It had to be said that Kidd, a legendary guard, was no slouch when it came to coaching either.
The adjustments he made had indeed caused the Thunder quite a bit of trouble.
Unfortunately, the Thunder the Mavericks ran into tonight were anything but normal~~
Chen Xi played 39 minutes, shooting 10-for-20 and "only" scoring 29 points, with 7 rebounds and 14 assists.
Westbrook played 40 minutes, shooting 9-for-16 and finishing with 24 points, 6 rebounds, and 9 assists.
Davis played 38 minutes, shooting 12-for-19 and scoring 33 points, with 13 rebounds and 3 assists.
As the team's undisputed core, Chen was ironically the "most ordinary" of the four core players tonight~~
On this night, Anthony Davis was the brightest star on the court.
AD relied on his outstanding finishing ability to unleash a burst of "garden-god activation," displaying the aggression of a top interior player.
With his hard-nosed layups and excellent mid-range shooting, he single-handedly tore apart the Mavericks' interior defense.
Even when the game reached its latter stages and Gobert switched onto AD, it still failed to have much of an effect.
That was because Westbrook and Alexander were also providing plenty of firepower from the perimeter that night.
Their mid-range jumpers, along with the occasional three-pointer from outside, made life miserable for the Mavericks as well.
Not to mention, they also had to constantly split their attention and defensive resources to keep an eye on Chen~~
After all, even if he had been rather unremarkable in the first half, Chen was still Chen Xi. No one could guarantee that he wouldn't suddenly explode with some absurdly massive performance...
And when the four-man core could score more than 100 points in a single game, Oklahoma was very difficult to beat.
The commentators at the venue even boldly declared,