At the end of the first quarter, Thunder led Three-Pointer 29 to 26 and entered Second Quarter.
Starting Lineup of the two teams was temporarily tied at a 50-50 draw, but Transition Period had entered, especially Transition Period and Pelicans, who were not in Davis, immediately fell out of the team.
This is the good thing about a lineup with a deep bench. Sometimes there is no need to make any adjustments, and the opponents who were originally evenly matched will fall apart on their own.
In the second quarter, Pelicans's lineup became Rondo, Antawn Jamison Nelson, Darius Miller, Cunningham and Cousins.
Also sitting on the bench was Tony Allen, who had not played.
Only 9 players rotated, five defenders.
I don't know what the management of Pelicans thinks.
Except for the guard twin towers, the remaining two are Wing, which is 1.98 meters and 2.03 meters tall.
Without a substitute, this will inevitably lead to an extremely long playing time for Davis and Cousins. You must know that these two are Interior, not defenders.
This may also be one of the causes of the vitreous constitution of Cousins and Davis.
The second lineup put out by Thunder is much more reasonable.
Chen Xi, Butler, Grant, Harris, Collins.
Facing Pelicans who has lost Davis, don't take it easy to defend.
Rondo breaks through Interior after Top of the Key looks for Antawn Jamison's Pick-and-Roll, and then passes the ball to Cousins, who receives the ball from Isolation Collins, after hitting it twice, was just about to collect the ball and take off, when Basketball in his hand was cut off by Butler on the side.
Chen Xi catches the ball and quickly advances to counterattack.
After reaching Frontcourt, he turned around and pulled Miller past, then rushed into Mid-range, facing Cunningham who was defending, and gave the ball away gently.
Basketball flew over the head of Cunningham and fell towards Basket.
He was caught in the air by Butler and used his hands to slam into the frame.
"Good shot!"
JB came over and gave Chen Xi a high-five. I don't know if it was an illusion. The ball he caught just now was much more comfortable than the pass Chen Xi usually caught.
Chen Xi smiled and retreated.
"It's still somewhat useful, Special Delivery."
Attacking again, Rondo still chose to look for Antawn Jamison Pick-and-Roll, and then broke through and scored the ball, but this time it was Darius Miller from the outside who received the ball.
The latter caught the ball Three-Point Shot, but smashed the iron angrily.
Rebound was picked up by Butler, and then Frontcourt controlled the ball alone.
After reaching out to call Chen Xi High Wing to catch the ball, Butler ran towards Left 45-degree angle.
Chen Xi Face-Up Isolation Coach Rondo.
Shake it once, but there is no response. Shake it again, but still no response.
If you don't want to eat, don't eat it! Chen Xi immediately jumped up and pulled out his hand.
Three-Pointer responded to the network, and Referee also sounded the whistle.
Rondo just reacted extremely quickly and reached out to steal the ball from Swipe, but failed to steal the ball. Chen Xi dodged it with a very detailed arcing ball to the left.
So those big hands hit Chen Xi's right forearm.
Chen Xi walks up to Free-Throw Line, making steady hits and adding penalties.
"Chris hit the extra free throw, Pelicans is 8 points behind! Without Davis, the point difference cannot be maintained."
"Yes, Pelicans's lineup is a bit deformed. The number of defenders is redundant, and Wing and Interior are very scarce. This makes their Bench depth very shallow, even if Rondo takes command again. These leftovers cannot compete with the combination of Chen Xi Butler."
The subsequent game began to become a bit one-sided. After Davis came off the court, Pelicans's Interior's defense dropped sharply. Butler and Harris's consecutive punches to the frame quickly created foul trouble for Cousins.
Gentry was forced to send Davis back to the court early.
Then Donovan saw this and immediately changed people.
Butler+McDermott+Grant+Harris+Collins.
Spacing Lineup, one large and four small, expanded the offensive area beyond the Three-Pointer line.
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Davis was forced to keep High Wing Hedge, and then Butler took advantage of the situation to attack the frame.
In terms of personnel matching for the second lineup, Donovan has much more choices than Gentry.
After the second quarter, with the hard support of Davis, the score stabilized at 9 points and did not continue to open up.
But after this, Brow's appearance time has reached 21 minutes, which is a huge load.
Then at Third Quarter, Cousins kept complaining to Referee because of a foul problem. As a result, he got two Ts in a row and was ejected.
It completely nailed the suspense of this game.
In the end, Davis once again had no choice but to taste the taste of empty shots. He scored 40 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists alone. The team lost another game 100-115, and the team's ranking dropped to Western Conference ninth.
It hurts! It hurts so much!
Davis, who was "extremely sad", walked to Thunder's half court after the game, covered his mouth and communicated with Chen Xi.
The two happily agreed on the date of the next blackout and parted hastily.
As we all know, friendship between men develops very quickly in games.
<Although I don't know his real name, I just believe him! Super Invincible Tyrannosaurus! I'll leave my back to you!>
November 22
Thunder plays at home against Golden State Warriors
This is the first confrontation between the two teams this season, and it is also the home court of Thunder, and the second time for Warriors and Back-to-Back.
Buff stacks are full.
Thunder: "The advantage is mine!"
Before the game, Chen Xi and Curry had a friendly exchange and exchanged greetings. The relationship between the two was pretty good.
The main reason is that both of them have unconventional personalities, they are optimistic and Aha believers, and they are good at communicating about their illness.
"Chris, I heard that you will only turn 21 next month? Then you can't drink?"
"Stephen, I heard that two years ago you were asked by the waiter to show your ID when you bought wine at Golden State?"
"That means I take good care of myself and look very young!"
"Then I'm really young, old man!"
Two big boys whose combined mental age is less than 16, poke each other's lungs when they meet.
"TMD! Just wait and lose! Tonight!" Seeing that the game was about to start, Curry cursed and walked back to his own half.
"I will cum in your face on Three-Pointer line! Old man!" Chen Xi pointed his thumbs down at his back.
Then this scene was captured by a random photographer, and caused a small stir on the Internet.
The game starts
Warriors Starting Lineup is still Ku, Tang, Du, Chai and scum.
Thunder also put up a lineup of Wei, Xi, Ba, Ge and Sa as usual.
To some extent, it's quite similar.
The first position is a super point guard, the second position is a top shooter, the third position is an all-around forward, Power Forward is a short power forward, Center... The sword embryo is not worthy of comparison with Little Sabonis.
The most perfect operation of Warriors this summer was to renew Curry, then renew Iguodala, and then renew Livingston. With a relatively acceptable contract, last year's championship lineup was retained.
This is the biggest reinforcement.
Looking at previous dynasty teams, the most difficult thing is often to retain the core championship lineup.
There will always be a lot of teams that are willing to spend a lot of dollars to exchange for a player with NBA Championship experience and a qualified performance on the highest stage of the NBA.
The core is difficult to assemble, and the championship puzzle is also difficult to assemble. If there is a ready-made one, why not pick it up?
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