"The Spurs are really powerful, and the Thunder, who have always been considered by the outside world to be able to bring a huge challenge to the Spurs, only had a stalemate with the Spurs in this game, and they can only keep chasing points in the following games. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

When the game was over, Mike Brin and Jeff Van Gundy chatted about the game with heartfelt exclamations.

Jeff Van Gundy commented from a professional point of view: "Yes, the Spurs are clearly the more prepared side, they showed something different from the regular season in the first game, their strategy in the first half completely ineffective the Thunder's defense, and after the start of the second half, they switched back to the regular style of play with a huge advantage and always took the initiative." ”

"The Spurs' strategy is the same as they were in the first two rounds, they are still stealing the opening game and they are very good at using the bench players, but unlike the first two rounds, they are not in the first quarter, but in the second quarter. ”

Mike Brin kept nodding his head to show his approval of Van Gundy's words, and after Van Gundy's words fell, he immediately said: "The thickness of the Spurs' bench is even more enviable, and in this game Young and Manu combined to score 42 points, in addition to this, 12 people on the team scored. And Young is still one of the Spurs' big killers, he can fully play the team's offense when Tony and Manu are not on the court, and his shooting is becoming more and more consistent, which can be matched with the Spurs' starting lineup, and it does not affect the Spurs' outside attack. ”

Mike Brin was praising Li Yang, and in fact, Li Yang was indeed able to deserve such praise in this game, the final score of this game was 107:124, and the Spurs defeated the Thunder by 17 points.

In the case of the team's excellent performance, Li Yang is still one of the best players on the team, Duncan scored a team-high 27 points, while Li Yang scored a team-high 24 points, along with 6 assists and 7 rebounds.

After the start of the second half, the Spurs played back to their familiar team basketball, instead of Li Yang and Duncan who were killing inside, so Li Yang's performance was not as efficient as the first half.

However, this does not mean that Li Yang's performance is not as good as in the first half, in fact, in the face of the Thunder's tighter defense in the second half, Li Yang's breakthrough brought great help to the Spurs.

Although Li Yang's direct breakthrough to assist his teammates is not much, but the ball distributed by him after breaking through the ball and tearing apart the opponent's defense has brought a lot of offensive opportunities to the Spurs, plus several three-pointers in the Spurs team have a very good shooting touch today, so the Spurs faced the Thunder's tighter defense in the second half, but it further widened the point difference.

The Spurs defeated the Thunder in the first game, it should be said that this was not too unexpected by the outside world, after all, the Spurs are fighting at home, waiting for work, but such a 17-point victory is undoubtedly an uproar in the outside world.

ESPN: "The outside world has been commenting that the Thunder is the most likely team to beat the Spurs, but judging from this game, it is too difficult for the Thunder to beat the Spurs, with Kevin Durant scoring 28 points and Russell Westbrook scoring 25 points, the Thunder are still 18 points away from winning the Spurs, which is simply desperate. ”

USA Today: "If the Spurs continue to play like this, there is almost no chance that the Thunder will beat the Spurs in this series, unless in the next game, the two superstars of the Thunder can combine to contribute more than 70 points per game, but even then, it will be difficult for them to beat the Spurs, the Thunder need more players to step up, and they need to solve the problem of defense." ”

Los Angeles Times: "If there are no accidents, it is almost a sure thing for the Spurs to enter the Finals, although we always say that the basketball game is full of uncertainties, and it is not easy to make a decision until the last minute of the game, but the strength of the Spurs this season is really desperate, except for accidents, otherwise the Thunder have no chance to win the game, and the biggest possibility is that the Spurs will eliminate the Thunder 4:1 to enter the Finals." ”

If before the start of the first game, people were still full of expectations for the Thunder to beat the Spurs, after this game, almost everyone doubted, can the Thunder really beat the Spurs?

In the words of some fans, from the main team to the bench, from the inside to the outside, this Spurs team is simply suffocating.

In an interview, Popovich also said in a very low-key manner that the first game could be won only because the Spurs occupied the home court, and it was a leisurely job, he said that the Thunder is a strong team, and the Spurs will not take it lightly for the next second game.

On the contrary, the Thunder team on the other side, after losing the first game, perhaps because the loss was a little too bad, they kept emphasizing in interviews that in the next game, the Thunder will play more actively, and they will do their best to equalize the score back at home.

In an interview with reporters, Durant said: "We heard the comments from the outside, I admit that the Spurs are strong, but I don't think the Spurs are invincible, we can still play better, we will have more adjustments." ”

Westbrook said: "In the first game, I didn't do enough inside killing, and in the second game, I will play more aggressively and the team will play more together. ”

For the words of the two leaders of the Thunder, the outside world thinks that this is more of a self-comfort, for so many years, the Thunder has been saying that there will be more changes, but they never seem to have changed much.

It's just that what the outside world didn't expect was that in the second game, the Thunder really made some changes, and they adjusted their starting lineup.

After a day off after the first game, on May 21, 2014 local time, the second game of the Western Conference Finals officially started in San Toonio, and unlike the previous game, the Thunder put their backup point guard, Reggie Jackson, the team's sixth man, directly into the starting lineup.

In this way, in addition to the center and blue-collar player Kendrick Perkins, the Thunder's four strongest scorers, Ibaka, Durant, Jackson, and Westbrook, all appeared in the starting lineup.

On the other end, the Spurs' starting lineup has not changed at all, with Split, Duncan, Leonard, Green and Parker.

(To be continued.) )