start with scouting

Chapter 231
After playing the Bucks, the Thunder team flew back to Oklahoma City.

The competition schedule only had one day of rest. Su Yang didn't get up until noon. He first checked the situation with the MT company, and then logged into World of Warcraft to find someone to play the Lich King dungeon for two hours. However, the equipment he wanted was not found. Black as hell.

In the evening, Su Yang and Jiang Ruolan watched the game between the Lakers and the Warriors together, chatting nonsense.

At the beginning of the game, the Lakers stretched both offensive and defensive ends. They led the Warriors by 16 points in the first quarter. Enter the battle.

Jeremy Lin first received a pass from his teammate and broke through to score, and then broke through and rushed to the basket to cause a foul. He scored four points in a row.

It's a pity that the Lakers didn't seem to see Jeremy Lin scoring consecutively, so they quickly strengthened their defense and targeted them deliberately.

After three quarters, Jeremy Lin made 6 of 1 shots. Fortunately, he made 3 of 3 shots in the fourth quarter and scored 13 points.

The Lakers beat the Warriors by 28 points, also maintained a winning streak, and continued to tie for the first place in the league with the Thunder.

That kind of situation has once again aroused heated discussions among many fans. The first match of the new season between the two teams will start in five days.

Before that, the Thunder need to play the Timberwolves and the Mavericks first, and the Lakers only need to play the Bulls.

The Lakers will get more rest time. The Thunder still have two generals who are recovering from their injuries. The balance of victory is greatly tilted towards the Lakers. In the major casinos in Las Vegas, bet on the odds of the Lakers maintaining a longer winning streak. come lower.

Early the next morning, Su Yang drove his newly bought Volvo to the training base and had a meeting with the coaching staff and scouting team.

The whole meeting lasted 15 minutes. The main Timberwolves' weaknesses are too obvious, and they only need to strengthen their defense at critical moments.

The team doctor then gave the latest inspection report, indicating that Durant can come back, and Green can also come back in the game against the Lakers, but Dai Quinn Cook suffered a slight tear of the rotator cuff muscle, and Livingston had a slight finger contusion and needed a truce.

Su Yang originally planned to let Durant rest for one more game, but considering the MVP competition, he still asked Durant what he thought.

Durant expressed his desire to fight, Su Yang immediately activated him to the list of players and announced his official comeback to join the battle.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the game started.

The Timberwolves sent Telfair, Wesley Johnson, Beasley, Milicic, and Love to serve as starters.

After several rounds of the game, Su Yang discovered that the Timberwolves did not try any triangle offense. Its head coach, Kurt Rambis, seemed to have given up on it.

Anyway, Kurt Rambis is only good at the triangle offense and hasn't learned the essence yet, probably because he took over the Lakers halfway through the 98-99 season when the OK combination was already formed, and got nearly 65% ​​of the winning percentage, which made him think "I'll go and I will too" OK' illusion.

What's interesting is that Love and Beasley, with their outstanding talents, can score more efficiently through singles.

But the two occupy most of the ball. As a rookie, Wesley Johnson has difficulty in touching the basketball.

Su Yang instructed that the first quarter should be played more easily, and Durant should look for more status. The Thunder only led by 1 point.

Afterwards, Harden made 6 of 5 shots and helped the Thunder lead by 11 points at halftime.

Back from the halftime break, the Timberwolves didn't have the slightest sense of urgency. The culture of losing was the cause, and they still played blindly.

At the end of the game, the Thunder beat the Timberwolves 117 to 104, extending their winning streak to 14 games.

Durant made 17 of 16 free throws and scored 16 points on 6 of 28 shots. His comeback performance was relatively mediocre, and many fans joked that Harden's foul was almost meaningless, and he should learn more from Durant learn skills.

On the 23rd, the Thunder rest day, and the Lakers played against the Bulls at home, and finally won 98 to 91.

The pressure shifted to the Thunder again, but Mavericks owner Cuban tweeted to grab the show, saying that the Mavericks would beat the Thunder ahead of schedule.

Many fans laughed at Cuban for being overreaching, but the Thunder did not dare to be careless and continued to train and prepare for the game as usual.

On the 24th, the Thunder played against the Mavericks at home, with nine players in rotation, four quarters of fierce fighting, and a three-point advantage narrowly won.

Throughout the game, the Thunder intentionally relaxed their pressure on Kidd and used more defensive resources to target Terry and Deshaun Stevenson. Terry made 11 of 3 shots and Deshaun Stevenson only made 3 shots. The shot greatly suppressed the Mavericks' outside firepower.

Kidd made 12 of 3 shots, including 9 of 1 three-pointers, zero free throws and only 7 points.

At the post-match press conference, the reporter asked if there would be any special adjustments for the upcoming Thunder Lake battle.

Su Yang replied: "There is no special adjustment, except that Jeff Green will officially come back, everything else remains the same."

It can be said that Su Yang took the coaching staff to a meeting early the next day to watch the video, and found that the overall rhythm of the Lakers was faster than last season. Quick, Phil chose to ignore it.

Although they have won consecutively, the fast Lakers are not the strongest Lakers, because the advantage of the twin towers is more in positional warfare.

Su Yang decisively formulated a fast-paced strategy.

On the [-]th of the [-]nd, the entire Thunder team flew to Los Angeles.

The game started at 07:30, Megan Fox and other well-known Lakers fans came to support, and the stars were full of stars.

The Lakers won the jump ball, Fisher advanced from the backcourt, and Bynum caught the ball in the frontcourt and attacked the iron. It took a total of 14 seconds. Compared with the Lakers’ average first attack time in the previous two seasons, the rhythm was faster, and they were obviously more dependent on the Lakers. Player's personal ability.

The Thunder grabbed a defensive rebound, and Westbrook happily pushed the fast break, facing Gasol who was crouching, and made a one-step move from inside the three-point line.

It's a pity that the basketball was thumping like iron, but when the Lakers turned around, Kobe hit the iron with his back while walking, turning around and rushing to make a shot.

Westbrook ran and jumped to grab a rebound, and the Thunder launched a fast break again. In just six seconds, Durant succeeded in riding and arching.

Turning to the Lakers offense, Gasol directly asked Kobe to cooperate with the pick-and-roll. He didn't run the triangle offense and scored in ten seconds.

Just like that, the pace of the game between the two teams was so fast that it was difficult to reverse it. The Duo of Dewey faced the duo of Koga and scored various points.

After the first quarter of the game, the Thunder led 36 to 31. Durant got 2 fouls, and the potential risk was too high.

However, the Dewey duo scored 27 points and made 15 of 10 shots in total, which is far more efficient than the Kega duo.

In the second quarter, the offensive and defensive rhythms of the two teams did not change, but the referee whistled a very tight scale. Sefolosha failed to guard Kobe, Ibaka failed to guard Gasol, Chandler failed to guard Bynum He forced the trio to make 13 of 11 shots in total.

Fortunately, Harden, who played well in the previous few games, once again played a strong performance. Teaming up with Green, who just came back, he made 6 of 5 shots and 4 free throws, helping the Thunder to only lose 3 points in a single quarter. Leading the Lakers by 2 points.

Back from the halftime break, the seasoned Phil Jackson discovered the disadvantages of playing fast and instructed the Lakers to play slowly and strengthen their defense.

Su Yang took advantage of the situation and resorted to a two-three defense, making Kobe, Gasol, and Bynum a total of 13 of 2 shots.

But on the Thunder's side, because of the Lakers' high-intensity defense, only Durant could score, and was overtaken by 2 points after three quarters.

The hand-to-hand combat between the two teams consumed a lot of physical strength. When the fourth quarter started, the Lakers only left Odom as the main player on the court.

Su Yang played by ear, and the Thunder's substitute lineup sped up the offensive rhythm again, successfully allowing the Lakers' bench lineup led by Odom to follow suit, and then blasted a wave of 15-2 attacks in three and a half minutes, making Phil Jackson Pause now.

The Thunder was in full swing, Su Yang resolutely refused to give it a chance, and forcibly accelerated the offensive rhythm, forcing the Lakers to be unable to relax.

The Lakers couldn't bear it, so they simply admitted it. The Thunder finally defeated the Lakers 120 to 106, ranking first in the league.

(End of this chapter)