Doon is good at using his talent to play transitions, but he doesn't do it himself for every transition.

Seeing that Durant was catching up, Doon passed the ball out and into Green's hands, and gave a certain amount of advance.

Green plays inside, and it doesn't look fast, but the explosiveness is okay, and the acceleration with the ball can pass the ordinary forward players.

Now that the spear goes straight to the basket and there is no one, it is not a problem to get the ball 1 to 0.

Boom –

Green dunked the ball into the basket and Doon picked up an assist.

It is worth mentioning that the score difference has been further widened!

No one expected that the Bulls, who were fighting away, could still lead the defending champion Thunder at the beginning of the game!

Is this what a dynasty team is all about? Is this the magic of Doon?

Obviously, Doon hasn't shown the projection ability of a few years ago, and it's clear that Doon is not at his peak, but Doon's influence on the court seems to be greater than Durant, the first person in the league!

The Thunder fans at the scene didn't dare to take a breath when they saw Doon's performance in these few rounds.

It wasn't until Durant got the ball from Wei Shao's hand again and resolutely singled Doane that the Thunder fans on the scene opened their mouths to cheer for Durant.

After the round of competition just now, Durant also clearly realized that Doane's defense was not completely lost because of retirement.

In order to avoid Doon's physical confrontation and small movements from interfering with his offense, Durant did not choose to blindly shoot and showed Dhorn his outstanding shooting ability.

This time, Durant chose to dribble continuously under the crotch rhythm until he reached Doon, hesitated to connect the double change of direction, and relied on the unpredictable dribbling rhythm and the extremely amplitude of the pace to successfully pass Doane.

In the Finals a year ago, Doon's lateral speed was able to keep up with Durant's pace and pace.

But after all, after a year of retirement, defensive experience and defensive instinct are like rusty old machines, which can still be used but are not as sensitive and smooth as before.

And Durant, after passing Doane, hit the basket even in the face of Ibaka's and white-rim defense, he has been nine out of ten.

Boom –

Also a dunk, Durant once again responded on the court with his talent and personal ability.

“MVP，MVP，MVP！”

The Thunder fans at the scene once again chanted in unison for Durant's brilliant performance!

A strong shot can bukkake Doon, and a breakthrough can also pass Doon in one step!

Although the basketball game is not a one-on-one game, the success of singles is the most intuitive and exciting part of the game!

So far, Durant's performance is indeed worthy of the title of the first person in the league.

It is worth mentioning that Durant was not complacent, after the dunk was successful, Durant chose to defend as soon as possible in order to avoid being converted by the Bulls!

In this game, Durant not only successfully singled Doon, but also successfully defended Doon, but also successfully won the game!

In the face of Durant's aggressive defense, Doon did not force the ball to play alone, but let Curry, Green, Ibaka and White Edge try it first.

Winning first doesn't mean winning! Doon knows how to beat Durant.

One thing to say, Durant, who is serious about defense, actually has a good defensive level.

However, Durant can't go all out on defense every regular-season game.

That's why, Durant doesn't have a defensive lineup.

As a seven-foot-long man, Durant is too tall, but what he is best at is offense, attacking with the ball!

As the leader of the team and the team's No. 1 scorer, Durant had to put most of his physical strength into the offensive end in order to play better.

But today, in order to prove himself in front of Doon and in front of the national audience, Durant showed an offensive and defensive performance from the first quarter of the game.

If this continues, will Durant still have the strength to play in the fourth quarter?

Looking at the other players on the Thunder team, apart from Durant, who else has the ability to make key shots in the fourth quarter?

Once the Thunder falls into the stage of Wei Shao's offensive with the ball, they will either crush everything with great momentum, or they will become more and more frustrated but defeated.

Doon knows this very well, so from the beginning of the game, he did not resist Durant to take the ball and single him, but entered the game with his body, hoping that Durant could work harder.

For Doon at this stage, if he can redeem Durant, the hope of the Bulls winning tonight will undoubtedly be two or three more percent.

To get back to the point, Doane didn't get involved too much in the offense, and the rest of the Bulls were able to follow the tactics they had honed throughout last season, attacking in a step-by-step manner, and then relying on their individual ability to get the ball into the basket.

On the Thunder's side, it is still a double turn dominated by Durant and Wei Shao, two leading stars.

Durant feels that he is hot tonight, and now he has the upper hand, so he should take advantage of the victory to chase after him.

Doon is physically aggressive enough when defending Durant, but Durant is in his prime and is really difficult to defend.

As a result, I could only watch Durant attack the basket again and again and score under the basket.

Although not every shot can be scored, Durant scored 16 points early in the more than 9 minutes he played in the first quarter, relying on his superb performance of 6 of 9 shots, 2 of 3 three-point shots, and 2 of 2 free throws.

As for Wei Shao, he shot a lot, but the scoring efficiency was not as high as Durant's, shooting 3 of 7 in the first quarter, 3 of 4 free throws, and scoring 9 points, which did show the demeanor of the defending champion second.

However, although the two leading players of the Thunder, Durant and Wei Shao, combined for 25 points in the first quarter, the Thunder did not have an advantage in the first quarter, but fell behind the Bulls by 2 points.

29-27, the rest of the Thunder players combined for 1-of-4 shooting in the first quarter and scored only 2 points.

The reason for this situation is naturally that the other players of the Thunder lack the ball, they have been running back and forth, and they have been doing the dirty work of defense, card position, and rebounding, even if they suddenly get the ball, they don't have a good feeling.

Although the projection ability of role players has improved in recent years, there are not many 3D players in the league who really have stable shooting ability.

The Thunder's championship-winning configuration is that Wei Shao and Durant focus on offense, and others focus on defense.

So, it's understandable that other players didn't contribute much in terms of scoring without possession.

Just like Doon didn't have much of the ball in the first quarter, his scoring stopped at the first two or three points to get four points.

In fact, in the next few minutes, Doon also received passes from his teammates one after another, and tried to shoot two balls, but under Durant's strict defense, he still failed to throw the ball into the basket.

However, at the beginning of the second quarter, Doon had the ball in hand, and his teammates were willing to cooperate with Doon's running tactics.

Even though Durant came up early and didn't let Doon's plan to stagger the peak trip succeed, Doon finally played the effect it should have.

By the time the second quarter played more than 6 minutes and went to rest, Doon had scored 13 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.

In other words, after Durant got off the court, he suddenly became a little unable to play, and he was two iron in a row, as if his physical strength had been exhausted.

Seeing this, Wei Shao ignored Durant's follow-up behavior of asking for the ball, taking the ball on his own, and occasionally feeding Adams and other interior players a cake so that he could use them to help get the position, and he could get a few more rebounds.

Under the leadership of Wei Shao, the Thunder successfully overtook the score.

Seeing this, Thunder head coach Scott Brooks took Durant down first and replaced him with other small forwards for a while.

Anyway, when Wei Shao got the ball, Durant was useless on the court.

Coach Brooks also knows that Durant's physical strength is precious, so there is no need to follow Wei Shao to turn around on the court.

However, not long after Durant went off the court, Doon was back on the court.

In the face of Durant, I am submissive, and I am a heavy punch against the bench!

Doon seized the opportunity to travel at a staggered peak, and once again showed his amazing physical talent, relying on his body to eat the Thunder forward players.

After only two minutes of play, Doon led the team to reverse the score, and Coach Brooks also saw that his scalp was numb and had to change Durant to the court again.

"Am I a defensive giant?" Durant was also a little incredulous.

However, after returning to the court, Doon did not dare to single him with the ball, and Durant was very useful for this.

"I knew you couldn't beat me anymore, Doon!" Durant spewed trash talk as he sneered.

"KD, didn't you pay attention? You're the ones who are behind in the scoring! ”

Doon cares about winning, not winning or losing.

So this time to return trash talk to Durant, it is also to attract Durant to continue to waste physical strength to single him.

Sure enough, Durant immediately fell for Doon's agitation and looked for Wei Shao to take the ball and single Doon.

Wei Shao was also well-behaved, and as soon as he handed over the ball, he went to the side and stood aside, waiting for a possible offensive rebound.

It's just that what Wei Shao didn't expect was that this time Durant didn't shoot the iron, but tried to break through Doon, and was predicted by Doon.

Durant was very fast, and he was about to pass Doon, but Doon suddenly reached out and poked the ball out of Durant's hand.

Durant's breakthrough needs to be rhythmic and fast, but the center of gravity of the dribble is too high, and it is easy to be pulled out by the fast-eyed outside defensive gate.

It's clear that Doon is the type of defensive player that Durant is looking after.

And after Doon steals Durant, he immediately strides into the ball, and the spear goes straight to the unguarded basket, and a simple gliding slam dunk completes the offense.

was cut off by Doon, and Durant was naturally unconvinced, so he continued to challenge Doon.

Relying on his outstanding physical talent and shooting skills, Durant used an extremely strong mid-range shot to wash away the shame of being stealed, and successfully helped the Thunder recover two points.

But the Bulls quickly took advantage of the opportunity to switch offense and gave the ball to Curry.

Curry's hand is also very good tonight, this time it is to take advantage of the Thunder's unstable foothold in the defense, one step outside the three-point line to chase the three-point shot into the soul.

Curry has 18 points! Two points short of scoring 20?

Durant didn't want anyone to steal the limelight tonight, so he decided to take the ball and wanted to respond with a three-pointer.

It's Doon again, with enough physical confrontation and hidden small movements.

Duang——

Listening to the sound of iron, Durant was also a little annoyed, and then frowned at the referee on the sideline and complained: "I was violated by the cylinder, and my waist was pinched purple!" ”

The referee probably guessed that this time it was a missed decision.

The problem is that by the time Durant complains, the Bulls have already started to switch offense after grabbing the rebound, and it is too late to blow the whistle and make up for a delay whistle at this time.

The referee can't blow the whistle immediately, at most he will find an opportunity to make amends later.

So, not long after Durant complained, the Bulls relied on playing more and playing less, and played another conversion offense, further widening the point difference.

By the end of the second quarter, the score was 56-50 and the Bulls extended their lead to six points.

However, in the second half, the penalty suddenly turned against the Bulls.

Only two minutes after the start of the third quarter, the Bulls players each carried one foul, which also made Doon and others very dissatisfied, and the game became impetuous.

It wasn't until Doon, representing the Bulls, kept pressuring the referees that the whistle sounded less frequently in the third quarter.

However, Wei Shao hit the basket, but he made some more free throws.

Wei Shao's ability to make damage is undoubted, averaging 10+ free throws per game at his peak, and he has also averaged seven or eight free throws per game in recent seasons.

But tonight's first half was obviously fine, but in this third quarter, Wei Shao immediately sounded the delay whistle when he didn't score a layup, and then stood on the free throw line.

Isn't this bullying honest people?

In this case, Doon said that he was no stranger to it, and it was definitely the official end of the league!

The league officially arranged for the Bulls to play this opening game, but they didn't think the Bulls could win.

However, in the first two quarters of the game tonight, each quarter ended with the Bulls taking the lead.

If this continues, this opening game will not be for the Thunder, the defending champion team, and for Durant, the new king of the league, to sing on the stage!

The league officials never imagined that tonight's game would be a symbol of the revival of the Bulls dynasty, nor did they plan to welcome the return of Dwan, the first king in history!

Sometimes, however, the plan just can't keep up with the changes.

Obviously after the third quarter, the Thunder had overtaken the score and established a 4-point lead.

However, in the fourth quarter, Wei Shao and Durant were like being lowered, one striking iron, and the other was a strong head iron.

Seeing that the Bulls overtook the score again, the two were anxious, and because they were fighting for the ball, they made a lot of noise on the court.

Durant first kept chasing Wei Shao for the ball, but after Wei Shao didn't give it, Durant had no choice but to take the initiative to wait for the backcourt to receive the ball, and then dribble over the half court single.

is also because Durant and Wei Shao had an awkward quarrel, and Wei Shao was deprived of the ball and no longer stayed in the backcourt to respond, but continued to squat in the front court to grab rebounds.

During Durant's solo dribble, Green found an opportunity to take out the ball, followed by watching Green rush to the basket to complete the dunk!

It can only be said that Green is a professional when it comes to Durant.

"How so?"

"Obviously, I felt great tonight!"

"Russell, you ruined the night of my career!"

In the fourth quarter, Durant got three opportunities to stand on the free throw line in the field of difficult scoring in the field, but only made four of them because of trembling hands and tremors.

The Thunder scored seven points in the last four minutes of the fourth quarter on the free throws of Durant and Westbrook.

Although there were quite a few, in the end it was not able to save the situation.

106-102, the defending champion Thunder won the opening game by 4 points, sitting back and watching the Bulls from afar!

The end of this battle also completely announces the return of King Doon! (End of chapter)