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Chapter 288 Shocking the Restricted Area

Tang Qian did not block Durant's ball, but Durant's ball also failed to make it into the Lakers' basket.

With a sound of "Dang", it hit the front of the basket. Seeing this, Nick Collison was about to grab the offensive rebound, but someone was one step faster than him.

"China hot~nice.rebound~" Bill McDonald said.

Can he take care of this kind of ball?what's the situation?What ability?
Nick Collison looked at the back of the Asian center and said in surprise.

Gasol made a low shot and made a shot. The Lakers continued to narrow the score difference, 77-82, with only 5 points left.

Drop~
The Thunder coach called a timeout.

In just 4 minutes, the score difference changed from 14 points to 5 points, and a full 9 points were quietly evaporated.

"hateful!"

After a while, all the Thunder players were unhappy, and the consecutive missed shots gave the Lakers a chance to reverse.

"I will change the lineup later." Scott Brooks said: "Nazir, Nick, you two come down first, Kendrick, Serge, you go up. Pay attention to protect the inside rebounds, don't give the opponent two An opportunity to attack, do you understand?"

"No problem, Coach Brooks." Ibaka and Perkins said one after another.

……

The timeout ended, and the Thunder replaced their strongest five-man team, Durant + Westbrook + Harden + Perkins + Ibaka. The athletic ability and defensive ability of this lineup is already the Thunder Team at its best.It can be seen that what Coster Brooks means is to improve the strength of the team's inside line and suppress the "Twin Towers" lineup of the Lakers.

For the offensive end, he still hasn't changed much, because the Thunder in the 2011-2012 season had so many offensive strengths that basically he didn't need to worry about it.And Scott Brooks also believes that this lineup on the field, the offensive firepower, is the best in the league.

It is not surprising to enter a "scoring shortage" for a period of time, as long as you come out.

Anyway, in his eyes, the Lakers' offensive firepower was very weak. Without Andrew Bynum on the inside, it was difficult to support the overall situation with only a Spaniard who was physically exhausted.As for Kobe, it is impossible for one person to defeat five players. Moreover, the Black Mamba feels very average tonight. Most of the points come from the basket and inside. Signs of awakening.

This kind of scoring explosiveness can't soar, because we all know that the Lakers' No. 24's strongest point is the combination of sudden shots. He is not as good as a large number of young players and small steel guns just blindly killing the basket.

After all, the Black Mamba has shown his old age, and his physical functions have long since ceased to be at their peak.

So for the scoring ability of the Thunder this season, Scott Brooks is still very confident.

He even thinks that in terms of scoring ability, the Lakers and Thunder are not on the same level.

The Thunder currently average 101+ points per game in the playoffs, but what about the Los Angeles people?Only 94+.

The difference here is clear at a glance, and Scott Brooks' self-confidence is not groundless.

During the Thunder's offensive round, No. 0 Westbrook dribbled the ball past halftime. In this game, his function became the same as "Old Fish". In addition to dribbling forward, he just passed the ball to watch the show, a little deterrent in the regular season The strength is gone.And all of this was caused by No. 24 of the Lakers. Kobe's super-strength single defense made him very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

Sometimes Westbrook even thinks, this guy, is he really going to be 34?
Is it the wrong age?

But Westbrook didn't know that at this moment, Kobe was holding on with one breath. Up to now, he had only rested for 3 minutes, and the long-term intensive marking and breakthrough were rapidly draining Kobe's energy.After all, he is not 24 years old, and the term physical fitness has drifted away from him.

The basketball was passed to James Harden. Harden broke through and Sessions lost his position. He could only watch the former rush into the team's penalty area.

It's over, this ball will be scolded miserably again!
Seeing this situation, Ramon Sessions lost even the intention of chasing and defending, and he looked gloomy and gloomy.

For him, the first playoffs in his career was more like a nightmare.

In order to prevent being capped, Harden blocked with his right hand and made a layup with his left hand, but...the sound of "snap" came as expected, and it shocked No. 13 of the Thunder team's heart.Yes, no surprises, James Harden was blocked by Tang Qian again, that kind of picture is really unexpected.

Is the other party's reaction too fast?Cap too accurate?Or is my reaction too slow?Shot too slowly?

Harden was a little dazed, eating hats consecutively, which had a great impact on his competitive mentality in this game.After all, he is not an All-Star yet, and he is still not in the top spot, so his self-adjustment ability is still at the level of a substitute and a bench.

Encountering this contrarian trend, he suddenly seemed at a loss.

"Ramon! Go one! Fast break!" Tang Qian got the basketball and threw a long pass to the Thunder's half court. Ramon Sessions was the closest to the Thunder's basket and there was no one in front of him. He is undoubtedly the first choice to play defensive counterattack.

"Ramon Sessions~ what a wonderful dunk~ 79-82, we are only short of the opponent's 3-pointer, boys, come on~" Bill McDonald said.

How did you do it?

Durant looked at Harden, both puzzled and dissatisfied. In the next round, he decided to do it himself and score points for the team himself.This is the responsibility and burden that must be borne by the scoring champion. What's more, Kevin Durant is still the scoring champion for three consecutive times. The outside world exaggerates that he is the most likely to catch up with Joe God in the scoring champion.

Ci Shiping still followed Tang Qian's words, desperately posted, and did not give Durant the slightest space to shoot jump shots, but the same, his breakthrough defense was completely wide open, almost a 50-year-old man can easily Break through the past.This is a willingness to give up. If you want to fully hold Durant's mid-range shots, you must make some sacrifices.

The sacrifice of Ci Shiping is to let go of breaking through the defense line and focus on the opponent's shooting items.

This move was very effective, at least it had a miraculous effect in curbing Durant's shooting, but Scott Brooks saw it, but showed a trace of disdain.Because this kind of defense is something only a layman would do. How could a professional player do this?Throw away the breach line?Focus on the mid-range jumper?Do you think Kevin is a field man with bad legs?

Mike Brown you will pay for it!
Scott Brooks glanced at the head coach of the Lakers, thinking to himself.

Obviously, Scott Brooks found the wrong partner, because this trick was not instructed by Mike Brown.

At this moment, Mike Brown was standing on the sidelines, and he didn't understand why Ci Shiping wanted to defend and act like this!
"Kevin Durant made a breakthrough, oh~ he was intercepted, and the basketball in his hand was cut off by Ci Shiping~"

"Bill~ Ci Shiping's hand is really fast~ It is completely out of proportion to his body speed~"

"Haha~ Stu~ He is also an outside player who has won DPOY. He has maintained an average of 5+ steals per game for more than 2 seasons in his career. Just because of this, you can't underestimate him~ right~"

"It makes sense~ makes sense~ I'm just curious, how did he practice this move~why couldn't I practice so hard back then?"

"This is talent~ It's talent, do you understand? Old man! Don't waste your efforts in vain~"

"Well, although I don't want to admit it, but what you said makes sense~"

Don't think that doing it is as easy as saying it. In fact, except for Ci Shiping, almost no one on the Lakers can do this.After Ci Shiping gets older, he can still maintain around 1.5 steals. It is not due to the speed and footsteps of his youth, but what is it?It is experience and fast, accurate and ruthless strikes!
What does it mean to strike quickly and ruthlessly?That is, the moment you break through or make a layup or shoot or pass the ball, as long as the basketball is exposed and within his sight, he will quickly make a "lightning cut".The speed of cutting the ball in an instant, someone has done a model analysis, is one of the best in NBA history, and it is not directly proportional to his figure.

And because Kevin Durant's center of gravity was too high when he broke through, he couldn't protect the basketball as tightly as a small player, so this gave Metta Shiping an opportunity.Of course, if Tang Qian hadn't reminded him of this method of slanting his sword, he would not have thought of it himself.But it turns out, it does work, it does work.

"Kevin Durant was intercepted~The ball was passed to Kobe~Kobe made a layup, and the referee blew his whistle~It was a foul by the defender~The goal counts, and an extra free throw is required!"

"There are still nearly 7 minutes left in the game. I'm afraid our Mr. Harden is going to take a break first!"

Along with Bill McDonald's ridicule, Harden received his fifth personal foul. In order to avoid being sent off for full fouls, Thunder coach Scott Brooks could only temporarily replace him.

Thabo Sefolosha played, but his offensive ability was not comparable to that of Harden. The Thunder's outside firepower network suddenly lost a section.Kobe made a free throw. In this game, Kobe made a lot of free throws, but he never missed.

82-82, it took the Lakers just over 5 minutes to even out the 14-point difference in the third quarter.

This situation, I am afraid no one expected.

There were some subtle changes in the morale of the Thunder team, and a look of anxiety gradually emerged from their faces.

Westbrook forced Kobe, scored inside, Kendrick Perkins shot from the restricted area, was blocked by Tang Qian's cap, the basketball was taken by Ibaka, he played again, and Tang Qian gave him a hot pot press Down.The basketball is still in the hands of the Thunder. The person who picked up the ball was Russell Westbrook. He stepped up from the basket, kicked his feet, and was about to rob the Lakers' basket, but the ball still did not escape. Tang Qian's Wuzhishan is blocked again.

"What's going on! Grab the ball, grab the floor ball!!!" Seeing that the basketball was lost to the Thunder again, Mike Brown shouted angrily from the sidelines.

Consecutive blocks?Do you really think you are a superstar insider?Do you really think you are the super shot blocking king?
Watch me score in your hands!
The person who got the ball was Kevin Durant. There was no way. When he picked up the floor ball, Ci Shiping couldn't bend down a bit. So Durant, who was in his early twenties, got the rebound ahead of time.

"Kevin Durant is attacking, this time Metta Shiping has no time to defend him, this is a big gap, what will he do? Directly shoot or...he chose to attack the inside, he chose to take off for a layup! oh ~He is going to challenge China Hot directly! He is going to challenge China Hot directly!!!" Bill MacDonald continued to explain: "Scoring champion VS block leader, who can win this offense and defense? The answer is... ..."

"hot!!!"

PS: The third shift is over, and it should have been posted earlier, but Xiaozi fell asleep while writing, and woke up at almost 8 o'clock~ What a sad reminder~ Immediate release, Xiaozi has to go to work~ already late Ahhh~~~
The 13-word update is done, and it is close to 1 words in 2 hours. Xiaozi is fighting it~ Everyone please give me some comfort~ woo woo woo~
See you tonight, everyone~ flash~
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