Buddha's light illuminates NBA

Chapter 142 The Birth of Lu Du's First Famous Scene
Opposite Lu Ming is Thunder's starting defensive general, Sefoloza.

In every team, the shooting guard has a heavy defensive task.

In those teams that do not use shooting guards as the main scoring point, the defensive task of shooting guards is even more important.

As a 3D player, Sefolosha's excitement on defense is stronger than shooting three-pointers.

On the offensive end, Lu Ming encountered a little difficulty when he met Sefoloza for the first time.

Different from the previous defenses, Sefoloza gave Lu Ming a close defense as soon as he came up, and with a height of 2 meters and a long arm of 01 meters, he was even better than Lu Ming in terms of static data.

This means that even in close defense, he can still use his long arms to prevent opposing players from breaking through.

There was no shooting space, and he couldn't get rid of it for a while. When he found a breakthrough space, Lu Ming had no choice but to return the basketball to Du Hong.

In the first offensive, the core was defended by the Thunder, and D'Antoni was not nervous.

The things on the court should be left to the players to solve. This is the truth that D'Antoni gradually realized.

After the basketball was handed over to Du Hong, Lu Ming immediately took Sefoloza to run, and with the cover of David Lee who was drawn from the inside, he got the ball again.

With a gap, Lu Ming rushed in without hesitation.

Durant immediately let go of Gallinari and came over to help defend.

Although Durant's performance on the defensive end was not sudden at the beginning of his career, he was still very good in assisting defense due to his height and long arms, coupled with his excellent speed.

But it is undoubtedly a wrong decision.

At the moment when Durant's help defense happened, Lu Ming's right hand holding the ball immediately passed the ball to Gallinari. Durant looked back subconsciously, and Lu Ming tricked him, and then took two steps to complete a mid-range jumper from the free throw line.

剡。

The ball goes in.

Durant's wrong help defense decision not only made him lose his position, but also Jeff Green, who was on the inside, made a misjudgment and gave Lu Ming an open mid-range.

"Kevin, just keep an eye on your defender!" Brooks shouted from the sidelines.

Durant's face was not good-looking.

As a rookie, Durant was a star player who achieved value as the No. [-] pick, and the head of the Thunder. Before this game, Durant had already held his breath and wanted to show his deterrent power on both offense and defense in front of Lu Ming.

But the unanimous decision of the head coach and the management is just to let him concentrate on offense and not miss anyone on the defensive end.

No way, I have been reminded once, and Durant showed his strength as an excellent scorer in the next game.

After the first quarter, Durant took 5 shots, hit 3 goals, and scored 12 points efficiently.

In the 12 points, he contributed half of the data.

In the end, Durant helped the team lead the Knicks by 28 points with 34:6 in the first quarter.

Lu Ming's statistics in the first quarter were not obvious, he only scored 7 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds, and under Sefoloza's full defense, he also made 2 turnovers.

The inter-section break ended quickly, and the second quarter started.

After playing only 3 minutes in the first quarter, Gallinari, who was fouled twice by Durant, made his debut at the beginning of the second quarter.

Perhaps to vent his anger, Gallinari swished three three-pointers as soon as he came on the court.

It's just that it all ended in blacksmithing.

Anyone can see at a glance that Gallinari is a little out of balance.

Fortunately, Jonathan Bender, who was signed by the team in December, appeared at the power forward position and performed brilliantly as David Lee's substitute. In 12 minutes, he made 5 of 5 shots and scored 3 2-pointers. He scored 3 points and helped the team not to be further stretched by the Thunder.

It has to be said that Jonathan Bender is also an inspirational player in the NBA.

The former talented player, when he chose to retire in February 2006, due to the loss of most of the cartilage in both knees, the severe pain in his body made him almost unable to walk such a long distance of stairs alone.

But he didn't give in.

Three years later, after training hard and overcoming injuries, Jonathan Bender, a talented teenager, returned to the NBA again.

"Bender trained very hard in order to return to the NBA."

Donnie Walsh said about signing Bender, "I met him when he was very young. It was already ten years ago when he was a rookie. Bender has a good character. I think his joining will be good for the team, both on and off the court."

"I think I still have great potential and the ability to contribute to a certain team. If everything goes well, then I may really return to the game. Even if it is not so smooth, I will accept it calmly. At least I have worked hard." Bender also answered interviews with the media after signing with the Knicks.

Judging from the performance in the first 5 minutes, Bender's performance is enough to break all doubts.

Five minutes later, Lu Ming appeared on the stage.

At the same time, Brooks brought in Sefoloza.

However, an excellent shooting guard may be blocked for a while, but it is absolutely impossible to be blocked all the time.

As soon as the second quarter came up, Lu Ming changed his attacking style, cooperated with Tony Douglas to play off the ball, used dazzling moves, and seemingly risky air cuts, scored 3 points in 10 minutes, and chased the score to only 2 points.

"It seems that no matter what the result of today's game, the scores of Lu and Durant will not be low." Kenny Smith explained.

"Lu's off-ball cutting technique is really enviable. It's really hard for you to imagine that this is something a rookie can do. Excellent basketball wisdom!" Barkley sighed.

At this time, Durant has played for 2 minutes.

But in those 2 minutes, his defender became Chandler.

Chandler has jumping and explosive power, tall and long arms, and excellent athletic ability. When defending Durant, he can give enough physical confrontation.

At this time, Durant was still a little thin, and his confrontation was a little insufficient. Facing a tough defense, although he could still use his long arms and jumper to find space for shots, his shooting percentage dropped.

Within 2 minutes, watching Lu Ming keep scoring and helping the Knicks close the score, Durant, who wanted to respond, played a little anxiously, and 3 shots became David Lee's [-] backcourt rebounds.

To be honest, sometimes Lu Ming is really envious of David Lee's sense of rebounding, as if he was born with it.

"David, is it possible for you to grab 20 rebounds today?" Lu Ming suddenly asked David Lee as the Knicks finished their attack and passed Durant while defending.

David Lee was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's very possible. After all, defensive rebounds are too easy for me!"

The implication is that there will be a lot of defensive rebounds in today's game.

"Shut up! You can't grab another defensive rebound!" Durant suddenly yelled.

Then, in the face of Chandler's almost blocked shot, an angry Durant threw an air ball.

"Kevin, you did it!" Lu Ming loudly praised Durant for keeping his word.

David Lee ran over holding back a smile.

That's not good for him.

Speaking of which, David Lee's stats are currently better than Garnett's, and in terms of interior defense, although the defensive quality is not high, but because of his excellent rebounding sense, he has also created a lot of counterattack opportunities for the Knicks.

On the offensive end, he has excellent offensive skills near the basket, and he often scores inside.

But it's because he doesn't know how to roar like iron blood, can't make that kind of iron blood big rebounds and iron blood big jump shots, so he always has some transparent attributes on the court.

Often after the game is over, people are surprised to find that this guy is actually another 20+10 game, and then they think about it, and they don’t have any impression of how he got 20+10.

From this point alone, it is not unreasonable to lag behind Garnett in the All-Star voting.

Just as Lu Ming wanted to remind David Lee again, he looked up and saw Durant actually appearing in his defensive position!

I went to see Sefolosha, and went to defend Gallinari with a helpless face.

"Hoho! Two top scorers are talking face-to-face, and finally appeared!" Barkley regained his energy immediately, and reminded the audience in front of the TV with a strange cry.

"This is not a normal defense change. What just happened, why did Durant appear in Lu's defensive position? Brooks can't arrange such a stupid defensive matchup?" Kenny Smith looked puzzled.

Not only was he puzzled, Brooks was on the sidelines with a question mark on his face.

You're a big, okay, small forward, and you run out to guard the shooting guard, what's the matter?

But the audience didn't care about this. From their point of view, a star born at No. 8 was omnipotent, and it was completely normal to guard against a rookie with only the No. [-] pick.

Moreover, they couldn't understand that the No. 8 on the opposite side kept stealing the popularity of their own stars.

So the audience shouted "Defense!" in unison, giving Durant great spiritual encouragement.

"Kevin, are you serious?" Lu Ming asked while holding the ball with one hand.

Durant didn't speak, he held up his shorts and made a gif of death staring.

Ok.

Lu Ming also wanted to see if Durant's defense was as good as the one in the legend.

It seems that in the second round of the playoffs that D'Antoni later coached as an assistant coach, Durant was the defensive pillar that he knew.

However, after shaking for a few times and realizing that Durant was seriously out of position, Lu Ming knew that Durant at this time should not have shown the strength to match the offense on the defensive end.

The harder Durant tried, the weaker the defense became.

In the end, Lu Ming used a large back dribble to knock Durant down, and after taking a look at the somewhat embarrassed Reaper, Shi Shiran jumped up and shot, and used a hollow three-pointer to put an end to this moment that may become a famous scene in the future.

Then, without saying a word of trash, he turned around and retreated.

The Knicks' bench was blown up, Tony, who had only been off the court for a while, brought other substitutes, and the towel dance was very energetic.

There was a dead silence at Thunderclap's home court, and then began to curse at Lu Ming.

51:50, the Knicks lead by one point!
"Oh! Durant has suffered the greatest humiliation! Lu did this, it was too unfriendly to a third-year player! If you ask me, he shouldn't have looked at Durant again before making a shot. That look was simply too insulting!" Barkley laughed exaggeratedly.

"Yes!"

Although Kenny Smith felt that what Barkley said was not right, but the famous scene was born, he could only praise along the way, and then criticized Brooks' defensive arrangement, "Stupid defensive switch!"

Although Brooks is blamed, he is more worried about Durant's emotions.

As the head coach, he knows how sensitive his players are.

So he called a timeout and comforted Durant patiently, "Kevin, you don't need to go outside to defend the Knicks' No. 8. Inside, the inside is your restricted area! Sabo, next, you have a chance to put No. 8 inside!"

"Okay, coach." Sefolosha could only agree.

When Durant heard Brooks' arrangement, his complexion improved immediately, and he almost clenched his fist hard, "Don't worry, coach, as long as he dares to come in, I will let him know how terrible my restricted area is!"

"I believe in you as a teacher!" Brooks had nothing to say, but he could only follow him.

(End of this chapter)