Zhang Guan's super triple-double shocked the entire NBA, and then everyone suddenly discovered that Zhang Guan not only scored, but also passed the ball like a point guard, helped opponents score, and even grabbed more than a dozen rebounds. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There is no shortage of scorers in the NBA, and with enough ball possession and enough playing time, many role players can easily score twenty or thirty points, and some "wave pitcher" type players can even score as high as forty points. But in the NBA, players who can help their teammates score are very rare.

Prior to this, many people in the league positioned Zhang Guan as a super scorer who was good at scoring, like Kobe, and after this game, people realized that Zhang Guan was much more terrifying than they imagined. Originally, everyone thought that everything would be fine as long as they could limit Zhang Guan's scoring, but now it seems that it is not enough to limit Zhang Guan's scoring, but also to limit Zhang Guan's passing. And it's basically an impossible task, no player has the ability to do that.

The biggest headache is obviously the Los Angeles opponents, who don't know how to defend Zhang Guan.

On March 7, local time in the United States, the Lakers came to Denver on the Colorado Plateau to challenge the Nuggets away.

The final score was a 12-point advantage over the Nuggets 126-114.

This Nuggets team lacks the ability to score inside, they mainly rely on Lawson, as long as they limit Lawson, the Nuggets are equivalent to scraping more than half. And Lawson is the kind of player whose stability is not high enough, and when he is in good condition, he is as fierce as a tiger, and all kinds of large two-pair brushes fly; When the state is not good, he is like a dog, and he can't do anything except sell cuteness. This kind of player can basically only eat deflated when he encounters that kind of tough defender.

Challenging the Nuggets away from home can only be regarded as an appetizer for the Lakers, and after returning to the home court, the Lakers can be regarded as a real challenge. The next four games, two games against the Thunder, two games against the Spurs!

Prior to their visit to Los Angeles, the Thunder had just lost to the Phoenix Suns and were overtaken by the Spurs in the West to become second in the West. However, they are more games ahead of the third-place Clippers, and as things stand, it is impossible to fall out of the top two.

In terms of team personnel, Wei Shao returned from injury, and he is still in good shape, and he has become a "triple-double man" in recent games. However, the Thunder's starting center Perkins and Sofrosa were both injured after the start, and the Thunder could only let first-year freshman Adams replace Perkins at the center position.

In the eyes of later generations, Adams is a very good interior player and definitely plays the starting position, but the current Adams is much more tender. On the Thunder's interior, veteran Collison and last rookie Perry Jones will get more opportunities to perform than Adams.

Perry Jones took the other starting lineup, which is also the new lineup that Thunder head coach Scott Brooks experimented with after Soflosa's injury, and he put Perry Jones alongside Adams as the interior lineup, Ibaka as small forward, and Durant as the shooting guard. The current starting lineup has played a total of three games, and the Thunder's record is two wins and one loss.

The Thunder team is a tall lineup, Adams is 2.13 meters, Perry Jones is 2.11 meters, Ibaka is 2.08 meters, and Durant's real height is not much to say.

The Lakers are still a big four lineup, except for Gasol, the other four are all small men.

As it turned out, the Thunder's lineup was a failure.

The popular trend in the NBA league is to play small ball, which must have a certain truth, and the future NBA is that the small ball style is prevalent, the rhythm of offensive and defensive conversion is getting faster and faster, and more and more three-point shots are thrown. In the last group of big men, if they run slowly, they won't shoot three-pointers, and nine times out of ten they will be beaten.

Coach Brooks' change of lineup backfired, with an athletically gifted player like Perry Jones being better off and Adams left with only a switchback.

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Wei Shao's shooting rate today is relatively average, and he only hit one of the four three-point shots, but in terms of defense, Wei Shao is still very hardworking, especially when he faces Zhang Guan, he is even more scrappy.

Since the shooting rate is not high, Wei Shao simply incarnated as Beverley, and he didn't want any scoring assists, he was desperately pestering Zhang Guan, no matter whether Zhang Guan took the ball or not, Wei Shao would pounce.

"Come on! With me, whether you break through or shoot three points, don't think about scoring easily! I'm not the Westbrook I was four years ago! "Westbrook was extremely focused and didn't want to give Zhang Guan any chance to score.

"Whoosh!" Zhang Guan passed the ball to the basket.

I saw Gasol take the ball, and with a flick of a feint, he went around Adams, and then went straight to the basket. And the energetic Perry Jones rushed over, and it was directly an irrational foul.

"Beep!" The whistle blows, the ball goes in, and a penalty is added.

Durant shook his head helplessly, compared to the treacherous and cunning Gasol, Adams is still too tender.

But Wei Shao looked at Zhang Guan unwillingly, he thought that Zhang Guan would play one-on-one singles like the World Championships in Turkey four years ago, but he didn't expect Zhang Guan to pass the ball directly.

The Thunder attacked, Ibaka hit a shot, and when Zhang Guan held the ball again, Wei Shao pounced again.

Zhang Guan made a breakthrough feint, passed the ball to Gasol again, and swiped an assist.

"It's a pass again! Zhang Guan is completely different from four years ago, Zhang Guan four years ago was a scoring machine, he rarely passed the ball, and now Zhang Guan, passing is addicted? Wei Shao thought to himself.

At the World Championships four years ago, Zhang Guan didn't have many trusted teammates at all, and instead of passing the ball, he might as well shoot and score more often. And now it's different, this is the NBA, even the worst level of players, the strength is stronger than the national team's starters, not to mention stars like Gasol, and excellent role players like Meeks and Netzmore.

And now, the Thunder's Adams is obviously a hole in the game, and Zhang Guan certainly won't miss this good opportunity.

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Wei Shao pestered Zhang Guan for the whole game, and the Thunder's offensive and organizational responsibilities fell to Durant.

Durant's shooting percentage can only be considered passable, but the free thrower doesn't feel good. He finished with 27 points, 12 assists, 10 rebounds and a triple-double on 8-of-19 shooting and 7-of-11 free throws.

Serge Ibaka also had 21 points and eight rebounds, and the Thunder's top scorer was Reggie Jackson on the bench. As for Wei Shao, he has been entangled with Zhang Guan, almost no points and assists, but he brushed 10 rebounds and got the highest on the Thunder team.

For the Lakers, Gasol had a double-double with 30 points and 11 rebounds. Meeks shot 4-of-6 from three-point range and he scored 28 points on 10-of-10 free throws. Bazemore once again took on the role of bench bandits. Zhang Guan only scored 18 points today, but contributed 15 assists, which is standard point guard statistics.

In the end, the score between the two sides was 106-114 for the Thunder to the Lakers. The Lakers continued their winning streak, while the Thunder were on a two-game losing streak.

Counting the Thunder's loss in this game, the main reason is not actually on the players, the biggest black pot should be borne by head coach Brooks. Under the trend of small balls gradually prevailing, and facing a running and bombing master like D'Antoni, Brooks came up with this lineup of four big and one small, and naturally it was completely blown up by one big and four small.

Wei Shao is staring at Zhang Guan with all his might, there is nothing wrong with this, Wei Shao's defense is as strong as his offense; Durant does the work of two people alone, and there is no problem with that, he already has the ability.

There is no problem for Adams to appear as the starting center, Adams is a good inside, all he owes is some experience, the young Adams will definitely not be able to stop Gasol alone, and someone needs to help defend it. And Ibaka is a good candidate.

Ibaka can be called the interior pillar of the Thunder, and the Thunder even gave up Harden in order to renew Ibaka's contract, which is enough to reflect Ibaka's value to the Thunder. Today, Coach Brooks used a stunt by choosing Perry Jones instead of Ibaka partnering Adams. Perhaps, in Coach Brooks' view, Adams and Jones, one tall and strong, the other athletic, can complement each other perfectly.

But the end result is that Adams and Jones have become a burden to the Thunder team, completely beaten by Gasol, and cannot play their due role. Although Gasol has always been said to be a soft egg, whether it is experience, ball quotient or awareness, it is top-notch, perhaps in the face of that kind of tough inside, it is indeed not very dare to be head-on, but it is more than enough to bully newcomers, especially Adams, a first-year freshman and a white player, has the most appetite for Gasol.

After this game, many sports commentators also thought that Coach Brooks' lineup was a stupid trick, but fortunately, the Thunder's record was good enough that they had the opportunity to try a new lineup.

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Although the Lakers won the game, the whole team knew that this was just the first round of the battle between the two sides, this time it was the Lakers' home court, but in the next game, the Lakers will go to the home court of the Thunder to continue the second round of the competition with the Thunder.

On March 13, local time in the United States, the Lakers came to Oklahoma City to challenge the Thunder away.

This time, Coach Brooks finally didn't stick to his "big four and one small" lineup, he chose a change of lineup, and Perry Jones returned to the bench.

Said the passer

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