The referee's whistle sounded, and Adams fought the ball back from Davis' head to the Thunder's half.
As Westbrook's best partner, plus his card identity, the Thunder fans have called it a series of nicknames such as duck eggs and protecting court eggs.
Just as he showed when he was talking to Westbrook in the locker room, he is now Westbrook's most trusted and trusted teammate.
Westbrook pushed the ball to the frontcourt, Sabonis and Oladipo pulled away, Adams mentioned a high pick-and-roll.
After the pick-and-roll, Westbrook rushed straight in with the ball.
This is the typical way the Thunder play this season. It is as simple and straightforward as Tang Tian's tactics.
But Westbrook failed to charge into the Pelican penalty area.
It's not that he's not fast enough, but that the Pelicans are obviously well prepared.
Jokic contracted the basket, Hollodi double-teamed from the back, even Tang Tian blocked.
The three-person double team is only two people away from the BOX-1 that Tang Tian has enjoyed.
Westbrook has no chance and can only return to the three-point line with the ball.
After returning to the three-point line, he continued to greet Adams' pick-and-roll. This time he accelerated with all his strength, but still didn't break the defense.
He finally chose to play against the defensive, almost hit, and the ball hit the box.
Jokicka took a shot at Westbrook and Tang Tian took the defensive rebound.
Jokic's Kafeng technology is becoming more sophisticated.
The Thunder's first offense returned without success. The Pelicans played the same tactics.
Jokic mentioned that Tang Tian was a pick-and-roll picker. After opening, Jokic went out and Tang Tian killed inward.
The Thunder also contracted the doubles, and it was four.
Tang Tian returned the ball to Jokic, who made a midrange shot.
"Oh!"
Jokic vacated the mid-range steadily to hit.
The Pelicans came out on top.
Same tactics, different results.
This is the gap between the Thunder and the Pelicans' lineup and strength.
Robertson's defense is first-rate, but there is almost no shooting, Adams does not have a middle distance, and Westbrook's own shooting is unstable.
Against the doubles, Westbrook has no second choice but to give up the offense.
But Tang Tian has many choices. His passing consciousness and ability can let him pass the ball to the players who have the best chance at the first time.
Looking back, the Thunder attacked the same tactics. Westbrook didn't make it this time. He jumped out of the doubles and returned the ball to Adams.
Adams took the ball to take a step forward, but Jokic had stopped ahead of time, and his shot was not interfered.
However, he took offensive rebounds twice and pushed Jokic to make the ball into the basket.
The Thunder's overall lineup is not as good as the Pelicans, but Adams has an advantage in the frontcourt.
Offensive by the Pelicans, Tang Tian also broke the ball again.
This time Robertson didn't double up, Tang Tian chose to stop suddenly and turned back to face the double team double.
Adams couldn't respond, and Westbrook, with the defense, was limited by height interference.
"Oh!"
Tang Tian's iconic back is beautiful and hits steadily.
Looking back, Westbrook also held the ball again, and then divided Adams. Adams missed his shot this time and wanted to get stuck again by Jokic.
Tang Tian jumped up and received another defensive rebound.
No matter how strong Adams' frontcourt is, he won't have it every turn.
After Tang Tian won the defensive rebound, the Pelicans counterattacked. Tang Tianhou's field pass Hollodi, Hollodi gave the follow-up Davis, and Davis scored with one hand.
There was a restlessness on the sidelines.
6 to 2.
The offense after the opening on both sides is like a mirror image. It really responded to the fans' words. This is to hold a mirror to identify who is the true and false Monkey King.
But the results seem to have come out.
All of Westbrook's statistics are zero, and Tang Tian has contributed 2 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist, and 2 points are also indirectly related to him.
The opening rounds are the epitome of the first game.
In the first quarter, the Pelicans led the Thunder with a 32-16 score.
Tang Tian made 5 of 7 in a quarter and contributed 13 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. Westbrook made 6 of 1, 3 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.
"Russell is a very good player, but unfortunately he is facing Tang. That is not a good description, but a great player."
During the inter-session break, the side commentator could not help expressing emotion.
The true and false Monkey Kings in the Journey to the West went through Guanyin Bodhisattva, Jade Emperor, King Yan Luo, and Jizo until they arrived.
But Tang Tian and Westbrook, after this festival, just arrived at the Guanyin Bodhisattva, the true and false had been separated!
Fan discussions on social media also fell into disappointment at the end of the festival.
Sure enough, as they expected, Westbrook was a fake king of the monkeys, and the fake was a bit thorough, and it was revealed in front of Tang Tian.
During the break in the second quarter, Tang Tian and Westbrook both rested off the court.
Westbrook looked dull.
Adams was silent, too.
The scene in front of them is obviously not what they want to see.
At the other end of the court, Davis and Tang Tian talked and laughed.
"Everyone knows you are true, and now everything has been proven."
Davis, as Tang Tian's Pippen, was happy for Tang Tian at this time.
Although it was all he expected.
Tang Tian smiled and didn't speak
He glanced up at the scoreboard, then turned to look at Westbrook next door.
He and Westbrook are familiar, knowing that the latter is no less competitive than Butler.
It would be impossible for Westbrook to recognize it tonight, unless he feels so cold, or there will be an explosion.
Just then, the situation suddenly changed.
The Thunder team's Oladipo came to feel. He shot inside and passed the ball, led the team to play a 10-2 offensive, and approached the point difference to a single digit.
Stevens reached for a timeout.
When the two teams have a gap in strength, they need to have a strange soldier to kill it to fill the gap.
JR Smith in the previous game, Oladipo in this game, these season's average players, played such a role when facing the Pelicans.
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After returning from the timeout, Jokic and Brogden received a pick-and-roll and scored a goal after a pick-and-roll, which stabilized the situation on the court.
But Oladipo continued to be fierce, breaking through to the basket and scoring an answerball.
The next round of the Pelicans side, Brogden broke into the post to make injuries and also scored two goals.
After the Thunder approached the point difference to 8 points, the situation on the two sides was deadlocked.
This quarter hit more than four minutes, the score on the field was 40 to 32, or 8 points difference.
Both sides replaced the main force one after another.
The on-site photographer gave Tang Tian and Westbrook the split lens again.
Tang Tian's expression still looked calm and the same as before the game, but Westbrook's eyes showed a certain determination, and it looked like he was desperately desperate.