Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 823
On June 6, the Warriors and the Bulls played the sixth game series at Oracle Arena.

In Chicago's three away games, the Warriors have achieved an excellent record of two wins and one loss, giving the Warriors a favorable position in the entire series in one fell swoop.

In this game, the two sides still sent five small lineups. For the Warriors, the Warriors won both games in the first two games using the five small lineups, so they have no reason to change the lineup.

For the Bulls, the five-small lineup is the best solution they have obtained after all their attempts. Other lineups are more difficult to win, and naturally there is no other choice.

In the last game, although the Bulls did not win, they still fought the Warriors to the last moment with this lineup, which shows that this lineup has hope of winning.

Therefore, in this crucial game, both teams naturally continued the lineup from the previous game.

During the fast break, Hubble gave the ball to Pippen in the corner. Pippen missed a three-pointer. Jordan jumped up from the crowd and stuffed the flying basketball into the basket with his big hands.

Then the Warriors requested a timeout.

The Bulls, who refused to admit defeat, gave the Warriors a disarm at the beginning of the game and beat the Warriors with a 20:8 slump.

In fact, before this, Nelson had already called a timeout, but it didn't achieve very good results. As a result, in the subsequent games, the Bulls still beat the Warriors again and again.

As a last resort, Nelson called a second timeout.

"What's going on in your head? Think the championship is within reach? Don't forget, to win the championship, you need to win one more game, but the Bulls only need to win two more games to win.

Now is not the time when the overall situation has been decided, it's just that we are closer to the finish line than the Bulls, but before the finish line, being overtaken at any time is not a rare thing in itself.

I don't want you to become a joke, to be reversed by your opponent, to become a foil for your opponent! "

During the timeout period, Nelson did not design tactics for the team or make substitution adjustments. At this point in the entire series, Nelson has nothing to adjust. Both teams are playing their cards.

Therefore, the only thing Nelson can do is to boost morale, let the players cheer up quickly, and focus on the game early.

But it turns out that it is too difficult to get the players into the state immediately.

Status is a very mysterious thing, and there are no rules at all. It will come when it is said, and it will leave when it is said.

After the game restarted, the morale of the Warriors has indeed improved, but it is almost impossible to recover the point difference at once.

In this way, at the end of the first quarter, the Warriors trailed the Bulls by 16 points at 32:16.

Just in the first quarter alone, the game is almost over. This is something that everyone in the Bulls did not expect before the game. In their view, this game must be a difficult game, and they have made all preparations , However, when the game started, they realized that the game was much easier than they had imagined.

However, although the Bulls took the lead, they did not dare to relax in the slightest. They knew very well that although they caught the Warriors' carelessness and took a certain lead, they knew too well the Warriors' ability to adjust. It is possible to recover the score.

And the Bulls' judgment was correct. After the trance-like first quarter, in the second quarter, the Warriors seemed to wake up from their sleep, with new vitality.

It was the Warriors' substitute who launched the counterattack at the beginning. Kukoc, who performed well in the previous game, played so-so tonight, as if he had spent all his strength in the last game. On the contrary, it was Sprewell who played well in this game. The game showed an amazing state.

Under his continuous breakthrough, the Bulls' defense was torn apart, allowing the Warriors to seize the opportunity to score 7 points in a row, narrowing the point difference to less than 10 points in one fell swoop.

However, soon the Bulls, under the leadership of Price and Pippen, scored 5 points in a row and stabilized the situation, allowing the point difference that Sprewell worked so hard to recover to expand to 14 points again.

Since then, the point difference between the two teams has been hovering in the early 10-point range. No matter whether it is the Bulls or the Warriors, no one can break the deadlock.

In the end, the returning Warriors started and injected new vitality into the game. With Richmond's layup, the Warriors managed to narrow the point difference to less than 10 points before halftime, trailing the Bulls by 43:52 9 points.

It can be seen that the momentum of the Warriors chasing points in the second quarter is still very fierce, and after entering the second half, the Warriors' offensive firepower has reached a new level.

After Richmond and Horry hit the pick-and-roll, they distributed the ball to Li Weisi, who ran without the ball to give him a chance. Li Weisi pulled up and shot a three-pointer.

After 5 minutes and 12 seconds in the third quarter, with Li Weisi's three-pointer, they successfully overtook the score.

After entering the second half, under the leadership of Li Weisi and Richmond, the Warriors successfully fought back again.

Especially Richmond, who is unknown in this round of the series, has maintained a good state since the first quarter of this game. Facing Jordan's defense, he always has a way to put the ball into the basket, and Every goal is in the team's most difficult situation.

It can be said that in this game, Richmond played more like the second head of a team than Mullin.

However, although the 16-point difference was tied, it did hit the morale of the Bulls, but standing on the edge of the cliff, all they could do at this time was to fight back, which made them forget their fear and frustration, and only focus on the present , hit each ball well.

Soon, the Bulls took the lead again on Jordan's pull-up layup.

In the following games, the two teams fought desperately, and everything seemed to return to the suffocating atmosphere of the previous game.

The previous wide-ranging offenses of the two sides were all gone, and what was left was every muscle collision, every hard pull in the penalty area, and every rebound rebound.

In this case, the Bulls still had the last laugh.

With 4.6 seconds left in the third quarter, the Bulls successfully defended against Sprewell's attack. As Sprewell missed a layup, Pippen protected the rebound and used his own The long pass finds Jordan on a fast break.

And Jordan, who took the lead, jumped high after receiving a pass from Pippen and dunked easily.

In this way, at the last moment before the end of the third quarter, the Bulls relied on Picco to connect and used a defensive counterattack to help the team lead the Warriors by one point 75:74 into the fourth quarter.

(End of this chapter)