After the game started, the situation on the court was indeed not beyond Yang Fan's expectations.

This season, under the changes of head coach D'Antoni, the Knicks have always adhered to the tactical concept of playing as fast as they can.

Nate Robinson, who was the starting point of tactical action, naturally became the counterattack engine of the Knicks.

But although Nate Robinson has excellent bounce ability, he is also not bad in terms of personal offensive aggressiveness.

However, his organizational ability is very limited, so this leads to the fact that although the Knicks did play very quickly in the counterattack, the overall situation of the team seemed very chaotic.

It can be said that in this game, whether it is the Thunder or the Knicks, these two teams are the teams with the shortest offensive time per game this season.

However, the final effect is completely two extremes.

As for the Thunder, everyone has their own positioning. Even if they are fighting back quickly, the entire team is well-trained and not loose at all.

On the other hand, although the Knicks' speed in fast break counterattack is indeed very fast, even in terms of counterattack speed alone, the Knicks still have to be above the Thunder.

But the key is that the Knicks' fast break counterattack seems very chaotic, and in most cases, a team cooperation is turned into a personal single.

It was all ended by Nate Robinson's pass directly or forced layup himself.

So this leads to the fact that although the Thunder and the Knicks are both fighting fast breaks, the success rate of the two teams is very different.

Yang Fan can be said to be too familiar with the little thing D'Antoni was thinking at this moment.

Not to mention anything else, if Yang Fan wants to deliberately target D'Antoni, he will definitely feel very uncomfortable on the field.

In this game, Durant played with Wilson Chandler and Durant also played easily on the court.

Chandler is 2.03 meters tall, but his wingspan is not that outstanding. At least when defending Durant from the front, Chandler could not keep up with Durant's shooting rhythm at all.

In addition, the Thunder's tactical execution is excellent on the field, so when Durant plays one-on-one singles, other players dare not double-team easily.

After all, the Thunder are different from other teams in that the role players of other teams are to open up space, so as to help singles players get more comfortable mobile phone opportunities.

The difference between the Thunder is that the Thunder has always been thinking about playing team basketball, while Durant's singles wants to use his personal abilities to create more shooting opportunities for other teammates.

Although this sounds like no difference at first, there is a very big difference in tactical concepts.

In addition, although the Knicks have many outstanding players in the team, they all have one common feature, that is, their defensive ability is poor.

Of course, when the team's head coach is D'Antoni, even if the team has excellent defensive players, the team's overall defensive ability is definitely not much higher.

Throughout the first half, the Thunder, whose offensive firepower points were obviously more dispersed, were always pressing the Knicks to lead.

Finally, after the half, the Thunder, who played at home, was already 16 points ahead of the Knicks.

From this point of view, it is not difficult to see how poor the Knicks' defensive level is.

After returning from the second half, Yang Fan intentionally or unintentionally took Batum and Kostic to the court to score points.

After all, Prostie had already contacted the Pistons at this time.

Although the Pistons' attitude was indeed not beyond Yang Fan's expectations, he did not plan to go to the birds at the beginning.

However, Yang Fan firmly believed that the Pistons would be moved in the future.

So while this period of time, what Yang Fan needs to do is try to make the data of Batum and Kostic look better.

Because these two people have a low presence in the team at this moment, it is not because of their own strength.

It's just simply related to the Thunder's general environment at this time.

In this case, when Yang Fan began to deliberately tilt offensive resources for the two on the court, it was completely easy for Batum and Kostic to play an excellent data.

Finally, as the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, the Thunder, who played at home, succeeded in:

124:109

He defeated the New York Knicks with 15 points and once again won two consecutive victories after the team returned to home court.

After the game, Knicks head coach D'Antoni took the initiative to walk towards Yang Fan, then took the initiative to extend his right hand and said to Yang Fan with a little affectionate attitude:

"Yang, you are really an excellent coach. The Thunder are really strong on the court. Sometimes I can't believe that this will be a game played by a youth army."

"And you haven't noticed that sometimes our tactical ideas are very similar on the field?!"

"Haha, this is really rare."

Looking at D'Antoni, who was not that old in front of him at this moment, Yang Fan felt a little funny.

He even answered D'Antoni's question silently in his heart.

"Of course, you will certainly feel familiar, because there are many things I have borrowed from your coaching direction in the future."

But no matter how much he thought about it, Yang Fan could not say these words to him.

"Haha, Mike, you can be considered an excellent basketball coach. Your bombardment tactics are really powerful, but unfortunately, it may be difficult for the Knicks to achieve results this season."

"So I personally think that the team is better able to make some trades and replace those players who are not usually used but still have trade value with their combat power."

"If this happens, coupled with your coaching philosophy, I think the Knicks still have a lot of hope to make the playoffs this year."

With Yang Fan having a conversation with Mike D'Antoni on the sidelines, and since both of them prefer bombardment and small balls, there are still many common topics.

However, during the conversation, Yang Fan never discussed Gallinari's issue, but just clicked D'Antoni from time to time.

Even at this moment, Yang Fan already had some desire to be eager for talent.

But Yang Fan knew that in the normal historical trajectory, there were not many teams in the league who had ideas about Gallinari.

For those teams with some ideas, they are unwilling to use too many chips to trade.

So under normal circumstances, Gallinari has always been in a stagnant state, and has only played a pitiful 28 games throughout the rookie season.

It was not until he could not completely lose his hands, and according to the opinions of the team's management next summer, Gallinari barely got the opportunity to play after gaining weight.

So at this time, what Yang Fan needs to do is to fish and catch the Knicks for a while as much as possible.

Because only by letting the Knicks suffer some trouble can I have more opportunities to intervene.

In the whole game, since the Thunder's leading advantage in the second half was quite stable, both Batum and Kostic had a good playing time.

And with Yang Fan's special advice, other players also tried their best to cooperate with Batum and Kostic to complete some data gains.

In the whole game, Batum made 6 of 10 shots on the offensive end, including 2 of 6 from outside the three-point line and 2 of 2 free throws, and finally contributed 16 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists.

Kostic made a 25-minute appearance in this game. He made 7 of 12 shots on the offensive end and 5 of 6 free throws, and finally scored a 19-point and 6 rebounds.

In addition, Durant still played very efficiently in this game. At least Yang Fan completely saw his personal progress.

In this game, Durant made 11 of 18 shots in 31 minutes, including 3 of 7 from outside the three-point line and 4 of 4 free throws, effectively scoring 29 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists.

When Durant faces a team that is not very good at defense, he is already able to play dominance on the field.

The biggest problem for Durant now is probably that when facing some top defenders in the league, his personal performance cannot be stable.

However, Yang Fan has enough patience to witness Durant's growth in this regard.

After all, no matter what, this Thunder team is still very young and has a lot of potential to explore.
Chapter completed!