218 Death is useless!
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The third step to victory for the Rockets: Let Durant score!
This arrangement sounds extremely unreasonable, but with the first step Yang Yiming to improve the aggressiveness of the single defense, the second step is to leave the players to cut off the connection between Durant and his teammates, and the third step is for the Warriors to further (and unavoidable) trust Durant and hand over all offense to him to finish, so as to voluntarily give up the passing and cutting basketball that he is good at, which seems logical.
After the Rockets took the initiative to speed up and play 38-29 in the second quarter to widen the gap to 14 points, the Warriors really had to exert their strength in the third quarter and try to launch a counterattack. The initiation point of the counterattack is naturally the "Grim Reaper" Kevin Durant.
This is exactly the trap of rockets!
After Durant made a super difficult throw, Yang Yiming guessed that his Warriors teammates would continue to feed him. He stepped back a half-step and kept Durant arm's length to give the Warriors passers space. The hand was hot, the defense was lax, the Warriors saw this and really hit the plan, the basketball was hoisted into Durant's hands, and everyone immediately pulled away and gave him the strong side to play alone!
Yang Yiming was secretly happy in his heart. He pressed one hand against Durant's back to control the distance, and with the other hand behind his back, he stretched out three fingers to signal to his teammates: The third step strategy is about to begin! The Rockets all comprehended, leaving only the eyes of Durant and Yang Yiming who were heads-up, and the rest of the attention was all on the defenders in front of them, and each of them had the same defensive posture as No. 17 Yang Yiming: the center of gravity was pressed to a very low level, the feet were crossed, and the hands formed an encirclement to limit the running position. Suddenly, there seemed to be five Rockets No. 17 on the court, and the Warriors were all stopped except Durant, and there was only one way out left!
Fortunately, it is difficult for the Grim Reaper to fall here.
Durant grabbed the basketball steadily, and observed that his teammates had all pulled away, and there was no passing position for the time being, so he leaned back lightly on his shoulders and pressed his back against Yang Yiming's palm, feeling the defensive distance between the two. As soon as the palm of his hand touched his back, he half-turned and dribbled sideways, holding the ball and making a shooting motion. Yang Yiming immediately followed up and flew to block. But he saw in the air that Durant's move was just a feint, and his opponent's left foot was still firmly pinned to the ground, but his right foot had already taken a step forward, leaning forward to meet the direction of his flight. Yang Yiming immediately realized that this was his foul tactic, so he twisted his body with his core strength in the air, narrowly avoided Durant's shooting action, and fell to the ground by mistake. Although Durant didn't cause a foul as planned, he had managed to cheat the space and angle, and he got up again to shoot the basket and score two points steadily.
The regular operation of the Grim Reaper!
teammates came over to high-five Durant in succession to congratulate, but Durant was as expressionless and arrogant as the whole Rockets team. Is it that he has already learned that he is only relying on his own strength, and his teammates are standing and watching the game, and the hope of the G2 battle will only fade away? - Sure enough, in the next round, the Rockets, who had just lost two points, scored three points with an assist from Paul by PJ Tucker, and the difference continued to widen. Or was he determined to pull back the deficit in the third quarter on his own?
Yang Yiming must not be able to comprehend the expressionless grim reaper. But if it's really the latter, the seriousness and forbearance of all the rocket members in order to attract the fish to the bait is worth it!
The more Durant can score, the tighter the Rockets' defense of the remainders, and the greater the scoring pressure on the Warriors, the more Durant can only fall into the cycle of his own wild slashing! He shot left and right, shot three-pointers and two-pointers, and once smashed Huashan with a dunk between Yang Yiming and Capela, but he couldn't stop the Warriors' decline.
Captain Rockets' three-hour pre-game arrangement really came into play at this time: the Rockets resolutely did not use the bag, Yang Yiming defended purposefully, full of aggression but did not pay fouls, and gave the Warriors the illusion of "I am out of place" at the right time. Although Durant could force 18 points in a single quarter, the remaining teammates only scored 11 points, and the Rockets teamed up to score 31 points in the first quarter and further consolidated their advantage in the third quarter!
In the fourth quarter, the Warriors had no Durant to rely on - sure enough, no one could become a superman in the playoffs from beginning to end - and the Rockets closed the game and pulled back a city to meet G3!
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But the Warriors' adjustment is bound to come.
Yang Yiming has no doubt about this.
On the Houston flight to Oakland, he struggled to empty his brain and feel his surroundings only subconsciously: the roaring turbines of the plane, the dark cabin in the middle of the night, the familiar breathing of his teammates, which he could not hear, but could feel. It's like the start of the next game. The curtain has not yet opened on the Oakland Coliseum, and the home team fans are giving the Warriors heroes a tsunami of welcome, Curry, Thompson, Green, and Durant appear in turn, which is the only spotlight in the entire dark arena. The applause and cheers were dedicated to them, and Yang Yiming could fully imagine that this would be a dark world where he could not find any supporters. And he and his teammates, the group of dark order challengers from Space City, crossed their arms on each other's shoulders, breathing long, as if their hearts were connected by this.
Wait quietly in the dark.
Waiting for the bayonet to see red, exposing his softest texture to the other party, just for the chance to swing the sword that was plunged into the heel of Achilles.
Yang Yiming can feel that such an opportunity will only appear in the third battle.
His first trip to the playoffs. Facing the seemingly invincible defending champion, he wasn't sure if the series would make it to the Battle of Kings. But he only subconsciously felt that the intensity and bloodiness of the third scene would be far greater than that of Tianwang Mountain.
The Warriors and Rockets each knocked each other down once in a familiar way, and they will still try to knock each other down, but this time, there is no secret.
The Warriors will also have "Grim Reaper" Durant, but they will definitely play back the pass-cut combination and get back the full score of Curry, Thompson and even Greene Iguodala. Durant is just their dark iron heavy sword, which is clever and has no edge, but it can shake the mountain, and once it is unsheathed, the Buddha will kill him. The Rockets have Harden and Paul, who can eat Durant's dark iron heavy sword, but can't eat the flying sword rain of all the Warriors. They themselves are more like knights who love to make flying swords rain, Harden and Paul are knights, and the rest of them are invisible swords in their hands.
The sword has no definite form, and it is self-motivated... Dugu Nine Swords?!
Yang Yiming was shocked.
The Rockets' path is really like Dugu Jiujian, which is urged by top players like Harden and Paul, fast to the extreme, fast to the extreme. It is often the last to strike, and the opponent is the weakest. This is the first essence of Dugu Nine Swords.
The number of other exercises in the world, even if it is as strong as the Xuantie heavy sword, also has fixed moves. And where there are moves, there must be flaws. And if there is a flaw, it can be dismantled by the master. Harden and Paul are naturally two masters of dismantling flaws. This is the second essence of Dugu Nine Swords.
And the last and most deterrent essence of Dugu Nine Swords, Yang Yiming thought, isn't it just to replace defense with offense, and attack and defend all?! When the opponent can only be tired of parrying the cold offensive, how to fight back, and how to stand in the place of victory? This is the ultimate third essence of Dugu Nine Swords!
Thinking of this, Yang Yiming couldn't help but feel shocked all over his body. He quickly straightened up from his seat and woke up his friend Yu Xiaochun, who was sleeping soundly on the side. The latter rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "Did you land in Auckland?" No?! There is no puzzled expression of why did you wake me up".
Yang Yiming didn't care about this, he gestured (two palms are empty, covering the two eyes), and said, "That thing, did you bring it with you when you packed it?" ”
“CAMS? Of course it's loaded, there. Yu Xiaochun gently kicked his backpack tucked under the front seat with his foot.
Yang Yiming then remembered that Yu Xiaochun has always been a character who will carry all the tools that can and cannot be used in his backpack, just like Tinker Bell, even if he forgets to pack, of course he will remember to store and install the VR glasses equipped with the CAMS system.
The momentary worry I had just had was superfluous. "That's good, you can sleep again." Yu Xiaochun fell back into his seat and immediately fell asleep again, leaving only Yang Yiming aside. His heart was pounding in his chest, his blood was rushing all over his body, and if it weren't for the restrictions on the use of electronic devices on the plane, he would have taken out his VR glasses and put them on.
The Dugu Nine Swords on the court may have to be realized by it!