The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 299
With the help of the pick-and-roll, Westbrook broke into the Kings' penalty area again, and then made a layup. Although he missed it, he successfully caused Li Pu's foul.

Seeing this situation, Li Pu raised his hand helplessly.

Since the league introduced the vertical jump rule, a big center like Li Pu has become even more difficult to mix.

Therefore, the vertical take-off rule refers to: when the inside defensive player is defending, he is only allowed to take off vertically, and cannot perform defensive movements in the air, and his hands can only be raised vertically and cannot be pressed down.

If these regulations are violated, once there is physical contact in the defense, the referee has the right to call a foul for the defender.

Of course, the referee blew it like this to find a balance whistle. If he didn't blew it, the game would have to be missed.

But even if he blew it, wouldn't he spend it?

Fortunately, this is only Li Pu's third foul, and now the game has entered the second half of the third quarter.

With Westbrook making two free throws and the score was 59:78, the Thunder finally narrowed the point difference to 20 points.

That's right, after entering the third quarter, the Kings' defense improved again. In the second quarter, the Thunder's shooting percentage dropped sharply again in the third quarter. It seemed that the entire team, except for Westbrook, had no People can score.

Faced with this situation, the Kings even chose to let go of Robertson and Jones from the outside, but these two were really strong, making 3 three-pointers and 0 shots.
As a result, the Kings easily opened the point difference to 25 points.

Thanks to Westbrook's constant impact on the King's inside line, the point difference returned to 20 points.

Just relying on this alone is not enough to regain the point difference.

The consumption of tonight's game is not small for Westbrook, and he has already started to breathe heavily at this time.

"How can it be so difficult?"

I still remember that last year, when the Thunder faced the Kings, they still looked down on it.

After being eliminated by Li Pu in the final playoffs, neither the fans nor the players of the Thunder think that their strength will be worse than that of the King.

But this season, when the two teams played against each other again, Westbrook could clearly feel that the Kings had really become stronger!
This is not the kind of comparison caused by being weaker, but the Kings have really become stronger!

Last season's Kings team could be said to be Li Pu's team alone. Most of the team's offense relied on Li Pu to attack, just like him now.

But now, the Kings are full of offensive points, as if everyone can attack, they can be called strong and strong!

On the other hand, Thunder, apart from himself, no one in the team can stand up to help him?

Cousins ​​was originally the Thunder's second scoring point, but was severely restricted by Li Pu.

In front of Li Pu, Cousins ​​did nothing at all!
Although he couldn't figure it out, he didn't see the fighting spirit in Westbrook's heart at all!

There is no reason why I couldn't do what Li Pu could do last season!
However, before he finished his thoughts, he saw Li Pu's high position support, a ground pass found the air-cut Bledsoe, who took advantage of Westbrook's daze, and rushed to Ibaka's defense in place Before that, he made an easy layup.

The Thunder can't really guard against the Kings!
Fortunately, when there were more than 3 minutes left in this quarter, Coach Brown replaced Li Pu again and replaced Jokic, who committed three offenses in the first half.

Westbrook came to life immediately, hitting the inside line guarded by Jokic twice in a row, and it really achieved results. Once he scored, and once caused Jokic's foul.

In this way, with the counterattack at the end of the third quarter, the score came to 69:86, and the Thunder once again narrowed the point difference to 17 points.

After the game entered the fourth quarter, at the beginning, Thomas Jr. scored 5 points with a sudden shot, and then passed the ball to Covington in the corner after a pick-and-roll with Jokic, who made a three-pointer from the corner!
The point difference immediately returned to 25 points.

And Westbrook, who played three quarters, was helpless when he saw this scene!

The score I worked so hard to get back was ruined by you in 2 minutes?

This is a fart!

Westbrook didn't want to admit defeat at first, and wanted to play another wave, but Coach Brooks didn't agree.

Although this game is a game of grievances and the opening game of the new season, in the end it is just an ordinary regular season!
The current team lineup is not complete, and the opponent is not what it used to be. If you can't beat it, you can't beat it. There is nothing shameful about it!

Coupled with the fact that the Thunder will have back-to-back games tomorrow, Brooks still hopes that the team will save their energy.

Therefore, the main force was not sent back.

In this way, the fourth quarter played for more than three minutes. When Coach Brown saw that the Thunder still hadn't sent a starter, he knew that the opponent had announced their surrender.

So Coach Brown immediately replaced Thomas Jr., Thornton and Covington with Seth Curry, Dinwiddie and Grant, and directly sent the third team.

To be honest, the three of them are really too young now.

Whether it is physical confrontation or technical ability, Seth is useless except for three-pointers.

Dinwiddie felt a little unable to adapt to the confrontation in the NBA. His outside shooting percentage was a mess and he made a lot of mistakes.

Grant, on the other hand, is a rough jumper who has nothing but talent and doesn't even understand team tactics.

Fortunately, there was Jokic directing traffic on the court, which prevented the team from collapsing in the fourth quarter.

In this way, the game came to an end, 89:116, the Kings beat the Thunder by 27 points at home, almost making the opponent powerless to fight back.

Li Pu and other starting players even clocked out of get off work in three quarters, and 7 players in the team scored in double figures.

Li Pu scored a team-high 21 points and 11 rebounds, Butler 16 points, Bledsoe 15 points, Middleton 11 points, Giannis 14 points and 8 rebounds, Thomas Jr. 15 points, Jokic scored 10 points in his debut 6 rebounds, the performance is still very good!
Compared with the Kings who are all soldiers, the Thunder are much miserable.

威少出战33分钟，26投11中，罚球16投15中，砍下了全场最高的36分外加13篮板11助攻的三双数据。

But it's a pity that apart from him, only Cousins ​​and Ibaka scored in double figures.

Cousins ​​scored 12 points and 8 rebounds, and Ibaka scored 10 points and 6 rebounds. In addition, no one on the team scored in double figures.

Who would have thought that the Thunder, which was once full of talents, would become so stretched now?
And except for Li Pu, no one knew that for Thunder, this was just the beginning.

Soon, on the second day, in the game against the Clippers, Westbrook sprained his knee after only playing 8 minutes and retired midway through the game. This is good, the Thunder turned out to be Cousins One man team.

Even though Cousins ​​scored 32 points and 10 rebounds, he still failed to beat the Clippers.

And this is still just the beginning!
(End of this chapter)