438. Lost time
After returning from the timeout, although the Oklahoma City Thunder quickly scored two points and finished the game. Durant's confident jump shot helped the Oklahoma City Thunder narrow the gap, but in a blink of an eye, their old problem once again made them extremely confused!
Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard's cooperation in the paint area also helped the Cleveland Cavaliers stabilize the situation again. After an offensive and defensive round, the Oklahoma City Thunder, who played away, still did not gain any advantage!
However, more than half a minute passed after such a round. This situation would not help the Oklahoma City Thunder, who was lagging behind at this time. Moreover, the defensive defense would also cause the Oklahoma City Thunder to be wiped out a lot.
For the Cleveland Cavaliers, such an attack is acceptable, and the Oklahoma City Thunder is definitely not acceptable. Especially the Oklahoma City Thunder coach Brooks, the timeout he requested before was just to prevent such a thing from happening.
However, it is obvious that in the first round after the timeout, the Oklahoma City Thunder did not improve in this regard, and they are still at a disadvantage.
Although their offense was not hindered, they obviously did not have the ability to hinder the Cleveland Cavaliers' offense at any defensive end.
In this way, the score gap is still 8 points. For the Cleveland Cavaliers, they are of course very happy to see such a scene! Because this will help them stabilize their situation on the basketball court.
However, if the Cleveland Cavaliers can limit the Oklahoma City Thunder's defense, that would certainly be a better thing. After all, the leading side of the game often doesn't want to see the game dragged into the final moment.
This will increase the risk of the leading side winning a game. In addition to the short trailing two minutes at the beginning, the Cleveland Cavaliers have taken the initiative in this game so far.
Although Kyrie Irving's performance is not very good at the moment, there is no doubt that the advantage he has led the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second quarter rotation period is an important reason why the Cleveland Cavaliers can lead the Oklahoma City Thunder well at this time!
But of course the most important reason why the Cleveland Cavaliers can preserve such an advantage in the score to the present is naturally because of Wu Dawei's outstanding performance in this game tonight.
With 26 points and 11 assists, Wu Dawei completely dominated the offensive end, and the game is now in the second half of the third quarter of the second half, and there is still more than one quarter to keep Wu Dawei's data going crazy.
If he can maintain his current state, no one knows what kind of data he will obtain in the end!
If Wu Dawei can maintain this state, it will undoubtedly be the most unfavorable thing for the Oklahoma City Thunder who will play away in this game tonight!
Because they can never limit Wu Dawei's offense, and this situation will make them even more uncomfortable after entering the fourth quarter! Because when the fourth quarter game comes, it means that the game has reached the end.
And by that time, if the Oklahoma City Thunder continues to be at a disadvantage as it is now, then the changes in their mentality will definitely be even greater than now!
The impact of lag behind will have on them more than it is now! So if the game continues to be delayed in this situation, it will of course be very beneficial to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and for the Oklahoma City Thunder, it will become even more difficult.
So at this time, the Oklahoma City Thunder will definitely seize every possible opportunity to attack the Cleveland Cavaliers' positions wildly!
But obviously, this will not cause them great trouble for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Although they do want to defend their opponents' attacks, at least they are the leading side at the moment, and they themselves make the Oklahoma City Thunder unable to defend on the offensive end.
So for the Cleveland Cavaliers, the pressure on them is definitely much less than that of the Oklahomans.
Because after all, they are not the one behind, so they naturally don’t have to worry so much. After Wu Dawei and Dwight Howard completed a wonderful alley relay in the paint area, the score gap returned to 8 points, and the ball rights were once again returned to the hands of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Kevin Durant once again was unable to defend Wu Dawei's attack. Instead, he felt extremely upset at this time. For Kevin Durant, who regarded Wu Dawei as the number one enemy, his failed defense against Wu Dawei tonight certainly affected his mood.
Of course, he felt unwilling to give up, not just because he was unable to defend Wu Dawei's offense. At the same time, his team was still behind the Cleveland Cavaliers in this game!
Even though they still hold on to the score, the score gap of around 8 points has always been kept, making the Oklahoma City Thunder seem extremely passive!
Of course, they are very eager to narrow the gap in scores as much as possible now, because the time for the game is getting less and less. The less time will naturally make them who are on the backward side feel more and more anxious, but obviously it is useless to be anxious.
The most important thing is that the Oklahoma City Thunder must first score this next goal! Only by scoring one goal first to narrow the gap and then you will get the chance to truly narrow the score in the next defensive round.
But in this case, the Oklahoma City Thunder players have already said to themselves countless times in this game tonight... but they still haven't been able to successfully catch up with the gap in scores at this time...
But even so, Kevin Durant still contributed his strength to this offense. He made a high pick-and-roll for Russell Westbrook at a high position, and then helped Westbrook create a breakthrough opportunity.
Although Wu Dawei and Kyrie Irving attacked Westbrook this time, Mr. Tintos Tortoise eventually threw the ball into the basket!
63:69, the situation in the game is still relatively anxious. Although the Cleveland Cavaliers are always the leading side, and the leading score is basically around 8 points, the Oklahoma City Thunder has never given up on the pace of chasing points, which naturally makes the Cleveland Cavaliers dare not take it lightly.
The 6-point gap ball right has returned to the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers. For the Oklahoma City Thunder, their defense after every goal is extremely critical!
This time is of course no exception. Although they did not get any good results in their defense after scoring the goal before, they always put their hopes on the next defense.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are always defending with the hope of playing high chaos. Although they were basically disappointed before, as long as they still had hope of overtaking the score, they would never give up easily.
Now the game has entered the last four minutes of the third quarter, and there is not much time left before the last quarter. At this time, the Oklahoma City Thunder will naturally burst out with more energy to overtake the score!
So they will naturally become even more crazy on the defensive end. This time, under the defense of the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Cleveland Cavaliers did not throw the ball into the ball!
This is not something that makes people feel that there are too many surprises, because after all, a team usually has to shoot dozens of baskets in 48 minutes of a game. Being able to score almost half of the shots is considered very good, so losing one shot is nothing; the problem now is that the Cleveland Cavaliers missed this goal at such a critical moment, which will bring them some hidden dangers.
Although it cannot be said to be a fatal hidden danger, at least under such circumstances, they were unable to make this attack, which undoubtedly gave the Oklahoma City Thunder a chance!
When the Cleveland Cavaliers missed this shot, the rebound was put into his arms by Sergi Ibaka. Kevin Durant immediately ran towards the frontcourt after seeing the ball fall into Sergi Ibaka's hands!
After Ibaka got the rebound, she immediately chose to hand the ball over to the team's point guard Russell Westbrook. When Westbrook received the ball, he turned around and ran towards the frontcourt. At the same time, he found Kevin Durant who was running faster than himself at this time!
The ball crossed the heads of many people and flew straight towards Kevin Durant! Obviously, the Oklahoma City Thunder wanted to seize such an opportunity and hit a fast break to catch the Clevelanders off guard! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!