Soul of the Golden State

Chapter 941 tit for tat
Michael Brin drank a few sips of water from a thermos while taking advantage of the commercial time to relieve his dry throat.

"Michael, the second half is about to begin!" Just then, the radio director shouted to Breen.

"Okay, here we come!" Hearing this, Brin quickly put down the cup in his hand, walked back to the studio, put on the headset and continued to comment on the second half of the finals.

Although Brin successfully entered the TNT TV station last year, it is a pity that the NBA is very strict about the broadcast of the finals. Generally, only one TV station can compete for it a year.

The broadcast rights for this year's finals still belong to the old partner CBS TV station, and TNT TV station lost the selection.

Therefore, Brin was invited by San Francisco Radio Station as a special guest to explain tonight's finals for the audience who love him.

"Welcome back to Game [-] of the NBA Finals. I am your old friend, Michael Breen. At this time, players from both sides have returned to the court. Let us look forward to the Warriors' good performance in the second half. Turning against the wind..."

As Brin said, whether it is the fans or the players returning to the court, they all want to perform better in the second half. After all, no one is willing to give up easily for the championship.

Sure enough, after the start of the second half, the two teams immediately fell into a fierce competition.

Since Divac won the game with a jump ball, the Bulls were the first to attack at the beginning of the second half.

Offensively, Pippen assisted Jordan with a mid-range jumper. Jordan also continued his good touch in the first half, making another shot and scoring another 2 points for the Bulls.

At this time, the point difference between the two teams further expanded to 9 points.

Seeing that the point difference was getting bigger and bigger, Li Weisi finally stood up and fought back.

In the next offensive round of the Warriors, Li Weisi took the ball and singled out Hubble. After breaking through Hubble's defense through continuous changes of direction, he leaned on Sekali for a layup.

After the massage during the intermission, it seemed that Li Weisi had regained his vitality in the second half, and even his speed was a little faster.

However, at this time, the Bulls were in such a good state that everyone besides Jordan began to score.

I saw that in the next round, Pippen, Grant, and Sekali all hit mid-range shots one after another. Fortunately, the Warriors were able to fight back in the consecutive scoring against the Bulls. The point difference widened to the point where it was impossible to catch up.

But even so, after resisting for half a quarter, the point difference between the two teams inevitably came to more than 10 points.

After receiving the pass from Divac, Li Weisi hit a three-pointer on the right side against the defense of Harper and Jordan, successfully narrowing the point difference to 9 points again.

However, turning his head, Jordan was on the left side and used a fadeaway jumper to hit again, bringing the point difference back to 11 points.

Throughout the third quarter, the state of the two teams was unbelievably good, and their offensive efficiency far exceeded that of the previous games, but this made it extremely difficult for the Warriors to chase points.

As we all know, if you want to chase points, you must limit the opponent's attack. If the opponent keeps scoring, no matter how much you score, it is impossible to catch up with the score.

For this situation, the Warriors also see it in their eyes and are anxious in their hearts. After all, they are currently the lagging side. The two teams are in such a stalemate, and time is constantly being consumed. In the end, it is the Warriors who suffer.

Therefore, the Warriors, who were eager to change the status quo, inevitably felt anxious in their hearts, which affected their own state and were caught by the Bulls. In the end, the Warriors not only failed to recover the score, but even further expanded the score.

Fortunately, Li Weisi's timely hemostasis helped the point difference not to expand too much, but the point difference of about 10 points is always a sword hanging over the warrior's head, especially when time is running out, the distance between this sword The top of the warrior's head is also getting closer.

Due to the increasing pressure on the Warriors players, the Warriors made another mistake this time.

In the offense, when Kukoc passed the ball to Divac on the inside, he was seen through by Pippen, so he grabbed the ball before Divac and successfully cut to the basketball.

After the steal was successful, the Bulls immediately counterattacked, and the Warriors also quickly returned to defense. This time, the Warriors returned to defense very quickly and did not give the Bulls a chance to directly attack the basket.

In this case, Pippen saw that he had no chance, so he stopped near the top of the arc, and then handed the ball to Jordan, who had just come to the frontcourt.

After Jordan received the ball, he took the ball to the basket and killed it. During the breakthrough process, although Rodman followed Jordan closely, he still couldn't stop Jordan from rushing into the Warriors' penalty area.

When he came to the penalty area, Jordan took off directly and put the ball into the basket through a layup while Rodman, Divac and Kukoc were chasing and intercepting.

This goal immediately ignited the audience, and everyone cheered for Jordan's goal. Even the Warriors players had to feel that Jordan's goal was so beautiful.

But praise is all praise. With Jordan's goal, the point difference returned to 11 points again. The Warriors worked hard for most of the quarter, but finally failed to narrow the score.

At this time, there were only more than 2 minutes left before the end of the third quarter. Nelson chose to keep Li Weisi on the court, and Rodman and Kukoc were also kept on the court. To defend Jordan, even though Jordan has scored 39 points by this time, the Warriors' best defense against Jordan is still Rodman.

As for the other two rotation players, Nelson chose Cassell and Brown. Nelson actually played double point guards at such an important moment. It can only be said that he is skilled and bold.

Like the Warriors, the Bulls also entered the rotation stage. Nelson Pippen was replaced and let Pippen rest for a while. Before that, Pippen only rested for a total of 3 minutes.

After entering the transition period, the Warriors still failed to take advantage, even if Li Weisi was on the court.

To be honest, the Warriors' offensive efficiency in this quarter is not low, not even worse than in the first quarter, but the problem is that the Warriors' defense cannot limit the Bulls' offense.

After Li Weisi broke through Jordan's defense, he took the ball to the free throw line and directly chose to throw it. Before Langley's help defense arrived, he completed the shot.

At the same time as the basketball went into the net, the referee also blew the whistle to end the third quarter. With the goal, after the third quarter, the Warriors still trailed the Bulls by 78 points 87:9.

Throughout the third quarter, the Warriors scored 30 points, but in contrast, the Bulls scored 32 points.

In this way, the Bulls entered the final quarter with a 9-point lead.

(End of this chapter)