"Well done! Well done! When the Lakers players came off the court, Shaw gave the players a wave of encouragement.

Wharton didn't say anything, nodded, and then began to lay out the next tactics.

The Lakers played quite well in the first quarter, even better than they did early in the season, and when they entered the rotation, they led the Thunder by a full 15 points, 30-15, which is quite rare at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

This is the power of repression, Tang Shuai and Gasol are both opponents of small-ball tactics, Batum and Knoll belong to that kind of neutrality, there is no clear attitude, it is really only Barnes is a supporter, so when Tang Shuai and Gasol broke out, the whole team's offense naturally rose to a higher level.

After arranging the tactical players to return to the court, Wharton sat back on the bench, his hands covering his mouth and motionless, only his eyes turned left and right as the players ran back and forth on the field, and it could be felt that his emotions at the moment must be quite complicated.

The Thunder upgraded their roster this offseason in order to retain Durant, trading Ilyasova and Sabonis, which gave them a certain improvement in bench strength compared to last season.

For the remainder of the first quarter, with Ilyasova's three points, they finally chased the score to 24-36.

That was a good sign for the Thunder, and Donovan replaced Westbrook at the start of the second quarter of the game.

The biggest difference between Westbrook and Tang Shuai is physical fitness, this innate, and may even be caused by the difference caused by the different diets when he was a child, which cannot be made up by the packaging system in a short time, coupled with Westbrook's hard work, his physical fitness is obviously stronger than Tang Shuai, which is why he can play 40 minutes a night and still act like a nobody.

Perhaps realizing that his teammates were not in shape tonight, Westbrook began to bombard the Lakers' interior as soon as the second quarter began.

Azeli is the Warriors' first backup center, originally with his performance in the Warriors, the market annual salary was at least 10 million, but because of a knee injury, his athletic talent declined a lot, and he was finally signed by the Lakers at a low price.

The knee injury hadn't healed at this point, and when Westbrook rushed inside, he was like a stake that couldn't move at all.

Westbrook slammed the inside and squeezed Azeri to score on a dunk.

Westbrook shook off Clarkson and scored on a step-by-step layup, while also causing a foul on Azeli's beater.

Westbrook hit a three-pointer from the outside.

As soon as the second quarter began, Westbrook opened the floodgates and scored a flood that instantly knocked the Lakers' bench into a sieve.

Under this crazy performance, the Thunder chased the score to 32-38 in just two minutes, leaving only 6 points behind.

Wharton got up and called a timeout, and then replaced Tang Shuai with Gasol and Noll.

The Thunder's offense, Westbrook has completely opened, facing Stephenson's defense, he strides over, followed by a pull-up jump shot.

Stephenson was knocked back a big step by his step, where there was space and opportunity to interfere with his shot.

"Huh!"

With a crisp sound, Westbrook's jump shot hit steadily, and the score was chased to 4 points!

"This is Russell! This is the Turtle! He can do everything, he can change everything! Barry in the commentary table climaxed instantly.

McDonald glanced at Barry with a strange look, and when the Thunder team in front of him was behind, he didn't say a word, and he shouted when he caught up with the score?

The Lakers' offense, Tang Shuai held the ball to the frontcourt, he did not attack as strongly as Westbrook, but signaled his teammates to run, and then let Gasol fall into position, and he followed and passed the ball in.

Gasol relied on hitting Ilyasova, and after a left-handed Ilyasova deflected to the left, he followed with a turn, stride, and directly blocked Ilyasova behind him, and then a one-handed shot to send the ball into the net.

Gasol's offensive strength is already strong, and he is very excited about this match, so this kind of singles is simply easy for him.

Seeing this, Nodovan beckoned, with Adams and N'Golo Kante coming off the bench.

Westbrook took the ball and pushed forward, this time he looked up at the score, there was a strange look in his eyes, and when he got to the frontcourt, he didn't go straight inside like before, first signaled his teammates on the inside to open up space on both sides, and then let Oladipo come over to block him.

After blocking the dismantling of the ball, he did not choose to pass the ball out, but suddenly accelerated and rushed in, from his closed mouth and holding his breath, it can be seen that this time he is rushing with all his strength.

Tang Shuai came over at this time, and reached out to try to block Westbrook's layup while retreating.

But soon, he was pushed back by Westbrook.

Originally, there was not much difference in the strength of the two people, but Westbrook was rushing, and under the effect of speed, his momentum was obviously faster than Tang Shuai.

"Bang!"

Westbrook smashed the ball into the basket after knocking down Tang Shuai, and when he landed, he let out a sigh of relief and roared at the audience.

The audience was in an uproar.

For the first time, Tang Shuai was detained.

"Look here! Look here! It's a slam dunk! Russell did it! Barry yelled amidst the uproar from the audience.

McDonald's face is not very good, as the home commentator, Barry's reaction is really a little too much, but on the contrary, Westbrook's goal is quite beautiful, he can only look at the field, expecting Tang Shuai to respond.

"You can't stop me! This is my home turf! My home turf! After Westbrook finished yelling, he turned around and roared at Tang Shuai, who fell to the ground.

Tang Shuai's face changed obviously, this is the Staples Center! Westbrook actually said it was his home turf?!

Westbrook didn't give Tang Shuai time to react after roaring, and turned around and retreated into the half.

Gasol came over at this time to pick up Tang Shuai and asked with concern, "Are you okay?" ”

Although he was very optimistic about Tang Shuai, he also knew that Tang Shuai was just a second-year student, and Westbrook's provocation just now was really too much.

Tang Shuai shook his head with a tense face, but did not say anything.

Gasol patted him and ran forward.

After receiving the ball, Tang Shuai held the ball and pushed forward, and when he reached the front court, he found that the defender in front of him had changed, from Oladipo to Westbrook.

"Hit me, hit me, you can't beat me!" Westbrook slapped his chest and chattered incessantly at Tang Shuai.

When Tang Shuai saw this, his eyes flashed with battle intent, and he raised his hand to signal his teammates to pull away.

When the audience saw this scene, their eyes burst into excited cheers, this is to reenact the familiar scene of Mars hitting the earth in the playoffs!

A smile tipped into Westbrook's mouth as he opened his hands and took a defensive stance.

Tang Shuai sank his center of gravity, changed direction one by one, and then changed direction after another, and after getting a trace of offensive space, he accelerated inward.

He knew that there was not much difference in strength between the two men, and it was absolutely right to take advantage of the confrontation and rush up the speed, just like Westbrook did in the previous round.

After three steps to the basket, he held his breath and squeezed away Westbrook to jump.

is blocked, and the best way is to fight back in the same way!

But just as he jumped, Westbrook suddenly stopped.

"Bang!"

There was a muffled sound, and the two collided, and Westbrook was violently knocked backwards by Tang Shuai's strong impact.

The referee's whistle sounded.

Tang Shuai, offensive foul!

After hearing the referee's whistle, Westbrook jumped up from the ground excitedly, and there was a crazy roar when he threw his head up and patted his chest.

Donovan stood on the sidelines and shook his fist vigorously.

This offense and defense, Westbrook showed unprecedented maturity.

The crowd burst into boos.

Tang Shuai held the ball and froze in place, and he didn't come back to his senses until the fans booed the referee in his ears.

By this time, Westbrook had already walked to the baseline and was ready to get the ball.

Tang Shuai reacted suddenly, Mom. Yes, one accidentally fell into Westbrook's trap!

In the playoffs last season, he took advantage of Westbrook's irritational characteristics to successfully provoke the latter, and then won a game, but now, he was calculated by Westbrook.

And that's really...... Yong Zhang Fei also has careful times!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh, and then turned his head back to defend himself.

The Thunder's offense, Westbrook still found Oladipo to block and dismantle.

Tang Shuai did not retreat like before this time, but directly went up, not giving Westbrook a chance to rush up.

In the case of not rushing up, the strength of the two people is almost the same, Westbrook tried to use his body to push Tang Shuai several times, but soon found that it didn't work.

couldn't go in, he hit Tang Shuai hard, followed by a retreat and dry pull.

Tang Shuai's defense at this time was focused, and when he saw him jumping, he also jumped up, and stretched out his right hand directly forward.

The purple Presidential Pack is then activated.

Westbrook was about to make a move when he felt a palm in front of his eyes.

"Bang!"

Westbrook jumped out of the basket with a sensory shot, and the rebound was grabbed by Gasol.

Westbrook watched the shot iron burst out with a burst of words starting with F, but he reacted quickly and beckoned his teammates to retreat after landing.

The Lakers didn't have a chance to launch a fast break, and Tang Shuai advanced to the front court with the ball.

It was still Westbrook who was defending him, and at this time he clapped his hands and yelled at Tang Shuai: "Come, come!" ”

This time it was Tang Shuai's turn to laugh, this has already been impulsive once, and then a second time? He's Westbrook! (To be continued.) )