Pick Westbrook

Chapter 234 You Are My Cousin
Tony Douglas quickly passed the ball to Bill Walker at the top of the arc on the right.

Anthony shook off Artest's entanglement, and the defense around the front made Artest fail to stop Anthony's off-ball movement at this time.

Just when everyone thought that Anthony would receive the ball smoothly and perform a low single, Danny Green suddenly gave up defending Bill Walker, and instead double-teamed Anthony back and forth with Artest.

At the same time, Dragic switched to the right to help defend Bill Walker.

"The Bucks' defensive strength has suddenly increased during this time period!"

Anthony fell into entanglement with Artest and Danny Green at the waist, and Bill Walker could only pass the ball back to Tony Douglas on the left.

But at the same time as the long pass, Danny Green gave up double-teaming Anthony and turned back to defend in front of Tony Douglas.

"This defensive step is very fast!"

The scene on the field turned into Tony Douglas holding the ball again, but Anthony was placed in the left area at this time, and there was no possibility of forming a low single.

The Knicks' offense was once again stymied.

Tony Douglas can only try to single Danny Green by himself, but this is much more difficult than just singles Dragic.

Duang!

Unsurprisingly, the mid-range shot hits the iron.

D'Antoni was red-faced near the halfway line and exasperated.

He originally wanted to rely on this lineup to defend the Bucks' offense, but he didn't expect that the Knicks' own offense would be blocked because of Billups.

Kenny Smith couldn't help but think of the battle between the Celtics and the Bucks in the Eastern Conference semifinals last season. The Bucks dared to fight the Celtics in that round of the series.

"So the defensive strength of this defending champion is not as weak as most people imagine, because their offense is too good, but people ignore their defense."

Barkley looked at the picture on the court and sighed again and again, and couldn't help but touch his big bald head in amazement.

In his opinion, Danny Green's substitution adjustment is really amazing.

Regardless of the fact that the Bucks are the league's No. 1 offensive team, they also rank ninth in the league on the defensive end.

According to Barkley's memory of last season's playoffs, at this level of competition, the Bucks' defensive strength will be further improved.

"So they deserve to be the defending champions."

The first quarter is over.

The Bucks played a wave of 4:10 offensive highs in the last 2 minutes.

At 32:22, the field advantage has expanded to 10 points.

The second game.

Knicks bench lineup: Billups, Tony Douglas, Sean Williams, Amare Stoudemire and Jared Jeffries.

Bucks bench lineup: Westbrook, Curry, McGrady, O'Neal and Yi Jianlian.

Seeing the familiar faces that the Knicks almost still showed, Tyronn Lue was slightly taken aback, a little puzzled.

"Seven rotations?"

"Is this D'Antoni crazy!"

Long before the Bucks and Knicks met, the league had wildly circulated about D'Antoni's employment standards.

He is a very stubborn head coach, always let the more capable players play more minutes on the court, and those who have not yet impressed in him, or the ability has not been proven, almost It's hard to get consistent playing time.

Even during the regular season, D'Antoni implemented a 9-man rotation, and Ding Potian only had 10 rotations, so on the stage of the playoffs, a 7-man rotation is not uncommon for him.

Of course, in Lee's view, D'Antoni has no choice but to do so. After all, Ronnie Turiaf, Anthony Carter, Landry Fields and others who can still play in the Knicks lineup are all capable. low class.

Letting them compete with the Bucks' lineup for firepower and defense is almost self-defeating, so D'Antoni can only let the core players play longer.

But even if Li Lai can understand D'Antoni's situation, the 7-man rotation is still too exaggerated.

"Even if the Knicks are a team with the strength to win the championship, if D'Antoni's seven players are rotated in such a way, the core team in the team will not be able to hold on until the conference finals at most."

"Inefficiency, stamina, and even injuries will follow."

This is the price of overusing players.

field game.

Billups and Stoudemire played a frantic pick-and-roll during this time period.

The cooperation of the two is like the whirlwind of the Suns, and Stoudemire frequently hits the Bucks basket successfully.

Although O'Neal's defensive awareness and ability are excellent, he is not physically a match for Stoudemire, so he can only watch the opponent fly in the sky and score dunks.

Yi Jianlian observed this, and took the initiative to make a substitution defense with O'Neal, letting the latter defend Jared Jeffries, who had almost no foot movement and singles ability, and defending Stoudemire himself.

This will greatly reduce O'Neal's defensive pressure.

But in this way, the defensive burden on Yi Jianlian's head will be increased.

beep!beep!
The referee blows his whistle and Stoudemire walks to the free throw line.

"Compared to O'Neal's points, what Yi Jianlian can do is to send Stoudemire to the free throw line."

Tyronn Lue is a little worried about the state of the Bucks during this time period. They seem to be completely unable to defend the cooperation between Billups and Stoudemire.

Li Lai nodded frankly, he was indeed unable to guard against it.

Billups' experience is too sophisticated, and Stoudemire is worthy of the title of bully. He flies like this, not to mention Yi Jianlian, even a higher Yao name is difficult to stop him.

"But I didn't think about defending the Knicks at this time."

"Westbrook, Curry, and Yi Jianlian are all on the court. What I want now is offense!"

Bucks offensive round.

Yi Jianlian first shot Jarred Jeffries from a super long three-pointer, and then took the initiative to hold the ball and played an outside card tactic, sending Westbrook directly into the air with the Turtle Tomahawk.

Then Yi Jianlian formed a human wall with O'Neal in the bottom corner, and made an elevator to close the door for Curry.

The Bucks fought the Knicks without hesitation during this period.

At the end of halftime.

Stoudemire, who played very well, looked back at the statistics and found that the score on the field turned out to be 67:56, and the Bucks still led by 11 points.

"What's he!"

The third quarter of the game.

Anthony once again encountered the crazy double-teaming of Danny Green and Artest.

Tyronn Lue didn't understand why Li Lai didn't let the Bucks double-team Anthony at the beginning of the first quarter until this time.

"Because Billups was there at that time!"

Even though Tyronn Lue had admired Li Lai many times, he had to admire Li Lai again at this time.

Billups is a very experienced backcourt engine, and he is also the league's top offensive brain.

So when he was on the court, the Bucks players dared to double-team Anthony, and the Knicks could easily play an extremely dazzling offense under Billups' offensive combing.

Li Lai was keenly aware of this in advance, so the double-teaming of Anthony was always carried out after Billups left the field.

Finally the game is over.

118: 105.

The Bucks won the first victory of the series with a little ease and made a good start to the playoffs.

威斯特布鲁克20分10篮板7助攻，库里24分3篮板3助攻，考辛斯10分10篮板，易键联11分7篮板4助攻。

Dragic and Danny Green played extremely well in this game. The former scored 11 points and 6 assists, while the latter hit 3 three-pointers and greatly restricted the Knicks on the defensive end.

安东尼在这场比赛只获得了17次出手，虽然命中了其中的8记投篮，而且还在和阿泰斯特、丹尼格林的纠缠中获得了8次罚球命中了7记，拿下了23分9篮板3助攻的数据。

But the Knicks still lost the game.

For this team, Anthony's offensive contribution in tonight's game is far from enough.

比卢普斯17分10助攻1抢断，斯塔德迈尔26分8篮板1抢断1盖帽。

After the game, Stoudemire, in a rare rage in the tunnel, wanted to punch a fire hydrant.

Stoudemire is extremely confident in his fists, and he thinks he can beat a steel needle badly.

Fortunately, Billups was right next to Stoudemire, so he tried his best to stop him, otherwise God knows what terrible things would happen after that punch.

During the post-match interview.

Because that punch could not be hit, and the anger in Stoudemire's heart hadn't been vented, so he just sprayed.

"We played so badly that the Bucks scored 118 points in the playoffs."

"This is the playoffs! 118 points?"

"Our defense was just terrible."

D'Antoni was silent on the sidelines. He is not good at training the team's defense, but this does not mean that he does not know who has the biggest problem with defense on the court.

Anthony took the initiative to block the blame at this time and said, "It's my fault!"

D'Antoni and Stoudemire's eyes lit up when they heard this sentence. They knew very well that if Anthony could show the defense he played against the Lakers and Kobe, the Knicks would never be like this.

Anthony continued: "I didn't break the wall for the team on the offensive end, so it's my fault."

"The next game, I'm going to completely destroy the Bucks offensively."

As the Bucks won their first win in the playoffs, the games of the remaining teams continued in full swing.

Barkley said: "We have reason to believe that the Knicks are a better team, after all, it is a combination of Anthony + Stoudemire + Billups."

"Strictly speaking, the New York Knicks are also a Big Three lineup."

"So they should go further!"

Kenny Smith, who heard this, stretched out his right hand and waved it in front of his nose.

"Then the Bucks shouldn't have gone further?"

"This team is the defending champion!"

"Before the start of the season, the whole world looked down on this team, thinking that Yi Jianlian was injured, Rasheed Wallace was poached, Iverson and O'Neal were one year older, and even completely lost their combat effectiveness .”

"At that time, everyone thought that the strength of the Bucks would decline significantly, but it turned out."

"Curry has become the league's scoring leader, and Dragic has grown into the best sixth man."

"The growth and realization of rookie Cousins' talent this season is jaw-dropping. Jeremy Lin is considered the biggest pick-up player in this year's draft. ESPN even re-ranked Jeremy Lin as at least the first-round pick."

"Now that Yi Jianlian is back from injury, the Bucks' tactics from last season have gradually come into play."

"In my opinion, the Bucks are by far one of the hottest championship favorites of any playoff team."

For the first time, Barkley was completely speechless by his old partner, and could only touch his big bald head in embarrassment.

He still remembers the Bucks' 13-game winning streak at the end of the season. At that time, Barkley and his old partner Kenny Smith had the same idea.

The Bucks are one of the favorites to win the championship.

Of course, in terms of the probability of winning the championship, the Heat are well-deserved No. 1, followed by the Lakers, followed by the Bulls, followed by the Bucks, Spurs, and Mavericks.

"So it's really a big test for the Knicks to beat this Bucks team."

The Bucks' bench, Barkley and Kenny Smith's words at the live commentary stand naturally reached Li Lai's ears.

Li Lai smiled slightly and didn't care.

The Bucks encountered a lot of doubts and contempt as early as the first two years, so no matter how the outside world evaluates, he will lead the team unswervingly.

In this year's playoffs, the goal of the Bucks is to defend the title!

"Like what I said with Tyronn Lue and Marshall before the start of the playoffs, the Knicks are strong, the book lineup is extremely good, but they are not strong enough to scare the Bucks."

"Because the Bucks' book strength is also not weak!"

At this time, Li Lai also looked at the list of gods in his mind.

As early as the end of the regular season, Li Lai had already completed the second task of conferring gods.

【Westbrook, has been anointed】

[Unlock Westbrook's skill: Giant Killer (Xingyao), when attacking the inside with the ball, the breakthrough success rate increases by 5%, the defensive impact is reduced by 5%, and the dunk success rate increases by 5%.With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

[Unlock Westbrook's skill: Fast Break Warrior (Gold), when the opponent's offense fails and grabs a defensive rebound, 3 points of speed, 3 points of dribbling, 3 points of layup ability and 3 points of passing ability will be added.With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

[Unlock Westbrook's skills: triple-double machine (gold), every game has unparalleled passion, when passing the ball, the teammate's catch rate increases by 3%, when rebounding, the teammate's success rate increases by 3%, when attacking Teammate tactical execution efficiency increased by 3%.Due to physical limitations, the error rate will increase at the same time, and the error rate will be reduced with the growth and practice of the player's own strength. 】

[Unlock Westbrook's skill: Kaiyang descends into the world (Silver), the indelible fighting spirit can obtain great abilities at critical moments, in the last 1 minute of a single quarter and the last 3 minutes of a final quarter, the ability to increase all attributes Value increased by 2 points. 】

[Stephen Curry, has become a god]

[Unlock Curry skills: king of three-point shooting (diamond), has the ability to complete shots under any defense, reduces defensive interference by 4%, increases shooting stability by 4%, reduces shooting penalties caused by confrontation by 4% .With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

[Unlock Curry's skills: rapid shooting (gold), shot speed increased by 3%, anti-interference ability increased by 3%.With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

[Unlock Curry's skill: Full-court killer (Silver), the shooting penalty for shooting outside the ultra-long three-point line is reduced, and the impact of distance on shooting is reduced, but as the distance increases, it will still aggravate the interference caused by shooting .With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

[Unlock Curry's skill: Tianji is born (bronze), every three-pointer hit in a single game will increase the shooting percentage of the next three-pointer by 1%.With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

[Marcus Cousins: Phased goal of the Conferred God mission completed]

All-Star MVP, regular season rebounding leader, best defensive player DPOY, regular season MVP, best rookie, single-season double-double, championship, FMVP.

Complete 4 items to become a god, and 1 items have been completed. 】

[Unlock the Cousins ​​skill: You are the cousin (bronze), increase the physical consumption of the opponent by 1% when confronting the opponent, reduce the physical consumption by 1% when confronting oneself, and increase the physical strength by an additional 1%.With the growth of the player's own strength and practice upgrade]

(End of this chapter)