Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 927 Locking the Victory
Facts have proved that Finley is indeed far behind. He can beat Jordan once, but in turn Jordan can beat him ten times. Even because Finley aroused Jordan's competitive spirit, Jordan ushered in an explosion in the third quarter , backfired.

However, fortunately for the Warriors, in addition to everyone's hard work, Li Weisi's outstanding performance is completely worthy of Jordan.

Li Weisi went forward and directly received Divac's hand-to-hand pass. Just one bow to Buddha tricked Jordan and Sekali into flying, and Li Weisi took the opportunity to get out from between the two.

When he came to the inside, before Pippen's help defense was in place, he easily made a throw.

The whole process was a leisurely walk in the garden, unrestrained and elegant, without the slightest sloppiness, and seemed to have reached the realm of perfection.

With the goal scored, the Bulls took the initiative to call a timeout, and the Warriors also took the opportunity to replace Li Weisi.

There is still more than a minute before the end of the third quarter, and it is already the time for Li Weisi to take a rest. It is only because the previous score is too anxious that it has been delayed until now.

With Li Weisi's goal, the Warriors have successfully led the Bulls by 9 points. With such a large lead, Nelson felt that Li Weisi could come down to take a breather. After all, the fourth quarter will definitely be a fierce battle.

After the timeout, the Bulls still put Jordan on the court. Obviously, such a big point difference made Jackson dare not let Jordan off the court to rest. Instead, he hoped that Jordan could recover some points at the end of the third quarter.

Jordan did indeed do this. After returning, he used one offense and one defense to successfully help the team narrow the point difference to 5 points.

Seeing that the score was narrowed again, Nelson was really sweating. Fortunately, Kassel stood up tonight and scored with a back hook, leaning on Cole.

In this way, at the end of the three quarters, the score came to 80:73, and the Warriors continued to lead by 7 points.

Although the Bulls did not recover many points at the end of the third quarter and did not achieve the expected effect, but at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Jackson put Jordan off the court and let him rest for a while.

In tonight's game, Jordan only rested for a total of 2 minutes.

Without Jordan's Bulls, the actual lineup is still very good, Cole, Steve Smith, Pippen, Grant, Longley.

However, this lineup did not take any advantage when facing the Warriors' bench lineup. Instead of reducing the point difference, it reached a maximum of 10 points because of Kukoc's three-pointer.

The Bulls have only one solution to this, and that is to close the door and let Jordan go!
Jordan, who only rested for 2 minutes off the court, returned to the court again.

Jordan, who returned to the field, had an immediate effect. Soon after using mid-range shots and attracting double-teams, he assisted Smith to dunk and narrowed the point difference again.

However, after playing for more than a minute, Li Weisi also returned to the court, and the Warriors planned to enter the final decisive battle ahead of schedule.

To be honest, don't look at the Bulls playing very tenaciously tonight, but their desire to win is still relatively low compared to the Warriors.

The Warriors have already stepped on the edge of the cliff at this time, as long as they take half a step back, they will step on the ground and fall into the abyss.

Therefore, they compete for every ball on the court. It can be clearly seen that they run more and are more active when they compete for the 50% chance ball.

This made it very difficult for the Bulls to chase points. Don't look at Jordan who has been scoring after overcoming Rodman's defense, but even so, he still couldn't narrow the point difference.

In addition, Li Weisi's performance tonight was almost perfect. In addition to his high shooting percentage and strong organizational skills, even under the full defense of Jordan and the Bulls, he didn't make a single mistake and gave the Bulls no chance to fight back.

Entering the final stage of the game, due to considerations of physical strength and other factors, Li Weisi had to arrange for Divac to play a pick-and-roll with him in this attack.

And the result of doing so is naturally being double-teamed.

Li Weisi scored 36 points tonight, the Bulls could not have double-teamed him, which is why Li Weisi seldom played pick-and-rolls in the second half.

However, this time, he just wanted to take advantage of this double-team. When Jordan and Sekali approached him, Li Weisi saw the needle and passed the ball from the gap to Divac.

Divac did not directly choose to shoot, but dribbled the ball into the penalty area and was surrounded by Grant. Seeing this situation, Divac directly threw the ball near the basket. After the basketball bypassed Grant's block, it went straight It fell into the hands of Rodman who had already jumped up.

After Rodman received the ball in the air, he dunked with both hands. With the alley-oop between Divac and Rodman, the Warriors scored another 2 points.

Rodman has already scored 12 points tonight, and his whole body has also been driven by the whole team, and he is hilarious.

With this goal scored, the point difference between the two teams came to 7 points again. The Bulls finally narrowed the point difference to 5 points before, but now it has become larger.

At this time, there is more than one minute left before the end of the game, and the time is very tight. The Bulls did not delay the time, served the ball quickly, brought the ball to the frontcourt quickly, and attacked quickly without delaying a moment.

The man who attacked this time was still Jordan. After getting the ball, Jordan did not stop at all. The time left for the Bulls was running out, and he had to score as soon as possible.

Leaning on Rodman, he dribbled the ball inward and broke through. Rodman's small movements did not stop midway, but Jordan still firmly controlled the ball in his hands. This is the benefit of big hands, long arms and a strong body.

Since the Warriors don't let go of the middle, Jordan can only cut in to the outside. Doing so means that he will be double-teamed by the Warriors at any time.

Therefore, Jordan didn't go in anymore, and after moving two steps, he directly chose an emergency stop jump shot. However, the moment he lifted the ball, Rodman quickly cut off the basketball in Jordan's hand.

The out-of-control basketball was finally controlled by Rodman, and then handed the ball to Li Weisi.

However, the Warriors did not directly choose a fast break this time, but took the initiative to lower the tempo, obviously to increase the success rate and delay time.

When there were 8 seconds left in the attack time and Li Weisi was about to attack, the Bulls had already returned to defense, and Jordan stood in front of Li Weisi again.

Li Weisi alternately dribbled the ball under his crotch, successfully mobilized Jordan's defense, and then immediately moved sideways to complete the shot.

This time the shot was very hasty, because of Jordan's quick defense, Li Weisi didn't have enough shooting space, even if he threw Jordan away, he could come back quickly.

But with such a hasty shot, even if the basketball almost flew out of Jordan's fingertips, it was Li Weisi's shot after all, and the basketball would still go in!
"Shua!" The basketball went into the net hollowly.

With this three-pointer, the Warriors sealed the victory.

(End of this chapter)