0271 Russell Night
At 8 p.m. on the 31st, Ford Center.
In the crowded stadium, announcer Mario Lanni shouted passionately: "The last one to appear is..."
As Durant's name was shouted out, 19,000 fans cheered in unison, and the Thunder appearance ceremony ended.
The lights were on throughout the venue, and the sound of long whistles sounded, and the finals were about to start. On the Thunder, Durant and Harden slapped continuously, muttering words, as if they were doing some complicated pre-match ceremony. Green and others watched with interest.
Su Yang glanced at him casually and found that only Westbrook was waiting calmly, as if he was thinking about something and was about to do something.
"Is it possible that the tweet was influenced?" Su Yang recalled the tweet posted by Mavericks boss Mark Cuban before.
The tweet said: I must admit that Coach Su Yang was right to say that Kevin Durant and James Harden were MVPs, because they were both showing MVP-level strength, but I also have to say that Russell Westbrook does not have MVP strength, or even that potential. If Russell Westbrook gets MVP one day in the future, it will definitely be the most advanced MVP in NBA history. It is recommended that the Heat find a way to let Russell play, which is their only hope of winning.
A tweet directly belittled the Heat team and Westbrook, and also tried to create conflicts, which was quite rhythmic.
Keywords: Kuban's tweet was forwarded by many people, and in just about ten hours, tens of thousands of people agreed.
Many fans also said that there was a No. 5 and 6 draw that should have been used to trade Westbrook to the Timberwolves, and then used to choose Stephen Curry. In that case, the Thunder's starting lineup will be a perfect lineup, with stronger three-pointers and not much weaker in defense, so they might be able to win 73.
But those fans noticed that Westbrook was weak in three-pointers, but they didn't know how much Westbrook's push fast attack and durability were for the Thunder.
Su Yang felt quite surprised at first, but when he thought of Cuban once mocking the Thunder for only one super giant, Cuban lending to the poor, and wanted Nowitzki to play in the finals with an injury, he felt that it was normal, after all, the hatred of elimination.
Westbrook did not respond to Cuban, and the Heat ignored it even more. Instead, Durant scolded Cuban for being idiots.
Anyway, a lot of things happened early.
"It is necessary to encourage Awei..."
Su Yang made up his mind and walked quickly to Westbrook, put Westbrook's shoulder and said, "russ, I just saw that their starting point guard is Mike? Bibi, you have the advantage of speed when facing him, you can try to attack with more speed..."
In a few simple sentences, Su Yang made up a reason to give Westbrook more firepower, which is not a fool. It is just that similar play methods are relatively low-priority choices. They are usually only used when it is difficult to open up the situation. Now they are just used directly at the beginning.
"good!"
Westbrook's eyes were discharged, and his slightly gritted teeth looked so eager that the game would start immediately, and he would definitely destroy the Heat.
Seeing this, Su Yang patted Westbrook's shoulder lightly, turned around and walked towards the bench with a smile. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of Heat head coach Spoelstra on the other side of the court, and suddenly thought about what happened to Spoels rushing into the court because he was anxious to remind the Heat players to defend Westbrook.
At that time, Spoel was very anxious and pointed at the Heat players on the field, shouting to fill the position quickly, and at the same time, he stepped towards Westbrook's position. He entered the field and almost defended Westbrook himself. The key point was that Westbrook really hit the iron.
The referee Joe Crawford, who was in charge of the game at that time, took the initiative to retreat and avoided it, and did not foul Spoo.
Such a strange scene was seen when Thibodeau rushed into the field to command. It was really outrageous when he thought about it.
Beep! The long whistle sounds.
The starting players of the two teams entered the field one after another, and the central large screen gave a counterattack prompt: point guard Westbrook vs. Bibby, point guard Seifrosa vs. Mike Miller, Wade vs. Durant, power forward Ibaka vs. LeBron, center Bosh vs. Chandler.
The Heat directly set up a five-square lineup at the beginning. In addition to speeding up the offense, it can also facilitate Bosh's fake start rotation.
The Thunder coach team learned that the Heat started 15 minutes before the game. Su Yang was not panicked at all. Instead, he confirmed that the Heat arranged for him to dig a hole for him. He didn't know how the Heat made such a decision nearby, which was a headache.
The short whistle sounded immediately, and the referee Scott Foster walked to the center circle with the ball, and gestured left and right at the center line.
The basketball whizzed up, and the cheers of the audience suddenly exploded. Bosh grabbed the ball first and tweaked it back vigorously.
The Heat won the first attack on the opening game, Bibi took the ball in the backcourt and slowly advanced. The audience stood up and shouted for defense.
With the shouts of the whole field, Miller mentioned the top of the arc, received Bibi's pass, turned around and retreated for two steps, and then passed 45 degrees on the right.
LeBron took the ball and faced Sefrosa, whose center of gravity was pressing very low. He did not rush to make moves, and his eyes were fixed on the left.
Wade started at the left bottom corner at the same time, and with the help of Bosh cover, he crossed the paint area and ran to the right waist position, which looked like he was going to get the back and then took LeBron's pass, successfully attracting the Thunder's defensive attention, while Bibi was going down.
In the flash, Bibby stopped at the left waist position, and Bosh, who had previously covered Wade, took the opportunity to get rid of Chandler. Relying on his speed and delay, he rushed to the left elbow area, and then took advantage of Miller's cover to get a large open position.
"Yes, this sts covers, get rid of the screen, perfectly activates the Heat's team to run, and allows each Heat player to play. Miller threatens to pull the paint area space with three-pointers, Wade's off-ball move restrains the defensive attention, Bibby's strong body reverse cover, LeBron's sharp high-level support, Bosh's best catch-up shot and scores with two points..."
Su Yang smiled and applauded the Heat's perfect opening tactics in his heart. The Heat is really much better than the original history.
Bosh in the field received a pass from LeBron in a large open space, and took a quick stop and turned around, facing Chandler for two points.
Swish! The basketball is hollow into the net.
The two teams changed offensively, and the audience was still standing and shouting okc in unison, with the sound waves so strong that they wanted to shake.
Westbrook dribbled the ball and advanced rapidly, arrived at the right wing of the frontcourt in three seconds, and directly asked Ibaka to cooperate in advance. A shoulder-sinking speed passed by LeBron, who tried to prevent delays. He saw Wade move sideways and blocked the ball, and suddenly pushed the ball and changed direction, and rushed straight to the basket.
Wade hurriedly turned around and took steps to catch up, but he was not behind. However, Westbrook pulled out the basket on the edge of the paint area.
As the saying goes, the world's martial arts are only fast and fast. Wade is known as the Flash and is also a generation of speed heroes, but he really didn't expect Westbrook to make three-step layups in a regular manner, not even two-step layups, nor do he throw, but he just pulls out the basket. What a weird thing.
Out of physical instinct, Wade still jumped on the ground and raised his right hand to try to block it, but unfortunately he was slower and slower.
Mike Miller was also trying to block the basket, but both of them were futile, and the basketball smashed the basket into the net.
"Woooooo..." Cheers broke out in the Ford Center, Su Yang clapped with him, and the audience gradually sat down.
The two teams changed offensively and defensively, Bibi took the lead in running across the center line, while the Heat still had the same position as before, and the same kind of running.
Wade moved horizontally with the help of a cover, and Bosh took the ball through the ladder cover, which was obviously a replay.
"Mad! Who do you look down on?"
Su Yang smiled. Forget the same tactics and positioning, the choice of opportunity will not change. Do you really treat Thunder as a fool?
While thinking, Chandler stopped in front of Bosh, the Heat's two-pointer plan failed, and the basketball was passed back to Bibi on the left.
After Bosh passed the ball, he stepped forward to make a pick-and-roll. Bibi took the opportunity to drive the ball into the line and broke through. On the Thunder, Chandler did not delay the situation. He just continued to stare at Bosh who had dismantled the running position, and Westbrook squeezed over the cover to catch up with Bibi.
At the same time, Sefrosa followed the local three-defense and two-strategy formulated by Su Yang before the game, and moved horizontally from the right 45 degrees to delay.
Bibi suddenly lost the space for breakthrough, and the risk of a quick stop jump shot was too high. He quickly turned around and threw the ball to LeBron in the open position.
But the moment LeBron took the ball, Durant took control of the breakthrough route from the right waist position, and Sefrosa hurriedly returned to defense.
LeBron did not score a three-pointer, but threw the ball to Wade and ran to the bottom corner with a ghost cover.
Embarrassingly, Wade also had difficulty breaking through. He raised the ball and aimed at the basket for a while, and raised his hand to pass the ball back to LeBron at the bottom corner.
The offensive time was only 3.2 seconds left, and LeBron had nowhere to pass. He faced Sefrosa's close interference and made a strong three-pointer.
The basketball slammed and the iron was hit. Chandler and Bosh jumped and touched each other, and flew the basketball to the free throw line together.
Westbrook bent down to pick up the basketball, and ran forward like a wild horse. He arrived at the front three-point line at 2:8. Facing Wade and LeBron's side-to-side, he stopped without any warning and chose to hit the ball and pass it to Sefrosa who was cutting the ball.
With a clang, Sefrosa scored a dunk with both hands, and the Thunder led the Heat 4-2 in one minute at the beginning.
Chapter completed!