Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 382
After defeating the Bulls, the Warriors ended all games in November, and Li Weisi was undoubtedly elected the best player of the month.

This is Li Weisi's third player of the month. The previous two times, in the first two seasons, once in each season, can be regarded as both rain and dew.

Unlike entering the 21st century, the best player of the month at this time is not divided into east and west, so the gold content is very high. In each season, at most only 6 people can get it, and Jordan has only won it 4 times so far.

In fact, Li Weisi's data this month is not good, it can even be called a career low, only 23.1 points and 10.8 assists.

However, considering that Li Weisi's playing time was only 31.2 minutes, and he was dragged down by clocking in three quarters in multiple games, such a comparison shows that Li Weisi's efficiency is astonishingly high.

In addition, the team's record is the first in the league and the only undefeated team in the league. Therefore, giving the best of the month is not only a reward for Li Weisi personally, but also a reward for the entire Warriors.

On the day it was announced that Li Weisi won the player of the month, that is, December 12, the Warriors came to Denver to challenge the Nuggets away.

The Nuggets lineup has not changed much this season, and their previous record is quite good, ranking third in the Western Conference with 10 wins and 4 losses, only one game behind the Lakers.

However, with such a bright future, the Nuggets are also cast a shadow.

The team's sixth man and the team's third scorer, Jane Vincent, only played 5 games at the start of the season and was reimbursed for the season due to injury.

The 201cm small forward averaged 15.4 points and 4.2 rebounds last season. His injury had a great impact on the depth of the Nuggets lineup. Fortunately, the growth of Michael Adams filled the scoring gap left by Vincent in time. , but Adams, who is only 178cm tall, will obviously cause a lot of trouble for the Nuggets on the defensive end.

In this game, this feature of Adams was fully exposed. Facing the Warriors with explosive outside scoring ability, whether Adams defended Li Weisi or Richmond, they were all defensive black holes.

However, fortunately, Adams's scoring efficiency tonight is not bad, especially the three-pointer, hit two, and the number of shots and hits is the highest in the team.

It is worth mentioning that Adams's shooting is very weird. It is a one-handed shoulder shot, which is similar to throwing a shot put. However, with such a weird posture, the three-pointer is very accurate. Yuan Shikong has thrown 949 three-pointers in his career The ball, which was already very rare in the eighties and 90s.

However, although Adams' offense is good, it is still difficult to make up for his defensive problems. The Warriors led the Nuggets by 31 points at 27:4 in the first quarter, and led the Nuggets by 64 points at 56:8 in the half. Big by little.

However, this is the home court of the Nuggets after all. The attributes of the Nuggets' home dragon were fully demonstrated as early as last season. , quite amazing.

After the start of the second half, under the leadership of Fat Leaf, the Nuggets launched a wave of chasing points, and once narrowed the point difference to only 2 points.

At the critical moment, Mullin stood up, shot inside and outside, and scored five points in a row, interrupting the momentum of the Nuggets chasing points in one fell swoop.

Then, the two teams fell into a tug-of-war, until the end of the third quarter, the Nuggets recovered 5 points, the score of the two teams came to 93:90, and the Warriors only led by 3 points.

After entering the fourth quarter, Walter Davis, who was on the bench of the Nuggets, stepped forward and scored 7 points in a row, not only freeing the team from falling behind, but even overtaking the Warriors.

This 11-year-old veteran who has played for the Suns for 6 seasons and is a 34-time All-Star has become an important firepower on the Nuggets bench after being taken in by the Nuggets this season. There is oil.

Nelson then called a timeout, but did not make a substitution because of this. After arranging some tactics, he continued to let the substitutes stay on the field.

Fortunately, this time the Warriors' substitutes lived up to Nelson's trust. Under the leadership of Price, they broke the scoring drought and stabilized the morale of the army.

But at this time, the offensive momentum of the Nuggets could no longer be suppressed, and it was difficult to limit the offense of the Nuggets by relying on defense, so the offensive battle between the two teams escalated again.

With the return of the main players of the two teams, the Nuggets' starting lineup obviously inherited the touch of the Nuggets' bench. Facing the tight defense of the Warriors, they frequently scored fairy goals.

Fortunately, although the Warriors did not perform well off the bench tonight, they performed well in the starting lineup. Facing the Nuggets' offense, the Warriors' offense was equally good.

Until the last moment of the game, at this time, with the last 15 seconds left before the end of the game, as Adams made a layup, the two teams tied at 129.

Nelson did not call a timeout. He chose to let the game continue. At this critical moment, he believed in Li Weisi's ability. Of course, what is more important is that if he does not call a timeout at this time, Adams cannot be replaced, and the Nuggets exist. A defensive hole.

Faced with such a situation, the Nuggets did not adopt a tight frontcourt posture. They played steadily. After all, as long as they defended the ball, they could drag the game into overtime.

The basketball was given to Li Weisi, and Li Weisi slowly dribbled the ball across the half court to defend his Liv.

After all, at such a critical moment, letting Adams defend is tantamount to giving the Warriors points.

Time passed by one minute and one second. When there were 7 seconds left in the time, Richmond suddenly ran over to play a pick-and-roll for Li Weisi. Obviously, the Warriors were looking for Adams.

Leaf, who was blocked by Richmond, obviously couldn't chase Li Weisi immediately. Facing Adams who had already switched defenses, Li Weisi lowered his body and took a step forward, and Adams immediately took two steps back.

Seeing that time was running out, Li Weisi did not choose to continue to break through, but directly stepped back to the three-point line, and then opened his hand to throw.

Obviously as long as you score, you can win, but Li Weisi actually wants three points instead of two points!

This was beyond Adams' expectations. By the time he tried to interfere with Li Weisi again, Li Weisi had already finished shooting.

Snow~ Piece by piece, it can't stop my yearning for three points!

The basketball went into the basket, the time returned to zero, and Li Weisi made the buzzer!

Seeing this scene, all the fans in the stadium wailed and wailed.

After scoring the goal, Li Weisi was surrounded by Warriors teammates and celebrated heartily. This victory was hard-won.

Fat Leaf looked at the celebrating Warriors players with a wry smile, full of bitterness in his heart.

In this game, Leaf scored a game-high 29 points, plus 10 rebounds and 9 assists in a quasi-triple-double. Facing the data that was only one assist short of a triple-double, Leaf was obviously not so "selfless". At the end of the fourth quarter, scoring consecutively helped the team close the score instead of assisting.

In addition to Leaf for the Nuggets, Adams scored 21 points and 5 assists, Davis scored 25 points and 7 rebounds, and English played averagely. As the team's top scorer, he only scored 17 points and 7 assists.

It can be said that the performance of the Nuggets is already at a super level.

However, all of this eventually came to naught under Li Weisi's three-pointer.

(End of this chapter)