Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 520 Expulsion

On the 21st, against the 76ers.

The two teams met again. This time, the two teams fought a defensive battle, especially Barkley and Rodman, who almost hugged each other.

This season, although the Warriors had many high-scoring games, the average points conceded per game has decreased significantly compared to last season. This is mainly due to the adjustment of the Warriors' defensive strategy and the improvement in the defense of the starting five.

But the outside media generally put this credit on Rodman's head.

To be honest, Rodman, who has entered the league for the fourth year, is definitely the top defensive ability in the league today. Whether it is defending the outside or inside, he can almost defend from one to five, especially his ability to assist defense, plus His tireless energy made the offense feel like Rodman was everywhere.

With such defensive ability and high exposure rate in the Warriors, he ranked first in the Dpoy competition this season, leading Olajuwanda by as much as 10 percentage points.

Not only that, although Rodman doesn't talk much, he especially likes to tease the other party and disturb the other party's mind. Once the other party can't suppress his anger, he will attack Rodman hard. At this time, Rodman will exaggerate Down, come get the referee's whistle.

For example, the Barkley he was facing at this time was notoriously violent.

Since entering the league, Barkley's influence on others, apart from his big mouth, is his fearless personality.

Therefore, in tonight's game, due to his bad hand feeling, he didn't hit very high, and Rodman didn't stop making small moves throughout the whole process. He still said in Barkley's ear: "Look at what you hit. What is it, no wonder Moses wanted to leave the 76ers at the beginning, otherwise he would not be mad at you if he stayed longer?"

Originally, this was just a very common trash talk. If it was normal, Barkley would not pay attention to it at all, but at this time, the team's offense was not smooth and Rodman's provocation made Barkley, who was already furious, completely exploded. When Rodman was holding Barkley, he directly slammed Rodman to the ground with brute force.

Rodman, who was thrown by Barkley in a messy manner, hadn't calmed down at first. When Barkley was still angry and planned to punch Rodman with his fist, Rodman suddenly became happy. Well, I have been waiting for a long time!
So Rodman immediately covered his face with his hands and let Barkley's fist hit his arm. After that, the two hugged and fought on the ground.

This scene stunned the players around. They never expected that the two would fight as soon as they said they wanted to fight, which made them unprepared.

The first to react was Duckworth and Mahon of the 76ers, but unlike Duckworth who planned to come to persuade the fight, Mahon planned to come and beat someone.

So Mahon punched Rodman on the head. This punch made the unsuspecting Rodman hit hard, so that there were flaws in his hands. Barkley seized the opportunity and punched again. It made half of Rodman's face swell up.

Fortunately, Mahon didn't hit the second goal, and was pulled away by Duckworth, and then the rest of the two teams also rushed to pull the two away.

After they were separated, even though the two could no longer fight, they still spoke relentlessly, swearing at each other, and neither of them would admit defeat.

"You wait, I will beat you to death after the match!"

"I'm afraid of you! Don't run away after the game is over, let's make an appointment at the entrance of the arena!"

Although Rodman did not fall behind in terms of words, but judging from Rodman's state, it is obviously much more miserable than Barkley. After all, just now, he was mostly defensive and not much offensive.

While the two were still arguing, the referee saw that the two were finally separated, and he finally squeezed into the crowd from the outside. Facing the two well-known thorns in the league, the referee had nothing to say, and directly chose to The two were expelled!
"Referee! Did you make a mistake? He made the first move. Look at how he beat me? How can I get [-] big boards? I am too wronged!" Seeing the referee also beat him Expelled from the field, Rodman, who had a vicious look on his face that looked like he was going to bite someone, suddenly looked pitiful, and came to the referee, pointing at his swollen face and the blood at the corner of his mouth.

It's a pity that the referee tonight is Javi, who simply ignored Rodman's pitiful performance and decisively expelled both of them.

Seeing that the penalty could no longer be changed, Rodman finally had no choice but to stop complaining, made a face to Barkley, and then, like a hero, accepted the cheers and applause of the audience and walked out of the court.

That's right, Rodman is a hero at this time, because he made Barkley, the core of the 76ers, unable to play.

In fact, the whole process has always been what Rodman wanted. Although he did not expect Barkley to make a sudden shot, he soon came to his senses and planned to use this accident to kick Barkley off the field.

Although what he hopes most is to keep himself on the court and let Barkley be expelled, it is a pity that this result did not work, but he is very content to be able to leave the court with Barkley.

However, Javi still gave Rodman a surprise. Just when both teams thought the penalty was over, Javi sent Mahon off the field again, because just now he saw that Mahon seemed to be fighting but actually beat someone. Behavior.

Now the 76ers can't sit still at all. They were sent off two starters at once. How can they play this game?
But Jia Wei ignored the protests of the 76ers and carried out the penalty to the end.

In this way, the originally very anxious game, because of the sudden fight in the third quarter, caused the 76ers to suffer heavy losses.

Since then, although Jose Hawkins and John Dawkins of the 76ers have stood up and wanted to help the team, the strength of the two teams is very different. The balance of the entire game has been broken, and the two of them are powerless.

In the end, the Warriors defeated the 105ers 96:76 at home, getting rid of the team's losing streak.

However, the punishment results of the three of you were announced later. In addition to the fine, Barkley was suspended for 3 games, and Rodman and Mahon were suspended for one game. Such penalty results still affected the next game of the Warriors.

In this way, one day later, the Warriors played against the Celtics at home. Due to the absence of Rodman, McHale scored 34 points and 11 rebounds, and Bird also grabbed 14 rebounds. In the end, the Warriors lost 111:123 dropped the game.

Whether it is the defensive system or the rebounding, the team was blown away by the Celtics. This game also fully demonstrated the importance of Rodman to the team.

Therefore, the benefits of this fight time to the Warriors are actually very limited.

(End of this chapter)