After returning to the bench, Donovan gathered the players and gave a passionate speech.
"Cheer up, everyone, don't forget that we are the No. 1 team in the league, and we can cheer up."
"It's only the first quarter, we still have a chance to overtake the score, believe in yourself!"
"You are all members of the best team in the league. Don't be frustrated just because you are behind by a big score. We can do this!"
"Treat the game with your heart! Let's work hard to get the score back, okay?"
After the words fell, Donovan stretched out his hand and looked at the Thunder players around him.
Everyone in the Thunder put their hands on Donovan's, and with a cry of "letgo", they raised their hands to the sky,
When the game was about to start, Donovan called Lu Yao aside.
At this moment, Lu Yao felt a little guilty for the team's huge deficit. He felt a little strange at the beginning, thinking that he directly caused the team to fall behind.
Donovan, on the other hand, used one sentence to dispel his self-blame.
"Lu, it's okay, everyone has downturns sometimes."
"But what you need to know is that great players don't hang their heads and give up."
After saying this, Donovan patted Lu Yao on the back to express encouragement.
Lu Yao nodded heavily, and then the timeout ended and the main players from both sides stepped onto the court.
The huge score of 19:0 made Thunder fans watching this game couldn't help but worry about whether the Thunder could tie the score later.
There is no expression on the face of the Thunder's main force, and what is in his eyes is only a strong desire for victory!
Now the Thunder are truly a break-level team in the league.
Even the Raptors players not far away felt an invisible pressure.
As the referee's whistle sounded, the ball was handed over to the Thunder. Ibaka served from the bottom line and handed the ball to Westbrook, who organized the game.
After Westbrook received the ball, he dribbled the ball across the half court and while advancing forward, he observed the position of his teammates on the field.
After reaching the top of the arc, facing Lowry's defense, Westbrook first pretended to slow down, giving Lowry the illusion that Westbrook was about to stop and slow down.
Just as Lowry gradually relaxed his vigilance and slowed down his pace, Westbrook suddenly exploded, like a bolt of lightning, passing Lowry in one step.
Lowry was deceived by the illusion given by Westbrook and was unable to adjust the speed of his feet in time, resulting in a complete failure to catch up with Westbrook.
Westbrook rushed directly into the inside like a thunderbolt. Facing Lu Wei's defense, Westbrook violently ran into the inside and scored the goal directly on Lu Wei's head.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the current Westbrook is the real Westbrook known as Megatron.
Super strong impact, such a terrifying breakthrough, this is Westbrook's peak state.
With this goal scored, the Thunder scored the first point of the game.
At this moment, there is still half a quarter before the end of the first quarter.
The Thunder did not dare to let down their guard. After confirming that Westbrook scored, they returned to their own half to deploy defense.
After everyone in the Thunder was in position, the attack from the Raptors also followed.
Lowry took the ball to the wing, used DeRozan's pick-and-roll to fend off Westbrook, and broke through to the inside.
Did he ever think that when he was about to break into the inside for a layup, Durant suddenly stood in front of him and stopped him directly at the free throw line.
Lowry kept trying to break through, trying to get past Durant, but Durant took advantage of his physical advantage and followed Lowry closely, and Lowry's several fake moves failed to deceive Durant.
This caused Lowry to make several breakthroughs, but all failed and was forced to pass the ball to his teammates.
But it was Lowry's pass to his teammates that gave the Thunder a chance.
Because it is a forced pass, the speed is slightly slower, which makes the ball in the air easy to steal.
At this time, Westbrook had already sneaked over and intercepted the ball passed by Lowry at the moment Lowry passed the ball.
After the steal, Westbrook ran towards the backcourt with the ball, with Durant following closely behind. The two looked at each other and knew what they wanted to do.
Westbrook ran all the way to the free throw line, slowed down when he was about to reach the bottom of the basket, and then threw the ball in his hand toward the backboard without even looking.
At this moment, Durant, who was following Westbrook, jumped up high, received a pass from Westbrook, and dunked in with both hands!
Second Young Master Dewey’s connection! It can be said to be a classic among classics. An alley-oop directly ignited the Thunder's bench.
Within one minute, the Thunder scored four points in a row, showing their determination to chase points.
After both leading players scored, as the Thunder's strongest player, Lu Yao naturally cannot be inferior.
After guarding DeRozan's mid-range shot, the Thunder advanced to halftime. When Lu Yao came to the wing three-point line, he received a pass from Westbrook.
Just when Lu Yao faced Pierce's defense and raised his hand to make a shooting gesture, Lu Yao deceived everyone.
Because Lu Yao was preparing to shoot, Pierce jumped up to block Lu Yao's shot in advance. However, he never thought that the ball in Lu Yao's hand was not released.
Pierce was shocked. Lu Yao's movements were so lifelike that even he didn't realize it was a fake move.
When Pierce was about to land, Lu Yao kicked the ball in place, then retreated to distance himself from Pierce.
Because Pierce had just landed and had no time to react, this gave Lu Yao an opportunity to take action.
Under everyone's gaze, Lu Yao made a three-pointer from the wing and pulled out his hand gracefully. After the ball came out of his hand, it drew a beautiful arc in the air.
At this moment, the basket was already throwing its arms around the ball in the air. As the crisp sound of the net was swiped, the Thunder had already chased 7 points in a blink of an eye and went on a 7:0 run.
The current Raptors only lead by 12 points. This point difference even seems a bit easy for the current Thunder.
Tianhu's advantage at the beginning was about to disappear in the blink of an eye. Not only the Raptors fans at the scene felt desperate, but even the Raptors players also felt extremely desperate.
Lowry looked up at the scoreboard with a puzzled look on his face, as if to say, no brother, are you kidding me?
DeRozan was also shocked, with his mouth open and a look of confusion on his face.
After a 19-0 start, they started to lose faith in themselves after being chased by 7 points in a row.
Perhaps, this is the sense of oppression brought by the league's No. 1 team in blocking.
The key to the Thunder's ability to turn the tide lies in the outstanding performance of the Thunder's third young master.
The three of them are bound to tilt the balance of victory towards Thunder! .
