The Way of the Center

On April 19, today the NBA only needs two games. The second game between the Cavaliers and the Bulls in the first round of the Eastern Conference has long since ended. Although it is a high-profile battle for the No. 1 pick, James is not an opponent Rose can beat. In this game, the Cavaliers also defeated the Bulls again without any suspense, taking a 2-0 lead with a total score.

As the person who is in the same position as James and has the closest strength, Carmelo Anthony's second game with the Nuggets also attracted much attention. When he first entered the league, Anthony's limelight was even stronger than that of James. Now, James has led the team to a 2-0 lead, and people want to see what Anthony will do in response.

It also won the first game, also had the home court advantage, and also faced a team with young people at its core. The situation of the Nuggets and Cavaliers is really very similar.

However, people forget that the performance of the Thunder this season is much better than that of the Bulls. It is much more difficult for the Nuggets to win than the Cavaliers.

"An Jie won the ball for the Thunder. Audience friends, the second match between the Thunder and the Nuggets has officially started!" Yu Jia was even more excited than the fans. Whether the Thunder can come back, the second game is very important! If the Nuggets go to Oklahoma City with a 2-0 score, the Thunder will be very difficult to play.

As soon as the game started, Billups felt tremendous pressure. The No. 0 young guard in front of him seemed to be more difficult to deal with than the previous game!

"As soon as I play, you have to give me all 100% energy!" Van Gundy's words kept spinning in Westbrook's mind, so he faithfully implemented Van Gundy's arrangement at the beginning.

He spared no effort to attack Billups' defense. The aging Billups could not compete with Westbrook in terms of body or speed.

After a quick change of direction in front of the body, he kicked the ground hard for Westbrook and flashed past Billups.

The Nuggets starting shooting guard Aaron Efflalo immediately dropped Sefolosha and made up for Westbrook. After being broken, Billups did not go to surround Westbrook with Afflalo, but rushed towards Sefolosha to avoid letting the Thunder get empty.

"The Nuggets' defense is impeccable. If they want to score, Westbrook has to work harder." Seeing that the experienced Billups made the right defensive choice, Mike Breen also praised him.

Of course, Westbrook doesn't expect to tear the Nuggets' defense so easily. Although the Nuggets are not a team that relies on defense to win, their defense is not something that Westbrook can tear apart with just a sudden burst. of. This point, Westbrook himself is very clear.

Seeing that the space left for myself is getting smaller and smaller,

Westbrook made a sudden pass and sent the ball to the left of the basket.

Although Westbrook's breakthrough failed to score, it also completely disrupted the Nuggets' defense. When he made such a pass all of a sudden, people were surprised to find that An Jie had already got an open shot!

"The Nuggets' defensive lineup was greatly shrunk because of Westbrook's breakthrough, and now Anjie got an open shot!"

Anjie catches the ball at a zero-degree position in the middle distance, and shooting from this position is not difficult for him. He didn't hesitate and lifted the ball over his head as soon as he caught it.

Seeing this, the Brazilian Nene rushed towards Anjie. Anjie's shot speed was not considered fast, and it didn't mean that there was no chance of defending the ball.

An Jie certainly knows how terrifying Nene's athletic ability is. He is very good at running and always goes all out in the game. Don't look at this ball as an open space, but with Nene's efforts, this ball is not necessarily an opportunity.

Anjie continued to lift the ball and stood on tiptoe. Seeing that An Jie was about to shoot the basketball, Nene jumped with all his strength, and seemed to have caught up!

"Yeah!" The fans in the entire Pepsi Center cheered for Nene's block in advance, but the next second, the cheers stopped abruptly.

"Ah!?" Nene was surprised to find that Anjie didn't take off to shoot at all. After he soared into the air, An Jie suddenly bowed and broke through from his side.

"Beautiful fake shot, Anjie broke through Nene's defense."

Although he broke through Nene, Kenyon Martin on the other side has gotten rid of the entanglement with Morris and quickly defended the penalty area.

An Jie naturally saw Kenyon Martin coming to defend him, but he didn't have any intention of stopping. Instead of stopping, An Jie continued to accelerate!

"Don't look down on me!" Kenyon Martin knew that this Chinese man was in the limelight recently, but that didn't mean that Martin would be afraid of him.

Anjie faced Kenyon Martin and took off to dunk, Kenyon Martin also flew towards Anjie to block. The two insiders confronted head-to-head in the air like this, An Jie tensed every muscle in his body, gritted his teeth, and continued to increase his strength!

"Bang!" There was a huge muffled sound from the basket, and Kenyon Martin was pushed down by An Jie before he could jump to the highest point. He fell to the ground in embarrassment, and could only watch An Jie calmly dunk the ball in.

"Ah! Come on!" And An Jie stood in front of the fallen Kenyon Martin in a victorious posture. He roared loudly at the auditorium and kept waving his arms.

"Woo~~~" Anjie's move was greeted by the endless boos of the Nuggets fans. However, to An Jie's ears, the hiss was more beautiful than any other sound.

The louder the fans booed, the more energetic Anjie was!

"God! Ann really did it! He tricked Nene into dunking Martin! He humiliated the two strong insiders of the Nuggets alone! The Thunder scored the first point after the opening, so strong!" Mike. Brin was delighted to see the changes in the Thunder team. After experiencing a big defeat in the first game, instead of being discouraged, they showed a better mental state in the second game.

This is the Thunder, they are young, they will make a lot of mistakes. But at the same time, they are not afraid of any opponent!

"It's okay!" Nene hurried to help Martin up. The look in Anjie's eyes when he dunked the dunk just now was really scary!

"Hahaha, damn butcher, interesting!" Martin is not the kind of player who can be bluffed casually. As the first champion of the millennium, he is not the kind of bullying person.

Although the Thunder scored a wonderful goal, the Nuggets immediately made a comeback under the leadership of Anthony. The day before yesterday, facing the same opponent, the Nuggets won by a huge 23-point difference. In terms of psychological advantages, the Nuggets players have more information than the Thunder players!

"Come on, boy, defend it, defend it." Ricard, who was eliminated in the first round of March Madness, has long been idle at home. He has watched the Thunder's game a lot, and he is full of confidence in Anjie and Morris.

On TV, Billups still controlled the rhythm under the interference of Westbrook. The Nuggets' players are running according to the established tactics. They fully trust Billups' organizational skills. This experienced guard almost never makes mistakes.

Billups did not disappoint his teammates. If it were another guard, he might have made a mistake under Westbrook's interference. However, Billups still timely and accurately fed the ball to Anthony who ran to the position.

As soon as Anthony received the ball and was about to shoot, he found that Durant had filled the defensive position and was once again in front of his eyes.

Nene spread his hands helplessly. Durant's pick-and-roll was too active. Unless he moved the pick-and-roll, Nene really had no way to stop Durant.

"Hmph, it's okay." Anthony is not afraid to play Durant one-on-one! He began to dribble with left and right hands alternately in front of his body, looking very confident and calm.

Seeing that Anthony looked so relaxed, Durant still didn't dare to relax. He spread his long arms and widened the defensive range to the maximum.

Indeed, as an outside player, Durant's defensive range is very terrifying. But in Anthony's eyes, this is not enough to stop his offensive pace!

Adjusting his footsteps, dribbling the ball to the left, he suddenly started, and Anthony carried Durant's long arm hard, and rushed towards the basket.

Durant didn't dare to be too fast. If Anthony chose to make an emergency stop and jump shot, he would not have time to react to interfere. But he didn't dare to be too slow. If it was too slow, Anthony would easily break into the inside.

Durant, who was made very uncomfortable by Anthony, was still surpassed by half a body, half a body, which is completely enough for a top scorer like Anthony to use his fists.

Suddenly there was an emergency stop! Seeing this, Durant also followed the brakes. Unexpectedly, when Durant just stood still, Anthony suddenly accelerated again. This time, he completely passed Durant.

Nene had been holding Anjie behind him all the time, but when Anthony broke through Durant, Anjie suddenly turned around and got rid of the Brazilian's control as if he had taken a stimulant.

"Hmph, I'll give you another one now!" Anthony saw An Jie rushing towards him, still blushing and heart beating. He collapsed two steps, then took off to dunk.

An Jie really spared no effort to rush forward, not even thinking about whether he would be injured by it. Taking off at full speed forward, the inertia is so great that it is not controlled by the body at all.

"Ah." An Jie growled in a low voice, and his emotions had been ignited as early as the moment Kenyon Martin was dunked.

In the case of going all out, An Jie's take-off height and defense speed are a bit higher than the previous game.

"I can get in!" Anthony still didn't give up. Seeing that the two were about to collide in the air, Anthony suddenly bowed in the air, preparing to use a lever movement to avoid An Jie's block.

"My God!" Even for Anthony, the difficulty of this ball is still too great. In order to avoid Anjie's block, he had to change his center of gravity and movement, but after avoiding Anjie, he didn't have much room to shoot.

With a backhand layup by feeling without seeing the basket, the basketball handed out by Anthony hit the lower edge of the basket directly and hit the ground heavily.

"Not going in, Ann's defense was very successful!" Mike Breen grabbed the microphone and shouted loudly. Such a fierce competition from the Thunder is the performance that the fans are looking forward to!

After the basketball landed, Morris hurriedly hugged it to prevent the Nuggets from getting a second chance to attack. The unwilling Kenyon Martin embraced Morris, but he was thrown away by the bull. Helpless, the unwilling Nuggets had no choice but to return without success. They have already discovered that the current Thunder is completely different from the previous one!

In the subsequent offense, Anjie and Durant completed a high-quality pick-and-roll cooperation. Durant, who got the space, did not hesitate and made a mid-to-long-range shot.

Although the time to get a shot was extremely short, Durant still used his performance to remind Anthony and the fans at the Pepsi Center that he is the league's scoring leader this season! Anthony, just ranked third!

In the opening 4-0, the Thunder's tenacious resistance reduced the cheers in the Pepsi Center a lot.

Jeff Van Gundy stood on the sidelines with his hands folded from the beginning of the game. He wanted to fight with his players until victory!

"Something is wrong, let's be more cautious." Anthony moved his sore arm from Anjie's bump, reminding Billups. In fact, it doesn't need to be said by Anthony, the seasoned Billups has also seen the changes in his opponents. Thunder team is starting to risk their lives!

"Anjie's beautiful offense and defense made the Nuggets suffer. Now, the Nuggets must rack their brains to break through Anjie's threat! The Chinese butcher from the city of Oklahoma has raised his butcher knife !" Gradually, Mike Brin also felt that An Jie's nickname was so vivid.

The humiliation of 23 points is not enough to scare us. Now, let's give it all back!

4 to 0, this is not an advantage. But the momentum shown by the Thunder made the players of the Nuggets start to fear. (To be continued.)