Chapter 788: Tremble
Westbrook doesn't care about being beaten up, he cares about how many points he gets, and he's only scored 13 points so far, which is a big gap from 40 points.
When he got the basketball in the backcourt, it was a bit unexpected by Li Feng, Westbrook did not choose a direct three-point shot, but began to try to break through himself, Li Feng was originally attached to Li Feng Westbrook, because Westbrook's three-point shot is very dangerous.
So Westbrook actually threw off half of Li Feng's body when they just walked together, Westbrook thought that he had succeeded in this way, but what he didn't expect was that he had just passed the other party a little bit.
Li Feng immediately pasted himself from behind, and Westbrook was very angry, because Li Feng caught up from behind, and he had to face Millsap and Li Feng at the same time, which was a very difficult thing.
Although Westbrook is crazy, he is definitely not stupid, and in the process of breaking through, he sent the basketball to his side, and suddenly sent it to the hands of Perry Jones on the bottom line, Perry Jones stands on the bottom line, and what he is best at is this kind of shooting.
Perry Jones received the basketball, an easy jump shot from the baseline, and a mid-range shot hit the Pelicans' basket, and the Thunder's offense began to play smoothly, and the Pelicans were shot.
Immediately turned back to attack, Li Feng took the ball, and slowly dribbled towards the Thunder's half, at this time the Thunder also saw the power of Li Feng, and began to increase the defense of Li Feng.
When Li Feng was active at the top of the arc, he didn't have that kind of freedom, no matter how Li Feng pulled the Thunder player at that angle, he immediately followed over to prevent Li Feng from having too much space to use.
So Li Feng immediately passed Arenas, but Arenas's position was not very good, and Millsap's position on the inside was not good, and the Pelicans had a little trouble this round, no matter how you look at the ball.
In the end, the basketball actually returned to Li Feng's hands. The basketball was in his hands but the time was almost gone, and Li Feng suddenly found that Al Jefferson was very far back and could play a reverse hanging.
Li Feng thought of this, and with a push, the basketball was suddenly hoisted up by Li Feng and went straight to Al Jefferson behind, Al Jefferson was indeed behind Ibaka, but this was not enough for Al Jefferson to form a steady attack.
Al Jefferson could only barely pounce forward, at this time everyone thought that the Pelicans' offense was wasted, and everyone thought that the Thunder's defense finally succeeded once. It's something to celebrate, but it's also something that no one expected to be, and in such an extreme situation, Al Jefferson made a brilliant pass.
He reached the basketball a little bit in front of him, and with one hand the basketball towards the back, the basketball went straight to the free throw line, Li Feng happened to be there, Li Feng received the basketball, and immediately realized that this was a great opportunity. There is no better opportunity than this.
Ibaka also saw Li Feng receiving the ball at this time, he remembered the coach's words, kept his position and turned his head, watching Li Feng dribble lightly. Then he flew up towards himself with his head and face.
Ibaka can't tolerate this kind of thing, just now he asked Li Feng to come from the front, he didn't expect Li Feng to really come up from the front, Li Feng really came up. Ibaka roared under the basket and stretched out one hand to press the basketball in Li Feng's hand.
But he miscalculated the distance, and if it was boxing, it was a dangerous operation. His hand only touched Li Feng's wrist.
Li Feng waved the basketball, and it smashed down heavily on Ibaka's head, extremely hard and crazy.
"Bang dang!"
The whole basket shuddered a little, and Ibaka shuddered a little when he realized that the ball was in.
Li Feng really dunked on Ibaka's head this time, and after he succeeded, Li Feng turned to Ibaka and said:
"Didn't you want me to dunk, I let you get your wish, shouldn't you thank me?"
Li Feng finished speaking arrogantly, and immediately looked at Ibaka playfully.
Ibaka was very embarrassed at this time, really embarrassed, he was really dunked head-on by the opponent, and he was really dunked head-on by the opponent.
At this time, Ibaka faced Li Feng and couldn't speak at all, and on the court, he could only use basketball to speak.
Li Feng humiliated his opponent in action and words, and Ibaka couldn't stand it a little.
After arriving at the Pelicans' halfcourt, Ibaka immediately reached out to ask for the ball in order to get face back, Ibaka asked for the ball inside, and Westbrook really sent the basketball to Ibaka's hands.
Serge Ibaka turned his back on the inside and attacked Al Jefferson, and he wanted to use one of his inside attacks to score the score.
Ibaka lost face, so he played on the inside, and he became very fierce, taking the ball desperately towards Aljefferson behind him, Ibaka thought that Al Jefferson was easy to bully, but purely competing for the attack on the ground, Al Jefferson was not afraid of Ibaka.
In addition to being physically strong, Ibaka also has no good feel or good footwork, and he can't beat Al Jefferson with all his strength.
Ibaka tossed in the low post for a long time, and did not knock Al Jefferson away, and finally Ibaka became a little annoyed and began to greet Al Jefferson with his big elbows, so that Al Jefferson immediately yelled, and then fell to the ground.
Al Jefferson did this because Ibaka has the action of elbowing, as long as you have a move, Al Jefferson can take advantage of it, the referee glanced here, and Ibaka was really suspected of a foul in the action.
In this way, the referee immediately gave Ibaka an offensive foul, Ibaka was already faceless by Li Feng, and now the referee also gave him an offensive foul, and Ibaka immediately yelled at the referee.
He really felt aggrieved by this feeling, but the referee didn't pay attention to Ibaka's feelings, who made him make such a move.
The referee gave Ibaka a foul, and Al Jefferson walked to the free throw line, and two consecutive free throws were shot, one of two, and Al Jefferson's elbow was not in vain, in exchange for a point.
The Pelicans now have the upper hand over the Thunder everywhere, to the Thunder's half. The Pelicans still grabbed one of the Thunder's interior lines, or rushed frantically towards the Thunder's interior line.
Li Feng rushed to the inside line of the thunder, Ibaka saw Li Feng and immediately turned red, and pounced on Li Feng, Li Feng saw Ibaka's appearance, and knew that this guy was going to attack himself.
Li Feng hurriedly transferred the basketball to the outside, and the outside player received the basketball and began to reverse the ball along the three-point line, and for the first time passed the basketball to Arenas, who was facing the defender.
So Arenas passed the basketball out. The Pelicans' outside line continued to reverse the ball, and Arenas was very clever at this point, taking advantage of his teammate's opportunity to reverse the ball, he pulled two steps to the side.
When the basketball came back, Arenas had space, and by secretly moving two steps, Arenas won space.
Arenas is the kind of guy who can shoot with a single step and get the basketball. Arenas made a three-pointer straight from the outside of the three-point line, and Arenas hit the three-pointer.
After the Pelicans hit the Thunder's interior in succession, the outside line also gained room to shoot, and the Pelicans' offense has stepped into a track. It echoes in the inner and outer lines.
This echo makes the Pelicans' offense very fluid, and in this case, the Thunder's scoring always seems a little messy, not a systematic score. It's not a score in a stable system.
Perry Jones once again used his height and three-threat footsteps on the baseline to play with Millsap's height, and then directly raised his hand to shoot a three-pointer. Perry Jones was in a corner and took a shot to deal with the Pelicans' offense.
Perry Jones still has a hand in offense, and when he encounters an average power forward, Perry Jones has dealt with it himself, which is actually a very valuable ability among so many big forwards in the league.
The Thunder relied on individuals to solve problems, but the Pelicans still had to rely on collective strength to get the opponent, and after the Thunder's half, Li Feng immediately organized the team to continue to attack the Thunder's interior.
In the end, Rose found a chance to dribble directly to the Thunder's inside, Rose shot okay, but the final shot was missed, and the basketball jumped out all of a sudden.
The basketball flew out, and Perry Jones was waiting under the basket for the basketball to fall into his hands, but just as he was waiting under the basket, Li Feng suddenly rushed from behind him to the inside of the Thunder.
This is also the Thunder's card position is not good, not so carefully card position, giving Li Feng the opportunity to drill in, Li Feng jumped directly in, grabbed the basketball with one hand in the air, and slammed a dunk.
smashed the basketball into the Thunder's basket at once, and this time Li Feng became the culprit of attacking the Thunder's inner line.
Li Feng can be said to have caused the most damage to the Thunder's interior line, Li Feng's violent dunk caused a lot of panic to the Thunder's interior line, so the Pelicans scored on the outside again and succeeded.
This time, Rose, who made a move, released a cold gun in the bottom corner and hit it directly on the key point of the Thunder, a three-point shot.
The Pelicans' combination of breakthrough and shooting has become more and more mature and steady, which is very unfortunate news for the Thunder, who have been loose defense, and when facing the Pelicans' very systematic, very rhythmic offense.
The Thunder's defense is very weak, and it can't completely eradicate the Pelicans' offense, and the Pelicans' several offenses are very good to hit the Thunder's inside, and when the Thunder shrinks, the Pelicans pass the basketball to the outside very rhythmically.
The Pelicans played like this, and the Thunder was very weak in the third quarter, allowing the Pelicans to slaughter, widening the gap to 10 points, and at the end of the second quarter, the Pelicans had a 10-point lead over the Thunder.
45-35, the second quarter of the Thunder was completely wiped by the Pelicans' offense, and the Thunder's ball lost a little bit of the Thunder's agile offense.
The Pelicans' players are back in the locker room, celebrating their victory, and the sober Thunder are not feeling good.
But at this time, Gary Payton, the Thunder's home commentator, said:
"It seems that in the second quarter, the Pelicans completely had the upper hand, and the Pelicans beat the Thunder to the north, and they strengthened their attack on the Thunder's interior, which is a wonderful note, the Thunder's interior line really didn't support the opponent's offense, and they were losing in this kind of offense."
Sean Kemp also said:
"Now I'm worried about the Thunder, can the Thunder's defense really solve the Pelicans' offense? It's just too unlikely. ”
Hearing Sean Kemp say this, Gary Payton immediately laughed, he looked at Sean Kemp in surprise and said:
"Sean, when have you seen that the Thunder can solve problems with defense, and if the Thunder want to win, they must play their offense, or play their talents beyond the norm, and have some leeway to do things."
"Indeed, it is."
Sean Kemp also sighed. For the style of thunder, he still can't adapt to it.
In the locker room, everyone is very happy, because they now feel that it is very easy to play this Thunder, it doesn't take much effort at all, even the Thunder looks very good inside, and now the Pelicans are also light to open the door to attack.
Compared with the Pelicans' locker room, the Thunder's locker room has a different atmosphere, and Ibaka jumped into the thunder angrily in the locker room. The main thing is Li Feng's two dunks, which made Ibaka feel embarrassed, and his interior line was played by the opponent like this.
Westbrook also felt very unhappy, and he had already said in his blog that he would get 40 points. But look at what I've done now, I've not done anything, and at this pace, the game will be played until the seventh quarter. You can only get 40 points.
Both men were upset, and Ibaka said there:
"Those Pelican guys, I'm going to have to not let them inside in the second half. We have to pick up the tempo, we can't let their tempo hold us back, we need a quicker tempo to attack. ”
Westbrook agreed, and immediately said:
'I agree with Ibaka, we have to pick up the tempo in the next games.
The Thunder are also summing up the lessons of their failures in the locker room.
The third quarter of the game began, and the Pelicans and Thunder players all returned to the court.
The Pelicans had the ball at the beginning, and the Pelicans still wanted to play their own rhythm as steadily as in the first half, but as soon as the game began, the Thunder immediately changed their defense.
came up and played a tight defense, with players like Li Feng, although it did not pose danger to the Pelicans, but they ruined the Pelicans' rhythm.
Because of a tight defensive past, the Pelicans' 24-second offensive understanding was shortened to 16 seconds, and at this time, it was impossible for the Pelicans to dribble over and play slowly, so they could only handle the basketball quickly.
Arenas came back with an outside shot, and Arenas threw it, but it didn't hit.
Ibaka was already a little crazy under the basket, jumping continuously and snatching this rebound on the inside! After grabbing the rebound, Ibaka turned and passed the basketball straight towards the Pelicans' backcourt, which was a very inaccurate long pass.
He was originally going to throw it to Westbrook, but he threw it too forward, and even Westbrook couldn't catch up with the ball, and Li Feng was originally going to see a mistake, so he didn't chase Westbrook.
But Li Feng didn't expect that Westbrook was really a bit crazy, he jumped out by himself to save the basketball, Westbrook fell in the audience, but he fished the basketball back behind him.
At this time, Li Feng regretted a little, if he chased tightly, Westbrook would definitely not have such a chance, the basketball saved by Westbrook went directly to the hands of Sefrosa, the most unnoticeable Thunder, and Stephenson received the ball in the half court and shot directly into three-point shots.
This is the Thunder-style offense, free, wild, Sefrosa in the Thunder except for Ibaka, he is one of the poor offensive talents, but at this time the basketball is in his hands, he still shoots wildly.
A three-point shot fell into the Pelicans' basket accurately, and at this time Li Feng regretted it even more, he really shouldn't have watched Westbrook's mistakes, he should have caught up.
The Pelicans dribbled over and engaged in a half-court offense, Li Feng used the cover to attack the Thunder's interior, and at this time, Ibaka, who hated Li Feng very much on the inside, finally found an opportunity to take revenge on Li Feng and directly slapped Li Feng's hand holding the ball.
It's an obvious hitter, but because of the Thunder's home stadium, there were a few more blows against Ibaka in the first half, and the referee didn't blow the ball.
The basketball was directly shot out by Ibaka, Li Feng asked the referee to comment and put pressure on the referee, but what he didn't expect was that Ibaka got the basketball this time, and it was actually a long pass, and he threw it towards the Pelicans' half.
Ibaka's long pass was still not accurate, but Durant ran fast and grabbed the ball in his hand, at this time Durant got the basketball and quickly dribbled two steps towards the Pelicans' basket.
Li Feng missed the opportunity because he was looking for the referee, and Durant himself pushed Brewer like a small tank and hit the basket, and then a very tough two-handed layup, which actually scored 2 more points, and also made a foul on Brewer.
This time, the Pelicans had to call a timeout, and the rhythm of these two rounds was really too far away from the Pelicans, which was not the Pelicans' rhythm at all, and the Thunder's players played like water.
And it seems that the Thunder did a mobilization in the locker room, and after coming back in the second half, they were very active in running and saving the ball. (To be continued......)