The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 309 Sentencing to Death
"Mr. Wang's prediction is so accurate, I didn't expect the Kings to come back!"

"In fact, it's not as exaggerated as you said. The main reason is that I know very well that the Kings did not play at the level they should have in the first quarter. There should be many reasons for this, but their ability to adjust is also excellent, especially with Li Pu. Now, he is the ballast of this team!"

Watching the halftime score, Ke Fan listened to Wang Xing bragging in the studio.

At 61:54, the Kings caught up with the score in the second quarter.

In fact, this is the result of the Thunder team resisting the Kings chasing points in the second half of the second quarter.

At the beginning of this quarter, due to the excellent performance of the Kings' bench, the Thunder had to bring Durant back in advance.

As Durant turned back, the situation really stabilized.

Afterwards, the main players of the Thunder team returned one after another, and the Kings team also switched back to the starting lineup, and the two sides fell into anxiety again.

To be honest, in the second quarter, the Kings performed very well. They scored 34 points in a single quarter and played everything they should have.

But it's a pity that the Thunder relied on this lineup to completely resist it.

I have to say that in terms of star level, the Thunder are still above the Kings.

The Kings do have a lot of players who can play, and the players are also very good, but they are the top stars in the league, and there is only Li Pu among the top ten stars.

Neither Butler nor Giannis have reached their peak, let alone Jokic, who is just a fat first-year rookie.

On the other hand, the Thunder team, Dewey's second youngster, needless to say, is still the top ten top stars in the league.

And Cousins ​​has now grown into a top three center in the league.

It can be said that today's Thunder is a standard Big Three team, and the quality of the team is even better than that of the Cavaliers, which is also a Big Three team!
It can be seen that sometimes a handful of change is really not as useful as the whole money!
After the start of the second half, the intensity of the game between the two teams still did not drop much, but the shooting percentage dropped.

It's no wonder that the fight between the two sides is very fierce. It is obviously a regular season, but it looks like a playoff!

In this case, it's hard not to drop the hit rate!
However, the situation that had been stalemate suddenly changed at the end of the third quarter.

Li Pu first made a flying dunk, then blocked Westbrook's layup, and assisted Covington in the fast break for a two-handed dunk!

Only Middleton's three-pointer even tied the score!
The point difference, which had never changed, was tied at the end of the third quarter!
This is no wonder, one is that it is time to rotate the lineup again, and the other is that the high-intensity game has exhausted the Thunder players physically and mentally. After all, the Kings have better rest time than the Thunder's starters, and the state is naturally better!

Compared with the Kings who dared to use a ten-man rotation, the Thunder can only play with an eight-man rotation, and before the third quarter is over, the Thunder have already played four players for more than 30 minutes.

In this way, by the end of the third quarter, the score had reached 81:81, and the Kings tied the score.

After the start of the fourth quarter, although Westbrook and Cousins ​​were sitting off the court, the Thunder actually put Durant on the court.

Durant obviously came back from a serious injury, but Brooks still fucked Adu like this. With his heels, he knew that Adu's injury was uncontrollable!

However, with Durant on the court, although the Kings substitutes still performed very well, the scores of the two teams are leading alternately, and it is difficult to distinguish the outcome.

After playing for about 3 minutes, Westbrook and Cousins ​​replaced Durant and led the team to continue to fight against the Kings.

Coach Brooks was able to let Durant rest, he really, I cried to death!

You know, on weekdays, Durant would not end up in this kind of situation. Tonight, it is estimated that Brooks took into account Durant's return from injury, so he showed mercy.

The power of the pick-and-roll between Westbrook and Cousins ​​should not be underestimated, even more powerful than the pick-and-roll between Li Pu and Westbrook back then.

This is because Li Pu's offensive methods back then were far from as comprehensive as they are now, and he did not have the ability to attack with the ball.

Unlike the current Cousins, he can be called a center offensive kaleidoscope, hooks, mid-range shots, and three-pointers are omnipotent!

Although in terms of comprehensiveness, he still lost to the current Li Pu.

After the two picked and rolled, Cousins ​​didn't make a shot when he caught the ball and faced Bledsoe, but clicked and walked in.

Although Cousins ​​claims to be able to shoot three-pointers, his three-point shooting percentage is only 25%, which is terrible.

Therefore, Cousins ​​would not shoot a three-pointer easily, but passed the ball in. It was just like this. After the defense just changed, as Cousins ​​broke into the penalty area, he met Li Pu again.

In this way, Cousins' layup was interfered by Lip, the rebound was protected by Lip, and a long pass was passed to Bledsoe, who dunked easily.

"Beautiful, with Blood Cloth's dunk, the Kings continue to expand their lead!"

At 94:86, the Kings opened the point difference to 6 points.

Upon seeing this, Brooks quickly called a timeout.

At this time, Brooks is very tangled. If Durant is not replaced, the score will be opened in just 1 minute. Come on, Durant's body is very worrying.

After some ideological struggle, Brooks finally chose to let Durant play.

In other words, Durant took a breath off the court.

Durant, who came back, was immediately outside the three-point line, and he shot into the soul, bringing the point difference back to 3 points.

But at this time, the Kings' touch has recovered, and it has become very difficult for the Thunder to use the previous oppressive defense to defend against the Kings!

Durant just narrowed the point difference to 3 points. On the other side, Middleton scored a three-pointer to bring the point difference back to 6 points.

The two teams couldn't guard each other for a while, and fell into a confrontational mode, but the point difference between the two sides was always hovering around 5 points.

If things go on like this, it won't be good for the Thunder!
After all, time is being consumed bit by bit!

Seeing that there were only 2 minutes left in the time, Durant realized that this could not go on, so he took the initiative to ask for the ball and prepared to score a goal by himself!
Facing Butler's tough defense, Durant was not afraid at all. He played his lower back and made continuous fake moves, trying to use breakthroughs to create shooting space for himself.

However, just when he thought he had fooled Butler's defense and was about to break through with the dribble, he found that he lightened his hand and looked down, only to find that his dribble was actually intercepted by Butler.

Durant quickly adjusted his center of gravity, trying to pounce on the ball to get it back, but at this moment his feet were weak and he fell to the ground, watching Butler walk away.

"Durant fell down, there was no one in front of Butler, he chose to dunk, beautiful!"

"It's really beautiful. Butler's defense was so good just now!"

Butler ended up with a two-handed dunk, and the point difference came to 8 points.

Although the fall just now made people flustered, but fortunately Durant was fine, just because he was too tired and couldn't fully exert his strength on his legs.

But this game, because of Durant's mistake just now, has already come to an end. Although there is still time at this time and the point difference is not big, the Thunder has already been sentenced to death.

In the end, the score was 112:104, and the Kings trailed by 16 points at the most, completing a major reversal.

(End of this chapter)