The Basketball Court Swordsman

Chris Paul, his arrival is undoubtedly an important reason for the Pacers to become a team in the Finals. He is the most important scoring point and offensive organizer for the Pacers, as well as the team's spiritual leader.

Henson's tactical ideas can be proudly realized on the court, and the Pacers can reasonably allocate shots and play a beautiful team offense, which is inseparable from Paul. Once such an important player can't play, it is definitely a major benefit for the Thunder. ?

So as soon as the game started today, the Thunder were very excited, and hoped to seize Paul's chance to win the game. When Paul comes back, if the Thunder are already 3-1, it will be difficult for the Pacers to turn the situation back.

Brooks stood on the sidelines from the beginning of the game, urging the players to play. Because of Paul's injury, Brooks added a lot of tactics for Westbrook.

Once Westbrook can pose a threat to the Pacers inside, the Pacers have to help defend or double-team. At that time, as long as the No. 0 guard can get the ball out, the Thunder will get a lot of open shots!

Using a breakthrough to tear the defense and then divide the ball, this method is simple and crude, but it is really effective. The Heat relied on James to fight the Pacers to the tiebreaker, but this time, it was the Pacers, not the Heat!

Facing Stephenson, who replaced Paul in the starting field, Westbrook was obviously more confident than the previous two games. In his opinion, as long as Paul is not there, the Pacers have not been able to match him in the number one position.

Although Stephenson is not afraid of confrontation, he is indeed not as calm as Paul. For the Thunder's first offense, Westbrook fooled Finson with a fake screen and went straight to the basket.

Seeing this, the Pacers’ defense had to shrink, so Westbrook stuffed the ball from the gap into Ibaka's hands. The Congolese forward steadily hit a mid-range jumper, and the Thunder easily scored "one blood"!

"Beautiful offensive cooperation, the Thunder's offensive thinking is very clear. It seems that Coach Brooks has made good use of the factor of Chris Paul's absence due to injury. In this series, Westbrook has never been so active."

Brooks rushed to the players to applaud, but Henson Joe sat on the bench instead, as if it was the Thunder, not the Pacers, who had the injury problem.

Can Brooks be upset? Westbrook is an attacking guard who tends to get hot heads. He hardly has the organizing ability that a point guard should have. It is organizational ability, not passing ability.

Westbrook's passing ability is not bad, and he can do things like accurately delivering the ball from the crowd to his teammates. But good passing does not mean good organization, there is still a big difference between the two.

But if it's just a simple and rude breakthrough point, even Westbrook can do a good job. Without Paul's containment, Westbrook is simply a hotbed for breakthrough points.

After the Pacers' offense, Stephenson did not look for George or mess around, but deliberately found Horford.

However, it may be that Horford's three-pointer slammed out of the box before the player who just played. Westbrook personally grabbed the defensive rebound and directly advanced with the ball!

This No. 0 quickly shuttled through the crowd, and finally swiped Danny Green with a beautiful front change, and scored with one hand!

A blue "great wave" appeared in the stands of the Chesapeake Energy Arena, and Henson felt the cheers coming from behind almost pierced his eardrums.

A sudden point and a dunk, Westbrook really made a good start for this game. It can be seen that after being tortured by Paul for one and a half years, Westbrook could not help but want to vent all the suffocation in his heart.

Henson curled his lips, Westbrook's offense was indeed stronger than he thought. Although Stephenson is not afraid of the sky, he is afraid of encountering this kind of truth and killing himself.

It seems that defending Westbrook requires a calm defensive master like Paul.

Although he was led 4-0 by the opponent, Henson still recognized the team's offense. Perkins can't defend, Horford can get many opportunities as long as he runs a little! Just that time, Stephenson passed the ball well, and the opportunity has come out. However, Horford failed to shoot the ball.

But as long as there is a chance, Henson is not afraid of not being able to score.

For now, the team is still going according to Henson's plan. In Henson's plan, he never thought the Pacers could lead at the start.

The Pacers attacked for the second time, and Stephenson got a difficult pull rod layup. This layup was very beautiful from the breakthrough to the action, the only thing that was not beautiful was that the ball did not make progress.

Nonsense, in the face of such an excellent frame protection point as Perkins, Stephenson wanted to pretend to be X so easy. Don't underestimate Perkins, the biggest weakness of the Thunder has been that the interior is too weak. As a result, after adding Perkins to the mid-term trade last season, the Thunder went straight to the sky.

In the Celtics, Perkins' inside defense was also one of the keys to the Celtics' ability to win the championship.

Perkins once again held the Thunder's inside line, but what Henson saw was not a failure, what he saw was Perkins once again missed Horford. This ball is also because Finsen is in possession of the ball. If Paul, Horford will definitely get a chance.

Henson can see the benefits of failure, but others, especially the Thunder fans, don't think so. What they saw was the embarrassment of the Pacers after losing Paul.

The Thunder attacked for the third time, Westbrook got the second assist of the game, and Ibaka got his second goal with a dunk.

The ball is still the old way, Stephenson's reckless steal was passed by Westbrook in one step. Westbrook used his own breakthrough to attract the defense, and then divided the ball to the Congolese.

It seems that the 10% defensive awareness bonus is not enough for Stephenson, who is easy to brainstorm.

This time, Horford rushed to Ibaka very quickly, but Ibaka only made a fake shot, and after deceiving Horford, he immediately took a step and forced a dunk.

Ibaka was originally a brutalist insider with a burst of athleticism. Once he flew up, Horford and West were beyond the reach.

6 to 0, two consecutive dunks. The entire Chesapeake Energy Arena was overwhelmed, as if they had embraced the first O'Brien Cup in team history.

"Kevin, the scoring leader, hadn't even shot, and the Thunder had a burst of offense. What will Coach Henson do? Will he switch to Hinrich who has a more robust defense? Stephenson is certainly A good player, but he is still too young. Using him as the starting number one in the finals is still too risky."

Mike Brin shook his head, Stephenson is a "firefighter" type guy, he is more suitable to play off the bench to disrupt the battle, rather than starting to play the position of point guard. But what makes Brin even more strange is that Henson should know the players under his hands better than himself. When it comes to employing people, Henson almost makes no mistakes. He sometimes made some brilliant lineup adjustments and substitutions, which has won more than just one game for the Pacers.

So today, he just became muddled?

The shot was given to Henson, but the Chinese coach still did not stand up. If it is in normal times, it is estimated that he is ready to take off his shoes and rush to the court to find Stephenson.

But Henson was very calm at this time, and he was still communicating with the people around him.

If Henson was communicating with his assistant Vogel, it would be nothing special. But what surprised people was that Henson’s communication partner was Paul, who was unable to play due to injury!

For a player who can't play, does Henson have anything to say?

"Did you see it? Brooks' tactics are very clear. They are looking for the inside line. So in a moment, Westbrook will get a lot of opportunities to hold the ball. At that time, you have to make him pay the price of mistakes." Henson reached Paul's ears. By the way, you don't know what he is talking about just by looking at the expression.

Paul also just nodded silently, without answering at all.

"Then on the offensive end, I believe you have seen it too. My tactics have worked. Perkins is used to shrinking the penalty zone defense. His task is to protect the basket and assist in the mid-range offensive point. But outside the three-point line. Horford’s defensive, but not very concerned. These attacks, Horford has been missed many times. So later, the offensive end will look for Horford. Once Perkins is forced to leave the three-second zone, tell George, Let him break through!"

After listening, Paul nodded again.

Mike Brin didn’t know what Henson and Paul were muttering, but he was sure of one thing-every time the Pacers conspired with two brains on the court, it represented the Pacers’ opponents in big trouble. Up!

In a blink of an eye, nearly 4 minutes passed and the Thunder started a wave of 10 to 2. Henson finally got up from the bench and called a timeout.

The trial time is over!

Around Mike Brin, the Thunder fans cheered. Their powerful offensive completely stopped the Pacers, who are known for their defense! Can the fans not be excited?

Mike Brin was upset, but he didn't know why he was upset.

Could it be that Henson Joe could bring Chris Paul back to life?