Spurs serves, Murray takes Basketball from Aldridge, trots past Midcourt Line, and comes to Top of the Key.
According to the team's tactical requirements, the ball was passed to the 45-degree Kawhi to conduct the first attack.
Leonard turned around with the ball, faced Butler, and started his own Isolation.
After continuous Between-the-Legs Crossover, accelerate to the right and break through. After pushing Butler into Mid-range, change to back body.
After using the back of his shoulder to feel JB's position, he quickly turned around Shot Fake, then turned around again and hit Hook Shot close to the frame.
As time goes by, Kawhi's skills become more and more comprehensive. As a Wing, he is good at defense, Three-Pointer, mid-range shooting, and at the basket. He is good at catching and shooting, and shooting with the ball. Face-Up is good at breaking through and playing one-on-one with his back to the basket. He is proficient in low-post footwork. Now he has developed a skill Hook Shot with his big hands.
Now he is already the very terrifying almighty Wing.
Apart from the most critical aspects, it is not yet at the level of Durant, the tissue level is insufficient, and the vitreous constitution, there are almost no shortcomings.
It is almost a perfect Small forward front.
Thunder served, Westbrook continued to control the ball after halftime, and then Pick-and-Roll was called by Chen Xi.
Taking advantage of the cover, he quickly broke through and rushed directly to Paint. This time, Gasol arrived in time and established his position in advance. If Westbrook still rushed forward as hard as before, it must be a Offensive Foul.
But although Turtle Turtle is very angry, it does not mean that he has lost his mind.
After reading the defense, he quickly collects the ball, takes two steps Euro Step, shakes to mislead Gasol's judgment, then squeezes past him, and easily finishes with a low hand Layup.
Seeing Basketball enter the frame, Turtle Turtle excitedly made the Euro Step celebration gesture after landing, holding hands in virtual hands and swaying from side to side.
It attracted the audience on the sidelines, Teammates, to imitate it one after another.
Realizing that Westbrook's Offensive Desire was high today and in good condition, Popovich immediately signaled Kawhi on the sidelines to increase his defensive tendency to limit his breakthrough attack.
Kawhi nodded to indicate understanding, then took the pass from Murray and came to the wing Three-Pointer line.
After continuous shaking, he suddenly made a pull-up jump shot.
Dang!!
But unfortunately Brick.
Basketball bounced high and then fell again.
Westbrook immediately jumped up to protect the Backcourt board. At the same time, Chen Xi immediately got off Fast Break and ran quickly towards the Spurs half.
Westbrook's super long pass is coming soon.
After picking off Basketball in the air, Chen Xi stepped in front of the Three-Pointer line and made Shot Fake, deceiving Murray's defensive center of gravity. Then he dropped the ball and went straight to Interior. The standard Three-step Layup completed the finish easily.
6 to 2
After Re-inbound pass and Murray passed half the court, they chose Pick-and-Roll who was looking for Aldridge, and then sent the ball back to Aldridge who was down the line.
Aldridge holding the ball Face-Up Isolation Aaron·Gordon.
Absolute advantage in positioning, relying on his height and long arms, he easily hit the Jab Step Shot Fake and then the dry pull Mid-range twice.
Although the role players are always changing and their performance is always uneven, as long as Aldridge and Kawhi are there, Spurs's basic base will still be there.
This summer, Spurs successfully renewed Aldridge's contract with a three-year, US$72.3 million contract, allowing Spurs to retain its competitiveness. This may be the most important signing made by the management.
This will also be the last big contract of Aldridge's career. Three years later, the 35-year-old Aldridge was bought out by Spurs, and then joined Nets with a minimum salary, and then retired with regret.
Needless to say, if Nets won the championship that year, it would have fulfilled many of Fans's dreams.
This also led to the birth of Brooklyn Ruo team.
If the ball didn't hit the line, if Irving was healthy, if Joe Harris made even a key shot, Three-Pointer...
Back in the game, Thunder has the ball.
Thunder attacked again, but Westbrook still led the attack.
This time I am looking for Gordon Pick-and-Roll, then Westbrook breaks through, Gordon goes down, Double Team Attack.
Spurs's response was very good. When Murray failed to catch up with Westbrook immediately, Kawhi immediately shrank to defend. Westbrook and Aldridge also retreated to deal with the rush of Gordon, and then Murray saw this and went to supplement Butler.
However, this can only be a temporary measure.
Westbrook distributed the ball very rationally to Butler on the wing.
JB Isolation Murray.
Directly hitting the ball to break through, Contact pushed away Murray's body, and then Mid-range easily hit the ball.
Spurs's defensive discipline is enough, but the defensive flexibility of several players is insufficient. Whether it is Danny Green or Dejounte Murray, they don't have the physical capital to go to Small forward like Mismatch Defense JB.
Then the result of changing defense is to be eaten by Butler Isolation Mismatch.
But if you don't change it, it will give Westbrook the opportunity to directly punch the frame.
It can only be said that Thunder's Starting Lineup's three outsiders are too high-level, which makes Spurs's defensive resources unable to be allocated reasonably and focusing on one thing at the expense of another.
The next several consecutive Possession and Thunder always maintained an efficient hit rate, which made Spurs difficult to move on both offense and defense.
When the substitute came on at 7 and a half minutes, Spurs was already 8 points behind.
This is still under the condition that Aldridge maintains an efficient offensive level.
And after coming on as a substitute, the game situation did not improve for Spurs but became even more passive.
Chen Xi took Little Sabonis, McDermott, Grant, and Harris to form a large and four small Spacing Lineup.
Relying on Chen Xi and Little Sabonis's Hand-off Screen Play, they continuously hit the outside line Three-Pointer.
After relying on firepower to attract the center of defense, liberate Harris and others.
It is worth mentioning that McDermott's Touch tonight was very popular, with three consecutive hits of Three-Pointer.
Helped Thunder lead Spurs 37 to 27 in the first quarter by 10 points.
In Second Quarter, he maintained Touch and created his own Career Night. He hit 5 of 7 in a single quarter and scored 5 Three-Pointers. He also created a Strong Spacing Option for Thunder.
This makes Spurs even more unable to chase points.
When it came to Third Quarter, Popovich saw the score difference reached 17 points. Big Swing simply replaced the main team and began to replace Whitey and other substitutes to practice tactics and train new players.
Seeing this, Donovan naturally did not add insult to injury, and began to be more sophisticated, replacing Collins, Kennard and other newcomers.
In the end, after four quarters, Thunder won again, 107 to 100. While refusing to lose in a row, he stabilized his Second in the West record.
After the game, Chen Xi walked to the bench of Spurs and exchanged a few words with Manu·Ginobili, whom he had not seen for a long time.
In this game, Manu was also absent because of Thigh Injury, but he still followed the team to Oklahoma in a suit.
Chen Xi always maintains due respect for his favorite defenders.
Especially these veterans who are entering the end of their careers and about to retire.
Although I always adhere to the concept that life is greater than Basketball, my love for a player remains within the scope of rationality most of the time.
However, every time I see the Retirement Ceremony of veterans, emotional emotions will rush into my brain, making it difficult to control myself.