Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 329
At 4:29 on the evening of April 19, the Warriors officially started their first playoff game of the season against the Seattle SuperSonics.

If the love between Jordan and the Cavaliers is as deep as the sea, then Li Weisi and the Supersonics are deeply in love.

Last season, Li Weisi broke into the playoffs for the first time, and the first opponent he encountered was the Supersonics. Moreover, they lost to the Supersonics by 26 points in the first game. It was a belated welcome for Li Weisi from the NBA.

Today, the two teams meet again, but in terms of strength alone, they are already very different.

The Warriors can be said to be the first team in the West since the 80-81 season that can break the Lakers' No. [-] monopoly in the Western Conference in the regular season.

As for the Supersonics, this season's record has dropped one place again, and they have come to eighth in the West, and there are also serious differences within the team.

Chambers, who was originally the leader of the team, has become the team's third scoring point this season. This makes Chambers very unhappy, thinking that he has been downplayed by the team.

He is only 29 years old this year, and he thinks he is at the peak of his career. Now he can choose to sacrifice for the team's record, but the sacrifice must be fruitful.

But now after he made the sacrifice, the team is still only about to enter the playoffs, and winning the championship seems to be far away, which makes him feel that his sacrifice is not worth it.

However, although he has expressed dissatisfaction with the team, he still has a good professional ethics and did not bring this dissatisfaction with the team to the court.

On the contrary, his performance tonight was even better than in the regular season, showing what a star should look like.

In the first quarter, he showed amazing efficiency. He made 4 of 3 shots and scored 8 points.

In addition, the other two supersonic guns felt average in the first quarter tonight, but later, driven by Chambers, they actually started to improve.

The two teams scored 28:27 in the first quarter, and the Warriors led by only one point.

The situation changed suddenly in the second quarter, and the Warriors' bench suddenly lost power, falling into a 2-minute scoring drought. The Sonics seized the opportunity and played a wave of 8:0, directly stopping the Warriors.

Fortunately, the Warriors' substitutes can be regarded as people who have seen big scenes. Facing this wave of Sonics' offense, they quickly adjusted to their state during the timeout, and they were not in the next game. Open the score.

However, the Supersonics are now in an improved state, and they cannot be suppressed by defense. The Warriors can only rely on offense to maintain it.

This situation didn't improve until the starting return. In this quarter, the Sonics scored 39 points in a single quarter. It was really how they shot. By halftime, the Sonics had already led the Warriors by 66 points 56:10.

This style of painting surprised the Warriors fans at the scene. They were full of confidence at this moment and suddenly found out, why is this game more and more similar to the first game last year?
Impossible, absolutely impossible, our warriors are no longer the original warriors, and they cannot repeat the same mistakes!

It is naturally impossible for the Warriors to repeat the same mistakes and lose to the Supersonics again. However, it is not easy to defeat the Supersonics.

In the third quarter, the Warriors scored 28 points again. I don’t know what happened. No matter how many points their opponents scored in each quarter, the Warriors scored 28 points in the first three quarters. After three quarters, the Warriors were still 28 points behind.

Just when the hearts of the Warriors fans were falling with time, the Warriors suddenly launched a counterattack, which brought the atmosphere of the scene to its peak in an instant.

It was the Warriors' substitute who sounded the counterattack horn first.

Hornacek successfully left Saidal Srit behind by running without the ball many times, and Price's pass was also timely. Hornacek took off without making adjustments after receiving the ball Shoot, hit this three-pointer.

Later, he was on defense and intercepted Streiter's pass, and during the fast break, he made a layup and caused a foul by Streiter at the same time.

Facing Streiter, who is only 188cm tall, Hornacek has a rare advantage in height at the position of shooting guard.

After the penalty hit, the point difference was directly reduced to less than 5 points.

Although Streiter made consecutive mistakes, head coach Bickerstaff did not replace him. In fact, Streiter's performance tonight was already very good.

As the so-called tree moves the dead and the living, Streiter and Sam Vincent, who exchanged clubs with him, are typical representatives of this.

Vincent was traded to the Bulls before the trade deadline of this season, and he served as the Bulls starter. As Jordan's backcourt partner, his statistics have also been greatly improved. From the previous average of 4.5 points and 3.2 assists, he immediately improved By 13 points and 8.4 assists.

Unlike Vincent's sudden explosion, Streiter's performance improvement is not obvious, but the efficiency of various statistics has improved, but in the playoffs, his experience still brought a lot of help to the Sonics.

For example, in this game, Streiter has scored 16 points and 4 assists at this time, making him the player with the most points on the Sonics bench.

But, that's all, the combination of Price and Hornacek continued to erode the Sonics' leading point difference, forcing the Sonics to switch to the starting lineup in advance.

Unlike the forced adjustment of the Supersonics, the Warriors are still not in a hurry to switch to the starting lineup even though they are behind. Nelson is not afraid of falling behind in the score.

When they returned to the court, the Warriors were still 5 points behind. Obviously, the Supersonics made the starter return early, which effectively curbed the Warriors' momentum of chasing points.

At this time, Li Weisi faced McMillan, who was in the same class as him, and seemed to be dribbling the ball casually, but it made the opposite McMillan very nervous.

Logically speaking, McMillan relied on defense to make a living, but when facing Li Weisi, he was completely caught by Li Weisi's thoughts, just as if he had no defense.

This time is the same, Li Weisi continuously changed direction ahead of time, easily causing McMillan to lose his center of gravity, and then succeeded in breaking through from McMillan's left.

After attracting the defense from the flank McDaniel, he immediately gave the ball to Mullin in the corner. Mullin raised his knife and hit a three-pointer from the corner.

Subsequently, Ellis missed an outside shot, Rodman grabbed a rebound and quickly found Li Weisi, Li Weisi directly chose to chase and hit a three-pointer in the counterattack.

In less than 1 minute, the Warriors scored two consecutive three-pointers and directly overtook the point difference.

After that, the Sonics tried to overtake the score again, but Chambers' layup was directly slapped by Rodman's cap, and reached the bottom line of Liszt's body.

The 201cm Rodman blocked the 208cm Chambers, making the fans almost crazy.

After that, the Warriors never gave the Sonics a chance to overtake the score, and kept the lead until the end.

In the end, the Warriors relied on 45 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter, enabling the team to defeat the SuperSonics 129:123 and get a good start to the playoffs.

(End of this chapter)