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Chapter 411 The battle between Wang Feng and Durant

The purpose of Wang Feng's defense of Irving is actually very simple and direct, to strangle Durant's helpers.

Durant's scoring ability is indeed strong, but due to physical limitations, his scoring explosion and upper limit are relatively limited. Scoring 40+ points in a game is basically Durant's limit in most cases.

In this case, in fact, Irving and George are the key points that determine the outcome of the game, and Irving's performance is particularly important.

Wang Feng, who was teammates with Irving for a short period of one year, knows very well that Irving is actually a player of the nerve knife type. It is not an exaggeration to make more than a dozen shots when he is tricked, but it is really fatal when he is accurate. .

Although the title of the No. [-] point guard of a certain sound is a bit ridiculous, it really puts aside personal honor acquisition and other aspects, and when it comes to scoring ability, Irving can also be ranked in the history of point guards.

Of course, if all other factors are taken into consideration, Irving is not worth mentioning.

The defense is poor, the physique of the glass body, and his personal behavior is somewhat serious. Such a player is really a disaster for a team. After all, Irving's grade is still enough for the maximum salary, but he spent the maximum salary to sign. It's really not worth it to play him...

On George's side, Butler is there to deal with them. Two small forwards with basically the same style of play and position. In the first two years, George was slightly ahead of Butler in terms of external reputation, but now the status of the two has changed. changed.

Butler has two championships in hand. Although he does not have top personal honors, his historical status has risen with the two consecutive championships.

On the other hand, George, when the Thunder team played MVP-level performance, was placed high expectations by many people, but after two seasons with the Nets, George gradually became the No. Under Irving, the average data per game this season has further shrunk, only 18.7 points, 4.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists.

Of course, the reduction of status in the team does not mean that George's strength has weakened, so in Wang Feng's prediction, George and Butler will at least form a mutual explosion situation.

As long as Wang Feng can limit Irving's performance, Durant will be the only main scoring point for the Nets. In this way, the situation will become clear.

While restricting Irving, as long as Wang Feng can score higher than Durant, the Lakers can win the game.

Although it is a bit stupid to do addition and subtraction directly on the field, there is also a saying that the best is the simplest. On this highest level of competition, in fact, the two sides are competing with each other on the performance of the star players.

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Facing Wang Feng's defense, Owen naturally couldn't choose to attack with the ball by himself. Even the talented Owen, who is known as the essence of human dribbling, doesn't know how to deal with Wang Feng.

In terms of speed and agility, Irving has no obvious advantage, and other aspects such as height, wingspan, strength, bounce, and explosion are completely crushed, so there is no need to fight at all.

Therefore, Irving decisively passed the ball directly to Durant.

Durant, who received the pass from Irving, faced the defense of Lakers forward Ingram.

As I said before, Ingram's draft template is Durant. In terms of physical static talent, Durant obviously has an advantage, with a taller height and a longer wingspan than Ingram. In terms of speed, In terms of dynamic talents such as physical strength and jumping, Ingram has an advantage over Durant.

Ingram's strength this season has been recognized by the public. During the regular season when Butler was injured, he performed perfectly as the Lakers' second scoring point, but obviously this alone is not enough, especially in the face of His draft template is Durant himself.

Durant took a feint shot with the ball, tricked Ingram into the center and quickly received the ball and made a breakthrough. He made a mid-range jump shot and the basketball was hit steadily.

2:0, Durant used his signature mid-range jumper to give the Nets the lead, and then Wang Feng immediately responded.

The Lakers used Ingram to defend Durant, while the Nets, as before, let Paul George defend Wang Feng.

No way, George is already the best defender on the forward line that the Nets can find. Even if there is no way to defend Wang Feng, at least it is better than letting Durant, Dinwiddie and others be completely blown out.

Facing George's close defense, Wang Feng made an emergency stop and retreated while breaking through. After opening the distance between the two, he shot a jumper from outside the three-point line. The basketball also hit, 2:3!

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"What an offensive feast!"

In the TNT studio, Barkley, O'Neill and others were full of praise.

"God knows how long the fans and audience have been waiting for this matchup! The two with the strongest offensive capabilities in the league will face off directly on the stage of the finals, and each will shoulder the banner of the two teams' offense in the first quarter!"

"Shaq, do you think Wang Feng or Durant scored more in today's game?" Kenny Smith asked.

"Of course it's Wang Feng." O'Neal immediately said without hesitation: "Whether it's the regular season or the playoffs, Wang Feng's scoring average is always higher than that of KD, but I'm more curious than this. Is it possible for a guy to score 50+ points in the Finals at the same time?"

"Haha, it's really hard to say." Barkley was immediately happy when he heard this. "If you look at the current defensive strength of the two teams against these two, this possibility is really possible. Brandon (Ingram) obviously can't defend Durant at all. It seems that his touch today is also It's very hot... As for Wang Feng, let alone, I basically never saw him have a bad touch."

Amidst the discussions and curious speculations of the crowd, the first quarter ended.

Both Wang Feng and Durant scored in double figures, with 13 and 14 points respectively, and their shooting percentages were above 50%.

But the scores of the two teams were not even.

The Lakers scored 35 points in a single quarter, but the Nets only had 27 points. The Lakers took an 8-point lead in the first quarter.

It can be seen from this that the Lakers won in terms of defensive arrangement strategy.

While Wang Feng and Durant were close in scoring, Butler and George scored 6 and 9 points in a single quarter respectively.

However, the performance of the third giants of the two sides is completely different.

On the defensive end, Ingram was completely overwhelmed by Durant, but on the offensive end, Ingram is not a soft persimmon who can be squeezed. Facing Durant's defense, Ingram also played a few times. Beautiful offense, scoring 4 points on 3 of 8 shots.

On the other hand, Owen is miserable.

Under Wang Feng's defense, Irving didn't have any chance at all. Several attempted long-range shots all missed under the interference of the defensive shock badge. He made 5 of 0 shots and scored 2 points only by free throws.

(End of this chapter)