Chapter 303: It's the One Who Can't Get In!
Hougist continued to press the time, and then burst to the basket, Turner dominated the tonnage and height, but was destroyed by Green when receiving the ball. But it proved to be futile, and Hoggist once again played his old trick in this tense moment, throwing the ball directly from behind the rebound side to the front of the basket when he served the ball, and Turner, who stood out from the crowd, easily rose up from the crowd and smashed the ball into the basket.
With 1:12 left and the Lakers leading by four points at 117-113, Walton called a timeout, and although Curry's three-point shot was the foundation of the Warriors, it could not let Curry's eyes not see his teammates but only the basket. Wharton hugged Curry tightly and whispered, Curry couldn't stop nodding, the anger in his eyes gradually subsided, and his eyes brightened.
Klay, who also saw that Curry was not in the right state on the court, asked curiously, "Hey Theodore, what did you say to Steve?" How did he calm down? ”
"Although we have a good relationship, but the game is not over yet, please call me Coach Wharton or Luke, don't call me my middle name, it sounds weird!" Wharton laughed, "As for how to calm down Steve, this is my secret weapon, and I will not have a killer weapon in the future!" ”
"It doesn't matter, if Steve calms down, we have a much better chance of winning!" Clay's face regained its calmness, and he was quite "pampered and not surprised, watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court; Go to stay unintentionally, look at the sky and clouds.
"I said, Clay, why do you always have such a clear face on your face? Have you ever been infected by Leonard? Seeing Clay's calm look aroused Wharton's curiosity.
"How to stay calm at all times, this is my secret weapon, tell me that there will be no killer in the future!" Clay responded to Wharton with the same words, and sat down to the side and wiped his sweat with a towel earnestly.
Wharton shook his head helplessly, "This guy is really ......"
Solving Curry's mentality problem, Wharton sat on the sidelines and waited for the players to seize this last opportunity to reverse, Curry continued to dribble on the outside and made a limit operation, raising his hand again to shoot, Nick. Yang naturally jumped up and stretched out his hand to interfere, but he didn't expect that Curry, who had cast several waves, just made a feint to worship the Buddha, and let Nick with a short body. Young rushed inside and lay down for a layup under Randle's defense, which didn't score but caused a foul, and the reason why it was a layback layup was because Curry was about to lie flat in the air when he leaned back to find space to shoot.
Chewing braces and standing on the free throw line, Curry easily hit two free throws, and the Warriors immediately pressed the defense after the free throw, but Hoggist was a sharp weapon to break the pressure in real combat, and Randle threw the ball directly over Hoggist's head, which is absolutely unreachable for the Warriors to die on the court.
Horgist jumped up to catch the ball and directly got rid of Barnes and rushed to the frontcourt, because everyone else was staring at their defenders, no one thought that Barnes would be thrown away by Horgist so easily, so the Warriors' pressing strategy collapsed instantly, and Iguodala in the backcourt had to let go of his defensive Randle to pounce on to block Horgist's rush footsteps, and Barnes ran to change Randle.
But Haugist, who had accelerated and sprinted, was not so easy to block, Iguodala stood on Haugist's path and tried to create an offensive foul, but Hougist forced a few centimeters in front of Iguodala to turn around him with a strong waist and abdominal core strength, and stepped up and jumped low to pick up the basket.
However, after practicing countless times on weekdays, the simple layup as smooth and natural as breathing was flying without physical confrontation and interference! The ball spun around the basket and then slid out, and the ball could not go up, let alone Haugist, and even the players on the Warriors court could not have anticipated it.
Although Green was the first to react, Hoggist used his height to catch the rebound first, dunked the ball into the basket, and scolded the basketball viciously, "Shame on the face!" If I let you in, you'll have to go! No matter how hard you struggle, you still don't have to go in the end? ”
"You're having a great time! In overtime, such a tense moment is still brushing up rebounds! Randall half-jokingly said as he stepped back from the guard next to Hougist.
"Who's got the rebounds? Haven't you ever seen someone else go to the basket and not score? Hoggist was still angry at basketball and said angrily.
"I've seen others go to the basket and don't score, I haven't seen you go to the basket or not, if you score just now, it's definitely a top 10 ball today! And with your ability to turn around and dunk the ball into the basket, it's easy to do it, right? Randall asked, puzzled.
Hoggist gasped, "Do you really think I'm a steel and iron perpetual motion machine?" Can't I get tired? ”
"But you didn't shout tired in that game when you scored 81 points!" Randall was even more puzzled.
"You underestimate the impact of the opponent's defense on me, although they are not tall enough, but the physical confrontation is top-notch, my center of gravity is higher than theirs, although aerial work is my advantage, but I also spent a lot of effort to stand in the position!" Hogist explained what happened.
Curry didn't control the ball on the offensive end this time, handed the ball to Green, and he patrolled on the outside, looking for open opportunities, Green stood on the three-point line, Turner didn't dare to expand too far out, standing in the elbow area, Rao is so that there was also a vacuum under the Lakers' basket, Klay suddenly drilled in from nowhere, and at the same time came to the basket with Green's pass. The Lakers players were shocked and hurriedly contracted to help defense, but Klay calmly divided the ball again, and it was Curry who received the ball outside.
119:118, the Lakers still hold a one-point lead, with 39 seconds left in the game, the Warriors must defend this ball, at least not let the opponent shoot three points, so as to retain the hope of a reversal. The Lakers kicked the ball out, and the Warriors didn't dare to press on Hoggist anymore, and Barnes stared at Hoggist slowly retreating two steps away.
When Hougist dribbled across the midfield line, Barnes suddenly pounced, trying to force Hoggist to lose his position, Hougist once again passed Barnes, Iguodala tried his best to catch up with the change of defense, Hougist hurriedly passed the ball to Randle, but Barnes and the ball arrived at the same time, and the last ball Warriors players changed their defense and tried their best, and the death of the five small infinite change of defense is an important part of the success factor of the Warriors.
Randle returned the ball to Hougist, at this time Hoggist also felt the fatigue he had not seen for a long time, anyway, he still had the lead in his hand, Hougist didn't want to spend more effort to fight inside, so he made a gamble, and at the top of the arc in the face of Iguodala's defense again forced a breakthrough, a sharp stop, dribble under the crotch to change hands, and retreat after receiving the ball and jumped up to shoot a three-pointer.
Although Hoggist has been playing 6 of 9 three-pointers very efficiently today, he has been shooting open positions or receiving strong shots, and his best scoring method is 3 shots and 0 shots, although Kobe Bryant encouraged him to continue to shoot shots, but he has not been able to hit a step-back three-point shot in the second half.
But at this decisive moment, he still chose to believe in his own stunt, just as the sniper rifle is the most trusted possession of the sniper, and the three-point step back is also the most trusted comrade of Hogist. The shot was also successful in shaking off Iguodala, but this time the shot was again deflected wide of the basket, and it was short, grazing the net from the front and falling off the line.
"Damn, it seems that it's not just the mentality, but now the physical strength is starting to affect my shooting status!" Hoggist frowned, although he was still one point ahead, he always felt that the team had fallen into passivity.
With 26.1 seconds left in the game, the Warriors kicked off from the backcourt, Curry slowly dribbled through the half-court time, and it seemed that the Warriors did not intend to attack, but decided to use time to decide the winner, and they also trusted Curry's hand.
The Warriors' final offense, Hoggist, once again took the initiative to switch to Curry, believing that as long as Curry and Klay were locked, the rest of his teammates would definitely be more than enough to deal with Barnes, Iguodala and Green.
Haugist pressed very tightly, Curry gradually lost space to move, Green and Barnes put up a double cover for Curry, Haugist decided to go around, but Curry pulled the ball back and stepped back after halfway around the screen, and quickly shot a 3-pointer. Oh my God, the place where Curry shot is still in the logo of the center circle, and the reason why Hoggist dared to choose to defend around the back is precisely because the distance here is so far that he believes that Curry will never dare to bet on it at such a distance, but who would have thought that Curry would really bet!
Hogist pounced again, although this time he also exerted all his strength, but this time he couldn't touch the ball, but only felt the change in the air flow caused by the ball flying through his fingertips. Looking back, Curry's ball seemed to draw a rainbow in the air, and when it came to the rainbow that Hoggist was most familiar with, one end of the rainbow was in Curry's hand, and the other end was in the center of the basket. The ball fell into the basket along the rainbow trail, and at 121-119, the Warriors relied on Curry's three-pointer to turn the score around.
Shashewski immediately called a timeout, and with 1.7 seconds left in overtime, Curry's three-pointer nearly killed the game, and almost all of the Lakers players hung their heads and their drooping faces were full of despair, except for Kobe. Kobe Bryant stretched out his hand to stop Shashefski from arranging tactics, and said loudly to Haugist: "This is just a regular season game, we have won 13 games before, and there are 68 games to win after that, so it's nothing to lose today, this is just a regular season game with the Warriors, we have to play 3 more games with them later, if we can win those 3 games, it's okay to lose today, but you really want to implement a tactic in this way today, no matter who the five people on the court are, Score a two-point tie for a second overtime, or make a three-point shootout, and then you start to doubt your step-back threes, and never get back to the confidence you had in your previous 13 straight wins? ”
Everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, Horgist looked at Kobe Bryant in confusion, Kobe patted him on the shoulder, "I believe you will be able to successfully catch the ball at the top of the arc later, no matter who you face, you can shake him down with a step back, and then shoot three points in and take us to victory, right?" ”
"Can I really?" Hogist asked hesitantly.
"Since it's your ultimate scoring weapon, your killer weapon, let me ask you, how many of these step-back threes have you made in games and training before?" Bryant asked suddenly.
"Uh...... There were so many ins that I can't even remember. Haugist struggled to recall it, but what a huge number, and how could he say it accurately.
"And how much more did you lose?" Bryant asked.
"Lost? I don't remember that, but it's probably less than one-twentieth of what I put in! Hoggist roughly calculated as he recalled.
"Since the probability is so low, you have already lost four today, what are you afraid of? I'm sure you'll be able to shoot the next 76 step-back threes! Bryant smiled and said, "Whenever you have to believe in yourself is the best, if you don't believe in yourself at some point, if you don't believe in subjective agency, then you should at least believe in more objective probability theory, right?" Subjectively you can definitely invest, objectively speaking, the probability that you can invest is more than 95%, so why do you feel that you can't invest yourself? ”
"This ......" Kobe's words made Hougist stunned, although he felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find fault with it, it seemed that this was the case...... So the last shot should be me to force the shot? ”
"That's right! You can't let an old man like me wipe your ass for you! Bryant teased, trying to bring Hoggist's mentality back to as calm as possible.
Hoggist stared at his hand for a moment and nodded, "Alright! ”
At this time, Shashewski feigned dissatisfaction and said: "Thank you for your motivational speech, but isn't it a good choice to execute a tactic to win the game?" Why do I listen to the sarcasm in your tone? ”
"No offense!" Kobe Bryant raised his hand to Coach K and surrendered, "Leave the tactics to the playoffs!" We need a hero tonight, Be a Hero, Hoggist! ”
Looking at the trusting eyes of his teammates, Hoggist nodded firmly, "Be a hero!" ”
After the timeout, the Lakers sent the frontcourt ball, and Horgist ran back from the basket to the top of the arc. With only 1.7 seconds, the Warriors understand that no matter who the Lakers receive the ball, he has at most one chance to shake and must shoot, otherwise the time will definitely run out, so the strategy they formulated is actually zone defense and pinching, as long as the ball comes out and quickly wraps the ball holder, try to consume his time and interfere with his shooting rhythm, so although Haugist received the ball easily at the top of the arc, Barnes and Green instantly pounced in front of him.
1.7 seconds is definitely not enough to fake a step, Hougist directly dribbled the ball and took a big step, retreated to a place close to the Golden Gate Bridge Logo in the middle circle, quickly jumped up and shot three points, and shouted loudly in Chinese: "I went to NMLGB, if I can't get in, it's it!" ”