Chapter 234: Defeated Warriors

After Iguodala came on in the second quarter, the Warriors barely managed to stabilize the situation, and at halftime, the Suns led by one point at 59-58.

But Iguodala also brought a problem when he came on the court, and that was that the Warriors didn't have enough forward reserves, and Barnes didn't have a decent small forward to come off the bench. Originally, Draymond Green was a good hand on the bench, and he was like a brick with all-round skills, and he would move wherever he was needed, but the team's original starting power forward, David Lee, has been constantly attacked by injuries in the past two seasons, and the management was forced to put Green in the position of power forward, and the bench was naturally vacant. (The 2013-14 season was a turning point, when David Lee began to miss games with knee and back injuries, and Green was given playing time when he was sidelined.) In the 2014-15 season, David Lee was injured again in the preseason and failed to come back, and Green was completely promoted to the starting line and performed amazingly, averaging 11.7 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. )

The Warriors started the third quarter with Barbosa, Iguodala, Brandon Rush, Speights, and Forstus Azeri

The Suns are Clarkson, Bogdanovic, Pierce, Gerard Green, Jokic

The Warriors of this lineup can only rely on Barbosa and Iguodala to attack, while the Suns can bloom more, and when Barbossa attacks with the ball, what you see is the scene of the Suns' joint defense, Clarkson defends him alone, Bogdanovic defends Iguodala, and the other three shrink inside to prevent you from breaking through, and it is very simple to deal with 3-2 joint defense, as long as you have enough three-point shooters, it can be easily broken. But if you can't vote? That's embarrassing, it's better than the U.S. team that year, and it was many times in international competitions that the NBA had to change the rules that can be used for joint defense, which led to the massive use of three points now.

The 32-year-old Barbossa has lost the speed at which he once relied to survive, so the Suns did not renew his contract after the end of last season, and he now has not many ways to face the young Clarkson, and after a few passes, he can't burst in, and the big forward Speights relied on his height advantage to show off his more and more accurate mid-range shot in the middle, and the ball bounced out of the frame.

The rebound was picked up by Jokic, and Clarkson immediately went on a fast break. Jokic passed to Green, who was worthy of the nine-finger dunk king's amazing athleticism, advancing as fast as lightning, and a change of direction passed Iguodala and passed to Clarkson, who made an easy layup, and Pierce didn't even make half of the court when the ball went in.

But the next best performer is not Clarkson, but Gerald Green, Green is simply Michael Jordan when facing Speights' defense on the offensive end, how to play, how to say that Speights's defense is really rare, with a 208cm block and good athleticism, and mid-range shooting is also OK, but why after David Lee was injured, Speights was not on the position, but Green in his early 2 meters was on the position, and the reason is this!

By the way, when Green abused Speights, Pierce was not idle, because Brandon Rush is also a soft persimmon, if Speights still has a role on the offensive end, then this draft template is Kobe's guy is really useless, Uncle Pi is on his head, and even Kerr on the sidelines can't stand it!

After the margin was stretched to 15 points, the Warriors called a timeout, and the Warriors made lineup adjustments during this timeout. Brandon Rush and Speights were brought on with Barnes and Green.

The Suns on the other end also made lineup adjustments at this time, and Jokic went off the court and replaced him with Capela.

Barnes and Green were on the court immediately, and as the Warriors' most scoring player at the time, Barnes received a pass from Iguodala and hit a three-pointer when he came to the court. But on the other hand, Pierce is not a vegetarian, and immediately returned a mid-range shot.

So the two sides were deadlocked, and at 81:75, the Suns led by six points to the fourth quarter.

Then Li Mojie, who rested for a whole quarter in the third quarter, was powerful, the Suns attacked, McCollum controlled the ball to the half court, the ball was handed to Li Mojie, received a pass, Li Mojie outside the three-point line dribbled back a little back, and opened some distance from Barnes, after seeing Li Mojie's action, Barnston became nervous.

And just as Barnes bent down and stared at Li Mojie, Li Mojie had already begun to break through, and his right foot suddenly stepped out, and the person started to rush to the right.

In front of Li Mojie, after Barnes saw Li Mojie's step, he immediately moved his steps to the right side to block, and at this time, Li Mojie's right hand dribbling with the ball dangled to the left. Li Mojie's movements were not too fast, which made Barnes react and quickly move a step to the left.

But in the field, Li Mojie's dribble to the left side was just a feint, after Barnes just moved his foot, Li Mojie's right hand of the dribble pulled back sharply, and the ball was pulled back to the right side, and at the same time, suddenly added a forward rush, Li Mojie has rushed past Barnes's side.

At this moment, Li Mojie completely exploded his true degree, and the result was that Barnes was completely unstoppable by the misjudgment, and Li Mojie had rushed past him again.

Watching Lee break through Barnes' defense, Draymond Green was busy moving his feet to make up for it. But Li Mojie, who rushed to Draymond Green, was not afraid, and directly relied on the speed of lifting it to carry Green to complete a dunk!

The Warriors attacked, and Curry wanted to break through directly with the help of blocking and dismantling after taking the ball to the halfcourt, but the Suns' defense was not so easy to break, and before he could rush to the three-second zone, Curry had already suffered from the Suns' pinch.

Curry, who was caught in the sandwich, threw one arm and tried to throw the ball outside the three-point line, but the ball was only halfway through, and a figure had already killed out of thin air, stealing the ball, or Li Mojie, at this time, Gerard Green had also rushed forward, and the front court was two to one, and Li Mojie threw the ball directly into the air after attracting the defense.

"Bang!" Green scored an aerial relay dunk.

"This ball, Barnes obviously can't keep up with Li Mojie's footsteps!"

"A physical Mo Jie confronts a tired Barnes, and Li Mo Jie will let them know what cruelty is!"

The Warriors attacked again, and Draymond Green made a foul inside to score two points.

But in the next round, Li Mojie once again used the block to break through to the basket, after encountering a pinch, Li Mojie passed the ball out to Middleton outside the three-point line, and Middleton, who received the ball, quickly transmitted the ball to McCollum in the bottom corner.

"McCollum's three points, here! Curry went to make up for Middleton this time, but McCollum couldn't put it either! ”

Next, the Warriors' Bogut shot the iron, and Gobert picked up the rebound, the Suns attacked, one big and four small, Green, Middleton, and McCollum pulled away, and Gobert left enough space for Li Mojie on the inside,

Li Mojie also unceremoniously faced Barnes with a step back, jumped, shot, and acted in one go, only to hear a snort, the ball had fallen into the net again, and the three-point shot was made!

Just when Li Mojie scored 15 points in a single quarter in the fourth quarter, the Warriors surrendered directly and replaced the bench.

116:102, although the Warriors performed well in the first and second quarters, the victory ultimately belonged to the Suns. Li Mojie scored 31 points, 6 assists, 8 rebounds, 1 block, 1 steal and 3 turnovers.

"We'll fight again when Clay comes back!" After the game, Curry said to Li Mojie with an unconvinced face that it was naturally very unpleasant for the winning streak to be ended, and Curry has been in a state of being caught in this game, only 3 of 11 three-point shots, and scored 20 points, 6 assists, 3 turnovers and 4 rebounds.

"Well, I'm looking forward to a fully formed warrior too!" Li Mojie responded sincerely. I want to talk about "The New Magician of Basketball" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~