Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 428 Contribution
On April 4, at 22 o'clock in the evening, the game between the Warriors and the Jazz officially began.

That night, thousands of Warriors fans came to the Salt Lake Palace Arena in Utah by plane or by car. The team you support makes history.

However, no matter how many away fans come, there are only a few who can grab tickets. No matter how much the Jazz management likes money, they must also take care of the mood of their fans. It is absolutely impossible to change the home game into an away game. Yes, what's more, the home fans also give money.

However, the way is one foot high and the devil is one foot high. These Warriors fans who have traveled thousands of miles naturally have their own way, which is to buy tickets from scalpers, or buy tickets from other people at a high price.

Some die-hard Jazz fans will never give up their tickets, but there are still quite a few fans who have sold their tickets. After all, love for the team is far less fragrant than thousands of dollars.

Besides, I sold the tickets, it's not that I don't support the Jazz, I can still support the team when I go home and sit in front of the TV!

In short, in the end, nearly a thousand Warriors fans walked into the Salt Lake Palace Arena to cheer for the Warriors.

Although compared to the more than 1 Jazz fans, the number of people is too small, and the seats are very scattered at the same time, causing their cheering sounds to be drowned in the boos of the Jazz fans at every turn, but they still enjoy it. Warriors come on.

And when the cheers of these fans reached the highest point, when the players came out, Schramf also appeared in the arena together.

Schramff, who had been absent for three months due to injury, finally returned to the team in the last game of the regular season, and most coincidentally, the opponent was still the Jazz.

In fact, Schramf returned to the team the day before yesterday and trained with the team, and the results were not bad, but to be on the safe side, in back-to-back games, it was decided that Schramf would only play one game, and finally chose This game against the Jazz.

Tonight, all the Warriors played. Moses Malone, who has never played the second game back to back, also started the game. Everyone is waiting for the final battle of the regular season this season.

Like the Warriors, the Jazz team also attaches great importance to this game, because they need this victory to get stuck.

The Jazz has a record of 51 wins at this time, and the Suns have a record of 50 wins. Both sides have games tonight. The Jazz will face the Warriors, and the Suns will face the Spurs. Hard to beat the sun.

In this way, once the Suns beat the Spurs and the Jazz lose, both sides will reach 51 wins, and by virtue of the win-loss relationship, the Suns will become the third in the West, while the Jazz will be reduced to fourth, so if they can pass the first round , will face the Warriors in the second round.

Therefore, the Jazz's current situation has become that if they want not to face the Warriors prematurely in the future, they need to defeat the Warriors tonight.

Therefore, at the beginning of the game, the defense of both sides was at the playoff level.

After the start, the two sides played very anxiously. Relying on the pick-and-roll play of Karl Malone and Stockton, the Jazz clung to the score and did not allow the Warriors to widen the gap.

When the time came to 2 minutes and 14 seconds before the end of the first quarter, the ball went out of the sideline and the ball was dead, and there was a lot of cheers and applause at the scene.

Thousands of Warriors fans welcome Schramf, who has been away from the game for three months, to return to the stadium, but Jazz fans have no dissatisfaction with this move of the Warriors fans. After all, it is too low to boo a player who has returned to the game at this time What's more, the player himself was injured and left the field because of your team.

Schramf finished the first quarter and did not perform very well. He got two shots and missed two shots. He has been away from the court for too long and needs time to re-adapt to the court.

In the second quarter, the Warriors replaced Anthony Mason.

During Schramf's absence, Anthony Mason seized the opportunity to perform. Unlike Schramf, a tall pitcher, Mason is not as talented as Schramf on the offensive end, but He is physically strong, and his defense is excellent. In getting along with Rodman, he learned a lot of defensive skills, which also made him more comfortable in defense. This is especially rare.

The bench did not open the score, because the Jazz shortened the playing time of the starters and adopted the situation where Stockton and Karl Malone led the team separately to make up for the lack of firepower on the bench. I don't know how good the Warriors are off the bench.

As a result, the Warriors led the Jazz by 53 points at 49:4 at halftime.

After entering the second half, it may be that the two sides have recovered as the game deepened. Therefore, the scoring efficiency of both sides began to increase, but the scores of the two sides have not been opened.

During this period, Li Weisi scored consecutive points in the third quarter, assisted Mullin and Richmond to score successively, and once opened the point difference to 10 points.

But then Karl Malone singled Rodman, causing Rodman to foul twice in a row, one plus one, and one thug foul. This not only allowed Malone to score 5 points in a row, but also allowed Rodman to accumulate 4 fouls. .

This meant that Rodman had to rest for the remainder of the third quarter.

The replacement for Rodman was beyond everyone's expectations. It was Schramf, not Mason.

It stands to reason that the Warriors' starting lineup does not lack offensive points, but lacks defenders who can limit Malone, not to mention Schramf's state is not good tonight.

However, Nelson still used it so boldly.

Unexpectedly, what surprised everyone was that Schramf completed his task brilliantly.

He first used the withdrawal of the stool to cause Malone to walk, and then in the next Jazz offensive round, Malone missed the mid-range shot under Schramff's interference.

The Jazz, who failed to score in two consecutive rounds, was seized by the Warriors and made two counterattacks, and the point difference returned to 10 points again.

The game then quickly entered the rotation stage. The Warriors continued to keep Schramf on the court, and Schramf lived up to expectations. He hit a three-pointer at the buzzer at the end of the third quarter.

Although this was his only score of the game, he won a lot of applause. For Schrempf, there is no more perfect comeback than this.

Because he not only completed his personal revenge, but also contributed his strength to the team's victory.

The Warriors entered the final quarter with an 11-point deficit.

(End of this chapter)