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Chapter 138 The Warrior's Weakness

At the end of the first quarter, the score became 32:34, and the two teams were almost fighting for offense in the first quarter.Although the Warriors lost Curry for most of the quarter, the personal status of other players is not bad today, so they have been able to hold on to the score.

As for the Thunder, after Durant left the field, the core of the ball-handling became Antetokounmpo, but Antetokounmpo's condition today is actually not very good. Obviously, he was affected by back-to-backs. He made a mistake soon, and then failed to cooperate with his teammates.

If the Warriors hadn't given him a chance to break through twice, his performance in the first quarter could only be said to be a mess, 3 of 2, but he made two turnovers, one foul, and two free throws.

And sometimes you can’t just look at the data column, but also look at the performance on the court. After all, the game is actually a thing that is difficult to quantify with data. Even the so-called high-level data can sometimes be deceptive. It is necessary to analyze the things in the game in detail to be able to truly see whether the player’s performance is good or not.

Li Sheng let Antetokounmpo play to share Durant's ball-holding pressure. When the opponent's defensive pressure is on Durant, he can use his own organization and offense to punish the opponent's defense.

At the same time, he takes on the core task of the team when Durant is off the court, and both offense and defense are related to him.

It's okay to defend, even if his physical condition is not good, as long as his attitude and awareness are still there, it can still be effective.

This is basically the case for several rookies. What is lacking is the accumulation of experience, but the improvement has been obvious after a few games.

But on the offensive end, he failed to play his due role, which still has a great impact on the team.

And this can be considered expected, because as a rookie, lack of game experience, previous games rarely have such a dense schedule in the NBA, and there is no such confrontation intensity, and the consumption is not so great, so I can't adapt physically, and I can't adjust further psychologically.

This needs to be adapted and adjusted by oneself, and it is useless what others say.

However, the coaching staff also made some preparations for them before the game, so the state cannot be guaranteed, but at least there is no problem in form.

At the same time, Li Sheng actually discovered that now it seems that not only himself, but the players are also carrying a little burden, and they have the idea of ​​wanting to win and fearing losing.

This kind of psychological pressure will definitely limit their performance. After all, when players perform at their best, they are relatively relaxed, but not too relaxed. Many players will also enter a wonderful state at this time, which is the so-called ZONE, and then perform well.

So during the intermission, Li Sheng thought about it and decided to take Antetokounmpo off the court first, and then Durant also rested off the court. The lineup at the beginning of the second quarter became Reggie, Ennis, Robertson, Ibaka and Orton.

This lineup focuses on "double point guards", which depends entirely on the opponent's defensive strategy to determine who will attack with the ball.

And whoever controls the game is not the same. Reggie's case is based on sudden points, while Ennis can find a misplaced advantage for singles.

Ennis's offense is indeed becoming more and more stable now, which can also be seen from his performance in training, but in a team game, his singles is not like Durant can ignore defenders, and his status in the team, of course, it is impossible to give him too many opportunities to perform.

However, in the current situation, the lineup has no other offensive strengths, including Ibaka, who also needs the cooperation of his teammates, and the team will give him the opportunity to show him his offensive methods.

The Warriors don't have enough defensive resources in the backcourt rotation. In the second quarter, Curry came back first, but Bazemore was his partner at the second position.

This one is even more heavyweight, and there is an interesting record later, that is, every time he left the Warriors in the second year, the Warriors won the championship-although it was only twice.

Especially for the second time, it was clear that he left the Warriors who paid more for the championship, but he didn't expect to go to the Lakers who missed the play-off qualification in the 4 75th place and finally ranked 11th...

Anyway, this backcourt combination attack can still be seen, especially Curry's firepower continued as soon as he came back.

In fact, Curry is also a very emotional person, and it also depends on the state of the scene. He feels that he may play badly when he is targeted, or he may explode. Today should be regarded as the latter.

It's just that the Thunder has piled up defenses, and the continuous help defense and double-teaming made it difficult for him to completely get rid of the defense, and he couldn't even catch the ball smoothly after running without the ball. This gave Bazemore and others the opportunity to attack, but he failed to fully grasp it.

It is impossible to expect Bazemore to make a setter. The current Warriors do not have such a rich tactical arrangement. Role players can only show their abilities to a limited extent. In singles, he will have to face the Thunder's powerful striker rotation.

He wanted to make a breakthrough, but passed the ball directly into Robertson's hands. Of course, Robertson's judgment was accurate. He saw his passing intention in advance, and it was another opportunity for the Thunder to score easily in a fast break.

Playing like this, on the contrary, seeing the Warriors falling behind more and more, if Curry hadn't used his personal offense to support him, I'm afraid they would have gone straight to double-digit points in three to four minutes.

At 40:46, the Thunder led by 6 points, and a wave of 6:2 was played in the middle, and the point difference was widened.

Mark Jackson scratched his head on the sidelines and did not choose to time out.

Maybe it's because I trust the players, or maybe it's simply because I don't know how to adjust.

His presence is indeed of the poor kind, even a rookie like Li Sheng can't compare, so it's no wonder that he will be pushed down by a rookie coach like Cole later.

However, the Warriors are still quite resilient. Bazemore's failure does not mean that others cannot. Barnes stood up at this time.

Harrison Barnes came from the University of North Carolina, a strong NCAA team, nicknamed "Black Hawk". He was a star player in college and entered the Warriors with the lottery in the draft.

His arrival has enhanced the team's offensive and defensive flanks, and also contributed to the team's pace of reaching the playoffs to a certain extent.

It's a pity that Iguodala joined later, which somewhat compressed Barnes' growth space, and Barnes, who has a gentle temperament and always does not fight or grab, just did his own thing in silence, and did not choose to make trouble like Green.

In fact, looking at it with hindsight, the Warriors' choice can hardly be called good.

Many people say that the Warriors' management and coaching team are so good, and why they rejected Love and other choices in order to keep Tang Shen, but it is really fortunate that they have Curry, Thompson and other core players who are just playing silently. Green did make a lot of contributions in his peak period.

Not to mention the role players who are quite capable and can be integrated into the group, such as Miniba, Laoba, Barbosa, David Lee, West, and Livingston.

And as Iguodala and Durant, who were not trained by themselves but are considered one of the core, they also contributed a lot during the team. Coffin Mamba was completely out of gas later, but they can still use their experience to help teach newcomers.

But these good players actually covered up many mistakes of the management and coaching team, including the failure to detect problems in the relationship between Green and Durant in time, and failed to coordinate well afterwards, as well as Durant's injury problems, and then Green's time bomb.

(End of this chapter)