Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 524
After entering the second half, the offensive efficiency of the two teams was still efficient. The Jazz relied on their personal ability and pick-and-roll to hold on to the score and was not pulled away by the Warriors.

As for the Warriors, the fans at this time have already fallen into the Warriors' gorgeous offense.

As he became more and more familiar with the game, the passing of the Warriors' starting five became more and more smooth, and Divac became more and more clear about his positioning, and he became more and more daring to make moves.

For example, this ball, with his back to Eaton, seemed to be playing back, but suddenly he passed the ball behind his head and distributed the ball to Li Weisi who was running down. After receiving the ball, Li Weisi quickly attracted the help of the two. In the air, across Eaton's waist, the ball was passed back to Divac.

So, when the other two landed with Li Weisi, Divac took off easily and dunked successfully.

Although Divac's dunk is not good-looking, and the bounce is matchbox level, the whole passing process before scoring is extremely exciting, and the fans can't help but applaud the first-year rookie.

Li Weisi's pass is wonderful, but in the hearts of the fans, it is a basic operation, which will not surprise people, but for Divac, a relatively unfamiliar center forward, such a pass is worth letting people know. People cheered for it, and let the fans find out that there is such a baby in their team.

It can be said that even though it reached the third quarter, the Jazz still failed to get used to the Warriors' change. The most important thing is that they don't know how to defend Divac.

Faced with this situation, Coach Sloan has already had some countermeasures, but he has not made up his mind, and this goal, like the last straw that crushed him, made him call a timeout decisively and replaced Eaton at the same time , replaced by Searle Bailey.

In fact, Bailey’s altitude is not low, she is 211cm, but she is much shorter than Eaton, and her speed is also much faster. At the same time, in the offense, Bailey’s role is not as monotonous as Eaton’s. .

However, although Bayley's role is stronger than Eaton's, it is also limited. Such substitutions did not bring about substantial changes in the battle situation, and the stalemate between the two teams continued.

However, although Divac's effect on the court is good, he is a rookie after all. Although his mentality is mature after all, after a long time on the court, his opponents will soon find out his three tricks. Big discount.

What's more, there is Duckworth who is older and stronger than him in the team. Although Nelson let Divac start this time, Duckworth didn't say anything, but he definitely felt uncomfortable.

Therefore, Nelson also had to shorten Divac's playing time, and use good steel on the back of the knife, on the handle of the knife...whatever!

Always for the use of the two, Nelson tried to balance the playing time of the two, so after only 6 minutes in the third quarter, Nelson replaced Duckworth.

After Duckworth was replaced, the ultimate space of the Warriors was immediately destroyed. In addition, Duckworth's passing was not comparable to that of Divac, so the team's quick-silver offense suddenly disappeared, and it became organized by Li Weisi again. The old way of attack.

Fortunately, due to the previously developed touch, the teammates have already given confidence in playing. Therefore, despite the change in tactics, the Warriors' shooting percentage continues to remain high. It seems that the offensive efficiency has not declined significantly.

In this way, the two teams played from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, and the score also went from 82 to 104. It can be said that they did not give in to each other.

Until then, the Warriors replaced Divac again. As soon as they came up, relying on Li Weisi's anti-running cut and then splitting the ball, the Warriors quickly established a 5-point lead and regained the initiative of the game. hands.

At this time, Malone stood up again and beat Rodman again, scoring twice in a row, narrowing the point difference to 1 point again.

Rodman in this game did not continue the heroic state he had in the last match between the two. On the contrary, due to the bad performance in the last game, Malone was very superior, and his state was even better this time. Already scored 40 points, although many of them came through pick-and-rolls against other people.

But this is still a bit unhappy for Rodman. After all, Malone is the person he defends, and he scored such a high score, which is too slap in the face.

But now, if you directly hit yourself to score points, you will not only slap yourself in the face, but you will also spit after the fight, which is killing people!

Therefore, after being scored twice by Malone in a row, Rodman's defense has also become more aggressive. Let alone letting Malone get the ball, even letting him go to the sweet spot, that won't work!
I saw that Rodman used his body smaller than Malone's to fight against Malone physically. If only in terms of strength, Malone would undoubtedly be able to suppress Rodman, but the problem is that Rodman is smart!
Not only did he use his muscles to collide with Malone's muscles, but he also used all means to prevent Malone from taking the position. As a result, Ma Long had already struggled just to get the position, and it was naturally difficult to maintain a high hit rate. more difficult.

In this case, one-on-one duels are not worth the loss. In order to avoid unnecessary confrontation with Rodman, Malone consumes unnecessary physical strength and energy, so Malone still started to play pick-and-roll with Stockton to avoid confrontation with Rodman. Man's entanglement.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, on the offensive end, Li Weisi hit a throw and brought the point difference back to 3 points.

In such a swordsmanship game, 3 points is a very subtle point difference. If you say more, it only takes one round to recover in theory, but if you say less, such a point difference will make your tactics poor. After all If you want to score 3 points in a round, in addition to shooting a three-pointer, you only have two plus one.

The Jazz faced such difficulties at this time, and the Warriors kept the 3-point difference until 28 seconds left in the game.

At this time, the Jazz had the last chance to attack, and the lack of time allowed them to only fight for three points.

But the Jazz is not the Warriors, he doesn't have so many three-pointers. In the face of the final attack, Coach Sloan can only send Stockton, Griffin and Hansen who can shoot three-pointers, and then Malone Rebound with Eaton.

Darnell Griffin had a good touch tonight and hit 3 three-pointers. Except for him, only Stockton hit one in the team.

So when he received the ball, Richmond was taken aback and rushed over, but he didn't expect Griffin to feint a shot. After Richmond flew, he moved sideways backwards, and again shot.

It's a pity that Griffin's three-point shooting rate is only 31%, and there is no guarantee that every goal will be scored, let alone a goal at such a critical moment.

As a result, the basketball hit the top edge of the basket and bounced out. Seeing this, the basket immediately became a ball.

Eaton blocked Duckworth behind him. It seemed that the rebound was bound to be won, but just when his hand was about to touch the ball, a black figure quickly bounced off the ground and shot the ball.

Rodman, who had been grabbing rebounds by pointing the ball up in the past, really didn't have the ability to face Eaton, who was a head taller than himself.

Therefore, relying on his memory, he moved the ball in Li Weisi's direction, because he believed that Li Weisi's fighting spirit was no worse than his own!
Facts proved that Rodman was right. Facing the basketball flying towards him, Li Weisi directly used a diving save, put his body horizontally in the air, and grabbed the ball before Stockton.

Seeing that Li Weisi had taken the first step to control the ball, Stockton had no choice but to step forward and foul, praying that Li Weisi would miss two free throws.

But that is impossible!
With Li Weisi making two free throws, the Warriors won the game without any risk.

(End of this chapter)