Although today's kd has obtained NBA Championship, the team's defeat last year still made the relationship between the players on the team slightly tense.
Warriors The once happy atmosphere has inevitably faded.
If he fails to win NBA Championship this year, where should he go?
Durant's contract will expire again next year. No matter how much he cuts his salary for the next renewal, Warriors will not be able to maintain the current lineup.
Because next summer, Green's contract will also expire.
Then Warriors probably can't keep two people at the same time.
From a certain perspective, this year is also the window period for Warriors to compete for the championship, the last year.
Put your mind back on the court.
Returning to Offensive End's Warriors, I changed my offensive starting style.
After Curry plays the ball to Durant.
KD is directly at the high level Isolation Grant.
Although your Interior's level has improved, your Wing's defense has actually declined.
Durant Isolation Grant.
In the battle for the rand, all that is left is Zhou Qi.
After a Shot Fake, he connected with a fast Hesitation Dribble to start, then changed direction and pulled back for a pull-up jumper.
Huh~~
High difficulty Long Two hit.
Of course, the difficulty level is based on the level of other people.
For Durant, this kind of ball is just a conventional offensive method.
The ball possession changed and Thunder side advanced quickly.
After Westbrook reached Frontcourt, Top of the Key held the ball, waited for Brow to get stuck in the low post, and then hoisted the ball into Interior.
Two meters and eight, Post-up one meter and ninety-eight.
Green Even if he is a dpoy, it is impossible for him to live in Brow's Isolation.
After Davis caught the ball, he turned around and, relying on his ridiculous shoulder width and stride length, passed Green directly, came to the basket, faced Looney Help defense, and flew over Forceful drive.
Beep!!!
Referee The whistle sounds.
Defensive foul.
Brow is on Free-Throw Line.
Looney can't help it. If he hadn't been pulled down just now, he might have been Poster Dunk.
Thunder's opening strategy is very obvious, which is to focus on Davis.
Relying on the huge advantage of Power Forward, we will take advantage of Warriors Interior.
Davis, who debuted for the first time, is full of energy and has huge lethality.
Don't talk about Green, Gobert is here, and it's not impossible to beat him. (It's not that Gobert is stronger than Green, it's just that Gobert has a better body shape, and Green is stronger than Help defense)
The game slowly progressed, and the time came to eight minutes and fifteen seconds of the first quarter.
Thunder calls out Timeout.
Donovan replaced Davis.
Although Brow is not very poor in terms of physical fitness, for such a large-sized Interior, if rest can be guaranteed, it is still necessary to give him as much rest as possible.
Warriors also replaced Durant who also had physical problems and spent a lot of money in the first half of the quarter.
Back on the field again, Thunder's lineup became Westbrook, Carter, Grant, Collins, McGee.
Chen Xi also took a break by the way.
On Warriors's side, Curry continues to lead the team, with Klay, Iguodala, Damian·Jones, and about Nurse·Jerebko.
It can be seen that in the games at the beginning of the season, both sides will still intentionally give some newcomers and substitutes more playing time to give them enough training, in the hope that someone who will grow well can stand up and help the team in the future.
The first quarter ended quickly.
Thunder 28 leads Warriors by two points than 26.
In the first half of the quarter, thanks to the outstanding performance of Davis, we once achieved a 6-point advantage.
However, after switching to Transition Period's lineup, Thunder's firepower dropped sharply, which led to Warriors closing the gap again in the second half of the quarter.
Westbrook's condition tonight didn't look good, and Carter, who replaced Chen Xi, failed to show the firepower of Three-Pointer's Top Ten, who only made 1 out of 3 shots.
After a short inter-section Timeout, the second quarter started quickly.
Chen Xi appears with Seth Curry, Jerebko, Vanderbilt and Noel.
This may be the weakest lineup of Thunder.
Donovan is also aiming to train troops. If the opponent is not Warriors, he is afraid of accidentally digging too big a hole, and he would not even plan to enter Chen Xi.
Warriors's side is led by Durant and Iguodala.
Warriors attacks first.
Livingston holds the ball on the outside and organizes the team's offense.
First, he completed a Pick-and-Roll with Brother No. 1, and then broke through into Mid-range, making a pull-up jump shot.
Two points easily hit.
The anti-Pick-and-Roll level of Seth·Curry is not very high.
After returning to Offensive End, Curry Dribble to Frontcourt, obediently play the ball to Chen Xi.
Chen Xi holding the ball Isolation Cook.
After Crossover Dribble, Hesitation Step was connected, and Cook was directly shaken. The latter couldn't help but take a step back.
With just this step, Chen Xi jumped straight into the air.
Three-Pointer ball hits easily.
With the improvement of various attributes and the enrichment of badges, Chen Xi's current offense becomes more and more relaxed.
Facing inferior defenders, he can already score points very easily.
If he wants his offensive methods to become more complicated and laborious, he must at least be a defensive-level player to do it.
Warriors Re-inbound pass.
Durant received the pass in the logo area, and then brought the ball in front of Jeff·Green.
Instead of rushing to continue Isolation, he waited for Livingston to get in the low post and then hoisted the ball into Interior.
Livingston Isolation Seth Curry.
A very easy low attack. After two shoulder shakes, he directly followed up and turned back.
Basketball silk slides into the net.
Thunder's Bench lineup's defensive level is still relatively low.
But fortunately, there is Chen Xi here.
This time Chen Xi was shipped directly from Backcourt Receive Ball to Frontcourt, and then continued to name Cook.
Crossover Dribble connected with a Bait Buddha and easily shook Cook's center of gravity. Then the ball broke through and entered Mid-range, attracting Durant Help defense and then passed the ball to Jeff·Green on the wing.
Jerebko catches the ball directly Three-Point Shot.
Huh~~
Basketball Swished Through the Net.
Chen Xi looked at the Ten Dimes badge flashing in the corner of his eyes and nodded slightly.
This thing is really a powerful tool for getting assists!
Then an interesting picture gradually appeared on the field.
Obviously they are two super Isolation players, but Durant and Chen Xi, at the beginning of the festival, both chose to give priority to Teammates.
On Thunder's side, relying on the organization badge and the excellent Three-Pointer goals of Jerebko and Curry, Chen Xi directly racked up four assists.
The same goes for Warriors, which kills Seth Curry. Livingston gets whatever it wants at the low position.
It wasn't until the Three-Pointer half of the second quarter that the situation changed.
Starting Lineup on both sides gradually returned to the field.
Westbrook took over the organizational tasks of Chen Xi again, and then Chen also began to increase his personal offensive role.
Similarly, on Warriors's side, Curry Green's return also made the team's offense smoother.
By the end of the half, Thunder 61 was 4 points ahead of Warriors 57.