Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 918 As expected
Kukoc turned around and hit a hook, helping the Warriors catch up with the score by only 1 point.

After the start of the second quarter, the Warriors' substitutes started chasing points.

In the second half of the first quarter, the Bulls' mixed lineup dominated by Pippen and Grant really dealt a heavy blow to the Warriors.

But when it came to the second quarter, the Warriors scored 5 points in a row under the sudden explosion of Kukoc, narrowing the point difference to only one point in one fell swoop. It seemed that it was only a matter of time before the Warriors overtook the score.

However, Jordan, who has already returned to the court, will not let this situation continue to happen. I saw that he forcibly broke into the Warriors' penalty area in the next round, causing Horry's foul. Through free throws, he helped the Bulls get 2 points, and the Warriors chased points. The momentum was thus contained.

When Li Weisi returned to the court, the team not only failed to recover the score, but fell behind by 8 points, returning to the pre-liberation overnight.

Unlike the Warriors who sent out a full bench lineup, the Bulls have never dared to send out a full bench lineup when facing the Warriors. Although the Bulls' lineup is already very deep this season, the bench lineup must have ball handlers. , There are pitchers for pitchers, and there are defenses for defense. It is precisely because of this depth of bench that the Bulls can easily win 72 wins.

However, if this is the case, when facing the Warriors, the Bulls still dare not be too big. Obviously in their eyes, their lineup is still not as deep as the Warriors.

After Li Weisi came back, he didn't reverse the backward situation at the beginning, because the Bulls' offensive efficiency in this quarter was extremely high, which was completely different from the first quarter.

As a result, although the Warriors scored, the Bulls continued to score, making it difficult to recover the score.

As the game progressed, Li Weisi also gradually increased his shots. There is no way, the Bulls' perimeter defense is too good. It is very tacit, and many tactics that the Warriors are proud of have all failed.

As a result of the game, the Warriors' scoring method with the highest offensive efficiency is actually singles.

In this way, the Warriors are really suitable for singles, Li Weisi and Divac.

Needless to say, Divac, Sekali, as the Bulls starting five, is relatively weak defensively. When facing a team with a strong center, he will always be targeted, such as when facing the Magic and the Knicks. .

However, weak defense is only relatively speaking. In fact, Sekali's inside top defense is still very good. Otherwise, if he is completely blown out, the Bulls will not be able to win so easily.

So Divac played Sekali twice tonight, but the effect was not good, and he didn't score a single one.

In this way, in the Warriors' starting lineup, the only one who really has the advantage of the matchup is Li Weisi.

Although Hubble's defense is very good, he has not been selected to the best defensive team in his career. In addition, due to age and injury factors, Hubble's defense is more focused on larger heavyweight point guards. But facing a flexible defender like Li Weisi, he suffered a lot.

In this case, Li Weisi had no choice but to attack, and as soon as he increased his attack, Hubble was in great pain because he couldn't defend himself!
Li Weisi's change of direction once again got rid of Hubble's defense, and then made a throw before Grant's defense was in place. This is Li Weisi's 13th point in this quarter.

However, the situation for the Warriors at this time is not good. Even if the goal is scored, they are still 3 points behind.

The reason is that the Warriors have Li Weisi, and the Bulls have Jordan!
After the ball was scored, Sekali quickly served the ball, and Jordan immediately advanced to the frontcourt after getting the ball. It only took 4 seconds to reach the inside of the Warriors. You know, the whole process was done by Richmond Interfering.

The reason why Jordan advances so quickly is because there are only more than 2 seconds left for the Bulls to attack.

After coming to the inside, seeing that Rodman was about to make up the defense, Jordan immediately made an emergency stop. After throwing off Richmond, he quickly shot from the middle distance. The basketball went into the net hollowly, and time ran out.

In this way, with this buzzer hit, the Bulls led the Warriors by 53 points at halftime 48:5.

Throughout the first half, Li Weisi made 7 of 5 shots, scored 18 points, and hit 3 three-pointers. But even with this performance, the Warriors were still suppressed by the Bulls. This is because Jordan also performed well. He made 9 of 5 shots in the first half. Among them, he scored 15 points, coupled with the contribution of the defensive end, the performance of the whole half was not bad.

It can be said that the two teams played very lively in the first half of this game, and it was hard to tell the winner.

After entering the second half, the situation of the game still did not improve much. Throughout the third quarter, the Warriors set off at least three offensive climaxes of chasing points, but they were all resisted by the Bulls. The Warriors failed to overtake the score even once. .

Several times, they chased the score to only 1 point, but it was like a natural moat. No matter how hard the Warriors tried, they couldn't pass this barrier, which caused the Warriors to miss consecutive good opportunities to overtake the Bulls.

Wasting opportunities is tantamount to slow suicide, and warriors who waste opportunities like this will inevitably suffer retribution.

Sure enough, at the end of the third quarter, Pippen and Harper played consecutive defensive counterattacks, and once again opened the point difference to more than 7 points.

At the critical moment, it was Li Weisi and Kukoc's three-pointer that saved the Warriors. In the end, the Warriors trailed the Bulls by only 77 points 79:2 at the end of the third quarter.

This also allowed the Warriors to shrink the score instead of being opened in the third quarter.

However, just when the Warriors thought they would return to the same starting line with the Bulls in the fourth quarter, the Bulls, led by Jordan in the transition, instantly beat the Warriors 8-0, widening the point difference to 10 points in one fell swoop.

This not only widened the point difference to a very dangerous point, but also brought back all the Warriors' starting lineup.

In this situation, Nelson certainly didn't dare to let Li Weisi rest. He originally thought that Jaylen Rose, Horry, Brown and other defensive champions would be able to resist Jordan for a few minutes. Can't stop.

Although the returning Warriors started successfully to stabilize the situation, facing a 10-point difference, they really felt a sense of despair.

Unlike games with other teams, it is not so difficult to recover a 10-point difference in less than a quarter in front of the Bulls.

In the end, despite Li Weisi scoring 32 points and 10 assists, the Warriors still lost to the Bulls 100:107.

The Bulls won the expected Game 28 of the Finals with Jordan scoring 21 points and Pippen scoring [-].

(End of this chapter)