Vol 3 Chapter 683: After winning streak

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While the Thunder continued to expand their winning streak, a team that was not ranked in the strongest sequence interrupted their rhythm. To be precise, the Thunder's winning streak was destroyed in the hands of a player.
On October 30, the Thunder challenged the Portland Trail Blazers away.
After a bad season, the Blazers did a lot of work this summer. However, not many people are optimistic about them this season.
The Blazers have a combination of Lillard and McCollum in the backcourt, which makes them the key to playing a world in the powerful West. However, these two guys are definitely the shortest dual-core team in the league, and the actual height of the two should not be 190CM. Of course, even with poor congenital conditions, they can still rely on stable and rising performance to lead this team to stand tall in the Northwest. Head coach Stotts played an indispensable role for this. If the team desires 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.
In the new season, the Blazers' lineup has changed a lot. Although Seth Curry and Evan Turner on the back line, Aminu and Harkless on the front line, and center Meyers Leonard left Portland, they got Baezmore. Al, Tolliver, Hezonia, Whiteside and Gasol are some of the decent players.
After some changes, the Blazers have made the most significant adjustments to the frontline position that has been criticized. Baezmore and Tolliver replaced Harkless and Aminu, and Hezonia replaced Lehman. In addition to this change, the team needs to change. The growth of Zach Collins also gives the Blazers management a bold confidence. In addition, the injury of center Nurkic made the team determined to introduce Whiteside, which was not reusable in the Heat.
These changes are actually part of the helplessness that has to be changed. No team can form a team exactly according to their own wishes. When a team chooses a player, the player is also choosing the team.
However, from this adjustment, it can be seen that the Blazers' strategy relies more on outside guns. And, judging from the Blazers' adjustments, they have gained a certain degree of imagination on the offensive end, but the defense has become not solid enough. In fact, the latter is the foundation that the pioneers should not give up. This is one of the reasons why many people are not optimistic about the pioneers. In this environment where defensive multi-position and rapid rotation are required, without the size, mobility, and flexibility endowed by excellent wings, it is impossible to do a good job in defense.
There is another reason, the arrival of new players will change the original chemical reaction of the team. The Blazers have relied on the unity of a group of players to get a place in the West over the years.
But it was such a team that ended the momentum of the Thunder's winning streak.
For this game, the Thunder are confident. After all, the Trail Blazers had just lost the game against the San Antonio Spurs before, and the record became 2 wins and 2 losses. Of course this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Blazers and the Thunder are their second back-to-back game. In their San Antonio game, they played with the Spurs until the last second, and they always had a chance to win that game. Not to mention exhaustion, but in terms of physical strength, it is definitely a thunder that can't wait to work.
In fact, the Thunder dominated the game most of the time.
At the beginning of the game, the Thunder launched an extremely fierce attack. Anlo and Gallinari combined to score 5 three-pointers in the first 5 minutes of the game. Together with Westbrook and Adams's scoring, the Thunder directly hit the Blazers with a wave of 21:7 attacks. stop. It can be seen that the Blazers players are indeed a bit tired.
After returning from the timeout, Lillard and McCollum entered offensive mode. The two basically took over the offensive power of the entire Trail Blazers, and they quickly closed the point difference to single digits.
This was followed by a 20-minute tug of war. The Blazers relied on the backcourt to play with double shots, tightly keeping the point difference within 10 points. Although the Thunder did not continue to expand the points difference, but they are still able to firmly hold the lead.
By the second half of the third quarter, the Thunder once again set off a storm.
At this time, Donovan has successively replaced Westbrook, Adams and Robertson, leaving only the two main players Anlo and Gallinari, with Alexander, Noel and Grant to deal with the Blazers with two shots. The rotation lineup.
The head coaches of both sides came up with the same idea. Give up defense and focus on offense.
It's not surprising that the Trail Blazers have such an idea ~ EbookFREE.me ~ After all, as the lagging side, it is a good idea for them to grab a wave of points while the opponent's rotation is on the court. Donovan seemed to have expected the opponent to have such an idea, and simply fought against the opponent.
An Luo was the first to attack. When Donovan adjusted the focus of the game, he played very resolutely. First, he made a three-pointer against McCollum, and then received a pass from Alexander in the counter-attack fast break to complete a layup and score 2 points.
After Anluo scored 5 points in a row, other Thunder players began to become active on the offensive end. Especially Alexander, under the control of Anluo and Gallinari, the Blazers' defense is very wide. This provides Alexander with an excellent display space. Under such circumstances, the second-year player followed An Luo's rhythm and continuously made kills in the Blazers' penalty area.
Grant and Noel became the existence responsible for the dirty work of Thunder. Despite this, these two guys have made some achievements in this period of time.
Although Lillard and McCollum did not perform badly. But not only did they fail to take advantage of this period of confrontation, they were also opened up by the Thunder.
By the end of the third quarter, the Thunder's lead had expanded to as much as 15 points. According to this situation, it is difficult for the Blazers to complete the reversal in the following quarter of the game.
However, everything is possible on the court. The 15-point difference is not absolutely impossible for 12 minutes of game time. Especially for players like Lillard, this is not so difficult. After all, as long as Lillard's hand feels good enough, with his range, it is more difficult to prevent him from scoring.