The first quarter of the game ended.

34 to 27.

The Laggard......

It's the Thunder!

The atmosphere at the scene was much cooler than just now.

And no wonder......

At that time, the "Thunder Two Youths" played back and forth with the opposite side, and they also led by 1 point on the field.

Then the other party let go of Yao Ming's inner core, and they took the complete body "three less", no matter how you look at it, it should be an advantage in my game!

How......

They looked at the Knicks' bench.

Li Wan took the lead in taking a seat on the bench, Artest on the left hand side brought him a towel, and Beverley on the right hand side brought him a Gatorade.

Then sit down with the "left and right protectors" style......

The mad dog-like guy on the field made a provocative gesture towards the audience, and then sat down with a strange smile.

When he smiled, Thunder fans felt that even the word "mad dog" alone was not enough to fully sum up how crazy the guy was.

It's just such a guy who has made Westbrook, who averaged 21.8 points and 8.2 assists per game this season, deflated.

Several times he showed an expression of "is this stupid fork really playing".

Doing things on the field is even more impulsive......

It shows what Beverley has made of Westbrook's mentality.

Westbrook sat down in disgrief, clutching the towel in his hand, as hard as he could.

The expression on James Harden's face next to him wasn't much better.

He has always relied on the rules to play, and he feels that in the time just now, his underwear has been looked at by the guy opposite.

Every move he made, the fierce-looking "beast" on the other side was as if it could have been predicted in advance, and it restrained him very awkwardly.

The last time he lost so badly, James Harden seriously recalled that it seemed that it was the first time he went to a nightclub and met an ordinary leopard aunt.

That night, he only had to study.

The expressions of the two people are not very good-looking.

As for "Big Lang" Kevin Durant, he felt that he made 3 of 8 shots and 1 of 1 free throws in the first quarter, scoring 8 points, and Li Wan, who scored 9 points on 3 of 4 shots and 2 of 2 free throws......

You have to keep up the good work......

Tonight, his two "younger brothers" are obviously not up to business!

In the second quarter, he had to work hard to open the game to "64......

Kevin Durant was full of confidence, but when the second quarter began, he suddenly felt more and more uncomfortable.

Li Wan......

Why are you working so hard all of a sudden?

Tap!

Hurt!

At 3 minutes and 15 seconds in the second quarter, after both sides changed their main forces, Li Wan strengthened his defense against Kevin Durant.

It is probably from the playoff level to the level of the Eastern Conference finals.

The reason was that Kevin Durant hit two top shots in the face of Lee Wan later in the first quarter and hit two difficult goals. Li Wan's hand was about to poke into his eyes, and this guy was stunned to hit the ball into the basket.

This piqued Li Wan's interest.

Although Kevin Durant has won the "scoring title" for many years in a row, he really has to go to the Warriors, and a group of people help him share all kinds of pressure, so that he can focus on the offense.

Although he of the Thunder team also entered the Finals and played many Western finals, he could ......

Probably wanting to take on more responsibility, he doesn't always turn on the "Grim Reaper Mode".

In short, it doesn't smell that much!

Therefore, since Li Wan won the championship, his goal has been climbing higher, and in his known script, his main opponents this season should be the "Big Three" of the Heat and the Dallas Mavericks.

Plus one more Derrick Rose at most.

Kevin Durant is not on the target list.

But Kevin Durant suddenly had a little more "Grim Reaper" appearance, which made Li Wan decide to increase the defensive intensity a little more, which was just ...... Da Yao is up, and the Knicks have more endpoints on the offensive end, and he can also save some energy.

Raising the defensive intensity to the level of the Eastern and Western Conference Finals is a whole new world for Kevin Durant, after all, he has not yet made it to the Western Conference Finals, and what kind of intensity it is, he has never heard of it.

Now, now Li Wan will arrange it for him.

He was very uncomfortable......

James Harden is just as tough as Westbrook.

Artest and Beverley trained them on the defensive end to the point where they couldn't form an effective counter-attack.

The Thunder's reliance on the offensive end is the "Thunder Three Less".

Now that the "three less" have become "small dishes", the Thunder's offense has naturally come to a standstill.

On the New York Knicks' side, the outside line focused on the defensive end, and Da Yao on the inside line held up a piece of the basket well, scoring consecutive points, and soon stretched the score to almost 15 points.

This game gradually lost suspense.

In the end, the game was over, and the Thunder lost to the New York Knicks by 16 points 89-105 on their home court.

Li Wan played 37.5 minutes, a new high since December, and scored a "triple-double" of 25 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists, which was the first time he scored a "triple-double" since entering December.

But his brightest performance tonight was not on the offensive end, but on the defensive end.

Kevin Durant is averaging 46.2% from the field, 35% from three-point range, and 88% from the free-throw line this season......

But when he met Li Wan tonight, he was wilted, with a total of 25 shots in the whole game, and only hit 8 of them, with an overall shooting rate of only 32%!

Li Wan did his best on the defensive end, and finally gave the new "scoring champion" a taste of the long-lost "rookie game fear".

That season, because his body was thin and his core strength had not improved, he suffered a lot on the confrontation end......

Tonight he was once again feeling unwell in the confrontation!

It's no wonder that Li Wan is really not much worse than static talent, Kevin Durant may be taller, and his arm span is terrifying, but Li Wan's arm span is just as terrifying, and ......

His dynamic talent is to be even better!

Plus I've seen more of the world.

Although they were all in the alliance that they entered in 07, Li Wan was really a teacher teaching students tonight.

In the end, Kevin Durant was stunned.

What, what kind of defensive intensity is this?

Why haven't you encountered it before?

I've been in the playoffs, right?

For the first time since Kevin Durant won the "scoring title", he feels that he has not yet reached the top.

He still has to walk a long way to find his "ultimate body" self.

All......

It's just getting started.

There is also a person who fights against Cao Dan because of feelings, which is Westbrook.

"Turtle" had 17 points and 6 assists tonight, and there was no big problem with these two statistics, but his shooting percentage was only 33.3%, and there were 6 turnovers.

"He's just a mad dog, he's just looking for someone to fight, it's not defense, it's not basketball!"

After the game, he also openly fired at Beverley, believing that his actions did not belong to the basketball court.

The first time he played, he was accused by the opposite player, Beverley was a little frightened in the face of the media, but he cheered himself up in his heart, and at the same time said: "This is my style of play, I treat every game as a war, what I have to do is to do my best, if the other party thinks I am doing something wrong, then I am doing the right thing......"

Just tell the girl if you don't want it, and say you hate it because you like it......

Well, it's not the same thing!

Anyway, it's ......

I'm the stupidest, I'll only prove everything with my actions.

"I'm not going to change my play!"

Li Wan was also asked by reporters about Beverley's style of play.

In fact, even if Westbrook didn't bombard Beverley, these reporters more or less felt that Beverley's action scale was a bit large.

It's almost in time for the action of the late '80s and early '90s.

David Stern himself labeled the "18 bans."

How......

Started a "renaissance" in the defense world?

Li Wan smiled.

He won't clear Beverley's name just because he's his teammate.

This guy's movements are really big enough and dirty enough.

But in fact, every team will have one or two of these players in the team.

In the 90s, it was a full-time bodyguard for the core players.

For them, playing is not their main job, but protecting their boss is the most important thing and the key to getting him the next contract.

Like Oakley.

Now there are not so many violent actions in the NBA, but there are still such players on every team. Of course, the role is no longer a bodyguard, but a "pester" who annoys the opponent's core players as much as possible.

After Artest retired, Beverley was the Knicks who was responsible for this kind of thing!

Judging from the results tonight, he did a good job.

"A turtle" made him upset, and even scolded him in front of the media.

It can be seen how much loss it has suffered......

Li Wan's final answer was: "There is not only one Beverley in the NBA, and the reason why he caused such a big controversy is only because he is a rookie, and he made a big noise in the first NBA regular season game of his career...... That's all. ”

Beverley defended Westbrook well, scoring five points on 2-of-5 shooting, in addition to one assist and two steals......

In terms of his responsibilities on the team, and this is his first NBA regular season game, the performance is really good.

Li Wan can give him a 9!

The remaining 1 point is reserved for the fully grown Beverley in the future.

Da Yao had 20 points and 7 rebounds tonight.

The shooting percentage has once again exceeded 70%!

Since coming to the New York Knicks, he has had one of the most threatening seasons of his career.

Don't look at the average data per game is not as good as in previous seasons......

But now before the start of each game, the opposite head coach will take the initiative to praise Da Yao in front of the media.

The reason is simple:

They found out that they had used to deal with Da Yao, especially around the front defense......

Basically, it didn't work.

Just like tonight, Perkins desperately went around the front, Yao Ming didn't grab the basket position with him at all, and directly pulled out and pulled the basket empty.

In the case that the other inside line has been "seduced" outside the three-point line by Lewis on the opposite side, Li Wan's unreasonable breakthrough is even more unreasonable......

In addition, Li Wan's passing is as intimate as possible, and even "door-to-door service", directly "hand-to-hand" passing.

If you dare to wrap him up like Westbrook, he immediately passes the ball to Leewan, who quickly retreats beyond the three-point line.

If you don't wrap it......

At present, there are really few people in this alliance who can resist Yao Ming's singles!

No, Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Kurt Rambis has his hair bare, and he can only watch his beloved apprentice Kevin Love be eaten and wiped clean by Da Yao under the basket several times.

The New York Knicks easily defeated the Timberwolves 113-100 on the road.

Kevin Potfu, who has entered the third season of his career, has grown into the "Wolf King" this season, averaging 20.2 points, 15.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, ranking first on the rebounds per game list.

To say that the Lefu during the Timberwolves period can really be brushed.

Even in this game, which was beaten by Yao Ming as a "teaching bureau", he still grabbed 12 rebounds!

It's just that the score is a little bit worse, only 10 points.

That's half less than his season average.

However, Lefou's original shooting rate this season was only 47.4% per game......

As far as the interior position is concerned, his shooting percentage is low.

It can also be seen from this hit rate that Lefu mainly has more shots.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to play such a dominant statistic, and the Timberwolves are still rushing to "pick the champion".

The problem with Lefu is that there are not many means to score, especially with the ball......

Once any absolute core lacks the ability to hold the ball, it will never be able to support a team.

Da Yao once again showed his absolute dominance on the inside.

But in the next game against the Jazz, he suffered.

Because he met Al Jefferson!

If you want to talk about the real nemesis, this guy is the most restrained Yao Ming's inside player.

And it's a double restraint on the defensive end as well as on the offensive end......

The New York Knicks fell into a disadvantageous situation at the beginning of the game, and D'Antoni simply took Da Yao at 5 minutes and 14 seconds in the first quarter.

Start using Kombat Whirlwind against the opposite Jazz.

Al Jefferson is also essentially a "big-tonnage interior player" and doesn't move very fast.

Coupled with the fact that Deron Williams was stuck in unlimited singles, the New York Knicks won 113-95 in this game.

Da Yao only played 10 minutes and 15 seconds in the end, and D'Antoni didn't let him play much after winning the first quarter...... Since there is indeed restraint, it is better to arrange a rotational break.

Da Yao doesn't have any opinions, at this age, it is impossible for him to deliberately ask for his playing time in order to prove himself and disrupt the head coach's plan.

Moreover......

He also knew he had a hard time playing Al Jefferson......

Li Wan finally ran the whole game with the New York Knicks, and all the ball possession was concentrated together, and the characteristics of the "D'Antoni system" infinitely elevated the data of the ball holder, which was once again reflected, Li Wan cut 35 points, 11 rebounds and 15 assists in the whole game!

Won the second "triple-double" in December.

Plus 12 "triple-doubles" in November.

Li Wan's "triple-double" number this season has come to 14!

That's more than a lot of players in their entire careers combined.

Westbrook, who was far away in Oklahoma, watched tonight's game between the Knicks and the Jazz.

Since the last time he played with the Knicks, Westbrook has often had the same dream, and there are always images like this in the dream:

Yao Ming took the place of the card, and then Li Wanyi jumped up and snatched the rebound......

Well......

It was the scene he saw with his own eyes during the game.

In fact, he didn't just see this scene once in that game...... Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so impressed.

And every time, Li Wan, who won the rebound, can always quickly put himself into the counterattack......

This is how the New York Knicks' fast break has been done several times!

One thing Westbrook knows is that he will never be a player like Jason Kidd, he's not a good playmaker, and he looks at the basket a lot more than he looks at his teammates!

He has always thought that the number one position like him must go out of a way that belongs to his style, otherwise it is destined to be impossible to succeed.

And now......

He seems to have found his way......

Especially after watching tonight's game between the New York Knicks and the Jazz, he made up his mind to follow the path of Li Wan.

Of course, he'll have to get out of his own style!

He doesn't plan to be the next "Li Wan......

Although this guy is eye-catching enough, "Turtle Turtle" still wants to be the next self!

Take the essence, remove the dross, imitate and surpass!

Deron Williams also had good stats in this game, with 25 points and 9 assists, but only shooting around 35% from the field......

In fact, from this season to now, "Little Fat" has changed a lot.

It may have been Boozer's departure that made him unhappy with the management, and he was a bit of a self-indulgent this season.

Even with the old coach is no longer so harmonious, including this game, you can see him saying something to Jerry Sloan in dissatisfaction. And after he came on the court, he intensified his efforts and continued to play singles, and the New York Knicks also completely opened the score at this time.

According to the current situation, the incident in Li Wan's memory should be staged on time.

In Li Wan's opinion, Deron Williams is a little unclear about how many pounds and taels he has, and of course, he is also a little unlucky......

But if he doesn't break with the old coach, he can brush for at least another two years, maybe he can meet two good teammates, and his career status can be a little higher.

At the very least, it won't be just a "momentary show" with Chris Paul!

It's also possible to be an eternal pain in Chris Paul's entire career......

It's just that at this moment, he really can't persuade anyone, personality determines everything, and the influence of some choices in the expansion period is huge.

And now, Deron Williams is in such a period of expansion.

But......

Let's make trouble!

Lewan has always felt that the Knicks could be better on the defensive end and needed a defensive coach to teach them.

Is there a better fit than Jerry Sloan?

At the same time, what he can also bring is that iron-blooded spirit!

Both of these things are needed by the New York Knicks......

Of course, it's not necessarily true that you can please touch this big Buddha at that time!

Li Wan didn't continue to think about it.

After defeating the Jazz, the New York Knicks moved to Memphis to take on the Grizzlies.

The day before the game, Mike Conley drove a Lexus that Li Wan gave him and invited him to dinner.

The Grizzlies also officially made the playoffs this season and currently sit eighth in the West.

It's only December, and it's still early to get to the playoffs, but if he does, it will be Conley's first career playoff appearance.

He was excited.

has already regarded the Spurs as an imaginary enemy:

"You say, can I complete the 'Black Eight' like you did last year?"

In his eyes, with anticipation!

I have to say, this is also really daring to think......

As far as the Spurs' momentum of sweeping the West is concerned, it is not bad compared to the New York Knicks.

Mike Conley actually dared to fight their idea.

In the end, though......

They really finished the "Black Eight"!

At this time, Li Wancai reacted, if the Grizzlies team still completed the "Black Eight" as before, then the league would have had the "Black Eight Miracle" for two consecutive years!

This is also a relatively difficult record to break in the league, right?

At that time, the Ohio newspaper will probably also hype it up......

To say that there are really no basketball stars in Ohio. Even sports stars.

Although the likes of LeBron James and Curry are both Ohio players, the United States values not geography more than schools.

Like Jordan, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, but everyone tied him to North Carolina and the Bulls.

LeBron and Curry are the same, although they are basketball stars who have gone out of Ohio, they have not brought any honor to Ohio, so over the years, Li Wan and others, who won the first NCAA championship in the history of Ohio University, have been the main targets of Ohio media in the NBA content.

Of course, the main thing is Li Wan!

No way, it's too dazzling!

At the dinner table, there was a lot of talk and laughter, but when the game started, Mike Conley was full of desire to let Li Wan see his progress.

So far this season, he is averaging 18.6 points and 6.1 assists per game.

Originally, he would have to get a similar statistic in the seventh season of his career, and he would have to wait until about 10 seasons to surpass it.

Now in his fourth season, he has done just that......

One of the biggest reasons is mainly the influence of Li Wan, who made him realize that as the No. 1 position, he can also attack the basket as his primary purpose.

This will make it more attractive to the opponent's bag.

And with him being more autonomous and aggressive on the offensive end, it's not ......

The average data per game is coming up immediately!

I can't help but just average the data, and even the popularity is much higher.

After all, Mike Conley's physicality is here, but anyone with good physical fitness, except for Marion's, rarely scores that are not beautiful.

Even if the posture is not beautiful, it can be very domineering.

In a word......

No matter from which point of view, the outside line that can score is always more popular than the outside line that keeps passing.

Unless you're Steve Nash, or the "white chocolate" kind of player, who makes his teammates extremely comfortable or makes his teammates extremely panicked.

But Mike Conley has a desire to show it, but in the face of Li Wan, he found ......

It's better to be honest!

Well......

Finding out about this, Conley paid the price of 3 caps in a row......

Li Wan: Former teammates always want to show that they are old? Most of the time it's habitual, just give a few big hats.

So much so that although the Grizzlies won the game 99-90, Mike Conley was not happy.

He only got 15 points and 5 assists, his shooting rate was 40%, and he ate a total of 4 blocks from Li Wan in the whole game, and he was almost stunned by the hat.

Li Wan scored 30 points and 10 rebounds in this game, but only had 6 assists......

None of his teammates were out of shape in this game......

In other words, unconsciously, into the rhythm of the opponent, the Grizzlies used a "meat grinder" like defense, so that the Knicks could not find a coherent offensive feeling.

In addition, Da Yao is indeed in a bit of a dilemma under the "left and right men" of Mark Gasol and Zach Randolph. It was a rare time for this game to miss 50% from the field......

When Lewis is in a slump and can't open up space for Da Yao, the Knicks will have no one on the inside to share the pressure on Da Yao.

Whether it's Shaq or Kwame, there are problems of their own, big or small.

Coupled with the fact that the score has been tight in this game, D'Antoni has no chance to constantly change lineups for trial and error. And just like that, the New York Knicks swallowed their second loss of the season.

Back in New York, the Knicks adjusted their time for the first meeting of the season against the San Antonio Spurs.

As the first in the East and West, the current first and second in the league, the media has been looking forward to this game for a long time.

Everyone wants to see if the Spurs are running a little harder this season, or the New York Knicks' "combination of running formations" is more overwhelming......

To say that Popovich is really a ghost.

This summer, the Spurs didn't have much to spend.

There are no big signings either.

But Popovich was stunned to use the original lineup, a few small signings with the summer league and the development league, so that the team changed its style, and at the same time completed the transformation of "coming back from the dead".

Let the Spurs become the league's powerhouse again!

Later, a lot of people were saying that Popovich was nothing without Tim Duncan, and that wasn't nonsense......

But in those seasons, it was indeed Popovich who played a big game of chess in the position of head coach and general manager, which gave the Spurs the capital to continue to stand.

The 10~11 season is exactly such a season.

However, he can also be regarded as taking the blame for his operational mistakes last year.

The "big bet" on Jefferson failed, leaving the Spurs' salary space in question......

The problem is so big that there is no money to grab people overseas, so you can only go to the summer league and development league to get people.

Popovich does have dog luck......

Gary Neal is another of his signature works this season, and he didn't even make it to the draft, playing summer league for the Spurs for a salary.

So far this season, he has averaged 9.8 points per game and is a perfect backcourt bench, while Popovich has only spent 530,000 dollars on such a player......

It was also him who added George Hill and Tony Parker and Ginobili to make the Spurs' "classic car" continue to "recharge".

Of course, the biggest contributor must be Tim Duncan, the Spurs' eternal "anchor", and Popovich's eternal supporter.

Having lost 4.2 kilograms this summer, he completely abandoned his most threatening low-post singles technique and further surrendered the offensive control of the team, becoming a complete blue-collar defender, responsible for supporting the entire team's defense.

As a result, his scoring average came to a career-low of 13.4 points per game!

0.7 steals and 1.9 blocks are his all-new highs in the past three years......

There are always great players, but there are really not many great players who are so obedient.

The Popovich Cup does have a set of ......

Against such a line-up, D'Antoni's idea is to keep the whole rhythm down.

Judging by the scores of the two teams at the end of the first quarter, the effect was not very good.

The Spurs lead by six points, 37-31.

D'Antoni sighed a little:

The tactical quality of this Spurs team is really too high!

He's also engaged in fast attack.

He knows very well that it is not difficult to be fast, but it is difficult to be "fast but not chaotic".

So in the "D'Antoni fast break system", there is only one absolute ball-handler, and everyone revolves around him to play tactics.

The Spurs are different, they cooperate a lot, but they can still do it smoothly on the field, fast but not chaotic, and many of the offenses are passed through seven or eight or even a dozen quick passes......

This was an eye-opener for D'Antoni.

The New York Knicks were also unable to stabilize the situation as a result.

Because there is a pass on the other side, it will mess up your entire defensive formation......

There will inevitably be ups and downs in mentality......

Under this system, it is difficult for Da Yao to be as calm as usual.

Seeing this, D'Antoni also put Da Yao down very decisively.

How to defend, that's not what D'Antoni is good at.

It is also difficult to rely on Li Wan alone to command the defensive formation on the field.

D'Antoni decided to start with what he was good at, such as:

Aggro!

Since you can't slow down the whole rhythm, you can simply pull the whole rhythm faster!

Li Wan nodded and agreed with D'Antoni's approach.

In fact, the Spurs' offensive system this season is a pure "small-ball play", with all kinds of passing balls to open up offensive space and relying on defense to counterattack......

It is also because the Spurs' "small-ball play" was "black-eight" in the playoffs, which is why the "small-ball era" is popular, because of the saying that "traditional centers" are lonely.

There's no better substitute for the "traditional center era" style than the Grizzlies this season......

But if anything, this point of view is a bit behind.

After all, this season there is no clear "cylinder" protection mechanism, there is no "body hair whistle" that reaches out to foul, and there is no saying that interior defense can only "jump vertically......

These changes in the rules are the main reason for the complete demise of the "traditional center era".

The Timberwolves proved to everyone with practical actions how ridiculous the "reverse version" is!

Curry grabbed 11 rebounds alone, while Gobert and Towns on the opposite side grabbed 10 and the other grabbed 4.

Combined, the two interior players don't have a significant advantage in the number of rebounds......

Regarding such a "small ball play", Li Wan agreed with what D'Antoni said:

Hurry up!

More importantly, this is a regular season, and Li Wan is also very clear about the next game of the Spurs this year, there is no need to let Da Yao work hard in such a game, and it is best to have a "fake rotation" directly!

After adjustments, the lineup on the New York Knicks' side is: No. 1 Li Wan, No. 2 Ray Allen, No. 3 Artest, No. 4 Lewis, No. 5 Kwame Brown;

The Spurs' lineup is: Tony Parker at No. 1, George Hill at No. 2, Jefferson at No. 3, Matt Bonner at No. 4, and Tim Duncan at No. 5;

Li Wan pulled the elbow pad......

Come on, let's see who can run better!