0153 Oklahoma Ambition
In about ten seconds, Su Yang finished the summary and waved his hand to signal the team members to act freely.
Durant and others turned around and walked away, and assistant coach Snyder sighed: "The team's defense is so good. I can't even believe that we can lose two points just because we are misled under such a smooth attack by our opponents. We are too strong."
Su Yang nodded and responded, knowing that Snyder was saying that the Mavericks' chin slip tactics caused points to be lost, but Butler's outrageous three-pointer cannot be considered a defensive mistake. The Thunder team's defense does not look fierce, but they always hold the Mavericks down tightly.
"Maybe it was the reason why I threatened them to win..."
Su Yang joked casually, but he also understood that the Thunder players did show a very serious attitude in this game, such as playing in the playoffs tiebreak, probably because they lost to the Mavericks twice before, and the players themselves wanted to prove their strength, especially Westbrook.
If it were normal, Westbrook would not have been so patient to find cover continuously. It was just that he had too many fouls when he played the Mavericks before.
Su Yang is happy to see Westbrook's mentality improve. Ibaka is not limited by tactics, so it is the same with taking the initiative to cover up.
The timeout ended in a blink of an eye and the game continued. The Mavericks did not challenge the personnel and continued to play according to the previous routine.
Su Yang was a little surprised. If you think about it carefully, you can understand that there is no problem with the Mavericks' tactical execution, but they failed to hit the shot. Perhaps Carlisle felt that the Thunder was too strong and smooth, so he tried to pause and interrupt first to see the effect, and then make changes if he couldn't do it.
The Mavericks made a run and covered the ball. Kidd dribbled the ball and broke through to the basket. Facing the siege, he twisted his body in the air to give the ball.
Marion took the ball and made a layup, but his second shot was very fast, so he jumped before the Thunder generals and scored a tip-in.
The Mavericks broke the scoring drought, the players on the bench smiled and cheered loudly, and head coach Carlisle breathed a sigh of relief.
The Thunder launched a counterattack, and the whole team focused on Ibaka's running tactics, which successfully caused Kidd to misplace the defense and still hit the back from the low post.
The audience cheered in advance when they saw this. The two had a very different height and weight, so they could just fight.
Ibaka was so uncomfortable with Kid's guard against him. He wanted to turn around in a hurry, and the referee blew the whistle and blew the punishment and walked against the rules.
A surprise shout rang in the stadium, and the audience couldn't accept it. Ibaka actually couldn't play Kidd alone.
The generals on the Thunder bench were also surprised, and Su Yang said with a smile: "Don't ignore Jason Kidd's defensive ability. He is indeed difficult to deal with the super fast point guard, but when the speed slows down, Kidd can even defend LeBron."
Jordan and his friends smiled when they heard this, as if they felt that Su Yang was nonsense, but they didn't dare to refute it because of their identity.
Harden said with envy, "Coach, I am actually that kind of defense, do you believe it?"
Su Yang chuckled: "Believe, I know you too much. You are a low-post defensive expert, but you are too much worse than Kid."
Harden showed dissatisfaction, and Su Yang said again: "If you don't agree, practice your defense well. You, All-Stars, promised me to learn Nash on the weekend..."
"Why are you talking about that?" Harden hugged his head with both hands, turned around and avoided Su Yang's eyes.
While talking, the Mavericks Butler scored two points, Chandler grabbed the rebound, and the Thunder launched a fast break counterattack.
Westbrook rushed with the ball, and in the blink of an eye, he threw away Kidd, played two-match against Marion in the frontcourt, assisting Durant to score a layup.
The central large screen shot was once again given to Mavericks coach Carlisle, and he saw his hands crossing and hugging him a little impatient.
There is really no way for the Mavericks to counterattack when facing a defensive counterattack, especially when they encounter a point guard as fast as Westbrook, they can only intentionally control the number of three-point shots and reduce the frequency of long rebounds, but that will lead to the offense being easily predicted.
Cheers all over the field, the two teams changed offensively, Kid pointed to the right sideline and directed a singles tactic.
Marion immediately set up a wall at the free throw line to cover it, clearly trying to create a chance for Nowitzki. Seeing this, Su Yang shouted a reminder.
Ibaka heard the sound and bypassed the cover and chased after him, tightly attached to Nowitzki throughout the whole process, and tried to interfere with him, making the defense full.
The two pushed and blocked the position on the right sideline. The referee suddenly blew a whistle and blew Nowitzki to swing his elbow and attacked a foul.
Cheers broke out in the Ford Center, Nowitzki took off his braces and complained, and Carlisle shrugged and raised his hand at the referee.
Su Yang raised his hands and applauded to set the rhythm, knowing that the Maverick was anxious, and his momentum came to Thunder.
The two teams changed offensively. While Westbrook was still in the backcourt, Su Yang spoke out to remind him to expand his momentum and attack at the weak position of defense. Kidd had successfully restricted Ibaka before, and he found a way to make up for it in this round and strive to make the Mavericks collapse.
Westbrook nodded to show his understanding, then dribbled the ball and ran across the center line, stopped at the top of the arc and raised his hand to signal the AI CUT series of tactics.
Seeing the gesture, Ibaka and Chandler separated the free throw line and Sefrosa stopped in the paint area, while Durant almost simultaneously started from the left sideline, and continued to use Ibaka and Chandler to cover it, crossing the half along the free throw line and moving to the right.
Unfortunately, the two Mavericks noticed it in time and took a step forward to give up space. Marion followed Durant tightly.
Seeing that Durant had difficulty receiving the ball, Westbrook raised his hand and signaled to cover it again. Ibaka turned around and removed the wall.
Sefrosa took the opportunity to go around the top of the arc from the paint area, and Westbrook passed the ball to Durant, turned around and ran towards him.
In an instant, Westbrook used Sefrosa to cover the ball without the ball and threw away Kidd and headed straight for the bottom corner on the left.
Kidd was determined to chase, but was blocked by Chandler who moved across the road, and Westbrook easily rushed to the bottom corner on the left. At the same time, Durant used Ibaka to cover up and forced a breakthrough along the right side line, and fought to his right waist, and encountered a siege.
But Durant stopped calmly, raised his hand and threw the ball towards the bottom corner on the left, while Westbrook took the ball and made a three-pointer with a large open position.
Kidd had no time to block the block, and the basketball thundered into the net with a loud bang, and the Thunder expanded to 15 points.
Cheers burst into tears in the Ford Center, and the generals of the Thunder bench applauded with the audience. Assistant coach Brian smiled: "Russell has grown a lot. He seems to be able to use his physical fitness freely and rarely rush and fight hard."
"Of course..." Su Yang sighed, thinking that it would definitely be effective after nearly two years of deliberate training.
While thinking, the Mavericks launched a counterattack, no more tactics to run, and directly handed the ball to Nowitzki for a single shot.
That was the Mavericks' move at the bottom of the box. There was no other way at the moment, so they could only take it out to deal with a large backward situation.
The audience seemed to notice the Mavericks' struggle, and the booing quickly filled the stadium, and the audience on the sidelines shouted wildly.
Nowitzki took the ball with his back and tried for a while, then turned around and lowered the center of gravity, but did not rush to start.
Seeing this, Su Yang waved to double-team, Westbrook immediately gave up Kidd and rushed forward, and Nowitzki hurriedly passed the ball.
The basketball flew straight back to the top of the arc. The moment Kidd got the ball, Chandler had already rotated to make up for defense, and the other Thunder players were looking for someone.
Seeing the Mavericks get frustrated, the booing in the stadium becomes even more intense, and Kidd hesitates for a while and breaks through to the lower right ball.
Chandler tried his best to lower the center of gravity, and tried to catch up like a crab, blocking the breakthrough space.
Kidd was forced to stop and pass the ball again to Nowitzki, who was raised to the 45-degree three-point line on the right.
Unfortunately, only eight seconds left in the offensive time. Nowitzki took the ball and swung his elbows continuously, and Su Yang signaled Chandler to double-team.
In short, Kidd is not strong in offensive intention, slow three-point shooting, and low three-point shooting rate.
As Su Yang guessed, Nowitzki passed the ball to the top of the arc again, but Kidd still didn't grab the three-pointer.
It was not until Westbrook's backup defense was in place that Kidd jumped up and tried to make a three-point foul, but Westbrook forced a test to avoid it.
Bang! The basketball fell off the board.
Sefrosa raised her hand to grab the basketball, turned around and rushed directly to the frontcourt, without passing it to Westbrook or Durant.
In three seconds, Sefrosa rushed to the elbow area on the right side of the frontcourt. Seeing the big double-team, she hurriedly threw the ball towards the top of the arc.
Amid the cheers of the whole audience, Ibaka took the ball and took a step forward, flying towards Nowitzki and snatched two points.
Dong! The basketball hit the basket and entered the net. The Thunder led the Mavericks 24-7, and the sound of the pause whistle sounded again.
Su Yang stood up and applauded, knowing that he would win the game with a clear chance of winning. He quickly walked to the center line and brimmed with the players.
At the same time, in the TNT studio, Barkley said seriously: "At the beginning of the season, everyone heard that the Thunder was aiming to win the championship, and everyone thought it was just a casual talk. When they scored eleven consecutive victories, everyone felt that it was not a joke.
But after their three consecutive defeats, everyone thought they were indeed a bit strong, but they lacked experience and had obvious weaknesses.
They made timely adjustments and regained their winning streaks, and everyone thought they were almost nothing to the championship.
Now, they have fully demonstrated their championship qualities and ambitions. I predict that as long as they reach the final, they will definitely win the championship."
As Barkley finished speaking, Su Yang in Ford Center suddenly felt a little chilling in his neck.
Chapter completed!