The division of labor between Curry and Harden is becoming clearer.

Although Curry is a point guard, he is superior in three-point shooting, scoring efficiency, and running without the ball.

The scoring is explosive, and the ability to attract defenders on the offensive end is very strong.

And it's still improving.

Although Harden is a shooting guard, he has better passing vision and passing imagination.

If he lets go of the pick, Harden can also be a scoring machine.

However, after some evaluation, Min Congda believes that Harden is more suitable to be a well-rounded commander.

In terms of scoring efficiency, Harden is inferior to Curry.

His three-point shooting percentage is not as good as Curry's, and his off-ball ability is more average.

His strength is that he is strong and can develop in the direction of no single point.

In fact, the Thunder Westbrook + Durant should also develop in this direction.

Let Kevin Durant be a more pure scorer and give up the things he wasn't good at enough.

Westbrook has the ability to be an all-around commander, he has a better vision on the offensive end, even if he has a more touching ball quotient, after all, he is a point guard, and the right tactical combination and design can make their combination more powerful.

It's a pity that Durant still wants to be a greater, better forward, wants to surpass LeBron James, and doesn't want to be just a pure scorer.

In the face of Curry's continuous scoring provocation, Durant still tried to play tactics, using passes to mobilize teammates, hoping that the team's score would go up, and he couldn't bear to swing the sickle again in the fourth quarter.

But Durant is really not this material, except for the sudden point, his pass is really unimaginative, and he can't tear apart the Clippers' defense with one blow.

In terms of strategy, the passing is also mediocre, without the effect of four or two thousand pounds and a flash of inspiration.

Anyway, if you don't attack with the ball, with him or not, the Thunder's offense doesn't make much difference.

The Clippers also rarely perform a package on Durant, which is still a routine of wheel warfare.

George, Leonard, Butler, and Ricky Davis took turns, each taking turns one-on-one to mark Durant, all going all out and draining Durant's physical energy.

From this point of view, it makes sense for Durant to pass more and save his fitness for the fourth quarter.

If he keeps holding the ball in front of him, he will not have the energy to face the wheel consumption of the Clippers in the final stage.

But if you want to harvest in the fourth quarter, you can't lag too far behind.

Curry operated through the operation, and the difference was stretched to 14 points.

Fortunately, Westbrook on the Thunder's side stepped up in time.

made a sudden penalty, scored 6 points in a row, approached the score, and did not let the score continue to pull away.

Westbrook doesn't think as much as Durant, what to respond to, assist, and be comprehensive.

He rushes when he sees an opportunity, scores and plays exactly according to his understanding of the game.

Of course, sometimes his understanding is not necessarily right, he just insists on his own ideas.

Sometimes, Durant's hesitant personality really needs a reckless man like Westbrook to drive it.

Compared with the Thunder's two-man turn, although the Clippers are also double stars, the other players of the Clippers have a much higher status in the tactics.

It can be said that even without Curry and Harden, the remaining players of the Clippers can still build a very strong system and lineup.

As a result, the Clippers played more freely in the game, making it unpredictable and untraceable.

In the regular season, this freedom is sometimes a drawback, because it is unstable, and sometimes the whole team pulls the hips and loses the focus.

After combing the playoffs, especially after the confrontation with the Spurs, the players have a more tacit understanding and are more open.

The Thunder defense has always had no way to take the Clippers' varied offense, and the point difference has been maintained at about 10 points.

Westbrook scored back-to-back points in the third quarter to help the Thunder bite the score, while Durant seemed hesitant and waiting for his moment.

Of course, for Durant himself, he doesn't feel like he's hesitating, he feels like he's being patient.

He was convinced that he could blow up the Clippers' front line in the fourth quarter and turn the tide completely.

At the end of the third quarter, the two sides were tied at 86-97, and the Clippers had led the Thunder by as many as 11 points.

And the score of 97 in the third quarter is even more frightening, and many playoff games can't score 97 points in one game.

The Clippers faced the defense-oriented Thunder team and were able to score 97 points in the third quarter, which is really terrifying.

Min Congda watched Durant only take three shots in the third quarter, hit one shot, scored two points, and has only scored 20 points so far.

I thought: "This kid has a good basketball talent, but his basketball IQ is average, can't he see that the rhythm of the game is completely off the Thunder's side?" You don't think you're going to take away the game in the fourth quarter, are you? Silly boy, times are different, this is not an 80 or 90 point game in the 90s, and in the end, you can take away the game with the individual ability of a superstar. When the total number of points increases, the scoring effect of a single player will decrease, and the overall efficiency will increase. ”

Although Min Congda's IQ is below average in other things, when it comes to basketball, he does have a strong insight.

It's an era of efficiency, and not just basketball, but most sports eventually start to move towards efficiency.

The more commercialized the sport, the more obvious, basketball, football, the most obvious.

It's like evolving from a handicraft workshop to an industrial assembly line.

The handicraft workshop is more personalized and artistic, but it is impossible to fight the market to beat the industrial assembly line products.

The production efficiency is too poor.

Of course, the NBA has not yet entered the industrial assembly line stage, and this group of players still has a strong sense of personal heroism, and they grew up dreaming of heroic basketball in childhood.

However, the Clippers already have the characteristics of an industrial system in terms of offensive and tactical systems.

A clear division of labor, a strict combination of internal and external, a rich tactical system, and a high degree of freedom.

During the regular season, the Clippers' coaching staff began to use computer software to study the impact of shooting and shooting on offensive efficiency.

How many three-point shots in a game, how many baskets to attack, and how many mid-range shots are most appropriate.

As for why the Clippers did this, it was thanks to their basketball advisor Jerry West.

The old man came to the clippers to get a salary, and he couldn't do nothing, so he had a plan.

She saw the trend early on, so she made this suggestion, and also applied for a fee from Min Congda to set up a basketball tactical strategic planning center and recruit some people to come in specifically to do these things.

Min Congda's mind is no longer on how to stop the Clippers from becoming stronger, so let it go, plus it will cost you money, then it will cost you money.

So everything about the Clippers is moving towards standardization, but the genius of the players will cover up the industrial smell that slowly seeps out.

The fourth quarter began, and Durant took a break off the bench at the end of the third quarter.

As soon as the fourth quarter came up, he found an opportunity outside the left three-point line through running without the ball, and hit a three-point shot!

It was Durant's clarion call for a counterattack against the Clippers, and he felt that his offense felt great.

In the fourth quarter, you can rely on your own offense to help the team turn the tide!

Then, Durant received the ball in the low post, turned around to eat Leonard alone, and leaned back to shoot from mid-range.

There was also a burst from Westbrook, feints to shake off the defender, and shoots again in the face of the bag.

He also caught the ball in the fast break and hit the basket, one changed hands, and the other side made a rebound!

is so tall, but so flexible, Durant scored 9 points in four rounds.

Looking at the scoreboard again, it was still 11 points behind......

Clippers Dragic hit a three-pointer on offense.

Dragic then assisted Leonard for a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

Harden faced Sefrosa's defense and hit a three-point shot.

In three rounds, he also scored 9 points, easily erasing Durant's 9 points.

Is there a problem with the Thunder's defense? Actually, it's not a big problem, but there is no way.

The Clippers pulled away in one big four and four small fours, Gasol Jr. responded in a high position, cut in the air, ran back, and ambushed in the bottom corner, and the Clippers had too many offensive options.

This is no longer the 1990s, when there was more and more room for offense and the role of role players in the offense became more and more obvious.

In the 1998 Finals, Jordan could score more than half of the team's points alone, and the team was 87 and he scored 45 points alone.

On the one hand, Jordan was really strong, and on the other hand, the individual heroism of that era was developed to the extreme.

You must know that in the fifth game, Karl Malone also scored almost half of the team's points.

The team scored 83 points, and he scored 39 points alone, and at that time, it was not a joke to look at a dozen or four, that was the most efficient way.

Because the offensive space is small, the pace is slow, the confrontation is strong, and the total score is low, it is better to give the player who grasps the most points instead of giving the average role player inefficient mistakes.

Now this situation is becoming less and less, it is easy to break 100 points, and there is an upper limit to the number of shots of the star, and the efficiency of breaking the upper limit will be greatly reduced.

The space on the field is also getting bigger and bigger, the body hair whistle is more and more encourages attack, the total score is high, and someone else must share the scoring task.

From this point of view, there is no doubt about the strength of the Clippers, and their "role players" are all ruthless.

Durant bursts in a wave of scoring, put it in front or play another player, and the situation is reversed.

But in the face of the Clippers, they did not move at all, and even the Clippers organized another counterattack.

After Gasol Jr. received the ball in the high post, he suddenly made a through pass to the basket.

Leonard received the ball, scored a layup in the air, and the point difference widened!

The Thunder immediately called a timeout, and the game was fully into the Clippers' rhythm.

Come to think of it, you let the Clippers score easily for the entire game, 97 points in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, the feeling has been raised, and the offensive feeling is good, you still want to turn the tables, how to turn it over?

Durant also wants to rely on his own strength to score consecutive points to reverse, and a major prerequisite for reversal must be strong defense.

Strong defense, one is to contain the opponent from scoring, and the other is to deal a psychological blow to the opponent and destroy the opponent's morale.

A few good team defenses in a row are a big boost to the team's morale.

But the Thunder's defense couldn't do it, and Perkins alone was targeted.

When Brooks took a timeout, he wanted Durant to contribute more on the defensive end and go to the No. 4 position again.

But after the pause, the Clippers didn't plan to fight the Thunder at the No. 4 position.

The Thunder's luxurious defensive interior and forward line are useless.

Perkins couldn't get on, Ibaka was filling holes everywhere, and Durant was at a loss.

The Clippers pulled away in an all-round way, repeatedly cutting and running back, and the Thunder's defensive system collapsed suddenly in the fourth quarter.

Even if Durant scores continuously on the offensive end, what's the use of not being able to prevent it?

The margin remained between 10 and 15 points, and the Thunder couldn't turn the tide in one wave.

The fourth quarter, which was originally the most intense and had to drag on for the longest time, passed very quickly, and it was more than halfway through after a while.

The Clippers 119:106, leading the Thunder by 13 points, and the score of 119 is even higher.

You know, this is a playoff game, this is a Thunder team that is good at defense.

Brooks called the final timeout of the game, knowing that this one was too much to play and had to give up.

From the strategic level to the tactical level to the execution level, the Thunder was in a comprehensive rout, and everything broke out in the fourth quarter, a fiasco.

Brooks knew it was time to think about how to adjust for Game 2.

And Kevin Durant scored 35 points very efficiently in this game, the same as his jersey number.

The shooting rate is as high as 61%, which can be said to be open-handed, and he also handed out 6 assists and 2 blocks, which is quite luxurious.

However, watching the game, his influence on the course of the game was very weak, and he did not lead the team to control the situation at key junctures.

On the contrary, the Clippers are firmly in the rhythm, and it doesn't matter if you score 35 points efficiently, and it's less than a third of the team's scores.

The Clippers scored 125 points, Curry scored 27 points, Harden scored 21 points, Randolph 17 points, and Gasol Jr. 15 points.

George, Leonard, Milicic, Dragic, Fisher and others all scored, and all 12 players on the team scored.

And a lot of people don't play garbage time in pieces, but actually execute tactics and score as part of the Clippers' system, which is the most terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is that the Clippers are far from reaching their ceiling, and their potential is still big, big.

won this one, Min Congda paid another fine of 3,000 yuan, but he was very happy in his heart.

Because the investment in the arena has taken care of a large part of it, the Clippers win and let them win.

Looking at Durant's disappointed back when he left the court, Min Congda thought to himself that you should change early and play in the way you are familiar with.

Although you will still lose in the end, you won't lose so ugly, and you can struggle for two more games.

The game between the Clippers and the Thunder is over, and I have to say that this game has given many people a great shock.

Fans may not feel it, but the players feel it deeply, because the Clippers' winning style is really different from the playoff teams of the past.

If the Mavericks were an accident, the Clippers seem to have a sense of the general trend.

It's just that this trend is coming a little faster.

The day after the game ended, the Lakers and Grizzlies had a rematch.

In this game, the Lakers adjusted their strategy and mentality, 100:91, easily defeated the Grizzlies, and the two sides equalized by a big score, which was also expected.

And the rematch between the Clippers and the Thunder is also as exciting as people expected.

Durant, Westbrook, and Gordon scored 37 points, 30 points, and 21 points respectively, and the three combined to score 88 points!

The play of the trio is nothing short of terrifying.

But the Thunder still lost to the Clippers.

107:114, 7 points of difference, brittle defeat.

(End of chapter)