Chapter Eighty-Eight: Fighting the Saint Seiya
Ball called a timeout here, and the whole world knew he was going to bring on Horn.
At this time, Reggie Miller on the sidelines said: "Today's game looks like a copy of yesterday, at this time I don't know what he does with Horn?" The most important thing in the playoffs is not the performance of the stars, but the changes of the head coach, and I haven't seen any changes in Ball so far. The Hornets still have to lose! ”
Mav Albert also said at this time: "The Hornets were really disappointing today! ”
At this time, the Hornets fans also felt very depressed, and the fans on the Thunder side felt extremely cool.
"Didi"
The Hornets made a substitution, and Horne actually replaced Collison.
At this moment, Marf Albert exclaimed loudly: "Ball replaced a guard with an inside lineman, what is he going to do?" ”
"The Hornets are on, Okafor, West, and Horn are three inside lines, this lineup is a little strange!" Miller was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and said, "Are the Hornets going to let Horne play small forward?" He's got the speed to do that, huh? It's an interesting variation. ”
The Hornets suddenly changed to a three-forward lineup, and the Thunder were also suddenly surprised, and Brooks immediately thought that this would allow Ariza to defend Westbrook, and Paul would not be consumed for nothing.
Thinking so, Brooks immediately jumped up and yelled at the court to get his players to pay attention.
But at this time, the Thunder and the second young man were proud, and they didn't care about the head coach's reminder at all.
West teed off the sideline and immediately passed the ball to Horn's hands, and Horn took the ball at this time when the Thunder's defense was entangled.
Although the Thunder replaced Danny Green at this time, the Hornets were a three-forward lineup at this time, with Danny Green defending Horn and Durant unable to defend West.
Horn turned around and passed the ball to West, who ignored Durant and made a foul when he came up.
The Hornets lineup was slightly adjusted, and the misalignment appeared immediately, and as soon as the misalignment appeared, the scoring came naturally. It's the playoffs, it's all going on without fireworks, and a small tweak is a series win.
Brooks saw that this was not going to work, and immediately used the free throw period to replace Kostic again.
The Thunder don't have three inside lines available, but they can use two.
Brooks is indeed a good coach, and he quickly made adjustments, and the Thunder's misalignment was erased after West's free throw.
The Thunder returned to the offensive end, and Westbrook came up with the ball to see that it wasn't Paul, but Ariza. Ariza will not suffer much if he comes up to defend Westbrook, and Westbrook will be smart enough to pass the ball to his teammates at this time.
But Westbrook took the ball and rushed hard in the face of Ariza, and the result was naturally not good, and Westbrook missed the shot.
The Hornets protected the backcourt rebounds well with three insiders, and the Hornets immediately chased it back, and the Hornets immediately passed the ball to Horne when they controlled the ball this time.
Letting Horndo hold the ball was also a pre-game adjustment, and the ball didn't go to Paul first, but to Horn's hand first.
Horn took the ball and the Thunder was the same as the last game, it was still a brainless bag, and Horn couldn't do anything when he was caught in the last game.
But now that Horne is trapped, the Hornets will cut into the air and Paul will come up to pick it up.
Horn stealthily stuffed the ball between the two Thunder defenders at this time, and Ariza caught the ball in the air and scored two points with a layup.
"Brush!"
The Hornets immediately scored 4 points in a row when they changed formation, and the Thunder's offense was blocked, and the Hornets' adjustment worked.
At this time, Brooks hurriedly shouted at Westbrook: "Pass the ball, play to Durant!" Let Durant take control. ”
Brooks yelled so loudly that Horn didn't want to see Westbrook pass the ball on the side, and ran while Westbrook chanted the sutra in Westbrook's ear.
"Hey! Boy, I bet you can't score against opponents taller than two meters at all, don't you? ”
Westbrook was nothing to hear others say, but he was very upset to hear Horn say that.
In the Hornets' half, in order to prove himself, he didn't pass the ball at all, and came up and hit Ariza with his back.
Westbrook is really good, such a hard fight to Ariza really did, and he came up to score 2 points.
After scoring 2 points, Westbrook immediately looked back at Horn triumphantly, and Horn was smiling inwardly, but made a very unhappy expression on the surface.
The Hornets hit again, Horne took the initiative to catch the ball, and the Thunder had no brains to wrap up. At this time, the Thunder was more tightly packed, and it was impossible for Horn to pass the ball directly, so Horn immediately desperately resisted Green and Durant to dribble to the side and take a step, slightly opening up a little space.
Horn opened up the space and saw Paul come out, but he didn't have normal passing space, and at this point Horn could only risk passing the ball to Paul with a behind-the-back pass.
Horn shoved the ball behind his back, and the basketball flew out into Paul's hands, and Paul took the ball and shot it small.
"Brush!"
The Hornets scored again, and although Horne was locked, the Hornets scored smoothly in three consecutive rounds.
And this smoothness is not accidental, it is all obtained through Horn's suction bag pass, so the smoothness of the routine must be stopped, otherwise it will be a big disaster.
Brooks stood up at this time and asked Durant and Green to strengthen the bag, and if they don't wrap up, one person can't prevent it, so they can only strengthen the bag.
Thunder's side is not ready to play twists and turns, but is ready to kill you directly at once. It's the same on the offensive end, Westbrook continues to single out Ariza, Ariza is a professional defensive player who doesn't need to pay physical strength on the offensive end, Westbrook attacks to play, and the defensive end has to defend Paul At this time, he is under more pressure.
Westbrook is under a lot of pressure, but this person is the type of person who comes crazy, the more pressure he has, the more excited he is, and he still fights hard at this time.
Ariza followed closely, and Westbrook had to choose another pull-up jumper. Because there is almost no space for the Wasp's inner line, the Wasp has three inner lines, and there is no room for the inner line.
Westbrook missed a shot, and the Hornets immediately grabbed the rebound and pushed back again.
The Hornets played very clearly, and before they reached the three-point line, Paul gave the ball to Horne, and it was up to you to see what the Thunder would do in this position.
The Thunder is really fierce at this time, I will also wrap you up outside the three-point line, and Horn will watch Durant and Green viciously wrap up when he gets the ball.
He still has no room to pass the ball at this time, so he can only dribble the ball against Durant and break through to the basket. Durant and Green squeezed Horn to the point of change all of a sudden, and when he got to this position, he was not far from conceding the ball.
Seeing that the Thunder's defense was successful, Horn had no way to make moves without space on the sideline, and when Horn was in a hurry, from under Durant's two long legs, Horn saw that West actually responded at this time.
Horn was also forced to be in a hurry, and shoved the ball under Durant's crotch, and the basketball went directly to West's hands, and West took the ball directly to the middle distance.
"Brush!"
The Hornets hit the ball again, or Horne passed, and at this point Brooks wanted to call a timeout. Let the opponent play a routine in a row, and his own team is not even as good as Saint Fighting Seiya.