The strongest unicorn in basketball

Chapter 271 you come and I go
Giannis backs Curry again.

It's only the first quarter, and the audience already doesn't know how many times Giannis has hit Curry back, anyway, it's a lot.

And most of these post-ups have good effects, either they can attack the basket by themselves, or they can assist teammates.

However, not every time Curry is named can be successful.

For example, this time in front of him, Giannis mustered all his strength to hit Curry with his back, just like before, but Curry suddenly lost his strength and came to withdraw the stool with a move.

Giannis hit Curry back many times before, and the effect was good, so he was somewhat careless.

As a result, this time, Giannis was caught off guard, lost his center of gravity, and fell down.

So Curry picked up the ball and started to counterattack.

Since Curry and Giannis are positioned at the back, Curry has a clear view of the fast break.

It ended with an easy layup by Curry.

Alas, it's a pity, if Curry dunks, maybe the ball will be there!
This is the drawback of naming Curry. If it fails, the opponent will score with a high probability.

This is the case now, but fortunately the Kings can bear it, the score is 21:16, and the Kings still lead by 5 points.

At this time, Coach Brown requested a timeout.

After the timeout, Coach Brown replaced Giannis with Patterson.

The first quarter is almost over, and the roll call tactics have begun to fail, as evidenced by the ball just now, so Brown replaced Giannis, a surprise player, and started to play conventional tactics.

Coincidentally, the Warriors also replaced Curry at this time.

Originally, in Jackson's view, there were 2 minutes left before the end of the first quarter. Curry's performance in the first quarter was not too good, and he only scored the 2 points just now.

Instead of this, it is better to let Curry rest for 2 minutes, adjust and play again.

However, this decision made Jackson regret it.

At the beginning, Blake, who replaced Curry, also scored a goal, further narrowing the point difference to 3 points.

But next, Thomas Jr. scored a three-pointer first, and then Li Pu made another hook, and the point difference returned to 8 points.

Although Jermaine O'Neal then made a mid-range shot to restore blood to the Warriors, but then Li Pu made a mid-range shot and assisted Thornton with a three-pointer, directly opening the point difference to 13 points.

In the end, with Thompson's three-pointer at the buzzer, the score was chased to 21:31, and the Warriors fell behind by 10 points in the first quarter.

The 2-minute crash was something Jackson didn't expect.

In fact, he should be thankful that there are only 2 minutes, otherwise, if the time is a little longer, the game may have entered garbage time ahead of schedule.

The sudden change made the Warriors extremely passive, but fortunately, at the beginning of the second quarter, Li Pu was not on the court, and the Kings' offensive momentum finally weakened.

It's a pity that the Warriors failed to seize such an opportunity. The score of the two teams remained at around 10 points and was not narrowed.

So far in the game, Jackson has also learned a lot from a fall, and also shortened the rotation.

Today's Warriors only have eight players in rotation. In addition to the starting five, there are only O'Neal, Barnes and Speights.

Logically speaking, even though Curry is not on the court at this time, the Warriors still have David Lee, Barnes, Thompson and other players, and the lineup is still stronger than the Kings.

But unfortunately, in the Kings, Butler stood up.

First in defense, continuous defense became the offense of Barnes, Thompson and others, and then in offense, mid-range shots and three-pointers are omnipotent!

Prior to this, although Butler was recognized as the No. [-] man of the Kings, everyone didn't think that he was much stronger than the rest of the Kings.

At least he's not much better than Bledsoe.

It is precisely because of this that the Kings have always been regarded as Li Pu's single-core team.

This is, tonight's performance subverted people's understanding of him.

Without Li Pu on the court, Butler helped the team to face the Warriors on both ends of the offense and defense.

After playing for nearly five minutes, Li Pu calmly returned to the field.

At this time, the point difference on the field is still 8 points.

During this period, Curry had already returned to the court, but he still had nothing to do with Butler.

During this period, Butler scored 8 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, playing extremely comprehensively.

So much so that when Butler was replaced for a break, the fans gave him warm applause!
Butler won the audience's recognition for him with his outstanding performance.

After Li Pu came back, the two teams continued to play inextricably.

Although Curry was still tightly restricted, he still hit a three-pointer in the crowd.

In addition, another Thompson of the Splash Brothers tonight is equally accurate, continuing to use three-pointers to continue his life.

Even before halftime, he hit a key three-pointer.

In this way, at the end of the half, at 50:55, the Warriors even chased the point difference to only 5 points.

At the beginning of the second half, the Kings' defense showed its fangs again.

Thompson, who performed very well in the first half, missed many shots in a row, and the Warriors fell into a scoring drought for a while.

The Kings took the opportunity to play a wave of 8:0, opening the point difference to as much as 13 points again.

In the end, it was David Lee's ingenuity to break the 5-minute scoring drought with a pass from Jermaine O'Neal to make a mid-range shot.

Subsequently, this goal was like waking up the Warriors. They scored consecutively and narrowed the difference to only 4 points.

I have to say that the Warriors' scoring explosiveness is really amazing. After chasing the points, they made three-pointers.

More importantly, once the Warriors gain momentum, it will be very difficult to hold on.

Seeing this situation, the Kings still have to stand up for Li Pu, after all, he is the most stable scoring point for the Kings.

Li Pu made a fallback jumper and successfully stabilized the situation.

But looking back, Curry hit a three-pointer.

Seeing this, Li Pu also hit a three-pointer against Green on the offensive end, and responded to Curry with an answer ball.

Finally, at the end of the third quarter, the score was 77:72. The two teams even drew in the third quarter, and the point difference was still 5 points.

Although the Kings are leading, the Warriors' tenacity still shocked the Kings into a cold sweat, preventing them from slacking off.

Because as long as they relax a little, they will be forced to close the score.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, whether it was Curry, Thompson, Li Pu, or Butler, they were all on the court. It was said that the rotation lineup was actually basically the main players.

It seems that their playing time tonight can't be less than 40 minutes.

The Warriors first assisted Barnes with a dunk by Curry, closing the point difference to 4 points.

Immediately afterwards, looking back, Li Pu attracted a pincer assist and Butler also dunked back.

Curry fouled Giannis, stepped to the free throw line, and made two free throws.

Looking back, Bledsoe caused a foul on David Lee and also made two free throws.

This game was played extremely anxiously by the two teams. Both sides came and went, not giving in to each other.

(End of this chapter)