Why are the Thunder still only potential stocks in everyone's impressions, not real strong teams? Even though they have beaten powerful men like the Lakers and Spurs, and even if they are now ranked seventh in the West, no one will treat the Thunder as a real strong team.

In addition to the insufficient thickness of the bench, Durant and Westbrook's extremely unstable performance is the biggest reason for people to hold this view.

Durant has ranked third in the scoring list this season, and has frequently scored more than 40 points in yi games. However, such performance is difficult to continue. Although he shines in the whole game more often, sometimes Durant can only barely get 20 points with free throws, which is extremely inefficient.

The Thunder's other young outside line, Westbrook, is even more stable enough. He is often unstoppable and can even surpass Durant in his scoring. His impact is very terrible, and his outside shooting level has improved a lot compared to when he was in college.

But sometimes this very immature defender's shooting percentage is extremely low. And when it is different from Durant, Westbrook will still make tireless moves even if his shooting percentage is very low. Maybe Anger and Durant have always wiped his butts, so he didn't realize the importance of this matter.

However, today, while the Thunder played in the 1st quarter, Durant and Westbrook, the two young men, had the old habit of not being able to move stably!

At the beginning of the second quarter, Westbrook first used a very ornamental and breakthrough to plunge into the inside, but with Hayes's hard interference, Westbrook's forced layup failed to hit.

Just when Thunder fans were expecting team leader Durant to stand up and set an example, he wasted his chance to have three-pointers at a free space.

Both of them were just the first shot, and even Van Gundy didn't think it would have any impact.

But in the following several attacks, Westbrook and Durant still made consecutive shots. If Anger and Severosa hadn't scored a few goals, the score might have been pulled apart by the Rockets. You should know that Ariza's condition in the second quarter is still hot. After scoring yio points in the second quarter, he has scored another 7 points now! And the second quarter game is far from over!

"What's going on!? Can't you be more patient?" Van Gundy arranged a lot of tactics against Westbrook and Durant during the suspension, hoping that they could get an absolute chance to take action. He suddenly remembered that the reason why he didn't like to use rookies was because of this?

Although Durant and Westbrook are much better than other newcomers, they are still newcomers, and they are not mature and stable enough.

Even An Jie, who was calm and composed, had fluctuations in the last game?

But even so, Van Gundy had only Anjie, the choice.

"I want you to do your best to create gaps for Kevin and Russell, but if they can't run or get a chance but miss the shots repeatedly, then hand the ball over to Ann's singles!" In the last moment, Van Gundy conveyed Ann's singles as a backup plan to his players.

It is an indisputable fact that the outside players' three-pointers, killing and continuous hits can help the team build an advantage quickly. Compared to the inside players' two-point and time-consuming attacks, the outside players' scoring rate is indeed faster, which is also the trend caused by the faster pace of the league.

If it were ten years ago, Van Gundy would definitely make Anjie the core of the offensive, and the entire game was grinding with his opponent's ball until he won.

But now, even conservatives are more dependent on outside players, which is why Van Gundy wants Westbrook and Durant to try, while inside singles are just a backup plan.

However, this timeout did not seem to have any effect. As Ariza played more and more smoothly on the offensive end, Durant was more eager to respond.

This anxious made his shooting rate plummet. Ariza's defense was not very strict, but Durant himself wasted too many opportunities.

Although Westbrook was uncomfortable defending Brooks, he also found it difficult to make achievements on the offensive end.

The game was just three minutes after the Thunder's two outside irons and Arizayi's personal goals. It would be fine if Ariza could score, but the most terrifying thing was that he still got three points.

So far, Ariza has made 2 of 3 three-pointers, and the Thunder are also behind the Rockets' points!

From a strong lead in the second quarter to a sudden fall in the second quarter, the Thunder players and fans were like riding a roller coaster, from the top to underestimation, it only takes a moment.

"What did I say about Kenny? Why can't the Thunder play the momentum of the second quarter? This is the Thunder, and they are overrated!" Barkley originally thought that the Thunder would take advantage of the victory in the second quarter, but he didn't expect that their two sharpest blades were both set. Now, the only thing that needs to worry about is that Anjie is not good in the last game.

Although Angel played very positively in the second quarter, he still had to give way to Durant and Westbrook in the second quarter. Moreover, today he followed the tactics and did not have to play singles like before.

It can be said that except for the make-up dunk at the beginning, Anjie was almost no different from being invisible on the offensive end.

And now, Van Gundy has to put the tactics on Angel. Perhaps, he should have done so long ago.

yio points, timeouts, and redeployments. Adelman on the Rockets could already vaguely foresee the changes the Thunder would make later, but after looking at the players around him, if the Thunder really did that, he wouldn't have many ways.

After the timeout, Kostic was replaced by Ibaka, which means that the inside will be pulled out very much, and Adelman was also a little uneasy.

The Thunder are still attacking, Westbrook is still the one who controls the ball, and Angel is still standing at a high position. Is Adelman probably wrong?

As soon as he stepped on the three-point line, Westbrook passed the ball without hesitation. Anjie, who was standing at the mid-range position of the rebound, got the ball.

Meanwhile, the other four of the Thunders began to run, and this looked no different from before.

Durant opened his hand and asked for the ball, but Ariza's nerves were tense. Anjie raised the ball over his head and seemed to pass a high ball.

Suddenly! An Jie sank his shoulders, bent his waist and stepped out his right leg, and rushed forward suddenly! Hayes, who thought An Jie was going to pass the ball, relaxed his vigilance, but An Jie suddenly broke out and caught him off guard!

It's indeed an inside single!

Hayes's degree was naturally much faster than the tall Anjie. He hurriedly turned around and went back to Anjie to get ahead, hoping to interrupt Anjie's breakthrough.

Anjie stepped into the free throw line two steps, but suddenly stopped himself. He raised the ball with one hand and threw it gently. Hayes, who was 98, could only watch the basketball fly over his fingertips, and the sound of the basket rolling.

When you move in close range, when you use the throw, you will be very different when you use the throw, which is very unprofessional. But don’t care whether the movements look good or not, it’s the bottom line if the ball enters!

Adelman held his forehead and knew that the Rockets' Yio points advantage would soon be insufficient.

"Anjie's throw! This ball is too sudden. Hayes probably wonders which hand Anjie will use to layup later. As a result, Anjie suddenly took two points with a shot. If I remember correctly, this is the first time I have seen Anjie use a throw in the official game. It seems that after a summer of hard work, this Asian Championship mVp still has many moves that have not been shown." The commentator of ccTV was very surprised. They did not expect Anjie to score with a technical move that he had never used before.

"Finally, Coach Van Gundy was finally willing to let Ann play singles in the inside! He should have done this long ago! If I were to say that Coach Van Gundy's rigid problem still had to be changed. If he had made changes earlier, the Rockets would not have been able to lead them ten thousand!" And espn's Mike Bryn was more concerned about Van Gundy's decision.

No one is perfect. Van Gundy did lead the Thunder to achieve good results, but he also has many shortcomings. It depends on Anjie's performance now. Can Van Gundy make up for this shortcoming of Van Gundy.

After Anjie scored a goal, Ariza immediately responded on the offensive end. Durant was really not in the form today, and it was difficult for people to satisfy both offense and defense.

When the Thunder attacked again, Anjie no longer put out the "smoke bomb" at the high position. He fell directly to the low position, leaned against Hayes and opened his big hand, clearly telling you that I just want to play singles in the inside!

Anjie, who is 2.9 meters tall and 2.34 meters tall, has such a big hand, and Hayes behind him is completely covered, and there is no chance of stealing.

Ibaka, who had just appeared on the court, caught Scola out of the penalty area, with only Angel and Hayes in the interior. This is a duel with huge differences in strength!

Anjie has a deep position because he doesn’t want to waste more energy and time. Now the team needs to score the most, so he will use the best efficiency to score for the team!

Westbrook's high pass, and Brooks's 83's pass could not stop this pass.

After receiving the ball, Anjie used his strength to lean on the ball and easily stepped into the penalty area.

Without fake moves, facing Hayes Anger, who was much shorter than him, turned around and hooked his hand. After hitting the rebound, the basketball hit the rebound, it was refracted into br    >

Anger scored two more points without any delay. Hayes spread his hands at Adelman helplessly, and he had already tried his best.

"Louis, you and Chuck are in a position!" Adelman immediately made a temporary adjustment on the sidelines, hoping that Scola could withstand Anger's offensive steps.

They also play very smartly and like to play with their opponents with superb footsteps. From some aspects, Scola and Anger's playing styles are really similar.

However, as a pure traditional center, Anjie is better than Scola.

An Jie first turned around and made himself face the frame, which made Scola think that Anjie was going to shoot directly.

When Anjie raised the basketball above his head, he suddenly turned around again and sat hard into the penalty area at the same time, forcibly squeezed away Scola, jumped on the spot under the basket and hung the frame with both hands.

Both soft and hard work were used, which made the Argentinians' defense eventually fail.

Anjie is still scoring with extremely high efficiency, while Ariza's shooting percentage has gradually declined due to physical exhaustion.

Slowly, the Thunder narrowed the score. When the second quarter was about to end, the Thunder was only 3 points behind the Rockets!

At this time, in order to save his physical strength, Van Gundy took down all the three Thunderbolts. He believed that the defense of Ibaka and Morris in the last two minutes could ensure that the Thunder could hold on to the score.

However, facing the Rockets' weak inside defense, Morris and Ibaka also completed the mission.

Not only did they do a good job in defense, but they also caused great trouble to the Rockets on the offensive end. The tacit understanding between Morris and Ibaka is getting better and better. Their internal passes and cooperation often causes the Rockets' inside defense to collapse.

When the half-time game ended, the Thunder not only bit the score, but also reversed 2 points!

Ibaka scored 6 points with 3 shots in just 2 minutes, and Morris also successfully played at the basket twice, continuing Anjie's good momentum in the inside.

5o to 48, the Rockets once attacked under the leadership of Ariza. However, Anjie, with his own strength, suppressed the Rockets' momentum.

Anjie has been completely opened and swept the game in poor condition.

Yiio scored 6 points with 7 shots, and Anger scored quite a bit in half, and most of the scores came from the second quarter singles. In this case, if Westbrook and Durant were resurrected, Adelman would really have no tricks.
Chapter completed!