Chapter 664: Battle Escalation
Just as Anjie and Rickard feared, Stephen . Curry, the No. 30 guard who just finished here just a month ago, was perfect today.
His performance outside the three-point line was as outstanding as ever, and the success rate of this guy after breaking through greatly exceeded Anjie's expectations.
The rest of the Warriors, especially the players on the bench, are really limited. But Stephen. Curry, stunned, forcibly pulled the Warriors up several levels.
"Wrap the bag, we have to wrap Curry in the second quarter! Others can let them shoot a few first, but Curry must not let him score points like this again! Ricard nervously wrote and drew on the tactical board, and Anjie also knew that he had one more strong opponent in his career.
yes, think about it, Wade, James, Anthony, Duncan, Kobe...... These names are no longer young. It's time for a few new blood to pour out and gradually take over the alliance.
Stephen. Curry, at least he's here at Ricard, has been treated like a superstar.
In tense situations, the time between breaks always passes quickly. The Warriors, who had no one available on the bench, took all the starters, and the Trail Blazers. Lopez and Miller Sr. were mixed in the starting line-up.
Even Stephen. Curry had just played almost the entire quarter, but right now, the guy still looks like he's in great shape.
An Jie doesn't know if Curry will be dragged down by physical fitness in the end, but he knows that if he can't contain Curry now, the only thing that will be dragged down in the end may be the Trail Blazers themselves!
So the Warriors and Curry are coming again, Harrison. After Barnes made a pick-and-roll for Curry, Iguodala and Lillard both pounced on the No. 30 and ignored Barnes, the rookie.
It's true that Barnes' shooting consistency is very poor. Letting him go and blocking Curry seemed like a very sensible choice.
Just when everyone thought that Curry, who was cornered, would throw the ball to Barnes, he passed the basketball in the opposite direction.
People looked at the orange-red afterimage, Clay. Thompson was standing just outside the 45° three-point line on the right, and he was in the open space!
"Supplement, supplement!" Angel's yelling covered the entire half, and Barnes and Curry's pick-and-roll was just bait, and without anyone noticing, Thompson had already borrowed the off-ball pick-and-roll to get to beyond the three-point line.
Clay. Thompson, like Curry, is a guard with average physicality who prefers shooting over breakaways. This kind of guard is not very popular these days, but the Warriors have relied on these two unconventional guards to play well.
While performances are often not as explosive as Curry's, Thompson is also an integral part of the Warriors' ability to achieve this result.
Thompson, who is only a third-year this season, is averaging 18.4 points per game, which is enough to show his quality. He and Curry didn't rise suddenly, but before that, people knew too little about the Warriors.
Thompson's shot wasn't as fast as Curry's, but Anjie could see that this guy's shooting was quite solid.
After the basketball shot, Matthews sealed it like a sheep. However, this can no longer change the fact that the Trail Blazers' defense failed this time, the basketball hollowed into the net, and the Warriors scored another three points!
"Clay. Thompson's performance outside the three-point line is also very good, but he has an even better Curry next to him! It seems that Coach Ricard's bag and trap tactics do not seem to be very successful. Seeing that the Warriors' second scoring point has also been thrown, Beal. Wharton couldn't help but worry about the Trail Blazers.
Rickard cursed from the sidelines that if Thompson and Curry had both shot away today, as they had been a month ago, the game would have been tricky.
The second quarter started with a blow that the Trail Blazers fans didn't expect. Now, it's up to the Trail Blazers to pull one back on the offensive end.
Miller Sr. found that although Curry was not like the opponents he had met before, he was fast and strong. But Miller believes Curry is more dangerous than the fast and strong guys.
From the look in his eyes, it can be seen that Curry is very cunning and smart. Miller Sr. didn't dare to slack off, he was afraid that as soon as he relaxed, Curry would seize the opportunity to complete the steal.
Curry did think so in his heart, but the caution of the veteran in front of him made Curry have no chance.
Miller was so frightened to control the ball outside the three-point line, he looked up, and the first thing he looked for was Anjie. However, this time, An Jie failed to get to the position in time.
Around the front, card bit. Bogut grabbed Anjie's jersey and went around the front again. Anjie shook off Bogut's arm, and then circled forward, in the card position.
Hand-to-hand battles between center players often begin before they receive the ball. Get Mark. Jackson's Bogut is not afraid of his own excessive movements, as long as the referee doesn't blow it, he will pestering Anjie for the whole game!
In the first quarter of the game, the Australians were humiliated, and from now on, Bogut intends to give everything back twice!
An Jie held back the anger in his heart, he knew that if he fought back at this time, Bogut would definitely fall to the ground. When the time comes, if you are whistled for an offensive foul, it will be more than worth the loss.
However, it is not a way for the offense to drag on like this, An Jie winked at Old Miller and told him to change to a second set of offensive tactics.
Miller understood and beckoned Aldridge to block for him. Bogut's heart suddenly overflowed with a sense of joy of victory, and his desperate entanglement really made An Jie give up the attack!
At the moment when the elder Miller borrowed Aldridge's block to break through, Anjie suddenly threw off Bogut and ran away, pointing his finger to the sky, signaling Miller to pass the ball.
Miller didn't hesitate and tossed the ball high. He knew what An Jie's finger pointing at the sky meant, which meant that An Jie called an air relay pass!
At the moment when Anjie got rid of Bogut, there was no obstacle between Anjie and the basket. An air relay, An Jie wants to see how he Bogut can defend himself!
An Jie caught the basketball, and at this moment his body had begun to fall. The tall 00 is ready to smash the basketball into the basket with all his hands!
Suddenly! An Jie felt that he was being jerked behind his back. There was no doubt that the bastard Bogut must have done it again.
was slammed in the air, and An Jie had no center of gravity. However, he still used his arm length to dunk the ball into the basket before he completely lost his center of gravity.
The basketball was dunked, and An Jie's whole body leaned back. In the end, An Jie fell to the ground at an angle parallel to the ground!
"Phew!" In an instant, the referee's whistle sounded, and there was a huge boo from the entire Moda Center. The fans cursed Bogut from the stands, but Bogut silently walked away from Anjie like a normal person.
The referee only gave Bogut a normal shooting foul, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among the fans at the scene. What just happened was so fast that the referee probably didn't even see how out of line Bogut's defensive action was!
"Fuck you, I've long been looking at you unpleasantly!" Just when Bogut thought everything was fine, Robin, who was partnering with Anjie on the inside line with an explosive head. Lopez suddenly rushed up and gave Bogut a hard push.
Bogut staggered back a few steps, but Robin didn't seem to have any intention of letting go. He hurriedly swung his fist and pressed towards Bogut. Seeing this, the players of the Warriors and Trail Blazers hurriedly joined the game.
In this, people like Miller Sr., Curry, and Iguodala are basically pulling the strings. And Lillard, Meyers. Leonard and David. Li and others took advantage of the chaos to fight back, and whoever hit them was unlucky.
The scene became chaotic, and the basketball game was about to turn into a group fight. The referee immediately stepped in and separated the players from both sides. This conflict has finally subsided.
Normally, the referee should be harsh at this time to control the situation. However, he only added Robin. Lopez was fouled in a first-degree maliciously foul. For the fuse, Sobogut, no punishment was made!
This naturally caused Robin. Lopez's dissatisfaction, do you think Ricard, the head coach, will go on the field to pull Lopez away and tell him not to reason with the referee? No, the angry Riccard rushed to Lopez's side and scolded the referee even worse than Lopez!
"The referee's whistle is too soft! If he doesn't act like this, there is a good chance that the same thing will happen in the next games! ”
"Now it's all secondary, and I'm curious to know what Ann's injuries are!"
It wasn't until the incident slowly subsided that the reporters' cameras finally returned to An Jie.
"How does it feel, where did you fall?" Aldridge helped Anjie up, but he felt that his partner seemed to be unable to walk even on the road at the moment.
"Where's that bastard Bogut!? Fuck it! The first thing An Jie did when he stood up was not to worry about himself, but to start looking around for Bogut. Seeing this, Aldridge grabbed An Jie even tighter.
"I'll talk about that bastard later, tell me about you first, where did you fall?" Ricard pushed aside the crowd and walked in front of An Jie, and An Jie's situation was what he was most concerned about.
"I knocked my head a bit, and now I'm a little dizzy." An Jie waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.
The chief team doctor also took out a flashlight at this moment, shining at An Jie's pupils.
"The pupils reacted normally and didn't seem to be in trouble. But with a head injury, I think it's safer to do a concussion test. ”
"We'll talk about it after the game is over!" An Jie yelled and rejected the team doctor's proposal.
When he was previously hit by Stoudemire, Anjie was tested for concussion by the Alliance. So he knows very well how troublesome this test is.
An Jie knows that he has a wife and is about to become a father. His body is no longer his alone. But all this has to wait until this game is over to think about it.
"In this case, you can take a break first, and when everything is normal, I will replace you. Meyers, hold on to the inside, you don't want to disappoint Ann, do you? Rickard saw that the game couldn't drag on like this, so he planned to let Anjie go down first.
Meyers. Leonard patted his chest and told An Jie to rest assured, he would definitely do his best to fight.
Anjie patted Leonard on the shoulder, and in Aldridge and Robin. With Lopez's support, he stepped into the bench.
"An Jie is gone! Oh my God, Anjie is gone! I hope he's okay, 72 wins, not to mention, the playoffs are about to start! ”
"We'd better pray that Anjie is okay, otherwise the Trail Blazers will be in big trouble in the playoffs this year!"
"I hope Ann won't have any three longs and two shorts, and if something happens to An, I doubt that Bogut will be able to get out of the Moda Center safely today."
Not to mention the fans, now even the commentators are frightened by An Jie's situation. The playoffs are still four days away, and losing the star at this time will undoubtedly be fatal to the Trail Blazers.
An Jie sat on the bench and shook his head vigorously. Still a little dizzy, but it should be fine after a while. After all, the head slammed into the hardwood floor, and the impact was really big enough.
Although he was still unwell, An Jie's eyes were staring at Bogut from beginning to end.
Think back then, David. Lee reimbursed himself for an entire season. And now, Bogut has allowed himself to have to rest at a critical moment.
Now, both guys happen to be playing for the Warriors again.
Thinking of this, An Jie could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, now he not only wanted to win the game, but also wanted to swallow this damn guy Bogut alive with his flesh and skin!
The joints in An Jie's hands turned white from clenching his fists, and Bogut didn't know that a pair of eyes full of anger had already burned on him.
"I'll make you pay! I promise! An Jie muttered to himself, but Batum, who was sitting next to An Jie, could afford goosebumps.
It seems that this Australian villain, who does whatever he wants on the basketball court, is about to be out of luck......
An Jie is not a gentle and elegant "typical" Chinese, on the contrary, he is a ruthless butcher who cannot afford to lose!