Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 678
On April 4, the last day of April, the third game of the series between the Warriors and the Suns was held at the American West Center Arena in Phoenix.

Although this arena with a history of more than 20 years can only accommodate 18000 people, every home fan in the arena at this time is looking forward to a miracle.

However, miracles are only small probability events after all, not what you expect.

The Suns' lineup was powerless against the Warriors. Apart from the weak overall strength, it was also related to the restraint of the lineup.

The current defensive weakness of the Warriors, the most feared, is either the team has a low-post killer, or there is a single player with no solution on the outside, and the Suns obviously have neither.

Although Chambers on the inside is a good scorer, he has not reached the level of a low-post killer. Hardaway on the outside, although he also has excellent offensive firepower, is far from the bug level, so the Suns are the best. The proud offense has no chance of winning against the Warriors, how can it be played?
Therefore, for the Suns, the third game of the last stand is still just repeating the process of the first two games, but the details are slightly different.

Unlike the previous two games, the Suns' best performer tonight was Dan Marley.

In fact, it's not hard to imagine that as a pitcher, there will always be his moments of brilliance. This night, he was extremely accurate, as if his shots were bound to hit, and Marley was like this tonight.

When the Suns have a third player besides Chambers and Hardaway tonight, for the Warriors, the game becomes very difficult.

However, difficulties are only relative, relative to the previous two games, and compared with the difficult games they experienced, this difficulty is nothing at all.

Facing the explosion of the Suns' pitchers, the Warriors still played steadily and did not lose the wind. Even at the end of the first quarter, they led by 29 points at 25:4.

The turning point of the game happened in the third quarter. Relying on Marley's outstanding performance, the Suns were indeed on par with the Warriors. However, when Marley's shooting percentage dropped in the third quarter, it was difficult for the Suns to continue to maintain such a performance. Points difference.

Soon, under the leadership of Li Weisi, the Warriors played a wave of 20:2 offensive climax, directly turning the originally anxious game into an instant game without any suspense. The score difference of more than 20 points was simply It can be called exhaustion.

The players of the Suns team were also very puzzled. Why did they lose more than 20 points inexplicably despite their hard work?
In the fourth quarter, although the Suns were still unwilling to give up, it is a pity that even though the Warriors sent all the substitutes, the Suns still failed to recover many points, and the point difference was always hovering around 20 points.

The helpless Suns were like this. They could only watch the Warriors take the lead to the end. At 93:111, the Warriors made another move. The entire series defeated the Suns 3:0 and successfully advanced to the next round .

Looking at the Warriors players with calm faces and no sense of joy, it was as if they just won a meaningless game.

This makes it difficult for the Suns players to hide their jealousy and sadness. What they can't get with their hard work is not seen by others at all. Such a gap makes people feel even more distressed.

This round of series between the Warriors and the Suns is not the first to end. In fact, half an hour before the end of the game, the game between the Bulls and the Knicks just ended. The Bulls defeated the Knicks 103:94 , with a total score of 3:0, eliminated the Knicks and successfully entered the next round.

In this round of the series, the Knicks had almost no power to fight back against the Bulls, losing the first game by 21 points.

After that, they lost the second and third games in a row. In fact, the Knicks also showed a certain degree of resilience in the third game. At the end of the halftime, they still maintained the lead. Unfortunately, with the Bulls' flow in the third quarter , Completely ended the Knicks' unrealistic fantasy and let the Knicks end this terrible season.

Logically speaking, the Knicks' lineup itself is not bad, and the lineup is relatively reasonable, but the team's performance has declined instead. It can be expected that this summer of the Knicks will definitely trigger a big change. Change players or change coaches, in short, for the future development of the Knicks, the summer of the Knicks management will be very busy.

In addition, the 3ers also played 0:76 in this round of the series against the Bucks.

Although the regular season record of the Bucks is better than that of the 76ers, but in the playoffs, the Bucks lack offensive stars, and the scoring leader in the team is Alvin Robertson. How can they beat the 76ers with Barkley? Woolen cloth?

What's more, in this round of the series, except for Barkley, Jose Hawkins and Almon Gilliam all played well, so the 76ers did not give the Bucks a chance at all, and swept their opponents.

In addition, the other series are not as easy as these three games.

The Celtics and the Eagles fought until the fifth game before deciding the winner. In the end, with the combination of Larry Bird, Lewis and Parish scoring 75 points, the Celtics won 124:111 defeated the Eagles and successfully entered the next round.

The same goes for the Pistons.

Facing the young Pacers, the two sides also fought fiercely for five games. Finally, with the outstanding performance of Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, they finally defeated the Pacers and defeated them with a total score of 3:2. disuse.

As for the West, the No. [-] Trail Blazers in the West faced the No. [-] Sonics in the first round. No one expected that the Sonics would be so tenacious.

Throughout the series, the Sonics left the deepest impression on people, than the two rookies Gary Payton and Sean Kemp.

Payton's performance this season is not outstanding, averaging only 7.2 points and 6.4 assists per game. Looking at such data alone, it is difficult for people to discuss him with the second pick.

However, in the playoffs, no matter who faced the Blazers outside, his defense was extremely aggressive, which made people shine.

As for Sean Kemp, his unrivaled impact made the Blazers suffer a lot inside.

Unfortunately, the strengths of the two teams are still far apart. In the fifth game, the bayonets of both sides became popular. The Blazers successfully defeated the Supersonics 119:107 and entered the next round without any risk.

In addition, the contest between the Lakers and the Rockets was equally fierce. One side had an advantage on the outside and the other had an advantage on the inside.

Finally, the Spurs and Jazz are the most competitive in the first round. The final outcome of the five games between the two teams did not exceed 5 points. The intensity makes people look like the finals.

In the end, the Jazz came out on top, narrowly beating the Spurs by 3 points in Game [-], and they also made it to the next round.

So far, the list of matches for the second round of the playoffs has also been released. The Eastern Bulls played against the 76ers, the Pistons played against the Celtics, the Western Trail Blazers played against the Jazz, and the Warriors played against the Lakers.

(End of this chapter)