Build a Dream Dynasty

Westbrook's back pass was handed over to Holiday, who quickly stepped forward and made a mid-range shot with his hands slightly raised. The Thunder continued to erode the lead of the Nets.

Offensive and defensive, Dinwiddie steadily led the ball across the half court. Holiday's several attempted steals were cleverly avoided by him. At the critical moment, he was indeed better than the previous backup point guards of the Nets. Be more reliable. Make good progress in the Nets, and save some honors by the way. After the rookie contract expires, there is a high probability of getting a high-quality contract.

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Carter catches the ball from the baseline, and Westbrook appears next to him for the first time. Carter seems to ignore Westbrook in front of him. He lifts the ball up high and lightly with both hands. Westbrook opens his arms, but sees Carter's pass Passing through his armpit, Pierce turned and hit a jumper after receiving the ball.

Westbrook easily broke through Dinwiddie's defense, and after attracting a flanking attack, he distributed the ball to Ariza. The latter shot easily, but unfortunately the ball went wide.

Outside shooting is what restricts the Thunder's offense. Even when Durant stayed on the team, the Thunder considered using a quasi-All-Star No. 2 like Holiday in exchange for Danny Green. A class of extreme 3D players. It's just that times have changed now, and after Durant left, for the current Thunder team, Holiday is indeed more suitable. An extra ball-holding point on the offensive end can play a great role.

Ariza was not stable on the offensive end, but when he returned to the defensive end, he sent a key steal, intercepted the ball passed by Carter to Pierce, and immediately handed it over to Westbrook to counterattack. The player who played the fast break in the transition period, Westbrook's striding meteor impact not only scored the ball, but also caused a foul, scoring 2+1.

Immediately afterwards, the Thunder defended the Nets' offense three times in a row, closing the score to 97:98. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Nets had to replace the main players on the field again to start the final decisive battle with the Thunder.

As soon as he came on the court, Curry made a pass error. The Thunder took the opportunity to play a beautiful fast break. Holiday scored two points with ease and led the team to overtake the score.

With the score completed, the Thunder still had the fighting spirit. When Curry began to take over the offense of the Nets and effectively dissected the Thunder's defense, the players of the Thunder did not blindly defend. With Westbrook and Ali After Zha made three-pointers one after another, with two minutes left in the game, the Thunder led 122-117 by 5 points.

However, this main lineup has been used to support the fourth quarter. Except that the center position was changed from Kanter to Olynyk, and Griffin was off the court at the power forward position and rested for a minute and a half, the other three positions were The main players played the fourth quarter, and Curry could feel more and more that the opponent's loss of physical strength was fully reflected in his body.

The Nets attacked, and Curry immediately passed the ball near the midfield. The Thunder maintained a high level of defense against Curry, especially at this critical moment. Has a good offensive ability, but blocking Curry at critical moments and allowing others to attack is the result the Thunder would like to see, even if they are still forced to kill.

Without the ball in hand, the Thunder players did not relax their guard against him. Holiday has been following him closely, and everyone else must pay attention to the running Curry.

Leonard, who was on the bottom line on the right wing, suddenly started to drive inside. Ariza was just careless, but he noticed a nimble figure flashing behind him. Leonard, who was still squeezing in just now, suddenly changed direction and interfered. A look at Holiday's replacement also helped Curry find a half-open three-pointer in the bottom corner. At the moment when Green's pass fell into Curry's hands, Ariza had already rushed over, and Curry A flexible dribbling adjustment made Ariza's last effort fail. Facing the empty basket, Curry easily took off and made a hit.

The point difference was narrowed to only 1 point, and the main players of the Nets had an absolute advantage in physical strength, and the balance of victory and defeat was already very inclined to the Nets.

Looking back, the Thunder still adopted Westbrook and Griffin's pick-and-roll tactics. Facing the DPOY candidate Chasing Dream Green, Westbrook forced a layup, but the shot was extremely reluctant under the joint interference of Chasing Dream and Porzingis , The ball hit the iron without accident, and then, Griffin, who rose into the air, grabbed the basketball with both hands and smashed it into the basket.

This is entirely a physical talent. In China, fans will ridicule Griffin's short hands and use the nickname "tyrannosaur" to describe Griffin, while in the United States, the title of Griffin is "Griffin". ", which is enough to describe his terrifying jumping and athletic ability.

The point difference has returned to three points, and the defensive pressure on Curry's side has further increased. Fortunately, Chasing Dream Green showed the style of the frontcourt brain. Using his physical advantage to push Ariza forward, forcing Olynyk to make up for the position, and then lightly passed the ball to the unguarded Porzingis under the basket. Porzingis chose the safest dunk and continued to close the gap Narrowed down to just one point.

Chasing Dream's sudden advance after the pick-and-roll is the key to the success of this attack. Although Ariza's core strength is not weak, his tonnage is a circle smaller than Chasing Dream, and at the last moment of the game, the referee also The Thunder will not be whistled for this kind of controversial ball, and the Thunder are indeed caught off guard.

The Thunder team attacked, and after the consecutive offenses failed, Westbrook once again chose to force his shot, but this time, facing Curry, Westbrook's zombie jumper hit steadily, and the Nets' dazzling offense cooperated with Westbrook. In front of him was a strong response by using his physical talent. These two points were crisp and neat.

After finishing scoring, Westbrook directly led the defense against Curry. At the critical moment, Westbrook pushed the game to the point where the star players of both sides were 1v1 SOLO. Making sure he crossed the half with six seconds to go, Westbrook quickly made up for Curry.

More than brave, but not enough skills are the characteristics of Westbrook's playing, not only on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end. Photo taken by Curry's strong shooting threat, Westbrook posted relatively close, but this distance gave Curry a more comfortable breakthrough space, and when Curry's dribbling rhythm changed, Westbrook was like a frightened bird. Withdrawal, as everyone knows, the shot from outside the three-point line is Curry's real purpose. Taking a step back, Curry Yang hits a key three-pointer, helping the team tie the score with 70 seconds left in the game.

This is not only a goal to tie the score, but also a goal to kill people. In fact, despite the fact that Westbrook hit a few key goals, Griffin helped make up for the goals he didn't score, but most of the Thunder's offense in these rounds was concentrated in Westbrook's hands. Curry hit a key shot, and I believe that Westbrook's side will most likely come up and launch a personal attack.

What Stevens thought of, of course Donovan also knew. After the ball was delivered, he called a timeout immediately and arranged the team's tactics for the next round, but it didn't come to fruition. The Nets' defensive strategy It's very simple, defend Curry to "single defense" Westbrook.

Everyone can see that there are layers of traps behind him, but Westbrook, who has always been unconvinced by Curry, finds an opportunity to single out Curry, and it is difficult to let go, not to mention that he has sufficient confidence in himself, "Although there are thousands of people, I will go "Hey" momentum forced Curry to give up a better shot space. After pressing to the free throw line, Westbrook resorted to his good zombie jumper and hit it again!

This time, the pressure came to the Nets side, and Stevens also called a timeout to rearrange his tactics.

Since coaching the Nets, Stevens has many coups at the decisive moment. Fans have full confidence in what good ideas he can come up with at this time.

Returning to the court, the Nets made personnel adjustments. White shooter Harris appeared on the court instead of Chasing Dream Green. There was an arrangement to foul Chaimeng in advance. Now that Chaimeng is replaced by Harris, you try to kill him?

Porzingis handed the ball to JR Smith steadily, and more than two players rushed to Curry at the first time. The Thunder's defensive arrangement was a bit messy, and JR Smith simply made a mistake. , with the ball behind his back, he turned around and passed Holiday. This time, the Thunder's defense became even more chaotic. Griffin immediately filled the inside line and missed Leonard on the outside line. Ariza Follow up to make up for the position, leaving Harris out.

When Westbrook staggered and knelt down in front of Harris, Harris had already completed his first and only three-pointer in the game and scored a three-pointer.

An attack that was not planned at all, but caused a quasi-lore by mistake, but no matter what, Stevens replaced the team's last substitute at a critical moment. This bold decision was undoubtedly a success. It also once again made the Nets fans regard him as a god.

The fly in the ointment is that the Nets left the Thunder with 12 seconds, and the Thunder could still complete an offense. Donovan called a timeout again, helping the Nets find a chance to pull down the defensive end, which may drag down the team. Harris, brought Green up again.

For the last offense, who else could give Westbrook tactics? Donovan simply arranged the pick-and-roll arrangement after receiving the ball.

Griffin was in charge of serving the ball. The Nets' man-marking tactics were very clear, that is, Westbrook would not receive the ball. In order to avoid a five-second violation, the Thunder hurriedly called another short timeout.

Stevens' arrangement still prevents Westbrook from receiving the ball, and at the same time Leonard needs to take care of the basket. The Thunder's server was replaced by Kanter. Griffin's impact on the basket is what the Nets need to pay attention to.

Under the siege and interception, Westbrook was destined to be unable to catch the ball. Kanter had to hand the ball to Holiday, who was under a little less pressure. , Unexpectedly, there was a mistake in passing and receiving the ball this time. Westbrook pointed at the basketball. After the ball landed, it did not bounce normally, but rolled directly to the outside of the court in a low arc.

No one expected that such a fierce and thrilling game would end up with such a pass and catch error by the Thunder team that the situation would change drastically.

The Nets decisively replaced Harris again. The Nets have the ability to make free throws steadily at four points on the court. Porzingis has a lot of choices, from the start of timing to Westbrook fouling on Leonard. , Time consumed 4.5 seconds, that is to say, after Leonard made two free throws, the Thunder still had 2.5 seconds to complete the offense, and a three-pointer could drag the game into overtime.

Westbrook may still be YYing to complete the last episode and realize the beauty of self-salvation, but Leonard did not fulfill him. After hitting the first goal, Leonard deliberately missed the second goal. After fighting hard for the last time, in the end, the Nets narrowly beat the Thunder by 2 points and won this classic Christmas game.

Although there were all kinds of unhappiness during the game, this Christmas game is indeed enough to be recorded in the annals of history. The Thunder forced the Nets to their full strength and pushed them into a desperate situation when the lineup was obviously at a disadvantage. Although Westbrook was not very efficient in this game, he did play out his own characteristics, which also exposed the Nets' defensive weaknesses. Indeed, it is a pity.