This year's Thunder is as strong as ever! The team has continued the youth storm of the past few seasons, and the second young master is even stronger, killing people without blood!

After the New Year, the Thunder ranked first in the league with a record of 25 wins and 5 losses, and the reputation of the second young master of the Thunder resounded throughout the league!

However, Zhang Feng, who was addicted to his own training world, learned from his teammates on the afternoon of the game that when the team gathered, he only learned from his teammates that among the second young master of the Thunder today, only the boss Durant was on the battlefield, and his second brother Westbrook had a minor injury and needed to recuperate. He was free from the battle card in this game!

With Westbrook clearly announcing before the game that this game will not be played, the direct collision between the top two teams in the West will definitely lose its color to the extent of excitement.

For the Trail Blazers, the opponent is directly missing one of the two cores, and Durant is the only one left to lead the team, so it should be very easy to deal with it.

Well, it should be easy...

The Thunder team played at their home court in this game, and Ford Center Arena showed a very tough game attitude.

Since Westbrook didn't play, the Thunder directly sent Reggie Jackson to the starter, while the other starting defender was still Sapo Seifrosa.

Among them, Reggie is the main attacker, while Sefrosa has only one task, which is to defend Lillard and die Tellillard.

Durant, Ibaka, and Perkins are still regular starters for the team.

The Thunder's strength changes at the starting end are actually not big, but it only needs to increase Durant's shots to make up for the score gap left by the second young master Westbrook.

Of course, others also need to play better. When you have nothing to do when you attack, you can shoot the open shots that Durant passed, get some points, and then try hard to complete the defense on the defensive end, and you are not unfavorable to play.

At the beginning of the game, Durant showed his excellent offensive ability. Although Batum is a pretty outstanding defensive player, he still has a huge height disadvantage when facing Durant.

When Durant faced Batum, various offensive methods took turns to fight. From the beginning of the game, he pressed Batum to the ground to rub.

Although the Trail Blazers are obviously the stronger team on the field, the Thunder completely destroyed the Trail Blazers' defense with Durant's attack alone.

On the other hand, when the Trail Blazers were unable to complete effective defense and wanted to retaliate by attacking, Lillard was under Sefrosa's close-fitting defense.

Sefrosa was like a piece of candy, pressing tightly against Lillard, and constantly making small movements and small confrontations, affecting Lillard's offensive rhythm.

Since this is the Thunder's home court, although Lillard has been asking the referee for a whistle, the referee ignored it at all.

Lillard, who did not receive the support of the referee, was a little angry with Sefrosa, which led to high-difficulty personal forced fights on the offensive end. Although he scored a few goals, his efficiency was not high.

Instead, the Thunder gradually relied on Durant's outstanding personal finishing ability to expand the score advantage bit by bit.

At the end of the first quarter, the Thunder led by 8 points 30 to 22.

Durant scored 16 points alone, relying solely on his own to lead the Thunder's attack.

On the contrary, for the Trail Blazers, Lillard scored 6 points and Aldridge scored 7 points, not as much as Durant scored alone.

Now for Trail Blazers coach Stotts, the most critical issue is that no one can defend Durant.

Durant's best defender, Westbrook, cannot play today, and the Trail Blazers have no way to use this super scorer with unlimited firepower.

In the first quarter, the Trail Blazers even tried to double-team Durant directly, but double-teaming that was too late still could not stop Durant from making a jump shot at a high point. Double-teaming that was too early allowed Durant to have enough reaction time to pass the ball and find his teammates in the open position.

The Thunder's several role players' scoring was created by Durant's transfer ball.

Especially Ibaka and Reggie, they both took action with a decisive position and had a certain hit rate.

The 8-point gap is not big or small, and the Trail Blazers must still want to recover the score as soon as possible.

Because Lillard had been fighting against Sefrosa, he was replaced early in the second half of the first quarter and was ready to lead the team to rush in the substitute connection.

However, Aldridge, the main attack point on the court, could not play extremely easily in the face of Ibaka's defense like in the previous game.

After all, Ibaka is tall and has long arms, excellent physical confrontation, and very good movement ability. Although he cannot perform his excellent defense ability when facing Ade, he can also cause great interference to Ade when he is 1v1.

When Ade faces Ibaka, he can basically rely on his own turnover and jump shot to defeat the enemy. However, due to the back-to-back game, Ade's touch was a bit bad in this game.

Since the Trail Blazers were also not smooth in the early stages of the second quarter, under Aldridge's leadership, the Thunder dared to provide Durant with more rest time while the score difference was maintained.

Stotts finally couldn't bear it when he looked at the team's constipated attack. After only 2 minutes of the second quarter, he replaced Ade, and Lillard, as well as Zhang Feng.

Stotts used the team, and he was quite in line with the pick-and-roll tactics, and planned to seek changes on the offensive end.

At this time, the center of the Thunder on the court was Adams, the first round pick this year. He is also a first-year rookie, and Adams himself is not good at attacking. It can be said that this is the perfect opportunity for Zhang Feng to play on the court.

Zhang Feng can play his role in the offensive end, but he doesn't have to worry that Adams will pose a big enough threat to him on the offensive end.

With Lillard's appearance, Sefrosa also appeared, but this time, with Zhang Feng, the excellent coverer, Sefrosa couldn't keep up even if she wanted to follow Lillard.

On the offensive end, Zhang Feng's excellent pick-and-roll blocked Sefrosa, who was also trying to squeeze through, both times blocked the tight end.

Lillard made two shots and hit a goal, adjusting his feel bit by bit.

Sefrosa, who successfully made Lillard feel uncomfortable for most of the game, faced Zhang Feng's pick-and-roll screening every time, had no choice but to play to his defensive advantage.

After a lot of trouble, the Thunder coach still chose to double-team Lillard. He finally limited Lillard's performance on the offensive end and must not let him rely on pick-and-roll tactics to find the feeling of taking action.

Anyway, Zhang Feng is just a rotation player. When he gets off the court, Sefrosa's defensive role will be easier to play.
Chapter completed!