In recent years, the Celtics have won the league by forming a Big Three, and the Lakers' championship is inseparable from the "robbery" trade with the Grizzlies, but the Thunder has relied on a group of talented young people to rebuild, which is a reverse thinking of the NBA's team building model in recent years.

The Thunder have the envy of all NBA teams with young talent, with third-year Durant currently leading the league scoring charts, Westbrook considered one of the most physically gifted young point guards, and Jeff Green, James Harden, and Serge Ibaka also showing good upside potential.

Few people remember the dismal start of the 2008-09 season with a 3-27 record, and there were even voices doubting that they would have the worst record in history.

In a sense, Durant can't be described as a potential stock at the level of ball skills, he is a real superstar. For that alone, the Thunder are a cut above the previous Bulls and Trail Blazers. Perhaps only their opponent today in terms of rebuilding speed, the New York Knicks can compete with the Thunder.

Among the rookies in the last three years, the only geniuses that can be compared with each other are Durant in '07, Rose in '08, and this year's No. 1 pick Wu Huang and No. 4 pick Tyrek Evans, these four are far ahead of other rookies in terms of improvement speed and helping the team win, and only the four of them really have the potential to be superstars for the time being.

In stark contrast to the Thunder and Knicks are the Trail Blazers, a team that was also rebuilt through the draft, but Oden the Great died before he could get started, and Brandon Roy was indeed not as talented as Durant, Rose, and Wu Huang. He doesn't give people that kind of imagination about how good he can become. It is also slightly inferior in terms of the influence of the alliance.

Now it seems. The battle between the Thunder and the Knicks has a lot to watch, Wu Huang vs Westbrook, Durant vs Iguodala, David Lee vs Ibaka are all very interesting matchups, but unfortunately before the start of the league season, I didn't expect these two teams to improve so much this season, so this game is not a national live broadcast.

T-N-T livestreamed the game today, and Charles Barkley said before the game: "The Thunder are a team with unbeatable potential and I feel like they've done a rebuild. Even if you don't count Durant, as long as the likes of Westbrook, Green, Harden and Ibaka improve slightly, the Thunder will be tantamount to gaining important new signings. No matter how far they end up, I think it's a team to be curious about. ”

Kenny Smith said: "Harden is a good pick for the Thunder this year, the first-year sixth man is averaging only 22 minutes per game, but he can contribute nine points and close to two assists, he is very efficient, and if he were on other teams, his average per game is obviously not lower than that of other rookies outside of Hugo and Evans. ”

The Ford Center Arena has a capacity of 19,500 people and is packed today. But the dissonance is. Some local fans spoofed the portrait of Emperor Wu and actually replaced his avatar with Taylor Swift. There are a lot of meanings in this, such as scolding his mother.

The Knicks players have already played, and Wu Huang smiled faintly at this, not caring at all.

As soon as Westbrook saw Wu Huang, his face immediately drooped, obviously dissatisfied with his pre-match remarks.

Thunder head coach Brooks specially reminded Wei Shao before the game that Wu Huang is no more obvious way to provoke and sow discord, but this does not mean that Westbrook will put away the anger in his heart, he has no good impression of Wu Huang now, just like he hates Chris Paul.

Wei Shao is a real person, he doesn't have so much thought, and he doesn't like to quarrel with people, so he hates Paul and Wu Huang who have a bunch of small tricks off the field and keep making small moves on the field.

Many fans think that Westbrook has some similarities with Kobe, both of them are very strong, stubborn, hard-working and paranoid people, but the two have many differences, Wei Shao has more kindness, enthusiasm and courage that is not afraid of heaven and earth, but less Kobe's spirituality, nor Kobe's extreme paranoia and all-round skills, and Kobe's IQ and EQ are still stronger than Wei Shao.

Before the start of the game, the players of the two teams hugged each other, Westbrook frowned and hugged Wu Huang, and did not say a word to each other.

Thunder starting lineup: Russell Westbrook, Sabo Sefrosa, Kevin Durant, Jeff Green, Nenad Kostic.

Knicks starting lineup: Wu Huang, Iguodala, Gallinari, Fry, David Lee.

In the starting lineup sent by D'Antoni, Iguodala was responsible for misaligning Durant on the defensive end, and Gallinari went to defend Sephorosa, who had little offensive ability with the ball.

The players of the Thunder team are indeed talented, but the athletic talent of the Knicks players is not bad, and the most worried about New York fans now is Wu Huang, he must be stronger than Wei Shao at the technical and conscious level, but he may not be stronger than his opponent in terms of athleticism, especially the confrontation ability, everyone knows that Westbrook is a deadly force when he plays the ball, and Wu Huang's small body may not be knocked apart.

"Who's going to have a hard time with him!" Wu Huang was not worried about this at all, and today he made a rare use of close defense, allowing you to break through but not allowing you to shoot easily, which was the polar opposite of what many media predicted before the game.

David Lee finally won the jump ball today, Kostic suffered a knee injury, and the New York center bullied the disabled to finally give his team the right to attack first.

Westbrook also has his offensive demeanor on the defensive end, staring at the ball in Wu Huang's hand menacingly as soon as he came up, and using aggressive pressing defense to deal with him.

The cheers of the Thunder fans were also in full swing from the beginning, and they all wanted to see Westbrook hanging Wu Huang on the court, "Westbrook is far stronger than Wu Huang", at least in the hearts of Thunder fans.

"Russell, use your muscles to kill that Chinese!"

"Let the Chinese see how real men play, the NBA is a game that only men can participate in, and the Chinese will go back and grow a few more pounds of meat and then send them to death!"

"Russell will teach the Chinese baby a hard lesson, I suspect he hasn't been weaned yet!"

Most of the Thunder fans are humiliating Wu Huang with his race, figure, and appearance. And it's not just them. The Knicks are playing away right now. Away team fans complain that Wu Huang is basically like this, which is really not new, and the lethality is not strong.

Wu Huang felt that these guys were jealous of him, he was also 180 pounds, and his figure was slim at best, not thin at all, at least he was stronger than Nash's confrontation ability. And the Warriors' Curry, who looks even thinner than him, why aren't so many people taunting them? And not to mention others. Durant, the core of the Thunder, was really skinny in the first season, and even now he is the size of a clothesstick.

Therefore, these fans are still jealous of the many scandals between him and his sister-in-law, and they are even more jealous of his handsome appearance and his popularity with female fans.

Wu Huang's current fan base is a bit polarized, and among the male fans sitting in the "Ford Center of Gravity Arena" today, except for nearly 1,000 Chinese, most of them are eager to get rid of him as soon as possible, but few of the remaining female fans are prejudiced against him.

He's in the fan base right now. The growth rate of male fans is slowing down, but the growth rate of female fans is exploding. If you don't believe me. The new followers who clicked on his Facebook and Twitter were basically all female fans.

Wu Huang pressed against Westbrook, slapped the basketball lightly behind his back, took a step back, and then quickly handed the basketball in front of him, giving Westbrook a chance to steal.

Wei Shao was really unkind, as soon as he saw the basketball, he immediately pounced like a mad dog!

Wu Huang quickly hooked the basketball, passed Westbrook with a change of direction, and suddenly stopped his hand at the right corner......

In fact, it can be seen from this goal that Westbrook's defensive habits and skills are not good, which is related to his personality, often likes ferocious pressing defense and fast hand steals, but once such a gambling defense is unsuccessful, it is a misposition.

However, because the explosive power is too rebellious, fans can often see Wei Shao quickly returning to his position at a speed close to BUG, and even stealing or chasing directly from behind, which can only be described by the word "horizontal".

But the problem also arises, Wei Shao is indeed horizontal enough, but he often makes himself a head when he is particularly cunning, such as Kidd, such as Paul, such as today's Wu Huang......

If Wu Huang is not slower than Wei Shao at all, he can obviously dunk directly under the basket this time, but he was stunned to stop shooting halfway, and the shooting rate is very slow, and Kidd and Paul know that there is a problem at a glance, but Wei Shao will care so much, turn around and kill back after making a pounce, and go directly from behind to block Wu Huang's shot, but naturally he didn't touch the basketball, and hit Wu Huang's arm directly.

"Toot!" The referee on duty immediately blew the whistle in the mouth, like Wei Shao's back cover, unless the cover is very clean, otherwise it is a foul by a beater.

After Emperor Wu landed, he put on a smug expression to continue to stimulate the other party, and said to Westbrook by the way: "Your movements are too slow, and your reaction is too slow, I waited for you for a long time, and I almost fell from the sky." ”

Westbrook was holding his right hand, and his face turned red all of a sudden when he heard this, but it was not because he was embarrassed, but because he was so angry that his brain was congested.

Emperor Wu was waiting for Westbrook to return his mouth, but after waiting for a long time, he saw a frog with a black and red face staring at him with gritted teeth, neither returning his mouth nor moving his hand, just staring at him with wide eyes.

Westbrook also has one thing that is very similar to Kobe Bryant, and that is that he doesn't talk trash. But unlike the boss who obviously doesn't talk trash and always likes to stir things up first, Wei Shao rarely takes the initiative to stir up trouble, and is subjected to the opponent's small actions or trash talk, most of the time his expression is like now, as if he is glaring at the opponent with his sharp eyes!

"Neurotic!" Wu Huang didn't know what was going on, and was a little uncomfortable by Westbrook's glare, and he hit two free throws and one hit.

As soon as Westbrook came up, he suffered a big loss on Emperor Wu, and of course he couldn't swallow this breath.

Durant knows his brother's personality and uses his movement on the offensive end to draw the Knicks' defense and create one-on-one opportunities for him.

"Naive, you still want to be one-on-one with me?" Wu Huang saw that the Thunder players were pulling space, which was a posture for them to go head-to-head, but he would not go head-to-head with this frog, so he immediately showed a gap, planning to put him in an urn to catch turtles.

Westbrook didn't have that much in mind. Seeing this, he didn't even bother to call for a block. Hold the ball directly to the basket.

Emperor Wu immediately turned around and followed. But he only guarded the outside, and the underside of the basket was all given to his interior teammates.

Johnny Frye dropped Green on the weak side and hit the basket and covered Westbrook, who was about to make a layup. At this time, Jeff Green was in the open position, but Wei Shao, who was charging with his head, couldn't see so much, and threw the ball out against Fry's defense, and the basketball bounced into the basket.

"Well done!" Thunder fans let off thunderous cheers after Willis' goal, and Westbrook's violent style of play was indeed more in line with the Americans' appetite.

"**** luck!" Wu Huang scolded in his heart, this ball Frye's assistance defense is already in place. But Wei Shao used his personal ability + luck to throw the ball in. "I don't believe you've been so lucky." Wu Huang patted Frye and signaled that he was making up for it well, today's Knicks' defense is to let go of his power and less impact the inside, as long as his ball is slow, he can only play as strong as just now, he doesn't believe that Westbrook can score such a difficult layup every time.

Wu Huang advanced with the ball on the offensive end, dribbled to Wei Shao again, and his right hand was like hooking the ball with his wrist, luring Westbrook to steal the ball, and then he only had to hook the ball. Immediately, it was a change of direction, and he could pass Westbrook in one step.

Westbrook was cleaned up last time for a tackle. However, only suffering a loss once obviously couldn't make him retreat, and Wei Shao still chose to step forward to break the ball.

Wu Huang is now more and more confident, "No one in this world is faster than me", he is now thinking like this, even if Westbrook is cross, he dares to make moves. This time, Westbrook was only close to touching the basketball in Wu Huang's hand, but in the end, Wu Huang hooked the ball back first, and quickly broke through in the opposite direction.

Westbrook's center of gravity has been lost, and he is powerless to break through Emperor Wu, and has been passed by Emperor Wu in the same way twice in a row.

Wu Huang did not choose to cheat and foul this time, and went directly to the basket to score the ball before the Thunder's interior defense.

The boos at Ford Center came to an abrupt end, and Wu Huang passed Westbrook twice in a row, and in a slightly playful way, which was a big blow to the morale of Thunder fans and players.

"It's almost fast, but the accuracy is a little worse, let me play you again in a while!" Wu Huang's mouth was not idle after scoring the goal, but this time he hit Wei Shao's soft underbelly, and Westbrook couldn't stand this kind of stimulation the most.

"Don't be complacent, you can't stop me!" Westbrook did hit the trick and didn't move to the defensive end yet, but he was still ready to come on his own for the next attack.

Wu Huang's continuous stimulation made Westbrook's brain begin to congest, Durant was not ready to let him continue to be willful, and after the offense was settled, he opened his hand to ask for the ball, but unfortunately the basketball never came to his hands, Wei Shao really chose to rush Wu Huang hard, and then forced a shot at the right waist.

"Bang dang!" This time it wasn't so lucky, as Willis' shot was interfered with by David Lee's defense, and Frye protected the rebound.

The Knicks immediately launched a counterattack, and Wu Huang received the basketball and dribbled to the midcourt and passed it to Iguodala, who was one step ahead of him.

Iguodala was significantly more capable of handling the ball than Durant, and was able to control the basketball even under Durant's followers, attracting the defense of two Thunder players and then transferring the basketball again to the unguarded Gallinari at the far end, and the Italian easily hit an open three-pointer.

Thunder coach Brooks loudly reminded his players on the sidelines to pay attention to the defense, and the Knicks' starters except for David Lee have the ability to shoot three-pointers, and their running and jumping ability is not bad, and it is easy to get open shots once they launch a counterattack.

Now there is a consensus among the teams in the league that whether or not they can control the number of Knicks counterattacks can largely determine the outcome of the game.

The Knicks' fast-break got players into the groove, and Lee then hit a mid-range jumper from 20 feet out on a break from Wu, and then scored four straight points with a hook shot from inside the box to open the game 10-2.

The Thunder were targeted with Westbrook's opening, in addition to hitting a shot in the opening game, the next four consecutive offensive misses, and more importantly, Durant basically didn't touch the basketball during the period, and Brooks could only ask for a timeout.

Barkley said during a pause: "I said before the game, I think Westbrook is one of the most talented players in the NBA so far, but he must not be Hugo's opponent now, because you have to use your brain to play basketball, Westbrook has courage and strategy, his style of play may be able to play brilliant statistics and performances in the regular season, and he can often play classic battles that make people boil, but in the key battles of the playoffs, he will definitely be the culprit of the loss, I think he should go to football, This sport is more suitable for him. ”

Kenny Smith disagreed with Barkley, retorting: "The two of them have similar athleticism, the same amazing explosiveness and speed, the difference is that Hugo is more flexible and agile, but Westbrook's confrontation ability and strength are far superior to Hugo. So I think Hugo might have an advantage in the early fights because of his better skill and awareness. But after a few seasons, when Westbrook has gained enough experience and honed his skills, he will catch up. ”

"Don't make a fuss, you're talking nonsense, won't Hugo's technology improve? Wouldn't his confrontation ability and strength increase? ”

"I think so, when did you see Reggie Miller practice Michael's powers? When will Steve Nash be able to develop Byron Davis' counter-fighting ability? ”

The words of these two people have their own truth, but what will happen in the future, no one knows, at least today Wu Huang has an absolute advantage in the opening competition, he handed over 1 shot and 1 in three minutes, 3 points and 1 assist, while Westbrook handed over 4 shots and 1 shot, 2 points, 0 rebounds and 0 assists. (To be continued.) )