242. Advance to the Western Conference Finals!
Under Durant, Lamb scored six points, Fisher scored four points, Butler hit a three-pointer, and inside Thabit also scored two points on a Durant pass after Antetokounmpo and Whiteside were drawn out. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the second half, Durant continued to start without rest, and on the Lakers' side, Liu Ren also continued to start.
Durant opened the game with a tilted body and shot a three-pointer under Liu Ren's block, showing the super strong shooting ability of the strongest three-point player in history.
64 flat! After the start of the second half, the Thunder still clung to the score!
The fans at the scene looked at the court with bated breath, this was the best game played by the Thunder in the playoffs this year, regardless of the victory or defeat, the fans didn't care, they felt it was worth it! What more complaints do they need from their own team players to play so well? It's just that this year's luck is not good!
The Lakers are now really going all out with hard power as Kobe Bryant said, but the Thunder still tied the score! It's all thanks to Durant, who has already scored 40 points!
Liu Ren single-handedly held the ball in his favorite position in the top arc, with an unprecedented fighting spirit.
Perry Jones, who was defending Liu Ren, looked at the shallow smile on the corner of Liu Ren's mouth, but felt a chill in his heart.
Initiate! Liu Ren leaned out to break through!
Jones's tense nerves made him quickly retreat in the direction of Liu Ren's breakthrough.
Liu Ren immediately stopped urgently, his body was retracted, and he stepped back to shoot a three-point shot!
Jones knew he had been fooled! He wanted to turn back to defend, but his center of gravity had already gone to the direction of the blocking, and he forced himself to turn back, only one result was - he fell heavily to the ground!
Big gap! Liu Ren hit a three-point shot!
When the Thunder players saw that Liu Ren actually threw such a ball, a feeling that he was doing useless work enveloped the Thunder players.
Durant saw that the morale of his teammates was suppressed, so he naturally wanted to return it!
Big step back jumper! Liu Ren's blocking has pushed Durant to the limit, but Durant still hit three points when his body lost balance!
67 draws! The score is still even!
Durant and Liu Ren began another round of scoring and organizing offense frenzy, both of them have made great progress in this full-time game, mainly reflected in the organization of offense, both of them have a lot of assists before, but the organizational ability is really average, but in this game for the first time the two as the real organizational core, gradually touched some feelings, strength began to further sublimation!
The Thunder's side is still scoring ferociously, but a fatal problem has arisen, three points!
At the beginning of the season, Thunder head coach Coach Brooks set the tone for this team's game this season, shooting fewer three-pointers, and there are too few people on the Thunder team who can hit three-pointers consistently.
Old-school basketball, this is the way the Thunder play now, unlike some other systems, such as Phil Jackson's triangle offense, D'Antoni's small-ball tactics, the Thunder's tactics revolve around Westbrook's breakaway.
The Thunder is very strange, there is a top three three-point player in the league, Durant, but the others are very poor in three-pointers, there was a best sixth man with a good three-point shot back then, but he was traded by the team, that person is called Harden, and now he is an All-Star.
Because of staffing problems, the Thunder can't play small ball, and there is no shooter, they can only shoot as few three-point shots as possible, and the guard dominates the offense and defense, just like the style of play in the eighties and nineties, and now the only two people who can shoot three-pointers at will in the Thunder are Durant and Fisher, and Lamb only has the ability to shoot three-pointers in the open position.
However, it just so happens that Coach Brooks is an old-school coach, and this style of play and configuration in previous seasons is exactly what he wants, but this year Westbrook does not play, and his flaws are exposed all at once.
The Thunder's morale has been greatly boosted after Durant's three-point hit again, and they also have such a powerful superstar in their own house, not afraid of the opposite side! They've become more aggressive defensively.
Durant's physical fitness began to decline, and he continued to engage in high-intensity defensive confrontation with Liu Ren, but he couldn't keep up with the pace and was replaced by Jones to defend Liu Ren.
In the face of Jones's fang-and-clawed defense, Liu Ren broke through to the inside line with a change of direction, and Jones was so good that he still persevered to follow.
But it's all useless!
Ignoring Jones's interception and Tabitt's block, Liu Ren threw the ball into the basket with a small hook hand, not so much a small hook as a far away basket, Liu Ren's shot point has exceeded the basket by half a hand.
The Lakers are once again leading by two points!
Turning back to the Thunder attack, Liu Ren reluctantly raised his right hand, Durant pretended to break through, but it was a shot, Liu Ren reacted quickly and pounced back, but Durant's shooting action was still a feint, and then pasted it on Liu Ren to cause a foul.
Liu Ren was too nervous by Durant's continuous hits, and fell for Durant, forgetting that this guy is the boss of the three brothers in the big loop!
Durant's free throws were just as reassuring as Nash's, and the Thunder tied the score again!
The basket is like the sea for Durant, hitting consecutive shots, and under his leadership, the Thunder's outside firepower is full of firepower, and the Lakers also exploded in the third quarter under the leadership of Liu Ren!
Durant and Liu Ren played three quarters without a second of rest, and the Thunder and Lakers scored a super high score of 91 in the playoffs, and only then did they finish three quarters!
You must know that in the series that just ended in the other division, the Heat beat the Nets by a score of 89-76 in Game 5......
A few minutes into the break, Durant continued to start the final quarter, opening the game with a three-pointer and an assist for Fisher.
But at this time, the difference in strength between the two sides began to be revealed, and no matter how much Durant insisted alone, he could not fight against the entire Lakers.
After three minutes of playing in the fourth quarter, the little physical strength that Durant recovered was exhausted, and he could no longer fight against Liu Ren, who had many teammates to help.
In the current lineup of the Thunder, only Lamb and Thunder Strike-Jackson can play normally, and everyone else is a pit, positive is positive, but the strength is really not good!
The veteran Fisher, who had high hopes, has now lost his attachment to the Thunder, and it is okay to shoot in the open position, so don't think too much about him and the critical moment he used to play at such a critical moment as the Lakers.
Now Fisher's focus is no longer on being a player.
Antetokounmpo, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, Whiteside, the Lakers' lineup is much stronger than the Thunder's current lineup in terms of talent and strength! If Westbrook and Ibaka were all in order, they could still have a fight with the Lakers, but neither of them was there, Durant carried the team alone and fought for 40 minutes without rest, and he didn't even have the strength to shoot in the last eight minutes!
But it doesn't matter anymore, Liu Ren and Durant had a fun matchup, Durant got 51 points, 6 rebounds and 11 assists, Liu Ren 37 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 steals, both of them played the strongest performance in the playoffs in their careers!
Both have strong stats, but the Lakers lead by 5 points at 102-97, and Liu Ren is better in terms of team performance!
After seeing Liu Ren's satisfied expression, Kobe Bryant knew that he had finally satisfied this kid's competitiveness, and began to take over the game, leading the Lakers to a wave of 14-3, and opened the point difference to lay the foundation for the victory in one fell swoop.
In the end, Liu Ren got a big triple-double of 40 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists, and the Lakers swept the Thunder in the second round to advance!