pinnacle swinger

Chapter 257 Moved to Oklahoma

The next evening, 76ers players showed up at the Thunder's home arena.

The current name of the home arena is Chesapeake Energy Arena, which was changed not long after the shutdown last year. The original name was Ford Center Arena.To put it bluntly, it is a change of naming rights. The original naming rights supplier was Oklahoma Ford Commercial Company, and now it is the Chesapeake Group. They signed a 12-year home naming rights agreement with the Thunder. The first year is 300 million US dollars, and then increase at a rate of 3% every year.

All the players in the locker room changed their jerseys smoothly, and there was no unexpected situation that Tang Wenlong said might happen.

When the players came out of the tunnel, Iguodala winked at Tang Wenlong, as if to say, look, I said there can be no snakes!

Tang Wenlong could only roll his eyes at this, maybe he could catch a bird like Ginobili?

The two teams started their own warm-up training, and Tang Wenlong had nothing to do. He moved his joints more, and then mainly focused on three-point shooting to find the feeling. He looked extremely calm.

Then the assistant coaches began to pass the ball to the players. The players caught the ball and shot, laid up, dunked, and the basketballs flew all over the sky. Every second, balls flew from nowhere and smashed into the basket.There were even some balls rolling in the air at the same time, colliding with each other and changing their own routes, falling to both sides.

After another period of time, the number of fans in the arena gradually increased, and the prototype of the blue ocean slowly emerged.

Looking around, among the dense crowd of Thunder fans, there are still a few 76ers fans wearing black jerseys, which are very conspicuous, and there is a little black in the crowd.

After being on time and on time, the warm-up was over, and the two teams began their appearance ceremony.

The opening ceremony of the Thunder is obviously different today. Instead of being low-key at the home of the 76ers, every player comes out accompanied by explosive music and body twists at will. When the last ace player Durant came out At that time, the audience roared the name of MVP, deafening.

In comparison, every player from the 76ers will be booed by the fans. When Tang Wenlong was the last to play, the boos could blow off the roof of the Energy Arena.

Tang Wenlong shook his head, and the camera showed him a close-up, and the booing became louder.

After the opening ceremony, the starting players of the two teams stayed on the field, and the rest of the players walked off the field and returned to the bench to sit down.

The 76ers have Lowry, Iguodala, Tang Wenlong, David West and Marc Gasol, and the Thunder have Westbrook, Safolosha, Durant, Ibaka and Perkins.Both teams continued the usual starting lineups used in the regular season without any changes.

Coach Brooks knows that the problem for the Thunder is not inside, but how to defend outside.He emphasized from the beginning of today that Thunder players must play their own aggressiveness, must be tougher than the 76ers, and must destroy the 76ers' internal and external connections.

At the start of the game, Ibaka won the jump ball again.

Little Gasol curled his lips and walked back. In fact, Ibaka can be regarded as his own person of the same nationality, and even the two of them are currently selected for the Spanish national team lineup, but I didn’t expect that I really couldn’t jump the ball. He, this bullet speed is not much worse than some swingmen.

Westbrook held up his left arm and stretched out two fingers to make tactical instructions.

Lowry was stunned for a moment. Is he going to change his style and play a real point guard?
As a result, in the next second, Westbrook passed the ball to Durant, who came out of the screen without the ball. Durant caught the ball and dribbled a step, making a jumper.

Tang Wenlong jumped up to interfere and covered his eyes.

When Durant shot the shot, his sense of rhythm was already up, and his footwork was more accurate, so the shot was made steadily.

"Strike!" Westbrook and Durant clapped hands and got an assist.

A goal was scored in the first wave of offense, which greatly boosted the morale of the Thunder. There was thunderous applause in the Energy Arena, and the fans sent cheers in a timely manner, which further helped the Thunder's momentum.

The 76ers attacked in a position, and the slogan of "Defend, Defend" sounded throughout the audience. The scattered 76ers fans could not form a climate at all, and were submerged in the blue ocean.

The Thunder team really took the initiative to find a physical confrontation. Every move was very big. The 76ers' tactical execution was very difficult. After Tang Wenlong did not block Perkins for Gasol, he simply went out of the three-point line, and then asked Lowry Ask for the ball.At this time, seeing Tang Wenlong holding the ball, the audience booed.

Safoloza spread his arms out, palms sweating nervously.

Tang Wenlongsan threatened to stand holding the ball, suddenly exerted force on his toes, jumped straight up, raised the basketball with both hands, and shot with a slight backward pull!

"It's just such a shot!" Safrosa's eyes widened, his face was unbelievable, and he rushed forward in his first reaction.

"Shua!" Hit, so confident!

Tang Wenlong's first wave of offense was so unreasonable, the audience's "defense, defense" slogan came to an abrupt end, like a duck with its throat pinched, unable to call at all.

"This is too domineering." The host of the relay station said with a smile.

Tang Wenlong turned around and walked back with his head down, and he didn't make any gestures of celebration, just walking on the field in that black jersey, like an invincible black armored knight.

The generals of the Thunder gathered their minds, and their morale inevitably dropped by a quarter. Westbrook thought about playing one by himself, but after halftime, he directly attacked Lowry.

The range of his first dribble is very large. Although there is no change of direction or shaking, it is already a big killer in a regular basketball game. After Lowry fell behind by a step, he lost half a quarter of his body. As soon as the confrontation, Westbrook rushed in frantically, Lowry let go of the defensive position, and cut out a route abruptly.

Outside the penalty area, Gasol stood forward and missed Perkins under the basket. At this time, if Westbrook can find his teammates with the ball, Perkins can directly layup easily.

However, his choice was to fly up like a bag of explosives, facing Gasol's raised arms and flying sideways to the basket with the ball, Gasol jumped up to interfere, and the terrifying two long arms enveloped him. Under the circumstances, Westbrook had no room to shoot at all, and threw it near the basketball hoop indiscriminately.

The ball missed, and Perkins just picked up a rebound under the basket. He was overjoyed and jumped up to put the basket.
(End of this chapter)