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Chapter 252 A new way to open the combination of inside and outside
Amid the bursts of defensive shouts, Conley dribbled the ball to the left wing of the front court, raised his hand to signal that there was no need to set up a wall to cover, and at the same time directed Gasol to grab a position on the left waist, making it clear that he wanted to hand the ball to Gasol. His timer had reminded him to do that.

Compared with Westbrook, Conley is the most traditional point guard. He always thinks about when to hit that teammate, so as to avoid a teammate who hasn’t got the ball for a long time and makes his hand feel worse. On the contrary, he himself rushed to the basket and hit the board with a backhand , which is an exceptional operation.

With that commanding action, Sam Young quickly ran from the bottom corner to the three-point line, leaving room for Gasol, who was deep in the waist.

Chandler followed up to the left waist, exerted force in advance to block the position, tried to create interference as much as possible, and consumed Gasol as much as possible.

In normal times, Chandler would be at a disadvantage if he carried it hard. The main reason is that he weighed 120 kilograms, which was much heavier than him.Fortunately, through the continuous consumption of outside lines in the previous rounds, Xiaojia's physical strength and strength were greatly weakened, and his strength was limited.

The moment Xiaojia received the basketball, Durant immediately followed Su Yang's arrangement, gave up marking Sam Young without hesitation, quickly retracted from the three-point line, and teamed up with Chandler to double-team, forcing Xiaojia to go The bottom line is broken, limiting the field of view and route.

Perhaps because he was worried that Sam Young's three-point shooting rate was too low, Xiao Jia did not choose to pass the ball, but held the basketball high with both hands, shaking it back and forth around the top to find the rhythm, and finally let out a cross-ball with a loud roar, and carried Chandler to defend. Strongly rush to the bottom line and shoot from a negative angle.

That shot was not sticky, Ibaka and Randolph jumped up to catch it at the same time, and the two worked together to shoot the ball to the free throw line.

Randolph landed and leaped forward, shouldering away Durant, who was also bending over to fight, but the referee did not blow his whistle.

Boos broke out at the Ford Center, the basketball continued to fly into the air under force, and Durant and Randolph took off to compete again.

But the two still failed to succeed, but they flew the ball away, and Sefolosha grabbed it in his hands like a fisherman, and rushed forward.

The Thunder suddenly launched a fast break, Sam Yangti went to the paint to shrink, and Randolph was chasing Sefolosha.The basketball passed to Durant on the right wing in a blink of an eye. Su Yang raised his hand in celebration when he saw this, but Durant made an emergency stop and made a three-pointer, but he hit the iron with a bang.

"Ah this..."

Su Yang put down his hands with a smile, looked at Durant and smiled, and the basketball bounced out of bounds, and the referee called a violation.

Taking advantage of the dead ball, the Grizzlies used OJ Mayo to replace Tony Allen, clearly to strengthen the outside scoring ability.

In the TNT commentary seat, Mavi Alvin asked: "Why do you feel that the Grizzlies are a level worse than the Thunder? They have a total of six points from the start to now, almost all of which are lucky goals. The defense can't resist any attack from the Thunder. It only depends on whether they lose points." Thunder touch."

McHale replied: "The absolute advantage of the Grizzlies lies in the two towers inside, but the Thunder took control of the situation at the beginning and used complex and sophisticated tactics many times, which greatly consumed the stamina of the Grizzlies' two towers. .”

Mavi Alvin sighed: "I hope OJ Mayo can help them open up the situation, but on the defensive end..."

On the court, the Grizzlies attack.

Mayo ran a floppy from the bottom line, went around to the left wing to catch the ball, and then followed up with Randolph to make a pick-and-roll cooperation.

There was nothing wrong with that routine being too old-fashioned, but it was too obvious to get rid of Sefoloza.

Mayo failed to break through and hurriedly passed the ball back to Conley. Conley also immediately turned to face the right corner, and then passed Sam Young.

But Sam Young didn't have the ability to pass the ball alone, so he hurriedly passed the ball to the right waist, and there were only 7 seconds left in the attack time.

Xiaojia didn't think much about receiving the ball. He carried Chandler on his shoulder and made a few hard chisels.

The basketball slammed like iron, but the referee whistled Chandler's pushing foul and gave Gasol two free throw opportunities.

"Is this fucking also a foul?" Su Yang was dumbfounded on the spot, while Chandler clearly raised his hands and remained where he was.

The referee Scott Foster, who was standing on the technical table, turned his head and looked back, but because he couldn't understand Chinese, he gave up angrily.

There were boos everywhere in the arena, Gasol Jr. stood on the free throw line, shot a little limply, and hit the basket with the first free throw.

Su Yang immediately waved to the bench, and Jordan took off his jacket and ran into the court to replace Chandler.

In Su Yang's view, the referee showed signs of controlling the rhythm of the game, so he simply asked Jordan to fight with Gasol. The registered weight of both of them was 120 kg when they were drafted. The difference is not that big.

While thinking about it, Gasol also hit the basket and hit the iron for the second free throw. It was obviously difficult to grasp the strength of his shot and he was exhausted.

With Ibaka and Jordan stuck in place, Durant easily got the rebound, turned around and threw it to Westbrook on the sideline.

The whole team launched a counterattack, starting with a formation of one inside and four outside. Westbrook rushed to the right wing and first cooperated with Jordan in a pick-and-roll.

It's a pity that the quality of Jordan's screen is not as good as Chandler's. Conley bypassed the interception to the limit, and Westbrook was forced to pull the ball back.

Seeing that Westbrook's offense was frustrated, Su Yang quickly scanned the Grizzlies' half-court defensive position, and found that Randolph was far away from Ibaka, and both of them were in the left area, and immediately shouted at Ibaka: "Serge ! Step Up!"

Do a fight against the Landlords directly!

The voice flew into the arena, but the Grizzlies didn't respond, but Ibaka was stunned for a moment, and started to rush to the right wing.

It took only a moment for the Grizzlies to react, and Gasol yelled at Conley: "Be careful with the cover..."

But in just half a second, Ibaka stood on the fixed wall to form a screen, and it was not a back screen, but a side screen.Coupled with the fact that Ibaka ran from the far left, Conley was unprepared for the sudden cover, thinking that Westbrook was going to single-handedly solve it.

In the blink of an eye, Westbrook sped up to the free throw line and rushed to the basket with Randolph, who was trying to switch defenses.

Randolph wanted to catch up close to him, and he raised his right hand to try to block the shot, but his speed couldn't keep up with Westbrook, and he also blocked Gasol's shrinking defense line. Sam Young, who was standing in the left corner, wanted to watch Durant didn't dare to help defend either.

Just like that, Westbrook grabbed the ball and took off easily, raised his left hand high to aim at the basket and hit a hard dunk, the audience cheered.

The Grizzlies immediately made a fast break, and Mayo ran the ball across the center line, handed it to Sam Young on the left wing, and rushed straight to the bottom corner.

At the same time, Randolph, who quickly rushed to catch up with the Grizzlies, crossed the paint and stopped on the left waist.

Seeing that Randolph wanted to catch the ball, Ibaka tried his best to interfere, and the two fought, and Randolph was forced to get the ball on the sideline.

I saw Randolph turning around to face the frame, no matter what three threats or tentative steps, he seemed a little angry, he just bent over and lowered his shoulders to lower his center of gravity, like a black-haired porcupine, arching Ibaka and walking under the basket. Sudden emergency stop to take off and throw.

The movement is quite smooth, but unfortunately, the center of gravity is too low, and the standing up is a bit violent, which may lead to an imbalance of blood circulation, which will affect the judgment of the brain, and interfere with the movement of the hands. basket.

Seeing this, Jordan jumped up to fight, but Gasol flew the racket out of bounds from behind, and the referee whistled for a violation.

Perhaps because Randolph's performance was poor, Grizzlies coach Hollins arranged for Darrell Arthur to come on and replace him.

The Thunder turned to attack, but Durant hit the iron in the mid-range shot, and the Grizzlies counterattacked hard to suppress the speed, and finally scored two more points.

The game was going on, and Westbrook made a low-level pass out of bounds.

Su Yang glanced at the timer and found that there were only 3 minutes and 26 seconds left in the first quarter, and the Thunder temporarily led the Grizzlies 23-10. The players rest for a while.

The Thunder returned to the bench. Su Yang held the data sheet and said: "Our brand-new combination of internal and external methods has achieved phased success. At present, Marc Gasol has made 7 of 3 shots and Zach Randolph has made 3 of 0 shots. keep going..."

(End of this chapter)