After Yuan Shu's opening 1 attack and 2 passes, the Cavaliers opened with a 6-0 run, and gave the Thunder a dismount at the National Stadium of Japan as soon as they came up.

Valejo, who scored 4 points in this small climax, was the most excited, and after a strong dunk under the basket, he rarely screamed at the camera a few times, and patted his chest at the same time, vomiting the resentment of being injured last season and watching the team slip from the top of the list to barely squeeze into the playoffs.

Yuan Shu's style in the first quarter was completely different from before, most of the offense was launched from the outside, which made Ibaka, who defended Yuan Shu, feel a little powerful, after all, defending the outside line is not his specialty, and his blocking ability is impossible to play.

At the end of the first quarter, Yuan Shu contributed 6 points and did not score much, but he sent 8 assists in the first quarter, almost sending all the players who played in the first quarter. Under Yuan Shu's unconventional performance, the Cavaliers also led the Thunder by 10 points at 33-23 in the first quarter.

When Yuan Shu continued to send assists, Kenny Smith even said a few "incredible", because Yuan Shu's assists are so exciting, and among the active players, no player can have Yuan Shu's or similar passing style, Yuan Shu's passing is completely weightless.

Barkley finally remembered that person after thinking hard about the whole section, and hurriedly said: "Yuan Shu's style of playing on the court reminds me of a person. ”

"Who? Could it be you again? Smith said jokingly.

"Of course not." This time Buckley was very serious, "This person is 'Penny' Anfernee Hardaway. ”

Smith, who was reminded by Barkley, also seemed to suddenly realize, and after recalling for a while, he couldn't help but nod his head again and again, expressing his agreement with Barkley's opinion.

"Yes, after you reminded me, it's really a bit similar." Smith said, "Could it be that Yuan Shu has been training with Anfernee recently? I haven't heard that the Cavaliers hired Anfernee as an assistant coach. ”

Just as the two were still chattering with a hint of doubt, the second quarter of the game began.

Yuan Shu skillfully loosened his trouser belt before going on the court, then re-tied it, then blew the palms of his left and right hands, and walked onto the court.

The Thunder, who trailed by 10 points in the first quarter, did not dare to be careless, although Perkins and Westbrook were replaced to rest, but the level of Nick Collison and "old fish" Derrick Fisher was not far behind, and in addition to James Harden, who was the main sixth man, was also replaced on the court, and Kevin Durant and Serge Ibaka who continued to stay on the court, the Thunder lineup at the beginning of the second quarter was no worse than at the beginning of the first quarter.

The Thunder took the lead in attacking, and Durant once again had a challenge on Leonard's defense. Durant in the first quarter of 9 shots only 3 changed his style of play at the beginning of the second quarter, dribbling on the spot and then immediately dribbling to the basket to break through, Durant who is tall and arm long and fast is not bad after rushing up is unstoppable, Leonard this time the defense ate the opponent's shooting feints, when the center is readjusted, Durant has hit the basket and hit a one-handed dunk, narrowing the difference between the two teams to 8 points.

Leonard slapped his hands together in annoyance, and Yuan Shu, who ran past Leonard's side, gently patted the other party's buttocks, signaling that the ball didn't have to care.

In the second quarter, the Thunder strengthened their defense against Yuan Shu, and Ibaka was switched to Leonard, and at this moment the player who defended Yuan Shu became Durant. On the one hand, Durant believes that Yuan Shu's biased outside style of play in this game is not suitable for Ibaka to defend, on the other hand, Durant, who has practiced defense this summer, is very confident in himself and wants to completely lock Yuan Shu, who performed well in the first quarter, through his defense.

Facing the Thunder's substitution defense, the corners of Yuan Shu's mouth showed a contemptuous smile.

Even though Durant has been clinging to Yuan Shu's defense, Yuan Shu, who has the ball in his hand, still rushed in Durant's direction, seeing that the two were about to collide, Yuan Shu's action of seemingly desperately rushing towards himself made Durant a little at a loss. However, when he was only 0.01 cm with Durant, Yuan Shu's direction suddenly changed, a quick and flexible dribble turn, and then followed by a jump, and the next second, Yuan Shu dunked the ball into the basket with one hand, and all the actions were done in one go, and at this moment Durant was still standing in place, just watching Yuan Shu pass himself away, without any reaction action!

"It's a shame!" Seeing Yuan Shu's turn this time, Barkley and Smith said these four words almost in unison.

"Ethereal Difference" is the unique weapon of "Penny" Anfernee Hardaway in the famous league back then, with chic, flexible, elusive turning to defend his own players basketball skills, in the league at that time, even Michael Jordan's turn was not as natural and freehand as Hardaway, it was simply to the point of doing what he wanted.

"Charles, this time your vision is right, Yuan Shu's style of play is very similar to Anfernee back then, I didn't expect that after more than 10 years, I actually saw the stunt of 'pennies' on the court again!" When Smith said this, his voice trembled a little, which was enough to show the excitement in his heart at the moment.

Barkley pouted and said, "If you want to say that the most practical killer move back then, it is still my ass." ”

Smith's eyes narrowed into slits, and he looked wordlessly at Barkley, who had begun to boast again.

At this time, Harden's three-point shot on the court missed, and the Cavaliers got the rebound and began to counterattack, Irving held the ball past the obviously aged Fisher, and shot a large two-point shot at the top of the two-point arc against Durant's return defense, but unfortunately the ball hit the front of the basket and bounced forward.

Ibaka, who was guarding the basket, was about to take the rebound, which seemed to be in his pocket, when he suddenly noticed a figure running behind him, jumped high, and grabbed the rebound with one hand in the air.

Ibaka clearly saw that it was the Cavaliers' big forward Yuan Shu who grabbed the rebound and landed under the basket, Yuan Shu did not make any feints after grabbing the rebound, and jumped up directly to prepare for the basket.

When Ibaka found that Yuan Shu had disappeared from his field of vision, the surprise in his heart was incomprehensible, because just now, the other party was still jumping in the air, right in front of him, but in the blink of an eye, he was gone.

Yuan Shu faced Ibaka's defense in the air, and unexpectedly made a turn in the air, directly bypassing Ibaka's frontal block, and after turning and staying in the air, he drifted to Ibaka's right rear, and then changed the ball to his left hand and put it into the basket lightly.

This turn in the air is still one of the "penny" Hardaway's tricks, "light and ethereal".

"Oh my God!" When Smith saw the ball, he immediately hugged his head with both hands and said loudly to Barkley, "Charles, how did this guy Yuan Shu learn Anfernee's trick in a short period of time?" ”

Barkley didn't seem to hear Smith's question, and Barkley just kept saying in his mouth: "Misty, ethereal..."

This move, which is repeated again and again by the two TNT commentators, is mainly done by turning around and performing a series of escape moves. The reason why it is called "light and ethereal" is because Hardaway's turn is very light and ethereal, and only God can see through the subtle difference between Hardaway's turn and ordinary turn. In other words, everyone thinks that Hardaway's turn looks the same as the one everyone uses, but no one can achieve the effect that Hardaway used. And after turning around, or shooting by himself, or passing the ball by himself, it is almost up to Hardaway himself to do as he pleases.

Seeing Yuan Shu's continued brilliance on the court, winning the cheers and screams of the Japanese fans at the scene, Durant couldn't sit still.

As soon as the Thunder's offense reached halftime, Durant came to the outside to ask Fisher for the ball, and after getting the ball, Durant was not ready to attack, and Leonard suddenly forced forward to steal and almost made a successful steal, which made Durant break out in a cold sweat again.

Durant, who has been entangled by this rookie since the beginning of the game, was enraged, and before the center of gravity of the opponent's body could be fully recovered after the opponent's steal, he immediately broke through the opponent and rushed to the basket, Leonard caught up from behind and followed Durant closely, this tight speed and reaction made Durant a little surprised, and his attention was also focused on getting rid of Leonard's pursuit, and ignoring everything that happened in front of him.

only heard a "bang", and then the whistle sounded, and the referee pointed to Durant, who was standing in place with the ball and looked stunned, and signaled the opponent to attack and foul! Valejo, who was sitting on the ground, waved his arms excitedly. It turned out that Vallejo beautifully made Durant an offensive foul!

Although this ball seems to be the credit of Valejo, at least half of the credit actually belongs to Leonard, because it is Leonard's defense that makes Durant's attention focus on the opponent, thus ignoring Vallejo's actions in front of him, otherwise he is as smart as Durant, how can he make Vallejo, who is obviously not as fast as himself, make a foul.

The Cavaliers took advantage of the offensive foul to get the ball, and Gibson, who came off the bench in the second quarter, scored 3 points, and the score gap between the two sides widened.

Seeing that the momentum on the court was not good, Thunder coach Scott Brooks immediately called a timeout. The Thunder team, back in the player area, gathered around Brooks, and after a while, a heated argument ensued, and Durant's expression seemed to eat the person who was debating with him. After a heated bickering, the Thunder reached a consensus.

After restarting, Westbrook and Perkins returned, and the second quarter was only less than 3 minutes into play, and Westbrook, who saw the opposing team, returned, and Cavaliers coach Byron Scott did not dare to be careless and replaced Kyrie Irving.

When Yuan Shu got the ball for the first time after the Thunder timeout, he was surprised to find that it was two players, Ibaka and Durant, standing in front of him! This means that the Thunder team has implemented a thorough two-man bag defense against Yuan Shu!

It seems that the focus of the Thunder team's argument just now is whether to wrap Yuan Shu, and it seems that Durant advocates the tactic of wrapping. In fact, last season, the Thunder team used the tactics of wrapping Yuan Shu to take a 2-1 lead in the big score, because in last season, as long as Yuan Shu was completely prevented, the Cavaliers' defeat was almost a foregone conclusion, which also became the tactic used by many teams to face the Cavaliers.

In this case, Yuan Shu did not choose to pass the ball, but seemed to be more excited, and even the strength to shoot the ball on the spot was almost a little bigger.

After dribbling the ball 3 or 4 times on the spot, Yuan Shu suddenly broke through to his left, that is, the direction of Ibaka, and turned around when he was close to Ibaka, passing Ibaka at once, but at this moment, Durant also took advantage of the time delay caused by Ibaka's defense, quickly moved to the route of Yuan Shu's breakthrough, and blocked Yuan Shu in front of his defense again.

Yuan Shu didn't pause, and after dribbling the ball back and forth on the spot twice, he suddenly changed from a frontal dribble to a back-facing dribble, and then turned around and shook off Durant again. But this time Durant seemed to be fully prepared, and when Yuan Shu just turned around, he judged the direction of Yuan Shu's turn, and immediately rushed over, and at this time, taking advantage of the time delay caused by Durant's defense, Ibaka also defended again and formed a circle with Durant.

"Okay, then Yuan Shu is finished!" Westbrook, who was standing on the outside line to observe at close range, was overjoyed, thinking that as long as Yuan Shu was prevented, the Cavaliers would be almost dead!

However, just before the formation of the encirclement, Yuan Shu turned around and used inertia to directly receive the ball with his left hand, and threw the ball out of the opponent's encirclement, so that although Durant and Ibaka surrounded Yuan Shu, the basketball was already out of control.

Because of the opponent's bag, the Cavaliers' Leonard has been emptied, and he got Yuan Shu's wonderful pass outside the three-point line in the bottom corner, Leonard raised his hands high, threw the ball out in a very standard posture, and hit the three-point shot hollow!

"In addition to defense, this guy can shoot threes!" Durant thought to himself in surprise. You must know that before this goal, Leonard has not made a single shot!

"Stupid, it's not that Kehuai can't shoot, he just puts his main energy into defending you." seemed to see through Durant's surprise, Yuan Shu left this sentence and walked away.

In the next Cavaliers' offense, Yuan Shu's ball holding was once again resolutely wrapped by the Thunder, but this time it was different that on the passing route of Yuan Shu and Leonard, Westbrook was standing.

"Think that's enough? It's naïve. Thinking of this, after Yuan Shu dribbled under the dazzling crotch, he suddenly passed the ball to the outside, and Owen did not hesitate at all after receiving the ball, and made a decisive shot to score another three points for the knight!

After the goal, Owen raised his hands high and high-fived Yuan Shu and Leonard who ran past him on both sides.

Sweat continued to leave on Durant's forehead, which is not good, Yuan Shu found a trustworthy right-hand man, it seems that this game is not good.

Yuan Shu kept clapping his hands and encouraging his teammates not to let their guard down, and this was only the second quarter of the game. However, what everyone didn't notice was that in the middle of the second quarter alone, Yuan Shu had already got a double-double of 10 points and 10 assists!