As the saying goes, insiders look at the doorway, and laymen look at the liveliness.

As soon as the game against the Thunder began, Wang Shuo felt the changes that had taken place in this Young Guard under Stevens' tutelage.

In the opening attack, the Thunder sank to the bottom corner of both sides by Durant and Ibaka, and then Haywood rose to the high post to provide Rose with a cover.

Because the NBA has a three-second defense rule, a meat shield center like Haywood, whose offense is mainly cake-eating, can't stay inside all the time.

Otherwise, it is very likely to become an undercover agent for your side when attacking.

On the court, the Thunder's opening offensive tactics tonight can be described as very cleverly arranged.

Where's the ingenuity?

That is, when Rose was on the court and ready to use Haywood's blocking to attack, Durant in the opposite corner provided him with a wide offensive space.

Previously, when Wang Shuo and his assistants complained that Brooks did not make good use of the burst shooting combination of Durant and Rose, what they talked about the most was the personnel positioning problem when the Thunder launched an offense on the court.

Admittedly, getting Durant closer to Rose will be more conducive to Durant receiving Rose's passes on the court.

But is that really the case?

The answer, of course, is no.

Because on the basketball court, it has become the consensus of all professional basketball players to concentrate their forces to shrink the defense line while the opponent's breakthrough hand completes the breakthrough, so you can simply understand it as......

Regardless of whether Rose breaks through with the ball on the left or right side of the court, as long as he successfully breaks through the opponent's first line of defense, the side where he is is bound to become an absolute strong side in the next second.

So, even if Rose can pass the ball to Durant after the break, it will be less difficult for the defender to deal with Durant because Durant and Rose are on the same side.

But now the situation is different.

On the court, I saw that the moment Rose broke through, the side where Durant was standing in the bottom corner of his side immediately became a weak side.

But now the problem is coming again.

That's ......

Even though Rose is a striking guard with a certain passing ability, since it is taboo to move horizontally and widely on the basketball court at any time, how can Rose pass the ball to Durant's hands?

In Wang Shuo's previous life, when playing 2K games, even if many players had their own God's perspective, they would often make passing mistakes when they found that the computer was empty, precisely because they ignored the concept of "stadium space".

This concept is complicated to go deeper, but in simple terms, because the basketball court is relatively small, and the NBA supermen are far more athletic than ordinary people, as long as there is a mistake in the horizontal and large-scale transfer in the basketball game, it is likely to directly provide the defense with a chance to play a fast break.

However, in this offense, the Thunder were clearly not bothered by this problem.

Because as a top off-ball player, after deceiving Leonard with a feint to cut to the basket, I saw Durant quickly move in the direction of Dragic.

On the basketball court, there are generally two ways to run the ball if you want to be better able to receive passes from teammates.

One is to try to get close to your teammates to reduce the pressure on their teammates and provide them with a comfortable route to the ball.

The other is to get close to your own pre-arranged passing point.

At this moment, Leonard, who is only a sophomore in his career, obviously did not notice what role Dragic played in the Thunder's opening offense.

Therefore, at the moment when Durant was about to cut into the air, the center of gravity of his body was involuntarily deviated by Durant.

And in the next second when Leonard lost his defense of Durant, after receiving Rose's breakthrough point, Dragic also passed the ball to the hands of Durant, the Thunder's Vulcan, just like the Thunder's Kuroko Tetsuya.

On the sidelines, on the bench of the Hornets, at the moment when he noticed the successful completion of the Thunder's "inducement tactics", although he was an opponent with the Thunder tonight, Wang Shuo couldn't help but shout "good ball" for the Thunder in his heart.

At a 45-degree angle on the left side, Durant did not miss the opportunity to catch and shoot, and after receiving a pass from Dragic, he successfully took the lead for the Thunder with a clean catch-and-shoot jumper.

Hmmm——!

0 to 3.

This year's Thunder is really different from previous years.

Of course, from the perspective of the future, the Thunder who traded Harden for Dragic must have lost a lot.

But at this moment, Dragic's tactical literacy and the fulcrum role he can bring to the Thunder on the court are definitely not possessed by Harden, who still needs to be leveled.

Of course, the most important thing is that with the head coach of this Thunder team changing from Brooks to Stevens......

The talent of this Thunder team has also been released in a sense to the most perfect.

On the court, when the first quarter of the game entered the official timeout, the visiting Hornets trailed 14-24.

Durant shot 5-of-6 from the field before the official timeout, including 2-of-3 from three-point range and 4-of-4 from the free-throw line, and single-handedly scored 16 points and 2 rebounds for the Thunder.

If you only look at tonight's matchup data, you will definitely think that Leonard was blown up by Durant on the court.

But in fact, in a head-to-head situation, Durant has been very uncomfortable by Leonard in this game.

Because Leonard's arm show caused a lot of interference to Durant when he held the ball, and Du Xiaoshuai at this time has not fully entered his "2.0" period, it is difficult for him to easily gnaw Leonard's hard bone.

Can......

If Leonard can play against Durant on the court, why did Durant play so smoothly in the first half of this game?

In fact, at the time of the official timeout, Curry and Paul, who were on the bench of the Hornets at the moment, looked at each other and looked at each other, had already given the world an answer.

No way.

When the duo of Curry and Paul is on the court at the same time, even Wang Shuo can't solve the defensive problems they are bound to have.

Especially when it comes to the backcourt combination of Rose and Dragic.

In this game, Wang Shuo knew very well that when the "CP" combination was present at the time, it was destined that Paul could only play against Rose.

Why?

Because Curry has been playing Ross for his entire career, there aren't many ways to make a surprise like Rose.

And, because Dragic has a real height of 191 cm......

So, if you ask Paul to defend Dragic, what's the difference between that and giving Dragic a point with a precise left-handed long-range shot?

No doubt.

If it's the same Thunder team from before, then Brooks certainly can't take advantage of the Hornets' problems on the guard line like Stevens tonight.

Because for a coach like Brooks, who can only see the first layer at most, what else would he do but add Rose and Dragic to the court and let them both take turns going it alone?

After being knocked down by Curry and Paul in turn, he applied for a timeout to pour chicken soup for the soul on Rose and Dragic and told them that "men can't say they can't"?

As we all know, on the basketball court, only the defense that forms a system can be called effective defense.

So, after noticing the problems with the Hornets backcourt combination, as well as the advantages of the Thunder backcourt combination when attacking......

In this game, Stevens is instead using Rose's assault ability and Dragic's ability to do axes on the court to create opportunities for Durant.

There are two main benefits to such a tactical arrangement.

One is that compared to the boring and boring alternate singles, it can save Ross and Dragic's physical energy more.

At the same time, it can also allow Durant to take advantage of the Hornets' inability to make up for Leonard's defense in time to reduce Durant's offensive pressure in the face of Leonard.

Therefore, when the game entered the official timeout in the first quarter, Wang Shuo pulled Paul to his side and said, "After the timeout, I will replace you first." ”

Paul nodded, "I'll listen to you for everything, sir." ”

At this moment, looking at Paul, who only had the word loyalty engraved on his face, Wang Shuo smiled and said: "I replaced you first, not because you didn't play well this time, but because the Thunder made too many arrangements for you and Stephen."

You take your breath and wait until the second quarter and I'll give you plenty of playing time. ”

As a mature head coach, Wang Shuo can't deny the backcourt combination of Curry and Paul just because of this half of the game.

After all, how many defenders can even Paul can't pull after bursting on the court during this period?

However, after the Thunder showed their attitude through the opening half of the game tonight, Wang Shuo knew very well that he must also give this Thunder enough respect to do so.

Energy Stadium, after the official timeout, I saw the Hornets Clay up and Paul down.

CCTV, Director Zhang, who saw this scene, said with a surprised face: "Hey, Wang Shuo actually replaced Paul?" ”

Look, what is called the change in the status of the rivers and lakes?

This season, because Paul has performed quite well since the start of the season, in the minds of most people, he has already become the anchor of this Hornets.

And TNT TV, Smith is also somewhat puzzled.

Because at the official timeout, he always thought that Wang Shuo would replace Leonard, who was not very effective at defending Durant, with Butler, who was more active defensively.

Fortunately, in this life, O'Neal and Barkley have followed Wang Shuo, so in the face of Smith's questioning, I saw O'Neill and Barkley say in unison: "Kenny, we know you're in a hurry, but can you not be in a hurry?" ”

Barkley knows very well that Wang Shuo replaced Klay at this moment to use Klay's defensive ability on the court to help Leonard better limit Durant when the Thunder launch tactics.

Barkley knows there will be no problems with Leonard's frontal one-on-one defense tonight.

The only problem is that the Thunder have previously exploited Curry and Paul's natural defensive flaws, allowing Durant to score too many easy points on the court.

In addition, on the offensive end, under the premise that Curry will have more balls, Klay's running can bring a threat that the current Butler does not have.

As for why Klay was replaced for Paul instead of Curry?

Barkley, of course, can't simply assume that Wang Shuo prefers Curry.

In Barkley's view, the reason why Wang Shuo chose to replace Paul at this moment is simply because Paul is more suitable for bringing a substitute than Curry.

On the court, the course of the game in the second half of the first quarter of the game also perfectly confirmed what Barkley wanted.

In the second half of the quarter, Durant only made a total of 3 shots on the court, hitting 1 of them, and his efficiency was significantly lower than in the first half of the quarter.

On the Thunder's side, although after Wang Shuo made a countermeasure, Stevens also made an emergency adjustment, taking advantage of the off-ball cover between Dragic and Rose, and switched Curry to Rose many times.

But in this regard, Wang Shuo did not panic at all.

Because in the second half of the first quarter, after replacing Millsap with Kirilenko and choosing "one more bitter Garnett......

With the Hornets' interior defense strengthening, even if Rose can get past Curry like he did on the road in the early morning, it will be difficult for Rose to score every ball under the Hornets.

Moreover, the existence of Clay is equivalent to allowing Ross to receive one less contact point at the breakthrough time.

Because although Klay at the moment also needs to level up on the defensive end......

But before the big injury, he was definitely the "pestering goblin" in the eyes of many opponents.

Since Dragic didn't have much advantage against Klay, his deterrence on the court, as a pivotal point for the Thunder's tactics, was greatly reduced.

Through defense, as well as a transition offense after defense, the Hornets countered the Thunder 24-14 in the second half of the first quarter.

On the court, after the first quarter, the two teams fought to a 38-all draw.

In this game, when several trump cards in his hand still need time to grow, Wang Shuo can be said to perfectly show the world his on-the-spot adaptability and field control ability.

In the stands, Jordan, who traveled to Oklahoma with the team this night, after watching the first quarter of the game, his mood can definitely only be described as confused.

Because no matter how convinced Jordan was of Wang Shuo's coaching ability, he didn't expect that Wang Shuo would bring the Hornets to the point where they could play back and forth with a number of championship favorites after one summer.

At this moment, Jordan couldn't help but think of the sentence that Barkley used to say when he was commenting:

"If my head coach was Wang Shuo, then the basketball god would have been Charles Barkley, not Michael Jordan!"

At the Energy Stadium, after the intermission, the game continued.

The Hornets second lineup, led by Paul, managed to dominate the game in the second quarter.

However, the subsequent direction of this game is ......

But it is a perfect interpretation of what it is, in the case of the player's own average feel, even if it is Wang Shuo, it is useless.

Tonight, the Hornets were able to turn around in the second half of the first quarter, mainly relying on the fast break after a successful defense.

Can......

Given Garnett's age at the moment, even if Wang Shuo is really the devil, it is impossible for him to kill Garnett for the whole time.

Therefore, under the premise that the Hornets could not continue to get transition offensive opportunities through defense, Curry also poured cold water on the Hornets fans in front of the TV with his cold touch in the subsequent game.

On this night, Curry, who seemed to be possessed by Kobe, shot only 8 of 22 from the field, including 1 of 10 three-pointers and 8 of 8 free throws, and most of the balls he scored on the court were layups after counterattacking.

In the end, the score of the two teams was 121-134.

The Thunder managed to have the last laugh with Durant's 35 points and 8 rebounds in this game and Rose's 27 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists.

It is worth mentioning that the United Arab Emirates, who came off the bench in this game, also had a good performance.

On the court, facing the Hornets' forward line full of short rebounding monsters, the UAE easily scored 17 points and 7 rebounds with a slight smile.

After the game, Wang Shuo said about Curry, who will definitely be pulled to a meeting for this game: "I have a different opinion of Stephen than you.

In my opinion, I don't have any complaints about his performance in this game.

Because of basketball, no one can go all the way in, and no one can win all the time.

But even after repeatedly missing shots on the court, Stephen didn't choose to retreat when he got the opportunity to throw the pot at his teammates. ”

In addition, Wang Shuo also praised Paul, who scored a total of 18 points and 11 assists for the Hornets in this game.

This season, Paul can be said to have felt the joy of being Curry's teammate in advance.

In Wang Shuo's previous life, why could even Green have a bunch of "rangers"?

Because whether it is the loss of the Warriors in Wang Shuo's memory, or the accident of the Hornets on the court in the future, in terms of Curry's character, he will not shirk his responsibility......

Therefore, with Curry holding an umbrella, his teammates are destined to be less rainy.

The same is true for Clay before Wang Shuo crosses over.

Even in the future, even Clay himself said in an interview that after his serious injury, he only knew who had been giving him confidence on the court.

Wang Shuo is not worried that Curry will collapse his mentality because he will be pulled to a meeting next.

Because unlike what many Kumi imagined......

Curry is nowhere near as fragile as he seems.

After all......

This is Stephen Curry, who will always use a behind-the-back pass to keep alive on the court in the future, even if he loses the championship because of a behind-the-back pass.

Don't ask, it's for Curry......

Even if he knew he was wrong, he would dare next time.

Some people say that such Curry will definitely suffer a big loss in the future.

But here's the problem......

If one day Curry is no longer Curry, will he still recruit so many people?

In November, after losing to the Thunder on the road, the Hornets suffered another defeat in Memphis.

In the new season, the Grizzlies, who introduced Gallinari, have indeed gotten a lot stronger.

However, the main reason why the Hornets lost this game was because the Hornets themselves failed to find their touch under the Grizzlies' airtight defense.

For the whole game, the Hornets shot 7-of-41 from beyond the three-point line, and in addition to Curry, who shot 3-of-12 from the field, Klay also shot 1-of-8.

On the contrary, Paul continued his steady play on the court and helped the Hornets successfully drag the game into a decisive moment.

But it's a pity......

When it came to the critical moment, Wang Shuo couldn't count on Paul.

Because Paul's height of only "183" centimeters, and his ability to solve problems that are far inferior to Iverson's, determine ......

If you count on him to be the offensive core who is more suitable to be the supporting core, then you are not destined to go far in this team.

Fortunately, after the end of this wave of Western road trips, the Hornets who returned to their home court successively defeated the Bucks, Magic and Pacers, and completed a strong rebound with a wave of three consecutive wins.

Especially against the Pacers, at Conseco Arena, the Hornets hit 14 three-pointers in the first half alone.

It turns out that when the Hornets themselves feel good, even an old powerhouse like the Pacers can't withstand the Hornets' too terrifying outside firepower.

In the end, the final score of this game was 137-118.

For the game, Curry shot 11-of-21, including 8-of-15 from three-point range and 10-of-10 from the free-throw line, totaling 40 points, four assists and five rebounds for the Hornets.

Thanks to the collective outburst including Klay, Middleton and others, Paul once again scored "20+10", contributing a total of 10 points, plus 4 rebounds and 20 assists to the Hornets.

The new season has not even finished in November, and many people think that the league can directly send the assist king trophy to Paul.

And compared to the interest in Paul, Curry and the Hornets since the start of the 12/13 season, Barkley has once again proved how loyal he is to James.

On November 21, when hosting TNT's regular season review program, Barkley said with a worried face: "The dignified Celtics won't even be able to make the playoffs under the leadership of LeBron James, right?" ”

So far in the regular season, the Celtics have a 5-9 record.

This record, let alone in the east, where there are many masters......

Even in the West, where rookies peck at each other, the Celtics can only rank tenth in the West.

After Kerr took over the Celtics, James was indeed able to hit the luxurious data of "30+8+8" per game this season.

But what puzzles everyone who likes James is......

Why is James so good and the Celtics so hard to win on the court?

You say there's a problem with Kerr's coaching ability......

But you must know that before Kerr coached the Celtics, he was also the head coach who led the Suns to the Finals.

And this year, Stevens, who led the Thunder to lead the league, proved that the Celtics did not play well in the previous two seasons and had nothing to do with the head coach at all?

But you say the Celtic players can't.

But here comes the problem again, if not even teammates like Horford, Boozer, Deron and Pierce......

So what level of teammate does James have to change to prove that he can do it?

These days, James is sad about people's doubts about himself.

Because this season he is obviously comfortable playing under Kerr's system......

But he just didn't understand why his teammates weren't as good as they used to be.

One thing to say, James felt really right this time.

Because when he is comfortable, how can Delon and Pierce be comfortable?

On the basketball court, a super team like this with multiple stars is destined to go far only if they sacrifice for each other.

For example, the Knicks that Wang Shuo coached back then.

After Duncan went ashore, didn't Xiao Yao take the initiative to give up some of his rights on the court?

For example, the Lakers that Wang Shuo coached before.

When did Kobe Bryant ever be vague when he should have done the dirty work himself?

Generally speaking, playing in this kind of super team, you want to have good stats and want to win, and you can only do it if you can find a way to make your teammates willingly let you suck your blood.

Can......

Delon and Pierce are not his brothers, so why were they released from the army for James, who was just a colleague?

In late November of this year, even the most amateur basketball enthusiasts saw it......

The only way for Celtic to make a trade is to be able to change their fortunes.

……