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() The day after the game, the league announced the list of the best defensive team of the season, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Stephen entered the first best defensive team, The second best defense is led by Tim Duncan, Chris Paul, Ron Artest, Shane Battier, Dwyane Wade. <-"

Except for Steph, no one from the Sonics made this list, mainly because the Sonics' style of play is more offensive, and the other two stars of the team, Kevin Durant and Yao Ming, are not so good defensively. Se, for this, no one cares about anything.

Only when comparing superstars, when other honors are similar, will we compare who has the number of first defense first team, first defense is the first team of the best defensive team, first team is the first best team, and at the same time won Defense is a sign of a top player, and being able to win these two awards consecutively is a sign that this player has dominated this dynasty at least in this position.

Stephen not only accepted the congratulations from his teammates, but also the congratulations from the Nuggets players who were training together. They never thought about this award, because they didn't defend and how much they invested in defense. Only they know this best .

After the start of the second game, everyone discovered that the Nuggets had changed the starting lineup. Center Nenehilario, power forward Renaldo Balkman, small forward Carmelo Anthony, hey, guard line Turned into a partner of Billups and Anthony Carter, the Nuggets actually played double point guards from the beginning.Great dominate

The Nuggets used this tactic in the last game, but it was not successful. This game still has such a lineup, and George Karl has no choice. Stephen's blocking effect on Billups is too obvious. This time The Sonics will definitely do this in the game, so George Karl is cruel, and he simply rescued Billups from the organization and asked him to deal with Stephen with all his strength. The Sonics will lose against each other.

Of course, this is also a kind of assumption. It is not certain whether it will be successful, but if no adjustments are made, it will definitely not succeed, because the results of the last game have proved that the Sonics with full firepower are not inferior to the Sonics in terms of offensive strength. The Nuggets, without Billups at the helm, even fell behind.

George Karl can't interfere with Stephen's defense against Billups, so he has to find a way elsewhere. This game liberated Billups from the work of organizing from the beginning and let him deal with Stephen. , At the same time, he also asked Carmelo Anthony to strengthen his offense, so Stephen had to come over to defend Carmelo Anthony.

Carmelo Anthony's offensive ability is really not covered. Among the three heroes, he can be called the first in terms of offensive ability. Of course, the premise is that LeBron James doesn't do so many chores. Dwyane Wade Not the state of the finals.

Carmelo Anthony may not be as proficient as Paul Pierce in offensive methods, but in terms of scoring explosiveness and continuous scoring ability, he is slightly better than Paul Pierce. In this game, Carmelo Anthony showed from the beginning Very active, making Kevin Durant who defended him miserable.

Kevin Durant suffers too much in physical confrontation, especially when Carmelo Anthony hits him sitting down, which makes Kevin Durant eager to increase his strength. I am too angry. This summer, I will definitely You have to practice hard to build up your muscles.

Not to mention Kevin Durant's resentment, Carmelo Anthony scored 27 points in most of the first quarter, helping the team lead by 21 points [-] to [-], and Carmelo Anthony not only Offensively, he also invested a lot of energy on the defensive end, which caused a lot of trouble for Kevin Durant.

If Yao Ming hadn't been able to stop his shot at the basket, the Sonics would have fallen behind even more. At this time, Stephen didn't rush to score, but focused on cooperating with the team under the premise of limiting Billups. With Earl Watson handling and distributing the ball, Stephen only did two things on the offensive end, running off the ball and setting screens for his teammates, but even so, Stephen scored seven points.

With Billups running more and more actively, his offensive threat is also increasing. Stephen is not in a hurry to help the team overtake the score, but always regards Billups as a serious problem. There is no way, Billups played so well in the last period of the last game, Stephen didn't dare to relax on him.

Although the team behind is the Sonics, but not only Stephen is not in a hurry, but Carlesimo and other teammates are not in a hurry. Winning first is not considered a win, and winning at the end is considered a win. In the regular season, once the Nuggets are big The score leads the Sonics, and it will be difficult for the Sonics to catch up. Even if Stephen scores a strong score, the opponent still has Billups, but now, without Billups' participation, the Nuggets' The offense isn't that scary, and a slight lead isn't a bad thing.

In the second quarter, the Sonics replaced Kevin Durant and Earl Watson, replaced Jarrett Jack and Russell Westbrook, and then Jarrett Jack Billups defended, Stephen switched positions to defend Carmelo Anthony.It's not that Billups is no longer a threat, but Jarrett Jack's defense can be reassuring. After Kevin Durant is off the court, neither Damien Wilkins nor Du Fei is enough. Defensive Carmelo Anthony.

On the contrary, among the point guards, Jarrett Jack's defense is pretty good. In fact, Russell Westbrook's physical fitness is better, but he is too inexperienced, and he is not enough to face a veteran like Billups. So I had to let Jarrett Jack try it out. While defending Carmelo Anthony, Stephen also had to contribute more on the offensive end.

Seeing that Stephen no longer defended Billups, George Karl immediately replaced Anthony Carter, then replaced JR Smith, and replaced Linas Kleiza at the power forward, using Billups to boost the defense. Two players with super scoring ability, as for Carmelo Anthony, this time has become the bait on the surface.

George Karl's thinking is easy to see at a glance, sending so many offensive players, isn't it just to play Billups' ability, but Stephen will not be moved at all, continue to defend Carmelo Anthony, but at the same time ask Jarrett Jack to Billups is strictly guarding against death, and the team also sent Serge Ibaka to limit Linas Kleiza's performance. As for jr Smith, Russell Westbrook will naturally take care of him.

Although the two are not quite right in size, for a player like JR Smith, there is basically no difference who will defend him. No matter who is standing in front of him, as long as he wants to shoot, he will shoot, not at all. To consider the defensive factor, the reason why the Sonics adopt such a defensive strategy is that the Sonics’ offense is not very good today. Except for Yao Ming on the inside, outside players generally have poor hands, so they can only use defense. Contain the opponent's offense, and then let Stephen drive the team's offense.

Moreover, strengthening the defense against other players can also reduce Billups' passing threat a lot. The two sides were in a stalemate for most of the second quarter. The pass is very sharp, but the Sonics' defense is also very good at the same time. Although they can't completely limit their offense, they can interfere. At the same time, the Sonics' offense is also very good under the promotion of Stephen. , The point difference between the two sides has been hovering back and forth between five and ten. Of course, the Nuggets are leading.

At the end of the first half, Stephen had just received the ball, and suddenly passed the ball across the half to Coupard. After getting the ball, Coupard directly dunked and scored. The attack time was less than three minutes. Seconds, the Nuggets had no choice but to serve and start the attack. Billups was a little negligent when passing a pass, and was intercepted by Stephen, and then passed it to Coupard again. Coupard turned around and dunked again, scoring two points again. , and also narrowed the point difference to four points.

Jr Smith's forced shot missed, the rebound was caught by Serge Ibaka, Ibaka directly passed a long pass to Stephen, facing Carmelo Anthony's defense, Stephen took a step back and came out of the three-point line , made a fake shot, Carmelo Anthony was fooled and rushed over, Stephen stagnated in the air, waited until Carmelo Anthony hit himself, then threw the ball to the basket, watching the ball was accurate Flying into the basket, Stephen made a victory gesture to Carmelo Anthony.

As Stephen easily freed the ball into the frame, Stephen couldn't remember how long he hadn't missed a free throw, but there was no need to worry. Naturally, someone specially counted this data, and the big screen quickly displayed it. Stephen has 74 consecutive free throws. He has not missed a free throw in 97 games. Although there is still a distance from the league's highest record of [-], looking at Stephen's momentum, it seems that it is not difficult for him to surpass this record.Great dominate

After completing this free throw, the Sonics also officially equalized the score. There were still 14 seconds in the first half of the game, enough for the Nuggets to complete an attack, but as Carmelo Anthony's shot was blocked by Stephen , Then Russell Westbrook's shot deviated from the basket, and the two sides entered the intermission with a score of 59.

This result is neither good nor good. The Sonics are not worried about playing against other teams in the final stage because they have a Steph, but other teams are not. In the games that the Sonics lost in the regular season, most They all led the Supersonics by a large score first, and then won the victory in the fourth quarter when the Supersonics counterattacked to no avail. If the difference between the two sides is less than 5 points in the last 90.00 minutes, then the Supersonics have a [-]% chance able to win the game.