The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 131 Golden Rooster Independence
On May 5, the first game of the Western Conference Finals was held in Oklahoma City.

Before the game started and the players were still warming up, a large number of fans had already entered the arena and began to cheer for the Thunder players.

No wonder the fans are so excited!

As Oklahoma City, which has never had a team from the Big Four for decades, the Thunder is naturally a collection of thousands of favorites.

And this is only the third year of his own team, and he has already reached the Western Conference Finals, so it won't take off in two years?
Even, as far as the current situation is concerned, both the media and fans agree that the Thunder is the stronger team.

In other words, winning the first NBA Western Conference championship for Oklahoma City and making it to the NBA Finals for the first time is also within easy reach, and the Oklahoma City fans are going crazy with happiness.

"Come on, Prince!"

When Li Pu practiced shooting, a few young fans who looked like students on the sidelines were also cheering for Li Pu.

"Thank you! Why are you here so early?"

In addition to games and training, the team will also organize them to participate in community activities. These people in front of him are students from Oklahoma State University that he met at community activities.

"Of course it depends on you beating the Mavericks and advancing to the finals!" The leading student was Overby, with a few freckles on his face, blond hair and blue eyes, a typical appearance of a white youth, wearing a Li Pu "88" No. jersey, said happily to Li Pu.

"Thank you, I will work hard!" Li Pu waved at them, and then continued to shoot.

Just the next shot, the basketball bounced out of the basket.

Li Pu's heart was a little confused.

No one knows the strength of the Mavericks this season better than him, but no one thinks that the Mavericks can beat the Thunder.

Don't look at the team's coaching staff who have seriously prepared for the game before, but that is just the routine preparation before the game. They don't even know what kind of enemy they are facing?
Even if Li Pu repeatedly emphasized, he couldn't make everyone take it seriously, and even laughed at Li Pu, saying that he was too nervous and needed to relax.

Well, just literally that kind of relaxation.

Now even the fans think so, but for Li Pu, this round of the series, at least this game, he believes is not easy to play!

Sure enough, after the match started, it developed just as Li Pu imagined.

Dirk Nowitzki, this man who looks like the King of the Golden Horn, has been in the league for 13 years.

In the past 13 years, there have been peaks and troughs. I have been to the finals and been hacked.

But all along, no one has ever thought of him as a superstar, because in the eyes of most people, he is simply synonymous with a softie, even softer than a wife.

More than one person has said that any team with him as the core will never win the championship.

The facts are indeed developing as they said. In two months, Nowitzki will be 33 years old.

For a basketball player, this age is about to enter a period of decline. He was at the peak of the year and failed to win the championship. Now he has become a veteran. With a group of veterans with old arms and legs, he can even pass The talented Thunder three and the Heat's Big Three who are at their peak win the championship?
Nobody believed it!
Oh no, some people still believe it, and he himself believes it!
Nowitzki singles Ibaka.

I saw Nowitzki turn around and squeeze Ibaka, so that Ibaka's block can only take off by jumping his feet.

Immediately afterwards, he stepped to the outside of Ibaka's leg and put his elbows so that Ibaka could not catch the ball. While protecting the ball perfectly, he could also borrow strength.

When the old driver finished his retreat step, his torso tilted 20 degrees, widening the distance from the defender. At the same time, he raised the ball, raised his legs, borrowed strength from each other, and lifted the ball vertically, accumulating strength for the next shooting action. The legs keep the body balanced.

This is Nowitzki's signature move, the golden rooster is independent!
A move that is almost unsolvable in the alliance.

Shots and leg extensions are the process of leveraging each other. Everything is so smooth. When Nowitzki shoots, Ibaka, a master shot blocker, can only watch Nowitzki shoot, praying that he can't make it.

But that's impossible!
"Shh!"

Basketball hollow into the net.

Nowitzki tonight is almost unstoppable!

At this time, it was already the fourth quarter of the second half. With Nowitzki's goal, the score on the field has reached 112:98, and the point difference has come to 14 points.

And now there are less than 3 minutes left before the end of the game.

Such a point difference, such a time, made every Thunder player feel desperate!
No one could have imagined that the game would be played like this!

In fact, at the beginning of the game, the Thunder still had the advantage. They led by 27:20 in the first quarter.

However, an accident appeared in the second quarter.

The Mavericks not only restricted the Thunder's offense in this quarter, but at the same time the outside touch exploded, and Nowitzki was unstoppable, sifting Ibaka into a sieve.

In this way, the Thunder beat the Thunder 35:21 in a single quarter, not only overtaking the score, but also leading the Thunder by 7 points.

After entering the second half, every time the Thunder wanted to narrow the score, Nowitzki would stand up and use an unsolvable mid-range shot to interrupt the Thunder's momentum of chasing points.

So, until now, the Thunder have lost all opportunities to chase points.

Nowitzki's shot almost killed the game.

Of course, this does not mean that the Thunder players are ready to give up. For these young people, they will never give up!

After Li Pu served the ball again, Westbrook changed his head and accelerated forward, but slowly dribbled the ball across the half court, and at the same time kept cheering everyone up.

"Calm down, there is still time, let's take it step by step!"

At this time, Westbrook looked very calm, and the calm turtle seemed to be online again.

This made Li Pu wonder why Westbrook can change so much on the court?Could it be that KB3 is on the upper body now?
After coming to the frontcourt, after Westbrook and Li Pu picked and rolled, they broke through and passed the ball to Durant on the outside.

Tonight's Durant is the only one who can compete with Nowitzki. He has already scored 40 points tonight.

Of course, the price is that he has played almost 40 minutes at this time.

Facing Westbrook's pass, Durant also knew that he had to score!
So he faked a shot, tricked Marion up, and broke through to the basket.

Tyson Chandler's help defense arrived immediately, and Durant chose to throw Chandler, but missed!

Li Pu was already ready to grab a rebound at the basket, but when he was about to take off, Nowitzki came from nowhere and got stuck.

Although Nowitzki didn't get the rebound under Li Pu's interference, but he passed the ball to Chandler by point grabbing.

Attack to no avail!

Before the Thunder could complete the transition, Chandler passed the ball to Jason Terry immediately.

Terry rushed all the way with the ball. Although Westbrook chased and defended all the way, he was thrown away by Terry's emergency stop outside the three-point line.

Immediately afterwards, before everyone returned to defense, he directly chose a three-point shot.

Westbrook took a step forward at night, not only did he not block Terry, he even failed to interfere!

"Shh!"

The basketball is hollow into the net, and now, Terry has completely killed the game!

(End of this chapter)