Chapter 302: Win the Nuggets Again

The first day of the game was all the focus of the battle, and the battle between the Thunder and the 76ers made the fans fascinated.

Counting up, this is the sixth game in a row that the Thunder has lost to the 76ers, including four consecutive losses in the Finals. It's just that this time the game looks relatively close to victory, if it weren't for Durant's mistake of breaking through the dribble......

Thunder fans are somewhat convinced that the Oklahoma media says trading Harden is a good thing. After all, judging from the game with the 76ers, the newly traded Kevin Martin can also play an excellent ability to steal points, he scored 18 points and 2 rebounds in the game, and only used 9 shots, which is less suitable for the Thunder than Harden than the ability to score without the ball.

After the 76ers went through the offseason, they didn't look as invincible as the Philadelphia media boasted, without an impactful second team, it was difficult for the 76ers to open the score when the second team played, and even like today's game against the Thunder, there were a lot of problems on the defensive end.

Collins said after the game that we need time to grind in, and that time is a painful period.

The run-in of the 76ers is a small run-in, and the new players are basically bench players anyway. But on the other side of the West, the run-in of the Lakers of the giants is a big run-in. Not only did Howard come to the Lakers, but also the run-in of the entire Mike Brown system, and the locker room came to the run-in of a superstar of the same level.

As a result, in the opening game of this day, the much-anticipated Lakers F4 team lost to the incoming Mavericks at home Staples.

91-99, from the beginning of the third quarter of the game, the Lakers were suppressed by the Mavericks. That's not the key, the key is that the Mavericks' star Dirk Nowitzki didn't play at all, and he was still on the injury list, and only Collisson, Mayo, and Brandon White were used to defeat the Lakers' luxury team.

After the loss of this game, the Lakers team was under a lot of pressure.

Tang Wenlong didn't watch this game, and was surprised to hear the news that the Lakers lost to the Mavericks in the opening game, but he didn't take it to heart, he felt that the Lakers' lineup would definitely be the top team in the league if it was run in well in the future, and it was not a big deal to lose a game.

The media thought that the 76ers' second team would be difficult to withstand the impact of a young team, and as a result, the next day, the 76ers would face the Nuggets back-to-back.

The 76ers' players have been prepared for a tough schedule for a long time. In order to close the gap between the teams, the league will always take care of the teams with worse records last season in terms of schedules, while teams with better records like the 76ers tend to have worse schedules. But when it came to such a difficult schedule, the players who had just been training for a month were still complaining, and head coach Collins made up his mind to shorten the playing time of the veterans in this game.

After all, the Nuggets are the league's most famous track and field team.

After the Nuggets traded Anthony, the record has been good in the past two seasons, and head coach George Carr is worthy of being a top coach in the NBA, gradually polishing such a starless team into a powerhouse in the West, and in terms of team activity and tenacity, the league is second to none.

Ty Lawson has grown into a first-class point guard, and Faried, Corey Brewer, Wilson Chandler, and Javier McGee are all athletic players who can run and jump, and this team has made a big splash and looks better than teams like the Warriors and Suns with a tradition of bombing.

When they arrived at the Wajovia Center, the young Nuggets players were also full of energy and wanted to do a good job.

The 76ers are the defending champions, beating such a team, or getting a luxurious statistic in such a game, tomorrow's headlines should not be able to run, and there can be a sublimation of their own life, and there can also be an improvement in their market value.

So from the beginning, the Nuggets began to roar and start attacking the 76ers' interior.

It's not a good option, Marc Gasol's ability to protect the rim is too strong, the Nuggets come in with too much interference, and the outside defensive line of Iguodala and Tang Wenlong is very limited to breaking through, and if you are not careful, you will be pulled out by these two people.

The Nuggets were immediately pitted by the pit they dug, and before the halfway point of the first quarter, there were four turnovers, and consecutive missed shots, scoring only 7 points in the first quarter, but the 76ers on the other side relied on counterattacks or solid positions to attack, and scored 15 points in the first quarter.

George Carr immediately called a timeout, replaced McGee, replaced the big center Koufors, and honestly played a tough game with the 76ers.

At the end of the first quarter, the 76ers won the Nuggets by 12 points, 29-17.

"The Nuggets dug a big hole of their own." When Tang Wenlong sat on the bench, he said with a smile with Mark Gasol, who was resting with him.

Gasol agrees with Tang Wenlong's point of view, "The essence of defensive counterattack is to find the place where the opponent makes mistakes, we rarely make mistakes, and the small-ball tactics are basically ineffective. ”

"The point is that Javier McGee can't stand you, he can't protect the rebound well, the inside is completely controlled by us, and the outside line breaks through us and we don't have much effect, unless it's a mid-range jumper." Tang Wenlong pondered the Nuggets' tactical changes in the first quarter, and he now likes to analyze the situation on the court more and more.

"And it can't be thrown." Iguodala mends the knife.

In the second quarter, Collins let Billups play 4 minutes, then replaced the veteran off the court and replaced the rested Iguodala on the court to organize the offense, the 76ers are a relatively tall lineup at this time, Iguodala point guard, Ray Allen and Butler on the wing, Loyle power forward, center is Kwame Brown.

Kwame Brown defended a bit fiercely, receiving three fouls in the quarter, but did a good job of stopping the Nuggets' flying style of play, twice holding down the dunks of "Half-Orc" Faried, the Nuggets were never able to lift morale, and the game went into the second half tepidly.

The Nuggets were always behind, and after the start of the fourth quarter, Tang Wenlong made a three-pointer and assisted Butler to hit a 3-pointer, and the score stretched to 20 points.

Then the Nuggets frequently counterattacked, Ty Lawson's front shaking changed direction very sharply, and the Nuggets played 8-0 very hard, and once saw the hope of a big reversal in the final quarter.

Collins called a timeout, and after the timeout came back, Tang Wenlong cut to the basket in the air, Gasol hit the ground to give him the ball, he dodged Kufors's block directly in the air, and hit a rebound on the lever.

This acrobatic goal won the applause of the whole house, and the top five goals of the day were sealed in advance.

Then, the arrogance of the Nuggets' counterattack became more and more sluggish, and with 3 minutes left, George Karl saw that the general trend was gone, so he replaced all the players off the court, replaced them with marginal people, substitutes, and rookies to experience the NBA game.

The 76ers also switched to the bench, and the game went into garbage time...... (To be continued.) )