Build a Dream Dynasty

During his week in Europe, Jiang Mingliang finalized the two transfers of Kanter and Higuain. Even if 43 million euros were thrown out, the speed of spending money was fast enough. As for the transfer of other players, it is still in progress, but Jiang Mingliang is sure that he will not be able to participate in it in person, because the finals are about to start, and he has to return to New York to oversee the battle.

For Jiang Mingliang, this trip to Europe was considered relatively successful overall. Without his personal participation, at least Higuain's transfer would not be so easy to finalize, and several other signing targets of the team, Inter Milan has also been connected online, the specific operation, or Jiang Mingliang dispatched behind the scenes, Lang Nick and Kenyon will execute, or after the finals are over, he will return to Milan to take over. All in all, at least this summer, Inter Milan's work has been carried out in an orderly manner.

Before the start of the season, even Jiang Mingliang believed too much that the Nets and the Thunder would meet in the finals. He did not expect that the butterfly effect would strengthen the Thunder so much. Westbrook was not tricked by Beverly. Huo Le No matter how Di is better than Kevin Martin, he can fight tough battles. Compared with the ill-fated team in the previous life, the Thunder has strengthened in almost every aspect. Even if the team has the home court advantage in the finals, even if the Nets are undefeated at home in the playoffs so far, Jiang Mingliang still dare not underestimate the opponent.

The advantage of the Thunder is of course that their players have stronger personal abilities, but their weaknesses are also more obvious. First of all, the inside line of the Thunder. Perkins is a standard blue-collar center. This kind of insider, Perkins is not easy to greet. Although Ibaka's defensive ability is quite powerful, but firstly, his lower body strength is average, and his top defense ability is quite weak, which also makes his actual defensive effect not as impressive as the statistics show. Secondly, his offensive ability If the basic skills are not good, how accurate the mid-range shooting is, how bad it is to deal with it once the ball is stopped. Secondly, the Thunder's rotation lineup is really not enough under the intensity of the playoffs. This also makes the Thunder team face the Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. Only eight players averaged more than 5 minutes per game, excluding the main players. Other than the players, there are only three substitutes, Jeremy Lin, Simmons, and Collison. In fact, this team completely broke the Spurs with the starting lineup. Finally, it is the weakness of the two core players. Durant's physical strength is relatively weak, and his defense is not top-notch. Westbrook is easy to get ahead, and his outside shots are not reliable. Off-ball defense is quite average and easy to miss.

Against this Thunder team, the main focus of Stevens' tactical design for the team is actually very simple, with only two points.

First, the offensive end used pass scheduling to tear the Thunder's defense.

Second, try to limit the main scoring point of the Thunder, Kevin Durant.

On this day, the Continental Airlines Center was full of seats, and the arena, which can accommodate 20,000 people, was packed to the brim.

When the players of the Nets team appeared on the court, cheers resounded throughout the audience, and even many fans applauded Jeremy Lin when they saw the visiting team's Jeremy Lin.

This Chinese point guard also made a lot of contributions to the team during his time in the team and brought everyone some excitement. Including his departure, it also brought everyone Reggie Jackson, who is now an important substitute, and Jeremy Lin himself waved to the fans at home.

In the Nets' roster, although Leonard replaced Korver, in the starting lineup, Barnes still appeared at the small forward position, which obviously gave the Thunder an illusion. The illusion that Leonard has not fully recovered from his injury.

West replaced Dreaming Green and appeared at the starting power forward position. Facing the Thunder's inside combination, it is necessary to increase some inside offensive strength.

The two teams jumped the ball in the middle circle, Lopez beat Perkins, and the basketball was allocated to Curry. For this result, the Thunder are not surprised at all. How many centers in the league are weaker than Perkins' jump ball?

Curry faced Westbrook with the ball. After holding the ball and advancing to the frontcourt, he signaled his teammates to open up space and prepare for singles.

Curry's strong shooting threat forced Westbrook to press tighter when defending him, but because this is the home court of the Nets, he dared not try to steal the ball to avoid premature fouls. Using skilled ball control skills combined with foot movement, Curry used a forward change to pass Westbrook and rushed into the penalty area in a straight line.

Seeing this, Ibaka immediately stepped forward to defend, but Curry had expected it. I saw him suddenly stop and pretend to shoot, and Ibaka, who was cheated, immediately sent a ground pass. Behind Ibaka, West caught the ball and rose from the ground, completing the long-lost dunk!

I am getting older. The opportunities for West to wreak havoc on the rim like this have become less and less, and now West plays the role of a "beautiful mid-range shot" in more games, that is, the first goal of the finals, and needs some encouragement atmosphere, otherwise West would definitely not be like this "old man chatting with teenagers"!

The Thunder team used the team's ace killing move at the beginning, and Dewey and Shuang Shao's pick-and-roll to complete the offense. Westbrook used the pick-and-roll to break through and took away the defender, and promptly distributed the ball to Durant, facing the basket. The Nets did not make up the defense in a timely manner, and Durant made an easy mid-range shot and returned the favor.

After the first round, Holiday, who was shooting guard for the Thunder, began to mark Curry, while Westbrook followed Fernandez.

To say that Holiday's development in the Thunder is actually a little bit off. Holiday was a defender with good personal offensive and defensive abilities during the 76ers period, but his two weaknesses were that his organizational skills were really bad. At that time, Iguodala was actually responsible for the 76ers' offense. That is, his peripheral shooting ability is average, at least not reaching the league's 35% threshold line, which is also an important reason why the 76ers have not had enough offensive space.

After coming to the Thunder, Holiday's defensive ability has been fully released, but on the offensive end, most of the ball possessions are owned by the Thunder. In the game, Westbrook only has Durant in his eyes, and Holiday has been used as Sefoloza!

Not only that, but the Thunder have not reached a contract extension agreement with Holiday so far. The meaning is obvious, let Holiday go to the free market to find a contract, and then look at the match or mismatch.

Let me tell you something, it's a little deceitful!

One thing Curry is better than Westbrook is that he has a very clear mind. He handed the ball to Lopez inside to handle it, and he interspersed with running positions, which disrupted the Thunder's defensive formation. Then, Lopez , West completed the high-low coordination inside, and West leaned on Ibaka to send the ball into the basket.