Soul of the Golden State

842 Goddess of Victory

842 Goddess of Victory
Due to Richmond's outstanding performance in the first quarter, the Jazz's defensive attention was attracted a lot, which caused Li Weisi to feel that the defensive pressure in front of him was much less, especially Stockton, who was defending himself. In addition to himself, he also allocated part of his attention to Richmond.

Li Weisi didn't have much performance in the first quarter, and kept forbearing until he came back on the court in the second quarter, and he took the lead in launching a fierce attack as soon as he came on the court.

With the increase of age, Stockton's playing time has also begun to decrease. In the past few years, the average playing time of 38 minutes per game has long been out of reach, and this season has dropped to less than 35 minutes. Comparable.

Therefore, when Li Weisi was replaced, Stockton was also replaced just now, but what Stockton did not expect was that he was beaten by Li Weisi as soon as he played.

At the beginning, Li Weisi first took advantage of Stockton's distraction, cut in to receive a pass from Divac, and made a layup.

Immediately afterwards, Li Weisi was on the offensive end again, using Rodman's pick-and-roll, receiving a pass from Kukoc, and hitting a three-pointer against Malone.

In this way, led by Li Weisi, the Warriors suddenly played a wave of 11:0 offensive Xiao Gaochao, which directly stunned the Jazz. It was not until Jerry Sloan called a timeout that he recovered and hurriedly started After redeploying and returning to the court, the Jazz gave up their impatience and played steadily, which broke the deadlock. Malone changed the situation with a mid-range shot.

But the situation is still not good for the Jazz. Until the intermission, the Warriors still led 62:51.

It has to be said that this is the scary part of Li Weisi's offensive ability. If you are a little careless, you will find that your team has been widened by such a big gap in the blink of an eye.

However, the Jazz are tough, and their iron-blooded spirit has long been integrated into their bones. Therefore, after entering the second half, they started a difficult journey to chase points.

Their first move to chase points is to get the offense back into the hands of Stockton and Malone, and they will start with the pick-and-roll. This patience.

After the pick-and-roll between the two, Malone received a pass from Stockton again. Faced with the entanglement of his old enemy Rodman, Malone once again faked a layup and successfully caused a foul by Rodman, thus walking to the free throw line .

After making two free throws, the point difference was narrowed to 9 points. Although it was only two points, it was nothing to the 10-point point difference, but it was a sign of the Jazz's counterattack.

After that, Malone completely entered the runaway mode. At this time, Rodman had nothing to do with Malone tonight.

In this way, with only 11 points in the first half, Malone scored 18 points alone in the third quarter, leading the Jazz to a score of 36:25 in a single quarter, and successfully tied the game before the end of the third quarter. score.

Faced with such a big advantage in the early stage and being tied by the Jazz, the pressure on the Warriors is also huge, especially in the devil's home court in Salt Lake City, and the bursts of noise in the away game make them even more upset.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Cassel stood up on the Warriors' bench and made two shots to help the team take the lead again. But for the Jazz, Hornacek was defended by Finley. He shot and passed again and again, helping the Jazz catch up with the score again.

Not only that, Sloan only let Malone rest for 1 minute, and then quickly put him back on the field. In addition to the 2 minutes of rest in the second quarter, Malone rested for only 3 minutes in the entire game.

However, Malone's hard work paid off. With Malone returning to the game, the Jazz suddenly took the initiative on the court.

Speaking of which, Malone played really well in the second half. Whether it was Rodman or Horry on the Warriors side, they couldn't prevent him at all in a one-on-one situation.

Even with the help of Divac or Brown, it is still difficult to guard Malone.

Every player has the opportunity to show that kind of miraculous state in a certain game, but good players may wait for such a game every few games, or several games in a row. And players with lower strength may not be able to wait for such a game in their entire lives.

Ma Long is undoubtedly a good player with outstanding strength, and for him to catch up with such a game, his destructive power is far greater than that of ordinary players.

The Warriors were not without resistance. In fact, they resisted tenaciously, especially after Li Weisi came on the court, they even had a scoring match with Ma Long.

But tonight, the Goddess of Victory favored only Malone. With 11 seconds left before the end of the game, Malone received the ball from the three-point line, broke through all the way to the inside hinterland of the Warriors, and made an emergency stop jumper one step before the free throw line.

As a power forward, as a big man, the Warriors were able to force Malone to attack with the action of the guard. .

Relying on Rodman's defense, since Malone's pull-up jumper really hit, with this key shot, the Jazz opened the point difference to 4 points. With only 11 seconds left, the Warriors could not only shoot a three-pointer There is no way.

It's a pity that even Li Weisi can't guarantee that every lore can be hit.

Li Weisi caught the ball and shot a three-pointer. The basketball went wide. Rodman struggled with his old nose to fight for this offensive rebound. He was backed by five fouls. Although he was beaten by Malone on the defensive end tonight, he was on the scene. The performance is still remarkable.

After grabbing the rebound, Rodman passed the ball to Richmond who was closest to him. At this time, there were at least three people between him and Li Weisi. It was impossible for Rodman to pass the ball to Li Weisi who was separated by three people. hands.

Fortunately, Richmond's performance tonight is also very good, the audience has scored 26 points, so Richmond did not make any adjustments after receiving the ball, and immediately chose a three-point shot again.

It's a pity that this time the basketball still went wide, swiped around in the basket and then fell out. After a random grab at the basket, it was finally snatched by Rodman again, and then passed to Rose.

Rose, who got the ball, was hesitant in his heart. He glanced at Li Weisi and Richmond who were surrounded by layers, and finally chose to come by himself.

It's a pity that Rose's shot still missed this time when there was almost an open space, and then Malone finally protected the rebound this time. At this point, time is running out, and the Warriors have no hope of winning.

In the end, the Warriors lost to the Jazz 119:123 in the away game, failing to take away a victory from the Triangle Center Arena.

(End of this chapter)

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