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Returning to the court, Durant's performance did not falter. Under Harris's constant attempts at confrontation, several of his attempted outside shots missed.

Looking at NBA history, Durant can be regarded as the most difficult player to defend. He is tall, fast, has a soft touch, and has strong core strength!If you have to say which kind of defense he is relatively afraid of, he is more afraid of double-teaming; second, he is a striker with both confrontation, height and movement speed.

Historically, he was once defended by the Grizzlies when Westbrook was absent. Tony Allen played a good defensive efficiency against Durant, especially his ability to get around the screen, but the fact is that On the other hand, Teacher Tony really reaped the dividends of the team's defensive system, and just tried his best to interfere with Durant's shooting.

If it is really difficult to say that Durant is more difficult, it must be James, Anthony and Anthony who are very defensive. . . . . .Late Aaron Gordon.

This season, Durant averaged nearly 6 assists per game. Strictly speaking, he has developed a good ability to support the ball; but in this game, against Curry, who suppressed him on the MVP list, Durant was obviously a little tired. Losing his mind, some of his shots were unreasonable, and even Westbrook's previously good touch was gone.

Fortunately, the desire to win not only inspired Durant's fighting spirit on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end. Durant also actively defended, blocking the attacks of Curry and Middleton one after another, and preventing the Kings from opening up the score. !Before halftime, Durant attacked the basket twice in succession, narrowing the point difference to only 5 points. (66:61)

"Death God Du" is not a wasted name.

Despite this, during the halftime break, Ke Yan still gave Harris enough recognition.

"Tobias, well done. In the second half of the game, continue to press Durant and make Durant's offense as difficult as possible. If you catch him offensively and defensively, Durant will also feel uncomfortable!"

"I have great ambitions for this season. Even if Tyson Chandler is injured, I still think we are one of the candidate teams for the championship! And the Thunder are very likely to stand in front of us. An opponent that has to be bypassed, I mean the Thunder team with full health! I need to find the Thunder team’s weaknesses in the next two rounds of the duel and deal with them in advance!”

The second half of the game started. As soon as the game started, the Thunder used their most powerful move, the "Widu Pick-and-Roll". Harris and Curry both blocked Durant, allowing Westbrook to rush to the basket and go up against Gobert, but was defeated. The French Eiffel Tower sent a big fire!

"???" After landing, Westbrook immediately showed his hands to the referee. Seeing that the referee showed no sign, he quickly returned to defense and knocked over Curry from behind. . . . . .

Westbrook's foul action aroused Ke Yan's dissatisfaction. Ke Yan complained to the referee immediately, indicating that Westbrook's goal was more "venting anger". As a result, Westbrook pretended to run over and argue with Ke Yan face to face, and then the players from both sides directly had a dispute. There was a quarrel. . . . . .

Ke Yan and Westbrook were given technical fouls respectively. Both of them felt that the other was disgusting!

Curry and Durant each hit technical foul free throws, and the Kings had the ball.Curry held the ball from the outside and beat Westbrook in isolation, using continuous changes in rhythm to open up space for his shot, quickly taking a three-point shot and hitting it accurately!

The biggest misconception in the NBA is that "Curry is weak in one-on-one situations, not as good as Westbrook, Irving, and Iverson." He has scored so many three-pointers against other people's defenses in his life.

After hitting a three-pointer, Curry started shaking his shoulders in celebration. Seeing this scene, Westbrook was even more angry!In the next round of defense, the Kings once again gave the opponent a step of space after Westbrook chose to run a pick-and-roll with Ibaka. On the surface, it was "preventing penetration but not shooting", but in fact it was tempting Westbrook to take action.

And he lived up to expectations, raising his hand and shooting a three-pointer.It hit the edge of the basket and popped out.

Westbrook is not only good at outside shooting, but when he is impatient, he will inevitably miss the shot. Gobert steadily protects the rebound and hands the ball to Curry. The latter does not stop the ball and directly finds the target. Middleton scored an easy layup.

The point difference widened to double digits, which seemed to have triggered a certain mechanism in Durant's body. In the next 2 minutes, Durant started his personal scoring mode, either directly making a pull-up jump shot, or breaking into the basket and then shooting backwards. , hit 4 consecutive goals, bringing the point difference back to 6 points!

Unlike Curry, James, and Harden, Durant can serve as the starting point of the team's offense and drive the team's offensive system. But other than that, Durant is impeccable on the offensive end and can be compatible with any offense. System, in high-end games, individual singles can be used to protect the team.This is also the reason why he, as a guest, was able to take FMVP from Curry; but it is also the reason why he was unable to lead the team to achieve the results he wanted after joining the Nets.He and Irving are both relatively pure scorers. It's good to have Harden in the middle to coordinate and lead, otherwise they would just fight on their own; and then it was the same with the Suns, with Booker and Durant almost having sparks coming out of their guns. , the situation is still tightly controlled by Jokic, and the Suns can't see any hope.

Sure enough, as long as Durant's touch fluctuates slightly, the Thunder will be a little unable to hang on.Ibaka has the best catching and shooting ability among blue-collar insiders, but he is limited to catching and shooting in open spaces. When faced with close defense, he does not even have a stable ability to play big and small; Drummond has poor playing habits, and in the Thunder In a team with this kind of overall tactical literacy deviation, the weaknesses are even more magnified!

In the second half of the third quarter, when Durant, who was being grabbed by the power amplifier, briefly had some physical problems, the Thunder had an offensive misfire, and the point difference was once again opened to double digits. (91:80)

Perhaps because of being too far behind, and also to prevent Ke Yan from directly sending in his main force to defeat the team at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Brooks chose to leave Westbrook and Durant on the court at the beginning of the fourth quarter to deal with the Kings' bench.

On Ke Yan's side, he still maintained his regular lineup to deal with it.Therefore, when he saw Brooks changing formation, he was a little surprised.

In terms of lineup structure, the Thunder can only be the main force of the dead grass!Their bench lineup is weak. Except for this year's rookie Robertson, there is no serious wing substitute. The most reliable scorers on the bench are actually Augustin and Reggie Jackson.Both of these are small guards who need to have the ball in their hands. The latter's shooting ability is quite mediocre. He can barely function when paired with Durant, and his partnership with Westbrook overlaps 100%.

While Westbrook was injured, Reggie Jackson averaged 13 points and 6 assists per game and performed quite well.This also makes Reggie Jackson unwilling to return to the bench at all, and even hates Westbrook. He feels that if he can get enough opportunities by Durant's side, he can also practice.

In other words, the trade deadline has passed. Otherwise, there is really no guarantee that Reggie Jackson will do anything excessive to push the team to trade him.

"Up and down", coupled with the quality of Durant and Westbrook, the Thunder continued to erode the Kings' lead on the court, forcing Ke Yan to stop the game after only 2 minutes in the fourth quarter. Then Harden, Gobert and Harris were replaced on the court to stabilize the situation.

As outside players, Westbrook and Reggie Jackson have obvious shortcomings in shooting, and they are still stuck in the game. They are completely defeated by big rim-protecting centers like Gobert. Durant, the only one with stable shooting ability, is restrained by Harris. , the Thunder's point-chasing momentum was gradually curbed.

In fact, this Thunder team will pose a greater threat to the future if Lopez has transformed into the 3D center of the future or is exchanged for a reliable 3D second position before the trade deadline.But Presti's idea of ​​​​building the team is to use extreme physical talent to cover up the deficiencies in other aspects of the team's lineup. He extravagantly hopes that Reggie Jackson will play the role of a "weakened version of Harden" in the team, and at the same time, he does not need to Harden has so much money, and this wrong concept of team building is really hit by dimensionality reduction compared to Key Yan's more modern and pursuit of ideas.

With the decline in physical fitness, the influence of the "King Bomb Combination" on the court is not as good as before.This is not difficult to predict. Westbrook himself is "recovering from a serious injury." Durant has been overworked for half a season. In the first three quarters of this game, he was very offensive and defensive. . . . . .

Seeing that the Thunder were at the end of their strong game, Ke Yan decisively replaced Curry and Middleton, presented the strongest lineup, and focused on a "staggered trip", allowing Curry to personally end the suspense of the game.

In the whole game, Durant's 37 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists were not inferior to Curry's 37 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals. However, in terms of game progress and impression points, Curry "completely won"!The most important thing is that, against this "full blood" Thunder, the Kings once again defeated their opponent by 122 points 110:12, killing their opponents three times this season!

At this point, it can be said that Curry is [-]% sure of being the MVP.If another accident occurs, it can only be said that Nike is really smart.

At this time, looking back at "Cousins ​​+ Gay + two first-round picks in 13 and 15 in exchange for Curry", we can only say that the Kings are making crazy money!

At the post-game press conference, Ke Yan even directly boasted for Curry: "It would be a crime not to give Curry the MVP!"

Normally, these words would be a bit flamboyant, but in today's situation, they are well deserved.This season, Curry's only competitor is Durant. At present, Durant's advantage in statistics is "minimal", he does not have the upper hand in efficiency, and his record has been stretched by almost 10 games. There is no comparison at all!

Curry himself also expressed his expectations for the MVP: "It is an honor to be the MVP. I hope that in the next season, I can still perform like this with food and accommodation included!"

Compared with being hacked by the league, attacked by celebrities, and targeted by referees in his previous life, Curry's treatment in this life is slightly better.One is that Ke Yan protected him and created a "Basketball Messi" persona for him early, which made him receive attention early. His three-point shooting was earlier defined as "changing basketball" rather than "deviant". ”, “Soft Basketball”;

The second reason is that his sponsor was changed from the weak Under Armor to Adidas, Nike's number one enemy, and the players signed by the Adidas family in recent years are becoming more and more useless. The signing of Oden in 07 was wasted; the signing of Rose in 08 was scrapped after a short period of brilliance; Griffin was not poached in 09, and Curry and Harden were picked up later by Ke Yan; in 10, they chose Wall, whose strength It's acceptable, but not very popular. Among the older generation of Adidas, Arenas was scrapped after his "gun scandal"; Tracy McGrady was scrapped after knee surgery; Duncan and Howard don't sell shoes, and Garnett's popularity has declined, so they have to concentrate. Are all the resources pushing Curry?

Of course, Curry's performance also confirms that Adidas has made the right bet. With the Nike camp occupying two popular superstars, James and Durant, having Curry in hand means that Adidas has the capital to compete with Nike.

After a day off, the Kings came to Atlanta and the Phillips Center where Ke Yan once fought. Facing the Hawks in the rebuilding period, they were still welcomed by all the fans and team management.

In addition to the honors and glorious years he once brought to the team, Ke Yan has always maintained a high popularity in Atlanta. Part of the reason is that the team management is willing to maintain a good relationship with Ke Yan to facilitate long-term cooperation in the future.

Just like when Ke Yan was with the Hawks, he selected many useful players, but in the later period due to lineup issues and luxury tax issues, there was an overflow of talent, and he was eventually traded away by the team.Anthony Ressler and Larry Sander wanted to enjoy this benefit, so they have been maintaining a good relationship with Ke Yan.

The game itself did not have many twists and turns. The Eagles, who were determined to fail, had no intention of winning. They just wanted to find a core team in the 14 draft and then rebuild the team.The current boss of the team, Stoudemire, has shown some improvement after staying away from New York and reducing the decadent nightlife, but he is no longer as brave as he once was. His contract expires next season, and he may also become a key to the Eagles' future reconstruction. chips.

The Hawks didn't resist, and the Kings won easily. The downside was that Curry and Harden didn't have the chance to improve their statistics.Curry played two and a half quarters, scoring 20 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists before leaving the game early; Harden played a little longer, scoring 25 points and 6 assists.

The Kings won the away game 118:94, continuing their good form since the All-Star Game!