Super all-around point guard

Chapter 691 Defeating the Warriors!

Although the last time the two teams played against each other, the Warriors beat the Lakers, but no one expected that this time it would be the Lakers who suppressed the Warriors and quickly gained a double-digit lead.

For the past month, the Lakers' winning streak has been attributed to luck and not meeting a strong opponent. If the Lakers can still win against a strong team like the Warriors today, then I believe no one will doubt the strength of the Lakers.

However, it is not difficult for the Warriors to chase points from behind. When there was no Durant last season, they were able to turn defeat into victory in countless games and easily catch up with the point difference to achieve a reversal.

On the court, Dream Chaser Green set up a pick-and-roll for Durant. Durant used the pick-and-roll to break forward. Let Curry get a chance and make a three-pointer.

After that, it was still Durant who launched the offense and led the team to catch up with the point difference. During this period, the Lakers' scoring was not as good as the Warriors, and the point difference was also narrowed a little bit.

The addition of Durant really made the Warriors very different. Xie Chen is used to the Warriors led by Curry and Green. Now it is obvious that Durant's status is higher than anyone else. At least this is the case in these two matches. Facing the Warriors led by Durant, Xie Chen is really not used to it.

Some old fans who have been following the battle between Xie Chen and Curry for a long time also expressed emotion.

"I used to like to watch Xie Chen play the Warriors the most. Every time Xie Chen and Curry played against each other, there would be a wonderful duel. You shot a three-pointer, I shot a three-pointer, you pretended to be tough, and I pretended to be stronger than you. But now Xie Chen and the Warriors. The game has gradually become a confrontation between Xie Chen and Durant. I admit that Durant is also very good, but it is not as exciting as the matchup between Xie Chen and Curry."

"It stands to reason that Durant is more suitable to be Xie Chen's opponent. Curry is not as good as Durant in unsolvable shots, and he is not as good as Durant in dunks. However, Xie Chen and Curry's three-pointers are too similar. If Durant also makes three-pointers with Xie Chen as frequently as Curry, then I think the duel between Durant and Xie Chen is worse than the duel between Xie Chen and Curry."

After all, there is only one basketball. Although the Warriors are united and Kerr knows how to distribute the ball, it is impossible for the Warriors to complete this offense by Curry and Durant at the same time.

At the end of the half, the Warriors chased the point difference to only 5 points, and the Lakers ended the first half with a slight lead.

In the locker room, Coach Cole kept talking to the players. He also wanted to win this game, because the opponent's coach was Luke Walton. He didn't want to see Walton keep winning. If this continues, Walton will win the best head coach!
At the beginning of the second half, because Mozgov's various basket skills have not yet been mastered, he can only use them in sneak attacks occasionally, and Ingram can't always score in front of Durant like this. The heavy responsibility of the Lakers' offense falls on Xie Chen alone.

As for the Warriors, Durant and Thompson are the main scorers. Durant scored more points alone than Thompson and Curry combined.

The difference from last season is that if Curry didn't feel good before, he would continue to shoot. He missed five three-pointers, and he would continue to shoot the sixth and seventh until he made one. But after having Durant, Curry's unreasonable shots were significantly reduced, and he couldn't even see them in the two games against Xie Chen!

Fans miss the previous duel between Xie Chen and Curry, and Xie Chen also misses the days when the two used to have sex.

During the game break, Xie Chen, who had already scored 32 points, asked Curry, who had only scored 8 points: "Dude, in the previous games against you, you always had some unreliable shots. Even in the finals, why can't you see it this season?"

In Game [-] of the finals last season, Curry still played unreliable behaviors such as dribbling behind the back, passing the ball behind the back, and forcing three-pointers. This season, with Durant, his playing seems to be much safer, especially when facing strong teams.

Curry smiled and said nothing.

Immediately afterwards, Curry failed another layup, and after falling, he seemed to be uncomfortable somewhere, and stopped for a while.

Xie Chen continued to ask Curry: "You look very bad today. You should rest after the game. If you get injured, it won't be worth it."

Curry himself is not feeling well and his shooting touch is not good. Now being stimulated by Xie Chen's words, he is in a terrible mood. In the past two seasons, I haven't seen you.
Curry said angrily: "Want me to end and let you win? Don't think about it!"

Although Curry is thin and small, he is a true warrior. There have been many examples of insisting on playing with injuries before. What's more, today's physical problems are not serious. The most important thing is that he feels bad and emotionally unstable.

After that, Curry made another mistake and was intercepted by Xie Chen. He immediately launched a fast break. Curry did not give up on defense. In order to make up for his fault, although he was not feeling well, especially his left calf, he still rushed to the basket as fast as possible to defend.

Seeing Curry being so active, Xie Chen decided to scare him.

I saw that facing Curry's defense, Xie Chen resolutely decided to take off, and after taking off, he immediately made a spin in the air!
Everyone was shocked at the same time, this action, this scene, so familiar...

"Turn 360 degrees and dunk!"

It's not difficult to think about it, because Xie Chen just used it in the last game against the Raptors!Facing Lowry's defense, he resorted to a 360-degree turn and dunk. Now, facing Curry, who is also of the same size, is Xie Chen going to play hard?

The eyes of the Lakers fans were excited, but Curry's eyes were full of fear. Of course, he knew what Xie Chen's wonderful dunks were like in every game in the past. When he dunked Lowry, Curry was also shocked.

"Damn it, this guy wants to turn around and punch me 360 ​​degrees!" Curry realized instantly that Xie Chen was going to bully Curry again in the way he bullied Lowry.

Curry will not be in the background like Lowry. He is a point guard as famous as Xie Chen and the MVP of the league. How can he be insulted like this!
So, Curry took the initiative to step forward, stretched out his hand to grab Xie Chen, and made a foul move, in order to prevent Xie Chen from successfully dunking.

However, the fact is not what Curry and everyone imagined. They all misunderstood Xie Chen. Xie Chen didn't intend to humiliate Curry with a dunk. This time, what he used after taking off was not Vince Carter's dunk ability, but LeBron James' layup ability!
What he has to do is not to turn 360 degrees to the dunk, but to turn 360 degrees for a layup!
Curry yanked Xie Chen violently. Since Xie Chen is now possessed by James, Curry's strength does not have a great impact on Xie Chen. This makes Xie Chen able to throw the ball into the basket after being pulled by Curry.

With a layup, Xie Chen completed the attack.

The two commentators also had a false alarm. Yang Jian said: "I thought Xie Chen's ball was another 360-degree dunk like dunking Lowry. I didn't expect it to be a layup, which caused Curry's foul and scored 2+1."

Su Qun said with a smile: "From the slow motion, I think Xie Chen's attack is not going to dunk at all."

Curry also felt that Xie Chen's take-off didn't seem very high this time, and he didn't have the posture to dunk. After being fouled, he calmly made a layup. It seemed that he was aiming for a layup from the beginning.

Curry is also aware of his own ability. If Xie Chen wants to dunk, Xie Chen may dunk it with such a painless pull just now, but it is no problem to touch the basket with his hands, and the height will not drop so much.

Curry couldn't help asking: "Didn't you just want to dunk?"

Xie Chen looked at Mengshen and smiled, "I can't do anything to you."

"...This guy." Curry didn't expect Xie Chen to say such ambiguous words to him!Immediately stay away from each other!

As the game progressed, the scores of Xie Chen and Durant skyrocketed. In the fourth quarter, one of the two scored more than 45 and the other exceeded 35, while Curry's score just broke 10.

"It seems that Curry's hand feeling is really bad today, Durant played well, and Thompson is also normal." Yang Jian said.

Su Qun continued: "Yes, let's see in this game. When one of the three major offensive weapons Durant, Curry, and Thompson fails, can Xie Chen defeat them? When these three players feel their hands at the same time, no one can do anything about it. Durant played very well today, Thompson is quite satisfactory, and Curry is not up to standard. Only Xie Chen can defeat the warriors in such a situation. When they meet in the playoffs, they will have hope."

Xie Chen also knows that this game is a great test for the Lakers. Today Curry's score is far below his normal level. This kind of situation is too rare. You can't expect him to feel so bad every game. And if Xie Chen can't win the Warriors when he plays so abnormally, then if the three of them play normally, wouldn't they be sure to lose?
The Warriors put a lot of pressure on the Lakers. When only two of the three super scorers played normally, they all beat the Lakers like this, which shows how strong the Warriors are.

Xie Chen continued to use his personal ability to score. As long as the defensive interference is not too great, he can still shoot correctly even if there are two people in front of him. Xie Chen's score quickly exceeded 50 points, and Durant's score also exceeded 40 points. Neither of the two aces disappointed the fans and kept taking over the game.

"Damn it, Durant scored 40 points." Ingram, who was defending Durant, would inevitably feel like a failure. In fact, he was very hard and hard at marking Durant throughout the game. He has been learning how to better defend Durant.

With only the last 2 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Ingram was out of breath, his physical strength was about to reach its limit, and Durant's expression was also not relaxed, and Durant was also affected by his physical fitness!

The game is about to end, and the Lakers still have a one-goal lead. Every offense of the Warriors is very important. Once an offense fails, they will be subject to the opponent. If the Lakers continue to score, the game will basically be over.

Only Durant played the best in the Warriors, so the key offense is to give him the ball first, but the Lakers did not choose to double-team Durant. Everyone in the Warriors is terrible. Even Curry, who scored just over 10 points, may not feel good throughout the game, but in the end he made the most critical shot.

Durant singles Ingram again. Ingram is already familiar with Durant's various moves. Knowing the timing of Durant's shot, Durant forced his shot.
Although Ingram allowed Durant to score 40 points, he prevented Durant's most critical ball!

Unfortunately, although the ball was missed, the rebound was grabbed by the Warriors' Green!
Green's rebound was extremely fierce this time, and there was obviously a foul move, but the referee did not call the penalty. Green handed it to Durant immediately, but Durant lost confidence and passed the ball back to his teammates. The Warriors reorganized the offense.

Lakers fans are very depressed. If this rebound is grabbed by the Lakers, the game might just be won!

This situation is really depressing, but the players on the field don't have time to complain. The ball returned to Green's hands. Green saw Durant's physical decline was severe, and also lamented that Ingram, a rookie, could consume Durant.

Green met Xie Chen and was stopped by Xie Chen with Artest's defensive ability. Green never expected that he would force Xie Chen to fail. Although he did not lose the ball, the Warriors' offense was in chaos and time was running out. The last 24 seconds ran out, and the Warriors did not complete the attack!
This key defense allowed the Lakers to usher in an [-]-game winning streak!

(End of this chapter)