Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 769 Disparity in Strength
For the Warriors, the opening was perfect, but for the Nuggets, it was unbearable to look directly at.

Yes, there is a gap in strength between the two teams, but no matter how big the gap is, it's not enough to lose a point, right?

However, the reality is always more nonsense than you imagined. Seeing that the Warriors can't score for a long time, but can't limit the Warriors' scoring, this can be anxious to the head coach of the Nuggets, Bernie Bickerstaff.

Although the team's famous head coach Dan Issel led the team to a successful black eight last year, he still chose to resign after the team achieved 18 wins and 16 losses this season. Ernes temporarily replaced the duties of the head coach.

However, after Coach Littles took office, he led the team to a record of 3 wins and 13 losses, which made the management immediately decide to abandon him, and the general manager of the team, Bernie Bickerstaff, was appointed in a crisis.

It has to be said that as a famous coach, Coach Bickerstaff does have two brushes, which are completely different from his son. Since taking charge of the team in February, the Nuggets' record has begun to improve steadily, and in the final stage, Successfully snatched a ticket to the playoffs.

However, the Nuggets are already in high spirits for being able to break into the playoffs. If they want to go further, the possibility can be said to be almost zero, and this negligible possibility, with the start like this, It has infinitely approached the infinitesimal.

As a team that fights the strong with the weak, if they can't even start well, how can they fight against the strong team?It is better to count on Pan Jinlian to change his mind than to count on the weak team to be able to turn around after a bad start!

Due to the extreme dissatisfaction with the team's performance at the beginning of the game, Bickerstaff replaced Rauf with Robert Parker during the timeout. The same decision, that is to strengthen the defense and give up Rauf's offense, because his offense is short-circuited at this time.

For this, Rauf was already prepared. Before the timeout, seeing Li Weisi successfully put in the ball, he knew that this moment would come sooner or later, and at this time, he had already resigned to his fate.

Back from the timeout, the Nuggets' offense, relying on steady and steady play, finally saw Stich hit a shot against Richmond with a very difficult shot, opening the scoring for the Nuggets.

Afterwards, in defense, Parker's defense was indeed much better than Rauf's. No matter in terms of height or footsteps, he was better able to match Li Weisi.

However, this alone is not enough to prevent Li Weisi, it can only bring a little interference to Li Weisi.

After Li Weisi used the pick-and-roll, he threw the ball directly into the sky. Rodman slipped from the bottom line to the basket and jumped high, catching the ball with both hands and smashing it into the basket.

Since all defenders were attracted by Li Weisi, Rodman's dunk was quite easy.

Here I still want to say that he is almost 35 years old, but he can still jump so high. Rodman's body is really different from ordinary people!
Obviously, the Nuggets' substitutions did help them break the stalemate of not scoring, but this did not change the trend of the game, because even if they strengthened their defense, they still couldn't prevent the Warriors' offense.

In the first quarter, the Warriors scored 30 points. In contrast, the Nuggets only had 17 points.

Facing a 13-point deficit in the first quarter, the Nuggets wanted to reverse the situation in the second quarter, but their defensive team, after losing an important scoring point, found it even more difficult to match the offensive firepower of the Warriors.

I saw that the Nuggets passed the ball several times in a row, but still couldn't hit the ball inside. Seeing that the time was running out, Parker finally handed the ball to Reggie Williams.

As a defensive shooting guard, singles is not Williams' specialty, let alone facing Richmond.

Don't look at Richmond being tortured to death by Jordan and many other outside scorers, but those people are the league's leading stars after all, and he is more than enough to face Reggie Williams.

I saw that no matter what Williams did, he couldn't fool Richmond, so he had no choice but to bring the ball to the middle. Seeing that the attack time was running out, he had to forcefully choose to make a shot.

Under Richmond's interference, the basketball hit the basket. To be honest, the ball hit the basket very accurately.

Divac got stuck, Rodman easily accepted the rebound, and the Warriors pushed back again.

To be honest, in the second quarter, the Warriors' offensive efficiency did drop a lot, especially during the substitute stage. For some reason, everyone generally felt cold.

In this case, the Warriors' scoring depends more on such fast breaks. Fortunately, there are quite a lot of fast breaks like this in the second quarter. Who makes the Nuggets unable to make shots!
Rodman made a long pass across the court, and immediately found Li Weisi who had already come to the opponent's basket. After Li Weisi received the ball, he moved the ball up and down, and Pike, who was defending him, flew out from behind in an instant. .

It turned out that Pike, who had been following Li Weisi closely, had been marking Li Weisi all the time.

It's a pity that Li Weisi had already guessed that there was such a move, so his lifting the ball was just a fake move. After Pike flew up, he immediately made a forward turn with his left foot as the axis, and at the same time, he turned the ball with his back to the basket and hit the backboard. rub.

With a strong spin, the basketball hit the rim and bounced into the net at a weird angle.

This move is the most commonly used in-situ pick-and-roll in the inside offense, but because of the addition of the Finger roll and Li Weisixin's handy shot, this kind of pick-and-roll has a bit of elegance and casualness, full of charm.

This is what fans like about Li Weisi. He can always use the most basic movements and rely on his unrestrained imagination to play new tricks.

Throughout the second quarter, the offense of the Nuggets was quite bad. They were supposed to chase points, but they only scored 14 points in this quarter. Scored 23 points, which led to halftime, and the Warriors led the Nuggets by as much as 53 points at 33:20.

53 points in the half is a bit low for the Warriors. Obviously, the Nuggets' defense is still effective. It's only when people see the Nuggets' offense that they realize that this is really too hip.

Scoring more than 30 points is like winning the Warriors. There is no other way but to dream.

Therefore, even though the Nuggets' offense recovered after entering the second half and they played in a decent manner, the huge point difference, relying on their pursuit of more than 20 points per quarter, is simply impossible to even out the point difference.

In the end, the whole game ended, the Warriors beat the Nuggets 104:88 at home, and the entire fourth quarter was reduced to garbage time.

(End of this chapter)