At the beginning of the second half, Durant was assigned as the starter by Carlesimo.
Durant, who continued to start the game, was in high spirits. Apparently, Carlesimo's encouragement to Durant during the halftime break was successful.
After Durant came on the court, he continuously attacked Gay's defense.
Gay was also overconfident, thinking that he must be much better than the rookie, and signaled his teammates not to come over to defend him.
Choose to defend Durant alone.
Durant's dribbling is indeed not good, but facing Gay's defense, it is still very good.
Continuous hip dribbling, although there was some stumbling, still shook Guy who was guarding him.
He suddenly accelerated, quickly got rid of Gay's defense, and came to the basket to score a dunk.
When Mark saw this scene, he covered his eyes with his hands. After thinking about it, he decided to let Guy stay on the court since the game had just begun.
Gasol couldn't stand it anymore and signaled Gay to pay attention to defense. Gay ignored Gasol the whole time.
Stoudemire dribbled the ball past half-court, and the Sonics players had already taken a defensive position.
Seeing that he couldn't score quickly, he could only start to play tactics and use pick-and-rolls to launch attacks.
Stoudemire called two pick-and-rolls in a row, but was still unable to get rid of the defender.
Gay saw that the pick-and-roll could not pose an effective threat and began to ask for the ball.
Stoudemire glanced at Mark, who motioned to give the ball to Gay.
Gay received the pass and kept using his body to impact Durant. Durant's strength was his shortcoming and he failed to stop Gay from crushing him.
Gay turned around and scored two points.
He clenched his fists and glanced at Li Tian, as if to demonstrate to Li Tian.
At this moment, Guy felt that he could do it again.
Li Tian was completely speechless when he saw Guy's provocative eyes.
Durant hit Gay again, and the SuperSonics score was reduced to 5 points.
The two teams fought several times in a row.
The Grizzlies offense had just succeeded in beating Durant alone, and Gay wanted to replicate it again.
Gay asked for the ball and continued to beat Durant alone. Durant also became much smarter and knew that his strength was much smaller than Gay's.
But when Gay dribbled the ball forward, he suddenly retreated.
Gay thought it was his own strength that made Durant unable to even stand.
Directly apply force to prepare for a layup.
The moment Gay stood up for a layup, Robert Swift, who was guarding Gasol, had already come over to cover.
Gasol shouted loudly to Gay, "Be careful with your defense."
When Guy reacted, Robert Swift had already swooped over.
Gay was in a hurry and couldn't pass the ball out, so he had no choice but to force a layup.
Gay's shooting rhythm was disrupted, and his shot missed the basket and missed.
"Haha, is this Grizzlies small forward here to be funny? He was so close to the basket and he shot a three-pointer. If it were me, I would just continue to eat at the basket." Barkley's eyes were full of disdain. .
"Damn fat man, you think everyone is as shameless as you and eats so fat."
Gay's shot went out of bounds, the SuperSonics served from the baseline, and Durant's fast break continued.
The point difference narrowed to 3 points.
"Conley, Lee, prepare to appear." Mark roared.
"It should have been like this a long time ago. Guy's performance was terrible today, but Li Tian is more useful. It's so good." Director Zhang saw Li Tian starting to warm up on the sidelines and getting ready to play.
Li Tian and Conley were arranged to play again, and Gay was pushed off the court.
After beating Gay several times in a row, Durant felt like he was good again.
He started playing against Li Tian in singles when he came up, and this time he chose to lower his focus.
Don't let Li Tian have the chance to steal the ball easily.
"I told you, I'm going to blow you up." Durant said this while concentrating on controlling the ball.
"It's just you who wants to beat me up. A guy who can't even bench press, and you want to beat me up. What the hell do you think?" Li Tian will not spoil Durant.
Li Tian knew that Durant was irritated by him, so Li Tian glanced at Gasol under the basket without any trace.
Gasol understood.
Just when Durant accelerated to break through Li Tian, Li Tian made the same move that Durant had just done to defend Gay, got out of the way and let Durant pass.
Just like that, Gasol, who was waiting under the basket, ruthlessly rewarded Durant with a block.
The ball was passed to Li Tian's side, and Li Tian flew up and grabbed the rebound.
"Did Durant play without any brains? He just used this method to guard against Gay once, and when he turned around, Li Tian shot him back. Gay should thank Li Tian."
"Suddenly I feel that there is a huge gap between Durant and Li Tian."
"It's all damn Durant, otherwise we wouldn't have given up on choosing Li Tian."
"I agree with you upstairs, but I'm a secret agent."
"I feel sorry for James. If I hadn't talked so much, wouldn't Li Tian have had the opportunity to go to Kecun?"
"Haha, actually the Cavaliers are not the worst, the Heat are."
"Green fans are also hiding in the corner and crying bitterly."
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"Haha, fans say a lot, let them regret it, we are just Tianmi." Director Zhang suddenly defined himself as a fan of Li Tian.
Li Tian got the ball and prepared to launch a fast break.
Wilkins blocked Li Tian's quick move immediately.
He had no choice but to wait for Conley to come over and pick up the ball, dribbling it across half court.
"Hey, who is that? Are you going to beat me up? Why is your face so swollen?" Li Tian seized the opportunity and stimulated Durant fiercely.
Conley saw the two arguing and handed the ball back to Li Tian, hoping that Li Tian would beat Durant alone to improve his morale.
"Blow this softie!" Gasol ruthlessly attacked from behind.
"Guard me, I'll shoot right here, believe it or not?" Li Tian looked at Durant.
"Really, I'm going to shoot, come and guard me." Durant remained unmoved.
Li Tian pointed to the three-point line with his finger.
Before he finished speaking, Li Tian directly attacked Durant.
Li Tian took action very quickly, and the whole process took less than 1 second.
Durant really didn't react.
"Haha, Durant is being raped."
"I'm not a Sonics fan anymore. Face covering emoji"
"Feeling sad for Durant..."
"Barkley, does this ball have a chance to score among the top five? Did he just tell Durant where to shoot? I saw him pointing at the floor." Kenny saw Li Tian hit Durant with a three-pointer.
"I don't think so, because if this is the case, then the top five goals will be taken by him. I also think what you said is right." Barkley quickly rejected Kenny's idea.
"However, Durant is indeed a disgrace."
After Li Tian made a three-pointer, he said, "Are you stupid? I even said I was going to shoot."
Turn around and go back to defense.
"Li, what did you just say? I think Durant wants to eat you." Gasol was curious about what Li Tian said.
"I told him I was going to shoot here, but he didn't believe me." Li Tian spread his hands and expressed helplessness.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Wilkins forced a break through Conley and made a mid-range shot.
Looking back, Durant had just suffered a loss and began to defend Li Tian personally.
Unable to find an opportunity outside the three-point line, Li Tian came to the penalty area of the strong test area, and Durant defended closely behind Li Tian.
Conley didn't find a good offensive opportunity, so he tried to throw the ball high to Li Tian in the penalty area.
After receiving a pass from Conley, it was just a good time to test his dream footsteps.
Turn around suddenly.
No shaking Durant.
Li Tianli turned around continuously and successfully shook Durant up through the change of rhythm.
Slip directly to the baseline, get to the basket and score a dunk.
"Haha, it's so beautiful. Just do it like this. Li Tian slips him, just slips him away. This pace seems to have a shadow of Yao Ming." Zhang Weiping was so excited.
Yu Jiadu felt that Director Zhang was different today.