616. The 40 points that will never be earned......
It's time for the Lakers to attack again, and Liu Ren holds the ball in a high position.
Defending Liu Ren this time is Andre Roberson.
Andre Rob saw that Liu Ren's long-range shot was not good today, so he chose to take a step back to prevent a breakthrough, directly giving Liu Ren a huge space.
However, there is a style of play called Barkley's play, Liu Ren took the initiative to stick to Andre Robertson, who was standing one step outside the free throw line, and started to play directly from the free throw line!
Liu Ren slammed into Andre Roberson and directly knocked Andre Roberson into the three-second zone!
Ibaka came up from behind to help defend, Liu Renma passed to Antetokounmpo who opened up to the outside of the three-second zone, in the contest between Adams and Green on the inside, Adams really couldn't take advantage of the strength, and was stuck by Green, Antetokounmpo took the ball and dribbled one step high, and Durant on the outside could only give up the defense Kobe Bryant and shrink in.
Antetokounmpo immediately threw the ball into the hands of Kobe Bryant, who took the opportunity to run to the bottom corner, and Kobe did not hesitate to shoot a three-point shot.
Kobe's off-ball play is too accurate! It was so accurate that everyone was surprised! Although some people have also counted how efficient Kobe Bryant would be if he played without the ball, he used to have basically no time to play without the ball except for one or two occasional shooting opportunities without the ball, and he personally didn't like to play without the ball, because he never had so many powerful teammates to help him create opportunities, he created opportunities for his teammates.
So even though there was a lot of data to support Kobe's off-ball style of play before, this year is the first time to see Kobe Bryant's no-ball style of play in his career, and the extremely high efficiency still shocks fans.
Kobe Bryant dropped the empty three-pointer into the basket accurately.
After several rounds, the Lakers finally scored again!
It's the Thunder offense again.
Westbrook dribbled over and continued to block Durant, after which he handed the ball to Durant who cut into the baseline.
Durant took the ball, and it became LaVine who defended him, Durant directly bullied LaVine who was more than 10 centimeters shorter than him, and turned around to lift the ball with his back!
Durant seemed to be raising his hand to attack, LaVine knew that it was likely to be Durant's feint, but if he didn't jump, Durant would really shoot directly, and LaVine finally couldn't help jumping.
Sure enough, Durant's big loop came, and he took the initiative to stick to LaVine, and the hand holding the ball hit LaVine's arm from the bottom up.
The referee's whistle blew, and Durant stepped onto the free throw line and hit both free throws.
The Lakers came back and LaVine pushed to the frontcourt.
Liu Ren continued to try to sit in the low post, attracting the attention of the Thunder's defense, and on the other side, Kobe Bryant had made several open shots before, Durant didn't dare to let go at all this time, LaVine immediately passed to Antetokounmpo, Antetokounmpo cut into the basket and Ibaka had to pay attention to helping defend Liu Ren, and when he encountered Antetokounmpo's speed, he couldn't keep up at all, Green blocked Adams who wanted to make up for the defense, and Antetokounmpo made an easy layup.
71-75, the Lakers chased down only 4 points, and the score continued to bite.
Thunder offense.
Westbrook really can't defend it, in order to save Liu Ren's physical strength, it is still up to Laven to defend, the main purpose is just to consume Westbrook as much as possible.
Westbrook played with ease, pretending to rush to the left, and then quickly changed direction and walked back to the right.
Sometimes the reaction is too fast, the physical fitness is too good, in fact, the defensive end has a great weakness, and it is the group of players with excellent physical fitness who are often shaken down, but the slow reaction does not know what the opponent has done, and the opponent has changed direction only to find that the guy who defended himself has not moved, it is better to break into it directly.
It's just that LaVine is such a physical and quick reflex, and the defense against Westbrook is not as good as Clarkson's.
Westbrook changed direction sharply and shook LaVine down!
Westbrook retracted and scored two points from mid-range.
LaVine is teased by Westbrook! Tuition is always taught! Playing next to Liu Ren and Kobe, LaVine has not been educated much by the opponent, on the one hand, to give face to the two, on the other hand, LaVine does not have many opportunities to play, and only in the second year did he have a fixed playing time in the regular rotation.
But Westbrook is not a person who cares about other people's face, no matter how good the relationship is, when it comes to the game, he will do it! Even if Ravan was his junior at the same university.
The Lakers pushed the ball in.
Before Kobe Bryant's three-pointer, Antetokounmpo's direct cut to the basket for a layup, although the Thunder still played well on the offensive end, the defensive end was completely messed up, and they were not a team that was good at defense.
This time, Liu Ren held the ball on the right side of the free throw line, and the Thunder team's bag began to hesitate, Liu Ren took advantage of the Thunder team's hesitation to lose time, and immediately chose to break through, crashed into Andre Robertson and smashed the ball into the basket directly.
Thunder offense.
Originally, because Kobe Bryant's defense is really bad now, the Lakers can only use Clarkson or LaVine to defend Westbrook and Liu Ren to defend Durant, because if Liu Ren defends Westbrook, Kobe or LaVine goes to defend Durant, it is estimated that he will be killed by the big loop.
But now Liu Ren found that he was not killed by Durant's big loop, and was about to be shot to death by Westbrook's mid-range shot, he chose to switch defenses with Clarkson, as for Kobe, he still went to defend Andre Roberson who could only shoot at fixed points.
Westbrook held the ball and wanted to break through, but Liu Ren's footsteps were fast, fast, powerful, and fast, and his two arms were spread out, directly covering Westbrook, Westbrook is a player who plays by physical fitness, and when he encounters a faster, taller and stronger player than him, he is as helpless as he met James in the 2012 Finals.
Durant saw that Westbrook's situation was not good, and he immediately came to cover Westbrook, and when Durant moved over, Westbrook also habitually started to move before blocking because he was too tacit.
Westbrook's pick-and-roll move before it's in place is actually the awareness of a very good pick-and-roll ball carrier.
But Westbrook's action made Liu Ren find Durant who quietly came up to cover, and sometimes the blocking and dismantling was to make the opponent's outside defender have a feeling of suddenly appearing a wall, and if it was discovered in advance, the effect would be much lower.
And Durant ...... Bamboo pole body! Liu Ren took the initiative to go up and directly squeeze Durant away and continue to stare at Westbrook, and Durant's cover was completely ineffective.
Westbrook can only pass the ball to Durant.
In fact, Westbrook should have passed the ball to Durant, because it was Clarkson who defended Durant, but Westbrook wanted to prove himself and wanted to come by himself, so it took so long to pass.
Durant stepped back from the three-point line and ignored Clarkson's three-point shot!
At this moment, Kobe Bryant didn't know when he had quietly come over and jumped high with a roar!
When people get older, their explosiveness and explosive speed will decrease, but in fact, they maintain their weight well, they don't become fat, and the drop in bounce height is not so big, just like Carter still often takes off now, Kobe Bryant also has the opportunity to catch from time to time after playing without the ball, and the bounce height is still very good.
Durant is tall and hard to get distracted by jumping up and shooting.
But the physical interference couldn't be done, and Kobe Bryant's psychological interference did play a role, his yell, and the high jump after the sprint, startled Durant.
Kobe Bryant's interference was in place, and Durant's hand was trembling and missed the shot!
Antetokounmpo grabs a defensive rebound!
The Lakers finally defended their first ball in recent times!
Antetokounmpo grabbed the rebound and threw it straight to the frontcourt, Liu Ren was already down for the first time, and after receiving the ball in the front court, he gently put the ball into the basket and chased the score to 79-81!
It's only two points off!
The Lakers are not in a hurry at all, and they will slowly catch up with the score difference, which is the confidence of the Lakers.
Once again, the Thunder was called a timeout!
The Lakers replaced LaVine with McCollum and continued to strengthen the defense, in other words, to use a wheel battle to deal with Westbrook, Clarkson can't prevent it, LaVine can't prevent it, and of course McCollum can't prevent it, but as long as Westbrook's physical strength is consumed.
Westbrook took the ball over to block and dismantle, Ibaka blocked and dismantled this time very well, Westbrook rushed into the inside line and threw it, and the ball went in again!
The Lakers attacked, Liu Ren went berserk again, and Adams scored 2+1 again, the ball went in, and he had to add a penalty!
Adams made five fouls, Billy Donovan frustrated and replaced Adams, Adams was the only rim protector of the Thunder, and the third quarter was not finished, and he had five fouls.
The Thunder brought on N'Golo Kante, who looked good in stats, but defended far worse than Adams.
The Lakers replaced Green and Antetokounmpo with Biyombo and Whiteside, and Donovan was blushing.
Liu Renjia hit a free throw, 82-83, only one point away!
The score was also scary enough, and the scoring frenzy led by the Thunder in the third quarter kept the score rising.
Westbrook took the ball again, didn't single himself again, he was tired, came over and threw the ball to Durant, and used it as a three-point point to contain the defense.
Westbrook, the physical monster, is tired under the Lakers' wheel-to-wheel defense, and Durant is not much better, Durant's previous problem is the lack of physical strength in the final quarter, although the three quarters have not been played, but Durant's physical consumption under Liu Ren's defense is greater than that of Westbrook.
Durant really couldn't move, and directly chose to shoot strongly.
I have to say that Durant's shooting feel is really good, he almost lost it and scored, and the ball spun around on the basket.
Whiteside protected the backcourt rebound, and then immediately passed the ball to Liu Ren.
Liu Ren quickly made a violent dunk, and the Thunder team couldn't raise the strength to chase the fast attack.
Overtake!
Westbrook came over at this time and missed another jumper.
The Lakers continued to fight back, and Liu Ren hit a three-point shot.
The main force of the Thunder team is already physically exhausted, but the Lakers have been rotating and their physical strength is quite sufficient!
The Thunder began to play iron continuously, the Lakers began to fight back wildly, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Billy Donovan reluctantly let Westbrook, who was physically exhausted in the wheel battle, rest together, the Thunder team completely collapsed, and the Lakers quickly opened the score, and by the fifth minute of the fourth quarter, the Lakers had stretched the difference to 15 points.
In the last few minutes, the Thunder changed the main team to chase the score, but it was too late, and even if the Thunder were both Westbrook and Durant, if they didn't break out, they would at most be on par with the Lakers' rotation lineup.
When Liu Ren was only one goal away from scoring 40 points, he was replaced by D'Antoni again......
In the end, Liu Ren slashed 37 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists to help the Lakers beat the Thunder 125-113 to get the 23rd victory of the season, and the record became 23-3.
However, Liu Ren was very depressed...... D'Antoni doesn't seem to want him to score 40 points! Liu Ren's current view of D'Antoni is that there are always Diao people who want to harm him......