James Harden and Stephen Curry are in a relationship.

Of these two people, one wants to prove his status as a star at Arizona State University; the other wants to prove that he is no worse than James Harden.

This makes the substitute rotation time between the Suns and Thunder as exciting as it was when the two teams started on the court in the first quarter.

All the fans who watched this game did not expect that the substitute rotation stage of this game could be so exciting, and everyone watched it with great interest.

Both teams also had people step up during the substitute rotation period, so both teams replaced their starting lineups until the second quarter, and the score between the two teams was still tight.

However, unlike the Suns who replaced all the substitutes on the court, the Thunder retained James Harden and Ibaka!

These two guys plus Jeff Green, Kevin Durant and Westbrook who are back on the court...a total of five guys, the harvest of the Thunder in the three drafts in the past three years!

These five guys are also called the "Four Young Masters of Thunder" and Ibaka!

Before James Harden came, the Thunder already had the "Three Young Players": Jeff Green, Kevin Durant and Westbrook. James Harden joined this year and was already selected in 2008, but because of

With the arrival of Ibaka, who did not join the European League last year, the Thunder's future combination is officially assembled!

Brooks put this lineup on the court at this time not to show off the Thunder's talent, but because James Harden's performance during the substitute rotation was indeed outstanding.

As for keeping Ibaka on the court, it is for the Thunder's defense.

His defensive ability is much better than that of Krstic.

coming!

coming!

The time has finally arrived!

Watching the Thunder keep James Harden on the court and Lin Ri playing again, Jeff in front of the TV suddenly became excited.

This is the moment he has been waiting for!

the sun, come on! Be sure to cover James Harden more!

Sandek also became much more focused at this time.

It's a very new thing for him that James Harden and Lin Ri are fighting on their own. He doesn't necessarily want to see the outcome between the two of them, but simply wants to see them confront each other.

This is the bad taste of being their former college head coach.

"beep!"

As the referee's whistle sounds.

The game restarts.

Steve Nash strode forward with the ball in the backcourt, and James Harden moved slightly in the direction of Westbrook.

He saw clearly off the court just now that Steve Nash broke through Westbrook too easily, and he had to help limit it.

It's not that he thinks much about Westbrook.

But he discovered that Steve Nash especially liked to pass the ball to Lin Ri.

Under normal circumstances, there is no problem. But now that he is on the court, if Lin Ri performs well, then he must also perform better, but in the current lineup, he does not touch the ball more than once in one round.

More than three times, it would be a bit too difficult to perform the same as Lin Ri with just these few touches of the ball.

As the saying goes, "If I don't take action and you don't take action, then my strength is equal to your strength."

James Harden is solving the problem from the root.

I'm so smart.

But his movement was noticed by Steve Nash. He called the pick-and-roll very simply, and then broke through directly in the direction of James Harden.

Then James Harden bumped into Lin Ri's arms.

so hard!

James Harden felt the familiar hardness, no, it seemed to be harder, watching Steve Nash holding the ball and going in.

Phew~

It's okay, as long as Lin Ri doesn't score, it's fine.

James Harden watched Steve Nash rush into the paint and was about to score, and he felt relieved.

He didn't notice at all that he and Lin Ri were now in a confrontation.

Steve Nash, who was rushing straight to the inside, was also blocked by the very mobile Ibaka.

This timely screen made Brooks very satisfied off the court.

That's why he put Ibaka on the floor.

James Harden was depressed for a while.

Why did you say you stopped him?

Just let him in!

Wait a minute, why is this guy looking in my direction?

James Harden felt a flash of uneasiness in his heart.

Then he felt Lin Ri start to exert force.

And he noticed that at this moment, he was guarding Lin Ri alone.

Stop it!

James Harden thought of something, and a few seconds later, the picture he imagined became reality.

"Whoosh!"

Lin Ri steadily caught Steve Nash's pass, jumped up and easily hit the shot.

However, James Harden still raised his hands high at this moment as if to "surrender".

When defending a player who is so much taller than him, but still close to him, this is the only way James Harden can think of interfering with the defense.

But after Lin Ri scored a goal, this posture became a bit awkward.

"Don't surrender! James, the game has just begun!"

Lin Ri's trash talk then reached the ears of James Harden.

Hahahahaha!

Satisfied!

Satisfied!

That's it!

When Jeff saw this scene, he burst into laughter for a second.

When the game is over, he must go to the Internet to find the replay, cut out the scene of James Harden's "surrender", and then send it to James Harden to watch.

"It's okay, it's okay, let's run! Let's fight back this time!"

But Brooks doesn't blame James Harden.

This ball has been misplaced, and there is nothing we can do if we can't prevent it.

And the reason why he keeps James Harden on the court is not because of his defense. If he really wants to talk about defense, he just puts Sefolosha on the court. The latter's defensive ability is much better than James Harden!

The real reason why he left James Harden on the court was because of the latter's wonderful performance on the offensive end just now!

What he wants is for James Harden to continue his offensive firepower.

Judging from the situation after the first quarter, the Thunder still lacked offensive firepower.

In addition, it is indeed impossible to prevent the Suns' offense.

Since both ends are not doing well, then simply give up one end.

What the free and easy Brooks gave up was the defensive end.

The Thunder's offensive talent is obviously better.

With the Thunder's current configuration on the field, positions one to four have independent offensive capabilities, while position five is a "pie-eating man" who does not occupy the ball. With this configuration, the offensive firepower is absolutely fierce!

"Whoosh!"

Sure enough, the Thunder successfully completed their response.

Although it probably has nothing to do with Brooks's configuration.

The person who scored the goal was Kevin Durant.

He was fierce in the first quarter, and he was still as ferocious in the second quarter.

He was actually still unhappy.

Because Ariza still hasn't changed his defensive strategy and is still forcing him to make breakthroughs.

Of course he will continue to let Ariza know what a wrong decision he made!

"Speed ​​it up, speed it up!"
To be continued...