Chapter 82: Defend Again?
"Oh, that rookie from the Spurs defended KD's offense. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Until the Spurs attacked, TNT's three commentators were still discussing the issue, and Li Yang's performance on the defensive end of the previous round was a bit surprising to them.
As soon as the so-called experts make a move, they will know if there is one, all three of them were once famous stars in the NBA, and Li Yang's defense's awareness, judgment, reaction and movement speed surprised them incomparably, and also made them realize that maybe Li Yang's defense was not what he imagined before.
Of course, as big mouths, they don't want to admit it easily, so Barkley was quick to say: "It's just one round, and we know that defending one round is not the same thing as defending offense. ”
"yes, I think next, KD will put him under pressure on the offensive end. ”
"Yes, I want to see KD attack again now. ”
And Barkley's statement immediately attracted the consent of Smith and Miller.
At this time, the Spurs' offense in the court has also been completed, because the basketball thrown by Durant was touched by the Thunder players during the scramble, and the Spurs did not have a chance to launch a counterattack, so Joseph could only take the ball to the halfcourt and fall into the position to attack.
In this round, Li Yang was not involved, and Green used his off-ball run to shake off Kevin Martin and hit a shot from outside the three-point line.
Martin is a good pitcher and has a good ability to run off the ball, but his ability is only reflected on the offensive end, and it is almost not reflected on the defensive end, and it is precisely because of his poor defense that he has not been able to stand alone in a team.
"Oh, KD got the ball!"
The Thunder attacked again, and the TNT trio expected Durant to hold the ball soon reappeared, Fisher dribbled to the half, and Durant took the initiative to ask for the ball again, but this time, he leaned on Li Yang to ask for the ball in one step inside the three-point line.
This is the point where Durant likes to attack with the ball, where he can either break through or shoot directly.
Durant took the ball, which not only attracted the attention of the three commentators on the sidelines, but also made the Thunder fans on the scene pay their attention to the two people who were entangled on the court.
In this game, Durant was strictly defended by Leonard and Green, although he also scored some points, but the overall shooting rate and efficiency were not high, so when they just saw Li Yang defending Durant, they were actually full of expectations, and they hoped that Durant could seize the opportunity to break out.
Unexpectedly, Durant's first ball was stopped by Li Yang, so at this time, they once again expected Durant to directly break through Li Yang's defense.
However, at this time on the court, Durant is not easy, Li Yang's close defense gives him a lot of pressure, although he can directly pull out his shot, but he prefers to be able to get closer to the basket, or be able to get rid of Li Yang's defense to shoot, to ensure that he can score, after all, he has missed a ball before.
Holding the ball with both hands and shaking slightly, Durant smashed the ball on the floor and started again, trying to break through Li Yang's defense.
Durant's scoring ability is undoubted, but in such a situation, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to directly break through Li Yang's defense, the bodies of the two collided together, and Durant, who had just started, was forced to stop again.
After directly stopping Durant's forward momentum, Li Yang immediately reached out and continued to pressure Durant's right hand of dribbling, forcing Durant to lean sideways on Li Yang's body to protect the ball.
Li Yang sticked it too tightly, like a piece of kraft candy, Durant tried to turn around and break through Li Yang's defense, but was blocked by Li Yang, and Durant, who didn't want to force his shot like this, had to call Collison on the inside to come forward to block and dismantle.
When Collison came out of the interior, Split also actively followed, and not only that, when Collison blocked Durant's right side, Split immediately bypassed from one side and stepped forward to defend.
At the same time, Li Yang also quickly squeezed over and continued to follow.
After seeing that Durant wanted to complete the offense with the help of blocking and picking, the Spurs directly attacked in advance and did not give Durant a chance at all.
At this time, Li Yang and Split had already made up their minds to clip Durant to death, so the two did not have the slightest scruples, the two sandwiched Durant in the middle on the left and right, and the two long arms were constantly interfering with Durant's dribbling.
In desperation, Durant had no choice but to pick up the ball to avoid mistakes.
Fortunately, the Thunder's players came in time, Durant immediately passed the ball out, and the Spurs' rotation defense at this time was indeed very good, the ball was finally shot by Fisher, and the old fish failed to shoot under Joseph's defense.
The Spurs' offense was also ungoaled, with Dio and Joseph blocking mid-range catch-and-shoot shots that bounced off the basket.
Coming to the offensive end again, Durant did not take the initiative to hold the ball again, he ran actively, obviously, he was not willing to be blocked by the offense like this, after trying to attack with the ball and not finding a good way to break through Li Yang's defense for the time being, he began to run without the ball.
Playing against the Spurs in the past two seasons, Durant naturally has some experience, such as the defense of the Spurs, when Leonard defends, he chooses to run without the ball more, and when Green has the ball, he chooses to attack with the ball more.
After discovering that Li Yang's defensive offense with the ball was very good, Durant thought of an offensive strategy to deal with Leonard and began to run without the ball.
However, Durant obviously doesn't know that Li Yang is faster than Leonard in both straight and lateral movements, so he doesn't suffer at all when defending running without the ball.
Immediately behind Durant, Li Yang always maintained a distance of half an arm's length, which allowed him to stick to the defense as soon as Durant received the ball.
After finding that he couldn't get rid of Li Yang by running directly, Durant began to slip to the bottom line with the help of his teammates' cover, and this move obviously had an effect, Li Yang, who was originally half an arm's length away from Durant's side, had already thrown off an arm's length when Durant ran from the baseline to the high position.
rushed past Collison who was blocking and dismantling, and seeing that the distance between himself and Durant was blocked, Li Yang's calf, who was not interfered by others, kicked violently, and he quickly chased after Durant.
If anyone pays attention to Li Yang's speed at this time, they must be very surprised, because the distance between him and Durant is rapidly narrowing, but at this time, most people do not notice this, and they notice even more that Durant has thrown off Li Yang and gone around to the high post, and Fisher also passed.
They are all ready to see Durant's shots, catch and shoot after running, which is what Durant does best.
The ball passed out of Fisher's hand and flew towards Durant, but the ball did not fall into Durant's hand, and a figure suddenly rushed out from behind when the basketball was about to fall into Durant's hand, and directly stopped the ball!
Li Yang, who was speeding up, arrived at this time and made a direct steal!
Li Yang's speed was too fast, so fast that not only did the players on the court not react, but the people on the sidelines who saw all this in their eyes were not able to react at the first time, when they realized that the ball had been stolen by Li Yang, Li Yang had rushed out of the three-point line with the ball and ran to the other half!
"Wow!"
Suddenly, an uproar rang out throughout the stadium.
"What?" and in the commentary seat, the already big mouths of Smith, Barkley, and Miller opened even wider at this time.
"Young defended KD again, and he completed the steal!"
Although they didn't want to admit it in their hearts, the three of them still had to tell the truth about everything on the field.
None of the Thunder players expected Li Yang to complete the steal, so no one could retreat at this time.
Counterattack! rushed to the front court with the ball, Li Yang easily dunked!