83. Overtake
Fisher is really an old man, when he was with the Lakers, he was very good at using the offensive containment of Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, and Odom to create good singles and even open opportunities for himself, and he still does. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the face of the Lakers' poor team defense, Fisher's overall view quickly helped the Thunder stabilize the situation, so that Durant no longer played blindly, but fell to the most suitable position to shoot, and was quite performative and was "pushed down" by Carman.
From the slow-motion replay, Carman just turned around to block Thunder backup center Nick Collisson, but when Carman turned, Fisher happened to appear next to Carman, and was "pushed" by Carman's arm that swung to the back when he turned, and Bo was fouled.
Fisher's exaggerated fall, all fans know that Fisher faked another fall, and the referee probably knows, but who told you that Carman swung his elbow? The referee respected the "objective facts" and gave Carman a foul.
Then Fisher began his own highlight-reel performance, facing the Lakers' poor team defense, his team command ability was enough, and he mobilized the Thunder's super talent, and hit a wave of 7-2 in the final minute of the first quarter, and the Thunder led by nine points at 40-31.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers were limited by too many fouls and didn't even have a chance to shoot, and after Fisher came on the court, the Thunder's offensive and defensive style changed, and everyone worked hard to make fouls.
Fisher, an old man, knows that the Lakers are understaffed, whether it is shooting or defending, they will stick to the people on the Lakers' side, and they will fall if the Lakers move a little bigger, 6 fouls in three minutes, Carman didn't get a point on the court and didn't grab a rebound and 3 fouls, he didn't play for too long, he ran a few switchbacks, and was put on the bench in the second quarter.
At the start of the second quarter, the Thunder replaced Westbrook and Fisher in the backcourt, and Andre Roberson, rebounding maniac Reggie Evans, and Collison partnered in the frontcourt.
On the Lakers' side, Liu Ren is still on the court, Marshall and Nick Young are in the backcourt, and Antetokounmpo and Whiteside are also back on the court.
In the second quarter, the Thunder attacked first.
If it is according to the plot expected by Fisher, it is to use Westbrook's containment to slowly grind with the Lakers, strive for early fouls, beat the Lakers until no one is there, beat them until they dare not make too many moves, and even beat them until they break through to the inside The Lakers dare not reach out to defend themselves, and finally win the victory easily.
Westbrook dribbled through the half court without doing anything in the first quarter, choking him enough, seeing Durant score 23 points in the first quarter, he was envious and jealous, this time he saw that there was no Durant, he was ready to come by himself, he believed that he could do better than Durant!
Without Durant on the court, the task of defending Westbrook naturally fell to Liu Ren.
Liu Ren was engrossed in observing the opponent's attack, Ibaka came over to block Westbrook, and Liu Ren was ready to bypass Ibaka at any time to block Westbrook's breakthrough through the block.
But Liu Ren then found out that Westbrook didn't mean to borrow and dismantle! He seems to want to play singles?
Westbrook was not as arrogant as Lillard, he did not push away Ibaka, but compared 1 with his fingers, a gesture that Durant did in the first quarter when he was going to play alone, and Liu Ren knew that it was a gesture to be single.
Liu Renhu's body was shocked, do you want to be one-on-one? He loves it!
Liu Ren has a style of play with Durant's size, but Westbrook's type of play likes defense the most.
That's right, Westbrook wants to single Liu Ren and wants to prove that he is no worse than Durant.
Then, Westbrook was a little suspicious of life, how could this guy in front of him, who was more than half a head taller than him, be faster than him!
Westbrook, like Rose, is the player who breaks through the first offensive means, but unlike Rose's big change of direction that likes to destroy his knee, Westbrook's breakthrough is the type that uses speed to go straight and doesn't have much burden on the knee, which is why he has played for five or six years without being injured due to the breakthrough, if it weren't for Beverley's torn meniscus, he has always been a famous iron man in the NBA, and he is still the same after the injury.
But Westbrook is fast, Liu Ren is faster, Westbrook accelerates and rushes, Liu Ren has always been by his side, Westbrook also has a disadvantage that he can't stop when he rushes, Liu Ren's height is so tall that he doesn't dare to stop the jump shot in the middle distance, forcing him to rush straight to the right bottom line, parallel to the rebound.
Westbrook tosses a layup against Liu Ren's defense!
"Smack"
Whiteside, who had been ready for a long time, stretched out his long arm from behind Liu Ren, and the volleyball-style hat fanned Westbrook's shot away!
Nick Young, who was defending Fisher in the bottom right corner, picked up the ball and threw it to Marshall, who was on the top of the arc, and the Lakers counterattacked.
Antetokounmpo ran to the front court first, Marshall passed the ball to the ball, and Antetokounmpo flew a two-handed dunk to score two points.
Liu Ren and Whiteside's method of dealing with Westbrook is exactly the same as the method of the Heat's James against Rose and Westbrook, using James's super physical fitness of height, weight and even speed to crush each other, and the effect is quite good.
The more Westbrook couldn't score, the more he had to play, and the Thunder's offensive and defensive routines that had been smooth at the end of the last quarter were destroyed by Westbrook all at once.
For several minutes in a row, the Thunder's offense was all Westbrook's brutal work, hitting iron in a row, hitting 1-of-8 shots.
The Lakers fought back in a row and successfully overtook the score when they played 5 minutes in the second quarter, 48-46, and the Lakers led by two points and played a wave of 17-6!
Seeing that the Lakers have a tendency to collapse, Westbrook helped the Lakers stabilize the situation and even overtake!
Thunder calls a timeout!
Brooks has a headache with Westbrook, and it's good to have confidence, but Westbrook is too confident! He kept telling Westbrook to be calm and not to make the same mistake as in the Finals two years ago, when he was teased by James like this.
Westbrook was dissatisfied, and the thought in his heart was: "Why can't Durant single-handedly beat him like that?" ”
Westbrook is the same as Kobe, the coach doesn't let him do anything, he just has to do that.
After returning from the timeout, the Thunder replaced Durant, Perkins and Ibaka, and Fisher and Westbrook in the backcourt.
The Lakers are still like that, Marshall, Nick Young, Liu Ren, Antetokounmpo, Whiteside.
Whiteside's dominance on the inside far exceeds the two inside lines on the Thunder's side, with Liu Ren on the outside, Westbrook on the Thunder's side is still blindly brutal, and the Lakers have the initiative.
However, under the direction of the experienced fake wrestling man Lao Yu, the Thunder began to fake all kinds of falls when they couldn't beat the inside line, and Whiteside and Antetokounmpo were deceived into fouls in a row and fell into a foul crisis!