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Chapter 266 Russell Night

Eight p.m. on the 31st, Ford Center.

In the arena full of people, the announcer Mario Lani shouted passionately: "The last one to play is..."

As Durant's name was called out, [-] fans cheered in unison, and the Thunder's appearance ceremony ended.

The lights were turned on and the whistle sounded, indicating that the finals were about to start.On the side of the Thunder, Durant and Harden clapped their hands continuously, and they were still muttering words, as if they were doing some complicated pre-match ceremony. Green and the others watched with interest.

Su Yang glanced casually, and found that only Westbrook was waiting calmly, as if he was thinking about something and was about to do something.

"Could it be the influence of that tweet?" Su Yang recalled the tweet sent by Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

The tweet read: I must admit that coach Su Yang was absolutely right when he said that Kevin Durant and James Harden were MVPs because they are showing MVP-level strength, but I must also say Russell Westbrook There is no MVP strength, or even that potential. If Russell Westbrook wins the MVP one day in the future, it must be the highest level MVP in NBA history. I suggest that the Heat find a way to let Russell play more. That is Their only hope of victory.

A tweet directly belittled the entire Heat team and Westbrook, and tried to create conflicts, which was quite rhythmic.

The key Cuban’s tweet was forwarded by many people, and tens of thousands of people agreed in just ten hours.

Many fans also said that Westbrook should be used to trade the No. 73 and No. [-] picks of the Timberwolves at the beginning, and then used to choose Stephen Curry. Then the Thunder would be the perfect lineup to start, with stronger three-pointers and not too weak defense. Shock [-] wins.

But those fans noticed that Westbrook was weak on three-pointers, but they didn't know how much Westbrook's fast break and endurance added to the Thunder.

Su Yang felt quite surprised at first, but when he thought that Cuban once mocked the Thunder for having only one super giant, plus Cuban's lending to the poor, and the fact that he wanted Nowitzki to play in the finals with an injury, he felt quite normal, after all The hatred of elimination.

Westbrook did not respond to Cuban, and the Heat ignored it, but Durant scolded Cuban for being an idiot.

Anyway, a lot of things happened ahead of time.

"It is necessary to encourage Ah Wei..."

Su Yang made up his mind, walked quickly to Westbrook's side, put his arm on Westbrook's shoulder and said: "RUSS, I just saw that their starting point guard is Mike Bibby, you have the advantage of speed against him, you can try Multiple speeds to impact..."

In a few words, Su Yang made up a reason to give Westbrook more power to fire. It's not fooling around, it's just that similar styles of play belong to the lower priority choices, and are generally only used when it is difficult to open the situation. It's just used directly at the beginning of the game.

"it is good!"

Westbrook's eyes sparkled, and his slightly gritted teeth look like he can't wait for the game to start immediately, absolutely smashing the Heat.

Seeing this, Su Yang patted Westbrook on the shoulder, turned around and walked towards the bench with a smile, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Heat coach Spoelstra on the other side of the court, and suddenly thought that Spoelstra rushed to remind the Heat to defend Westbrook. things inside.

At that time, Spoelstra was very anxious. He pointed at the Heat players on the field with one hand and shouted to make up for him. At the same time, he stepped on Westbrook's position. Bang like iron.

The referee Joe Crawford, who was in charge of calling the game at the time, took the initiative to retreat and avoid it, and did not call Spoelstra for a foul.

Such a weird scene was also seen when Thibodeau rushed into the field to direct, and it was really outrageous when you think about it carefully.

beep!A long whistle sounded.

The starting players of the two teams entered the field one after another, and the central big screen simultaneously gave matchup tips: point guard Westbrook vs. Bibby, shooting guard Sefoloza vs. Mike Miller, small forward Wade vs. Durant, power forward Iraqi vs. Bacca vs. LeBron, center Bosh vs. Chandler.

The Heat started with a five-small lineup. In addition to speeding up the offense, it can also facilitate Bosh's false starting rotation.

The Thunder coaching staff only learned about the Heat’s start 15 minutes before the game. Su Yang didn’t panic at all. Instead, he decided that the Heat’s arrangement belonged to him to dig a hole for himself, and he didn’t know how the Heat made such a decision nearby. It was a headache. Medical pain.

The short whistle sounded immediately, and the referee Scott Foster walked to the center circle with the ball, gesticulating left and right to align with the center line.

The basketball whized into the air, and the cheers of the audience suddenly exploded simultaneously. Bosh touched the ball first and moved it back vigorously.

The Heat won the opening first attack, Bibby slowly advanced with the ball in the backcourt, and the audience stood up and shouted for defense.

Amidst the cheers of the audience, Miller went up to the top of the arc, received Bibby's pass, turned around, withdrew two steps, and then made a 45-degree pass to the right.

LeBron took the ball sideways to face Sefolosha, who had a very low center of gravity, and did not rush to make moves, keeping his eyes firmly on the left side.

Wade started from the left bottom corner synchronously, with the help of Bosh's cover, ran across the upper paint area to the right waist, it seemed to be going to the back body, and then received a pass from LeBron, successfully attracting the Thunder Defensive attention while Bibby is rolling.

In the blink of an eye, Bibby stopped at the left waist, and Bosh, who had previously screened for Wade, took the opportunity to get rid of Chandler. Taking advantage of his speed and delay, he strode to the left elbow, and then used a pass to get rid of Chandler. After the ball, Miller slid down the screen and got a wide open.

"It's ok, this STS screen starts, catches the screen and gets rid of it. It perfectly drives the Heat team to run, and also allows the characteristics of each Heat player to play. Miller's three-pointer threatens to stretch the paint. Wade moves without the ball. Containing defensive attention, Bibby's strong and small body reverse screens, LeBron's sharp high-post support, Bosh's best at catching the ball and making two-point shots..."

With a smile on his face, Su Yang applauded the Heat's perfect opening tactics in his heart. The Heat are really much better than the original history.

On the court, Bosh received a pass from LeBron in a wide open space, stopped and turned over, and took a two-point shot against Chandler.

bass!The basketball is hollow into the net.

The two teams switched offense and defense, and the audience still stood and shouted OKC in unison, the sound wave was so strong that it made people want to shake.

Westbrook dribbled the ball forward quickly, reached the right wing of the frontcourt in three seconds, and directly asked Ibaka to attack in advance. He accelerated past LeBron, who was trying to switch to the delay, and saw Wade moving laterally to intercept him. Change direction, go straight to the basket.

Wade hurriedly twisted his body and stomped to catch up, but he didn't fall behind. However, Westbrook picked the basket at the edge of the paint area.

The so-called martial arts in the world can only be broken by speed. Wade claims that the Flash is also a generation of speed heroes, but I really didn't expect that Westbrook didn't make a three-step layup, or even a two-step layup, and it wasn't a throw. It's weird to pick a basket.

Out of physical instinct, Wade kicked off the ground and tried to block the block with his right hand high, but unfortunately every step was slow.

Mike Miller also took off and tried to block the block, but both of them were in vain, and the basketball smashed into the net.

"Whoa..." Cheers erupted in the Ford Center, Su Yang applauded along with him, and the audience gradually sat down.

The two teams switched offense and defense, and Bibby took the lead and ran across the center line. The Heat were still in the same position and running as before.

Wade seemed to use the screen to move laterally, and Bosh raised the ball through the ladder screen again, obviously it was to play again.

"Made! Who do you look down on?"

Su Yang laughed, even if the same tactics and running positions are used, the choice of opportunities is still the same. Do you really think Lei Ting is a fool?
Thinking about it, Chandler stopped in front of Bosh, the Heat's long two-point plan fell through, and the basketball was passed back to Bibby on the left wing.

After Bosh passed the ball, he stepped forward and made a pick-and-roll. Bibby took the opportunity to break through with the ball on the line. On the side of the Thunder, Chandler did not move laterally to delay, but continued to stare at Bosh who opened his position. At least they squeezed through the cover and chased after Bibby.

At the same time, Sefolosha followed the local three-defense and two-two strategy formulated by Su Yang before the game, and moved 45 degrees from the right to delay.

Bibby suddenly lost the space to break through, and the risk of an emergency stop jump shot was too great, so he turned around and threw the ball to the open LeBron.

But the moment LeBron took the ball, Durant lifted up from the right waist to control the breakthrough route, and Sefolosha hurried back to defense.

LeBron didn't rush to shoot a three-pointer, but threw the ball to Wade, and then made a ghost screen and ran to the bottom corner.

Embarrassingly, Wade also had difficulty breaking through. He raised the ball to aim at the basket for a while, then raised his hand and passed the ball back to LeBron in the bottom corner.

With only 3.2 seconds left on the offensive clock, LeBron had nowhere to pass, facing Sefolosha's personal interference, he made a strong three-pointer.

The basketball clanged like iron, Chandler and Bosh jumped up and touched at the same time, and flew the basketball fan to the free throw line together.

Westbrook bent down to pick up the basketball, and ran forward like a wild horse. He reached the three-point line in the frontcourt in [-] seconds. Facing the encirclement of Wade and LeBron, he suddenly stopped and raised his hand without warning, and chose to throw The ball hits the ground to Sefoloza who cuts.

With a bang, Sefolosha dunked and scored with both hands. The Thunder led the Heat 1-4 in the opening minute.

Su Yang applauded excitedly, turned his head and smiled at the three assistant coaches: "Russ is very motivated now, and he is very calm. He didn't force the encirclement. He wants to prove himself and keep the goal of winning in mind. This is destined to belong to his night. .”

(End of this chapter)