NBA: The Talent Burst from the Start

This is something that Hayward never expected. After all, Hayward is very confident in his touch, dribbling ability, and wingspan.

However, he never expected that Leonard's must be far more than him.

Leonard cut the ball without any hesitation and threw the ball directly into Irving's hands.

After three quarters, Irving has scored 30 points, the highest score in the game except for Lin Lei, and his touch is also hot.

After receiving the pass, Irving dashed forward with the ball, directly throwing off the perimeter defender, and smashed into O'Neal's inside.

At this moment, it is Cousins ​​who is responsible for guarding O'Neal's inside line!

Cousins ​​also performed very well in this game, having contributed 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Although he doesn't deal with Lin Lei on the surface, Lin Lei is a natural court commander. When Cousins ​​has a chance in the interior, Lin Lei is not stingy and will pass the ball to him.

You must know that when Lin Lei got the ball, the entire Barkley team was very nervous, and their attention was on him.

Even Lin Lei threw off the defenses of Leonard and Irving, and back Monroe was forced to come out to block.

This also opened the door for Barkley's inside line, and O'Neal's Cousins, naturally, had a great opportunity.

After Cousins ​​received the ball, he was often not blocked by anyone at all and could easily score, which also allowed him to score 9-for-10 from the field in the first two quarters.

However, in the third quarter, the situation changed dramatically. Without Lin Lei, a strong containment point, Paul George, who could have wrestled arms with Irving and Leonard, also withdrew from the game due to injury.

Other players obviously can't reach the ideal height when facing Irving and others.

Players like Cousins ​​were obviously too tired in the face of Tristan, Thompson and Monroe, so that they didn't score a point in the third quarter, but instead lost two fouls.

This made Cousins ​​very angry, but there was nothing he could do.

Although he didn't say anything, when Cousins ​​looked at Lin Lei, who was sitting on the sidelines, his eyes were full of desire.

He especially hoped that Lin Lei would be able to come back on stage to cooperate with him, so as not to be unable to exert his strength and fight so suffocatingly.

Seeing that Owen went directly to the inside line, Cousins ​​was also ready to defend.

On defense, Cousins ​​hasn't been very good for most of the season.

First of all, it is because Cousins ​​lacks the professional experience of defending top league players like the NBA, and he is not particularly concerned about defense, and his attitude is not correct.

This season, he also gets a foul every 7 minutes and often gets into foul trouble, but in the post defense, as long as he is careful and focused on defense, Irving will also cause great trouble.

Owen didn't seem to have expected that Cousins ​​would be able to fill the position suddenly, which was a bit unexpected for a while.

But he was already in the air, and when he saw that he was about to collide with Cousins, he used a limit lever to make a layup.

However, all of Owen's scoring paths were completely blocked by Cousins, and Cousins ​​smashed his hands up when he saw his raised hands.

This time, he decided to use his own strength to reward Owen with a big hot pot and sound the horn for the team's counterattack.

Unexpectedly, at the moment when Owen was about to be blocked by Cousins, the basketball in his hand was suddenly thrown behind Cousins, and he did not complete the layup.

Seeing this picture, Cousins ​​was also a little curious, did Owen just give up?

It turned out that Owen did not give up, and soon a huge force came from behind Cousins, knocking his burly body directly out.

There was also a loud roar above his head.

When Cousins ​​finally got a foothold and made sure that he did not fall, when he looked up again, he was surprised to find that Owen had just thrown the ball into the hands of Monroe behind Cousins ​​at the moment when he was about to be blocked.

The defensive power of a person's back can be said to be almost zero, and it is better to prepare in advance. Monroe will naturally not miss such an opportunity.

So the moment he received a pass from Irving, he jumped into the air, knocked Cousins ​​out in the air, and completed the dunk.

This was tantamount to humiliation and provocation for Cousins. He became a little angry and pushed Monroe out directly.

D.....

The referee also blew the whistle immediately upon seeing this. Fortunately, the timely action prevented the escalation of the situation on the spot.

Seeing this, O'Neal quickly called a timeout and began to appease the emotions of the players.

I have to say that most of the time just now was a nightmare for O'Neal to all the players.

Owen's strength is too strong, and everyone has no cooperation. It is difficult to defend against him.

Without Lin Lei, O'Neal's mobile player has been swept away.

Even Klay Thompson, who has always been very calm and has a big heart, lowered his head in frustration after returning to the bench.

Clay Compson belongs to the top 3D player, although there was no such concept in that era, but he catches the ball and shoots, has a strong shooting ability, and his defensive strength is obvious to all.

But Klay Thompson lacks top-level autonomous offensive ability, which is certainly no problem for the Warriors.

After all, the Warriors have top guards like Stephen Curry who are born to be masters of the court, who can attract the attention of defensive players and create conditions for Klay Thompson.

With Lin Lei on the court in the first half, he's more capable than Curry and he also made Klay Thompson very comfortable.

But after Lin Lei got off the field, the situation changed dramatically, so that Klay Thompson made 0 of 3 shots in the second half and did not score a point.

"You guys, don't be discouraged" ||!

O'Neal looked at the players in front of him and started talking.

"..Everyone just play your own basketball, don't care about the opponent's rhythm, what we have to do is to show our own personality and strength, this is an entertainment game, don't play too nervous!

What everyone did not expect was that O'Neal did not arrange any tactics after calling a timeout, but instead instilled the concept of relaxing basketball for everyone.

This is also something that all players did not expect.

Although O'Neal said it very lightly, he was not the one who played on the court after all. With so many players humiliated on the court, how could they hold on to their face.

After a while, O'Neal clapped his hands as he saw that the pause time was about to end.

"Okay, let's play freely on the court. You should have heard of my previous tactics, so just follow those tactics!"

After he finished speaking, all the players also re-entered the field in a daze.

Before the debut, everyone couldn't help but turn their attention to Lin Lei, as if praying for him to come to the court earlier to change the status quo.

Seeing this picture, Lin Lei finally understood O'Neal's intention just now.

O'Neal's place (gets it) will make such an arrangement, obviously for the good of Lin Lei.

Although Lin Lei performed very well in the first half, everyone acknowledged his strength but didn't have much respect for him.

But in the second half, when Lin Lei left, the situation changed dramatically, making all the players of the O'Neal team deeply aware of the importance of Lin Lei.

O'Neal uses his identity as the head coach to tell everyone how good Lin Lei is, so that everyone understands that they can't do without Lin Lei.

"Coach, when can I come on stage?"

Seeing that O'Neal's plan has been achieved and the team's current lead is running out, Lin Lei couldn't help but ask.

"0.90........"

Who knew that O'Neal heard the words, but he smiled and waved his hand.

"Don't worry, let these lads finish the third quarter!

O'Neal is very clear that in order for the players to make an earth-shaking change in their psychology, he must completely let him feel the pain.

At least from the current situation, the pain of these players is not enough!