Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 226 Returning to Golden State Alone
After the start of the second half, Li Weisi, who had been silent for the entire first half, finally took over the main attacking banner, and once started a scoring battle with Ellis.

With the help of Chambers to cover, Ellis received the ball at the top of the arc, facing Smith, who hadn't switched defenses, without stopping, he rose directly from the ground and hit a three-pointer.

Not to be outdone, Li Weisi turned around and under McMillan's defense, faked a step back and hit a three-pointer, returning an answer ball.

Ellis threw off Mullin's defense by running back, cut into the penalty area, received Chambers' high position support, and succeeded in a layup.

Li Weisi picks and rolls and distributes the ball to Malone who is running down. Malone takes the ball and dunks Johnson with one hand, showing no mercy.

This star matchup lasted until the middle of the third quarter. When McMillan passed the pick-and-roll to Chambers, Li Weisi snatched the ball from Chambers. At the same time, a quarterback passed the ball to the runner. Rodman in the frontcourt, Rodman made a dunk.

Since Rodman was firmly established in the starting lineup, there have been more and more balls like this Rodman quickly receiving Li Weisi's long pass, which is a bit like the commander of a cavalry company, especially when Rodman laughed. He who has not been severely beaten by the society, with a warm and innocent smile, is more like a company commander.

Rodman's goal was like a fuse, which directly detonated the enthusiasm of the Warriors.

The teammates who had to rely on Li Weisi to attack before stepped forward one after another, scoring consecutive goals, and quickly opened the point difference to 8 points.

Then they entered the rotation lineup. Like the previous game, in this game, the two sides still shortened the playing time of the rotation lineup.

This time, it was Ellis again. He seized the opportunity of Li Weisi's exit and scored consecutively. Finally, at the end of the third quarter, he chased the score to 89:85, only 4 points behind. At this time, Ellis, Already scored 32 points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Supersonics coach Bernie finally put Ellis off the court to rest. In the first three quarters, Ellis rested for 3 minutes.

After that, McDaniel led the bench to play, but this also eased the momentum of the Sonics' chasing points.

However, they still tied the score when the main players such as Li Weisi and Mu Lin returned.

Facing the two sides returning to the same starting line again, the critical moment depends on Li Weisi.

I don't know if this is the first time Li Weisi has stood up in the fourth quarter this season. He has the demeanor of a "king of the last quarter".

At this critical moment when every ball must be contested, Li Weisi continued to play pick-and-rolls with Malone, step back for three-pointers, mid-range throws, and make a layup with one step after worshiping Buddha.

This time it was the turn of the Supersonics to be dumbfounded. It took nearly a quarter to even out the difference, and within 2 minutes of blinking, they were pulled away again.

However, how could the Supersonics be frightened by this difficulty? This time it was Ellis who stood up. This guy is a godsend tonight.

Chambers missed a layup and pushed the offensive rebound to the outside line, just in time for Ellis, who was outside the corner for a three-pointer. Ellis hit his three three-pointers tonight. He made 4 of 3 three-pointers, more than the rest of the team combined.

But it didn't take long for the Supersonic players to be happy. In the next round, Li Weisi hit McMillan one-on-one and hit a three-pointer directly in front of McMillan. Revenge never happened overnight.

This three-pointer was a key goal to kill people. After this goal, although the Supersonic players said they wanted to make a comeback, they were already discouraged in their hearts.

This mental state was also reflected in their body movements. Not only did their offensive shooting percentage drop, but their defense also became unresponsive, half a beat slower.

Head coach Bernie called two timeouts, but still failed to change the situation of the Sonics. In the end, only Ellis scored for the Sonics, and the others fell into a situation where they could not score.

In the end, at the end of the game, the Warriors defeated the Supersonics 117:107 in an away game, allowing them to regain their home court advantage in this series.

Li Weisi performed very well tonight. He played 35 minutes and scored 32 points and 8 assists. Among them, he scored 16 points in the fourth quarter and hit the crucial three-pointer.

In addition, Malone had 27 points and 14 rebounds, Mullin had 23 points and 4 assists, and no one else scored in double figures.

The best performer tonight is undoubtedly Dale Ellis of the Sonics. He played 40 minutes and scored 43 points and 14 rebounds. This performance is perfect, but unfortunately he still lost to the fourth quarter Li Weisi.

After the game, Ellis hugged Li Weisi and said: "Don't be too happy, West, we will return to Golden State for the decisive battle!"

However, Li Weisi smiled slightly, "No, it will only be our team returning to Golden State. You should stay in Seattle and have a good rest!"

Although Li Weisi's tone is very peaceful, but inside and outside the words are full of domineering, the implication is very clear, we will eliminate you in the next game, at your home court!

The next match between the two teams is scheduled for the day after tomorrow, which is April 4, so the Warriors stayed in the hotel that Frank had arranged in advance.

Naturally, Frank would not be shabby when he made a move. The hotel he chose was naturally the most upscale. In addition to providing the players with a safe and comfortable place to rest, it was also to prevent the players from being harassed.

For example, in these years, in the era of black and white, the Celtics and the Lakers are naturally sworn enemies. As long as the Celtics go to Los Angeles to play games, the decoration of the hotel rooms is all yellow and purple, as if they have crashed into a mature area. In the field of corn, there are still eggplants hanging on the corn, who can rest well?
Of course, these are small actions with gentle means, like local fans making loud noises outside the hotel, making noise, and even worse, poisoning.

In short, for the playoffs, Frank absolutely attaches great importance to it. He not only opened a hotel to confuse the media and fans, but then led the players to another hotel secretly. The money for the two rooms was naturally not refunded, and he didn’t care about the money. , And also let Nelson issue a foot ban on all players, prohibiting any player from leaving the hotel.

After arranging all this, Frank left the hotel, got into the car prepared by Paul Allen, and went to the appointment.

He was alone, and he felt a sense of bleakness going to the meeting alone. However, no matter how much he suffered, as long as he could block these sugar-coated shells and pink skulls for his players and protect his players, then everything he did would be rewarding. significance.

This is what he, the NBA, no, the best team owner in the world, does a little bit of trivial things.

(End of this chapter)