The era of point forwards in the NBA

Chapter 267
After the score of 20 to 24 lasted for a long time, it finally changed.

Relying on the Eagles' mistakes, Lin Yue made a fast break and scored, chasing the score to 22-24.

Mike Bibby drives the ball forward, and as a solid point guard, his style of play is to pass the ball to the most appropriate player.

Zaza Pachulia received the ball from the basket. The Thunder's inside Ibaka was not as strong as the opponent in terms of size.

22 to 26, although the four-point difference is not big, it has not been approaching.

Eric Mena passed the ball to Lin Yue after passing halftime. Mena is also very aware of his role on the court. He needs to perform well when he rarely gets playing time, so that the coach has a chance to notice himself.

Many stars come to the fore when the team is injured, which is an opportunity for Mena.

It's a pity that Mena's physical talent is not outstanding enough. Faced with Mike Bibby, a muscle maniac, he is not enough to resist at all, so he has to run back and forth on the three-point line, looking for a chance to score.

Lin Yue chose to play Crawford in singles. Crawford's offensive ability is indeed outstanding, but his defensive awareness and offense are not comparable. This may be the reason why he became a super six.

Crawford had to put in a lot of effort to defend Lin Yue alone. In the end, Lin Yue passed the opponent by changing direction in front of his body, and threw the ball into the backboard against the defense.

Crawford's weakness in confrontation was noticed by Lin Yue.

24 to 26, at this time Lin Yue found a way to chase points, it depends on whether Crawford can break.

It's just that for the Eagles, defending Crawford is difficult. This guy is too flexible, and it is difficult to give enough physical confrontation.

Pachulia came to the high screen, and Crawford took the opportunity to avoid Lin Yue's defense. Before Ibaka had time to make up the defense, he shot a three-pointer with his bow and the basketball went into the net.

With such a freehand and unrestrained style of play, the Eagles fans on the scene were instantly conquered.

24 to 29, Lin Yue still felt that his thinking was too simple. Even if the opponent was not good at physical confrontation, he had to have the opportunity to fight physically.

Crawford is not a fool, he will stand there and fight physically.

The other players of the Eagles are not fools, they will let Lin Yue and Crawford play physically.

One screen and the rest is again the pattern Crawford likes.

This was the first time Lin Yue encountered such a tricky substitute player.

A few minutes later, the Thunder called a timeout, replaced the main players, and replaced Sefolosha to give him some rest time.

Livingston and Ibaka remained on the court.

For the Eagles, Mike Bibby rested and was replaced by rookie Jeff Teague, and the rest of the main players also returned to the field.

Due to his excellent height and wingspan, Durant temporarily served as the team's power forward, facing Marvin Williams.

Livingston and Crawford match up, and the two tall, lanky players meet.

Lin Yue played against Jeff Teague. Jeff Teague and him were rookies in 09. He didn't play much in the Eagles. With veteran Mike Bibby, he could learn a lot from Mike Bibby, but he failed to gain experience through the game.

The current Teague can't be confused with Lin Yue, who has locked in the best rookie in advance.

Now that the Thunder have possession of the ball, now that Durant is back on the court, Lin Yue can also breathe a sigh of relief from his previous individual singles.

Crawford's touch in the quarter was really good. Before that, he hit two consecutive three-pointers and almost opened the score to double digits. Fortunately, his defensive ability is average.

The points he scored will be sent back to Lin Yue when defending.

37 to 32, the Thunder is temporarily behind by five points, and there are still 5 minutes before the end of the second quarter, and they have enough time to recover the score.

After Durant received Lin Yue's pass, he changed direction in front of his body and accelerated to pass Marvin Williams in one step, and then dunked successfully.

Durant is a big offensive weapon, and the indiscriminate dislocation advantage is fully reflected in him. No matter who he meets, he will either have a speed advantage and beat a big player, or he will have no solution to fight a big player.

His offense is already the first echelon in the league.

37 to 34, the Thunder will start chasing points mode.

Singles Joe returned to the field, even though he asked his teammates to form a defense, wanting to single-handedly attack Lin Yue.

But the Thunder's protection was in place, and Jeff Green found a chance to switch back. It's not so easy for Joe to back Jeff Green in singles.

In the end, Jeff Teague tried a three-pointer from the outside.

With Lin Yue's defense in place, Jeff Teague's three-pointer missed the basket and Ibaka scored a defensive rebound.

At this time, Zaza Pachulia's feet began to move around. He stretched his feet over when Ibaka took off and placed them where he landed.

Fortunately, Ibaka stepped on the crooked himself, so he escaped, but once Zaza Pachulia made this move, it proves that he will continue to act before he succeeds.

Lin Yue had a panoramic view of all of this. Sure enough, there were a lot of tricks and tricks on the basketball court, not to mention that this was the NBA.

From the previous Bad Boys Legion, we can see how much small actions have an impact on the outcome of the game.

Today's penalty scale is smaller than before, which makes the safety of players more secure.

Those small actions also ranged from aboveboard to sneaky.

Some people say that the NBA looks better when it is more confrontational. There is nothing wrong with more confrontation and more passionate games, but confrontation does not include small moves. If it is some small moves that may ruin someone's career, then there is no tolerance at all.

Stepping is the most serious of them.

Lin Yue decided to teach Pachulia a lesson. In the next offensive round, instead of passing the ball to his teammates, he chose to score by himself.

The one just now may be his own overthinking. If he still moves his foot to the position where the player landed in this attack, then there is a high probability that he really wants to waste the player.

"I'm thinking that this is just a regular season. Is it really necessary to step up?" This is what Lin Yue doesn't understand the most. Even if it is used in the playoffs, it seems reasonable, and it will be used in the regular season.

It is probably not for the team to win, it is simply a habitual offender.

Lin Yue used the cover of his teammates to pass Jeff Teague and commit suicide to the basket.

For the standard three-step layup, he did not use the Eurostep rhythm to change the confusing footsteps. It was just an ordinary layup posture, just to see clearly whether Pachulia did it on purpose.

However, Pachulia chose to take off to block Lin Yue's layup. Under the distraction, Lin Yue's layup missed.

Pachulia gets a defensive rebound.

"Could it be that I'm thinking too much?"

Pachulia didn't have any problems with his defense this time, and even chose to take off to block the shot. He couldn't step up in the air.

Just when Lin Yue relaxed his vigilance, the Eagles' offense failed to score, and Ibaka grabbed the defensive rebound before Pachulia.

In the same position, Lin Yue once again saw his feet put towards Ibaka's landing point.

It turned out that it wasn't that Lin Yue was thinking too much, it was just that Pachulia's current target was Ibaka alone.

Lin Yue immediately rushed forward, pretending to grab a rebound and hit Pachulia.

This caused Pachulia's foot to move and Ibaka landed smoothly.

"You'd better be honest." Lin Yue said angrily in Pachulia's ear.

He was really angry. This kind of behavior is tantamount to being irresponsible to the players. If Ibaka's ankle is injured, it may affect his entire career.

Lin Yue can't control Pachulia's behavior towards other people, but on this field, Lin Yue will not ignore it if he does this kind of thing to his teammates.

Pachulia was startled when she heard it, her eyes were a little astonished.

He thinks that his subtle little tricks will be discovered by the other party, and they will expose them face to face. This feeling of being threatened makes him very uncomfortable.

However, this also means that Pachulia's little tricks will not return in this game at least.

But Lin Yue won't stop, the villain has his own way, and Lin Yue doesn't mind being a villain again.

This round, Lin Yue ignored Durant's request to reach out and dribbled the ball straight to the basket.

Then Pachulia assisted in the defense and took off to interfere with Lin Yue's layup.

What Lin Yue said just now made him extremely unhappy, but this time he took off with all his strength and wanted to give the other party a big hot pot.

As a result, when Lin Yue made a layup, he punched him with his left elbow and caused a foul by Pachulia, scoring a 2+1.

Pachulia knew that he had suffered from being dumb, and the referee must have determined that the elbow was a coherent movement after the offensive round, and it was not intentional.

Not to mention how bad Pachulia was when he was beaten and lost free throws.

After the extra penalty was scored, the scores of the two sides were finally tied.

37 to 37, until the end of the first half, the situation has been in the hands of the Thunder.

The whistle sounded at halftime, and the Thunder led the Hawks by three points 52-49.

After changing sides and fighting again, the Eagles found the rhythm of the game and began to play steadily.

Except for Durant's ability to respond to the Hawks' offense, the Thunder's firepower is obviously insufficient.

Josh Smith has outstanding physical fitness. If he is used to match Durant, at least he will be more reliable than other players in making breakthroughs.

After Joe Johnson was able to match up with Lin Yue, he continued to use his powerful singles to score points for the Eagles.

Horford asked for anything at the basket, hit again and again, and at the same time, Durant made a layup with a big cap.

The situation is firmly controlled by the Eagles. Although Mike Bibby has not achieved any personal achievements, his strength has been underestimated by the media. If he is in the right team, his personal ability can definitely help the team a lot.

The fourth quarter was even more tragic. The two sides only scored 31 points in total. Various physical confrontations led to unstable shooting postures, and the success rate of layups also dropped significantly.

In the end, the Thunder lost to the Hawks 91-93 on the road.

In this regard, the Thunder won their first three-game losing streak this season.

Three strong teams with different strengths have different styles of play, but after defeating the Spurs, every player in the Thunder team seemed to be in a sealed state, and some players performed poorly in every game.

For this Thunder team, which is short of major generals, everyone's performance is crucial.

After a full day, the Thunder will travel to Minnesota to challenge the Minnesota Timberwolves away.

The Thunder went to this game with the determination to win. They urgently needed a victory to let the players find the feeling of winning. The successive losses reminded Durant of the dark scene of last season.

It's just that they firmly occupy No.5 in the West this season. When most teams in the West start to lose, the Thunder's subsequent loss will not affect their ranking in the West.

At this time, there is not much difference between the top five in the West.

Coach Brooks also didn't reprimand his players after the team lost to the Atlanta Hawks. He knew the team was going through a difficult time.

After waiting for the players to return to the team one after another, their strength will return to the beginning of the season.

Originally, their bench lineup was not strong, and they really needed to gain some game experience for these young players.

The Timberwolves are going for the No. 7 pick this season. Not to mention how scary it is to have 27 wins and [-] losses, they rank fourth from the bottom in the entire league. With this record, there are others worse than him.

The Timberwolves selected Rubio, but the opponent couldn't come this season at all.

Flynn's performance is also average. As a high-ranking player, he failed to show his potential. The offense is unstable, the defense is not bad, and he has all the problems that a rookie should have.

It was such a Timberwolves team that could not see any hope that they led the Thunder by 55 to 51 in the first half. It can only be said that there are no underdogs in the NBA.

Jeff Green started the game and made 9 of 3 in the first half, 2 of 2-pointers, and 1 of 8 free throws. This performance was far from reaching the standard. He had 7 points, 3 rebounds and [-] assists.

杜兰特这边还是一如既往地稳定，8中5，三分球3中2，罚球7中7，拿到19分4篮板2助攻1抢断外加4失误。

If it weren't for Durant's unsolvable offense, the Thunder would have been widened in the first half.

Fans of the Timberwolves did not expect that the Thunder, known as the league's biggest dark horse, were no more than this level.

On the other hand, the Timberwolves are all soldiers. In the first half, three people scored in double figures. The cooperation between the players and the handling of the ball did a good job.

The status of the Thunder team changed in the second half, and the ball was concentrated in the hands of Lin Yue and Durant. They didn't want to have a big upset and swallowed a four-game losing streak.

Durant and Lin Yue joined hands to create a 10-2 attack wave, mostly scoring the ball with defensive counterattacks.

Lin Yue's long pass from the quarterback became more and more accurate. After many times of cooperation, Durant also knew which way to run and catch the ball would be more comfortable.

The most important thing is that Durant is tall and has a long wingspan. He can get the fast break ball before the defender, unless Lin Yue makes a mistake.

Curry also came to the scene. He originally planned to pay for this game.

As a result, coach Brooks put him on the bench. He thought that there was no need for Curry to come back at this time. The Timberwolves are not a strong team, and the Thunder can win as long as they play normally.

Take a break and observe more.

Unexpectedly, in this game, the Timberwolves changed their decline and played so proactively.

The continuous rain of three-pointers made the Thunder players helpless. They scored the ball against the defense, and no one would collapse.

Fortunately, in the second half, the Thunder team entered the state, and they took advantage of the opponent's mistakes to overtake the score in one fell swoop.

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