The era of point forwards in the NBA

Chapter 207 The Son of Luck (asking for a subscription, asking for a monthly pass)

In the early morning of November 11, the Thunder came to Secramento, California. At 10 o'clock tonight, they will start a contest with the Kings here.

The Thunder with 5 wins and 1 loss played against the Kings with 3 wins and 4 losses. Looking at the record alone, the two teams are different from the rotten fish and shrimp duel that fans thought before the start of the game. According to the prediction before the game, the probability of the Thunder team winning has reached 80%.

A large part of the reason is that Kevin Martin, the king's top scorer, was injured and absent.

But this time, the management of the Kings has strengthened their determination to train Evans. They plan to use this season to train such rookies, and at the same time they will start the draft next season.

The Kings have great ambitions, and they are willing to wait for an opportunity, just like the Thunder, they will turn around as soon as they are drafted.

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Without Martin in this game, the Kings' starting lineup changed to Beno Udrich, Jason Thompson, Andres Nojoni, Tyreke Evans and Spencer Hawes.

The Thunder's starters are still Curry, Lin Yue, Durant, Sefolosha and Collison.

Ibaka was not placed in the starting lineup this time, which is what Coach Brooks meant. Except for some particularly strong insiders or teams that only rely on breakthroughs to score, he intends to use the above starting lineup.

Ibaka's inside defense is good and his confrontation ability is strong, but he has no three-point ability.

In the starting lineup, even the current Lin Yue has a 47% three-point shooting rate. Of course, this is because the shots are too few, so the shooting rate appears to be high.

Durant, Curry, and Sefolosha are all players who can shoot three-pointers. Facing the average inside Kings, it is enough to use Collison to defend alone.

After the first quarter, Curry was in poor condition. He made 3 of 0 shots from outside the three-point line, 2 of 1 two points, and only scored 2 points in a single quarter. It seems that the exhausted schedule caused the players to be in poor condition.

However, the Thunder has many players who can play, one of the three cores is not performing well, and there are two.

Lin Yue played the best performance in the first quarter of the season, played 7 minutes, made 6 of 4 shots, scored 10 points and 3 assists, which can be said to fill the vacancy that Curry did not feel good.

另一边，拿到球权的埃文斯出手不多，4中1外加两个罚球，拿到4分2篮板1助攻1抢断以及可怕的3次失误。

This directly caused the Kings to fail to seize Curry's poor feel and overtake the score. Instead, the Thunder led their opponents 26 to 24.

"It's rare to see Lin Yue's full-fire performance in the first quarter." Zhang Weiping said, he was surprised by Lin Yue's performance.

"Durant didn't take many shots in the first quarter, but he took three shots. He saw that Lin Yue felt good, so he didn't stick to his singles." Yu Jia said.

At this stage, the Thunder's performance in the NBA is very good, not only helping them become popular in the United States, but also falling into a basketball carnival in China.

The sales of the No. 25 jersey of the Lin Yue Thunder team have directly become a hit in China, and even surpassed the extremely popular Kobe Bryant in sales this season. It is well-deserved No. 1 in jersey sales.

It's a pity that Lin Yue didn't release his signature sneakers after signing with Adidas, otherwise the sales of sneakers would definitely become a hit.

Now Lin Yue's jersey can be seen on most of the field, this rapid popularity can directly reflect Lin Yue's popularity.

This is incomparable to Yi Jianlian. After Yao Ming was injured, Chinese fans urgently needed someone who could take over. Yi Jianlian has indeed received the attention of the Nets, especially after Carter left. The Nets are also vigorously cultivating Yi Jianlian.

However, the effect is not ideal, it can only be said that it needs to be improved.

At this time, as the league's supernova, Lin Yue entered the public's field of vision. This kind of impact was no less than Yao Ming's entry into the NBA. Although Yao Ming was the No. [-] pick, Lin Yue was not bad, he was the No. [-] pick.

As soon as this topic became popular, the popularity also increased.

So much so that every game of the Thunder will be broadcast live on the sports channel.

In this way, Lin Yue became the son of luck, and behind him is the support of the fans of the whole country.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Lin Yue continued his good touch and opened the scoring with a jumper. By the time Curry and Durant returned to the court, Lin Yue had already scored the 16th point of the game, but the number of assists remained at 3.

Livingston, who came off the bench, is no longer brave. It seems that this is when he is in poor form.

This kind of away trip is indeed a drain on the spirit, and tomorrow's back-to-back is still an away trip. After the game, they will fly to Los Angeles overnight.

Fortunately, Lin Yue was excited tonight, and the offense was all over the place. The Kings' defense was too loose. No wonder their record was poor. This kind of offense was obviously stronger than the defense. When encountering a team with a slightly better defense, they would fall into a passive position.

Curry and Durant didn't attack much after they came on the court. Lin Yue passed the ball to them, and they would pass it back to Lin Yue after attracting the defense. Obviously, they knew that today was Lin Yue's rarely excited state.

Evans felt uncomfortable. Originally, he was defending Lin Yue alone, but now they ran to cover him one by one. Under this kind of interference, he couldn't defend even more. With a successful pick, Lin Yue's score reached 20 points.

The Thunder also led their opponents by 43 points 38 to 5.

Kings coach Westphal called a timeout. He couldn't just sit back and watch his opponent score freely in and out of his home court.

The fans at the scene booed, they were a little dissatisfied with the performance of the home team.

Westphal emphasized that they can try to double-team the opponent, but after the double-teaming, they must quickly return to the defense and cannot give others a chance to open.

This is easy to say, but extremely difficult to do.

After the timeout, the two sides returned to the field again.

Evans scored two points for the team with his sharp breakthrough.

The next defense is the key to the game.

The players on the Kings field went to double-team according to the coach's instructions, but the Thunder team had a small lineup. The center changed from Collison to Ibaka, and Ibaka's movement speed was not slow.

Curry and Durant ran back and forth even more. Now the Kings players couldn't find a defender at all, and the formation became chaotic.

Lin Yue seized the opportunity and hit the ground to Durant who made an air cut. The latter successfully went to the basket and dunked to get two points.

The Kings players are starting to get confused, and they can't win the game if they go on like this.

Zhang Weiping, who was far away in the live broadcast room, said that Lin Yue might break his personal scoring record tonight.

(End of this chapter)