DeRozan quickly went around from the right side, stepped forward Hand-off took the Basketball from Ibaka's hand, and then turned around Face-Up Isolation Chen Xi.
There are huge technical differences between Shooting Guard, DeRozan and Chen Xi, which are also 198.
As a fan of Kobe, he is obsessed with the finish of Mid-range. His scoring methods focus on turning back, low steps, and Layup.
His Three-Pointer efficiency throughout his career has been very low, low productivity and low efficiency, but he is also a super shooter on Mid-range that is rare in League.
Among today's League, DeRozan Mid-range's shooting efficiency may be second only to Durant and Leonard. They are one of the few players who can use Mid-range's shooting rate to make up for Three-Pointer's lack of efficiency.
From a certain perspective, DeRozan and Turtle Turtle are quite similar.
Facing Chen Xi's defense, DeRozan's first choice is to break through. Relying on his own explosiveness and strength, he breaks through quickly, pushing Chen Xi into Mid-range, and then switches to a back-to-back attack.
Two consecutive blows, after leaning inward, followed by Shot Fake on the shoulder, and Shot Fake turning around. Although Chen Xi could not be fooled into taking off, Chen's center of gravity did show signs of floating upward.
At this moment, DeRozan seized the opportunity, jumped up quickly, and Fadeaway Jumper took action.
The exaggerated backward arc, soft two-stage Shot, and ultra-high arc helped Basketball fly into the net and score the team's first point.
Thunder quickly launched a counterattack.
Westbrook advanced with the ball. After reaching Frontcourt, facing Lowry's defense, he stopped on the left side of Top of the Key. After Little Sabonis Move up for pick and roll, he quickly broke through and rushed to the basket.
Due to the strategic deployment before the game, Little Sabonis had considered Three-Pointer's pretty good shooting, and Valanciunas's defensive position was relatively forward, which gave Westbrook the opportunity to directly attack the frame.
Westbrook, after the breakthrough, he only dribbled the ball once, then Three steps directly took off, rushed to the basket, took off and dunked.
It lit up the atmosphere in the arena.
The peak Westbrook, playing ball is so simple, Pick-and-Roll, then break through, then dunk, and you have two points.
For this kind of attack, Raptors doesn't have any good methods. His absolute talent is hard to limit.
Attacking again, Lowry holds the ball and Top of the Key looks for Pick-and-Roll, passes by Anunoby, and then throws the ball to Valanciunas of Interior.
Valanciunas hits Little Sabonis with his back.
After pushing inward against the tonnage, Valanciunas turned around to Forceful drive, but was disturbed by Little Sabonis's long arm, and Basketball popped out of the frame.
Westbrook jumped up quickly, took off Backcourt Rebound, then turned around and pushed forward quickly.
Frontcourt, Chen Xi and Butler, working together, rushed towards the bottom of Raptors's basket, and Westbrook's pass was very good.
Butler caught the ball and passed it to Chen Xi.
Chen Xi catches the ball and makes Layup, attracting the defensive attention of DeRozan under the basket, and then passes the ball out again.
Butler succeeded in an alley-oop dunk, completing the game.
From the smooth cooperation of the three giants Thunder.
DeRozan had no choice but to catch the fallen Basketball, turned around and walked towards Baseline, Re-inbound pass.
Raptors, who is in Eastern Conference, has not been able to play many games with Thunder throughout the year. He is not familiar enough with Transition Offense of Thunder, and lacks vigilance.
If this were Rockets, Warriors, and Spurs next door, the moment they saw Westbrook get Rebound, they would immediately turn around and run back to defend, and they would never give Thunder an easy two-on-one opportunity with Frontcourt.
However, after all, Raptors has not played against each other very often, and this is the first time they have faced off against Thunder this season. Watching the video and the actual experience on the court are two completely different situations.
So I was immediately taught a lesson by Thunder.
Raptors returned to attack Possession, and handed the attack to DeRozan again.
This time DeRozan asked for the ball directly from the low post.
After receiving the ball hoisted in by Lowry, DeRozan leaned on Chen Xi's upper body, felt Chen Xi's position with his back, and then quickly turned towards Baseline to break through.
After seeing Chen Xi follow up, he turned around with his outside foot again, twisted it again to the outside, and then Fadeaway Jumper took action.
Continuous turns around successfully caused Chen Xi to misjudge and had no time to turn around and interfere.
Basketball flew to Rim and entered the network in response.
4 to 4
Although the average points per game this season has dropped a lot compared to last season, this is more because the team is more reasonably matched and the pressure on DeRozan to score has dropped, rather than a decline in skills.
He is still Eastern Conference First Seed's shooting guard. Facing an opponent of this level, Chen Xi's defense will indeed seem a little inadequate.
He didn't try to be aggressive, he took the initiative to find Butler, communicated and switched defenses.
The young rookie, Anunoby, is only 2.01 meters tall, and his current offensive level is very average. Compared to DeRozan, he is much easier to defend.
When in doubt, look for Pajamis to switch defense! This is the secret of Chen.
Thunder ball rights.
Westbrook quickly brought the ball to Frontcourt. After waiting for Teammates to be in position, he made a Pick-and-Roll with Butler, broke through Mid-range, and made an emergency stop for a two-point shot.
Basketball Swished Through the Net.
Today's Westbrook and Offensive Desire are a bit strong.
Raptors attacked again, Isolation was still in the low position of DeRozan, but Butler, who switched defense behind him, did not give him a chance to take a comfortable shot. The blocking position and Contact gave DeRozan enough strength to make his shot Forceful drive difficult.
In the end, Basketball did pop up. Although Valanciunas found the right opportunity to grab Frontcourt Rebound, the second attack was still the same and failed to score.
This time Little Sabonis protected the Backcourt board and threw the ball to Westbrook.
Raptors's side was prepared, and faced Pick-and-Roll and Interior of Westbrook's defense change extremely quickly.
Anunoby immediately came to Westbrook and restricted his actions.
Westbrook did not force the ball and passed the ball back to the outside.
Chen Xi catch the ball Isolation DeRozan.
After Triple Threat, Front Crossover quickly rushed out from the left side of DeRozan, squeezing his body, came to the vicinity of Mid-range, stopped, and Hesitation Bait Buddha was then connected to Between-the-Legs Crossover, started a second time, and successfully got rid of Chase Defense of DeRozan, and then Face-Up Floater takes action.
Scored two points.
Chen Xi's progress has not stopped, and he is becoming more and more comfortable in using various technologies in Offensive End.
The connection of various techniques is at your fingertips.
At the same time, Floater's technology no longer relies entirely on badges. After Mid-range's attributes increased to a hundred, the near-frame projection and ejection became more confident.
The two sides continued to alternate Possession back and forth, but the Raptors side was obviously struggling more. After Butler devoted himself to the defensive end, the pressure on Raptors's outside line was huge.
Especially for the restrictions on DeRozan, there may not be many people in League who can make the restrictions on DeRozan as uncomfortable as Butler.