Although he entered the second half with a very disadvantage, Jeff Van Gundy was not worried at all. The reason why the Trail Blazers were able to lead in the first half was Angel's excellent stroke and Durant and Westbrook's abnormal strokes.

His tactics work, and the offensive efficiency of the others in the Trail Blazers has been greatly reduced. No matter how powerful Anjie is, he will never be able to replicate Kobe's 81-point myth. Jeff Van Gundy wants to see how long his former proud disciple can last in this game.

It has to be admitted that among all the teams that have reached the division finals, the Trail Blazers' lineup is the shabby. In the Eastern Conference Finals, there is a fantasy showdown between the new and old giants between the Heat and the Celtics. In the Western Conference Finals, Durant, Westbrook, Bledsoe, Morris, Batum and Ibaka in the Thunder are all outstanding players with distinctive characteristics. What about the Trail Blazers?

Ricard has only one former All-Star point guard, a three-point shooter who is rising but still immature, and an "Elvis" who is no longer in glory after experiencing major injuries. On the bench, there are only two defenders who perform well like All-Stars, and if they don't perform well, they will be nothing. Marcus Camby and Cote Thomas. These two older guys who are older than Ricard are already amazing.

Angel and Aldridge are far from the bluffing names of the other three teams. But it was thanks to this lineup that the Trail Blazers incredibly entered the Western Conference Finals. Ricard's tactical subtlety is one aspect, but the Trail Blazers' excessive dependence on Angel is also an indisputable fact.

What Jeff Van Gundy does now is to play hard according to the Trail Blazers' configuration, which is not as luxurious as the lineup. Some people may say that the Pistons Five Tigers won the championship in this way, but the current three outside lines of the Trail Blazers cannot reach the level of the Pistons Five Tigers that year.

Unable to defend against Anjie, Van Gundy is confident that she can defend against others. Let Anjie fight against five, this is the ultimate goal of Van Gundy's tactic.

"They seem to want to cut off my connection with the team." Anjie couldn't see Jeff. Van Gundy's plan. Thinking about how frustrating the "Little Emperor" played in the Cavaliers era, Anjie could guess how bad his situation would be.

"Listen, we continue to implement strict man-to-man defense, don't assist in defense, just switch pick-and-roll. On the offensive end, if you really don't have a chance, just hand the ball to An! An, let them taste your power!" Ricard had no choice but to do the slightest way in terms of the lineup's strength. All he could do was to slap Durant and Westbrook's poor offensive efficiency.

Starting from defense, this is Jeff Van Gundy's creed, and it is also Ricard's creed.

Therefore, the excitement of the third quarter was greatly reduced compared to the first half and even the first two matches between the two sides.

"Westbrook's half-turned jump shot, no, still no. The No. Zero defender's shooting percentage has fallen below 4o% today. Jeff Van Gundy can only rely on his hopes for Durant now."

Anjie grabbed the defensive rebound as always. He wanted to take this opportunity to play a conversion attack. But he looked up and saw that Felton, the guard who couldn't rush, could only wait for Anjie's pass in the backcourt. Matthews could not get any space under the entanglement of Seversa. Gerald Wallace advanced very quickly, but Durant followed him, guarding against Anjie's long pass at any time. There was no way, Anjie had to give the ball to Felton again. Looking at the Thunder's tight defense that had been arranged, Anjie took a breath and ran forward.

As soon as An Jie was on his back, Morris took the initiative to find him. Damanniu savagely grabbed An Jie's jersey with both hands, and his left leg was slightly padded with a little unhonest. He pressed An Jie's tailbone with his knees, which made him feel uncomfortable.

Seeing that he couldn't find a chance for a while, Anjie chose to avoid Morris' entanglement and mentioned that he was pick-and-roll for Felton at a high position.

However, Westbrook did not let Anjie succeed. He once again perfectly bypassed Anjie's "wall", and Felton did not get any chance at all.

Helplessly, Felton handed the ball to Matthews, who was out of the three-point line in front of the ball. Matthews was about to shoot when he received the ball, but he found that Sevorsa had arrived. Seeing this situation, Matthews immediately gave up his plan to take action. This 3rd-grade undraft was not strong enough to dare to squander opportunities on the stage of the Western Conference Finals.

The Trail Blazers' smooth pass was completely over with Matthews. Matthews hesitated for a while before choosing to give the ball to Aldridge.

Aldridge received the ball and flicked it in. After tricking Ibaka, Aldridge stopped and jumped in with a quick stop inside the free throw line. Unexpectedly, Morris arrived at the moment, seriously interfering with Aldridge's shot.

Before Durant and Ibaka got stuck, Anjie suddenly jumped into the three-second zone and took the rebound high. After grabbing the offensive rebound, Anjie immediately jumped and dunked twice. Durant subconsciously stretched out his hand, and the referee blew the whistle in his mouth without hesitation. At the same time, Anjie swung his arms and smashed the ball into the basket, gaining a chance to score a three-pointer!

"Enjoy the great game, Kenny, I bet this is definitely another great game for Ann!" O'Neal always involuntarily thinks of himself back then when he saw Anger raging in the inside.

"More active in running!" After the dunk, Anjie did not celebrate, but instead loudly reminded his teammates. Although for the Trail Blazers, Anjie was just a "newcomer" who had joined the team for less than a year. But when he roared loudly on the court, no one would stand up to question him. Even Aldridge only apologized to Anjie.

With a free throw, Anjie successfully scored three-pointers again. But this guy couldn't be happy. He knew that basketball was a team sport, but Jeff Van Gundy's defense turned the Trail Blazers' basketball into a personal heroism interpretation.

Anjie doesn't want to be a hero. He would rather cooperate with his teammates to win than score 10 points, but the team failed.

Jeff Van Gundy could see Anjie's anxiety. No matter how incredible this guy was, he was still a human. Anjie knew very well that it was impossible to defeat the Thunder by himself alone. Logically speaking, this should be the opportunity for the Thunder to launch a fierce counterattack. However, Durant's attack failed again.

"An! He boldly swooped forward and blocked Durant's shot! Gerald Wallace picked up the basketball and counterattacked. His progress was very fast. "Elvis" should have put out all his strength! Ibaka followed closely behind. Can he play a fast attack?"

As soon as Kenny Smith finished speaking, Gerald Wallace made a layup. Before he could fly high, he was blocked by Morris' stronger body.

If it weren't for the past, Gerald Wallace might have made a dunk across the world. But by Bynum's ribs were broken and his lungs were damaged, he would have long lost that ability to fight.

Under Morris' tough squeezing, Wallace was very difficult to do even if he dunked. Helplessly, this strong-willed but powerless small forward could only use extremely twisted movements to layups, and the result was that the basketball jumped a few times on the basket, but finally slipped out!

"Damn it!" Anjie had just run outside the three-point line and had to turn around and run back. Westbrook was desperately shuttled through the crowd, but Anjie, who had earlier, bit the tail of the lightning.

Westbrook jumped up against the unguarded basket and prepared to dunk. Not long after he had just flew out, the basketball in Westbrook's hand was slapped from behind!

"An's second consecutive block! Oh my God! God! The two consecutive blocks were Durant and Westbrook. I think that a simple word of dominance can no longer be used to describe An's performance!" This time the person who shouted in front of the commentary stage was not Kenny Smith, but O'Neal, who had always been "reserved"! He rarely praised any player so crazy, because he had done even more crazy things himself. But Anger's two consecutive violent blocks still completely conquered O'Neal's heart.

The basketball that was blown away by Angel hit the rebound heavily, and the basketball rebounded vigorously. Matthews jumped high and tried hard to protect the rebound under Seferzo's pull. Then he quickly advanced, but was cut by Seferzo at the moment of three steps.

"Oh! The Trail Blazers failed to seize the scoring opportunity in such two exciting rounds. If the Trail Blazers' outside players could have stronger impact, the game situation would have been different!"

The bearded man stomped his feet in the audience. These scenes were exactly the same as when the Tornado lost to ucLa! Apart from Anger, there was no other player in the entire Trail Blazers who could pose a huge threat to the Thunder. Aldridge could score, but today the guy's shooting rate was not ideal.

How many minutes can Anjie last if he plays like this? Big players have to endure greater physical exhaustion than others. Anjie is not the center who is good at athletic ability like Howard. He runs back so frequently and has to attack and defend, who can stand it!

After a few minutes of the game, the situation still did not change. No one in the Trail Blazers could stand up and share the pressure for Angel, and the sound of ironstorms from Westbrook and Durant were still rising and falling.

At the end of the third quarter, with the excellent swings of Bledsoe and Batum on the Thunder's bench, they scored only 7 points. However, Durant and Westbrook's performance did not improve at all.

Van Gundy, who thought he would take the game as he wished in the fourth quarter, could only watch Anjie widen the gap again!

Durant finally found his state in the fourth quarter, but it seems that it is too late to be able to do so. But having is better than not. At least now Jeff Van Gundy has seen a glimmer of hope of winning. As long as Anger rests at the end of the game, the Thunder will immediately control the situation!

But Jeff Van Gundy waited for eight minutes, and Angel was not replaced!

Seeing Bledso rushing towards him in discontent, the tired Anjie had to open his arms and wait for him. Now, he didn't want to cover the cover, even Anjie felt very difficult to open his arms.

In this moment of distraction, Bledso, the boy, had already rushed to Anjie. Anjie jumped hastily. Although his wingspan advantage was still there, his bounce height was greatly reduced due to extreme fatigue.

With a foul, Bledsoe got two free throws. Angel has collapsed, and Jeff Van Gundy knows that Angel has collapsed!

Afterwards, the Trail Blazers attacked, Anjie forced a layup with a soft drop and made a foul.

After Anjie stood on the free throw line, the "mVp" shouts rang out in the Rose Garden stadium! The fans of the Trail Blazers naturally could see Anjie's overdraft state, and they were all playing for Anjie in this way!

"The last time all the fans stood up and shouted for mVp, it was when he was in the Thunder. This guy, no matter where he was, was the savior in the hearts of the fans!" O'Neal knew that although this was just a normal shout from the fans, it was also a great honor for a player.

Without any mistakes, An Jie made two free throws, and the score remained at 7 points. But An Jie couldn't guarantee that he could hold on until the last moment!

Four minutes, three minutes, two minutes! Jeff Van Gundy looked at the watch and it was too late, but Ricard still didn't replace Angel!

"Do you want to overdraw and use him? Bastard!" Jeff Van Gundy cursed in his heart. He was worried that Anjie would be injured like Yao Ming and was overwhelmed, and the other was worried that the Thunder would fall in front of the victory that was about to reach.

In the subsequent games, Anjie's defense can only serve as a deterrent effect. If someone dares to rush to Anjie, even if he cannot score a goal directly, he can successfully commit a foul.

The score was approaching little by little, and other players of the Trail Blazers did not do much during this period except for Aldridge's few goals.

An Jie felt that he could not lift up and retreat at all now and could not take steps. However, before the game was over, he had to continue fighting!

When the Thunder did not easily catch the difference to just three points, there were only 26 seconds left in the game.

This is the Thunder's ball, and they control the final attack that determines the outcome of the game.

If the game is successfully dragged into overtime, the Thunder will undoubtedly win! Now Anjie's state is impossible to make an appearance in overtime.
Chapter completed!