Reborn NBA's Strongest Talent

Chapter 9 9. The Unexpected Winning Streak

Two consecutive long-range attacks succeeded, disrupting the Suns' tactical arrangement.

It is difficult for one person to defend against Westbrook, an all-around fighter. If there are two more people to defend, the ball will be sent to the outside. The most damning thing is that there is even Richard, who has a perfect outside shot, staring at him.

The mentality of the Suns players began to change at this time. Booker, as the core of the team, was supposed to stand up and score points to stabilize the morale of the army.

As a result, the offense hesitated, dribbling the ball on the spot for more than five seconds, the speed of the breakthrough was not fast, and the shooting was even weaker.

It is still a long way to grow into the core of the team.

The missed shot became Richard's defensive contribution.

Or maybe it was the last time a fadeaway jumper was blocked and Booker lost confidence in facing Richard.

Westbrook got the pass and had another fast break. Facing the opponent's center, a fake pass pretended to make the opponent stunned, and he easily broke through and scored a layup.

82: 84.

The Thunder took the lead.

The Suns quickly called a timeout.

Richard and Westbrook, who teamed up to score points, raised their hands high and gave a high five.

The audience also gave applause to this pair of tacit cooperation.

Even the performances of the cheerleaders put in a lot of effort.

After the pause comes back.

The Thunder fell behind for the entire game, hanging on to 4 and 6 points all the time, because it wasn't because the opponent was strong, but because they didn't feel good, so everyone held back their energy.

Now that the team has overtaken, everyone's momentum has exploded, and the defense has become more active and aggressive.

As for the Suns, although they regrouped the starting five to play and looked aggressive, Warren suddenly lost his touch. In addition, Booker didn't take advantage of Richard in front of him, so he failed to score for three consecutive rounds.

The Thunder seized the opportunity, with Richard opening up space on the outside, Westbrook and Adams played the pick-and-roll very easily, and quickly opened up the score.

82: 90.

With only the last 2 minutes left, the Suns trailed by 8 points.

The players have lost confidence on the field, run weakly, pass the ball frequently, and the execution of tactics is full of mistakes.

The coach of the Suns didn't even have the mood to resist and directly replaced the starting lineup, put on a substitute player, and announced his surrender.

The Thunder also replaced the starting lineup accordingly, leaving Richard and 4 other substitute players.

Therefore, Richard took the initiative to take over the ball and started singles.

In the face of substitute players whose strength is similar to his own, Richard also needs to find confidence in them, instead of always being a player who can only shoot three-pointers.

Taking the ball at the top of the arc, Richard chose to break through on the right side. With special strength training, his control of the center of gravity is more stable.

During the physical confrontation, Richard felt that the hindrance to his progress was much weaker.

Patronizing to feel the change in strength, he has squeezed to almost the sideline against the defense.

Richard trapped himself in the opponent's defensive encirclement.

Fortunately, I have many shooting skills.

Continuing to dribble and exert force for a confrontation, Richard received the ball and took a big step horizontally, retreating and shooting.

It's a pity that the time has passed and the power is too strong, so it can only end with a strike.

But daring to try to do moves and shoot was affirmed by the coach. Today's shooting rate is high, and Lang will not spare you at all.

In the next attack, Richard held the ball again at the top of the arc and made a breakthrough from the left.

The opponent's shooting guard used more strength to fight this time, preventing Richard from entering the penalty area to take a retreat.

After Richard confronted twice in a row, he switched the ball to his right hand, turned around, and threw away the overstretched defender.

On the free throw line, Richard made a bow to Buddha pretending to receive the ball, and tricked the defensive center back off the ground.

Although he didn't take off completely, the center's supplementary defense was out of position. Richard bowed and broke through again, making an easy layup.

In the next attack, when breaking through with the ball can attract more defensive attention, Richard hit the ground and passed the ball, passed the pincer double, passed it to the basket, and got an assist.

In the end, the Thunder won 88:94.

Richard scored 8 points on 6 of 17 shots, becoming the only player on the team other than Westbrook to score in double figures, and it is also the highest score of Richard's career so far.

Both in the team and off the field, he has received a lot of good comments, especially for the realization of talent.

There are also a few who carefully compared Richard's defensive efficiency in the two games, and found that Richard's progress has improved by leaps and bounds, and even praised him as rare in the world.

At the same time, the Thunder started the season with two consecutive victories, sweeping away doubts.

Westbrook had two games with a quasi-thirty plus triple-double, and one with a forty-plus triple-double, and he slapped everyone who looked down on him.

"The start of the season has been in a super state. As the head star, Westbrook can fully carry the team. Even without Durant, the Thunder is still a strong team in the league this season!" After the game, many media reported on Westbrook in detail.

Richard was also mentioned.

"This rookie can stand up when the team needs it and continue the outside firepower for the team. It seems that he will be able to counterattack and become a starter in a short time. He scored 36 points in 25 minutes in two games. His scoring ability is undeniable. In the second game, he did no worse than Robertson in restricting Booker. The Thunder really found a treasure."

After reading the report about himself, Richard once again bought 2 points of strength with his salary, and went to the arena to participate in the team training.

Along the way, many people pointed at him, and it seemed that his fame had already begun.

The complacent Richard was in a very beautiful mood.

When they came to the arena, apart from Adams who greeted him actively, the other players just nodded and smiled from a distance, which made Richard feel very strange.

There was also a vague look of unfriendly eyes scanning him.

How can there be opponents in the team?
I was in a good mood, so I shouldn't be suspicious. Richard didn't pay much attention to this matter.

Next.

In the two away games on October 10 and November 30, the opponents were the Lakers and the Clippers. The Thunder took away two victories at the Staples Arena with a devastating momentum.

Both the Clippers and the Lakers play their home games at the Staples Arena in Los Angeles. Different home teams will have different decorations and replacements. Although the audience is almost the same, the fans are quite different, and the atmosphere is also different.

What is particularly embarrassing is that because winning the championship requires a flag to be hung in the center of the arena, the Clippers have to use dark cloth to cover the Lakers' 16 championship flags at home, which looks a bit weird.

In the team stadium where Kobe has been sticking to for 20 years, Richard steadily got 12 minutes of playing time and scored 8 points and 6 points.

After the collective feeling of the last game was cold, the Thunder players played collectively in these two games.

特别是首发小前锋奥拉迪波，在和湖人的比赛中16投8中拿到了20分，和快船的比赛中更是14投10中极高效的拿到了23分，和威斯布鲁克一起两分险胜快船三巨头。

The limelight suddenly overshadowed Richard, and because of this, Richard's playing time was limited.

Although Oladipo is the starting small forward, in fact, at 1 meters tall, he should be a shooting guard.

The start of the Thunder's four-game winning streak sparked heated discussions, and it continued to ferment.

"It seems that Durant's departure did not cause trouble to Westbrook, but activated his strength even more. In the first four games, he averaged 35 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists per game. If this data can continue until the end of the season, it would be terrible." In ESPN's commentary scene, a well-known basketball commentator was analyzing the data of the Thunder.

"I really didn't expect before the season that Durant's departure forced out the strongest Westbrook." Another commentator shrugged.

"And this year's role players have also performed well. Oladipo is currently averaging about 16 points per game. There is also a rookie on the bench who averages 10 points per game." The commentator in front continued to check the data of the Thunder.

"...Oh, ho ho, guess, who is Lei Ting's next opponent?"

"Could it be..." The commentator quickly inquired, "It really is Durant, the Golden State Warriors of the Big Four. A hurdle that everyone must face!"

"But the Thunder and the Warriors, Westbrook and Durant, this matchup may be more worth looking forward to."

"You're right. Perhaps this match will test the strength of Thunderclap even more."

Richard also noticed his opponent in the next game. In his own era, Westbrook was always energetic when he beat Durant. Regardless of the team's victory or defeat, the statistics would never lose. This should be the deepest love and hatred.

It's sure to be a crazy game scene tomorrow night.

However, Richard has always felt a very uncomfortable feeling these days. This feeling is like a bug crawling in his heart.

It was unbearable.

But there is no way to say what is the reason, so that I can't concentrate in training, and I have already been trained by Donovan.

"Richard, the coach will arrange the playing time according to the situation. He can guarantee your average time per game. You should perform well in training so that you can gradually get more playing time." Westbrook and Richard have been training at the same time in their personal time many times, so the two gradually talked more.

It's just that Richard's training is more because he can't waste the medals he has.

This time, Westbrook sensitively discovered that something was wrong with Richard, and directly determined that Richard was unhappy because of his playing time, so he tried to enlighten him.

"Russell, I'm not frustrated by playing time." Richard didn't know how to answer, and decided to change the subject, "Tomorrow we are going to Golden State to play against the Warriors!"

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