basketball god death race space

Chapter 82 Physical Crisis
It caused Rodman to make two mistakes in succession, and Jordan felt something was wrong.

Although both are power forwards who can pass the ball, Rodman and Green are different players.

Green can shoot three-pointers and handle the ball. At the same time, the Warriors have a bunch of outside shooters beside him, so Green holds the ball outside the three-point line and has a strong deterrent effect.

Rodman is different. With his CBA-level offensive ability, it is not enough to deal with Green, a top defensive player in the NBA. At the same time, his passing options are much less. He can only pass the ball to the three-point line. Only then will there be threats.

Copying the Warriors' tactics may not necessarily be successful.

"You just said that the same tactics are useless to you?" Dugu Ming stood in front of Jordan, "I will return this sentence to you intact."

Jordan's black face turned red all of a sudden. He asked Rodman to mention the three-point line as a pivot, which only worked for one round. In the end, Duguming immediately caught the weak point and hit the Bulls hard.

If you come out to play around, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.

Faced with such merciless ridicule from a junior, Jordan had nothing to say. Who told him that he ran to others first to get embarrassed?

Those who pretend to be forced will always be forced to pretend!
The new routine was cracked, and Jordan had no choice but to let the Bulls return to the old way, let Harper, Pippen, and Kukoc play a triangle offense, while he himself obediently stayed on the weak side.

Facts have also proved that this approach is correct. Curry is not good at defense, Thompson has to take care of Jordan, and Bogut can't keep up with Pippen's footsteps at all. The Warriors' defense.

After a few rounds, the score was tied again.

Cole replaced Bogut with Iguodala to strengthen the perimeter defense.

Cole's change of formation took effect immediately. Iguodala's excellent individual defensive ability and moving speed restricted Pippen very well, and Pippen could no longer break through and score as he wanted.

The Bulls' offense began to be constipated, and the Warriors' shooting percentage was gradually declining.

After playing six extremely fierce confrontation matches, the physical fitness of both sides was on the warning light.

After the second quarter, the two sides battled to a 49 tie.

In the second quarter, the scores of both sides were very limited, and the game was extremely intense but not good at all.

Back in the locker room, the Warriors' starters all slumped on the bench, being kneaded by the rehabilitator.

"Jordan has been conserving energy in the second quarter! He may come back in the second half, Ming, you have to be careful."

Cole reminded.

Dugu Ming nodded. In fact, in the second half of the quarter, he was just passing the ball just like Jordan.

Anyway, his current scoring average is ahead of Jordan, as long as Jordan doesn't score, he is not in a hurry.

"Clay, are you okay?"

Cole looked at Thompson with some concern. He is the number one iron man in the team.

Don't look at Thompson as a white man, but his physical fitness and endurance are no worse than blacks.

Think about his performance in the Finals in the past two years.

Defend against Irving alone, switch to JR Smith, defend against James when the lineup is rotated, occasionally help defend the inside, and also take into account rebounds, and serve as the team's second firepower on the offensive end.

In this way, Thompson still persisted.

But the fatigue he showed today is obviously abnormal.

In the first five games, he has been fucked by Jordan, and he was constantly touched by various limbs on the offensive end. His physical fitness itself has reached a critical point. In this game, Du Guming took over the burden of defending Jordan, but Thompson also Not idle, on the one hand, he has to double-team Jordan who holds the ball at any time, and on the other hand, he is always ready to fill in Curry's vacancy at the first position after defending the second position.

No wonder you're not tired!
"Sorry, I may need to rest more in the third quarter." Thompson said with some embarrassment.

"Don't apologize, it's me who should say sorry, I didn't arrange your rotation time." Cole said, "Fortunately, we have a deep enough rotation lineup, Livingston, you replace Curry, Barnes you Instead of Thompson, you should also take a break, and Iguodala will be responsible for marking Jordan, and let Yang Lu and Speights form an inside combination."

Kerr used to put on the full bench in the third quarter to relieve the physical strength of his main players.

The Bulls' lineup remained intact, with four starters returning to the field with sixth man Kukoc.

20 years ago in the NBA, the main players basically had to play the whole game. Years of high-intensity games led to the physical fitness of the old stars headed by Jordan. Today's basketball team pays more attention to scientific rotation. Time, the Warriors, and the Spurs are the representatives. Although the players are inferior in physical fitness, their careers have become longer because of this.

Although the Warriors are on the bench, Barnes, Iguodala, and Livingston are all quasi-starting players. Dikembe Mutombo, who replaced Yang Lu, is an All-Star insider. The task after playing is to strictly guard against death.

It doesn't matter if you don't score, let the opponent also not score, so that when Curry and others come back and wait for work, they can easily take away the game.

But they forgot that they were dealing with the strongest Bulls in history.

Can Speights guard Pippen?
Can Iguodala guard Jordan?

The tall and thin Livingston could not limit Harper's breakthrough.

In 3 minutes, the Warriors were beaten by the Bulls.

They were scored four goals in a row. If Speights hadn't hit a three-pointer miraculously and saved some face, otherwise they would really be blown up.

In the opening 3 minutes, they were 6 points behind.

The balance that was worked so hard to maintain in the first two quarters was all broken.

When Du Guming worked with the Warriors as the main force and returned to the court to take over the mess, he found that the matter was not over yet.

The Bulls' touch suddenly opened up.

Kukoc played the savior of the Bulls. He actually made three consecutive shots and extended the score to [-] points.

This is not over yet.

Immediately afterwards, Rodman started to explode. He grabbed two offensive rebounds, scored the first dunk, and shot after taking off the rebound for the second time, which caused Green's foul and made two free throws.

The score expanded to thirteen points.

The Splash Brothers, who the Warriors rely on to reach the top, still performed mediocrely, missing three-pointers, and it was difficult to get rid of the defense and cut inside.

"The Warriors entered a scoring drought. Curry and Thompson hit the iron one after another. Dugu Ming, who was eye-catching in the first half, also turned on the stealth mode. He has not shot for several minutes."

Johnson said worriedly that he was worried that the game would enter garbage time. Such a crucial game had such a tasteless ending, which was a kind of torture for the audience.

Miller shouted passionately: "Someone from the Warriors must stand up! Whether it's the Splash Brothers' unreasonable three-pointers, Dugu Ming's unsolvable singles, or Green's iron-blooded defense! They must wake up, this is always Finals! If you can't bring out your best form, it's impossible to beat the Bulls!"

(End of this chapter)