Chapter 378: Stub vs. Soar

"I have a feeling that the gods are about to perform miracles again."

"Look at my contemptuous eyes, the gods don't create miracles, I want you to say."

"Look at my contemptuous eyes, dealing with a weak chicken like the pioneer, the gods can just do it directly, where do you need any miracles."

Unlike the fans of other players, seeing that the supporting star is temporarily on the lagging side, Zhang Xiaotian's fans are more excited than worried.

The Warriors are too strong this season, and Zhang Xiaotian's strength at the end of the season has also been covered up a lot.

After Curry was injured, Zhang Xiaotian's fans were the happiest, and the Warriors still won, but Zhang Xiaotian was much better than before, which is the real strength of the gods.

Fans are blind, if it weren't for the fear of affecting the Warriors to win the championship, the Warriors would have Zhang Xiaotian to play.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Zhang Xiaotian attacked with the ball, there was no too fancy moves, teammates covered, Zhang Xiaotian accelerated and threw off half of the defenders and pulled up, and the mid-shot was neat.

There is no way, Zhang Xiaotian in the fourth quarter can only be limited by the league's top forward defenders, and the Trailblazers are still a few grades.

The Trailblazers are a little unconvinced, but the previous games also showed that Zhang Xiaotian is indeed not easy to mess with.

If they don't give a chance, they can only take a similar ultimate approach when they hold the ball.

At this time, Iguodala was on the outside, Draymond Green was resting, and Zhang Xiaotian was also facing Aminu on the defensive end.

Pulling outside to shoot threes, he has a better defensive knack for that than Draymond Green.

When Plumlee received the ball inside, Aminu went to the three-point line and the ball turned accurately, but Zhang Xiaotian moved extremely fast, and he was there with a two-step distance.

Aminu's shot that was originally well-timed was immediately interfered with by Zhang Xiaotian.

In turn, the Warriors counterattacked, Zhang Xiaotian directly hit the inside line to attract the defense and then split the ball, and the Warriors scored two more points.

Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stoutes was in a bit of a hurry, reminding his players of the defense on the court.

They have a chance to win this game, but there can be no problems.

But sometimes you can't prevent it if you want to, and Zhang Xiaotian quickly scored another 4 points.

On the Trail Blazers' side, only C.J. McLuum hit two points.

Less than four minutes into the final quarter, their advantage was cut by half, and the Trail Blazers rushed to call a timeout, Lillard had to be replaced, and the team had to increase its intensity on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

The Warriors also took the opportunity to bring on Klay Thompson and Green to play a small lineup.

The Trail Blazers' defense suddenly became more porous, first with Klay Thompson getting an opportunity, and then Zhang Xiaotian providing an assist to Barnes.

Within three minutes, the Warriors scored nine more points to tie the score at 94-94.

At this time, the Trail Blazers, who had not felt very well in the first half of the final quarter, suddenly woke up, and they made a steal, and C.J. McLuum and Lillard scored four points in 20 seconds to regain the lead.

But Klay Thompson immediately made up for it, hitting a three-pointer from the ball.

The gap became 1 point again, and the atmosphere in the stadium became extremely tense, and some of the home fans at the Moda Center were afraid to look at it.

At the moment of life and death, it was surprising that the hit rate of both sides increased significantly.

The Trail Blazers scored inside, and then Lillard hit two three-pointers in a row.

On the Warriors' side, Zhang Xiaotianqiang hit one, and Draymond Green also hit 6 points from the outside.

With just over a minute left, the Trail Blazers asked for a timeout again.

Although they are still one point ahead, they are under more pressure.

The first series was able to be reversed because of the opponent's core injury, and the second series met the Warriors who Curry couldn't play, and I felt very lucky, but I didn't expect the Warriors to be so strong without Curry.

This time they have no way back, and they are more obsessed with victory than the warriors.

When C.J. McClum hit another three-pointer after a timeout, the entire Trail Blazers bench jumped and Terry Stottes clenched his fists hard.

With only 1 minute and 22 seconds left, they have a four-point lead, and as long as they hold on, Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stoutes hasn't finished analyzing it, and Zhang Xiaotian hit another two points against the defender.

With a 2-point advantage, with the ball in hand, they can win.

But the Trail Blazers made a mistake in attacking Lillard this time, and Lillard, who had already cut 40+10, made a mistake at a critical moment, and the hearts of Trail Blazers fans were pinched.

On the Warriors' side, Zhang Xiaotian still holds the ball, Curry is not there, and there is no dispute about the ball at the critical moment.

Zhang Xiaotian dribbled the ball sideways, and then suddenly wiped it inside.

The key to this move is explosiveness, and the defenders can't stop it even if they keep up.

The pioneer was highly nervous at this time, Zhang Xiaotian wiped it inside, and the three of them pounced.

With a flick of Zhang's wrist, the ball returned to Klay Thompson, who hit and the two sides were tied.

At this time, there were 39 seconds left, and Coach Terry Stottes wanted to vomit blood, but he couldn't blame Lillard, and there was not much to say about defense, it was Zhang Xiaotian's strong ability.

With the ball comes chance, and the Trail Blazers still believe in Lillard.

Lillard dribbled past half court and first pressed the rhythm, and when the time was almost up, Ed Davis came up to cover, and Lillard changed direction and killed inside.

When blocking Lillard, Iguodala had changed from Draymond Green in front of him, and Draymond Green was also able to defend guards, but at this time he predicted that something was wrong.

Draymond Green thought that Lillard would solve the problem with shooting, but he didn't expect Lillard to accelerate and start directly to the basket after a beating.

The small lineup Draymond Green came out, and the Warriors were empty inside.

But just when Lillard thought he had put Draymond Green with a handsome layup, Zhang Xiaotian had already pounced from behind.

Lillard only guarded against Draymond Green, and was caught off guard by Zhang Xiaotian's pegboard hat.

Iguodala got back to grab the rebound, and 17 seconds later, the Warriors called a timeout.

There are still 17 seconds, not 7 seconds, so the Warriors are relieved to arrange Zhang Xiaotian's tactics of holding the ball.

In front of various live broadcast platforms, Zhang Xiaotian's fans have stars in their eyes, and they like to watch the gods pretend to be at the last moment.

Back on the court after the timeout, Zhang Xiaotian also pressed the rhythm first, and now it is a draw, and they will not give the Trail Blazers any more time.

In front of him is Aminu, who is an ideal candidate to defend the last shot because of his height and long arms.

It wasn't until the last 7 seconds that Zhang Xiaotian started under the cover of Green.

If you kill inside, you will attack, and the pioneer will not be ambiguous, but Zhang Xiaotian's killing inside this time feels too strange, how can it be so slow.

Attacks? No pinching? It's better to pinch the ball, after all, it's too late to pass the ball.

But at this moment, Zhang Xiaotian stood up against the defense.