roccoschili Chapter 172 Offense is the Best Defense (please subscribe, ask for monthly pass)
Chapter 172 Offense is the Best Defense (please subscribe, ask for monthly pass)
Chapter 172 Offense is the Best Defense (please subscribe, ask for monthly pass)
After the first quarter, the Thunder led their opponents by eight points 30 to 22. Judging from the current situation on the court, the Kings can't put much pressure on the Thunder.
林跃第一节就打了前5分钟和最后1分钟，仅仅出手两次命中一球，拿到2分3助攻1篮板。
His performance on the court was not outstanding, and his light was overshadowed by the rest of the Gemini stars.
This made many domestic fans express dissatisfaction.
"Is there no tactical status for this No. [-]?"
"Why is Lin Yue not seeking to make progress like Yi Jianlian, and playing on his own when he gets the ball, passing it back and forth, how ugly his statistics are."
Some black fans even said, "Lin Yue looks like the second place in the parallel import list. Generally speaking, the number one pick must be the second place. This Griffin is not good, and the one who pulls the crotch is Lin Yue."
"Lin Yue's ability to be No. [-] is entirely thanks to Yao Ming. Without his precedent, how could such a waste be able to enter the NBA."
The sunspots ushered in a climax at the end of the first quarter, frantically typing on the keyboard to output.
Don't care at all that the Thunder are leading now.
Brooks, as he said, replaced Lin Yue early and replaced him with Jeff Green to strengthen the defensive confrontation.
"Lin Yue, can you play at full capacity in the second quarter?"
asked Brooks.
"Okay." Lin Yue nodded. It's good to play at full capacity. It's not fun to play for a while in the first half.
After the first quarter, the coach of the Kings, Paul Westphal, was confused. He thought that the team would trade for Kevin Martin and select Evans, and the record would improve. Now it seems that this is not the case.
Although Kevin Martin's offense is good, his defense is a big colander. As soon as one side breaks through, the other side is beaten by the opponent.
The key is that the Thunder can defend more players. If you say that Stephen Curry is not good at defending, others can come to make up for it.
You said that Kevin Durant's confrontation ability is insufficient, and Jeff Green can use it to hit the body after switching defenses.
At this time, Paul Westphal finally understood that this season's Thunder team is no longer the team that was slaughtered by others. This season, they really want to achieve results.
The goals of the two sides are different. After a few years of card storage, the Thunder's development plan has been half completed.
Now Durant is hard enough to guard, and there are Lin Yue and Curry.
The rotation lineup at the beginning of the second quarter is an opportunity to chase points. The Thunder's bench is not strong, and Paul Westphal wants to attack the victory again.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Lin Yue led Sefolosha, Jeff Green, Etan Thomas and backup point guard Kevin Ollie for the Thunder.
Ollie is an ordinary rotation player. He has played in the NBA for more than 10 years. His skills are not very strong. His career scoring average is only single digits. However, he has a good attitude and good rotation ability. He is good as a substitute.
Etan Thomas is the player with the highest salary in the Thunder. The Thunder signed many people, but not many people played. There are only 8 players in this rotation. Ibaka and Sean Livingston are both sitting on the bench.
Thanks to the bonus of the rookie contract, they have no financial pressure at all now, so contracts like Eitan Thomas are not in a hurry to deal with them.
In the second team, Lin Yue continued to play the point position, and Jeff Green went to the third position.
The Kings went to Evans with four substitute players, one of whom was also a rookie in 09, Omega Casspi, who was selected 23rd in the first round.
"The Thunder had an eight-point advantage in the first quarter. As the No. [-] pick, Lin Yue's performance in the first quarter was not as outstanding as that of Evans. Lin Yue's tactical status was not high, and he took fewer shots. On the contrary, Evans, the No. [-] pick, was the player with the second most shots in the Kings." Reggie Miller said, he began to look forward to Lin Yue's performance in the second quarter.
Lin Yue has no big dreams this season. He only hopes to win the best rookie and enter the playoffs.
However, the competition for the best rookie this year is fierce. There are Griffin, Evans, Harden, DeRozan and other players.
The Kings kicked off, and Evans waited for a pass from his teammates beyond the three-point line. This quarter was a head-on contest between two high-ranking players.
In the first quarter, Lin Yue went down early, and Evans hadn't taken much advantage. He wanted to use this to tell the Thunder that it was a wrong decision to choose Lin Yue as the second place.
And domestic black fans are also expecting that Evans can blow Lin Yue up, so that what they say is not without evidence.
Evans first made a three-threat after receiving the ball, and then blocked Lin Yue's defense with his weak side, trying to score with his strong layup.
But Lin Yue didn't give him a chance, and stuck his body tightly, giving Evans enough resistance.
Evans made a strong shot and missed.
Sefolosha grabbed the defensive rebound and handed the ball to Lin Yue.
Just after finishing one here, Lin Yue also responded with singles.
After the unrestrained back luck, Evans stepped back and shot backwards. Evans didn't expect that Lin Yue would also play singles, so he didn't keep up with the defense and watched the ball go into the net.
"This movement is really elegant." Reggie Miller said, Lin Yue's body shape is closer to McGrady, but his posture is like Kobe's. This elegant style of play is very pleasing to the eye.
Is it really so smooth?
Lin Yue's singles may be late, but he will never be absent.
After seeing such a performance, the domestic sunspots began to pray that he didn't feel good.
Evans also became obsessed with shooting after being singled out. The more he couldn't score, the more he wanted to shoot. He just refused to accept that he would be worse than Lin Yue.
Although the coach of the Kings had a bad face, there was nothing he could do about it. The Thunder were actually much better than them. This was a fact. It was rare that the media's pre-match predictions were correct.
Evans' efficiency came down, and Casspi of the Kings stood up.
His talent at No. 29 may not be as good as these, but his style of play is very calm, even if this is the first NBA game of his career, he has no stage fright.
Evans couldn't score, so the others passed the ball to Casspi and made consecutive mid-range shots, which prevented the point difference from being further widened.
These 5 minutes are enough to prove why Lin Yue is the second place.
The offensive end is not only his own singles, but also connecting teams.
In addition to his excellent defense, Sefolosha also has a certain fixed-point three-point ability and is a good 3D player.
Lin Yue attracted the defense, broke into the inside of the Kings and passed the ball to Sefoloza outside the three-point line. The latter made a steady three-pointer without high defensive intensity.
Lin Yue, who was not strong enough on the defensive end, completely strangled Evans' breakthrough route under the help of his teammates. If he hadn't forced a layup to win a foul, his current statistics would be very ugly.
Tyreke Evans, who is not good at shooting suddenly, hit the rookie wall in the first game.
Casspi used a transition attack to score a layup. His breakthrough speed was not fast, and he basically relied on excellent judgment to pass his opponent.
I thought this quarter was the peak duel between Evans and Lin Yue, but I didn't expect it to become a competition between Casspi and Lin Yue.
In the second half of the second quarter, when the Thunder's three young men returned to the court, the Kings replaced Evans, who was bad at the offensive end, with Kevin Martin. Since they couldn't defend their opponents, they responded with offense.
Offense is the best defense.
Under this kind of targeted defense, Martin's offense is also intermittent, and he can't hit a wave of offensive climax.
For the Thunder, Durant and Curry were on full fire, while Lin Yue played a supporting role. In this quarter alone, he got 6 assists, perfectly interpreting what a support is.
After halftime, the Thunder led by 68 points, 51 to 17.
林跃单节6分6助攻3篮板1抢断，半场拿到8分9助攻4篮板1抢断，这表现黑粉看了也得沉默。
(End of this chapter)