After halftime, Ye Feng's stats looked mediocre, he "only" scored 12 points and 7 assists, looked like an ordinary member of the team, and played the stats of point guards. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but against him Durant has scored 19 points, it seems that he can score at least 30 points in this game, it can be said that Durant has a large lead in personal data, and it is very likely that he will beat Ye Feng in terms of individual performance.

But in Ye Feng's view, there is little point in comparing individual data, and he would rather score zero points than hope that the team can win the game. Although Durant scored 19 points, the Thunder now trailed the Trail Blazers by eight points at halftime, so Durant's scoring didn't help them get out of the woods.

Brooks has a headache, 8 points is not a big gap, but it is quite close to double digits, the meaning of leading by 9 points on the basketball court and leading by 10 points is completely different, once the opponent leads by double digits, the team's morale will have a fluctuation, and if you can go through it, you still have to play, and if you can't go through it, it will collapse.

And it looks like Durant has been restrained by the Trail Blazers' lineup, and Perkins has become a breakthrough for opponents. Brooks replaced Perkins as the team's center in the middle of the second quarter, but the effect was not very good, Collison was more than brave but not fine, he could only make the situation slightly better, but there was no substantial change, and the Thunder's basket was not much worse than no defense after Ibaka was contained.

In fact, there are not many strong interior players of the Thunder, and if you want to keep up with the offensive rhythm of the Trail Blazers, only Ibaka is available, and no one else is available. Facing the Trail Blazers' big four and small, Brooks didn't have a solution, at least he couldn't think of this one, so he could only give it a go in the second half.

Normally, as the team's sixth man, Harden would only come on the court to play alongside Durant and Westbrook at the most critical moment, but now it is clear that Brooks thinks this is a critical moment. At the start of the second half, he replaced starting point guard Sefolosha with Harden, and the center position was still the veteran Collisson, for whom it no longer made sense to limit the Trail Blazers' offense, so it was better to simply let go and fight.

Harden was a great addition to the Thunder when he got on the court, increasing their possession to three, which also greatly increased the difficulty of the Trail Blazers' defense. But McMillan recognized Durant and continued to let Ye Feng and Cunningham wrap up, and Harden still handed it over to Miller to deal with.

However, Miller is obviously not as good at dealing with Harden as he is with Sefolosha, after all, Sefolosha is only a 3-and-D player, and Harden is much more versatile than him. This has to make people admire the Thunder management's vision of selecting high-pick rookies, whether it is Durant, Westbrook, Harden and Ibaka, they have all been able to play an important role in the game, and they are all brought back to Oklahoma by the Thunder directly from the draft.

Miller's inability to hold Harden down was completely expected by McMillan, but he didn't believe that Harden could turn the game around on his own, and Miller would not be completely blown up by him, so he could only say that he was slightly at a disadvantage. After all, Harden is not known for his speed, his strength lies in his ability to combine the ball and the ever-changing rhythm of the ball, and Miller can use his rich experience to play with him, and even cause some interference to his individual offense.

I don't know if it's because he has been the team's sixth man, Harden doesn't have the sense of responsibility to lead the team to victory, because he has always been the team's No. 3 or even No. 4 person. So at the beginning of the second half, he scored five points in a row and then fell into silence, Miller's close defense and small movements annoyed him, and even ate an offensive foul because of it, but now it is clear that Durant and Westbrook are in trouble, and the shot can only be handed to Harden.

Although the Trail Blazers continue to maintain a one-big and four-small lineup, and Aldridge himself is not a rebounding master, as long as the Thunder offense loses, basically every Trail Blazers player will rush to the inside to protect the rebound, which is also what McMillan specially ordered at halftime. It doesn't matter if you can't play fast offense, as long as you don't give the opponent a second chance to attack, in his opinion, the Trail Blazers can also beat the Thunder under steady play.

As a result, Harden's consecutive missed shots were all converted into backcourt rebounds for the Trail Blazers, and the Trail Blazers, who controlled the rebounds, became more relaxed, and the exquisite coordination was dizzying. Ye Feng is still the core of the team's tactical system, even if Durant comes to mark the defense in person, Ye Feng's skills can ensure that he can find space for the ball under Durant's defense, and he is also happy to feed his teammates with cannonballs.

You can't expect a team to do anything big with all the No. 1 and No. 2 scorers out of the game, with Durant being able to get the ball thanks to Ye Feng and Cunningham, and Westbrook being limited is entirely due to Matthews.

Completely different from the Thunder, the Trail Blazers' shooting power is not concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, Ye Feng holds the ball, but under his command, almost everyone gets the opportunity to shoot, even Cunningham, who has no shooting crosshairs, has cooperated with him to complete several aerial relays. The Thunder's defense was completely turned into a sieve in front of him, and by the end of the third quarter, the margin had reached 15 points.

Seeing that the team was in trouble, Durant had to step up and take over the team's offense, but Ye Feng and Cunningham obviously wouldn't let him shoot so easily. Durant can use scoring to stop the bleeding for the team, but every time he attacks, he has to spend a lot of energy, and his teammates can't do anything, which is also the sadness of the Thunder, they only rely on a few people on the team, which is a big drawback of superstar basketball.

With four minutes left in the fourth quarter, Brooks replaced the full starting lineup, and he needed time to crack the Trail Blazers' two-man bag, and today was clearly not the time. In the end, the Trail Blazers defeated the Thunder 123-112 at home and won the opening ceremony of the Western Conference Finals. Durant scored a game-high 42 points, along with eight rebounds and five assists, which was a luxurious report card indeed, but his team lost the game.

Ye Feng, who was thought to compete with Durant for the title of No. 1 small forward in the West before the game, only scored 18 points in this game, but handed out 12 assists, completely revitalizing the entire team. Although he lost statistically, it didn't matter, as long as the team won.