On the sidelines, Walton clenched his fists nervously.
In the first playoff game of his career, Walton originally wanted to adopt a more conservative defensive plan, but Wang Feng argued with reason and strongly urged the Lakers to adopt a more aggressive attitude towards Westbrook's defense.
"In terms of lineup, we are at a disadvantage. If we play steadily, the opponent will definitely take advantage of the stars' personal abilities and dominate the game! Westbrook is a player who mainly breaks through and hits the basket. His long shots are extremely unstable, especially
The three-point shooting percentage is extremely poor, so we should take a gamble!"
"If he has really good outside touch and can shoot us to death, then we will admit it, but if he can't hit an open three-pointer and cannot break through with the ball because of the Lakers' shrinking defense, then we will accept it.
There’s a chance to win!”
On the court, Westbrook frowned at Ball and snorted coldly.
At the beginning of the game, neither side scored, so there was no reason for him not to dare to shoot a three-pointer.
Without any hesitation, Westbrook jumped directly on the spot and took a hand. Ball only raised his hand symbolically to interfere. Because the distance between the positions was too far, it did not cause any substantial interference at all.
"box--!"
However, even when shooting with almost zero interference, there is still a crisp sound of hitting the iron.
As expected of Westbrook, he did not live up to Wang Feng's expectations at all. The first ball he shot just after the game started missed the frame.
Randall took advantage of the opportunity to protect the rebound and handed it to Ball.
Offense and defense exchange, the Lakers attack.
Ball, who came to halftime, waited until his teammates were all in position, then passed the ball to Wang Feng neatly.
Wang Feng stood at a 45-degree angle on the right side of the three-point line and looked at George in front of him.
At this time, George was fully focused, his eyes were fixed on Wang Feng, and his defensive posture was meticulous.
Compared with most of the defenders Wang Feng encountered in the regular season, George is considered a more difficult one. He has outstanding defensive awareness, fast speed, flexible movements, and good confrontation ability. This is true from the early Pacers period when George could compete with
You can see it when James resists.
George's defensive ability is quite balanced and he has been selected to the All-Defensive Team three times before.
But this kind of defensive ability is still not enough against Wang Feng.
Wang Feng's current overall rating has gone one step further and reached an overall rating of 94 points after strengthening his low-post defensive ability value by 15 points.
According to the overall ability value of Paul George given by the 2K series at the same time, it should be around 91, which is lower than Wang Feng. What's more, most of Wang Feng's ability values are concentrated in offensive attributes, which makes the gap between the two sides quite obvious.
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There were no pick-and-roll calls and no fancy dribbling moves.
As soon as Wang Feng came up, he directly used his most commonly used and most effective action, the ball-holding breakthrough under the triple threat!
In the first step, the master badge was activated instantly, and Wang Feng passed half of George's body in an instant.
"So fast!"
Although he was mentally prepared, George was still half a beat too slow and could only reluctantly follow Wang Feng sideways and try to squeeze him out.
But Wang Feng88's power made it impossible for him to do it.
"Sure enough, he broke through with the ball and hit the basket again!"
Seeing this, Thunder center Adams immediately took the initiative to greet him and took his position first.
Wang Feng likes to break through quickly and hit the basket at the beginning of the game, using a powerful dunk to boost the morale of the team. His first step is too fast, and most players can't react in time at the beginning of the game.
But the Thunder had already done a lot of research and analysis on Wang Feng's game videos before the start of the playoffs, and they knew exactly how to deal with this situation.
Wang Feng's breakthrough speed is very fast, but this also causes the disadvantage of being unable to quickly disguise himself during the breakthrough. After all, he is not a short defender with a height of 1.83 meters, but a forward with a height of 2.01 meters. He can reach the breakthrough speed of a defender.
It's quite a powerful thing. If you can still have the flexibility of a small guard during breakthroughs, then no one else will play.
As long as Adams positions himself in advance to block Wang Feng's path, the opponent will definitely hit him when trying to hit the basket, and then he will be called for an offensive foul.
Adams was even prepared. Once the two bodies came into contact, he would immediately fall back to get a foul.
However, Wang Feng also saw through Adams's idea, braked suddenly, and then directly changed his move and shot a mid-range jumper.
George didn't react and could only watch Wang Feng take the shot.
"brush!"
Two-point hit.
Wang Feng takes the lead for the Lakers.
When the Thunder have the ball, it's still Westbrook who holds the ball and attacks.
George obviously wanted the ball and responded to Wang Feng, but Westbrook did not pass the ball to him.
Ball still stood at the free throw line to defend Westbrook.
But this time Westbrook did not continue to shoot three-pointers from the outside. The first three-pointer he took made him feel that the three-pointer today was not very good.
It's enough to make Westbrook, who is already not very good at three-point shooting, feel even worse.
But instead of shooting a three-pointer, Westbrook still chose to play by himself. He directly faced Ball standing at the free throw line and launched an attack, holding the ball and accelerating straight to the basket.
Although Ball is just a rookie in front of Westbrook, he is after all a big guard with a height of 1.98 meters, and at the free throw line, there is a lot of preparation space, so he has followed Westbrook to defend to the basket.
Westbrook was not timid at all. He directly forced a pull-up layup in the air. The action was extremely difficult, but he was still used to hitting the iron.
Adams overpowered Lopez to grab the offensive rebound and score a tip-in, finally stopping the Thunder's losses in time.
Thunder center Steven Adams is not easy to mess with and is a good rebounder.
Even though he only averaged 9 rebounds per game in the regular season, that's because he is always responsible for grabbing rebounds for Westbrook to get statistics.
Adams has an excellent sense of rebounding. This season he is the only player in the league who averages more offensive rebounds than backcourt rebounds in the regular season.
He averages 5 offensive rebounds per game, but only 4 defensive rebounds, which is quite strange, but everyone knows that this is for Westbrook's triple-double data.
The Lakers currently do not have an inside player who is good at protecting rebounds, which makes it difficult to deal with Adams.
Fortunately, on the offensive end, Wang Feng, who took over the ball and offense from the start, can still show efficient scoring efficiency under George's defense.
George's defensive ability is very strong, and with the assistance of Adams, he successfully limited Wang Feng's scoring methods to mid-to-long-range shots.
But even so, it was still difficult for George to completely defend against Wang Feng's shots. Many times, the defense was in place, completely blocking Wang Feng's view of the shot, but the opponent was still able to put the basketball into the basket.
Of course, this is thanks to the bonus effects of badges such as Marksman and Hot Zone Hunter.
With Wang Feng's efficient scoring, the Lakers successfully took the lead at the start.