Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 392 Penalty Shootout
After the Warriors scored, the Pistons did not call a timeout.

This intention is quite obvious, of course it is to ensure that Li Weisi is on the court and will not be replaced.

Li Weisi, who has a sprained ankle at this time, is a loophole no matter who he defends against, let alone Thomas, a high scorer?
And Li Weisi was obviously aware of this. After scoring the goal, he limped back to the second half immediately. At this time, Thomas had just received Mahon's baseline serve.

Thomas unhurriedly pushed the ball into the frontcourt, waited for all his teammates to settle down, and opened up the space before he started to act.

Although he lost a few precious seconds during this period, he could single-handedly beat Li Weisi better when his teammates opened up the space.

Li Weisi sprained his right foot, so Li Weisi's center of gravity was on the left side. Faced with such a situation, Thomas changed direction and broke through from Li Weisi's left side.

In this regard, Thomas certainly has his own plans.

Because Li Weisi's left foot is intact, he must move to the right faster than to the left. Therefore, as long as he breaks to the left, it is difficult for Li Weisi to continue to move to the left.

However, to Thomas' surprise, Li Weisi's lateral movement was faster than he expected. When Thomas started to start, Li Weisi blocked Thomas' advance route early.

The moment he hit Li Weisi's body, Thomas realized that this guy had already guessed that he was going to break through from the left!

Only in this way can he explain why he moved so fast, because Li Weisi started to move long before Thomas started.

After figuring this out, Thomas held his breath, and after gaining a firm foothold, he changed direction again, preparing to break through from Li Weisi's right hand.

Because Thomas made an emergency stop just now, and Li Weisi did not fall to the ground, although there was a physical collision with Li Weisi, the referee did not blow the whistle, and the game continued.

But when Thomas changed direction, Li Weisi bent down and stretched out his hand, blocking the ball from Thomas' crotch.

"Damn it, it's going to happen!" After feeling that he had lost the ball, Thomas immediately came to his senses. He knew that he had been seen through by Li Weisi again.

And this mistake is likely to ruin the game.

After the steal, Li Weisi quickly protected the basketball, and Thomas quickly fought back on the spot, but if he wanted to grab the basketball from a ball-handling master like Li Weisi, even if Li Weisi gave up a leg, it was still more difficult than hell mode.

Therefore, after grabbing for about two or three seconds, Thomas knew that there was nothing to do, so he immediately started and fouled Li Weisi.

At the moment when the referee's whistle sounded, the audience shouted in unison: "MVP!"

"Hahaha, there is no doubt that West's last offense and defense killed the game, which also shows that he is definitely an MVP-level player!" At this time, Barry smiled and said with emotion.

"Yeah, he hit a key three-pointer and was on defense, causing Thomas to make a mistake. West's key ball ability is really outstanding!" Stockton also echoed.

"The most important thing is his golf intelligence, which was fully demonstrated in the defense just now."

"Oh? Can a professional like you please tell me?"

"Obviously, when the opponent was preparing to attack, West had already expected that the Pistons' final attack would be completed by Thomas, and the greatest possibility for Thomas was to use West's injured leg to break through West's defense and score. And these are obviously within West's expectations. What surprised me even more is that West even predicted what kind of attack Thomas would take. So, Thomas's mistake seems to be It was caused by Thomas himself, in fact, he was induced by West to order Thomas to cause it."

"Isn't this too exaggerated?" Hearing Barry's remarks, Stockton was stunned. Are you exaggerating too much?
"Hahaha, I know this is hard to believe, but this is the ability of the tallest player in the world." Barry is very powerful when he hurts people, but he is even more powerful when he wins people. For Li Weisi In terms of performance, he is not stingy with praise, wishing to put all the good labels on himself, this junior.

Since the Pistons had reached the number of fouls, Li Weisi could only continue to stand on the free throw line with his injured leg and execute free throws.

Although he couldn't be substituted, there were advantages and disadvantages to this. Li Weisi's free throw, even if he dragged his injured leg, still made two free throws without any suspense.

At this time, there are 6 seconds left before the end of the game, the score is 109:105, and the Warriors lead by four points. Even if the Pistons make a three-pointer at this time, they must continue to foul.

Faced with such a game with such slim chances, the Pistons still did not give up. However, this time the Pistons called a timeout. First, they needed to serve in the frontcourt to save time. Second, because it was a three-point tactic, Daly also needed to start again. Arranging tactics, as for Li Weisi, it doesn't matter whether he is on the field or not at this time.

Sure enough, after the timeout came back, the Warriors replaced Li Weisi and replaced Curry.

After all, Price's defensive ability is not very good, it is better to let Curry defend.

However, even so, the Pistons still sent the ball to Thomas. He faced Curry, and with a simple shake, he was ready to shoot, but at this moment, the referee whistled!

Um?what happened?

Thomas was dribbling the ball with a dazed look on his face. Curry didn't touch him at all. What are you bragging about, the referee?
It turned out that the referee whistled for Rodman's off-ball foul on Mahon.

At this time, the league has not yet issued a rule that in the final moments of the game, fouls by players without the ball will be punished with two free throws and one throw. Therefore, Mahon was sent directly to the free throw line.

It wasn't until then that Daly came to his senses immediately, and his face became extremely ugly. He looked at Nelson, this LYB looked like an old god, and Daly's teeth were itchy in anger.

Such a shameless use of foul tactics. In this way, even if Mahon made two free throws, it still didn't help, because the ball came to the Warriors, and the Pistons had to foul the Warriors if they wanted to win.

Mahon made 74.8% of his free throws this season, which is quite good, and this is still the lowest among the five starting Pistons. It can be seen that the Pistons' lineup is quite balanced.

Ma Hong lived up to expectations, under the interference of the fans at the scene, he made two free throws, but it was of no use, even the expression on his own face was not good-looking.

After that, the Warriors called the last timeout, and then replaced Rodman with Price. Obviously, the Warriors just wanted to play a penalty shootout with you.

Finally, with 1.5 seconds left before the end of the game, the Pistons fouled Mullin again. Mullin made two free throws. In the end, the Warriors reversed the Pistons 111:107 at home and won the Christmas game.

(End of this chapter)