MTL - NBA: No. 1 Forward-Chapter 612 whose home is this
Chapter 612 Whose home is this
After the Knicks players shouted the slogan, the Five Tigers officially stepped onto the court!
Holiday, Tony Allen, Lian Dao, Millsap, Cousins.
Tony Allen still plays, although Danny Green will make the team's offensive effect better.
But on the defensive end, the team will suffer some losses.
Especially against Westbrook, Tony Allen's defensive performance was the best of the three.
As the saying goes, there is no championship without defense, especially entering the finals is a defensive competition.
Even D'Antoni, who pays attention to all-out offense, will balance the team's defense in the finals.
The Thunder's lineup has not been adjusted.
They also have no room for adjustment.
It's still Westbrook, Thabo Sefolosha, Durant, Yin Baka, Perkins.
As the referee's whistle sounded, the two sides jumped the ball. When the two sides were completely out of line, the boos at the scene reached their peak.
Oklahoma fans didn't stop booing as the game started.
They just interfered with the Knicks players in the way they could, and at the same time, helped the Thunder win tonight.
However, Cousins was not affected in the slightest.
For the third straight game, he grabbed the first possession for the Knicks over Yoobaka's head.
At the beginning of the game, the Thunder's defensive strategy was the same as the previous game, with one man marking and one assisting defense. As long as Lian Dao held the ball, he would be double-teamed.
Therefore, at the beginning of the game, Lian Dao was not ready to completely take over the offense immediately.
Holiday held the ball and advanced amidst the boos of the fans in the audience.
This time, Holiday did not directly break through in singles, but called Millsap for a high cover.
The screen had just been set up, and Westbrook and Yin Baka were still thinking about how to switch defenses. After the screen, Millsap suddenly spread out and quickly cut to the inside.
Both Westbrook and Yin Baka's attention were attracted by Holiday.
They didn't notice at all that Millsap, who had completed a simple screen, was now unmarked.
Holiday didn't hesitate, and immediately passed the ball to Millsap who cut inside to the basket.
Millsap hit the basket directly with the ball, and Perkins had to step forward to defend.
But at this time, the Thunder's defense has been torn open by the cooperation of Holiday and Millsap.
Even if Perkins makes up one side, the other side will still leak.
When Millsap saw Perkins rushing up, he didn't directly go up to the "man" in a feverish manner.
He reacted very quickly, and as soon as he pulled back the hand for the layup and sent it to his side, the basketball came to Cousins' hands.
Cousins, who was in a wide space, jumped up easily and scored with a one-armed dunk.
The Knicks played the first ball with ease.
As Lian Dao expected, Lei Ting's morale was indeed hit hard.
Don't look at the fans having fun, but in fact the Thunder players themselves don't have much heart.
It stands to reason that this is a home game, and they should be tougher than before.
But the defensive feedback from the first round proved that the Thunder's defense was not even as tough as it was in the second game of the New York series two days ago.
The outright crushing defeat in the first two games was too much for the confidence of all Thunder players.
Especially since they are too young and have no finals experience, it is difficult for them to correct their mentality in such a situation.
"The Knicks' first offensive sickle scored without too much participation. From this aspect, we can see how bad the Thunder's defense at the beginning is!"
Kenny Smith shook his head in disappointment at the Thunder's sluggish performance.
Although it was only the first attack in the opening game, he seemed to have seen the result of this game, and even this round of the series.
D'Antoni nodded with a smile on his face from the sidelines, which is very in line with the effect that mustache wants to play.
The team blossomed more and restrained the Thunder's defense.
After that, with Lian Dao's efforts, they could easily take away the game.
Subsequently, the Thunder started a counterattack. Except for Westbrook and Durant, the other players performed lazily in the counterattack.
Under normal circumstances, the attacking side is generally more murderous.
Especially now that the Thunder are still 2:0 behind, they should show the courage to break the boat.
However, apart from Westbrook and Durant, in the eyes of other Thunder players, Lian Dao only saw fatigue and cowardice, and did not see the so-called courage.
Although Westbrook and Durant are still resisting, the two of them played too impatiently today.
In the Thunder's offense, there will always be people around the two cores of the team.
Westbrook is surrounded by Tony Allen, and Durant is surrounded by Lian Dao.
The two defensive gates tightly contained the two cores of the Thunder.
After the opening, Westbrook had no chance under the entanglement of Tony Allen. At this time, Westbrook wanted to transfer the ball to Durant.
Lian Dao saw all this in his eyes, and he understood Westbrook's intentions.
Lian Dao moved in the direction of Westbrook, as if to cooperate with Tony Allen to double-team him.
Wei Shao seemed to understand Lian Dao's intentions, which surprised him.
He knows that the situation he is facing now is very severe, especially when double teams are formed, he is likely to make mistakes.
However, it also allowed him to spot opportunities to move the ball away.
Especially when Lian Dao moves to double-team himself, Durant will have a chance.
This made Westbrook, who couldn't get rid of the defense, seem to see hope.
However, at the moment Westbrook passed the ball, Lian Dao quickly retracted his footsteps, and at the same time stretched his arms and took a step in the direction of Durant.
Sure enough, Westbrook was fooled after all, and the basketball flew in the direction of Durant.
When Durant discovered that Lian Dao was about to steal, it was too late.
In the end, Westbrook's pass was robbed by Lian Dao in the middle!
On the first offense in the opening game, the Thunder made a mistake.
After Lian Dao completed the steal, he didn't stop at all and passed the ball directly.
In front, Holiday, Millsap and other players have already rushed to the frontcourt.
The Knicks' offensive and defensive transition is to be "fast", which D'Antoni has explained before.
The Thunder players didn't realize what was going on for a while, Lian Dao assisted Holiday with a pass to score a dunk.
4:0!
Amid the boos of the fans, the Knicks played very easily, as if there was no difference between Madison Garden and Madison Garden.
On the other hand, the Thunder at home, their aura was firmly suppressed by the Knicks as soon as the game started.
Thunder's one-defense and one-attack performance made Lian Dao more confident about the 4:0 sweep.
He was a little worried before that after saying a 4:0 sweep at the press conference, he would anger the team.
It now appears that instead of angering the Thunder, Lian Dao has plunged the team into deep fear.
Westbrook, who made a mistake for the first time, did not choose to pass the ball for the second offense.
Under the pick-and-roll of his teammates, he finally stumbled to the basket and helped the team break the deadlock with a layup.
Thunder fans at Chesapeake Energy Stadium finally had a reason to cheer ~www.novelbuddy.com~ But Westbrook's goal was just lingering.
Because very soon, Lian Dao made the Thunder fans who were still cheering just now feel down in an instant.
In the Knicks' third attack, Lian Dao finally took over the ball.
It is still the familiar double-disguised accelerated breakthrough, and Durant still has no good way to do it.
However, this time, Yin Baka quickly stepped forward to defend, but before he could make contact with Lian Dao, he bumped into Millsap's body.
After Lian Dao broke through the inside for the first time, Millsap stepped forward and made a low screen.
After Yin Baka was blocked, he could only watch Lian Dao go to the basket.
In the end, it was Perkins who made up the defense. He raised his arms and moved to the basket to make up for Lian Dao.
In fact, since Perkins recovered from his injury, his movement speed has dropped a lot.
Before his footsteps were completely steady, Lian Dao had already reached the basket.
He bumped his head into Perkins' arms, forced a jump against Perkins, and then completed a layup.
"Beep!"
"brush!"
2+1!
Perkins was directly pushed out of the bottom line by Lian Dao, rubbing his chest in pain.
His touch-ups around the rim were the epitome of the Thunder's overall defense tonight.
It's almost like nothing!
In the end, Lian Dao easily scored the free throw.
2+1 completed!
At 7:2, the Knicks followed D'Antoni's deployment and went on the offensive as soon as they came up.
But this was just the beginning. In the next few rounds, the Knicks gave full play to the advantages of the tailwind and pursued the victory! Previous chapter table of contents bookmark back page
