The Way of the Center

At the Asian Championships this summer, Yi Jianlian's performance can only be described as quite satisfactory. ?After all, An Jie is too dazzling, and his statistics cover up many Asian players. In addition, Yi Jianlian did not perform well in the key battle against Iran, so people's impression of him is far worse than that of Anjie.

But in this game, Yi Jianlian started with a very high profile. At the beginning, the Nets would choose to trade to Yi Jianlian, but not for him to play as a substitute.

His tactical status is not low, especially after two consecutive games, Yi Jianlian has become the main attack point of Kiki Vandeweghe today!

At the beginning of the game, the Thunder's power forward was still fake Nenad Kostic. However, Kostich's ability is actually not better than Yi Jianlian.

Devin Harris took advantage of Yi Jianlian's high pick and roll to break in. However, the end of this pick-and-roll tactic is not Harris, but the late Yi Jianlian.

Yi Jianlian's pick-and-roll is of high quality, and Westbrook has completely lost his defensive position.

Seeing Harris break through, Westbrook is still entangled with Yi Jianlian, Kostic naturally followed the Nets' small guard to make up the inside.

Unexpectedly, Harris just broke through halfway but suddenly passed the basketball back. Yi Jianlian, who followed up, was standing one step behind the free throw line at the moment. He didn't hesitate after catching the ball, so he pulled it up and shot it.

Westbrook took off to interfere with Yi Jianlian's shooting, but the huge height gap made Yi Jianlian almost unaffected.

"The UAE got the right to shoot from the beginning! Beautiful! A mid-range shot scored and Harris passed the ball well." Yu Jia would say that he passed the ball well to Chinese players.

"Yi!" He scored a goal as soon as he came up. On the spot, dJ also shouted his surname after the goal was scored. Harris patted Yi Jianlian's ass, and the humble big man just responded with a smile.

"Damn it, do all big Chinese guys shoot like that!?" Van Gundy said to himself on the sidelines, Wang Zhizhi, Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, and An Jie, who is now playing under his hands. These Chinese people who are mingling with nBa seem to be The projection ability is very good.

After Yi Jianlian scored a goal, the taste of the Chinese fans was lifted. They are looking forward to the Thunder's offensive round, hoping to see how An Jie will respond.

However, Anjie failed the expectations of the Chinese fans. He didn't even touch the ball in this attack. Westbrook assisted Durant with a breakthrough point. The Thunder played simple and rude in the first round, using the personal abilities of Westbrook and Durant.

The defender of Durant is Courtney Lee, a defender who is more offensive than defensive. Yes, he is just a defender who is less than two meters tall, but in the Nets he has to defend Durant, who is 2 meters o6. Moreover, Durant said he only has 2 meters o6, only ghosts can believe it. In Courtney Lee's view, Durant was only a few centimeters shorter than Anjie.

Both sides used the guard to point the ball to the forward player to hit the mid-range shot to score, the first back and forth competition between the Thunder and the Nets.

The Nets' second offense was almost the same tactic, and Vandeweghe seemed to want to use Yi Jianlian to hit Kostich.

Yi Jianlian held the ball in the mid-range face-to-face, and at this time even Brook Lopez had to help him draw the inside line.

Angel knew that Brook Lopez was good at shooting, and he had learned it when he was in college. Therefore, in order not to give Lopez a chance, Anjie had to follow him out of the three-second zone.

But Yi Jianlian, who has just returned from injury, seems to have not completely let go of his burdens. Even in the face of Kstic, who is not a strong opponent, Yi Jianlian is still reluctant to have too much physical contact with the opponent.

After an unsuccessful attempt to break through, Yi Jianlian returned the ball to his point guard Devin Harris. Everything is still playing according to the tactics, how the Nets will operate when Yi Jianlian can't attack, these are the arrangements for Vandeweghe.

After that, the UAE once again became the role of helping teammates to do off-ball pick-and-rolls. After his pick-and-roll, Courtney Lee finally ran out of an open position. Harris had quick eyes and quick hands and delivered the basketball in time.

Courtney Lee knew how big Durant's defensive range was. Without hesitation, Courtney Lee shot the ball as soon as he caught it, so as not to have many nights and dreams.

Courtney Lee may not have the advantage on the defensive end, but he is an indispensable part of the Nets on the offensive end.

Basketball accurately nets. Although the UAE's personal offense failed, the overall offense of the Nets was successful.

After that, Anjie still didn't touch the basketball, and Durant would play for Durant if he could score the ball. Anjie has no objection to this, he admits Durant's scoring ability is above himself.

But this time, Durant's three-pointer missed the goal. An Jie was blocked by Lopez, who also had excellent card position skills, and Yi Jianlian took the opportunity to jump high and take off the rebound.

"It seems that the United Arab League is in a very good state today! An Jie has not shown his offensive performance, but don’t worry, audience friends. Now the Thunder are still in a period of feeding Durant. An Jie’s performance The time has not come yet." The top scorers are all fed with the ball, which is true.

After that, Yi Jianlian still made a lot of shots, and Vandeweghe really used Arab League as the first scoring point. And Kostic also "followed his mission", allowing Yi Jianlian to score frequently.

Later, the U.S. League, which had confidence in it, even started to play inside. Although they could not score directly, they still made two fouls for Kostic.

The Chinese fans were very addicted, and Yi Jianlian's performance was even better than the previous two games!

And Anjie? Still not shot, although Durant failed to hit the first three-pointer, but the subsequent two breakthrough attempts were very successful. There is no reason for the Thunder to switch to someone else. If you can get in, you just keep playing. Even An Jie, if he can hit consecutively, he also enjoys this treatment.

The game has been very anxious, this is not the situation Van Gundy hopes to see. As the Eastern Conference, the Nets are the bottom team in the league, and it is unacceptable to play against them.

The Thunder must have an advantage, from the first quarter to the end of the game, they must have an advantage!

People say that the Thunder might underestimate the team against the bottom of the league. In fact, it's the opposite. No team in this league is willing to fall back on the bottom of the league. Faced with the Nets, every team will definitely show their full strength.

Taking the opportunity of a dead ball, Van Gundy waved his hand and replaced Andrew Morris, who would confront Yi Jianlian. This move also shows that Van Gundy no longer retains it. From now on, the trial period of the Thunder is over, and they are about to give their all!

"Yi! Play more resolutely! Get closer to the basket! You have done well so far, keep it up!" Vandeweghe saw Morris take off the training uniform over there, and hurriedly yelled to Yi Jianlian. Knowing that this big Chinese man is about to face a real test.

"Are you Chinese again?" Morris moved his muscles a bit. He was already curious about what would happen to Chinese players other than An Jie. Now he has the opportunity to understand the doubts in determination.

After Anjie saw Yi Jianlian become the main point of the Nets, he also appropriately increased the distance between Lopez. In this way, he can quickly make up for defense when Yi Jianlian gets inside.

But after Morris came on the court, the Nets' offensive point became shooting guard Trenton Hassel. He bluntly hit Sefrossa by surprise and hit a mid-range shot.

But Van Gundy knew that this was just a smoke bomb from Vandeweghe, the purpose of which was to distract the stronger defensive Morris and distract him from Yi Jianlian.

Morris naturally saw this. He was a guy who played under Ricard for two years, and he was no worse than anyone in terms of tactical training. Vandeweghe's tricks did not work.

Another attack on Yi Jianlian. Just as soon as he got the ball, Morris stuck it up.

"Come on, come on." Morris muttered, he didn't want to provoke Uzbek, but was incoherent with excitement.

Finally, he got another one-on-one opportunity with Chinese players. He seemed to be back two years ago, back to the moment when he and Anjie singled out in the training ground of the Tornado team.

Yi Jianlian pushed forward with his back, and after the first effort, Ah Lian found that he couldn't shake the **** man behind him at all!

Morris became proud and became even more excited.

Excitement is sometimes a good thing, but sometimes it makes a player lose his composure.

Seeing that Morris could not be eaten by strength, Alian immediately turned around, holding the ball in both hands, this is to shoot!

"Don't think about it!" Morris thought he had seen through Yi Jianlian's intentions. He made a full leap, hoping to use a block to declare his defensive victory.

However, the UAE just bowed his waist calmly in the face of Morris who leaped high, took a step forward, and completely deceived him!

"Nice fake action, Ah Lian swayed the defender!" Yu Jia clenched his fists in excitement, and Yi Jianlian was really blown up.

The only option for UAE after passing Morris is to pick the basket. He also chose the same way. The ball seems bound to be won.

However, Anjie, who has been lurking behind Morris for a long time, has been waiting for this moment for a long time!

He quickly dropped Lopez, and the ambiguity of the position allowed him to quickly fill up the defense to the three-second zone.

The basketball provoked by Uzbekistan just flew into the air and hadn't started to fall, but An Jie smashed out halfway, so he could have jumped up from the ground, and confiscated Yi Jianlian's low shot basket this time!

The Nets fans in the Big 6 Aviation Arena were still cheering for the fake action of the UAE last second, and the next second they were so shocked that they grew their mouths and kept silent.

An Jie confiscated the ball directly in the air. This is not a metaphor, but a real picture on the court.

"An Jie! This is... Is this a catch!?" Yu Jia couldn't believe what she had just seen, and An Jie directly caught the basketball provoked by Yi Jianlian!

Not to mention Yu Jia, even Yi Jianlian himself didn't expect such a thing to happen. He also looked at An Jie in surprise, but An Jie slammed the backcourt, Westbrook's lightning-like long-distance attack, this is a good show between the two of them.

Take off on one foot and buckle vigorously. With one defense and one attack, the Thunder not only completed the task, but also completed it very interestingly!

"I said, I won't let the water go." An Jie said this to Yi Jianlian with a smile, but Yi Jianlian suddenly couldn't laugh. He just shook his head helplessly. He didn't expect that the biggest opponent of the Thunder was actually his compatriot.

"You were deceived again, don't be so anxious next time." After that, Anjie shared with Morris his experience in defending Yi Jianlian.

Now on the court, Yi Jianlian and An Jie are not compatriots, nor are they national teammates. He is just a guy who wants to take away the victory of the Thunder, he is the opponent's number one scorer!

For such a character, does Anjie still have to talk about it?

It may be that An Jie's blockade affected morale, and the U.S. United's subsequent shot did not make another hit.

In contrast, the Thunder, after Durant failed to score two consecutive rounds, the ball finally turned to Anjie to play.

Brook Lopez is still very promising, but for now, his progress has been much slower than that of Angel.

Now Anjie’s defense against Lopez is not as strenuous as he did in college. He used his strength to push a few steps to gain space for himself. Afterwards, Anjie used a back turn and withdrew to shoot. The basketball was hollow. Access to the network.

"An Jie's iconic action, a beautiful back turned and withdrew a jumper. Here, An Jie made his first shot and scored the ball. Both of them performed very well today." This situation is exactly the Chinese fans. We want to see.

Then Yi Jianlian was replaced by Vandeweghe~www.readwn.com~ He must let the Chinese player rest and adjust his mood.

And Anjie continues to wreak havoc inside the Nets. When Lopez was in University, it was difficult to restrain Anjie, and now there is no other way to deal with him.

After scoring 8 points on 3 of 3 shots, Anjie Li Chengli responded to Yi Jianlian's performance in the first half.

After the first quarter of the game, the Thunder finally found the rhythm after several adjustments and played smoothly. Although the Nets didn't play well as substitute players, they were generally passable.

32 to 27, the Nets are only 5 points behind. Yi Jianlian, who scored 9 points in a single quarter with 5 shots and 3 in the first quarter, was the Nets' highest scorer.

The fate of the Nets after that seems to be directly linked to the UAE's swing.

This time the Chinese Derby was unexpectedly wonderful, with Anjie and Yi Jianlian both performing fairly well.

But it only lasted 12 minutes, and it was even more enjoyable, and it was still to come. (To be continued.) 8