Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 354 Data or Victory?

After halftime, Ye Feng's data looked mediocre. He "only" scored 12 points and 7 assists. He looked like an ordinary member of the team, and he played the data of a point guard.But Durant has already scored 19 points against him. It seems that he can score at least 30 points in this game. Completely defeated Ye Feng.

But in Ye Feng's view, comparing personal data is meaningless, he would rather score zero points than hope that the team can win the game.Although Durant scored 19 points, the Thunder are now 8 points behind the Trail Blazers at halftime, so Durant's scoring did not help them out of the predicament.

Brooks is having a headache. 8 points is not a big gap, but it is quite close to double digits. The meaning of leading by 9 points and leading by 10 points on the basketball court is completely different. Once the opponent leads by double digits, the team There will be a fluctuation in morale, and if you can withstand it, you still have to fight, but if you can't, you will be defeated for thousands of miles.

And it seems that Durant has been restrained by the Blazers' lineup, and Perkins has become a breakthrough for the opponent.Brooks replaced Perkins in the middle of the second quarter when he replaced Collison as the center of the team, but the effect was not very good. Collison was more than brave but not fine. He could only improve the situation slightly, but he did not There is no substantive change. After Ibaka is contained, the Thunder's basket is not much different from being undefended.

In fact, the Thunder's inside players are not many strong. Ibaka is the only one who wants to keep up with the Blazers' offensive rhythm, and there is no one else available.Facing the Blazers' first and fourth juniors, Brooks had no solution, at least he couldn't think of this one, so he could only give it a go in the second half.

Under normal circumstances, as the sixth man of the team, Harden will come on the court to fight side by side with Durant and Westbrook at the most critical time, but now it is clear that Brooks thinks this is already a critical moment.After the start of the second half, he replaced the starting shooting guard Sefolosha with Harden. The center position is still the veteran Collison. It is meaningless for him to limit the Blazers' offense. .

After Harden played, he was a good supplement to the Thunder. In this way, their ball-holding points increased to three, which also greatly increased the difficulty of the Blazers' defense.But McMillan decided on Durant and continued to double-team Ye Feng and Cunningham, while Harden still handed it over to Miller.

However, Miller's dealing with Harden is obviously not as handy as dealing with Sefolosha. After all, Sefolosha is only a 3D player, and Harden is much more versatile than him.This has to make people admire the vision of the Thunder management in selecting high-ranking rookies. Whether it is Durant, Westbrook, Harden or Ibaka, they have been able to play an important role in the game alone, and they They were also brought back to Oklahoma by the Thunder directly from the draft.

It was entirely within McMillan's expectation that Miller couldn't hold Harden down, but he didn't believe that Harden could reverse the game on his own, and Miller wouldn't be completely blown away by him, he could only say he was at a slight disadvantage .After all, Harden is not good at speed. His advantage lies in his ability to combine man and ball and his ever-changing rhythm of possession. Miller can rely on his rich experience to deal with him and even cause some interference to his personal offense.

I don't know if it's because he has been the sixth man of the team. Harden doesn't have the sense of responsibility to lead the team to victory, because he has always been the team's third or even fourth man.So at the beginning of the second half, he fell into silence after scoring 5 points in a row. Miller's close defense and small moves annoyed him, and he even got an offensive foul because of it. But now it is obvious that Durant and Westbrook are in trouble. The right to shoot can only be given to Harden.

Although the Blazers continue to maintain a lineup of one big and four small ones, and Aldridge himself is not a good rebounder, as long as the Thunder loses offense, basically every Blazer player will rush to the inside to protect the rebounds. McMillan specially ordered it during the break.It doesn't matter if you can't make a fast break, as long as you don't give the opponent a second chance to attack, in his opinion, the Blazers can also beat the Thunder if they play steadily.

So Harden's consecutive missed shots were all transformed into the Blazers' backcourt rebounds, and the Blazers who controlled the rebounds became more relaxed, and the exquisite coordination made people dizzying.Ye Feng is still the core of the team's tactical system. Even if Durant comes to mark it personally, it is useless. Ye Feng's skills can ensure that he can find the space for the ball under Durant's defense, and he is also happy to send the ball to his teammates. shells.

The score quickly opened up on the field. You can't expect a team to do anything big when the No. [-] and No. [-] scorers are all misfired. Durant's misfire is due to the double-teaming of Ye Feng and Cunningham , and Westbrook's restriction is entirely due to Matthews.

Completely different from the Thunder, the Blazers' shot rights were not concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. Ye Feng controlled the ball, but under his command, almost everyone got a shot. Cunningham, who has no sights, also cooperated with him to complete several alley-oops.The Thunder's defense completely turned into a sieve in front of him. By the end of the third quarter, the point difference had reached 15 points.

Seeing that the team was in trouble, Durant had no choice but to stand up and take over the team's offense, but Ye Feng and Cunningham obviously wouldn't let him take the shot so easily.Durant can use scoring to stop the team from bleeding, but every time he attacks, he has to spend a lot of energy, but his teammates can't do anything. This is also the sorrow of the Thunder. They only rely on certain people in the team. It is a big disadvantage of superstar basketball.

With 4 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Brooks replaced the entire starting lineup. He needs time to break the Blazers' double-team, and today is obviously not the time.In the end, the Blazers beat the Thunder 123 to 112 at home and won the Western Conference Finals.Durant scored a game-high 42 points plus 8 rebounds and 5 assists, which is indeed a luxurious report card, but his team lost the game.

Before the game, Ye Feng, who was considered to compete with Durant for the title of No. 18 small forward in the Western Conference, only scored 12 points in this campaign, but sent [-] assists, which completely revitalized the entire team.Although he lost in terms of statistics, it doesn't matter, as long as the team wins.

(End of this chapter)