Chapter 254: Rolling waves
When Dantley got the Nuggets' alternative data, he knew how big a mistake he had made. �
Anthony scored 25 points and Billups scored 25 points. It's gone. These are the only two people who scored twice in double digits by the Nuggets.
Nene made 6 shots, Kenyon Martin made 7 shots, "Birdman" Anderson made 4 shots, and Qiao Han Petro? Under Angel and others' tight defense, the French did not even get a chance to take action.
Data sometimes do not reflect the true situation of the game, but today, this reason cannot be a shield for Dantley.
It turns out that the Nuggets' spear cannot penetrate the Thunder's shield. The Thunder's shield can actually break the spear. The score of 2 to yi is nothing, but it can lose two games in a row, which makes everyone in the Nuggets start to worry.
Barkley's prediction was indeed correct. The series between the Spurs and the Mavericks, the Thunder and the Nuggets became the two most exciting matches in the entire round of 1.
The Mavericks are likely to suffer the Black Seven now, while the ambitious Nuggets may have to pack their luggage and go home in the first round.
Dantley is undoubtedly an excellent assistant coach, but he is only suitable for being an assistant coach. When the team is in trouble, he doesn't know how to improve the morale of the team, and he doesn't even know how to deal with the next game.
Beside George Carl, Dantley can think about coming up with new ideas according to Carl's ideas, but now he wants to have a tactical idea himself, but he can't think of it.
Another important factor is that Billups, who shined last season, was also very embarrassed by the successive defense of Westbrook and Seferossa.
In another four months, this guy will be 34 years old. 34 years old, and for a professional basketball player, he is definitely not young.
Dantley, the Nuggets' brain outside the court, couldn't think of anything, while Billups, the brain inside the court, was imprisoned. It was almost impossible to win the game with those flashing attacks in the playoffs.
Even if Anthony's personal ability is strong, he cannot lead the team without rigorous tactical ideas. The team with a disarray and a huge morale defeat will win. Even if they can win two games occasionally, they will not be able to win the entire series!
As expected, just a few days later, the Thunder defeated the Nuggets at the Chesapeake Energy Arena again.
This failure made Dantley feel even more at a loss.
To be on the safe side, Dantley chose to make the team's offense and defense relatively balanced. The Nuggets did not make any major mistakes in this game, and they played smoothly.
Unfortunately, Anthony, who was eager to win the game by his personal ability, was very uneasy today. He obtained a quasi-triple double-double, 39 points and rebounds, and of course 9 turnovers!
It's not assists, it's a mistake! Anthony's too many mistakes made the Thunder score a lot of points by converting offense. You know, players like Westbrook were born to convert offense. When he rushed up, not to mention Billups, even J.R. Smith and Anthony were not sure to catch up.
Nene, the Nuggets' defense backbone, is the most difficult thing to do in defensive conversion and offense. On the surface, the Nuggets played well, but the Thunder kept the lead in the score with Anthony's 9 fatal mistakes.
When Anthony tried his best to score two points in the inside guarded by Anger, the Thunder could easily tie the score with his mistakes. It is natural to say how much this hits morale.
The Thunder's outside players played like fish in the conversion attack, and the inside was able to continue the offense under An Jie's explosion.
In the last game, An Jie only scored 5 points because he focused all his energy on defense.
But today, Anjie's offense is very strong. Like Anthony, Anjie doesn't want the Nuggets to win at his home court. The safest thing to go to Denver with a total score of 3 to yi is.
Anjie's game can be said to have shown what he has learned throughout his life, including mid-range shots, big hooks, small hooks, fantasy dance steps, step-back jump shots...
All the skills that a center can show were taken to the table by An Jie. In 7 shots, An Jie scored the highest 3 points in the team, and also had 3 rebounds. His personal rebounds accounted for three of the Thunder team!
In the end, Anthony, who was in a mess, did not lead the team to recover the decline with crazy offense, but instead pushed the Nuggets into the abyss with crazy mistakes.
yio6 beat yiyi7, away from home, home, and home. The Nuggets defeated Ox City by more than ten times. The total score of the series was also rewritten by the Thunder team as 3-by-three!
3-to-yi, what is this? As of now, in nBa history, only 8 teams have been able to make a comeback while falling behind 3-to-yi.
In other words, the Nuggets' foot is now hanging in the air. The Thunder can throw them off the cliff with just a light push!
If the media supports the Thunder, there are naturally those who support the Nuggets. In particular, local newspapers in Denver have listed a lot of conditions, proving that the Nuggets still have hope.
"In the 2-century, only two teams have completed the feat of turning the tables 3-to-be. And Billups participated in this! As the team's tactical core, he knew how to deal with this situation and how to lead the team out of the predicament! The Thunder is like the magic that was turned over back then, and they are a group of arrogant young people! I believe that the Nuggets will definitely win at home, then take advantage of the victory and chase it, and win the series!" This text comes from the Denver Metropolis Daily. Although the author's viewpoint is far-fetched, it has become the last life-saving straw for the Denver people.
However, the dramatic yi screen was really born. Two days later, at the Pepsi Center, the Nuggets won three consecutive games and were in good shape. The winning was not just two points, but a game won by a huge advantage of yi 4 points!
Today, Durant was strangled to death by Anthony again, and the Nuggets' strong athletic inside player also scored wildly in front of Angel for the first time. Of course, winning is indispensable for J.R. Smith. He finally did not disappoint Denver fans today. He scored 7 points in the game. Seifrosa and Livingston tried their best, but still could not stop him.
After the Pepsi Center won the second victory, Denver fans were so happy that they were in a sensational blow. Their history is always surprisingly similar, and the Nuggets now seem to be in a similar situation as the team's two recent comebacks!
They have Billups, who have created miracles, and they are also like the way the Suns counterattacked the Lakers in 6 years.
o6 playoffs, the Lakers lost the first game with Phoenix, and then scored three consecutive games under Kobe's defeat, making the total score 3-by-3.
And the Suns beat the Lakers in the third away game, and then they cheered and finished the counterattack and won the series.
It can be said that the Nuggets completely replicate the hard journey of the Suns back then. Now, let alone Denver fans, even the Nuggets players have regained their confidence. As long as they can grit their teeth and win the next game at the Chesapeake Energy Arena, the Nuggets will be able to bring the tiebreak to Pepsi Center! At that time, they will definitely be the ones who can advance!
"They think beautifully!" Anjieyi said, pushing away Morris and hitting the ball again with a small hook.
"Damn, don't vent your feelings on me if you are not satisfied. It's my turn!" Morris picked up the basketball and threw it to Anjie. The two of them were training for back-to-back singles.
"I said, don't work so hard, keep some energy for tomorrow's game. Nene performed well in Yi's game, you have to be more careful tomorrow." Morris and Anjie attacked in a yi-like manner, but his little hook came out of the box.
"I was blamed on the field for being too underestimated by the enemy, and the Brazilian scored a lot of points. But that's fine, at least I will take good care of him tomorrow." An Jie shook his shoulder and stepped back and made a jump shot, but he made a fuss in Morris' interference.
"Hey, why do I feel that your defense has improved again?" Although the ball did not go in, Anjie still smiled and patted Morris' chest.
"Do you think you are the only one who is improving? I have to say that the playoffs are really a good place to get training!" Morris was proud. If Anjie was only relying on Anjie, the Thunder's inside defense would not be so strong. The Thunder would not have been able to reach this point.
At the beginning of the season, people even thought that the Thunder would be a fool to enter the playoffs. Halfway through the season, people felt that the Thunder were just a passerby in the playoffs and a foil for other teams.
But now, they are leading the Nuggets 3-2, and as long as they win the game at home, they can advance to the second round!
For a team that plays the playoffs for the first time, it is such an amazing thing to be able to make it into the second round. You should know that Yao Ming has played in NBA for seven years, and only successfully broke through the test of the round last year.
However, this curse does not seem to be applicable to Angel.
"Come again! In the end, I will definitely beat you!"
"Your feel is not as good as nene yet, what are you going to beat me? Come on!" An Jie put on his posture, and the two men began to fight each other, as if they were addicted, and they were never tired of it.
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Anthony will never forget the blue ocean of Chesapeake Energy Arena in his life. Yes, it seems to be even more terrifying than last year's Staples.
While distracted, Westbrook attacked again with aggressive ball control. Durant's ghostly running without the ball appeared again.
"Damn it!" Anthony gritted his teeth and ran with the No. 35 again.
He was already very tired, and Anthony put in almost all his energy to defend Durant. But what happened? The game had reached the fourth quarter, but the Nuggets were eight points behind. The result was that Anthony was wondering whether he was doing useless work.
Just as Anthony was thinking, Durant received the ball again. Anthony was tired, but he couldn't give up.
Durant naturally felt Anthony's fatigue. He suddenly broke forward and made another emergency stop as he moved forward. Anthony could not stand such a struggle. During the jump, Anthony's legs suddenly became soft and fell to the ground. Durant's emergency stop jump shot was hollow and entered the frame.
"Cameron!" Nene immediately went to support Anthony when he saw this. The team was ten behind. If Anthony fell, the entire Nuggets would also fall!
"I'm fine, fast ball, let's attack back!" Anthony wiped his sweat. It was not over yet, and he couldn't give up...
Nuggets fans felt sad when watching on TV, and the incompetent Dantley had long been flooded with the fans' saliva.
Anthony finally broke through Durant's Gibbon, and before he could breathe, he had to deal with Anjie, who had a larger defense area.
He changed his layup in the air and bent his waist to avoid Anjie's block. But before the severity was over, Ibaka had already jumped high, and Anthony didn't have time to change his posture for the second time in the air. This ball ended with Ibaka's block.
Anthony looked at his teammates. Billups had been defeated by the Thunder defenders in turn. Nene and Martin were unable to make a threatening attack in front of Anger. J.R. Smith played a good goal in the half, but he has not been able to help the team until now in the second half.
Finally, Anthony looked at his hands, and there was no choice but to rely on himself!
"Cameron Anthony broke through again! He fell down, Anthony fell down. Westbrook's quick push, oh! Beautiful dunk! Unbelievable..."
Anthony fell to the ground, and his ears were cheering from Thunder fans because of Westbrook's successful dunk. In his eyes, there was the blue ocean in the stands of the Chesapeake Energy Stadium, the blue ocean that he would never forget in his life...
Anthony can't remember exactly how the subsequent game was played. He only knew that he broke through and fell down again and again. Why didn't he shoot? He knew that with his current physical fitness, he had no shooting percentage at all.
Until he held the ball again and was about to plunge into the Thunder's penalty area, he was pulled by Billups beside him.
Anthony turned his head in shock and looked at Billups. What's going on!?
"It's over Cameron, the game is over. Our season... is over." It was not until this time that Anthony showed that the Thunder's penalty area was full of loopholes because they had begun to celebrate the victory.
The time on the rebounding time has become zero. Anthony still stood outside the three-point line with the ball.
This blue ocean began to wave. And he stood in the middle, as if he was about to be swallowed by this big wave...
Chapter completed!