Chapter 247: Thunder Twin Stars
"Oh" Westbrook's "volleyball-style" block made the home fans jubilant, and all kinds of cheers resounded throughout the stadium, Houston faced tremendous pressure from the start, and the tall and strong clearly felt the constraints brought by the pressure of 19,000 people.
"Fast serve" Just when the tall and strong were a little helpless, Jeremy Lin appeared beside the tall and strong and pushed the tall and strong hand.
"Damn, what are you stunned about, what am I afraid of? There's nothing to be afraid of, that's the NBA, I've always pursued places, come on" tall and strong secretly cheered myself up inside.
"Squeak squeak" The sound of shoes rubbing against the floor kept sounding in the court, and Jeremy Lin continued to dangle with the ball and tried to break through again, but this time the Thunder team Westbrook firmly contained Jeremy Lin and forced Jeremy Lin back to his original position several times.
In the impression of Tall Zhuang, Westbrook is not a defender who is good at defense, but after playing on the same court with him, Tall and Strong realized that he was a little wrong.
Westbrook is a point guard with super attacking power, and his radiant offense overshadows his defense, but his physical talent, violent speed, power, and bounce make up for his lack of defensive awareness, and Jeremy Lin's breakthroughs in the past few times have been blocked by Westbrook's strong explosiveness.
Jeremy Lin changed direction again, sticking to the baseline and rushing to the basket, but Westbrook stuck to Jeremy Lin's side, in this case, as long as Jeremy Lin dared to force a layup, what was waiting for him would be another big hat for Westbrook.
After a round on the baseline, Jeremy Lin returned to the flank to face Westbrook again, but at this time, the offensive time was getting less and less, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5......
At this time, Jeremy Lin once again broke through from Westbrook's flank with a heavy shoulder, but when Westbrook was just about to move to follow, there was a "peng" sound, and the tall and strong suddenly appeared on Westbrook's side.
Pick-and-roll!
Breakthrough is Jeremy Lin's strong point, and "blocking and demolition" is his killer move, and Tall and Strong is also good at it.
With the help of the tall and strong cover, Jeremy Lin got rid of Westbrook's defense with an acceleration and went straight to the restricted area to force a layup, but at the moment when Jeremy Lin was about to shoot, Durant who was on the wing and Westbrook who was chasing after the defense pounced on Jeremy Lin one after another.
"Slap" Under the pinching of the Thunder, Jeremy Lin did not force his shot, but passed the ball with the back of his back hand, and directly passed the ball to the tall man who cut in the back row.
The "good ball" roared tall and strong, rushed to the basket with a jump, and shot a layup on the side.
"Not good" At the moment when the tall and strong shot, Durant, the star of the Thunder team, quickly reflexively pounced.
Durant once had a nickname - "Wolf Spider", this nickname is very apt to describe the talent, with a naked height of 206cm, his arm span has reached an astonishing nearly 230cm, which gives him an incomparable advantage on both offensive and defensive ends.
Before Durant could reach him, Gao Dazhuang felt the pressure in his face, and when he finally shot, Gao Dazhuang gently picked the ball with his fingers, and the ball was thrown out in a large arc, thus successfully avoiding Durant's block.
"Dang", but the tall and strong layup hit the basket and bounced out.
Westbrook under the "My Rebound" basket stuck Jeremy Lin with one hand, and after judging the landing point of the pop-up basketball, he jumped up violently and pounced on the basketball with both hands.
But at this time, there was a person who was faster than him, and the tall and strong man who missed the layup immediately made a double jump, grabbing the ball lightly with his hand before Westbrook.
With a "brush", the tall and strong basket hit.
2:0
"YEAH" shook his fist excitedly after the goal, this goal has an extraordinary significance, not only he scored in front of the Thunder Twins, but also the first goal of Gao Dazhuang in an official game in the United States.
"Well played, boy, go on," Rockets head coach McHale encouraged, patting the tall ass in front of him.
But the Rockets' lead only lasted less than 10 seconds, and the Thunder's Westbrook dribbled from the backcourt to the frontcourt, and when he approached near the free throw line, Westbrook took a big stride to speed up again, and at the moment he got close to Jeremy Lin, he suddenly changed direction at a limit, and instantly broke through from Jeremy Lin's side.
At this time, Jeremy Lin, who was already unable to defend, moved sideways and secretly slammed into Westbrook from the side.
With a bang, the bodies of the two slammed together, Jeremy Lin staggered to the ground, and Westbrook also deviated from his normal breakthrough track.
The referee's whistle also sounded at this moment, "defensive foul".
However, Westbrook, who was knocked away, lost his balance, held the ball in one hand, aimed at the basket, and threw the ball in an extremely difficult situation.
With a "brush", Westbrook's shooting ghost smashed the rebound and rebounded into the Nets.
2+1!
"Oh" The home fans cheered, and the sound of "OKC" and "OKC" resounded throughout the stadium again.
The tall man ran forward and pulled Jeremy Lin, who fell to the ground, up, "Damn, this is all in?" This brute is so physical," Jeremy Lin muttered as he looked at Westbrook as he walked to the free-throw line.
Jeremy Lin's comet-like rise to prominence with the New York Knicks last season also belies his relatively mediocre defensive prowess, and unlike Westbrook, Lin's physical attributes are below the league average, including reach and lateral movement speed.
So when facing a powerful attacker like Westbrook, Jeremy Lin will get into trouble, and this is not only a problem that Jeremy Lin but also the tall and strong must face.
With a "brush", Westbrook hit a free throw.
2:3
In the next round, Gao Dazhuang once again played a pick-and-roll with Jeremy Lin near the free throw line, but this time Lin chose to attack on his own.
Jeremy Lin made a pull-up jumper, but the ball hit the back of the basket and bounced high.
"Counterattack" The Thunder's counterattack is very fast, and both Westbrook and Durant have a strong ability to attack the city, especially in the fast break, this ability is more obvious.
Westbrook's possession of the ball quickly advanced to the Rockets' half, and given his strong ability to break through, Jeremy Lin didn't dare to get too close.
"Squeak" But at the moment when Westbrook was about to break through the three-point line, it suddenly made a sharp stop, and in the surprised eyes of everyone, Westbrook pulled out a three-point shot on the spot.
Chasing three points?
In a fast-break three-on-three situation, Westbrook actually chose a direct three-pointer to end the fast-break.
The tall and strong immediately withdrew to the basket, ready to grab the rebound, but with a "brush", Westbrook's three-point shot passed through the Nets as accurately as a missile.
"Wow" In the midst of the audience's exclamations, Westbrook excitedly made a gesture of pulling out his gun with both hands.
To be honest, Westbrook's three-point shooting just now was not a correct offensive choice, but Westbrook's unreasonable style of play greatly boosted the morale of the Thunder team.
2:6
"Steady point, steady point" Among the starting players of the Rockets, Jeremy Lin is already an experienced player.
Compared with the "old and spicy" Thunder, there is still a big gap between the Rockets and the young army in offense and defense, and after continuous passes to no avail, Jeremy Lin played a block and dismantling with Gao Dazhuang near the free throw line.
However, this time, Jeremy Lin also passed the ball back to Gao Dazhuang while blocking and dismantling, and Gao Dazhuang immediately cut inside after receiving the ball, while Westbrook of the Thunder changed his defense decisively and firmly got close to Gao Dazhuang's pace.
The tall and strong who broke through the interior showed his strong explosiveness, and cut into the Thunder's interior with a dodge, but the Thunder's center Cole Aldridge who sat under the basket stood up early and formed a pinch attack with Westbrook against the tall and strong.
At this moment, the tall and strong man was unusually calm in the face of the pinch, a false sway, a sharp retreat, opened up the space for the shot, and shot directly outside the paint area, and the tall and strong shot was very fast, and the ball had already been shot before Westbrook pounced.
"Rebound" Westbrook yelled back and kept staring at the basketball flying in the air, he was a little unconvinced that the tall and strong could still score in such a hasty shot.
With a "brush", the tall and strong shot hit the Nets accurately.
4:6
"Huh?" Westbrook glanced back at the tall and strong, obviously this "rookie" left a deep impression on Westbrook, and this was also the first time Westbrook carefully looked at the tall and strong in the game.
Although Westbrook's eyes were a little vicious, the tall and strong felt that it excites him more than the congratulations of his teammates.
The Thunder are the most offensive team in the league, because in addition to Westbrook, who has an amazing attacking power, they also have the biggest killer in the league and a three-time scoring champion in a row, Durant.
In the next round, after Durant received a pass from Westbrook, he signaled his teammates to open up the space, and then slowly dribbled to the three-second zone.
Martin was just about to chase back, Durant had already taken off, and Rockets power forward Patterson immediately rushed out to block, but in front of Durant's terrifying height and bounce, Patterson's block had no effect.
With a "brush", Durant easily scored 2 points.
In the following game, Westbrook once again "greeted" Jeremy Lin with a three-pointer, and the latter delivered a subtle assist, and Lin made a clever pass to Asik's basket.
But the Thunder, who played at home throughout the first half, took the initiative, and the Thunder's "twin stars" - Durant and Westbrook were obviously not able to stop the immature Rockets.
At halftime, the Rockets trailed the Thunder by 16 points at 44:60, with Westbrook scoring 20 points on 7-of-14 shooting, while Durant scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting.
On the Rockets' side, starting point guard Jeremy Lin played abnormally under Westbrook's pressure, scoring only 1 point from the free throw in the entire first half, but he handed out 4 assists, while the other guard "rookie" Tall and Strong did not have the slightest stage fright, and scored the Rockets' current high score of 14 points.
The trip to Yunnan is over, a beautiful place, that is, the altitude is too high, and altitude sickness has kept me in a state of dizziness.