NBA: Starting with Jokic template

Chapter 27: Game begins!
In the midfield jump ball, Lin Chuan jumped the ball again and passed it to Durant.

Durant got the ball, and contrary to his usual practice, he did not dribble to the point guard, but went directly to the frontcourt, facing James, and began to dribble slowly in advance.

While James was still judging Durant's next move, he changed speed and dribbled the ball suddenly faster. Then he pushed the ground hard with his left foot and pulled the ball to his right hand.

Durant has a very long wingspan, so he pulled the ball very far, and half of his body was beyond James' coverage.

James stepped with his right foot and quickly moved to the left to defend, while reaching out to block Durant's advance, but the result went against his will.

The ball was dribbled back to his left hand at a very low angle, and Durant's whole body tilted to the left, making a huge change of direction to the other side.

With one back and forth move, James was forced to move more than a body length away, and the Heat's inside line was suddenly wide open, waiting for Durant to enter.

"Fuck, what's wrong with this guy?"

James was shaken by Durant's sudden change of direction. Seeing that he had lowered his center of gravity and was ready to dribble forward with his left hand, he quickly pushed off the ground to stop his lateral movement, and then followed inward to defend against Durant's breakthrough.

But Durant turned his wrist, and the forward dribble bounced on the spot. He lowered his body to stop the momentum of breaking through. The muscles in his left leg tensed up and pushed hard, and the whole person took a step back and stood outside the three-point line.

James was completely caught off guard when he was shaken a second time. He wanted to stop, but his brain could not keep up with his movements. His left foot twisted and he fell to the side.

Looking at James who was shaken off, Durant snorted coldly, raised his hand and made a long two-point shot that was unguarded and went in easily.

The Thunder got off to a good start!

"Thank you for the generous gift! Durant's opening was outrageous. He changed direction and broke through to directly shake James off!"

"Yeah! If it weren't for his strong physique, he would have been knocked down just now!"

"It seems that the Thunder are really aggressive today and are determined to make history and win the trophy in the finals!"

When the commentator saw Durant's performance, his jaw almost dropped. Who could have thought that he could score such a beautiful goal in just the first offensive round.

"See? Kevin's eyes are almost on fire."

Lin Chuan complained to Westbrook while retreating.

"I saw him glance at Scarlett. It seems like he really wants to perform well in front of her."

Westbrook, who had just heard Harden's story before the game, saw Durant's strong desire to perform and said to Lin Chuan,
"Since Kevin wants to play well in front of her so much, we will pass him a few more balls to fulfill his wish."

"of course."

"call."

James stood up. He was frightened by Durant and could only say that it was fortunate that he did not fall, otherwise he would have lost face.

As for the situation just now, he simply attributed it to the fact that the game had just started and he had not yet adapted. It would not be the same in the next round.

but……

After missing the shot from outside the three-point line, Lin Chuan grabbed the frontcourt rebound and passed the ball behind his head to Durant who was waiting outside the three-point line.

Looking at James who was much more serious in front of him, Durant had cold eyes. He stood in place and made a triple threat.

Then there was another low-hand dribble, and then a huge change of direction.

But this time, James followed very quickly and was not shaken at all by Durant's change of direction which was almost two meters away from him. He stood firmly in front of Durant.

James, who almost won the Defensive Player of the Year award this year, is still very strong on defense once he gets serious.

Seeing that James was not out of position in front of him, Durant dribbled the ball out again, pulled back to the right again, and at the same time used his arms to block the space for James to return to defense in advance, and strode in.

Facing Bosh's defense, Durant threw the ball out with a high throw.

As soon as the ball was shot, the referee blew the whistle!
The basketball was thrown very high and climbed directly to the top edge of the backboard.

Whether the ball goes in or not determines whether the free throw is two free throws or an additional free throw.

The ball climbed a short distance on the backboard, and then fell straight into the basket. The Heat players were ready to grab the rebound, but the ball went into the net in front of their somewhat shocked eyes.

2+1!

Durant stepped up to the free throw line, leaving only a few shocked inside players in the paint.

"Can this be scored? Durant gave us a super wonderful performance at the beginning. The goals in two consecutive offensive rounds can be included in the top ten goals of this game in advance!"

Today's commentators are Ke Fan and Zhang Weiping. Seeing this outrageous layup, Ke Fan couldn't help but exclaim.

"This is outrageous, what kind of magic ball is this!"

Zhang Weiping rarely saw this kind of performance.

"Is this still the finals? Durant's two shots really reminded me of Kobe Bryant. Kobe loved to play these kinds of magic shots the most."

Although he was praising Durant, Zhang Weiping inevitably turned to his favorite Kobe.

"You are right, indeed."

"Look, this is what it's called, this is the Mamba mentality!"

"I also heard from the American media that Lin Chuan arrived at the training hall early in the morning yesterday. When the others arrived, he had already practiced for three or four hours. This shows that our Chinese players also have the Mamba Mentality!"

"Indeed, other people might not be able to do it."

Listening to Zhang Weiping talking, Ke Fan could only stand by and smile to support him.

Followed by.

In the next round, the Heat finally found Haslem in the paint with tactical coordination and finally broke the scoring drought with a dunk.

The Thunder then passed the ball to Durant again.

He was in hot form after scoring two goals, and this time he didn't even use his rhythm to create space for the defense. He just pulled up and shot over James' head.

"Don't think about it!"

James jumped with all his strength, and his height was so astonishing that his head was almost level with the basket.

Durant leaned back slightly, turned his wrist, and raised the arc of his shot again.

The nails and basketball made a friction sound.

This ball passed through James' fingertips and flew towards the basket.

"Shh!"

Three points scored!

Scored three goals in a row!

Durant's hot performance finally made Spoelstra unable to sit still. He finally stood up and walked towards the technical table.

Beep!
The Heat couldn't help but call a timeout just one minute into the game.

All the Heat players breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing such a player who scores goals unreasonably, the pressure is really too great.

It's impossible to defend against it, and anyone who shoots will be shot to death.

Although the current score is 8:2 and they are not far behind, if they let it go on without calling a timeout to interrupt the rhythm, he will open up a gap of more than ten points in the first quarter of the game.

(End of this chapter)