Build a Dream Dynasty

The beginning of the fourth quarter was like a replica of the second quarter. Brooks tried to get more rest time for Durant and Westbrook. And once neither of them were on the court, the Thunder collapsed directly.

There is no good tactical system formed in the usual training and games. With Durant and Westbrook supporting the field, it is enough for others to practice defense and eat cakes. This deformed team building model has led to the problems of the Thunder today. The bench players bought Durant a 90-second break, plus the score went from a one-point lead to a five-point lead, and then Durant returned to the battle, and then led the team to fight back. And Westbrook only rested for an extra minute before reappearing.

In contrast, Curry and Lopez were much happier. They took a minute more rest than Westbrook.

But the advantage of physical strength belongs to the advantage of physical strength. Stevens has his own tactics, the advantage of the thickness of the lineup, and a better system. All of these are just for one thing, to offset the sparkle of the Thunder's starlight. His plan is well designed, but there is a genius radiance that really cannot be covered up by "tactics" and "systems". Unfortunately, the Thunder have two such players. Back on the court, the Thunder and Juniors are still full of energy, especially Westbrook. Judging from his actions, he does not look like a player who has fought for three quarters. He still maintains strong physical strength and fighting spirit, and he is extremely explosive. Breakthrough still looks unstoppable!

The Thunder attacked. Durant took the ball from the low position on the right side, protruded from the bottom line after probing, leaned on Leonard to get into the basket, jumped up to pull the bar under the double-team of Green, threw the ball in the gap, and hit the board with a backhand hit.

With such a tall height, playing this kind of fancy work is outrageous!

Curry was double-teamed by Holiday and Westbrook and split the ball in time. Fernandez and Green picked and rolled again without the ball. Fernandez stormed the basket, feinted and then turned to the baseline, relying on Durant's assisting defense to hit the board and score.

Ibaka is resting off the court at this time, and Durant has spare power to stay on the offensive end in order to preserve his physical strength. After all, there is a vacuum inside the Thunder team. Fernandez seized this point and launched an attack towards the opponent's inside line.

In the next round of offense, it wasn't Dewey and the youngsters who completed the end of the Thunder. Durant held the ball from the free throw line to attract double-teams, and the moment he was about to give Westbrook a flick of his wrist, Simmons, who was in the open, just finished the pad Stepping forward, facing Lopez's supplementary defense, he rose up from the ground, and shocked everyone with a powerful buckle.

Simmons is the second-round pick chosen by the Nets this season. However, the Nets, who are strong and strong on the wing, really don't have a place for him. Got his place in the team. This time, as the "important rotation player" of the Thunder in the finals against the former owner, Simmons can be said to be doing his best to perform well.

It is of course a good thing to have fighting spirit, but sometimes being too excited may not be able to play a positive role. For example, this time, Simmons used too much force when he added the penalty, and he missed the penalty directly, and it was easy for the fans to vent their emotions that were already in place.

The game continued. At critical moments, the Thunder's tactics became more extreme. In the first three and a half quarters, they played a little bit of tactical running and running. In the second half of the fourth quarter, they directly started the pick-and-roll with Dewey.

The Nets' defense is not weak and the effect is not good. There is no other reason, the two masters of the Thunder team, the superstars are very good at the critical moment, they either force a hit or cause a foul. Westbrook effectively shared the pressure on Durant's offensive end. Driven by the dual-core, the Nets' resistance became more and more powerless.

On the offensive end, the outside players of the Nets kept running to find opportunities, catch the ball, and play singles. Their performance was very good, and their physical advantages allowed them to run more opportunities without the ball, and they tried their best not to be opened up by their opponents. But at the critical moment, Durant's consecutive hits still completely tipped the balance of victory to the Thunder.

In the end, the Thunder narrowly beat the Nets by 5 points 118:113, successfully defending their first home court, and rewriting the big score to 2:1.

In 43 minutes of playing, Durant made 17 of 27 shots, scored 41 points, scored 12 rebounds, blocked 2 shots, and beat Leonard again. If he can continue this kind of performance and lead the team to win the championship, Durant is afraid that it will not only be the honor of FMVP, but the gold content of this FMVP can be guaranteed in the long history of the NBA!

For a time, almost everyone was worshiping Durant. Is the Nets so weak that Durant has such exaggerated statistics? of course not! In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Nets almost swept the defending champion Heat. Under the defense of the Nets, James’ shooting percentage declined to a certain extent, both in terms of personal data and shooting percentage. Pulling is also a tactical victory in an absolute sense! In fact, almost everyone also believes that, except that Stevens did not arrange for Curry, Lopez and others to play for more than 40 minutes like Durant and Westbrook, his tactical quality is still significantly better than Brooks. , but can two people with a "glass" physique really use it like this? The media also expressed their understanding.

In any case, it is an indisputable fact that Brooks won the battle with Stevens by compressing the lineup! At this time, the media began to brag about the irreplaceable value of the "superstar", which happened every time. Superstars shine because their value is irreplaceable. Role players perform well because their real strength is very strong. They have always been underestimated. When a substitute player decides the game, he is a substitute for surprise soldiers. The mouth of the media is the water that flushes the toilet.

Is Jiang Mingliang under a lot of pressure? of course. But at this moment, he still filtered out some unharmonious voices from the outside world and focused on the team itself. For example, the team plans to complete an early contract extension with head coach Stevens in the summer.

Stevens' current salary is 3 million, which belongs to the middle and lower level among the league's coaches. Obviously, it does not match his achievements. Jiang Mingliang did not intend to use this "child labor contract" to really tie him up for five years. Regardless of whether he wins the championship or not, an early salary increase and contract renewal are necessary.

To this end, he prepared a new five-year contract of 35 million yuan, with an annual salary of 7 million US dollars, which is second only to Spurs coach Popovich and Celtics champion coach Rivers in the league. Tied with Carlisle of the Mavericks for third in the league. For the current Stevens, it is really a very favorable condition.

The contract has been drafted and completed. Regardless of the outcome of the finals, the team will complete the contract extension with Stevens ahead of schedule in the summer.