The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 54
No one expected that after the start of the game, it would be Li Pu who made the big kill.

At this time, less than a month has passed since the start of the season, and Li Pu has grown from a third backup center on the edge of the rotation to a stable starter for a strong team.

Such progress can be described as rapid.

But even with such rapid progress, no one believed that Li Pu could start with a dominant performance like tonight.

This performance is not an exaggeration for an All-Star player!

"After the pick-and-roll, Li Pu received a pass from Harden and dunked Scola with both hands! My God! Li Pu went crazy tonight! He made 5 of 5 shots in the opening game and scored 10 points in a row!"

The narrator Ke Fat shouted from the computer's audio system. Before Wang Xing and others in front of the computer could yell, he heard someone outside the window yelling first.

I really cheered before you cheered!

Wang Xing was very happy about this, because it meant that more and more people began to pay attention to Li Pu.

To be honest, after Li Pu got double-doubles in a row, Li Pu's fans began to increase, but during the Thunder's three-game losing streak, his number of black fans also increased day by day.

During that time, looking around, the news about him on the Internet, the comment section below was full of black people.

Seeing these comments at the time, Wang Xing was so angry that he couldn't eat!
But when Li Pu performed so well today, and when he heard someone cheering for Li Pu, Wang Xing felt the suffocation before, and suddenly disappeared.

Li Pu's strength will eventually be seen by the world!
At the beginning, the Rockets were beaten by the Thunder, to be precise, by Li Pu, 10:2, which forced the Rockets to call a timeout.

Back from the timeout, the Rockets did not make any personnel adjustments.

It's the Rockets' turn to attack.

The people found that the previous Princeton system offense was changed to a pick-and-roll at position [-] and [-], which really shocked people's jaws.

Sir, you are Adelman!
Why did your majesty surrender first when the minister wanted to fight to the death?

However, immediately after Lowry's pick-and-roll, the ball was given to Miller near the free throw line, and the person facing Miller was also replaced by Westbrook.

Only then did people realize that nothing had changed after a long circle!

But this time, when Li Pu was not defending, Miller easily passed the ball inside and gave the ball to Scola inside, who tricked Ibaka into the ball with his footsteps.

After Lowry scored the ball, he went to the outside line and moved Li Pu away from the inside line, which made Li Pu unable to defend the inside line in time.

With just one move, the Thunder team's strong start was broken. It has to be said that coach Adelman still has something.

However, as far as the configuration of the Rockets is concerned, offense has never been a problem, the real problem is defense.

Of the five players on the team, three have defensive weaknesses. How do you defend against this?
For Li Pu's consecutive scoring at the beginning, the Rockets' defensive strategy is to shrink the inside.

Li Pu has no shooting range and lacks low-post offensive means. The scoring methods that can be used today are nothing more than eating cakes under the basket and second offense.

As long as he locks the basket, Li Pu's offense will naturally be resolved.

However, when did the Thunder's offense rely on Li Pu?
Westbrook and Lip's pick-and-roll directly caused the five Rockets to shrink to the penalty area.

Westbrook directly scored the ball to the bottom corner, Durant raised the knife and dropped, "For three"!
A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops come to meet each other!

The score was 13:2, murderous and heartbreaking!

As the Rockets shrank their defense, there were many opportunities on the outside, and Durant gave them a huge penalty.

As Durant continued to score, the Rockets' defense had a faint tendency to disintegrate.

After one of you fights the other, this attack is turn-based, right?It's still your turn!

It's too much!

Even worse is yet to come!

After the Rockets' defense expanded, they ushered in a breakthrough dunk from Westbrook.

There is no way to play this game!One by one are opened!
Adelman then called two consecutive timeouts, still unable to prevent the Thunder from scoring.

After coming off the bench, Harden also fired at full power, sweeping away the decline of the past few games, as if all members of the team had been buffed, no matter how he shot.

In this way, after the first quarter, the score of the two teams was 36:23, and the Thunder led by 13 points.

You must know that the NBA at this time is not the league with explosive data later on. Scoring 30+ points in a single quarter is definitely a rare score, which generally means that the team's offense is so good at this time.

The reason for this situation is that Li Pu opened it first tonight.

As we all know, the core of the Thunder's offense has always been on the outside, so when the opposing team defends the Thunder, they will focus on the outside.

And like today, Li Pu's sudden outburst will put the Rockets in a dilemma. Should they change their defensive strategy?

It has changed, and the result will naturally be like the current Rockets, relaxing the defense on the outside, leading to the combination of inside and outside of the Thunder team, and a more three-dimensional offense.

If you don't change, then watch Li Pu keep scoring and see if he can beat you to death?
Of course, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to kill!

However, who will always watch Li Pu dunk in the paint with "Kang Bang"?

After entering the second quarter, the Thunder's offensive firepower remained undiminished, scoring 30 points in a single quarter and limiting the opponent's scoring to 20 points.

After two quarters, the Thunder led the Rockets by as much as 66 points with 43:23, and the game wasted in halftime.

After entering the second half, the Thunder's offensive state declined, and the Rockets finally began to counterattack.

Even during the quarter, there was a wave of 10:0, narrowing the point difference to 13 points, but then, Durant's three-pointer and Li Pu's block still interrupted the Rockets' chasing momentum , Let the Rocket's tone not continue.

In this way, the Thunder entered the fourth quarter with a 21-point advantage.

After entering the fourth quarter, the Thunder sent a pure bench lineup: Maynor, Harden, DJ White, Collison and Bai Ade.

Even in the second half of the game, Harden was replaced and Lin Shuhao was directly used.

After half a month, Lin Shuhao finally got the chance to play, and compared to the last appearance, the playing time this time has increased exponentially, fully doubled.

Well, the last game lasted 2 minutes, and this game lasted 4 minutes.

Why isn't it an exponential improvement?

Moreover, what is even more gratifying is that Lin Shuhao actually scored in this game.

With 2 minutes and 13 seconds left before the end of the game, Lin Shuhao successfully intercepted Ismail Smith, dribbled the ball one-stop, and made a quick layup.

With this goal, he finally scored 2 points in the NBA.

The final game was fixed at 116:99, and the Thunder beat the Rockets by 17 points at home.

Li Pu had a regular double-double of 20 points and 11 rebounds.

That's right, 4 points for 10 minutes, why not... 30 points for 20 minutes?

(End of this chapter)