Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 778 Taking Over the Game
Divac played very high tonight. Such a hearty game made him feel as if he had returned to the era of playing in Europe.

Of course, this is not to deny the strength of the Suns, but at the center position, the Suns are completely suppressed by Divac.

Not only Green, who played as a guest center, but even if the Suns replaced Klein later, they still couldn't stop Divac, who was in hot form.

At this time, Divac was getting more and more excited, and he even did some flower exercises that he would not do on the court on weekdays.

Divac, standing on the three-point line at the top of the arc, received the basketball, and when passing the ball with Li Weisi, he raised the ball above his head with both hands, and did not hand the ball to Li Weisi.

Immediately afterwards, Divac turned around immediately, passed Klein who was defending him behind him, and after entering the inside line, facing Barkley who was rushing to help defend, Divac turned around suddenly, passed Barkley cleanly, and then One-handed split buckle succeeded.

Although this dunk, Divac's bounce is only the height of a matchbox, and his posture is not graceful, but the whole process starts from a fake hand-to-hand pass, to turning around, and then to dunk. All the fans were amazed.

After scoring the goal, Divac was completely excited, and in the process of walking back, he even raised his hands to ask for cheers from the fans.

The fans met Divac's request, made everyone's loudest voice, and cheered for Divac.

Throughout the third quarter, the Suns fell into a completely passive situation. Although they continued to have a good touch in terms of offense, Persson, Marley, including Hardaway, all made shots from the outside one after another, helping the Suns in this quarter. Scored 26 points, but let the Warriors get 32 ​​points.

This is still the Suns. At the end of the third quarter, Barkley was not allowed to leave the field, leading the mixed lineup to fight against the Warriors' bench lineup, and only then recovered some points difference, otherwise the point difference would only be bigger.

Although the Warriors only lead by 3 points, the situation on the court is by no means as small as the point difference reflects. In fact, the Suns are facing great difficulties, not only coach Westphal, but every player of the Suns , with tense and heavy expressions on their faces.

However, the tense game rhythm did not give them time to think wildly, and the rest time was fleeting. Even Westphal had to send the players on the field again before he had considered how to deploy them.

Because he didn't know how to make a substitution, he didn't dare to put Barkley down, so he could only let Barkley take a breath on the bench, and then continued to fight.

The height of the guard and the weight of the center make Barkley infinitely powerful on the offensive end, but at the same time his physical strength has been seriously affected.

In fact, Barkley's physical strength is not bad, but running back and forth on the field with dozens of pounds more meat than others is destined to require him to exert more physical strength than others.

Therefore, with only a 3-minute break in the game, Barkley significantly reduced his breakthroughs and increased his mid-range shots after the start of the fourth quarter.

Although Barkley has a basket on the outside, the Warriors are not afraid of Barkley's shooting, and are even happy to see Barkley shooting, because this is not where Barkley "kills".

Barkley, who has no breakthrough, makes him more like a toothless tiger, lacking intimidating things.

At the beginning, Barkley's shooting rate was not low, and even made a three-pointer, but as Horry continued to harass, finally, within a few minutes of the fourth quarter, with a missed shot, Completely opened the stage where Barkley did not score.

In the process, the Warriors continued to counterattack, whether it was Sprewell in particular, it was like an arrow, constantly stabbing the inside of the Suns.

In this way, when Li Weisi returned to the court, the situation of the game was no longer a good one, not a good one, but a great one!
Not only did the Warriors lead by 9 points at this time, but Barkley was clearly on the verge of exhaustion, relying entirely on willpower to hold on.

Along with the return of the Warriors' starting lineup, there is also the starting lineup of the Suns. Although Westphal pushed Barkley very hard, the others got plenty of rest time. Therefore, after the return of the Suns' starting lineup, Barkley can instead Paddle and rest on the field, the defensive pressure faced is greatly reduced.

It has to be said that the gap between the Suns' starters and their substitutes is quite large. In other words, the vast majority of teams in the league are like this. On the contrary, the starters like the Warriors are already at the top level in the league, but their substitutes are equally outstanding. Teams are in the minority.

After the two sides came back from the starting lineup, under the leadership of Tim Hardaway, several other members of the Suns also stood up and stabilized the situation. The point difference on the court was also narrowed to about 5 points.

Under such circumstances, Li Weisi knew that something had to be done about this matter, otherwise, when Barkley recovers, the 5-point gap may be overturned by the Suns at any time.

Therefore, in the round when it was the Warriors' turn to attack, Li Weisi did not give the ball to Divac or others after halftime, but directed his teammates to open up space for him. He was about to play singles.

The Warriors have always had a singles tactic about Li Weisi, but it is definitely a bottom-of-the-box tactic. Generally speaking, it will never be used until the last moment. After all, Li Weisi is not a nine-tailed physical monster like Jordan. With a big move, he is more like a [-]-[-] split, and he has to count his Chuck... physical strength distribution with his fingers.

Therefore, the teammates were very surprised when they saw Li Weisi's gesture. After all, they were the leading side at this time and they had not yet reached the final stage. Why did Li Weisi choose this tactic?
However, they didn't think much about it. After all, Li Weisi's judgment on the situation was far more correct than theirs, so just listen.

At the moment, the teammates opened up the space for Li Weisi, and Li Weisi began to play singles.

In fact, the singles against the Suns is very good for Li Weisi, because although the opposing Hardaway is fast, but his height is too short, it can have limited impact on Li Weisi's shooting space.

Therefore, when Hardaway defends Li Weisi, he must raise his defensive focus upwards, which makes Li Weisi's breakthrough easier.

Sure enough, just a moment later, Li Weisi successfully broke through Hardaway.

After the breakthrough, Li Weisi did not go directly to the basket, but immediately stopped and changed direction, throwing Hardaway, who was closely behind, to his side again.

After completing this set of moves, Li Weisi chose mid-range shooting. Although Li Weisi seldom takes shots in the mid-range position, this does not mean that Li Weisi's mid-range shooting is not good.

Under Hardaway's impossible block, Li Weisi made a mid-range shot and scored!Li Weisi is about to start taking over the game.

(End of this chapter)