Super Small Forward

Liu Ren got an interesting discussion content from the Pelinka company documents received by the little girl. Durant once consulted Pelinka. If he joins the Warriors or the Clippers, will his business value be affected? influences.

And Pelinka’s feedback is that not only will it not be affected, but Oakland and Los Angeles are both places of great commercial value. Needless to say, Los Angeles, San Francisco, where Oakland is located, is the top five super metropolis in the United States. Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia can be said to be more prosperous than San Francisco. Durant can go to the Warriors or the Clippers. Pelinka, who was a broker at the time, gave feedback that the commercial value will rise sharply.

It is completely impossible for Durant to go to the Clippers. The Clippers already have three maximum salaries of more than 20 million a year for Griffin, Paul, and Jordan, plus a group of expensive and not-so-practical role players, and the Clippers salary The total salary of players with skyrocketing contracts will reach 85 million next season. There are also premium contracts of more than 10 million like Crawford in most cities. There is no way to trade out to make room anyway. .

Therefore, Liu Ren concluded from this document that Durant and Curry have an unspeakable Mimi...no, it's a secret!

Then the current situation this season has become very interesting. The Lakers do not want to compete for the first place in the Western Conference, because the eighth in the Western Conference is likely to be the Rockets, Grizzlies, Mavericks, and Pelicans. For teams in the Southwest Division, the first in the Western Conference has to go shopping with them, and the fourth and fifth Thunder and Clippers are not easy to deal with.

The Thunder has always had a huge advantage over the Clippers as small forwards. No matter how many small forwards the Clippers have changed, no matter how famous they are, they will eventually be scrapped when the Clippers arrive, and the Clippers’ strongest point is Paul facing West Brooke has no advantage, so the Thunder have basically played on the Clippers in the past few years.

In this way, if the Warriors' ferocious momentum is maintained to the end this year, then the Thunder and the Warriors are most likely to meet in the second round, and then one of Curry and Durant's team is bound to lose.

Liu Ren finds it interesting. If the Warriors lose to the Thunder, will Durant choose to join a team that loses to them? It's really embarrassing to join! If the Thunder loses to the Warriors and Durant joins the Warriors, the impact will be more brutal than when James joined the Heat.

As the boss of Curry and Durant’s agency, Liu Ren doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. The giant effect brought by the two partners has definitely risen, and criticism also represents popularity. The more popular Durant and Curry are, the more popular they are. The bigger the endorsement contract, the more money Liu Ren can make.

Therefore, Liu Ren looked at this matter with the mentality of watching the excitement.

As for the possibility of the Warriors forming a super giant lineup that looks scary, Liu Ren said that he was not worried about it, but he was more excited. The stronger the opponent, the more challenging.

Winning the championship is important, but what about it? Of course it is to defeat the strongest opponent.

Liu Ren has never been famous in his previous life, but he still loves basketball. The kind of spiritual accomplishment after defeating opponents and stronger opponents is the best.

Now Liu Ren is not short of money, not lack of popularity, and won the championship. What he wants to do next is to achieve honors that others can't do, and defeat others who seem invincible.

Look at the excitement and return to the excitement, but the Thunder is really not an opponent of the Warriors. Now the Warriors are in that almost invincible state. The Thunder is very good, but it's really nothing to face the 25-game winning streak. The way, from the beginning to the end of the game, the Warriors have been leading and did not give the Thunder a chance.

This game... The Lakers felt that it was in vain and it had no reference value at all. The only feeling was that the Warriors were really strong. They have won 26 consecutive victories and started with 26 wins and 0 losses. The Warriors almost raised the opening streak record. To a point where it is difficult to break in the future.

The Warriors have been going crazy year after year for two consecutive years, not at all worse than the momentum of the Lakers' emergence from the shadow of the failure of the Big Four in the past two years.

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I have to say that the young players of the Lakers are a bit stimulated by the Warriors.

The prestige of the Warriors this year is the same as that of the Lakers last year. They are rampant in the league with an invincible posture, and their record is even better than that of the Lakers at the same time last season.

In fact, although the Lakers won 74 wins last season, they have the same record as they have played in the same period this season. Last season it was 24 wins and 3 losses. This year's schedule is a bit easier. It is now 22 wins and 3 losses. The Warriors changed to a temporary coach, Luke Walton, and started with 26 consecutive victories.

The Warriors defeated the Thunder so easily. The Lakers players are naturally unwilling to be behind the Warriors. They are very eager to beat the Thunder today. They don't want to continue losing to the Warriors.

At 6 pm on the 17th, the Lakers came to the Ford Center in Oklahoma City to challenge the Thunder in the second back-to-back game.

The Thunder and the Lakers have a good relationship with the players. Durant is a member of Liu Ren's company and highly respects Kobe. Westbrook is a kid in Los Angeles who grew up watching Kobe and grew up. Therefore, he has a good relationship with the Lakers. Although it seems that the Lakers have been eliminated by the Lakers in the past two playoffs, this does not affect the relationship between the players. Kobe often advises Westbrook on playing.

However, both Westbrook and Durant did not have a very deep friendship with Liu Ren before, because they were not so familiar with each other, but now they can have friendship.

To Liu Ren's expectation, Westbrook, who seemed to be more unrestrained, was actually more shy, while Durant, who seemed more migrant workers, was more talkative and lively.

After Liu Ren got acquainted with them for a while, Durant talked more: "Boss, when will you invite me to play in your arena? Now I am the player under your hand, so I can't tell you so much."

Liu Ren is embarrassed. Among the top ten superstars in the league, except for the Clippers players, he has basically invited him to sit at his home, making his training hall become a superstar to be invited to a special game. , But except that the Clippers have never invited Durant and Westbrook because of hostility, the other top ten players have never invited Durant and Westbrook, so it is indeed a bit embarrassing.

However, Liu Ren was really unfamiliar with the Thunder players. Although the Thunder have always had a good record, they are the kind of daddy that doesn’t hurt and grandma doesn’t love them. No matter how good the record is, the schedule is amazing. They have played in the past two years. The Lakers will soon go back to back to other cities, or they will come back to Los Angeles after playing other teams, or even apparently there are Lakers and Clippers in several consecutive away games, but they do not play consecutively, but come to Los Angeles. , I went to other cities the next day, and then came to Los Angeles. There were no schedule privileges that a strong team should have, and back to back has never been less. It belongs to the kind of poor baby who hears the heart and tears.

Therefore, Liu Ren has never established a friendly relationship with these two, and he is not familiar with inviting others to have lunch. It feels too strange.

Liu Ren's answer was quite face-saving, and he said in a joking tone: "Of course, I wanted to invite you a long time ago, and Russell is the same, but every time you come to Los Angeles for a day, you leave, and you even invite me. You won’t give you any chance, Kevin, you certainly didn’t expect that one day I would become your boss, so I don’t give you face, be careful, I will wear shoes for you, and discuss with your management to get you to Minnesota."

"NO! Boss, you can't do this! We are brothers! Hahahaha..." Durant said and laughed, very cooperatively joking with Liu Ren.

Although agents have the power to guide players wherever they go, and there are agents like David Falk who manipulate players to go to bad teams that are willing to give big contracts and get high signing fees from bad teams, but Liu Jen’s agency has been known for its good reputation for more than two years. If it were replaced by David Falk signing the Lakers with a group of talented young players, it would have been screaming for the Lakers to trade and make a lot of money. And even if the players are sent to the bad team, there is no way to say anything, because David Falke did find them the team with the largest contract and made more money.

After the pre-match greetings and pre-match activities of the Thunder at home, the players of the two teams stopped laughing and joking and were no longer so friendly. The game was about to begin.

The starting lineups for the Lakers are Clarkson, Kobe, Liu Ren, Green, and Whiteside.

The Thunder starters Westbrook Ibaka and Whiteside jumped to the center circle.

Whiteside lost the jump ball, he was embarrassed! Although Ibaka suffered an irreversible drop in explosive power due to his forced entry into the playoffs two years ago after being injured in the playoffs two years ago, there was not much decline in projectile speed and jumping height, but his explosive power and confrontation ability declined a lot.

Ibaka assigned the ball to Westbrook and the Thunder attacked first.

After Westbrook advanced to the frontcourt, he changed directions continuously and Clarkson hit the free throw line. When the Lakers focused on Westbrook, Durant took advantage of Westbrook's pick and roll to get an open opportunity. Brooke passed it back to Durant who came to the top arc.

Durant took the ball with a higher shooting speed and fast shooting speed. The key is to be accurate, and he fell into the Lakers' basket with a scream.

Not to mention, although some fans complained that Westbrook was too sticky, took too many shots, and stole Durant's possession, Westbrook is really Durant's perfect partner because of his existence, Durant. Special talents have so many vacant opportunities and efficiency is so high.

Westbrook was reimbursed for injury in the 2013 playoffs and Durant led the team for most of the 2013-2014 regular season. It can be seen that Durant can still score without Westbrook, but The efficiency has dropped a lot, and the Thunder have difficulty even entering the playoffs.

There is a saying that Durant, a super scorer, raises the upper limit of the team, Westbrook, the all-round point guard, guarantees the lower limit of the team, and the combination of the two is perfect.

Just as people have always expected James and Kobe to work together.

The Lakers offense.

The Lakers are advancing fast, and most other teams are advancing fast in guards alone, and the Lakers are fast overall.

Oklahoma City just ran over here, the position was not completely settled, the Lakers caught up from behind to set up the offensive formation, Greenka took the position, the outside Clarkson has already passed the ball in.

Other teams have to prepare for halftime low offense for a long time, but the Lakers' low offense here can be used as a fast break.

Ibaka really dropped a lot in terms of speed. Just ran back to his own post, and still hadn't breathed his breath, Green had posted a post-up single.

The Lakers played in the transition period. Green was not firmly established in playing Ibaka, turned around and made a small throw to score the first goal for the Lakers.

The Thunder came over in the second round. Westbrook brought the ball over. This time Liu Ren went up to guard. He found that Clarkson, a poor man's version of Westbrook, was really struggling.

Liu Renfang is different, the speed is not slower than Westbrook, the strength and height are completely crushed.

Durant saw this scene and immediately ran out of the inside to make a screen for Westbrook.

The tacit understanding between Westbrook and Durant is really good. Westbrook seems to have expected Durant to come up for the pick-and-roll. Before Durant started running, Westbrook ran towards Durant’s pick-and-roll. .

With perfect pick-and-roll coordination, Liu Ren was blocked by Durant, and Westbrook went inside.

Clarkson behind Durant's attention was on Westbrook, and Liu Ren's attention was also on Westbrook. The two rushed over, and Westbrook once again passed the ball back to Durant's hands.

Durant made a long shot from the three-point line.

Being beaten twice in a row by the same style of play, the Lakers felt a little uncomfortable and the psychological pressure was greater, but their biggest growth in the past two years is their psychological quality. After Durant scored, Whiteside immediately picked up the ball and served. The Lakers directly fought back.

This is the tactics the Lakers prepared before the game. D'Antoni is indeed imitating the Warriors' tactics.

First, the Warriors’ tactics are really good. Otherwise, they won’t be able to win the first 26-game winning streak in history, because their lineup is actually not better than the Cavaliers, Knicks, and Spurs, at best, but their style of play. Very advanced, it is the most in line with the current trend of play, D'Antoni naturally wants to integrate into his system.

The second is to use the Thunder to come up with a way to deal with the Warriors, because Bickerstaff has been unable to think of a way to deal with the Warriors. This has always been inexplicable in Liu Ren’s previous life. topic of.

The Lakers took a fast break. Clarkson ran over and passed the ball to Liu Ren. Whiteside had already picked up the ball when Liu Ren took the ball. At this time, Liu Ren took the ball and moved to the side, and Whiteside moved towards Empty cut under the basket.

This is a fixed routine of the Lakers. Liu Ren took this opportunity to pass in quickly. The Lakers' tactics are clear. The Thunder's inside combination is really good. Adams, who defended Whiteside, has both speed and strength on the defensive end. It's a little short of jumping with the footsteps, but the movement speed and resistance are very strong, and it's not a bit dirty.

Liu Ren passed the ball directly, Adams pushed Whiteside and broke the ball.

Whiteside yelled for a foul, but the referee at the Thunder's home court ignored it. Whiteside's complaint was invalid and could only run back to defend.

Fortunately, Green interfered with Adams's passing route, blocking the opportunity for the Thunder this fast break.

Westbrook received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. Both Ibaka and Waiters pulled to the 45-degree corner and bottom corner on the side. Except for Adams, the other four of the Thunder have three-point ability. Ibaka is the beginning. The group of 3D players, but now Ibaka only has 3 without D.

On the other side, Westbrook and Durant continued the pick and roll.

Westbrook used the pick and roll to avoid Liu Ren's defense, but this time Liu Ren and Clarkson got better together. The two immediately switched defenses, and Clarkson blocked Westbrook.

But Clarkson can't help Westbrook! Westbrook was hilarious when he saw Clarkson, and immediately dribbled the ball forward, then pretended to be aggressive but suddenly stepped back and got up to take a mid-range shot.

Westbrook's rhythm is very good. In the second step, Clarkson completely swayed back again and again. Westbrook almost made an unguarded shot from the free throw line and hit easily.

The opening Thunder was 7-2, leading the Lakers by 5 points.

In front of the strong offensive ability of Westbrook and Durant, the Lakers felt the pressure here.

This time Liu Ren took the ball. Liu Ren took the ball and chose to take the lead and easily smashed Dion Waiters into the three-second zone. Ibaka and Durant directly doubled.

At this time, Kobe, who had a very low sense of existence, was vacated. Liu Ren passed to Kobe immediately, and Kobe made an open shot!

Although Kobe really gives people the impression that there is no difficulty in creating difficulty, and all kinds of incredible shots, in fact, his open shots are very accurate, but there are basically no open shots before.

The Lakers chased the score to 4-7.

The Thunder came again ~www.wuxiaspot.com~Westbrook passed Ibaka's hand.

Ibaka took the ball and was going to play a fast break, but Liu Ren watched from the side and prevented his idea of ​​playing fast. Ibaka held the ball at the three-point line and returned it when Westbrook came over. Westbrook.

Westbrook took the ball and broke through, the Lakers' defense immediately closed, guarding Durant and Westbrook, Westbrook immediately sent the ball to the hands of Waiters who was in the middle of the baseline.

Waiters is a big blacksmith. Liu Ren still remembers that he seemed to be famous against Waiters. That brutal block shot pushed Liu Ren into the attention of Lakers fans and pushed the attention list of the Lakers management.

Waiters is indeed a bit watery. The draft pick is so high, but his strength has not improved much. The average 15 points per game in his rookie year and sophomore is basically the peak, and then it is getting lower and lower, and his shooting rate is also touching.

However, the overall feel of the Thunder today is very good. Waiters also made a mid-range shot, helping the Thunder to rewrite the score to 9 to 4, and the Thunder lead the Lakers by 5 points.

The Thunder started very fiercely and forced the Lakers to call a timeout first.