Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 765 Can't catch up with me
"Shh!"

The sound of the basketball passing through the net is so crisp and pleasant for the Warriors, but it is so frustrating for the Sonics.

The Sonics defended and did everything they could, but the result was still watching the Warriors make the ball.

After changing their tactics, the Warriors launched a wave of counterattacks. Although this wave of counterattacks was not vigorous, they fought steadily, chasing the point difference back bit by bit.

At the end of the first quarter, the Sonics only led the Warriors by 27 points at 25:2.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Warriors' substitute scored 5 points in a row under Kukoc's performance, helping the team achieve a lead.

In the following games, the Warriors firmly grasped the situation on the court, and no matter what other methods the Sonics used, they could not recover the score.

In the end, the score was fixed at 109:105, and the Warriors narrowly beat the Sonics by 4 points.

Both Li Weisi and Richmond scored a team-high 24 points, and Mullin scored 14 points, showing a decline in state.

For the Supersonics, Payton also scored a team-high 24 points and 10 assists. Kemp, the team's second-in-command, did not perform well tonight. Except for his good performance in the first quarter, in the following games, he was picked up by Ronaldo. Deman was restricted miserably. He made 15 of 6 shots and only scored 14 points.

It can be said that if it weren't for the excellent performance of Sam Perkins and the substitute Nate McMillan to make up for Kemp's contribution, the Sonics might not be able to last the game at all.

After the loss, Payton's face was a little dull, which was different from the constant trash talking on the field. When facing Li Weisi, Payton rarely talked trash.

It's not that Payton has become a good man, but that Li Weisi is very uncooperative.

Compared with other people, Li Weisi seldom responds when Payton talks trash to Li Weisi. This is quite bad for Payton. After all, some things require interaction to be full of fun. If it is simple What's the difference between that and rubber?No pleasure at all.

The same is true for trash talk. What Payton likes is that the other party is annoyed by his own trash talk and retaliates, so that he is humiliated by his continuous output, rather than as if he is talking to a piece of wood without any response.

"Congratulations, you won again!" Payton said in a low voice when shaking hands with Li Weisi.

"Thank you, you are also very good! Compared with when I first met you back then, you have made great progress." Li Weisi did not have a special expression, but said sincerely to Peyton.

"Are you mocking me? No matter how great the improvement is, I still lose to you?" Li Weisi's words made Peyton feel a little harsh, and he inevitably answered with a bit of anger.

"Isn't it normal to lose to me? Don't tell me you're not used to it?" Li Weisi asked in surprise.

"You... I won't get used to it, sooner or later I will defeat you!"

"Don't always look up. You should shift your attention now and look down. Once your little brother Jason also performed very well in the Mavericks this year. Be careful that he will surpass you in two years. To be honest, I like that guy more than you."

"Hmph, then don't bother you, he can only surpass me when I retire!" Payton curled his lips. Although he knew in his heart that what Li Weisi said was right, he still refused to admit it on the surface. Therefore, He immediately added another sentence: "Instead of worrying about me, you might as well worry about yourself. Your Warriors will face the Mavericks in the last game, right?"

"Haha, then you are worrying too much. I said he could catch up with you, but I didn't say he could catch up with me!" Li Weisi said confidently with a smile on his face.

As the two broke up unhappy, the game also came to an end.

As Payton said, the last opponent of the Warriors in the regular season is the Mavericks. However, before that, there is another game, which is the Jazz who defeated them before.

However, in this game, the Warriors are playing it completely as a revenge battle.

From the beginning of the game, the Warriors showed an aura of revenge. The outside shots were frequently successful, which caused the Jazz's outside defense to lose sight of one another and was in danger.

In the opening game alone, the Warriors beat the Jazz 17:4. During this period, Coach Sloan called two timeouts in a row, but failed to stop the Warriors' indiscriminate bombing.

Facts have proved that once the Warriors go crazy, there is really no team that can effectively stop the Warriors.

The Jazz are already one of the strongest teams in the league, but they are still vulnerable to the strong firepower of the Warriors.

Under the defense of the Jazz in the first quarter, the Warriors scored 37 points and led the Jazz by 37 points at 25:12.

In the second quarter, the state of the Warriors dropped somewhat. The Jazz seized the opportunity and played a wave of 8:0. Unfortunately, near the end of the halftime, Li Weisi made a three-pointer at the buzzer, which brought the point difference back to zero. In double digits, the Jazz trailed the Warriors by 52 points 62:10.

The key happened in the third quarter. The Warriors, whose state had fallen back in the second quarter, did not know what they did or ate during the intermission, which caused the team to suddenly become mighty again after the third quarter. up.

Since Richmond made a strong three-pointer against Hornacek, the Warriors once again set off a new round of comprehensive offense.

As the current shooting guard of the Jazz, Hornacek has undoubtedly become the most important third point of the Jazz, especially in terms of offense, which enriches the pick-and-roll tactics set by Coach Sloan.

However, Hornacek is now 32 years old. As a white shooter, his body that is not strong enough has accumulated too many injuries, and his defensive ability is no longer as good as before.

In comparison, Richmond is younger and is still at his peak at this time. Therefore, the duel between the two former starters and substitutes in this game is just like these two teams. The winner is clear.

Richmond scored 14 points in the third quarter, although not many, but the efficiency was amazing, and forced the Jazz to change their defensive strategy, leading to the Warriors' offense in full bloom, and finally scored 31 points again in the third quarter, so far After three quarters, the Warriors have led the Jazz by 93 points at 77:16.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Jazz didn't want to give up, and continued to put Karl Malone on the court, but even with Karl Malone, the Warriors' substitutes still did not fall behind, making it impossible for the Jazz to recover the score.

In the end, Karl Malone was replaced by Sloan after playing for more than 3 minutes. The Jazz surrendered, and the game came to an end. The final score was 121:103, and the Warriors won a big victory.

At the end of this game, the Warriors also improved their record to 64 wins and 17 losses. Next, they only have one last game left, a back-to-back away game against the Dallas Mavericks.

(End of this chapter)