Chapter 316: Unexpected Gain
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The Trail Blazers, Kings, Raptors, and Suns once again helped the Lakers extend their winning streak to four games.
On the 14th, the Lakers played the Thunder away.
Since the Thunder chose Durant, they have gradually risen to become a strong team in the NBA. However, the Thunder are just a playoff team and have no hope of winning the championship.
The reason for this is also the problem of the Thunder's management. The Thunder is located in a small ball market, and the management thought about how to save money, and traded away Jeff Green and Harden successively. These two players, plus Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka, plus the newly rising Reggie Jackson, can form a very strong lineup.
Fortunately, the Thunder has cultivated rookies over the years, otherwise if the trade continues like this, the Thunder will be traded sooner or later.
The Thunder could not win the championship, and there were other reasons, internal worries, and external troubles.
The internal worry is Westbrook, Westbrook is very strong, but a bit independent. Since he secured the Thunder's point guard, his shots have increased from 14 to 19 over the years. If you take it out alone, with his hit rate of about 43%, it seems reasonable.
But the boss of the Thunder is Durant, whose shooting percentage hovers around 50% all year round, and his shooting is only around 19. Whether as the boss or the star with the highest shooting percentage, Durant has not increased his shots, and Westbrook's shots have increased, which speaks for itself.
The external problem is that they are in the West and have to face the Lakers. Whether it is the Lakers who had the Big Three before, or the Lakers who are now single-core, they are not something that the current Thunder can beat.
Durant is already a superstar in the league, but there is one person who will always hold him down, and that person is Wu Di.
Since Wu Di arrived with the Lakers, he began to press Durant and spelled out the identity of a giant to help the Lakers build a dynasty.
And today's game is to prove whether Wu Di has the strength to beat Durant and become the No. 1 forward in the West.
The Thunder's big forward is Ibaka, who is 208cm tall. Serge Ibaka is also a strong defender of James, and since James joined the NBA, teams have wanted someone who can defend James. And after Wu Di arrived at the Lakers, the teams hoped to find someone who could defend Wu Di.
Ibaka was the choice to defend Wu Di before, but since Wu Di upgraded Zhou Cang, Ibaka is not Wu Di's opponent.
What's even more deadly is that the Thunder's center Perkins is only 208cm tall, which can't limit Wu Di well at all. As soon as he opened, Wu Di was in the inner line of desire and desire, how to play and how to have.
On the defensive end, neither Ibaka nor Perkins could score on Wu Di's head. After contributing a few blocks to Wu Di, they were all pulled outside the box.
As mentioned earlier, Westbrook's shots have increased. He only shoots about 30% from three-point range, averages less than five shots per game, and the rest of his shots are mid-range and under-the-basket, with the highest proportion of shots under the basket.
And the Lakers' defensive mid-range shooting is also relatively tight, Westbrook broke through Jeremy Lin, and if he wants to shoot, he will say interference. It's true that Jeremy Lin's worth is a little inflated now, but his speed is still good, after all, he wants this to eat.
Westbrook had to rush to the basket a little longer, and then the first ball was fanned out by Wu Di.
was covered by Wu Di, and the anger in Westbrook's heart also rose, and he began to want to regain face.
I have to say that Westbrook does have a set. The next ball made Wu Di a foul, and then made two free throws and two hits, which was regarded as revenge for the block.
If it were an ordinary person, take revenge and forget it! But Westbrook didn't, he had a whim, and he felt that Wu Di was nothing remarkable, so he wanted to beat Wu Di down.
But is Wu Di so easy to fight? Of course not, many teams want to beat Wu Di, but none of them succeeded.
Next, as long as there is an opportunity, Westbrook wants to raid inside, but Wu Di is defended.
At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led by eight points, 32-24. Wu Di alone got 14 points, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 6 blocks, four of which were given by Westbrook.
After Wu Di learned his data after he got off the field, he immediately turned his mind to a hurry, maybe he could try to complete four doubles!
Wu Di began to calculate, he only needed 7 more rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks to get a quadruple-double. Although the cap is the least, it is also the most difficult to obtain, and it is still necessary to find a way from Westbrook, Wu Di rolled his eyes and had an idea.
When he came on the court in the second quarter, he waited for Westbrook to break through.
After waiting for three minutes, Wu Di grabbed three rebounds and handed out two more assists before Westbrook broke through. Wu Di immediately met him, and raised his hand to hit Westbrook's arm.
"Drop!"
The referee awarded Wu Di a foul on the beater, who had already committed two fouls.
In the two-minute fire, Wu Di once again deliberately hit Westbrook's hand and sent a foul.
D'Antoni called a timeout to replace Udy. But Wu Di shook his head, that is, he wanted to continue to play.
After the game started again, Westbrook saw Wu Di continue to play, and immediately became excited. Covering his head with the ball, he broke through to the inside, and he also wanted to make Wu Di's foul.
Wu Di immediately went up to block, and when he went to the basket, he pointed his finger under the basketball and mixed a block.
However, the ball was blocked a little reluctantly, and it did not arouse Westbrook's suspicions.
When Westbrook was playing the next ball, Wu Di was still blocking like that, but he didn't touch the basketball and was thrown by him.
As soon as the virtual and the real were combined, Westbrook entered Wu Di's trap.
In the 8th minute, Westbrook broke through again and was covered by Wu Di.
In the 10th minute, Wu Di gave him another foul and was substituted.
Wu Di has already committed four fouls, which only adds to Westbrook's confidence. In the second half, he broke through more resolutely, and as soon as he came up, he burst into Wu Di's body.
Wu Di stood still, and Westbrook crashed into it himself. But Wu Di stepped back, stretched out his ape arm, and knocked the ball off Westbrook's hand with a slap.
Westbrook does not believe in evil and breaks through again. was blocked by Wu Di head-on and fanned to the backcourt. He's got 10 blocks, he doesn't need to act anymore, and with 4 more rebounds and 2 assists, he's ready to complete the system's task.