Basketball striker

Chapter 648: Sweeping Thunder

"Roar!" The moment the basketball fell into the basket, Yang Shuai raised his hands and shouted, and then he was surrounded by Warriors players.

"Knockout! Well done, Yang!" On the sidelines, Nelson did not run into the court to hug Yang Shuai and others, but he clenched his fists and shouted in his heart.

"Oh, it went in. Kevin didn't guard against the opponent's attack. Yang hit a three-pointer. What a pity..." Davis said with regret in the commentary box.

In? Or in? Turning his head and looking at the basketball bouncing on the floor, Durant was stunned, and then said helplessly in his heart: "Still failed to guard this guy."

The boos on the sidelines had disappeared at this time. The Thunder fans' hearts sank to the bottom the moment Yang Shuai's ball hit the ball. They fell behind 0:3. What awaited them might be the fate of being swept.

"0:3, the Thunder have one foot outside the cliff. I think what they have to do now is how to avoid a sweep." After Davis finished speaking, he felt a little frustrated and hurriedly added: "This game

The Thunder are already good enough, and Kevin's performance in the playoffs makes everyone satisfied. It's not that we are too weak, but that our opponents are too strong."

It's not that our performance wasn't good enough, it was just that our opponent was too strong. These words echoed in the hearts of every Thunder fan after the game.

Indeed, the Thunder played very well in this game, and so did Durant. Although Durant had a moment of impulsiveness at the beginning, there was not much to criticize about his performance after returning to the court in the second quarter.

41 points, 6 assists and 6 rebounds, this is the data Durant finally handed over in this game. This is the performance of a top star. However, because of the comparison between Yang Shuai, such data loses its meaning.

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In the first three quarters, Yang Shuai only had 23 points, but in the last quarter, Yang Shuai scored 18 points. This also allowed him to score 41 points like Durant after the game. In addition, Yang Shuai had 12 more points.

Assisted, 13 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 blocks.

The almighty Yang Shuai continued his all-around performance, and his final hit showed his strength as the best player in the league.

After the third game, the outside world was generally not optimistic about the Thunder. Seventy percent of the people believed that they might be swept by the Warriors. Only a small number of people thought that they would explode in the fourth game. Then

Defeated by the Warriors in Game 5.

During the team training after Game 3, Brooks deliberately selected some intense reports for the Thunder players to watch, hoping to stimulate the players' fighting spirit.

In fact, he succeeded. Thunder players are mainly young players, and it is precisely because of this that they are more easily stimulated. These reports, coupled with Brooks's fanning the flames, made every Thunder player high-spirited and determined to win in the fourth game.

Victory, refuse to sweep.

Compared to them, the Warriors were much calmer. Although they had a 3:0 lead, they seemed as if the playoffs had just begun.

For them, who fought all the way and won the championship last season, the current Thunder is indeed not taken seriously by the Warriors. Maybe the Thunder will become a strong competitor of the Warriors in the Western Conference in the future, but this season the Thunder are still

Not enough to threaten them.

Game 4 finally started. At the beginning, every Thunder player ran out of the tunnel with high morale. Their mental state made the fans at the scene feel a lot more comfortable.

There were still many fans who came to the scene, but compared to the previous game, there were much fewer. After all, even Thunder fans were not optimistic about the home team's performance in this game.

After the game started, the Warriors took the lead in attacking. Yang Shuai had the ball in his hands during the first attack. This was completely different from the previous game.

In the third game, Durant kept attacking at the beginning of the game, and in the fourth game, this role changed to Yang Shuai.

In the first offense, Yang Shuai chose to break through, successfully rushed to the basket and hit a layup, causing Perkins to foul.

Yang Shuai chose to take the initiative to attack at the beginning of the game, which was indeed a bit beyond Durant's expectations. However, Durant, who was very motivated at this time, did not think too much about it. He also chose to attack on his own.

As if he was really fighting with Durant, Yang Shuai once again passed the basketball after coming to the offensive end, and then made a pull-up jumper from the mid-range and hit 2 points.

Yang Shuai chose to take all four consecutive shots by himself, and all of them hit without exception. This undoubtedly put great pressure on Durant, and also put pressure on other Thunder players.

When Yang Shuai took the ball again, Durant was naturally nervous, and the other players also focused on Yang Shuai. What Yang Shuai wanted was this effect. After once again choosing to break through, Yang Shuai

Instead of attacking by himself, he sent the ball to Hinrich on the outside.

A three-point shot was made, and Hinrich's shot was made steadily.

If Yang Shuai brought huge pressure to the Thunder in the last quarter of the last game, then the Thunder felt the pressure created by Yang Shuai just at the beginning of this game.

When Durant defended alone, Yang Shuai chose to attack without hesitation, and the shooting rate was very impressive. Once a Thunder player tried to double-team, the ball in Yang Shuai's hand would appear immediately.

In the hands of his teammates, the Warriors players have a very good touch, so while Yang Shuai's points are rising, his assists are also rising.

After the first quarter, Yang Shuai had already scored 14 points and 5 assists. At the beginning of this quarter, Durant tried to block Yang Shuai's attack, but it did not work. Then the Thunder used two people to defend Yang Shuai.

, but the effect is also not obvious.

Before the game started, the Thunder players had high morale. They showed a very good offensive state in the first quarter, but after one quarter they suddenly found that they were still lagging behind.

30:27, the Thunder played well offensively after the opening, but the Warriors played better offensively.

Entering the second quarter, Yang Shuai only rested for two minutes before returning to the court again. Not only that, Nelson also sent Chandler and Evans together.

At this time, Yang Shuai once again led the Warriors to create huge pressure on the Thunder, but this time it was not just on offense, but on both offense and defense.

After Yang Shuai, Evans and Chandler came on the court, the Warriors suddenly exerted their strength on the defensive end, limiting the Thunder to no points for nearly three minutes. The Warriors seized this opportunity and played a 9-0 victory.

The score difference widened to 10 points.

After discovering that they were already 10 points behind the Warriors, the Thunder players became impatient. Brooks, who saw something wrong, quickly called a timeout and made adjustments to the team's offense.

Durant does have the style of a general. After returning to the court after a timeout, he took the initiative to score for the team, and then completed a beautiful cooperation with Ibaka to assist the opponent to complete a dunk.

The Thunder's situation was slightly relieved because of this, but two minutes before the end of the second quarter, the Warriors once again exerted their strength on both ends of the offense and defense, playing a 7:0 wave, of which 5 points came from Yang Shuai.

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At 61:47, after the first half, the Thunder players were helpless to find that the point difference had widened to 14 points at this time, which quickly cooled down their excitement before the game.

Brooks tried to once again arouse the fighting spirit of the Thunder players during the halftime break, just like he did at the beginning, but he found that it seemed a bit difficult. In the second quarter, the Warriors took advantage of the Thunder's slight slack to exert force, and with the score difference

The Thunder players were no longer as confident as they were at the beginning of the game. After all, before that, they were trailing 0:3.

Brooks knew very well that if the situation was not reversed as soon as possible, the Thunder's game would be in danger, so he kept telling Durant and Westbrook during the halftime break that they must make every effort to score and narrow the point difference after the start of the second half.

Durant and others who came to the court after the second half did indeed do this. They kept attacking the Warriors' defense, but this did not narrow the point difference for them, because at the other end, Yang Shuai and

Evans is doing the same thing.

Three minutes into the second half, but the point difference still stayed at 13 points. This made Brooks on the sidelines feel extremely worried. If the team's tone is like this, it will become more and more difficult to chase points.

At this moment, the situation on the court suddenly changed. First, Yang Shuai and Chandler teamed up to give Durant a big block, and then the Warriors launched a fast break and Hinrich made a layup.

Then Westbrook's mid-range shot was blocked again. This time Yang Shuai dribbled the ball and completed a one-stop dunk.

Durant came forward again after halftime and hit a two-pointer. However, at the other end, Yang Shuai used his breakthrough to create an open three-point opportunity for Jamison. Jamison did not waste the opportunity.

With Yang Shuai's assist, he hit a three-pointer.

After the score stretched to 17 points, the Thunder's players became extremely impatient. They made another mistake. Westbrook's pass to Durant was intercepted by Yang Shuai.

After grabbing the ball, Yang Shuai launched a fast break without hesitation, and then made a three-pointer from outside the three-point line, with a 20-point difference!

After the point difference widened to 20 points, the Thunder completely collapsed, and the players' fighting spirit was completely lost at this moment. The next game became a veritable garbage time. After the third quarter, the Warriors maintained a 20-point advantage.

It makes the last section meaningless.

110:95. In the end, the Warriors won the game with a 15-point advantage in the away game, winning their fourth victory in this round.

4:0, the Warriors swept the Thunder. The Thunder thought about refusing and resisting, but in the end they had to accept the fate of being swept, which also meant that this young team's first playoff journey was over.