The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 282

As soon as tonight's game started, the Kings were in trouble.

On the defensive end, the Thunder adopted a defensive tactic of man-to-man + zone defense to limit Li Pu's receiving and shooting. However, the performance of other Kings players today was indeed not as good as in the previous game.

This is not the Thunder's scariest thing, their scariest thing tonight is offense.

The Thunder's defensive counterattack tonight played well, and Westbrook even did his part to attack the King's inside line and compress the defense.

This led to a lot of opportunities on the outside of the Thunder, and other players on the Thunder also seized these opportunities.

Durant, Sefolosha and even Cousins ​​all made three-pointers.

As a result, the Kings' defense is somewhat tight outside.

With Durant hitting a three-pointer again, the score has come to 27:19, and the Thunder lead by 8 points.

The Kings called timeout again.

Coach Brown is very anxious at this moment, but there is no good way. Others can't stand up to share the pressure for Li Pu. He can't take off his clothes, can he?
Back from the timeout, the Kings replaced Bledsoe and Giannis with Thomas Jr. and Patterson, seemingly to increase outside shooting points.

The three-pointer is the best weapon to break the zone defense, but the Kings' three-pointer tonight is not stable, he can only hope that the quantity can be exchanged for production.

After the game returned, Thomas Jr. was really full of presence on the offensive end.

When Li Pu was flanked again, Thomas Jr. took the ball and feigned a shot from the outside, and then used a sharp breakthrough to reach the inside of the Thunder. In the middle of the crowd, he made a layup and scored the ball. At the same time, it also caused Cousins Foul!

These two former teammates of the Kings are very familiar with each other.

Of course, Thomas Jr. knows Cousins' playing characteristics, so he can play a "2+1" under his hands!
"Pretty!"

Li Pu pulled little Thomas up from the ground, and touched his bald head by the way!

Thomas Jr. made an additional free throw, and the point difference returned to 5 points.

But then Westbrook was on the offensive end, pushing Thomas Jr. with his body for a layup and scoring the ball.

How much Thomas Jr. applauds on the offensive end, and how much people want to scold him on the defensive end. Although Thomas Jr. is physically strong and good at confrontation, he is too short, not to mention facing the strongest point guard. Wei Wei Shao.

But thinking about facing Westbrook, it doesn't seem so unacceptable. After all, if Westbrook rushes up now, no one can stop him.

In the next few rounds, although the Thunder replaced Westbrook, Durant stood up and hit consecutive shots, opening the point difference to more than 10 points in one fell swoop.

Towards the end of the first quarter, Li Pu made a turnaround jumper, facing Ibaka and Durant, and scored the ball, successfully narrowing the point difference to less than 10 points.

The end of the first quarter, the score is 37:28.

In the first quarter, the Thunder played perfectly, suppressing the Kings on both offense and defense, fully demonstrating the strength of the defending champion team.

In contrast, their restrictions on Li Pu tonight were very strict, and they hardly gave Li Pu a chance to catch the ball a few times, let alone make a shot.

In the second quarter, the two sides fought for 2 minutes before Thomas Jr. broke the deadlock with a mid-range shot.

But then, Cousins ​​also squeezed into the inside and scored a goal, and then on the defensive end, Thomas Jr. blocked a block.

The feud between the two former teammates continues.

Defensive counterattack, Thunder Westbrook scored a layup, expanding the point difference to more than 10 points again.

After Li Pu came back, the Thunder still took a strict defense against Li Pu.

But in this case, Li Pu didn't take the initiative to catch the ball in the frontcourt.

Instead, he followed the pick-and-roll and played off the ball.

A hanging screen created an air-cut opportunity for Giannis, and after attracting the Thunder's defense, Li Pu ran back to the outside line.

Butler passed the ball to Li Pu immediately.

After receiving the ball, Li Pu made no adjustments and directly chose to shoot.

Basketball hollow into the net!

The Kings set off a counterattack climax.

After Li Pu broke the Thunder's zone defense without the ball, the Kings beat the Thunder 8-0 and narrowed the score to only 3 points.

In the end, it was Westbrook's breakthrough, which once again helped the Thunder resolve the danger.

In response to the King's defense, the Thunder sent out a five-out tactic, that is, all five starting players stood outside the three-point line and moved Li Pu away from the inside.

Since the Thunder's first five players can shoot three-pointers, no one can shoot, which gives Westbrook a huge breakthrough space.

It also allowed Westbrook to play an outstanding performance tonight, contrary to his criminal performance in the previous game.

At halftime, 56:61, the Kings were still 5 points behind.

Tonight's game is not friendly to the king.

Although it took them halftime to crack the Thunder's defense, they were still unable to limit the Thunder's offense and let the opponent score 60 points in the halftime. It's no wonder they won!

Sure enough, after entering the second half, the Thunder played another wave of offensive highs one after another. Li Pu blocked the next wave, but couldn't stop the second wave.

In this way, the score difference seems to be heading towards 20+.

Until the end of the third quarter, Butler stood up and scored 5 points in a row, stopping the decline.

Even so, the Thunder still beat the Kings 33:21 in the third quarter and beat the Kings by 12 points in a single quarter.

Entering the fourth quarter with an 18-point lead.

I thought that this game would be like the last one, and the fourth quarter would be reduced to garbage time.

Unexpectedly, in the fourth quarter, Thomas Jr. and Thornton stepped forward and scored 9 points in a row, narrowing the point difference to less than 10 points, forcing the main players of both sides to return to the court to work overtime.

To be honest, the reason why the Thunder almost came back at the beginning of the fourth quarter was not only because of the strong backup of the Kings, but also because of the poor backup of the Thunder.

They are old, old, small and small benches, they don't deserve to appear in the winning team's lineup at all.

Sure enough, after the return of the starter, the effect was immediate.

Durant and Westbrook scored one goal each, and finally helped the Thunder seal the victory.

101:112, the Thunder pulled one back at home.

In this game, Durant scored a quasi triple-double with 32 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists, while Westbrook scored a large triple-double with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. The key to winning this game.

Although Cousins ​​only scored 18 points and 11 rebounds, he made 2 three-pointers, which also contributed a lot to the team's victory.

Although this game fell short, the team still returned to Saskatchewan with a home court advantage with one win and one loss in the away game.

But what people didn't expect was that in the third game, at the King's home court, the Thunder went to the next game with 118:112. Not only did they lead the series with a big score of 2:1, but they also regained the home court advantage of the entire series.

(End of this chapter)