Chapter 1954: Falling Into a Trap, Unable to Recover

How to deal with such a talented second young Thunder player is one of the biggest problems in today's league. After all, the second young player's ability is real. If you are not careful, it will backfire. The Spurs, who were overturned by the Thunder in 4 games in the Western Conference semifinals, are the best. lessons learned from the past.

If you want to kill the Thunder, you must deal with the second young player. This is the consensus of every team, just like Kobe and Ji Feng must be dealt with when playing against the Lakers. If the Thunder can't solve the problem of the second young man, it will basically be gone. Therefore, in that round of the series, the Spurs also strictly defended the second young man.

Completely opposite to the Lakers' tactics, they placed their main defensive target on the Thunder's well-deserved core, Durant.

This is of course a matter of course. Compared with Westbrook, Durant has grown more rapidly and is more capable. He is also the well-deserved core of Brooks' tactics. He has unlimited firing rights. Looking at the sixth man off the bench, basically There is no need to say more about Harden's status now that he has no individual singles tactics.

The Spurs want to use Leonard and Warrior Jackson to join forces to limit Durant. This is absolutely understandable.

They did a good job in the first two games. In the first game, they made Durant lose his sight. In that game, Durant and Westbrook scored 30 points together, which was 4 points more than Parker alone. The loss was just No surprise.

The second game was exactly the same. Durant was looked down upon. Facing Leonard's various strong shots, his shooting percentage was worrying. During this period, Leonard had already shown his defensive talent, although he was a head lower than Adu. , but using his wingspan and defensive skills, under the perimeter defense system constructed by the Spurs, Adu, who ranked second in the regular season scoring list, failed to score 20 points in two consecutive games. Everything seemed to have been calculated by Pop. arrive.

However, in the third game, the Thunder made changes.

Westbrook replaced Durant and carried the Thunder's offensive banner. In that game, Westbrook had a near-triple-double with 35 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists. He shot 44.4% from the field and saved the team from danger many times.

The Thunder successfully regained the game.

The fourth game was the same as the third game, the Thunder equalized the score.

After that, in Tianwang Mountain, Westbrook became more and more courageous, so the Spurs had to change their defense. Some of the people who originally surrounded Adu had to concentrate on defending Westbrook. This finally freed Durant, and then the Thunder had two consecutive incredible comebacks from adversity. s story.

After the game, although Adu was still the one who stole the show, Westbrook's ability has been seen by people. This is also the ultimate form of the Thunder's second young master. When one side is targeted, the other side will step up and take over the game, thus allowing the opponent's In response to the defeat, this is also the Thunder's way of comeback.

Zen Master knows this very well. Although the Lakers will definitely be stronger than the Spurs against Durant. After all, the depth of the Lakers at the third position is unmatched, and the defensive strength of the outside and inside lines is a level higher than that of the Spurs. But even so, they still have to face Question about Westbrook.

Even if it wasn't Fisher, the Lakers wouldn't have any advantage against Westbrook at the No. 1 position. Instead of spending so much energy guarding Westbrook and Durant, it would be better to focus entirely on Adu and let Westbrook have a good time!

Although it is equally difficult for Westbrook to play well, compared to Durant, the Lakers are willing to let Westbrook taste the sweetness, because in this way, they will play easily.

Simple, Westbrook, a passionate young man, a stubborn young man, is still addicted to his own model after all.

Ji Feng once commented that when Westbrook enters the mode of "I can do whatever I want, and go wherever I like", the head coach does not need to worry about drawing tactics, because drawing It's useless to use tactics. "Westbrook will have no interest in any of Donovan's offensive tactics."

Simply put, this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy that Thunder cannot refuse at all!

"Brothers, if we set our rhythm, our opponents will show up!" Ji Feng encouraged his teammates during the halftime break.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the third quarter, the game started to look that way!

The Lakers were the first to attack. Ji Feng, who also performed well in the first half, hit a three-pointer from the top of the arc to help the Lakers take the lead.

The Thunder looked for Durant, but Ji Feng's defense was very tight. Durant originally wanted to play alone, but Kobe immediately let go of Sefolosha to help defend. No one could face the double team of Kobe and Ji Feng and remain indifferent. , Durant can only pass the ball.

After receiving the ball, Ibaka took a big step towards the free throw line. At this position, he basically had no offensive ability and could only pass the ball again.

Seeing that there was no time, Ibaka hit Westbrook. Westbrook caught the ball and threw a three-pointer against the defense.

Buzzer, the ball goes in!

I have to say that this goal was very exciting. The commentators supporting the Thunder breathed a sigh of relief and shouted loudly that Westbrook saved the team.

But this goal also completely made Westbrook happy!

As we all know, the best time for him is when he is not playing well. At that time, he looks like an orthodox point guard. But when he is excited, the result is unknown...

Anyway, although Durant is excited at this time, he still feels fuzzy in his heart...

Durant's worries were quickly confirmed. The Lakers were not impatient after being tied by such a three-pointer. However, Ji Feng immediately responded by launching a pick-and-roll. After Kobe passed down the line, Ji Feng did not choose to pass the ball, but retreated. Bu hit another three-pointer!

"Beautiful!" This goal made the commentary area burst into flames.

And Westbrook's blood is also rising. Isn't this a good time to compete with Ji Feng?

Give me the ball and I'll hit the iron.

Pooh! no! It’s me who wants to play ball on the planet!

Receive the ball and move coquettishly. Durant was just about to get ready to catch the ball, but Westbrook threw it away.

Then bang, Bynum rebounded, and the Lakers finally counterattacked for the first time in the third quarter. Ji Feng assisted Kobe for a layup.

5 points!

The score difference widened instantly!

Westbrook once again chose to break through. After being double-teamed, he pulled it up and threw it with a crisp iron oxide. Bynum collected the rebound again, and Ji Feng once again assisted Kobe Bryant to score two points.

"It's a mess! The Thunder are playing in a bit of a mess. The Lakers are playing a familiar rhythm. Westbrook doesn't want to do it by himself!" ESPN's commentator said.

The Thunder head coach also hurriedly called a timeout. He also felt something was wrong.

However, the timeout only temporarily calmed Westbrook's mood, but he couldn't stand Ji Feng's constant provoking of his nerves. He came back with a misplaced single and squeezed Westbrook away with a backhand shot to score 2+1.

This directly caused Westbrook to explode.

Bang bang!

Westbrook only hit 1 ball in the next 3 shots, and the Lakers seized the opportunity to widen the point difference to 11 points!

But you can't say much about Westbrook. He has now scored a game-high 37 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists. These are definitely superstar statistics. How can you criticize him?

Brooks is desperate…

His physical fitness and foundation determine that his lower limit is very high, but his football intelligence and technical ability restrict his upper limit.

His best position is to be the second young man in a pair of young men. The older young man has a bad temper and can stop yelling at Westbrook when he gets in the way at critical moments. As a result, Durant has a reserved personality and Westbrook can only look at him when he gets in the way. He performed DuangDuangDuang and practiced turning back and forth.

Like now...

The Thunder have fallen into the trap carefully prepared by the Lakers.