Curry vs. Gordon s rampage·Alexander vs. Pacers

Thunder vs. Pacers, a repeat of last season's finals. The Thunder passed the first two games of the season in double overtime.

The Thunder are without Jew Caruso Carson, the Pacers are without Haliburton, and Nembhard is missing in the middle.

Alexander’s career-high 55 points.

But Coach Carlisle is a true god.

Without Haliburton, Nemhard retreated after playing for a while, and the Pacers had no ball carrier. Carlisle waved his hand: Shepard, Walker, whoever can come on.

In the fourth quarter, in a certain round, Toppin, Siakam, Nesmith, and Marcelin all touched the ball: except for Isiah Jackson, everyone in the Pacers shot a three-pointer. Everyone in the Pacers had an assist except for Huff and Jackson.

The Thunder don’t know who to guard against.

In the last half of the quarter, the Pacers were:

Sheppard + Toppin + Marcelin + Walker (?) + Bradley (?).

Aja Mitchell just made a monster throw, Shepard hit the ground and passed, and Bradley faced the Twin Towers with a 2+1.

When Alexander walked to the sidelines, Regler commented: Alexander is coming back, and the Pacers still have two rounds, so they have to take advantage of it - so:

Marcelin shot from long range, and Walker took it alone - when you have the energy, you can really make the shot.

In the next 15 minutes, Alexander + Aja Mitchell attacked the Pacers with the ball.

The Pacers' routine: Siakam serves as the center and pulls Che to the line, and Marcelin makes a wild breakthrough.

Siakam and Toppin went to the line to support, and Walker layup in the weak side corner.

Siakam's mid-range shot tied the game and dragged it into overtime, and then the second overtime.

Toppin missed 8 three-pointers today. He missed three shots in overtime and got stuck in the basket. When he and Siakam pushed back, they made some moves. But this is Coach Carlisle:

Let go!

Marcelin can make mistakes, Toppin can make blind shots, Sheppard and Walker can single out, and Bradley can go straight to the Twin Towers.

Last season's finals, "organized chaos", "If we don't know how we are going to play in the next round, the opponent will not know either."

Without Haliburton, without the shuttle starter and helmsman? Then Siakam and Toppin can push back and counterattack, then it will be even more disorderly and chaotic.

Coach Spoelstra can make every player play tough and smart. Coach Carlisle can make players out of nowhere become romantic and unrestrained. The God who turns iron into gold.

The Thunder’s gain today is probably this: After A’ja Mitchell returns, he can indeed be another ball-handling point after Alexander and Jaywei-they no longer need to rely solely on Carson and Wiggins’ ball-handling, and Caruso’s free throw line support.

Alexander’s career-high 55 points ranked only third in Thunder history: In 2017, within three weeks, Westbrook had 58 points and 9 assists in one game and a 57-point triple-double.

Looking at how tired Alexander is today, it can prove how terrible the burden was for Westbrook in that triple-double season.

The Warriors melted the Nuggets in overtime: sanity and fanaticism.

Jokic’s sanity, Gordon’s fanaticism—Curry’s sanity in the first half and fanaticism in the second half.

After the frenzy, all existing logic no longer applies: "The atmosphere is here!"

Denver scored 70 points in the first half: The core was Aaron Gordon, who had the best half of his career, making 7 of 7 three-pointers. More than one ball, it was "Kuminga/Podie was far away from Gordon and could not make up for it".

Poje’s gap in coverage is due to his short size, while Kuminga’s is an old problem: he leads the defense well and has no ball gap. Three years ago, the Warriors specially arranged it, with Clay/Kuminga leading the defense and Wiggins responsible for off-ball defense - aside from the topic, that was coach Mike Brown's coup.

An adjustment for the Warriors in the second half: Kuminga will try to avoid facing Gordon (the terminator) on the weak side as much as possible. If possible, he will guard Murray (the ball holder)!

Coupled with a large number of defensive changes and taking away the Nuggets' inside, the Nuggets scored 70 points in the first half and only scored 24 points in the third quarter.

Basically comes from strong play: Kayo's back to beat Curry, Gordon's back to beat Curry, Murray's face to beat Kuminga, Gordon's chase, and so on.

In turn, the Warriors' system flows:

Jimmy → Curry on the weak side chases the dream and the two turn long shots; Horford → Payton Jr. → Curry cuts in and throws; and so on. Even Kuminga gave him the smartest goal in the game: he could have taken advantage of Murray's opportunity, but he fed Dream Chaser's inward cut.

After Curry came off the court, Jimmy led the team in a battle with Jokic + Murray, and he also held on: only a magical buzzer beater by Murray only tied the game at 94. In the fourth quarter, as soon as Hardaway took a long shot, Jimmy also fed Dream Chaser a three-pointer.

At this time, a key emotion came into play: Cole planned to play defense, not Podger, but Will Richard: a young man with no outstanding talent but fearless. He cut inside to force a free throw and actively filled in on the defensive end. Even though Gordon scored 2+1 and broke his career record of 41 points, Richard's key three-pointer ignited the atmosphere of the Warriors: when the team needed the flames the most.

Then Curry took over this sentiment.

Curry scored 16 points in a row, including a three-point foul and a long shot to tie the game at 117. When Gordon hit his tenth three-pointer and achieved Jokic's triple-double, Curry made an illogical and extremely unreasonable 34-foot long shot, 120-all. Drag into overtime. That one goal actually changed everything.

In overtime, the Nuggets' momentum dropped: Gordon's European step 2+1, Jokic's throw, still struggling to score, but the Warriors' Curry + Jimmy + Kuminga + Dream Chaser + Horford made the Nuggets unable to operate. Horford Sr. allows Dream Chaser to not have to carry Jokic all the time, and the Warriors' defense has room to stretch; Kuminga can also use his leading defense to exert pressure.

Chasing dreams→Jimmy→Horford's long shot, Kuminga's half-court pressure counterattack layup, and Jimmy Butler's three-pointer that actually sealed the game.

Most of the goals scored by the Nuggets are based on personal ability, while the goals scored by the Warriors are basically based on team momentum..

Gordon scored a career-high 50 points and 10 three-pointers. But the Warriors won their bet: Jokic achieved a triple-double today, but only took two shots in the reasonable zone.

All of the Warriors’ defensive ideas are roughly:

“You can let Jokic (and Gordon in the first half) shoot three-pointers.”

“You can withstand defensive changes and being misplaced.”

And in the second half, “try to let Kuminga match the ball holder.”

In turn, Curry scored 7 points and 6 assists in the first half: he steered rationally and observed Jokic and Braun.

13 points in the third quarter - he said, "the defense turned to offense."

15 points in the fourth quarter - takeover, unreasonable long shot.

7 points in overtime. From the fourth quarter to overtime, they scored 16 consecutive points.

The later it got, the less logical it became, and it was all emotion: After scoring his first three-pointer in the second half, Curry let out a deep breath. After scoring a layup in the fourth quarter, Curry shook his face back and forth.

In the fourth quarter, Curry had a chance to shoot, but he went straight to Cayo to get a free throw.

After hitting an unreasonable 34-foot three-pointer, Curry looked back and looked arrogantly.

After Jokic missed the buzzer beater in regular time, Curry clenched his fists and shook his shoulders on the sidelines.

The emotions are contagious: the defensive collaboration, the offensive passing, the magic ball.

Before Jimmy hit the game-locking three-pointer, he actually had an open opportunity. He gave up, turned around and returned it to his hands, "It's so crazy, shoot it!" - three-pointer to lock the game.

Then Curry scored his 40th point with a joyful layup from the backcourt rebound.

- Everyone is impressed by Curry's (and Will Richard's?) efforts. Emotions can change reality - such as that 34-foot long shot.

This is the so-called, the atmosphere is here:

"I've already entered, and I lose again today, isn't it appropriate?!"