Build a Dream Dynasty

Also outstanding outside talent, the difference between the Thunder and the Heat is that this team has a stronger offensive power, the talents of Durant and Westbrook have been better developed on the offensive end, Westbrook singled out Fernandez, a pull-up change-over combined with a signature zombie jumper, immediately tied the game.

As a shooting guard, Fernandez has performed well in defending Harden Wade, a player who relies on skills, experience, and strength to play, but Wall really makes it difficult for him to deal with Westbrook. Fortunately, the Spaniard's offensive performance in the playoffs this season has been stable. Taking advantage of Westbrook's poor defensive movement without the ball, he successfully cut to the basket. Although he missed a layup against Perkins, he succeeded. He caused a foul by the opponent, made two free throws, and continued to help the Nets exceed the score.

Durant and Ibaka completed the pick-and-roll cooperation, broke through West by changing direction, and then rushed into the interior, making an emergency stop jumper before Lopez came up to defend him. The height of 211 and the silky dribble of a guard are again Coupled with his historic shooting touch, Durant really can't defend.

Offensive and defensive conversion, the Nets continued to hand the ball to Lopez. Lopez played Perkins in singles, using traditional inside singles skills, getting in a good position to ask for the ball, and then squeezed into the inside line with his back to score a layup.

In the first quarter of the game, the Nets used teamwork to deal with the unsolvable singles of the Thunder and the Juniors. For the Thunder, Durant has scored 14 points, and Westbrook has scored 7 points. These two alone accounted for 70% of the Thunder's points!

The demerit in the first quarter made Stevens secretly heave a sigh of relief. After all, compared to the Nets' main finals recruits, the Thunder's players have experience in the finals of the past year. Fortunately, the young Nets The team wasn't overwhelmed by the pressure at all.

"Guys, you did a great job. Durant's offensive firepower was fierce, but you resisted and showed our basketball. You must continue to maintain this aggressiveness in the next game, don't Give the opponent a chance to relax! Durant is also a human being, he is not a robot, he will be inaccurate sometimes!" When the word "robot" was mentioned, the Nets players showed strange expressions on their faces. This nickname was given to "Leonard" by Jiang Mingliang. It mainly means that he has no expression all day long and his movements are very standard. He did not expect to be caught by the coach cue on this occasion.

Stevens smiled himself, clapped his hands to encourage his players, and then dispatched troops, hoping to use the advantage of the rotation to gain some lead in the score.

However, to Stevens' surprise, Brooks kept Westbrook on the court, allowing the dynamic point guard to join Jeremy Lin in driving the offense off the bench. In the Eastern Conference finals, the Heat were repeatedly opened up by the Nets at the beginning of the second quarter. This is a warning for the Thunder, and one advantage the Thunder has over the Heat is that their core lineup is very young. Some playing time isn't much of a problem.

In the first quarter of the game, Westbrook basically completed the task of "passing the ball to Durant" arranged by the coach. In the second quarter of the game, his task was to use breakthroughs to tear apart the Nets' defense. The most familiar Reggie Jackson faced Westbrook. Although Reggie Jackson has average defensive experience, but fortunately, he is in good physical condition and has an advantage in wingspan. He is playing at the home court of the Nets, so he can harass more Westbrook's dribble.

And Ray Allen also has his own advantages against Jeremy Lin. Stevens has made targeted deployments against both Westbrook and Jeremy Lin. Otherwise, the willingness to pass the ball to others is not strong, and Jeremy Lin still has a single breakthrough line, and the free throw line is easy to stop the ball and so on. Facing Jeremy Lin and Westbrook, two defenders who use breakthroughs as their main means of attack, Chasing Dream Green's ability to help defend and sweep at the front of the penalty area is magnified. Accurate positioning can always make Westbrook and Jeremy Lin's offense stagnate, or Reluctantly shot, the threat dropped.

Without this defensive skill, how could Green get so much playing time with the Nets just by being Curry's wingman? The unfavorable situation also made the Thunder replace Westbrook and Thabeet in just over two minutes of the second quarter, and Durant and Holiday reappeared.

And Stevens immediately made a substitution adjustment, Leonard came on the stage, replacing Grant Hill.

This turn of events surprised the audience, including commentators Barkley and Smith, and dedicated Leonard to deal with Durant. Does this mean that Leonard's previous injuries were just smoke bombs?

Those who had this kind of doubt also included Durant himself, but soon in the next attack, Durant really confirmed this point, and the Nets really played their minds. Under the interference of Leonard, Durant missed the middle distance, Yi Jianlian protected the rebound, and then sent a pass. Reggie Jackson received the ball in half court, but finally failed to make a fast break due to Jeremy Lin's delay. Then it turned into positional warfare and reorganized the attack.

It is absolutely not enough to put pressure on Durant on the defensive end. At this time, the Thunder team is empty inside, and Durant needs to allocate part of his energy to the defensive end. Leonard is also following Durant's example. Don't worry, anyway, it doesn't matter whether you can find an opportunity to attack or not, you just want to confront Durant.

Leonard failed to make a strong hit on Durant, but Yi Jianlian succeeded in grabbing an offensive rebound, and Jackson, who cleverly scored the ball, made a layup.

Back on the offensive end, Durant successfully stormed the basket, turned over and made a jump shot, and made a shot with his height and long arms. However, it's just that playing like this is not a good sign for the Thunder.

In the next back and forth, neither side scored, Brooks quickly replaced Westbrook to relieve Durant's offensive pressure. Seeing this, Stevens could only have a showdown. Curry and Lopez came on the stage, replacing Ray Allen and Yi Jianlian. Brooks left Jackson on the court in order to use him to entangle Westbrook. , The task of holding the ball to the half court is also shared, and Curry can focus more on his own offense.

In the first quarter of the game, Curry only made 2 of 5 shots, and his personal offensive desire was not strong. This does not mean that he was affected by the atmosphere and pressure of the finals, nor was he really restricted by Holiday, but rather It is to follow the arrangement of the head coach, use his own shooting threat to create singles opportunities for the inside, and attack the relatively weak points of the Thunder team, and when he comes on stage at this time, he will use his own offense to really fight against the Thunder team. !