Chapter 561: The Warriors' Fight Back
And in this game, Ye Xuan, the star of the Lakers, can be said to have played very well, not only contributing 29 points, but also as many as 17 assists, and 7 rebounds, which can be said to be the all-round warrior in this game, and the Lakers In addition to Ye Xuan, Wade's 17 points and 7 boards and Gasol's 14 points, 9 boards and 5 assists are also very important.
Compared with the Lakers, who have a certain amount of luxury data, the Warriors' data is a little ugly, because they don't play very well on both offensive and defensive ends, so their data is also relatively average, as the face of the Warriors, Stephen Curry scored 19 points in this game, but he shot 18 times in the whole game, and only 6 goals hit This offensive efficiency is indeed flattering, and the Warriors' other regular season MVP Durant's data in this game is also relatively average, With 25 points and 7 rebounds, he looked good, but he also used 19 shots.
These two alone cost the Warriors almost 40 percent of their shots, and they scored exactly 40 percent of their team's total. As for the other two giants of the Warriors, this game was a little depressing, Green had 9 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, and the data was still a quasi-triple-double, and he was also one of the few players in the Warriors whose statistics were not much different from usual. As for Klay Thompson, he was plagued by foul problems throughout the game, playing only 26 minutes in total, but he shot well, scoring 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting.
Several of the Warriors' superstar players didn't play well, and their offense naturally couldn't play, so they didn't provide enough pressure on the offensive end, which allowed the Lakers to focus all their energy on offense, and the results were obvious, and the point difference in this game can't even be described as close.
And the results of the first division finals on the eastern side are no different from those on the western side, the Celtics have plummeted due to the absence of Thomas Jr., so the combat effectiveness has plummeted, although there are players like Crowder on the team who can stand up to contain James's play, but there is no stable scoring point to stand up and score for the team, although they won in the Raptors in that round, but those games that won were basically because the garbage brothers began to sleepwalk again, Now facing the Cavaliers with many firepower points, their luck has also run out, 108:90 The Cavaliers beat the opponent by 18 points, Lao Zhan still played 39 minutes in this game, almost the whole game, this state has been regarded as a norm by everyone, this state of James is called, the little emperor of the playoffs. In this game, he also had a triple-double in the division finals, with 29 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, which perfectly helped the Cavaliers to a comfortable victory.
Time flies, and soon the second game between the Lakers and the Warriors will start immediately, before this game, Draymond Green also said some comments about Ye Xuan in front of the media, in short, it is not a good thing, such as Ye Xuan's actions of cheating and fouling, he was said by Green to be a basketball liar, for example, Ye Xuan provoked him on the court, and he said that he had no basketball spirit, and only wanted to use off-the-board moves to win. While he didn't mention the penalties from Game 1, it was clear that he was a little unhappy with some of the whistle advantages the Lakers had at home.
In the second game, the Warriors must also want to find a way to beat the Lakers, and in the past two days, the Warriors have basically been training basic cooperation and shooting under high-intensity defense, trying to adjust their team's shooting percentage in the game. And this training seems to have had some success, at the beginning of the second game, the Warriors hit a small high with three consecutive three-pointers, and also used this offensive small high to successfully force the Lakers' first timeout.
To be honest, the Lakers didn't expect the opponent to start with such fierce firepower, and they actually hit all three shots, and one of them was a difficult goal shot by Curry when facing Ye Xuan's block, I have to say that today's Warriors team may have directly taken out their strongest form.
After the timeout, the Lakers also decisively replaced Randle and replaced Clarkson, although the game was only a minute and a half, but the opponent was the death five small used at the beginning, so in order to be able to restrain the opponent, it could only be replaced in advance, after Clarkson was replaced, the Lakers' defensive rotation speed was slightly improved, and it was barely relieved of the pressure on the defensive end, and the Warriors finally missed a shot in this game.
On the Lakers' side, Gasol received the backcourt rebound, and then handed the ball to Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan's first reaction to receiving the ball was naturally to push the fast attack, but this time the Warriors' retreat did a very good job, and did not give him the opportunity to push the fast attack, so Ye Xuan could only slow down, slowly bring the ball to the frontcourt, and then pass the ball to Wade.
And Wade's performance in the playoffs is also very amazing, after all, Wade is a veteran who is almost 36 years old this year, but he can still send an average of 15+5+5 data per game in the playoffs, especially when he is in the team, taking on the responsibility of leading the bench to control the situation on the court after Ye Xuan is off the court, which is very critical for the Lakers, plus his playoff experience has also helped the Lakers' young people very well, So if Ye Xuan is the core of the Lakers, then the current Wade is the leader of the Lakers in the locker room.
After receiving Ye Xuan's pass, Wade also decisively chose to break through, and after forcibly breaking through two steps inward, Wade was blocked by Klay Thompson, but this horizontal move also allowed Solomon Hill to seize the opportunity, and rushed directly to the inside line with an inward cut, Wade sent the ball to Hill with a low hand, Hill grabbed the basketball and wanted to dunk directly, and was finally pulled down by Durant, and the fans on the court immediately booed at Durant's action, Obviously, everyone was a little dissatisfied with his somewhat dangerous pulling move, and the referee on the sidelines was also a little nervous, so he quickly ran to watch the video, but in the end he didn't give Duran a special additional punishment, just a simple shooting foul.
Solomon Hill seemed indifferent, walked to the free throw line, and steadily hit both free throws, while the crowd didn't buy it and booed. The Warriors' attitude today is also very obvious, they have to play tough enough, they have to play aggressive enough, because they also know that if they still lose this game, then the next game will become more and more difficult.
Serving in the backcourt, Curry controlled the basketball to the front court, and then immediately handed the ball to Durant, and he began to take Ye Xuan to start running, Durant faced Solomon Hill's defense and chose to play alone, because although Solomon Hill's defensive ability is good, his height is obviously not enough to defend a player like Durant, not to mention Durant, even when he was training internally, he was very difficult to defend Pickled Pepper.
After two crotch dribbles, Durant turned around and began to hit Solomon Hill with his back, and after leaning two steps inside, he turned around again and turned Solomon Hill back to shoot after shaking Solomon Hill, although Durant's back play action seems a bit nondescript, but after all, the height advantage and the shooting rate are very stable, so this action is also relatively effective.
It is still difficult for the Lakers to limit the opponent's offense on the defensive end, so Ye Xuan feels that he may need to create some trouble for the opponent on the offensive end, otherwise if this game continues like this, it is very likely that the opponent will be spent. So in the next few rounds, Ye Xuan was ready to start the singles mode, and the Warriors had not reacted yet, and still used Iguodala to defend Ye Xuan alone, but Ye Xuan's side instantly broke out and Iguodala entered the opponent's interior line to score two points.
And the Warriors haven't found anything wrong at this time, and they still choose to use Durant or Green to play a variety of singles or running tactics when attacking, and the Lakers have quietly opened the mode of Ye Xuan's slashing of 150 points in two games in the regular season, Durant's side just hit a mid-range shot again, and when I turned around, the Lakers immediately hit an outside ultra-long-distance three-point shot by Ye Xuan, and Durant used the opportunity of the opponent to find Klay Thompson, Helped the latter hit a three-pointer, and in turn, Ye Xuan once again held the ball and forced a break through the inside line, causing Iguodala's foul and hitting the ball, two plus one, and the difference was still around five points.
Even though the offensive efficiency of the Warriors is already very inexplicable, they still haven't been able to further expand the point difference, all because Ye Xuan is struggling to support it alone. Fortunately, after a few rounds, the Warriors finally saw that something was wrong, immediately called a timeout, and then began to arrange a defensive strategy specifically for Ye Xuan, after all, they were killed by the opponent with the same move twice in a row in the regular season, and the Warriors themselves also need to find some ways to deal with this situation.
After the pause, the Lakers have quietly adjusted the lineup, replacing the three except Ye Xuan and Clarkson, and replacing Randle, who has just been replaced, and Speight, who can make certain contributions on both the offensive and defensive ends. Spotts used to be a player used by the Warriors to carry Lao Zhan, and now the Lakers are also using him to defend Durant.
The game continued, the Warriors' offense, Durant held the ball to face Speight's defense, and decisively chose to use his feet to single the opponent, his choice was right, Speights was a little slower, but his physical fitness and other aspects would not suffer too much, if Durant chose to prove tough, Speights would definitely let him suffer a big loss, but although Durant's choice of offense this time was no problem, but when he finally shot, he still softened, and the ball smashed directly in the front of the basket, Although the rebounding point was grabbed by Green, Green could only barely rack the ball out, but this shot fulfilled Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan grabbed the ball before Curry, and then took advantage of the situation to directly come to a fast-break three-point chase for him, rushed to the outside of the Warriors' three-point line in a few steps, and raised his hand to hit a three-point shot, which also instantly narrowed the difference between the two teams to 2 points. The Lakers were also jubilant, after all, they did play a little aggrieved at the beginning, but now Ye Xuan broke out and instantly turned the situation of the game back.
However, the Warriors' state today is indeed very terrifying, and they didn't wait long for the Lakers to be happy, and immediately Klay Thompson hit a three-pointer again, which was regarded as returning the three-point shot that Ye Xuan had just shot. In fact, for the Lakers, as long as the point difference is not too wide by the opponent, they can accept it, but now the offensive efficiency of the Warriors has a feeling that they can score 50 points in a game, which makes Ye Xuan feel a little pressured.
In the next few rounds, basically the Lakers' offense was still initiated by Ye Xuan, who hit a throw and assisted Speights and Clarkson to hit a three-pointer each, while the Warriors hit a mid-range shot by Green and Curry, and Iguodala hit a three-pointer.
The first quarter of the game ended quickly, because the two teams were not able to interfere with each other's offense much, so they accidentally teamed up to break another record, the score of 45:47 between the two teams set the highest first-quarter scoring record in the history of the league playoffs, and the record of 92 points scored by the two teams in a single quarter is estimated to be difficult to play in the regular season, let alone in the playoffs.
Of course, this score is already a miracle for the Lakers, after all, they are basically in a passive state of beating in this quarter of the game, basically from the point of view of the scene, they are beaten to the point where they have no power to fight back, but after playing the first quarter, they are only two points behind, which is also strange to many viewers, but this is also related to Ye Xuan's excellent performance, he played 12 minutes in the first quarter, and efficiently got 26 points plus 5 assists, Almost all the goals were initiated by him, and it can be said that this game is a 'five-British battle against Lu Bu' in disguise. Please pay attention to the latest chapters in the future