What's interesting is that after Durant made the last shot, everyone thought Durant had completed the buzzer-beater, and Warriors started celebrating. The Rockets Team players all walked to the tunnel with a frustrated look, but they were suddenly called back and said that the buzzer-beater had timed out.
After Referee watched the replay repeatedly, he made a judgment that the game had timed out, which made Golden State Warriors's entire game's efforts in vain.
October 17
Thunder vs. New York Knicks.
Regular season, the long-lost appearance ceremony.
Chen Xi Following the DJ's passionate announcement, Chen Xi trotted into the field and high-fived the Teammatess standing aside one by one.
Turning around to look at Knicks opposite.
This summer New York kept negotiating with Anthony, trying to send him away.
But Anthony has the right to veto the transaction. He only wants to go to the championship team, but among the current League, which team can give enough chips to exchange for Anthony?
Thunder Warriors are all three and four giants, Spurs is not interested in Anthony, Rockets already has Harden and Paul, standing on the edge of luxury tax.
Eastern Conference is unwilling to join forces with the enemy and does not think much about it. Of course, Celtics and Cavaliers have no place for him. Raptors is too far away and Anthony is unwilling to go.
In the end, Knicks, who had been busy all summer, returned without success, retained the original lineup, and continued to hibernate.
The only good news is that Anthony's contract is in the last year. After paying this year's 26.24 million, Knicks can free up a lot of salary space.
So, yes, next summer, Knicks intends to hit the free market again with a huge amount of US dollars.
However, that is all for later.
Back in the game, Porzingis jumped to get the ball.
Knicks attacks first.
After the contract of Derrick·Rose expired, Knicks did not choose to renew the contract, but took a turn and re-signed the old player, Tim Hardaway Jr., for 71 million in 4 years.
This is a scoring guard with certain ability off the ball.
Together with Sessions, a veteran who joined with a basic salary, they formed a weak outside combination.
After Sessions took possession of the ball and came to Frontcourt, he lobbed the ball to Anthony who still maintained the position of Leader on the team.
"As long as I die, you will eventually be the prince!"
Melo catches the ball and hits Harris from behind.
He leans twice and turns around, then leans back and shoots easily.
Scored two points.
At least in terms of offensive level, Anthony still has the level of All-Star.
Thunder attack.
Little Sabonis serves, Westbrook advances quickly.
After rushing to Frontcourt, he twisted left and right, passed three people, stepped down in two steps, and dunked in the air, all in one go.
Knicks's retreat discipline is simply unbearable to watch.
Worse than last year.
After returning to Offensive End again, this time Sessions chose to give the ball to Porzingis who was further inside.
Even if Anthony cannot be sent away in the summer, it is the team's plan to increase the proportion of Porzingis's shots.
The record isn't good anyway, so why not practice with the newcomers?
As the No. 4 pick in 2015, Porzingis's talent is visible to the naked eye.
Exaggerated height and wingspan, coupled with excellent shooting.
It makes people think that this is a white version of Carl·Anthony·Towns.
Also a rookie in 2015, Towns, the No. 1 pick, averaged a double-double of 18.3 points and 10.5 rebounds in the first year of his career. In the second year, he averaged 25.1 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. Timberwolves fans were overjoyed. They thought their second Garnett was here.
At the same time, New York Fans has high hopes for Porzingis, who has a similar playing style.
Sadly, not only New York people have gone astray, but Minnesota has also gone astray.
No one could have imagined that his sophomore average of 25.1 points per game was already the second-highest score in his career.
Of course, as a Starting Lineup center, except for Contact, Towns is qualified in other aspects. But when comparing it to Garnett, I can only say that there is still one Marcus Camby in the middle.
Porzingis caught the ball and turned around to play with his back. After three consecutive hits, his steps became weak and he had no choice but to turn over and lean back.
Basketball Brick pops up.
Little Sabonis is also good at low post defense.
Westbrook picked off Rebound and passed the ball quickly.
Butler, who had already reached Knicks's half, jumped up to catch the ball and threw the ball out again after landing.
Chen Xi stood outside the Three-Pointer line of Knicks, with no one in front of him.
Huh~~~
The easy Three-Point Shot is at your fingertips.
The three core players from Oklahoma City showed their aggressiveness right from the start.
The "death ray guns" standing on the sidelines, Jeff·Hornacek, frowned so hard they could kill a fly.
Although it is already the second year of coaching Knicks, it is still difficult for Hornacek, a former Jazz star, to accept this poor defense.
But there was nothing he could do, even if he gave repeated orders to ask the players to correct their attitude and improve their discipline.
But the team Leader couldn't hold it back and took the lead in walking. Even if one or two people retreated in time, it would be of no avail.
Frontcourt 3 plays 2 or 2 plays 1. For Thunder, which started out as a defensive counterattack, what is the difference between giving away points?
Attacking again, Anthony reached out for the ball, Isolation Harris, Triple Threat Shot Fake, then dropped the ball to the right to break through, then immediately turned around like a drum washing machine and came to the basket, and successfully picked up the basket with a low hand.
Textbook low Isolation.
Melo is trying to use his ability to express to Coaching Bench and the uniform team that the big man you highly praise still needs to practice!
But when Melo was still looking at the bench from the corner of his eye.
Thunder's swift counterattack has already begun.
It's the classic Frontcourt 3 hitting 2, Westbrook breaks through to attract the defense, Chen Xi catches the ball, Mid-range is open, Shot.
Two more points.
If New York Fans were on the court, he would definitely be so angry at the poor defense of his home team that he would have a brain hemorrhage.
Fortunately, this is Thunder's home court, and the Fanss of Chesapeake Energy Arena will only be immersed in the home team's Fast Break, which is as fast as the wind and as dynamic as Thunder, unable to extricate themselves.
The shouts of MVP gradually sounded from the sidelines, and the Fanss of Thunder spontaneously cheered for Star Player.
Time passed little by little, and the score became bigger and bigger.
Finally, in order to save some face for himself, Hornacek put away the Starting Lineup lineup and surrendered.
At this time, Thunder has already won Knicks by 26 points.
In the end, Thunder defeated Knicks at their home court 117 to 89 by 28 points. If the bench had not won a little bit, the point difference would have jumped to 3. It also shows how difficult it is to beat a team by 58 points (manual dog head)
Thunder successfully got off to a good start in the opening match of Regular season.
At the same time, it is also announced to League that the dark clouds of Oklahoma City will sweep over the entire League, one or two, wash your butts and get ready!!
In the following games, Thunder still maintained an astonishing momentum, defeating Jazz, Timberwolves, Pacers, Bulls, Bucks, and Western Conference first won six consecutive games.