wittily predicted the landing point, got under the basket to receive the rebound, got up and made up the basket directly, but was firmly pressed down by Kobe, and Westbrook couldn't throw the ball out until the red light was over.
The score was fixed at 73:40 in the first half, and the Thunder only scored 40 points in the half, which was not as many as the Lakers scored in the first quarter, and Durant's 5-of-10 shooting rate of 11 points was decent, but Westbrook's 2-of-11 shooting rate was really miserable. On the Lakers' side, Horgist scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting, along with 9 assists and 9 rebounds, and Kobe Bryant also scored 5 three-pointers, but the Lakers' brightest performance today was not Horgist, but Turner, who scored 25 points on 12-of-16 shooting.
"Awesome, Miles, one person blew up Adams and Ibaka on the other side!" Hougist patted Turner on the chest and complimented.
"24 hours a day, seven days a week, I can handle them at any time!" Turner borrowed a famous quote.
Bryant laughed, "Isn't that Rodman's words, but Rodman is getting Carl on the defensive end, and you are blowing them up on the offensive end." ”
"I'm not bad on the defensive end, okay?" Turner said smugly.
Hoggist stood up and dismantled his platform very shamelessly, "Don't brag, who was so miserable just now, and couldn't get up after falling to the ground for half a day?" And you don't seem to have as many rebounds as me, do you? ”
"Damn, you're naked jealousy! As a god pitcher, you didn't score as many goals as me today, so you're jealous, right? Turner was not willing to be ridiculed, so he fought back.
Hougist smiled slightly, "I have an 80% hit rate, and you have a 75% hit rate, why are you embarrassed to argue with me?" Besides, who passed it to you when you scored so many goals? ”
"Haha, do you regret it? Don't give me a pass in the second half! "It's going to be Turner's turn to agitate.
"You come with me, as long as you can still score, I will continue to pass it to you, and let you be a single-day scoring champion today, so that you can play alone!" Haugist said angrily.
The Lakers were chatting hotly, but the Thunder felt the cold oppression in the locker room of the Chesapeake Energy Arena, as if the Chesapeake's "energy" had dried up at this moment.
Westbrook was silent, burying his head in the locker closet, and constantly beating his head with his hands, he knew that the problem was with himself, as the team's playmaker, he only had a pitiful four assists, only scored two goals in 12 shots, and only scored six points on free throws.
It is true that the team's 73 points in the half is definitely due to the disadvantage of defense, but he can't blame Adams, Ibaka and Kante for failing to limit Turner, let alone Durant for not blocking Haugist, because the whole team was constipated on the offensive end, and only scored 40 points in the half, and he is also to blame as the commander of the offensive end.
Durant leaned over in his chair and put his long arm on Westbrook's shoulder, "Man, don't do this, we still have the whole second half!" Forgot how we reversed the Rockets at the beginning of last year? The Rockets also scored 73 points in the first half, but we only allowed them to score 19 points in the second half! Didn't you get the score back? What we were able to do before will be able to do it today! ”
"Can you still do it?" Westbrook still looked depressed and didn't have any hope.
"Aren't we a lot better than we were last year? Have you been wasted for nearly two years? Durant grabbed Westbrook's shoulders and turned him to the front of him, shaking him vigorously.
"I've been training hard every day since I lost in the Finals, and I didn't dare to be lazy for a day, and sometimes I was really tired, and I didn't even have the strength to complete an easy layup, but I still gritted my teeth and persevered, in order to reach the Finals again, beat LeBron or any opponent, and bring back the trophy that should have belonged to our brother! Although James has gone to the Rockets, we still have Sergi, and Steven, and we are a Finals team! Our goal is to crush all opponents! Westbrook's eyes brightened the more he spoke.
"That's right, our goal is the championship, so we have to be confident of beating everyone by June, the Lakers look like they're going to be a big rival on our way to the playoffs, so we're going to have to give it our all and find out their cards today!" Duran nodded and gathered his teammates together, "Guys, the championship is the hardest road, but we will definitely make it to the end!" ”
Westbrook nodded vigorously, silently thinking in his heart, "I want the championship trophy and the MVP trophy!" ”