super heavy artillery

Chapter 856

Chapter 856

Just as the Thunder continued to expand their winning streak in high spirits, a team that was not listed as the strongest by everyone interrupted their rhythm.To be precise, the Thunder's winning streak was ruined by one player.

On October 10, the Thunder challenged the Portland Trail Blazers away.

After an unsatisfactory season, the Blazers did a lot of work this summer.However, not many people are optimistic about them this season.

The Blazers have a backcourt combination like Lillard and McCollum, which is the key to enabling them to play a world in the powerful West.However, these two guys are definitely the shortest team duo in the league, and the actual height of the two should not be 190cm.Of course, even with poor innate conditions, they can still rely on stable and rising performance to lead this team to stand firm in the Northwest Division.Head coach Stotts has played an integral role in this.If the team is eager to go further in the new season, then Stotts needs to come up with more things. After all, there are too many powerful players in the West now.

In the new season, the Blazers' lineup has undergone a lot of changes.While Seth Curry and Evan Turner at guard, Aminu and Harkless at wing and center Meyers Leonard left Portland, they got Bazemo There are players with good strength such as Hall, Toliver, Hezonia, Whiteside and Gasol.

After some changes, the Blazers have made the most significant adjustments to the forward position that has been criticized for a long time.Bazemore and Toliver replaced Harkless and Aminu, and Hezonia replaced Lehman.In addition to the team's need to change, the growth of Zach Collins also gave the Blazers management the confidence to make a big move.In addition, the injury of center Nurkic made the team determined to introduce Whiteside, who was not reused by the Heat.

In fact, some of these changes are a helpless move that has to be changed.No team can form a team completely according to its own wishes. When the team chooses players, the players also choose the team.

However, it can be seen from this adjustment that the Blazers' strategy relies more on the outside guns.Moreover, judging from the adjustments made by the Blazers, they have gained some room for imagination on the offensive end, but their defense has become less solid.In fact, the latter is the foundation that the Blazers should not abandon.This is one of the reasons why many people are not optimistic about the Blazers.In this environment that emphasizes defensive multi-position fast rotation, without the size, mobility, and flexibility endowed by excellent flanks, it is impossible to talk about good defense.

There is also a reason that the arrival of new players will change the original chemistry of the team.The Blazers have relied on the unity of that group of players to occupy a place in the West over the years.

But it was such a team that ended the thunderous winning streak.

For this game, the Thunder is full of confidence.After all, the Blazers had just lost the game against the San Antonio Spurs before, and their record became 2 wins and 2 losses.Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the game between the Blazers and the Thunder is their second back-to-back game.They played the Spurs to the last second in that game in San Antonio, and they always had a chance to win that game.Not to mention exhausted, but in terms of physical strength, it is definitely not as good as Lei Ting who is waiting for work.

In fact, the Thunder dominated the game for most of the game.

As soon as the game started, the Thunder launched an extremely violent attack.An Luo and Gallinari jointly scored 5 three-pointers in the first 5 minutes of the game. Coupled with the scores of Westbrook and Adams, the Thunder directly defeated the Blazers with a wave of 21:7 attacks. stop.It can be seen that the Blazers players are indeed a little tired.

After returning from the timeout, Lillard and McCollum entered offensive mode.The two basically took over the offensive power of the entire Blazers, and soon approached the point difference to single digits.

Then came a 20-minute tug-of-war.The Blazers relied on the performance of the two guns in the backcourt to tightly bite the point difference within 10 points.Although the Thunder failed to continue to expand the point difference, they were still able to firmly hold the lead.

By the second half of the third quarter, the Thunder once again set off a bloodbath.

At this time, Donovan has replaced Westbrook, Adams and Robertson one after another, leaving only Anlo and Gallinari as the two main players, leading Alexander, Noel and Grant to deal with the Blazers. rotation lineup.

The head coaches of both sides had the same idea at the same time.Give up defense and focus on offense.

It is not surprising that the Blazers have such an idea.After all, as a team behind, it is also a very good idea for them to grab a wave of points when the opponent's rotation is on the court.Donovan seemed to have expected that the opponent would have such an idea, so he simply confronted the opponent.

An Luo was the first to attack.When Donovan adjusted the focus of the game, he played firmly.First, he hit a three-pointer against McCollum, and then received a pass from Alexander in the counterattack fast break, completed a layup, and scored 2 points.

After An Luo scored 5 points in a row, other Thunder players also became active on the offensive end.Especially Alexander, under the restraint of An Luo and Gallinari, the Blazers' defense line was stretched very wide.This provided Alexander with an excellent display space.Under such circumstances, the second-year player followed An Luo's rhythm and continuously caused damage in the Blazers' penalty area.

Grant and Noel became the ones who did the dirty work for the Thunder.Still, these two guys have managed to achieve something during this time.

Although Lillard and McCollum did not perform badly.But instead of being able to take advantage of the offensive battle during this period of time, they were even widened by the Thunder.

By the end of the third quarter, the Thunder's lead had expanded to as much as 15 points.Judging from this situation, it is difficult for the Blazers to complete the reversal in the next quarter of the game.

However, anything is possible on the pitch. A 15-point difference is not absolutely impossible for a 12-minute game.Especially for a player like Lillard, this is not such a difficult thing.After all, as long as Lillard's touch is good enough, with his shooting range, it is relatively difficult to prevent him from scoring.

(End of this chapter)