Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 925
After Jordan took a step forward with the dribble, he immediately stopped and shot. Because the center of gravity was extremely low, when he pulled back, the speed was very fast, converting the forward speed into an upward speed, and suddenly pulled up to shoot.

After all, Rodman is now 35 years old. Under the deliberate weight gain, his lateral movement ability is far inferior to that of his youth. When Jordan took off, Rodman was obviously a step late, causing Jordan to complete the shot.

The basketball went into the net, and the Bulls scored another two points. With the goal scored, the Bulls had chased the score to 33:38, narrowing the point difference to 5 points.

At the beginning of the second quarter, under the leadership of Pippen, the Bulls played a wave of good offense. After Jordan returned to the field, the Bulls' pace of chasing points further accelerated, especially Jordan, who did not perform well in the first quarter. , quickly found a way to deal with Rodman in the second quarter.

Jordan quickly discovered that when playing singles against Rodman, whether it was low-post singles or running without the ball, the effect was not very good. On the contrary, when Jordan used speed to force a breakthrough, the effect would be better.

Therefore, Jordan decisively changed his strategy and fought a sports battle with Rodman, which achieved good results.

Seeing that the lead in the first quarter was gradually eroded, Li Weisi was very anxious. However, after playing in the second quarter, his shooting percentage was not high. He tried two shots but failed.

But, who can stand up besides him at this time?

At this time, Jordan had already developed very strong confidence because of offense, which made his defense more fierce. Of course, even without offense, Jordan never lacked confidence.

Due to Jordan's persecution, it became very difficult for Li Weisi to dribble past Jordan alone, but even so, he still did not dare to try the pick-and-roll lightly.

Because of Li Weisi's outstanding performance in the first quarter, the Bulls will choose to flank Li Weisi when Li Weisi picks and rolls, forcing Li Weisi to pass the ball.

But after Li Weisi passed the ball, they used their strong defensive rotation to fill in the defensive loopholes, causing the Warriors to often return without success. This was already evident at the end of the first quarter.

In the second quarter, when Li Weisi came up, he also tried once. In the end, the basketball circled around and returned to Li Weisi's hands, ending in a hasty shot.

Faced with this situation, Li Weisi had already given up his plan to pick and roll at this time. To be precise, he gave up temporarily, at least until his teammates recovered, or he could use his own offense to change the opponent's defensive formation. Otherwise, even if Handing the ball to the teammate of the point guard will not help the team, but more like dumping the pot.

In this case, Li Weisi must confront Jordan head-on and defeat him!
Jordan's oppressive defense did put a lot of pressure on Li Weisi, but at the same time it also aroused Li Weisi's competitive spirit. In addition, his close defense had advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it did make Li Weisi no room to shoot, but on the other hand , and also made Li Weisi's breakthrough power even stronger.

So, taking advantage of the timing of Jordan's strike, Li Weisi turned around suddenly, then pulled the ball back, changed direction to break to the right, and then changed direction to break to the left. After such a set of combos, Jordan's strength was completely mobilized. Defensively, and really drove through Jordan's left side.

Basketball is like this, the offense always takes the initiative more than the defense.

Dribbling the ball into the Bulls' three-point line, Li Weisi can clearly see that the Bulls' defensive formation shrinks towards him. If he doesn't make any changes, he will probably be surrounded by layers after a second. .

Therefore, Li Weisi immediately made an emergency stop and took a step back, and retreated to the three-point line. , It is estimated that both the coach and the fans have already started scolding.

But the person who shot the ball in front of him was Li Weisi, everyone thought it was reasonable, and there was no surprise at all.

However, although the movements were very chic, the basketball just didn't make it to the bottom of the basket. It rolled around the basket and rolled out again.

As for the basket, even though Grant was stuck in the position at this time, the basketball circled in the basket, causing everyone under the basket to misjudge the position of the basketball, and finally the basketball fell into Rodman's hands.

After grabbing the offensive rebound, Rodman directly chose a layup, leaning on Grant to score the ball, and successfully helped the Warriors break the scoring drought.

I have to say that Rodman's performance tonight is very impressive, whether it is the offensive end or the defensive end, he has a full sense of presence.

Rodman, who has been plagued by injuries this year, has a bad reputation among fans. Although everyone likes him very much, his popularity in the team is even second only to Li Weisi, but everyone thinks that It's time for Rodman to make way for Horry.

After all, Rodman is already a 35-year-old player, and Horry is young, and his offensive performance is much better than Rodman.

However, Nelson did not adopt this argument, because he knows who is the most suitable player for the Warriors on a stage like the playoffs. Regardless of Rodman's various problems, he will definitely be able to play on his court. Help the team.

With Rodman grabbing the offensive rebound and scoring, the Warriors finally scored again, and then it was the Bulls' turn to attack.

Because they broke Rodman's defense before, the Bulls still handed the ball to Jordan this time.

After Jordan took the ball, he fully mobilized Rodman's defense again, and used the face frame to break through. He successfully broke through Rodman's defense again and went straight to the basket.

The Warriors' lineup also has problems defensively, that is, the ability to protect the frame inside is too poor. Neither Divac nor Kukoc is an excellent frame protector.

Therefore, Jordan, who reached the basket, faced Kukoc's supplementary defense, made continuous fake moves in the air after taking off, deceived Kukoc and Divac, and prepared to make a shot from the other side of the basket. basket.

But at this moment, a black shadow flew from behind, it was Rodman, and he slapped the ball flying in Jordan's hand with a big hand.

After the cap rejected Jordan's layup, the basketball was still not out of bounds. He hit Sekali's arm near the sideline and bounced up.

Sekali immediately realized that he needed to get the ball back, otherwise the Warriors would own the ball this time out of bounds.

And after he jumped up to get the ball, his whole body had already flown off the field, looking at Rodman on the sideline, he subconsciously wanted to hit Rodman's foot with the ball.

However, when he hit Rodman with the ball, Rodman jumped up, spread his legs in the air, and the basketball slipped perfectly under his crotch, and the ball missed.

(End of this chapter)