freeallnovels Chapter 197 Means
Chapter 197 Means
Chapter 197 Means
On March 3, the Thunder started a three-game streak in the East.
Charlotte, their first stop, is the Bobcats where Chandler has returned from injury.
Now the Bobcats are really a bit difficult to deal with, and the defense has been fully formed.
It's just that it's hard to win with defense alone. At the end of the quarter, Yi Jian broke out suddenly and solved the opponent in a wave.
The Thunder are approaching 60 wins this season.
"Both offense and defense are the kingly way. Why don't these teams understand?" Yi Jian sighed after the game.
A group of young people from the Thunder are in line. They often listen to Yi Jian's high-spirited speeches, and they all feel that they have learned a lot, and they look down on many teams in the league.
They don't really know how difficult it is to have a true combination of offense and defense.
The right players and the right tactics are indispensable for both offense and defense. There are too few teams equipped like the Thunder.
But this does not prevent Yi Jian from gathering the team's confidence and helping the team develop correct basketball values.
Many of them will go out and become key figures of other teams in the future.
When the team is not good, they also know how to complain about the management and the head coach.
Players who leave the Thunder must be taller.
The team has an excellent record, and Yi Jian is in a beautiful mood.
His current fanboys are not limited to the Thunder, there are countless others in the country, many of them are professional players as well.
Yi Jian often commented and pointed out the way forward for them.
I don't expect everyone to gain, but it is worthwhile for someone to follow his example and work hard to improve themselves.
On the field, the Thunder continued to triumph and beat the Raptors.
However, Yi Jian had a slight injury.
For the next back-to-back, he plans to take a break.
Unexpectedly, when Yi Jian was resting, the Thunder lost to the Pacers away.
Granger was in excellent form and even suppressed Durant.
The Pacers' young center Hibbert is also playing well. They seem to be a sign of rising again, but they feel a little bit worse.
After returning home, Yi Jian returned to the team to help the team against the Spurs.
The playoff teams in the Western Conference, regardless of whether they are strong or not, still need to find out at this time.
The Spurs' starting lineup has changed again, with Manu Ginobili and Jefferson both appearing in the starting lineup.
Jefferson still has a lot of starts this season. After all, he is the wing that the Spurs managed to get.
But Ginobili started because Parker was sidelined due to injury, and the Spurs needed a backbone outside.
And the Spurs did not use a random lineup to deal with it, but also because the playoffs are approaching.
The Spurs will not try their best to find out, but they will also look at the opponent's tricks.
Without Parker, the Spurs still play that way.
It's just that whether it's Ginobili or Hill, who is in the second grade, they don't cooperate so well with Duncan.
The main problem is the style of play. How many years have the Spurs used Parker and Duncan as the main offense.
So the Spurs simply focused on the outside attack, and Duncan used it specifically to stare at Yi Jian.
The Spurs' stars are still very good, and head coach Popovich does what he says.
Duncan's full-time defense will also do a good job, and then the team will fail and let Duncan do it, and he will go all out.
But Yi Jian also has a more mature method to deal with Duncan now.
That's receiving the ball from beyond the three-point line, and Duncan can't keep up with him right now.
Not to mention that Yi Jian moves fast enough, even Nowitzki can break Duncan's defense to a certain extent by pulling it out.
And if Duncan follows, let alone whether he can limit Yi Jian, the Spurs' inside defense will definitely become weaker.
Duncan doesn't seem like some stars degenerate quickly, but the Spurs really can't rely on him to fully support the inside.
The Spurs encountered problems soon after the start. It was difficult for Duncan to restrain Yi Jian. Among them, Durant beat Jefferson to the ground.
Now the Thunder's players are getting more and more confident, and it is becoming more and more difficult to limit.
Durant, who already has the strength of a superstar in some respects, has naturally been upgraded.
Yi Jian took Duncan to the outside, and Durant on the other side just abused other people casually.
As long as Durant's touch is not too weak, he is invincible as an end point in many cases.
The Spurs still have a lot of routines. Seeing that the situation is not right this time, they simply stopped defending and replaced Bonner, who was no longer reused, to attack the Thunder.
I have to say that the Spurs' routines are different every time, and there is still something.
After the Spurs let go of the attack, there was a surprise, that is, Hill played better and better.
It's just that in this case, the Spurs are becoming less and less like the well-known Spurs.
The Thunder is still familiar with the Thunder, they can play offense when the opponent's defense is not working hard.
Even when Yi Jian was resting, Lei Ting also attacked very well.
But the tempo picked up, and the Spurs also made a lot of money.
At halftime, although the Thunder did not lead to double digits, the score gap was still more than 5 points.
Against offense, the Thunder will certainly not be afraid of the Spurs.
At this time, the Spurs also felt that something was wrong.
The offense is comfortable, but if it goes on like this, it will lose.
Spurs coach Popovich is not very happy, now his status in the arena is still there, but the Spurs continue to stretch their hips, it is hard to say.
The offense from the outside line seems to be incomprehensible just by looking at the half court.
So the Spurs don't plan to change their tactics in the second half, it's just the regular season, and the outcome is not that important.
The key point is that no matter how they change, it is difficult to win.
Simply, they still play like this on the offensive end, and try to lock up other Thunder players on the defensive end, let Yi Jian play.
Or, flank Yi Jian and let Durant fight?
It is not easy for the Spurs to decide whether to let the Thunder's offensive core play or guide the Thunder's role players to attack.
If Thunder had only one strong point, that would be easy to say, but not now.
The Thunder's two strengths are better than the Spurs' players. If the Spurs can lock the two at the same time, it will not be such a headache, so it is unrealistic to only let the role players attack.
So they finally decided that Duncan will continue to focus on the defensive end and help the team lock up the Thunder's role players and Durant.
They want to see if Yi Jian still has the courage to lead the scoring after changing his style of play this season.
They recognized Yi Jian's strength, but Yi Jian had more organizational tasks this season, so perhaps his killer qualities weren't that outstanding.
In the arena of the league, this kind of thing is not impossible.
Yi Jian is a young player. It's normal for him to be unsteady. After all, the Spurs can let him score high points, as long as he doesn't kill his opponent alone.
As long as there is a little effect, the Spurs have a way to increase their chances of winning.
Therefore, at the beginning of the second half, the Spurs resolutely forced Yi Jian's outside line and let him break through to challenge Duncan.
When Yi Jian noticed the tricks of the Spurs, he just smiled slightly.
Duncan can indeed sit in the penalty area now, but he is still different from ordinary stars.
Yi Jian is willing to try if Duncan can stop him.
(End of this chapter)