Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 912
The Warriors' lead did not last too long. At the beginning of the second quarter, Barkley and Smith, who returned to the court, hit a goal each and successfully overtook the score.

After overtaking the score, the Rockets failed to continue to expand their lead, but were closely pursued by the Warriors. It seems that the Rockets have lost the momentum to widen the point difference.

The two teams went through several rounds like this, and just when everyone thought everything was safe and Li Weisi would be back soon, Barkley broke out suddenly.

He first received the ball on the left side of the inside line, then forced a breakthrough from Horry's left side, hung on Horry, and put the ball into the basket.

Then in the fast break, Barkley grabbed another rebound and completed a one-stop layup.

With Barkley's sudden outburst, the point difference between the two teams was quickly widened. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Nelson immediately decided to make a substitution. However, after the ball was dead, he was replaced again. After two more rounds, the point difference had come to an end. More than 10 points.

The sudden effort of the Rockets really caught the Warriors by surprise. Therefore, even though Li Weisi and the Warriors returned as starters, it is still very difficult to recover the point difference.

Although in this quarter, Li Weisi increased his shots and hit 2 three-pointers, but on the Rockets side, Drexler's excellent performance made the Warriors unable to recover the point difference. At the end of the half, 43: 51. The Rockets kept the lead.

The 8-point difference is not a score that cannot be caught up. Therefore, Nelson did not adjust the lineup or tactics during the halftime break. He focused more on the construction of the players' hearts. After all, there are more competitions at this time. The most important thing is willpower.

However, at the beginning of the second half, the Rockets suddenly became extremely vigorous, and the Big Three of the Rockets fired again and again, wantonly bombing the Warriors' basket.

On the other hand, the Warriors seem to be unable to play at this time, falling into an inexplicable scoring drought.

The consecutive missed shots led to the Rockets getting a lot of opportunities for fast break counterattacks, and the Rockets also seized many of these opportunities, making the difference between the two teams rush to 20 points immediately.

The Warriors have always been the "brave and three crazy" who beat others, but tonight they were beaten by the Rockets as "fire and three crazy". I have to say that the Rockets performed very well.

But for the Warriors, the situation is already quite dangerous. At this time, Li Weisi also had to take the initiative to stand up and start making a name for the Warriors.

In the first half, Li Weisi didn't score many points, only 11 points. In this quarter, Li Weisi began to struggle for the team, and it was not easy to score almost every point.

Due to Li Weisi's performance, the 20-point difference was not continued to be opened by the Rockets, but it is also impossible to narrow the score.

In the end, the Rockets scored a full 39 points in this quarter. The Warriors scored 27 points in this quarter because of Li Weisi's outstanding performance. The away game is 70:90 behind by a full 20 points.

With the situation at this level, to be honest, Nelson already has the intention of giving up. In his opinion, it is almost impossible to recover the score at this stage of the game. Instead of holding on to the end, it is better Let the main players take a good rest, and kill them after returning to the home court.

Therefore, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Warriors' players on the court were already substitute players.

The Rockets saw that the Warriors were using a substitute lineup, and the lead had reached 20 points, so they replaced all the Big Three, thinking that they could take a break. After all, even if they won this game, they wanted to To win the final victory, there are still two fierce battles to be fought.

In this case, the Rockets sent the lineup: Kenny Smith, Mario Eli, Chucky Brown, Henry James, Mark Bryant.

To be honest, such a lineup is indeed a bit risky. After all, except for Kenny Smith and Mario Elie, no one else has the ability to attack independently. The Rockets have been using an 8-man rotation throughout the playoffs. The reason is that The depth of the bench is hard to describe.

At the beginning of the game, Cassel brought the ball to the front court and gave the ball to Kukoc.

In the Warriors' bench lineup, Cassel and Kukoc are the two offensive starting points in this lineup, and basically every ball will pass through their hands.

This time it was Kukoc's attack, and Brown's defense was relatively in place. There was no room for Kukoc to break through, and Kukoc didn't seem to want to break through. He bent down and lowered his center of gravity to control the ball. Liulu listened to all directions, and suddenly turned around and after attracting Brown's defensive attention, he distributed the ball to Curry who cut inside. The latter avoided Bryant's defense and made an easy layup.

With just one ball, the characteristics of the Europa magician are vividly displayed.

When it was the Rockets' turn to attack, Smith gave the ball to Ellie, but Ellie failed to seize the opportunity. He missed a three-pointer and the rebound was accepted by Horry.

Unlike when the Big Three were present in the first half, Elli at this time was undoubtedly under strict defense, and the defensive pressure was not the same as in the first half.

And this naturally led to a decline in Elie's offensive efficiency. This is the most essential difference between a star and a role player. At critical moments, you have to be able to use it.

The Warriors' counterattack came quickly, and they came to the frontcourt of the Rockets in an instant. After Kassel scored the ball, Kukoc on the flank, and Kukoc passed back to Kassel. The small cooperation between the two made Kassel Er easily broke into the basket, made an empty layup, and the Warriors scored another 2 points.

It was the Rockets' turn to attack again, and this time Smith chose to do it himself. His mid-range shot was no accident. Kassel was tall and long, which interfered a lot with Smith, so the Warriors counterattacked again.

This time, Cassel gave the ball to Curry in the bottom corner. The latter immediately made a three-pointer after receiving the ball, and the basketball hit again. In less than 2 minutes, the Warriors beat the Rockets with a 7:0, 20 points The point difference was only 13 points left in an instant.

Coach Tomjanovich quickly called a timeout. Obviously, the Warriors' speed of chasing points really scared him.

After the timeout, Tang Shuai put both Drexler and Barkley on the court. Obviously, he has realized that he was indeed careless just now.

However, even if Drexler and Barkley all come back, the Warriors' offense can't stop at this time, and the Rockets' defense can't suppress the Warriors' offense at all.

Soon, in less than 2 minutes, as Kukoc made a layup, the Warriors successfully narrowed the point difference to less than 10 points.

As a last resort, Tang Shuai had no choice but to bring back Olajuwon, and sent all the Big Three to play as the Warriors' substitutes. This stopped the Warriors from chasing points crazily.

However, Nelson saw that the Warriors' bench lineup was not strong enough, so he waved his hand and replaced all the Warriors' starters.

Don't tell me that he has announced his surrender just now, he just admitted it to Nelson, he just used it to break the game by surprise and win by positive, it's a tactic!
Anyway, don't care what Nelson thinks, in short, after his operation, the Warriors once again saw the hope of winning.

(End of this chapter)