Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 845 Defensive Kemp
Now Payton, who has great internal skills, naturally has nothing to say about his defensive ability. Li Weisi did not shake Payton away for two consecutive fake moves.

After finally coming to the frontcourt, the Supersonics' defense was already in place, and the Warriors also lost the opportunity to fast break.

Only relying on Payton's territorial defense alone restricted Li Weisi's engine, and even Payton himself didn't expect the effect to be so good.

Of course, Payton doesn't think that if he can interrupt Li Weisi's fast break this time, he can do it every time in the future. This time, he just took advantage of Li Weisi's unprepared heart to interfere with success. It is impossible to expect Li Weisi to be unprepared every time. .

After coming to the front court and falling into the position, Li Weisi observed the situation on the court while guarding against the harassment from Peyton's hands.

Relying on the advantage of his wingspan, although Payton will not take the risk of stealing easily, he puts pressure on Li Weisi all the time, making Li Weisi difficult to dribble.

After the two competed with each other for a while, Li Weisi said hello, and it seemed that he was going to ask Divac to come up for the pick-and-roll.

Although Payton didn't say anything, he had already raised his guard in his heart. He was ready and could squeeze through the pick-and-roll in front of Divac at any time.

Soon, Divac came up and appeared on the right side of Payton.

"Is it really here?" Peyton sneered in his heart, and immediately took a step forward with his right foot, ready to squeeze past Divac.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred. Li Weisi did not use Divac's pick-and-roll to break through from the left, but directly chose the right side, that is, Payton's left side to break through.

Divac's pick-and-roll was completely a cover, but a tool to attract Payton's attention, and Li Weisi's breakthrough, which completely broke through Payton's defense.

The Supersonics' defensive system, like the Jazz, learned from the Pistons, looks like Chuck Daly's shadow. They will use rough fouls at the beginning to destroy the shooter's touch.

Just like the current Li Weisi, when he broke into the inside and was about to make a shot, Hawkins, who came to help defend, slapped Li Weisi on the arm, pulling Li Weisi and others down together.

This kind of defensive principle that makes you uncomfortable regardless of whether you can enter or not may be useful when facing other attackers, but for Li Weisi, it is obviously impossible to expect this defensive move to completely restrict him.

In the first penalty, the basketball bounced three or four times on the basket, and finally fell into the basket unwillingly.

Seeing this scene, Li Weisi frowned, didn't say much, just practiced a few more shots with empty hands, obviously he was a little dissatisfied with his shooting action just now.

When it was time for the second free throw, when everyone was nervously preparing to grab a rebound, the basketball went into the net and made both free throws, tying the game at 2:2.

At the beginning of the game, the two teams, under the means of their respective guards, either assisted or scored, scoring for the team.

The intensity of the game has set the tone from the very beginning, and the other teams on both sides are closely surrounding these two point guards, contributing to the team.

Rodman returned to the starting lineup since the last time he played against the Jazz, and now he has started several games in a row. It can be said that in no game, the rebound data is not good. 20 rebounds are considered normal performance, and 15 rebounds are considered abnormal performance. .

However, in defense, Rodman was under a huge challenge. The last time Malone scored 40+, but tonight, he was completely unable to stop Kemp's impact.

Rodman is 34 years old this year. Although he still looks alive and kicking on the court, compared with the 26-year-old Kemp, who is at his peak, he still looks old.

Especially when Kemp hit the basket, the tall and strong Kemp was fast. Although Rodman also successfully caused an offensive foul by Kemp, in most cases, Kemp succeeded.

Just like now, Kemp once again entered the penalty area and collided with Rodman fiercely in the air. Relying on his taller height, Kemp raised the ball above his head to prevent Rodman from blocking the shot.

However, despite this impact, Rodman failed to prevent Kemp from successfully hitting the basket, but in the follow-up action, the referee whistled Rodman for a foul.

"What? You are really great!" Facing the referee's call for a foul, Rodman was very annoyed, and gave the referee a thumbs up in a strange way.

Seeing Rodman's actions, Divac on the side was taken aback, and quickly pressed Rodman's arm with his hand, but unfortunately just after pressing it down, Rodman stretched out his arm again immediately, and it was impossible Can't hold it down.

"Dennis, put your hands down quickly, Joe, don't worry about it!" Divac quickly said to the referee Crawford.

"I don't bother to pay attention to this guy!" Crawford left such a sentence with a look of no surprise, and left straight away.

Watching Crawford leave, Divac heaved a sigh of relief. This time it was finally resolved, and Rodman did not receive a technical foul, so everything was fine.

"Besides, you are timid. Do you really think he will give me a technical foul?" After Crawford left, Rodman curled his lips and said to Divac.

"Keep your voice down!" Hearing Rodman's voice was so loud, Divac quickly whispered, but Rodman didn't care about it at all. He was more concerned about how to restrict Kemp at this time.

With two free throws, Kemp scored 10 points in the first quarter. Although this score may not sound like much, but only 7 minutes have passed in the first quarter.

The point difference between the two teams has also been faintly revealed at this time. The Sonics are currently leading the Warriors by 19 points at 14:5.

Among them, in addition to the Warriors' offensive problems, the final one is Rodman's side, which has been unable to solve the problem of Kemp and Payton's pick-and-roll for a long time.

Rodman doesn't care about offense, nor is he interested in it. This season, his scoring average has dropped to only 5 points, but Rodman attaches great importance to defense, especially when he sees Kemp's arrogance. Rodman's heart is very upset.

I can even take care of Ma Long, but I can't take care of you?
Returning to the game, the Warriors were attacking. After receiving a pass from Li Weisi, Ross missed a three-pointer in the face of Schramf's interference. The Sonics once again launched a fast break.

This time, the Supersonics did not land slowly, but launched a swift counterattack. Among them, Kemp rushed to the inside of the Warriors like a wild horse.

Seeing Kemp so fast, Payton immediately sent a long pass to Kemp.

However, just as the basketball was about to come into Kemp's hands, Rodman suddenly shot out from the side and destroyed the ball out of the baseline.

"Hmph, since you charge up with the ball and I can't stop you, then I won't let you get the ball!" Seeing Kemp staring at him fiercely, Rodman thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)