After signing the contract, Lu Yao took Rich Paul's luxury car and came to the Thunder's training facility.
In today's game, the Thunder will conduct a training match. The lineup led by Lu Yao, which is the lineup that will face the Warriors tomorrow night, will compete with the lineup led by Durant and Westbrook.
In order to simulate the strength of the Warriors, Adams and Ibaka West went to Durant's team. Lu Yao's team was basically full substitutes plus Lu Yao.
In other words, this training match is a training match that fully demonstrates Lu Yao's personal abilities.
Players from both sides gathered in the center circle. As Donovan threw the ball into the air, Ibaka and Lu Yao, who were performing the jump ball, jumped at the same time and reached out to touch the ball in the air.
Although Ibaka's talent is considered top-notch among power forwards, for Lu Yao, it is still much inferior.
After all, Lu Yao's talent can be regarded as a historical level. Not only is he 2m16 tall and 2m31 wingspan, he is even thinner and has a vertical jump of more than 80cm. This allows Lu Yao to win the jump ball without any suspense. victory.
After picking the ball to his own side, Lu Yao quickly came to the frontcourt and asked for the ball from the substitute point guard who was carrying the ball.
After receiving the ball, Lu Yao faced Durant's defense in front of him and used Durant's signature pull-up without hesitation, directly in front of Durant.
This means using your moves to hit you, but you still can't do anything.
Although Durant reacted quickly, Lu Yao's dry pull seemed more unsolvable than his. Durant had no choice but to watch the ball in Lu Yao's hand come out.
As the ball drew a beautiful arc, it then fell steadily into the basket. Donovan on the sidelines turned over the scoreboard, and Lu Yao led by 3 points.
The ball was handed over to Durant and Westbrook's team. Westbrook came to the frontcourt with the ball. Facing Lu Yao's defense at the top of the arc, Westbrook directly chose to break through. After all, he had Durant's support, so naturally he didn't need to. Worry about the consequences.
What he didn't expect was that Lu Yao's defense pressed forward step by step, not giving Westbrook any room to break through. At the same time, he kept reaching out to block Westbrook's passes, making it impossible for Lu Yao to find a pass to Durant in the first place. Ball opportunity.
Just like that, Lu Yao immediately seized the opportunity, cut the ball out of Westbrook's hand, and flew towards the frontcourt with the ball.
Lu Yao came to the bottom of the basket, jumped up and made an explosive one-handed dunk, directly dunking the ball into the basket!
Within one minute, Lu Yao scored 5 points in a row! Directly establish an initial lead.
Durant and Westbrook looked at each other and couldn't help but take a breath. They were originally worried about whether Lu Yao could face the Warriors alone, but now it seems that they were completely worried. Lu Yao can defeat the Warriors without them. .
On the offensive end, Lu Yao is completely one against five, but he can still complete a smooth offense and score goals despite the defensive pressure of the whole team. On the defensive end, he can even use his physical talent to defend one against five.
Seeing Lu Yao's performance on the sidelines, Donovan couldn't help but nodded expectantly. If Lu Yao faced the Warriors in this state, it was entirely possible for him to win against the Warriors with a single core.
The rules of the training match are as usual, with free throws and the like, and the conditions for victory are based on which team reaches 21 points first. Currently, Durant and Westbrook’s team has not scored a single point, which is obviously Caught in crisis.
But fortunately, Durant's big-hearted ability has always been trustworthy. Facing Lu Yao's close defense, Durant stepped up and responded in the same way that Lu Yao faced him.
Although Durant had just suffered an injury before this and his condition had declined, his precise shooting was not at all affected by the injury.
With Durant scoring a three-pointer, the difference between the two teams was only two points.
Did you ever think that Lu Yao would suddenly show off his power, rush into the interior against Durant's defense, directly block Durant with his body, and then use the European step to pass Ibaka, who was defending inside, and then came to He dunked directly from the bottom of the basket.
O'Neal's immediate operation confused the players of Durant and Westbrook's team.
Do you want to be so violent?
Lu Yao just scratched his head indifferently, as if all this was ordinary.
People pay more attention to Lu Yao's shooting ability, thus hiding his dominance in the paint.
The inside dominance demonstrated by Lu Yao in this training game also gave Donovan new tactical ideas.
The current Lu Yao team has reached 7 points. Immediately after Westbrook missed a mid-range shot, Ibaka grabbed an offensive rebound under the basket. He tried to stand up but failed to score. Lu Yao found the opportunity and grabbed the defense. Rebounding, carrying the ball toward the frontcourt.
Just two or three steps past halftime, Lu Yao shot a three-pointer from far away without any hesitation.
The ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then blasted into the basket like a cannonball. The crisp sound of net brushing echoed in the training hall.
Now Lu Yao's team is solely responsible for scoring, while Durant and Westbrook only scored one point against the single-core Lu Yao, which is simply incredible.
But then, Lu Yao hit two three-pointers in a row, which turned the situation one-sided. Lu Yao's team suddenly led Durant and Westbrook's team by 13 points.
Lu Yao led a lineup of all substitutes and defeated Durant and Westbrook, who were almost all starters.
Seeing that Lu Yao's team was still five points away from winning the game, Durant and Westbrook also began to cheer up and began to double-team Lu Yao in turns.
But the double-teaming attack was completely useless for Lu Yao. Even the Spurs' double-teaming and assisting defense tactics could not restrain Lu Yao. With just a few Thunder players, they were too skinny.
After Lu Yao scored two plus one against two people, Lu Yao's team was only 2 points away from winning the game.
As long as Lu Yao scores a goal, this game will end with the victory of Lu Yao's team.
Durant and Westbrook felt a serious crisis and hit three consecutive three-pointers, showing a tendency to chase points.
Lu Yao also made his first blackout of the game under heavy double-teaming.
Just after Westbrook hit a three-pointer, the score between the two teams was only five points.
Lu Yao received the serve from his teammate and rushed towards the frontcourt.
Seeing this, Durant, Westbrook and others stepped forward to double-team Lu Yao. Did they ever think that Lu Yao used his ghostly dribbling to directly pass several people.
After passing Westbrook, Lu Yao passed five people in one line and came to the bottom of the basket. He raised his hand and made a shot, and the ball fell into the basket.
Lu Yao ended the training match with a layup.
