NBA’s aging star system

The first game of the Western Conference Finals ended with the Lakers leading the Warriors 1-0.

Most fans can understand this result. After all, the Warriors' strength has dropped a lot since Durant is not here.

After a day's rest, the second game of the Western Conference Finals begins on May 5.

In the second game, Durant was still not seen on the Warriors bench.

At this time, the fans also understood that Durant's injury was probably not serious, otherwise the team would not have fallen behind but still not showed up.

The game started soon, and the Lakers still had the right to attack first. Su Tian came to the frontcourt with the ball.

Su Tian came to the frontcourt with the ball, facing Curry's defense, directly skipping the probing phase, and broke through Curry's defense with an explosion.

Curry didn't expect Su Tian to explode as soon as he came up, and the rest of the Warriors didn't react, so Su Tian successfully hit a layup.

2-0

But in the eyes of some Warriors fans, Su Tian stole a goal while he was not paying attention.

The ball was transferred and Curry came to the frontcourt with the ball.

After Curry came to the frontcourt, he passed the ball directly to Green, and he led Su Tian to start running without the ball.

Green didn't stop when he got the ball and passed the ball to Iguodala again.

After Iguodala got the ball, he directly started a breakthrough facing Ingram.

Ingram slowed down a beat, George stepped forward to help defend, and Iguodala passed the ball to Clay who was running out.

Clay caught the ball and shot a three-pointer directly.

Swah——

Clay took the lead to open the situation.

The Lakers attacked again, and this time the Warriors were ready. As soon as Su Tiang rushed in with the ball, he was double-teamed, so he passed a pass to George on the outside.

George caught the ball and shot a three-pointer.

Swah——

George successfully responded with a three-pointer.

The next few rounds were basically the same as the previous one, but because Su Tian took the lead, the score difference was more obvious than the previous one.

At the end of the first quarter, the score came to 33-25, with the Lakers leading by 8 points.

During the break, Walton did not relax his vigilance.

"Focus! Guys! Don't be fooled by the score difference in front of you! The Warriors may catch up soon, stay vigilant!"

The arena was noisy, and Walton had to shout to make the players hear what he said.

The second quarter of the game started quickly. Su Tian took a break, and Butler and George led the team.

For the Warriors, Green and Curry play.

On the back line, without Su Tian's restraint, Curry began to show his strength.

Although Brunson has an advantage in strength, he is easily thrown away by Curry without the ball.

After playing for half a quarter, Curry led the team to recover 5 points, and the point difference was only 3 points.

At this time, Su Tian came on the court again, and the Warriors seemed to have expected it, replacing Green and Curry, and replacing Clay and Iguodala.

At this time, Su Tian held the ball again and found that Iguodala was defending him.

Although Su Tian is in the second position, Clay does not suffer a disadvantage when he defends Ingram in the third position.

Seeing Iguodala coming to defend him, Su Tian also secretly increased his vigilance, and then an explosion drove Iguodala's defensive focus.

But Su Tian did not rush to the basket, but quickly connected with a step back and directly stepped back to shoot a three-pointer.

The space created was very wide, and Su Tian easily hit a three-pointer.

"Andre, stick to him! Don't give him space!"

Cole on the sidelines saw Su Tian easily hitting the shot and shouted loudly towards the court.

In Cole's view, he would rather let Su Tian rush in and score than let Su Tian make an easy shot.

After all, Su Tian's shooting percentage is not low whether he is rushing or shooting. If he rushes to the basket, he can still consume a lot of energy.

In the next few rounds, Iguodala began to implement the coach's arrangements, sticking close to Su Tian and not giving him any space to shoot.

So Su Tian started to combine breakthrough shots, using breakthroughs and pull-up jumpers to confuse Iguodala's defense.

At the end of the second quarter, the score difference returned to 6 points again.

If Klay hadn't hit a three-pointer before the end, the point difference at this time would have been 9 points.

At the end of the first half, the two sides entered the halftime break.

"Charles, let's use your traditional skills and predict this game and this series."

Kenny Smith saw that there had been no highlights in this game so far, so he quickly roped in Barkley to create some topics.

Barkley pretended to rub his chin and said: "At the moment, the Lakers do have a clear lead. I'm not talking about the score, but the overall momentum on the field."

"Momentum? How do you say this?"

"In terms of the score alone, the Lakers are not leading by much so far today, but the Lakers played very easily, while the Warriors seemed a little reluctant. The difference in state between the two sides is obvious."

Barkley continued: "If Durant cannot come back in this series, then even if the Warriors win this game, the series will still be in danger."

"So according to you, Durant is important to the Warriors?" Kenny Smith asked immediately.

"Then...when every team is missing an important role, it will cause great harm to the team."

After Barkley finished speaking, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and glanced at Smith who was snickering next to him.

At this time, the halftime break was almost over, and players from both sides returned to the court.

"Okay, audience friends, the third quarter is the real battle between the two teams. This is also the Warriors' strongest counterattack. Let's see if the Warriors can turn defeat into victory!"

The first possession of the third quarter was given to the Warriors, and Curry came to the frontcourt with the ball.

In the third quarter, both teams switched to their starting lineups.

After Curry came to the frontcourt, he did not pass the ball directly, but called Green to step forward to pick and roll.

Seeing Green's pick-and-roll, Su Tian easily went around it, but Curry seized the slightest shot of space and shot a three-pointer directly.

Swah——

"Beautiful! Stephen Curry, at the beginning of the third quarter, hit a three-pointer!"

"Let's see how the Lakers respond."

At this time, Su Tian also rushed into the frontcourt with the ball, but it was not Curry who defended him, but Iguodala.

Su Tian observed for a moment and saw Curry defending Ingram, so he passed the ball directly to Ingram, hoping that Ingram would try to beat Curry alone.

Although Ingram is relatively thin, compared with the forward players at that time, and now the defender is Curry, Ingram still has certain physical advantages.

So after Ingram received the ball, he took a long step and tried to break through Curry's defense. Although Curry followed up in time, Ingram found the opportunity to take a shot and directly shot a jumper.

Bang——shua——

The basketball hit the rim twice and finally fell into the net.

"Okay, thanks to Su's pass, Ingram's shot was hit steadily. It's still a bit difficult for Stephen to defend Brandon." Barkley explained the game.