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0187 Good news and bad news

The Thunder beat the Lakers by 25 points, which really surprised the fans.

Social platforms such as Twitter and reddit soon showed up a lot of discussions, analyzing why the Lakers lost. The next morning, many cloud fans analyzed the reasons for the Thunder's victory after seeing the results of the game, and the related topics were astonishingly popular.

Some fans believe that the Lakers are not prepared in general, and the Thunder went all out at the beginning, and the momentum was too different.

Some fans think that the Thunder's breakthrough and fouls are as easy as drinking water, while the Lakers' breakthrough and fouls are quite difficult.

Music prodigy Justin Bieber tweeted and called on the referee to yell fairly. Lakers' loyal fan Snoopy directly caught the referee and cursed him. Lakers' legend Byron Scott believed that Su Yang violated the rules many times in the game and should add technical fouls.

After arguing, the Lakers' offensive and defensive strategy mistakes have become the mainstream view. The specific performance is that Kobe began to give up the offense in the middle of the first quarter and did not fire again until the middle of the second quarter. He always wanted to help his teammates find feelings, but all of them were delayed.

The well-known commentator Bill Simmons tweeted: "The great coach Phil Jackson actually made the wrong arrangements he made against the Suns in the first round of the playoffs in 2006. At that time, he asked Kobe to drive his teammates more, just like last night, but it turned out to collapse the Lakers' offense. In comparison, the young Su Yang knew how to defeat the Lakers from the beginning."

Compared with the tweets, a discussion topic that Su Yang is more powerful than Phil Jackson appears after a while.

Su Yang got up at 8 o'clock and was interviewed by ESPN as planned. He talked again about why he could beat the Lakers and replied: "I don't think there is any need to over-analyze a certain game. Please wait until the series is over before discussing it."

Half of the answers were out of the impatient way to answer the same question repeatedly, while the other half was the truth. It was normal to win or lose a single game until the Western Conference Finals. For example, the Rockets Yao Ming was injured last year and he also played seven games with the Lakers before he decided to win or lose.

ESPN broadcast the interview content at noon. Many fans praised Su Yang for not being arrogant and gradually showed his famous coach style.

After a day off, the Thunder continued to face the Lakers.

Su Yang rushed to the Ford Center Arena early to observe the player training, held a video conference, and arranged offensive and defensive strategies.

Then he was interviewed before the game as usual, talking about the changes the Lakers might have, and said bluntly: "I know Phil Jackson, I also know Kobe Bryant. They will definitely improve the offense and defense intensity, and we have a solution to it."

For such a speech, active player Arenas praised him for his resourcefulness and ability to compete with the famous coach Rivers.

Byron Davis and other players forwarded Arenas to express their agreement, and the Celtics' official Twitter also joined in the random manner.

Su Yang accidentally saw those players compliments and felt a little surprised. You should know that Rivers is a god-like existence in the eyes of many black players, not to mention that Rivers is the only NBA who has not made it to the playoffs but can win the Best Head Coach Award. Paul, the God of Point Guard, also named Rivers himself to hope that Rivers will coach.

Before appearing before the game, Su Yang delivered a chicken soup speech in the locker room. On a whim, he copied Rivers' classic chicken words and gave a speech, encouraging the whole team to maintain defensive intensity, strive to defeat the Lakers to advance to the finals, and set a new historical record...

Perhaps the occasional chicken soup was good, Durant and others rushed out of the locker room excitedly and yelled all the way.

The game officially started at 7 o'clock, and the starting lineup of the two teams remained unchanged. The Lakers won the jump ball and launched their first offense.

The Lakers' Triangle offense started, while the Thunder used two and three joint defenses to deal with it as usual, strictly prevent breakthroughs and pass the ball to the death.

Fisher saw that he had no chance to pass Bynum, so he quickly moved to the weak side to find someone, but found that Kobe was also tightly entangled. He suddenly raised his hand and made a long pass to the weak side bottom corner, passing the ball very riskyly to Ate, who was temporarily in the open position.

Arte changed his first strategy and showed hesitation in playing style. He directly pushed Durant against the side, and then stopped and took a quick step and made a jump shot.

The Thunder made an attack on the side, as usual, Durant started from the absolute core, and Ibaka and several others helped to cover it. Durant successfully ran out of the receiving opportunity, but did not immediately provide protection after receiving the ball, and Ate took the opportunity to steal the shot from the front.

Seeing this, the Thunder generals quickly returned to defense, Durant chased after him, Westbrook blocked the front, and Ibaka followed in parallel.

I thought that when Arte faced the trio's defense, he did not retreat at all, nor showed any sign of passing the ball. He actually drove the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt with a rare European step, and then used a low hand to avoid Ibaka's flying pounce.

Turning around to the Thunder attack, Ibaka RAM started to cover Westbrook, and then took apart the outer cutting and pulling space.

But Fisher firmly bypassed the cover and interception, while Gasol retreated early and made a breakthrough, boldly giving Westbrook three-pointer, ignoring the threat of Ibaka's two-pointer, as if he had a military order, and resolutely guarded Westbrook from the death.

Westbrook did not shoot three-pointers, nor did he want to make a forced layup, but rushed to the waist position to jump and pass the ball.

Su Yang suddenly felt sorry for his bad intentions, because Ibaka also rushed into the paint area and did not make reasonable use of the long shot advantage. Instead, he wanted to compete with the Lakers' inside line, which was a bit deviated by Westbrook. Then he saw Ibaka returning to defend against Gasol and forced a layup.

The basketball rebounded with a bang, Kobe grabbed the rebound and led the team to launch a fierce attack, and the right wing in the frontcourt stopped and passed directly to the basket.

The pace was too fast, the Thunder joint defense formation had not been set up yet, and Chandler had not yet interfered with Bynum.

Amid the exclamations of the whole field, Bynum instantly sank the bottom and turned around. Facing the basket without the interference of "advanced defense help", he jumped high and dunked hard, so that the Lakers' entire offensive process took only five seconds, and they played like the Suns.

The two teams changed offensively, and the Thunder first conducted the outside eight characters, and Westbrook and Durant walked out from both sides at the same time.

The Lakers did not hesitate to focus on limiting Durant, and Westbrook successfully received the ball and got a single chance.

Fisher took the initiative to retreat and prevented the breakthrough, but he only didn't raise his hand to invite the shot. Westbrook didn't think much about it, and he just shot in the mid-range shot.

The basketball slammed into the iron, and Su Yang frowned slightly when he saw it, and he confirmed what changes had been made in the Lakers' offensive and defensive strategies.

Making up his mind, he told assistant coach Brian: "If we haven't scored next time, remember to request a pause..."

While talking, Kobe dribbled the ball to the left side of the frontcourt, raised his hand to direct the transfer of the strong and weak side, and the basketball passed to the right corner in a blink of an eye.

While Chandler could not always interfere with the front between the strong and weak side transfers, Bynum finally successfully received the pass.

However, Bynum was far away from the basket and his posture was not easy to exert force. Seeing this, Arte took the initiative to signal a return pass, and after getting the ball, he immediately passed it to Bynum. Chandler subconsciously gave up the baseline space, but Bynum turned around and jumped and threw.

Basketball is hollowed out and Westbrook wants to serve a fast attack, but the Lakers retreat very quickly and don't give any possible chances.

The Thunder had to land on the ground, and Durant used the cover to catch the ball, but the Lakers directly attacked from three sides, and Bynum also participated.

Durant had no choice but to pass the ball back, Kobe, who was on the weak side of the Lakers, simultaneously raised the defense, and Westbrook still dribbled and rushed forward.

In a hurry, Westbrook was blocked by Kobe's front and was attacked by Fisher, who was returning to defense, and hurriedly threw the ball towards the bottom corner.

Unfortunately, the time was late. As soon as Sefrosa received the basketball, Kobe had already completed the defense and lost the opportunity to rob the shot.

The Thunder's offense stagnated, and Sefrosa hurriedly dribbled away, but was tragically intercepted by Kobe like lightning.

The Lakers took the opportunity to launch a fast break. Kobe dribbled the ball to the frontcourt waist position, and played sideways and back as he marched, then took the turn-over jump shot.

The basketball hit the net and hit the ball. The Lakers scored a 10-0 attack wave in two and a half minutes at the beginning of the game. The Thunder requested a timeout.
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