One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-One. Sun Ce's On-the-Spot Response

The Grizzlies still started with Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Paul George, Aldridge, and Gobert.

The Thunder sent out Westbrook, Andre Robertson, Durant, Ibaka, and Adams.

With the referee's whistle, the series between the Grizzlies and the Thunder kicked off.

Adams beat Gobert to win the jump ball. The Grizzlies had expected to retreat in an orderly manner. Although the Thunder rarely played counterattacks, the Grizzlies' retreat was flawless, guarding against all possible situations.

However, although the Thunder won the jump ball, the first attack was not smooth! After Gobert lost the jump ball, he knew his shame and then bravely came up and gave Westbrook, who broke through to the close-range jump shot, a big cap!

It was a little regrettable that no one on the Grizzlies grabbed the ball, and it was out of bounds. It was still the Thunder who took a free throw. Fortunately, the ball was hit on the sideline at the center line and bounced out. The Thunder did not get a baseline ball, but a center line ball.

As the referee called the ball out of bounds and the Thunder whistled for the ball in the frontcourt, Westbrook looked at Gobert in surprise. The ball just now seemed simple, as if he was careless and was blocked... It can be said that he was careless, because he followed his previous habit, forced acceleration after a step-through to break through to a close-range lob, but when they played against each other a month ago, this style of play worked well against Gobert. If there is anything wrong, it is that his hit rate in this area is not high. His hit rate at the basket is very high, but the hit rate at close range is only about 50%.

But being blocked is different from shooting. Gobert just moved sideways, and now he is ready in advance, and he has predicted the timing of his shot! Gobert's previous action was to guard against Adams and Ibaka's cut-in. When he was ready to shoot, he was blocked, which was definitely predicted!

This is not a simple thing. For a tall and relatively slow center like Gobert, such a change means that he has made progress in terms of consciousness, timing judgment, etc.

It's only been a month!

Think about it again. In the 13-14 season, Gobert couldn't play. Last season, he became the main backup center. This season, he has become the starting center, and he is expected to be selected into the best defensive team...

When Westbrook looked at Gobert, his thoughts turned around and around. He had only one thought in his mind - how could Sun Ce be so damn lucky?

Although Westbrook has crazy self-confidence that ordinary people can't imagine, he feels that he is not inferior to anyone, and he won't think "if my teammates are better", but he can't help but feel envious.

Let alone Westbrook, Sun Ce, who was ready to shrink his defense but still failed to assist in defense, was shocked by Gobert's block. Westbrook's strong straight line breakthrough is almost undefended.

If he makes up for the defense in advance, the opponent is a master of assists. If he doesn't make up for the defense in advance, he can't complete the defense at all. The distance from the three-point line is only a few meters, and Westbrook rushed in in one second.

But Gobert defended well this time... Sun Ce looked at Westbrook and Ibaka who were going to receive the serve, and suddenly thought of Whiteside's defense against Westbrook in a live broadcast that Sun Ce watched in the last round when the Trail Blazers played against the Thunder... Sun Ce sighed. With Go Guanfeng's learning ability, it's no wonder that he will become the best defensive player in the future and defend the entire NBA... Anyway, Gobert's improvement on the defensive end is much faster than that of Sun.

Although the entire NBA in the original time and space was caused by the school beauty to collapse as a whole, the one who stood out from it is definitely one of the best defensive players in the league.

However, everyone has his own specialty, and Gobert's only strength is defense.

The core point guards of both teams quickly flashed some messy thoughts, but as the referee whistled and passed the ball to Durant, the game continued, and both of them focused.

Westbrook pushed beyond the three-point line again, and there were only 7 seconds left for the attack. After looking at Durant, Westbrook accelerated and broke through directly! Paul George still couldn't stop him, but compared to the defense just now, his pace was much faster, and he was close to Westbrook.

At this time, Westbrook broke in and shot from close range. With Gobert, he went around the basket. Paul George was able to chase and defend in the first time, which can be said to be quite good.

But just when Paul George passed the free throw line, he saw Durant pulling from behind him to the sideline, and Ibaka didn't know when he pulled out to screen for Durant, and Aldridge didn't keep up! At the same time, Paul George saw Westbrook grab the ball!

Paul George hurried to Durant.

But Westbrook didn't pass! When he came into contact with Gobert, he forced his strength, took two steps to bypass Gobert and entered the three-second zone, jumped high, and smashed the ball into the basket with one hand!

Sun Ce was a beat late when he made up for it, and Paul George was just short of going around Gobert from the other side to slow down Westbrook's shooting speed.

Although Adams's dunking was limited by Gobert, the cooperation between Ibaka, Westbrook and Durant was still very strong! And the tacit understanding, Sun Ce, who had been paying attention to Westbrook, saw that Westbrook just glanced at Durant, and Durant understood Westbrook's idea.

"No wonder Turtle was almost angry to death after Shubao went to the Warriors..."

It's a bit difficult to defend!

Sun Ce immediately judged the current situation and felt that the defense he had thought of at the beginning was a bit difficult to deal with. Gobert did make progress in the playoffs, but it was still not enough. Compared with Whiteside, who has the ability to win the rebounding and blocking titles and put down his brush instinct, there is still a gap. Gobert will probably be stronger in the future, but Gobert now can't play the role of Whiteside.

Therefore, it is not a good choice to defend the basket to start a defensive battle. The mobility of the starting power forward of the Grizzlies is a bit difficult to deal with the forwards of Ibaka and Durant.

You can't put yourself into the successful play of the Trail Blazers! The so-called success of the Trail Blazers is that they almost overthrew the strong, and the Grizzlies are obviously stronger than the Trail Blazers. The experience of the weak team's counterattack can be used as a reference, but you can't regard yourself as a weak team...

Sun Ce immediately made a judgment. After arriving at the frontcourt, he received a pass from Paul George and waved to Klay Thompson. Klay Thompson came to block Durant. Durant and Andre Robertson, who was defending Klay Thompson, did not hesitate and quickly switched defense.

As soon as the positions of the four players changed, Andre Robertson and Durant saw Sun Ce go around the pick-and-roll and shoot directly!

Andre Robertson was in a defensive position and pressed forward directly... successfully forcing Sun Ce to fade away.

However, Sun Ce's three-pointer from the fade away went in!