super small forward

Chapter 399 399. Lonely Westbrook
Ha, I just saw that I had already written a few hundred words in the morning, so I hurried to get out. The handicap speed is only a thousand words per hour, and I will work hard to make more!

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The main players of the Lakers watched Westbrook score a triple-double off the court, alone against the rookies and second- and third-year players of the Lakers.

The score was 122 to 90, not halfway through the fourth quarter, and the Lakers had already led by more than 30 points.

Today the Lakers are ready for battle. Kobe, Nash, Gasol and even Green have had a good rest for three days, ready to go all out in the game against the Thunder.

Unexpectedly, on the morning of the start of the game, the Thunder announced that Durant's right foot injury worsened during training and required surgery. The recovery time is four months, which means that the regular season is basically reimbursed.

Durant injured his knee in the game against the Grizzlies in November. He chose conservative treatment and has been playing.

Then this time I twisted my injured right knee during training. The knee was damaged and had to be operated on.

This is very bad for Thunder, it is tantamount to a bolt from the blue!
The Thunder was originally a two-person team. Except for Durant and Westbrook, everyone else is just average, which is still very average.

Center Adams, an average center, is not much better than the current Thackeray. Seeing Thackeray repeatedly asking for the ball in singles, you know his strength.

Adams does have the body, but the jumping speed is not bad, but this type of center will take at least three or four years to become a talent, and he does not have the touch talent of Thackeray, so he can only be a defensive center.

Ibaka has not recovered since he was injured and forced to play in the playoffs last season. His offensive end has improved a lot, but his defensive end has slipped to a staggering level, and he can't keep up with his consciousness.Rebounds and blocked shots keep falling...

Shooting guard Anthony Morrow, averaging 5 points per game…

Perry Jones, who replaced Durant in the starting lineup, has good scoring skills and can score, but I don’t know why his scoring doesn’t seem to help the team at all. When he scored consecutively, the point difference was still widening. bigger...

Then Westbrook was left to be a father and a mother again, with 49 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists.

Liu Ren felt ashamed when he saw this statistic, and he could still score. 16 rebounds and 15 assists... Liu Ren felt a bit difficult to get the rebounds, and he still had to get 15 assists. It's not basically impossible. , he never thought that he could get such data!
It is still possible to take them separately, but add them together...

It is estimated that only Westbrook can do it in active service!
However, Westbrook scored 49 points and 15 assists, and the Thunder still only scored 90 points. That is to say, except for the ball that Westbrook assisted, others basically did not score by themselves!
At the start of today's game, I made all the preparations, practiced for an extra day, held two tactical meetings, and rested for another day. Although the Lakers didn't see Durant playing, they still targeted Westbrook alone. , Cut off the connection between other people and Westbrook.

Sometimes it doesn't mean that the offense is organized with more assists. Westbrook's pass and Marshall have a characteristic, that is, he is very good at passing the ball to teammates who can score directly.

But he and Marshall have similar characteristics. He does not rely on assists like Nash to keep his teammates in a scoring position. His teammates can take the initiative to move under the guidance of Nash.

Westbrook is originally an offensive point guard. He is good at breaking through and scoring. If the opponent double-teams in place, he does not necessarily pass the ball, but passes when his teammates have a greater chance of scoring than him.

So even though Westbrook got 15 assists in this game, the rest of the Thunder did not start their offense.

In fact, it's not that Westbrook is unwilling to pass the ball whenever his teammates are free, but that these teammates can't make shots!

If Durant is here, Westbrook will definitely pass the pass when Durant is free, but he has long known how weak this group of teammates who have been playing for several years is.

Therefore, when the Lakers Kobe Bryant, Liu Ren, Nick Young, and Korver played four outside shots one after another to blow up the Thunder's defense, the Thunder have been chasing points and have been relying on Westbrook alone.

But the point difference has been widening. In the 6th minute of the fourth quarter, the last official timeout, the Lakers have already led 130 to 100 by 30 points.

Seeing that there was no hope of chasing points, Westbrook did not continue to score 50 points, but ended up under the arrangement of the coach with a livid face.

This is the first time that Westbrook has clearly known that he will play for a season without Durant. His heart is extremely complicated. He wants to prove himself, but he also wants to win.

In this game, he undoubtedly proved that he is the most versatile player in the league, but he lost at the same time!
Westbrook was desperate at this time. Just after Durant was reimbursed, he led the team to lose more than 30 points...

At the same time, Liu Ren, who was on the Lakers' bench, was also desperate.

It has been several games in a row, and he has scored less than 30 points, seeing his scoring average drop from 39 points to 34 points per game.

This is the second competition month, and I have played more than 20 games in total. With a little less points in one game, the fluctuation of the average points per game is very obvious.

Liu Ren only played the first half today, and he still didn't play the full game because the opponent suddenly became weaker. D'Antoni wanted to try Kobe and Korver, Clarkson and Korver, Jeremy Lin and Korver , Nash and Korver's outside combination, so he only played 17 minutes, and he only scored 20 points and 4 rebounds with non-stop shots, which led to a direct drop in scoring from 35 points to 34 points per game, a drop in the average 35 points altar.

Averaging 35 points per game can be said to be the gap between top scorers and god-level scorers. After the 80s, only Kobe and Jordan averaged 35 points per game in a single season.

Liu Ren suddenly turned his head and said to Korver, who was chatting tactics with Kobe next to him, "Hey, why did you come to our team? It really makes people unhappy."

Korver is happily chatting with Kobe. Kobe likes strong teammates. Korver's three-pointers are undoubtedly in the top five in the league, and his single-round catch and shoot is well-deserved. It's hard to say who is the number one, because Curry doesn't bother to run and shoot, and he is strong against defense...

Korver was confused when he heard Liu Ren's words, didn't this young master just coax him?Why did you suddenly turn around after only a few days?Still turning around without warning.

It’s okay to say that the loss was due to Korver’s poor play, but after he joined the Lakers, he overwhelmed Nick Young on the bench. He averaged 13 points per game and ranked first among the bench. Today, he won at halftime. At 15 points, 4 three-pointers killed the Thunder at halftime. He wanted to break his head but couldn't figure out how to make Liu Ren unhappy again.

"Don't worry about that kid, he's upset about his scoring." Kobe looked at Liu Ren contemptuously and continued, "Didn't you see the data sheet that the assistant coach gave him just now? He estimated that his scoring average dropped again today. Complaining about your three-pointers killing the Thunder."

What the hell?

Before Korver could react, Liu Ren took over Kobe's words: "That's right, it's all your fault, because we won our games so quickly when you came, and we won the Spurs as well, as well as the Timberwolves, and the Kings... yeah Oh, why didn't I see you so good when you beat the Pacers a few days ago..."

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Korver's three views collapsed again, can he still throw the blame on his teammates like this?When he was playing against the Pacers, he was defending one-on-one with both hands and feet. How can he shoot as a pure pitcher?
Liu Ren's strange brain circuit made Korver feel that he had gone to the wrong place, and Kobe could understand Liu Ren's brain circuit. Korver began to doubt whether this team was abnormal. They were skeptical when they teased the Spurs, and they are even more skeptical now...

(End of this chapter)