I'm teammates with Kobe

Chapter 121 Death and the Beast

Although Westbrook likes to show his sharpness, it is Durant with a flat expression before the game that is chilling. After the game started, he immediately turned into a deadpan killer, just like the god of death before the harvest.

The Thunder won the jump ball, Parsons immediately went deep to the basket and got in position, Ibaka was cruising near the free throw line, ready to rush out to make a high post, Durant and Sefolosha separated from the three-point line At a 45-degree angle position, the Lakers players responded with one-on-one marking.

After Westbrook dribbled the ball beyond the three-point line, facing Chu Xiao, who was defending himself alone, he did not immediately play a single, but passed the ball to Durant on the right with a casual flick, who was nearly two feet tall. Mi Yi, with a wingspan of [-] meters, facing Artest, who is only [-] meters tall, took a step back and raised his hand to shoot, hitting a three-pointer!

This is a typical big eat small.

Looking back, Chu Xiao tentatively broke through Westbrook left and right. The opponent moved very fast and struck faster. He kept trying to lean forward and take out the ball. s position.

Although he looks a little thin among NBA players, he has tight muscles and great strength.Chu Xiao deliberately had physical contact with him when he broke through, and found that only with all his strength can he push back a little, so he got a preliminary impression of him. If Deron Williams is a small tank, then Weiss Brooke is a hot hatch.

Although there is some difference in tonnage and strength between the two, this does not represent the difference in ability between the two.They are currently the top few super point guards in the league. If they are both at their peak, it is hard to say who is more capable, but both of them are the strongest opponents Chu Xiao has encountered since entering the league.

After the test was over, Chu Xiao gave up as soon as he saw that Kobe was ready to make a breakthrough, so he also hit the ball horizontally and passed it. The position of the emergency stop jumper hit. 2-3.

Westbrook has never been a pass-oriented point guard. He is good at straight-line breakthroughs and has amazing explosive power. Chu Xiao has already prepared how to defend through the game video, but this guy is still not busy in the second round. Looking for a breakthrough, he dribbled the ball a few times at the top of the arc, pointed to his teammate's running position, and finally passed the ball to Durant, who was standing outside the three-point line, and the latter made a three-pointer after catching the ball. , and then defensively with a blank face. 6-2.

In the NBA, if a substitute player can average 6 points per game, it can be regarded as a good contribution to the team, but in the two rounds just now, Durant scored 6 points lightly, in less than 1 minute, even Without having time to break a sweat, he did what others can achieve on average per game. He really deserves to be the three-time scoring champion.

If Chu Xiao could hear the voices of the fans and the media, he would definitely hear something like, "It looks like Reaper is going to score high again tonight."

In the playoffs of the 2011-2012 season, the Thunder met the Los Angeles Lakers in the semifinals of the Western Conference and advanced to the Western Conference Finals 4-1. Restricting Durant, the team also hated the semifinals because of this.

The two teams met for the first time this season. When the media interviewed Artest, the old question was still his defense against Durant, teasing him about whether he studied his opponent well after being eliminated.

"My career has been defending the best players." Artest's tone was a little impatient, and he seemed to be explaining the same problem repeatedly over the years. "This is nothing new. When I first entered In the league, I faced Alan Houston and Sprewell, followed by Isiah Ryder, and of course Jordan, Kobe, James and Pierce. It’s just an ordinary thing.”

"As an opponent, what do you like about him?" the reporter asked.

"As I said, I faced many types of scorers a long time ago, 20 points, 25 points, Durant averaged 30 points per game, Anthony averaged 30 points per game, but in different ways. You know it's special." Artest said, "In the past, it was about 20 points, Reggie Miller, Hamilton, everyone was scoring in a different way. But what I did was use the same A way to defend against these special opponents.”

Artest's answer was even a bit fanciful. In the end, he said, "I never have a plan. I don't know how I'm going to limit these scorers. But I just continue my defense. I'm not going to execute the right defense like I used to. , I have more tactics, more aggressive."

Because of his strange answer, after the game started, after seeing Durant hit two consecutive three-pointers, the media couldn’t help laughing, “It seems that this guy’s defensive strategy is to let the opponent shoot casually, so Durant Isn't it going to be a training match?"

In the eyes of the media, Durant is an unrestricted scorer. Those who are taller than him are not as fast as him, those who are faster than him are not as accurate as him, and now those who are more accurate than him are not as strong as him, and have no weaknesses. A scoring machine, a scoring machine of a rare level in history, it is a bit embarrassing for these players to defend such a superstar. Even if that person is Artest, the best defensive player in the past, he is old after all.

When the media thought that this game was another battle between Kobe and Durant, the situation on the court changed suddenly.

First, Artest made a change. He took the initiative to expand the defensive range to one meter beyond the three-point line. When Durant received the third pass from Westbrook, he immediately pressed his body forward to seek confrontation. While resisting the opponent with strength, he constantly stretches out his hands to interfere with his dribbling and consumes his energy. It will also affect your own score due to lack of physical strength.

Fortunately, in the current Lakers lineup, scoring is no longer Artest's concern. He only needs to do a good job of defense.

A scorer like Durant naturally knows that the opponent wants to compete with him. Although the opponent does not need to be responsible for the team's scoring, he is the first scorer of the Thunder and cannot be consumed at the beginning. superior.And after the change in Artest's defensive strategy, it is to push him down, so that he can't make a comfortable mid-range shot, let him break through, and constantly consume his energy.If he competes with this man with abnormal physical fitness and is particularly persistent in defense, even if he can keep scoring high points, but at the critical moment of the fourth quarter, he will definitely be exhausted and his legs will go weak!

Durant decided not to be fooled, and opened up space with the opponent first, so he passed the ball back to Westbrook, so the second change of the game happened. After Westbrook dribbled the ball, he opened up the space. .

(End of this chapter)