Chapter 378: Cooperation
Paul West picks up the ball and accelerates immediately, he is never used to slow attacks, his personality seems to be a bit introverted and disciplined, but as soon as he is on the court, Paul West becomes extremely passionate.
When it comes to racing, speed is Paul West's passion, and acceleration is the Texas cowboy's hobby!
No one knows why such a contrasting mood could be concentrated in one person, perhaps it has something to do with Paul West's family, after all, this mixed-race child has a father who is a farmer and a mother who is a descendant of the declining aristocracy of England.
Paul almost accelerated and then drove the arm to throw Turgun away, no way, what Turgun is most afraid of is Paul's point guard who has both body and speed, this kind of person is generally unreasonable to deal with Turgon, that is, to use physical fitness to crush.
However, Wang Lei formulated specific countermeasures for the characteristics of the current Thunder team before this game.
So as soon as Paul broke through Turgon, the weak-side defenders were already in place.
The Runners are now playing very smoothly in defense, and the team's tacit understanding has been running in well after more than ten regular season games!
However, at this time, Paul West hit a big two-point shot with a very awkward pull-up jump shot with a very serious forward leaning.
Paul, who had only accelerated his breakthrough in many previous games, finally has a new change!
Although Paul's pull-up jump shot was unexpectedly ugly, if you add that to his natural speed, it has to be said that it is indeed powerful.
The alliance doesn't care if your movements are ugly or not, as long as there is data, even if it is pushed in with your ass, as long as it meets the rules, then the duel will be effective.
At this time, the game between the Thunder and the Runners had been played for almost a quarter, and the Thunder took the lead by a narrow margin.
In the backcourt confrontation, the Runners defense is unstoppable, whether it is Turgun, or the defense has its own set of ideas "black hand" Francis, when facing the combination of Paul West and Murray Grayson, they are basically unable to keep up with the speed and strength of the other party, which is a crushing of pure physical fitness.
However, although the Runners can't prevent the Thunder's backcourt combination, the Thunder basically can't prevent the Runners' multi-point offense.
Since Turgun was targeted by Paul West at the start of the game, the young Runners, who were already able to make initial improvisations in the game, were smart enough to start playing with Turgun off the ball and letting Salish play possession.
After Wang Lei was replaced by Francis, the runners began to enter an extremely mysterious state.
In the eyes of the fans at home, the Runners seem to play very casually, but the Thunder players on the court lack the ability to find that the opponent is too cunning, and there is no fixed offensive routine at all, but they cooperate tacitly.
If it weren't for the fact that the Runners players didn't feel good today, maybe the Runners would be leading now.
However, as the game progressed, the Thunder's flaws began to gradually appear, and Paul West's stronger desire to attack made him more "independent", and the Thunder's offensive efficiency began to decline.
It's not that Gao Ming didn't want Paul to play point guard, but this Texas cowboy is unusually stubborn, and he won't play at all as soon as he gets to other positions.
So he can only let him continue, of course, Gao Ming can also choose to replace the backup point guard, but as long as Gao Ming wants to fire Turgun with all his might, Gao Ming can only continue to let Paul defend Turgon, but Paul is serious and hard enough to defend.
In the final offensive and defensive game of the first quarter, Paul's mid-range shot was missed again, and Toby Sevesi, who assisted Paul's Runners, stuck Paul's jump position early.
Protecting the blue board, Erwin handed the ball to Turgon, and the Runners' final attack was basically completed by Turgon.
Paul West immediately got serious, he waited until Turgun was past halftime and posted it, the aggressive cowboy didn't care about anything else, he just cared about whether he was playing well enough, and the same was true on defense.
Turgun didn't panic in the face of Paul's close pressing, and he used the rhythm of the dribble and the constant change of direction to mobilize Paul West.
With eight seconds left in the first quarter, Elvin Butler suddenly mentioned a high screen.
The Thunder immediately switched defenses, and they did a good job defensively.
But as soon as the Thunder switched defenses, Turgun seized an almost fleeting opportunity.
In a tiny space, Turgun deftly struck the ball through the Thunder's switch players and into the interior.
At this point, Ervin didn't cut down as the Thunder players imagined, he turned around and did another screen as soon as he finished the screen, and it was Salehi who really went inside from the weak side.
The whole Runners' offense is pretty much the same, everyone on the team is involved, and the offense is more varied than many of the current plays!
The Thunder expected the Runners to play a pick-and-roll matchup, but they really didn't expect the real pick-and-roll to be Salehi.
Salehi, who had been floating outside to shoot three-pointers, used such a penetrating dunk to announce to the Thunder that he would be more than just three-pointers.
At the end of the first quarter, the Runners played a wonderful match in the final attack, and the score of the two sides was tied at 29.
During the intermission, Wang Lei continued to encourage the Runners' players to be bold on the outside.
Today's first quarter game The Runners players did not feel good, and some of them took fewer shots in the second half of the first quarter and began to use the team's cooperation more to attack.
This is very reasonable in the eyes of many coaches, and it is also a phenomenon that coaches are happy to see, but this is not in line with Wang Lei's opinion.
Wang Lei knows that the most basic ability that the team has relied on to play so far is actually the three-point shot, but the three-point shot is basically trained through the tempering of time, and it is practiced in actual combat in the game.
Therefore, he hopes that his players will hone their abilities more in these more ordinary regular seasons, which is what Wang Lei really thinks.
If many players outside who are looking for opportunities to play hear what Wang Lei said to their players, then there will be many people who envy the players of the Dead Runners, it is really too comfortable, and the coach urges more shots, isn't it happy enough?