NBA: The opening game gets a death entanglement

D’Antoni knew from the first two games that Lin Dong’s shot was not bad.

I didn’t expect the feel to come so quickly.

Just played, even eight points!

As the live commentary said, now the pressure is all on the Thunder’s side.

How to limit Lin Dong’s score, and how to crack Lin Dong’s defense?

This is the biggest problem they are currently trying to solve.

Brooks never imagined that his team would find itself in such a situation because of a lost draft that only played three games.

The core player who should have caused the other party a headache, Durant, did not expect to be directly blocked by the other party.

Judging from the current situation, Green’s defense against Lin Dong is not good.

The best defensive player is definitely Durant, but Durant only took a two-minute break in the second quarter.

Not yet his playing time.

So Brooks had to set his sights on Harden.

“Harden, wait for you to defend Lin Dong!”

Harden was a little surprised, but nodded anyway.

“When defending him, you don’t let go of the shot, you can’t let him get the opportunity to shoot easily, once he breaks through the defense, others make up the defense.”

Judging from the current performance of Lin Dong, his physical fitness is excellent, his defense is good, and his shooting is accurate.

But beyond these, no other abilities have been shown.

So Brooks made such defensive demands on Harden.

That is to bet that Lin Dong can’t hold the ball, and it’s not good to play the ball.

Harden and Green are different, he is an outside player with a faster hand.

Lin Dong wanted to dribble in front of him to break through, it was a little more difficult.

At this time, Harden, the defensive attitude is very positive, not yet the later colander, eye defense master.

Harden was stunned at first, and instantly felt a little difficult to accept.

He is a scout of the draft, and he actually has to do such a strict defense against a losing draft now.

There was some unhappiness in my heart.

But it quickly self-regulated.

Who lets others play better than themselves?

The draft doesn’t mean anything, or the most important thing is to win the trust of the coach first.

The timeout ended and both teams of players returned to the field.

The Thunder relied on a mid-range shot from Wei Shao and finally scored a goal.

Turning back, it’s the Knicks’ turn to offense.

Lin Dong found some problems, and the person defending himself changed from Green to Harden.

And Harden’s defense is very positive, almost inseparable from himself.

At this moment, Lin Dong is not very easy to handle.

Just because you don’t play Harden well on your side doesn’t mean that others aren’t good at playing.

Nate held the ball at the top of the arc and glanced at Lin Dong.

Meaning, you feel good and you keep playing.

However, Lin Dong did not ask for the ball, but blocked him.

Lin Dong turned his head and shouted at Nate: “You come to fight!” ”

Nate instantly understood.

The dribbling came to the side that Lin Dong blocked.

At this time, Lin Dong suddenly took it apart and pulled to the position of the three-point line on one side.

Due to the fiery feel in front, where did the Thunder dare to relax him.

Wei Shao, who was closest to him, immediately chased after him.

Leave Harden to face Nate.

This is what Lin Dong thinks.

Although Harden is still relatively good defensively, it is only relative.

The opposite is his later mosaic period defense.

Against a nimble little defender like Upper Nate, he’s not very good.

Nate continued to shake and soon opened a distance.

Broke through to the free-throw line and made a throw.

Wei Shao could only be anxious while watching from the sidelines.

The Thunder serve quickly, and Wei Shao accelerates from the baseline with the ball.

It seems that he wants to play a quick two-pointer, and the Knicks are not stable.

The rest of the Knicks really haven’t reacted yet.

The inside players were even more overlooked.

It’s about to hit the basket.

At this time, Lin Dong, who had been chasing behind him, appeared.

At the moment when Wei Shao was ready to get up, a hand stretched out from Wei Shao’s side.

Cut on the basketball.

That’s right, not a cap, it’s a cut ball.

And in the end, the basketball hit Wei Shao’s leg out of bounds.

“Wonderful! Lin’s defense always surprises! ”

“Although I am not a Thunder player, I can probably imagine their mood, that is, helplessness!”

“Lin Dong seems to be everywhere, always appearing in the most critical position of defense and giving people a fatal blow.”

“We can see frustration on the faces of the Thunder players!”

At first, he kept praising Thunder’s explanation, and at this time, he was already worried about Thunder.

And the tone has begun to tilt towards the Nix, towards Lin Dong.

Durant was off the court, almost jumping up in a hurry.

However, the manager did not mean to let him play.

With about six minutes into the second quarter, the Knicks had stretched the gap to 12 points.

A timeout went into 48:36.

The Thunder scored just a pitiful eight points in the first half of the second quarter.

Four of them were fouls made by Wei Shao through breakthroughs.

Penalty kicks come.

After a timeout, Durant returned to the court.

However, Lin Dong did not end.

The situation was almost the same as in the first quarter, facing Lin Dong, Durant still had no good way.

However, he calmed down a bit.

No longer so reluctantly, more chose to pass.

This prevented the point gap between the two teams from widening further.

In the end, at halftime, the score between the two teams was frozen at 62:50.

At this time, inside the studio where Barkley was.

A staff member quietly led a cow out.