Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 798 The battle of life and death
The Warriors who just returned gave the Rockets a heavy blow when they started.

Li Weisi used the pick-and-roll to assist Divac to make a mid-range hit.

Relying on Divac's goal, the difference between the two teams came to 8 points.

This is not over yet, and then Olajuwon missed the hook on the Rockets side, Richmond made a layup in the Warriors counterattack, and the point difference returned to 10 points.

The Rockets worked hard to catch up to 6 points, and the point difference became double digits in the blink of an eye, which dealt a considerable blow to the Rockets.

After all, the difference between a double-digit point difference and a single-digit point difference is still quite large, which brings a different mentality to each player of the Rockets.

Fortunately, all the generals of the Rockets are old players, and their adjustment ability is no worse than that of the Warriors. Soon the Rockets regained their strength and responded in offense.

Relying on the home court advantage, coupled with the tenacity of the players, the Rockets once narrowed the point difference to less than 5 points in the middle of the fourth quarter.

This really scared Nelson into a cold sweat, and he quickly called a timeout to suppress his shock.

After the timeout, the Warriors relied on Li Weisi's layup to successfully stabilize the point difference, and the two teams returned to the stalemate again.

This kind of stalemate is the most troublesome for the Rockets, because time is being consumed bit by bit. As the backward side, if they cannot tie the score as soon as possible, then they will be passive everywhere, and it will be difficult for them to win this game. victory.

At this most critical moment, the Rockets once again passed the ball to the inside Olajuwon. The core of the team, at times like this, the first person that other teammates can think of is naturally Olajuwon, not Drexler. Maybe this is the gap between the core and the thugs!
Olajuwon, who received the ball, did not rush to attack immediately, but subconsciously glanced at the bottom corner. Olajuwon, who had been harassed by Rodman all night, already had some conditioned reflexes.

Sure enough, Rodman still moved, but his speed was much slower than before.

A 35-year-old player, the number of back and forth running tonight is almost two or three times that of usual times. With such an amount of exercise, a strong young player may not be able to run down, but Rodman persisted .

Although Nelson is also aware of this and strictly controls his playing time, but even so, his physical strength still seriously affects his speed.

Taking advantage of Rodman's slow start, Olajuwon immediately decided to hit Divac first before Rodman arrived.

So he made a decisive decision and turned towards Rodman's side. After attracting Divac's center of gravity, he quickly turned around again and used his footsteps to lay up from the side away from Rodman.

However, Divac was not fooled. He put the focus of defense in ambush on this side, because he knew very well that defending Olajuwon was never his own task, and he needed the cooperation of his teammates.

Seeing that he didn't shake Divac, Olajuwon didn't panic. After he assumed a shooting posture, he finally shook Divac, and then immediately took a step forward with his left foot to the right, and then made a layup with a low hand.

But just when he shot, Rodman, who had just started, arrived by coincidence, and because he didn't make a shot on the side far away from Rodman, Olajuwon had to be on the right side, and It is the shot here that is close to Rodman, giving Rodman more preparation time.

Rodman's big hand slapped Olajuwon's basketball fiercely. Olajuwon never thought that he and Rodman had been fighting each other all night, and in the final stage, he was exhausted. Rodman, who was exhausted, was blocked.

After the basketball was out of Olajuwon's control, it happened to fall into the hands of Divac, which is great!You don't even need to grab rebounds, you can start a fast break directly.

It doesn't matter whether the last goal is scored or not, because with Rodman's block, basically ruined the Rockets' chance to catch up with the score. In this game, the Rockets have gone.

In the end, the Rockets lost to the Warriors 100:105 at home. Although the points were similar, for the Rockets, the 5-point difference seemed insurmountable.

Throughout the second half of the fourth quarter, no matter what methods the Rockets tried, they could not get close to the score, let alone overtake.

The Rockets' highest scorer tonight is finally no longer Olajuwon, but Drexler. He scored 29 points, 7 assists and 10 rebounds. Generally, only 26 points and 17 rebounds.

But even so, it is higher than the single-game score of all the Warriors.

For the Warriors, Li Weisi, the highest scorer, only scored 24 points and 12 assists.

In addition, no one from the Warriors scored 20 points, but a total of 6 people scored in double figures, including Mullin, Richmond, Rodman, Cassel and Kukoc.

It can be said that the Warriors have interpreted the full bloom to the extreme in this game.

In particular, Rodman must be praised. Not only did he score 10 points on the offensive end tonight, but more importantly, on the defensive end, he not only had to defend Murray, but also took on the heavy responsibility of flanking Olajuwon. It is said that Olajuwon's decline in performance tonight has a large piece of Rodman's military medal in it.

With the Warriors' victory this time, the trend of the entire series finally changed again. The Warriors, who were already about to suffocate, finally tied the big score at 2:2, giving the Warriors a chance to breathe.

Not only that, but more importantly, through this game, they finally found a way to deal with Olajuwon, although this method is better than Fei Rodman, and it may not work every time. But at least it gave the Warriors a way to win.

Due to tying the big score, the morale of the Warriors was high, and soon they started a fierce battle with the Rockets at Tianwangshan on May 5 at their home court.

This game was also quite intense, with almost a staggered score. This game lasted until the end. With Li Weisi hitting a key mid-range shot, the victory was completely sealed.

In this way, the Warriors defeated the Rockets 110:108 at home, rewriting the big score of the series to 3:2.

However, the tenacity of the Rockets was beyond everyone's imagination. Two days later, on May 5, the last day of May.

At the Compaq Center, the home court of the Rockets, with Olajuwon and Drexler scoring 71 points, the Rockets finally pulled back another round with 118:115, turning the big score into 3:3. Dragging the series into a tiebreaker.

At this point, the Warriors and the Rockets will have the final series on June 6, the tiebreaker.

(End of this chapter)