Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 676 Sentencing to Death
Rodman flew and smashed the dunk with one hand!
Malone squeezed the defender away from the basket and dunked with both hands behind his back!

Mu Lin tapped his toes to complete the dunk!
I don't know what enmity between the basket in Oracle Arena and the Warriors?Why is everyone on the Warriors like this, constantly raging at the basket?
Seeing the wonderful dunks of the players on the field, Stephen on the sidelines opened his mouth with a look of envy and admiration. Stephen, who has already started to play basketball, now has some preliminary understanding of basketball.

Obviously, in his cognition, such dunks are really handsome, and he wished that he could go home now, imitate their dunks, and fantasize about being the dazzling demeanor of a generation of dunkers.

Wait, there seems to be one person missing in this dunk collection, forget it, that's not important!

Speaking of the game, don't look at the excitement of the Warriors' dunks, but the Warriors have never been good at athleticism. Tonight's start tonight they kept dunking. After all, there is a problem with the Suns' offense.

The reason why it is said to be offensive rather than defensive is that in these few rounds, most of the Warriors' dunks were completed in fast breaks.

The essence of the Warriors' fast break is still the reason why the Suns have never been able to score.

The reason why the Suns have been unable to score repeatedly is because, on the one hand, the Suns themselves do not feel good, and on the other hand, it is also related to the Warriors' defensive system.

The Warriors' defense is not top-level in the league, but it is highly targeted, especially the Suns' offensive system that needs to pass the ball many times, and lacks a big killer center who can attack by itself, and it will be infinitely targeted.

Can't get in the penalty area, and facing the Warriors' fast rotation outside, they can't make shots. This caused the Suns to fall into a scoring shortage, and the Warriors seized the opportunity to counterattack.

In the opening 12:2, the Suns only relied on Chambers to hit a hook at the basket to break the opening dilemma for the Suns.

But even so, in just 2 minutes, they were already behind by 10 points, which still made the Suns coach Cotton Fitzsimmons squeeze a cold sweat, and quickly called a timeout, trying to interrupt the state of the Warriors.

It's a pity that after the timeout, although the Suns' offense has recovered, it still failed to solve the problem of the Warriors' offense.

When Li Weisi left the court in the first quarter, the score had reached 26:10. Unknowingly, the Warriors had already led by 16 points.

Due to the large number of leads, Li Weisi only played for more than 7 minutes, and he left the field early because of a dead ball. He also left the field with other starting teammates.

The Warriors' bench lineup for tonight's game is: Starks, Curry, Brian Shaw, Anthony Mason and Divac.

Different from the previous two years, the Warriors' bench lineup has been changing this year, and there is no stable bench lineup, which is often adjusted according to the opponent's lineup. Therefore, other bench players Cole, Matthew Leonis, Jude Buichler, Antonio Davis and others also have the opportunity to play. Of course, due to the gap in strength, the time they can play is still at a disadvantage compared to the previous substitute players.

Unlike the Warriors' luxurious bench lineup, it is almost impossible for the Suns to come up with other players except for the starting five. In addition, the team is already behind by a large score at this time, so it is obvious that they do not have the capital to make substitutions.

Among the starting five, except for center Mark West who was replaced, no one else has changed.

As for the person who replaced West, he is also an old acquaintance of the Warriors, and it is the former Warriors player Joey Barry Carroll.

As the No. 20 pick selected by the Warriors, Carroll has played for the Warriors for five years. In these five years, although he has not led the team to make any contribution, the perennial 8+[-] data still makes him a The darling of the Warriors.

However, all this changed in 86.

The team traded him for Moses Malone. Originally, he didn't think there was any problem with such a transaction. What's more, the 76ers were not weak at the time. "Dr. J" and Barkley were both on the team. With him, how can it be called a Big Three team?

But what he didn't expect was that after the transfer, both the team and his personal situation went from bad to worse. First, the 76ers team collapsed, and then he went around and changed a lot of teams.

After the end of last season, after being kicked out by the Nuggets, no team has claimed him since the beginning of this season. The Clippers only gave him a contract at the end of the season, only $35.

He only played 11 games in the entire regular season, and today he needs to face the inside line of the Warriors. Originally, he thought that the inside line of the Warriors was not strong and he should be able to handle it.

Unexpectedly, Divac's performance was far more powerful than he imagined.

Holding the ball at a high position at the top of the arc, facing Carroll, Divac played very sophisticatedly, behaved like a master, and turned Carroll around.

The one-handed ball kept waving in the air, putting pressure on Carroll, and the teammates around him were constantly playing tactics.

Soon, Brian Shaw used Divac's body to successfully cut into the inside line. Divac had quick eyes and quick hands, and sent the ball in with one hand.

The basketball brushed Carroll's head and flew behind him. Carroll, who was belatedly aware of it, turned his head and saw Brian Shaw receiving the pass and scoring an easy layup.

Compared with the starting lineup, the Suns are already defeated, and facing the Warriors' substitutes, the Suns are still at a disadvantage. This situation, to be honest, makes the Suns feel very desperate.

In this way, relying on the outstanding performance of the starters and substitutes, the Warriors scored 44 points in the first quarter, while the Suns only scored 18 points.

At 44:18, in the first quarter alone, the Suns trailed by 26 points. Such a point difference can almost declare that the rest of the game is garbage time, and the game ended early.

Sure enough, in the second quarter, the players of the Suns seemed to have their spines removed, and they were listless on the court. They seemed to be still playing on the court, but a sense of despair continued to pervade the court.

Throughout the second quarter, the Suns still did not have a stable scoring point, only Hardaway and Chambers could barely score consecutively, but even so, the score had reached 76:40 at the end of halftime, which could almost be a verdict for the Suns. Death sentence.

Entering the second half, after the adjustment of the intermission, the Suns recovered somewhat, but it was almost impossible to catch up with the 36-point gap.

After only halftime in the second half, the Suns surrendered and took the initiative to replace the substitutes. As the Warriors also replaced all the starters, even the main substitutes, the first game of the playoffs came to an end. .

The score was finally fixed at 129:90. The Warriors beat the Suns by 29 points at home and won their first victory in the playoffs.

(End of this chapter)