basketball hero

Chapter 739 Death 5 Minor

But the reality is that the Raptors lead by a big score of 2:0. If the Warriors lose again in G3 in the series, there will be no suspense about the ownership of this season's championship.

On June 6, the Raptors VS Warriors series G10 will be played at the Oracle Center in Oakland.The importance of this game to the two teams is self-evident, so both sides are determined to win this game.

The Warriors revisited the Finals again after many years, so the Oracle Center Arena was no less lively than the Air Canada Center Arena where the first two games of the Finals had just been held.

Theoretically, the loss of the Raptors in this game will not have a serious impact on their competition for the championship, but for the Warriors, if they still want to think about the championship, this game must to take down.

In this game, the Warriors, who hadn't changed in the previous game, finally changed!They made a bold change, removing center Andrew Bogut and replacing them with All-Star Andre Iguodala.

This is exactly what surprised everyone who followed the finals.In most people's eyes, the Warriors have a lot of possibilities to change the lineup, but the biggest possibility of the change is to replace Harrison Barnes, who had a sluggish performance in the first two games, with Iguodala, or to adjust the rotation.But no one would have imagined that the Warriors coaching staff headed by Steve Kerr played a big game and directly won Bogut, who was the inside defensive gate, which is really crazy.

Bogut will not play the starter, which means that the 201cm tall Draymond Green will play the center, the 203cm Harrison Barnes will play the 4th position, the 198cm Andre Iguodala will play the 3rd position, and the 201cm tall Klay Thompson plays the 2nd position, and Stephen Curry, who is 191cm, plays the 1st position.

This lineup with an average height of less than 2 meters and no one in the starting lineup is taller than 206cm is a really small lineup.

Many people think that the Warriors are crazy and stupid to lose. Let the 201cm Green defend the 213cm Valanciunas. Even if Green is a member of the best defensive team, such a big height gap is too disadvantageous.

Don't the Warriors really want to defend?
After the game started, the Raptors naturally focused their attack on the inside, allowing Valanciunas, who had a huge dislocation advantage, to dig Green in the low post.

What is surprising is that when Green faced Valanciunas's low singles, he showed his excellent small amplification ability.

On the offensive end, the advantages of the Warriors' 5-small lineup have been fully utilized. Five players who can shoot 5-pointers will expand the space of the court infinitely. Having a shooter at the NBA's historical level like the Splash Brothers is in charge, which makes the Raptors' inside players, especially the big center Valanciunas, particularly uncomfortable.

No matter who Valanciunas goes to guard, whoever mentions the high post and Curry picks and rolls.In this case, the Raptors used a delayed defensive method at the beginning, but the opponent succeeded in using pick-and-roll cuts in the middle many times.In addition, Curry also scored 3 points in a row, and quickly grasped the advantage of the score.

Valanciunas moves slowly, neither Green nor Barnes can keep up with each other.After the timeout, the Raptors adopted the method of quoting Curry after the pick-and-roll, but Green, who was successively downed, played more and less offensive climaxes.

In this case, the points Valanciunas scored on the offensive end could not offset the points he lost on the defensive end.

Valanciunas' outstanding height on the court became his burden, and he could only be replaced by coach Devin Casey.He was replaced by substitute insider Hansbrough.

On the defensive end, the Warriors' strategy to defend Yingxiong is no longer using pincers as in the previous game, but using wheel battles.Let Iguodala defend at first, then switch to Clay defense after a few minutes, and then switch to Barnes after a while.

In addition, as long as the opponent screens, he will switch defenses infinitely, resolutely not leaving open space, and forcing the opponent to play 1v1.

Facing the Warriors' round-the-clock battle, Ying Xiong played to his own advantages and won many times.However, due to the sluggish performance of other Raptors players, the opponent's defensive center of gravity was tilted to his side a little bit, which made him consume a lot of physical energy every time he played singles.

To make matters worse, the Raptors lost too much blood on the defensive end. Not only was Valanciunas targeted, but the replaced Hansbrough was also targeted by the opponent.The opponent's Curry and Klay shot the best shooting performance since the series.

Unexpectedly, the Warriors' 5 small lineup not only failed to be overwhelmed by the opponent on the defensive end, but also overwhelmed the opponent, which surprised many people who followed this game. The high-speed movement of the 5 small lineups on the offensive end, the sense of space, and the speed when switching offenses make people see the horror of this lineup.

The Raptors' centers Valanciunas and Hansbrough were completely overwhelmed by the opponent's small lineup, and no matter who came up, the opponent took advantage of this.

The point difference got bigger and bigger, and finally Coach Casey gave up the game, and the game entered garbage time.

In the end, the Warriors, who returned to the home court, relied on their extreme changes to beat the Raptors at home and tied the big score of the series to 1:2.

库里全场命中8记3分，砍下39分；克莱汤普森命中6记3分，砍下24分。

Although Ying Xiong scored a game-high 48 points, he still couldn't help the team win the game.

The Raptors lost the game, but they still had a 2-1 overall lead.But the situation of the series has changed from an obvious advantage to a little unpredictable for them now.What is before them now is how to crack the Warriors' 5 small lineup.

Once it can't be cracked, this round of the series may play a full 7 games.At that time, it will be hard to say who will win.

After the game, the Warriors' 5 small lineup was hotly discussed by the media, and they also named this lineup "Death 5 small".Those who don't want to see the Raptors win three consecutive championships joked that they want to see how the three consecutive regular season MVPs can crack the death 5.

The Warriors reversed the precarious situation with a big victory.The current situation is that although the Raptors are still leading in terms of score, compared with the previous situation where they could easily win the championship, there is a world of difference.

After losing this game, the Raptors' coaching staff did not have any rest, and immediately began to conduct video research, thinking about how to crack the opponent's death 5 hours.

Ying Xiong was very calm. From the very beginning, he didn't think that this round of the series would be so easy to win.It was relatively easy to win the first two games, which made some people in the team a little complacent.The opposing team was a 67-win team with the best shooting backcourt in the league.Such a team is not comparable to those who compete for the No. [-] pick in the regular season.

(End of this chapter)