If I were Yi Di in the NBA

Chapter 149 Defense upgrade
If you win the game, you can pretend, and Yi Jian is also working hard.

The Thunder also felt it in the last game. They may pay more attention to Ariza than Fisher, an old fritter.

In the series, whether it was defense or three-pointers, Ariza gave people a bright feeling.

"I'm going to kill him," Durant said sternly.

On the day when there was no game, after the Thunder team had a simple targeted training, Yi Jian took everyone to practice shooting together. When both teams use pinching tactics, shooting is very important.

For defense, there were also discussions among the players.

They want to limit Kobe, but also try not to give the other side the chance to open shots.

This has high requirements for defensive rotation, and it is difficult for the Thunder to improve the overall defense at once.

So they need to concentrate, a group of young people are full of fighting spirit.

They want to do well, they want to work miracles.

The series is behind, but the atmosphere of the team is not bad.

Everyone works hard to do one thing together, Yi Jian likes this feeling very much.

In the Ford Center arena, the fans enthusiastically called the names of the Thunder players and cheered for them.

The team's good performance allowed the Thunder to enter a period of love with the fans as soon as they came to Oklahoma.

The Thunder made it to the Western Conference Finals in their first year in Oklahoma City. The fans were very satisfied and very proud.

"This is no longer the temporary home of other teams, we also have our own team!"

"The Thunder are amazing! Yi is amazing! Kevin is amazing! All the players are amazing!"

"The team loses at home, that's because we don't support the team enough, we can't make those Lakers feel better, shout for me!"

In the fourth game between the Thunder and the Lakers, the fans at home were even crazier.

Even the Lakers players who have seen the big scene feel the pressure.

The main lineups of both sides have not changed, and Kobe made a killing at the beginning.

Kobe is really troublesome about this point. The key is that Durant can't put too much energy on defense, and the arrangement of outside defense is still a bit stretched.

It's not that Durant doesn't want to, but that he doesn't have enough strength. If he fouls too much and doesn't have the ball to share the defense with Yi Jian, the situation will be even worse.

Therefore, in this defense against the Lakers' perimeter, the Thunder pressed harder and refused to allow three-pointers.

If Kobe comes in, try to use the inside to help defend more.

In fact, it was Yi Jian. Yi Jian would stare at Kobe more and let others go.

The Thunder can't focus on restricting all the players of the Lakers, so they have to make a choice.

Their defense against Kobe has already mentioned the highest level before, and now they have increased it again.

This is the difference in the playoffs. A strong core player like Kobe must break through regular fouls.

After all, the core of a strong team is not just being able to score. Many of the team's tactics need to be around this point to take effect. If the restrictions are set, even if other people play well, the Thunder will destroy the Lakers' overall tactics.

So after Kobe came up with a strong performance, he also aroused the vigilance of the Thunder.

The next few times the Lakers attacked, they all quickly went to help defense, forcing Kobe to pass the ball.

Then, the rest of the Lakers squandered Bryant's pass and the Thunder took the lead.

How should I put it, sometimes the Lakers' role players are worse than the Thunder's.

Some Thunder players are still growing, but it's hard to say for the Lakers.

Fortunately, the Lakers' role players are also unstable, so there will be some suspense in the series.

After all, Thunderclap is too young, and they have stunned countless people by reaching this stage.

It is not so easy to fight against the more mature No. [-] team in the West.

Although the Rockets seem to have a chance to challenge the Lakers, it is actually because the lineup is somewhat restrained.

Not to mention that their back line exploded with Fisher, and the Thunder did not have Artest and Garbattier's flanks.

Kobe faced the Rockets' flanks, and it was not easy.

The Thunder strictly guarded against three-pointers, tried not to give Kobe a shot, and then asked Yi Jian to expand the range of defense.

With this trick, they took the lead.

In fact, they didn't play well on the offensive end this time.

Durant, who wants to swallow Ariza alive, needs to adjust his starting feel.

Durant was also a little anxious. He played with the ball a few times and tried to pull up. He wanted to eat Ariza directly, but he hit the iron.

It seems that sometimes heart qi can have side effects.

The Thunder got off to a good start, all relying on defense.

The Thunder still have the potential to become a strong defensive team. After Ibaka comes over next season and Jordan grows up, their inside line can also be said to be impregnable.

Now, their inside line is also very strong.

When Durant has no touch, there is another important reason for the Thunder to lead. Lopez played well.

Lopez did give the team a lot of surprises this season. In the playoffs, he also played poorly, but his attitude really didn't say anything.

The feeling was not bad, he and Yi Jian suppressed the Lakers twin towers.

During the regular season, the outside world believed that the Lakers' twin towers were difficult to deal with, so the Nuggets picked the pick to replace the insider. Unexpectedly, Yi Jian and Lopez both grew rapidly, and the Thunder suddenly had the twin towers.

If you don't think about future growth, the Thunder's inside combination is terrifying.

Unlike Bynum, who grew up so slowly, Lopez's solid skills allowed him to quickly adapt to the league.

His teammates are not good, and Kobe can't help but lose his temper, and his defensive actions are much bigger.

He felt threatened. If he couldn't kill the Thunder cleanly, he was worried that there would be another problem in the playoffs this season.

Kobe is a bit like taking over the game early, and now Gasol can help, but he can't play a key role.

After the Thunder paid more attention to Ariza, no one outside the Lakers could score.

This season's Fisher is really stretching his hips, and Ariza is not very good, and he can't get more work done if he is watched by the defense.

That is to say, the Thunder's offensive end has not exploded, otherwise Kobe would have scolded people long ago.

However, Kobe did not expect that the next Lakers could be even more exciting.

Their bench lineup didn't play a role at all after they came up, and Odom's performance was not as good as the Thunder's hard-working blue-collar insider Collison.

Odom is now a substitute because when he is asked to stand up, he is likely to have inexplicable performance.

Kobe saw that his teammates were unreliable, so after a short rest, he came up and swung himself.

Yi Jian had even less time to rest, the Thunder's defense would have problems when he went down, and he had to stand up.

To be honest, this series against the Lakers is tiring, but this is when his dominance really shines through.

Go all out to fight, this kind of fatigue is also very refreshing.

The more Kobe wanted to take over the game, the more he couldn't make it easy.

Defense is to make the opponent uncomfortable, Yi Jian has his eye on Kobe.

(End of this chapter)