Chapter 379: Lore
"Paul, you have to be aware that you have more than 47.6 per cent of all our attacking time on the ball, which is extremely unreasonable, and I hope you can control your attacking desires, this is not your team alone."
Gao Ming's coaching method is still based on data, although after a year of getting along with Wang Lei, Gao Ming has been working hard to learn Wang Lei's style, but the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, Gao Ming is still more suitable to use data to explain his own requirements.
For the players of the Thunder team, when they first came into contact with Gao Ming, they were really shocked by the opponent's style of mouthing all kinds of precise data, but after a long time, they didn't care, but Paul West, the target of Gao Ming's criticism, was more adapted to Gao Ming's coaching style.
I have to say that Paul West is indeed a very contradictory person, he is self-disciplined off the field as if he suffers from severe cleanliness, and on the field, he is wild like a barbarian warrior, on weekdays he is the most accepting of Gao Ming's face-to-face criticism, and on the field, he will completely forget Gao Ming's criticism as always.
After the game entered the second quarter, the Thunder used the rotation lineup to regain the score.
The Runners have inevitably seen a dip in their fitness after six consecutive away games, which has led to a bit of a slow start in their last two games and some problems with their players' hand.
Feel this thing can be really contagious sometimes, of course, it's just an emotional contagion, once the players of the runner team really shoot are really very powerful, but if someone really doesn't allow it, the whole team will have a drop in hit rate.
The runners' rotation lineup on the court in the second quarter also felt cold today, which undoubtedly seriously affected their state, after all, the runners' bench lineup is a major flaw, Wang Lei's rotation lineup is basically a chaotic lineup, and the interior defense is scum to the extreme, like the "little man" Stephen Chambers is an example, if he has no feel, he is basically a waste.
However, Wang Lei is not in a hurry to change the starter again, the current runner team is more than ten points behind, it is a piece of cake, and the gap of more than ten points can be tied in less than five minutes, and now Wang Lei hopes that the players can adapt to the atmosphere of the game after the decline in physical condition, because in the playoffs, many times the players have to face this situation, which is also one of the so-called "playoff experience".
After playing more than halfway through the second quarter, Wang Lei successively replaced the Runners' starters, and the Thunder had a thirteen-point lead over the Runners.
Seeing that Wang Lei was not in the starting lineup, Gao Ming reacted quickly, and he quickly re-sent Paul West and Steve Walcott and others on the court.
It was by taking advantage of this advantage that the Thunder were able to regain a thirteen-point lead over the Runners.
Paul West relented a little after returning to the court, and his possession time was a little less, but his desire to attack did not decrease, and he began to rush rebounds from the outside, playing both the offensive and defensive ends.
The situation finally settled down after the Runners returned to the starting line-up, and Tour's three three-pointers were tried, hitting two of them, and his hand was well maintained, and after most of the quarter's rest, Tourgon's hand was basically restored.
Relying on Turgon's projection, the Runners regained the score, but they maintained a double-digit lead thanks to the better form of the Thunder's players.
In the final moments of the second quarter, the Runners set off an offensive climax in three minutes, and Turgun knew that the Thunder were a little slack at this time, and he keenly judged the opponent's situation, which was Turgon's super ability to read the game.
Under Turgon's leadership, the Runners instantly picked up the pace again, and the Thunder made several unnecessary mistakes in the panic.
With a seven-0 surge in the final three minutes, the Runners narrowed the deficit to six points to end the first half.
At halftime, Wang Lei commented on the player's performance in the first half, and Wang Lei proposed to continue to maintain a high shot in the second half in response to the player's poor physical condition and declining hand.
In a sense, Wang Lei's consistent idea is to use high shots in exchange for high scores, basketball, after all, is a game of putting the ball into the basket, Wang Lei's idea is actually in line with the development law of basketball, and, in the earth's time and space, there is indeed a successful experience of this kind of thinking, such as De Anthony, a stubborn old man, he almost to any team is this kind of high shot in exchange for high scoring ideas, and in the end he did find success in the Houston Rockets.
At the start of the second half, the Thunder were the first to strike, and Paul West unusually scored two three-pointers in a row from the outside, and the difference between the two sides was back to double digits.
Paul West was basically a breakthrough in the first half, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have projection, although his projection ability is not consistent, but it's still very good, and it's true that Paul is a passionate player when he comes on the court.
However, after Paul West's two three-pointers, the Runners seemed to have found their groove, and not only did Turgun hit two three-pointers very targeted, but Salehi, Francis, and Toby Sevesty all added three-pointers, and even Elvin Butler made a big two-pointer at the top of the arc, and he stepped on the tip of the three-point line with his toe slightly on his toes.
The two sides battled each other in the third quarter, and the Thunder also played their form today, their offensive success rate was scary, and the same Runners also had a wave of consecutive three-point rains.
At the end of the third quarter, the game was tied at 81-77, and the Thunder still led by four points.
The Runners dug a deep hole in the previous game, and now they are in better shape, but the same Thunder team is also in amazing form.
Entering the fourth quarter, the rotation lineups of the two sides continued to compete, and the Thunder took advantage of the height advantage to expand the difference to 9 points again.
The Runners were undeterred, with Turgun and his teammates playing a great teamwork, with Salish hitting a three-pointer from each corner and Erwin using a pick-and-roll to complete a brilliant aerial dunk.
The game was played to the last moment, and the score of the two sides was tied at 110.
The Thunder's last-ditch attack was unsuccessful, and Paul West paid the price for his passion, as he rashly chose to shoot himself on the last-ditch offense, and the ball bounced off the basket and was desperately snatched by Elvin.
The Runners used one last timeout with just 4.7 seconds left.
Sallich served to Irwin on the sideline, and he and Erwin then played a brilliant double cover for Turgon, which allowed him to receive the ball more than a meter from the three-point line.
In the last second, Turgun shot directly from more than a meter outside the three-point line between Sallich and Erwin, as well as Paul West, who had never given up on defense.
As soon as the ball was shot, the red light lit up, and the three-point shot was hit, and the Thunder regretted losing at home.