86. A tragic victory

Liu Ren was overjoyed, was it a physical foul? There was no one in front of him, and no matter who the Thunder players were fouling them were, it was a foul that hindered the Lakers' unguarded fast break, and that was a foul against sportsmanship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But! Liu Ren, who turned around, saw that the person who raised his hand to signal that he had committed a foul was a chagrined Carman!

Seeing the replay on the big screen, it turned out that after Carman grabbed the rebound, he was about to pass the ball, but was stealed by Lao Yu at a critical moment! In a hurry, Carman forgot that he had five fouls and wanted to break back, but he didn't get the ball and didn't say anything, and he fouled!

6 fouls, although he will not be ejected, but it is no different from eviction, and he can only sit on the bench.

There weren't many fouls on either side in the fourth quarter, and before they got to the point of fouling free throws, the Lakers could only replace Thackeray, who was also burdened with five fouls.

Thackeray hugged Carman comfortingly and walked onto the court, looking at Carman with some sympathy in his eyes.

Carman thought that Thackeray was sympathetic because of his 6 crimes, and he didn't think much of it.

When Carman sat on the bench, he felt the feeling of Thackeray, why is this Lakers' bench so gloomy? How can there be a chilly feeling?

The Thunder continued to attack, Durant went alone in the first quarter, and in the second and third quarters, because of the anger of the two sides, Wesley Johnson and Antetokounmpo fought hand-to-hand for two quarters, and in the fourth quarter, they had to chase the points for a whole quarter, and now their physical strength is a little down, and they miss the three-point shot in the face of Wesley Johnson's long-arm interference!

However, the Thunder are not disappointed, they now have an absolute advantage on the inside, even Carman, the former All-Star, is gone, and the Lakers only have Thackeray, the meat shield center who can't jump, on the inside, Antetokounmpo don't look so high, and he can't get into the interior by the old fish. And they have Ibaka and Collison two excellent physical insiders in it, Ibaka looked at the ball flying towards him, jumped high, he was already thinking about whether to dunk or take the ball for a layup?

Let's go to the basket and hit the stupid big guy on the opposite side, maybe I can get a foul, Ibaka is already thinking about his next three-point game to help the team narrow the gap to two points.

But! Just as Ibaka was about to touch the ball, which was just two centimeters away from his fingertips, a white hand appeared above his hand and snatched it away!

Liu Ren grabbed a defensive rebound on the heads of Ibaka, Collison, and Thackeray! And then directly advance the counterattack yourself!

Durant, Westbrook, and Fisher were the first to react, and Durant, who was on the outside, was the first to return to his own basket, and Fisher and Westbrook also chased after Liu Ren.

Liu Ren's physical strength has also declined a lot, and he is likely to miss a dozen or three, he glanced at it, and just saw a familiar No. 0, and immediately jumped up and passed the ball to the top arc.

Nick Young!

Nick Yang received the ball in the top arc, and two or three crotch dribbles prevented Liu Ren from sending an assist, and then received a three-point shot!

Again!

113 to 105, the difference came to 8 points!

Time is running out, and the Lakers' hopes of winning are growing!

Thunder called a 20-second short timeout!

20 seconds passed quickly, Liu Ren didn't even have the action of sitting down, the Lakers group were exhausted, all of them were desperate, and now everyone was moving their muscles to maintain their excitement, and it was difficult to get nervous and exert force after sitting down and cooling down.

After a timeout, the Thunder played the ball in front of the court.

Westbrook can't run anymore, he can't do it this year, he has been recuperating from injuries for a summer, and this season because of a knee injury, he has no time to train, and his physical fitness is seriously lacking. Durant's side is no better, and he will only choose to shoot hard now when he gives him the ball.

But Coach Brooks didn't dare to replace these two, there was more than a minute left in the game, and replacing the star of the house at a critical moment was tantamount to death.

Old Fish ...... At Fisher's age, it's okay to be a little smart, and it's okay to command the offensive run, but it's unrealistic to expect him to play as hard as he did when he played the Celtics a few years ago.

So, Coach Brooks gave the key ball task to Ibaka!

The Thunder pulled away as a team, with Westbrook and Fisher at two 45-degree angles and Durant and Collison in the two bottom corners, leaving Ibaka alone on the inside.

Originally, it was Thackeray who defended Collisson, but Thackeray couldn't defend it, so he could only defend Collison by Liu Ren, and Thackeray stayed on the inside.

Ibaka singled Thackeray in the low post, and Ibaka is definitely not as good as Thackeray in terms of strength, but he has a hand shot, feints to turn over and lean back, deceives the inexperienced Thackeray, and then learns the techniques of Harden, the third member of the previous team, and bumps into it.

The ball naturally didn't go in, but Bo got a foul!

Two free throws!

But that's not the point, the point is that Thackeray 6 committed!

Just as the referee was about to make a gesture to let Thackeray off the court, he happened to see the Lakers bench and was embarrassed for a moment.

I saw that there was only one person on the Lakers bench.

And this person's posture made the referee want to expel him, but he couldn't do it.

It looked like the seeker was crying and the hearer was sad, and he saw Carman lying alone on the bench, and it felt like something was floating above the bench, and there was a person lying underneath, how weird and weird, how pitiful and pitiful.

The Lakers have no one to replace!

If the referee sends Thackeray off, the game will be 4 to 5! At the critical moment, when the score is deadlocked, the game becomes 4 to 5? It is estimated that it will be sprayed to death by fans.

The cameraman also saw the referee's gaze and pointed the camera at the Lakers bench, wow! The cameraman was stunned, how bleak is this?

Liu Ren also smiled bitterly when he saw Kaman's condition, he seemed to remember that this often happened in the team led by D'Antoni, but what could be done, Kaman just expanded this miserable scene to the extreme.

The most important thing now is to win this game, and Liu Ren has left everything else behind.

The referee had no choice but to discuss with D'Antoni, and the final solution was to keep Thackeray on the court, but he would record a technical foul every time he fouled, that is, if the opponent hit three points, it would automatically become two free throws, and the opponent would make one free throw for a normal foul.

Finally, after a few minutes of suspension because the Lakers had no substitutes, the game resumed and Ibaka stepped up to the free throw line.

Too nervous, perhaps too excited for the first time as the main point of attack, Ibaka missed both penalties.

Looking back at the Lakers' offense, the Thunder still wrapped Liu Ren, and Nick Young continued to go berserk, hitting the sixth three-pointer in the single quarter, 116-105, expanding the difference to 11 points!

It's just that Liu Ren can't complain about the fact that this guy shot after dribbling again, and didn't give him a chance to assist.

With 49 seconds left, the Lakers led by 11 points, and Durant on the Thunder's side missed a three-pointer, and the foul sent Antetokounmpo to the free throw line and hit one of two free throws, and then Westbrook's three-pointer still missed, and the Thunder gave up struggling.

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Thunder 117-105.

The image of Carman sleeping on the bench went around the world......