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Chapter 42 Piercing the Thunder
With the performance of Qin Yan and Duncan, the Spurs gradually got rid of the decline, relying on the cooperation of the whole team to play a small climax of 8-0.

Even though the Thunder has Durant ready to turn into Thor and start killing, he is omnipotent and invincible.But he was helpless with two fists and four hands. Every time he attacked, he was either attacked by Qin Yan and Duncan, one inside and one outside, or he was directly locked by Qin Yan and Leonard with their long arms on the outside. , Even if it is difficult to catch the ball well, how can you score offensively?

Therefore, under the defense of the three Spurs in turn, Durant is like Thor who has lost his hammer. He cannot use his skills and can only watch his team fall behind and worry.

Some people may ask, isn't there still Westbrook?The Spurs' defensive focus is on Durant, shouldn't Westbrook be liberated?Shouldn't he take the opportunity to get good grades?
Yes, Westbrook thinks the same way, so as soon as he gets the ball during this time, he will do his best to attack the Spurs' basket.

However, since the audience can think of it, and Westbrook himself can think of it, do you think the Spurs' Mr. Zhu Gewei can't think of it?

Popovich's tactics were clearly told to everyone during the previous timeout, to guard against Durant, release Westbrook, and only harass Westbrook at the moment of the shot.

Westbrook in 12 is not the Super Turtle who was injured and upgraded in 15, nor is it the data machine that averaged a triple-double in 16 because of Durant's departure.

He is only version 1.0 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles now, and there are still too many functions that have not been developed, and he is not strong enough, and he has not yet become a qualified leader.Now he is still more suitable to be a second master by Durant's side.

Popovich saw this, so he boldly let his three defensive masters take turns to take care of Durant, and only slightly interfered with Westbrook.

After all, Westbrook is still a young man who is easy to get on top of, and he doesn't care about anything when his head gets hot. He can only rush to the basket with the ball on his shoulders, and he can't see where his teammates are at all.

This was the case in the few rounds just now. Parker let Westbrook rush to his inside line halfway, and then followed him to put pressure on him. When Westbrook was about to make a shot, Dior or Duncan came to interfere again.

It stands to reason that at this time the Thunder will definitely have players open. As long as Westbrook can pass the ball, he is likely to assist his teammates to score.

However, we know that Westbrook's style of play has always been to carry the opponent to play, so when the Spurs came up to help defend when Westbrook was about to attack, Westbrook would only have one thought in his mind, and that was to kill these people in front of him !
Therefore, in these few rounds, he did not choose to pass the ball, but forced a layup by himself.After all, Westbrook believes that basketball is closer to the basket and has a higher shooting rate, and even if he fails to make a forced layup, he still commits a foul, right?

It's a pity, Popovich wants you to play like this. How could he let his subordinates give you a chance to foul?Westbrook is still a young man, how could he have the opportunity to foul when the Spurs, who are considered old and disrespectful players, have no intention of doing mental calculations?You must know that even the shooting opportunities were specially created by the Spurs.

In this way, the result is obvious. Westbrook missed four consecutive shots, and the Spurs took the opportunity to hit an 8-0 attack wave, further widening the point difference.

In these four rounds, Durant needless to say was entangled. The other three players of the Thunder were just running back and forth with Westbrook. Just work hard.In this way, the original 5vs5 game seemed to have unknowingly turned into a 5vs2, and the Thunder seemed to be relying on both teams to fight against the Spurs.Oh no, it should be the Thunder relying on Westbrook to single out the Spurs alone.

Coach Brooks of the Thunder finally couldn't sit still and asked for a timeout.

Thunder players all returned to the bench with depressed faces.Durant was depressed because he was entangled and unable to exert his strength and the team fell behind, and Westbrook was because of his bad luck these few times (he has not found out that it is a trap until now, he just thinks that his luck is not smooth) ) and depressed, others are depressed because they have no sense of presence on the court.

"Russell, I need you to calm down." Coach Brooks pondered his words, "Sometimes there is more than one way to attack..."

"Yes coach, give me a few more chances, I have found a way to score under those people's defense." Before Coach Brooks could finish speaking, Westbrook interrupted him while wiping his sweat. "I know that I didn't score the few goals just now, it was because I didn't adapt at the beginning. I have adapted to their defense now, and they can no longer stop me."

"Russell, I'm not talking about this." Coach Brooks really has nothing to do with his beloved apprentice, "Russell, you have to trust your teammates. In this difficult state, you have to trust that they can give you help."

Westbrook widened his eyes, thought for a while, and suddenly asked happily, "Are you asking Serge (Ibaka) to come and help me with the pick-and-roll?"

Thunder other people: ...

Coach Brooks could only smile wryly, but Westbrook can't be blamed for this, who made Brooks his own tactics have always been three-axes: Durant singles, Westbrook singles, Harden singles.

Now that there is no Harden, this tactic becomes other people's singles, pass?It seems that after Westbrook turned on the offensive mode, this option was not in his mind.

After all, Westbrook's head is hot and he is attacking, and even Durant may not be able to see it, let alone the rest of the team.

Coach Brooks could only look at his big disciple Durant. Durant was sitting blankly at this time, and he didn't seem to hear other people's conversations. It's nothing less than a humiliation.

First, he was defended against an 8-second violation by two people he looked down upon, and then he was defenseless by those two people plus Duncan.Moreover, the defensive styles of these three people are still different. It takes a lot of effort to get rid of each time. I have already started the rampage mode and prepared to score points. mode back to normal mode.

Then my second brother is a mallet, he can only attack when his brain is hot, and when he is being marked to death by the opponent, if the second brother scores a goal, it is okay to hold the score.

But at this time, the second brother can't score. In the past, whenever this time came, I had a third brother with a beard. This third brother would come up to control the rhythm of the team, but now the third brother left Houston alone. , There is no one who can rest assured.

Alas, when Brooks saw the two trump cards, one was absent-minded and the other was hot-headed, he could only arrange a tactic first, but whether this tactic could be implemented was really not guaranteed.

The atmosphere on the Spurs team was much more relaxed. Popovich looked at Duncan, Qin Yan, and Leonard with satisfaction. Rant, now Durant no longer has the aura of gods blocking and killing gods and Buddhas blocking and killing Buddhas after he was forced to violate the 8-second violation. Instead, he has recovered as before, and the Spurs were successfully forced out of the runaway state.

However, these three did bring the Spurs' defense to a new level. Originally, the Spurs' starting defensive configuration was top-notch, but now Qin Yan and Leonard are added to the starting lineup.

Of these three people, one is as ruthless as ice, "Death Coil" calmly steals the ball; the other is as imposing as fire, constantly oppressing the opponent with force and destroying the opponent's movements; the last one is as majestic as Gao Shang, " He forced him to be strong, and the breeze caressed the hills", using his tall body to block the only way to the basket.

Any star who wants to conquer the Spurs' basket must first conquer these three this season.This is Popovich's new ace defensive lineup this season. Even if you can break the ice and extinguish the fire, you still have to climb over the mountain in the end, and generally pass through the "Ice and Fire" duo. People are basically at the end of their strength, and they can't wear Lu Jin yet. How can they climb over the mountains?
Durant is the first superstar to fall under these three men, but he will definitely not be the last.

Popovich only explained a few questions about cooperation and didn't say much.In his opinion, there are not too many variables in this game, unless everyone in the Thunder can go berserk.

After playing again, the situation was exactly the same as Popovich thought. Westbrook still went it alone, and the Spurs specially let him score a few goals under Popovich's instruction.This further strengthened Westbrook's determination to play singles. He didn't even have Durant in his eyes, let alone other teammates.

As for Durant, he only went berserk for less than 5 minutes before he was directly strangled to death by the Spurs' defensive trio, and nothing happened to him in the second half of the game.

As for the rest of the Thunder, well, on the offensive end, they couldn't even touch the ball, so there's nothing else to say. Only Ibaka desperately grabbed a few offensive rebounds and contributed a few mighty dunks. Only then did people realize that the Thunder still has other people playing.

In the fourth quarter, the game soon became garbage time. In the second half of the third quarter and the first few minutes of the fourth quarter, the Spurs played a wave of 22:8 attacks, which directly took away the game. Popovich waved his hand directly, 5 up and 5 down.

Qin Yan sat on the bench and watched Westbrook, a mindless guy, enter the Spurs inside again and again. Well, he can only silently feel sad for Durant. This is the best player to defend Durant. !
In the end, the Spurs beat the visiting Thunder 112:94 at home. Qin Yan's statistics in this game dropped somewhat, but he still had an all-around performance of 22 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks. In the first two games of his rookie season , he scored 20+5+5, proving his worth to all those who questioned him!
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