Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 924
Jordan's early change of direction was seen by Rodman in advance, and he quickly moved a step to the right, blocking Jordan's offensive route in advance, and did not lose his position. Jordan saw this scene and saw that the offensive opportunity had disappeared. , he did not choose to force a shot, but passed the ball.

Being able to force Jordan to hand over the ball on the offensive end, it can be said that Rodman's defense is very beautiful.

Jordan passed the basketball to Pippen, who then passed the ball to Grant.

The defender of Pippen is Finley, and the two are old rivals, so naturally there is nothing to say, while Grant's defender is Kukoc.

Although Kukoc, who is 211cm tall, plays small forward, his height is definitely qualified for the position of power forward. Except that the tonnage is a bit small and he suffers from confrontation, there is no problem in other aspects.

And Grant himself is not the kind of power forward with a particularly strong ability to attack independently, so it also reduces the pressure on Kukoc on the defensive end.

However, although he is not good at independent offense, but now that the basketball has come into his hands, he can no longer pass it out. After all, the offensive time is not enough for the Bulls to reorganize the offense again.

Continuous fake moves, turning backs and turning jump shots, just looking at the moves, makes people feel that Grant's technical moves are very skilled.

It's just that, although the action is very beautiful, the shooting rate is a bit touching. The basketball hit the rim and bounced out. Kukoc didn't hesitate, and Grant's shooting was still disturbed.

The Warriors defended successfully in this round, the rebound was accepted by Divac, and the Warriors made a quick counterattack.

Divac's big long pass didn't even find Li Weisi, but immediately found Finley who had already made a fast break and came to the frontcourt.

Pippen has been closely following Finley, which caused Finley to be interfered by Pippen during the layup and missed. However, Li Weisi, who followed up, picked up the rebound and easily made a high layup. The Warriors won again. 2 points, 4:0.

It was the Bulls' turn to attack again. This time Pippen held the ball, and Jordan ran without the ball. Rodman followed closely. Seeing that he failed to run smoothly, Jordan took the initiative to go to the low post on the right, and Rodman got stuck. After that, reach out to Pippen for the ball.

After Pippen got rid of Finley's defense, he used a ground pass and handed the ball into Jordan's hands.

Jordan, who got the ball, made exactly the same moves as Grant did in the last round. At that time, whether it was speed, accuracy or fluency of posture, they were completely different.

However, Rodman is not at a disadvantage compared to Jordan in terms of strength, and he is also a talented person in terms of defensive skills, so he is not afraid of Jordan's post-up singles at all.

In the end, after Jordan had a slight chance, he immediately turned around and shot a fallback jumper. Rodman's reaction speed was also very fast, and he immediately followed up. Although he failed to block Jordan, it still caused some interference to Jordan.

The basketball also hit the rim and bounced, but unlike Grant's shot, this time the basketball bounced into the air and then fell into the rim again, 4:2, and the Bulls finally got off the hook.

Although this is a lucky ball, for the Bulls, at least it solves the Bulls' urgent needs. After all, if they don't score for several consecutive rounds, it is very likely that the Warriors will play a wave of offensive climax.

As one would expect, the Warriors' offense struck again, and this time Li Weisi didn't pick and roll, but handed the ball to Kukoc on the weak side.

Compared with the Warriors' unexpected defense, the Bulls' defense did not make much change, and Kukoc was defended by Pippen.

Different from the greenness at the time of the Olympics, Kukoc, who has been playing in the NBA for 3 years, will no longer be unable to hold the ball against Pippen, and even Kukoc dares to stand in front of Pippen dribble.

Facing Kukoc, Pippen did not attack easily, fearing that he would lose his position. However, he kept standing in front of Kukoc, and Kukoc could only stay in place.

But Kukoc didn't want to break through Pippen at first, and the Warriors still seemed to use Kukoc's organizational ability to give the Warriors more offensive space.

Just when Kukoc was in possession of the ball, Li Weisi had passed multiple pick-and-rolls and replaced Grant in front of him. Kukoc immediately passed the ball to Li Weisi.

After Li Weisi caught the ball while moving, he immediately stopped and changed direction. After completing the change of direction, it obviously caused Grant to lose his position, but Li Weisi did not stop his technical movements, and reversed his direction again to return to the direction he had already adjusted. Grant, shaking away again.

Now Li Weisi had a smooth road ahead. After rushing to the basket, before Sekali's help defense was in place, he easily made a layup. 6:2, the Warriors scored another 2 points.

It was the Bulls' turn to attack again, and Jordan continued to face Rodman. This time, he followed suit, continued to catch the ball in the low post, and wanted to hit Rodman again.

However, Jordan was not so lucky this time. After being interfered by Rodman, the basketball missed and failed to make a shot. The Bulls returned without success.

The Warriors took the opportunity to counterattack again. This time Finley did not waste the Warriors' offensive opportunity. Finley made a strong dunk and added 2 points for the Warriors, 8:2.

Then, during the Warriors' offense against the Bulls, Li Weisi successfully intercepted Pippen's pass to Sekali, and in the fast break, against Jordan's defense, he hit a chasing three-pointer, 11:2.

Seeing that the point difference was getting bigger and bigger, taking advantage of the Bulls' possession of the ball, Phil Jackson took the initiative to call a timeout.

Obviously, the Warriors' change of formation and defense today made the Bulls very uncomfortable, especially Jordan's failure to open up this point, which made the Bulls passive everywhere.

In this regard, Jackson's arrangement is more to let Jordan play off the ball, reduce Jordan's offense with the ball, and at the same time use the triangle offense to try to make the Warriors complete the defense.

After this combination of punches and the timeout came back, the Bulls' offense finally showed signs of recovery. Although this round was not Jordan's hit shot, but Pippen, in any case, the team's scoring shortage was finally broken.

In the following games, the Bulls' offense slowly returned to the right track. However, the Warriors had already gone crazy at this time. During the offense, although Li Weisi scored high, in fact, anyone on the team could score. There is a score per person.

In this case, the point difference between the Bulls and the Warriors, instead of shrinking in the first quarter, expanded further.

At the end of the first quarter, the Warriors led the Bulls by 33 points at 21:12. Among them, Li Weisi performed very well, playing the entire first quarter and scoring 9 points and 5 assists.

Jordan, on the other hand, only made 7 of 2 shots, scored 6 points, and had no assists.

The performance of the stars of the two teams is like a barometer of the status of the two teams. Of course, no matter whether it is the star or the team, everyone wants to believe that they will never be like this throughout the game.

The Warriors still have a long way to go if they want to win.

(End of this chapter)