The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 175 Experience Gap
This year's trade deadline is March 3, which is a little longer than in previous years.

Compared with last year's endlessly sensational big deals, this year's mid-term deals are quite disappointing, and can only be called thunderous and rainy.

Among them, the thunder is the loudest than Howard.

As a star who can lead the team to the finals alone and can replace James alone in his peak period, Howard's trade has naturally attracted much attention.

Since the beginning of the season, rumors about Howard's trade have been rampant, and various news continue to spread.

However, after half a season of trouble, Howard finally gave up his contract and stayed in the Magic.

……

play?

Except for the Magic fans, other fans were disappointed: I have all my pants off, so you just show me this?

Except for Howard, there are no big fish in the trading market.

There are also rumors about the Thunder, such as Green who has undergone surgery and is recovering, such as Harden who has been in a hot state recently, but fortunately, they are just rumors. Until the trade deadline passed, no news came out.

Just like that, this year's trade deadline ended quietly and smoothly.

On March 3, the Thunder played against the Spurs at home.

In this game, there is good news for the Thunder, that is, Sefolosha returned from injury and returned to the team's starting position.

Compared with the prosperity of the Thunder, the Spurs are much more miserable. They have encountered a serious wave of injuries.

The team has never been fully staffed, and in this game, the team's third scoring point Manu Ginobili and fourth scoring point Patrick Mills were both absent due to injuries.

On the one hand, the players are back from injury, and on the other hand, the injuries continue. Under such ebb and flow, the Thunder thought it was an easy game to win, but unexpectedly encountered a strong resistance.

After the pick-and-roll, Westbrook gave the ball to Li Pu, and Li Pu took off two steps later, and dunked the ball into the basket through Duncan!
"Drip!"

At this time, the referee whistled: offensive foul!

"What?" Seeing the referee's penalty, Li Pu couldn't sit still immediately, and hurried to the referee.

"When I made physical contact with him on that ball, he was obviously still moving and didn't stand still. Why did I commit an offensive foul?"

Faced with Li Pu's angry question, the referee explained blankly: "Just now Tim's feet have stood still and have not moved!"

"You read it wrong! His body is obviously moving!"

"Stop messing around with me, or I'll give you a T!"

Seeing this, Durant hurriedly and Harden pulled Li Pula away.

The reason why Li Pu was so angry was not that he was impulsive, but that he needed to put pressure on the referee, and at the same time felt sorry for the ball just now.

此时时间已经进行到了第四节还剩1分15秒，场上比分110:108，雷霆队落后2分。

If the ball hadn't been called for an offensive foul just now, the Thunder would have tied the score. This was the first time the Thunder had taken the lead since the start.

If Duncan blocks the foul, then he still has a chance to add a penalty, and he may be able to overtake the score.

But now all this has come to naught.

The two points didn't count, and it gave the opponent an offensive opportunity. As time dwindled, the game was already very difficult for the Thunder.

After the opening game tonight, the Spurs caught the Thunder by surprise and let the Thunder dig a hole by 10 points as soon as they came up.

At most, it once led by 21 points.

Fortunately, in the second half, the Thunder rallied to catch up, and even caught up to only 2 points before the end of the game.

If he lost because he didn't score this goal, wouldn't he have let everyone down for the whole game tonight?
Parker slowly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, almost an eight-second violation, and his speed completely lived up to his name as a small French sports car.

It's no wonder that what the Spurs want now is the success rate, and what they want is time-consuming.

After coming to the frontcourt, the Spurs were not in a hurry, and they didn't deliberately press the time. The players began to run tactics skillfully.

After some running, the Spurs didn't have any good chances, so Parker passed the ball to Duncan inside. Danny Green, who was in the corner on the strong side, began to slide to the bottom line and came to the corner on the weak side, giving Duncan a pass. Open up the singles space.

Tonight, the Spurs are extremely accurate outside, Parker, Danny Green, Leonard and even DeJuan Blair, who would have thought that among the five starting five players of the Spurs, the one who scored the fewest points would be Duncan who only scored 14 points?
The man defending Duncan was Li Pu. To be honest, Li Pu defended Duncan very well tonight. He made 12 of 4 shots. Duncan's shooting percentage tonight was only 33%. You must know that this is an inside shooting percentage!

Li Pu is proud of defending Duncan like this!
However, at this time, he did not have the slightest arrogance, and even felt extremely nervous in his heart.

Although Duncan feels bad tonight and is not in good shape, it's Duncan!
Who will not be afraid of his key ball?
After opening up the space, facing the almost empty field here, Duncan was finally able to let go and play.

Duncan pressed his back against Li Pu's chest, but it didn't achieve the effect Duncan wanted.

This guy Li Pu's strength has increased by more than a little compared to last year, so that after losing weight, Duncan didn't make a push for the first time.

Duncan then hit again!
Faced with Duncan's second shot, Li Pu was not afraid at all. He made Duncan extremely uncomfortable all night long, that is to say, the Spurs were too accurate from the outside line today, otherwise the Thunder would not have lost so much.

Putting down Duncan's second blow, he didn't expect that Duncan still didn't give up, and actually planned to use force to make a third blow.

Again?

But just when the two bodies came into contact, Duncan suddenly used his strength to turn around and passed Li Pu cleanly.

"Don't think about it!"

After realizing Duncan's attempt, Li Pu quickly adjusted his body, covered Duncan again, and was about to give Duncan a hot pot.

But at this moment, Duncan just swayed and didn't get up. After tricking Li Pu into getting up, he jumped up again.

"Drip!"

"White number 88, thug foul!"

Although Li Pu destroyed Duncan's must-scoring goal, he paid for the foul.

Duncan, who caused the foul, was still expressionless, without joy or happiness, as if everything had nothing to do with him, and no one knew what he was thinking.

But Li Pu suffered a great sense of frustration in his heart. After all, he lost to Duncan in the most critical round.

Duncan walked to the free throw line and used free throws to get the key point.

Don't look at Duncan's free throw percentage this season is less than 70%, and tonight he only made 9 of 4 free throws, but at this critical moment, Duncan was able to avoid outside interference and steadily made two free throws.

As a result, the point difference was widened to 4 points.

Although Durant hit a three-pointer in the end and continued the suspense of the game, he still took a breath after all.

In the end, the Spurs defeated the Thunder 116:113, ending the Thunder's seven-game winning streak.

(End of this chapter)