Chapter 141: Headwinds

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His tone was a little proud and complacent, although he was talking about Yi Feng breaking through the layers of blockades of the Warriors, but he obviously meant something.

Even Chris Webber has to admit this fact, "This kid does have a hand, and the Warriors have been so defensive against him, but they still can't stop him." ”

Mark Jackson said: "The Warriors blocked layers of blockades, targeting the Chinese kid to score, but they didn't expect him to pass the ball at the end. It's so almighty, it's really hard to prevent! ”

Yi Feng got past Barbosa in one step, and then faced Iguodala and Azeli and passed the ball to Larry Nance Jr. - a brilliant aerial relay that was born.

Yi Feng staggered after landing on the ground, slightly embarrassed. Because he has a physical confrontation with Iguodala and Aizeli in the air.

But it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the Lakers continued their offensive firepower and narrowed the gap to five points.

At 101:106, both sides have scored more than 100.

The Lakers' offense only took more than 8 seconds, and there were 47.4 seconds left at the end of the third quarter, even if the Warriors used up the offensive time for a full 24 seconds, the Lakers still had an almost complete 24-second offensive opportunity.

But that's clearly not the case for the Warriors.

They may be fighting for the last offensive opportunity of the third quarter.

Therefore, they opted for a faster attacking tempo.

After Ezeli's baseline serve, Livingston rushed to the front court with the ball, and Hurtas interfered on the side, which could only slightly limit Livingston's advancing speed.

Iguodala doesn't like to take the ball very much on the Warriors' bench lineup, so Livingston, as a playmaker, can distribute the ball almost freely except for some tactical passes.

With the height to not even lose in the number three position, Livingston is misplaced no matter who he faces. He used his height advantage to play a back shot, which is actually a very reasonable offense.

So in this quick attack, Livingston directly forced Hultas!

Yi Feng saw Livingston's acceleration speed, and knew that he would have the possibility of a quick attack. But he didn't expect Livingston to play so simply, after entanglement with Huertas all the way to the free throw line, he stopped directly, pulled up and shot.

Coupled with his height advantage against Hurtas, this stop-and-go jump ball is almost undefensible for Hurtas.

Inside the free throw line, Livingston's shot was simply terrifying, and the ball hit safely.

Such a simple counterattack made the previous wonderful air connection between Yi Feng and Xiao Nansi useless.

Livingston scored two more points for the Warriors, 101-108, and the Lakers' trail came back to seven points.

The Warriors' quick offense took less than 7 seconds, and unless the Lakers made another quick offense, the last offense in the third quarter was the Warriors' team.

Generally speaking, a team in a situation like the Lakers will focus on stability at this time.

With 40 seconds left in the third quarter, you should use up your offensive time to the maximum extent possible and not leave too much time for the opponent to complete the final blow.

People will always make the mistake of empiricism, and they will always be deceived by "in general".

The same is true for the Warriors this time.

They wouldn't know that Yi Feng didn't take the usual path, and after receiving the baseline serve in the backcourt, he directly advanced at full speed!

This dribbling speed is no less than that of Russell Westbrook, the leading point guard of Oklahoma City!

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At this time, shouldn't you be steady, and waste time without seeking a success rate?

Why did you suddenly start a full-fledged attack!

The Warriors were like frightened birds for a while. They subconsciously defended Yi Feng at this time like Westbrook, who was running all over the field, - the speed of rushing was so fast, you must know that his height was much taller than Westbrook!

Another empiricist error.

Westbrook received the ball in the backcourt, and after the speed was fully up, he went directly to the basket without slowing down, either dunking successfully or making a foul, in short, he would not run in vain.

Guarding against Yi Feng's impact on the basket, he didn't expect Yi Feng to stop more than a meter away from the three-point line!

Desperately running to his own half, to guard against Yi Feng's breakthrough and shrinking near the free throw line, Barbossa, the whole person is Spartan.

Not to mention why you didn't finish the attack the way he did the Westbrook way when you rushed to the front.

Your ultra-long-distance emergency stop outside the three-point line is completely stealing from the library, okay?

Barbosa's face stiffened, and his eyes chased after the basketball that was thrown by Yi Feng, watching it draw a parabola in the air from low to high and from high to low, and then fell right into the center of the basket, bringing up bursts of white net flowers.

Super long-distance pull-up three-point hit!

It took only 4 seconds for Yi Feng to complete the attack, and the score of the two sides was rewritten to 104:108, leaving only 4 points left.

Yi Feng handled the ball in such an unconventional way, he simply regarded every attack as the last offense, and handled the ball casually, he really didn't care about winning or losing the game.

But he just hit the ball!

This made Livingston, who was advancing with the ball, unbelievable, looking at Yi Feng as if he were looking at his teammate Stephen Curry, who was also able to shoot willfully from beyond the three-point line.

That's it, Livingston is very envious.

He doesn't have three-point ability himself, and almost never shoots from outside the three-point line. And watching people throw a quasi outside the three-point line, it is not a good feeling in my heart.

The reason why a sneak attack is "stealing" is to take advantage of people's unpreparedness. If you do it again, it won't work.

Therefore, Livingston advanced slowly this time and did not raid again. He is ready to play steadily and make the most of his attacking time. Then in the end, the Lakers only have more than ten seconds left.

He first dribbled beyond the three-point line, and it took seven or eight seconds to do so.

The Warriors then began to run as Livingston had been told, and the final end point of the offense was Speights.

Speights looks muscular and doesn't look at all like an interior player who likes to fly kites outside.

But he mastered the basketball skills that were extremely inconsistent with his body, and he had a heart that was extremely inconsistent with his body and loved to shoot far.

The basketball finally transferred to Speights outside the 45° three-point line on the right, and Speights threw the ball out with his crooked ass.

Perhaps because of the number of shots he made too little, Speights' hand was not hot, and this time the shot was iron.

Brandon Buss got stuck in position and protected this crucial backcourt rebound, directly earning the Lakers the final offensive opportunity of the third quarter.

At 104:108, the difference between the two teams is still 4 points, and the Lakers, who have the last offensive right in the third quarter, are expected to continue to narrow the difference.

In the final moments of the third quarter, Iguodala switched defenses with Barbosa and defended Yifeng himself.

Iguodala is still at the tail of his prime, facing Yi Feng, his physical fitness is not too bad, coupled with the veteran defensive experience, Yi Feng's offense feels awkward, and the final whistle shot also pops out of the frame.

The Lakers failed to capitalize on this opportunity and went into the fourth quarter with a four-point deficit.

Judging from the offensive firepower in the first three quarters, 4 points is actually not rare. It's just that while the Lakers are scoring, they can't prevent the Warriors from scoring, so although the difference is small, it is difficult to chase.

The Warriors, in particular, gradually gained momentum after leading their opponents.

Coupled with the constant cheering and cheering of the home fans, coupled with the constant hints of head coach Steve Kerr's new NBA history of 16 consecutive wins, the fighting spirit of the Warriors players was slowly stimulated.

Fighting spirit, momentum, this kind of mysterious things, invisible and intangible, but real. The impact they have on a team is huge.

In the game, they are things like status auras, which have a very important bonus or reduction to the overall strength of the game character.

In the first half, although the Warriors accounted for the opening 15 consecutive wins, according to the favorable home court, as well as the team atmosphere, these advantages were destroyed by Yi Feng's psychological tactics and could not play a role.

And after Curry's return in the third quarter, he began to gradually reverse the unfavorable situation; After the bench lineup came on the court, with its strength to crush the Lakers bench group, the Warriors' advantages of time, place, and people finally began to work.

Although Curry's hot hand in the third quarter was no longer there, and 1 of 4 shots from the three-point line became "mediocre", although Klay Thompson did not come back after he eased up, only 1 of 5 shots, but with the play of Harrison Barnes, Draymond Green and Andrew Bogut, the Lakers were gradually opened up the difference!

More than 5 minutes into the fourth quarter, the Lakers trailed by as many as 8 points at 114:122!

There is not much time left in the game, but the Lakers are falling behind more and more points, which makes Yi Feng, who wants to become the big demon king of the gate, gradually become a little impatient.

He made an extremely low-level mistake on offense, broke through, smashed the ball to his feet, and gave the ball to the Warriors.

Lakers head coach Byron Scott called a timeout at this point.

Even if he is blind, he knows that the current situation of the Lakers is critical. The team has been unable to close the point gap for a long time, and even the absolute main player, Yi Feng, who has always been calm, has begun to be impatient, if he doesn't do something, then the Lakers' loss will be inevitable.

It's not just Yi Feng on the field who is impatient, but also Maddie who is sitting on the sidelines.

Optimistic about Yi Feng and the Lakers' victory, he can be said to be in a state of joy throughout the first half - after all, who would have thought that the Lakers, who are almost all optimistic, would play like this against the powerful defending champions?

However, at the start of the second half, he couldn't be happy.

Curry's return to the state and the confrontation with Yi Feng made fans continue to secrete adrenal glands, although Maddie was also excited.

But he, who had already expressed his support for Yi Feng, didn't want Yi Feng to lose in the end.

However, how terrible Curry is when he returns to form, needless to say, Maddie, as a professional basketball person, knows much more than ordinary people.

In the face of such a guy, can Yi Feng really be able to hold it down?

If the confrontation between Curry and Yi Feng only worries Maddy, then in the latter part of the third quarter, the competition between the bench lineups of the two sides makes Maddie worry.

In just over two minutes, the Warriors' bench lineup built an extremely solid lead. In the end, even if Yi Feng came up, even if he broke the routine and made a surprise attack without playing cards according to the routine, he did not equalize the score.

Entering the final battle of the fourth quarter, the Warriors are in better shape as a whole, although the offense of the "Splash Brothers" is not as good as before, but their deterrent power is still there, and they can create good opportunities for their teammates. And his teammates also took advantage of these opportunities and took the opportunity to extend the lead.

It stands to reason that in the face of the almost dumb "Splash Brothers", the Lakers should be more likely to close or even equalize. But why is it that in the end, the score gap is widened?

Because in a critical moment like the fourth quarter, the Warriors increased their defensive intensity.

The improvement is not huge, at most it mentions the playoff level. But it also made the Lakers suffer a loss - the defensive intensity suddenly went up, they didn't adapt, and the turnovers suddenly increased.

And the Warriors took advantage of these mistakes to widen the difference.

The opposing team increases the intensity of defense, so why can't the Lakers do it?

Of course, Scott wanted to, but he could only think about it.

He didn't know how many sentences he yelled in his heart, "The concubine can't do it".

In this season, the Lakers' newly built defensive system with Yi Feng as the core, because the training is not enough, there are still problems with the run-in, and some loopholes have not been filled.

Suddenly facing such a powerful player in the league as the defending champion, such a defensive system will certainly not last long.

And Yi Feng needs to spend a lot of energy on offense, and he can't afford to contribute more on the defensive end.

So, the situation now is that the Warriors can increase their defensive intensity, while the Lakers can't. As a result, although the "Splash Brothers" did not open much, the Warriors were still able to continue to widen the point difference; The Lakers, who wanted to chase points, were limited by the Warriors' defense.

10 points in more than 5 minutes, generally speaking, although a little low, but it is still a normal team score. But compared to the Lakers' offensive firepower that scored more than 100 points in the first three quarters, this is a bit insufficient.

In the face of such an unfavorable situation, Yi Feng, who has said many times in front of the media that he will win this game, will naturally be impatient.

Although he is usually very calm, he is still a young man under the age of 20 after all.

Good face is a common problem among young people.

If the Lakers don't win this game in the end, then Yi Feng will naturally fail as the big demon king who guards the gate.

However, if he let it out a long time ago, it would be like spilled water, and he would not be able to recover it anyway.

In the end, isn't it just watching yourself get slapped in the face?

As a young man, how can you stand this?

How could he not be impatient? (To be continued.) )