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Chapter 149 Oklahoma Wild Hope

In about ten seconds, Su Yang finished his summary and waved his hands to signal the players to move freely.

Durant and others turned and walked away. Assistant coach Snyder sighed: "The team's defense is really good. I can't even believe that we can lose two points just because of being misled under the opponent's smooth offense. We are too strong. gone."

Su Yang nodded in response, knowing that Snyder meant that the Mavericks' chin slip tactic led to the loss of points, and Butler's sky-defying three-pointer could not be regarded as a defensive error. The key point is that the Thunder team's defense does not seem fierce, but they always put the Mavericks Hold it tight.

"Maybe that's why I threatened them to win..."

Su Yang made a joke casually, but he also understood that the generals of the Thunder really took a super serious attitude in this game, as if they were playing a tiebreaker in the playoffs, probably because they lost to the Mavericks twice before. Prove strength, especially Westbrook.

In normal times, Westbrook would not be so patient to find cover continuously, it was nothing more than getting too many fouls against the Mavericks before.

Su Yang is happy to see Westbrook's mentality improve. Ibaka is not limited by tactics, and the same is true for taking the initiative to cover.

The timeout ended in a blink of an eye, and the game continued. The Mavericks did not make a personal challenge and continued to play according to the previous routine.

Su Yang was a little surprised, but it's understandable when he thinks about it. The Mavericks did not have any problems with their tactical execution, but they failed to make a shot. Maybe Carlisle felt that the Thunder's momentum was too strong and smooth. He tried to pause and interrupt to see the effect first, and then made changes if it didn't work.

The Mavericks ran to cover, Kidd dribbled the ball to the basket, faced the encirclement, and twisted his body in the air to give the ball.

Marion caught the ball and made a layup, but he bounced super fast the second time, and jumped before the Thunder generals, and made a tip-up.

The Mavericks broke the scoring drought, and the players on the bench were all smiling and cheering loudly. Coach Carlisle let out a sigh of relief.

The Thunder launched a counterattack, and the whole team ran tactics around Ibaka, which successfully caused Kidd to dislocate the defense and still played low post.

The audience cheered in advance when they saw this. The difference in height and weight between the two is too much, so just hit and beat.

I once thought that Ibaka was defended by Kidd very uncomfortable, and he wanted to turn around in a hurry, but the referee whistled and punished him for walking violations.

Shouts of surprise sounded in the arena, and the audience couldn't accept that Ibaka couldn't single-handedly beat Kidd.

The Thunder bench players were also full of surprises, Su Yang said with a smile: "Don't ignore Jason Kidd's defensive ability, he is indeed difficult to deal with super fast point guards, but when the speed slows down, Kidd can even defend LeBron. "

Xiao Qiaodan and the others smiled when they heard the words. They seemed to think that Su Yang was talking nonsense, but they didn't dare to refute because of their status.

On the contrary, Harden said enviously: "Coach, I am actually that kind of defense, do you believe it?"

Su Yang chuckled: "I believe, I know you too well. You are an expert in low post defense, but you are far behind Kidd."

Harden showed dissatisfaction, and Su Yang said: "If you don't accept it, practice defense well. You promised me to learn from Nash on the All-Star Weekend..."

"Why are you still talking about that!" Harden put his head in his hands and turned to avoid Su Yang's direct gaze.

During the conversation, the Mavericks Butler hit the iron with two points, Chandler grabbed a rebound, and the Thunder launched a fast break counterattack.

Westbrook rushed with the ball, threw away Kidd in the blink of an eye, played against Marion in the frontcourt, and assisted Durant to score a layup.

The central large screen shot was once again shown to the Mavericks coach Carlisle, who was seen with his arms crossed, a little impatient.

The Mavericks really have nothing to do in the face of defensive counterattacks, especially when they encounter a point guard who is as fast as Westbrook. They can only deliberately control the number of three-point shots and reduce the frequency of long rebounds, but that will make the offense easy to predict. .

Amidst the cheers, the two teams switched offense and defense. Kidd pointed to the right sideline and directed a singles tactic.

Marion immediately set up a screen at the free throw line, making it clear that he wanted to create a chance for Nowitzki. Seeing this, Su Yang shouted a reminder.

After hearing the sound, Ibaka bypassed the cover to chase, stuck to Nowitzki tightly the whole time, and tried to interfere with the front, and the defense was full.

The two pushed and shoved the card position on the right sideline, and the referee suddenly whistled, calling Nowitzki for throwing his elbow and making an offensive foul.

Cheers erupted at the Ford Center, Nowitzki took off his braces and complained, and Carlisle shrugged and raised his hand at the referee.

Su Yang raised his hands and clapped rhythmically, knowing that the Mavericks were in a hurry, and the momentum came to Lei Ting's side.

The two teams switched offense and defense. While Westbrook was still in the backcourt, Su Yang reminded him to expand his momentum and attack from the weak defensive position of the Mavericks. It happened that Kidd successfully restricted Ibaka before. Mavericks crash.

Westbrook nodded to express his understanding, then ran across the center line with the ball, stopped at the top of the arc and raised his hand to signal the AI ​​CUT series tactics.

Seeing the gesture, Ibaka and Chandler separated the left and right free throw lines, Sefoloza stopped in the paint area, and Durant almost started from the left sideline at the same time, with the help of Ibaka and Chandler. Across half court at the free throw line, shifting to the right.

It's a pity that the two insiders of the Mavericks noticed it in time and retreated early to make room for Marion to follow Durant closely.

Seeing that Durant had difficulty catching the ball, Westbrook raised his hand to signal for another screen, and Ibaka turned inside and ran down the wall.

Sefolosha took the opportunity to circle from the paint to the top of the arc, and Westbrook passed the ball to Durant, turned around and ran towards him.

In an instant, Westbrook used Sefolosha to cover off the ball, threw away Kidd and went straight to the left corner.

Kidd wanted to catch up, but was blocked by Chandler who moved across, and Westbrook easily rushed to the left corner.At the same time, Durant used Ibaka's uplift to cover, along the right sideline, forced a breakthrough to the right waist, and encountered a siege.

But Durant stopped calmly, raised his hand and threw the ball to the left corner, and Westbrook caught the ball and made a wide open three-pointer.

Kidd didn't have time to block the shot, and the basketball slammed into the net with a bang, and the Thunder's lead extended to 15 points.

The cheers in the Ford Center burst, and the Thunder bench applauded along with the audience. Assistant coach Brian said with a smile: "Russell has grown a lot, and he seems to be able to use his physical fitness freely, and he rarely rushes and hits hard. .”

"Of course..." Su Yang sighed, thinking that nearly two years of deliberate training will definitely have an effect.

While thinking about it, the Mavericks launched a counterattack, did not run any tactics, and directly handed the ball to Nowitzki for singles.

That is the move of the Mavericks pressing the bottom of the box. Right now, there is really no other way but to use it to deal with the situation of being greatly behind.

The audience seemed to be aware of the Mavericks' struggle, boos quickly filled the arena, and the audience on the sidelines shouted wildly.

Nowitzki took the ball behind his back and tried for a while, then turned to face the frame to lower the center of gravity, but did not rush to start.

Seeing this, Su Yang waved his hand to signal a double-team, Westbrook immediately gave up Kidd and rushed forward, and Nowitzki hurriedly passed the ball.

The basketball flew straight back to the top of the arc, and the moment Kidd took the ball, Chandler had already rotated and defended in place, and the other Thunder players looked for their own players.

Seeing that the Mavericks were frustrated, the boos in the arena became more violent, but Kidd hesitated for a while, and broke through with the ball to the right.

Chandler tried his best to lower his center of gravity, trying to catch up laterally like a crab, abruptly blocking the breakthrough space.

Kidd was forced to stop and passed the ball again to Nowitzki who was raised to the 45-degree three-point line on the right.

It's a pity that there are only eight seconds left in the attack time. Nowitzki swung his elbow continuously with the ball, and Su Yang signaled for Chandler to double-team.

In short, we must bear the shortcomings of Kidd's weak offensive will, slow three-point shots, and low three-point shooting percentage.

As Su Yang guessed, Nowitzki passed the ball to the top of the arc again, but Kidd still didn't grab a three-pointer.

It wasn't until Westbrook's defense was in place that Kidd jumped up and tried to make a three-point foul, but Westbrook forced a test to avoid it.

boom!The basketball hits the board and falls.

Sefolosha raised his hand to catch the basketball, turned around and rushed directly to the frontcourt, without passing to Westbrook or Durant.

In three seconds, Sefolosha rushed to the right elbow of the frontcourt, saw a large double-team, and hurriedly threw the ball to the top of the arc.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, Ibaka took the ball and took a step forward, facing Nowitzki with a two-pointer.

Boom!After the basketball hit the basket and went into the net, the Thunder led the Mavericks 24 to 7, and the pause whistle sounded again.

Su Yang stood up and applauded, knowing that winning the game was a sure thing, he walked quickly to the halfway line to give the players high-fives.

At the same time, in the TNT studio, Barkley said seriously: "At the beginning of the season, everyone heard that the Thunder's goal was to win the championship. Everyone thought it was just talking casually. When they won [-] consecutive victories, everyone thought it was not a joke.

But after their three-game losing streak, everyone thinks that they are indeed a bit strong, but they lack experience and have obvious weaknesses.

They made adjustments in time and regained their winning streak. Everyone believed that they were still close to the championship.

Now, they have fully demonstrated their championship characteristics and ambitions. I predict that as long as they reach the finals, they will definitely win the championship. "

After Buckley finished speaking, Su Yang in the Ford Center suddenly felt a chill in his neck.

(End of this chapter)